Comment: Well that was a waste of a good 80 - actually make that 113 - minutes.
If the All Blacks go on to win this World Cup, this game against Namibia will be seen as just a bump along the road.
But if the All Blacks do fall before reaching the grand prize, this game will have been the opening step of the great descent.
Before the game, many were predicting a possible three-figure score by the men in black. The TAB was, anyway.
It was going to be like when the All Blacks played Japan at the World Cup 20 years ago. But a lot has changed since then.
In that game, backs were backs and forwards were forwards.
No forwards stood in the backline and charged the ball up. Endlessly.
If they did, it happened once, before the ball went wide.
The backs had room to move, the forwards just simply blew rucks and then the halfback quickly got the ball out.
Admittedly defence has got 20 times better than that day in Bloemfontein.
Namibia knew how to tackle and was much better organised than the Cherry Blossoms 20 years ago.
But the biggest difference was in the way the game is officiated and the pushing of the boundary by both teams.
When defending teams are constantly offside - and they are by some margin, in nearly every phase - it destroys the game.
Offside play is the biggest killer of a decent game of rugby.
It is plaguing the sport at the moment.
Go to any ITM Cup game over the first six rounds and teams are just constantly offside.
Hawkes Bay, Tasman, Northland, Bay of Plenty, the list goes on.
Every team at every ruck is in front of the last man's feet.
That limits options for players with the ball, and the ability to find space.
Gaining space is what rugby is all about.
Trying to free up someone on the outside or inside.
Unfortunately there is no space to find in these games, particularly at the World Cup, with teams illegally closing down space.
Offside play thrown together with some average option-taking and skills by players and it combines to produce an ugly All Black game.
Ben Franks made his seventh and probably last start for the All Blacks.
This was his 44th cap and he is not going to get to a half-century.
If the scrum is in control, does it not just hook the ball and put it out to the backs?
Forwards win the ball and give it to the backs to score the tries.
Someone needs to get in the ear of those forwards and deliver that message.
• Is TJ Perenara the ''Hilda Ogden'' of the All Blacks?
A real busybody who is so occupied looking after everything else he forgets his core role.
A word of advice TJ, just get to the back of the ruck and pass the ball well to the man outside you in the right position.
• The game is not played in slow motion, so why is it officiated in slow motion?
• Two tries from Julian Savea, but is he going to make way for Waisake Naholo?
