The three wise men - Graham Henry, Steve Hansen and Wayne Smith - have packed plenty into the past eight years. Rugby writer Steve Hepburn looks at four highlights and four lowlights of the long-serving All Black coaching panel's tenure.
THE HIGHS
Winning games
Henry and Co have been in charge of 101 tests. They have won 86 of those tests and lost just 15 times.
Not a bad effort. Outstanding, in fact. An 85% win ratio is pretty damned good in anyone's language. After all, this is professional sport, where winning is all that matters.
Henry's All Blacks have been at the top of world rankings seemingly forever and have consistently got the better of their main rivals.
Talent spotting
The likes of Israel Dagg, Cory Jane, Jerome Kaino, Owen Franks and Sam Whitelock have all prospered under the regime.
The selectors have not been slow to bring in talent, but with injuries and players heading overseas there are always spots available.
Shifting Kieran Read to the back of the scrum and moving Richard Kahui on to the wing are just two of the latest examples where players have been moved from what were seen as their usual positions, and prospered.
Playing with style
Watching this World Cup makes you realise how spoiled the average rugby fan is in New Zealand.
Most teams at this tournament just move it to the first man off the ruck who either kicks it, charges it up, or passes it to a forward with the speed of an ox to barge it up. It all gets very boring, very quickly.
The All Blacks do not do that.
They look to spread the ball, move it around and look for chinks in the opposition defence. In fact, when they do try to adopt the bash-and-smash style, it usually comes undone.
Moving the ball around by hand is, thankfully, the way New Zealand teams play most of the time and the All Blacks, through Henry and Co, are the leaders of that style.
Never lost to England
Everyone hates the English and the All Blacks have made us smile over the past eight years by never losing to the Poms.
Nine times they have played them, and nine times they have come away victorious.
THE LOWS
2007 World Cup
Well, enough said about this.
Resting key players, rotating them, then never playing the top side together - not the perfect recipe.
Then throw in some inspired French play, an incompetent Wayne Barnes and it all went to custard one October night in Cardiff.
Dodgy selections.
Every coaching team has been guilty of this, and Henry's trio is not immune.
Greg Rawlinson, Kevin O'Neill, Sione Lauaki, Isaia Toeava (when he was far too young), John Schwalger, Zac Guildford. There have been a few bloopers along the way.
But that is selection. Some work. Some don't.
Come back, Luke
If there is one positive about bringing back Luke McAlister from the United Kingdom, it is that it will never be done again.
McAlister never fired when he got back, and got flakier as the months went by. One wonders why there was the urge to get him back from Sale so quickly.
Springboks 2009
The All Blacks had a miserable year against the South Africans with three losses in a row, resulting from some poor selections and baffling tactics.
Two of those losses were in South Africa. The loss in Durban was particularly hard to take, with the side playing some helter-skelter rugby.
It tried to make amends in Hamilton but got going only when the Carter-Donald experiment in the inside backs was dispensed with.
Unfortunately, a Carter cross-kick went a few metres too far at the death, and the home side was on the wrong end of a 32-29 scoreline.
