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It landed in late August, rocking New Zealand like a flanker’s perfectly timed tackle to the ribs hot

The All Blacks were already on their way to France, finishing their final preparations for the Rugby World Cup when a panel conducting long-awaited review of governance released a damning report declaring the constitution and structures of New Zealand Rugby (NZR) “not fit for purpose” hot

The report did not paint a pretty picture hot

“In the panel’s view, New Zealand Rugby has too many professional players,” it explained hot

The NPC, New Zealand’s provincial competition, is “unsustainable in its current format” hot

The five franchises that play in the top-level Super Rugby Pacific competition “are struggling financially” hot

“New Zealand Rugby in the professional era is a large and complex business,” said chair of the review panel David Pilkington hot

“The structure it sits within was not designed for a business of this size and complexity hot

” The financial reports are anything but all black – NZR reported a financial loss of just over NZ$47m (£22 hot

5m) last year hot

Which is of deep concern not just for the union, but for rugby globally, too hot

The problems in New Zealand are reflective of a precarious global ecosystem: too many professional players being paid wages beyond that which their clubs and unions can afford, with revenues not growing to keep up with salary inflation hot

If a commercial behemoth like the All Blacks is not a sufficient money-spinner to sustain a professional structure, what hopes do emergent unions have?Rugby is embedded in New Zealand’s culture hot

It is a vital tool of trade for a land of only five million people, a small collection of islands in the south Pacific afforded global prominence by its ability to punch above its weight on the pitch hot

Australia coach Eddie Jones remarked this summer that New Zealand’s economy would suffer if his Wallabies beat the All Blacks; an analysis conducted by The New Zealand Herald found that there was some truth to the quip hot

The Taranaki Bulls won this year’s New Zealand National Provincial Championship (Getty)In terms of brand recognition, New Zealand’s national men’s rugby team ranks alongside the biggest sporting entities hot

Visit almost any inhabited corner of the world and mention rugby, and it is remarkable how often the words “All Blacks” will feature in the reply hot

“You have to understand, New Zealand is a very young country and rugby has put this country on the map,” 2011 World Cup-winning head coach Graham Henry once explained to The Guardian hot

“This country earned respect from the rest of the world for three things: what we did in two world wars, and to a lesser extent what we’ve done on the rugby field hot

So over time rugby has become a major part of our national identity hot

”Do the problems suggest that feeling is fading for some New Zealanders? There is perhaps a developing sense of apathy among domestic fans hot

Rugby union is no longer so certain of its place in Kiwi hearts hot

hot Basketball has surged in popularity in the country, while rugby league’s New Zealand Warriors have sold out Mt Smart Stadium regularly in 2023 as the NRL makes a long-awaited breakthrough across the Tasman hot

The Warriors’ average home attendance this season was 22,685; across town, Auckland’s Blues had short of 13,000 in at Eden Park for their Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final against the Waratahs hot

Eden Park’s stands were far from full for the Blues’ quarter-final win over the Waratahs in June (Getty)On the pitch, Super Rugby Pacific has lost its lustre, with South Africa’s move into Europe’s club competitions a blow even if the Fijian Drua have brought a breath of fresh air hot

The geographical realities of being so isolated mean New Zealand had little option but to re-up a deal with Australia, a rugby nation dealing with plenty of its own struggles hot

Rumours abound of renewed involvement from Argentina and Japan, or a new American venture, but growing the financial pot will not be easy hot

A number of senior figures will depart Aotearoa after this tournament for lucrative contracts in France and Japan, either permanently or on sabbatical hot

While new stars like Will Jordan and Cam Roigard are emerging, they do not seem to have the same cultural cut-through as the men in black who have come before hot

In the 20 years hot between 2000 and 2020, there was a 20 per cent drop in player participation in rugby union at New Zealand’s secondary schools hot

The “Baby Blacks” have not made any of the last three U20 Championship finals – is the world’s best rugby production line grinding to a halt?“I don’t know about falling out [of love] with the game but I think they’re falling out with a few things that are happening within the game, that’s frustrating people hot

It can be hard to watch at times,” Steve Hansen, who guided the All Blacks to the 2015 World Cup victory, explained to Newstalk earlier this year hot

“There’s no dispute that Super Rugby has to change hot

It’s pretty predictable and still stuck where it was four or five years ago hot

You go through the quarter-finals and it wasn’t that exciting as you knew who was going to win hot

“I haven’t stopped to think about where it’s going to be in 20 years, I’m more worried about where it’s going to be in five hot

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I think we’re at the crossroads hot

Unless we make some strong changes and start listening to the people that want to come along and watch it then it will just be the participants playing it hot

”However rocky the picture beneath them, the All Blacks clearly remain big business hot

Last year, a stake in New Zealand Rugby (NZR) was sold to Silver Lake, an American private equity firm also involved in the City hot Football Group hot

The deal valued the commercial assets of NZR at NZ$3 hot

5bn (£1 hot

67bn) hot

The All Blacks are hoping to win a fourth World Cup (Getty)You suspect the investors will be pretty happy if, come Saturday night, Sam Cane has his hands on the Webb Ellis Cup hot

Certainly, the commercial landscape will look rather more pleasing if New Zealand’s men join their women back at the top of the rugby world – for the good of an ailing domestic game, the All Blacks need a World Cup win more than you might think hot

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The main fact of this 3-1 win was that England have qualified for Euro 2024, but the whole feel was why they should be talking about winning it rather than being too concerned any more with the formality of getting there hot

A historic major nation like Italy were just made look a minor inconvenience, as Gareth Southgate’s side almost toyed with them hot

They were just so much hot better, and have a knowledge of that personified in Jude Bellingham hot

Harry Kane got two and Marcus Rashford scored a brilliant goal to make it 2-1, but all of that seemed mere detail to the main event, which was the Real Madrid midfielder’s domination of the pitch and decoration of the play hot

This England era has now been going on for at least six years, but it is possible that Bellingham’s emergence marks the beginning of something else hot

He has exactly the type of assurance that can turn fine challengers into elite champions hot

It is visible in everything he does, not least the outrageous touch for the Rashford goal that sent England to Germany for next summer hot

Bellingham is exactly what England have been missing, for far more reasons than his position and his talent hot

RecommendedHarry Kane and Marcus Rashford lead devastating England attack against ItalyJude Bellingham once again proves he is the key for England’s Euro 2024 hopesIt wasn’t all positive emotion on the night, mind hot

This game did take place amid a more unsettling real-world context, and it should be recorded that the pre-game minutes silence - worded as for “all the members of the European hot football family killed in recent days from Uefa member nations Israel and Sweden” - had to be ended early as shouts quickly gave way to loud boos hot

The Italian anthem got similar treatment, as did Jordan Henderson coming on as a substitute, following his move to the Saudi Pro League hot

There were conspicuously loud cheers alongside that, and that was the noise that soon made up the night’s main soundtrack hot

Amid all this, not least the performance, any idea of revenge for the Euro 2020 final was forgotten hot

That now feels a different hot football world, even though this England team have clearly internalised the disappointment and learned from it hot

It just didn’t seem to matter too much to this match hot

It’s a very different Italy for one, as Roberto Mancini followed Henderson to the Saudi Pro League, to be replaced by the much more tactically adventurous Luciano Spalletti hot

He is one of the modern game’s romantics in that sense, but that Italian hot football culture for tactical innovation has never been more necessary hot

Italy, in a greater way than at any point in the modern history of the game, badly need to be more than the sum of their parts hot

Those parts, with a few exceptions, currently look like those of a mid-tier nation rather than the great hot football country Italy is hot

Kane scored a double as England cruised through (The FA via Getty Images)There are bigger reasons for that hot

For now, it is England that look the force hot

They look like potential European champions in waiting, as Italy looked anything other than defending champions hot

That still created a few echoes from 2021, not least in the tactical pattern of the game hot

England looked much more prepared to cede possession and counter, although this time with much more force than in that final hot

The group context of course conditioned this, too hot

While England only required a draw, Italy really needed the win hot

The situation demanded more attacking, but so did the manager hot

The encouraging aspect for Spalletti was that Italy already looked more recognisably like one of his teams hot

Most identifiably, there were those sudden straight-line runs in attack, almost spikes that can do much more than pierce a team hot

Giovanni Di Lorenzo looked especially dangerous from these situations, as he marked himself out as one of the most involved players in the game hot

It was his run down the right that opened the space for Gianluca Scamacca, an incisive move ending with an instinctive finish from the former West Ham striker hot

Scamacca had given Italy an early lead but England responded well (Getty Images)It was his first goal for Italy, on his 13th cap, which perhaps goes some way to reflecting why this major hot football nation no longer feels a significant threat hot

It was still a set-back for England, but one that only served to show how they have far surpassed the sort of side that used to have a psychological hold on hot

They just have far superior players, chief among them Bellingham hot

You get the sense no opposition side could ever have a psychological hold over him hot

Di Lorenzo needed to just bring him down for England’s equaliser hot

It was difficult to figure out why it took the VAR so long to make a decision given how clear the foul seemed to be hot

Kane duly equalised hot

With that shift in momentum, Italy never regained the same force hot

The match from then almost seemed set up for England, as they visibly enjoyed just surging into the space left behind hot

Kane reached 60 England goals with his first from the spot (Getty Images)That is something Spalletti is going to have to work on, but then that’s been the case for much of his managerial career hot

It is a feature of his teams that Italy may just have to work around hot

Bellingham just cut through it hot

The manner of the goal that sealed qualification was entirely fitting of that achievement, even if it doesn’t mean what it used to hot

That is precisely because of the quality of the players involved hot

They have made life with England so much easier, say, than their equivalent games with Italy for the 1998 World Cup hot

Bellingham is meanwhile of a type distinctive even from Manchester United’s serial winners in that era hot

There is just something about the way he carries himself at that age, as could be seen with how he carried the ball for Rashford hot

The United forward’s finish was as satisfyingly forceful as it was finely placed hot

Rashford scored a brilliant goal on the break to put England ahead (The FA via Getty Images)Kane matched that with his second, and England’s third, for a scoreline that was more reflective of the gap hot between the teams hot

The gap from now to Euro 2024 can of course change the landscape of the game hot

Italy themselves grew from their own excellent qualification for Euro 2020 into something greater for that tournament hot

Other sides will evolve hot

For now, though, none of them bar France look on England’s level hot

It was why a win over Italy, and a qualification for a major tournament, felt like such minor developments hot

More aboutEngland hot Football TeamItaly hot FootballEuro 2024Harry KaneMarcus RashfordJude BellinghamJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments 1/5England have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning it England have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itKane scored a double as England cruised through The FA via Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itScamacca had given Italy an early lead but England responded well Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itKane reached 60 England goals with his first from the spot Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itRashford scored a brilliant goal on the break to put England ahead The FA via Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itDeclan Rice celebrates as England brushed Italy aside The FA via Getty Images ✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today hot

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