The reason that the All Blacks only managed blasts of excellence rather than sustained quality was largely due to their desire to play too much rugby in their own territory.
That desire to run from deep and try to open the Scots from potentially unlikely places was overdone and largely ill-advised. Captain Richie McCaw was also a little dark about the team's work at kick-offs where they handed the Scots too much possession and territory.
"We were pretty frustrated with that to be honest and we didn't react well to where they were kicking the ball," said McCaw. "That's something for us to work on because traditionally when you score points that is when team's drop their guard so we need to sort that out.
"They scored a try just before half-time off our missed kick-off really. So that is where the pressure came from and then I thought at the start of the second half we played too much rugby in our own 30 and then we made a couple of mistakes and all of a sudden, down to 14 men, we were under more pressure again. Perhaps we were not smart in that part of the game."
And on the not smart front, the expectation is that Adam Thomson will be in front of a judicial inquiry in the near future. The All Blacks blindside took 10 minutes in the bin for putting his boot, seemingly deliberately but without obvious intent, malice or vigour, on the head of Alasdair Strokosh.
Scotland head coach Andy Robinson said he felt it probably should have been a red rather than yellow, while Hansen was reluctant to be that definitive.
"To be fair I haven't seen it other than what I saw on the replay and it looked to me like he [Thomson] got frustrated because someone was lying over the ball and he placed his foot on the guy's head," said Hansen. "He didn't stop - which is one good thing - but the rules say you can't so someone will be looking at it."
