All Black hard man Jerry Collins says there is a simple reason why his side's handling errors have been magnified compared with other teams'.
"When you do make so many handling errors it just shows you're trying to move the ball," he said, before passing this brutal assessmenton the quality of the rugby at the World Cup: "There's not many teams trying to move the ball. There seems to be a lot of bombs."
Collins admitted it was frustrating trying to play an attacking style of rugby against teams which had no interest in reciprocating, and that it was taking time to adapt a style to suit playing negative teams.
"We know how the game is being played at the moment and we've been trying to [adapt] our style to suit ... We probably haven't mastered that yet. But one week is a long time in rugby."
Collins reinforced coach Graham Henry's pre-tournament words that the All Blacks wanted to win the World Cup playing attacking rugby.
"Ideally we want to. But we want to win first. But that's the ultimate desire, to win and do it the way we know best how to do it.
"We're using the last pool game to try to iron those kinds of things out but at the same time try to build on what we are good at."
