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All Blacks coach Steve Hansen wrote off his team's stuttering, but ultimately convincing, victory over Georgia as a pre-planned exercise in putting themselves under pressure in readiness for the quarter-finals.

New Zealand eventually ran in seven tries against Georgia in Friday's 43-10 win at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, but it was not a game that will stick long in the minds of All Blacks fans.

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