RWC starts with both a bang and a long shadow

PLUS: Bathurst madness, boring All Blacks, an 'A' league question and a cocky cricketer

That was a weekend that will take some summing up, from the start of the Rugby World Cup, to the Black Caps’ now consistent inconsistency, to Shane van Gisbergen’s unqualified greatness and a bunch of other stuff.

To start, however, I want to point you to a story I wrote for The Spinoff, which appeared yesterday, about last year’s tragic death of Scotla…