I am sure it does not belong in this thread, but as a continuation of another comment above:
I am sure the anti-Nix noise from the likes of Kosmina or Slater is driven by commercial factors of FOX Sport and are not helped by the fact we play like crap and have done so for a while. But there is probably a general undercurrent of a drop in our (NZ) rankings as Straya's favourite relatives, if you consider the backdrop of deportations of anybody with a 1+ year of jail term conviction and with a NZ passport, and generally treating our tax-paying citizens as unworthy of social services if they lose work. In other words, what we are hearing about the Nix is possibly along the same lines as others might be saying about NZ in general: "we don't need you, you need us, get used to it"