Reality bites as All Blacks struggle to subdue Stormers

<p>What turned into a relatively comfortable victory for the All Blacks over the Stormers in Cape Town this morning also contained some harsh lessons about playing in South Africa.</p> <p>Dave Rennie’s men scored six tries in winning 38-21 but lost three players to yellow cards in the second half, conceded far too many penalties overall (nine in the first half alone), and only exerted their dominance in the final 20 minutes.</p> <p>There was also the predictable influence of the television match official, who ruled out a try from a lineout drive for the Stormers early in the second half but whose intervention led to Simon Parker’s sinbinning from the same incident, the home side scoring immediately anyway via the same route.</p> <p>Rarely out of the game in tandem with the similarly officious English referee Karl Dickson, the TMO also found fault with an All Blacks forward pass in open play…