Millers Point, New South Wales
NZ reminded me of the little boy at school, quietly waiting to be noticed, desperately wanting to be liked, then when he eventually does get the nod, his determination to prove himself propels him to score a completely unexpected but brilliant try.
Congratulate him and he will just thrust his hands in his pocket, kick the dirt and say, 'ah, it was nothing'.
Conversely, Australia, as judged by my brief experience of Sydney, is the confident, outgoing kid, who ju...