God hates us so much he's given us the World and European Cup Champions this season.
Not a lot to worry about, really, the All Blacks and Wallabies just wanted it more, plus 14 of the 15 Aussies had a really good reason to pull out the stops - they got beaten by us in the final back in November and that's something that really riles them (you wait till the Ashes next year).
We're rebuilding - last time England started rebuilding the side Australia beat us 76-0 in 1998 - six years of steady progress later we're World Champions.
From the BBC report of the time:
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the ruthless Wallabies ran in four first-half tries, and another seven in the second half.
In contrast, England's 19-year-old fly-half Jonny Wilkinson missed two comfortable penalty chances.
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I wonder what happened to him?