Richie McCaw
Richie McCaw
Richard Hugh "Richie" McCaw ONZis a former New Zealand rugby union player, who captained the All Blacks – the country's national team – in 110 out of his 148 test matches. He is the most capped test rugby player of all time...
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth31 December 1980
CityOamaru, New Zealand
chiefs four points threw
The Chiefs threw everything at us and to get the four points was great.
african against australian battle days feeling ground matter physical playing score team teams
After a game, no matter what the score is, you come off the ground from playing an African team feeling sore. You feel like you've been in a real physical battle but some days against the Australian teams it's not like that.
blues composure guys half kept level points threw
The Blues threw everything at us and got points on us in the first half but the guys kept their composure and we really went up a level to come away with the win.
defend threw
They threw everything at us. We had to defend very well at the end.
ourselves
We didn't feel like ourselves in the first half.
certainly halftime harder hold onto ourselves realized second work
We didn't feel like ourselves in the first half. We realized at halftime that we had to hold onto the ball, work harder and we did that in the second half. But it certainly wasn't polished.
coughing defending ended kept pill
We just kept coughing up the pill and ended up defending the whole time.
couple finished games happy last lead position won
We're happy we won well after having a big lead at halftime. We've been in the same position in the last couple of games and we haven't finished it off.
chance knew
We knew we couldn't give them the chance to get their tails up.