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
bit certainly felt five game happy
It probably wasn't that pretty out there. It felt a bit stop-start and we didn't get our game together, but we're certainly happy to come away with five points.
happen point
There's going to be a lot of things happen between now and then, and from my point of view, I just can't really think about it.
behind believed bit easy four held panic points scoreboard together
Four points out of that...we've got to be a little bit happy. We didn't make it easy for ourselves. When you get behind on the scoreboard the thing is not to panic and we held together and believed to could do it.
coughing defending ended kept pill
We just kept coughing up the pill and ended up defending the whole time.
against blues chiefs defend last match night threw tough week
We had to get up for a tough match last week against the Blues and we had to get up again this week. The Chiefs threw everything at us and we had to defend all night but we got away with a win.
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.
ourselves
We didn't feel like ourselves in the first half.
chance knew
We knew we couldn't give them the chance to get their tails up.
aim allow bit feeling frustrated game guess intense means sort
It was a pretty intense sort of a game with a bit of feeling and a bit of frustration out there, and I guess that means we had them under a bit of pressure. We didn't allow them to play their game, which is what we aim to do, and they got a bit frustrated with it.
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.
came certainly expected game happy intense played season
It was certainly the most intense game we've played all season but I think we expected that when we came up here and we're just happy that we got the points.
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.
defend threw
They threw everything at us. We had to defend very well at the end.
games needed threw win
They threw everything at us. Defenses are going to win you games and that's what we needed at the end.