Tana Umaga
Tana Umaga
Jonathan Ionatana Falefasa "Tana" Umaga, ONZMis a retired former New Zealand rugby union player and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks, and since 2016 has been the coach of the Blues in the Super Rugby competition. He played for the Hurricanes from Super 12's inception in 1996 and took over the captaincy in 2003. Graham Henry named him as All Blacks captain in 2004; under his leadership the All Blacks won 19 of their 21 games including...
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth27 May 1973
CityLower Hutt, New Zealand
focused stay
We just had to stay focused on what we had to do,
close exactly game reflects scoreboard
The scoreboard reflects exactly how close this game was,
aspect exactly meant surprise trying work
The surprise aspect Clive was trying to work on didn't exactly work as it was meant to,
bad face malice tackle
I was told there was no malice in it, and I have to take that at face value, but a bad tackle is a bad tackle.
fact stand surprised
I still stand by the fact I was a little surprised that nothing ever did come of it,
decided half happy
We were very happy at the end of the first half and decided to give up by the look of it,
again created happy hold lived lucky obviously playing successful
We were lucky to hold them out and get what we got but we're happy with it. We created a lot of things again and again they lived off our mistakes. It's the way they've been playing and it's obviously successful for them.
backs credit dangerous week
No one backs them this week and that's a very dangerous thing for us. We're the only ones that give them any credit really.
age chicken effort feeling great half looks spring
I can't do half the things he can, I'm feeling my age and he looks like a spring chicken it's a great effort from the guy.
good grand love playing rugby slam
We all love to be playing rugby and to get a good lead-up to the grand slam you need to be playing good football,
came gave saw scoreboard
To the Springboks' credit, they came all this way and never gave up as you saw on the scoreboard and in the way they played,
ball believe obvious power stop supply understand
It's obvious that they understand our power out wide, which is why they try to stop the supply getting out there. We still believe we can get the ball wide,
felt time
It's something we have been working on for a long time and we felt that we wanted to do it at home. But . . . we still had to perform.
indication okay running team tomorrow whether
It's day by day at the moment, ... I'd like to be running by tomorrow to give me and the team an indication of where I am and whether I will be okay to play.