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
cape home lost town
We lost that one in Cape Town and that's in the back of everyone's mind, and being at home we want to do well,
becoming games physical tests
To play 100 games for the Brumbies and more than 100 Tests is mind-boggling with the game becoming more physical and quicker,
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.
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.
focused stay
We just had to stay focused on what we had to do,
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,
perfect situation
It really is a perfect situation for Australia,
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,
chasing composed game
It's about us concentrating and being composed and not chasing the game as individuals,
aspect exactly meant surprise trying work
The surprise aspect Clive was trying to work on didn't exactly work as it was meant to,