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
close exactly game reflects scoreboard
The scoreboard reflects exactly how close this game was,
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,
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.
bit games playing sentiment
I need to get some games and, playing for Wellington, there is a bit of sentiment there as well.
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,
aspect exactly meant surprise trying work
The surprise aspect Clive was trying to work on didn't exactly work as it was meant to,
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.
win
We'll take the win for sure, but there were times out there when we lacked composure.
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,