Richie McCaw Quotations

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.

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.

We didn't feel like ourselves in the first half.

I think there were mistakes from both teams when they got into scoring positions but there were also a lot of big hits out there and that probably contributed.

We just kept coughing up the pill and ended up defending the whole time.

It wasn't pretty out there. It felt a bit stop-start to us but it was good to get a win and we're happy to come away with five points.

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.

We knew we couldn't give them the chance to get their tails up.

I'm relieved, to be quite honest. We got put under a heap of pressure and the boys defended well but possibly we concentrated too much on defending rather than keeping on attacking.

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.