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‘There’s nothing in it’ – Hansen refuses to entertain talk of McCaw citing
Posted On Oct 25 2015
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Striking with the elbow carries a two weeks suspension.
The All Blacks will play the Springboks at 3am tomorrow while the Wallabies meet the Pumas at 3am Monday.
World Test points-scoring record-holder (1579 points) Carter landed just the eighth dropped goal of his 112-Test career at a pivotal stage early in the second half, as New Zealand launched a fightback from 12-7 down.
“We’ve probably got the greatest skipper and greatest player the All Blacks and maybe the world has had, without getting ahead of ourselves”, said Hansen of McCaw, who lifted the World Cup in 2011.
“I’ll see how the injury goes (but) that was probably my last game”, Du Preez said after the 20-18 defeat to the All Blacks.
Is McCaw the greatest player to have graced the sport of rugby.
Kieran Read and Richie McCaw sit in the dressing room following the 2015 Rugby World Cup Semi Final match between South Africa and New Zealand at Twickenham Stadium on October 24, 2015 in London, United Kingdom. “I really believe I can do it. I’m always there to serve”.
Indeed that was where the first-half battle was won and lost, as though Jerome Kaino flew over for a converted All Blacks try, South Africa’s ferocious work set up four Handre Pollard penalties.
South Africa head coach Heyneke Meyer refused to address his future with the Springboks.
“Mentally, it’s very, very tough”, to regroup after losing a semifinal, he said.
McCaw led the New Zealand side beaten by France in the Cardiff quarter-final in 2007 before the All Blacks won their second title at home four years later.
On ITV, Sean Fitzpatrick has just declared Richie McCaw “the greatest ever All Black”.
The All Blacks will face the victor of Australia’s semi-final clash with Argentina, which takes place at 2:00am AEDT on Monday. I think he means it but we can not get comfortable.
Both teams have got off their buses and walked 50 meters between two lines of flag-waving supporters outside Twickenham’s Lion Gate entrance. “It is wet out there and we will have to adapt to that, as they have the best aerial game and the best kicking game, but on the day anything can happen”.
