But when we were under pressure we showed character to hold on. In the last 20 minutes some questions were asked of us and we came up with the answers.

I need to get some games and, playing for Wellington, there is a bit of sentiment there as well.

If I carried all that sort of stuff on my shoulders going into a game, I wouldn’t be able to get out there,

It’s about us concentrating and being composed and not chasing the game as individuals,

The surprise aspect Clive was trying to work on didn’t exactly work as it was meant to,

I still stand by the fact I was a little surprised that nothing ever did come of it,

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.

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.

To play 100 games for the Brumbies and more than 100 Tests is mind-boggling with the game becoming more physical and quicker,

We just had to stay focused on what we had to do,

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We’re pleased for the chance to pay our respects

We’ll take the win for sure, but there were times out there when we lacked composure.

We’ve got to work on everything in our game and make sure our game’s up to speed.

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,

The Lions tour will be the biggest thing to hit New Zealand since Lord of the Rings.

We were very happy at the end of the first half and decided to give up by the look of it,

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.

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.

We haven’t changed our message,

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.

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,

It really is a perfect situation for Australia,

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,

He’s probably done a lot of homework on us and he’s probably found some weaknesses that we’ve found ourselves but also some that we didn’t really think of,

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...

The scoreboard reflects exactly how close this game was,

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,

If we make breaks we need to finish them off. We need to be clinical enough but also composed enough that if the opportunity’s not there, then we have the patience to attack where they...