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All Blacks 'poor' despite reaching quarters

Sunday, October 04 2015 by SNTV
  • Reaction after Steve Hansen's New Zealand qualify for the World Cup quarter-finals courtesy of an underwhelming win over Milton Haig's Georgia. All Blacks prop Charlie Faumuina and winger Julian Savea say the defending champions 'will learn from their mistakes'.

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    SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Hansen, New Zealand head coach:

    "There's a lot of things we could have done better for sure, like our skill execution wasn't great. But if we had one problem that I would think would be the easiest to fix in this team that would be skill execution because we've got plenty of talent. But at the moment we're working on some other things and the things we've been working on tonight were pretty good. But, would you say our game was great? No, I wouldn't say our game was great but it doesn't have to be at the moment. You don't get any gold medals for winning these games. You just get to qualify and I think we did that tonight. We're in a position now that we can say we're in the quarter finals and that's exciting."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Milton Haig, Georgia head coach:

    "I'm a proud coach. I asked the boys during the week and before the game to play with a bit of pride. Play for the jersey and for the country to show the rugby world what Georgian rugby is about and for large parts of the game tonight that's what we did. So, I'm pretty pleased."


    SOUNDBITE: (English) Charlie Faumuina, New Zealand:

    "I think there's probably still a lot we need to work on. I think the attitude and physicality were there at times. I think that we've just got to make sure we don't keep pushing those passes. It just slows our game down."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Savea, New Zealand:

    "It went pretty well. I thought we started really well and got some really good gains but, you know, you've got to give credit to the Georgian team. They put a lot of pressure on us, made us make mistakes and also really carried the ball really well. So, like I said, we've got the win, we learn from tonight and move on."

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