George Gregan Quotes

The result was disappointing but I thought our effort was outstanding. The All Blacks are a very dangerous team and can make you pay if you miss tackles. They got off to a flyer.

It was a tough game, they came out exactly how we expected. We were a little bit ill-disciplined in the first half, but we started the second half really well.

We`re all professional enough to put that on the shelf but of course there will be emotion because a lot of guys have played a lot of their career with him,

It`s a great honour. He was a tight forward, so it`s amazing that he had such longevity in his career. But it`s more about the team and making sure I do my job on the day.

We`re focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

It was a great effort from the guys but we`re a team which doesn`t accept losses.

That`s just fictitious. That`s got nothing to do with where I am at the moment.

Everyone feels pressure, it`s how you deal with it that`s important. It`s very unusual for Aussie teams to have a losing streak like this, so you want to snap out of it.

There`ll be emotion at the end but this isn`t the end, ... We have a couple of big efforts to go.

The big standout with the 2005 team is they`re able to close out games under pressure. They held their composure and their nerve and turned what was a tight test match in their favour,