Wednesday 19 September 2007

All Blacks focus on scrum

Wednesday 19th September 2007

Mike Cron revealed the All Black scrum will be at its best for the knock-out stages of the World Cup, and now Richie McCaw has admitted they are working hard on it for the game with Scotland.

With two resounding wins under their belts ahead of the clash with Scotland and the All Blacks are in scintillating form. However McCaw has admitted the scrum is still a concern, despite having arguably the best prop in the world, Carl Hayman.

"Things have not been bad so far, but we've worked on physical things and worked on the scrum," McCaw told Stuff.co.nz.

"The scrum we were not too happy with, so we decided to put a bit of time into that."

"I think this week we have to take a step up. Scotland is going to be a tougher challenge and everyone must have a bit more of an edge."

"This week feels like you're in a bigger Test match. From this week on, it is five weeks of big matches."

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