“When I arrived at the Chiefs, and from there making the All Blacks, those first five or six years were pretty full-on – I played a lot of rugby,” Retallick previously told RugbyPass. The two tight forwards are the primary enforcers within the All Blacks set-up. ‘Mongrel’ is perhaps the perfect word to describe the way Coles and Retallick play their rugby. “That’s just the way I’ve always played and sometimes it gets me in trouble and sometimes it doesn’t. The old adage goes that better men make better All Blacks – but sometimes what you really need is just a bit of a bastard.
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