All Blacks ominously target improvement
NZPA
June 14, 2008

NZ skipper Richie McCaw voiced satisfaction with his sides strong 37-20 victory over England, but said the All Blacks had enough elements of their game to work.

"I was happy with parts of our game, we took some opportunities and created some bits and pieces," McCaw said.

"All in all I was happy but the start and the end weren't too sharp."

McCaw said the English presented the All Blacks players with their toughest physical test of the season.

"It was certainly a step up and perhaps in the first five minutes we got a wee lesson about what test rugby is all about."

England captain Steve Borthwick said his side paid for committing too many errors.

"We made too may errors in the middle period when New Zealand were very clinical. Every chance they got, they took."

While naturally disappointed with the result he could not fault the endeavour of his players.

"I thought the effort of the boys was faultless. What we need to do now is analyse this game and work very hard to be better next week."

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