British and Irish Lions: Fixtures, results, squad, quotes and odds.

Sometimes at the top level, it's not about playing pretty rugby and we've seen the All Blacks be prepared to be pretty physical in the past. They didn't really play champagne rugby, did they?

Steve Hansen is normally pretty calm and he has been doing a lot of press conferences. I can only take that as a sign of respect in that he is a little bit worried. It's unlike Steve and maybe he is worried by potentially how good this team can be. We know we have got a big step up to play the All Blacks but all I can say is that this could be a great series with fantastic rugby.

We've been written off, and apart from people saying that's put a split in us, it's brought us closer together as a group. The harmony and the boys singing in the changing rooms from the guys who weren't involved tonight and what it means to them in terms of the whole squad, we're very, very close.

Two weeks ago we cheated in the scrums, last week it was blocking and now he’s saying this, simmered Hansen, who team easily won the series opener 30-15. It’s really, really disappointing to hear it because what he is implying is that we are intentionally going out to injure somebody and that is not the case. We’ve never been like that and as a New Zealander I would expect him to know the New Zealand psyche. It’s not about intentionally trying to hurt anybody it’s about playing hard and fair.

It doesn’t matter who you play, if you can keep them to zero that’s pretty good. Same with the attack, it was a good start. We have a critical few skill sets that we work to. They are the things we know if we do them well we have a chance of winning. If we get the critical things right, then we are in with a chance.