David Campese

Unfortunately, mate, I reckon they've gone to the point where it's more like watching rugby league now.

It's not rugby.

You know, guys just running their brick walls, you know, the tackling and all that.

It is a very, very different game.

No, mate, I think it was just at the time.

I think I played the All Blacks 29 times and won eight, I think.

Yeah.

And I say to people, that's a bloody good record.

Some people never beat them.

So, you know, but the reason why we became good was because we were playing the best.

And they were the best.

Then obviously South Africa came into the fray as well.

And, yeah, that's how we became good.

And also we had coaches who allowed you to do things like Bob Dwyer, Alan Jones.

You know, and that helps when they've got that mentality of you've got Mark Eller, you know, Grand Slam 84.

Mark wasn't captain, but Mark went to Alan Jones and said, mate, just give me the back line.

And Alan said, you can have the back line.

So when you've got players like that, you know, I mean, very instinctive, you know, Prado body, very similar like that as well.

You know, you actually get to understand the game a lot better.

And when you go across, mate, you've got eight weeks of rugby, you've got 18 games.