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The Real McCaw: The Autobiography Of Richie McCaw
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Richie McCaw
Richie McCaw is the New Zealand All Blacks’ most capped player of all time. During the 2011 World Cup he reached 100 caps and has played over 60 Tests as Captain. When the All Blacks beat France in Final, he crowned a ten year career that started with a man-of-the-match performance against Ireland in 2001. Unquestionably the greatest player of his generation, he is arguabl
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Hardcover
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416 pages
Published
November 1st 2012
by Aurum Press Ltd
(first published January 1st 2012)
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This is a gripping autobiography, in part because it's bookended by two dramatic events - the shock 2007 Rugby World Cup quarter-final defeat of the favourites New Zealand by France when they seemed to be cruising into the last four and the 2011 Final in New Zealand when the once-more favourites clung on 8-7 to achieve their only RWC Final victory since 1987. By which time Richie McCaw, beaten captain four years earlier, was playing with a broken foot.
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Richie McCaw is the best rugby player of all-time. He is the most capped All-Black, and has had such an influence on the game of rugby during his playing career that this claim contains much truth. This autobiography surprised me when it peered out of the shelf at a Welsh bookstore in Abergavenny as part of the closing down sale. As a New Zealand citizen, All Black supporter and former wing forward, it was essential reading for me. I think that autobiographies of any top sportsmen are worth read
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This is a really great book! I loved it and any NZ rugby fan should read this book! Richie McCaw is one of the greatest players of all time. His skill and leadership are unmatched. I mean any guy who can play so well in the RWC final on a broken foot has got to be super human! He also seems down to earth and just a very real, good kind of guy. The book is mostly about his rugby career with splashes of his early life, family, and him non rugby interests. He tells you just enough about himself to
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Something that people often forget about the great Richie is that he was an accomplished academic at school, as well as being a freak rugby player. He's a smart guy, and Greg McGee is a fine writer. Consequently, the writing in this book is to a phenomenal standard, written in a way that few rugby books are. The descriptions of his home in the early chapters are particularly stunning. I have actually used some of these in class as examples of quality writing.
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Loved reading this book.
I wasn't a rugby fan till very recently (last couple of years) thanks to the brilliant writing of Rosalind James (Escape to New Zealand series). I wanted to learn more about the game and wasn't sure if this book focused more on the game or on Richie's life outside of the game.
I was pleasantly surprised to read about all the ins and outs of the matches peppered with a little background about Richie off the rugby field.
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I wasn't a rugby fan till very recently (last couple of years) thanks to the brilliant writing of Rosalind James (Escape to New Zealand series). I wanted to learn more about the game and wasn't sure if this book focused more on the game or on Richie's life outside of the game.
I was pleasantly surprised to read about all the ins and outs of the matches peppered with a little background about Richie off the rugby field.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in ...more
interesting insight into one of the best players in the world. Enjoyed finding out what made him tick.
Fantastic rugby player, but an incredibly boring man... Overly factual book lacking grit
It was a good story, about him especially about his family and friends
This is an example of one of the best biographies of a sportsman. It gives good insight into how preparation for a game takes place as well as what happens in games.
Richie is frank and criticizes umpires often for mistakes, but surprisingly e mistakes are always against NZ NAND never in favour of them. Pity the book isn't more balanced but then again that it how he perceives it.
The first section of the book is "writer's note" and it is not Richie writing it, so I don't know why it is not called ...more
Richie is frank and criticizes umpires often for mistakes, but surprisingly e mistakes are always against NZ NAND never in favour of them. Pity the book isn't more balanced but then again that it how he perceives it.
The first section of the book is "writer's note" and it is not Richie writing it, so I don't know why it is not called ...more
If you are an All Blacks or Crusaders fan you will enjoy this book, if you are not then you probably will not. Very much a personal analysis of all the games leading up to the rugby world cup, not much private life thrown in there but what is, is not that interesting.
I cant wait to start reading it because i am really interested in this book as it is about my favourite rugby team and it is the captain and how he got to were he is today.
An interesting insight into the man and the methods of the All Blacks.
A fantastic insight to what makes this living legend tick
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Since Richie McCaw's debut in 2001 the All Blacks have won seven Tri Nations titles, completed three successful Grand Slam tours and won the Bledisloe Cup eight times as well as the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He is the All Blacks most capped player of all time and has been named the International Rugby Board (IRB) Player of the Year a record three times.
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