Andrew Titheridge: How important is the meeting with the Referee this morning?

Clive Woodward: Oh its critical, we know Stuart Dickinson well, we also tell him what we want to do, they have all got strengths and weaknesses like we all do, you have to adapt your team accordingly in the 24hours before the game. He usually gets instructions from the IRB to tighten up in certain aspects, its always a very good meeting.

AT: When you meet the All Blacks at Twickenham, one of your complaints was that they were using dummy decoys, in the Zurich Premiership that gets penalised every time, will you be asking the referee about this?

CW: No, down this part of the world, it is allowed, we just got caught last year. It was not a case of whingeing after the game but I wanted to show the media that there is a difference in interpretation. We were caught badly letting in two soft tries, but we know its allowed down here, and we will do similar things.

AT: Players had a day off yesterday, most of them went to the Lord of the Rings set, but in the programme for today will you give them a full-on training session?

CW: We are going to the ground to train this afternoon, as the All Blacks have the use of it this morning. We go down around 2pm but the training session will be very light, it will be more of a stretch and to familiarise ourselves with the surface. It’s all done now, its just getting our minds set for 7pm tomorrow.

AT: It’s a sell out, Clive do you have any spare tickets?

CW: Every player gets two tickets, but they all give them away to all their friends. We just are all looking forward to what will be a colossal game, the build up has been the most intense I have ever seen being away from home. The media is just so behind their own team, its just different media reporting, there is just no question of the All Blacks loosing this game tomorrow night. But we will do our talking on the pitch.

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