“The thing your old players bring you, if they’re in form, and our players are in form, is experience and you can’t buy that,” he said. “When you are under the pump you need people in that group who can cope with it. We have Conrad Smith and Richie McCaw who have great rugby brains. They have been in places that some of the younger players haven’t been. So, when it gets a little iffy, as it does in every game, some games a little longer that others, those guys are hugely important to you.”