Ardie Savea has the gifts of a GABPHOTOSPORTOPINION: It was barely mentioned in the aftermath of the World Cup final but Richie McCaw was superb. You look, in Super Rugby, for signs that a player can dominate at that level before you make that sort of judgment and Savea does that. Savea is rising, and there may come a time when he grows too big for the bench. But where will Savea be in another six months' time when afforded the same quality of coaching? HAGEN HOPKINS/GETTY IMAGESIt was a performance that had GAB written all over it, that 'Great All Black' that McCaw had endeavoured to be his whole life.

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