George Gregan
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"George Musarurwa Gregan" Order of Australia/AM is a retired Australian rugby union Scrum-half (rugby union)/player who (until March 2014, when Ireland_national_rugby_union_team/Ireland and British and Irish Lions centre Brian O'Driscoll overtook him) held the record number of international caps for any rugby union player.

Gregan was born in Lusaka, Zambia. He played Super 12 (now Super Rugby) for the Brumbies Rugby/Brumbies from the inception of that competition in 1996 through 2007, helping to lead them to overall victories in 2001 and 2004. He is a foundation Brumbies player and one of the few players whose career spans both the amateur and professional eras. His appearances as Australian captain include a Bledisloe Cup win in 2002 and an extra-time loss to England national rugby union team/England in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final. As a member of the Wallabies team, Gregan has attained the zenith of the rugby world, winning the Rugby World Cup in 1999. Gregan and his longtime Wallabies teammate, Fly-half (rugby union)/fly-half Stephen Larkham, also hold the all-time record for Test appearances by a halfback partnership with 79.{{cite web / url=http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/news/newsid=2019726.html#thanks+memories

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The big standout with the 2005 team is they're able to close out games under pressure. They held their composure and their nerve and turned what was a tight test match in their favour.

There'll be emotion at the end but this isn't the end, ... We have a couple of big efforts to go.

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

It was a tough game, they came out exactly how we expected. We were a little bit ill-disciplined in the first half, but we started the second half really well.

Everyone feels pressure, it's how you deal with it that's important. It's very unusual for Aussie teams to have a losing streak like this, so you want to snap out of it.

It was a great effort from the guys but we're a team which doesn't accept losses.

We're all professional enough to put that on the shelf but of course there will be emotion because a lot of guys have played a lot of their career with him.

That's just fictitious. That's got nothing to do with where I am at the moment.

It's a great honour. He was a tight forward, so it's amazing that he had such longevity in his career. But it's more about the team and making sure I do my job on the day.