{"id":39780,"date":"2025-08-02T05:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39780\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:26:07","slug":"richie-mccaw-names-underrated-england-legend-as-his-toughest-opponent-without-hesitation-page-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39780\/","title":{"rendered":"Richie McCaw Names &#8216;Underrated England Legend&#8217; as His Toughest Opponent Without Hesitation &#8211; Page 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3. Richard Hill (England\/Lions)<\/p>\n<p>Position:\u00a0Back-row<br \/>Height:\u00a06 ft 2 in<br \/>Weight:\u00a0224 lb<br \/>Caps:\u00a076<\/p>\n<p>A rock in England\u2019s\u00a02003 World Cup-winning\u00a0pack,\u00a0Richard Hill\u00a0was the ultimate team player. He played\u00a0288 times for Saracens, featured in\u00a0three Lions tours, and was\u00a0universally respected\u00a0by teammates and opponents alike.<\/p>\n<p>McCaw on Hill: \u201cGifted with all the tools. When England needed someone to dig in, he was the man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DID YOU KNOW?\u00a0Hill is a distant cousin of\u00a0Lord of the Rings\u00a0director\u00a0Peter Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>2. Schalk Burger (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p>Position:\u00a0Back-row<br \/>Height:\u00a06 ft 4 in<br \/>Weight:\u00a0242 lb<br \/>Caps:\u00a086<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0World Cup winner in 2007,\u00a0Schalk Burger\u00a0was the definition of an enforcer. Hard as nails and relentless at the breakdown, he gave McCaw some of his most bruising battles.<\/p>\n<p>McCaw on Burger: \u201cSome games you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019ve had a battle with your opposite, but with Burger, you always knew he was there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DID YOU KNOW?\u00a0Burger runs the\u00a0Welbedacht Wine Estate\u00a0in South Africa\u2019s Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/richie-mccaw-names-underrated-england-legend-as-his-toughest-opponent-without-hesitation\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUES ON PAGE THREE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. Richard Hill (England\/Lions) Position:\u00a0Back-rowHeight:\u00a06 ft 2 inWeight:\u00a0224 lbCaps:\u00a076 A rock in England\u2019s\u00a02003 World Cup-winning\u00a0pack,\u00a0Richard Hill\u00a0was the ultimate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-39780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}