Retallick commends Whitelock with All Blacks record close

Retallick said Whitelock had been pushing his team-mates all week in training, despite being benched

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00:00 Yeah I think the biggest impact he has had was, you know, he was the number one lock

00:07 and had been in the All Blacks established before I was and it was just a competition

00:12 to keep getting better and to get to his level and he has done that for so long which is

00:18 obviously the massive achievement he's about to get and I think just by doing that and

00:23 having the competition to, even this week, even though he was named on the bench he's

00:27 still pushing everybody around the field and trying to outdo everyone so yeah I think obviously

00:35 playing a lot of test match for him has been special but the competitiveness he has throughout

00:41 the training week, week in week out has been the biggest benefit.