RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP
All Black Taylor to focus on his game, not Marx
Even off the field‚ hookers tend not to give each other an inch. However, All Black front-rower Codie Taylor seemed to back off when he was reminded he will face the best hooker on the planet when the tourists meet the Springboks in Pretoria on Saturday. "Yeah. If the world thinks that‚ I suppose. He’s a great player‚" Taylor said about Malcolm Marx. "I take my hat off to the way he plays. I don’t get caught up in that. If I play well, that’s what I focus on." Some may find facing a player with Marx’s range of influence daunting but Taylor is more focused on keeping up his end of the bargain. "It means you have to be on your game because you want to perform yourself‚" Taylor said. "Knowing you are going up against a great player has its own motivations, I suppose, but I don’t want to get too caught up in that because you can bottle yourself into thinking that. "He’s probably one of the key players in their pack," he said. "He can build a lot of momentum for them. "We preview pretty ...
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