Victorious All Black captain Richie McCaw is being lauded as one of our greatest leaders, but to his parents he's still just their boy.
McCaw, 30, led from the front as the All Blacks claimed the Rugby World Cup in a nail-biting final win over France that left his father, Don McCaw, exhausted.
"We are very proud, of course," Mr McCaw told the Herald.
"It lived up to everything that we imagined. It was a huge sense of relief [when the final was won]."
Asked if there were tears shed, Mr McCaw said: "Yeah, there probably was. I don't really remember."