Dan Carter: 'The future will always be bright in New Zealand rugby' | Aaron Timms

The All Blacks great is unsure of his own plans once the time comes to hang up his boots but he is confident the game in his home country is in safe hands To get to the roots of New Zealand’s recent World Cup final win, it helps to go back to 1990. That’s when Dan Carter, still some distance from the feats that would eventually see him heralded as the finest fly-half of rugby’s professional era, turned eight. For his birthday present that year, Carter’s parents installed a set of full-size goalposts in the backyard of their home in Southbridge, a small town 45 kilometres south of Christchurch.…