New All Blacks captain Sam Cane: 'You can’t let people down' | Leni Ma'ia'i

An upbringing in a small farming community has given the flanker the tools he needs to succeed in New Zealand sport’s biggest jobIt’s 4am on a Saturday and a teenage Sam Cane crunches through the frosted paddocks of his family farm in Reporoa, a tiny rural community in Waikato, New Zealand. Saturdays mean high school game day across the country, and every family has their own morning ritual. For some it’s as simple as marmite on toast; for the Canes there are eight lots of hungry animals to feed before the referee’s whistle blows to kick off the morning match.Helping out on the farm was a matt…