Rock Hayman aims to take control

HE could have been made to measure, Carl Hayman; if you’re looking for an interviewee who embodies the All-Black, it’s this grizzly-bear of a man from Opunake in Otago.

He’s big for a prop, 1.93m, 120kg (about 6’3” and 18st 8lbs in old money), but we’re not talking just of size here, of beef; we’re talking rock, granite.

As befits a front-row also he’s confrontational, catches and holds the eye of his interviewer, engages in a little staring competition, establishing who’s the one in control.