Codie Taylor: Crusaders Hooker ahead of the Super Rugby Pacific clash against the Blues

Crusaders and All Blacks hooker Codie Taylor is back in action this weekend. 

The Crusaders are travelling north to face their traditional rivals, the Blues, later this evening. 

Taylor spoke with the media ahead of what’s shaping up to be another bruising Super Rugby Pacific encounter.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think I made a really good progress over the
last couple of weeks. You know, it's always one of
those things that you put so much work into until
you get to Saturday and you measure it. You know,
there's so many factors that can cause it to go
good or bad. But what I know is that the
boys have worked hard. Last week was definitely a step
up I thought. You know, obviously Belly played really well,

(00:23):
he owned his set piece, and Jamie Hannah running the
line out and stuff is he's been a good addition
to that as well.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
So hopefully we can keep that ball rolling this week. Yeah,
i'd say, yeah, we're here.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh and three be a pretty tough place to stand
and talk about where we're at, but.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We were.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Our character was tested last week and the coaches said
that that you know, it's going to be a character
sort of defining game, and it was tested straight away
in that game last week. And then the boys came
back and played really well. So we know we're going
up to the Blues. They're coming off a pretty tough
lie us against the Brumbies, so they'll be right up
for that one too at home.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Uh. But it's always it's always a physical better against.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Those men, and yeah, they'll be looking to to ride
a few wrongs as well. I rate it Xavier coming
in who's played really well in the development stuff. Freakish
athlete and his skill set, so it's gonna be awesome,
awesome to see him get out there. And yeah, we know,
like I said, it's gonna be physical, which means up

(01:27):
front as where the game is going to be won
or loss. So we've got to really step up as
a forward pack. You know, we've got you to my
teams not playing this week, but like said Belly, George Bauer,
Finley brewis, you know, someone that's been through a lot
of injury.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
But yeah, he's played really well.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
He played unbelievable and against the Brumbies, real physical, so
there's some real good depth. And then Sebbe coming off
the bench as well, he's been really good for us.
So Crusader's always sort of back their forward packs, and
I like to think we've got a strong one. It's tough,
man like, it's such a tough area of the game,

(02:07):
but you know we're going to be squeaky clean nowadays,
and you know that those calls are made for the
safety of players and there's no you know, bad blood
Like it wasn't like he was going out there to
try and hurt someone.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
But yeah, just got to be better.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I was really proud of Time Like tomight actually
you know, he's he's a he's a big man and
he's a very strong man, but he's maturdren to a
great leader. And for him to sort of you could
see he was he was coming both us, was Josh
Lord and then and profit wasn't getting to work up,
which is a good measure of where he's at as

(02:44):
a player. And it sounded like Will was awesome too
for the group to be able to recinnickt the poison
sound tasks, the.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Ribs are all good. Yeah that actually wasn't why I
got that was my hip. But now I'm all good.
Good to get back out there, looking forward to it.
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