D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Scott Robertson's squad to face the Springboks at Eden Park

Wallace Sititi will start at number eight for the All Blacks against South Africa at Eden Park on Saturday, sliding Simon Parker to six and Ardie Savea to start his 100th test at openside.

Halfback Cortez Ratima's been ruled out with a rib injury, allowing Finlay Christie to start and Kyle Preston a probable debut off the bench.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks Robertson's selections further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Glarcy water Grave Sports Talk coasters with me. Hello, does
good evening, go through the squad. Let's assess this before
we do that. Can I just tell you what you're
going to do with getting to the TV this weekend?
Please R eighteen? Of course, beat responsibly. I just say,
you know, last week, my idea of malting up a
whole lot of favorites in the NPC and then putting

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my one outsider on, which is Auckland, to finally break
their NPC. Duck blew off my face and I lost everything,
which was it was only like ten bucks, so only
beat we can afford to lose, and that's all I
can afford to lose, and just to add salt as well.
At the end of it, South and went up and
upset white. I thought, on the ren pillage shields, I'm like, okay,

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so let's just keep it simple this time. Yep, dollar
fifty five the all Blacks. What on the safas, I
think it's two thirty, I think off the top of
my head, but I'm not really interested in them. I
also like the idea of malting up like heart favorites,
like ones you want to win. But then I thought
Heart and the head. My heart's out of control. I'd

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like to see Canterbury pick up the shield the All
Blacks win. I'd like to see Routecliffe at Routliffe and
do Rosky pick up the doubles in the US Open.
I want to see Liam Lawson finished top ten. I'm thinking,
did you learn nothing last week? Just keep it nice
and simple? Dollar fifty five the All Blacks get it
done nice and easy. There you go, rat bet responsibly

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of course. So Quartz is injured after all, very how badly? Well?
But you can train. But can you take a fend
to the sternum from a bit of South African beefcake
that's like a one hundred and twenty kgs No, you can't.
It break your ribs and you know how painful of

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broken ribbers? What about a broken join them all together?
So he's not there, thinly, Christy will get the roll.
It will be fine. He's in there. Cayle Preston off
the bench chat, what a way to debut. But the
team itself that has come out it is reasonably sensible.
You Reckon, and I'm happy about this. They've made some tweaks,

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some adjustments, some changes, but they've not made wholesale changes
right across the board. Yeah, Christy's on the inside. He
knows Eden Parks and there's a positive there about understanding
what the box kick does in the wind conditions of
Eden Park will wind shadows. That's important. They've stuck with
Barrett and Proctor in the twelve thirteen, which I admire.

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Change out the back in Monte Nudawah has come in
for his fourth test. I believe it is for Sevu Reese,
so Sevu's dominative frame probably works against him there. Will
Jordan's still at fullback Rica Yuan He's still on a
wing although at the media conference today but were asked
about Rico and Scott Robinson didn't say a lot. But

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it's got an opportunity, hasn't he? It was, well, maybe
that's not the exact words, but that was generally he
knows this ground is his home ground. I get the
feeling he's going mate make more yards, score tries or
you might be. I can't put words in his mouth
because I'm not Razor, but that's the general sent Holland
has he not impressed? No, but I think that Fabian

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Holland coming in off the bench because he's still there
towards the end, maybe tiring players, or maybe they want
him off the bench of the bomb squad column or
the South African team is yet that comes out at
six o'clock this afternoon. But that's a twist in the
pack because you've got to coming at number five, Jersey,
he can swap back to number six if the proverbial

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hits the fan. Yep. That I think probably the big
call out of all of this. I mean, Addie save
a hundred tests open side, while Stiki's coming at number
eight is Simon Parker one test into his career, and
Simon Parker's playing blindside is at the side of the
Rich is pushing to into lot, but of course he

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can slot in. Carriffe is in there as well to
cover off. But I think that's probably the big one
out of all of this. And he's a massive lumpower broke,
but Robertson knows what he wants and he's sticking hard
and fast to it, so it works. I appreciate that.
That's Darcy Waldegrave Sports Talk hosting. For more from Heather
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