Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on Scott Robertson revealing All Blacks picks ahead of Grand Slam tour

All Blacks coach Scott Robertson has defended the lack of fresh faces in the 36-strong squad for the upcoming Grand Slam tour.

There's just one new cap in prop Tevita Mafileo and only one player - hooker George Bell - didn't appear in the Rugby Championship squad.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jason Pine sports talk hosters with US Hello Piney, Hello,
heither you enjoyed Bathhurst?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I absolutely loved it. I absolutely you love about it,
just the just the drama, just the theater, just the
rain coming down. And I was thinking to myself, it's
hard enough getting home, isn't it in the rain when
the wipers aren't really working that well and there's cars
all around and stuff's getting slashed up, and you kind
of and you can't really see. And that's the sort
of sixty k on the motorway or you know, slowing down.

(00:32):
These guys had them two hundred and thirty. They could
hardly see that. I mean, split second decisions, small little
movements of the steering wheel can spell disaster. I just
thought the theater of it was incredible. And ever KEI
we come out on top even better now.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
So Matt Pain won? Did I read somewhere? He came
in second?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
And one that's right, Yes, there was a The guy
who crossed the finish line first had received a five
second penalty for making legal contact with the another driver
with about four or five laps to go, So Matt
Pain would have known that. He would have known that
he could let Golden go and just finished within five
seconds of him, which he finished within about second of them,
so he knew that he didn't have to cross the

(01:12):
line first, He just had to be within five seconds
of Golden.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh excellent stuff. Now what did you think of the
All Black squad? Were you expecting it to be freshened
up a wee.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Bit only if there wasn't an All Blacks fifteen squad
being named tomorrow? I thought, if that wasn't going to happen,
because another thirty players are going to be named in
the All Blacks fifteen tomorrow to travel up to the
Northern Hemisphere and play a couple of games up there,
only a flight away from where the All Blacks will be.
If that hadn't been happening, I would have expected more.
I thought they might have perhaps taken taken Kyle Preston

(01:41):
is the third half back instead of Finlay Christie. I
thought they might have perhaps moved on from sever Reese,
but both Reese and Christi are there, Like I say,
there were You know, I don't think anybody played their
way out of the team necessarily in the Rugby Championship.
It'll be very interesting to see how they managed the
All Blacks with the All Blacks fifteen and if any
player makes the transition across during the four test matches

(02:03):
on the Northern Tour.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, Piney, thank you very much. I really appreciate you time, mate.
That's Jason Pine Sports Talk hosting.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
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