Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on the All Blacks beating out Argentina in their first Rugby Championship match

A second half lapse will go under the microscope for the All Blacks following their 41-24 Rugby Championship win over Argentina in Cordoba.

Despite leading 31-10 at the break, New Zealand allowed Los Pumas to score two converted tries and close the gap to seven in a trying 20 minute period and had two yellow cards.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason pine Sports Talk Hoosters with us A Piney. Hello, Heather, Now,
are you convinced by the All Blacks victory is pretty good?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Seventeen points bonus point win in the first game of
Rugby Championship away from home.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I think that part of it's very convincing.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
You look at the game and you think first half
very very good, last fifteen minutes pretty good. It was
that first twenty minutes of the second half that perhaps
they'll be examining ahead of the second Test, where they
let Argentina back into the game somewhat got within seven,
couldn't really get anything going, just kind of found it
hard to get into the game again after halftime, and

(00:35):
they've freely admitted it in the press conferences that followed.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
So yeah, momentum shift the way of Argentina.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
But really either when you win by seventeen and, as
I say, chalk up a bonus point, then I think
you're pretty happy overall.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
What did you make of the way that the Wallabies
beat the South Africans which.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Unbelievable, Yeah, completely unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
At twenty two nil ahead at Alice Park, a place
that the Wallabies haven't won for sixty six oh years.
You think this is just going to be a bath,
an absolute shell acking, but thirty eight unanswered points to
win it, you know, in that fashion, was just remarkable really.
And look, I don't know whether this means that Australia

(01:18):
are now a world force in rugby or whether this
was just one flash in the pan performance. I guess
we'll find out a bit more when they met again
in Cape Town on Sunday. But absolutely remarkable really. And
you know, for South Africa to give up a lead
of twenty two points against anybody anywhere is bad. When
you do it at Alice Park, you know, their spiritual home,

(01:40):
that's just it's it's unheard of.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
How did my mate James James are kind of playing
number ten?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
He was awesome, Heather, he was awesome. He was he
was close to man of the match. He was bloody good.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hey. That's for all the haters who thought that Joe
just didn't have options. Maybe he didn't have options, but
maybe playing with the Crusade for a season does amazing
things to you.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Maybe he was the answer all along?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Who you Yeah, hey, listen, what about the wars?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
You just got to win ugly?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Ah, you just got to win ugly sometimes, and that
was pretty ugly the other night. But we wake up
on Saturday morning and the Warriors had the two points
and back in the top four.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So now here we are three games to go. They're
in the four.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
If they beat the Titans, beat the Eels, beat the
Sea Eagles, they will finish in the top four.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Can they do it? Well, that's another story entirely.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
But at least they snapped the winning street, they got
the two points, and the destiny is back in their
own hands.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Did I see that Karen Berger's just announced that she's
gone from New Zealand?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yep, you can.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Are you asking me the other day about which ones
were definitely gone? I said, Karen Burger, not yet, but
she is now Yep, she's leaving confirmed today.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
But as far as I understand where, we know that
she's even but don't know where she's going. Is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's right?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yes? Okay, thanks piney appreciate it. That's Jason Pine, sports
talkhost to be back at seven. Karen Burger just that
if you, I mean you've been you'll keep following. This
is gonna be fascinating. Karenberger is just the latest netballer
who's announced that she's headed over well, she hasn't said
she's going over the ditch. Pretty obvious she's going to
go over the ditch and it takes I can't remember
what the total was at eight last week, so she's

(03:11):
the eighth one from what we can from what I
can remember, but I suspect there may be.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
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