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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
For the first time that You're Blacks.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Blues are Rugby well pop format from twenty nine All
Black thirteen.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
There's been a dream since I was a kid is
sort of wanted to do, was playfers team and been
very fortunate to be able to do that for almost
half my life. But it does have to continued at
some stage, and this does feel like the right time
for that.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
I'm disappointed that, you know, a player like this felt
that he couldn't be honest with his coaching pat and said, look,
I don't want to play it because I'm worried abouit
of here injury.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
On the huddle of that this evening Jim Ka sports journalist.
And also, oh gosh, I've got the children around Paul
Ellison news talks, he'd be Rugby commentator, har less my
radio best doesn't have both of you made sure that
the children are looked after by somebody else, right now?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Yeah, my the adults. So I think I'm okay. It's
more the dog barking at.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
People coming to the door you've already got asked for it, okay,
which is children and the three of us will make
enough children. Paul, I want to start with you on
body Barrett. I mean, Ben Smith wasn't at all convinced
that this was the right call. What do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think it is the right call.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
I think Damien had an outstanding game last week, and
he's been pretty good this year. But just the experience
and the consistency that Boden brings into that number ten position,
I'm sure he would have started there last week if
he had.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
A being injury free.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
That's taking nothing away from Damien, who I think has
had a pretty good year overall. He hasn't been as
consistent as he would have liked at times, but he's
got better and better. And the fact that he's on
the bench. I think he's played in every game this
year in some capacity, so he's been rewarded. But I
think he'll still have an opportunity to get on to
the field and make an impact.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But I think it is the right call.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Jim, I totally agree.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I'm pretty comfortable having a two time Worldplayer of the
Year start at first five.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
And just like Paul said, he would have been there
last week.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Damien's been fantastic off the bench and his opportunities there
for the All Blacks, and like the whole team, I
feel pretty good about that selection.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I think it's a good looking side and I.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Feel reasonably confident, not over confident because it's France, but
reasonably confident, more.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So than the TV. This is a second week in
a row.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
I think in the world history of All Black rugby
that we're started as the outsiders on the tab.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
So uch the money on, poor, get your money on.
You know you've got lots of it out there stashed.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, yeah, scree with.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Jim if you're going, if you're ever going to place
a bet. He plays a bet on the All Blacks
this week because star't playing really well, aren't they, Paul?
I mean all of the jitters around Razors seem to
have evaporated.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Yeah, it's been a long time since we've gone through
a Northern Hemisphere tour winning every match. We haven't got
there yet, but we've got to a good start. The
former is starting to improve. The finishing matches in that
last twenty minutes, which was the Achilles heel in South
Africa and the fact that they are filling in gaps
now which have been left by players like white Lock
(03:07):
and Retallic and Aaron Smith and Richie Moway. They're starting
to fill those gaps nicely, and I think Scott Robertson
can be quietly comfortable and confident of where he's got to,
not necessarily for this match on on on Saturday morning
or Sunday morning, but the fact that we are heading in.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The right direction.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
It'll be an absolutely mighty match and I'm really looking
forward to it. It's hard one to predict, but the
All Blacks are certainly traveling with some tail ones behind
them at the moment, and I think they should have
some confidence.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, hey, what is up?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Gym?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
By the way, with the French packing is sad and
not letting it and not wearing the alternate alternate strip.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Oh that, but I thought you're talking about the guy
that't that.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Well, he's just a baby.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
But clearly, as Smith said, there's something else going on there,
and he's used that as the vehicle for it. It's
not unusual for the All Blacks to wear a different
color jersey where they play away.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
It used to be that the home team.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Changed the Now we of course have these in all sport.
You have the away strip, don't you. So it's not unusual.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But what is unusual Gym apparently, is that the French
are very happy to do this in the Six Nations, right.
They will when they're hosting another squad and I'm assuming
it must be the Scots when they're hosting another squad
in similar colors, they will take off their jersey and
put a lighter jersey on, but not when the All
Blacks come hither.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
There's been a lot of coaches who have thought, if
you don't use the phrase all blacks, it has an impact.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
And clearly maybe.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
The French think that if you don't play a team
wearing black, it has an impact.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Who knows.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It's not the awful gray of two thousand and seven.
You know, I quite like it. I quite like the
white jersey. It's going to have the popy on it.
It's going to be good. And as every player would
tell you, it's not the jersey, it's the president inside it.
So it's up to the All Blacks to make sure
that the jersey is completely The color of the jersey
is completely irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Too, right, well said, hey, listen, we need to talk
about Tim Salvey, one of the greats.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
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Speaker 3 (05:07):
Right, We're back at the sports huddle, Paul Allison, Jim Kays, Paul,
We're going to miss him. Salvey isn't aren't well. I mean,
he's one of the greats.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
He has been the glue for the last what eighteen
years in the New Zealand team in some capacity, has
been playing Test cricket since two thousand and eight and
I had to look at one of his stats here
that which I think really sums up how important he
has been during that period of time. New Zealand's only
won seventy eight Test matches in their entire history, which
goes right back to nineteen thirty. He's been around and
(05:35):
he's been forty six of them. He's won forty six
Test matches. No other New Zealander has ever had that
many Test successes. And we go back to the eighties
when Richard Hadley was so dominant and he was almost
single handedly responsible for a lot of Tests wins. Then
since then, obviously you've had players likes of Kain Williamson
and Trent Bolt come into it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But he has just been the glue. He's been there.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Day in day out and in all forms of the game.
But yeah, we'll miss him and we'll look back on
his career and we will say, definitely he was one
of the great New Zealand cricketers.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Totally Jim listened to this. Okay, no New Zealand player
has won more Tests in their career, the only player
in the world to claim more than three hundred Test wickets,
just one of four players to play one hundred plus
internationals in all three formats. He has taken three hundred
and eighty five wickets. He's second only to Sir Richard
Hadley and his total of seven hundred and seventy international
wickets is the tenth best of all time.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Good.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
He's amazing, very very good and he's the leading international
wicket taker in New Zealand across all formats of the game.
So look, he sits comfortably at the table with Richard
Hadley and Daniel Vittori. A very good fielder as well,
and I love the fact that he was a bit
of a cow corner slogger as a batsman.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Yeah, great cricketer. I thought Paul summed him up the glue.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
He's been so so important to that team, particular in
combination with Trent Bolton.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
The two of them were a fantastic bowling partnership.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
And yeah, he will be missed, but you know, there
are some fantastic guys coming through now, so you know,
sport is all about refreshing. But he has had a
wonderful career for eighteen years and I take him.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Head off to him. He was also a very good
rugby player. Was he very good rugby play? Played Auckland
h Grade rugby yep and then yep. So a bit
of an all round it. Well, their cricket took over,
didn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, yeah, in ninety six Test sixers as well, he
said out of the ground.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
It's not bad either, that's pretty good. He's just splitting
facts right.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now. Gym listen.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I hear you're feisty about the fact that the Blues
have been holding all the top level first times.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
I think it's hilarious here, it's absolutely hilarious. And this
hasn't come from the Crusaders, but Richard Ola at the
christ Express has written a story questioning why the.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Blues are allowed to hold on to the first five.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
And it's bow and Barratt, Stephen Pirefeta and Harry Plummer.
Harry who's played about two minutes of Test rugby on
the wing, Para fet has played a little.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Bit more in bone and perhaps obviously play.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I did a little bit of homework because I knew
that there was a time, like the Crusaders have been
the masters at hoarding players. They had four international locks
at one stage in twenty fourteen. Here that they had
a guy called Tyler Blindell, Colin Slade, Tom Taylor, all internationals,
and some falla called Carter who was pretty handy as
well at first five. And I don't remember them complaining,
(08:26):
and I don't remember the christ Press newspaper saying that
there should have been a change in the system of
some of those should have been shipped up to the
Blues or down to the Highlanders or somewhere else, you know,
I mean, Paul's Highlanders team would love to have.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
A couple of.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
The Blues.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
En Let Bowden play ten, Let Para play fifteen, Let
Plumber play twelve. Now you have them all up there,
you'll have them up there we'll take on the Blues
when they come down there. That's fine, we're down here.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I feel like from that tone though, that was a
kind of there was some spy that their point wasn't.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
There a Look, these guys can all play in different positions,
and I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I mean, Jim's right.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
We've had sometimes during the years where there's been fourteen
All Blacks and the Crusader starting fifteen, for instance, and
you know, you put them at fifteen, put them at twelve,
put them at ten.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
I mean, these guys aren't seasoned internationals, Boden barrettters, but
the other ones are on the fringe.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So yeah, that's fine. I've got no complaints down on
the Deep South.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
No, And it's okay.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Hither it's okay because the way things are going with
injury replacements and the All Blacks, all of the Crusaders
are going to be picked anyway, so they're going to
have a team of internationals because you have to be
from the Crusaders to get into the All Blacks in
jury replacement.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
So so it's all good, it's all good. It's all
red and Blaze don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Guys are feeling some deep feels about this at the moment. Hey,
I really appreciate it. Enjoy the game this weekend and
everything else that's happening on the cricket front as well.
It's Paul Allison and Jim kas Huddled US sport Huddle.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
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