Jason Pine: Sportstalk host with his picks for the All Blacks squad

We're less than an hour to go until Scott Robertson unveils his All Blacks squad for the upcoming test matches.

Ahead of the big announcement, Sportstalk host Jason Pine outlined his picks.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pine Sports Store, Hoosters, if you're right our hat piny,
Hello Heather, Okay, what are you expecting in the All
Black squad?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I've got five new All Blacks in the thirty two
that are going to be named in just over an hour.
I guess I got a I've got to find another hooker.
I think Ricky Rictelli's going to be there. Another lock,
Sam Dowry, I've got in there, another half back, Cortie
l Artamar. I think we'll be there, and Billy Proctor
and Reuben Love in the midfield and outside backs. Other
than that, I think it's the only real points of

(00:26):
contention around the loose forwards and what they do in
the back three. But yeah, it'll be a relatively predictable squad.
I think when when Razor unveils it at around five point.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Forty, is Billy Proctor the one who plays for Auckland.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
No, No, Billy procted a place for the Hurricanes.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah? Cool? Really paying off how much Super Rugby I've
watched this season.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Eight. I did enjoy your I did enjoy your text
after the Warriors gave.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
My MUSCACHEZ what happened?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh man? That was quite something, wasn't it?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Just say before you carry on though. The reason I
text you is because you hauled it on Friday, right,
you said they are going to crash out to the Titans,
because when you expect them to do well, all of
a sudden they bomb.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, that well, but I didn't think it would happen.
I actually I actually thought they'd win the game. But
and and look, you know you can, you can, you
can lose a game in rugby league. But sixty six
points to six against the team that was up until
then at the bottom, it's like, it's actually impossible to explain,

(01:26):
you know this. It's the same bunch of players. Really,
they're missing a couple, but the same bunch of players
that took the Warriors into the top or last season,
and they just, for whatever reason, whatever inexplicable reason, just
did not turn up on the Gold Coast on Saturday afternoons.
So there's a there's a big week ahead for Andrew
Webster's he decides what he's going to do around personnel,

(01:48):
around restoring a bit of pride and about you know,
there's some battle scars. When you lose sixty six six
to the bottom team.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Do you think I mean, is it an ongoing problem
with with We talked about it last week with Sean
Johnson of the seven position. Is that the problem where
is actually something funny going on with squad where they
just don't turn up.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, I mean, by the sound of it, Seawn Johnson's
not folly fit anyway. This archilles is still having a
major impact on the way that he's playing.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
So if I say to you on Friday, I reckon
that he's carrying an injury and when he plays, he
can't play properly. And I reckon they just need to
get over the fixation with him and put somebody fit in.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, I absolutely agree, and I think now it's been
proven that you need a one hundred percent for Seawn
Johnson out there, and if he's eighty, you know, seventy
eighty even ninety percent, you just don't play. There are
other options to Martin, Tomarty, Muttin's been good there. So look,
I wonder whether you go back to the guys, the
younger players, the gap and comers who got those three
wins not that long ago.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Absolutely, Hey, poney, what do you reckon A's Scott Barrett
the captain.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, yeah, cool. Hey, thank you very much, really appreciate it.
Jason Pine sports Stalk cost We're back at seven o'clock
this evening.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
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