D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Scott Robertson's picks for Saturday's Bledisloe Cup test

The All Blacks want to show New Zealand they can bounce back from adversity in Saturday's Bledisloe Cup opener in Sydney.

Coach Scott Robertson has made four changes to his 23 from the side that lost in Cape Town, in the second of two defeats to the Springboks.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave sums up the selection - and weighs up New Zealand's chances of winning.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Graves with us A. Darcy, I feel like
beating responsibly with me, Heather, what are we betting on
this week? Well, I've decided to throw some money at
the English Premier League. Oh yeah, well because basically I
know nothing about it and so for me it's like
you just go, okay, I like that. I'll just jus
what I do. Right, So sit there, They're almost unbeatable

(00:20):
from what I can gather a number of fans around
the building and taking on arsenal. They're paying a dollar
seventy five arsenal four fifty. So I immediately go, wow,
I want a lot of money to be made. I've
got no idea what's going to happen. But if you
really want to make a ton Manchester City to win
by four goals plus twelve bucks, have you made any
money with these kind of wild out there ones yet? Yeah?
But the thing is that on balance, across the last

(00:44):
thirty years, I haven't bothered doing the mask because I
think I'd depressed myself. I just remember the wins. So
it's the top of the table class, it's a big
city's been champions now what four seasons, So twelve dollars
by four or more goals your hunch righten plainly, bet responsibly.
If you're like me, bet with a blindfold and chuck

(01:06):
a dart balloon and see it happens here are okay,
what do you make of Cortez Rasima starting and tj
being on the bench. We are looking for Cameroy Guard
to come back and be the number one half back
and basically a fight now for second place, and that
will be Cortez atimo. That's what this says to me.
It's a fairly standard pick the side. I don't think

(01:29):
there's anything overly controversial about it. They've adjusted the back
three didn't really get much attraction last time around. Will
Jordan didn't do what Will Jordan should have done. But
then again, Will Jordan was so busy protecting his space
at the back he couldn't really surge forward and take
those high kecks because if he didn't he got it wrong,
so did there'd be a great gaping hole at the back.

(01:49):
So he played Custodian and it's a different style of
football that the Australians play, so I think that they
probably could have run him again. But what he's done
is he's got nice and safe. Look Bowden, barrit will
put you back there because Caleb Clark is back, He's
going to take in the left wing position. Will Jordan's
proved to be brilliant on the right wing, so why
not run with that combination? A bit of a tweet

(02:11):
around the front ring and changing though, Well, it's the
nature of coaching rugby in this day and age. You
look at arguably the most successful team around at the
moment is the spring Bots with the Rassi Erasmus. I
make five, six, ten changes a week. It's constantly changing
things around. So I suppose Rais is still trying to
figure this one out right, Well he is. It's early doors.

(02:33):
It's funny because he's got the same record as Australia,
albeit different teams. In the last five games, three losses
to win, same as Australia. We are, you'd think. So
it's a quarter to six, so hard fast grounds in Australia,
and that's because the NRL, well I think it's it's
a Fox or Channel nice Channel nine and taking the

(02:53):
coverage and they don't want it getting in the way
of their NRL. So you guys can play a bit earlier,
which actually works really well. For the New Zealand audience.
Also works well for the all blacks because it's going
to be hot and dry and hard and fast, and
that should fall into the clutches of the look at
the face. I just you know, I just don't want

(03:15):
to be disappointed. Darcy, Thank you, I appreciate what a
you going tonight. Tonight we'll talk with Elliot Smith. They're
also going to talk in Australia with Australian correspondent around
at Sew Maloney's name just slipped, but I've got it
out now and Nicholas Lampren's going to join us as well.
Nico is the tournament director of the ASP. Yes, because

(03:36):
that's a big call, because who's he got, well, who's
he got? No, Coco is not there and nonmi as
Saka's too much seventy the other one, the other lady
tennis player. All the same, there's a lot of lady
tennis players out and of course we've got the Kiwi
as well. Soon soon, awesome. It's going to be a

(03:56):
great week. Hey, thank you very much, dark Okay, looking
forward to it. That's Darcy water Grapes Sports Store host.
He'll be back at seven. It's full twenty two. For
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