Sir Wayne 'Buck' Shelford: Former All Blacks captain on Scott Roberton's lineup changes ahead of the second Bledisloe test

One former All Blacks captain claims Scott Robertson will want to try out new combinations in future matches.

The side set to play against the Wallabies in Wellington has been revealed - with Beauden Barrett taking on the No 10 jersey, Anton Lienert-Brown replacing Jordie Barrett and TJ Perenara starting his final match in the No 9 jersey.

Sir Wayne 'Buck' Shelford says Damian McKenzie - who got dropped down to the bench - hasn't lost his chance just yet.

"Take test match rugby - you just don't have as much time. He has time when he plays for the Chiefs - he's just got to get used to reacting fast enough."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the All Blacks have made three changes to the
back line for Saturday's final home test of the year.
Body gets the nod at ten, so DMC is out.
TJ starts at half back in then Antoin Lennart Brown
will play at second five. Buck Shelford is a former
All Blacks captain, is with us now? Hey Buck?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hi, how are you very well?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Thank you? Do you reckon? Body's the right call here?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh? Well, we're going to I think they're trying to
mix it up and trying to get the combinations as
they want to see see something something different and maybe
in the attack side about things, Body might do a
bit different. But compared to them, Yeah, do.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
You think that d mac has cooked his goose?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
He's got another chance. I think he's a very good higher.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
But you know, when you're playing, when you're playing at
that level, there at some times goes you're waiting because
you probably have more time at the lower level compared
to being you know, playing kas based rights, you don't
have as much time. And the thing is he has
time when he face of the chiefs and things like that,
and he's just going to get used to, you know,

(01:04):
reacting faster and I think he needs to stand up
a deeper all those sort of things.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and then the TJ decision. Is this a sentimental
thing because this is his last game in Wellington?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Do you think? Well, it could be. And you know
the thing, as I thought, he played pretty well when
he come on last week. But you know, he's been
a good servant to the brand and I think that
he deserves it a start.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
What about Mark Talah, what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, Mark's a different kettle of fish. We've got so
many good wings at the moment and possibly, you know,
they might be doing a little bit of rotation, just
trying different things out. Yeah, I'm not quite sure that,
but I haven't seen the whole team, but I was
standing that they need to actually win again for us,
you know, for the people of Yellow all Low. How

(01:54):
Like how they played last week the first forty minutes.
I want to see that for a whole game, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I hear, Yeah, I think we all do. Thank you
so much for your time. I really appreciate it. Buck Shelford,
former All Blacks captain, Sorry about the quality of the
line there. It was obviously, but windy Weary was probably
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