Elliot Smith: The All Blacks and Red Bull making changes

Elliot Smith joins Ryan Bridge to discuss the changes the ABs and Red Bull have decided to make. 

Why would Christian Horner get sacked, and what does that mean for Max Verstappen's future with the team?

What adjustments do the All Blacks need ahead of their second test with France?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Elliott Smith is here for sports Talk. Hey Elliott, Hey
ron All Blacks team. But the second France Test has
been named.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It has indeed three changes and also of those injury
and force and fat, all of them injury and fallster
No captain Scott Barrett this week, which we were aware of.
Patrick Typalotu comes into the second row, which is a
fairly straightforward sort of swap for the All Blacks. I
mean they've got no other locks in the squads that
the kind have had to put him into the second rogue.
They've kept two Povy at blindside flanker and Billy Proctor

(00:29):
at center. Some of those experiments I guess you could
call them they tried out in that first test interneed.
And the other change to the starting side comes in
the back line, Rika Joanni coming onto the right wing.
He actually hasn't started there in a game in six years,
but he's going to wear the fourteen jumper. Caleb Clark
in on the left as the All Blacks try and
combat this French aerial assault we saw under the roof

(00:51):
at Forsyth bar Stadium last week. And the other changer
on the bench to Morthy Tavatava Nawai, the Highlanders and
Tasman midfielder are coming in for a probable debut off
the bench in Jersey. Twenty two had an outstanding Super
RUGB season, very very impressive on both sides of the ball,
destructive ball runner, very very good in turning the ball
over as well. So looking forward to seeing how he

(01:13):
goes on the weekend. But Scott Robertson otherwise Ryan resisting
any temptation to make wholesale changes as they prepare to
try and wrap up the series on Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Hey Red Bull waving goodbye to Christian Horner. I saw
him give quite He got quite emotional in his farewell
speech to the crew today.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
He did get very emotional. Look. He's been at this
team essentially since they became a full IF one teams
of twenty years, won eight drivers World Championships, six Constructors Championships,
more than one hundred rays wins. He's been very, very successful.
But it hasn't always been the happiest of relationships with
the Red Bull bosses and also his driver Max for

(01:49):
Stappen and max Va Stappin's father, Yosva Stappan. It's been
a little bit fractioned at time. You remember that story
about a year ago that he was doing a few
dodgy things around text and Christian Horner didn't come to anything.
But it feels like this has been coming to a
head for a while. The results haven't been coming for
red Bull Racing this year. Maxwith Stappen has an outclause
in his contract and it feels like Red Bull's gone.

(02:11):
You know, Christian Horner, you're expendable maxwith Stappin World Champion,
you are not. We want to keep Max rather than
let him go to another team. And Christian Horner is
out there, although he's still under contracts until twenty thirty,
so they're either going to have to pay him out
or figure out some backround role, maybe selling red Bull
or something like that for the next few years.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Elliot, appreciate your time. Elliott Smith a sports talk host
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