Tim Horan: Former Wallaby discusses Australia's chances of taking home the Bledisloe Cup

The Bledisloe Cup is back for another year, as the All Blacks face the Wallabies this weekend at Eden Park. 

The All Blacks need 8 more points to top 4000 against Australia.

Former Wallaby Tim Horan told Ryan Bridge that this is the best chance the Wallabies have had in years, but they still respect the strength of the All Blacks. 

'It's the hope that kills us with the Wallabies, because every time we go to New Zealand, we always think there's a chance.'

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No current Wallaby was alive the last time the Wallabyes
beat the All Blacks at Eden Park. So fortress continues
and it's a daytime game tomorrow. Let's go to former
Wallaby Tim Horn, who's with me a horrn forgive me Tim?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good evening, Yeah, good afternoon, good evening, Yeah, great to
It's always pretty exciting, isn't But it's like Cup week
and we always talk about it with the Standsport commentary
team about it's the hope that kills us with the Wallabies,
and because every time we go to New Zealand we
always think we're a chance. Everyone says this is the
best chance we've ever had in the last three or

(00:34):
four years. But we know and respect the All Blacks
and how strong they are. So but it's going to
be exciting much considering how the Wallabies are tracking at
the moment.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, and you I was listening to an interview you
did a couple of months ago where you said that
this is what the Wallabies fans need, is not necessarily
the bleeders Low Cup, but just you know, our win
here would be great.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah. I think it's just just to be competitive really,
and I think we saw that against the British Snyrish
Lions the three Test match series. I think probably the
first twenty minutes in the first Test is whether the
Wallaby's lost that Test series. But then you go and
play the spring Box in Johannesburg, a first win in
Johannesburg for sixty two years, and then I think just

(01:17):
the competition of the Rugby Championships so strong at the moment.
I think a lot of Wallaby fans they're really excited
with the brand of rugby and the style of rugby
that Joe Smith has been putting in place for this
Wallaby team, and they seem to have so much trust
and belief around this side at the moment. But that's
one thing. That's another thing to go to Eden Park
and compete and compete so that fans in Australia and

(01:41):
around the world can go Okay, well, we are very
proud of this Wallaby team. But I think for the
Wallaby players that they need a win in Auckland or
they need a win in Perth. You need to win
one of these matches. Sure, your Wallaby fans would like
to see two wins to get the Blotter Slowe Cup back,
but I think for you know, to take the Wallaby seriously,
they have to beat the All Blacks occasionally.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And the fans are they that we saw the ninety
thousand at the MCG for the Lions to which isn't
a fantasmic. We know you've got the NFL, we know
you've got the AFL, that you're competing with the fans
along for the journey, even though it has been let's
say a rocky a few years.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I think that. You know, you look two years
ago Rugby World Cup, Eddie Jones was coach of the Wallabies.
It was a bit of a debarcle. We didn't make
the quarter final of the Rugby World Cup first time ever.
I think that's shocked a lot of not just you know,
rusted on Wallaby fans, but just sporting fans. And so
two years ago that was tough. And then you get
to a stage now where and probably the litmus test

(02:40):
for Wallaby fans is on a Sunday morning where you
wake up after a Test match to the Wallabies have won,
and how many people are walking around in a Wallaby
jersey going to get a coffee, walking along the Brisbane
River with a Wallaby cap on or a scarf on.
So that's probably the test for Wallaby fans is how
much they support this team and they do come out

(03:01):
with the Wallaby start playing some good food and also winning.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Tim, you've got a prediction for Saturday afternoons.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'd like to say the Wallabies by one. That's all
we need. But it's certainly going to be a tough
game for the Wallaby especially what happened two weeks ago
with the All Blacks, you know as a record beating
by the spring Box so Ardie Severe and the Allbacks
and I'm sure we would have regrouped after that. But
I think Harry Wilson, what he's done with this Wallaby team,
it's outstanding. They believe in them themselves. So I will

(03:29):
say the Wallabies boy one, but it's going to be
such a hard test match for the Wallabies to win.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Looking forward to Tim, Thanks very much for your time.
Tim Horean, former Wallaby with.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
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