September 22, 2024 • 9 mins
A scrappy second half has almost cost the All Blacks dearly in their 31-28 victory over Australia in Sydney.
New Zealand shot out the gates with three unanswered tries, before leading 28-14 at the break.
The All Blacks could only muster a sole penalty goal in the second half and the task was made harder with yellow cards to Anton Lienert-Brown and Caleb Clarke in quick succession.
Australia pushed hard with two late tries, before the All Blacks hung on to retain the Bledisloe Cup.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International rugby coverage on the country.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Sport Breakfast is proudly brought to you by Access Solutions,
elevating you and your business to a higher level.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Time to talk rugby on the show. Now, the Bledterslow
Cups go to spend yet another year in New Zealand.
But the All Blacks were left breathing a mighty sigh
of relief after making things hard for themselves and they're
thirty one twenty eight win over the Wallabyes in Sydney
on Saturday night. Joining us on the CSB this morning,
the voice of New Zealand Rugby, the man who was
(00:30):
at the ground and caught it, Elliott Smith, Elliott, good morning, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Morning b K. Yes sir, you're exactly right. The All
Blacks should have won by a lot. We should be
talking this morning the All Blacks winning by say, forty
to fifty points. Instead, it was another close run thing
for the All Blacks. That leads the Bredaslow Cup from
their perspective is say for another year, but we have
to say another performance with the All Blacks to come
out of it with more questions and answers to be there.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We started off with a hiss and a roar. We
were scoring a point a minute then at all just
turned to custard in the second half.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What did you make of it, yea or the cutting
of the Australians ribbons and the Australians just didn't seem
to have a defensive structure to answer it at that
point in time, and the All Blacks needed to really
put the foot on the throat at that point and
they just let it off a little burden allowed Australia
to get back to a twenty eight to seven, then
twenty eight to fourteen, and even just before half time
(01:25):
it felt like things were just freaking a little bit
around the way that they were playing. A few issues.
They weren't getting the winds at scrum time they may
be expected, or losing the ball a little bit in
compact a little too easily, and just not able to
assert themselves in that back half of the first half
as well as they did in the first twenty minutes
also of the game. There were a few signs there
(01:47):
and you get into the second half where Australia sees
the momentum, the All Blacks just couldn't get it back
and made too many mistakes. They had any number of
opportunities where you think that one just two minutes into
the second fell where Damien McKenzie throws the flick path
throw on the back that it's demighted Williams coming in
on the outside and maybe simple drawer and part would
(02:09):
have made it thirty six to fourteen, maybe thirty eight
fourteen and the Wallabies don't come back from that. But
the door was just left the jar for too long
and the Wallaby stuck their foot in it and kept
it open and managed to almost froze their weight all
the way through and get the win. So you're black
Wire just guilty. I think of switching off and it's
a worrying traits that we've seen just too many times
(02:31):
this season around them switching off and getting key portions
of the game.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And ill discipline. It doesn't help you have two players
in the BN you're down to thirteen men as well.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Absolutely, and look the penalty count in that game on
Saturday afternoon was actually okay to a certain point, but
then they just compounded it with those yellow cards that
you mentioned there and put themselves under precious by having
Antoinette Brown then Caleb Clark and like antelinetet it. Brown
was probably the recipient of a team morning and went
(03:01):
off at that point, but Caleb Clark was the knockdown
that didn't need to happen. They just got themselves into trouble.
And I think that's a worrying trend with this All
Black team, is that they are finding ways, in a
weird way to get themselves in trouble when the game
doesn't necessarily call for it. And that's what we saw
on Saturday afternoon as well. They had the Wallabies on
(03:22):
the rack and they just couldn't finish them off. And
to say that in the natural comparison is to Scott
Robertson's Crusaders side Crusader sides rather where if they had
a team, you know, basically under fresh air, they would
finish them off and the game would have been done
and dusted by halftime. The All Blacks need to be
a lot more ruthless when it comes to that. They
(03:43):
need to finish their opportunities, because this is a big
thing coming out of the Republic. Scott Robertson lamented that
they didn't take their opportunities well enough. Australia aren't as
good as South Africa, so they gifted and gave the
All Blacks more opportunities than South Africa. But even still
the All Black weren't good enough to make the most
of that and tack the opportunities that were presented to them.
(04:04):
And as I said earlier, the game could have been
done by halftime, well shortly after halftime, and your Blacks
could have pasted to a forty to fifty point victory.
They were good enough to do that at the opening exchanges,
but instead invited Australia back in and weren't good enough
for the back half of that game.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Bit of concerned Damien McKenzie. Another sort of up and
down game for him, really, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, there were some nice stuff from Damiers there always is.
He's a quality player, but there's some things emerging in
the game around game management that he's still not able
to get exactly right. So you know, good first five
takes chards of the game, a great one directs where
the game wants to go, and I don't think we
see that from Damien enough when it comes to big
(04:47):
test matches. He goes a little bit missing when the
heat comes on, and that's trade of as fires when
they come under pressure. But the good and the great
ones rise above it and keep their team in the
game and put them into the position they need to
be on the park. And there were moments I mentioned
that try that flip party through just after half time
(05:08):
or ten minutes was after half time where you all
black could have gone thirty six to fourteen up, but
he decided to throw a pass and a style that
probably didn't need to happen. It could have been a
drawing pass and you all Blacks would have been in,
or he could attacking the tackle. They would have had
pressure inside the twenty two. Simply didn't happen. So there
are a couple of other opportunities that you'd say that
(05:28):
he let slip as well on the night. So an
question hearing from Scott Buston when the team flew out
yesterday morning from Sydney looks certainly a question that'll be
asked among the selection group this week around. Daniel McKinsey
in his role for the return test in Wellington this
coming Saturday night. You know Boden Barrett is waiting in
the wing. Karack Plumber got his debut on the weekend two.
(05:53):
Daniel McKinsey, it's where you start eight straight kiss matches
in the All Blacks. He's done that this year is
most exposure to the number ten jersey that he's had,
but maybe just with the Northern two are coming up,
trying to assess other options out there and decide where
the Damien McKenzie is the ten that the All Blacks
wants to lead themselves or take charge of the team
(06:14):
as they head to big or big challenges up north,
including that big three week run where they play England,
in Ireland then France all the way.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Does it look like we'll have Jordy Barrett lining up.
He looks like he's out through injuries and.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He isn't there us. He's going to go to scans
today in the Capitol around that to get an idea
of how long he's going to be out for. On
the surface of it, maybe four to six weeks is
roughly a sort of medial ligament issue, so I wouldn't
suggest to be playing this week if it's in line
with that. He left the Sidney Airport use today in
(06:50):
a knee break. Otherwise things and relatively for spirits, but
Scott Robinson told us he was sore, so that would
lead to the us maybe four to six weeks, so
you take it maybe six weeks from here and that's
the start of the northern to it. And I suspect
the All Blacks would quite like to put Jordi Bowrett
on ice till then and then look. The win on Saturday,
(07:11):
for all its faults, does give them a little bit
of an opportunity to try things out or see some
new players this weekend. In particular, maybe the likes of
Billy Propter might get it go this week. They're probably
the Golden Papalis back in the mix as well, maybe
some other sweets to the All Black side. So it
does give them a little bit more freedom in the capital.
(07:31):
Having said that, the record in Wellington here is not
really good, so they've got to balance that as well.
But Jordi Barrett certainly won't be there on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And what did you make of the permas overturning a
big deficit to stun South Africa and set up a
Rugby Championship decider.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh brilliant, Absolutely brilliant. This is what the Rugby Championship needs.
It's incredible to see the growth of Argentina as there's
been moments where you think maybe things are about to
click for them. They've had those famous wins over the
All Blacks that they sit backwards and they haven't been
able to back it up, certainly a bit Australia obviously
on a number of occasions now. But you know, to
(08:12):
win against all three of the Rugby Championship opponents in
the calendar years tournament of the first sign is very
very impressive and you know Contapomi has them running some
great rugby. At the moment, it wasn't the South African's
best team. Martiny Liveboff is probably thood in line to
that Keen Tuzie on a good day for the South Africans,
(08:33):
but you can only bet who's in front of you,
and this Argentina team are becoming very very good at
beating who's in front of them, and it's great for
the world rugby. I think to have a team like
Argentina playing the kind of rugby that they are and
putting teams on notice, and you know everyone expected and
I think it would go to to Argentina and the
(08:54):
Rugby Championship will be wrapped up there, but the decider
is on. It just hit DK and credit to that
lost Toomer have kept it alive.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Absolutely can't wait for Saturday night in the Capitol. Safe
trip home, Elliott, we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thanks for b K counting oversleep.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's Elliot Smith on his way home now and of
course he'll be in Wellington to call the game for
Goldsport and apologies on Saturday Saturday, late Saturday afternoon or
evening as well on gold Sport if you were listening.
We had a few technical issues as you would have
noticed if you were listening to the commentary on gold Sport,
so our apologies to you there. We promise you it
won't happen again.
International rugby coverage on the country.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Sport Breakfast is proudly brought to you by Access Solutions,
elevating you and your business to a higher level.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Time to talk rugby on the show. Now, the Bledterslow
Cups go to spend yet another year in New Zealand.
But the All Blacks were left breathing a mighty sigh
of relief after making things hard for themselves and they're
thirty one twenty eight win over the Wallabyes in Sydney
on Saturday night. Joining us on the CSB this morning,
the voice of New Zealand Rugby, the man who was
(00:30):
at the ground and caught it, Elliott Smith, Elliott, good morning, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Morning b K. Yes sir, you're exactly right. The All
Blacks should have won by a lot. We should be
talking this morning the All Blacks winning by say, forty
to fifty points. Instead, it was another close run thing
for the All Blacks. That leads the Bredaslow Cup from
their perspective is say for another year, but we have
to say another performance with the All Blacks to come
out of it with more questions and answers to be there.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We started off with a hiss and a roar. We
were scoring a point a minute then at all just
turned to custard in the second half.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What did you make of it, yea or the cutting
of the Australians ribbons and the Australians just didn't seem
to have a defensive structure to answer it at that
point in time, and the All Blacks needed to really
put the foot on the throat at that point and
they just let it off a little burden allowed Australia
to get back to a twenty eight to seven, then
twenty eight to fourteen, and even just before half time
(01:25):
it felt like things were just freaking a little bit
around the way that they were playing. A few issues.
They weren't getting the winds at scrum time they may
be expected, or losing the ball a little bit in
compact a little too easily, and just not able to
assert themselves in that back half of the first half
as well as they did in the first twenty minutes
also of the game. There were a few signs there
(01:47):
and you get into the second half where Australia sees
the momentum, the All Blacks just couldn't get it back
and made too many mistakes. They had any number of
opportunities where you think that one just two minutes into
the second fell where Damien McKenzie throws the flick path
throw on the back that it's demighted Williams coming in
on the outside and maybe simple drawer and part would
(02:09):
have made it thirty six to fourteen, maybe thirty eight
fourteen and the Wallabies don't come back from that. But
the door was just left the jar for too long
and the Wallaby stuck their foot in it and kept
it open and managed to almost froze their weight all
the way through and get the win. So you're black
Wire just guilty. I think of switching off and it's
a worrying traits that we've seen just too many times
(02:31):
this season around them switching off and getting key portions
of the game.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And ill discipline. It doesn't help you have two players
in the BN you're down to thirteen men as well.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Absolutely, and look the penalty count in that game on
Saturday afternoon was actually okay to a certain point, but
then they just compounded it with those yellow cards that
you mentioned there and put themselves under precious by having
Antoinette Brown then Caleb Clark and like antelinetet it. Brown
was probably the recipient of a team morning and went
(03:01):
off at that point, but Caleb Clark was the knockdown
that didn't need to happen. They just got themselves into trouble.
And I think that's a worrying trend with this All
Black team, is that they are finding ways, in a
weird way to get themselves in trouble when the game
doesn't necessarily call for it. And that's what we saw
on Saturday afternoon as well. They had the Wallabies on
(03:22):
the rack and they just couldn't finish them off. And
to say that in the natural comparison is to Scott
Robertson's Crusaders side Crusader sides rather where if they had
a team, you know, basically under fresh air, they would
finish them off and the game would have been done
and dusted by halftime. The All Blacks need to be
a lot more ruthless when it comes to that. They
(03:43):
need to finish their opportunities, because this is a big
thing coming out of the Republic. Scott Robertson lamented that
they didn't take their opportunities well enough. Australia aren't as
good as South Africa, so they gifted and gave the
All Blacks more opportunities than South Africa. But even still
the All Black weren't good enough to make the most
of that and tack the opportunities that were presented to them.
(04:04):
And as I said earlier, the game could have been
done by halftime, well shortly after halftime, and your Blacks
could have pasted to a forty to fifty point victory.
They were good enough to do that at the opening exchanges,
but instead invited Australia back in and weren't good enough
for the back half of that game.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Bit of concerned Damien McKenzie. Another sort of up and
down game for him, really, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, there were some nice stuff from Damiers there always is.
He's a quality player, but there's some things emerging in
the game around game management that he's still not able
to get exactly right. So you know, good first five
takes chards of the game, a great one directs where
the game wants to go, and I don't think we
see that from Damien enough when it comes to big
(04:47):
test matches. He goes a little bit missing when the
heat comes on, and that's trade of as fires when
they come under pressure. But the good and the great
ones rise above it and keep their team in the
game and put them into the position they need to
be on the park. And there were moments I mentioned
that try that flip party through just after half time
(05:08):
or ten minutes was after half time where you all
black could have gone thirty six to fourteen up, but
he decided to throw a pass and a style that
probably didn't need to happen. It could have been a
drawing pass and you all Blacks would have been in,
or he could attacking the tackle. They would have had
pressure inside the twenty two. Simply didn't happen. So there
are a couple of other opportunities that you'd say that
(05:28):
he let slip as well on the night. So an
question hearing from Scott Buston when the team flew out
yesterday morning from Sydney looks certainly a question that'll be
asked among the selection group this week around. Daniel McKinsey
in his role for the return test in Wellington this
coming Saturday night. You know Boden Barrett is waiting in
the wing. Karack Plumber got his debut on the weekend two.
(05:53):
Daniel McKinsey, it's where you start eight straight kiss matches
in the All Blacks. He's done that this year is
most exposure to the number ten jersey that he's had,
but maybe just with the Northern two are coming up,
trying to assess other options out there and decide where
the Damien McKenzie is the ten that the All Blacks
wants to lead themselves or take charge of the team
(06:14):
as they head to big or big challenges up north,
including that big three week run where they play England,
in Ireland then France all the way.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Does it look like we'll have Jordy Barrett lining up.
He looks like he's out through injuries and.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He isn't there us. He's going to go to scans
today in the Capitol around that to get an idea
of how long he's going to be out for. On
the surface of it, maybe four to six weeks is
roughly a sort of medial ligament issue, so I wouldn't
suggest to be playing this week if it's in line
with that. He left the Sidney Airport use today in
(06:50):
a knee break. Otherwise things and relatively for spirits, but
Scott Robinson told us he was sore, so that would
lead to the us maybe four to six weeks, so
you take it maybe six weeks from here and that's
the start of the northern to it. And I suspect
the All Blacks would quite like to put Jordi Bowrett
on ice till then and then look. The win on Saturday,
(07:11):
for all its faults, does give them a little bit
of an opportunity to try things out or see some
new players this weekend. In particular, maybe the likes of
Billy Propter might get it go this week. They're probably
the Golden Papalis back in the mix as well, maybe
some other sweets to the All Black side. So it
does give them a little bit more freedom in the capital.
(07:31):
Having said that, the record in Wellington here is not
really good, so they've got to balance that as well.
But Jordi Barrett certainly won't be there on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And what did you make of the permas overturning a
big deficit to stun South Africa and set up a
Rugby Championship decider.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh brilliant, Absolutely brilliant. This is what the Rugby Championship needs.
It's incredible to see the growth of Argentina as there's
been moments where you think maybe things are about to
click for them. They've had those famous wins over the
All Blacks that they sit backwards and they haven't been
able to back it up, certainly a bit Australia obviously
on a number of occasions now. But you know, to
(08:12):
win against all three of the Rugby Championship opponents in
the calendar years tournament of the first sign is very
very impressive and you know Contapomi has them running some
great rugby. At the moment, it wasn't the South African's
best team. Martiny Liveboff is probably thood in line to
that Keen Tuzie on a good day for the South Africans,
(08:33):
but you can only bet who's in front of you,
and this Argentina team are becoming very very good at
beating who's in front of them, and it's great for
the world rugby. I think to have a team like
Argentina playing the kind of rugby that they are and
putting teams on notice, and you know everyone expected and
I think it would go to to Argentina and the
(08:54):
Rugby Championship will be wrapped up there, but the decider
is on. It just hit DK and credit to that
lost Toomer have kept it alive.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Absolutely can't wait for Saturday night in the Capitol. Safe
trip home, Elliott, we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thanks for b K counting oversleep.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's Elliot Smith on his way home now and of
course he'll be in Wellington to call the game for
Goldsport and apologies on Saturday Saturday, late Saturday afternoon or
evening as well on gold Sport if you were listening.
We had a few technical issues as you would have
noticed if you were listening to the commentary on gold Sport,
so our apologies to you there. We promise you it
won't happen again.
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