November 20, 2024 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
International rugby coverage on the country. Sport Breakfast is proudly
brought to you by Access Solutions, elevating you and your
business to a higher level. Joining us out of a turn,
we say bonjo no to greg Or. Paul Morning, Gregor.
How's the weather over there? There's a lot of talk
about it being bitterly cold.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yes, it's magnificently. Colled B.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Cave Man, who comes from Scotland's loving it right now.
We're down towards freezing. It's going to snow tomorrow morning.
It's going to be by minus four when the kickoff
on Saturday night. And I'm gonna love every.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Second of it. This is proper weather, proper stuff for
a Test match.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But are the All Blacks going to absolutely love it?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Look, I think they're in a fairly determined frame of mind.
I think there's no sense, having been around the team
a week but this week that they're kind of knocking
all fairly or treating this as a bit of a
hit and giggle because it's idare to say, because it's
only Italy.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They don't have that attitude at all.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I think they've seen that Italy this year especially, you
know they won they won two Six.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Nations games and they drew with France.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So clearly they can play if they get it right
on the day, and I think the All Blacks are
very wary of that, and they're fairly determined to finish
with a performance that doesn't make amends for last week,
but certainly leaves them going home in a more upbeat
frame of mind.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Grigor, what did you make of last week's metch against France.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know, it was a lot of good rugby, particularly
in the first half. I thought they Oblecks attacked particularly well.
I thought they used the defense cleverly. I like the
fact they didn't kick the ball back and get sucked
into that kick tennis routine that the French were obviously
trying to goad them into.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So I thought they.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Played a lot of really good rugby in that first
forty minutes. But again we're back to the sort of
tired old story, aren't we. That they weren't able to
drive through with a surge or with another kind of
momentous sick and half to back up what they started.
They couldn't put them away. They came out, they give
away try early in the second half. Then there's a
(02:15):
sort of fourteen point play where you know they could
have scored with Will Jordan, but they drop it or
it doesn't go to hand in.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The French score, and that was it. Really.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
They felt like they could never really deliver the moments
of precision and clarity that they needed and they just
couldn't find.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
A way to wrestle their way back to victory.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I think that's about the fourth time that's happened
this year and beginning to feel like how many times
is that going to happen before they find the recipe
to unlock it?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The one that got away? So I'm picking of the
All Black selectors are going to make quite a few
changes to personnel for the team that runs on on
Sunday morning, New Zealand time against Italy. There'll be a
couple of players there haven't seen too much an action
this year.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Are you picking that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I am, But but I'd also say, look, there
will be a lot of changes if we if you
weigh it up against who played against France and then
who's going to play this week, Yeah, there will be,
but I wouldn't read into that that they're going to
push the boundaries too far, you know, in terms of
giving all their top their top line players the week off.
(03:20):
I think we'll still see a number of big names
in the team. I think they want to make sure
that they've got a team on the park that doesn't
suddenly find itself under incredible pressure, you know, and you
get to halftime and you go jeeper, as were you know,
it's twelve nine and we've got a whole you know,
emerging team on the field and Scott, Barrett Born and
Barrett Standing sitting in the stands.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We don't want to do that. So I think we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
A mix of experienced players built around some of the
peripheral guys, and they'll use it as an opportunity to
see some of them that they haven't seen, but with
an established core to make sure that they're not, you know,
in danger of unraveling.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Steven Piafitter at number teen, you're you'll pick for the
number ten Jersey?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Perhaps, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I think it's they've got they know everything they need
to know about Barrett Bowden and Damian McKenzie, so there's
time to see what he can do. I think McKenzie
will probably start a fallback as a guiding hand if
you like, you know, to to mentor them through the
game from the backfield, and I think that Antony Leonard
Brown will be in the midfield as well. So experience,
they have experience in all the kind of combinations if
(04:28):
you like to make sure that there's.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Someone all their experience to guide the younger guys.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And Sam Kine will presumably come back and players last
test after recovering from a head knock, and look, I
think probably in their in their type five they've got
enough quality and depth there that they could probably change
all five that started last week, but that wouldn't mean
that you'd be looking at a lightweight type five by
any leagues.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, the big rugby story to come out in the
last twenty four hours officially that Harry Plummer is going
to be a signed a three year deal in moving
to France after Super Rugby next year. You surprised with that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Not really, Look, he probably had his mindset on that
that contract would have been months in negotiation to get
to this point, so events would have accelerated as he
was in negotiations with him. But look, he's probably realistic
as well. He's a great Super Rugby season, He's earned
a Test cap. He absolutely has earned it, but he's
(05:27):
probably realistic enough to know he's still sits probably fourth
or even fifth on a number ten pecking order. If
Molonga comes home and his chances of winning more caps
are reasonably limited, I would have thought. And he's got
a great offer on the table and he's decided that's
the thing for him.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Interesting, And finally I'm surprised at this one. New Zealand's
going to have its twenty fifth and twenty six inductees
into World Rugby's Hall of Fame next week in Monaco.
DJ Forbes. Fine, but why is it taken so long
for Chris Laidlaw to be nominated?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
The inner workings of the Hall of Fame and the
nominations jeepers. That's that's a wild man's guest to get
in there and work out what happens.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's a random process, and isn't it. Who would know? Why? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So well, look good, good that he's in it, though,
we Chris, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Absolutely, Hey Gregor, I have a good call on Sunday morning.
Enjoy the enjoy the game and we'll look out for
you and the Elliott Smith calling the match. Thank you
so much. Well, well, thank you, stay warm, put that
little Tammy shater on the way you go. Gregor Paul
out of Turin. Chris Laidlaw, I mean, played in the
sixties and he's only just being inducted into the Hall
(06:43):
of Fame.
International rugby coverage on the country. Sport Breakfast is proudly
brought to you by Access Solutions, elevating you and your
business to a higher level. Joining us out of a turn,
we say bonjo no to greg Or. Paul Morning, Gregor.
How's the weather over there? There's a lot of talk
about it being bitterly cold.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yes, it's magnificently. Colled B.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Cave Man, who comes from Scotland's loving it right now.
We're down towards freezing. It's going to snow tomorrow morning.
It's going to be by minus four when the kickoff
on Saturday night. And I'm gonna love every.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Second of it. This is proper weather, proper stuff for
a Test match.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But are the All Blacks going to absolutely love it?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Look, I think they're in a fairly determined frame of mind.
I think there's no sense, having been around the team
a week but this week that they're kind of knocking
all fairly or treating this as a bit of a
hit and giggle because it's idare to say, because it's
only Italy.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They don't have that attitude at all.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I think they've seen that Italy this year especially, you
know they won they won two Six.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Nations games and they drew with France.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So clearly they can play if they get it right
on the day, and I think the All Blacks are
very wary of that, and they're fairly determined to finish
with a performance that doesn't make amends for last week,
but certainly leaves them going home in a more upbeat
frame of mind.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Grigor, what did you make of last week's metch against France.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know, it was a lot of good rugby, particularly
in the first half. I thought they Oblecks attacked particularly well.
I thought they used the defense cleverly. I like the
fact they didn't kick the ball back and get sucked
into that kick tennis routine that the French were obviously
trying to goad them into.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So I thought they.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Played a lot of really good rugby in that first
forty minutes. But again we're back to the sort of
tired old story, aren't we. That they weren't able to
drive through with a surge or with another kind of
momentous sick and half to back up what they started.
They couldn't put them away. They came out, they give
away try early in the second half. Then there's a
(02:15):
sort of fourteen point play where you know they could
have scored with Will Jordan, but they drop it or
it doesn't go to hand in.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The French score, and that was it. Really.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
They felt like they could never really deliver the moments
of precision and clarity that they needed and they just
couldn't find.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
A way to wrestle their way back to victory.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I think that's about the fourth time that's happened
this year and beginning to feel like how many times
is that going to happen before they find the recipe
to unlock it?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The one that got away? So I'm picking of the
All Black selectors are going to make quite a few
changes to personnel for the team that runs on on
Sunday morning, New Zealand time against Italy. There'll be a
couple of players there haven't seen too much an action
this year.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Are you picking that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I am, But but I'd also say, look, there
will be a lot of changes if we if you
weigh it up against who played against France and then
who's going to play this week, Yeah, there will be,
but I wouldn't read into that that they're going to
push the boundaries too far, you know, in terms of
giving all their top their top line players the week off.
(03:20):
I think we'll still see a number of big names
in the team. I think they want to make sure
that they've got a team on the park that doesn't
suddenly find itself under incredible pressure, you know, and you
get to halftime and you go jeeper, as were you know,
it's twelve nine and we've got a whole you know,
emerging team on the field and Scott, Barrett Born and
Barrett Standing sitting in the stands.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We don't want to do that. So I think we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
A mix of experienced players built around some of the
peripheral guys, and they'll use it as an opportunity to
see some of them that they haven't seen, but with
an established core to make sure that they're not, you know,
in danger of unraveling.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Steven Piafitter at number teen, you're you'll pick for the
number ten Jersey?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Perhaps, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I think it's they've got they know everything they need
to know about Barrett Bowden and Damian McKenzie, so there's
time to see what he can do. I think McKenzie
will probably start a fallback as a guiding hand if
you like, you know, to to mentor them through the
game from the backfield, and I think that Antony Leonard
Brown will be in the midfield as well. So experience,
they have experience in all the kind of combinations if
(04:28):
you like to make sure that there's.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Someone all their experience to guide the younger guys.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And Sam Kine will presumably come back and players last
test after recovering from a head knock, and look, I
think probably in their in their type five they've got
enough quality and depth there that they could probably change
all five that started last week, but that wouldn't mean
that you'd be looking at a lightweight type five by
any leagues.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, the big rugby story to come out in the
last twenty four hours officially that Harry Plummer is going
to be a signed a three year deal in moving
to France after Super Rugby next year. You surprised with that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Not really, Look, he probably had his mindset on that
that contract would have been months in negotiation to get
to this point, so events would have accelerated as he
was in negotiations with him. But look, he's probably realistic
as well. He's a great Super Rugby season, He's earned
a Test cap. He absolutely has earned it, but he's
(05:27):
probably realistic enough to know he's still sits probably fourth
or even fifth on a number ten pecking order. If
Molonga comes home and his chances of winning more caps
are reasonably limited, I would have thought. And he's got
a great offer on the table and he's decided that's
the thing for him.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Interesting, And finally I'm surprised at this one. New Zealand's
going to have its twenty fifth and twenty six inductees
into World Rugby's Hall of Fame next week in Monaco.
DJ Forbes. Fine, but why is it taken so long
for Chris Laidlaw to be nominated?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
The inner workings of the Hall of Fame and the
nominations jeepers. That's that's a wild man's guest to get
in there and work out what happens.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's a random process, and isn't it. Who would know? Why? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So well, look good, good that he's in it, though,
we Chris, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Absolutely, Hey Gregor, I have a good call on Sunday morning.
Enjoy the enjoy the game and we'll look out for
you and the Elliott Smith calling the match. Thank you
so much. Well, well, thank you, stay warm, put that
little Tammy shater on the way you go. Gregor Paul
out of Turin. Chris Laidlaw, I mean, played in the
sixties and he's only just being inducted into the Hall
(06:43):
of Fame.
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