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Speaker 1: We've got the final round of the Rugby Championship this weekend.

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Speaker 1: The All Blacks take on the Wallabys in Perth to

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Speaker 1: sold out Optics Stadium. It's ten forty five pm our time,

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Speaker 1: Saturday night. Elliott Smith News Talk saib's voice of rugby

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Speaker 1: is the Elliott.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, morning, Ryan.

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Speaker 3: So what's the vibe like over there?

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Speaker 2: He has been a big build up. Obviously, the Wallaby's

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Speaker 2: gone with a little bit of confidence given the way

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Speaker 2: they are able to pressure the All Blacks this last week.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't quite enough to win the bleders Low Cup,

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Speaker 2: but the Wallaby since there is an opportunity to get

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Speaker 2: first win over the All Blacks since twenty twenty ten

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Speaker 2: straight the All Blacks have won. But you know, the

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Speaker 2: Wallaby's certainly knocked off, not knocked off by the defeat

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Speaker 2: last week in Auckland and sensing there is a chance

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Speaker 2: to cause some kiwi pine this weekend.

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Speaker 3: We've got a few other injuries. Boden Barrett's out. Any

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Speaker 3: concerns there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you'll be up a two to three weeks. Well,

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Speaker 2: the sound of it should be okay for Chicago. Damien

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Speaker 2: McKenzie comes in. He's been the understudy all year long

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Speaker 2: for Boden Barrett came off the bench instead for an

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Speaker 2: hour last week, so not a huge drop necessarily, but

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Speaker 2: Boden Barrett certainly the first choice and that All Blacks

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Speaker 2: set up. They lose Ethan de Groot as well up

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Speaker 2: front to Mighty Williams comes through. This is all about

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Speaker 2: finding that depth, of course, ahead of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: seven World Cup. Couple of other selections as well, with

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Speaker 2: Peter Lukey coming in at number eight, which is a

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Speaker 2: real surprise when that was named yesterday here in Australia,

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Speaker 2: and also Quente Pie at center, so a couple of surprises.

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Speaker 2: Just as the All Blacks try to find a little

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Speaker 2: bit of depth. There's not many opportunities to build those

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Speaker 2: depths with such a congested schedule and everyone being so

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Speaker 2: even around the world at the moment, so trying to

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Speaker 2: find those opportunities to learn a little bit more about

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Speaker 2: some of these players few and far between. But that's

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Speaker 2: what Scott Robinson's done this week. Not quite as conservative

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Speaker 2: maybe as we expected it to be.

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Speaker 3: Very even Stevens. Assuming we beat the Wallabies in Perth,

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Speaker 3: then we're onto this Grand Slam Tour. What do we

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Speaker 3: need to do there.

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Speaker 2: I think that any inconsistency is the focus for the

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Speaker 2: All Blacks. If they went on Saturday night, that's two

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Speaker 2: in a row, first time I've been able to do

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Speaker 2: that in the Rugby Championship. And then as you said,

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Speaker 2: the Ireland, who are always tough, that's in Chicago. England

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Speaker 2: a really really tricky at home, Scotland having never beaten

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Speaker 2: the All Blacks in Edinburgh, but will fancy their chances,

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Speaker 2: and then Wales surround out the year. The All Blacks

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Speaker 2: need to win and keep winning and building that momentum

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Speaker 2: because there are still so many questions around this All

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Speaker 2: Blacks team and until they start stringing wins together, these

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Speaker 2: questions are going to remain. So once we sit back

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year, over the summer and

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Speaker 2: can look back at the record for the year, that's

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Speaker 2: probably when we'll know how on track this All Blacks

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Speaker 2: team is ahead of twenty twenty seven.

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