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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed be

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Speaker 2: Clay Wilson Sports News Director Orzin Studio. But first we

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Speaker 2: are going to go to rugby editor Elliott Smith for

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Speaker 2: the first All Black squad of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Get a Elliott afternoon, guys.

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Speaker 2: So you're at the Coastal Rugby Club in Tartanaki. What

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Speaker 2: are the notable ins and outs for the All Blacks team?

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Speaker 3: Well, notable inns five new caps, Matt Brody, McAllister from

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Speaker 3: the chiefsas fellow Chiefs front rower Ollie Norris also in

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Speaker 3: the mix. So I don't think many would have picked

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Speaker 3: McAllister to make the carts. Certainly others had Olie Norris.

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Speaker 3: And there is Lucid prop Cover, so he's been elevated

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Speaker 3: and named for the first time. The Highlanders have got

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Speaker 3: a couple of new players, so they go from having

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Speaker 3: one All Black to three, joining Ethan Degrut who's been

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Speaker 3: obviously a mainstad of the All Blacks for a number

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Speaker 3: of years, as to Marty tav Tava Nahway and the

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Speaker 3: tall Timber and the second row Fabian Hollands comes in

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Speaker 3: for the first time as well, and the other new

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Speaker 3: capc player is Hurricanes flank Are Duplessi Kadifi called in

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Speaker 3: for the first time as well. He's been around the

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Speaker 3: All Black mets before and twenty twenty it was called

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Speaker 3: in as injury cover, but now included for the first time.

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Speaker 3: So five new Caps in this All Black side to

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Speaker 3: play France first Test next Saturday night. As always, as

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Speaker 3: you mentioned, there are some notable omissions eating Blackhead and

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Speaker 3: went close. He's been around the All Blacks before, and

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Speaker 3: also Dalton Papalii who's been in this All Blacks full

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Speaker 3: pack for a number of seasons now and was probably

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Speaker 3: the heir apparent to Sam Kine. He has been left

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Speaker 3: out of the squad and the other one just two

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Speaker 3: days after lifting the Super Rugby title Crusader's captain David

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Speaker 3: Harveli no room for him. Thirty three players named today.

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Speaker 3: They could have taken thirty five but have chosen to

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Speaker 3: only go with thirty three. Couple of injury replacements in

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Speaker 3: the mix as well, but that's the All Black squad

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Speaker 3: that has been named to take on France.

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Speaker 2: Yep, some big calls, that's for sure, Elliott. Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much. That is Elliott Smith, our Rugby It editor,

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Speaker 2: live from Coastal Rugby Club in Tatannak. With that All

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Speaker 2: Blacks naming, we're now chatting with Clay Wilson, our Sports

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Speaker 2: news to ret to get a Clay afternoon chaps. So

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Speaker 2: what are the big surprises there for you?

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Speaker 4: Wow? I mean Elliott mentioned there David Harvilli and Ethan

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Speaker 4: blackead a fresh off a Super Rugby title.

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Speaker 3: And you'd have thought they'd have been favorites.

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Speaker 4: And not only fresh off a Super Rugby title, but

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Speaker 4: players that have been in the All Blacks before have

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Speaker 4: a lot of experience. Obviously Ethan blackheaded while both really

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Speaker 4: have struggled with injury issues in the last two or

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Speaker 4: three years, but both been in pretty good form towards

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Speaker 4: the back end of the Super Rugby season. So I

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Speaker 4: mean that this is the hard thing. You're always going

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Speaker 4: to have our players miss out. And Dalton Papa Li,

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Speaker 4: I mean just a couple of years ago was Blues captain.

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Speaker 4: Now we can't make the cat. But of course loose

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Speaker 4: forward's always such a position of strength in any All

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Speaker 4: Black squad.

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