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Speaker 1: Now Scott Robertson and his team have named the first

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Speaker 1: All Black squad of the year. Got thirty five players named.

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Speaker 1: So this is to play against France next month. Hurricanes

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Speaker 1: co captain Diplassy Carreffi is one of five uncapp players

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Speaker 1: to get their first official call up. You're waiting for

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Speaker 1: such a big important call and I guess a call

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Speaker 1: like for the rest of us boys who are in

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Speaker 1: for the first time. It's a big milestone in your life.

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Speaker 1: I yes, Alliot Smith was at the Oh sorry, I

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Speaker 1: said it was going to be Jason Pine but Elliott

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Speaker 1: was there. So we're going to go to Elliott Smith

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Speaker 1: and stick because he knows rugby.

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Speaker 2: Hello Elliott, Hello Heather afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Not that Piney doesn't know rugby. It's just this is

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Speaker 1: your mastermind topic.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Any surprise, isn't there for you?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Brody McCallister has to be a surprise. I don't

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Speaker 2: think many would have mentioned his name around the traps

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Speaker 2: this year as a possibility. Everyone knew they were going

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Speaker 2: to need the third hooker with a suffol or more injured.

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Speaker 2: The logical thought was that George Bell, who'd been in

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Speaker 2: the squad last year up and coming player would get

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Speaker 2: the nod, but Brady McAllister, in his like twenties, decided

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Speaker 2: to shift to the Chiefs in the off season. It's

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Speaker 2: been a big move for him and it's worked out

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Speaker 2: because he's in the All Black squad for the first time,

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Speaker 2: so that was a real surprise. The four other players

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Speaker 2: that were included for the first time have certainly been

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Speaker 2: mentioned in dispatches and predictions and sweepstakes over the course

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Speaker 2: of the last few weeks. To Plas Kadifi as we

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Speaker 2: heard from, there has been a name mentioned by a

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Speaker 2: number of people, Ollie Norris out of the Chiefs as well,

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Speaker 2: Fabian Holland and to Monthly tather Tava Nawai the other

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Speaker 2: new faces in the All Black squads. So four that

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Speaker 2: probably people might have had in the mix, but certainly

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Speaker 2: one surprise there in Brady Mcallison had all.

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Speaker 1: Surplies surprised by Ethan Blackadder and David have early losing out.

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Speaker 2: Certainly both of them I thought that they would be

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Speaker 2: in the mix. And interestingly Scott Robertson deciding to trim

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Speaker 2: he went with thirty three in the ends. He could

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Speaker 2: have named thirty five, but he's left a couple of

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Speaker 2: players out, he'll have to extend that for the Rugby

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Speaker 2: Championship and perhaps assigned that he wants to see a

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Speaker 2: little bit more of these players get back to NPC.

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Speaker 2: I mean, David have really captained the Crusaders to a

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Speaker 2: Super Rugby title less than forty eight hours ago, so

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Speaker 2: a real surprise not to see him there. He's been

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Speaker 2: a favorite of Scott Robinson's for some time. Ethan Blackad

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Speaker 2: it also a player that Scott Robinson really liked in

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Speaker 2: his time at the Crusaders. But what do think it

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Speaker 2: does signal hither is that they want a bit more

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Speaker 2: explosiveness out of their players. In the loose forwards. They've

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Speaker 2: got Duplessi Cofi. We know how explosive he's been great

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Speaker 2: over turnover ball. Same with Tavia, tav and Naway in

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Speaker 2: the backs. They want to get over that game line.

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Speaker 2: Quincy Pie back in the All Blacks as well. So

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Speaker 2: they want explosiveness, they want to get over the game line.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what we've seen from the new Caps

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Speaker 2: that have come in and the faces that have been

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Speaker 2: left out.

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Speaker 1: Who do you reckon he starts in first by the.

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Speaker 2: Eighth, I think it'll be Boden Barrett for the first

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Speaker 2: Test in Dunedin in eleven days time while they'reabout so.

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Speaker 2: I think he ended the year with him. Starting last year,

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Speaker 2: he was the man they switched to when Damien McKenzie

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Speaker 2: had a number of chances that decided to make the switch.

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Speaker 2: I think Boden Barrett has probably done enough to retain

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Speaker 2: that Jersey wasn't you know, the greatest of the seasons

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Speaker 2: for for Boden Barrid is a bit up and down,

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Speaker 2: but I think he'll retain that jersey. Damien McKenzie probably

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Speaker 2: didn't do himself too many favors with the performing against

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Speaker 2: the Crusaders are on the weekend either. That was an

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Speaker 2: opportunity I thought to really go out and stamp and mark.

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Speaker 2: He failed to do so. And I think Boden Barrett

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Speaker 2: will get the the number ten jusy next week because

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Speaker 2: of it. Reuben Love incidentally has been named. They also

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Speaker 2: see him possibly as a ten down the track as well.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. It's good to talk to you, Elliott. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much Elliott Smith, who is of course I'm our

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