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Speaker 1: Heather do to seel. So the man appointed today as

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Speaker 1: the coach to take the All Blacks to next year's

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Speaker 1: Rugby World Cup is Dave Rennie. And has he got

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Speaker 1: his work cut out for him? I mean he cannot

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Speaker 1: start full time with the All Blacks until June. He's

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Speaker 1: got to finish his contract in Japan first. That finishes

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Speaker 1: in May, which means that is a tight turnaround to

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Speaker 1: the first Test against the French in early July. Then

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Speaker 1: he's got the Italians, and then he's got the Irish,

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Speaker 1: and then he's got the South Africans Baptism of fire

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Speaker 1: much and then in just over eighteen months he's got

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Speaker 1: the Rugby World Cup. Now, taking that trophy's going to

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Speaker 1: be a bit of a challenge, but it is possible.

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Speaker 1: Russi Rausmus famously took over in twenty eighteen and won

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Speaker 1: the Rugby World Cup for the spring Box the next year,

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Speaker 1: and you could argue the spring Box back then were

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Speaker 1: more of a hot mess than the All Blacks are

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Speaker 1: ahead of Rennie taking over. It's worth remembering also, this

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Speaker 1: isn't altogether new ground for Dave Rennie, as in coaching

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Speaker 1: at an international level he was the Wallabies coach before

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Speaker 1: he was dumped for the disaster that was Eddie Jones.

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Speaker 1: If you look at his record with that squad, though,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to fill you with much confidence. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry to say he had a thirty eight percent win rate,

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Speaker 1: which makes RAS's seventy four percent win rate look positively outstanding.

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Speaker 1: But if you're being generous, you would have to say

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Speaker 1: that Dave Rennie actually had the odds stacked against him

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Speaker 1: with the Wallabies because it was COVID, he had to

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Speaker 1: face the All Blacks too many times, he had injuries,

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Speaker 1: he had player unavailability. He managed to beat South Africa twice,

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Speaker 1: which is saying something. And then neither of his successes,

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Speaker 1: neither Eddie Jones nor Joshmitt have really done that much better. Now.

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Speaker 1: Dave Renie's appointment brings in a couple of firsts. The

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Speaker 1: one that will get all the attention is that he's

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Speaker 1: the first coach of the All Blacks who was of

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Speaker 1: Pacifica descent. But the first that I am enjoying today

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Speaker 1: is that while it's not unusual for ex All Blacks

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Speaker 1: coaches to take over the Wallabies, this is the first

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Speaker 1: time the All Blacks have been taken over by a

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