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Speaker 1: Elliott Smith's sports talk hosters with us he Elliott Afternoon Hit.

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Speaker 1: It has Justin Marshall got a point.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think let's have a listen first and foremost,

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Speaker 2: and then we can decide as to where the Justin's

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Speaker 2: got a point.

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Speaker 3: You know, at the end of the day, there's forty

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Speaker 3: nine percent of the players have got no caps at all,

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Speaker 3: so it's a development team with a few senior players involved.

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Speaker 3: It's honestly, in my mind it's complete bs. You know,

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Speaker 3: the way that they're treating this tour.

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Speaker 2: And there's been a bit of frustration hither around the

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Speaker 2: fact that the French have sent out very much a

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Speaker 2: B team. Now the French rug be is pretty much

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Speaker 2: controlled by the top fourteen. All those clubs owned by powerful,

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Speaker 2: rich owners dictate whether these players can be released or

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Speaker 2: in theory they have to be because it's a global window.

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Speaker 2: But we know that theory doesn't really necessarily needsitary doesn't

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Speaker 2: necessarily translate to the rugby field, and they've left all

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Speaker 2: these players at home. I think he does have a point,

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Speaker 2: and the All Blacks are now in sort of a

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Speaker 2: no win position. You know, the French have sent over

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Speaker 2: a very much a B team. So the All Blacks

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Speaker 2: are expected to win, and win well if they do,

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Speaker 2: will everyone expect them to do so? If they don't,

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Speaker 2: then you know they've been troubled by a French B

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Speaker 2: team and all sorts of questions yet asked. So I

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Speaker 2: don't think it's good for Test rugby. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's a very good precedent for Test rugby to be

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Speaker 2: set that. Basically, the French have thumb their nose to

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Speaker 2: coming down to New Zealand and setting their own rules,

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Speaker 2: and now the All Blacks basically have to cop it.

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Speaker 2: New Zealand Rugby has to try and sell tickets for

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Speaker 2: this series. You know, probably would have been a bit

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Speaker 2: better if they didn't give them twelve months notice that

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Speaker 2: they weren't going to send their top players as well,

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Speaker 2: because we've known for a long time that this is

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Speaker 2: going to happen, and now it's on a doorstep. We

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Speaker 2: know that this All Black side is going to face

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Speaker 2: basically a team of no names come this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Elliott is should we I mean tell me that I'm

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Speaker 1: jumping getting way too excited here, But is it possible

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Speaker 1: that rugby's headed in the same direction as cricket where

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Speaker 1: actually the competitions are far more important now than the

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Speaker 1: national game.

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Speaker 2: Quite possibly, especially so in France, because they've still got

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Speaker 2: the money that dictates things. We've seen in England, you know,

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Speaker 2: clubs have fallen over in the last few years through

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Speaker 2: the financial difficulties. Super rugby has had very much the same.

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Speaker 2: So in this part of the world, and i'd say

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Speaker 2: in England as well, and the United Kingdom, international remains king.

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Speaker 2: But in France they've got such a strong domestic competition.

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Speaker 2: And it's not forget that that they've got a very

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Speaker 2: very strong domestic competition, probably the best in the world,

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Speaker 2: the top fourteen, that they can dictate things. They're owned

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Speaker 2: by millionaires, if not billionaires, a lot of these teams,

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Speaker 2: and they can thumbd they nose it the rest of

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Speaker 2: the international game because their domestic game is so strong.

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Speaker 2: I don't see that spreading across the rest of the

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Speaker 2: world as yet, but it is something that rugby needs

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Speaker 2: to be on guard for because cricket, basically international cricket

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Speaker 2: is by and large being destroyed over the last five

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Speaker 2: to ten years.

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Speaker 1: Very interesting, Hey, so what's going on with Wimbledon? Is

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Speaker 1: it the heat taking out the big guns?

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Speaker 2: Well it might be. We talked a bit about that

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Speaker 2: heat policy yesterday. A shocking day or shocking couple of

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Speaker 2: days for the top seeds. Eight top ten players across

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Speaker 2: the men's and women's draws are gone. That's in the

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Speaker 2: first round. That's the most in the Open era thirteen

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Speaker 2: and the men's ten in the women's have gone. Alexander

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Speaker 2: vere have gone. In the men's Coca gone, and the

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Speaker 2: women's Jessica. But the third seed gone and the women's

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Speaker 2: as well. It's almost like not having a seed next

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Speaker 2: to your name has been quite good. So that's good

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Speaker 2: news for Cameron Nora of course x Q we now

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Speaker 2: representing Great Britain. He's through to the second round. A

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Speaker 2: k Djokovitch looked like he might be folding a little

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Speaker 2: bit this morning after losing the third city. He managed

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Speaker 2: to get through in four. So as long as you're

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Speaker 2: doing to have that little number next to your name here,

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Speaker 2: that you're probably doing all right at Wimbledon. But having

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Speaker 2: said that, the mean's top one two seeds are both

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Speaker 2: through to the second round and probably on a collision

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Speaker 2: course for the title in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Store are you you? I haven't seen you all week.

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Speaker 2: And you know city, Yeah, yeah, racking up. It's a

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Speaker 2: bit chilly down here, looking forward to the test match?

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Speaker 2: Yeah is it.

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Speaker 1: Have you remember how last time we sent you out

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Speaker 1: of Auckland you had to go buy a jacket because

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Speaker 1: you hadn't packed properly. Have you had to do that

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Speaker 1: this time?

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Speaker 2: No? I packed properly this time. Here two degrees this morning.

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Speaker 2: And yes you said, well, that's not a company credit card,

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Speaker 2: it's not spread that. But it has been chilly, and

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm a South Island of them. I'm tough

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Speaker 2: at heart, and I've just got used to these conditions again. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Good, Okay, we won't tell anybody that you bought that

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Speaker 1: jacket on the company credit card.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate helping this discretion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what the word is. Thank you, Elliot, look

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Speaker 1: after yourself. To talk to you tomorrow, Elliot Smith, sports

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Speaker 1: talk host.

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