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Speaker 1: We've got the thirty six man squad for the Rugby Championship.

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Speaker 1: Among the names, Will Jordan's back along with Sam Cane,

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Speaker 1: David Heavili and the newcap Jordan Love of course and

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Speaker 1: Will Jordan's with us Morning brought Mike. Is it good

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Speaker 1: to be back.

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Speaker 2: As good for you back? Yeah, it's been a wee

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Speaker 2: while in the wilderness this year, bit of a long

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Speaker 2: road back from the shoulder injuries. So I had a

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Speaker 2: bit of a taste with ads over the last three

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Speaker 2: or four weeks being in camp. Yes, nicely. Finally, yeah,

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Speaker 2: probably definitely.

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Speaker 1: Group when you go through what you've gone through, and

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Speaker 1: it's a major both in time and terms of surgery,

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Speaker 1: how much can you do physically by way of rehab.

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Speaker 2: It was a pretty quiet first couple of months, to

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Speaker 2: be fair. It was in a sling for about six weeks,

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Speaker 2: so you're pretty limited in that time. And then even

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Speaker 2: the first five or six weeks once I got that off, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the shot wasn't able to kind of get through too

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Speaker 2: much range or too much strength works, even passing and

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Speaker 2: that sort of thing work. So yeah, the first three

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Speaker 2: or four months are pretty slow going, just building into

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Speaker 2: the rehab and some by waits really and then probags.

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Speaker 2: The last month or two I've been able to train

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Speaker 2: with the team a bit more and then finally the

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Speaker 2: last two or three weeks back into full contact training.

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Speaker 2: So wow, yeah, there's a little bit slow going. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: trying to get as many reps I can at this

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Speaker 2: stage now.

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Speaker 1: And is that mental or is it physical or is

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Speaker 1: it both?

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit of both. I think. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: a bit of a journey, long term injury like that,

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Speaker 2: so you have the ups and downs and different motivation,

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Speaker 2: and I think now as I closer to playing, you

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Speaker 2: start to dial in the mental a bit more, kind

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Speaker 2: of trusting that your shoulders in a good place. So

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Speaker 2: I've been able to take the bumps and bruises that

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Speaker 2: come with playing rugby and being confident that will all

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Speaker 2: stand up to the net. So that's kind of where

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Speaker 2: I've been in the last two weeks. Is yeah, trying

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Speaker 2: to get as much contact into it as possible, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: trust it and.

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Speaker 1: Do they give you tools around that, because I don't

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Speaker 1: want to bore you will, but I've had an issue

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Speaker 1: and so I second guess manie all the time. Do

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Speaker 1: your second guess your shoulder or is that a natural

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Speaker 1: thing that you can go back into it and hit

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Speaker 1: contact or does someone have to tell you trust believe it.

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Speaker 1: I'm a doctor and I know, or how does that work?

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Speaker 2: It is definitely a huge amount of that. We've got

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Speaker 2: a pretty good team around us, the abs and the

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Speaker 2: crusaders of physicist doctors who are there to give you

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Speaker 2: that and follow and trust it. And I think there's

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Speaker 2: different times where you want to push a little bit

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Speaker 2: more and sometimes you get held back at it as well.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely put in a bit of confidence in

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Speaker 2: the team experience around you, and I think I finally

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Speaker 2: a point where you just got to, yeah, have faith

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Speaker 2: in what you've been doing, take more steps, and then yeah,

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Speaker 2: take the plunge in your.

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Speaker 1: Back out there good stuff. What do you make of

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Speaker 1: the All Black so far this year? From what you've

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Speaker 1: seen England and Fiji.

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Speaker 2: Been pretty impressed. I think, you know, I looked at

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Speaker 2: that English side that came games here, I thought they

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Speaker 2: were a pretty good outfit that tests us in a

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Speaker 2: lot of ways, particularly around their d so I think

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Speaker 2: they come away with two wins against them with a

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Speaker 2: real credit to the group. It's always a huge thing

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Speaker 2: to be able to win those tight test matches and

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Speaker 2: when it comes down to the last ten to fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 2: been able to find a way. It's hugely important. I

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Speaker 2: was pretty impressed a bench in that space and how

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Speaker 2: they were able to come on and create a real impact,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's been a key thing of good

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Speaker 2: all back teams in the past. And then I got

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Speaker 2: a chance to butt some new boys against Veji, which

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Speaker 2: was great dums opportunity, and I thought they played really well.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's a group that's finding their feats

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Speaker 2: and I'm excited to get back in there.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Go well with it. Well, Jordan back with

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Speaker 1: the All Blakes for the Rugby Championship. The reason I

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Speaker 1: mentioned my injury, not to bore you witless, was I

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Speaker 1: watched on the news last night Andrew Savile, a man

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Speaker 1: well beyond his prime out on the rugby field raising

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Speaker 1: money for charity. So God bless them for that, But

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Speaker 1: looking in the sort of shape he shouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: actually physically involved in the game of rugby. What was

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Speaker 1: he doing out there for goodness sake?

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