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Speaker 1: The Rugby Championship perhaps turned out to be a bit

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Speaker 1: of a talking point more than we might have imagined.

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Speaker 1: The All Blacks won easily, of course, but the Australians.

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Speaker 1: How about the Australians. John Hart's with us, John, very

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Speaker 1: good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Now, as far as the All Blacks were concerned, just

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Speaker 1: as like I watch as a patriot, I'm not an

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Speaker 1: expert like you. I saw it side that was winning,

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Speaker 1: was always going to win in the end, won by

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Speaker 1: quite a lot, am I. That's good enough, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I look, they'd look back in the game and say,

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Speaker 2: look things, they're things that they can improve on. But

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Speaker 2: overall a good win. But second half had its concerns,

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Speaker 2: lack of discipline had its concerns. You wouldn't want to

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Speaker 2: be doing that against South Africa. So some learnings, but

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Speaker 2: you know, a good step forward and now they've got

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Speaker 2: another game next weekend exactly.

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Speaker 1: Any reason to believe it won't be roughly the same

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Speaker 1: next weekend?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think if I was Scott Robertson, I'd be

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Speaker 2: looking three weeks ahead to the Test against South Africa.

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Speaker 2: So I think this weekend is an opportunity for him

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Speaker 2: to put his team out that is as close injuries aside,

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Speaker 2: as close as possible to the test that he wants

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Speaker 2: to play against South Africa Eden Park and so I

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Speaker 2: think you will see players like Tammedy Williams and wall

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Speaker 2: was the TD come back in either on the bench

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Speaker 2: or in the team. But you know, not many changes otherwise.

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Speaker 2: I think he's getting pretty close and settled to where

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Speaker 2: he wants to be.

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Speaker 1: And as regards the Australians, where do you reckon? Joe

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Speaker 1: Schmidt puts that on a CB.

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Speaker 2: Well, I did you know. We exchange a lot of

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Speaker 2: texts and I did say that would have to rank

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Speaker 2: pretty highly. And I think, you know, it's a wonderful performance.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Joe Smith is world class coach. But to

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Speaker 2: do what he's done with Australia to turn them around

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Speaker 2: from where they were last year to what they did

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Speaker 2: against the lines and that victory, that's one for the

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Speaker 2: that's one for the record book. That was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: What did it tell us is Australia betan we all

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Speaker 1: fought or did South Africa have a bad day?

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Speaker 2: A combination? Mike, I think Australia are on the improve.

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Speaker 2: I think he hasn't got debts, he hasn't got a

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Speaker 2: lot of bench talent or beyond that. But a starting

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Speaker 2: team now is very very competitive, So I think that.

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Speaker 2: But I think South Africa took them easy. I think

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Speaker 2: South Africa thought they were going to win and twenty

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Speaker 2: two nil up you probably thought you you're away laughing,

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Speaker 2: and they lacked the discipline that they normally have. Next

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Speaker 2: week very different, i'd say, a very different performance from

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Speaker 2: South Africa and that will be a real test producement.

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Speaker 1: So the All Blacks were away to South Africa. Thing

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Speaker 1: is the away things still laugh thing as big as

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Speaker 1: it ever was or not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look it's it's not easy to win away and

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Speaker 2: I think you know that's that's I mean, ninety sixty

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Speaker 2: three I think they're saying was the last time that

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Speaker 2: Australia won in Johannesburg. It's not easy to win away

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Speaker 2: and even in you know, don't underestimate how difficult it

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Speaker 2: as an Argentina. So next week go INA's area is

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Speaker 2: another big game. But you know, I think the All

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Speaker 2: Blacks are tracking really well and you know, I think

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Speaker 2: the big test of the year is at Edon Park

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Speaker 2: in three weeks time.

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Speaker 1: Super exciting. Good on your John. Nice to catch John Hart,

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Speaker 1: former Allbacks coach, of course.

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