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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: That first half Sam Kane called it a clinic afterwards,

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Speaker 2: and that's a pretty good description. Everything the All Blacks

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Speaker 2: did in that first forty was pretty much perfect and

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Speaker 2: fairly challenging conditions at times. It was pretty wet at kickoff.

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Speaker 2: It did ease off the rain for large parts of

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Speaker 2: the game, but even so it was the execution of

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Speaker 2: skills in challenging conditions from the All Blacks in the

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Speaker 2: first half was rarely impressive. To their immense credit, the

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Speaker 2: Pumas regrouped at half time and were much more competitive

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Speaker 2: after the break. Second half score was seven all, but

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Speaker 2: the damage was done by an utterly brilliant first half

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Speaker 2: TJ Pedinada. It would appear that rumors of his imminent

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Speaker 2: demise have been somewhat exaggerated. Tremendous last night, what a

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Speaker 2: response to what was a challenging evening in Wellington and

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Speaker 2: that run and passed for Will Jordan's first try sublime.

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Speaker 2: His awareness to see the opportunity that it'll looked to

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Speaker 2: the left and then darting down the blind side, the

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Speaker 2: skill to execute it abit he slept pretty well last night.

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Speaker 2: Ethan Blackadder absolutely terrific. Twenty tackles last night. He was

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Speaker 2: still tackling in the eighty third minute at forty two

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Speaker 2: to ten ahead, the kind of workhorse performance that epitomizes

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Speaker 2: his approach to the game. Plenty of niggle as well

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Speaker 2: from Ethan Blackadder. He and Thomas love and he had

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Speaker 2: plenty to say to one another, but only only during

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Speaker 2: the eighty minutes.

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Speaker 3: They're all good buggers.

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Speaker 2: It's heated at times on there, but have a laugh

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Speaker 2: from the Yanna, so it's great. That's Ethan Blake had

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Speaker 2: a huge shift from him. And it seems almost repetitive

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Speaker 2: to mention Ardie Savia, but we have to rarely just exceptional.

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Speaker 2: Yet again, the stats only tell some of the story,

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Speaker 2: but here they are eighteen carries, five defenders, beaten another try.

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Speaker 2: That's twenty seven and Test matches now for Ardie savier

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Speaker 2: a level with Richie mccare as our highest try scoring

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Speaker 2: Test forward. He also gave the final pass to Caleb

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Speaker 2: Flight for his try and on the other side of

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Speaker 2: the ball. Twelve tackle, twelve tackles and no miss tackles.

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Speaker 2: Here's to mighty Williams talking about Ardie Savia afterwards.

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Speaker 3: Ardi just a minor physical dominance, And I guess it's

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Speaker 3: easy to prepare when that's all you get us to do. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm the leader's leader and we'll just follow them.

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Speaker 2: And Ardie himself said exactly the same thing.

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Speaker 3: It starts with myself as a leader, and it starts

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Speaker 3: with our leaders. We need to step forward and lead

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Speaker 3: and let the boys follow us.

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Speaker 2: Let the boys follow us. Imagine having Ardie Savier as

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Speaker 2: the guy to follow. It'd run for a brick wall,

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Speaker 2: wouldn't you, and then be looking for another one.

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