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Speaker 1: As far as hype goes, Timmy Cady after it. By

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Speaker 1: the way, speaking of hype, as far as hype goes tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: no shortage of noise around it. All Blacks of the

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Speaker 1: South Africa. Both sides have lost, but the Eden Park things.

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Speaker 1: That's a thing, so all to play for, as they say.

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Speaker 1: Cody Taylor, Great Ken Tabri and an all Black hooker

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Speaker 1: is back with us. Good morning, morning man.

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Speaker 2: How's it going all right?

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Speaker 1: Well, now listen, before we get to the weekend, just

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Speaker 1: talk me through Argentina a little bit. This two week on,

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Speaker 1: two week off thing. Does that work for you?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Oh, it makes it so. It's good for the body.

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Speaker 2: And as you're playing two big tests and then you

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Speaker 2: sort of have a week off and then I get

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Speaker 2: stuck into another two tests. But it's been like that

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Speaker 2: for a week while now, so yeah, it's not too bad.

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Speaker 1: And how much time we spent on what happened in Argentina?

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Speaker 1: And when did you move past that and focus on

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Speaker 1: this week?

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Speaker 2: Oh, we got together on Sunday. It was obviously a

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Speaker 2: long week at home for everyone on the back of

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Speaker 2: a pretty tough loss. And yeah, we had a good

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Speaker 2: look in the mirror and covered everything on Sunday and

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Speaker 2: then obviously looking forward to Monday and the week that is,

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Speaker 2: because this is a big one.

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Speaker 1: Too, it is do you guys, by the way, do

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Speaker 1: you break up in between? Go back home?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, so this is a long, long six days

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Speaker 2: at home and what do you do? Ah, Well, personally,

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Speaker 2: just you're back with the family and be present there

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Speaker 2: and so tip away and training and then yeah, just

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Speaker 2: go again for another couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: And what have you got on this Australia South Africa thing?

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Speaker 1: I mean, have you personally followed that closely? And what

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Speaker 1: do you make of what happened there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We were and Argie watching those games is in

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Speaker 2: a good time. I think. You know, Australia really played well.

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Speaker 2: You know they're a well got galvanized team on the

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Speaker 2: back of a lion series and you could see that

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Speaker 2: in the first Test in South Africa and they went

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Speaker 2: close again in the second. South Africa fixed a few

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Speaker 2: things obviously got the result, but just goes to show that,

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Speaker 2: you know, this competition is pretty tight.

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Speaker 1: And is it tighter than you thought? You can see

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Speaker 1: if I'd asked you out to know, four weeks ago

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Speaker 1: before the whole comp began, would you have thought, you know, something.

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Speaker 2: Different personally, No, I think you know, we lost the

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Speaker 2: Ard last year, you know, a couple played ozziec and

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Speaker 2: then we lost to South Africa last year too, So

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Speaker 2: it's always close and that's the way you wanted us

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Speaker 2: as a Test footy but as all blacks, we need

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Speaker 2: to be better and that's what we're struggling to be see.

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Speaker 1: I can't see. That's what I can't work out whether

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Speaker 1: Australia is significantly better than we thought or South Africa

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Speaker 1: is off the pace of it.

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Speaker 2: I think South Africa is still a great team. You know,

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Speaker 2: they really have their own identity of how they want

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Speaker 2: to play and they've been playing like that for the

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Speaker 2: last four plus years. You're just going to be able

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Speaker 2: to stop it. And they've got a bit of innovation.

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Speaker 2: And in Australia, you know, on the back of you know,

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Speaker 2: they've got some good coaching over there and they've got

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Speaker 2: great talent I think, and we're seeing them play well

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So how much of this weekend for you

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Speaker 1: a little bit of the old. You know, they added

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Speaker 1: South Africans and the s Eden Park record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's everything on the line really this week.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're well aware of eating Park and and

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Speaker 2: we're well aware of the South Africa's aspirations to probably

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Speaker 2: do a job there. So yeah, this is what it's

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Speaker 2: all about. As an all back, this is where you

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Speaker 2: want to be. You know, either walk towards that pressure

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Speaker 2: or you don't. So it's been a really good week

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Speaker 2: so far, and yeah, looking forward to getting into it.

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Speaker 1: How do you handle pressure? It's a pressure a thing

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Speaker 2: It is I think everyone anyone will be lying if

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Speaker 2: they said they didn't feel it in the game. I

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Speaker 2: think you know we've It's something that you've got to

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Speaker 2: deal with and you've got to you got to make

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Speaker 2: a choice with her. You sort of step to it

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Speaker 2: or you don't. And it really is only one choice

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Speaker 2: in test footy because if you don't step up, then

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Speaker 2: you get found out.

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Speaker 1: And what do you expect of the South Africans, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what have you talked about this week? What do they bring?

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Speaker 2: I think, well, they know the way they want to

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Speaker 2: play their physical men. When they get down in your health,

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Speaker 2: they're going to try and beat ya, and then they

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Speaker 2: use their set piece to build a good platform for

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Speaker 2: their backs that can also play. They've got some great

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Speaker 2: skilled players in their team and they've got a lot

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Speaker 2: of variations, so they're a tough team to preview. But

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Speaker 2: atin the day it's just about physicality and turning up.

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Speaker 1: What about the Rainfilly shield, by the way, you're given

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Speaker 1: that and you thought you wish you were there.

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Speaker 2: There's been a bit of chat about that Ethan de grit.

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Speaker 2: It's been pretty pretty tough for the tests out this

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Speaker 2: week and right they say with the Southern boys and

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Speaker 2: there's build a band to now with the Canterbury lads

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Speaker 2: getting the cracks, So yeah, going for them, that's see.

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Speaker 1: I think Canterbury will win and hold it obviously. The

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Speaker 1: only question is how many years will they hold it.

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Speaker 2: Well, So it's a tough thing to hold. We had

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Speaker 2: he was a part of the ten that held us

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Speaker 2: for sixty one games or something, which is something that

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Speaker 2: will never be broken.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what weather, What about the weather's bother you? They say,

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Speaker 1: I think they're saying it's raining tomorrow morning, but it'll

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Speaker 1: be fine by night. Does any of that matter?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. When either way, when will dry,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be about rolling his flees up and

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Speaker 2: getting into it.

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Speaker 1: We'll go well with it. Cody Taylor All Black with

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Speaker 1: us this morning.

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