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Speaker 1: You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy

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Speaker 1: Wildegrave from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: By seven twenty eight Army All Sport Breakfast. You're probably

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Speaker 2: gathered by now if you've been lasting. I'm as big

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Speaker 2: a fan as the next guy when it comes to

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Speaker 2: the All Blacks, right. I'm not obsessive like I was

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Speaker 2: in my youth, but the team has occupied an unhealthy

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Speaker 2: amount of space in my brain for as long as

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Speaker 2: I can remember it. Classes between the Men in Black

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Speaker 2: and the African Menace have always been the pinnacle of

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Speaker 2: the sport for me and most people. So why since

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Speaker 2: their readmission to the international arena, New Zealand's edged their

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Speaker 2: rivals with wins. We don't want to say edge. I'm

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Speaker 2: talking forty seven v twenty with only two draws. That's

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Speaker 2: kind of dominant. Maybe that's something to do with the

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Speaker 2: home referees without gold watches in the Republic. So statistically,

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Speaker 2: the All Blacks have been the superior team ever since

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Speaker 2: they came out of that apartheid and deuced wilderness. New

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Speaker 2: Zealand have got the whip and we have superior tri

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Speaker 2: Nations Rugby Championship results. We've crunched them way too often

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Speaker 2: at their traditional home of Alice Park. But the aura

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Speaker 2: around the Springboks has never waned. They're best at us

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Speaker 2: when it really counts, in two World Cup finals, and

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Speaker 2: that stings. Look the Aussie's are funderbeat. The English are

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Speaker 2: a team that are horrible to lose to. The French

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Speaker 2: are and exercise, and who goddamn knows. In the recent times,

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Speaker 2: we've had the Iris and intermittently the Argentines as worthy foes.

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Speaker 2: But South Africa, the Springboks are us. They're bred in

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Speaker 2: a country where the rugby DNA is barred wire wrapped

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Speaker 2: around the hearts and souls of the populace. They're hard nose,

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Speaker 2: they are uncompromising in their play. They have unreasonably high standards.

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Speaker 2: Their national psyche is inextricably linked to their results. We

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Speaker 2: share rugby controversy, from the device of and violent eighty

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Speaker 2: one tour, the Cavaliers, ill conceived misadventure, the legendary Suzi scandal.

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Speaker 2: The list goes on. There's something about this contest between

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Speaker 2: these two magnificent teams in world rugby. Both of these

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Speaker 2: teams count rugby as their national sport, their national passion.

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Speaker 2: There's something about these tests and I'm all over it.

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Speaker 2: That'll do.

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Speaker 1: For more from the Your Sport Breakfast with Darcy Watergrave,

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