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Speaker 1: Boy, have we got changes in the All Black squad

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Speaker 1: for the final Test against France tomorrow night. Raza has

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Speaker 1: swapped out ten players and for the first time in forever,

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Speaker 1: there is no Barrett in the squad. Elliott Smith's News

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Speaker 1: Talk z be's lead rugby commentator and with us Morning

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Speaker 1: Elliott Morning Heather. Well, we can't accuse Razor of being

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Speaker 1: timid with the selections anymore.

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Speaker 2: Can we? No, we can't, and I think there's a

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Speaker 2: lesson learned from last year, especially against Italy and Sheuran,

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Speaker 2: when he didn't change some of those players and ran

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Speaker 2: out his largely first choice team again. This time he's gone, Well,

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Speaker 2: the opportunity is there and they don't come along too

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Speaker 2: often in test rugby where you can have a look

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Speaker 2: at some different players, different combinations. Look, the All Blacks

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Speaker 2: still want to win obviously tomorrow night, but you've got

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Speaker 2: to take these opportunities to find out a little bit

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Speaker 2: more about the likes of Ruben Love, about Damien McKenzie

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Speaker 2: at ten now about seven penny female on the blind

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Speaker 2: side flank, among others, because you just won't get them

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Speaker 2: too often, and it certainly won't come in the Rugby

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Speaker 2: Championship you know, Argentina two tests away is going to

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Speaker 2: be tough, South Africa obviously Australia. If you want to

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Speaker 2: find out a bit more about these players and get

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Speaker 2: them into the All Blacks environment and playing some rugby

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Speaker 2: tomorrow night, it's the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time we had no Barretts in

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Speaker 1: the squad?

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Speaker 2: It was against Japan and last year in Yokohama, so

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Speaker 2: no Barretts played in that game. But before then I

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Speaker 2: did have that note at the time, but it'd be

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Speaker 2: a long time since that point, so being fairly recent.

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Speaker 2: But look in the last ten to fifteen years, very

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Speaker 2: very rare that there's been no Barretts in the run

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Speaker 2: on side.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with Bodie's hand? I mean, if it's puffy

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Speaker 1: it sounds serious.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Puffy's never good is it for a hands? And

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Speaker 2: Scott Robertson says the going for scans and our course

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Speaker 2: his brothers. Scott is also in the injury wilderness at

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Speaker 2: the moment, waiting for more information on that calf injury

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Speaker 2: he had. This injury during Super Rugby. Robertson wasn't able

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Speaker 2: to clarify whether it was the same hands, but that

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Speaker 2: kept him out for about five or six weeks, remembering

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Speaker 2: in Super Rugby a possibility it does so again and

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Speaker 2: obviously with the championship bearing down on us, you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: want it to be too long, so look, we'll probably

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Speaker 2: get some scanned results. Would to speak to the next

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Speaker 2: couple of days and find out whether it's good news

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Speaker 2: or bad for Boden.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff. Thank you, Elliott Elliott Smith, News Talks DB's

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Speaker 1: Rugby editor.

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