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Speaker 1: AB's legend. Tana Umanger has reportedly been picked by Dave

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Speaker 1: Rennie to be assistant coach phase two of the coaching reset.

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Speaker 1: Elliott Smith News Talks said, be rugby commentator, the voice

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Speaker 1: of rugby with us this morning, Morning.

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Speaker 2: Elliotto, Morning Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Just so, do we know this or we think this?

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Speaker 2: We think this? Look, this has been a name tanah

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Speaker 2: among a banded about pretty much ever since, said Dave

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Speaker 2: Whenny got the job last week on our Rugby podcast

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Speaker 2: and Sky's Rugby shows. And I think that that confirmation

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Speaker 2: is getting a little bit closer on the basis of

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Speaker 2: some of those reports yesterday. Not really surprised that Tanna

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Speaker 2: Humonger would be involved. Strong connection to Dave Rennie, played

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Speaker 2: under Dave Rennie for Wellington and the NBC going back

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Speaker 2: twenty five years now, but there's a strong connection there.

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Speaker 2: So not officially confirmed. I'm hearing perhaps next week that

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Speaker 2: the official announced on will we made around the assistant coaches,

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Speaker 2: but seems more likely than not now that Tanna Umonger

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Speaker 2: will be one of them.

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Speaker 1: What about Neil Barnes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's right in the mix as well, and he's

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Speaker 2: a coach that's worked with Dave Rennie at the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: for a number of seasons during that very successful tenure,

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Speaker 2: then went back to Tartanaki. So we're seeing out the

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Speaker 2: basis of Dave Rennie's coaching team beginning to form. Ryan

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Speaker 2: Neil Barnes will be there is my understanding kind of

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Speaker 2: umanger obviously very very close as well. There's other names

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Speaker 2: that have been mentioned. Mike Bleer, who works with Dave

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Speaker 2: Rennie currently in Kobe, Scottish attack coach, likely to join

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Speaker 2: the set up. Andrew Strawbridge, who again has worked with

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Speaker 2: Dave Rennie in plenty of places including the Chiefs before,

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Speaker 2: likely to be there as well. And then probably Jason

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Speaker 2: Ryan is likely to be the only survivor of the

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Speaker 2: previous All Blacks regime that will keep a job under

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Speaker 2: this new setup of Dave Rennie. So the more we're

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Speaker 2: hearing about it, Ryan, the more it sounds like it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a complete clear out of the assistant

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Speaker 2: coaches under Dave Rennie for this new All Blacks regime.

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Speaker 1: And what does that tell you, Elliott about what his

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Speaker 1: plan is and of those names that you have mentioned,

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Speaker 1: what style he's going for?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think he's going to want to play a

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Speaker 2: heads up attacking style of football, but also need to

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Speaker 2: balance that with the way that international rugbies then played.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we can see the Dave Renny styles

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Speaker 2: that we saw at the Chiefs working twelve years ago

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Speaker 2: work at an international rugby because international rugby has changed

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Speaker 2: so much in that time. But he's put himself around

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Speaker 2: a lot of coaches that he works with you across

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Speaker 2: a number of clubs, has strong relations with and can trust.

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Speaker 2: And we saw in the last setup that you know,

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Speaker 2: there was fallouts with different assistant coaches that didn't quite

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Speaker 2: work out. He's surrounded himself with people that he knows

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Speaker 2: he can work with, knows or believes that they can

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Speaker 2: get the best out of and deliver the All Blacks,

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Speaker 2: you know, World Cup win next year. So it'll be

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Speaker 2: interesting to see what portfolios each of them take. I'd

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Speaker 2: suspect Dave a ton of Umonger would probably look at

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Speaker 2: a defense portfolio. That's where he's worked with, specifically with

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Speaker 2: the Blues previously, currently Mwana Pacifica's head coach and your

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Speaker 2: Barnes likely to be around the Fords and maybe a

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Speaker 2: little bit of attack as well. But that's going to

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Speaker 2: be interesting to see how they divvy up those portfolios

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Speaker 2: once it's all said and done.

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