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Speaker 1: Now the All Blacks have announced a surprisingly strong side

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Speaker 1: to face Italy this weekend. It's surprising because Itshlee has

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Speaker 1: actually never once beaten us in a game of rugby union.

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Speaker 1: The game kicks off at ten past nine on Sunday

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Speaker 1: morning our time, so tune into zb for live commentary.

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Speaker 1: And Scott Hansen is one of the All Blacks assistant coaches.

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Speaker 2: Hey Scott, good morning here from Turin, Italy.

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Speaker 1: Heather, Scott, I'll tell you what I'm excited about. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Ethan de Grush's back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Ethan's excited looking forward to this weekend Tomorrow night,

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Speaker 2: A big game up front against the Italians, a big,

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Speaker 2: passionate forward pack, so great for us to send out

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Speaker 2: the big man.

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Speaker 1: So are you going to spill the tea on what

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Speaker 1: was going on? Was he naughty or was he unfit?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Our protocols, our protocols. As mentioned, our protocols didn't

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Speaker 2: quite reach one of them, so the time protocol nothing

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Speaker 2: more serious than that, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: Oh, are you telling me he missed a deadline?

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Speaker 2: Pretty much just the standards we have in the group.

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Speaker 2: There's a deadline around where we needed to be. That

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Speaker 2: was the protocol and as we always do, we've been

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Speaker 2: held account to what that was as a group, and

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Speaker 2: then for us it's just around just moving forward, which

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Speaker 2: we've done. Ethan's excited for this game against the Italians tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But was it like a you missed the deadline because

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Speaker 1: you got two booths the night before and slept in

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Speaker 1: or was it just like you just missed the deadline

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Speaker 1: not a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, again, it's been dealt with either. I appreciate the question.

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Speaker 2: It's been dealt with by Raiser, the leadership group. And

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Speaker 2: as I said, Ethan's excited for the weekend. We're bouncing forward. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: excited to see him jump out.

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Speaker 1: No, I see where this is going. You don't want

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Speaker 1: to say that's all right, We're just fascinated by it. Now. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I see Sam Kaines in the starting fifteen. Now is

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Speaker 1: this because he is your best or is it because

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Speaker 1: it's his last game?

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Speaker 2: This is because this is the team that we need

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Speaker 2: this weekend to perform really well. And Sam will wear

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Speaker 2: the seven jersey, do you guys?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's quite we're all a little surprised that

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Speaker 1: you're fielding this super strong team, given it's the Italians.

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Speaker 2: Oh, there's a lot of respect for the Italians here

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Speaker 2: as you would know whether they've done a very good

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Speaker 2: job in your six Nations, very competitive there, and they've

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Speaker 2: brought us to Turin near the mountains and the cold.

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Speaker 2: So we're throwing a team out that we know will

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Speaker 2: do well, but we're going to be focused on our

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Speaker 2: our performance of putting in a good one built around

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Speaker 2: our forwards and what we need there and also our

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Speaker 2: experience on the day. So Heither for us, it's an

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Speaker 2: all back team that's going out. It's got to put

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Speaker 2: in a performance we can all be proud of and

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Speaker 2: it's of the group that we're looking to do that

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Speaker 2: with this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Scott, tell me, how do you feel you guys have

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Speaker 1: gone this year in your first year as a coaching team.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon you've convinced us?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's for you to decide. You've got the ability

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Speaker 2: to there through your narrative to decide to add hither.

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Speaker 1: So I reckon you have. I mean, but I look,

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Speaker 1: I reckon you have because I reckon you took a

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Speaker 1: team that was performing really inconsistently and at times really poorly,

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Speaker 1: and you've managed to sort of it's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a shaky start at the start of the year, but

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Speaker 1: you've managed to get to the end of the year

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Speaker 1: doing pretty well. Right. I think there are some rugby

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Speaker 1: commentators who aren't as convinced as I am. So what

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Speaker 1: do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: There's definitely things to work on, and to be honest

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Speaker 2: with you, hither it's week to week here, so you

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Speaker 2: build your performance around that weekend's test and you bounce

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Speaker 2: into your Monday. You go through your learnings, whether it's

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Speaker 2: the outcome, was your way or not, then you bounce

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Speaker 2: into the next test. We haven't really sat back yet

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Speaker 2: and analyzed the season as a whole because test match

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Speaker 2: rugby is so focused on each week, and we'll get

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Speaker 2: time to do that in the coming weeks together as

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Speaker 2: a management group. But what I will say is we've

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Speaker 2: been so proud of the group the way responded to

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Speaker 2: our challenges. I think there's twelve due patients this year

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Speaker 2: that have come on and represented the All Backs for

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Speaker 2: the first time, all these little layers around how we've

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Speaker 2: built our game, our relationships both on the field and off.

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Speaker 2: Really proud of the group. Just an outstanding group of

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Speaker 2: young men that represent new Zealand so well both on

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Speaker 2: and off the field. Where we go, the boys always

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Speaker 2: complimented on how they behave their manners, how they look

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Speaker 2: after people, so all these things in the background that

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Speaker 2: I think New Zealand should be really proud of the

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Speaker 2: All Backs for now.

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Speaker 1: I heard that you guys are you are you using

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Speaker 1: Juventus as changing sheds? Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Well? Possibly, we're definitely playing at their home field where

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Speaker 2: we had the great privilege yesterday of going in and

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Speaker 2: visiting their facilities and meeting some of their players and

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Speaker 2: their head coach. We went to their museum which was

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Speaker 2: amazing the history of the club. Tomorrow nights, you know,

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Speaker 2: if we're in there in their shed and again quite

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Speaker 2: a cool little moment for us.

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Speaker 1: Scott, thank you so much, mate, Go well tomorrow. That's

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for you, obviously a little bit longer for us.

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Speaker 1: Our Sunday morning, Our time, Scott Hansen, all Blacks Assistant coach.

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