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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk z B.

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Speaker 2: Let's get you back to Aviva Stadium where All Black

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Speaker 2: Sisters and coach Timmody Ellison joins us. Timmody, congratulations on

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Speaker 2: the win. What pleased you and the coaching staff the

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Speaker 2: most about the performance?

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Speaker 3: I think the week was the most pleasing thing.

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Speaker 4: That the leaders were really clear around what they wanted

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Speaker 4: and they drove that throughout the week, and I feel

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Speaker 4: we got that tonight on the field. So it's probably

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Speaker 4: the thing I'm pleased about most.

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Speaker 2: What were those things that they were asking from the players.

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Speaker 4: I just had a lot of respect for the Irish

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Speaker 4: attachs so that they wanted to make sure they've got

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Speaker 4: enough defensive repsen and they drove the messaging and obviously

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Speaker 4: fronted up on d as well. So yeah, that's the

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Speaker 4: thing I'm proud about most.

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Speaker 2: Did you sense a changing of the momentum of the

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Speaker 2: game in the last twenty minutes or so?

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Speaker 4: I guess it was still I felt it was still

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Speaker 4: in the balance because of the points differential, but there's

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Speaker 4: also the moments we were able to continue to apply

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Speaker 4: pressure and then with the clock and then with the score,

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Speaker 4: the momentum starts to come in your favor just because

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Speaker 4: of the time really versus actually what was happening on

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Speaker 4: the field from memory, again, I'm straight off the grass, so.

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Speaker 3: That the coaches in the box probably had a better

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Speaker 3: view than me.

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Speaker 2: I guess it just felters though, and you might be

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Speaker 2: able to speak to this as though the pressure the

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Speaker 2: All Blacks were applying was just forcing some Irish mistakes.

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Speaker 2: They're a bit ragged at times, but mainly through the

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Speaker 2: pressure that the All Blacks were applying. Was that an

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Speaker 2: intent an intent not just in the last twenty but

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Speaker 2: across the eighty minutes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We had to be really clear though around As I

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Speaker 4: said that, a lot of respect for their attack and

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Speaker 4: the way they play the games had to be quite

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Speaker 4: clear around.

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Speaker 3: We were to try and go after them.

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Speaker 4: That's the important part, you know, you can get revved

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Speaker 4: up and try and get everything. So the boys were

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Speaker 4: quite clear, and I think when those moments come we

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Speaker 4: got the majority of them and in the era rate

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Speaker 4: you know, started to head in our favor.

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Speaker 2: How did you assess the performance of Damien McKenzie.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought he hit the ball well off the

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Speaker 4: tee and you know, like his catch pass, considering how

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Speaker 4: greasy the night was, was nice and deliberate, So I

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Speaker 4: think you should be really proud of his efforts.

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Speaker 2: Did you ask anything different from him? You know, Scott

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Speaker 2: Robertson's called him mercurial, We all know the you know

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Speaker 2: the unique talents that Damien McKenzie has. Did you ask

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Speaker 2: him to play slightly differently tonight?

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Speaker 3: You'd have to Scotti Henson.

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Speaker 4: Then I think that the thing with Damien is just

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Speaker 4: continuing to trust the skill sets he's got amazing skills

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Speaker 4: catch pass and kick. Then just be really clear around,

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Speaker 4: be decisive around his decision making. So again it's probably

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Speaker 4: a question for the attack coats though, why.

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Speaker 2: Do you think it was difficult in the early stages

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Speaker 2: of the game to get clean ball at the at

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Speaker 2: the ruck.

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Speaker 3: I felt like.

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Speaker 4: We were probably getting a few Irish bodies over our

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Speaker 4: side at times, and they did a good job, you know,

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Speaker 4: probably winning the race to get lower than us a

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Speaker 4: couple of times as well. So I think there was

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Speaker 4: a balance between their speed to beat us to the

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Speaker 4: high battle and that made the ball a wee bit disrupted,

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Speaker 4: not including how greasy it was out that you probably

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Speaker 4: saw that both sides of the field, So something we'll

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Speaker 4: have to make sure we get on top of heading

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Speaker 4: into this week.

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Speaker 2: Cam Roy got off the bench for the last half hour.

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Speaker 2: How did you assess the way he went on? Surely asked,

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Speaker 2: got in and then as well maybe yeah.

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Speaker 4: I thought I thought Can kicked the ball well, you know,

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Speaker 4: gave us time to get under it and apply pressure.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, the Irish made a few years

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Speaker 4: probably uncharacteristic in some some parts, but I thought he

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Speaker 4: hit the ball well, you know, and really you know

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Speaker 4: left us in print.

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Speaker 2: Is the rule which led to Jordi Barrett's yellow cards.

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Speaker 2: Still a little bit difficult to navigate.

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Speaker 3: I can be.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, it's the first and foremost it's important.

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Speaker 4: You know, safeties has to be paramountain, and you know,

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Speaker 4: the rest to have to deal with it the way

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Speaker 4: they have to think. That's important. At the same time,

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Speaker 4: with collisions, you know, like they can happen in any

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Speaker 4: moment and sometimes you know, you can be unlucky both

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Speaker 4: sides of the ball. So but again I think the

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Speaker 4: safety is important and it's important we continue to drive that.

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Speaker 2: How did you land on? Rico Jowane leading the haka.

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Speaker 4: Again, it's it's probably a Christian for TJ per Andara

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Speaker 4: and Kurdie Taylor. I thought he'd done a really good job,

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Speaker 4: you know, Pak Stadium. I thought often in Huckers you

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Speaker 4: can can rush at times, but I thought he really

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Speaker 4: controlled the group and you know, beautiful tempo and beautiful rhythm,

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Speaker 4: and obviously they're the boys that we're doing it definitely

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Speaker 4: would have been represented and you know, putting all their

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Speaker 4: ca ho into it with three cleaning.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know what it's been like for him

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Speaker 2: this week. You know, there's a lot of outside noise,

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Speaker 2: you know, with Johnny Sexton's book and all of that

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Speaker 2: sort of thing. What if you observed from Rico this

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Speaker 2: week in the way that he's prepared for this test match.

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Speaker 4: I think he's been consistent, you know, throughout the entire campaign,

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Speaker 4: your first time working with them. I thought he controlled

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Speaker 4: the game defensively really well tonight, the opportunities to get

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Speaker 4: his big, heavy frame through collisions and so I.

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Speaker 3: Think he was consistent. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure how much of the noise, you know,

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Speaker 4: whether he used it in order to give the game

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Speaker 4: going or.

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Speaker 3: But I thought he's consistent again.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the win, Tammody, chalk it up off to France.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you taking the time for a chat mate.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, all the best.

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Speaker 2: Tomody Ellison.

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