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Elliott Smith: ZB Rugby Commentator ahead of this weekend's rematch between the All Blacks and Argentina · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big game for the All Blacks tomorrow night
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  Speaker 2: as they face Argentina at Eden Park, a week on
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  Speaker 2: from losing thirty eight to thirty is to them in Wellington.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Scott Robinson has made some major changes. Elliot Smith's
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  Speaker 2: news talks, they'd be rugby commentators with us. Elliott, good morning,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Ryan. Who's going to win?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Look, I think the All Blacks need to balance
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  Speaker 1: back and they traditionally have again Sargentina and the two
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  Speaker 1: times have lost to them previously in twenty twenty and
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, they've come out and put a response
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  Speaker 1: out the following week, won by thirty eight points in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty and then by forty seven in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 1: but you would hope there was some form of response
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  Speaker 1: from the All Blacks because last week they were ponderous
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  Speaker 1: at times on attack. The defense wasn't up to scratch.
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  Speaker 1: So they really need to improve tomorrow night and deliver
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  Speaker 1: some of those things that have been talking about both
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  Speaker 1: of the coaching group and the players that have laid
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  Speaker 1: out a platform for at the start of the season
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  Speaker 1: that we probably just haven't seen to this point in timeline.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, losing is not something that Scott Roberts has done
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  Speaker 2: a lot of in recent years. How's he doing? How's
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  Speaker 2: he you know? I mean, I know it's only only
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  Speaker 2: one game that he's lost, but you know, how's he fearing?
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  Speaker 1: Well? I think this week has been a bit of
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  Speaker 1: reality check for him in terms of international rugby. Got
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  Speaker 1: through the first three games of the campaign and they look,
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  Speaker 1: those two games against England were pretty tricky ones and
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  Speaker 1: they managed to get out on the right side of
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  Speaker 1: the ledger. It was thought, maybe Argentina, those games give
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  Speaker 1: you a chance to build on your platform and start
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  Speaker 1: to develop the game plan that they were being playing.
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  Speaker 1: But actually it was a huge step back last week
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  Speaker 1: with the forwards not really clicking into gear ponderous stuff
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  Speaker 1: from the back. So look, he's vowed this week that
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, dug over under every rock and tried
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  Speaker 1: to fine answers this week to get the game plan going.
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  Speaker 1: But that starts with him at the top. And as
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  Speaker 1: you said, he's made a few changes to the side
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  Speaker 1: for this week, but he has to demand the all
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  Speaker 1: Blacks beak better. He said earlier on in the week
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  Speaker 1: that you know whether he's out of the dumps, and
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  Speaker 1: the players will reflect that as well as he's tried
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  Speaker 1: to maintain somewhat of a positive attitude walls of trying
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  Speaker 1: to find the answers as to what went wrong last
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and then rebuild the team and get them into
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  Speaker 1: action for tomorrow night and in a style that will
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  Speaker 1: get them across the line and with the victory.
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to rain? I only ask because I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is right. I look at the forecast
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  Speaker 1: and it suggests that it's going to rain all day
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow in Auckland, which again we'll post some issues for
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  Speaker 1: the All Blacks. Look, I expect a lot more kicking
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  Speaker 1: from the All Blacks. They need to be smarter with
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  Speaker 1: that stuff than they were last week in Wellington. At
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  Speaker 1: times they kicking looked a lot quite aimless at times.
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  Speaker 1: They need to be better with that. But Argentina under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't expect it to be a free flowing
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  Speaker 1: game necessary for the All Blacks, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to be a lot tidier with ball in hand
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  Speaker 1: than they were at sky Stadium, and the conditions were
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  Speaker 1: quite still, unusually for Wellington, and the weather was good,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I can rain jacket tomorrow evening, Ryan, and
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  Speaker 1: hope hopefully you remain dry.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Elliot, Ellie's News Talks Rugby comments. For more from
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