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Ian Jones: Former All Black on the possible return of South Africa rugby tours · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Reports that New Zealand Rugby is close to signing an
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  Speaker 1: eight match tour of South Africa in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: They are just reports at this stage.
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  Speaker 1: It's a story by South African news outlet The Daily Maverick,
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  Speaker 1: quoting the South Africa Rugby Chief executive saying officials from
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  Speaker 1: both nations met before last weekend's tests. It's been thirty
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  Speaker 1: years since we last toured in South Africa. Ian Jones
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  Speaker 1: was on that tour and he's with us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, yeah, good morning ride, Good morning to your listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you on. Fond memories.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, fantastic, absolute trip of a lifetime over does happen,
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  Speaker 3: and it's wonderful news if they are planning that, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: wonderful news for the players, but also for the fans
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  Speaker 3: of New Zealanders. You know, if you can please get
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  Speaker 3: yourself over, there be a trip that you're incredible country,
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  Speaker 3: the tour to play and maybe our greatest rivals. So
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  Speaker 3: your good news.
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  Speaker 2: Why did they stop?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess sir Callen Ryan here is only fifty
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  Speaker 3: two weeks, so he as there's a lot of rugby
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  Speaker 3: to pour in all of these different places. Test matches
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  Speaker 3: bring in the big crowds, I guess. But maybe if
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  Speaker 3: there's a design now to go back to the old
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  Speaker 3: take our players to the lights of patcha Strom, Kimberly,
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  Speaker 3: Paul Elizabeth, those places outside the major cities we played tests.
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  Speaker 3: It's wonderful, yeah, wonderful news.
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  Speaker 1: Would it affect I mean, you mentioned the calendar. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: the calendar full?
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  Speaker 3: Now? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Would it affect other competitions?
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'll have to affect other competitions, Ryan, But
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  Speaker 3: maybe they see there's a window there that they can
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  Speaker 3: kind of lock and maybe, let's hope it's up to
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  Speaker 3: eight weeks, maybe not that long. Even if it's five weeks, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: everything's possible with with with time and planning, and you're
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  Speaker 3: saying they're looking at twenty twenty six. I guess it's
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  Speaker 3: not room to lock it in. But I tell you what, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I'll keep some players here to
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  Speaker 3: want to play and go on that tour. Said for
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  Speaker 3: fans of New Zealand little bit fans, trip of a
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  Speaker 3: lifetime that you can get yourself over there. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of upside.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned keeping players the All Blacks obviously making some
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  Speaker 1: decisions or sticking to their guns around, you know, sharing
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  Speaker 1: the players around.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
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  Speaker 3: One hundred percent agree with it. I've got to say, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: really really important for New Zealand rugby as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: Both our domestic competitions keep our stars in New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: that we pick internally, you're playing our competitions that lure
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  Speaker 3: their black Jersey's very strong. So no, fully support our decision.
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  Speaker 3: We live in a different part of the world and
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  Speaker 3: say that everything's a different policy to us, But I
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  Speaker 3: believe it works for us, and I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty strong commitment for those players to play in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 3: to work their way into that all black jersey and
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  Speaker 3: represent us like they do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, we're coming back on Sunday in Cape Town.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, oh we are coming back. Mate. We were
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  Speaker 3: right and mat Hut and Jahannes. We ran out of
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  Speaker 3: gas at altitude. We now at sea level. We have
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  Speaker 3: a big fan base down in Cape Town. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Cerevical play better. They went at their absolute best and
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  Speaker 3: Joe Berg we had some chances that we didn't take.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we another compelling another story, Ryan, in this
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  Speaker 3: wonderful rivalry that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant, lovely to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Ian Jones, former All Black, with us talking about the
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  Speaker 1: possibility at the stage of the All Blacks resuming full
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  Speaker 1: tour to South Africa in twenty twenty six. For more
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