Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Elliott Smith: Newstalk ZB Voice of Rugby previews the second Bledisloe Cup test in Wellington

Transcript

Elliott Smith: Newstalk ZB Voice of Rugby previews the second Bledisloe Cup test in Wellington · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Big game this weekend in Wellington all Blacks Wallabies, and
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: there's been some bad weather. We're joined by news talks.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: There'd be rugby commentator, the voice of Rugby, Elliot Smith. Elliott,
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning Ryan, he did, flights are right
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: for you. I'm assuming you're in Wellington this morning.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: I am indeed no. We arrived in earlier on the
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: week and so it has actually been quite good up
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: until yesterday when it packed in big time and has
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: been raining and windy and everything else that you associate
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: with bad days in the capital. But the good news
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: that's sexually supposed to be all right for the game
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: itself tomorrow. We just have to get through a couple
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: of days of bad weather in the build up to
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: kick off tomorrow night at seven o'clock.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: So you've been the first time you've been there in
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: a little while. Does it look dead to you, like
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: everyone says Elliott?
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: The city It does look it looks a lot quieter
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: than it has in the past. And look at it
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: is actually quite noticeable when you come in you go, oh,
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: this isn't the sort of bustling sort of place that
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: it was maybe even two or three years ago. And
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: you know this sort of funky little capital that made
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: it used to be. It is quite empty in the
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: city and not quite the happening place it used to be.
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: So you know, maybe they'll get forty zero or there
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: about them to the rugby tomorrow night and they will
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: revitalize things and everyone will be happy.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, be good to see a crowd mine. Hey there's two.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: There's a Whodo and a Jinx. There's the twenty minute jinks,
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: the last final twenty minutes of the game. We don't
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: seem to be able to score any points. And then
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: there's the Wellington who do We haven't won any of
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: the last six tests in Wellington.
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of things to sort out tomorrow
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: night from an All Blacks perspectives, and they're from a
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: recent record. First and foremost has to be getting that
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: twenty minute jinks sort it out, because this is becoming
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: troublesome for the All Blacks. That's becoming a real issue
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: for them in games. They can see yellow cards and
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: penalties in a drifting out of the games. Last week
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: they were still good enough to get the win against Australia,
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: but they need to get that sorted out first. And
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: foremost and find some points in the last twenty and
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: there you would think if they get some points in
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: the last twenty, that will mean that they get a
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: result and therefore lift that capital curse. Quite remarkable. They
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: haven't won here since twenty eighteen, a real run of
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: four results in that time, so they need to get
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: that sortied. Discipline is the key. They get that right.
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: They can get some points on the board and they'll
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: get things sorted. But for the fact that it's having
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: five games in a row now across the Rugby Championship,
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: there's nothing short of remarkable. It's beginning to be talked about,
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: beginning to be a real issue for this all black steam.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: It sounds like it. Elliott, thank you for that. We
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: look forward to your commentary on Saturday night. Elliott Smith
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: News Talks they'd be Rugby Commentator, the voice of Rugby.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: For more from News Talks, there'd be listen live on
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: air or online and
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: Keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: podcasts on Irradio