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Ian Kirkpatrick: Former All Blacks captain previews the Bledisloe Cup test against Australia · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The All Blacks are facing a big text test this
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  Speaker 1: weekend as the first match and the Bladderslow Cup gets
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  Speaker 1: underway against the Wallabyes in Sydney. It's been almost two
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  Speaker 1: weeks since the back to back losses against South Africa,
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  Speaker 1: so what's going wrong and do they have time to
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  Speaker 1: fix it all? Of course Australia is not looking that
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  Speaker 1: great themselves, are they? And Kirkpatrick is the former All
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  Speaker 1: Blacks captain. I who do you think is going to win?
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  Speaker 2: You can you can say what you like about the
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  Speaker 2: previous games, but this is just a different one altogether.
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  Speaker 2: And so if the All Blacks can start like they
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  Speaker 2: did against the spoon Box and Joeburt, I think we've
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  Speaker 2: you know, wet a good chance, but you know my
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  Speaker 2: take half a game to sort of wear them down
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  Speaker 2: or get on top of them. Who knows, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a you know, this game now is about
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  Speaker 2: it's about physicality and so the team that's up on
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  Speaker 2: or will you say, up for it on the day, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they are the ones that will come out. So it's
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  Speaker 2: sort of you know, it's yeah, there's I say fifty
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  Speaker 2: to fifty, but we'd like to think it might be better
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  Speaker 2: than that. But the point you start predicting too much
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  Speaker 2: is on most cases are pretty wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad we've got you on the line, And
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  Speaker 1: how do you rate raise us so far? How's he doing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Look, he's had you know, he's got the newest
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  Speaker 2: team with those guys that retired after the World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: and those guys are there for a long time, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was a pretty good team bonding in
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  Speaker 2: that team, and this one's you know, a new new
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  Speaker 2: era just about. So yeah, it was wasn't always going
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  Speaker 2: to be easy, not going over the Salaga for two
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  Speaker 2: in a row there. I mean, that's that's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: big call. So you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't judge raises.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if it's so far, it's too early yet.
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  Speaker 2: What don't these guys are? You know, they'll settle into
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good, pretty good team. I think that you know,
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  Speaker 2: the teams. I don't think you figured a better team
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  Speaker 2: than this, I would have thought. So it's really how
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  Speaker 2: they come out on the day and how the opposition
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  Speaker 2: sort of play against them. We don't you know, they
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  Speaker 2: don't know. They're trying to work out each other what
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  Speaker 2: they might be doing or what they could do, but
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't always work out that way either, so it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, what they're going to play with in front
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  Speaker 2: of them. That's a sort of a modern sort of cliche.
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  Speaker 3: In summer, you would say you're positive, cautiously optimistic about
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  Speaker 3: the state of rugby and New Zealand. You think, give
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  Speaker 3: it some time, let them better, and they've got the
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  Speaker 3: right team. The coach will get there and eventually we'll
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  Speaker 3: get one over South Africa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, you know, I think you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're in New Zealand. If you look at NTC and
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  Speaker 2: Super Rugby, you know the teams want to play an
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  Speaker 2: open game. I don't. It's not you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: there could be a better game to play. Goodness the
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  Speaker 2: rules and such that it's combative. There's no space anymore,
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  Speaker 2: and it's all about taking it up and trying to
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  Speaker 2: get over the advantage line with you know, with Savage,
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  Speaker 2: with their big men. It's sort of about size, which
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  Speaker 2: is not what the game is really all about really,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest. It's about running into space like we
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  Speaker 2: did in you know, Post ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the n Kirkpatrick, former All Blacks captain
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  Speaker 1: with US twenty three minutes after five. That game. You
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