Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Sean Fitzpatrick: Former All Black previews the third Greatest Rivalry test against the Springboks

Transcript

Sean Fitzpatrick: Former All Black previews the third Greatest Rivalry test against the Springboks · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We got a team naming last night.
• 0:01
  Speaker 2: This is for the series decided.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Well, the South Africa League decided really in the greatest
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: rivalry tour between the All Blacks and South Africa. The
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: hooker Asafo Amor will start. Scrum seems to be sorted
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: out according to the box.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I spoke to Coach Stan after the training
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: session and I asked him, Coach, if you ask me
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: anything about the scrums. And he said, just answer. We
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: sorted it out yesterday. So yeah, that's it.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Joining us this morning is Sean Fitzpatrick, former All Black
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: captain in Johannesburg. Sean, nice to have you back. How
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: are you going?
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Very good, thanks, Rowan. It's nice to be back in
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: Joburg after a wonderful week down in Cape Town.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to ask, because I'm really enjoying our chat,
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: so we've been talking almost every week. How's it going there?
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: It's been good. We sort of, you know, obviously everyone
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: was pretty excited after... the win at Alice Park and then,
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: then we headed down and enjoyed the delights of, of
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Cape Town and, um, and then, you know, coming up against,
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: as we knew, a very, you know, motivated South African
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: team who, who played really well in that first sort
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: of 20, 30 minutes and then we sort of seemed
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: to be chasing the game a bit but, uh, we
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: knew exactly what they were going to do, didn't we? And, uh,
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: And they deliver. What are you actually doing there?
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: Are you just following around? Are you hanging around like
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: a bad smell fitter?
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: There's a number of us here at the moment as
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: ambassadors for New Zealand rugby and helping New Zealand rugby
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: support their sponsors and You know, we just had three
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: or four days in the bush with a number of
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: the supporters groups, which was fantastic. But, yeah, it's just, Brian,
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: it's a really nice atmosphere here. Everyone is, you know,
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: like this number of New Zealanders here is phenomenal. There's
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: over 2,000, they're sort of saying, which is just great.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: Everyone's having a great time, being well looked after by
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: the South Africans, and just it's a really nice feel.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: Have you been thinking about 1996 much?
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: I sort of get asked about it most days. But, yeah,
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: I think it's really sort of, I think we spoke
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: about it last week, it's sort of, it's really moved on,
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: I think, in terms of the way they consume sort
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: of rugby now. They're absolutely bonkers on it in terms of,
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: you know, the masses that are watching rugby now. The
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: fan zones, you know, especially in Cape Town, you know,
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: the stadium is a really good part of town. So
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: there was a lot going on around the stadium. We're
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: at Alice Park. It's sort of you've got to get
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: into the stadium and then you go home, basically. But
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: in Cape Town, it was a real festive feel about it. And,
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot. I know you're going to ask,
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: but everyone's turned into an aviation expert here in terms
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: of the flyover, which has now been cancelled for this week.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: I saw that. Honestly, we've heard more about South African
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: aviation rules than we have rugby rules in.
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: The last week.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, let's talk the team. So, Lakai, Dari and Almoa.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they've looked at it and they've thought,
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of these guys had a lot
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: of rugby. You know, Cody's had a lot of rugby.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: You know, we've still got another two tests to go.
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: So let's freshen it up a bit. I think probably
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: just speaking to a few of the guys that, you know,
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: the key for us, which we haven't done in either
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: of the test matches, is we haven't started well. So
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: we've got to make sure that we start well. We
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: need to make sure our set piece is solid. I
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: think we sort of sorted out the scrum, I think,
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: in general. Our line-out was disappointing last week, and everyone
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: said that. So bringing in Sam Darian, who's a really
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: smart rugby player. He's had a great year, super rugby.
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: He's played well when he's been asked to for the
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: All Blacks. And they're just giving Josh Lord, I think,
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: another week off. They just didn't feel he was quite
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: ready from his concussion, and the same with De Groot. But, yeah,
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: I think it's pretty bold, sort of some bold calls there. But,
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: you know, I sort of like what I see. They've
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: kept that sort of spine there, sort of 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: has played all the test matches.
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: And on the plus side, there's brilliant moments and there's
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: brilliant rugby and we're not collapsing emotionally at the end
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: of the game.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: Which is, you know, we've scored, I think, in the
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: two test matches, and by second halves, we're at 30
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: points to their six. So we're doing something right. We're
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: finishing well. We're fit. We just need to, those crucial
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: moments in the first sort of 20, 25 minutes, we've
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: got to get those right. You know, we had a
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: terrible start. They had a textbook, you know, training ground
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: plan that they scored that first try in the first
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: sort of three minutes, which, you know, sort of set
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: us back a bit. But, you know, we're in the fight.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: And as I said to you sort of off air,
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: this is great preparation for next year. You know, if
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: you'd come away saying that we won all after Cape Town,
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: everyone would have gone, that's pretty good. You know, we're
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: playing the world champions, their background, and we're one all
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: going to the third test. So, you know, it's all
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: on for this week. It's a great, great feel here.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: It certainly is. Hopefully a great feeling after Sunday morning,
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: our time too. Sean Fitzpatrick with us live from Johannesburg.
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: to Newstalk ZB from 5am weekdays or follow the podcast
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: on iHeartRadio.