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Sean Fitzpatrick: Former All Blacks Captain on the All Blacks victory over the Springboks at Ellis Park · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: They're calling it one of the All Blacks greatest wins
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  Speaker 1: in years. Huge thirty three sixteen victory over the Box
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  Speaker 1: at Alice Park, our biggest ever there and first win
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  Speaker 1: in South Africa in four years, five tries to one,
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  Speaker 1: just three box points after halftime. So how much credit
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  Speaker 1: does Dave Rennie get?
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  Speaker 2: Like, It's not about me, you know, I'm really rare
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  Speaker 2: for the class. We've got a fantastic group of staff
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  Speaker 2: who've worked really hard and so yeah, like it's a
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  Speaker 2: special night. It's it's tough to win Alice Park against
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  Speaker 2: a high quality size.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly as Sean Fitzpatrick, former All Black captain in Johannesburg
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  Speaker 1: with me this morning, Hey Sean.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, A good yeah, a very special day in
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  Speaker 3: the life of New Zealand rugby.
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  Speaker 4: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think going in, because I was asking everyone
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  Speaker 1: last week are they going to do it? Are they
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  Speaker 1: not going to do it? It was kind of fifty
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  Speaker 1: to fifty. What did you really think was going to happen?
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  Speaker 3: Ron? I was quietly confident, but I was also concerned
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  Speaker 3: in terms of it's probably the most hostile environment of
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  Speaker 3: any any ground I've ever played them, and there was
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  Speaker 3: a number of the boys hadn't hadn't experienced that, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a case of how they were going to deal
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  Speaker 3: with that, really and and they obviously dealt with it
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  Speaker 3: pretty well the way they hung in there.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 3: It sort of played out how I thought it would.
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  Speaker 3: But the way they just dug in and the atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: there ryan was was second to none. The noise was unbelievable,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the sort of end of that first half
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  Speaker 3: when they were starting to really dominate at scrum time.
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  Speaker 3: I was a little bit concerned at that stage.
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  Speaker 1: How much of this do you put down to Rennie's coaching,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I mean not only throughout the last
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  Speaker 1: few months, but at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: They've got a they've got a real belief in what
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  Speaker 3: they're doing. He's picked players to play a particular game plan.
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  Speaker 4: And they believed in that.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, they said at halftime, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: spring Box had basically thrown.
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  Speaker 4: Everything at them, and we were leading by one point.
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  Speaker 3: So I was really pleased at the way they stuck
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  Speaker 3: at it. You know that you saw it, the way
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  Speaker 3: they were dominating that scrum that sort of the thirty
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  Speaker 3: minute mark, I was thinking, oh, oh, this is this
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  Speaker 3: is not looking very good. But then they came out
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  Speaker 3: in that second half, and obviously that Fabian Holland charged
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  Speaker 3: down really sort of shifted the mad mention of the game.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, they had thrown everything at us, and their.
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  Speaker 4: Attack didn't seem to be doing too much.
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  Speaker 3: We were very good defensively, and they sort of thought that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they would out muscle us, and especially that
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  Speaker 3: first half they had about sort of seven or eight
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  Speaker 3: scrums and didn't take any shots at goal.
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  Speaker 4: And then eventually we've got to turnover and in the
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  Speaker 4: whole momentum just shifted, you know, hugely.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, And I spoke to and we've got three more
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  Speaker 1: tests to play now next in Cape Town. I spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Ian Jones on Friday. He said, you win the
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  Speaker 1: first one, you kind of win them all psychologically, from
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  Speaker 1: a from a psychological point of view, what do you
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  Speaker 1: reckon is going to happen next?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was paramount we had to win that test,
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  Speaker 3: and it was against the We're playing the double world
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  Speaker 3: champions in there in their backyard at altitude, and and
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  Speaker 3: we we nick that. So we go to Cape Town
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  Speaker 3: now with a degree of confidence. You know that the
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  Speaker 3: press here today have got into them quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: They've got into Rassi and you know, i'd imagine he
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  Speaker 3: will make quite a few changes. But I'm you know,
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  Speaker 3: Cape Town's a good place for the Alplex to play.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like a home home game for us. We
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  Speaker 3: get a lot of support down here. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've we've we've just got to get better than what
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  Speaker 3: we were because the spring Box, they don't go away, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: they don't like losing. They're like us, and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be one hell of a test in Cape Town.
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  Speaker 3: But it's really set up this whole, this whole greatest
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  Speaker 3: greatest rivalry series that New Zealand Rugby and South African
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  Speaker 3: Rugby have created is just phenomenal. The the interest here
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  Speaker 3: is mind blowing and that's what that's what we need
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  Speaker 3: in rugby. We need interests like this to engage, engage
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  Speaker 3: the fans.
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  Speaker 4: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope all of your dreams come trou Shuan Fitzpatrick's
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  Speaker 1: nice to have you on the program.
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