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Elliott Smith: ZB Rugby Correspondent ahead of the second All Blacks v England test · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The rugby New Zealand faced their second match against England
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  Speaker 1: this weekend after a nail biting finished last week. Both
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  Speaker 1: squads have been named with almost no changes. We're just
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  Speaker 1: Finlay Christie replacing TJ. Peinada following his injury. There's also
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  Speaker 1: a change over at the England side. Elliott Smith is
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  Speaker 1: News Talks here Be's rugby commentator and he is with
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  Speaker 1: me now. Elliott, good morning, Nice to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the program. Is this a more significant test given than
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  Speaker 1: it's Eden Park?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Possibly for the All Blacks now
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  Speaker 2: they've had a week to settle into their combinations. Scott
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  Speaker 2: Roberts Simm's no longer like the first week of school,
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  Speaker 2: he was saying yesterday to the media. It's more like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we know what we're doing. Now everyone knows they're way
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  Speaker 2: to the class room. Let's get things done. So for
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  Speaker 2: the All Blacks, I think is the sense that last
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  Speaker 2: week was about putting some systems in place. This week
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  Speaker 2: it's really about fine tuning that and putting what they
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  Speaker 2: want to do in terms of a rugby product out
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  Speaker 2: onto the park. Look, they got the win last week,
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  Speaker 2: but it's quite clear that it wasn't entirely per effect
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  Speaker 2: or thing that hard want things to go over the
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  Speaker 2: course of a season. So week one on the board,
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  Speaker 2: now that looks a week two and try and make
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  Speaker 2: some improvements.
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  Speaker 1: What are you expecting. Do you expect that now that
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  Speaker 1: they've got that first one out of the way, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the nerves or the gishes or whatever are gone and
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  Speaker 1: that we'll just kind of run home.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope so from an all tax perspective and hope
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  Speaker 2: that things run a little more smooth. England will be
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  Speaker 2: making sure to the best of their possibilities. That can't happen,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and you all Blacks desperately need to find
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  Speaker 2: a way to figure out this rush defense or the
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  Speaker 2: unbreillered defense, whatever way you won't call it. They need
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  Speaker 2: to find a way to score more points against England.
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  Speaker 2: England were very very good at suffocating the All Black
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  Speaker 2: last week, making sure there was in enough space. And
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  Speaker 2: you'll Blacks are a team that historically likes to run
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  Speaker 2: the ball and use their outside backs and create some
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  Speaker 2: opportunities there. They simply didn't get enough of those last
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  Speaker 2: week against England. They had two tries in the first
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  Speaker 2: spell where keeps to trialists and the second spell, and
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  Speaker 2: that they're not a team that is comfortable. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we're scoring penalty goals to keep the scoreboard ticking
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  Speaker 2: over and win test that way. So they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to try and find ways to get past this
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  Speaker 2: English defense. And there wasn't a lot of space out
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  Speaker 2: on the park last week, and that's what international rugby
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  Speaker 2: is seemingly all about at the moment, is finding those
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  Speaker 2: little patches of space and converting that into try scoring opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Elliott, thank you. You're going to pick a score for us?
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  Speaker 2: I'll go to the All Blacks. I hit the All
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  Speaker 2: Blacks I think by five when I was chatting last week,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to go the All Blacks by seven?
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  Speaker 2: How about that tomorrow?
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  Speaker 1: And I sounds pretty good. Allott Smith with US News
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