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Sam Ackerman: Sports Commentator previews the second Rugby Championship clash against Argentina · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Rainy week and Buenos Aires hasn't damped the spirits of
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  Speaker 1: the AB's ahead of Sunday's tests against the Pumas raises
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  Speaker 1: going with one or two more rookies for the rematch
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  Speaker 1: with the Pumas well is he will find out seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty our time this morning. Sam Ackerman as a sports
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  Speaker 1: commentator with me this morning, getay, Sam Day, Ryan, good
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  Speaker 1: to have you on. What do you reckons he's going
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  Speaker 1: to do this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Listen?
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  Speaker 3: One thing that Razer has printed on us, as we
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  Speaker 3: can expect the expected A is very rare to come
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  Speaker 3: and make some wild changes or throw a whole bunch
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  Speaker 3: of rookies into this scenario. This Rugby Championship really all
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  Speaker 3: roads lead In the next game after this one against
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  Speaker 3: the spring Box that is the biggest game of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Don't expect them to tinker too much with that side
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  Speaker 3: that ran out in the first test.
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  Speaker 2: So there will be a few force changes through.
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  Speaker 3: Injury absence to the bench, but outside of that it
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  Speaker 3: should be relatively consistent.
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  Speaker 2: You imagine Ryan in their first starting fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: What about Wallace the tit and Tomato Williams back from injury.
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  Speaker 1: Will we see them in the fifteen or will they
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  Speaker 1: be being.
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  Speaker 3: I feel there's probably more likelihood that Williams will come
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  Speaker 3: off the bench, but he's certainly capable of going straight
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  Speaker 3: into that front row position. He played through injury in
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  Speaker 3: the Super Rugby Final, so he has a high pain
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  Speaker 3: threshold and he has been championing at.
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  Speaker 2: The bit to get back.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to see him start, but my I just
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  Speaker 3: feel like safety wise is most likely to come off
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  Speaker 3: the bench. And this for Titi. It's a very settled
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  Speaker 3: starting loose Ford trio they have at the moment who
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  Speaker 3: are playing well and I think Carrif has done well
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  Speaker 3: in that position, but I think the Titi, you're right,
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  Speaker 3: is the most likely to come in to that starting side.
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  Speaker 3: He is definitely part of the preferred starting loose Ford's
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  Speaker 3: in the eyes of many, and you'd think you want
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  Speaker 3: to get some decent minutes under his belt before he
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  Speaker 3: takes on the box in a few weeks time.
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  Speaker 1: Say in the first fifteen minutes of the second half
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  Speaker 1: last weekend Bit week, it was he looking to firm
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  Speaker 1: that up. I mean, how do you focus on that.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely think they want to show that they can
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  Speaker 3: put on a bit more fire and that they can
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  Speaker 3: hold their consistency through out the game because this Argentine's
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  Speaker 3: side can never be packing lightly. They have been in
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand on New Zealand soil, not on Argentine soil.
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  Speaker 3: It's I'm sure has driving them to a certain extent
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  Speaker 3: as well, but they need to shore it up. They
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  Speaker 3: need to make sure they have a consistency with their
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  Speaker 3: attack as well. I think some smarter options when they
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  Speaker 3: get it, have an opportunity to get out white. It's
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  Speaker 3: fair to say some of the outside backs didn't get
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot of opportunities in that test match.
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  Speaker 2: Will be interested to see if they're going to.
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  Speaker 3: Play to the same game plan to try to nail
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  Speaker 3: it all very things up along the way.
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  Speaker 1: They seem largely back on track. How long till we
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  Speaker 1: get that real shock and war that you expect from
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  Speaker 1: a Robertson team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like we've been waiting for that for
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  Speaker 3: quite a while.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: The concept of this all that side kicking into gear
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  Speaker 3: and ruthlessly dismantling.
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  Speaker 2: Side that we've seen in the past that.
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  Speaker 3: We used to be all excited about the last twenty
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  Speaker 3: minutes where they could put any team away, Well, it
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  Speaker 3: certainly hasn't always been the case in recent years there
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  Speaker 3: so I would love this to be a comprehensive performance.
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  Speaker 3: Most of all to walk away from this game with
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  Speaker 3: real confidence that I don't want to keep looking ahead
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  Speaker 3: to the next game, because you do have to get
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  Speaker 3: past so you've got in front of you, but that
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  Speaker 3: eden Park Test, the record that's been held there for
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  Speaker 3: so long. They do not want to be the team
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  Speaker 3: that loses the eden Park record. So every step they
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  Speaker 3: take here, in the back of their mind and certainly
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  Speaker 3: the fans mind, will be the den Park Test.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, looking forward to that one.
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  Speaker 2: Sam.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Sam Ackerman, sports commentator on the show this morning.
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