State Of Play | All Blacks Scrum Woes & Millsy's Multi Success

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1:02potential question marks on our defense. But all in all, I'm not going to take... According to Josh from the West Coast, three hours of Maya saying, I told you so about the box. I'm not going to say that, but what I will say is I'm not wearing a spring box, juicy thing, thanks to one guy I have out today. I think you should be anyway. You think I should be? Curried. Because we were having chats, weren't we, but I'm very not patriotic in your eye. Exactly. I feel like I'm a realist. Now look, it's okay. You were right, Daniel McCarty thought the box would win as well. And for... I mean, we'll talk about it a little bit more in the agenda, but for 55 minutes had that game. I was pretty confident. I thought the all blacks were playing very well. I thought it was an excellent first half. At half time actually thought this is one of the best games rugby I've seen for a long time. Probably since that 2023 quarterfinal against Ireland. I was just enjoying it so much. Great game, rugby. And it still was a decent game, rugby in the second half, but I don't know what happened from 55 minutes on. The all blacks just fell apart.

2:05Really, the scrum obviously got dominated. Their forwards were excellent. There were a couple of calls and I don't want to blame the ref because I think the all blacks lost it themselves and the spring box won it. But there were a couple of calls for me that were very head scratching. Everyone's spoken about the Ruben loved one. He was just not on side, not offside. And the referee, Nick Amish Kelly, had his back two Ruben loves. So clearly got a call I would assume from one of the A.Rs. And he just wasn't offside. It was just an appalling decision. And then you're down to 10 minutes just before half time. Sorry, down to 14 minutes, 10 minutes just before half time. And then the other one, and someone just texted just before our show to Jacob and Daniel. Sasha Feinberg in Gommazulu should have had a sick and yellow card when he blatantly used his hands in that rack after he'd already had one for knocking the ball down. The all blacks did score. So that's probably why he didn't get the yellow card. But it was such a blatant professional foul that I thought that should have been a sick and yellow. He then would have got a red.

3:08And potentially the game is very different. But as I say, it was not the ref's fault. I thought the all blacks, the scrum, and we'll talk more about this in the Adina as well. But that scrum is the is the issue for me now over the next 12 months. Before the World Cup, they have to fix that. I do do think maybe we'll deep dive into that later on. But as a spectator myself, I don't know there's much that they can do within a training ground now to adjust that. I feel like the is the scrum such an issue when they should it's been happening every single test. And for me, I don't think that's good enough. And it's not good enough because it's the repeated patterns we can wake out. And there hasn't been too much adjustment. Fair enough springbox have been very good in that asset. But if we just change that scrum and set piece, it's a very, very different game. Yes, I think their scrum is the best in the world by some distance. I think they have the best

4:08scrum in World Rugby. And it's really not close. And the all black scrum would be, I don't know, to me, it wouldn't be in the top three. That's how much of a struggle it feels to me right now. We spoke about it after last week's test. And I had went back and watched the number of scrums where the all blacks were on the back foot. I haven't done this done that this time. But it does feel like number of times, even when it was the all blacks ball. Again, they had back foot ball and they kind of had to play a little bit of catch up and a little bit of kind of panic sort of rugby to get themselves back on the front foot, which is not what you want to be doing. And in all honesty, I still feel like not that the all blacks attacking line wasn't trying to dictate. However, I just think the springbox defensive line, especially those wingers, were coming up quick, manly. And they were, when the all blacks were trying to start spreading the ball, you already have the next three springbox pretty much in the line of the ball. And that's hard

5:10to tack on. Yeah, exactly right. Look, they're a very good side. They deserve to be number one. And I still think there's a little bit of ground for the all blacks to make up. But we'll talk more about it in the agenda. I'm still very positive around where this all blacks team is heading. One thing I will say, Melzie's multi. If you win around Melzie's multi, you should have been. He was all over it. Look, he might be, he might be working hard with the Edinburgh castle rockers who are on their own little winning streak. But Melzie himself had well written to win the Prussia plate. And she did that brilliantly and remains unbeaten and heads towards Sydney in the in the Epsom. Very, very strongly. Then he had the all blacks to get within 10, which obviously needed that try late in the piece. But for a large part of that game, looked to, looked a very, very good bet. And then you need to know for 42 and a half points in the Warriors game. And that was about as easy as they come. So Melzie, I think it was $5 was the odds as well. So if you've got a piece of that, you'd be happy on Monday. He really is winning an every aspect, doesn't it, Melzie? So I wonder if it, his Melzie's multi is going to be as successful when he comes home.

6:12Surprise. I didn't receive a message from old Melzie about that. Were you anticipating your would? Well, not myself, but just one of us about Melzie's multi. I think Melzie's just the type of guy doesn't crow about, you know, doesn't get high on his wins, doesn't get low on his losses. He just tries to continue to make the punters at dollar. If the castle rock is here, be updating his spreadsheet. Oh, yeah. Mate, as soon as the the Warriors game was done, he would have updated it for sure. But if the castle rock has left the trophy at the European T20 Premier League and he comes back, he's going to be so smug, so smug. He, in fairness to him and you would have seen it as well. And he puts so much work into that castle rock at the hundred percent. He was up to three, four a.m. some mornings, you know, making calls, talking to people in India, talking to people in Europe. He put a bloody ton of work at it. So I'm very glad for him that it is going well. And the only game that they haven't won was when it was rained out on anything that a ball certainly washed out anyway. So they're absolutely flying. He's done a bloody good job. I might. He might want to just put his feet up by

7:16the time he comes home and does a show and it might just be like, you know what, you just hold down the fort like you have been doing since I've been away and he'll just try and come and look pretty. He is trying to make it work from, I think he's going to be an Amsterdam, did he say, from Wednesday? Yeah, he's going to try and get his phone to connect so he can do the show with us. But Melzie in technology, considering the conversation we had about revolution of wise and all those credit card type things that he was trying to get, considering that conversation that we had, I'm not holding my breath about him being able to get his phone to work to host a show from the other side of the world. It wouldn't happen if Dai was there with him. Dai would sort him. Dai would sort him out, but someone's going to look after the kids. Someone does have to look after the kids. Often Melzie comes to me with some of his technological problems here at the old entertain office, doesn't he? Little master. He does. The wifi password every day? That's definitely a biggie. But that's valid. No, because whenever we have like Mitch James or John F. All come and they ask for the same thing so I just get that little,

8:16Melzie still has somewhere.