00:00Yeah, we're under no illusions how tough it's going to be,
00:04but like I said, as a player, you want to play against the best teams in the world
00:09and, you know, the All Blacks, they've got something about them
00:13that you like are, they come into town
00:15and I think it brings out the best of you as an individual
00:18and hopefully as a squad as well.
00:21So, you know, we talk about reflections on the game,
00:24every coach looked at their department and how can we get better
00:28and trying to get that into the boys
00:29and the boys looked at their games as well
00:31and come back with good feedback on that as well as where they want to improve.
00:35So, like I said, big challenge, but excited of what's coming into town this week
00:41and hopefully the fans will turn up and they'll be rocking again
00:45like the atmosphere was last year when we played them.
00:47You know, international rugby is all about winning collisions,
00:49so if you're second best at winning collisions,
00:53it's unlikely that you're going to win the game
00:55in terms of obviously the knee on the floor,
00:58or if it's simultaneous as you're making the contact,
01:01that's, in my understanding of it, that's legal,
01:04but you can't be just knee sliding into it.
01:06So, I'd like to think as a player, I was, you know,
01:10an inch or two off the ground when I was actually hitting the players,
01:13so Dan Lyddiot of all might have been all right, I'd hoped,
01:17but it's them ones that you can see from World Rugby
01:20that they want to make the game as safe as possible
01:22and that's what we all want.
01:24We want to see a physical game by making it as safe as possible
01:27and obviously the hip drop, some nasty injuries can be as a result of that.
01:33So, same again, trying to make the game safer,
01:37which we all want.
01:39There's always going to be that sort of grey area
01:41in the heat of the moment, you know,
01:44how to get people down in them scenarios,
01:47but, you know, we've got to find a way that we're doing it safely
01:50because we don't want to injure people,
01:52but we don't want to take away from the game as well.
01:55So, yeah, there's plenty of stuff that we're working on
02:01to try and make sure that we're legal doing everything we can,
02:04but at the same time, we want to be as physical as we can be
02:08in the contact area.
02:09My understanding of it, I find the ones,
02:12there's a bit of a line break and someone's grabbed someone
02:16and almost swung into the sort of lower limb.
02:20So, you know, sometimes these things happen
02:23and it's not intentional, but they can be nasty injuries.
02:26So, in an ideal world, they wouldn't be making line breaks.
02:29So, that's the first prize, but, you know, it happens in a game,
02:33but it's how we recover from when there is line breaks.
02:36As you know, international rugby and all rugby
02:38is quite high scoring at the minute.
02:39The closer you get to your own tri-line,
02:41almost you have to be a bit more aggressive
02:43and not to the detriment that you're going to give away penalties
02:46because if you go too much, you're going to get off sides
02:49and stuff like that.
02:50But things happen so quick at international rugby.
02:52So, if you're half a second late on your decision-making
02:56when you fold or underfold,
02:58then that's when the seams appear.
