Chris Jones

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1,513 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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DSPN -RUGBY · Can The All Blacks BEAT The Springboks? | Breaking Down The Series · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And he knows what's coming.

What Rassi is very good at doing, of course, is setting the agenda.

Now he's deflected from the whole thing about, you know, will Sia Khalisi be dumped for Paul de Villiers by saying, well, Paul de Villiers might play number eight.

And we'll have a look at who will be playing there.

So he's so clever.

I mean, Rennie started off in Cape Town.

He's been massaging egos and telling everybody how fantastic the Stormers are.

And that's what you've got to do.

You win hearts and minds.

And it sounds like a ridiculous thing to be involved in.

But unless you do that, you hand Rassi over.

The advantage.

And he will jump on any opportunity to be rassy.

And he will say things which will get the All Blacks backs up.

And that's the whole idea.

But Rennie's coaching team, like the players...

is going to treat this as a massive learning curve.

And when you're only a year out from the World Cup, you have to take whatever you can from any given situation.

And you cannot underestimate the lessons they will learn from four matches against the box in quick succession, which replicates in many ways the latter stages of a World Cup, where you're running to stand still, both in terms of preparation and in terms of playing, because...

He says that René was talking about, well, we know how these matches will go because we'll basically be previewing the next one.

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