Elliott Smith
speaker
278 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Elliott Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, I think he's the kind of player for the big occasion, the big game.
And I I'm sure, you know, seeing, you know, clips of him training back in um back home in in Wellington and things like that, and how um and Auckland and how ready he's he's, you know, been for this series.
So while it's been a a rest of sorts, he's been keeping himself in pretty good nick.
So I'd have no concerns about him being ready to play and and lead a test match.
And you think back to last year at Eden Park and how big that game was.
was and um you know what he was able to do there and the the late turnover and everything like that.
He was a machine in that game.
So
Yeah, as I say, man for the big occasion and I'm sure he'll rise to it on Sunday morning.
Yeah,
Yeah, I think so.
Um, you know, he's been the the guy for Rennie all through the the test matches so far.
Uh I mean Anton Segner is right on his tail that the kind of performance he turned in uh against the the um
the s the bulls over the weekend was just phenomenal.
It was everywhere around the park.
Um, you know, picking over turnovers of fun uh and just brutalizing the the South African um and the Bulls players.
So I I think he's hot on his tail, but I think it's hard to see Dave Rennie deviating too much.
I think he's had this first Test team in mind for for quite some time.
Um and and really has backed Jacobson to the hilt.
You know, he's been in and out of the All Blacks uh twenty three
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