Neil Barnes
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252 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Neil Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're talking about a team that knocked over England and Scotland last year.
I was involved with them when we beat Australia, Samoa and pushed South Africa for a while.
They've been together for five or six years now and I'm well aware as a coach, you keep a group of players together that long, you start to become cohesive and really strong inside about who you're representing and how you play.
Yeah, there'll be no lack of respect from us for what they bring.
Oh, they won't be happy with that, will they?
I've got no idea on selection, what they've got available this week, but yeah, I'm not reading too much into it.
I know those men, I know what they're capable of, and we won't be going in there unprepared, I can tell you that.
Clinical would be a word I'd use in there too.
When we get opportunities we need to take them and we left quite a few out there on the weekend.
So you get in big matches, if you let those go by, you're not going to come first all the time.
So yeah, ruthless about executing at the end of the day.
Ruthless in your attitude and everything you do, I guess.
But yeah, to me, we've just got to be more clinical in every part of it.
It's week one.
We're well aware of the lack of preparation we've had.
We're comfortable where we're at.
We also know we're going to be a lot better.
oh just any any injury updates no we're pretty we've got normal dings and stuff and as we get through the week they'll become clearer but yeah it's just 40 at the moment there are a few people that um will monitor in the next couple of days and we'll see how this rolls patrick yeah i can't comment he's another one that we're monitoring at the moment just to touch on what you said about the referees there any thoughts on the wellington referees deciding that they're not going to be part of it out of abuse
No, look, at the end of the day, it's not acceptable at any level.
At the end of the day, they're going to make mistakes.
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