Nigel Yalden

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2,095 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Sep

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DSPN -RUGBY · 'GAME ON' | Tony Johnson Breaks Down All Blacks LOSS In Cape Town · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

100%.

I don't know what more I can really add to that.

I think you've summed it up really nicely.

Those little skill errors and the pressure that came defensively from South Africa, very much trying to push in from the outside and it was very rare that...

The All Blacks were able to get the ball into the wide channels.

We have seen it do very well.

Good utilisation of the wide pass, primarily by Geordie Barrett.

We also saw a couple of nice ones from Ruben Love, but they just didn't have the same connection.

They were just a little bit on the back foot from an attacking point of view.

They were attacking from deep, which is the sort of structure they work on, but just not having the ability to be able to get that catch pass and get the ball wider into the space where they have had some change in the test matches this year.

Yeah, I think it does.

And I think when you look at the core group,

There isn't a vast change between the group that Scott Robertson was working with and the group that Dave Rennie is working with.

And you have to acknowledge the fact that Scott Robertson actually selected some of these new players that are now becoming very much integral to

all-black squad at the moment so you've got a hat to scott robertson in terms of his selection and his ability to identify the talent and dave rennie is utilizing that talent very well but there is just a a different mental strength there's there's a consistency what was the thing that frustrated us particularly at this time when we look back last year you look at the test matches in argentina they go out they win the first one and then the next week miss 41 tackles

and losing the the second test they come back they've got to defend the fortress at eden park and they do that exceptionally well withstanding a big second half comeback and then you know the second or the final 30 minutes of that game in wellington was just an absolute bath and it was those massive swings of performance the inconsistencies

that we're probably in the end a little bit of the legacy of the Scott Robertson era.

We're not seeing these massive peaks and troughs.

They are still reasonably consistent, even though we are talking about an all-black performance where there were eras which already we can say are uncharacteristic based on the very small sample size we've got in the Dave Rennie

Yeah, absolutely.

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