Tony Johnson
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7,860 appearances
27 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Tony Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Welcome to this instalment of the DSPN.
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Martin is all tucked up in South Africa and he's asked Nigel Yeldon and I to fill this particular void for the next three Mondays, and so we will.
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First, some takeaways from the epic at Ellis Park.
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A game, a crowd, a setting, and an occasion befitting the greatest rivalry.
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When the crowd goes silent for the hucker, because Russi asked them to, when you hear stories of Bach fans shaking the hands of
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Of their Kiwi counterparts after the game.
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And the fact that the two teams went at it hammer and tongs, both trying to win the game their way, but with that underlying regard for each other, that's what this rivalry is built on.
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Respect.
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So much respect.
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Sport needs more of that.
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You look at the score line and you think, did that really reflect the game?
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3316, biggest winning margin by either team, but Ellis
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Park, five tries to one.
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It's a blowout scoreline, but it didn't really feel like a blowout test, far from it.
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The All Blacks were just that much sharper at taking the chances when they came.
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And when it came to the crunch, just that little bit better at solving problems in the heat of the moment.
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No better example than the match turning scrum penalty, five from their own line in the fifty-fifth minute.
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Another penalty to the box, maybe a yellow card, South Africa's.
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score might have been a different game altogether.
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Instead it was turned on its axis.
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