Inside France & Rennie's All Blacks | What Decides The Test
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What insights does Brad Weber offer about French rugby?
Coming to you from rugby's greatest fortress, New Zealand's national stadium, Eden Park, is the Aotearoa Rugby Park. Kia ora and welcome to the Aotearoa Rugby Pod once again as we head into the first test match of the year for Dave Rennie's All Blacks against France. And because we don't know a lot about Dave Rennie's All Blacks and we don't know a lot about the French team, we're brought in someone who knows a little bit about it. ARP OG Brad Webber will join us. He's been in France the last few years, seen all of these players play, seen the French style and understands it really well. He's also played a lot of footy under Dave Rennie so he'll give us a Fair bit of an insight into that. We'll look at the Box versus England.
We'll look at the Wallabies versus South Africa. We'll also look at your email. Send us an email, arp at fandommedia.co.nz. We filmed this at Eden Park, so don't forget. In November, Robbie Williams tickets are up for grabs. If you haven't got yours yet, head along to Robbie Williams. And look, if you want to get us, ARP at fandommedia.co.nz. Go to at Aotearoa Rugby Pod official channels. If it's audio, if it's YouTube or our social channels as well, you can get us on stuff.co.nz. And you can also get us at Rugby Pass. We can get those amazing stats that we lean on all of the time. Right, Brad, back in New Zealand from Japan. You're settling in nicely.
It's good to be back. Great to be on the show, by the way, and be back around you fellas. It's been a while. So just got back from Japan a couple of weeks ago. Locked horns a couple of times with Brenna and they had a pretty good side. So it's just good to get home and look forward to a big off season, which I'm not used to really. How long you got? I've got like three or four months off. Yeah, I've kicked a goal with my team in Japan, so I genuinely haven't had this much time off since high school. What do you usually do?
All I can say is, honestly, you've got to be able to keep doing your body, all your glutes, all the ITVs and everything, because within about six weeks' time, you're like, oh, I don't know if I can get going again. So that would be my advice.
We got in for a couple of reasons, mate. One, because it's great to have you back in the country and back on the show. Two, you got some knowledge that we need to dip into. You spent a lot of time in France recently, and you spent a fair bit of time with Dave Rennie. And those are the two things that are of utmost importance heading into this first Test match. So thanks for joining us. No worries. Let's start off with taking a look back at your time in France. What was that like in comparison to what you'd experienced in New Zealand as far as, let's start with what you do with halfback play. How much different was it for you?
Oh, that was the biggest part for me is everything that I knew about halfback play in New Zealand, I basically had to throw it out the window when I moved to France. I actually remember one of my first trainings at Stade Francais. And as you know, Bryn, in New Zealand, you're taught that as soon as the ball is available, pass and it's up to the rest of the team to to keep up in france it's the the opposite way like if the ball's fast but the team isn't ready then it's up to the nine to recognize that and control tempo that way so i remember my first training i was just doing what i do pass off the deck and waiting and noticing that boys weren't really set in position uh a lot and our head coach stopped training
And he said, Brad, you're not in New Zealand anymore. I need you to slow down. And I said, okay, I'm not in Kansas anymore. So it really is about controlling tempo, but not playing too fast, essentially. Recognizing when maybe it might be on to whip it to our back line, but just knowing that particularly forwards aren't always going to be in position all the time so you really need to be a bit more controlling and that sort of stuff.
Is that why nines are so dominant in terms of the way these French sides play? It looks like they're more of the game driver versus the 10.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What insights does Brad Weber offer about French rugby?
0:00–13:12
2
How does Brad Weber compare halfback play in France and New Zealand?
13:12–27:01
3
What are the differences in the All Blacks' midfield combination under Dave Rennie?
27:01–36:49
4
How does the absence of Toulouse stars affect the French team?
36:49–52:50
5
What strategies do the All Blacks need to implement against the French attack?
52:50–59:32
6
What role does Beauden Barrett play in the All Blacks' strategy?
59:32–1:10:58
7
How do the recent performances of South Africa and England impact the upcoming matches?
1:10:58–1:20:37
8
What are the predictions for the All Blacks vs France test match?
1:20:37–1:23:44
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