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TED Network. Today our cameras are at Athletic Park at Wellington in New Zealand as the All Black
Centenary continues. Game two of the Best of Three Series, the All Blacks up against the rest of the
world. The rest of the world have made 11 changes from the side that beat the All Blacks at Christchurch
on Saturday to the tune of 28 points to 14 and as Simon Portivant joins us in the studio, I wonder
whether the three key changes that have bashed up Kirwan and Fox to the All Black side has been
brought on from lack of form or are they just experimenting with this All Black side? I think
the two experimenting certainly for Kirwan. Kirwan has been playing very well, played extremely well
during the World Cup but for Fox, Fox is the man under a lot of pressure and certainly Laurie
Maynes prefers much more running game. Fox in the first test match did a lot of kicking, the crowd
didn't like it, I don't know what the players thought about it but certainly he is under pressure.
The halfback, Bashup was one of the form players last year, I can't see Bashup being dropped. Well
that's the All Black side and we see John Timmu coming in on the wing, Errone Clark has joined
Bunce in the centres, Lytton and Strawn the halfback pairing but certainly an Otago influence in the
back row, Simon remembering that the new coach Laurie Maynes is Otago based. Yeah, Pen A is a
very big number eight, Henderson a very mobile open side flanker there and certainly that'll be a
good combination for the New Zealand side. The New Zealand side after that first big loss under a
tremendous pressure here in this particular game, the World 15 full of confidence, they've got 11
new players in there really willing to have a big go and I don't think Laurie Maynes will be feeling
like comfortable going to this game. Well I think it's a very strong looking World 15 side as we
look at it as well. I'm looking forward to seeing the performance of Zubair the fullback from South
Africa, in fact we have five South Africans in the side, four Australians we notice John Eales the
star of the World Cup comes into the second row but look at that front row, young Mendez, Uli Smith
of South Africa and Ewan McKenzie there'll be a great battle up front against the big three from
New Zealand, Simon. Yeah, it's a lot of grunt there in that World 15 front row and the rest of the
back five are very very mobile, Sessillon playing his last game before he heads back to France,
Nasser a late replacement back across to the World 15, he'll make the most of his opportunities
in Perilini an explosive runner and tackler. And what about the combination of the halves of Nick
Far-Jones the Australian captain and Nas Boiter of South Africa? Well it's a dream come true for
Nick especially, Nick's always wanted to plan a game with with Nas and here's a big opportunity
in probably the best format for it against the All Blacks in Wellington so Nick and Nas will be
very happy about that, some excellent backs outside of them and let's hope that Nas doesn't kick it too
much. Okay well the stage is set at Windy Wellington the venue athletic park and the
All Blacks are set to do their traditional Haka.
It always drags out a bit of blood I think, I mean even he's an ex-player, the national anthem is
something but when the boys do the Haka and they look the opposition in the eye oh he's very good.
Big day today for big player Larson.