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Rugby Union Weekly

Eden Park: The All Blacks' fortress

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There is no venue in world rugby like Eden Park in Auckland. It is now 30 years since the All Blacks have lost a game at the spiritual home of New Zealand rugby. Ahead of the 2nd Test match with England on Saturday, we ask what is so different about Eden Park, and why do the All Blacks never lose there? Chris is joined by one of the voices of New Zealand rugby in Nigel Yalden, as well as All Blacks legend Ian Jones, who remembers when France stormed the fortress in 1994. And New Zealand back Stephen Perofeta tells us how this current crop are determined to continue the Eden Park legacy.

Transcript

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0:40.1

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Five lives Rugby Union Daily.

0:47.0

Right, Rugby Union Daily Tuesday morning and hello from Auckland where we're up and running

0:51.6

with the best build-up in the business to the second

0:53.7

test match between the all blacks and England at Eden Park and those two words is

0:59.6

what today's pod is going to be all about Eden Park, quite simply the hardest place to win in

1:06.7

international rugby.

1:08.6

And if you're going to make history this weekend, they will have to do it the hard way. Over the course of this daily you'll hear

1:15.0

from an all black's legend who knows what it's like to lose at the spiritual home of

1:19.5

New Zealand rugby. We'll hear from a current all black who will have to deal with that weight of expectation, but also will be inspired by the legacy.

1:27.0

But first let's bring in a great friend of the BBC Rugby team, a man whose voice is so synonymous with the All Blacks and who's covered the team home and away for many a year.

1:36.0

In Nigel Yord and Nigel Great to catch up. How are you?

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