{"id":11490,"date":"2024-09-20T05:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2024-09-20T05:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:15:34","slug":"savea-wants-all-blacks-to-show-the-country-that-we-can-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11490","title":{"rendered":"Savea wants All Blacks to \u2018show the country that we can bounce back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Blacks vice-captain Ardie Savea says this weekend&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/528284\/bledisloe-cup-what-you-need-to-know\">Bledisloe Cup test in Sydney<\/a>\u00a0is a great opportunity for the team after two defeats in a row to the world champion Springboks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To show New Zealand that \u2026 you can take two steps backwards and propel a couple ahead,&#8221; Savea said at the team&#8217;s hotel in Double Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s just like life, sometimes you get knocked down but it&#8217;s how you can get back up after. What a way for this team to be a vessel for that and show the country that we can bounce back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Savea has been named to start at number eight against the Wallabies at Accor Stadium, with coach Scott Robertson resisting the urge to shift him to openside flanker to accommodate Wallace Sititi at the back of the scrum.<\/p>\n<p>Sititi remains on the blindside due to Ethan Blackadder&#8217;s unavailability, with Sam Cane wearing the seven jersey in his 99th test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wallace has been inspiring,&#8221; Savea said of the young Chiefs player, who was arguably the All Blacks&#8217; best player in the 18-12 loss to the Springboks in Cape Town a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Blacks vice-captain Ardie Savea says this weekend&#8217;s\u00a0Bledisloe Cup test in Sydney\u00a0is a great opportunity for the team after two defeats in a row to the world champion Springboks. &#8220;To show New Zealand that \u2026 you can take two steps backwards and propel a couple ahead,&#8221; Savea said at the team&#8217;s hotel in Double Bay. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}