Aaron Smith

And look how many All Blacks have come out of there.

You know, the Whitelocks, Aaron Smith.

It was Cody Taylor.

I think he might have been.

Yeah.

And I, I'm ju- I've... [sighs] I mean, he's not Aaron Smith in terms of the way he clears the ball quickly from the ruck.

He's not that type of player.

I just wonder sometimes whether, whether that, that originates further out.

... was, you know-

...

in the team, okay?

... wherever I could get a repetition, I, I, I was there, you know? I was, I threw my hat in the ring and then, I mean, I even got phone calls about, you know, passing, passing, halfback passing and, and, and kicking the ball, and I said, "Look, it's not my specialty, you know, it's not my area of expertise, but, uh, I'm gonna give it a crack," you know? It's [laughs] I'm gonna give it a go, you know.

I don't know how well I did because, uh, I never got a second phone call, but hopefully, hopefully they've gone on and become a, you know, Aaron Smith or a George Gregan or something like that.

That's right, mate.

And mate, ultimately, well, to, to, you, you ultimately you got the, you got the call from Brad Moore, who's the head coach of Fijian Drua, and mate, he said, wants you to come on board, mate.

Yeah, I feel like the mother of Whakatawa was like, you know, second string All Blacks halfback for a long time there, and then all of a sudden he's just dropped off.

Well, he was under the tutelage of Aaron Smith down at the Highlanders for years and years, and you were like, all right, he's just waiting for his time to pounce.

And...

Like, plays MPC like a big brother playing with his little brothers.

I haven't met a nine that doesn't annoy me.

No, you can't be an All Blacks 9 legend without being tossed around by a South African, because let's not forget what Dwayne Vermeulen did to Aaron Smith for the Stormers vs Highlanders either, threw him around like a bit of a ragdoll.

But I did find it very entertaining how Corbis just single-handedly managed to flip Roy God off like that.

They, there's a, he can take up a profession, a career in WWE because just a little bit of a flip from, from Corbis resulted in a very dramatic, you know, 180 degree flip.