{"id":78394,"date":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78394\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","slug":"all-blacks-v-argentina-qa-elliott-smith-answers-your-questions-following-the-opening-round-of-the-rugby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78394\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks v Argentina Q&A: Elliott Smith answers your questions following the opening round of the Rugby Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The opening weekend of the Rugby Championship provided plenty to talk about with the Wallabies producing a stunning comeback against South Africa while the All Blacks secured a controlled victory over Argentina in Cordoba.<\/p>\n

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The All Blacks are now in Buenos Aires for the second Argentina test before they head home for two massive tests against the world champion Boks. <\/p>\n

Scott Robertson\u2019s side also managed to claim the top spot in world rugby – but do they look like the best in the world?<\/p>\n

Should Wallace Sititi and Tamaiti Williams come straight back into the starting XV? Is it time to bring Rieko Ioane back to the midfield? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 18 Aug, 2025 09:09 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[1466,6074,1914,3265,34481,12910,64,63,9658,9663,55138,44378,59911,59905,9674,1787,59907,8936,46677,59909,59908,998,59906,3607,760,59910,13477,8080,85,38808,37806,320,10593,2500,35022,5399,3605,5391],"class_list":["post-78394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-about","tag-africa","tag-against","tag-all","tag-answers","tag-argentina","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blacks","tag-championship","tag-comeback","tag-controlled","tag-cordoba","tag-elliott","tag-following","tag-of","tag-opening","tag-over","tag-plenty","tag-producing","tag-provided","tag-qa","tag-questions","tag-round","tag-rugby","tag-secured","tag-smith","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-stunning","tag-talk","tag-the","tag-victory","tag-wallabies","tag-weekend","tag-while","tag-with","tag-your"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}