Ardie Savea is looking forward to the All Blacks\u2019 upcoming Grand Slam campaign and is wary of the threat that England will pose at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham.<\/p>\n
Savea was recently included in All Blacks coach Scott Robertson\u2019s 36-member squad for next month\u2019s 2025 Grand Slam tour, which kicks off against Ireland in Chicago on November 1.<\/p>\n
They will then head to the United Kingdom to take on Scotland at Murrayfield on November 8, England at Twickenham on November 15, and Wales at the Principality Stadium on November 22.<\/p>\n
New Zealand<\/a> have completed a Grand Slam tour against the four Home Nations four times, in 1978, 2005, 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n Savea<\/a> only made his All Blacks debut in 2016 and admitted that he was initially not aware of the significance of a Grand Slam campaign.<\/p>\n \u2018I kind of didn\u2019t understand what it was\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s really exciting. I think when we were told it was a Grand Slam, I kind of didn\u2019t understand what it was until the last couple of weeks being at home,\u201d he told the DSPN<\/a> podcast with Martin Devlin.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve kind of got a feel and understand the privilege it is to get the opportunity.<\/p>\n \u201cNot many people do. It\u2019s a great challenge for this team to go over there and try and achieve that. You\u2019re playing against the best teams in the world over there in their home ground.<\/p>\n \u201cYou couldn\u2019t ask anything more as a footy player.\u201d<\/p>\n Since 2014, New Zealand and England<\/a> have faced each other 10 times, and the All Blacks have been victorious in eight of those encounters.<\/p>\n