{"id":250411,"date":"2025-11-08T02:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250411\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:08:13","slug":"ardie-savea-concedes-all-blacks-camp-on-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250411\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardie Savea concedes All Blacks camp &#8216;on edge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ardie Savea says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> will be driven by a desire to preserve their proud unbeaten record against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/scotland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> at Murrayfield on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> have never lost to the Scots in 32 meetings over the past 120 years, a scenario the captain believes will sharpen the minds of the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to be the first team (to lose to Scotland), so that puts us on edge a bit,\u201d said back-rower Savea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also understand Scotland\u2019s mindset as well and how much it will mean to them tomorrow. It builds appropriate fear and we don\u2019t want that to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve prepared well, done what we can do through the week, now it\u2019s just about turning up and playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762567692_145_814.png.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> Scotland <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762567693_561_811.png.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> New Zealand <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/new-zealand-vs-scotland\/?g=946468\/\" class=\"link-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p>Savea played in the last meeting between the teams when the All Blacks had to come from 23-14 behind after an hour before winning 31-23 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing place to play,\u201d he said of Murrayfield. \u201cScotland are a quality side. The last three games we\u2019ve played it\u2019s been within eight points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no easy feat (to beat them), so we understand the challenge ahead and we\u2019re really excited to come here and play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got some world-class players in their team, so that poses a threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to turn up and nail our game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Savea is wary of the threat posed by Scotland talisman Finn Russell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a way (to stop him),\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the beauty of a world-class player like Finn, he\u2019s unpredictable. He does things no other players can do and I don\u2019t think we can prepare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to nail our stuff in what we do and just try and shut his time down. He\u2019s a world-class player and I\u2019m really looking forward to playing against him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ardie Savea says New Zealand will be driven by a desire to preserve their proud unbeaten record against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-250411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}