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Jim Hamilton (0:30)

This is The Big Jim Show.

Hello, and welcome back to The Big Jim Show. It's been a minute, but a busy few weeks with the children, with sport, with travel, and it's been all good.

I'm recording on the Thursday, the 5th of November, and it's a couple of days before Scotland take on the Mighty All Blacks.

We've got a live show on the Friday. So if you've listened to this before and you come in, I hope you have a good time. If you've listened to this after, and the live show has been gone, and we've just beaten the Mighty All Blacks, then I hope you have a good time at the show, and I hope you enjoyed the game as well. But it's been a minute. I've been busy on a couple of different things, and wanted to just jump on a solo episode, which I enjoy doing, as you know. But like I said, it's the week of Scotland vs. The All Blacks. We've never beaten the All Blacks, and I'm about to go deep into the archives, and the memories, which are slightly blurred. It was a long time ago, 15 years, 13 years, 10 years. Anyway, it's double digits now, since the last time I played the All Blacks. And building up to the live shows, how we're doing it with the Three Sisters. I like to keep the shows organic. I like to keep the shows raw. I try not to overthink delivery, what we're doing. I need to have some anecdotal analysis and information in the back of the mind that I need to share. I went back and looked at the games that I played against them. And like I said, the memory is blurred. It is a long time ago, memories fade, a lot's happened since then. And in my mind, they were fully loaded in both games. And they were. And I went back and did some player comparisons. And I don't want to open me makes up who I played with, but just to share a couple of anecdotes and why we were never going to beat New Zealand back in the day.

And we were up against a team that was unbeaten in 12 average four tries a game, back to back World Cup winners. They went on to win the World Cup in 2011 off the back of about 2015 So they were on the route to become one of the best teams we've ever seen. And I was up against Sam Whitelock back in the day. Kelly Brown was up against Liam Messam. So two brilliant players, right? But this is where the difference came. When I think back of the game and actually see it in black and white. So John Barkley, who was at the show on Friday night with me up against Richie McCaw, who was captain, the great Richie Verland.

You remember him? Awesome number eight for Scott Lee. He was a great athlete. I'm not taking the past either. He was a great player. More of a seven style player up against Kieran Reid. And then we go down the list even further. Dan Parks, fucking good lad. Parks, he is a good lad, but he was up against Dan Carter. G-Dock, Graham Morrison at 12 Good lad, top lad. Up against suddenly Bill Williams. So Hugo Southwell, top lad, good mate of mine. Up against Mills Muller-Iena, who was at the show on Friday. Top lad, world class player. So we were never gonna beat that team. We were never gonna beat the All Blacks. Now, I don't know when you're listening to this. I'll put a little bet, and I don't bet much ever, little bit on boxing, but I'll put a bit on Scotland to beat New Zealand. We've never done 120 odd years or whatever the ridiculous number is. We've come close, but I feel like this is our time now. And I say it all the time, I'm like a broken record, I get it. But if not now, then when there's no better opportunity for us to beat the All Blacks at Murrayfield, I can't wait. The live show, I'm really looking forward to that on Friday. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the Sold Out gig. We're doing it with Vodafone, who are a partner of Scotland and a really good partner for Ruppey as well. They've given us a bit of free reign on some of the content we're doing, which is great because we know the way that some brands can work in sport or in Ruppey specifically. When I've worked with brands before, it's like, do this, do that. They've been quite free and quite loose and a great partner to help keep fans connected to the game. So on Cube, the tagline, keep fans connected and we're doing a live show. And they're chaotic and they're good. My lad's going to be there as well for the first time. And I can't wait to Friday night. And I'm really excited for the weekend as well. Regardless of what we think of the Nations Championship and the make up of the two leagues and who's going to win it in the finals, which is all confusing at Allianz Twickenham in a few weeks. I'm looking at these individual games, right? We got some awesome games around the corner. England play in Australia. We're playing New Zealand. We're going to see France play South Africa. South Africa play Ireland over there. England play New Zealand. I'm just looking at individual games and I can't wait. And there's loads of pressure around not winning the Nations Championship, but for a lot of coaches in these games, I'd say Gregor is under a bit of pressure to come away two from three in this Nations Championship. Andy Farrell is under a little bit of pressure as well. Like for me, I think Steve Borthwick is under huge pressure. And I've seen the Australia squad spoke about it on the rugby pod as well.