All Blacks team v Springboks: Five takeaways as Dave Rennie focuses on building combinations while ‘chance missed’ for bold selection experiment

Following the announcement of Dave Rennie’s All Blacks team to face the Springboks this Saturday in Soweto, here are our five takeaways from his selection for Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry third Test.

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With everything to play for and the series evenly poised at 1-1, Rennie has made some changes to his starting line-up for this eagerly anticipated encounter at the FNB Stadium.

Amongst the forwards, All Blacks vice-captain Codie Taylor drops out of the matchday squad with Asafo Aumua promoted to start at hooker while Samisoni Taukei’aho comes onto the replacements bench as his back-up.

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