All Blacks coach Ian Foster has made wholesale changes to his team ahead of the final Bledisloe Cup test against the Wallabies.

Sam Cane's out injured, Sam Whitelock's the captain and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is on the bench.

NZ Herald rugby writer Liam Dann and Newstalk ZB rugby commentator Elliott Smith joined D'Arcy Waldegrave in studio for a special edition of Rugby Direct to try and make sense of it all.

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