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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Pine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks, EDB cricket.

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Speaker 2: Legend Richie richardson do you remember that the burgundy wide

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Speaker 2: brimmed hat he used to wear? Former heavyweight world champion

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Speaker 2: boxer Joe Fraser also born on this day in nineteen

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Speaker 2: forty four. I'm Jason Pine. Shoe producer Anny McDonald here too.

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Speaker 2: We are with you talking sport until three. The fifteen

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Speaker 2: man black Cap squad for the upcoming Champions Trophy in

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Speaker 2: Pakistan and the UAE has been named. Captain Mitchell Sentner

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Speaker 2: standing by to chat through the squad with us. Some

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Speaker 2: interesting talking points which you might want to pick up

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Speaker 2: on as well. I think there's one very very unlucky

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Speaker 2: player in particular. Other matters around this afternoon, plenty of tennis.

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Speaker 2: The Aussie Tennis Open starts today. Craig Gabriel from Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: He first covered the Australian Open in nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 2: So what's this is? Forty five OSSI Tennis Open. The

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Speaker 2: ASP Tennis Classic Meantime wrapped up yesterday. Lee Radovanovitch on

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Speaker 2: the victory for thirty eight year old Gail Montfie there's

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Speaker 2: still no real clarity and this is a very unseasonal

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Speaker 2: look at rugby. But there's no real clarity over Joe

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Speaker 2: Schmidt's future as Wallaby's rugby coach. He has committed to

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Speaker 2: guiding the side in this year's series against the British

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Speaker 2: and Irish Lions. Beyond that things are very unclear. We'll

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Speaker 2: get you to Australia for some insight into that. We're

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Speaker 2: a week away from sale GP. Auckland can't wait to

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Speaker 2: be broadcasting the show live from sal GP next Saturday

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Speaker 2: and Sunday. We'll get you inside the Black Foyles camp

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Speaker 2: with their coach Sam Meech this afternoon. Real mixed bag

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Speaker 2: for football fans yesterday, in fact, not a mixed bag.

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Speaker 2: It was very much an empty bag for Auckland FC

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Speaker 2: and the Phoenix they both lost yesterday. We'll cover those

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Speaker 2: off and preview the Phoenix women's clas with Adelaide United

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Speaker 2: later on tonight. James mcconey along as well in his

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Speaker 2: regular slot. But a live sport for you today too,

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Speaker 2: the super Smash in Palmerston North. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: from Palmi Flickers a quick weather report to nine two,

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Speaker 2: nine to two CD against Otago. The women go from

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Speaker 2: twelve forty the men to follow the Aussie Tennis Open.

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Speaker 2: As mentioned, the first matches underway at one o'clock this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: They'll be playing across all of the arenas. Yeah, we'll

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Speaker 2: get to the Tennis Open in more detail as the

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Speaker 2: show goes on, but it starts at one this afternoon

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Speaker 2: New Zealand time. In the NFL, we're into the wild

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Speaker 2: card games. Now, what these basically are our knockout games

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Speaker 2: as we head towards Super Bowl. These are effectively knockout matches.

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Speaker 2: Just think of them in those terms. And at the

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Speaker 2: moment in Houston, Texas, it is the Texans against the

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Speaker 2: Ala Chargers, and the Houston Texans ahead by ten points

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Speaker 2: to six as we approach halftime. And that one from

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Speaker 2: two o'clock this afternoon in Baltimore it's the Ravens up

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Speaker 2: against the Stealers. So we'll keep you across exactly what

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Speaker 1: Midday analyzing every view from every angle in the sporting

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Speaker 1: world weekends for it with Jason Vie.

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Speaker 3: They call eighty news talks.

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Speaker 2: of Ben Sears will make his international return after being

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Speaker 2: named the Black Cap squad for Crickets Champions Trophy coming

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Speaker 2: up in Pakistan and the UA next month. He's been

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Speaker 2: but has come back for Wellington in the Super Smash

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Speaker 2: at their first World tournament. It's a squad dominated by

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Speaker 2: pace bowlers. Matt Henry Lockey Ferguson also being picked despite

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Speaker 2: the team. Mitchell Santon is the captain, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman,

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Speaker 2: series against Pakistan and South Africa starting on the eighth

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Speaker 2: of February. Their Champions Trophy opener is against the hosts

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Speaker 2: in Karachi on the nineteenth of February. Captain Mitchell Santner

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Speaker 2: is with us on Weekend Sport. Thanks for joining us, Mitchell.

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Speaker 2: How happy are you with the mix of the squad

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Speaker 2: that you've pulled together for the champions Trophy?

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Speaker 5: Very I think like you said, there's obviously a mix

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Speaker 5: balance we've got, you know his I think we're in

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Speaker 5: and I think, yeah, there was that kind of that

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Speaker 2: Was it a tough conversation to have with Jacob Duffy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah it was.

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Speaker 5: You know, he's obviously put his hand up for Summer

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Speaker 2: of the likes of Michael brace Wallglen Phillip's right and

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Speaker 2: to Bold ten overs in any match?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was definitely a discussion, but I think you know,

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Speaker 5: guess if there's always an injury, you can always sub someone.

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Speaker 5: But I think, you know, to make up that, you know,

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Speaker 5: So I think that kind of inclusion of another batter,

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Speaker 2: The fifteen to get it down to eleven for matchday.

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Speaker 2: He's look at a guy like Mark Chapman, who is

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Speaker 2: it a terrific series against lank eti oord yesterday off

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Speaker 2: He's in good form. But then you look down the

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Speaker 2: do you say to Mark Chapman at the moment?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it's it's it's you know, I guess

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Speaker 5: he's like Jacob Duff. He's done nothing wrong. He's put

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Speaker 5: his hand up when he's needed, and you know he

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Speaker 5: know we're shown that he's better middle order as well

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Speaker 2: How have you assessed Nathan Smith's elevation to international cricket.

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Speaker 2: the Ossie Tennis open at starting Mike says Piney can't

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Speaker 2: here says, I don't think Jacob Duffy was overlooked. I'm

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Speaker 2: he was, and he's probably sixteenth man, isn't he sixteenth man?

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Speaker 9: I think he'll get a go, you know, because of

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Speaker 9: looking towards the future and building a team.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Only the only my only, my only concern is that he,

429
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Speaker 2: as you say, fell, he's only just come back, and

430
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Speaker 2: he's only he's been out for eight months. He's only

431
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Speaker 2: come back into the T twenty stuff. I just hope, like,

432
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Speaker 2: for example, if he's one of three pace bowlers and

433
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Speaker 2: I think they'll play probably three past bowlers I'd say

434
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Speaker 2: Matt Henry and two others, and I just hope he

435
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Speaker 2: can get through ten overs.

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Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, because I did actually wonder that too. In

437
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Speaker 9: the back of my mind, I did think, well, maybe

438
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Speaker 9: it might be a bit of a push too soon,

439
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Speaker 9: you know, when he's just come back from the injury

440
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Speaker 9: bit off for so long, because it was sounds like

441
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Speaker 9: it was a bad one. But I'll tell you what

442
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Speaker 9: a couple of things to say. I watched the cricket

443
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Speaker 9: yesterday and well the whole games, I've watched them all,

444
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Speaker 9: and I'm we were really impressed with Old with the

445
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Speaker 9: fellow Chapman, which I think he's only a young fellow too,

446
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Speaker 9: and as a batter. I really like the way he

447
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Speaker 9: plays his cricket and he plays his shots like they

448
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Speaker 9: were going out left right center yesterday in stupid fashions

449
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Speaker 9: even there so called top water batters and their good batters.

450
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Speaker 9: But he just played great, great classic cricket shots to

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Speaker 9: build that innings. And in the end he went out

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Speaker 9: a bit silly, I think, because he might have thrown

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Speaker 9: his work it away and they made a bit of

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Speaker 9: a decision there. I think they got it wrong at

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Speaker 9: the end. We probably we were in with a slim chance.

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Speaker 9: But then I think he sort of should have backed

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Speaker 9: the batter that came in. I can't think of who

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Speaker 9: it was might have been, Was it Duffy? And he

459
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Speaker 9: seemingly sort of thought he didn't kind of back because

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Speaker 9: he didn't run. You know, they hit those runs and

461
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Speaker 9: he just stayed there instead of running taking the one.

462
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Speaker 9: But never mind. That was that. But I really liked

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Speaker 9: the look of him in his batting, I think too. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: I think I feel really sorry, sorry sorry for Duffy because,

465
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Speaker 9: like you said, very unlucky. And I think there is

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Speaker 9: a case there to be argued that well, someone like

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Speaker 9: Lucky Ferguson as good as he is, you know, and

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Speaker 9: with his crack and pace, when you've got a guy

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Speaker 9: like Duffy who's always in the wings, he's stuck with

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Speaker 9: New Zealand, he's got that central contract that he's played well,

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Speaker 9: and he's put his hand up after waiting so long.

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Speaker 9: Then yeah, I think even though Ferguson's been a go

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Speaker 9: to the past and that and played well for New Zealand,

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Speaker 9: if he hasn't got that central contact, and surely, yeah,

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Speaker 9: you think, I think he's got to reward the or

476
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Speaker 9: it's certainly a good argument to reward the guy that

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Speaker 9: has shows the loyalty, especially when he's starting to fire

478
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Speaker 9: up and going well.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure these things that are discussed around the selection

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Speaker 2: table fell And look, there's a wide school of thought

481
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Speaker 2: that says that before you even get to non contracted players,

482
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Speaker 2: you need to go through your contracted players and work

483
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Speaker 2: out whether you have what you need from that list.

484
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Speaker 2: And clearly in this discussion, it's obviously come down to

485
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Speaker 2: the choice between that central contracted players and pace. And

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Speaker 2: they've looked at Locki Ferguson and said you've got the

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Speaker 2: pace that we need and therefore you're the guy who

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Speaker 2: we're going to go with. And look again, like Lockie

489
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Speaker 2: Ferguson hasn't played you know, a heck of a lot

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Speaker 2: for New Zealand and recent times from memories had injuries.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of us thought he would play

492
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Speaker 2: test cricket, you know, but but it hasn't really done that.

493
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Speaker 2: But they've clearly just decided that the overriding selection criteria

494
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Speaker 2: this time is pace.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we've got that though with because I

496
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Speaker 9: think we have the pace with Sears and O'Rourke. I

497
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Speaker 9: think that's enough.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 9: I wonder two about the batting. What do you think

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Speaker 9: about the batting? Like I sort of after watching that

501
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Speaker 9: last game like yesterday, and you might say it might

502
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Speaker 9: be just a one off sort of thing where you

503
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Speaker 9: have one of those bad performances at every so often.

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Speaker 9: But is there a couple of batter as there, Like

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Speaker 9: I hate to say, because Conway's being so good and

506
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Speaker 9: he's coming back, but even maybe Phillips and maybe Young,

507
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Speaker 9: you know, some of those bad as it's kind of

508
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Speaker 9: aren't kind of performing as good as they could be.

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Speaker 9: You know, I don't know a my sort of off

510
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Speaker 9: the track there.

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Speaker 2: Well, Well, Will Young got ninety not out in the

512
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Speaker 2: first game, so I think he's probably okay. But then

513
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Speaker 2: again I don't know where the he'll play in the

514
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Speaker 2: best eleven Phil others year. Look, I'm sure these guys

515
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Speaker 2: who and I think we can probably right yesterday off.

516
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Speaker 2: I think we can look at yesterday and say they

517
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Speaker 2: would tuned it up. It didn't really matter, but you

518
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Speaker 2: still would have liked a bit more backbone in the batting.

519
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Speaker 2: Absolutely it would have, and apart from Mark Chapman, we

520
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Speaker 2: didn't get that at all. You look at the top order,

521
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Speaker 2: Young a duck, Ravendra won, Mitchell two, Phillips, no score,

522
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Speaker 2: Latham a duck and they'd want to get some runs

523
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Speaker 2: at some point too. Tom Latham one and nought in

524
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Speaker 2: the two games he's had for the black Caps against

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Speaker 2: Sri Lanka in this later series. We know how classy

526
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Speaker 2: he is, and obviously he's the wicket keeper as well,

527
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Speaker 2: but yeah, he'd want to get some runs. The good

528
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Speaker 2: thing about this, thanks for you call for the lawys.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy chatting to you, mate. The good thing about the

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Speaker 2: next little wild heading into the Champions Trophy is the

531
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Speaker 2: black Caps have a try series. They play Pakistan in

532
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Speaker 2: Lahore Saturday the eighth of February, two days later South

533
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Speaker 2: Africa at the same ground, and then if they make

534
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Speaker 2: it into the final, I think South Africa and Pakistan

535
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Speaker 2: obviously play each other. I'd say on the Sunday or

536
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Speaker 2: maybe on the Tuesday, what doesn't matter. There's a final,

537
00:27:41,827 --> 00:27:43,587
Speaker 2: so that could be another game. And then there is

538
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Speaker 2: a warm up game against Afghanistan as well on the

539
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Speaker 2: sixteenth of February before the Champions Trophy proper starts on

540
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Speaker 2: the nineteenth. So three and possibly four games to kind

541
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Speaker 2: of get you know, get ready, which you know we've

542
00:27:59,187 --> 00:28:04,507
Speaker 2: always said, we've always bemoaned the lack of warm up

543
00:28:04,747 --> 00:28:08,667
Speaker 2: matches for New Zealand and various different regards. Well, they're

544
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Speaker 2: not going to be short of a gallop. I've got

545
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Speaker 2: four games I'll play with a super smash and no

546
00:28:12,627 --> 00:28:14,987
Speaker 2: it's only t twenty before they go. And then these

547
00:28:14,987 --> 00:28:17,547
Speaker 2: four matches, three or four matches heading into the Champions Trophy.

548
00:28:17,787 --> 00:28:19,667
Speaker 2: Here's what I reckon the team will be. I don't

549
00:28:19,667 --> 00:28:22,227
Speaker 2: think Mark Chapman will make the eleven unfortunately for him.

550
00:28:22,627 --> 00:28:25,747
Speaker 2: Incredible to think this, because you look at Mark Chapman

551
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Speaker 2: and his latest series against the tril Ankins twenty nine

552
00:28:29,267 --> 00:28:32,787
Speaker 2: not out, sixty two and eighty one. He's been our

553
00:28:32,787 --> 00:28:35,427
Speaker 2: best batter by far, and yet I don't think he's

554
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Speaker 2: going to get a place because Cain Williams is going

555
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Speaker 2: to be there. I think Devin Conway and Ruch and

556
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Speaker 2: Ravenger will probably open the batting, so I think Will

557
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Speaker 2: Young might miss out. Came Williamson, Darrell Mitchell, Tom Latham.

558
00:28:47,387 --> 00:28:51,147
Speaker 2: I think that's the top five. Then Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell,

559
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Speaker 2: Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry Lockey, Ferguson, Will o' rourke. That's

560
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Speaker 2: the eleven that I would pack. That leaves out Mark Chapman,

561
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Speaker 2: Will Young, Ben Sears and Nathan Smith. Now Sears may

562
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Speaker 2: come in and out for someone like Ferguson, for example.

563
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Speaker 2: It might be that they decide who they want there.

564
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Speaker 2: But as I say, there are only three guaranteed games,

565
00:29:13,947 --> 00:29:15,587
Speaker 2: I reckon they pick their eleven and go with it.

566
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Speaker 2: I think they'll have spinning all round us through the

567
00:29:19,627 --> 00:29:23,027
Speaker 2: middle order. Phillips brace Will Satan and will Satana plays

568
00:29:23,027 --> 00:29:26,427
Speaker 2: his captain. I think Phillips and Bracewell will probably both play.

569
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure that there's a natural position for Nathan

570
00:29:29,067 --> 00:29:33,267
Speaker 2: Smith and the s eleven. Certainly if they're prioritizing pace,

571
00:29:33,347 --> 00:29:35,667
Speaker 2: he does give you more solidity with the bat yes,

572
00:29:36,307 --> 00:29:41,027
Speaker 2: than a guy like Lackey, Ferguson, Ben Sears, even Matt Henry.

573
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Speaker 2: But I just don't know whether there's a natural place

574
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Speaker 2: for Nathan Smith on this side. But I think the

575
00:29:45,747 --> 00:29:49,867
Speaker 2: unlucky guys Mark Chapman, I just don't know that he

576
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Speaker 2: gets a game because came Williamson, as I've often said,

577
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Speaker 2: lives above the selection line. When he is fit, he plays. Hello, Rich,

578
00:30:01,227 --> 00:30:03,027
Speaker 2: how are you mate? I'm all right. I don't mind

579
00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:05,787
Speaker 2: the squad. Actually I feel sorry for Jacob Duffy, but

580
00:30:05,827 --> 00:30:06,947
Speaker 2: I can see why they've done it.

581
00:30:08,507 --> 00:30:10,267
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, you can, you can see that.

582
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Speaker 10: I mean, it's just the unsaying game, Isn't it funny that, unfortunately,

583
00:30:14,147 --> 00:30:16,107
Speaker 10: you know, we're in that rock and hard place when

584
00:30:16,107 --> 00:30:20,067
Speaker 10: it comes to contracted players and non contracted players. I mean,

585
00:30:20,587 --> 00:30:24,507
Speaker 10: Bergson just provides that pace. But you know, I've been

586
00:30:24,587 --> 00:30:27,827
Speaker 10: listening to what you're talking about planning. It's just like, like,

587
00:30:28,667 --> 00:30:31,867
Speaker 10: how many people are actually excited about this tournament? I mean, hey, yeah,

588
00:30:31,907 --> 00:30:34,827
Speaker 10: I mean it will be interesting, but I just, yeah,

589
00:30:34,867 --> 00:30:37,107
Speaker 10: it's just another tournament that you know, when we go

590
00:30:37,187 --> 00:30:40,227
Speaker 10: look at the calendar year, you know, the teeth when

591
00:30:40,267 --> 00:30:42,427
Speaker 10: he worl cups every two years and then you've got

592
00:30:42,427 --> 00:30:44,587
Speaker 10: the IDEO World Cup and then this one comes along.

593
00:30:44,667 --> 00:30:49,267
Speaker 10: It's just like, yeah, it's just just more saturation of

594
00:30:49,267 --> 00:30:50,307
Speaker 10: white fool cricket, isn't it.

595
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Speaker 2: Yeah I must have met this one. Did sneak up

596
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Speaker 2: on me, you know, like I think for knowing when

597
00:30:58,267 --> 00:31:00,667
Speaker 2: the big tournaments are. But yeah, that's what it was like.

598
00:31:00,667 --> 00:31:02,187
Speaker 2: Oh we've got a chair Bean's Travia and it was

599
00:31:02,187 --> 00:31:05,067
Speaker 2: confirmed of it later in the piece. But look, funnily enough, mate,

600
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Speaker 2: and I know, you know, we spoke about it. Oh

601
00:31:06,507 --> 00:31:08,307
Speaker 2: do I cricket yesterday and its relevance and all that

602
00:31:08,347 --> 00:31:11,707
Speaker 2: sort of thing, particularly with regard to Bilateral series. But look,

603
00:31:11,747 --> 00:31:15,947
Speaker 2: I'm actually quite interested, and I wouldn't say on the

604
00:31:16,067 --> 00:31:19,547
Speaker 2: edge of my seat excited, but certainly interested. I don't

605
00:31:19,547 --> 00:31:21,427
Speaker 2: mind the format. You know, it's three games in a

606
00:31:21,467 --> 00:31:24,027
Speaker 2: pool and the semis in the final. It doesn't drag

607
00:31:24,107 --> 00:31:26,947
Speaker 2: out for weeks and weeks on end, you know, I

608
00:31:27,067 --> 00:31:31,427
Speaker 2: don't I don't mind. I think I will watch it, yes.

609
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean when you go look at the time difference,

610
00:31:33,387 --> 00:31:36,347
Speaker 10: I think it's it's early evening into the night, so

611
00:31:36,627 --> 00:31:40,027
Speaker 10: you know it we'll be interesting to see what happens there, Pioneer.

612
00:31:40,707 --> 00:31:43,147
Speaker 10: It will be interesting to see what kind of leaven

613
00:31:43,227 --> 00:31:45,147
Speaker 10: we'll put put out and meant whether you know, you've

614
00:31:45,147 --> 00:31:47,907
Speaker 10: got your calm way and your revenge, or you know,

615
00:31:48,067 --> 00:31:52,187
Speaker 10: whether they just go with Young's. It will be interesting.

616
00:31:52,267 --> 00:31:56,947
Speaker 10: But as to yesterday, Piney, I mean, yeah, it was

617
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Speaker 10: kind of twenty for five. It was like, jee, what's

618
00:32:00,747 --> 00:32:03,387
Speaker 10: going on here? But I was just amazed by I mean,

619
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Speaker 10: we won the series and you go look at people's

620
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Speaker 10: comments online. It's just like everyone's saying, you've got to

621
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Speaker 10: drop disgraceful. It's just, you know, we just we just

622
00:32:12,267 --> 00:32:13,947
Speaker 10: thralled them. They don't we know.

623
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Speaker 6: That's right.

624
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the third game in the series that you've already

625
00:32:20,707 --> 00:32:23,827
Speaker 2: won two nil, it doesn't really matters much, folks. I

626
00:32:23,827 --> 00:32:26,627
Speaker 2: think you may need just keep scrolling, just keep scrolling

627
00:32:26,627 --> 00:32:30,067
Speaker 2: without comment. I think that's probably the best way to

628
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Speaker 2: go about it. Mate, Hey, great to chat. I got

629
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Speaker 2: to move, but you know, let's let's chat again. As

630
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Speaker 2: this series, this no not not a series, this this

631
00:32:37,467 --> 00:32:40,667
Speaker 2: tournament gets closer. Rich, look forward to your your comments

632
00:32:40,667 --> 00:32:42,387
Speaker 2: over the next little while. A lot of people are

633
00:32:42,387 --> 00:32:44,467
Speaker 2: having me up about Devin Conway, and I get it.

634
00:32:44,987 --> 00:32:48,427
Speaker 2: I do. I get it, and it may well be

635
00:32:48,507 --> 00:32:51,747
Speaker 2: a live conversation there. The Devin Conway's place in this

636
00:32:51,787 --> 00:32:57,307
Speaker 2: one day side is not beyond question. People saying well,

637
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Speaker 2: Mark Chapman should be there ahead of Devon Conway. If

638
00:32:59,747 --> 00:33:02,187
Speaker 2: that's the case, then he's probably going to have to

639
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Speaker 2: open the batting and maybe that's okay because there aren't

640
00:33:07,627 --> 00:33:10,667
Speaker 2: too many natural openers here. Tom Latham, I guess could open.

641
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure that that is exactly what you're after

642
00:33:13,827 --> 00:33:16,507
Speaker 2: in one day cricket from Tom Latham. I'm not sure

643
00:33:16,507 --> 00:33:18,427
Speaker 2: you really want them opening the batting. Maybe you do,

644
00:33:20,227 --> 00:33:22,667
Speaker 2: but you know, if you are going to reward form,

645
00:33:22,707 --> 00:33:25,507
Speaker 2: then Mark chapmanshire your hot hand. Here's your form batter

646
00:33:26,027 --> 00:33:28,747
Speaker 2: in fifty over crickets. So he probably has to play,

647
00:33:29,347 --> 00:33:31,987
Speaker 2: and if he does, somebody else clearly is not playing,

648
00:33:32,027 --> 00:33:35,667
Speaker 2: and that would likely be Devin Conway. You know, that

649
00:33:35,667 --> 00:33:39,187
Speaker 2: would have been unthinkable a little while ago. Devin Conway's form,

650
00:33:39,707 --> 00:33:44,187
Speaker 2: his ability had him, you know, almost above the selection

651
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Speaker 2: line like Caan Williamson. I know that's not the case now,

652
00:33:47,587 --> 00:33:51,587
Speaker 2: doubly so because he's not centrally contracted. Be very interesting

653
00:33:51,587 --> 00:33:54,907
Speaker 2: to see what they do there sixteen away from one.

654
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Speaker 2: Grant with you right after this eight hundred and eighty

655
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Speaker 2: ten eighty more on the cricket when we come back

656
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Speaker 2: on Weekend Sport, No.

657
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Speaker 1: One grudge hold Engage Weekend Sports with Jason Fame and

658
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Speaker 1: GJ Gunner, New Zealand's I.

659
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Speaker 2: Was Trusted home Builder News Talk News Talk twelve and

660
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Speaker 2: a half away from one. I was just checking on

661
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Speaker 2: Lockie Ferguson. I know he's been playing with the Sydney

662
00:34:14,627 --> 00:34:16,427
Speaker 2: Thunder and the Big Bash, but he's now gone to

663
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Speaker 2: this Ilt twenty competition with the Desert Vipers. I've lost

664
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Speaker 2: track of all of these T twenty franchise legs. I

665
00:34:25,947 --> 00:34:28,507
Speaker 2: have to say, I've lost track of all of them,

666
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Speaker 2: but the so that's the reason why he might not

667
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Speaker 2: be available for this for this champions Trophy if indeed

668
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Speaker 2: his team, the Desert Vipers of which he is the captain,

669
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Speaker 2: go deep into it. Elt Ilt twenty is the name

670
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Speaker 2: of the competition. Anyway, that's all ahead of us. Grant,

671
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Speaker 2: you've got a bolterer to open the batting.

672
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Speaker 7: Wow, maybe it's not such a boulter at the moment,

673
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Speaker 7: because I think those Texters have stole with my thunder

674
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Speaker 7: and you mentioned it just before the break, and that

675
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Speaker 7: is that to my mind, Chapman open the batting in

676
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Speaker 7: the top eleven with Forvenda Vendra, with the form that

677
00:35:12,267 --> 00:35:15,627
Speaker 7: he's on at the moment, and with Conway. We can't

678
00:35:15,707 --> 00:35:19,347
Speaker 7: keep referring back to his fantastic form in the first

679
00:35:19,427 --> 00:35:22,947
Speaker 7: part of his career, and his form was fantastic the

680
00:35:23,067 --> 00:35:26,387
Speaker 7: last couple of years, his form has gone downhill. And

681
00:35:26,427 --> 00:35:29,587
Speaker 7: in the last year, to my mind, he didn't even

682
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Speaker 7: warrant selection in the games that he played in. So

683
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Speaker 7: I think that, you know, first eleven, Chapman opens, I mean,

684
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Speaker 7: he's been betting number three, so it's too much difference.

685
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Speaker 7: Opens with Ravendra. What do you reckon?

686
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Speaker 2: Well, it's one thing. I'm sure they will consider. Grant.

687
00:35:50,547 --> 00:35:53,547
Speaker 2: I'm sure they will. He's never done it. Mark Chapman

688
00:35:53,787 --> 00:35:56,707
Speaker 2: doesn't say he couldn't do it, but it would be

689
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Speaker 2: unfamiliar for him. Yeah, they may look at it. They

690
00:36:00,547 --> 00:36:04,707
Speaker 2: may look at Chapman and Revendra. Still think Devin Conway's

691
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Speaker 2: in the conversation, Hey Dobbo, how are you.

692
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Speaker 11: Ye poney?

693
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Speaker 2: And do you Dobbo?

694
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Speaker 11: Just a couple of bullet points, really, because I know

695
00:36:14,947 --> 00:36:17,667
Speaker 11: a lot of people have said some good thoughts. Firstly,

696
00:36:18,707 --> 00:36:21,627
Speaker 11: unlike the T twenty World Cup, which was a debarcle

697
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Speaker 11: because Stealing Company did not have warm up games and

698
00:36:24,467 --> 00:36:29,107
Speaker 11: they packed undercook players. At least we've got, as you mentioned,

699
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Speaker 11: four maybe five games, and they've just got to pick

700
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Speaker 11: on form. They just have to. So I think the

701
00:36:35,827 --> 00:36:40,027
Speaker 11: questions that are being asked will be answered in those

702
00:36:40,107 --> 00:36:43,627
Speaker 11: lead up games. And horses for course that you have

703
00:36:43,707 --> 00:36:46,547
Speaker 11: to pick Chapman. If there's anywhere on God's green Earth

704
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Speaker 11: that he does well, it's Pakistan, and so I think

705
00:36:50,667 --> 00:36:54,227
Speaker 11: he must play huge question marks on some dead would

706
00:36:54,787 --> 00:36:59,027
Speaker 11: I'm sorry for me Latham, what did he get? Nortan

707
00:36:59,147 --> 00:37:05,147
Speaker 11: won in this series? Strike rates okay, yes he plays

708
00:37:05,147 --> 00:37:09,067
Speaker 11: well spin Asia, but he has to prove himself and

709
00:37:09,107 --> 00:37:12,067
Speaker 11: these warm up games. Phillips is another. His batting has

710
00:37:12,107 --> 00:37:17,267
Speaker 11: been disappointing. He does offer some spin options and Conway

711
00:37:17,867 --> 00:37:20,387
Speaker 11: was magnificent till he broke his somemb and when he

712
00:37:20,387 --> 00:37:22,787
Speaker 11: broke his some as we know, he went to the

713
00:37:22,787 --> 00:37:26,267
Speaker 11: IPL didn't play. They picked him cold to go into

714
00:37:26,307 --> 00:37:29,827
Speaker 11: the T twenty World Cup and he and Williams and

715
00:37:29,867 --> 00:37:32,267
Speaker 11: others who were water boys or didn't play much in

716
00:37:32,307 --> 00:37:35,987
Speaker 11: the IPL, just did a perform and we had no

717
00:37:36,067 --> 00:37:40,227
Speaker 11: warm up games. Pliny, we have warm up games. Let's

718
00:37:40,267 --> 00:37:43,027
Speaker 11: find our best eleven there rather than going with the

719
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Speaker 11: Old Boys Club kicking whoever the coach and captain wants,

720
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Speaker 11: whether they're inform or not. We had two years of

721
00:37:50,227 --> 00:37:55,427
Speaker 11: Tim Southing not in form, getting a wonderful ride where

722
00:37:55,427 --> 00:37:58,707
Speaker 11: we sacrificed the Test series against the Pomps so that

723
00:37:58,747 --> 00:38:01,747
Speaker 11: he can have a send off when statistically he didn't

724
00:38:01,787 --> 00:38:04,867
Speaker 11: deserve it. We can't make those mistakes with this World Cup.

725
00:38:05,387 --> 00:38:10,027
Speaker 11: So thankfully, Binney, we've got five warm up games. Let

726
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Speaker 11: the players pick themselves in the Old Boys Network, stand

727
00:38:14,187 --> 00:38:18,147
Speaker 11: back and honor performance not loyalty.

728
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Speaker 2: You will not get an argument from me, Dobbo. You

729
00:38:21,947 --> 00:38:23,707
Speaker 2: will not get an argument from me. Let's see if

730
00:38:23,707 --> 00:38:26,827
Speaker 2: they do exactly as you suggest. I've got those games,

731
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Speaker 2: as you say, to try a couple of things to

732
00:38:29,507 --> 00:38:31,267
Speaker 2: give Mark Chapman a go at the top of that's

733
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Speaker 2: what they decide to play around in the middle order

734
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Speaker 2: to even if they decide to leave lay them out

735
00:38:38,027 --> 00:38:39,867
Speaker 2: and give Conway the gloves, they've got the chance to

736
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Speaker 2: do that as well. So let's see what they do.

737
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Speaker 2: Good to chat mate, Always enjoy your comments. Eight Away

738
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Speaker 2: from One News Talks dB.

739
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Speaker 1: Let's go from the track, field and the court on

740
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Speaker 1: your home of sort weekends for It with Jason Vine.

741
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Speaker 2: Talk five to one. Let's wrap the cricket chat with

742
00:38:56,507 --> 00:38:59,667
Speaker 2: some comments from Gary Steed, head coach. How tough was

743
00:38:59,667 --> 00:39:02,907
Speaker 2: it to omit Jacob Duffy from the Champions Trophy squad.

744
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a tough decision because I mean

745
00:39:05,987 --> 00:39:09,627
Speaker 4: Jacob duff he's been I guess probably the one people

746
00:39:09,627 --> 00:39:12,947
Speaker 4: would say it is hard done by. He's been very,

747
00:39:13,027 --> 00:39:15,547
Speaker 4: very good in what he's played for us. I think

748
00:39:15,587 --> 00:39:17,387
Speaker 4: the way to look at it though, is if some

749
00:39:17,467 --> 00:39:20,867
Speaker 4: of these guys, perhaps like a lucky Ferguson, we're available,

750
00:39:20,907 --> 00:39:23,227
Speaker 4: Jacob Duffy may not have got the opportunity. So for

751
00:39:23,347 --> 00:39:26,427
Speaker 4: us it's a real positive story. But although Jake's missed,

752
00:39:26,467 --> 00:39:29,227
Speaker 4: I mean, it's still positive that we're growing that depth

753
00:39:29,787 --> 00:39:31,987
Speaker 4: to the long term for our team.

754
00:39:32,107 --> 00:39:34,267
Speaker 2: And is there any concern over the selection of Ben

755
00:39:34,427 --> 00:39:37,027
Speaker 2: c has given his lengthy layoff with injury.

756
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Speaker 11: Yeah.

757
00:39:38,107 --> 00:39:42,507
Speaker 4: Look, we've been a little conservative in Ben's return to plays,

758
00:39:42,547 --> 00:39:45,027
Speaker 4: but we always had an eye that we thought he

759
00:39:45,067 --> 00:39:47,867
Speaker 4: would be part of this Champions Trophy squad. He's one

760
00:39:47,867 --> 00:39:50,067
Speaker 4: of those guys I think when you look at places

761
00:39:50,107 --> 00:39:53,747
Speaker 4: like Pakistan, a pure speed is something that you're looking for,

762
00:39:53,787 --> 00:39:57,267
Speaker 4: and he certainly has that. A young terrorway is always

763
00:39:57,347 --> 00:39:58,987
Speaker 4: nice to see and we're excited to have.

764
00:39:59,067 --> 00:39:59,587
Speaker 3: Him in the squad.

765
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Speaker 2: There you go. That's the voice of Gary Staed on

766
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Speaker 2: the announcement this morning of the squad for the ICC

767
00:40:04,867 --> 00:40:08,387
Speaker 2: Champions Trophy. More to come on this across the afternoon

768
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Speaker 2: if we get a bit of time. Approaching news at

769
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Speaker 2: one Central Hines fifteen without loss at the end of

770
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Speaker 2: the fourth overbatting first against the Otago Sparks and Parmeston

771
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Speaker 2: North Book Keep an eye on that for you. The

772
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Speaker 2: Ossie Tennis Open about to get under way after two

773
00:40:22,747 --> 00:40:26,107
Speaker 2: o'clock this afternoon. Craig Gabriel will join us with a

774
00:40:26,147 --> 00:40:30,107
Speaker 2: decent preview asb Tennis Classic after one and Joe Schmidt

775
00:40:30,107 --> 00:40:34,827
Speaker 2: two Tennis Classic men's singles. Also, there's a reporting the

776
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Speaker 2: Herald this morning from our good mate Michael Burgess that

777
00:40:38,267 --> 00:40:43,147
Speaker 2: plans to upgrade the Auckland Tennis Center are well and

778
00:40:43,147 --> 00:40:44,987
Speaker 2: truly on track, and I put a roof on it

779
00:40:46,267 --> 00:40:49,867
Speaker 2: increased capacity for spectators, all that sort of thing. You

780
00:40:49,907 --> 00:40:52,907
Speaker 2: can read that at Enzi Herald, dot co, dot nzet.

781
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Speaker 2: Also this hour James mcconey Rugby shortly. I know it's

782
00:40:58,267 --> 00:41:00,987
Speaker 2: January twelve, but we do have some Rugby to discuss.

783
00:41:01,027 --> 00:41:03,787
Speaker 2: It's from across the Tasman. They still don't know whether

784
00:41:03,907 --> 00:41:07,027
Speaker 2: Joe Schmit's going to carry on beyond the Line Lions tour.

785
00:41:07,187 --> 00:41:09,307
Speaker 2: He was supposed to tell them last month. These sort

786
00:41:09,307 --> 00:41:12,307
Speaker 2: of dilly deallying a little bit. What does this mean?

787
00:41:12,667 --> 00:41:16,267
Speaker 2: Does it mean that he'll perhaps stay on and guide

788
00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:18,027
Speaker 2: the Wallabies to the next World Cup, which is of

789
00:41:18,067 --> 00:41:20,707
Speaker 2: course in Australia in twenty twenty seven. They would love

790
00:41:20,707 --> 00:41:23,587
Speaker 2: it if he did. He's always said that he won't.

791
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Speaker 2: Mighty Christy Doran on that very shortly. Let's update you

792
00:41:27,267 --> 00:41:29,907
Speaker 2: on live sport from around the place. Parmeerston North fits

793
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Speaker 2: Herbert part to be precise. Dream eleven Super Smash Women

794
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Speaker 2: Central Hindes thirty four with out loss having men senzin

795
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Speaker 2: by Otago seven overs in Holy Armitage has been one

796
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Speaker 2: of the better batters going around the women's Super Smash

797
00:41:41,147 --> 00:41:44,787
Speaker 2: this summer twenty one off nineteen balls leading the charge there.

798
00:41:45,347 --> 00:41:51,027
Speaker 2: The Aussie Tennis Open is underway. The first matches are

799
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Speaker 2: in progress. We're going to get the chance today to

800
00:41:55,227 --> 00:41:58,467
Speaker 2: see the women's top seat well later on tonight anyway arena.

801
00:41:58,467 --> 00:42:03,507
Speaker 2: Sablenka is on Rod Laver Arena later on tonight. I

802
00:42:03,507 --> 00:42:06,547
Speaker 2: think she starts the night session. Yes, she does on

803
00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:14,307
Speaker 2: Rod Labor tonight and also in action tonight Alexander Zverev,

804
00:42:14,307 --> 00:42:17,227
Speaker 2: who is the men's second seed. We'll keep eyes on

805
00:42:17,267 --> 00:42:19,627
Speaker 2: that and as far as the NFL has concerned, the

806
00:42:19,627 --> 00:42:23,027
Speaker 2: wild card game taking place at the moment in the AFC,

807
00:42:23,987 --> 00:42:26,787
Speaker 2: the Texans looking pretty good in Houston up against the

808
00:42:26,867 --> 00:42:29,547
Speaker 2: La Charger three quarter a time. They lead by twenty

809
00:42:29,627 --> 00:42:32,347
Speaker 2: points to six. We'll keep you across all of that.

810
00:42:32,547 --> 00:42:35,347
Speaker 2: As the afternoon goes on. Coming up ten past one, it.

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Speaker 12: It's out for Jorgansen, Max Jorvison, Max Jargison.

812
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Speaker 3: No, they didn't.

813
00:42:40,787 --> 00:42:42,067
Speaker 10: Oh my goodness me.

814
00:42:42,747 --> 00:42:44,307
Speaker 2: Oh, it's unbelievable.

815
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Speaker 13: It's one of the greatest moments in Wallaby's history and

816
00:42:49,907 --> 00:42:52,667
Speaker 13: it belongs to Jorganson.

817
00:42:54,707 --> 00:42:57,907
Speaker 2: They have stunned England. Yeah, that was the Wallabyes beating

818
00:42:58,147 --> 00:43:00,267
Speaker 2: England at Twickenham. As part of the end of year

819
00:43:00,387 --> 00:43:03,387
Speaker 2: tour last year, but of a bright spot and what

820
00:43:03,467 --> 00:43:06,947
Speaker 2: was another challenging year for Australian rugby. Oo Schmidt of

821
00:43:06,987 --> 00:43:09,667
Speaker 2: course was at the Helm, but still no real clarity

822
00:43:10,267 --> 00:43:14,307
Speaker 2: over Joe Schmitt's future as Wallaby's coach. He has committed

823
00:43:14,667 --> 00:43:17,787
Speaker 2: to guiding the side in this year's series against the

824
00:43:17,787 --> 00:43:20,907
Speaker 2: British and Irish Lions, which is mid year. Beyond that,

825
00:43:21,147 --> 00:43:25,547
Speaker 2: even into the Rugby Championship, things are unclear. Rugby Australia

826
00:43:25,587 --> 00:43:27,307
Speaker 2: want them to stay. They want them to stay on

827
00:43:27,387 --> 00:43:30,787
Speaker 2: until the Wallabies host the Rugby World Cup or Australia

828
00:43:30,827 --> 00:43:33,827
Speaker 2: do anyway on home soil in twenty twenty seven, but

829
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Speaker 2: that seems to be very much in the hands of

830
00:43:36,507 --> 00:43:40,147
Speaker 2: Joe Schmitt himself. Let's bring in rugby editor at the

831
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Speaker 2: raw dot com dot au, Christy Dooran Christy Good to

832
00:43:43,547 --> 00:43:45,627
Speaker 2: get the chance to chat to you about this. Joe

833
00:43:45,627 --> 00:43:49,427
Speaker 2: Schmitt was supposed to let Rugby Australia know of his

834
00:43:49,587 --> 00:43:52,907
Speaker 2: plans in December, but he didn't. Do you think that

835
00:43:53,027 --> 00:43:55,787
Speaker 2: means that he's more likely to stay on beyond twenty

836
00:43:55,867 --> 00:43:58,667
Speaker 2: twenty five or do you think it's it's more likely

837
00:43:58,747 --> 00:44:01,587
Speaker 2: that he will go. What does this delay in the

838
00:44:01,627 --> 00:44:02,747
Speaker 2: announcement actually mean?

839
00:44:05,187 --> 00:44:08,147
Speaker 14: Very good warning to you. It's a really interesting question

840
00:44:08,267 --> 00:44:11,867
Speaker 14: because as a journal you're constantly trying to make phone

841
00:44:11,867 --> 00:44:14,787
Speaker 14: calls and work out what's happening, and it's really just

842
00:44:14,947 --> 00:44:18,067
Speaker 14: swung with it every passing week almost what's he going

843
00:44:18,147 --> 00:44:21,347
Speaker 14: to do? And you're right put him He put this

844
00:44:21,467 --> 00:44:24,627
Speaker 14: timeline on himself and Rugby I show they weren't expecting

845
00:44:24,707 --> 00:44:26,907
Speaker 14: him to come out in a paper and say you

846
00:44:26,947 --> 00:44:30,467
Speaker 14: know what, yeah by December or have a decision, so

847
00:44:30,907 --> 00:44:32,667
Speaker 14: they've actually put it back on him and gone, you

848
00:44:32,707 --> 00:44:35,187
Speaker 14: know what, we don't mind. You know, he can take

849
00:44:35,187 --> 00:44:37,067
Speaker 14: as long as he wants. They're not trying to put

850
00:44:37,107 --> 00:44:40,347
Speaker 14: any pressure on him because they know that he's the

851
00:44:40,427 --> 00:44:42,627
Speaker 14: man that they want to guide through the twenty twenty

852
00:44:42,667 --> 00:44:48,107
Speaker 14: seven World Cups. So it's a fascinating one I think,

853
00:44:49,027 --> 00:44:51,987
Speaker 14: and I've been even throughout the last week thinking what

854
00:44:52,027 --> 00:44:55,067
Speaker 14: way is this going. I still think that he's very

855
00:44:55,107 --> 00:44:58,947
Speaker 14: unlikely to be the head coach beyond twenty twenty five.

856
00:44:59,427 --> 00:45:03,787
Speaker 14: I wrote just recently that he could go throughout the

857
00:45:03,827 --> 00:45:06,947
Speaker 14: Rugby Championship starts just two weeks after of the third

858
00:45:07,227 --> 00:45:11,027
Speaker 14: Jewish and Irish Lions Test two weeks in South Africa.

859
00:45:11,067 --> 00:45:13,307
Speaker 14: We know how difficult it was for New Zealand to

860
00:45:13,387 --> 00:45:15,187
Speaker 14: go over there in twenty twenty four and try to

861
00:45:15,227 --> 00:45:17,787
Speaker 14: come away with a win, let alone the Wallabies, who

862
00:45:18,267 --> 00:45:22,027
Speaker 14: of course haven't had a winning year since twenty fifteen.

863
00:45:22,267 --> 00:45:25,347
Speaker 14: So yeah, so much riding on this, But I think

864
00:45:25,387 --> 00:45:27,147
Speaker 14: the decision will come in the next week or so.

865
00:45:27,387 --> 00:45:29,827
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it has to come soon, doesn't know, Christy

866
00:45:29,867 --> 00:45:33,187
Speaker 2: Man judgment can't just keep you know, Rugby Australia hanging

867
00:45:33,227 --> 00:45:36,387
Speaker 2: on Canny can't keep them on tenterhooks as you've written,

868
00:45:36,667 --> 00:45:39,707
Speaker 2: you know, he has to allow them to come up

869
00:45:39,707 --> 00:45:42,467
Speaker 2: with a contingency plan if he decides to call it

870
00:45:42,507 --> 00:45:44,747
Speaker 2: a day, either after the lines or after the Rugby

871
00:45:44,827 --> 00:45:45,707
Speaker 2: Championship this year.

872
00:45:46,747 --> 00:45:49,307
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's exactly right. Like it's fascinating though as well,

873
00:45:49,347 --> 00:45:53,547
Speaker 14: because in twenty thirteen Robbie Deans was sacked after the

874
00:45:53,627 --> 00:45:56,187
Speaker 14: third Test in Sydney and a couple of weeks later

875
00:45:56,267 --> 00:45:59,307
Speaker 14: New and mackenzie was there and he walks straight into

876
00:45:59,387 --> 00:46:01,547
Speaker 14: it and everyone it was the worst kept secret that

877
00:46:01,547 --> 00:46:03,387
Speaker 14: new and McKenzie are going to become the next coach.

878
00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:06,867
Speaker 8: To the all of you so look, these decisions.

879
00:46:06,427 --> 00:46:09,427
Speaker 14: Can happen on a whim really quickly. So in many

880
00:46:09,467 --> 00:46:11,067
Speaker 14: respects you go, well, why do you have to make

881
00:46:11,067 --> 00:46:14,947
Speaker 14: a decision seven months beforehand? But I think given what

882
00:46:15,227 --> 00:46:18,147
Speaker 14: Joe Schmid has said about his coaching future, with obviously

883
00:46:18,147 --> 00:46:20,747
Speaker 14: the health of his son, that there's probably a little

884
00:46:20,787 --> 00:46:22,947
Speaker 14: bit more expectation that this is why it's going to

885
00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:26,747
Speaker 14: come out out quicker. The rugby world's moved on a

886
00:46:26,747 --> 00:46:28,907
Speaker 14: little bit as well. You think about all the pressure

887
00:46:29,027 --> 00:46:32,587
Speaker 14: that clubs that overseas clubs are putting on Australia and

888
00:46:32,627 --> 00:46:35,187
Speaker 14: New Zealand clubs to try to get their players, their

889
00:46:35,227 --> 00:46:39,387
Speaker 14: top players, even their middle tier players up into Japan,

890
00:46:39,547 --> 00:46:42,987
Speaker 14: into France. There's million dollar contracts being handed out left,

891
00:46:43,067 --> 00:46:45,747
Speaker 14: right and center. So players want clarity. And the other

892
00:46:45,747 --> 00:46:49,267
Speaker 14: thing about this is Bobbie James's coach for five six

893
00:46:49,347 --> 00:46:52,427
Speaker 14: years between twenty and eight and thirteen, the Wallabis have

894
00:46:52,467 --> 00:46:55,187
Speaker 14: had three coaches in three years. So if Joe Schmidt

895
00:46:55,227 --> 00:46:58,667
Speaker 14: moves on in August this year, it'll be a fourth

896
00:46:58,707 --> 00:47:01,187
Speaker 14: coach in four years coaching the Wall of You. So

897
00:47:01,707 --> 00:47:05,227
Speaker 14: for a nation that desperately needs stability, that's why this

898
00:47:05,747 --> 00:47:08,907
Speaker 14: is so because there's been none of it. All the

899
00:47:08,947 --> 00:47:11,987
Speaker 14: players have had ever since they've come on to their

900
00:47:12,187 --> 00:47:15,187
Speaker 14: professional careers, with the exception of James Slipper, who's still

901
00:47:15,267 --> 00:47:21,267
Speaker 14: ticking along. His instability is negative headlines. And finally it

902
00:47:21,347 --> 00:47:22,707
Speaker 14: seemed like there was a bit of a pulse on

903
00:47:22,747 --> 00:47:24,587
Speaker 14: the end of season two last year when the well

904
00:47:24,627 --> 00:47:28,107
Speaker 14: of his beat England at Twickenham. The nation really came

905
00:47:28,227 --> 00:47:31,867
Speaker 14: with the Wallabies and that's why it's important now. And

906
00:47:32,627 --> 00:47:36,107
Speaker 14: I found it really surprising last week where Lannie Gleason,

907
00:47:36,587 --> 00:47:39,187
Speaker 14: young kid, twenty three year old, he's played thirteen to

908
00:47:39,227 --> 00:47:43,427
Speaker 14: fourteen test matches, he signs with Montpelliger. It's not yet official,

909
00:47:43,467 --> 00:47:46,507
Speaker 14: but he does so, and as a result, the Wallabs

910
00:47:46,507 --> 00:47:48,987
Speaker 14: and Rugby say thanks that, no thanks, he's not now

911
00:47:49,027 --> 00:47:52,667
Speaker 14: welcome at the preseason camp where he was included as

912
00:47:52,707 --> 00:47:57,587
Speaker 14: one of pretty playoffs. I found that really surprising, especially

913
00:47:57,907 --> 00:48:00,627
Speaker 14: given the fact that Joe Smith's been noncommittable about what

914
00:48:00,787 --> 00:48:03,507
Speaker 14: his own future is. He's not going to stand himself down,

915
00:48:03,627 --> 00:48:07,427
Speaker 14: is he if he decides to go after the lines too.

916
00:48:07,507 --> 00:48:09,827
Speaker 14: But that's what you're effectively doing with other players if

917
00:48:09,867 --> 00:48:12,027
Speaker 14: they don't kick on beyond this year.

918
00:48:12,387 --> 00:48:14,707
Speaker 2: Yeah, I read with interest your article or your your

919
00:48:14,747 --> 00:48:18,227
Speaker 2: peace on that. Yeah, about the ruthless message, but yeah,

920
00:48:18,227 --> 00:48:22,107
Speaker 2: the slight hypocrisy around players and coaches. Christy, is there

921
00:48:22,227 --> 00:48:25,187
Speaker 2: any chance that Joe Schmidt will do a one eighty

922
00:48:25,267 --> 00:48:27,867
Speaker 2: here and say, you know what, I will stay to

923
00:48:27,907 --> 00:48:28,787
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven?

924
00:48:31,227 --> 00:48:33,147
Speaker 14: Look, you have to think there's a slight one. You know,

925
00:48:33,867 --> 00:48:36,267
Speaker 14: why has it taken this long? You know we're into

926
00:48:36,347 --> 00:48:40,147
Speaker 14: the third week of January now, well second, just about

927
00:48:40,147 --> 00:48:44,187
Speaker 14: the third. Anyhow, everyone that you speak to, from those

928
00:48:44,267 --> 00:48:48,147
Speaker 14: worked with him in Ireland, those that know him very well,

929
00:48:48,827 --> 00:48:52,387
Speaker 14: know that rugby is Joshuph's identity, isn't it. You take

930
00:48:52,427 --> 00:48:54,667
Speaker 14: that away and then where's the meeting in life that

931
00:48:54,707 --> 00:48:58,067
Speaker 14: you get the excitement, the desire to get up out

932
00:48:58,107 --> 00:49:01,427
Speaker 14: of bed. And they think that, look, why wouldn't he

933
00:49:01,587 --> 00:49:05,507
Speaker 14: You know, he hasn't taken a coach, sorry, a team

934
00:49:05,667 --> 00:49:07,947
Speaker 14: as head coach to the World Cup and gone past

935
00:49:07,947 --> 00:49:10,307
Speaker 14: the quarterfinal. Obviously he was with you All Blacks last

936
00:49:10,387 --> 00:49:12,987
Speaker 14: year and they go through to the final. But he's

937
00:49:12,987 --> 00:49:15,587
Speaker 14: an assistant coach, so you know that maybe there's a

938
00:49:15,587 --> 00:49:19,227
Speaker 14: bit of a legacy, but that he wants to rewrite there.

939
00:49:19,587 --> 00:49:22,667
Speaker 14: But that's probably looking from the external view, isn't it

940
00:49:23,307 --> 00:49:25,947
Speaker 14: Joe SMI's got a decision about with his family whether

941
00:49:26,027 --> 00:49:29,347
Speaker 14: or not he can do it himself, justify it, and

942
00:49:29,467 --> 00:49:32,307
Speaker 14: if he can, then then Rugby Australia will be desperate

943
00:49:32,347 --> 00:49:35,147
Speaker 14: to have him, and I know that the nation will

944
00:49:35,187 --> 00:49:39,827
Speaker 14: as well, because he's unassuming kind of guys and he's

945
00:49:39,867 --> 00:49:44,427
Speaker 14: got a lovely smile. He's a nice bloke. But I

946
00:49:44,427 --> 00:49:47,787
Speaker 14: don't know if the media they don't know him. He

947
00:49:47,827 --> 00:49:50,147
Speaker 14: didn't do an interview when he was with your Blacks.

948
00:49:51,027 --> 00:49:52,907
Speaker 14: He's not like a Dave or any will go out

949
00:49:52,947 --> 00:49:55,307
Speaker 14: of his way to have you know, with a bloke

950
00:49:55,467 --> 00:49:57,627
Speaker 14: or go to the pub to catch up or come

951
00:49:57,707 --> 00:50:01,027
Speaker 14: over during training and say you guys. He's he's very

952
00:50:01,067 --> 00:50:04,267
Speaker 14: much himself and I've seen him in a sense going

953
00:50:04,307 --> 00:50:05,667
Speaker 14: you know what, I've got a one and a half

954
00:50:05,827 --> 00:50:08,627
Speaker 14: year mission in Australia. I'm going to do it myself.

955
00:50:08,627 --> 00:50:10,347
Speaker 14: I'm going to kick on now, I'm going to have

956
00:50:10,347 --> 00:50:12,427
Speaker 14: my head down now. I'm going to try to turn

957
00:50:12,427 --> 00:50:15,067
Speaker 14: the fortunes around off the Wallabies because the world Ruggy

958
00:50:15,107 --> 00:50:18,107
Speaker 14: desperately needs it. That's been my gut feeling right from

959
00:50:18,627 --> 00:50:22,227
Speaker 14: the outset and what sources have told me as well.

960
00:50:22,667 --> 00:50:24,947
Speaker 14: I'd be surprised if he kicks on to twenty seven,

961
00:50:25,067 --> 00:50:27,267
Speaker 14: but jeez would love it if.

962
00:50:27,067 --> 00:50:29,627
Speaker 2: He were to finish. If he does finish, who are

963
00:50:29,667 --> 00:50:32,667
Speaker 2: the candidates to take over post the Lions or post

964
00:50:32,707 --> 00:50:33,787
Speaker 2: the Rugby Championship.

965
00:50:35,747 --> 00:50:38,667
Speaker 14: Well, Let's Kiss has been the favorite for a long time.

966
00:50:38,707 --> 00:50:41,547
Speaker 14: He's got a great working relationship with Joe, having spent

967
00:50:41,627 --> 00:50:44,267
Speaker 14: time with him in twenty thirteen, fourteen and fifteen with Ireland.

968
00:50:45,747 --> 00:50:48,627
Speaker 14: Let's Kiss there only just returned to the Reds. He's

969
00:50:48,667 --> 00:50:51,787
Speaker 14: going into his second years. Princeland Rugby want him to

970
00:50:51,827 --> 00:50:55,187
Speaker 14: continue on, but he's definitely one and there'd be an

971
00:50:55,227 --> 00:50:57,587
Speaker 14: arrangement that could be made which would be pretty easy.

972
00:50:57,987 --> 00:51:01,547
Speaker 14: I think were easy enough. Dan mchel has just returned

973
00:51:01,587 --> 00:51:05,027
Speaker 14: after a stint at Lester and we know that he

974
00:51:05,107 --> 00:51:09,707
Speaker 14: had some successful rele of success the Brumbies anyway, Consistent, disciplined,

975
00:51:09,907 --> 00:51:14,427
Speaker 14: hard working, lots of great characteristics for a coach. I

976
00:51:14,507 --> 00:51:16,987
Speaker 14: still think it's perhaps a year or two two premature

977
00:51:17,107 --> 00:51:21,387
Speaker 14: for dam but Michael Checker, you can't rule him out that.

978
00:51:21,467 --> 00:51:24,787
Speaker 14: Whilst Phil will is the Rugby show to CEO, I'm

979
00:51:24,787 --> 00:51:27,227
Speaker 14: not sure if he's the sort of person that they'd

980
00:51:27,267 --> 00:51:30,147
Speaker 14: be looking at because he's a guy that does things

981
00:51:30,187 --> 00:51:33,747
Speaker 14: his way. But at the moment he's not despite the

982
00:51:33,787 --> 00:51:36,387
Speaker 14: faith that less the Tigers are going very well, having

983
00:51:36,387 --> 00:51:38,027
Speaker 14: a great win at home right now at the moment

984
00:51:38,107 --> 00:51:43,747
Speaker 14: in the European champions Cup, and I don't think that

985
00:51:43,827 --> 00:51:46,707
Speaker 14: Phil will have him come back, and it's set up

986
00:51:46,827 --> 00:51:49,427
Speaker 14: here perfectly for him a one to two year hit

987
00:51:49,467 --> 00:51:51,507
Speaker 14: and run job. He's done it everywhere. He did it

988
00:51:51,547 --> 00:51:53,627
Speaker 14: with the Wallas in twenty four and fifteen and turned

989
00:51:53,667 --> 00:51:56,987
Speaker 14: around their fortunes. But he's the sort of guy that

990
00:51:58,307 --> 00:52:00,467
Speaker 14: Rugby Show is still a little bit spooched by by

991
00:52:00,507 --> 00:52:04,027
Speaker 14: how things ended up under raylank Castle in twenty eighteen

992
00:52:04,067 --> 00:52:08,387
Speaker 14: twenty nineteen where he was somewhat out of control, and

993
00:52:09,107 --> 00:52:11,387
Speaker 14: still all was a board member there at the time

994
00:52:11,387 --> 00:52:15,267
Speaker 14: of twenty eighteen or nineteen, so it's really fascinating. The

995
00:52:15,307 --> 00:52:17,827
Speaker 14: real left field one to finish up is Leon McDonald.

996
00:52:18,627 --> 00:52:22,827
Speaker 14: He's clearly finished up with the All Blacks at the

997
00:52:22,867 --> 00:52:26,387
Speaker 14: start of the Rugby Championship. He's got a great relationship

998
00:52:26,387 --> 00:52:28,547
Speaker 14: with Joe Schmitt. Does he bring him on board at

999
00:52:28,587 --> 00:52:31,667
Speaker 14: the moment this year there was only four assistant coaches

1000
00:52:32,627 --> 00:52:36,507
Speaker 14: like a four man coaching team this year with Joe

1001
00:52:36,547 --> 00:52:40,267
Speaker 14: s Mint, so they can definitely have space for another person.

1002
00:52:40,627 --> 00:52:42,987
Speaker 14: Schmid was doing the attack with Liam McDonald's at the

1003
00:52:43,027 --> 00:52:45,787
Speaker 14: attack and then perhaps they're very a bit of a

1004
00:52:45,827 --> 00:52:50,347
Speaker 14: transition period for Leon. So there's definitely scope and coaches

1005
00:52:50,387 --> 00:52:52,667
Speaker 14: out there. It wouldn't be all doing gloom if Joe

1006
00:52:52,667 --> 00:52:55,907
Speaker 14: smnt left, but for his consistency and what he's done,

1007
00:52:55,987 --> 00:52:59,267
Speaker 14: and he's detail around the game. That's the thing. The

1008
00:52:59,307 --> 00:53:02,427
Speaker 14: missing element that of Shane Roby's needed for some time.

1009
00:53:02,667 --> 00:53:05,027
Speaker 2: Leon McDonald and town to the Wallaby as well well.

1010
00:53:05,027 --> 00:53:07,707
Speaker 2: What interest from over the side of the Tasman. Christy,

1011
00:53:07,747 --> 00:53:10,307
Speaker 2: thanks so much for joining us and giving us your expertise.

1012
00:53:11,187 --> 00:53:12,027
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's a pleasure.

1013
00:53:12,147 --> 00:53:15,307
Speaker 2: Cheers, No, thanks Mane. That's Christy Dran. You can read

1014
00:53:15,347 --> 00:53:17,907
Speaker 2: him at the raw dot com dot au. He's rugby

1015
00:53:18,027 --> 00:53:21,947
Speaker 2: editor there. Leon McDonald in charge of the Wallabies. Tell

1016
00:53:21,947 --> 00:53:24,747
Speaker 2: you what stranger things have happened? It may well happen.

1017
00:53:24,947 --> 00:53:28,747
Speaker 2: Is a good coach without a job gets on well

1018
00:53:28,787 --> 00:53:31,707
Speaker 2: with Joe Schmidt? Is this the reason for the delay?

1019
00:53:32,307 --> 00:53:34,547
Speaker 2: Are they starting to just to put these things together?

1020
00:53:35,067 --> 00:53:38,867
Speaker 2: How the Australian rugby public go I've already got one,

1021
00:53:39,027 --> 00:53:40,987
Speaker 2: or they've had plenty of New Zealand coaches, haven't they,

1022
00:53:41,507 --> 00:53:46,187
Speaker 2: Dave Rennie, Robbie Deans, now Joe Schmidt. Would they tolerate

1023
00:53:46,227 --> 00:53:48,627
Speaker 2: another one? And Leon McDonald? I think they probably would

1024
00:53:50,107 --> 00:53:53,307
Speaker 2: be another interesting storyline. Last year we had Joe Schmitt

1025
00:53:53,307 --> 00:53:55,467
Speaker 2: coming up against his former team and the All Blacks

1026
00:53:56,147 --> 00:53:58,507
Speaker 2: as Wallaby's coach. Who knows what the future might hold

1027
00:53:58,507 --> 00:54:01,667
Speaker 2: As far as Leon McDonald is concerned, could he also

1028
00:54:01,787 --> 00:54:07,067
Speaker 2: be there singing as advance Australia fair against the All Blacks. Looky,

1029
00:54:08,187 --> 00:54:10,467
Speaker 2: they could do worse than Lionel McDonald. They could do

1030
00:54:10,507 --> 00:54:14,507
Speaker 2: a lot worse the Wallabies than Leon McDonald. We will

1031
00:54:14,547 --> 00:54:17,187
Speaker 2: certainly keep eyes on that for you, as we will

1032
00:54:17,227 --> 00:54:20,067
Speaker 2: on live sport happening around the place. The Central Hines

1033
00:54:20,107 --> 00:54:22,227
Speaker 2: fifty five for two, just past the midway point of

1034
00:54:22,267 --> 00:54:26,187
Speaker 2: their innings against the Otago Sparks in Palmerston North, fifty

1035
00:54:26,187 --> 00:54:30,227
Speaker 2: five to two in the eleventh over. It's three quarter time.

1036
00:54:30,227 --> 00:54:32,267
Speaker 2: We're just gone three quarter time in the AFC wild

1037
00:54:32,267 --> 00:54:36,307
Speaker 2: card match. In the NFL, the Houston Texans twenty three

1038
00:54:36,387 --> 00:54:40,307
Speaker 2: six ahead of the La Chargers. These are effectively knockout games.

1039
00:54:40,987 --> 00:54:46,187
Speaker 2: The winners go through to the divisional games next week, which, again,

1040
00:54:46,227 --> 00:54:48,187
Speaker 2: if you want to put it into parlas that we understand,

1041
00:54:48,307 --> 00:54:52,747
Speaker 2: are basically quarter finals for the Super Bowl. So Texans

1042
00:54:52,787 --> 00:54:55,787
Speaker 2: twenty three Charges six at two o'clock this afternoon in

1043
00:54:55,827 --> 00:54:59,067
Speaker 2: Baltimore is the Ravens up against the Steelers. Will keep

1044
00:54:59,067 --> 00:55:00,787
Speaker 2: eyes on that for you as well. And the Aussie

1045
00:55:00,787 --> 00:55:05,667
Speaker 2: Tennis Open is underway. It's underway officially and soon to

1046
00:55:05,707 --> 00:55:09,107
Speaker 2: be underway on rod Laver Arena as well. I think

1047
00:55:09,107 --> 00:55:12,507
Speaker 2: the first game is set for one thirty on rod

1048
00:55:12,587 --> 00:55:15,947
Speaker 2: Lava Arena. Yes it is. I'm just checking that on

1049
00:55:15,987 --> 00:55:22,667
Speaker 2: the on their website. Anchor Todoni the unseeded Romanian up

1050
00:55:22,707 --> 00:55:27,587
Speaker 2: against another unseeded player, the Chinese. No, not unseated fifth seed,

1051
00:55:27,587 --> 00:55:30,827
Speaker 2: my apologies, fifth seed Kid ween Jing the fifth seeded

1052
00:55:30,907 --> 00:55:34,067
Speaker 2: Chinese player, So she's got the honor of being the

1053
00:55:34,107 --> 00:55:37,507
Speaker 2: first seeded player out onto rod Laver Arena. In the

1054
00:55:37,547 --> 00:55:41,707
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Australian Open, cusperlud to follow he is

1055
00:55:41,747 --> 00:55:44,587
Speaker 2: the men's sixth seed. And in the night session tonight

1056
00:55:44,627 --> 00:55:49,147
Speaker 2: Arena Sabalinka against Sloan Stevens Sabolenka, the two time defending

1057
00:55:49,227 --> 00:55:54,507
Speaker 2: champion and top seed, and then Alexander Zverev, the second

1058
00:55:54,587 --> 00:55:59,827
Speaker 2: seeded German, will follow as he opens his campaign to

1059
00:55:59,867 --> 00:56:03,867
Speaker 2: try and get a breakthrough win. Has Alexander Zverev won

1060
00:56:03,907 --> 00:56:06,107
Speaker 2: a major? I should know this, I should have checked.

1061
00:56:06,427 --> 00:56:10,067
Speaker 2: It's well. He'll start his campaign for this one against

1062
00:56:10,107 --> 00:56:14,027
Speaker 2: the Frenchman Lucas Pui, who is unseated with had him

1063
00:56:14,027 --> 00:56:16,227
Speaker 2: at the ASP Classic, haven't we a few times? Lucas

1064
00:56:16,467 --> 00:56:20,787
Speaker 2: point one twenty four News Talks edb speaking of the

1065
00:56:20,827 --> 00:56:24,547
Speaker 2: ASB Classic. Garmol Fee, another Frenchman, won at yesterday at

1066
00:56:24,547 --> 00:56:26,627
Speaker 2: the age of thirty eight, first time he's won the

1067
00:56:26,667 --> 00:56:30,627
Speaker 2: ASB Classic, A very popular winner on center court there

1068
00:56:30,707 --> 00:56:34,347
Speaker 2: yesterday at the Auckland Tennis Center. Le Radovanovitch was covering

1069
00:56:34,347 --> 00:56:36,587
Speaker 2: it for Sky as part of their team. He'll join

1070
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Speaker 2: us with a review of that and maybe I look

1071
00:56:38,707 --> 00:56:41,067
Speaker 2: ahead to what the future of this tournament might look

1072
00:56:41,187 --> 00:56:45,507
Speaker 2: like with the upgrade of the facilities in Auckland. So tennis.

1073
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Speaker 2: When we come back here on News Talks, heb.

1074
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Speaker 3: You be the TMO.

1075
00:56:50,347 --> 00:56:52,747
Speaker 1: Have your say on eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

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Speaker 1: Weekends Sport with Jason Hin and GJ. Garvnerholmes, New Zealand's

1077
00:56:57,587 --> 00:56:59,747
Speaker 1: most trusted home builder News Talks.

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00:56:59,507 --> 00:57:05,027
Speaker 2: NB Championship point for Garman Face.

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Speaker 12: Finally go on Face Masters the ASP Classic. It's Lucky

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00:57:19,267 --> 00:57:22,427
Speaker 12: number thirteen at Stanley Street.

1081
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Speaker 2: Here Frenchman garm On fisas one Auckland's ASB Tennis Classic

1082
00:57:26,187 --> 00:57:30,147
Speaker 2: for the very first time, beating Belgian qualifier ziezu Bergh's

1083
00:57:30,467 --> 00:57:33,107
Speaker 2: sixty three, sixty fourth and just over an hour and

1084
00:57:33,147 --> 00:57:36,107
Speaker 2: a half yesterday to take the crown. Mont Feast broke

1085
00:57:36,227 --> 00:57:39,587
Speaker 2: Berg's serve early in both sets to allow him to

1086
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Speaker 2: control the match. It's his thirteenth ATP Tour title and

1087
00:57:44,267 --> 00:57:46,947
Speaker 2: he becomes the oldest player to win on the tour

1088
00:57:47,267 --> 00:57:50,867
Speaker 2: since it began in nineteen ninety, at the ripe old

1089
00:57:50,907 --> 00:57:54,947
Speaker 2: age of thirty eight. Former pro Lee Radovanovitch was watching

1090
00:57:54,987 --> 00:57:58,507
Speaker 2: on as part of Sky Sports commentary team. He joins

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Speaker 2: us now, thanks for joining us two days in a row,

1092
00:58:01,387 --> 00:58:04,627
Speaker 2: leite to review this one. Now. Did gam On Feast

1093
00:58:04,707 --> 00:58:07,067
Speaker 2: always look in control of the final?

1094
00:58:08,707 --> 00:58:11,067
Speaker 6: He did. He seemed in control from the first point

1095
00:58:11,147 --> 00:58:14,507
Speaker 6: in the first game. I think when we spoke yesterday

1096
00:58:14,587 --> 00:58:16,787
Speaker 6: I mentioned that this might be another day at the

1097
00:58:16,827 --> 00:58:19,867
Speaker 6: office for on feast, because you know, he's been in

1098
00:58:19,947 --> 00:58:24,907
Speaker 6: seventy three semifinals, he's been into semifinals of Grand Slams,

1099
00:58:25,227 --> 00:58:28,147
Speaker 6: He's won a tournament every year of his nineteen year career.

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00:58:28,947 --> 00:58:32,947
Speaker 6: He just came out right from the start, found his range,

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00:58:33,067 --> 00:58:37,787
Speaker 6: he was composed, didn't make many errors, so he can't

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00:58:38,187 --> 00:58:41,667
Speaker 6: well not kind of. He absolutely put in a flawless performance.

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Speaker 2: Was zizu Berg's in any way to your eye overruled

1104
00:58:45,987 --> 00:58:48,267
Speaker 2: by the occasion. He's already just arrived after all.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so I said in the build up, he's got

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00:58:51,507 --> 00:58:53,187
Speaker 6: the game to beat mont feat. So it was quite

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00:58:53,227 --> 00:58:55,387
Speaker 6: a good matchup for him in terms of how they

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00:58:55,467 --> 00:58:57,267
Speaker 6: operate technically and physically.

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00:58:57,787 --> 00:59:00,187
Speaker 8: But being that it was his first final.

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Speaker 6: He wasn't able to just find the mental focus for

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00:59:05,267 --> 00:59:07,627
Speaker 6: him to be able to allow himself to play his

1112
00:59:07,747 --> 00:59:10,467
Speaker 6: best tennis like we had seen in the previous five

1113
00:59:10,507 --> 00:59:13,987
Speaker 6: matches to the two qualifying matches plus around a thirty

1114
00:59:13,987 --> 00:59:17,747
Speaker 6: two quarterfinal semifinal. He was in the zone in the final.

1115
00:59:18,027 --> 00:59:20,667
Speaker 6: He was battling with himself mentally. You could see it.

1116
00:59:21,067 --> 00:59:25,067
Speaker 6: He was frustrated at times because the forehand wing of

1117
00:59:25,187 --> 00:59:28,347
Speaker 6: his which is his weapon. Let him down from memory.

1118
00:59:28,347 --> 00:59:32,147
Speaker 6: He might have been nineteen or twenty unforced erahs on

1119
00:59:32,187 --> 00:59:35,027
Speaker 6: that forehand, and every time he had a half chance,

1120
00:59:35,307 --> 00:59:37,827
Speaker 6: it felt like he missed that forehand. So when your

1121
00:59:37,827 --> 00:59:40,987
Speaker 6: best SHOT's not going for you and you're mentally struggling

1122
00:59:41,427 --> 00:59:43,787
Speaker 6: with yourself, it's very difficult.

1123
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Speaker 2: Is the improvement of mental focus as a tennis plus

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00:59:47,467 --> 00:59:50,227
Speaker 2: something that can only come with experience.

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Speaker 6: I'd say generally yes, but sometimes no. Because we've had

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00:59:57,027 --> 00:59:59,907
Speaker 6: three nineteen year olds here this week could have done really,

1127
00:59:59,947 --> 01:00:03,147
Speaker 6: really well and are inside the world's top fifty. So

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Speaker 6: some of the guys can be where they need to be.

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Speaker 6: Right Wait, Bergs is twenty five years old, and if

1130
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Speaker 6: you were his coach, you would say that was the

1131
01:00:13,467 --> 01:00:16,827
Speaker 6: one thing that he needs to improve on to get

1132
01:00:16,827 --> 01:00:19,147
Speaker 6: into the world's top twenty, top thirty, something like that.

1133
01:00:19,307 --> 01:00:22,107
Speaker 6: Just stay on task, stay focused, i get frustrated with

1134
01:00:22,147 --> 01:00:24,667
Speaker 6: the crowd, focused on what you're doing, and try and

1135
01:00:24,707 --> 01:00:26,587
Speaker 6: win as many points as you can. One of the

1136
01:00:26,587 --> 01:00:28,907
Speaker 6: issues for him yesterday was he would play one good

1137
01:00:28,907 --> 01:00:31,307
Speaker 6: point and he followed that up with a loose point.

1138
01:00:31,587 --> 01:00:34,827
Speaker 6: He wasn't able to string four or five points together

1139
01:00:35,267 --> 01:00:38,867
Speaker 6: in a row where Montfeese was able to just keep

1140
01:00:38,907 --> 01:00:41,867
Speaker 6: the ball in the court allow the Belgian play to

1141
01:00:41,867 --> 01:00:43,867
Speaker 6: self destructed make errors.

1142
01:00:44,427 --> 01:00:46,467
Speaker 2: Whose side was the crowd on yesterday?

1143
01:00:48,267 --> 01:00:51,867
Speaker 6: I think definitely Montfees. I mean the crowd was loving it.

1144
01:00:52,147 --> 01:00:54,707
Speaker 6: Even though it doesn't seem like it was tight on

1145
01:00:54,747 --> 01:00:58,867
Speaker 6: the score line, you can feel the intensity of the match.

1146
01:00:59,947 --> 01:01:02,547
Speaker 6: Montfees is absolutely the crowd favorite. They loved it when

1147
01:01:02,587 --> 01:01:05,427
Speaker 6: he won. He had a huge celebration and had a

1148
01:01:05,427 --> 01:01:09,947
Speaker 6: couple of really long match interviews and speeches. He's a

1149
01:01:09,987 --> 01:01:12,147
Speaker 6: craft favorites of the way that he plays. He's got

1150
01:01:12,147 --> 01:01:15,467
Speaker 6: shopped the players don't generally try. He throws in the

1151
01:01:15,507 --> 01:01:17,747
Speaker 6: cheeky drop shot from a place where he shouldn't really

1152
01:01:17,787 --> 01:01:20,147
Speaker 6: be doing that, or he's got a big fourhand on

1153
01:01:20,187 --> 01:01:22,187
Speaker 6: the run out of the blue that the crowd just

1154
01:01:22,467 --> 01:01:23,547
Speaker 6: gets up off the seats for.

1155
01:01:25,067 --> 01:01:28,027
Speaker 2: And you mentioned yesterday that he doesn't need the money anymore,

1156
01:01:28,027 --> 01:01:30,387
Speaker 2: does he. He doesn't need the agulation, he doesn't need to

1157
01:01:30,427 --> 01:01:32,707
Speaker 2: do anything for a sense of achievement anymore. He's he's

1158
01:01:32,707 --> 01:01:35,347
Speaker 2: pretty much done at all. Do you sense that, you know,

1159
01:01:35,587 --> 01:01:37,707
Speaker 2: just a joy of the game of tennis? If there

1160
01:01:37,747 --> 01:01:38,947
Speaker 2: is such a thing at this level.

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01:01:39,707 --> 01:01:40,147
Speaker 11: I think so.

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01:01:40,547 --> 01:01:42,507
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think he's got to that point where he

1163
01:01:42,547 --> 01:01:44,667
Speaker 6: knows he's not going to be a Grand Slam winner,

1164
01:01:44,987 --> 01:01:47,467
Speaker 6: but he's won thirty six million in prize money, so

1165
01:01:47,787 --> 01:01:50,867
Speaker 6: he's just fine. He's playing because he loves it and

1166
01:01:50,907 --> 01:01:54,667
Speaker 6: he's you know, getting another opportunity to one another tournament

1167
01:01:55,067 --> 01:01:57,747
Speaker 6: means the world to him. And he's just played in

1168
01:01:57,787 --> 01:02:00,947
Speaker 6: a care free fashion out there on set accord in

1169
01:02:00,987 --> 01:02:04,747
Speaker 6: the final, composed more than comfortable in that space that

1170
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Speaker 6: he was.

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01:02:05,067 --> 01:02:08,227
Speaker 2: In a report on the Herald this morning, Rada, you

1172
01:02:08,507 --> 01:02:10,667
Speaker 2: may have seen it and have no doubt heard talk

1173
01:02:10,707 --> 01:02:14,907
Speaker 2: of this development of the venue with a roof plan.

1174
01:02:15,027 --> 01:02:17,467
Speaker 2: That's the ambition of the organizers to help future proof

1175
01:02:17,547 --> 01:02:20,267
Speaker 2: the event, make a bigger, better take. Whether out of

1176
01:02:20,267 --> 01:02:23,627
Speaker 2: the equation of course, is there something that you know

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01:02:23,747 --> 01:02:26,587
Speaker 2: almost has to happen if this tournament is to continue

1178
01:02:26,627 --> 01:02:28,747
Speaker 2: on an upward trajectory.

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01:02:29,507 --> 01:02:32,427
Speaker 6: I certainly have to happen. You know, that's asarily old

1180
01:02:32,747 --> 01:02:34,787
Speaker 6: center there, and they do a really good job to

1181
01:02:35,347 --> 01:02:38,387
Speaker 6: pull it all together. But you know, I don't take

1182
01:02:38,427 --> 01:02:40,707
Speaker 6: the organizers MND be saying there's a lot of scaffolding

1183
01:02:40,787 --> 01:02:45,587
Speaker 6: a lot of piecemealing going on around the stadium. I

1184
01:02:45,627 --> 01:02:49,787
Speaker 6: think that as imperative they do it. Hopefully they can

1185
01:02:49,827 --> 01:02:52,227
Speaker 6: get the money. I believe they're on their way towards

1186
01:02:52,267 --> 01:02:54,267
Speaker 6: doing that. I believe they have consent to do it.

1187
01:02:55,347 --> 01:03:00,627
Speaker 6: One interesting thing is one factor reading the stadium is

1188
01:03:00,627 --> 01:03:04,987
Speaker 6: that some of the players complain that the distance between

1189
01:03:05,027 --> 01:03:08,187
Speaker 6: the baseline and the back it is too short. Because

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01:03:08,227 --> 01:03:11,467
Speaker 6: as men tennis is changing over the years, players are

1191
01:03:11,467 --> 01:03:13,587
Speaker 6: playing further further hind the baseline, so they need to

1192
01:03:13,667 --> 01:03:17,867
Speaker 6: link to that to make more space between the baseline

1193
01:03:18,267 --> 01:03:20,747
Speaker 6: and that fix is kind of interesting.

1194
01:03:21,867 --> 01:03:24,587
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is there a well there must I'm sure

1195
01:03:24,627 --> 01:03:28,547
Speaker 2: there's a there's a you know, a minimum that's allowed.

1196
01:03:28,627 --> 01:03:31,227
Speaker 2: But what I mean what a player say, we'll apply

1197
01:03:31,307 --> 01:03:32,347
Speaker 2: look at it and say, well, I won't come and

1198
01:03:32,387 --> 01:03:35,307
Speaker 2: play in Auckland unless there's more room behind the baseline.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, absolutely, yep.

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01:03:37,187 --> 01:03:38,627
Speaker 6: Because most of the other or a lot of the

1201
01:03:38,667 --> 01:03:41,667
Speaker 6: other stadiums or courts around the world are probably newer,

1202
01:03:41,747 --> 01:03:43,547
Speaker 6: so they've got more room. You know, they've got the

1203
01:03:43,547 --> 01:03:46,387
Speaker 6: clay quarters, the out and out clay quarters. They want

1204
01:03:46,387 --> 01:03:48,627
Speaker 6: to be three four or five meters pint the baseline.

1205
01:03:48,667 --> 01:03:49,307
Speaker 8: They don't want to.

1206
01:03:49,267 --> 01:03:52,467
Speaker 6: Be up close because it's not not where they're comfort donors.

1207
01:03:53,627 --> 01:03:56,747
Speaker 6: So look a short story. Yes, they need to read

1208
01:03:56,787 --> 01:03:58,587
Speaker 6: to the stadium hopefull that they can get it done.

1209
01:03:58,627 --> 01:04:01,747
Speaker 6: And I'm sure this tournament setled out every single year.

1210
01:04:01,787 --> 01:04:04,707
Speaker 6: It's so popular people come back year after year. I'm

1211
01:04:04,707 --> 01:04:07,867
Speaker 6: sure if they can increase capacity, they'll sell that out,

1212
01:04:07,907 --> 01:04:09,987
Speaker 6: no problems because there's such great quality.

1213
01:04:10,267 --> 01:04:13,427
Speaker 2: Indeed, and just finally, Ossie Open starts today. You will

1214
01:04:13,427 --> 01:04:16,027
Speaker 2: be uh, I guess on your couch. You're certainly keeping

1215
01:04:16,027 --> 01:04:18,107
Speaker 2: an eye on things over the next two weeks or

1216
01:04:18,147 --> 01:04:22,187
Speaker 2: so as time permits. A Yanick Center arena, Sabolenka defending champions,

1217
01:04:22,267 --> 01:04:24,947
Speaker 2: top seeds. Do they appeal to you as firm favorites

1218
01:04:24,987 --> 01:04:26,387
Speaker 2: for the next couple of weeks?

1219
01:04:27,227 --> 01:04:27,747
Speaker 3: She does.

1220
01:04:27,827 --> 01:04:30,707
Speaker 6: Sablinka for sure is a firm favorite for me, no doubt.

1221
01:04:31,987 --> 01:04:34,267
Speaker 6: I actually think she'll get that done. She's in great

1222
01:04:34,307 --> 01:04:38,227
Speaker 6: form physically, just such a weapon and sinner. I would say,

1223
01:04:38,267 --> 01:04:40,627
Speaker 6: you've got you've got two options, the Yannick Center or

1224
01:04:41,507 --> 01:04:44,347
Speaker 6: our cras I think of the two standout players that

1225
01:04:44,387 --> 01:04:47,147
Speaker 6: will see go deep into the week. I would love

1226
01:04:47,187 --> 01:04:50,307
Speaker 6: to see that Djokovic go on a run and get deep.

1227
01:04:50,347 --> 01:04:54,187
Speaker 6: I'm sure he'll go close, but I don't know. I

1228
01:04:54,227 --> 01:04:56,107
Speaker 6: really want to. Well, yeah, I don't know that he's

1229
01:04:56,107 --> 01:04:59,147
Speaker 6: got another Grand Slam left them. These younger guys that

1230
01:04:59,187 --> 01:05:02,667
Speaker 6: are coming through are now making him look just half

1231
01:05:02,707 --> 01:05:05,227
Speaker 6: a step slow, which is why he hasn't been winning

1232
01:05:05,267 --> 01:05:05,747
Speaker 6: the big ones.

1233
01:05:06,507 --> 01:05:08,707
Speaker 2: Or that the headlines there isn't it twenty five and

1234
01:05:08,787 --> 01:05:10,827
Speaker 2: twenty five. Whether it gets written or not over the

1235
01:05:10,907 --> 01:05:13,587
Speaker 2: next couple of weeks, I guess, remains to be seen. Lee,

1236
01:05:13,667 --> 01:05:15,307
Speaker 2: great to chat tennis with you as always, Thanks for

1237
01:05:15,347 --> 01:05:18,387
Speaker 2: taking the time. Pay Thank you mate. That's Lee Radovanovitch,

1238
01:05:18,627 --> 01:05:22,587
Speaker 2: former pro now Skysport commentator and analyst and a good

1239
01:05:22,587 --> 01:05:24,827
Speaker 2: friend of the show. I always enjoy talking tennis with

1240
01:05:25,267 --> 01:05:28,107
Speaker 2: Rado Sgamon feasts at the age of thirty eight winning

1241
01:05:28,147 --> 01:05:30,107
Speaker 2: his first ASB Tennis Classic yesterday.

1242
01:05:30,147 --> 01:05:30,347
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1243
01:05:30,347 --> 01:05:32,467
Speaker 2: Interesting article in The Herald this morning. You can read

1244
01:05:32,467 --> 01:05:35,907
Speaker 2: it online Inxine Herald dot co dot nz about the

1245
01:05:35,907 --> 01:05:42,347
Speaker 2: potential upgrade to the ASB Classic Tennis Auckland revealing plans

1246
01:05:42,347 --> 01:05:46,507
Speaker 2: for a fifteen million dollar covered stadium at Stanley Street.

1247
01:05:46,507 --> 01:05:50,027
Speaker 2: This has been reported by Michael Burgess, who knows plenty

1248
01:05:50,027 --> 01:05:52,947
Speaker 2: about these things Injet Herald dot co dot nz to

1249
01:05:52,987 --> 01:05:56,907
Speaker 2: find out more as Michael reports that the twenty twenty

1250
01:05:56,987 --> 01:06:00,587
Speaker 2: seven ASB Classic could be played under a roof inside

1251
01:06:00,707 --> 01:06:05,147
Speaker 2: a redeveloped, larger stadium. That is the ambitious vision of

1252
01:06:05,187 --> 01:06:07,947
Speaker 2: tournament organizers as they look to future proof the event,

1253
01:06:07,987 --> 01:06:10,027
Speaker 2: make it bigger and better and take weather out of

1254
01:06:10,027 --> 01:06:13,667
Speaker 2: the equation. And according to tennis Auckland, writes Michael Burgess,

1255
01:06:13,867 --> 01:06:18,027
Speaker 2: this is a realistic goal rather than a lofty dream.

1256
01:06:19,067 --> 01:06:22,827
Speaker 2: The large portion apparently off the fifteen million dollar price

1257
01:06:22,907 --> 01:06:26,467
Speaker 2: tag has already been committed, so this is excellent news.

1258
01:06:26,747 --> 01:06:28,987
Speaker 2: Just while we're on the subject of tennis, Nick Kyrios

1259
01:06:29,547 --> 01:06:33,267
Speaker 2: will take to the Australian Open tomorrow. I thought they

1260
01:06:33,347 --> 01:06:36,427
Speaker 2: might put him on Rod Labor, They've obviously decided not to.

1261
01:06:36,867 --> 01:06:40,547
Speaker 2: He will play the night session on John Cain Arena

1262
01:06:41,667 --> 01:06:47,427
Speaker 2: tomorrow night, up against the unseeded British player Jacob Fernley.

1263
01:06:48,387 --> 01:06:50,627
Speaker 2: Is it Jacob Fernley? Is that his name? It is

1264
01:06:50,747 --> 01:06:54,827
Speaker 2: Jacob Fernley. So how is Nick Kyrios enjoying being back

1265
01:06:54,827 --> 01:06:57,507
Speaker 2: at the Aussie Open having been out of tennis for

1266
01:06:57,547 --> 01:06:58,467
Speaker 2: a while with injury.

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Speaker 15: Today this morning was out there feeling pretty good. And

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Speaker 15: then I'm actually hitting again this afternoon, so to test

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01:07:04,867 --> 01:07:06,187
Speaker 15: it out a little bit and see how it feels.

1270
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Speaker 15: But as of right now, because we've got, you know,

1271
01:07:07,987 --> 01:07:11,507
Speaker 15: three days before the tournament starts for me, and yeah,

1272
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Speaker 15: I'm just taking a day by day and just enjoying

1273
01:07:13,027 --> 01:07:15,107
Speaker 15: all the moments again of being part of the tournament,

1274
01:07:15,187 --> 01:07:17,947
Speaker 15: going through all the hallways of the locker room, seeing everyone again.

1275
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Speaker 15: It's been an emotional time for me the last couple

1276
01:07:21,747 --> 01:07:23,747
Speaker 15: of weeks. But yeah, I'm just enjoying being back.

1277
01:07:23,827 --> 01:07:26,467
Speaker 2: Of course, the cameras follow Nick Currios wherever he goes.

1278
01:07:26,627 --> 01:07:29,387
Speaker 2: The practice session he had there was a bit of

1279
01:07:29,387 --> 01:07:32,347
Speaker 2: conjecture about whether it should have been a closed session,

1280
01:07:32,387 --> 01:07:34,907
Speaker 2: closed off to the cameras or not. There were cameras

1281
01:07:34,987 --> 01:07:38,867
Speaker 2: keeping eyes on Nick Currios as he was practicing at

1282
01:07:38,867 --> 01:07:40,867
Speaker 2: the Aussie Open. How does he feel about the media

1283
01:07:40,947 --> 01:07:42,747
Speaker 2: attention that he attracts?

1284
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Speaker 15: The media loves me for some reason. I'm not too

1285
01:07:44,867 --> 01:07:47,067
Speaker 15: sure why, So I'm not surprised that I saw cameras

1286
01:07:47,067 --> 01:07:49,107
Speaker 15: and things out there, But it wasn't actually supposed to

1287
01:07:49,107 --> 01:07:50,827
Speaker 15: be a closed session at all. I think it was

1288
01:07:50,827 --> 01:07:53,027
Speaker 15: a misunderstanding. I mean, I didn't mind seeing the cameras

1289
01:07:53,107 --> 01:07:54,507
Speaker 15: and people out there. It was good to create a

1290
01:07:54,547 --> 01:07:56,187
Speaker 15: bit more of an atmosphere and a vibe. And you know,

1291
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Speaker 15: anytime I get to play, you know, whether it's a

1292
01:07:58,067 --> 01:08:00,347
Speaker 15: match or practice in front of these fans, there were

1293
01:08:00,347 --> 01:08:02,227
Speaker 15: so many kids out there. I mean, I think that's

1294
01:08:02,427 --> 01:08:04,947
Speaker 15: as special for me that you know, I have noticed

1295
01:08:04,947 --> 01:08:06,747
Speaker 15: that on a bit of a role model for these kids.

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Speaker 11: So it was good.

1297
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Speaker 3: No, I didn't mind it at all.

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01:08:10,507 --> 01:08:12,507
Speaker 15: But yeah, my body's feeling okay after today's session, and

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Speaker 15: I'm going again with Pericard at four point thirty.

1300
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Speaker 2: And how does he feel about being the center of

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01:08:17,787 --> 01:08:21,227
Speaker 2: media attention and does he feel as though his presence

1302
01:08:21,387 --> 01:08:24,147
Speaker 2: in the game is actually good for the game of tennis.

1303
01:08:24,347 --> 01:08:27,147
Speaker 15: I mean, we watched sport because we want personalities, you know,

1304
01:08:27,187 --> 01:08:31,267
Speaker 15: I think, you know, we love you know, we watch

1305
01:08:31,947 --> 01:08:33,907
Speaker 15: tennis as well, so that one on one aspect of

1306
01:08:34,387 --> 01:08:37,067
Speaker 15: you know, now the's coaching allowed. But I really loved,

1307
01:08:37,187 --> 01:08:38,987
Speaker 15: I really enjoyed tennis because there was one v one

1308
01:08:39,107 --> 01:08:40,907
Speaker 15: you had to watch that person figure it out over

1309
01:08:40,947 --> 01:08:43,267
Speaker 15: a four or five hour period, and you saw the

1310
01:08:43,587 --> 01:08:45,787
Speaker 15: amount of emotions that one person goes under and it's

1311
01:08:45,787 --> 01:08:49,507
Speaker 15: like drama, it's like theater. So for me personally, me

1312
01:08:49,627 --> 01:08:52,067
Speaker 15: being back, I think it adds a bit of question

1313
01:08:52,187 --> 01:08:54,747
Speaker 15: marks to like what's going to happen today?

1314
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Speaker 3: Where that's like I love.

1315
01:08:55,987 --> 01:08:57,867
Speaker 15: That, Like I don't know whether you every time I

1316
01:08:57,867 --> 01:08:59,187
Speaker 15: step out in court, I don't know if I'm going

1317
01:08:59,227 --> 01:09:01,227
Speaker 15: to be super controversial a good or bad way, which

1318
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Speaker 15: I mean throughout my career it hasn't always been good,

1319
01:09:05,027 --> 01:09:06,667
Speaker 15: but it's added a lot of excitement to the game.

1320
01:09:06,667 --> 01:09:09,907
Speaker 15: I think I think it's important because there's so many

1321
01:09:09,947 --> 01:09:12,427
Speaker 15: good players on the tour now, but I think there's

1322
01:09:12,467 --> 01:09:15,187
Speaker 15: not so many contrasting personalities. So I think it's healthy

1323
01:09:15,587 --> 01:09:19,307
Speaker 15: that you know, I'm barking, I'm playing. It doesn't really

1324
01:09:19,347 --> 01:09:23,307
Speaker 15: waih on me though. I've always been someone that's that's

1325
01:09:23,347 --> 01:09:26,067
Speaker 15: played my brand of tennis, and I guess my personality

1326
01:09:26,107 --> 01:09:27,627
Speaker 15: I haven't changed since I was ten years old. Anyone

1327
01:09:27,667 --> 01:09:28,667
Speaker 15: that knows me knows that.

1328
01:09:28,667 --> 01:09:31,347
Speaker 2: That's the voice of Nick Kerrios, who plays Jacob Fernley

1329
01:09:31,427 --> 01:09:34,587
Speaker 2: in the night Session on John Caine Arena tomorrow night

1330
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Speaker 2: at the Australian Tennis Open. James On text says Krios

1331
01:09:38,507 --> 01:09:41,867
Speaker 2: prefers John Caine Arena. He always plays there and loves

1332
01:09:41,907 --> 01:09:43,627
Speaker 2: the crowd and direction he gets. Well, there you go

1333
01:09:44,267 --> 01:09:46,547
Speaker 2: tomorrow night bound to be a full house at John

1334
01:09:46,587 --> 01:09:49,827
Speaker 2: Cain Arena as Nick Kurrios opens his Australian Open campaign

1335
01:09:50,227 --> 01:09:53,147
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five after two o'clock, we'll drill down

1336
01:09:53,147 --> 01:09:56,307
Speaker 2: more into the Australia Open when Craig Gabriel joins us

1337
01:09:56,307 --> 01:09:59,747
Speaker 2: from Melbourne. Next up, though it's our regular catch up

1338
01:09:59,787 --> 01:10:02,067
Speaker 2: on a Sunday with James mcconey.

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Speaker 1: It's more than just a game weekend sport with Jason

1340
01:10:06,787 --> 01:10:10,347
Speaker 1: and TJ gunnerhomes New Zealand's most trusted home builder.

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01:10:10,467 --> 01:10:13,387
Speaker 2: News Talks MB seventeen to two on News Talks THEREB

1342
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Speaker 2: Sunday afternoons mean a lot of things, including James mcconey's

1343
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Speaker 2: contribution to the show. How are you mate, I'm.

1344
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Speaker 8: Good, thanks mate, Piney. Yes, I've been enjoying some summer

1345
01:10:25,667 --> 01:10:29,547
Speaker 8: weather tripping around the Upper North Island. Yeah it's been

1346
01:10:29,667 --> 01:10:30,827
Speaker 8: nice yourself.

1347
01:10:30,947 --> 01:10:33,187
Speaker 2: Well, very good. Yes, No, I can't say I've gone

1348
01:10:33,227 --> 01:10:36,347
Speaker 2: as far as you haven't. Haven't got on any big roadies,

1349
01:10:36,347 --> 01:10:38,987
Speaker 2: but no. Enjoying the start of twenty twenty five. Hey,

1350
01:10:39,347 --> 01:10:42,027
Speaker 2: the Australian Tennis Open. We've just been chatting a bit

1351
01:10:42,067 --> 01:10:45,867
Speaker 2: about that. Is that on your sports sports viewing list

1352
01:10:45,907 --> 01:10:47,027
Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks.

1353
01:10:47,867 --> 01:10:52,227
Speaker 8: Absolutely, And for anyone else who's sort of been forced

1354
01:10:52,227 --> 01:10:54,507
Speaker 8: back to work quite early, it's always quite nice in

1355
01:10:54,587 --> 01:10:57,787
Speaker 8: the Australian Open rolls around because you know, if you

1356
01:10:57,827 --> 01:11:01,187
Speaker 8: come home on Sky you've got a bit of Aussie

1357
01:11:01,187 --> 01:11:04,187
Speaker 8: Open to keep your company into the wee hours. You know,

1358
01:11:04,267 --> 01:11:07,147
Speaker 8: the five seaters over there finished sometimes two in the morning,

1359
01:11:07,227 --> 01:11:11,827
Speaker 8: even later. So I'm looking at the Aussie Open and

1360
01:11:11,867 --> 01:11:14,187
Speaker 8: I was just checked in to see how Cam Nori

1361
01:11:15,027 --> 01:11:18,547
Speaker 8: what his drawer looks like. And I can confirm it's terrible.

1362
01:11:19,067 --> 01:11:22,587
Speaker 8: He has to play with Bertini from from Italy, so

1363
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Speaker 8: I mean I consider a Makiwi, right, he's from East Auckland.

1364
01:11:26,547 --> 01:11:30,627
Speaker 8: Come on, Cam, yeahtain now, but yeah, it doesn't look good.

1365
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Speaker 8: I think that's a that's as tough of draw as

1366
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Speaker 8: you can get for someone ranked as high as Cam.

1367
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be difficult for him to progress. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I'm the same as you even you know, I don't

1369
01:11:41,227 --> 01:11:43,947
Speaker 2: feel like I've been forced back to work, but you're

1370
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Speaker 2: right when the Aussie opens on. There's all, you know,

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Speaker 2: I just flicked through the channels at night. That's just

1372
01:11:48,947 --> 01:11:52,907
Speaker 2: my evening activity. I just flicked through the channels, and

1373
01:11:53,347 --> 01:11:55,867
Speaker 2: I know that I can always find the tennis in

1374
01:11:55,987 --> 01:11:57,787
Speaker 2: January exactly.

1375
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Speaker 8: And look, I mean, it's it's such a lottery now.

1376
01:12:00,867 --> 01:12:03,707
Speaker 8: Like Yannick Center is considered the top seed, but Novak

1377
01:12:03,747 --> 01:12:06,947
Speaker 8: Djokovic with Andy Murray as his coach, I feel like

1378
01:12:07,027 --> 01:12:10,587
Speaker 8: Novak realizes, you know, it's you know, time is of

1379
01:12:10,707 --> 01:12:15,147
Speaker 8: the essence for him. Father time is catching up. He

1380
01:12:15,227 --> 01:12:19,187
Speaker 8: needs a few more I guess you could call it

1381
01:12:19,227 --> 01:12:21,427
Speaker 8: like titles, just to make sure he's out in the clear.

1382
01:12:22,107 --> 01:12:26,067
Speaker 8: But there's I mean, I still think Novak's a very

1383
01:12:26,107 --> 01:12:29,467
Speaker 8: good shout if he can stay fit. On that side,

1384
01:12:29,587 --> 01:12:32,587
Speaker 8: Yannick Center is the top seed there. But then on

1385
01:12:32,627 --> 01:12:35,547
Speaker 8: the women's side, I just think it's so so wide open.

1386
01:12:36,187 --> 01:12:39,787
Speaker 8: Sable Linka is going for a three piece, and then

1387
01:12:39,827 --> 01:12:43,947
Speaker 8: if you look further down, all the players are you know,

1388
01:12:44,547 --> 01:12:47,947
Speaker 8: Grand Slam winners, all very capable of that. We're still

1389
01:12:47,987 --> 01:12:51,427
Speaker 8: waiting for Coco Golf, I guess, to reach her full potential.

1390
01:12:51,467 --> 01:12:55,267
Speaker 8: But then you know, if if we hadn't had that

1391
01:12:55,347 --> 01:12:58,987
Speaker 8: injury to Naomi al Saka, I think that there would

1392
01:12:58,987 --> 01:13:02,667
Speaker 8: have been a really good chance for her to to

1393
01:13:02,747 --> 01:13:05,387
Speaker 8: maybe do something. She's quite wide out in the in

1394
01:13:05,427 --> 01:13:08,507
Speaker 8: the odds there, I mean, she injured thin the stomach

1395
01:13:08,587 --> 01:13:11,387
Speaker 8: muscle of domino muscle and the finally had to pull

1396
01:13:11,467 --> 01:13:13,747
Speaker 8: out in Auckland. But then keep an eye on her

1397
01:13:13,747 --> 01:13:15,987
Speaker 8: because she's as good as anyone in that field. And

1398
01:13:16,027 --> 01:13:18,747
Speaker 8: then Nick Curios, if you want a true wild card,

1399
01:13:18,827 --> 01:13:23,947
Speaker 8: the wildest of wild cards, he's back playing. He's at home.

1400
01:13:24,187 --> 01:13:26,747
Speaker 8: Who knows what you'll get, but he is musty TV.

1401
01:13:27,307 --> 01:13:29,507
Speaker 2: Yeah, box office stuff. And just for lu Luson as well,

1402
01:13:29,587 --> 01:13:32,787
Speaker 2: she's been drawn against the unseated player from Monte Negro,

1403
01:13:32,987 --> 01:13:36,587
Speaker 2: Danka Covenich. Don't know anything about Danka Kavanich, so lu

1404
01:13:36,627 --> 01:13:38,627
Speaker 2: Luson will keep an eye on her in her first

1405
01:13:38,707 --> 01:13:42,707
Speaker 2: round singles match, which is scheduled for tomorrow. Hey, now,

1406
01:13:42,747 --> 01:13:46,987
Speaker 2: the black Caps Champions Trophy squad's been named Jacob Duffy

1407
01:13:47,067 --> 01:13:50,867
Speaker 2: the unlucky Man. They've clearly gone for pace with the

1408
01:13:50,987 --> 01:13:54,547
Speaker 2: likes of Sears and Ferguson and O'Rourke ahead of the

1409
01:13:54,667 --> 01:13:55,667
Speaker 2: likes of Jacob Duffy.

1410
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Speaker 8: Yeah, how brutal is it on duff Man's I mean

1411
01:13:59,067 --> 01:14:01,947
Speaker 8: he just looked the pick of the bowl is on

1412
01:14:02,067 --> 01:14:04,627
Speaker 8: in a couple of those games. But then you know,

1413
01:14:05,027 --> 01:14:07,307
Speaker 8: we are in an era where we're back players and

1414
01:14:07,387 --> 01:14:09,827
Speaker 8: these people that they probably know they're just filling in

1415
01:14:09,947 --> 01:14:13,987
Speaker 8: until everyone's back at full strength. But one day cricket

1416
01:14:14,067 --> 01:14:16,147
Speaker 8: is our best discipline. I think the Black Caps, this

1417
01:14:16,307 --> 01:14:19,547
Speaker 8: is really where we can do something and we were

1418
01:14:19,587 --> 01:14:21,667
Speaker 8: close to it in the last World Cup. I think

1419
01:14:21,667 --> 01:14:26,867
Speaker 8: our batting lineup with will Young, you know, basically cementing

1420
01:14:27,227 --> 01:14:31,267
Speaker 8: his spot in there, looks as steady and as good

1421
01:14:31,427 --> 01:14:36,307
Speaker 8: as strong as anybody in one day cricket. So we

1422
01:14:36,507 --> 01:14:40,307
Speaker 8: just need I guess those key players Kain Williamson, Rutchan

1423
01:14:40,387 --> 01:14:43,987
Speaker 8: Mavendra to still carry on in b World class like

1424
01:14:44,027 --> 01:14:46,227
Speaker 8: the last time we played in the big tournament. So

1425
01:14:47,347 --> 01:14:50,547
Speaker 8: Russian really interesting to see how he goes. I guess.

1426
01:14:50,587 --> 01:14:53,267
Speaker 8: The one thing about this tournament which is really sad

1427
01:14:53,747 --> 01:14:58,107
Speaker 8: is that it's in Pakistan. But if India make the final,

1428
01:14:58,227 --> 01:15:00,147
Speaker 8: the final will have to be played and do Bai

1429
01:15:00,227 --> 01:15:03,667
Speaker 8: because they are not playing any games in Pakistan because

1430
01:15:03,667 --> 01:15:07,507
Speaker 8: of security concerns. It's so sad. Add that it just

1431
01:15:07,547 --> 01:15:11,307
Speaker 8: has to beat this. It's a dark cloud over an event,

1432
01:15:11,587 --> 01:15:14,107
Speaker 8: and they'll play all their games in Dubai.

1433
01:15:14,427 --> 01:15:16,507
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a shame, you reckon Will Young open? I

1434
01:15:16,547 --> 01:15:19,027
Speaker 2: wonder whether they'll go with Devon Conway. You reckon, Will

1435
01:15:19,067 --> 01:15:22,427
Speaker 2: Young's done enough to stave off the returning Devon Conway

1436
01:15:23,267 --> 01:15:25,147
Speaker 2: to open the batting well.

1437
01:15:24,987 --> 01:15:28,347
Speaker 8: I think Will Young. My feeling is he has to play.

1438
01:15:28,427 --> 01:15:30,027
Speaker 8: I don't know if you'll open. I just think that

1439
01:15:30,147 --> 01:15:32,667
Speaker 8: what it does is it gives you players who you

1440
01:15:32,827 --> 01:15:35,507
Speaker 8: know have kind of turned the corner in terms of

1441
01:15:35,547 --> 01:15:38,707
Speaker 8: their development. And Will Young it will be very harsh

1442
01:15:38,787 --> 01:15:41,467
Speaker 8: to see him not in the in the lineup somewhere.

1443
01:15:41,627 --> 01:15:41,907
Speaker 3: It is.

1444
01:15:42,987 --> 01:15:45,667
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's tricky really because I think Rutch and they

1445
01:15:45,787 --> 01:15:50,027
Speaker 8: moved him up, didn't they. And he actually batted better

1446
01:15:50,707 --> 01:15:54,107
Speaker 8: at three from memory in the in the One Day

1447
01:15:54,147 --> 01:15:58,387
Speaker 8: World Cup. So I would probably say save wrenching a

1448
01:15:58,387 --> 01:16:00,827
Speaker 8: bit further down and let him do his or three

1449
01:16:00,907 --> 01:16:04,747
Speaker 8: or four wherever. He scored those tons and and you

1450
01:16:04,827 --> 01:16:06,827
Speaker 8: noticed it. I think when we played our big be final,

1451
01:16:06,867 --> 01:16:10,347
Speaker 8: I think he got out for not many. Yeah, protect

1452
01:16:10,387 --> 01:16:13,027
Speaker 8: him a little bit. He is, he's a match winner

1453
01:16:13,067 --> 01:16:13,947
Speaker 8: if he gets it right.

1454
01:16:14,547 --> 01:16:17,147
Speaker 2: That's so interesting. Decisions to be made around around the

1455
01:16:17,147 --> 01:16:20,267
Speaker 2: makeup of the eleven for the ICC champions Trophy. And

1456
01:16:20,347 --> 01:16:22,707
Speaker 2: finally today we're into the part of the year where

1457
01:16:22,707 --> 01:16:26,147
Speaker 2: it's the wild card games in the NFL. I'm just

1458
01:16:26,187 --> 01:16:28,627
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on the Texans against the Chargers. Texans

1459
01:16:28,627 --> 01:16:30,747
Speaker 2: are pretty much home in host thirty two twelve with

1460
01:16:30,867 --> 01:16:34,187
Speaker 2: only about three minutes to go. Yeah, yeah, again, you're

1461
01:16:34,187 --> 01:16:36,147
Speaker 2: a fan of the NFL and your keep eyes on this.

1462
01:16:37,307 --> 01:16:39,987
Speaker 8: Yes, I do, Pony, I'm a Lions fan and we've

1463
01:16:39,987 --> 01:16:42,987
Speaker 8: got to buy It's been the Lions best ever season

1464
01:16:43,067 --> 01:16:48,507
Speaker 8: so far regular season, but notoriously ranked one of the

1465
01:16:48,507 --> 01:16:52,307
Speaker 8: worst ever teams in the NFL history. When I say

1466
01:16:52,347 --> 01:16:56,587
Speaker 8: teams clubs, you know, just overall their record, never made

1467
01:16:56,587 --> 01:16:59,267
Speaker 8: a super Bowl, never gone very far at all, and

1468
01:16:59,347 --> 01:17:03,067
Speaker 8: so this is where I think the Lions, without too

1469
01:17:03,067 --> 01:17:06,387
Speaker 8: many stars could perhaps do something. But looking at the

1470
01:17:06,547 --> 01:17:11,907
Speaker 8: games today, I mean, it's it's interesting because justin Herbert,

1471
01:17:11,947 --> 01:17:16,387
Speaker 8: who's the sort of he's got the quarterback out of

1472
01:17:17,187 --> 01:17:22,747
Speaker 8: remember the Titans, you know Sunshine, remember how Locks, And

1473
01:17:22,827 --> 01:17:25,587
Speaker 8: he's sort of he's got that old school quarterback look.

1474
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Speaker 8: But he just had a bit of a shocker today,

1475
01:17:27,987 --> 01:17:32,107
Speaker 8: So how go the Chargers? But look again, it just

1476
01:17:32,147 --> 01:17:34,667
Speaker 8: feels like any of these teams could win it. The

1477
01:17:34,667 --> 01:17:39,227
Speaker 8: Bills look good, They've got a you know, Josh Allen,

1478
01:17:39,467 --> 01:17:42,867
Speaker 8: the quarterback is an absolute star. And then the Eagles

1479
01:17:42,867 --> 01:17:45,707
Speaker 8: and Packers are playing in a wildcard round game tomorrow

1480
01:17:46,307 --> 01:17:49,947
Speaker 8: and they both either of those teams could actually win

1481
01:17:49,947 --> 01:17:52,747
Speaker 8: the Super Bowl have been that good this year. So yeah,

1482
01:17:52,787 --> 01:17:54,987
Speaker 8: there's there's plenty to like about it. But if you

1483
01:17:55,067 --> 01:17:58,307
Speaker 8: really want to go for the most exciting or the

1484
01:17:58,387 --> 01:18:00,507
Speaker 8: most watchable team, you have to go for the Vikings,

1485
01:18:00,507 --> 01:18:04,947
Speaker 8: who have done several dance celebrations, from the dance scenes

1486
01:18:04,987 --> 01:18:08,947
Speaker 8: from high school musical White Chicks. You name a movie

1487
01:18:08,987 --> 01:18:11,267
Speaker 8: that's got a big dance scene and they've done it.

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01:18:11,307 --> 01:18:14,867
Speaker 8: I think, yeah. They they're on fire with their with

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01:18:14,907 --> 01:18:18,587
Speaker 8: their celebrations, and it drives people nuts or the real

1490
01:18:18,707 --> 01:18:22,627
Speaker 8: sort of like the conservative fans nuts on the social media.

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Speaker 2: Well, oddly enough, I know this because the Minnesota Vikings

1492
01:18:26,227 --> 01:18:29,307
Speaker 2: are my son's team, and therefore, by default my team.

1493
01:18:29,467 --> 01:18:32,907
Speaker 2: I watched them being dealt to by your lines last

1494
01:18:32,987 --> 01:18:36,827
Speaker 2: week actually with a growing sense of impending doom. But

1495
01:18:37,147 --> 01:18:40,547
Speaker 2: yet I've enjoyed watching the Vikings. It is now the

1496
01:18:40,827 --> 01:18:42,787
Speaker 2: time of the years. I mean, these are basically knockout games,

1497
01:18:42,787 --> 01:18:45,347
Speaker 2: aren't they. So yeah, the Vikings, I think on Tuesday

1498
01:18:45,387 --> 01:18:48,947
Speaker 2: afternoon have the La Rams in Los Angeles. That'll be tough,

1499
01:18:48,987 --> 01:18:51,547
Speaker 2: but we'll look out for that one and their dance moves.

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01:18:51,667 --> 01:18:54,147
Speaker 2: And we will chat again with you around about the

1501
01:18:54,187 --> 01:18:57,227
Speaker 2: same time next Sunday if it fits your travel schedule.

1502
01:18:57,867 --> 01:19:00,787
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll slap you in always Piney, don't you worry.

1503
01:19:00,787 --> 01:19:03,867
Speaker 8: Wherever I am, as long as I can get some reception,

1504
01:19:04,147 --> 01:19:05,987
Speaker 8: I'll find you brilliant stuff.

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01:19:06,027 --> 01:19:06,347
Speaker 7: We'll find.

1506
01:19:06,987 --> 01:19:09,747
Speaker 2: Thanks James, James mcconey, he's part of our Sundays here

1507
01:19:09,787 --> 01:19:11,947
Speaker 2: on news talks. He'd be finding across the social media

1508
01:19:11,987 --> 01:19:15,427
Speaker 2: and as part of the Alternative Commentary collective as well.

1509
01:19:15,507 --> 01:19:17,987
Speaker 2: It's away from two news Talks. Heb.

1510
01:19:18,827 --> 01:19:21,107
Speaker 1: When it's down to the line, you made a call

1511
01:19:21,267 --> 01:19:26,147
Speaker 1: on eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason Hine News Talks.

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01:19:26,147 --> 01:19:29,347
Speaker 2: Heb it's five to two to part Miston North, where

1513
01:19:29,787 --> 01:19:33,147
Speaker 2: the game between the Otago Sparks and the Central Hines

1514
01:19:33,147 --> 01:19:37,467
Speaker 2: has has taken a bit of a turn. The Central

1515
01:19:37,507 --> 01:19:39,587
Speaker 2: Hines were going along very nicely there were thirty eight

1516
01:19:39,627 --> 01:19:43,227
Speaker 2: without loss in the eighth over and going well, they're

1517
01:19:43,227 --> 01:19:47,587
Speaker 2: now eighty nine for eight, eighty nine for eight, I've

1518
01:19:47,667 --> 01:19:52,907
Speaker 2: lost what's that? Eight for fifty one now Eden Carson

1519
01:19:52,987 --> 01:19:57,187
Speaker 2: is having an absolute day. Five for eighteen, Eden Carson,

1520
01:19:57,227 --> 01:20:00,987
Speaker 2: five for eighteen for Otago and the Central Hines in

1521
01:20:02,027 --> 01:20:04,827
Speaker 2: a bit of a hole eighty nine for eight. Dave

1522
01:20:04,907 --> 01:20:08,707
Speaker 2: asks on text Sale GP looking for Auckland next weekend.

1523
01:20:09,027 --> 01:20:12,547
Speaker 2: I can tell you it is looking absolutely magnificent and

1524
01:20:13,347 --> 01:20:17,467
Speaker 2: happily we've secured a spot there for weekend Sport next

1525
01:20:17,467 --> 01:20:21,227
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday. Really looking forward to broadcasting the show

1526
01:20:21,267 --> 01:20:25,227
Speaker 2: live from sale GP next weekend right across both days

1527
01:20:25,987 --> 01:20:30,467
Speaker 2: and chatting with many of the key participants. Speaking of which,

1528
01:20:30,507 --> 01:20:32,427
Speaker 2: after two o'clock we're going to do exactly that. The

1529
01:20:32,467 --> 01:20:35,667
Speaker 2: Black Foils are looking to back up their win and

1530
01:20:35,747 --> 01:20:39,507
Speaker 2: do BAI in the season opener just before Christmas. Sam

1531
01:20:39,547 --> 01:20:41,587
Speaker 2: Meech is the coach of the Black Foils. He's going

1532
01:20:41,627 --> 01:20:43,307
Speaker 2: to join us for a chat. We'll also get you

1533
01:20:43,347 --> 01:20:47,867
Speaker 2: across to Melbourne for a decent preview of the Australian Open,

1534
01:20:47,907 --> 01:20:50,787
Speaker 2: which is now underway. Craig Gabriel also going to join

1535
01:20:50,867 --> 01:20:52,707
Speaker 2: us between two and three.

1536
01:20:53,147 --> 01:20:57,427
Speaker 1: The only place for the big names, the big issues,

1537
01:20:58,107 --> 01:21:03,067
Speaker 1: the big controversies and the big conversations kids, all on

1538
01:21:03,147 --> 01:21:07,987
Speaker 1: Weekend Sport with Jason Vain on your Home Sport Hu's Talks.

1539
01:21:08,027 --> 01:21:08,427
Speaker 6: It'd been.

1540
01:21:10,547 --> 01:21:13,307
Speaker 2: Coming up eight past two. Welcome in to Weekend Sport

1541
01:21:13,387 --> 01:21:15,267
Speaker 2: or the final hour of it. We'll hand over to

1542
01:21:15,467 --> 01:21:20,587
Speaker 2: Wilhelmina Shrimpton after three o'clock for summer afternoons slash evenings.

1543
01:21:20,587 --> 01:21:24,067
Speaker 2: I'm not sure whether three o'clock through till six or

1544
01:21:24,467 --> 01:21:27,187
Speaker 2: whenever Wilhelmina is on the air until is an afternoon

1545
01:21:27,227 --> 01:21:29,707
Speaker 2: or an evening. I'm not sure that it really matters

1546
01:21:29,987 --> 01:21:32,307
Speaker 2: should be looking after you after three o'clock. Before we

1547
01:21:32,347 --> 01:21:35,627
Speaker 2: get there, we've got some sale gp to cover off.

1548
01:21:35,707 --> 01:21:39,307
Speaker 2: Sam meach is the new coach of the Black Foils

1549
01:21:39,667 --> 01:21:44,387
Speaker 2: with sal gp Auckland coming up next weekend Saturday Sunday.

1550
01:21:44,627 --> 01:21:47,667
Speaker 2: Simply cannot wait for this, broadcasting the show live from

1551
01:21:47,707 --> 01:21:51,387
Speaker 2: there both days next weekend, so Sam, meet you along.

1552
01:21:51,467 --> 01:21:54,627
Speaker 2: Shortly we'll get across to Melbourne where Craig Gabriel is

1553
01:21:54,747 --> 01:21:59,147
Speaker 2: about to start covering by my count his forty fifth

1554
01:21:59,547 --> 01:22:04,387
Speaker 2: Australian Tennis open remarkable from Craig Gabriel, who might be

1555
01:22:04,427 --> 01:22:06,947
Speaker 2: the favorites in his eyes for the men's and women singles,

1556
01:22:07,587 --> 01:22:11,667
Speaker 2: and how far mke Nick Kurios go. We've got football

1557
01:22:11,707 --> 01:22:15,027
Speaker 2: as well, both of A League. The New Zealand men's

1558
01:22:15,067 --> 01:22:18,227
Speaker 2: sides in the A League had losses yesterday The Phoenix

1559
01:22:18,267 --> 01:22:20,827
Speaker 2: lost to Adelaide United and then late last night against

1560
01:22:20,867 --> 01:22:24,307
Speaker 2: all expectation Auckland FC, who have been flying against Perth

1561
01:22:24,347 --> 01:22:27,627
Speaker 2: Glory who have been pretty bad. The tables will turned

1562
01:22:27,667 --> 01:22:30,307
Speaker 2: Perth Glory winning that one one Neil last night, so

1563
01:22:30,387 --> 01:22:32,587
Speaker 2: we'll get the thoughts of both coaches and also looking

1564
01:22:32,587 --> 01:22:35,907
Speaker 2: ahead to the Wellington Phoenix women's game against Adelaide United

1565
01:22:35,907 --> 01:22:40,387
Speaker 2: a bit later on tonight Live Sport. Well The Texans

1566
01:22:40,427 --> 01:22:43,507
Speaker 2: have eaten the Chargers in the AFC wild Card game.

1567
01:22:43,547 --> 01:22:48,027
Speaker 2: The first one thirty two points to twelve about to

1568
01:22:48,027 --> 01:22:53,107
Speaker 2: start in Baltimore between the Ravens and the Steelers in

1569
01:22:53,147 --> 01:22:57,027
Speaker 2: the Super Smash the women's game in Palmerston North. The

1570
01:22:57,027 --> 01:22:59,947
Speaker 2: Central Hines, who were thirty eight without loss, have been

1571
01:22:59,987 --> 01:23:02,947
Speaker 2: bowled out for ninety So what's that losing all ten

1572
01:23:02,987 --> 01:23:05,827
Speaker 2: wickets for fifty two, five of those going the way

1573
01:23:05,867 --> 01:23:09,267
Speaker 2: of Eden and five for eighteen, so the Otago Sparks

1574
01:23:09,547 --> 01:23:12,747
Speaker 2: shortly will begin their chase for ninety one to beat

1575
01:23:12,787 --> 01:23:15,107
Speaker 2: the Central Hines in Parmaston. North of Men's game is

1576
01:23:15,507 --> 01:23:18,387
Speaker 2: to follow. But as we always do it around about

1577
01:23:18,387 --> 01:23:20,907
Speaker 2: this time on weekend sport, it is time to get

1578
01:23:20,987 --> 01:23:23,067
Speaker 2: you up to date with the stuff that might have

1579
01:23:23,187 --> 01:23:25,707
Speaker 2: escaped your attention. There is quite a bit of sport

1580
01:23:25,747 --> 01:23:28,067
Speaker 2: going on at the moment and we kind of feel

1581
01:23:28,067 --> 01:23:30,267
Speaker 2: as though there's no way you can stay across all

1582
01:23:30,307 --> 01:23:32,987
Speaker 2: of it as it's happening in real time. That's why

1583
01:23:33,467 --> 01:23:37,227
Speaker 2: we put together for you every Saturday and Sunday in

1584
01:23:37,267 --> 01:23:39,947
Speaker 2: case you missed it. Starting with the Big Bash one

1585
01:23:40,027 --> 01:23:43,867
Speaker 2: hundreds galore last night, Steve Smith leading the way for

1586
01:23:43,907 --> 01:23:46,987
Speaker 2: the Sydney Sixers, chops away to.

1587
01:23:46,987 --> 01:23:50,507
Speaker 16: The offside crowd on their feet, he stops on the

1588
01:23:50,547 --> 01:23:52,987
Speaker 16: single and he's one hundred. Steady Smith is thirty the

1589
01:23:52,987 --> 01:23:56,387
Speaker 16: Big Bash. He's just too good. He's a start, absolute star,

1590
01:23:56,587 --> 01:23:59,947
Speaker 16: this man. They came to set it back and Steve

1591
01:23:59,987 --> 01:24:01,027
Speaker 16: Smith has delivered.

1592
01:24:01,147 --> 01:24:03,947
Speaker 2: The six is beating the Perth Scorches by fourteen runs

1593
01:24:03,987 --> 01:24:08,907
Speaker 2: and Max Short providing a captain's knock for Adelaide leading

1594
01:24:08,947 --> 01:24:12,227
Speaker 2: his team to a fifty six run win over Brisbane

1595
01:24:13,947 --> 01:24:16,187
Speaker 2: and that we'll get to the boundary that.

1596
01:24:16,267 --> 01:24:17,027
Speaker 10: Will bring up.

1597
01:24:17,187 --> 01:24:21,267
Speaker 2: Sidley a magnificentth century to the captain. That short to

1598
01:24:21,307 --> 01:24:25,667
Speaker 2: the Australian National Basketball League and the Breakers sorry season

1599
01:24:25,867 --> 01:24:29,947
Speaker 2: continued a lost to Illawarra and to a New Zealand perspective,

1600
01:24:30,187 --> 01:24:32,267
Speaker 2: they won't win today, but at least they fought hard

1601
01:24:32,307 --> 01:24:35,587
Speaker 2: in the second half. They're gonna get obliterated. Instead, they

1602
01:24:35,627 --> 01:24:38,467
Speaker 2: put one hundred points on the board and trailed by

1603
01:24:38,507 --> 01:24:42,387
Speaker 2: only eight. They lose by only eight Yeah, one o

1604
01:24:42,547 --> 01:24:44,707
Speaker 2: eight to one hundred. The loss for the Breakers last

1605
01:24:44,787 --> 01:24:47,627
Speaker 2: night in fact a tough day and night as it

1606
01:24:47,707 --> 01:24:52,467
Speaker 2: turns out for kiwe teams in Australian competitions. As mentioned

1607
01:24:52,467 --> 01:24:56,107
Speaker 2: a short time ago, the Wellington Phoenix falling to Adelaide United,

1608
01:24:56,187 --> 01:24:58,867
Speaker 2: his side looked to find the coe Head goal here

1609
01:24:58,867 --> 01:25:01,467
Speaker 2: Forius helps it in, Josh Lamy drops.

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01:25:01,267 --> 01:25:08,867
Speaker 17: It and looka Yovanovich councs no second invitation needed and

1611
01:25:09,067 --> 01:25:13,107
Speaker 17: in beg to bet matches, Luka Ivanovitch.

1612
01:25:12,587 --> 01:25:16,067
Speaker 2: Scores the goal that plots air laid United two one

1613
01:25:16,107 --> 01:25:18,427
Speaker 2: ahead and that was the final score. Means I'm Auckland

1614
01:25:18,507 --> 01:25:20,227
Speaker 2: FC stunned by Perth Glory.

1615
01:25:20,467 --> 01:25:23,547
Speaker 3: It got speed in a waiver klucha wins it back Perth.

1616
01:25:23,427 --> 01:25:28,227
Speaker 13: Time shot for Penn Rifles it past Telex Polston at

1617
01:25:28,227 --> 01:25:32,507
Speaker 13: this time. That is the glory in futs what's a

1618
01:25:32,627 --> 01:25:33,747
Speaker 13: strike by.

1619
01:25:33,747 --> 01:25:37,147
Speaker 2: Chatlan Kevin Perth Glory one nil. Winners there Finally to

1620
01:25:37,187 --> 01:25:40,627
Speaker 2: the FA Cup. It took one hundred and twelve minutes

1621
01:25:40,907 --> 01:25:44,307
Speaker 2: for Stoke City and Sunderland to find a winner in

1622
01:25:44,347 --> 01:25:49,187
Speaker 2: their third round match. Edis driving forward here with a reel.

1623
01:25:49,107 --> 01:25:53,667
Speaker 17: Chair scorekeeper committed himself and Ennis Strokes it home at

1624
01:25:53,787 --> 01:25:57,707
Speaker 17: Stoked City in front for the second time today Jake

1625
01:25:57,787 --> 01:26:00,627
Speaker 17: Smart Robbins a step closer to a Round four of.

1626
01:26:00,587 --> 01:26:03,667
Speaker 2: This season's FA Cup, Stoke advancing two to one, and

1627
01:26:03,787 --> 01:26:07,627
Speaker 2: Manchester City relentless against Salford City.

1628
01:26:07,547 --> 01:26:10,787
Speaker 1: Worked it to Grealish passes it in and the has

1629
01:26:10,907 --> 01:26:13,987
Speaker 1: number eight and it's a It's.

1630
01:26:13,787 --> 01:26:15,787
Speaker 9: A great feeling for.

1631
01:26:15,827 --> 01:26:19,307
Speaker 17: James bucker Tee who gets himself up on to his feet.

1632
01:26:19,427 --> 01:26:20,507
Speaker 3: Hav he's got a hatchet.

1633
01:26:21,987 --> 01:26:24,627
Speaker 1: The suits from the trag field and the court on

1634
01:26:24,747 --> 01:26:29,267
Speaker 1: your home of Sport Weekend Sport with Jason Vine's talking.

1635
01:26:29,987 --> 01:26:34,547
Speaker 16: And they will get it foremo Suspina Spain claims season four.

1636
01:26:35,307 --> 01:26:38,987
Speaker 2: It is official. That was the moment Spain clinched the

1637
01:26:39,027 --> 01:26:42,547
Speaker 2: sale GP title last year and what was season four?

1638
01:26:42,987 --> 01:26:46,307
Speaker 2: Season five is underway New Zealand winning the season opener

1639
01:26:46,627 --> 01:26:49,387
Speaker 2: in Dubai at the back end of last year. Event

1640
01:26:49,467 --> 01:26:55,627
Speaker 2: to sale GP Auckland next weekend. Huge anticipation around about

1641
01:26:55,627 --> 01:27:00,587
Speaker 2: this event. Sam Meach is Blackfoil's coach. He joins us. Now, Sam,

1642
01:27:00,747 --> 01:27:03,187
Speaker 2: what will the week ahead look like as you head

1643
01:27:03,227 --> 01:27:05,947
Speaker 2: towards sale GP in Auckland next weekend.

1644
01:27:06,867 --> 01:27:08,387
Speaker 18: It's a big week for us. We've had a lot

1645
01:27:08,387 --> 01:27:10,867
Speaker 18: of sailing days. Usually we only get a couple of

1646
01:27:10,947 --> 01:27:13,347
Speaker 18: days practice before the racing starts, and this week we've

1647
01:27:13,347 --> 01:27:16,467
Speaker 18: got all week. So we've got new foils coming on

1648
01:27:16,507 --> 01:27:18,747
Speaker 18: line with two foils, so there's gonna be a lot

1649
01:27:18,787 --> 01:27:21,307
Speaker 18: to learn and a lot of a lot of analyzing

1650
01:27:21,347 --> 01:27:23,347
Speaker 18: and debriefing. How the boat's going with the with the

1651
01:27:23,347 --> 01:27:23,907
Speaker 18: new equipment.

1652
01:27:23,987 --> 01:27:26,667
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, tell us about that, the new foils. You know,

1653
01:27:27,107 --> 01:27:29,547
Speaker 2: I guess that there's probably some jargon that most of

1654
01:27:29,627 --> 01:27:32,827
Speaker 2: us won't understand. But in general terms, does it does

1655
01:27:32,907 --> 01:27:33,947
Speaker 2: it mean you'll go faster?

1656
01:27:34,707 --> 01:27:35,107
Speaker 6: It does?

1657
01:27:35,147 --> 01:27:38,107
Speaker 18: That's exactly what it means. The boats are going to

1658
01:27:38,147 --> 01:27:40,827
Speaker 18: be quicker and the racing just that little bit more exciting.

1659
01:27:40,867 --> 01:27:43,627
Speaker 18: But it's it's a lot the teams to learn in

1660
01:27:43,707 --> 01:27:46,267
Speaker 18: just a few days before racing. So yeah, it's very

1661
01:27:46,307 --> 01:27:49,347
Speaker 18: exciting and we're looking forward to challenge.

1662
01:27:49,667 --> 01:27:54,267
Speaker 2: What will the learning process be? What what is it

1663
01:27:54,307 --> 01:27:57,147
Speaker 2: that you really have to try and perfect in the

1664
01:27:57,187 --> 01:27:58,587
Speaker 2: next six or seven days.

1665
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Speaker 18: Well, it's essentially it's it's not going to be too different.

1666
01:28:02,587 --> 01:28:04,187
Speaker 18: It's just the boat's going to react a little bit

1667
01:28:04,267 --> 01:28:08,067
Speaker 18: and like you say, quicker speeds and the maneuvers will

1668
01:28:08,107 --> 01:28:09,827
Speaker 18: all feel a little bit different. So it's going to

1669
01:28:09,867 --> 01:28:12,347
Speaker 18: be a lot of work, especially for the wing trimmer

1670
01:28:12,467 --> 01:28:15,627
Speaker 18: and and the flight controller to kind of just get

1671
01:28:15,667 --> 01:28:18,867
Speaker 18: in sync and see how it behaves differently to the older,

1672
01:28:18,867 --> 01:28:22,547
Speaker 18: older foils. And then you know, these boats have so

1673
01:28:22,627 --> 01:28:24,307
Speaker 18: much data coming off them that will be able to

1674
01:28:24,427 --> 01:28:27,307
Speaker 18: really look into everything and compare how the other boat's

1675
01:28:27,347 --> 01:28:27,907
Speaker 18: going as well.

1676
01:28:28,307 --> 01:28:31,907
Speaker 2: At higher speed. Are the margins for era smaller?

1677
01:28:33,227 --> 01:28:35,627
Speaker 18: Oh, they definitely are. And you've got to think so

1678
01:28:35,747 --> 01:28:37,787
Speaker 18: far ahead before you make a decision. You know, you're

1679
01:28:39,187 --> 01:28:41,027
Speaker 18: you know the strategists and the how and I've got

1680
01:28:41,027 --> 01:28:43,507
Speaker 18: to have their plan before they go around the mark,

1681
01:28:43,747 --> 01:28:46,467
Speaker 18: and they've got to know exactly what they're going to do, because, yeah,

1682
01:28:46,667 --> 01:28:49,227
Speaker 18: your decisions, decisions seem to be so far advanced now

1683
01:28:49,227 --> 01:28:49,907
Speaker 18: you're going this quick.

1684
01:28:50,667 --> 01:28:54,387
Speaker 2: So Dubai a winning start in the first event of

1685
01:28:54,627 --> 01:28:56,987
Speaker 2: the new season. What were your big sort of lessons

1686
01:28:56,987 --> 01:28:58,587
Speaker 2: and takeaways from from Dubai?

1687
01:28:59,947 --> 01:29:00,067
Speaker 3: Oh?

1688
01:29:00,147 --> 01:29:02,627
Speaker 18: I think Devi just showed how how close the racing is,

1689
01:29:02,627 --> 01:29:05,587
Speaker 18: you know, like a mixed up teams winning pretty much

1690
01:29:05,587 --> 01:29:06,307
Speaker 18: every different race.

1691
01:29:07,467 --> 01:29:09,827
Speaker 6: Just little things, small margins.

1692
01:29:09,387 --> 01:29:11,947
Speaker 18: Like you say, seem to make the difference, and you

1693
01:29:12,027 --> 01:29:14,347
Speaker 18: know it's going to be a very competitive season.

1694
01:29:14,947 --> 01:29:17,747
Speaker 2: Some new faces aboard the Black Floors this year, yours

1695
01:29:17,747 --> 01:29:23,027
Speaker 2: included obviously, how's the integration gone for you? For starter, Sam,

1696
01:29:23,027 --> 01:29:25,427
Speaker 2: have you enjoyed your integration? I know you know these

1697
01:29:25,427 --> 01:29:27,707
Speaker 2: guys pretty well and girls pretty well, but how's the

1698
01:29:27,707 --> 01:29:29,467
Speaker 2: integration gone into the Black floors for you?

1699
01:29:30,427 --> 01:29:30,707
Speaker 19: Yeah?

1700
01:29:30,827 --> 01:29:33,307
Speaker 18: I mean I know everyone really well. We've been sailing

1701
01:29:33,347 --> 01:29:36,347
Speaker 18: against and with each other for probably ten ten or

1702
01:29:36,387 --> 01:29:39,347
Speaker 18: so years now, so that was good. But it's a

1703
01:29:39,347 --> 01:29:43,267
Speaker 18: different format, it's a different style of sailing that I'm

1704
01:29:43,307 --> 01:29:45,387
Speaker 18: used to, and it was a big week in to

1705
01:29:45,427 --> 01:29:47,427
Speaker 18: buy for me, trying to trying to learn the roads,

1706
01:29:47,507 --> 01:29:52,427
Speaker 18: learn the technology, and I think this week will be

1707
01:29:52,507 --> 01:29:54,307
Speaker 18: really cool to try and cement what I learned and

1708
01:29:54,987 --> 01:29:57,947
Speaker 18: move forward. And we've also got Leo taking on the

1709
01:29:57,987 --> 01:30:01,707
Speaker 18: flight control, so it's his second event as well, so

1710
01:30:01,987 --> 01:30:05,827
Speaker 18: I know it's exciting. We're learning lots and yeah, developing

1711
01:30:05,947 --> 01:30:06,267
Speaker 18: the team.

1712
01:30:06,587 --> 01:30:08,987
Speaker 2: How steep would the learning curve have been for Leo

1713
01:30:09,227 --> 01:30:11,547
Speaker 2: taker Hashi as the new flight controller.

1714
01:30:12,427 --> 01:30:15,027
Speaker 18: I think he's a great sailor and he's actually done

1715
01:30:15,267 --> 01:30:17,707
Speaker 18: done quite a bit before, but it's different if your

1716
01:30:17,707 --> 01:30:20,867
Speaker 18: team sales slightly differently. And yeah, I think he's done

1717
01:30:20,867 --> 01:30:23,627
Speaker 18: a lot of work looking looking at the data and

1718
01:30:23,827 --> 01:30:26,507
Speaker 18: spending his time reading all the team's notes, and I

1719
01:30:26,547 --> 01:30:29,987
Speaker 18: mean this team is so organized and well structured that

1720
01:30:30,987 --> 01:30:32,747
Speaker 18: I think he had a lot of good information coming

1721
01:30:32,747 --> 01:30:35,107
Speaker 18: in and obviously was able to do a fantastic job

1722
01:30:35,147 --> 01:30:36,187
Speaker 18: for the team at the first event.

1723
01:30:36,667 --> 01:30:40,147
Speaker 2: What are the real specifics of your role, Sam as coach?

1724
01:30:41,547 --> 01:30:44,107
Speaker 18: Well, the really cool thing about these events is as

1725
01:30:44,187 --> 01:30:46,467
Speaker 18: the coach, you can talk to the athletes on the water.

1726
01:30:47,347 --> 01:30:49,507
Speaker 18: So you've got a microphone and you've got a foot

1727
01:30:49,507 --> 01:30:52,587
Speaker 18: pedal and you can have back and forth conversations during

1728
01:30:52,627 --> 01:30:55,827
Speaker 18: the race, which is completely different to any other sort

1729
01:30:55,827 --> 01:30:59,067
Speaker 18: of coaching I've tried to before. So even just learning

1730
01:30:59,067 --> 01:31:01,947
Speaker 18: that that technology and how to use it and the

1731
01:31:01,987 --> 01:31:04,107
Speaker 18: timing of when to use it so you're providing good

1732
01:31:04,107 --> 01:31:07,907
Speaker 18: information to the boat. We can see a lot, you know,

1733
01:31:07,947 --> 01:31:11,067
Speaker 18: from off the water, and you know you've got all

1734
01:31:11,067 --> 01:31:13,187
Speaker 18: the data coming off the boat. So it's it's pretty

1735
01:31:13,187 --> 01:31:16,107
Speaker 18: exciting and I really think it's a cool challenge.

1736
01:31:15,907 --> 01:31:19,547
Speaker 2: That must be so interesting for you because who do

1737
01:31:19,587 --> 01:31:22,067
Speaker 2: you talk to everybody? Do you talk to Peter Berling, Blairchuke,

1738
01:31:22,147 --> 01:31:24,867
Speaker 2: do you talk to Leo? Do you talk to live Mackay?

1739
01:31:25,347 --> 01:31:27,227
Speaker 2: Who do you talk to me? And how do you

1740
01:31:27,267 --> 01:31:30,227
Speaker 2: decide when they can all hear me?

1741
01:31:31,347 --> 01:31:33,747
Speaker 18: So you want to you want to try and time

1742
01:31:33,827 --> 01:31:36,307
Speaker 18: it well and and like you know, there's a lot

1743
01:31:36,347 --> 01:31:37,947
Speaker 18: of a lot of conversation on the boat, but you

1744
01:31:38,307 --> 01:31:40,947
Speaker 18: really need to make sure it's your targets and at

1745
01:31:40,947 --> 01:31:43,187
Speaker 18: the right times and not trying to speak when someone

1746
01:31:43,187 --> 01:31:47,467
Speaker 18: else is speaking. So like it is, it's quite a

1747
01:31:47,587 --> 01:31:51,107
Speaker 18: it's quite a challenge to you know, work with everyone

1748
01:31:51,147 --> 01:31:53,507
Speaker 18: and work out what needs to be said by who

1749
01:31:53,547 --> 01:31:57,027
Speaker 18: and when and you know, it's it's cool being able

1750
01:31:57,027 --> 01:31:58,547
Speaker 18: to talk to them, but yeah, if you provide the

1751
01:31:58,947 --> 01:32:01,987
Speaker 18: wrong information or the right information but at the wrong time, you.

1752
01:32:01,947 --> 01:32:03,587
Speaker 8: Know, it's it's actually going to make things harder.

1753
01:32:03,627 --> 01:32:06,867
Speaker 18: So yeah, if the team works a lot on the

1754
01:32:06,907 --> 01:32:10,187
Speaker 18: communication across the boat and you're having having coach in

1755
01:32:10,187 --> 01:32:12,707
Speaker 18: the booth who's having to contribute to that, it's quite

1756
01:32:12,707 --> 01:32:13,187
Speaker 18: good fun.

1757
01:32:13,347 --> 01:32:16,987
Speaker 2: Absolutely on the boat. Is Peter Burling the driver, Is

1758
01:32:16,987 --> 01:32:19,027
Speaker 2: he the one who who talks the most or not?

1759
01:32:20,427 --> 01:32:23,347
Speaker 18: It's actually it's actually a pretty even balance across the boat.

1760
01:32:24,067 --> 01:32:27,547
Speaker 18: Pete Pete probably does speak the most, but you know,

1761
01:32:27,587 --> 01:32:29,907
Speaker 18: you've got live feeding in a lot of strategy, and

1762
01:32:29,947 --> 01:32:33,187
Speaker 18: then Blair talking a lot about like how the boat

1763
01:32:33,187 --> 01:32:35,787
Speaker 18: feels and the speed and what he can see coming,

1764
01:32:36,387 --> 01:32:38,947
Speaker 18: and then you've got the booths adding kind of tactical

1765
01:32:38,947 --> 01:32:42,867
Speaker 18: information from an overlay from that. So it's yeah, everyone

1766
01:32:42,907 --> 01:32:45,107
Speaker 18: really does have to pull their weight for the team

1767
01:32:45,147 --> 01:32:46,867
Speaker 18: to be able to sell these boats as quick as

1768
01:32:46,907 --> 01:32:48,787
Speaker 18: they do, and they made the right decisions.

1769
01:32:49,387 --> 01:32:52,947
Speaker 2: Sol GP, it's a it's tremendously exciting to watch and

1770
01:32:52,987 --> 01:32:56,507
Speaker 2: I'm sure to sail and the start, Sam, how important

1771
01:32:56,747 --> 01:33:00,267
Speaker 2: is the race start? In cell gph.

1772
01:33:00,387 --> 01:33:03,107
Speaker 18: In every sailing race, the start is everything. You know,

1773
01:33:03,387 --> 01:33:05,227
Speaker 18: if you can if you can get it around that

1774
01:33:05,547 --> 01:33:08,867
Speaker 18: first mark and shape, then you know the race is

1775
01:33:08,907 --> 01:33:11,067
Speaker 18: actually pretty easy. But if you're around in the mid back,

1776
01:33:11,267 --> 01:33:14,147
Speaker 18: you know, if you're in somewhere around third or fifth,

1777
01:33:14,547 --> 01:33:16,707
Speaker 18: then life is very hard. And it's it's it's just

1778
01:33:16,747 --> 01:33:19,227
Speaker 18: as easy to move backwards as as to go forwards.

1779
01:33:19,227 --> 01:33:22,507
Speaker 18: And if you make run wrong decision, then it's very

1780
01:33:22,507 --> 01:33:24,867
Speaker 18: easy to go backwards. So if you don't get off

1781
01:33:24,907 --> 01:33:26,867
Speaker 18: that start line, then you know you've got a very

1782
01:33:26,867 --> 01:33:27,627
Speaker 18: hard race ahead.

1783
01:33:28,067 --> 01:33:29,667
Speaker 2: What's the course like in Auckland.

1784
01:33:30,827 --> 01:33:33,587
Speaker 18: It's going to be tight racing. You know, the Auckland

1785
01:33:33,627 --> 01:33:35,747
Speaker 18: harbor is pretty small, so it's going to be it's

1786
01:33:35,747 --> 01:33:38,347
Speaker 18: gonna be pretty action packed and that starts going to

1787
01:33:38,347 --> 01:33:39,547
Speaker 18: be absolutely critical.

1788
01:33:40,107 --> 01:33:42,747
Speaker 2: And in terms of racing in your home events, I

1789
01:33:42,787 --> 01:33:44,147
Speaker 2: know there are a lot of races you get to

1790
01:33:44,347 --> 01:33:46,627
Speaker 2: go to a lot of cool places, but is there

1791
01:33:46,707 --> 01:33:49,507
Speaker 2: something a little bit extra special about your home event.

1792
01:33:50,387 --> 01:33:54,467
Speaker 18: Oh, it's so special, and it's to race in front

1793
01:33:54,467 --> 01:33:57,427
Speaker 18: of our home fans is something that you always dream of.

1794
01:33:58,547 --> 01:34:00,547
Speaker 18: So yeah, we're very excited to have be ab to

1795
01:34:00,547 --> 01:34:04,067
Speaker 18: host these eleven other teams and get racing this weekend,

1796
01:34:04,227 --> 01:34:04,707
Speaker 18: do you reckon?

1797
01:34:04,747 --> 01:34:07,027
Speaker 2: The Black Flails are favorites and not just for this

1798
01:34:07,067 --> 01:34:08,147
Speaker 2: event but for the whole thing.

1799
01:34:09,987 --> 01:34:14,027
Speaker 18: I mean it's a very strong team. I you know,

1800
01:34:14,187 --> 01:34:17,387
Speaker 18: obviously they performed well last year, but things things changing

1801
01:34:17,427 --> 01:34:20,227
Speaker 18: like foils and new people. But yeah, I think I

1802
01:34:20,227 --> 01:34:23,307
Speaker 18: think we've got always got a strong chance every race

1803
01:34:23,307 --> 01:34:25,547
Speaker 18: week start on the start line.

1804
01:34:25,707 --> 01:34:27,747
Speaker 2: Well, can't wait for next weekend Sam. It's going to

1805
01:34:27,747 --> 01:34:30,107
Speaker 2: be such a spectacle. I've seen the grand stand going up,

1806
01:34:30,147 --> 01:34:34,347
Speaker 2: within eight thousand people in a grand stand watching close up. Look,

1807
01:34:34,547 --> 01:34:36,307
Speaker 2: it's going to be a truefic event. Thanks so much

1808
01:34:36,307 --> 01:34:38,267
Speaker 2: for joining us on weekend Sport. All the best for

1809
01:34:38,307 --> 01:34:40,067
Speaker 2: the week ahead and done, and all the best for

1810
01:34:40,067 --> 01:34:43,187
Speaker 2: Auckland next weekend. Looking forward to it, well, looking forward

1811
01:34:43,187 --> 01:34:45,747
Speaker 2: to it to Sam. Thanks indeed, Sam Meach there, coach

1812
01:34:45,787 --> 01:34:48,947
Speaker 2: of the Black Foil. So Sale GP Auckland next Saturday

1813
01:34:49,067 --> 01:34:55,427
Speaker 2: and Sunday at win yard Point. Just just absolutely really

1814
01:34:55,507 --> 01:34:58,747
Speaker 2: looking forward to this. We went to christ Church last

1815
01:34:58,787 --> 01:35:01,587
Speaker 2: year for Sale GP and you'll probably remember there was

1816
01:35:01,627 --> 01:35:03,707
Speaker 2: no racing on the Saturday, but on the Sunday it

1817
01:35:03,787 --> 01:35:06,547
Speaker 2: was just spectacular and said to be exactly the same

1818
01:35:06,947 --> 01:35:10,027
Speaker 2: when SALGP hits Auckland next Saturday and Sunday afternoon. So

1819
01:35:10,107 --> 01:35:12,947
Speaker 2: join us on Weekend Sport for all the color, the

1820
01:35:13,027 --> 01:35:17,187
Speaker 2: insight the key participants as they all join us on

1821
01:35:17,227 --> 01:35:21,107
Speaker 2: the show next Saturday and Sunday afternoon to twenty two.

1822
01:35:21,387 --> 01:35:23,747
Speaker 2: Let's take a break when we come back across to Melbourne,

1823
01:35:23,787 --> 01:35:27,267
Speaker 2: will go. The Australian Tennis Open for twenty twenty five

1824
01:35:27,387 --> 01:35:30,587
Speaker 2: is underway. Craig Gabriel going to pick his favorites for

1825
01:35:30,667 --> 01:35:31,547
Speaker 2: us when we come back.

1826
01:35:32,307 --> 01:35:36,027
Speaker 1: The tough questions off the turf. Weekend Sport with Jason

1827
01:35:36,107 --> 01:35:40,507
Speaker 1: hin and GJ. Gunnerholmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder News.

1828
01:35:40,347 --> 01:35:44,027
Speaker 2: Talk V two twenty five from Belon Text up on

1829
01:35:44,067 --> 01:35:46,947
Speaker 2: it just hits up. The New Zealand super Stock champs

1830
01:35:46,947 --> 01:35:49,467
Speaker 2: are on this afternoon in Nelson. The first of three

1831
01:35:49,547 --> 01:35:51,987
Speaker 2: races was last night before being rained off final two

1832
01:35:52,067 --> 01:35:55,627
Speaker 2: races today. Maximum points from the races becomes the prized

1833
01:35:55,667 --> 01:35:57,947
Speaker 2: one in z Yes, I know they love their speedway

1834
01:35:57,947 --> 01:35:59,947
Speaker 2: and Nelson in fact right around the country. So all

1835
01:35:59,987 --> 01:36:02,507
Speaker 2: the best to the to the drivers in the New

1836
01:36:02,627 --> 01:36:07,427
Speaker 2: Zealand super Stock Championships. This afternoon in Nelson. The twenty

1837
01:36:07,507 --> 01:36:16,667
Speaker 2: twenty five Australian Tennis Open starts today fifteen.

1838
01:36:17,827 --> 01:36:22,947
Speaker 11: Three and set Sun stationed away to Janack Center.

1839
01:36:23,627 --> 01:36:28,947
Speaker 14: So in the Australian Open, here's Maldan Major chappins in Melbourne.

1840
01:36:31,867 --> 01:36:32,867
Speaker 11: They will never.

1841
01:36:34,387 --> 01:36:37,587
Speaker 2: So I get this name. That's Janick Center winning in

1842
01:36:37,747 --> 01:36:41,587
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. He is the top seed and obviously

1843
01:36:41,747 --> 01:36:45,787
Speaker 2: defending champion for twenty twenty five. Craig Gabriel joins US

1844
01:36:45,787 --> 01:36:48,587
Speaker 2: from Melbourne. Craig, before we look at the tournament, you've

1845
01:36:48,667 --> 01:36:51,947
Speaker 2: covered the Australian Open for quite some time. Your first one,

1846
01:36:52,347 --> 01:36:57,067
Speaker 2: as I understand it, nineteen eighty one. Johann Creek and

1847
01:36:57,267 --> 01:37:00,827
Speaker 2: Martina Navratilova were champions that year. You've covered them all

1848
01:37:01,427 --> 01:37:05,187
Speaker 2: since then. Is it your favorite major, the Australian Open.

1849
01:37:06,347 --> 01:37:08,827
Speaker 19: Well, it's certainly one of the highlights of the year,

1850
01:37:08,827 --> 01:37:10,827
Speaker 19: there's no two ways about it. There's this time of

1851
01:37:10,907 --> 01:37:14,227
Speaker 19: the year, the Australian summer period, and then I guess

1852
01:37:14,307 --> 01:37:16,827
Speaker 19: the other part would be middle of the year when

1853
01:37:16,867 --> 01:37:19,467
Speaker 19: we start with the French Open and finish with Wimbledon.

1854
01:37:19,507 --> 01:37:23,187
Speaker 19: I mean, that's also a really thrilling time to be

1855
01:37:23,467 --> 01:37:26,347
Speaker 19: on the tour. Look, there are a lot of highlights

1856
01:37:26,667 --> 01:37:29,547
Speaker 19: right through the season, but those are the two parts

1857
01:37:29,587 --> 01:37:30,467
Speaker 19: that really stand out.

1858
01:37:30,867 --> 01:37:32,947
Speaker 2: Let's look in my mind, yes and date. Let's look

1859
01:37:32,947 --> 01:37:36,307
Speaker 2: at the twenty twenty five means singles to start, means

1860
01:37:36,387 --> 01:37:39,547
Speaker 2: top seed, defending champion, Yannick Center, He's in first round

1861
01:37:39,587 --> 01:37:43,867
Speaker 2: action tomorrow. How firm a favorite do you assess him

1862
01:37:43,987 --> 01:37:44,147
Speaker 2: to be?

1863
01:37:45,667 --> 01:37:49,347
Speaker 19: I think he's certainly as the defending champion, as the

1864
01:37:49,427 --> 01:37:52,187
Speaker 19: world number one, and the incredible run that he had

1865
01:37:52,707 --> 01:37:55,587
Speaker 19: in twenty twenty four would have to make him the

1866
01:37:55,707 --> 01:38:00,467
Speaker 19: leading favorite. Certainly, there's a lot of other players that

1867
01:38:00,707 --> 01:38:04,147
Speaker 19: are in a perfect position to challenge him and challenge

1868
01:38:04,227 --> 01:38:04,907
Speaker 19: him incredibly.

1869
01:38:05,027 --> 01:38:09,627
Speaker 3: Well, it's difficult to exclude somebody.

1870
01:38:09,427 --> 01:38:12,787
Speaker 19: Like a ten time champion in Novak Djokovic, who is

1871
01:38:12,987 --> 01:38:16,467
Speaker 19: this year trying to also win his twenty fifth major,

1872
01:38:16,507 --> 01:38:19,187
Speaker 19: which would break the record he shares with Margaret Court,

1873
01:38:19,747 --> 01:38:22,667
Speaker 19: and he's I guess he could go with the slogan

1874
01:38:22,747 --> 01:38:27,267
Speaker 19: of twenty five in twenty five near Carlos al karaz

1875
01:38:27,827 --> 01:38:31,187
Speaker 19: who won two of the four majors along with Sinner

1876
01:38:31,307 --> 01:38:35,587
Speaker 19: last year. And you know Alexander Zverev trying to make

1877
01:38:35,707 --> 01:38:38,187
Speaker 19: that break through to finally win a major. He's been

1878
01:38:38,227 --> 01:38:40,787
Speaker 19: in the US Open final it was the COVID year

1879
01:38:41,387 --> 01:38:45,467
Speaker 19: on one occasion. So you know, as far as hard

1880
01:38:45,507 --> 01:38:48,507
Speaker 19: court finals are concerned, So you know, there are a

1881
01:38:48,587 --> 01:38:51,667
Speaker 19: lot of players that are in there in the mix,

1882
01:38:52,147 --> 01:38:55,067
Speaker 19: but certainly Sinna would be the main favorite.

1883
01:38:55,387 --> 01:38:57,467
Speaker 2: Yeah, he won, as you say, last year, the Estriday

1884
01:38:57,467 --> 01:38:59,627
Speaker 2: and open end the US Open. What makes you anicksin

1885
01:38:59,667 --> 01:39:01,867
Speaker 2: a so effective on hard courts?

1886
01:39:04,387 --> 01:39:10,507
Speaker 19: Look, I think his powers each his mind and good

1887
01:39:10,587 --> 01:39:13,067
Speaker 19: people around him. I mean I know both his coaches

1888
01:39:13,147 --> 01:39:16,427
Speaker 19: pretty well. Dan Calee has been a long long time

1889
01:39:16,547 --> 01:39:20,627
Speaker 19: friend and more recently Simoni Vagnozzi, who's a really good guy.

1890
01:39:21,947 --> 01:39:25,507
Speaker 19: And what I think is so impressive with Yannick is

1891
01:39:25,627 --> 01:39:29,387
Speaker 19: that mindset that he's got. There's so much stuff going

1892
01:39:29,467 --> 01:39:33,467
Speaker 19: on around him at the moment, the controversies with Water

1893
01:39:33,627 --> 01:39:36,747
Speaker 19: et cetera, which I refer to as what a dysfunctional

1894
01:39:36,787 --> 01:39:41,467
Speaker 19: authority that is, and you know, for him to still

1895
01:39:41,547 --> 01:39:44,227
Speaker 19: have that mental strength to go through and win a

1896
01:39:44,387 --> 01:39:48,587
Speaker 19: US Open with that controversy and the year end championships

1897
01:39:48,627 --> 01:39:51,147
Speaker 19: and tak the Davis Cup will lead it lead to

1898
01:39:51,187 --> 01:39:52,587
Speaker 19: the Davis Cup championship.

1899
01:39:52,987 --> 01:39:54,347
Speaker 3: That's incredibly impressive.

1900
01:39:54,987 --> 01:39:58,107
Speaker 2: Tamos Elkris won Wimbledon and the French Open last year

1901
01:39:58,187 --> 01:40:02,067
Speaker 2: but has never got past the quarterfinals in Melbourne? Could

1902
01:40:02,147 --> 01:40:03,067
Speaker 2: he this year?

1903
01:40:03,147 --> 01:40:04,787
Speaker 3: Should he this year? Absolutely?

1904
01:40:05,547 --> 01:40:05,747
Speaker 14: Yeah?

1905
01:40:07,507 --> 01:40:10,307
Speaker 3: Consider how incredible this young man is.

1906
01:40:10,907 --> 01:40:14,547
Speaker 19: He's twenty one and he's got the chance of claiming

1907
01:40:14,707 --> 01:40:17,307
Speaker 19: a career Grand Slam. This is the only one of

1908
01:40:17,387 --> 01:40:20,867
Speaker 19: the four that he hasn't won the Australian Open. But

1909
01:40:21,027 --> 01:40:23,587
Speaker 19: to think that at the by the age of twenty one,

1910
01:40:23,827 --> 01:40:27,467
Speaker 19: he turns twenty to the beginning of May to achieve.

1911
01:40:27,267 --> 01:40:30,187
Speaker 3: Something like that, that is really phenomenal.

1912
01:40:30,347 --> 01:40:34,787
Speaker 19: And he's such a down to earth, humble individual, just

1913
01:40:34,947 --> 01:40:39,787
Speaker 19: like Yannick is in fact that, Yeah, he's in with

1914
01:40:39,907 --> 01:40:42,787
Speaker 19: a shot big time, and he's changed his service motion

1915
01:40:42,907 --> 01:40:46,267
Speaker 19: as well, and he's sporting this new haircut which is

1916
01:40:46,667 --> 01:40:49,707
Speaker 19: short back insides. He had his haircut and then he

1917
01:40:49,747 --> 01:40:51,667
Speaker 19: said he thought after three days that had grown a

1918
01:40:51,707 --> 01:40:54,907
Speaker 19: bit that he would have had to cut again. So yeah,

1919
01:40:55,267 --> 01:40:57,027
Speaker 19: some of these guys, seriously.

1920
01:40:57,547 --> 01:41:00,147
Speaker 2: Novak Djokovitch LEAs talk about the ten time chanion twenty

1921
01:41:00,187 --> 01:41:02,147
Speaker 2: five and twenty five, as you say, could be his slogan.

1922
01:41:02,187 --> 01:41:05,587
Speaker 2: He's only the seventh seed. What do you predict for

1923
01:41:05,707 --> 01:41:06,787
Speaker 2: Novak and twenty five.

1924
01:41:08,747 --> 01:41:10,827
Speaker 19: Well, he said he's got. He's playing more tournaments this

1925
01:41:10,947 --> 01:41:12,787
Speaker 19: year than he did last year. Last year he had

1926
01:41:12,867 --> 01:41:15,307
Speaker 19: one focus. I mean, obviously he'd want to win any

1927
01:41:15,387 --> 01:41:17,987
Speaker 19: major that he was in, but he had one focus

1928
01:41:18,067 --> 01:41:20,027
Speaker 19: and that was to win the Olympic gold medal, which

1929
01:41:20,067 --> 01:41:24,747
Speaker 19: he ended up doing in Paris. So I think he's

1930
01:41:25,107 --> 01:41:28,667
Speaker 19: probably got, you know, the monkey off his back. You know,

1931
01:41:28,827 --> 01:41:32,867
Speaker 19: there's no nothing on his shoulders, and he has to

1932
01:41:32,947 --> 01:41:36,747
Speaker 19: be considered a threat at any one of these you know,

1933
01:41:37,147 --> 01:41:40,467
Speaker 19: he's not Joe Smoe from Provo. Let's face it. You know,

1934
01:41:40,627 --> 01:41:44,347
Speaker 19: he's arguably the greatest tennis player that's ever lived, and

1935
01:41:45,427 --> 01:41:48,107
Speaker 19: he has to be in with a chance on any

1936
01:41:48,187 --> 01:41:51,467
Speaker 19: of these majors. And taking on and taking Andy Murray

1937
01:41:51,547 --> 01:41:56,187
Speaker 19: on board. I think everybody's curious to see how that

1938
01:41:56,947 --> 01:42:00,867
Speaker 19: pans out, that relationship. They're one week apart in birthdays,

1939
01:42:01,227 --> 01:42:04,627
Speaker 19: they're at the same age, and you know, he says

1940
01:42:04,867 --> 01:42:09,027
Speaker 19: Andy was one of his greatest and knows his game

1941
01:42:09,627 --> 01:42:12,787
Speaker 19: inside out, back to front, upside down, every which way.

1942
01:42:13,387 --> 01:42:15,867
Speaker 3: And you know he's also still played a lot of

1943
01:42:15,907 --> 01:42:22,067
Speaker 3: the younger ones. So he's he's a good, good brain

1944
01:42:22,507 --> 01:42:25,107
Speaker 3: for Novak to add to his own brain.

1945
01:42:25,707 --> 01:42:27,947
Speaker 2: Just before we move to the woman, Nick Carrios, the

1946
01:42:27,987 --> 01:42:30,587
Speaker 2: crowds will turn up to watch. I'm sure John Kine

1947
01:42:30,587 --> 01:42:35,267
Speaker 2: Arena tomorrow night. How deep do you think Nick Carrios

1948
01:42:35,547 --> 01:42:35,907
Speaker 2: could go?

1949
01:42:38,427 --> 01:42:41,707
Speaker 3: Nick is taking on the mantle of the human headline.

1950
01:42:41,907 --> 01:42:42,667
Speaker 3: He really is.

1951
01:42:43,387 --> 01:42:45,467
Speaker 19: I mean, I love Nick, but Nick needs to stop

1952
01:42:45,587 --> 01:42:49,107
Speaker 19: with all this stuff regarding Sinner. It's not doing himself

1953
01:42:49,187 --> 01:42:53,667
Speaker 19: any favors. And he's the only one voicing all this stuff,

1954
01:42:54,507 --> 01:42:58,227
Speaker 19: his these views and opinions on Sinner, and I think

1955
01:42:58,307 --> 01:43:01,187
Speaker 19: that maybe may just detract something from him.

1956
01:43:02,187 --> 01:43:03,267
Speaker 3: You know, I love Nick.

1957
01:43:03,347 --> 01:43:07,027
Speaker 19: I've known him since he was a kid, and he's

1958
01:43:07,387 --> 01:43:12,027
Speaker 19: incredibly talented. He is thrilling to watch. He's so exciting.

1959
01:43:13,067 --> 01:43:17,067
Speaker 19: He is Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. You don't know

1960
01:43:17,147 --> 01:43:21,227
Speaker 19: what you're going to get, seriously, so I would expect

1961
01:43:21,307 --> 01:43:24,987
Speaker 19: him to get through. Jacob Fernley of Great Britain, who

1962
01:43:25,307 --> 01:43:28,027
Speaker 19: was saying yesterday that he's excited for these sort of

1963
01:43:28,107 --> 01:43:31,427
Speaker 19: opportunities and he admitted to being a big fan of

1964
01:43:31,587 --> 01:43:32,387
Speaker 19: Nick Curios's.

1965
01:43:32,947 --> 01:43:34,627
Speaker 3: So look, Nick will get through.

1966
01:43:34,707 --> 01:43:36,387
Speaker 19: I think he's got the ability to get through to

1967
01:43:36,467 --> 01:43:38,267
Speaker 19: the third round at this stage.

1968
01:43:38,387 --> 01:43:41,627
Speaker 3: And then more than likely he'll run into Alexander.

1969
01:43:41,067 --> 01:43:46,427
Speaker 2: Sverret Arena Sabalinka, two time defending champion in the women's

1970
01:43:46,467 --> 01:43:50,107
Speaker 2: headlining the opening night session on Rod Labor tonight. What

1971
01:43:50,507 --> 01:43:54,827
Speaker 2: chance she makes at three in a row, Well.

1972
01:43:55,907 --> 01:43:59,347
Speaker 19: Very very few women in the Open era have done that,

1973
01:43:59,747 --> 01:44:03,027
Speaker 19: to win three Australian Opens in a row. The last

1974
01:44:03,067 --> 01:44:07,147
Speaker 19: one was Martina Hingetz in nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, you've

1975
01:44:07,147 --> 01:44:13,947
Speaker 19: got the likes of Yvonne Gulagong, Stephie, Martina. It's pretty

1976
01:44:13,987 --> 01:44:17,707
Speaker 19: amazing company to be in. And yes, she's got the

1977
01:44:17,827 --> 01:44:21,907
Speaker 19: ability to do it. I think the draw she's got

1978
01:44:22,187 --> 01:44:25,587
Speaker 19: is not too bad. She's got Sloan Stevens in the

1979
01:44:25,667 --> 01:44:29,627
Speaker 19: first round tonight, and you know, while Sloane Stevens was

1980
01:44:29,667 --> 01:44:33,947
Speaker 19: an amazing player reached won the US Open Championship a

1981
01:44:34,027 --> 01:44:37,347
Speaker 19: few years ago, she's not the player that she once was.

1982
01:44:38,067 --> 01:44:41,467
Speaker 3: So while there may be a couple of tricky moments

1983
01:44:41,547 --> 01:44:42,347
Speaker 3: in that, I.

1984
01:44:42,427 --> 01:44:46,027
Speaker 19: Don't expect Staberlenka to lose that match, and I think,

1985
01:44:47,067 --> 01:44:49,707
Speaker 19: you know, looking at her draw, I think it opens

1986
01:44:49,787 --> 01:44:52,267
Speaker 19: up pretty well, should open up pretty well for her,

1987
01:44:52,827 --> 01:44:55,667
Speaker 19: and it would not surprise me if she joined that

1988
01:44:55,787 --> 01:44:59,027
Speaker 19: club and won the championship for a third year in

1989
01:44:59,107 --> 01:44:59,427
Speaker 19: a row.

1990
01:44:59,747 --> 01:45:02,107
Speaker 2: Of those who might challenge your third, said Coco Golf

1991
01:45:02,187 --> 01:45:05,667
Speaker 2: second seed Igasfionti both played tomorrow, are either the main

1992
01:45:05,867 --> 01:45:08,067
Speaker 2: two d I think, Craig, or is there somebody else

1993
01:45:08,107 --> 01:45:10,827
Speaker 2: who might might go quite deep and challenge challenge?

1994
01:45:10,827 --> 01:45:11,147
Speaker 14: Are in it?

1995
01:45:12,187 --> 01:45:15,027
Speaker 19: Oko is the challenge and they're in the same half

1996
01:45:15,067 --> 01:45:19,067
Speaker 19: of the draw, but they wouldn't meet till the semi finals,

1997
01:45:19,107 --> 01:45:22,227
Speaker 19: and that's really where I think the main challenge would

1998
01:45:22,227 --> 01:45:26,987
Speaker 19: be for work for saber Lenka. And as far as

1999
01:45:27,067 --> 01:45:29,307
Speaker 19: egishe and take us concerned, the only time she can

2000
01:45:29,387 --> 01:45:31,627
Speaker 19: meet her would be in the final. So it's no

2001
01:45:31,747 --> 01:45:34,947
Speaker 19: point Saberlenka even thinking about her at this stage when

2002
01:45:35,387 --> 01:45:37,427
Speaker 19: the first ball hasn't even been struck.

2003
01:45:38,267 --> 01:45:40,747
Speaker 2: Two intriguing weeks of tennis ahead. Craig, thank you so

2004
01:45:40,867 --> 01:45:42,747
Speaker 2: much for joining us for a preview. Look forward to

2005
01:45:42,747 --> 01:45:44,187
Speaker 2: your coverage across the next fortnight.

2006
01:45:44,547 --> 01:45:45,707
Speaker 3: Thanks Jason, looks forward to it.

2007
01:45:45,827 --> 01:45:47,787
Speaker 2: Yeah, we look forward to it to Craig. Thanks someday, Craig.

2008
01:45:47,907 --> 01:45:50,427
Speaker 2: Gabriel There from Melbourn where the Australian Tennis Open is

2009
01:45:50,627 --> 01:45:53,507
Speaker 2: underway and over the next couple of weeks, we look

2010
01:45:53,547 --> 01:45:55,987
Speaker 2: forward to the storylines being written in both the men's

2011
01:45:56,027 --> 01:45:59,827
Speaker 2: and women's singles. Lulu Sun incidentally will play tomorrow. She

2012
01:45:59,987 --> 01:46:03,187
Speaker 2: has her first round match in the women's singles tomorrow

2013
01:46:03,707 --> 01:46:07,067
Speaker 2: twenty five to three. We'll take a break after this football.

2014
01:46:07,427 --> 01:46:09,787
Speaker 2: We'll look ahead to the Wellington Phoenix women's match against

2015
01:46:09,787 --> 01:46:12,627
Speaker 2: Adelaide United in a few hours and look back at

2016
01:46:13,027 --> 01:46:16,707
Speaker 2: losses for both the Wellington Phoenix men and Auckland FC's

2017
01:46:17,227 --> 01:46:19,587
Speaker 2: men yesterday. That's next on Weekend Sport.

2018
01:46:20,267 --> 01:46:23,787
Speaker 1: The biggest seams in sports are on Weekend Sports with

2019
01:46:23,987 --> 01:46:28,107
Speaker 1: Jason Pain and GJ. Gunnomes, New Zealand's most trusted home

2020
01:46:28,147 --> 01:46:29,587
Speaker 1: builder News Talks NB.

2021
01:46:30,067 --> 01:46:31,667
Speaker 2: Coming up twenty one to three. I don't forget. You

2022
01:46:31,667 --> 01:46:33,827
Speaker 2: can always get in touch with us via text nine

2023
01:46:33,907 --> 01:46:36,667
Speaker 2: two ninety two or on email Jason at Newstalk SHADB

2024
01:46:36,787 --> 01:46:39,387
Speaker 2: dot co dot NZ, as Leon has done from Melbourne

2025
01:46:39,387 --> 01:46:42,467
Speaker 2: one of his regular emails, which I always enjoy receiving,

2026
01:46:42,667 --> 01:46:45,707
Speaker 2: Can I piney. I respect James mcconey's comments on the NFL,

2027
01:46:45,827 --> 01:46:50,267
Speaker 2: but unfortunately this time he's wrong. Sorry James, your vikings,

2028
01:46:50,347 --> 01:46:52,867
Speaker 2: that's my vikings are on the Road against the La Rams.

2029
01:46:52,907 --> 01:46:55,347
Speaker 2: They have a slightly better chance of winning with the

2030
01:46:55,467 --> 01:46:58,787
Speaker 2: game being moved to Phoenix because of the wildfires. That said,

2031
01:46:59,347 --> 01:47:01,667
Speaker 2: the NFC will have to go through Detroit as the

2032
01:47:01,747 --> 01:47:04,747
Speaker 2: number one seed, with my early pick being the Lions

2033
01:47:04,907 --> 01:47:07,947
Speaker 2: against the Eagles. On the other side, the AFC will

2034
01:47:07,987 --> 01:47:10,067
Speaker 2: have to go through Kansas City as the number one seed,

2035
01:47:10,347 --> 01:47:13,907
Speaker 2: with the early unbiased pick being the Chiefs against the Bills.

2036
01:47:14,387 --> 01:47:16,347
Speaker 2: You say unbiased, Leon, because I know the Chiefs are

2037
01:47:16,387 --> 01:47:19,307
Speaker 2: your team, and Leon carries on. I'm still quietly confident

2038
01:47:19,627 --> 01:47:23,067
Speaker 2: my Chiefs can pull off the unprecedented three peat. It'll

2039
01:47:23,107 --> 01:47:25,387
Speaker 2: be tough, but they are peaking at the right time.

2040
01:47:25,467 --> 01:47:29,147
Speaker 2: The remaining game should be compelling viewing. Nonetheless, thanks indeed, Leon,

2041
01:47:29,347 --> 01:47:32,347
Speaker 2: great to hear from you, as always on email. Let's

2042
01:47:32,387 --> 01:47:34,707
Speaker 2: go to football. We'll get to the men's A League shortly,

2043
01:47:34,747 --> 01:47:36,987
Speaker 2: but let's start with the women. The Wellington Phoenix women

2044
01:47:37,147 --> 01:47:40,227
Speaker 2: are up into the top four on the table and

2045
01:47:40,547 --> 01:47:44,267
Speaker 2: tonight take on Adelaide United in Adelaide. This off the

2046
01:47:44,347 --> 01:47:47,867
Speaker 2: back of a really impressive performance on Thursday evening when

2047
01:47:47,947 --> 01:47:51,427
Speaker 2: they put three past the Western Sydney Wanderers to win

2048
01:47:51,547 --> 01:47:55,547
Speaker 2: three nil and move in to the top four. Assistant

2049
01:47:55,587 --> 01:47:58,867
Speaker 2: coach of the team is Amy Sheppard, who joins US. Now, Amy,

2050
01:47:58,947 --> 01:48:00,587
Speaker 2: have you ever been part of a team that was

2051
01:48:00,667 --> 01:48:03,307
Speaker 2: so dominant? You look at the stats that night and

2052
01:48:03,387 --> 01:48:05,227
Speaker 2: I know they had a play a cent off, but

2053
01:48:05,547 --> 01:48:08,147
Speaker 2: in terms of every stet you were so dominant. Have

2054
01:48:08,267 --> 01:48:10,627
Speaker 2: you ever been part of a team that was was

2055
01:48:10,747 --> 01:48:12,267
Speaker 2: so on top and a game?

2056
01:48:13,027 --> 01:48:15,307
Speaker 20: Yeah, I think the first the first twenty minutes especially,

2057
01:48:15,347 --> 01:48:17,547
Speaker 20: I just thought we were, Yeah, we were really on top.

2058
01:48:17,987 --> 01:48:19,547
Speaker 20: Probably a bit of a shame we didn't. It's all

2059
01:48:19,627 --> 01:48:21,787
Speaker 20: like capitalize on that sort of pressure and that dominance.

2060
01:48:21,907 --> 01:48:23,827
Speaker 20: But ultimately, I mean we've got a clean sheet and

2061
01:48:24,107 --> 01:48:25,587
Speaker 20: three points, so at the end of it, it was

2062
01:48:25,747 --> 01:48:27,387
Speaker 20: you know, it was a great result and a good

2063
01:48:27,427 --> 01:48:30,027
Speaker 20: win for us. But yeah, a very very dominant formance

2064
01:48:30,067 --> 01:48:31,827
Speaker 20: and a lot of a lot of positive good things

2065
01:48:31,867 --> 01:48:33,547
Speaker 20: that we've been well kind of training really now coming

2066
01:48:33,547 --> 01:48:34,187
Speaker 20: out in games.

2067
01:48:34,267 --> 01:48:36,947
Speaker 2: So it's a quick turnaround for you though, Amy, to

2068
01:48:37,547 --> 01:48:39,907
Speaker 2: back up again tonight, but as that in some ways

2069
01:48:39,947 --> 01:48:42,347
Speaker 2: a good thing to have a quick turnaround after getting

2070
01:48:42,507 --> 01:48:43,627
Speaker 2: momentum and that when the.

2071
01:48:43,667 --> 01:48:45,787
Speaker 20: Other night, Yeah, I think it was tough to back up,

2072
01:48:45,827 --> 01:48:47,027
Speaker 20: and I think, you know, you've got to take in

2073
01:48:47,147 --> 01:48:49,747
Speaker 20: recovery and prep, but you know, we're prepared for anything,

2074
01:48:49,867 --> 01:48:51,747
Speaker 20: so I don't think it's any necessarily a good time

2075
01:48:51,827 --> 01:48:53,387
Speaker 20: or a bad times play those back to back games,

2076
01:48:53,387 --> 01:48:55,307
Speaker 20: and especially as we're on good form. I think it's

2077
01:48:55,507 --> 01:48:57,947
Speaker 20: a good opportunity for us, and I think Adelaide was

2078
01:48:57,987 --> 01:49:00,067
Speaker 20: our turning point initially when we first played them, and

2079
01:49:00,187 --> 01:49:02,547
Speaker 20: we you know, we got that win, so after a

2080
01:49:02,587 --> 01:49:04,427
Speaker 20: bit of a shaky start at the beginning of the season,

2081
01:49:04,507 --> 01:49:06,467
Speaker 20: so we're really looking forward to playing them again and they're.

2082
01:49:06,747 --> 01:49:07,547
Speaker 3: They're doing really well.

2083
01:49:07,587 --> 01:49:09,787
Speaker 20: They're also a good side and we obviously joined on points,

2084
01:49:09,867 --> 01:49:12,147
Speaker 20: so hopefully it will be a really really good game

2085
01:49:12,187 --> 01:49:12,987
Speaker 20: to enjoy for everyone.

2086
01:49:13,107 --> 01:49:15,147
Speaker 2: Yea, it was a turning point, wasn't it. Three losses

2087
01:49:15,227 --> 01:49:17,867
Speaker 2: to start the season, but your night round you beat

2088
01:49:17,907 --> 01:49:20,467
Speaker 2: Adelaide United one nill. How big was that win in

2089
01:49:20,587 --> 01:49:22,827
Speaker 2: terms of the context of the season so far.

2090
01:49:23,427 --> 01:49:25,107
Speaker 20: Yeah, I think it was huge. I think we all

2091
01:49:25,187 --> 01:49:27,147
Speaker 20: knew we were seeing bits. I think I even look

2092
01:49:27,227 --> 01:49:29,067
Speaker 20: back to those first two games of the season and

2093
01:49:29,547 --> 01:49:31,947
Speaker 20: results aside, I think some of the stats from them

2094
01:49:32,027 --> 01:49:34,427
Speaker 20: games are probably still one of our best in terms

2095
01:49:34,467 --> 01:49:36,907
Speaker 20: of like box entries and the way we played, so

2096
01:49:36,987 --> 01:49:38,667
Speaker 20: we knew that it was coming together, and I think

2097
01:49:38,707 --> 01:49:40,747
Speaker 20: once we got that first result, it just yeah, it's

2098
01:49:40,827 --> 01:49:43,627
Speaker 20: just given the girls a little bit of confidence and belief,

2099
01:49:43,747 --> 01:49:45,547
Speaker 20: and yeah, now we were shying a really good run.

2100
01:49:45,587 --> 01:49:46,987
Speaker 20: So just hopefully we can just keep that up and

2101
01:49:47,187 --> 01:49:49,347
Speaker 20: like I said, to keep taking each game as it comes.

2102
01:49:49,467 --> 01:49:50,027
Speaker 20: Each game at the.

2103
01:49:50,067 --> 01:49:51,947
Speaker 2: Time and the nature of the game. The other night,

2104
01:49:52,147 --> 01:49:54,707
Speaker 2: you were able to give Annale Longer, your captain, a

2105
01:49:54,747 --> 01:49:56,467
Speaker 2: bit of a ration near the end, bring her off

2106
01:49:56,507 --> 01:49:58,587
Speaker 2: and I guess receed to her legs. She's had a

2107
01:49:58,587 --> 01:50:00,987
Speaker 2: pretty big workload lately. It was nice to be able

2108
01:50:01,027 --> 01:50:02,627
Speaker 2: to do that, to give some players who have had

2109
01:50:02,867 --> 01:50:04,187
Speaker 2: a lot of minutes a bit of a recent near

2110
01:50:04,227 --> 01:50:05,227
Speaker 2: the end of the game the other night.

2111
01:50:05,667 --> 01:50:07,747
Speaker 20: Yeah, definitely, I think that was a good opportunity for

2112
01:50:07,907 --> 01:50:10,947
Speaker 20: us to sort of really take care of some players minutes.

2113
01:50:11,707 --> 01:50:13,467
Speaker 20: So yeah, it was nice to be an opportunity to

2114
01:50:13,507 --> 01:50:16,307
Speaker 20: do so. So hopefully now we can get them guys

2115
01:50:16,387 --> 01:50:17,787
Speaker 20: rested and back on good form.

2116
01:50:17,867 --> 01:50:19,027
Speaker 19: So yeah, it was good.

2117
01:50:19,067 --> 01:50:19,947
Speaker 20: It was a good opportunity that.

2118
01:50:19,947 --> 01:50:22,147
Speaker 2: We had that the first goal the other night seven

2119
01:50:22,307 --> 01:50:24,747
Speaker 2: seconds into the second half, and you actually made it

2120
01:50:24,827 --> 01:50:28,147
Speaker 2: back to the dugout in time to see Alyssa William's goal.

2121
01:50:28,907 --> 01:50:29,627
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah we did.

2122
01:50:29,667 --> 01:50:32,627
Speaker 20: Everyone was back there and yeah, it's yeah, it's great

2123
01:50:32,667 --> 01:50:35,307
Speaker 20: to see. She's a great character. And yeah, like I said,

2124
01:50:35,547 --> 01:50:36,707
Speaker 20: she said at the end of the game, she does

2125
01:50:36,787 --> 01:50:38,267
Speaker 20: that all the time in training and she always just

2126
01:50:38,307 --> 01:50:40,067
Speaker 20: looks just as shocked whenever the ball goes in the

2127
01:50:40,107 --> 01:50:42,507
Speaker 20: back of the net from long range. So yeah, I

2128
01:50:42,627 --> 01:50:45,187
Speaker 20: did like the running around like Flea's dogs. She run

2129
01:50:45,227 --> 01:50:47,587
Speaker 20: a bit around like Tiger at the end there. But no,

2130
01:50:47,707 --> 01:50:49,667
Speaker 20: it's brilliant to see, and yeah, what what a finish

2131
01:50:49,747 --> 01:50:51,627
Speaker 20: And we're really really proud and happy for Alyssa.

2132
01:50:51,787 --> 01:50:54,427
Speaker 2: What do you think it'll do for her confidence moving forward?

2133
01:50:55,027 --> 01:50:56,387
Speaker 20: Oh, look, she's been on grateful and I think the

2134
01:50:56,467 --> 01:50:58,427
Speaker 20: last sort of three games she's been excellent and she's

2135
01:50:58,467 --> 01:51:00,787
Speaker 20: just been growing and growing and I can even see

2136
01:51:00,787 --> 01:51:01,987
Speaker 20: it from the beginning of the season to now how

2137
01:51:02,067 --> 01:51:04,507
Speaker 20: much she's just yeah, really taken this season in her stride.

2138
01:51:04,587 --> 01:51:07,027
Speaker 20: And I think it will do, yeah, really really good

2139
01:51:07,067 --> 01:51:09,507
Speaker 20: work for her moving forward. So hopefully she keeps building

2140
01:51:09,547 --> 01:51:12,027
Speaker 20: on that, she keeps performing well and more so just

2141
01:51:12,147 --> 01:51:14,107
Speaker 20: as a person just keeps him those really good spirits

2142
01:51:14,107 --> 01:51:15,147
Speaker 20: because she's great when.

2143
01:51:14,987 --> 01:51:18,147
Speaker 2: She's like that, and beg to tonight and Adelaide United,

2144
01:51:18,227 --> 01:51:20,987
Speaker 2: what do you perceive their specific strengths to be.

2145
01:51:22,387 --> 01:51:24,427
Speaker 20: Yeah, look, they're obviously they're also in good form and

2146
01:51:24,467 --> 01:51:26,747
Speaker 20: they're getting some good results. The result against Central Best

2147
01:51:26,787 --> 01:51:28,667
Speaker 20: Mariners was a good one for them again sort of

2148
01:51:28,707 --> 01:51:31,707
Speaker 20: like in that same pack in the table. They've definitely

2149
01:51:31,747 --> 01:51:34,507
Speaker 20: got some strengths and playing through central areas and they

2150
01:51:34,547 --> 01:51:36,467
Speaker 20: haven't changed too much. I think they've really sort of

2151
01:51:36,547 --> 01:51:39,187
Speaker 20: like nailed down their formation and their system and style

2152
01:51:39,267 --> 01:51:41,667
Speaker 20: of play. So they're also looking pretty set, so I

2153
01:51:41,707 --> 01:51:44,027
Speaker 20: anticipated to be very similar to the last time we

2154
01:51:44,107 --> 01:51:44,467
Speaker 20: played them.

2155
01:51:44,547 --> 01:51:46,107
Speaker 2: All right, well, all the best tonight, Amy, thanks for

2156
01:51:46,227 --> 01:51:48,907
Speaker 2: joining us. Amy Sheppard, assistant coach of the Wellington Phoenix

2157
01:51:48,907 --> 01:51:52,067
Speaker 2: women's side seven thirty Tonight they take on Adelaide you know,

2158
01:51:52,107 --> 01:51:55,907
Speaker 2: ied looking to consolidate their place in the top four. Unfortunately,

2159
01:51:55,947 --> 01:51:58,627
Speaker 2: the Wellington Phoenix men couldn't do the same against Adelaide

2160
01:51:58,707 --> 01:52:01,187
Speaker 2: United yesterday, going down two one. We'll get to that

2161
01:52:01,227 --> 01:52:03,387
Speaker 2: in a sick but late last night New Zealand time.

2162
01:52:03,787 --> 01:52:06,587
Speaker 2: All the way over in Western Australia, Auckland if he

2163
01:52:06,627 --> 01:52:08,667
Speaker 2: took on Perth Glory. That was the first time they've

2164
01:52:08,707 --> 01:52:11,187
Speaker 2: had to travel all the way over to Perth for

2165
01:52:11,267 --> 01:52:13,907
Speaker 2: a game and unfortunately it did not turn out the

2166
01:52:13,947 --> 01:52:16,947
Speaker 2: way they hoped, going down one nill to Perth Glory

2167
01:52:17,227 --> 01:52:20,747
Speaker 2: last night. Steve Corricker as head coach. He was asked

2168
01:52:20,867 --> 01:52:23,107
Speaker 2: afterwards for his overall thoughts on the game.

2169
01:52:23,707 --> 01:52:25,667
Speaker 21: We lost the game in the first half, simple as

2170
01:52:25,707 --> 01:52:30,107
Speaker 21: that we didn't play well. We didn't compete well. They

2171
01:52:30,147 --> 01:52:32,427
Speaker 21: went along, it was what we expected them to do,

2172
01:52:32,627 --> 01:52:35,147
Speaker 21: but you know, we weren't winning any second balls and

2173
01:52:35,307 --> 01:52:37,387
Speaker 21: they were picking up a lot of balls and made

2174
01:52:37,387 --> 01:52:38,107
Speaker 21: it difficult for us.

2175
01:52:38,107 --> 01:52:41,467
Speaker 3: It's caught a good goal, but also you know the.

2176
01:52:41,467 --> 01:52:43,867
Speaker 21: Goal needs could have been stopped by a little bit

2177
01:52:43,867 --> 01:52:46,067
Speaker 21: of pressure on the player on the ball on the

2178
01:52:46,147 --> 01:52:48,907
Speaker 21: outside of the box. Whole night we had four very

2179
01:52:48,947 --> 01:52:52,187
Speaker 21: good chances. I think they're either blocked, keeper made a

2180
01:52:52,227 --> 01:52:55,307
Speaker 21: great safe or you know, we put the ball over

2181
01:52:55,347 --> 01:53:00,027
Speaker 21: the over the bar and we can't afford to do that. Obviously,

2182
01:53:00,187 --> 01:53:03,107
Speaker 21: in tight games like this, you got to take your

2183
01:53:03,187 --> 01:53:05,467
Speaker 21: chances when they come, especially when you when you're behind,

2184
01:53:05,507 --> 01:53:07,387
Speaker 21: to get back into the game, and we didn't.

2185
01:53:07,747 --> 01:53:08,307
Speaker 3: We didn't do that.

2186
01:53:08,507 --> 01:53:12,827
Speaker 2: Steph Curriker was then asked about the possibility of complacency.

2187
01:53:12,907 --> 01:53:15,747
Speaker 2: Auckland f C were top of the table, had the

2188
01:53:16,427 --> 01:53:18,267
Speaker 2: had the ability to stay there, whether it went over

2189
01:53:18,347 --> 01:53:21,707
Speaker 2: Perth Glory who had been very, very poor right across

2190
01:53:21,747 --> 01:53:23,467
Speaker 2: the season, and we're at the other end of the

2191
01:53:23,547 --> 01:53:26,387
Speaker 2: table sort of battling around at the foot of the ladder.

2192
01:53:26,507 --> 01:53:29,347
Speaker 2: Was it hard for Auckland f C to guard against

2193
01:53:29,427 --> 01:53:31,347
Speaker 2: complacency ahead of this game.

2194
01:53:32,107 --> 01:53:33,827
Speaker 21: I'll put that down to that in the first half

2195
01:53:33,947 --> 01:53:38,307
Speaker 21: because it's not what we planned on, wasn't what I expected.

2196
01:53:39,027 --> 01:53:42,467
Speaker 21: But we shouldn't have any complacency because you know, we

2197
01:53:42,587 --> 01:53:44,827
Speaker 21: were at the top and all the other teams won

2198
01:53:44,867 --> 01:53:48,147
Speaker 21: around us, and you know, there's no bigger motivation to

2199
01:53:48,347 --> 01:53:51,187
Speaker 21: actually to keep winning. So we went wrong in the

2200
01:53:51,227 --> 01:53:54,187
Speaker 21: first half, like I said, and disappointed with the performance

2201
01:53:54,227 --> 01:53:57,467
Speaker 21: and the way we went around the round around the game.

2202
01:53:57,667 --> 01:54:00,827
Speaker 21: And you know, second half was a big improvement obviously,

2203
01:54:00,947 --> 01:54:04,427
Speaker 21: and we changed a few players and we started to to.

2204
01:54:04,427 --> 01:54:05,307
Speaker 2: Win the second balls.

2205
01:54:05,347 --> 01:54:06,907
Speaker 21: We started to play a little better with the ball

2206
01:54:06,987 --> 01:54:09,667
Speaker 21: as well, and we created chances, which was really positive.

2207
01:54:10,867 --> 01:54:13,307
Speaker 21: But yeah, it's a ninety minute game. If you don't

2208
01:54:14,347 --> 01:54:16,867
Speaker 21: be ready for the start of the game. It's it's

2209
01:54:16,867 --> 01:54:19,867
Speaker 21: going to be a different, difficult afternoon. And you know

2210
01:54:20,027 --> 01:54:23,347
Speaker 21: we weren't ready for the start, even though you know

2211
01:54:23,467 --> 01:54:26,307
Speaker 21: we've gave ourself the best preparation to We were here

2212
01:54:26,307 --> 01:54:28,267
Speaker 21: a couple of days to make sure. You know, time

2213
01:54:28,307 --> 01:54:30,027
Speaker 21: difference is a big problem for us.

2214
01:54:30,147 --> 01:54:34,267
Speaker 3: But there's no excuses. Really, we were ready.

2215
01:54:35,347 --> 01:54:37,067
Speaker 21: You know, they played a few days ago as well,

2216
01:54:37,187 --> 01:54:39,027
Speaker 21: so you could see how tired they looked in the

2217
01:54:39,267 --> 01:54:41,747
Speaker 21: second half as well. But you know, if you give

2218
01:54:41,787 --> 01:54:43,947
Speaker 21: away a goal I've had in the first half and

2219
01:54:44,147 --> 01:54:45,147
Speaker 21: it's difficult to come back.

2220
01:54:45,267 --> 01:54:47,827
Speaker 2: And that is Steve Kyaker. After Resides one loss to

2221
01:54:48,347 --> 01:54:51,627
Speaker 2: Perth Glory last night, it means that Auckland FC are

2222
01:54:51,707 --> 01:54:54,827
Speaker 2: now third on the ladder. Both Adelaide United and Melbourne City,

2223
01:54:55,147 --> 01:54:57,427
Speaker 2: who both won last night, have gone past them only

2224
01:54:57,667 --> 01:55:00,787
Speaker 2: just Though Melbourne City have twenty four points Adelaide twenty four,

2225
01:55:01,187 --> 01:55:04,307
Speaker 2: Auckland FC have twenty three and they have a game

2226
01:55:04,387 --> 01:55:06,547
Speaker 2: in hand over Melbourne City, so if they would win

2227
01:55:06,587 --> 01:55:09,547
Speaker 2: that they would go back above Melbourne City. In fact,

2228
01:55:09,587 --> 01:55:12,947
Speaker 2: their next game is against Melbourne City. It's back at

2229
01:55:13,027 --> 01:55:16,787
Speaker 2: go Media Stadium this coming Saturday, so they'll look to

2230
01:55:17,587 --> 01:55:21,867
Speaker 2: turn things around back on home soil. Adelaide United, meantime,

2231
01:55:21,947 --> 01:55:25,467
Speaker 2: has mentioned before, got a two to one win over

2232
01:55:25,587 --> 01:55:30,467
Speaker 2: Wellington Phoenix in Wellington yesterday. Both goals were really the

2233
01:55:30,547 --> 01:55:34,147
Speaker 2: product of Wellington Phoenix mistakes. The first was an own

2234
01:55:34,227 --> 01:55:39,187
Speaker 2: goal and the second came when goalkeeper josh Olawayemi dropped

2235
01:55:39,227 --> 01:55:41,787
Speaker 2: what looked to be a fairly straightforward catch to the

2236
01:55:41,867 --> 01:55:46,227
Speaker 2: feet of Adelaide striker Luki Yovanovitch, who who fired at

2237
01:55:46,307 --> 01:55:49,227
Speaker 2: home for two to one. Gihon Calo Ittaliano's head coach

2238
01:55:49,347 --> 01:55:52,427
Speaker 2: of the Wellington Phoenix men's side. He was asked afterwards

2239
01:55:52,467 --> 01:55:55,787
Speaker 2: whether the fact that the goals were from their own

2240
01:55:55,867 --> 01:55:59,147
Speaker 2: mistakes did that make it more frustrating or is it

2241
01:55:59,387 --> 01:56:04,307
Speaker 2: easier to accept when the opposition only score through his mistakes?

2242
01:56:05,067 --> 01:56:08,187
Speaker 22: Losing is never a is it accepts or even you know,

2243
01:56:08,307 --> 01:56:12,867
Speaker 22: to rationalize through it. Again, we could play every game

2244
01:56:12,947 --> 01:56:15,027
Speaker 22: from now to the end of the season, lose every game,

2245
01:56:15,627 --> 01:56:18,267
Speaker 22: but if our focus is on the outcome, we're not

2246
01:56:18,347 --> 01:56:20,867
Speaker 22: going to go anywhere. As a team. Last year we'll

2247
01:56:20,947 --> 01:56:23,587
Speaker 22: so successful because we stuck to the process and what

2248
01:56:23,707 --> 01:56:26,987
Speaker 22: we believe. We kept executing and you know it's snowball.

2249
01:56:27,067 --> 01:56:30,707
Speaker 22: We had momentum this year. You know, it's a little

2250
01:56:30,707 --> 01:56:33,427
Speaker 22: bit different things, you know, not getting the rub of

2251
01:56:33,427 --> 01:56:35,707
Speaker 22: the green, we're not building momentum and so on. But

2252
01:56:36,027 --> 01:56:41,027
Speaker 22: I can't rationalize conceding a goal is conceding a goal.

2253
01:56:41,227 --> 01:56:43,787
Speaker 22: Whether it's you know, the goal we can set against Wanderers,

2254
01:56:43,787 --> 01:56:46,787
Speaker 22: a last goal from forty or sorry, twenty five minutes

2255
01:56:46,787 --> 01:56:50,387
Speaker 22: outside the box, whether it's an own goal, it's the same.

2256
01:56:50,547 --> 01:56:51,387
Speaker 3: It hurts the same.

2257
01:56:52,587 --> 01:56:55,667
Speaker 22: But again, I think from where we've been the last

2258
01:56:55,707 --> 01:56:57,867
Speaker 22: couple of weeks, all I wanted to see today was

2259
01:56:57,907 --> 01:57:01,587
Speaker 22: a good performance, consistent performance, one where we were trying

2260
01:57:01,627 --> 01:57:04,587
Speaker 22: to take the initiative and for a large part, again,

2261
01:57:04,707 --> 01:57:06,747
Speaker 22: I can't fault the team just to that.

2262
01:57:06,947 --> 01:57:09,707
Speaker 2: How does gien Callo Taliano now feel about the team

2263
01:57:10,187 --> 01:57:10,867
Speaker 2: moving forward?

2264
01:57:10,947 --> 01:57:14,547
Speaker 22: I'm the internal optimist. After today, I feel like there's

2265
01:57:14,547 --> 01:57:17,267
Speaker 22: some fight still left in this team, irrespective of who's playing,

2266
01:57:17,347 --> 01:57:20,787
Speaker 22: who's available. I think today we showed that there is

2267
01:57:20,827 --> 01:57:23,067
Speaker 22: a backbone to the team and that we can do things.

2268
01:57:23,467 --> 01:57:25,507
Speaker 22: It's just, you know, I have to carry and build

2269
01:57:25,507 --> 01:57:28,107
Speaker 22: that belief in the squad, and you know, we could

2270
01:57:28,147 --> 01:57:31,827
Speaker 22: lose another couple of games. But again, I think today's

2271
01:57:31,867 --> 01:57:34,587
Speaker 22: performance put us in a position where, you know, even

2272
01:57:35,907 --> 01:57:39,827
Speaker 22: you know, I think the group will reflect on it.

2273
01:57:40,067 --> 01:57:40,947
Speaker 3: Last week we.

2274
01:57:41,027 --> 01:57:43,347
Speaker 22: Were definitely out of the game, Okay, I can say

2275
01:57:43,387 --> 01:57:46,507
Speaker 22: that categorically, you know, and I take a large plane

2276
01:57:46,547 --> 01:57:50,227
Speaker 22: for that because tactically they execute what asked. But this

2277
01:57:50,387 --> 01:57:52,587
Speaker 22: week we went back down to a more simpler message,

2278
01:57:53,107 --> 01:57:55,747
Speaker 22: being a little bit more organized, a little bit clearer

2279
01:57:55,867 --> 01:57:59,227
Speaker 22: roles and so on, and they were good for large parts.

2280
01:57:59,387 --> 01:58:02,347
Speaker 22: And again when I'm relying on Nathan Walker and Luke

2281
01:58:02,387 --> 01:58:04,867
Speaker 22: Brooks Smith at the end in Corbyn Piper who hasn't

2282
01:58:04,867 --> 01:58:06,867
Speaker 22: played a league, and they're giving me those efforts and

2283
01:58:06,947 --> 01:58:09,387
Speaker 22: we you know, we're definitely on the front foot.

2284
01:58:10,387 --> 01:58:10,987
Speaker 18: I'm very proud.

2285
01:58:11,147 --> 01:58:15,467
Speaker 2: And finally from Giancloteliano, he mentioned there about backbone. Was

2286
01:58:15,587 --> 01:58:18,587
Speaker 2: he all concerned over the last little while, which has

2287
01:58:18,627 --> 01:58:21,347
Speaker 2: been a challenging period for the team, that actually there

2288
01:58:21,507 --> 01:58:23,627
Speaker 2: was no backbone in the side.

2289
01:58:24,027 --> 01:58:24,067
Speaker 11: No.

2290
01:58:24,387 --> 01:58:27,227
Speaker 22: I was more concerned about the fact that when you

2291
01:58:27,347 --> 01:58:34,747
Speaker 22: have PAINEI RUFA out your senior players, than you're starting

2292
01:58:34,787 --> 01:58:37,987
Speaker 22: to be short of those leaders. So for me, I

2293
01:58:38,187 --> 01:58:41,027
Speaker 22: was more worried about who's going to step up and

2294
01:58:41,147 --> 01:58:44,107
Speaker 22: take the initiative and you know, help us grind through

2295
01:58:44,547 --> 01:58:48,067
Speaker 22: these games. And I don't think leadership is about words, right,

2296
01:58:48,467 --> 01:58:51,347
Speaker 22: Leadership is about action. And so like today I watched

2297
01:58:51,387 --> 01:58:54,627
Speaker 22: Palo Retro. Palo Retro last week was angry and he

2298
01:58:54,707 --> 01:58:57,107
Speaker 22: showed some fight. And this week he got on the

2299
01:58:57,147 --> 01:59:00,267
Speaker 22: ball every time I asked and he didn't have to

2300
01:59:00,307 --> 01:59:02,547
Speaker 22: say much. He just led by getting on the ball.

2301
01:59:02,667 --> 01:59:05,747
Speaker 22: For me, those sort of players emerging when you know

2302
01:59:05,867 --> 01:59:08,747
Speaker 22: things get tough, you know, it's very easy to fold

2303
01:59:08,827 --> 01:59:10,667
Speaker 22: and just like give up and go like, you know,

2304
01:59:11,067 --> 01:59:13,547
Speaker 22: we've got this happening, We've got that happening. A need

2305
01:59:13,627 --> 01:59:16,587
Speaker 22: place to step up now that take that next that

2306
01:59:16,747 --> 01:59:18,707
Speaker 22: next step and bring the team forward. And I feel

2307
01:59:18,787 --> 01:59:20,747
Speaker 22: like now I have some of those that are ready

2308
01:59:20,787 --> 01:59:21,387
Speaker 22: for that challenge.

2309
01:59:21,507 --> 01:59:23,747
Speaker 2: It's the voice of John Caloertaliano. The Phoenix don't have

2310
01:59:23,867 --> 01:59:26,027
Speaker 2: much time to lick their wounds after the lost yesterday.

2311
01:59:26,147 --> 01:59:30,147
Speaker 2: They are back in action on Wednesday night. The visitors

2312
01:59:30,267 --> 01:59:33,547
Speaker 2: are Sydney FC. Rare MIDWEK game seven o'clock Wednesday night

2313
01:59:33,547 --> 01:59:36,267
Speaker 2: at Sky Stadium as the Wellington Phoenix Men take on

2314
01:59:36,547 --> 01:59:39,707
Speaker 2: Sydney FC, coming up eight to three, News Talk Zippy.

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Speaker 1: Breaking down the Hail Mary's and the Olympic Fields. Weekend

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Speaker 1: Sport with Jason Lyme, News Talk ZB.

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Speaker 2: Five to three. That's us for weekend sport, for another

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Speaker 2: Sunday and another weekend will I'm in a Shrimpton. We're

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Speaker 2: going to keep you company after three o'clock for the

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Speaker 2: rest store the next little bit of your Sunday anyway,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening in. Thanks to Anny McDonald for

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Speaker 2: producing the show. Just are reminder next weekend both days

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Speaker 2: will come to you live from sale GP in Auckland,

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Speaker 2: our purpose built studio there just right on the water.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to be bringing you the show from sale

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Speaker 2: GP next Saturday and Sunday. Thank you for tuning in

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Speaker 2: an exit song today. While we've had all of tennis

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Speaker 2: on the show, the Australian Tennis Open is underway. The

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Speaker 2: ASP Classic over the last couple of weeks has again

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Speaker 2: been a success. So the only song I could think

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Speaker 2: of about tennis or with tennis, and the title was

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Speaker 2: of course Lord's hit from twenty thirteen went all the

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Speaker 2: way to number one year simply titled tennis Court. Here

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Speaker 2: it is, well the last little bit of it. See

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Speaker 2: you next weekend, I'll follow it.

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Speaker 3: Eukuat's from your window.

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Speaker 1: Maybe be the class.

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Speaker 8: Cloudy Clean says, it's a new ipot.

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Speaker 6: So people love you week here.

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Speaker 11: We're so hippy we if we're more a smile now

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Speaker 11: I fear.

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Speaker 18: Let's go down to it's senna, score it and so

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Speaker 18: get up by yeah here and so get up by

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Speaker 18: yeah and suck.

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Speaker 9: It up by yeah.

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Speaker 1: Let's go down to the sena.

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Speaker 21: Score it, and so get up by yeah and socket

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Speaker 21: up by yeah, and so get.

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Speaker 9: Up Mike yeah.

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Speaker 22: Let's go down to the senna, score it.

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Speaker 2: And so get up by yeah.

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Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live

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Speaker 1: to news Talks It'd be weekends from midday, or follow

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Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio