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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks edb Well.

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Speaker 2: Quite incredible. Last night, the Crusaders opened their Super Rugby

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Speaker 2: campaign with a win over the Hurricanes. It was a

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Speaker 2: back and forth game between the two sides, the Hurricanes

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Speaker 2: getting out to a fourteen they will lead, the Crusaders

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Speaker 2: getting back to fourteen all, and then the Hurricanes get

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Speaker 2: out to twenty two to fourteen. The momentum swings their way,

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Speaker 2: then back to the Crusaders in the second half. I

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Speaker 2: think the Hurricanes only got three points in the second spell.

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Speaker 2: But in all of that, the story of the game,

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Speaker 2: apart from the Crusaders winning, has to be replacement half

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Speaker 2: back Kyle Preston scoring not once, not twice, but thrice.

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Speaker 3: Crusaders go short side right, little webside play Shelford Jordan

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Speaker 3: edits Kyle Preston under the posts. The Crusaders head back

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Speaker 3: numbers hitt of the left, Harvely little chip or chase

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Speaker 3: over for Jordan sits up beautifully. He gets up, passed

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Speaker 3: away to several race He's talking at owt of the

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Speaker 3: walks of twenty two.

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Speaker 2: He checks her backet down.

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Speaker 3: Christin Crusades plays down with Preston.

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Speaker 2: He lets her guys, Kyle Christon.

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Speaker 3: Hats for God, Tapo Toper checks for the Capitol.

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable stuff, and Kyle Preston has been nice enough to

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Speaker 2: join us this afternoon on Week in Sport the hat

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Speaker 2: trick hero from last night. Kyle, thanks so much for

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Speaker 2: your time with us here on news Talks. Heb not

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Speaker 2: a problem to be here. Well, last night couldn't have

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Speaker 2: gone much better, could it? For both yourself and the Crusaders.

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Speaker 4: No, definitely not currently asked for anything more to be

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Speaker 4: feared than expect anything like that, but super greatful. Kind

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Speaker 4: of feels like a bit of a dream.

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Speaker 2: But Kyle, what were you thinking is? I guess came

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Speaker 2: on to the Parker you probably weren't expecting what seventy

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Speaker 2: eight minutes of game time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely didn't expect cevy odd minutes on the field,

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Speaker 4: But yeah I kind of saw no go down and

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Speaker 4: yeah I had to step up pretty quickly because yeah,

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Speaker 4: there's no other way.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen nail down. I guess that wasn't the best to

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Speaker 2: start for the Crusaders, but you managed to work the

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Speaker 2: way work your way back into the contest. How did

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Speaker 2: you as a side respond to that early couple of

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Speaker 2: tries you conceded?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think obviously getting two drives down early and

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Speaker 4: then a younger card was pretty tough, but the boys

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Speaker 4: responded pretty well, keep grinding when you it would be

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Speaker 4: a battle and it would take take all of us

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Speaker 4: to do it. So the boys put them a big

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Speaker 4: shift and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess a confidence boost for it for the

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Speaker 2: team as a whole, Kyle, to come from fourteen nil

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Speaker 2: down at home get that victory to start the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. We spoke about this year Apollo Project

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Speaker 4: being our home and pretecting it with all we got

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Speaker 4: and it's going to take all of us to do it.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, super super stoked we were able to start

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Speaker 4: the season off with a good win.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, Kyle, what were you thinking? One try,

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Speaker 2: then two, then three on debut? That's a remarkable stat

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Speaker 2: line for anyone to have in a single game, to

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Speaker 2: get a hat trick, but you're on debut and super rugby,

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Speaker 2: what were you thinking?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously didn't expect that. I was. I was hoping

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Speaker 4: for one at least on debut, and to get through

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Speaker 4: was pretty special and definitely didn't think that was going

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Speaker 2: What are the skills that you pride yourself on as

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Speaker 2: a half back cap.

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Speaker 4: Probably the basics of just catch pass, obviously passing through

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Speaker 4: the main one and kicking game, but also I like

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Speaker 4: to think that I've got a good running support line

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Speaker 4: game and I'm always there to finish off finish off

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Speaker 4: tries with the boys doing all the hard work and

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Speaker 4: me just running over the life.

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Speaker 2: What was it like playing a lot of your old

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Speaker 2: you know, Wellington teammates last It was a perfect scrip,

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Speaker 2: wasn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was I think, I think on

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Speaker 4: the cake to be able to have a debut, but

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Speaker 4: do it against those guys. It was pretty special. And

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Speaker 4: yeah there was a bit of a niggle and holding back

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Speaker 4: in the rucks and a bit of trash talk throughout

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Speaker 4: the game, but it's all what it's about, so it

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Speaker 4: was cool.

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Speaker 2: What were you seeing out there at halfback? I guess

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Speaker 2: in terms of the way the game was panning out,

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Speaker 2: it felt like the Hurricanes had you at the edges

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Speaker 2: in the first half, but maybe you tightened that up

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Speaker 2: in the second. What were you seeing from your vantage point?

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Speaker 4: I think, yeah, they did a really good job at

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Speaker 4: getting around the corner and beating up on the edges,

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Speaker 4: like you said, and I think we spoke about it

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Speaker 4: at halftime that that was a work one for us

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Speaker 4: through the second half and the boys did really well

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Speaker 4: to adjust to that. And yeah, it done well.

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Speaker 2: I guess last year you weren't there. But has that

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Speaker 2: been spoken about? I guess the tough times this team

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Speaker 2: went through in twenty twenty four, is you embark on

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Speaker 2: a new season?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. There's been a bit of a chat

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Speaker 4: obviously how last year was and not letting it be

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Speaker 4: in a downfall but a growth point for the group.

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Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, starting this is enough for a

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Speaker 4: good win and good Moreau in the group was positive.

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Speaker 2: Can let's be somewhere I guess where you add something

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Speaker 2: because you weren't there, you don't have that baggage of

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Speaker 2: last year. You can just come in and sort of

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Speaker 2: add what you want to this group.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think, well, for me, it's just coming into

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Speaker 4: the environment being like really welcomed in by the group

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Speaker 4: and the coaches and management, and then just just moving

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Speaker 4: myself and hitting what I can And I'm hoping that

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Speaker 4: it's been a help.

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Speaker 2: I know, the Hurricanes we're trying to get you on

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Speaker 2: board as well. What tipped you to go to the

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Speaker 2: Crusaders in the first place.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's pros and cons for everything, for both choices really,

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Speaker 4: and I think for me it was I've been a

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Speaker 4: Willington my whole life and to get out of the

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Speaker 4: region and have kind of a fresh start, just a

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Speaker 4: bit of growth aspect, not just for on the field,

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Speaker 4: but personally I thought there was going to be a

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Speaker 4: big part of it. So yeah, I think making the

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Speaker 4: move down here was it was good for me just

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Speaker 4: off the field as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously you've been a rufer by trades in

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Speaker 2: recent times. How most how recent were you doing routhing

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Speaker 2: and have you had to obviously park that for it

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Speaker 2: for a week while with a super rugby come a

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Speaker 2: track contract coming your way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So I actually luckily just finished my roofing apprenticeship

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Speaker 4: at the end of the start of last year before

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Speaker 4: the NPC season started, So I think maybe March was

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Speaker 4: when I fully qualified, which I was pretty stoked to

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Speaker 4: get that in and then to have a good MPC

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Speaker 4: season and kind of be full time by the end

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Speaker 4: of the year, so kind of worked that out pretty

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Speaker 4: perfect for me.

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Speaker 2: Do nights like last night sort of give you that

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Speaker 2: belief that you're on, you know, the right track as

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Speaker 2: a professional rugby play, Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: I think obviously, like I said, deboos pretty special and

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Speaker 4: to be able to have a do some performance on

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Speaker 4: a game like there is, yeah, something I can take

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Speaker 4: a bit of confidence from.

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Speaker 2: And obviously it looks like Noah might be out for

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Speaker 2: a week while so more opportunities might be coming your way.

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Speaker 2: Just have to grab both of those with both hands.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Just continue to do what I do and

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Speaker 4: keep working hard every day to be better and one

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Speaker 4: for myself obviously, and then two to help the team

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Speaker 4: do as this as we can and hopefully hopefully knows

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Speaker 4: back as soon as you can. And it's not too bad.

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Speaker 2: And the Chiefs next week and Hamilton always a tricky trip.

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Speaker 2: What are you expecting out of that? Obviously their first

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Speaker 2: game coming up per tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we'll have a watch of the game tonight

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Speaker 4: and see how they go. But yeah, they're always a tough,

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Speaker 4: tough game. Haven't played them personally yet, but I know

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Speaker 4: the fight they give, so it will be Yeah, it'll

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Speaker 4: be a big better when we can't, we can't leave

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Speaker 4: that at all.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a great start last night. Kyle loved

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Speaker 2: watching you play and look forward to seeing you over

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Speaker 2: the rest of the season. Beast to Luck for the campaign.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us awesome, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Cheers gus appreciate yours. I'm Kyle Preston. One of the

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Speaker 2: stories of the round is going to take something pretty

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Speaker 2: special to knock that off. The purchase is a story

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Speaker 2: of the Round and Super Rugby.

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