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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at.

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Speaker 2: Be Andrew Savila Sporto is with us this morning, and Sam,

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Speaker 2: I say, this is a keen Crusaders fan. The Highlanders

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Speaker 2: deserved it last night.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Morning Jack. Yeah, patches of that game both teams

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Speaker 3: had air ridden.

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Speaker 2: Moment my god, some of the defense. The Crusader's defense

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Speaker 2: has been ridiculous in the last few weeks. But I just, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I thought there was a solid half of that game,

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Speaker 2: probably twenty minutes before halftime, twenty minutes afterwards, where the

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Speaker 2: Highlanders were just were just dominant and could not get

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Speaker 2: points on the board.

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Speaker 3: And that sort of season really. You know, they pushed

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Speaker 3: the Hurricanes week or two ago, and Wellington they've had

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Speaker 3: some really close games. Yeah, they've had the odd couple

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Speaker 3: of blowouts, but it's a frustrating season for them. They

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Speaker 3: had some key injuries early on, and one thing with

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Speaker 3: the Heighthland that is clearly under Jamie Joseph they never

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Speaker 3: give up, Jack, and we saw that again last night,

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Speaker 3: and frustrating for them. A real heartbreaker that they missed

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Speaker 3: a penalty after the full time hooter which would have

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Speaker 3: drawn them level at fifteen or and it would have

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Speaker 3: gone to extra time. But the Crusaders for the time

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Speaker 3: being move up back to the top of Super Rugby.

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Speaker 3: The Chiefs can overtake them and go back top themselves

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Speaker 3: if they beat Mowana Pacific at tonight, and not often

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Speaker 3: you'd say if they beat Mowana, but the way Mowana's

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Speaker 3: playing under Adisavia, you wouldn't bet against them.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what?

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Speaker 2: I still feel like we haven't given enough attention to

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Speaker 2: what that team has done this year. And this honestly,

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Speaker 2: what Ardie has done by being in that team, I

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Speaker 2: cannot you know, except for maybe the helcyon days of

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Speaker 2: Carter and McCaw, I don't think I can think of

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Speaker 2: a period in which in a single New Zealand rugby

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Speaker 2: player was having such an influence on a whole team's performance. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think like I think Artie Savia has entered like

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Speaker 2: another stratosphere in terms of the kind of legendary status

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Speaker 2: at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's played when he won his name.

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Speaker 3: I think it was named will Player of the Year

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty twenty three World Cup year. I think

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Speaker 3: he's playing even better now and Let's not forget. He's

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Speaker 3: in his early thirties. His body has been through the

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Speaker 3: absolute ringer. I saw him during the week. It would

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Speaker 3: have been two or three days after that Blues game,

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Speaker 3: and he still looked achy and sore, but he was

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Speaker 3: still flying into everything at training and that sums him up.

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Speaker 3: Ardie Savi. Look, you've got to know, Jack, that Mowana

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Speaker 3: is in this competition and playing well, but having to

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Speaker 3: do so often with one arm tied behind their back,

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Speaker 3: whether it's money, whether it's resource, whether it's being allowed

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Speaker 3: to play games here, there and everywhere. Ardie Savia, let's

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Speaker 3: not forget, was pretty much told don't go to Mowana.

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Speaker 3: When he's started making requests to leave the Hurricanes or

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Speaker 3: move on from the Hurricanes, there were question marks from

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Speaker 3: on high about the facilities they had or didn't have,

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Speaker 3: the what would happen to his play, and all of

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Speaker 3: that has gone totally down. The old Duney isn't because

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Speaker 3: he is playing some superb football and what he's done

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Speaker 3: and what that team has done for this competition, it's

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Speaker 3: given it some life, mate.

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Speaker 2: It really has, it really has. I mean it's because

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Speaker 2: they're always it always sort of felt like you know,

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Speaker 2: results were kind of a done thing right before before

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Speaker 2: you had games, and sometimes it was with the drawer

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Speaker 2: and it was often within ONEA PACIFICA. But I just

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Speaker 2: I think, I think they've been absolutely superb.

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Speaker 3: So Awk, we had another we had an sorry just

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Speaker 3: before we leave Rugby, we had another tight game. It's

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Speaker 3: such a high percentage of games besided by say five

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Speaker 3: or fewer points this season. That's made the competition interesting

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Speaker 3: as well. But the Canes just beating the Queensland Reds. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and up to four so they are now in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Billy Procter I thought was outstanding again. He has to

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Speaker 3: be the All Black center. Surely he's had a terrible

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Speaker 3: run with injuries the last couple of years. Let's hope

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Speaker 3: he stays fit to make that first All Black squad.

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Speaker 3: And Black Fern's this afternoon and it's a stunning day

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Speaker 3: and alten, isn't it, Jack it is. I'm assuming you're

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Speaker 3: here and I'm here Black After the Black Ferns game

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Speaker 3: is of course Auckland versus Melbourne victory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be massive this afternoon. He later

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Speaker 2: kickoff at go Media Stadium, but a full house to

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Speaker 2: say the least I think they've got. They've brought in

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Speaker 2: the extra seats and everything, haven't they for that second lead.

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Speaker 3: Just under twenty nine thousand, so the atmosphere will be

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Speaker 3: out of this world, as with the players yesterday out

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Speaker 3: of the stadium, very relaxed, trying to win this game

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Speaker 3: rather than defending that one. They'll lead for the first leg,

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Speaker 3: which which which is which is obviously Aukland FC's way

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Speaker 3: of doing things. They are an attacking football team and

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Speaker 3: just a great just a great feeling around this team

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Speaker 3: and a very good feeling around the city. A lot

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Speaker 3: of Awka lifc signage around the city, a lot of

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Speaker 3: people going to the game, a lot of people talking

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Speaker 3: about the team. They've they've done wonders for football this year.

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Speaker 1: They really have.

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Speaker 2: And I mean I don't want to get to a

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Speaker 2: hit of myself, but were firmly touching would I mean

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Speaker 2: this time next week we could be counting down to

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Speaker 2: kick off in the May League Final, which would just be ridiculous. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Let's just focus on the on the listen one game

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Speaker 2: at a time, Let's get let's focus on those cliches

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Speaker 2: for the time beings so that we get through this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, Andrews are all our sport Over there

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