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Speaker 1: All right with me right now, We've got Jason Pine

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Speaker 1: Weekend sport host. Hey piney good I Heather, Hey, are

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Speaker 1: people physic you're in Dunedin? You are?

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Speaker 2: I an't? I think they are? Yeah, I think people

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Speaker 2: are very excited. I flew down this morning from Wellington

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Speaker 2: and I think the entire plane was basically going to

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Speaker 2: the Rugby tomorrow night. So a lot of excitement heading

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Speaker 2: into the city. Down here. A beautiful day today and

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Speaker 2: meant to be okay tomorrow. There's a roof on the

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Speaker 2: stadium anyway, so it won't particularly matter if there's a

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Speaker 2: bit of rain or anything like that. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of people are really fizzling about the

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Speaker 2: first test of not only the year, but of Scott

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Speaker 2: Robertson's tenure as head coach of the All Black. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think there's a real buzz around.

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Speaker 1: What do you make Because I haven't even had a

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Speaker 1: chance to have a chat to you about the squad

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Speaker 1: that's been announced, What do you make of it?

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Speaker 2: I like it. It was pretty predictable, rarely. The only

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Speaker 2: surprise was Stephen Petterferte at fallback ahead of vote and Barrett.

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Speaker 2: I think most people picked the bulk of this team

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Speaker 2: and the reserves. Are no debutants in the team or

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Speaker 2: in the twenty three, which is rare normally of any year,

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Speaker 2: and particularly at the start of a new coaching tenure.

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Speaker 2: You get a few new faces, but nobody's going to

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Speaker 2: deboot tomorrow night. I think it's a squad that's basically

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Speaker 2: designed to go out there and make sure that they

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Speaker 2: get the job done so that the Scott Robertson era

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Speaker 2: gets off to a good start. He's gone the experience

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Speaker 2: and I like it. I think it's a good team.

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Speaker 2: There's probably not a lot that most people would have

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Speaker 2: changed in the fifteen or in the twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're probably right there. Hey, are you

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Speaker 1: surprised the Tall Blacks have been knocked out of the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Not really. This is a tough road for them. They

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Speaker 2: had to win a six team tournament. There was only

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Speaker 2: one spot up for grabs. It's kind of one of

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Speaker 2: those last chance tournaments. They came up against Slovenia this morning.

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Speaker 2: I've got one of the best players on the planet

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Speaker 2: and Luka Doncic in their ranks. They had a world

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Speaker 2: of a game. New Zealand weren't really ever going to

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Speaker 2: get close to herm or them. And unfortunately for you,

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Speaker 2: for what seems like an age now, we're not going

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Speaker 2: to have a tall Blacks team at the Olympics something.

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Speaker 2: Last time the men's team went to the Olympics was

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Speaker 2: two thousand and four. So yeah, over twenty years and

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Speaker 2: we wait for a four years now, but no, no,

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Speaker 2: great surprise, that's nicer shame.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Piney, thank you so much. Enjoy the game tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: That's Jason Pine who's of course the host of Weekend Sport,

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