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Speaker 1: No current Wallaby was alive the last time the Wallabyes

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Speaker 1: beat the All Blacks at Eden Park. So fortress continues

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Speaker 1: and it's a daytime game tomorrow. Let's go to former

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Speaker 1: Wallaby Tim Horn, who's with me a horrn forgive me Tim?

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Yeah, good afternoon, good evening, Yeah, great to

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Speaker 2: It's always pretty exciting, isn't But it's like Cup week

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Speaker 2: and we always talk about it with the Standsport commentary

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Speaker 2: team about it's the hope that kills us with the Wallabies,

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Speaker 2: and because every time we go to New Zealand we

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Speaker 2: always think we're a chance. Everyone says this is the

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Speaker 2: best chance we've ever had in the last three or

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Speaker 2: four years. But we know and respect the All Blacks

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Speaker 2: and how strong they are. So but it's going to

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Speaker 2: be exciting much considering how the Wallabies are tracking at

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Speaker 2: the moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you I was listening to an interview you

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Speaker 1: did a couple of months ago where you said that

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Speaker 1: this is what the Wallabies fans need, is not necessarily

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Speaker 1: the bleeders Low Cup, but just you know, our win

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Speaker 1: here would be great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's just just to be competitive really,

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Speaker 2: and I think we saw that against the British Snyrish

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Speaker 2: Lions the three Test match series. I think probably the

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Speaker 2: first twenty minutes in the first Test is whether the

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Speaker 2: Wallaby's lost that Test series. But then you go and

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Speaker 2: play the spring Box in Johannesburg, a first win in

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Speaker 2: Johannesburg for sixty two years, and then I think just

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Speaker 2: the competition of the Rugby Championships so strong at the moment.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of Wallaby fans they're really excited

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Speaker 2: with the brand of rugby and the style of rugby

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Speaker 2: that Joe Smith has been putting in place for this

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Speaker 2: Wallaby team, and they seem to have so much trust

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Speaker 2: and belief around this side at the moment. But that's

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Speaker 2: one thing. That's another thing to go to Eden Park

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Speaker 2: and compete and compete so that fans in Australia and

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Speaker 2: around the world can go Okay, well, we are very

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Speaker 2: proud of this Wallaby team. But I think for the

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Speaker 2: Wallaby players that they need a win in Auckland or

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Speaker 2: they need a win in Perth. You need to win

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Speaker 2: one of these matches. Sure, your Wallaby fans would like

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Speaker 2: to see two wins to get the Blotter Slowe Cup back,

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Speaker 2: but I think for you know, to take the Wallaby seriously,

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Speaker 2: they have to beat the All Blacks occasionally.

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Speaker 1: And the fans are they that we saw the ninety

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Speaker 1: thousand at the MCG for the Lions to which isn't

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Speaker 1: a fantasmic. We know you've got the NFL, we know

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Speaker 1: you've got the AFL, that you're competing with the fans

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Speaker 1: along for the journey, even though it has been let's

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Speaker 1: say a rocky a few years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that. You know, you look two years

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Speaker 2: ago Rugby World Cup, Eddie Jones was coach of the Wallabies.

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Speaker 2: It was a bit of a debarcle. We didn't make

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Speaker 2: the quarter final of the Rugby World Cup first time ever.

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Speaker 2: I think that's shocked a lot of not just you know,

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Speaker 2: rusted on Wallaby fans, but just sporting fans. And so

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Speaker 2: two years ago that was tough. And then you get

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Speaker 2: to a stage now where and probably the litmus test

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Speaker 2: for Wallaby fans is on a Sunday morning where you

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Speaker 2: wake up after a Test match to the Wallabies have won,

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Speaker 2: and how many people are walking around in a Wallaby

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Speaker 2: jersey going to get a coffee, walking along the Brisbane

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Speaker 2: River with a Wallaby cap on or a scarf on.

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Speaker 2: So that's probably the test for Wallaby fans is how

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Speaker 2: much they support this team and they do come out

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Speaker 2: with the Wallaby start playing some good food and also winning.

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Speaker 1: Tim, you've got a prediction for Saturday afternoons.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to say the Wallabies by one. That's all

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Speaker 2: we need. But it's certainly going to be a tough

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Speaker 2: game for the Wallaby especially what happened two weeks ago

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Speaker 2: with the All Blacks, you know as a record beating

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Speaker 2: by the spring Box so Ardie Severe and the Allbacks

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure we would have regrouped after that. But

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Speaker 2: I think Harry Wilson, what he's done with this Wallaby team,

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Speaker 2: it's outstanding. They believe in them themselves. So I will

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Speaker 2: say the Wallabies boy one, but it's going to be

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Speaker 2: such a hard test match for the Wallabies to win.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to Tim, Thanks very much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Tim Horean, former Wallaby with.

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