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Speaker 1: We have a new voice to roster onto our weekend

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Speaker 1: sports spot, a familiar voice to many, saying Hi to

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Speaker 1: commentator Matt.

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Speaker 2: Markham, good morning, Look, how are we mate?

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Speaker 1: Wonderful to have you aboard. Can you believe that Super

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Speaker 1: Rugby is back tonight? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: It feels earlier and earlier and earlier every year, doesn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: past Christmas and get through the middle of January, and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden we're starting to talk about rugby.

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Speaker 2: Although the weather's playing at the moment, it does feel

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Speaker 2: like the middle of the winter.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we kick it off, maybe thankfully under the roof

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Speaker 1: in Dunedin tonight the Southern Derby between our Crusaders and Highlanders.

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Speaker 1: And I've had a quick glance over the team sheets.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you have great to see the likes of

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Speaker 1: Leicester Fine and Nuku back from making some money from France.

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Speaker 1: But somebody I'm not seeing is our Dallas McLeod. I

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Speaker 1: mean you're a mefin lad. Do you have the lowdown

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Speaker 1: what's going on here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well we obviously saw Dallas four a half in

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Speaker 2: the preseason down on Tamorrow a few weeks ago, but

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Speaker 2: he's been relatively mia since he didn't play in the

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Speaker 2: second warm up mats. Look, I have a strong inkling

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Speaker 2: that the Crusaders are in a bit of a blessed

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Speaker 2: spot this year with a roster of very strong midfielders,

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Speaker 2: and from what I can see, Dallas is going to

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Speaker 2: have to work pretty hard to get himself into that

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Speaker 2: starting twenty three on game day. So yeah, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: guys like Lesterfying and Nuku comes back in. I know

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Speaker 2: he's on the wing tonight, but he's quite a capable

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Speaker 2: center as well, and you've got David Harvey in the

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Speaker 2: mix too, so they're pretty well stacked in the back line.

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Speaker 2: So Dallas, Yeah, hopefully we will get to see him

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Speaker 2: at some stage in the opening rounds and he can

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Speaker 2: solidify himself a spot and that starting team. Each week.

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Speaker 1: TAB have the Crusaders going in a dollar forty two

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Speaker 1: favorites for the rest of the weekend warts reads the

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Speaker 1: late game tonight, more Wana pacifica Fiji DRAWID tomorrow, Battle

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Speaker 1: of the Bombay's Blues Chiefs. I mean, maybe that's got

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Speaker 1: a bit of interest to it, and then Forced Brumbies.

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Speaker 1: I know, aside from tonight, I'm not getting too excited

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Speaker 1: for round one.

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Speaker 2: No, it's one of those weeks, isn't it. You sort

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Speaker 2: of sit back and just enjoy it and see where

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Speaker 2: teams are at. There's a lot of teams that are

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Speaker 2: probably not quite at their full roster. You look through

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Speaker 2: the Crusaders tonight, they're resting a number of key players.

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Speaker 2: No Cody Taylor, No Will Jordan. Then you even look

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Speaker 2: at the Chiefs. No Damien McKenzie. He welcomed his first child,

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Speaker 2: true well partner of this week, who was the daughter

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Speaker 2: incidentally of champion former jockey Lance O Sullivan. But the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs also haven't got Simon Parker or Leroy Carter. So

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Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting to see how things unfold,

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Speaker 2: particularly just to see where those Australian teams are at

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Speaker 2: Luke because when know we like to beat them up.

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Speaker 1: Well, better to pair Rugby Western Cricket. The tee tweety

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Speaker 1: World Cup continues. Our black Caps on routes to Metabad

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Speaker 1: to take on South Africa Sunday morning. Aside that did

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Speaker 1: everything they possibly could to lose to Afghanistan yesterday, but

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Speaker 1: still one and two super overs. That we see the

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Speaker 1: most crazy plays from tournaments, like.

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Speaker 2: They say, oh, it's just bizarre and you wouldn't have

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Speaker 2: expected South Africa, who had a number of opportunities to

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Speaker 2: win the match before we even got to the extra

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Speaker 2: stuff throw the towel to try and lose the game,

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Speaker 2: but they got there in the end. Look, it'll be

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Speaker 2: our biggest test of the tournament so far, I think. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: coming in off the back of a good ten wicket

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Speaker 2: victory the other night, he has our chance to stake

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Speaker 2: our claim as a leading contender for this title. I

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Speaker 2: suppose it'd be nice to see our name on that

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Speaker 2: T twenty trophy. I think the big match for me

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Speaker 2: this weekend comes Monday morning though, the old rivalry India

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Speaker 2: the Pakistan two thirty on Monday morning. That'll be a

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Speaker 2: belter of a.

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Speaker 1: Match two thirty. Yeah, I don't. I think we'll be

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Speaker 1: brave enough to set the alarm there too early, but

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Speaker 1: we keeps the tail end. But no doubt something else

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Speaker 1: which is on this weekend and we are going to

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Speaker 1: get the man himself, the voice of the Coast to Coast,

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Speaker 1: Brian Ashby it around about twenty to eight. Lots of

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Speaker 1: mid Canterbury locals tackle this. Is it something on your

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Speaker 1: bucket list?

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Speaker 2: No? Not something on my bucket list. The father in

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Speaker 2: law has done it five times. He's a lot madder

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Speaker 2: than me, but he's currently away with that group of

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Speaker 2: locals that are biking from one end of the country

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Speaker 2: to the other, so he's not doing the Coast to

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Speaker 2: Coast this year, but always look forward to the Coast

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Speaker 2: to Coast and mccannbury's got a really strong, proud history

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Speaker 2: with it, obviously through Brayden Curry. His brother Glen is

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Speaker 2: the race director, and always plenty of mccannerbury names scattered

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Speaker 2: amongst the entries and this year is no different. One

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Speaker 2: to watch out for Luke In the Elite woman's Methan's

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Speaker 2: Canna Lund is the name out for. She finished second

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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. She's won the Open women's category,

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Speaker 2: which is the level below the elite and I see

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Speaker 2: earlier this week that mister Curry Glen Letter is the

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Speaker 2: race director, gave her a pre race ranking of two,

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Speaker 2: so she is expected to finish very highly up on

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Speaker 2: the podium and an outstanding outstanding athletes. She which is

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Speaker 2: a vent in methin and I've seen her pounding the

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Speaker 2: pavements and treading the tires on the roads and even

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Speaker 2: on the kayak not far from home, so she he's

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Speaker 2: been putting the hard guards and I'm expecting a pretty

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Speaker 2: big performance from here this.

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Speaker 1: Weekend, and so humble. It was lucky enough to catch

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Speaker 1: up with her at the Salmon Run just a couple

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Speaker 1: of months back as well. Go well, Hannah and all

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Speaker 1: of our locals, and I hope you've taken a spear

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Speaker 1: pair of socks or two. Looks like it's going to

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Speaker 1: be rather damn