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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 dB.

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Speaker 2: YEP betting the Warritas fifty seven twelve to move into

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Speaker 2: Super Rugby's top six for the first time this season.

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Speaker 2: Hurricanes assistant coach Bryn Evans is with us bruin First

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Speaker 2: of all, in general terms, how big a result was

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Speaker 2: this in terms of the Hurricane season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's obviously good to see the boys,

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Speaker 3: you know, get out there and throw the ball round

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Speaker 3: a bit, I suppose, and just see the smiles on

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Speaker 3: the faces on a few of the Moose coming off.

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Speaker 2: After a slightly inconsistent start to twenty twenty five, did

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Speaker 2: it feel like a performance like this was coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, especially the week before the

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Speaker 3: buye really grinding out a win against the Honders, bought

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Speaker 3: some good cohesion amongst the group, and boys went away

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Speaker 3: recharged over the bi working, came back, really keen to

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Speaker 3: crack on and you know, put the X to the

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Speaker 3: grind and work on a few things that maybe we've

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Speaker 3: been lacking on this other season.

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Speaker 2: What sort of things have been that we were the

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Speaker 2: main focus heading into last night. What were some of

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Speaker 2: the things that you were quite keen to see even

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Speaker 2: small improvements in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think especially when we looked at our defense,

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Speaker 3: it was it was getting off the line, you know,

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Speaker 3: not waiting for the opposition to come to us more

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Speaker 3: us go to them and dictate on our terms, put

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Speaker 3: pressure on their ballplayers, and just being switched on on

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Speaker 3: both sides of the ball so we could be up

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Speaker 3: as that one line.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen the stats, but just on the defense,

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Speaker 2: you must have been happy because well from my memory

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Speaker 2: of watching the game last night, the Hurricane's defense was excellent.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember too many mistackles, too many line breaks

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Speaker 2: from the wartas.

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Speaker 4: Were you happy with the defensive performance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think obviously they're a good side, and rolling

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Speaker 3: off the back of what they had done last week,

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Speaker 3: they came out and started really strong, and so that's

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Speaker 3: you know, flick the boys into gear pretty quickly. And

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Speaker 3: I think bar that first you know, five ten minutes

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Speaker 3: really showed what they can do when they do do

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Speaker 3: the things that they they've been working on during the week.

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Speaker 3: So that was really pleasing to see.

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Speaker 2: So thirty five minutes gone, you're only ten seven ahead.

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Speaker 2: Did it feel like it was going to be a

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Speaker 2: bit of an armor whistle, a bit like the Highlanders game.

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Speaker 3: At that point, it felt like we were creating a

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Speaker 3: lot of opportunities. It felt like we were playing within ourselves,

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Speaker 3: I think for the most part, and I think we

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Speaker 3: were playing in the right ears of the field. It

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Speaker 3: was just you know, that last pass or a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a miscommunication or you know, something that didn't

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Speaker 3: quite go away. And then that year that lasts two

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Speaker 3: or three minutes before halftime. You know, we managed to

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Speaker 3: put a lot of good phases stacking on top of

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Speaker 3: each other, and I think a suffer scored a try

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Speaker 3: and then you know from a kick that that bounced

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Speaker 3: from the kickoff, you know, the boys just bouncing on

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Speaker 3: loose Bourne and then from there, you know, that's where

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Speaker 3: the boys really come alive and played with the Hurricanes

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Speaker 3: rugby and that was great to see a few passes

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Speaker 3: sticking and going the link like that.

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Speaker 4: Surely got to give a rap to Isaiah Walker Leowerti.

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Speaker 2: For his run and later in the first half to

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Speaker 2: set up came royguards try.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, mate, and I think Isaiah, you know,

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Speaker 3: potentially hit one of his better games. In one of

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Speaker 3: his best games in a Hurricane Jersey last night. He

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Speaker 3: was everywhere, you know, he was, he was playing right

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Speaker 3: on the line and just he was in everything. So

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Speaker 3: it was it was really awesome to see. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's he's had a few issues with his discipline over

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Speaker 3: the start of the season, and I think he's he's

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Speaker 3: really gone away and he's worked really hard on those

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Speaker 3: we saw really a great version of him last night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 2: They scored a trioly in the second but then thirty

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Speaker 2: three unanswered points from the Hurricanes. You must have enjoyed

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Speaker 2: the last half hour or so of that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it was. It was great, great to see,

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Speaker 3: great to see if you guys come off the bench

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Speaker 3: and take their opportunities. You know, it's I think, you know,

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Speaker 3: from the start of the season that we have had,

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Speaker 3: we've had the opportunity for some guys that don't generally

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Speaker 3: that actually get some real, some real valuable minutes under

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Speaker 3: their belts in terms of Super rugby, so in terms

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Speaker 3: of a squad We're really building some experience here, which

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Speaker 3: is great, and those guys are actually now starting to

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Speaker 3: kind of figure out how to go about their business,

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Speaker 3: and I think it's just going to make the team

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Speaker 3: stronger going forward.

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Speaker 2: Set Peace one of your one of your key responsibilities.

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Speaker 2: Nine out of ten of your own lineouts one you

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Speaker 2: won four of theirs. You'd be pretty happy with those numbers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, we we pride ourselves in our

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Speaker 3: set piece. You know, we were kind of we're on

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Speaker 3: the wrong side of maybe a real and not straight

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Speaker 3: which was tough. But you know, the boys trained hard

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Speaker 3: over the weekend. I think, you know, in terms of

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Speaker 3: trying to stop a team up the Warrior Tis, you

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Speaker 3: have to attack them at source and they've got some

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Speaker 3: great ball runners and they've got some strong forwards. So

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Speaker 3: we really plan to go after them at sit Peace.

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Speaker 3: So if we could disrupt them in the first phase

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Speaker 3: like that, then that was going to make our jobs

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Speaker 3: a lot easier. So as pleasing to see the boys

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Speaker 3: get set first and really sort of attack what was

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Speaker 3: in front of them.

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Speaker 2: Now, does Reuben Love practice throwing thirty meter behind the

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Speaker 2: back flip passes?

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Speaker 3: Room and Love practices a lot of things, and he

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Speaker 3: practiced with him very well. I haven't seen him do that.

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Speaker 3: One might be one of those sessions that I might

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Speaker 3: have ducked into to review training, so potentially, but you know,

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Speaker 3: he's the sort of guy that can can pull those

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Speaker 3: things off. And it looks like it comes as easy

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Speaker 3: he's a talented player and it's it's great to have

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Speaker 3: him back planning some some Hurricanes rugby.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty special stuff to set that that try up

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Speaker 2: at the end, and another really solid performance from Duplessif

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Speaker 2: you've been in and around him for a little while now, Brinn,

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Speaker 2: are you seeing some some.

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Speaker 4: Growth as we all are, in the way he plays

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Speaker 4: the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. You know, he's he's coming to

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Speaker 3: He's he's a big he's a big part of the team.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's he's a he's a leader. He's been

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Speaker 3: given that leadership, one of those leadership responsibilities this year,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's something he's been craving and he's

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Speaker 3: he's just taken everything in his stride. You know, here

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Speaker 3: the boys will will listen to him and I'll follow him,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's that's the best thing is to

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Speaker 3: kind of go, You'll get them behind and he'll lead

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Speaker 3: the way. So it's it's coming through on what he

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Speaker 3: does on the field obviously, and and and off the

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Speaker 3: field as well. And I think he's he's taken that

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Speaker 3: opportunity and I think you know he's he's the sort

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Speaker 3: of guy that's gonna that's going to do everything he

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Speaker 3: can for this team. And that's what you're want with

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Speaker 3: one of your leaders.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And just to finish the Blues up next a

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Speaker 2: week tonight up at Eden Park. They're a bit of

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Speaker 2: a wounded beast at the moment. They've got the buy

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Speaker 2: this weekend to get their own refreshment in. How are

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Speaker 2: you going to prepare for the challenge of the Blues

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Speaker 2: at Eton Park next week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, the boys would have would

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Speaker 3: have been happy with with the result last night, but

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Speaker 3: then you know, as soon as that that was done,

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Speaker 3: there'll be one eye on the week ahead. And you

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Speaker 3: know there's a we narrow now we lost at home

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Speaker 3: to them, you know, a few weeks back, so that'll

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Speaker 3: be not too not too far in the distant memory

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Speaker 3: of the boys, and I think it should be a

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Speaker 3: really good game, you know, we're we're going to be

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Speaker 3: preparing really well. But as you say, there'll be there'll

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Speaker 3: be an air of desperation about the Blues and I

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Speaker 3: think it's it's going to be one of the it's

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Speaker 3: going to be a real scrap so you will be

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Speaker 3: looking forward to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So all we excellent stuff. Bring congratulations on the

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Speaker 2: win last night.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for the chat. Today, go and enjoy what looks

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Speaker 4: to be a pretty nice Wellington day.

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Speaker 3: Okayn't beat it mate?

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Speaker 2: Thanks Fini, No, thank you, brit Brnevan's their assistant coach

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Speaker 2: of the Hurricanes after their good win yesterday fifty seven

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Speaker 2: points to twelve, so that does take them up to

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Speaker 2: sixth on the table on points differential. Basically they had

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Speaker 2: better points diff So after six games, Hurricanes on fourteen points.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs are top. I've got the weekend off. The Crusaders

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Speaker 2: can go top. Later on tonight, Gold Sport and iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: will have coverage of the Crusaders against Mowana Pacifica.

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