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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: It's the Wellington Phoenix Men back in action this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: They host the Newcastle Jets at Sky Stadium in Wellington,

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Speaker 2: five o'clock kickoff as they look to snap a three

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Speaker 2: game losing streak. You're shooting from everywhere at the moment,

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Speaker 2: West at Sydney circludida a lot of strike.

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Speaker 3: What the trsper It's over for the line now and

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Speaker 3: you could not ask for a better way to score

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Speaker 3: your first goal.

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Speaker 2: And what an exclamation though for Western Sydney to finish

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Speaker 2: this way man. That was the Western Sydney Wanderers beating

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Speaker 2: the Phoenix four to one last Sunday back home, as

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Speaker 2: I say, against the Newcastle Jets. One of the new

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Speaker 2: faces in the Phoenix squad this season is young Kiwi

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Speaker 2: utility Corbyn Piper, who actually made his starting debut for

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Speaker 2: the side last weekend in that loss at Western Sydney.

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Speaker 2: He joins us now, Corbyn, thanks for your time apart

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Speaker 2: from the result obviously, how happy were you with with

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Speaker 2: getting your starting debut and how you went on starting debu.

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Speaker 3: Look, I was buzzing to be fair like, as soon

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Speaker 3: as I found out that I was starting, I was just, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I couldn't get the smile off my face, to be honest,

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Speaker 3: and even more happy to get a full ninety minutes.

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Speaker 2: You had forty five minutes off the bench against Melbourne

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Speaker 2: victory in late November. Was that helpful in getting you

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Speaker 2: used to the level of the A League?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It was. Actually after that I felt a lot

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Speaker 3: more comfortable in actually being on the pitch and patiently

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Speaker 3: waiting for another chance than there I was at Western

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Speaker 3: Sydney getting my second chance to play, So yeah, I

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Speaker 3: was so light it.

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Speaker 2: How big a step up in standard have you found

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Speaker 2: the A League to be from what you've been playing previously?

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Speaker 3: Quite a big step up, to be honest. When I

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Speaker 3: was over in Ireland it was more physical and not

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Speaker 3: so technical as the A Leagues. But day leaves, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: by far, so much more superior, much faster. You have

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Speaker 2: On the ball, and yeah, did you feel like you're

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Speaker 2: able to quickly adjust to that? Though I look at it,

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Speaker 2: from what I saw, it didn't look like you were

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Speaker 2: rushed or hurried necessarily. Did you feel like you got

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Speaker 2: used to the pace of the game pretty quickly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's what I believe Cheetie wanted to

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Speaker 3: do is bring me in and sort of give me

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Speaker 3: two to three months training with the boys and getting

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Speaker 3: used to the level. Because originally I came in here

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Speaker 3: and I wasn't so technically good. But after training here

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Speaker 3: for just two or three months already, I found that

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Speaker 3: I've improved a lot already and it's helped me be

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Speaker 3: more confident on the field.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, when you assigned and in the time since

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Speaker 2: your versatility has been talked about a lot, can you

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Speaker 2: tell us the position you've played most often?

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Speaker 3: Actually, I can't actually answer that, to be honest, I

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Speaker 3: actually I have no idea. Really, I get so on

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Speaker 3: anywhere in training and I'm just happy to be there

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Speaker 3: and playing like they can put me on anywhere, and

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Speaker 3: like I said, yeah, just happy to be on the pitch.

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Speaker 2: I know you played in a sort of a teen

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Speaker 2: of midfield, has that you know, playing in a position

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Speaker 2: like that where you do need to be technically pretty

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Speaker 2: good around three hundred and sixty degrees? Is that helpful

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Speaker 2: when you've played because mostly for the Phoenix. You've played

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Speaker 2: in defensive positions where everything's in front of you. Here's

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Speaker 2: the ability to play three sixty degrees help that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, one hundred percent. Yeah, I believe though, because

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Speaker 3: when I'm in type situations I need to get out

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Speaker 3: passing back or something like that. But yeah, it's definitely

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Speaker 3: been a big help. But no mistakes in the defense line. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: I can make a mistake higher up the field as

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Speaker 3: a ten. But yeah, no room for areas are cine back.

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Speaker 2: Is center back, somewhere you feel comfortable though. Does it

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Speaker 2: feel like a place where you could have a natural home,

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Speaker 2: at least in the short term for Wellington Phoenix.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. Yeah. Like I said, I'll play anyway.

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Speaker 3: I enjoy playing cine back, making big tackles, all this

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Speaker 2: And alongside you in central defense on the weekend. Scott Wooton,

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Speaker 2: who of course has been around for a long time,

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Speaker 2: How much of a help was he for you?

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Speaker 3: I he's great. Like just being paired with him, I

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Speaker 3: He yeah, really helps me throughout the game, communicating literally

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Speaker 3: unreal to have them here next to me. It's a

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Speaker 2: A couple of chances to score too. Mate, How how

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Speaker 2: do you remember those moments?

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Speaker 3: Honestly? Yeah? Yeah, no words, Really I could have got

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Speaker 2: Mean, but to be also to be an attacking three

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Speaker 2: like a couple of heaters, and then there was a

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Speaker 2: volley light on as well. I mean that surely is

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Speaker 2: another string to your bow. That you're even at set pieces,

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Speaker 2: if you're playing center back, even at set pieces, that

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Speaker 2: you're an attacking threat. That must add another string to

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Honestly, my whole life, I've been quite good in

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Speaker 3: so yeah, I've always had an attacking mind for corners

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Speaker 3: I'm running up straight ready, can't wait if it's a

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Speaker 3: eventually hopefully one's going to go and I do think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, well, I know. Well you mentioned your

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Speaker 2: time in Ireland for Wixford. If she tell us about

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Speaker 3: I mean the football, the football there was a lot different. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was, like I said, very physical, and it wasn't

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Speaker 3: Its more just direct and long ball. And yeah, I

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Speaker 2: Good stuff. All right, let's look at this game this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Three straight losses never much fun. What sort of messages

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Speaker 3: I mean, same messages as every week. To be honest,

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Speaker 3: nothing really needs to be said. I think us boys

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Speaker 3: It's a musclim game for us, I believe. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: the boys are going out really more ready than ever.

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Speaker 2: Are there any small things or even medium sized things

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Speaker 2: that if you do change or get right or even

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Speaker 2: Do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think just concentration. Really, just few little errors

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Speaker 3: I think just touching those up, we'll be Yeah, we'll

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Speaker 2: And your first appearance at sky Stadium, all of your

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Speaker 2: other appearances have been away from memory. How much you're

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Speaker 2: looking forward to playing a home game?

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Speaker 3: Hopefully I can get on or get some minutes. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to because my family's coming down and it'd

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Speaker 3: I'm buzzing as.

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Speaker 2: Being a private the Phoenix, what you expected it.

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Speaker 3: Would be, Yeah, yeah, it is really. I came in

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Speaker 3: knowing that the boys are great lads, great group of boys,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, everything I expected to be honest.

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Speaker 2: Good to hear well all the best of this afternoon, Corbyn.

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Speaker 2: Let's hope you can turn things around and get back

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Speaker 2: on the winning side of things. Look forward to seeing

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Speaker 2: seeing you out there hopefully fingers crossed this afternoon. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for the chat.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, Corbyn, Corbyn Piper. There new face in

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Speaker 2: the Wellington squad. Unfortunately, a couple of injury concerns for

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Speaker 2: I say injury concerns more than concerns, a couple of

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Speaker 2: players have been ruled out. Marco Rojas, who unfortunately missed

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Speaker 2: last weekend having had a really good game the previous week,

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Speaker 2: has twisted his ankle quite badly. He's out for today

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Speaker 2: and is in a moon boot unfortunately and will miss

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Speaker 2: probably the next two to three games. And Tim Pain

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Speaker 2: also injured himself at training, one of the more experienced

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Speaker 2: some further selection conundrums for Jihn Callotaliano the coach of

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Speaker 2: when the game kicks off at around about five o'clock

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Speaker 2: and it is a beautiful day in Wellington compared to

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Speaker 2: really nice day in Wellington today, so let's hope that

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Speaker 2: the football matches the weather at Sky Stadium five o'clock

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Speaker 2: this afternoon. Finally, we go to Auckland FC, who are

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Speaker 2: in Gosford on the Central Coast of New South Wales,

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Speaker 2: to take on the Central Coast Mariners in Gosford from

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Speaker 2: seven o'clock tonight. Unfortunately, with their travel schedules and training

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Speaker 2: us or no, there wasn't enyone able to join us

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Speaker 2: for a chat today on the show, but some comments

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Speaker 2: got sent through from head coach Steve Carriker, so i'll

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Speaker 2: play for you first of all around how they've prepared

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Speaker 2: for this game off the back of their loss to

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Speaker 2: Western United a week ago.

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Speaker 4: Really good. We've had a good week's training boys. We

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Speaker 4: spoke about the defeat. Obviously it's our first one, so

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Speaker 4: we want to respond on a positive note against Central

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Speaker 4: Coast and we've been working towards that. They've been great.

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Speaker 4: They're upbeat, they're ready to ready to go for the

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Speaker 4: Central Coast game. Injury wise, everyone's pretty good. Obviously, a

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Speaker 4: couple of young boys out Ollie Middleton and Cam Howison

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Speaker 4: of he's not young, but he's still out. Cam and

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Speaker 4: Dan Hall. But other than that, we have a fully

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Speaker 4: fit squad and yeah, looking forward to it. Similar to Western,

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Speaker 4: obviously have to make sure that we're on our game.

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Speaker 4: We want to perform a lot better than last week.

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Speaker 4: They're a good team. They like you said, they won

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Speaker 4: all trophies last year. They've a bit of change in

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Speaker 4: their squad as well throughout this season. But they're at home.

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Speaker 4: They had a good performance the other night. They've got

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Speaker 4: a draw, so you know, we really have to take

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Speaker 4: care of business. Some dangerous threats. They got up front

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Speaker 4: with pace docer quoll with the pace you know, Celtech

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Speaker 4: defensively very strong, so we have to perform really well

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Speaker 2: Here you go, Steve Coriker with some brief prematch thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Seven o'clock tonight they take on the Central Coast Mariners.

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Speaker 2: They're back home actually on New Year's Day, so some

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Speaker 2: New Year's Day football ago Media Stadium, five o'clock on

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Speaker 2: January first, which is Wednesday they take on Melbourne victory,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, looking forward to seeing good crowd at home.

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Speaker 2: For Auckland FC, they played tonight in Gosford and then

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Speaker 2: at home on Wednesday twenty two to three. It's lunch

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Speaker 2: at the MCG on day three. India having resumed at

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty four for five in their first innings,

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Speaker 2: they got through to two hundred and forty four for seven,

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Speaker 2: so they've hadded eighty for the loss of two wickets.

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Speaker 2: Nitish Kumar ready is doing pretty well actually forty nine

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Speaker 2: out of sixty one balls, joined by Washington Sunda who

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Speaker 2: is unbeaten on five so they are now just thirty

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Speaker 2: one runs away from avoiding the follow on, So that'll

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Speaker 2: be a big order of business after lunch for India.

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Speaker 2: Australia just need their remaining three wickets in India's first

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Speaker 2: innings to be able to enforce the follow on if

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Speaker 2: they so choose, So India two forty four for seven.

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Speaker 2: They'll resume at the MCG at around about ten past

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Speaker 2: three this afternoon.

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