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Speaker 1: And to talk us through his highs and lows of

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Speaker 1: the weekend in Sport. Elliott Smith is with.

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Speaker 2: Us morning morning.

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Speaker 1: Good weekend for the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: Very good and I think this will give him a

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Speaker 2: lot of confidence. I mean, when was the last time

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Speaker 2: you saw a team taker penalty shot at goal in

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Speaker 2: rugby league from fifty meters out lid alone and golden

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Speaker 2: It was a very odd game. The Warriors had it

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Speaker 2: in control in the end. I don't know whether it

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Speaker 2: was the conditions, but the Broncos sort of came back

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Speaker 2: into it right at the end, sent it to golden

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Speaker 2: point and then dear old Reese Walsho obviously left. The

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Speaker 2: Warriors makes the era from the kickoff and Luke Metcalf,

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Speaker 2: who had been shopping off the tee, comes in. Now

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Speaker 2: is it from fifty meters? You don't really see that

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Speaker 2: in rugby league ever, but it kind of when that,

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Speaker 2: you know, on the back of that poor game against

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Speaker 2: the Storm last week, might just give the Warriors a

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Speaker 2: little bit of confidence. Or in christ Church this week

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Speaker 2: for the anzact day game, so quick, quish turn around,

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Speaker 2: but the Nights are certainly beatable and hopefully this will

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Speaker 2: swing the Warriors back into the winning ways.

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Speaker 1: He is a special game, the Anzact game. Who are

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Speaker 1: they playing?

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Speaker 2: News? Yeah, so they've changed it around. So I've got

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Speaker 2: a home game. It's in christ It sold out weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Should be a pretty special occasions.

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Speaker 1: Now a lot of super rugby taking place over the weekend. Geez,

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Speaker 1: my heart bled for Mina Pacifica because they've been playing

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Speaker 1: so well and with such heart, and it wasn't a

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Speaker 1: great game against it.

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Speaker 2: It was terrible commentated this game actually, and it was

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Speaker 2: nil with forty minutes on the clock and it was

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Speaker 2: five and a half time and then Maida just couldn't

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Speaker 2: get into the game. And they clearly missed Ardie Savia,

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Speaker 2: which shows how big his impact has been. But also

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Speaker 2: when he's not in the team he was on rest

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Speaker 2: on the weekend, how much they still struggle without him,

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Speaker 2: and they just didn't have it defensively, didn't have it

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Speaker 2: on attack. And now you know they're on the outside

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Speaker 2: looking in, as are the Blues, as other Hurricanes trying

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Speaker 2: to chase these playoff spots and Super Rugby that are

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Speaker 2: whittling down by the week. It's becoming very very tight

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Speaker 2: this race, and you can't really afford to drop too

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Speaker 2: many points and unfortunately for Mowana they did in the weekend.

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Speaker 2: They've got a drewer this weekend back at home at

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Speaker 2: North Harbor Stadium. That's now really a must win for them,

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Speaker 2: but there's a lot of ground that sees teams still

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Speaker 2: have to make up the Force and Hurricanes. They drew

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Speaker 2: both teams and the playoff mix the Blues obviously losing

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Speaker 2: to the Crusaders on Good Friday.

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Speaker 1: So it's a depressing start to Easter.

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Speaker 2: Well not so much for our Canterbury list as I'm sure,

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Speaker 2: but for you, yeah obviously. And yeah, look, I think

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Speaker 2: it's really really tight and in super rugby, which is

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Speaker 2: what we want going into these last few weeks of

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Speaker 2: the seasons.

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Speaker 1: Of course Checks did well against the very.

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Speaker 2: Good Yeah, came back really well after a pool couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks with have kind of just looked a little

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Speaker 2: bit off that lost to the Waratas just swept the Highlanders.

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Speaker 1: I love the way you walk in here without any notes,

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Speaker 1: but you seem to have the rugby schedule in your

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Speaker 1: head with the person I know I need to text on. Hey, look,

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Speaker 1: let's touch briefly on the Formula one. Liam Lawson not

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Speaker 1: quite in the points yet, but good to see him

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Speaker 1: sort of steadying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And look, it was such as

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Speaker 2: shock to the system. I'm sure he would have been

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Speaker 2: expecting that full season and Red Bull. Now he has

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of the mindset shift and it's going

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Speaker 2: to take him a few races to go. Actually, I'm

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Speaker 2: back in racing bulls. I've got to start from behind

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Speaker 2: on the grid because that's the nature of you being

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Speaker 2: in the development team. So look, you top that time

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Speaker 2: penalty day and then their race they should have been

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Speaker 2: probably eleventh finished and twelfth. But I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: think there's some positive signs there the building and maybe

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Speaker 2: just some time out of the spotlight in terms of

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Speaker 2: the international spotlight might actually be good for him. Hopefully

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Speaker 2: he can just you know, now the spotlight's gone and

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Speaker 2: it's now on Yuki Snoda and everyone else, and the

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Speaker 2: way the McLaren's going up the top of the grid

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Speaker 2: and the standings, maybe just some time out of the

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Speaker 2: spotlight for Liam Wilson might be a good thing.

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Speaker 1: I think so too. Just leave him alone and.

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Speaker 2: It's right doing it as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Elliott, appreciate your time this morning.

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