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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks EDB the tough Questions off the turf. Weekend

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Speaker 1: Sport with Jason Pine and GJ. Gunerholmes, New Zealand's most

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Speaker 1: trusted home builder News talks.

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Speaker 2: MB fourteen away from two in the final minute of

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Speaker 2: the first half in Faraday, where North Harbor have brought

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Speaker 2: it back to fourteen to twelve against the home side Northland.

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Speaker 2: Northland fourteen Harbor twelve approaching the end of the first

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Speaker 2: half in this Bunnings NPC match. Great to welcome back

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Speaker 2: to Weekend Sport our Australian correspondent Adam Peacock, who's been

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Speaker 2: away for the last two or three weeks, but back

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Speaker 2: now and in Sydney where the Wallabies take on the

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Speaker 2: All Blacks this afternoon. Maybe you can give us a

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Speaker 2: weather report. First of all, Adam, how's the weather there.

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Speaker 3: Finny Gray, I'm great to be back chatting with you.

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Speaker 3: It could not be better. There is the most perfect

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Speaker 3: canvas to play running rugby. Just to question these two

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Speaker 3: teams coming up, because see whether they're bloody good enough

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Speaker 3: to play running rugby and well I saw, I'm sure

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Speaker 3: they'll get the opportunity. It's a dry day, it's twenty

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Speaker 3: three degrees, it's not too hot, it's not too cold,

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Speaker 3: there's no win. The track out there at the old

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Speaker 3: Olympic Stadium is perfect. So yeah, like hopefully now that

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Speaker 3: it's over to the two sets of fifteenth out there

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Speaker 3: to give us a show.

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Speaker 2: How optimistic do you feel that the Wallabies can beat

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Speaker 2: the Old Blacks today?

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Speaker 3: Not very I got to be honest. I mean, what

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Speaker 3: happened in Argentine it was just paranormal almost. It was

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Speaker 3: just so odd that you lead a game like that

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Speaker 3: and play some pretty good stuff and grind out of

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Speaker 3: victory and the week before against a really tough opposition,

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Speaker 3: as you guys know over there after what happened about

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Speaker 3: a month ago, and then serve that up for the

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Speaker 3: balance of the game. It's you know, it does feel

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Speaker 3: like one step forward, two steps back. But in a

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Speaker 3: general sense, I do feel like this what's on the

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Speaker 3: horizon for in Australia with Alliance and then home World Cup.

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Speaker 3: It's given, it's galvanized the organization a bit. So I

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Speaker 3: do know of offield appointments that are going on and

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Speaker 3: they're attracting good people to the organization and now it's

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Speaker 3: up to and they're making the tough cause, but they

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Speaker 3: see the right course with a thing like the World

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Speaker 3: Melbourne Rebel. So this afternoon is just another little step.

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Speaker 3: Whether it's a back with one of sideways one or

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Speaker 3: a forward one remains to be seen. But yeah, it

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Speaker 3: should be a good occasion out there and hopefully they

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Speaker 3: near enough for it, and yeah Rugby can kind of

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Speaker 3: get back on track with the general sporting public.

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Speaker 2: Well. Sydney's the center of the Australasian sporting universe. This

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Speaker 2: weekend NRL semi Finals ahead of the preliminary finals next week.

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Speaker 2: Last night at Elian's Sharks twenty six, Cowboys eighteen, same

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Speaker 2: venue tonight, I think Roosters against your Manly Sea Eagles.

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Speaker 2: Are you a chance?

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Speaker 3: We're a chance? But I just fear that our best

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Speaker 3: player and when he's one hundred percent fit, I genuinely

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Speaker 3: believe he's the best player in the competition. Tom Drouyovich,

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Speaker 3: he's not one hundred percent. He's got an MCL he's

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Speaker 3: got a shoulder problem. He's probably I reckon in the

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Speaker 3: range of fifty to sixty percent. Shit, So that's going

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Speaker 3: to make it tough. Our major strike, Manly's major strike weapon.

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Speaker 3: It can't be what he can be. So how do

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Speaker 3: they get around that? After a pretty brutal semifinal last

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Speaker 3: week against the Dogs who are so valiant in defeat,

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Speaker 3: up against the Rooster's team who embarrassed the first twenty minutes,

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Speaker 3: against Penrith, who are the benchmarks still remain the benchmark

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Speaker 3: in rugby league. So painting all that picture for you, Pineyer,

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Speaker 3: it paints a bleak one from a Manly perspective, but

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Speaker 3: it still should be a pretty good game for the

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Speaker 3: reasons advertised above. The conditions will be great and they'll

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Speaker 3: be able to chuck the ball around and Manly like

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Speaker 3: doing that, so they might cause the Roosters a few issues.

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Speaker 3: But I expect the Roosters to go through. Last time

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Speaker 3: I expected the Sharks to go through. They've got the

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Speaker 3: wobbly boots on, but really, what are they playing for.

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Speaker 3: They're playing for the right to be beaten by Penrith

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Speaker 3: and Melbourne on paperlit to get into the Grand Final.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just feels like, I don't know, you can't

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Speaker 2: put Melbourne and Penrith into the Grand Final. Already, but

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Speaker 2: it feels like in a couple of weeks that's the

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Speaker 2: scenario we're going to be faced with. Anyway, that's all

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Speaker 2: to come. Last night also at the SCG AFL preliminary finals,

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Speaker 2: Sydney Swan's ninety five, Port Adela fifty nine. So thiswan's

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Speaker 2: far too strong now it's too long against Brisbane late

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Speaker 2: this afternoon in the other semi So we could have

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Speaker 2: two non Victorian teams in the Grand Final if the

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it has happened on the odd occasion. Happened a

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Speaker 3: lot around twenty years ago. I mean Port played Brisbane

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Speaker 3: in a Grand five. Port Adelaid played Brisbane in the

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Speaker 3: Grand Final. Siding who are playing West Coast and back

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Speaker 3: to back ground final, So it doesn't lose the sense

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Speaker 3: of occasion. I still have one hundred thousand people there,

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Speaker 3: but it does speak to the power shift, even though

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Speaker 3: people in Melbourne still believe that the universe revolves around

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Speaker 3: AFL footy in Melbourne. I mean Mark Robinson respected journo.

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Speaker 3: He was on television through the week. He said something

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Speaker 3: absolutely crazy. You said, you're gonna have forty thousand there

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Speaker 3: in Sydney on Friday night and I can see in

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Speaker 3: my lifetime AFL killing off rugby league in Sydney. Now

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Speaker 3: that is one of the more stupid Like that's like

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Speaker 3: saying the twenty forty two World Cup in football will

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Speaker 3: be held on Pluto. That is just ridiculous. But it

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Speaker 3: speaks of what Melbourne people think of AFL footy. It's like,

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, it's great, we have this national competition, but

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Speaker 3: we run the world. We're the best type thing. So

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Speaker 3: you know, people from outside of Melbourne will be quite

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Speaker 3: you know, like a little smirk on the face if

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Speaker 3: it's a non Victorian Grand Final. But we'll find out

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Speaker 3: this afternoon in a couple of hours time, so I

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Speaker 3: think it's a five o'clock bounce out at mc Geelong

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Speaker 3: are great, they're just so consistent and Bresban have done

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Speaker 3: well to get to this day, so it should be

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Speaker 3: a buddy good game of footy.

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Speaker 2: Great Devy back on the radio, Adam, we'll do it

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Speaker 2: again next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thanks BNNY, Thanks Adam.

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Speaker 2: Adam Peacock our Australian correspondent Around this time every Saturday

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