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Speaker 1: Sport with generate celebrating great performances in sport and key

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Speaker 1: we saver Atgaans.

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Speaker 2: Jason Pine sports talk host is back with us Allo Piney.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Heather.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so Chris Greenacre is here to see the job.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he's certainly not experience in taking over in

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Speaker 3: times of need for Wellington Phoenix. This would you believe

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Speaker 3: is the fourth time he has come in to save

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Speaker 3: the team really after a coach has left mid season.

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Speaker 3: He did it when former coaches Ricky Herbert, Ernie Merrick

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Speaker 3: and darry A Kellozitch all left mid season for various reasons.

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Speaker 3: So this is the fourth time he's done it. What

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Speaker 3: your hope, Heather, is that he's done enough to actually

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Speaker 3: earn a crack at the job full time. At the moment,

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Speaker 3: they've only said, OK, you're taking the team for this

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Speaker 3: weekend's game. I think that's just to get the week

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Speaker 3: done so that they can get the next game done.

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Speaker 3: They are almost certainly going to look at him for

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Speaker 3: the rest of this season. But what your hope is

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Speaker 3: that he will be given the opportunity, after so many

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Speaker 3: times as interim, to be the full time head coach

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Speaker 3: of Wellington Phoenix. For the net couple of seasons. I

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Speaker 3: think that's probably what will happen, barring and utter catastrophe,

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Speaker 3: in the next eight weeks or so. So let's hope

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Speaker 3: that he's finally getting the chance to get the gig

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Speaker 3: full time.

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Speaker 2: Did they only offer him one week or did he

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Speaker 2: only did he say he only wanted to do one week?

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Speaker 3: His decision, Yeah, he said, Look, I don't want to

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Speaker 3: talk about contracts now. I mean, we we've got a

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Speaker 3: game in six days, so let me get the team

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Speaker 3: ready for that. And while we're doing that, I'll get

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Speaker 3: my people to talk to your people, and they say,

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Speaker 3: if we can lay something out.

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Speaker 2: He's playing hardball, isn't he?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, I think he's got the right

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Speaker 3: to Ye, he's got the right. He's saved them so

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Speaker 3: many times.

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Speaker 2: I know I'd be that guy who's called in the

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Speaker 2: three times and then overlooked three times.

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Speaker 3: It's like whoever fills in for you on drive. You

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Speaker 3: know you want the job full time at some stage.

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Speaker 2: Surely, surely, what are you suggesting, Piney, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: take you out for back and shoot you in a minute. Okay,

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Speaker 2: talk to me about the Crusaders. What's going on here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think everybody outside of christ Jurich is

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Speaker 3: sort of looking on it with a sort of barely

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Speaker 3: repressed glee about this. Some you know, they had fifty

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Speaker 3: pot on them at home by the Brumbi yesterday. That's

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Speaker 3: the first time the Crusaders have ever had fifty points

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Speaker 3: pot on them by anybody in a home game. I

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Speaker 3: don't think we need to panic too much. We know

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Speaker 3: that the Crusaders are a very very good rugby team.

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Speaker 3: But we look back two years and I remember thinking

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Speaker 3: at the start of the twenty twenty four season, oh,

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Speaker 3: the Crusaders have lost a couple of games, but they'll

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Speaker 3: probably still win it. You remember, of course, they didn't

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Speaker 3: even make the playoffs that year, so they've got a

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Speaker 3: bit of a cursory tail there. I think they'll be okay.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, a very very interesting game against the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: this weekend. The Chiefs are two and zero, the Crusaders

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Speaker 3: are zero and two. Are repeat of last year's Grand Final.

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Speaker 2: Oh, very interesting. Hey, Piney, thank you very much. Appreciate it,

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Speaker 2: Jason Pine. He'll be back for Sports Talk seven o'clock

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