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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 EDB.

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Speaker 2: But let's get you across the tasmin for a regular

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Speaker 2: chat with our Australian correspondent Adam Peacock. Adam, as you

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Speaker 2: can probably hear, we're in the thicker things here at

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Speaker 2: the Kingslander ahead of bled Uslow one this afternoon. How

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Speaker 2: are you feeling about Australia's chances of victory at Eton

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Speaker 2: Park this afternoon?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Not great. I've got to be honest, we don't have

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Speaker 3: a particularly good record at the ground, saying that I

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Speaker 3: was eighth the last time one and I'm old, so yeah, look,

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Speaker 3: it's not a lot of expectation, especially no Will Skelton

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Speaker 3: and a couple of other injuries are picked up along

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Speaker 3: the way, so very unfortunate timing for those things to

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Speaker 3: kind of yeah, you merge into what was looming is

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Speaker 3: a pretty good opportunity. Like we've said it for a

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Speaker 3: long time and this is our best chance to knock

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Speaker 3: off to the All Blacks in New Zealand for the

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Speaker 3: last twenty years and it hadn't happened, but this seemed

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Speaker 3: like a pretty good one given the form of you

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Speaker 3: guys in the form of our guys in the last

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks. But yeah, not entirely sure, especially with

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Speaker 3: those outs.

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Speaker 2: Do you still feel as though the Wallabies are on

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Speaker 2: an upward trajectory though you know, it seems to be

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Speaker 2: the improvements obvious, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. You take what was like ground zero and I'd

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Speaker 3: say that was just out the last World Cup and

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Speaker 3: Eddie Jones now his reputation in Australian runs out of

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Speaker 3: a scorch to his policy pretty much of how he

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Speaker 3: did things and it didn't play off at that World Cup.

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Speaker 3: And then what's been built since. Joe Schmidt absolutely clear

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Speaker 3: that it's going in the right direction. So yeah, we'll

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Speaker 3: see how far they have actually come in a good

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Speaker 3: game my business after that.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, it's not the only big sporting fixture

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Speaker 2: on the Australian calendar today. In fact, probably the biggest

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Speaker 2: day on the Australian sporting calendar the AFL Grand Final

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Speaker 2: Geelong against the Brisbane lines that have sold out mcg

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Speaker 2: This is the biggest day, isn't in an Australian sport

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Speaker 2: It's probably.

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Speaker 3: The biggest weekend because we've got all this and then yeah,

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Speaker 3: we've got the bladders low thrown in and I don't

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Speaker 3: know what we're going to be administrators are doing trying

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Speaker 3: to go head to head with all of this in Australia.

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Speaker 3: And I know Australia only has a quarter vote in

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Speaker 3: the Rugby Championship. Its other nations to take into account

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Speaker 3: as well. But if you want to maximize your prior,

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Speaker 3: I can get fresh air for it. I don't think

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Speaker 3: this is the way to go about it. Because the

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Speaker 3: AFL Grand Final it's one of those that's our little

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Speaker 3: luck minting super Bowl that even if you're not interested

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Speaker 3: in AFL you probably tune in and have a look

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Speaker 3: at it, especially because they've got Snoop Dog playing pre

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Speaker 3: game entertainment. You know, it brings a lot of other

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Speaker 3: people in. So yeah, it is a huge weekend overall.

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Speaker 3: In Melbourne. It's the biggest thing since Lisperd the last

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Speaker 3: Our Day in September and it's huge and they'll have

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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand there. But the rest of the country

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Speaker 3: kind of goes along for the ride for those few

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Speaker 3: hours at the game's on, which makes it unfortunate that

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Speaker 3: it's directly head to head with the bladders. Like the

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Speaker 3: bladders itself deserves its own time slot and its own

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Speaker 3: fresh air.

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Speaker 2: This is the Brisbane line's third straight appearance on the

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Speaker 2: Grand Final favor It's all right, Gelong favorites.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Geelong of favorites. Brisbane have done well to get there.

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Speaker 3: That have had issues around their best player locking Neil

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Speaker 3: being fit, but slonger. Just this great unit and they've

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Speaker 3: had so much consistency over last twenty years. They're always

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Speaker 3: there or thereabout. They never have bad years Geelong, and

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Speaker 3: they made the last game of the season again and

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Speaker 3: deserving favorite.

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Speaker 2: And keep eyes on that this afternoon. And then of

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Speaker 2: course the NRL preliminary finals. The Storm into the Grand

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Speaker 2: Final are twenty to fourteen win over the Sharks in

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Speaker 2: Melbourne last night. They're going to play the winner of

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Speaker 2: tomorrow's match between the Broncos and the Panthers. The Panthers,

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Speaker 2: I think we'll see that the last two or three weeks.

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Speaker 2: They just seem to be on this inevitable sort of

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Speaker 2: road to the Grand Final. Or might it stop in

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Speaker 2: Brisbane tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it could do. Just like to click at the corner,

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Speaker 3: I reckon, but it's a good foot at the corner

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Speaker 3: because it would be fast and open, really warm conditions

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Speaker 3: up at Brisbane. I think it'll be a great game

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Speaker 3: of footing in the afternoon footy as well, and that's

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Speaker 3: one thing that is over say that hopefully it's away

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Speaker 3: from the wet a night, which can happen. They ping

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Speaker 3: it around a bit and that's certainly what's going to

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Speaker 3: happen in this NRL prelim final. Look good to the

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Speaker 3: majority of the year, we had Canber or the Bulldogs

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Speaker 3: on top and we're thinking, oh, finally got something different.

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Speaker 3: But for all intents and purposes, we could end up

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Speaker 3: in the same gread final with the last year in Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: Melbourne and Penrith and Penrith have just come good at

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Speaker 3: the right time. They threshing their players up. So I

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Speaker 3: just favored them against Brisbane. But it should be fantastic

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Speaker 3: out of footage.

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Speaker 2: And whoever goes through, well, actually we can't really say

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Speaker 2: that because I get the feeling of Penrith go through.

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Speaker 2: They'll probably be favorites against the Storm. But would the Storm.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they must be confident they're there again. Craig

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Speaker 2: Bellamy just knows how to get these things done, doesn't he.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, eleventh Grand Final for Craig Belliny. It's an incredible

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Speaker 3: record and look, he's got this side playing well. But

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Speaker 3: you get the feeling that they haven't totally clicked for

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Speaker 3: eighty minutes. But I've been saying to people, maybe that's

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Speaker 3: just them. Maybe they're not as good as some ofer.

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Speaker 3: Maybe the the Storm teams had been over the path

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Speaker 3: that they got so much strike. Yeah, they're a bit

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Speaker 3: they're a bit different Melbourne when they were great back

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Speaker 3: in the day, they were methodical and they wore teams

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Speaker 3: down and they just ground them into the dirt. With

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Speaker 3: this team can just come up to try out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: So they're pretty good to watch. But yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: if Melbourne played Prison in the final, Melbourne going his favorite,

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Speaker 3: but Penrith might be far and they have the favorite

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Speaker 3: because they wont foreigner roll.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's one of those weekends where you need

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Speaker 2: screens everywhere. We haven't even talked about the Ryder Cup,

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Speaker 2: which I know you keep his f as well. So

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Speaker 2: good luck getting anything else done across this weekend apart

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Speaker 2: from watching sport. Adam good to Jet as always, We'll

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Speaker 2: do it again next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: You too, finally have the one.

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Speaker 2: You have a good one too at Amna Peacock. Our

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Speaker 2: Australian corresponded with news from across the Taskman year. Massive

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Speaker 2: day in Melbourne. Obviously, I'm sure there are plenty of

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Speaker 2: Victorians who don't even know there's a rugby game on.

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Speaker 2: They seem to be fairly blinkered in Victoria towards the

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Speaker 2: AFL Grand Final. But it is a massive massification, huge

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Speaker 2: Geelong lines against the sorry Geelong can it's against the

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Speaker 2: Brisbane lines this afternoon. Almost got myself in trouble there

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Speaker 2: and looking forward to seeing how that pans out a

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Speaker 2: little bit later on this afternoon four thirty is when

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Speaker 2: that game is underway. And of course don't forget the

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Speaker 2: NRL with the second of those matches with a Grand

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Speaker 2: Final spot on the line when the Penrith Panthers try

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Speaker 2: and beat the Brisbane Broncos and Brisbane tomorrow.

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