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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks B.

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Speaker 2: Big part of our Sundays is a chance sketch up

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Speaker 2: with James mcconey, who was involved in the alternative commentary

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Speaker 2: collective commentary of the game last night. I saw you

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Speaker 2: up there, James, getting ready for the game. Were there

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Speaker 2: any moments during the match when you got a bit nervous?

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Speaker 3: I was packing myself throughout actually, piney and the thing

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Speaker 3: is what an atmosphere though. Credit to the South Africans

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Speaker 3: of the North Shore for crossing the bridge and creating

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Speaker 3: something special at Eden Park because it was awesome. And

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Speaker 3: even Malcolm Marx couldn't hear himself. You could tell he

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Speaker 3: got a line out throw you borked, didn't he Yes,

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Speaker 3: thanks to the crowd. They played their part.

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Speaker 2: They did, and you're right there was so many of them,

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Speaker 2: so many South African rugby jerseys in and around Eden

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Speaker 2: Park before the game and obviously during the game as well.

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Speaker 2: They weren't able to witness a victory. They did though,

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Speaker 2: watch the latest All Black centuryon bring up a hundred

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Speaker 2: Artie Savi. It's kind of hard to find new words

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Speaker 2: for artie isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, when he came in to play first play for

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Speaker 3: the All Blacks in twenty sixteen, I actually felt sorry

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Speaker 3: for him because his brother was so good and you know,

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Speaker 3: already a great of the game. I thought, oh wow,

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Speaker 3: what a tough act to follow. Must be hard being

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Speaker 3: the little Savier brother. And look at him now, World

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Speaker 3: Rugby Player of the Year one hundred tests. Definitely Hall

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Speaker 3: of fame material in anyone's eyes. And the standards just

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Speaker 3: so high and clutch with that turnover, yeah, just nothing

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Speaker 3: but round the pools for Artie. And wasn't it lovely

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Speaker 3: seeing Sea Kalisi go over and give him a presentation

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Speaker 3: and Hardie's daughter jump up into see his arms uncle,

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Speaker 3: seea Yeah that's so close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah amazing. I thought that was a really heartwarming moment

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Speaker 2: as well. Three All Blacks tries last night, all pretty

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Speaker 2: good tries in their own way.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was wanting to talk about. It

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Speaker 3: was just money nadaware he's an assassin. You give him

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Speaker 3: a sniff and he'll score. So it's sad that he

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Speaker 3: got taken off, but wide a way to take that

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Speaker 3: chance because it wasn't the perfect cross kick but he

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Speaker 3: turned it into that by taking it and then it

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Speaker 3: was a dive, it was a specky and then selling

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Speaker 3: the dummy wall was the titi the hands the inside

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Speaker 3: ball to Will Jordan, a simple move off the line

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Speaker 3: out perfectly executed. Everyone who plays rugby should have a

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Speaker 3: similar move to that, and I'm sure people out there

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Speaker 3: are going, we do have a move like that. Well,

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Speaker 3: that's exactly how you do it. And then Quintupaire his

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Speaker 3: timing off Boaden Barrett was beautiful. Nice ball from body

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Speaker 3: positioned them well, but to Pire just straightened so well

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Speaker 3: that he boke about three or four tackles on the

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Speaker 3: way to the line. And that's a clutch moment from

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Speaker 3: a guy who's been through a lot of you know,

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Speaker 3: he's been to helen back really with injuries.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, just three terrific tries and you've named a

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Speaker 2: number of players there. But who else saw who did

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Speaker 2: really stand out for you last night?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to sing about numbers of five, six, seven, eight.

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Speaker 2: A musical interlooded for that as well. Yeah, they were

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Speaker 2: all good, weren't they? The smaller thnothers. A couple of

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Speaker 2: chiefs in there as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a song by steps of course, what a

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Speaker 3: what a banger it is? Yeah, I mean two po by.

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Speaker 3: Going back to Locke, he's undersized, right, but he was

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Speaker 3: up against two monsters. He was exceptional in the line outs,

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Speaker 3: quite nice and like to lift as well Tubo, but

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what he gets around does the work.

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Speaker 3: Simon Parker he had the toughest assignment to start his

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Speaker 3: first test last week at eight and then and then

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Speaker 3: was marking Peter Steph de Toy. I thought he was

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Speaker 3: really great. But Artie and Wallace a tt just you know,

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Speaker 3: just I didn't see that combination shine through because they

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Speaker 3: haven't played a whole of the tests together, I think

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Speaker 3: due to a few things last year. But in those

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Speaker 3: positions in the in the seven and eight, but there's

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Speaker 3: there's something exceptional there. But let's carry on the nine.

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Speaker 3: Only Christy, who was fantastic given that he's really just

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Speaker 3: been called in. And Carle Preston. You talk about tough

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Speaker 3: top debuts, you almost have to go back to Gary

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Speaker 3: Whitten and Steve Porketty making their debut in the flower

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Speaker 3: Bomb Test in nineteen eighty one to say that Cayle

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Speaker 3: Preston coming on and that pressure cooker of fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought he acquitted himself very very well. Indeed, a

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Speaker 2: couple of other matters I want to get your views on.

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Speaker 2: Are the Warriors. We know they're facing the Panthers in

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Speaker 2: a knockout game next weekend. We don't know which day

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Speaker 2: or what time yet, but we know we're facing the Panthers.

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Speaker 2: Can we win this game?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think we can. I severely doubt we will.

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Speaker 3: But there's something that's really kind of daring about the Warriors,

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Speaker 3: and that is what we saw in the Manley game.

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Speaker 3: Is they don't allow teams to get away on them anymore.

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Speaker 3: And the old Warriors would have let in forty points,

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Speaker 3: you know, but this is a steely are really organized,

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Speaker 3: you know, dare I say that they stick to their processes,

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Speaker 3: but there is the expected there and I think, you know, Leka,

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Speaker 3: he'll be fired up. There'll be even Valmona, who's pretty

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Speaker 3: much coming as a youngster to shore up that pack.

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Speaker 3: We'll get Jackson ford Deck. I think from suspension, look,

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Speaker 3: all is not lost. I just do worry that the

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Speaker 3: Penith Panthers, you know, they're going to be at full

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Speaker 3: strength and firing that's the only issue for you.

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Speaker 2: Piney, Yes, same. I mean they are a good team.

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Speaker 2: They are a good team. But as I've heard many

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Speaker 2: people say on many occasions across the season, on their night,

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Speaker 2: the Warriors can beat anybody. So I hope that night

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Speaker 2: or day, whichever day or night it is, comes this weekend,

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Speaker 2: and then there's there's more to come obviously after that.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think we're favorite, absolutely not favorite. But

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Speaker 2: funny things happen in knockout games, so let's let's see

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Speaker 2: how it plays out. Hey, just to finish NFL seasons underway,

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Speaker 2: high excitement in my house. My son absolutely loves the NFL.

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Speaker 4: You're big fan, I am.

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Speaker 3: Who does your son support?

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Speaker 2: How he supports the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 4: Nice?

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Speaker 3: Yes, David Dixon Pokai's finest. We've got his DNA there.

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Speaker 3: I think Red Allison played there as well, another KIWI

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Speaker 3: so that's that's very cool. I'm a Detroit Lions fan,

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Speaker 3: long suffering Detroit Lions fan, and and even though we've

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Speaker 3: gone quite well with our big rooted up coach, uh,

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Speaker 3: it does seem a little bit for it. But I

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Speaker 3: did notice the other day just seeing Justin Herbert in

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Speaker 3: the in the LA Chargers beat the Kansas City chief

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Speaker 3: Sir Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey. It just shows that

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Speaker 3: you know teams, if you can get it right on

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Speaker 3: the day, you can beat the big names. Although I

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Speaker 3: feel like the storyline with Travis getting engaged may have

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Speaker 3: been you know, to Taylor Swift that that is obviously

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Speaker 3: one of the big focuses, but pretty much just copying

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Speaker 3: what Peter Alertini did with Megan Casey from True Bliss.

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Speaker 3: But hey, you know, all power to them. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think NFL is just a great way if you can,

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Speaker 3: if you can rig it on you with your work

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Speaker 3: on a Monday morning, watching Red Zone is probably one

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Speaker 3: of the best ways to take.

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Speaker 4: In the UNFL.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know my son will be finding a reason

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Speaker 2: to ditch school on Monday morning for Red Zone. He's

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Speaker 2: he's highly excited about it all. James always good to chat.

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Speaker 2: We're going to go out with a but more of

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Speaker 2: this banger five, six, seven eight from Steps Thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us as always, Happy Father's.

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Speaker 3: Day, mate, Cheers made Happy Father's Day to you and

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Speaker 3: all the dads out there.

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Speaker 4: Cheers for more.

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