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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 Talk zed B.

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Speaker 2: Let's get you across the Testman. Adam Peacock is our

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Speaker 2: regular Australian correspondent and he joins us now. Adam going

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Speaker 2: to chat this afternoon on our show about Dave Rennie

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Speaker 2: as new All Blacks head coach. I'm sure that would

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Speaker 2: have would have picked the interest of many on that

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Speaker 2: side of the taskman, given the fact that he was

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Speaker 2: a former Wallabies coach. What has the overall reaction been

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Speaker 2: to Dave Rennie's appointments.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it stirred up some emotions, namely why did he

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Speaker 3: even have to go looking for a job in the

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Speaker 3: first place. In twenty twenty three, when Rugby Australia did

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Speaker 3: what it did, it still remains one of the worst

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Speaker 3: years in Rugby Australia's history. I think they are announcing

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Speaker 3: horrible financial problems. They decided to in the dark and

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Speaker 3: night get rid of Dave Brenne after two months after

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Speaker 3: they played a game. They then pulled the trigger. Wasn't

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Speaker 3: like straight away after spring tour and then Eddie Jones

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Speaker 3: comes from nowhere to get the job when he wasn't

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Speaker 3: looking likely at all, and then they take him to

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Speaker 3: a World Cup and form out and then Eddie Jones departs.

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Speaker 3: After that, it was just a calamity and Dave Rennie,

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Speaker 3: through no fail of his own, was a character and

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Speaker 3: all of that. So I think that from the Australian

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Speaker 3: Rugia community, because they got to know Dave Brainy a

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Speaker 3: bit what a callit guy, is that they're actually happy

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Speaker 3: for him, but not going to be too happy if

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Speaker 3: they extend this bladislaw cut out for us in a

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Speaker 3: couple of months time.

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Speaker 2: Do you think if you had to pick it and

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Speaker 2: take it, take off any parochialism as far as this

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Speaker 2: is concerned, who do you think has been a place

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Speaker 2: eighteen months out from a Rugby World Cup in Australia

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Speaker 2: to win that Rugby World Cup? You or us?

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Speaker 3: I think it's always going to be in New Zealand,

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Speaker 3: just through the depths. And this is the point I've

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Speaker 3: long made about the wall of his coaching job. It's

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Speaker 3: the guy Michael Pecker. Eddie Jones, well, he did his

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Speaker 3: own way. He created problems when there weren't problems in

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Speaker 3: my eyes, But take that aside. Joe Smith, Dave Rennie

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Speaker 3: Michael Checker that they're all upgrading, not with one hand

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Speaker 3: time behind their back. But it doesn't help the pathway system,

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Speaker 3: the drain on player stock. The rules we have on

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Speaker 3: players that are playing overseas offer already pretty shallow talent

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Speaker 3: pool that you know, these more big coaches, it's not

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Speaker 3: easy for them. But like Michael check And making a

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Speaker 3: Rugby World Cup when he is verging on a miracle.

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Speaker 3: So I always think that New Zealand are just going

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Speaker 3: to be a step ahead of us because they've just

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Speaker 3: got more depth of quality. Now I know you've got

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Speaker 3: your issues over there at the moment. Probably to ask

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Speaker 3: a question, is it going to be Australia or New

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Speaker 3: Zealand winning the World Cup At this point in time,

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Speaker 3: you're probably going to go option see neither and someone

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Speaker 3: from the Northern Hemisphere or South Africa. But I always

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Speaker 3: think that New Zealand until Rugby Australia really fixes what's

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Speaker 3: coming through. And there's signs that it's happening. We've got

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Speaker 3: some exciting young outside backs, but we've now got this

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Speaker 3: issue where France are coming in and getting some of

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Speaker 3: our best teenagers and taking Martver there and then attempting

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Speaker 3: their naturalizing. So yeah, there's always issues. But to answer

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Speaker 3: question you guys, i'd take all right.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's good to know your audience, I think when

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Speaker 2: you're on the air open, Yeah, well done. Least talk

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Speaker 2: the NRL. The Broncos were on the wrong end of

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Speaker 2: the heaviest round one defeat of a defending premiere and

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Speaker 2: NRL history, losing at home twenty six nil to the

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Speaker 2: Panthers last night. Did you see this coming?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not to that degree. I thought Penris had had

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Speaker 3: a good showing. Now, which is so professional, methodical pirates

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Speaker 3: at their best, they're just like a well oiled machine

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Speaker 3: when things are clicking, and they just played on the

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Speaker 3: Broncos just being a bit flippant with the ball. Mark

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Speaker 3: McGuire after the game that we were our own worst enemy,

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Speaker 3: who could hang on to the thing, giving away stupid penalties,

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Speaker 3: all of those things they went against Broncos, which was

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Speaker 3: Broncos in the first half of the season up until

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Speaker 3: about round thirteen last year, and then something quick. So

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Speaker 3: you can't get ahead of yourself and saying, oh, they're

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Speaker 3: going to have a horrible year off one performance. But

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Speaker 3: there's a lot to fix and they played Paramatta next

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Speaker 3: week to themselves got absolutely belted by Melbourne on Thursday night,

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Speaker 3: so that'll be a closer watching them. Ordinarily it might

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Speaker 3: have been for a round to the game.

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Speaker 2: Now, what about the Melbourne Storm, I mean, I know

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Speaker 2: we know that they're good, but they're all I mean

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Speaker 2: as that's a stake in the ground. As I know.

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Speaker 2: It was against the Eels who have had their challenges,

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Speaker 2: but putting fifty on in round one, it's I think

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Speaker 2: it's twenty three and zero now for Craig Bellamy in

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Speaker 2: opening rounds of the NRL.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty three or twenty four. What it is is

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Speaker 3: a remarkable streak. He's never lost a round one. Just

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Speaker 3: watching that game, it was we talk about the like

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Speaker 3: how structure in Tenris were about doing what they had

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Speaker 3: to do and then just adding a bit of player

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Speaker 3: Melbourne freaks out it. Craig Gony coaches that team so

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Speaker 3: well about the little things that we don't notice, about

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Speaker 3: the role players playing their role as well as they

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Speaker 3: can because that benefits the team. No one looks unsure

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Speaker 3: of what they need to be doing, like with the

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Speaker 3: ball and play three or four. They're very good in

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Speaker 3: the ruck defensively, which kind of quick all the momentum

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Speaker 3: in the opposition. They just do that at another level,

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Speaker 3: and they did that to the Tom of the other night,

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Speaker 3: who had no answers. And yeah, any insecurities you've got

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Speaker 3: to get in Melbourne when they're in a mood like that,

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Speaker 3: you're going to get found out.

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Speaker 2: And I just want to ask you about the Grand

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Speaker 2: Prix and Melbourne. I mean, we're such a busy time.

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Speaker 2: The NRL season's underway, AFL underway, We've got Super Rugby

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Speaker 2: carrying on a league heading towards its final series. Where

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Speaker 2: does if one fit in amongst all this, how does

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Speaker 2: it cut through?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Clear the excellent thunder Ada and will watch. Yeah

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Speaker 3: it is. It is a heightened interest. And especially with

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Speaker 3: Oscar Piastre, we're at a light chance of winning the

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Speaker 3: Grand Prix. So he's he's massive over here, like in Alburn.

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Speaker 3: He's doing story appearances and it's like a freaking rock star,

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Speaker 3: like Justin Bieber rocking up. So yeah, he's a massive star.

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Speaker 3: The formula one that the decision to do what they

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Speaker 3: did to drive to survive and expand their audience and

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Speaker 3: expand their catchment is just one of the great master

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Speaker 3: strokes of all time. So yeah, there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: interest about it, and yeah, the front of agred this year.

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Speaker 3: We've got absolutely no idea what's going to happen with

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Speaker 3: the cars. They've trained the regulations like never before, so

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Speaker 3: who knows going to have the quickness. We'll find out

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Speaker 3: us to qualifying later today. But what we do know

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Speaker 3: is that after Martin have got well I reckon my matter,

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Speaker 3: the three could give it a run for the money.

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Speaker 3: They were in practice first practice off thirty seconds off

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Speaker 3: the page, which for and I'm talking for a lap

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Speaker 3: that takes them in the twenty that's a lot. So

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Speaker 3: there's a there's a looming disaster there, which adds a

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Speaker 3: layer of intrigue as well, because let's say that we

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Speaker 3: love watching brilliant, but we are intrigued when things go

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Speaker 3: horribly horribly wrong as well.

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Speaker 2: It looks like it has there all right, such an

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Speaker 2: interesting time and if one interesting time is always on

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Speaker 2: your side of the tessaman Adam, thanks as always for

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Speaker 2: updating us. We'll do it again next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Cheers Funny.

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