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Speaker 3: It'd be welcome on into the Sports Fixed podcast. Thanks

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Speaker 3: for joining us. My name is Darcy Walter Grave and

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Speaker 3: this is it for Wednesday, the sixteenth of April twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five. Of course, a big shout out to DJ

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Speaker 3: Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder. Coming up

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Speaker 3: on today's podcast, we'll have a look at the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: What happened against the Melbourne Storm, but what didn't happen

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Speaker 3: and how they turn things around with this rather adjusted team.

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Speaker 3: Steve Price joins us to talk about that. After that,

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Speaker 3: I've got some opinion on Super Rugby, Opicky. I love

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Speaker 3: that game on Saturday and I'm really looking forward to

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Speaker 3: the action of the Trans Tasman match tomorrow against the Warritas.

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Speaker 3: And joining us in the chamber is the rugby editor

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Speaker 3: for News TALKSZB, mister Elliott Smith, and will toss around

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Speaker 3: some concepts in sport today. That's our master plan, so

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Speaker 3: without further whatever it is, let's do it. In other news,

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Speaker 3: there are some short sports thoughts from the mounds that matter.

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Speaker 3: Former super bantam weight strap holder me A Mottu has

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Speaker 3: recovered from her first loss, this one against Allie's Scottney.

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Speaker 3: She got crooke as afterwards pneumonia and deep bean from bosis.

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Speaker 3: Good now and we'll return to the ring. Two weight

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Speaker 3: divisions up. She'll be fighting as a super father weight.

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Speaker 3: She's also got a plan for her health.

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Speaker 4: I am going to see specialists ways of how to

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Speaker 4: manage it off.

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Speaker 5: There is other.

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Speaker 3: Ways to help that can just give me some relief.

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Speaker 3: Punter Ponting, Australian great, former skipper of the Aussie cricket

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Speaker 3: team and lock in every year for the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: Golf Open, has coached his IPL team and extraordinary victory

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Speaker 3: set one hundred and twelve to win. The Night Riders

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Speaker 3: fluffed their lines and got cleaned out for ninety five.

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Speaker 3: The Punjab Kings successfully defended the lowest total in the

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Speaker 3: IPL's seventeen year history.

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Speaker 4: So I've touched a lot of games in the IPL

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Speaker 4: and that might just be about the best win that

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Speaker 4: I've ever had. Twenty three days ago we couldn't defend

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Speaker 4: kind of in forty six and here we are. You

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Speaker 4: know depending on who it's world with sixteen runs up our.

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Speaker 3: Sleep can't believe it's been going for seventeen years. To

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Speaker 3: figure Lulu Soon is pretty impressed with the women's game

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Speaker 3: here in r Tierrolla. Without Aaron rautleft, the Billy Jean

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Speaker 3: King Cup team featuring three teenagers qualified for November's World Playoff.

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Speaker 3: They topped the pool in the Asia Oceania Group one stage.

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Speaker 6: Doing this without her, it's not what we want, but

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Speaker 6: And thinking about she's going to play in the team,

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Speaker 3: Boxing to cricket, to tennis and there are some short

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Speaker 3: sport thoughts for the day.

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Speaker 7: U Scadopy. It's Sports Vex with Dancy Waldegrave.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself

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Speaker 3: watching the OPICKI final between my Mata III and of

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Speaker 3: course the Blues who are fighting to make it too.

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Speaker 3: On the bounce five past seven. It was a Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: It was at Eden Park and no, the crowd wasn't.

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Speaker 3: The crowd wasn't what I'm sure most people would have hoped.

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Speaker 3: But the eyeballs on the TV. Well, if you believe

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Speaker 3: who watched that game. And what a game of rugby

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Speaker 3: union it was. It had everything. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: Porsche Woodman Wickliffe. That lady is a phenom. She is

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Speaker 3: a women's rugby goat. Seeing what she does with the

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Speaker 3: she will give the Black Ferns a great chance of

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Speaker 3: defending their title. It's a slow mover, but slowly and

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Speaker 3: surely women's rugby in this country will get bigger. It

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Speaker 3: it will be more cherished. I certainly hope that happens

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Speaker 3: These things take time. All I know is that when

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Speaker 3: because that is the game that determines trans Tasmin female supremacy.

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Speaker 3: Get amongst blues.

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Speaker 2: We've got just the ticket. It's Sports Vex.

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Speaker 3: News Talks IVY and it's a huge welcome to the

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Speaker 3: Sports Fixed podcaster. I'll mate former Warriors at skipper Steve Price. Gooday, Steven,

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Speaker 3: I'm very well. Interesting turnaround for the Warriors last weekend.

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Speaker 3: The Melbourne Storm have done it again. And I've said

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Speaker 3: No choice but to change the line. Now, suspension to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's one of the big things I thought,

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Speaker 5: it's their opportunity to front up and against the Broncos

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Speaker 5: both clubs. But yeah, there's a bit of unknown there

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Speaker 3: Let's climbing a chamber and why wouldn't we when Elliott

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Speaker 3: Smith is in here with us? Elliott Smith is the

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Speaker 3: as well, in fact, possibly the hardest working man in

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Speaker 3: Can you just become a bad night?

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Speaker 8: But she's looked at the bigger picture and gone, this

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Speaker 8: I mean that's the question, isn't it, And whether they

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Speaker 8: I think the Crusaders have to go on his favorites

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Speaker 3: Have they gone back to the what makes them great?

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Speaker 8: They have gone back and gone We're going to play

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Speaker 8: In particular, I'm looking forard to seeing Ruben Love played

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Speaker 8: Saturday night? So really another fascinating weekend is Super Rugia weightstar.

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Speaker 3: Carries on fascinating, It's been extraordinary. I talk more about

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Speaker 3: of time. I might touch pineapp on that one tomorrow afternoon.

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Speaker 3: But one last thing of the golf there's a new

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Speaker 8: Yeah, mixed team events, thirty six hole affair and it's

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Speaker 8: I think they should have had this on the start,

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Speaker 8: still but you could have Ryan Fox playing alongside Lydia Co.

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Speaker 3: Stick around for that.

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Speaker 8: Well absolutely, you know this is another chance and you

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Speaker 8: know it. She's got it. She's got the set bronze, silver, gold.

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Speaker 8: Now there's an extra part of that set. Does she

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Speaker 8: I think that's a really good idea.

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Speaker 3: All it's great to have you in the chamber. Elliott Smith,

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Speaker 3: don't ever stop working. It'll be terrible for all of us.

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