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Speaker 3: Hello, welcome in. This is Weekend Sport on News Talks

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Speaker 3: AB for Sunday, April thirteen. Happy birthday to our rising

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Speaker 3: tracks to are Sam Ruth sixteen today celebrating by running

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Speaker 3: Zealand driver Possum Born also born on this date in

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Speaker 3: nineteen fifty sixty, passed away far too young in two

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Speaker 3: thousand and three. I'm Jason Pine. Bevan Dua is show producer.

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Speaker 3: We're talking sport with you until three. Heaps on, heaps

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Speaker 3: and heaps on to review, to preview, to talk about,

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Speaker 3: to discuss, to dissect. If you like the Masters. At Augusta,

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Speaker 3: Rory McElroy roaring into contention for what would be his

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Speaker 3: first green jacket. A stunning third round at the Masters.

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Speaker 3: For the second day in succession, he has shot six

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Speaker 3: leads Bryson Dischambeau by two shots, with Corey Connors a

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Speaker 3: further two shots back in outright third. The incredible thing

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Speaker 3: about Rory McElroy's round today was he became the first

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Speaker 3: man in history to shoot six consecutive threes on the

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Speaker 3: first six holes. Now, the first six holes at Augusta

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Speaker 3: it out? Gray Magars from Augusta this hour leader justin Rose,

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Speaker 3: So I want to talk to graym Agars about how

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Speaker 3: discuss that this hour. Also here from Rory McElroy some

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Speaker 3: of his post round thoughts. First up today, though hosting

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty seven, twenty eleven. Is it about time we

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Speaker 3: gave it another? Crack Lockton twenty twenty seven Australia twenty

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Speaker 3: kind of seems more appropriate to me for twenty thirty five,

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Speaker 3: and their government keen to support that bid. But do

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Speaker 3: something that you would like to see. One of the

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Speaker 3: biggest hitters in our successful bid to get the twenty

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Speaker 3: So the race is on to host the twenty thirty

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Speaker 3: thank you for your time. How much weight did the

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Speaker 4: Do you think the strong backing from the government was

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Speaker 3: What a delegation to Dublin. It was so In other words,

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Speaker 4: Of it, the long and the short of it, and

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Speaker 4: You know, Rugby World Cup, I think, is that the

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Speaker 4: Also patron of Emirates team New Zealand have been a

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Speaker 3: Well, as you know, we haven't been able to get

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Speaker 3: What's your general view on whether you think there is

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Speaker 4: Well, obviously they weren't prepared to step up enough for

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Speaker 4: so let's look at it through those eyes. We also

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Speaker 3: Then of course you have to convince World Rugby as

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Speaker 4: You know, look, the All Blacks are a great team,

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Speaker 4: People have had great experiences here That last Rugby World

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Speaker 4: We are a perfect host.

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Speaker 3: And clearly there has to be an economic return and

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Speaker 3: The rosy glow we get from hosting.

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Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely terrific feel good factor because if you get

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Speaker 4: We need this sort of boost at the moment right

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Speaker 4: We've never got back to where we were pre pandemic

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Speaker 4: huge boost to regional New Zealand to have these crowds

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Speaker 4: a huge feel good factor if we winn't. Even more

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Speaker 4: so just hosting the event as a big.

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Speaker 3: High just to finish you've given goodness only knows how

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Speaker 6: You don't have the money, but sometimes you've got to

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Speaker 3: You know, look, Pete, that's a yeah the guy. I'll

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Speaker 6: I think, so it's our main sort of our mains.

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Speaker 6: It's it creates so much employment and get there, get

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Speaker 6: that a good opportunity?

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Speaker 7: Pete?

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Speaker 3: It is? And I love the way you're thinking, mate,

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Speaker 3: Another Pete, Hello, Peter.

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Speaker 8: Greeting, Well, nine billion extra for defense and we haven't

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Speaker 3: Yes, I want to. I didn't want to break over

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Speaker 8: Yes, well, she certainly was interested in sport. And I

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Speaker 3: Twelve twenty seven oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine

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Speaker 3: On twelve thirty talking Rugby World Cup to New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: Could we should? We? Would we? Rah Weddy? Thank you

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Speaker 3: for holding Helloo.

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Speaker 9: Man, you got a really distinctive voice, say of that lady,

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Speaker 9: Helen mother, Helen Kleint. Yeah, this is funny. Hey hey,

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Speaker 9: Rugby World Cup.

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Speaker 10: It was forty years ago.

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Speaker 9: Well, no, that's what I was rumor. I was so

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Speaker 9: lucky twenty eleven. I was so lucky to host the

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Speaker 9: and we had Jackobs there sign the trees had a

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Speaker 9: but his grandfather, but he was founder of Grassroot Rugby.

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Speaker 9: Yeah after more, who's.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: So of course we can do anything here in New Zealand.

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Speaker 9: We can host any of bid.

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Speaker 11: We can do a lot.

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Speaker 9: We have so many connections and organizations and corporations. It

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Speaker 12: Nothing's too big for us.

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Speaker 9: Just he's just kind of work together, focus on Yep.

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Speaker 3: No, I've got to get to some other calls. But

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Speaker 3: you're no, You're so right. The can do attitude is

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get too kind of wishy washy

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Speaker 3: about this. It's easy. Yes we should get it, Yes

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Speaker 3: we should. You know, just do it, Just do it.

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Speaker 3: You know we can do. We can do. But we

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Speaker 3: if we say, look, you know what, we'll never again

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Speaker 3: host it. Then we'll never again host it. Why can't

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Speaker 3: we at least open the discussion a patahama hallo mate.

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Speaker 13: Hey bro, how are you very good?

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Speaker 3: Oh just as we had your padahamma, your phone cut off?

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Speaker 3: Come back to me, mate, come back to me, Mark Hi, Hey, piney.

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Speaker 11: I can't believe Grant Dalton thought that going back to

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Speaker 11: we're really running low on sporting events. We're not like

431
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Speaker 11: this cricket season was pretty miserable. We're sort of getting

432
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Speaker 11: like Pakistan who can't play. No one else wants to

433
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Speaker 11: play as well because it's not financially viable. But you know,

434
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Speaker 11: I think across the board, with government funding, it needs

435
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Speaker 11: to be an even playing field. You know, like movies

436
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Speaker 11: get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to get you know,

437
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Speaker 11: minecraft movies made in New zeal You know, why why

438
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Speaker 11: can't they give money just to sporting groups that you

439
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Speaker 11: might have some spirulous claim to, you know, raising economic

440
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Speaker 11: fortunes for the country because without the government, without stoves. Yes, sorry,

441
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Speaker 11: sorry Bunny, can't you go?

442
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Speaker 10: No?

443
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, Mark, you carry on, you were in

444
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Speaker 3: full flight. I was just I was just saying, I

445
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Speaker 3: think Rugby world I think Rugby World Cup is something

446
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Speaker 3: that we There's no confusion here about what it is.

447
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Speaker 3: We all know what the Rugby World Cup is. I think,

448
00:24:07,707 --> 00:24:10,747
Speaker 3: you know, the vast majority of us, and certainly I

449
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Speaker 3: would hope the vast majority of people listening to this

450
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Speaker 3: show would understand the benefit both financial and emotional, if

451
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Speaker 3: you like, of having it here. I just seem to me,

452
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Speaker 3: I just saw the story during the week about Spain

453
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Speaker 3: and Cutta and Saudi Arabia and others looking at it,

454
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Speaker 3: and I thought, why not, why can't we?

455
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Speaker 11: Well, you see where all these events are going, can't

456
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Speaker 11: you the Middle East where all the money is buying

457
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Speaker 11: up all these supporting events, because they can. But I mean,

458
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Speaker 11: the Raggay World Cup's not going to come here without

459
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Speaker 11: big government support as hell, I'm said. And it's but

460
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Speaker 11: to me, you know, going forward, if we are going

461
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Speaker 11: to have these events. The government needs to have a

462
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Speaker 11: policy of how, you know, it needs to be an

463
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Speaker 11: open policy about how people go about getting these events here,

464
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Speaker 11: you know. And I think that's the point. And what

465
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Speaker 11: I'd like to see is the women's and the men's

466
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Speaker 11: Rugby World played at the same time. I think it

467
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Speaker 11: would be a great idea.

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Speaker 3: Interesting. Thanks Mark, I appreciate your your time. Yeah, I

469
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Speaker 3: I wonder whether one would get diluted. I wonder whether

470
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Speaker 3: the you know, potentially the Women's Rugby World Cup might

471
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Speaker 3: be diluted by being at the same time as the means.

472
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Speaker 3: But as I've often said on the show, nothing should

473
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Speaker 3: be off the table. A pat Ohama, I've got your back.

474
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Speaker 3: I probably cut you off, mate, Sorry.

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Speaker 13: No, no, no, no, all good. I'm not surprised to do that, Piney.

476
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Speaker 9: So look, we have.

477
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Speaker 13: Nailed these pinnacle events recently. Right after the debarkle of

478
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Speaker 13: O three, everyone was nervous whether we get twenty eleven.

479
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Speaker 13: We nailed that. The country got behind it. We're a

480
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Speaker 13: rugby nation, you know, Pami for Romania. Georgia was full

481
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Speaker 13: to the gatals, but so we will get behind it.

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Speaker 15: We nailed the Woman's.

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Speaker 10: Rugby World Cup.

484
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Speaker 13: We nailed the FIFA World Cup. That was you know,

485
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Speaker 13: who would have thought this country would get behind woman's football.

486
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Speaker 13: I was surprised, and I just know it's something we

487
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Speaker 13: can should, can definitely go after and we've got a

488
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Speaker 13: track records, so I think that's we can do it.

489
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Speaker 13: But we've got to be tactical as far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 13: If they want to go back to Europe in twenty

491
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Speaker 13: thirty five, is the twenty thirty five Yeah, I don't

492
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Speaker 13: know if we should bother, but you know South Africa

493
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Speaker 13: probably do again. So you just got to pick your

494
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Speaker 13: moment when it's your time again. And you know, we

495
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Speaker 13: go against the Saudiast, we won't. We won't compete. You

496
00:26:33,347 --> 00:26:37,627
Speaker 13: know how that goes. It's happened in other sports, so we.

497
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Speaker 8: Can do it again.

498
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Speaker 13: But it just might be twenty years ago. And again,

499
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Speaker 13: as Auntie Helen said, we need you know, we need

500
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Speaker 13: some good vibes in the country would get behind it.

501
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Speaker 13: Just get just well out Richie in DC and you know,

502
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Speaker 13: do their passion player all over again. But na, na,

503
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Speaker 13: I love these pinnacle events of this country and we

504
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Speaker 13: should definitely not give up on them.

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Speaker 3: Good Man of Padahama, Yeah, yeah, I think twenty thirty

506
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Speaker 3: five might be. As I say, you're That's why I

507
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Speaker 3: thought twenty thirty nine might be the one. I'd actually

508
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Speaker 3: like to see it go back to South Africa at

509
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Speaker 3: some point as well as I'm sure you would. You know,

510
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Speaker 3: ninety ninety five seems lawfully long time since they hosted,

511
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Speaker 3: and they are such a proud nation with so many

512
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Speaker 3: great venues. You know whether twenty thirty five is right

513
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Speaker 3: for them or twenty thirty nine. But I just yeah,

514
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Speaker 3: at the risk of repeating myself, I just think it's

515
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Speaker 3: just something we have to have on our radar rather

516
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Speaker 3: than say, you know what, we're never going to do

517
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Speaker 3: it again. Why not? Why not? Why not? Indeed, a

518
00:27:36,227 --> 00:27:38,467
Speaker 3: right good to jet to you mate, take another call.

519
00:27:38,467 --> 00:27:40,707
Speaker 3: We've got to get to Augusta soon. With Grahame A Gars, Peter.

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Speaker 16: Hi Hi Jason very quickly. Has somebody calculated the amount

521
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Speaker 16: of GST that the World Cup would bring into New

522
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Speaker 16: Zealand for the New Zealand government to compare with how

523
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Speaker 16: much they have we're being asked for.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that someone would do that if there was

525
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Speaker 3: an economic viability report done into it. Look, Peter, I

526
00:28:04,147 --> 00:28:06,867
Speaker 3: know what you're driving at and look the economic benefit

527
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Speaker 3: of having visitor numbers, of having you know, accommodation providers, restaurants,

528
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Speaker 3: those sorts of people, retailers with the GST, etc. Yeah,

529
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Speaker 3: of course it's going to have an economic benefit. It's

530
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Speaker 3: just whether it's big enough that the government will commit

531
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Speaker 3: what would likely have to be you know, well over

532
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Speaker 3: one hundred million and probably more to get it here.

533
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Speaker 16: Yeah, but what Yeah, I'd like to know what the

534
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Speaker 16: real figure is what the GST would be bring in,

535
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Speaker 16: both for preparation and for the tourist that comes in.

536
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that that will be looked at, Peter, if

537
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Speaker 3: we do go down this track. Look, this isn't based

538
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Speaker 3: on anything other than, as I say, a conversation I

539
00:28:43,827 --> 00:28:45,507
Speaker 3: was having during the week with a few people around

540
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Speaker 3: here when I saw that twenty thirty five was in

541
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Speaker 3: the news in terms of who would host. And you know,

542
00:28:56,547 --> 00:28:58,987
Speaker 3: it may well be that it never comes back. It

543
00:28:59,027 --> 00:29:01,467
Speaker 3: may well be, but I think that'd be a great shame.

544
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Speaker 3: And from the tenor of the conversations we've had this

545
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Speaker 3: afternoon with the callers and all of these tech so

546
00:29:06,427 --> 00:29:07,747
Speaker 3: I've got here which I haven't been able to get to

547
00:29:08,627 --> 00:29:10,867
Speaker 3: I think the general feeling is, yes, give it a crack.

548
00:29:11,707 --> 00:29:14,787
Speaker 3: What is that to lose? What is there to lose?

549
00:29:14,987 --> 00:29:19,107
Speaker 3: And look, bidding for twenty thirty five not open yet.

550
00:29:19,147 --> 00:29:22,627
Speaker 3: So twenty two thousand and five was when we successfully

551
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Speaker 3: got hosting rights for twenty eleven, So it's a six years.

552
00:29:25,787 --> 00:29:28,347
Speaker 3: So you'd imagine that that hosting rights for the twenty

553
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Speaker 3: thirty five tournament would open in the next couple of years,

554
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Speaker 3: or at least that ask for expressions of interest. Twenty

555
00:29:33,227 --> 00:29:35,427
Speaker 3: thirty nine is an awfully long way away, But why

556
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Speaker 3: can't you do a bit of groundwork, Why can't you

557
00:29:37,507 --> 00:29:40,267
Speaker 3: do a bit of schmoozing around some tables. You know,

558
00:29:43,307 --> 00:29:45,587
Speaker 3: we'll see twenty one to one. Let's take a break

559
00:29:45,627 --> 00:29:47,467
Speaker 3: when we come back off to Augusta and we wrap

560
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Speaker 3: the third round of the Masters.

561
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Speaker 1: The biggest season sports are on Weekend.

562
00:29:52,147 --> 00:29:54,467
Speaker 2: Sports with Jason Pain and GJ.

563
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Speaker 1: Junnerhomes New Zealand's most trusted home builder News doorgs they'd.

564
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Speaker 3: Be eighteen to one. Rory McElroy is roared into contention

565
00:30:01,947 --> 00:30:04,227
Speaker 3: from maiden green jacket a stunning third round at the

566
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Speaker 3: Masters in Augusta. A second straight six hundred par round

567
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Speaker 3: of sixty six. He's twelve under through three rounds, leading

568
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Speaker 3: Bryson Di Chambeau by two shots. Corey Connors another two

569
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Speaker 3: shots back, Overnight leader Justin Rose cutting a three over

570
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Speaker 3: seventy five to drop to five under for the tournament,

571
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Speaker 3: seven shots off the pace in a type for six

572
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Speaker 3: and Rory McElroy also became the first goal forever to

573
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Speaker 3: shoot threes on the first six holes at Augusta three birdies,

574
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Speaker 3: an eagle and two pars. Grahame Agars was watching on

575
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Speaker 3: as per usual, pretty remarkable stuff from Rory McElroy. Graham,

576
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Speaker 3: what did you make of those first six holes in

577
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Speaker 3: his third round?

578
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Speaker 12: Well, Jason, I've been doing this for a long time

579
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Speaker 12: and I thought I'd seen everything, but never have I

580
00:30:48,147 --> 00:30:54,067
Speaker 12: seen six threes. He goes birdie, eagle, birdie, par, birdie

581
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Speaker 12: and goes five under, and he serves five holes and

582
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Speaker 12: then as one more three on the six just to

583
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Speaker 12: make the card look clean. So I sit next to

584
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Speaker 12: the Irish broadcaster for our radio and television and he

585
00:31:09,427 --> 00:31:15,467
Speaker 12: has just gone. I met that poor guy, and he

586
00:31:15,507 --> 00:31:17,587
Speaker 12: looks at me and says, this can't keep going, And

587
00:31:17,627 --> 00:31:19,107
Speaker 12: I said I had to break it to you, But

588
00:31:19,187 --> 00:31:21,947
Speaker 12: I have a hot air balloon theory that everything that

589
00:31:22,027 --> 00:31:26,307
Speaker 12: goes up eventually comes down, and it did. Rory, you know,

590
00:31:26,427 --> 00:31:29,907
Speaker 12: had a slumpy dropped two shots, one at eight and

591
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Speaker 12: one at ten, and it looked like he was going

592
00:31:32,947 --> 00:31:34,987
Speaker 12: to be struggling again on the back nine, but then

593
00:31:35,027 --> 00:31:39,587
Speaker 12: he birdies thirteen, played it very sensibly, and then eagles

594
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Speaker 12: fifteen with one of the best iron approaches I've ever

595
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Speaker 12: seen to that green. This is the same guy, of course,

596
00:31:46,387 --> 00:31:49,267
Speaker 12: who double bogeit in the first round, and he's back

597
00:31:49,307 --> 00:31:52,627
Speaker 12: on track shoot sixty six as you said, twelve under.

598
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Speaker 12: So the decade long search for the only Grand Slam

599
00:31:56,627 --> 00:32:01,387
Speaker 12: title that has eluded him is back on after so

600
00:32:01,507 --> 00:32:05,787
Speaker 12: many disappointing happenings at Augusta National over the years. So

601
00:32:06,667 --> 00:32:09,307
Speaker 12: I think I know my buddy next to me and

602
00:32:09,347 --> 00:32:12,427
Speaker 12: the other broadcast booth, the Irish guy's got his fingers crossed.

603
00:32:12,427 --> 00:32:15,107
Speaker 12: But I've got a feeling about ninety percent of people

604
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Speaker 12: at Augusta National want to get Rory across the line

605
00:32:18,787 --> 00:32:21,547
Speaker 12: and just what he see what he can do after

606
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Speaker 12: getting all that pressure off him.

607
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Speaker 3: Apart from the obvious of shooting low on the final day,

608
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Speaker 3: what must he do well tomorrow to close this out.

609
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Speaker 12: Well, you know, this guy faced so many challenges over

610
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Speaker 12: the years, and you know, he's had highs and he's

611
00:32:40,507 --> 00:32:46,347
Speaker 12: had lows, and he's finally learning not to go too

612
00:32:46,427 --> 00:32:48,827
Speaker 12: high on the highs and too low on the lows.

613
00:32:48,867 --> 00:32:51,907
Speaker 12: And he proved that, you know, after that first round

614
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Speaker 12: where he looked like he was going to go gang

615
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Speaker 12: buses and then makes two double bogies in the last

616
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Speaker 12: four holes coming in and we all thought, oh my gosh,

617
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Speaker 12: it's happened again. And we waited with great interest to

618
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Speaker 12: see what would happen when he came back for the

619
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Speaker 12: next round, and he was okay. He works with Bob Roteller,

620
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Speaker 12: who's one of the better known sports psychologists, who was

621
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Speaker 12: giving him the same advice and the specific advice he

622
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Speaker 12: came gave him after that disappointing finish to that opening

623
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Speaker 12: round was don't try and get all the birdies back

624
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Speaker 12: at once, just you've got three rounds to do it.

625
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Speaker 12: Just take your time. And it worked. I mean in

626
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Speaker 12: the second round, I think he only made one birdie

627
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Speaker 12: on the front nine and then cut loose on the

628
00:33:36,627 --> 00:33:38,747
Speaker 12: back nine, finished up with a sixty six, and then

629
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Speaker 12: again today, he did it the other way around. But

630
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Speaker 12: he wasn't pushing it, you know, he was just taking

631
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Speaker 12: it as it comes. And as he said afterwards, he

632
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Speaker 12: said that he played three perfect shots on the first hole,

633
00:33:51,467 --> 00:33:54,827
Speaker 12: three perfect shots on the second, and three perfect shots

634
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Speaker 12: on the third, and he knew he was going to

635
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Speaker 12: have a good day, but he didn't let himself get

636
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Speaker 12: ahead of himself and you know, kept his feet on

637
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Speaker 12: the ground. So tomorrow, two shots, I guess against d Chambeau.

638
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Speaker 12: That's going to bring back all memories of Pinehurst and

639
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Speaker 12: the US Open last year where Rory missed the three

640
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Speaker 12: foot and Deschamba came from behind to win that thing.

641
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Speaker 12: So we're going to have that mental anguish. We're going

642
00:34:23,507 --> 00:34:27,307
Speaker 12: to have the ten year search for the elusive final

643
00:34:27,587 --> 00:34:30,907
Speaker 12: fourth Grand Slam title, and we're going to have the

644
00:34:30,947 --> 00:34:35,787
Speaker 12: Shambo who can match Rory off the tee, can match

645
00:34:35,867 --> 00:34:41,907
Speaker 12: him for crowd appeal and spectacular shots and is quietly

646
00:34:42,027 --> 00:34:44,227
Speaker 12: ready for this battle, knowing that the last time they

647
00:34:44,227 --> 00:34:47,067
Speaker 12: went had to head he won it. So if Rory

648
00:34:47,147 --> 00:34:50,947
Speaker 12: gets this thing tomorrow, it's fair to say that he's

649
00:34:50,987 --> 00:34:51,867
Speaker 12: really going to earn it.

650
00:34:52,867 --> 00:34:56,267
Speaker 3: So McIlroy twelve under d chambou ten under Connor's eight under.

651
00:34:56,307 --> 00:34:59,147
Speaker 3: Then it's a group of players on six and five under.

652
00:34:59,427 --> 00:35:02,387
Speaker 3: That's too far back, isn't it grime If you're below

653
00:35:02,507 --> 00:35:05,387
Speaker 3: Connor's at eight under, No one's making a charge to

654
00:35:05,467 --> 00:35:08,987
Speaker 3: make up sex or seven shots, are they?

655
00:35:09,147 --> 00:35:09,227
Speaker 14: No?

656
00:35:09,347 --> 00:35:11,827
Speaker 12: I don't see. I think it's two men raised tomorrow

657
00:35:12,427 --> 00:35:16,107
Speaker 12: to be honest with him. You know, these two guys,

658
00:35:16,987 --> 00:35:20,027
Speaker 12: these two guys are thoroughbt. I mean, Rory when he's

659
00:35:20,067 --> 00:35:22,867
Speaker 12: on is the most magnificent golfer in the world, without

660
00:35:22,867 --> 00:35:25,067
Speaker 12: a question. I mean he's a bit like Roger Federer

661
00:35:25,587 --> 00:35:27,547
Speaker 12: when he was on, you know, it was just pretty

662
00:35:27,547 --> 00:35:33,187
Speaker 12: to watch. And Bryson is well, I don't know he

663
00:35:33,387 --> 00:35:36,947
Speaker 12: describe him, but he's everything all the other golfers are not.

664
00:35:37,787 --> 00:35:40,867
Speaker 12: You know, he uses wacky clubs that he builds himself.

665
00:35:41,827 --> 00:35:45,147
Speaker 12: He's got an old square to square swing that goes back,

666
00:35:45,227 --> 00:35:50,307
Speaker 12: you know, originated seventy years ago. The lost on the

667
00:35:50,427 --> 00:35:52,627
Speaker 12: clubs are all kind of strange. They're not like a

668
00:35:52,667 --> 00:35:57,147
Speaker 12: normal set of clubs, and he just plays a different way.

669
00:35:57,267 --> 00:35:59,187
Speaker 12: They used to call him the Professor when he was

670
00:35:59,227 --> 00:36:02,467
Speaker 12: on the PJ too, before he bailed and went to

671
00:36:02,507 --> 00:36:10,147
Speaker 12: live for a big check and he analyzes everything like

672
00:36:10,147 --> 00:36:13,267
Speaker 12: like a mathematician. He's got all these numbers and calculations

673
00:36:13,267 --> 00:36:16,467
Speaker 12: in his head and somehow he makes it work. And

674
00:36:16,547 --> 00:36:19,547
Speaker 12: this is the first year that he's figured out how

675
00:36:19,547 --> 00:36:23,067
Speaker 12: to play Augusta National. In previous years the course has

676
00:36:23,147 --> 00:36:26,107
Speaker 12: just eat these lunch because he just tried to overpower it.

677
00:36:26,867 --> 00:36:30,587
Speaker 12: Now he's actually playing it and using the weapons he

678
00:36:30,667 --> 00:36:34,187
Speaker 12: has effectively. If there's one thing that gives McElroy a

679
00:36:34,267 --> 00:36:37,547
Speaker 12: little bit of hope tomorrow, I think is that Bryson

680
00:36:37,667 --> 00:36:41,507
Speaker 12: has been getting up and down a lot, and his

681
00:36:41,627 --> 00:36:44,627
Speaker 12: short game so far as held up. And you remember

682
00:36:44,667 --> 00:36:49,387
Speaker 12: at Pinehurst it was an unbelievable bunker shot from short

683
00:36:49,387 --> 00:36:51,667
Speaker 12: of the final green that he put to about three

684
00:36:51,707 --> 00:36:55,147
Speaker 12: feet that earned him that win. And he's been playing

685
00:36:55,227 --> 00:36:58,707
Speaker 12: some most magnificent bunker shots and chip shots around the green.

686
00:36:58,827 --> 00:37:04,227
Speaker 12: So you know, ODDSI, you can't maintain that over four rounds.

687
00:37:04,427 --> 00:37:07,347
Speaker 12: And as I say, if there is a Advani theois,

688
00:37:07,627 --> 00:37:09,387
Speaker 12: it might be that for mackel.

689
00:37:10,227 --> 00:37:12,587
Speaker 3: Just a word on justin rose overnight letter. As I say,

690
00:37:12,827 --> 00:37:15,107
Speaker 3: three over seventy five to drop down to five under.

691
00:37:15,147 --> 00:37:18,747
Speaker 3: He's been around for a while because the twentieth Masters

692
00:37:18,827 --> 00:37:21,547
Speaker 3: start top twenty five and eleven of the last fourteen

693
00:37:21,667 --> 00:37:25,347
Speaker 3: runner up to Speeth in twenty fifteen, Garcia in twenty seventeen.

694
00:37:25,627 --> 00:37:28,747
Speaker 3: What happened to Justin Rose overnight or in the third round.

695
00:37:29,627 --> 00:37:33,067
Speaker 12: Well, he's forty four, that's what happened to him. It's

696
00:37:33,227 --> 00:37:35,827
Speaker 12: just not easy, No, it's not. I mean he's lost

697
00:37:35,867 --> 00:37:38,347
Speaker 12: a little bit of length of t which means he

698
00:37:38,387 --> 00:37:41,947
Speaker 12: has to work harder going into the greens. He knows it.

699
00:37:43,307 --> 00:37:47,347
Speaker 12: He's actually lead or be tired of being tied for

700
00:37:47,427 --> 00:37:50,867
Speaker 12: the lead of a round at the Masters six times,

701
00:37:51,427 --> 00:37:54,027
Speaker 12: which is the equal record. So he's been in contention

702
00:37:54,147 --> 00:37:55,987
Speaker 12: a lot. That might be the first round, to eg round,

703
00:37:56,027 --> 00:37:58,907
Speaker 12: third round or whatever. But you know, so he knows

704
00:37:58,947 --> 00:38:01,547
Speaker 12: what he's doing. But he's got the young guns, and

705
00:38:01,587 --> 00:38:04,347
Speaker 12: it's hard to hold the young guns down over four

706
00:38:04,947 --> 00:38:07,907
Speaker 12: four rounds, particularly on course like a Gusta, which is

707
00:38:08,227 --> 00:38:12,387
Speaker 12: just so demanding with the placement of your shots off

708
00:38:12,427 --> 00:38:14,947
Speaker 12: the tee on the green and then you're putting. So

709
00:38:15,547 --> 00:38:19,107
Speaker 12: I think it just got to him. I wasn't knocking him,

710
00:38:19,107 --> 00:38:21,667
Speaker 12: but I didn't think that he would be able to

711
00:38:21,707 --> 00:38:25,267
Speaker 12: maintain that rage over four rounds. He may still play

712
00:38:25,467 --> 00:38:28,747
Speaker 12: well tomorrow and you know, have a sniff. He's a

713
00:38:28,827 --> 00:38:31,547
Speaker 12: quality player. He's want to major before the US something,

714
00:38:32,267 --> 00:38:35,467
Speaker 12: so he knows what he's doing. But you know he's

715
00:38:35,547 --> 00:38:41,107
Speaker 12: the passing generation, shall we say, and the Shamba and

716
00:38:41,227 --> 00:38:44,307
Speaker 12: Rory are the coming one, even though Rory is now

717
00:38:44,347 --> 00:38:45,347
Speaker 12: in his mid thirties.

718
00:38:46,107 --> 00:38:48,867
Speaker 3: Well, just back to Rory to finish. Then what what

719
00:38:48,947 --> 00:38:50,667
Speaker 3: do you have to shoot tomorrow? Par won't be enough?

720
00:38:50,667 --> 00:38:53,107
Speaker 3: Will it? One under? Two under? Will that be enough?

721
00:38:54,387 --> 00:38:56,387
Speaker 12: I picked fourteen under at the start of the week,

722
00:38:57,907 --> 00:39:03,987
Speaker 12: and I think maybe fifteen under will win it. Fourteen

723
00:39:04,067 --> 00:39:08,307
Speaker 12: under maybe a playoffs. You never know, It just depends

724
00:39:08,827 --> 00:39:12,107
Speaker 12: on the conditions tomorrow. The forecast is good. The green's

725
00:39:12,107 --> 00:39:14,427
Speaker 12: are going to be a little firmer and harder because

726
00:39:15,307 --> 00:39:18,627
Speaker 12: there's no rain in the forecast, so they're going to

727
00:39:18,667 --> 00:39:22,187
Speaker 12: be a little more difficult. I guess the National usually

728
00:39:22,227 --> 00:39:26,427
Speaker 12: sets up some pins that will allow low scoring.

729
00:39:26,747 --> 00:39:27,347
Speaker 15: That gives the.

730
00:39:27,307 --> 00:39:30,747
Speaker 12: Guys a chance, you know, to make an eagles or birdies.

731
00:39:32,187 --> 00:39:34,547
Speaker 12: So it's going to be a shootout for sure. But

732
00:39:36,147 --> 00:39:39,627
Speaker 12: you know, I think fifteen under might winner.

733
00:39:41,027 --> 00:39:42,867
Speaker 3: Always great to get your an elisis crime? Hope you

734
00:39:42,907 --> 00:39:45,547
Speaker 3: and your Irish friend from RTE. Have a great day

735
00:39:45,587 --> 00:39:48,667
Speaker 3: tomorrows does Rory McElroy. Thanks for your time as always

736
00:39:48,707 --> 00:39:49,347
Speaker 3: this afternoon.

737
00:39:50,387 --> 00:39:52,147
Speaker 12: Yeah, that guy's going to be a nervous wreck by

738
00:39:52,187 --> 00:39:52,867
Speaker 12: the end of the week.

739
00:39:54,707 --> 00:39:58,707
Speaker 3: I think you're probably right. Thanks Graham Gray Magas from Augusta,

740
00:39:58,747 --> 00:40:01,067
Speaker 3: where Rory McElroy has a two shot lead after three

741
00:40:01,147 --> 00:40:04,107
Speaker 3: rounds from Bryce and d Chambeau. Corey Connor's outright third

742
00:40:04,147 --> 00:40:06,547
Speaker 3: at eight and seven and a half away from one.

743
00:40:06,587 --> 00:40:09,987
Speaker 3: The top ten shootout is underway at Toppall. We'll keep

744
00:40:09,987 --> 00:40:12,227
Speaker 3: eyes on that for you back in the moment on Weekend.

745
00:40:11,987 --> 00:40:16,267
Speaker 1: Sport, the scoop from the track, fields and the court

746
00:40:16,467 --> 00:40:20,147
Speaker 1: on your home of sport, Weekend Sport with Jason vine

747
00:40:20,347 --> 00:40:21,187
Speaker 1: Us talks eNB.

748
00:40:21,747 --> 00:40:24,667
Speaker 3: Coming up four to one. After our news at one o'clock,

749
00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:28,347
Speaker 3: we're back into weekend Sport and a good delve into

750
00:40:28,427 --> 00:40:31,827
Speaker 3: Super Rugby. Everybody's played eight games now we're able to

751
00:40:31,827 --> 00:40:34,747
Speaker 3: sort of make a genuine assessment of where everybody is

752
00:40:34,827 --> 00:40:37,747
Speaker 3: after eight matches with six to go, so no buys

753
00:40:37,987 --> 00:40:41,107
Speaker 3: sort of throwing things out in terms of some teams

754
00:40:41,147 --> 00:40:44,027
Speaker 3: having played more than others, and you look at the

755
00:40:44,027 --> 00:40:46,347
Speaker 3: table and it is just so tighter. I mean, good

756
00:40:46,427 --> 00:40:48,907
Speaker 3: luck trying to predict the final shape of it. There

757
00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:52,587
Speaker 3: are still four Australian sides. All four Australian sides, Brumby's Reds,

758
00:40:52,587 --> 00:40:55,627
Speaker 3: Waratah's Force are taking up places three, four, five and

759
00:40:55,667 --> 00:40:58,267
Speaker 3: six at the moment. The Crusader's on top after their

760
00:40:58,307 --> 00:41:03,547
Speaker 3: win on Friday night. The Chiefs, after their loss later

761
00:41:03,587 --> 00:41:06,787
Speaker 3: on that same evening, down to second. The Blues had

762
00:41:06,787 --> 00:41:09,267
Speaker 3: a win yesterday, beat me onea PACIFICA. They'll be pleased.

763
00:41:09,387 --> 00:41:11,947
Speaker 3: The Highlanders had a win yesterday they beat the Vegan

764
00:41:12,027 --> 00:41:14,707
Speaker 3: Andrew Fijian and Drew. They'll be pleased. We'll talk about

765
00:41:14,707 --> 00:41:17,667
Speaker 3: both of those games after one o'clock. After two we

766
00:41:17,867 --> 00:41:20,867
Speaker 3: are in Towport with Mark scaife and Supercars. We won't

767
00:41:20,867 --> 00:41:23,387
Speaker 3: forget the Warriors. Well, I cover off their game against

768
00:41:23,387 --> 00:41:24,947
Speaker 3: the Storm as well this afternoon.

769
00:41:25,907 --> 00:41:30,147
Speaker 1: The only plays for the big names, the big issues,

770
00:41:30,827 --> 00:41:33,107
Speaker 1: the big controversies and.

771
00:41:33,387 --> 00:41:34,907
Speaker 2: The big conversations.

772
00:41:35,187 --> 00:41:38,627
Speaker 1: It's all on Weekend Sport with Jason Vain on your

773
00:41:38,747 --> 00:41:40,707
Speaker 1: home of Sport News Talks.

774
00:41:40,747 --> 00:41:40,987
Speaker 15: It'd be.

775
00:41:42,707 --> 00:41:45,147
Speaker 3: Welcome into Weekend Sport one oh seven. I'm Jason Pine.

776
00:41:45,147 --> 00:41:49,147
Speaker 3: Bevin Dua is show producer Today, we're with you until three.

777
00:41:50,107 --> 00:41:54,787
Speaker 3: Supercars the Top ten shootout is currently on in tow Port.

778
00:41:54,827 --> 00:41:57,227
Speaker 3: Will bring you the final results once that all is

779
00:41:57,267 --> 00:42:00,467
Speaker 3: all done and dusted. The sixty one lap of this

780
00:42:00,507 --> 00:42:03,187
Speaker 3: afternoon goes just after three. Mark Scaithe in an hour

781
00:42:03,307 --> 00:42:07,907
Speaker 3: or soap, five times Supercars champion, times winner of Bathhurst

782
00:42:07,947 --> 00:42:11,187
Speaker 3: these days a motorsport commentator and analyst is going to

783
00:42:11,347 --> 00:42:13,387
Speaker 3: break it all down for us just after two, the

784
00:42:13,427 --> 00:42:15,427
Speaker 3: top ten shootout that is, and then preview the big

785
00:42:15,507 --> 00:42:18,907
Speaker 3: race this afternoon in Toeport. Great news as well, wasn't

786
00:42:18,947 --> 00:42:23,507
Speaker 3: it this week that Royal Poona is well almost guaranteed

787
00:42:23,547 --> 00:42:27,107
Speaker 3: to get the second leg of the Supercars New Zealand

788
00:42:27,147 --> 00:42:30,147
Speaker 3: based anyway from next year. So Topaul this year, Toport

789
00:42:30,187 --> 00:42:32,747
Speaker 3: and Luiapoona by the sounds of things next year. Excellent news.

790
00:42:33,227 --> 00:42:35,187
Speaker 3: Rugby that was going to be our focus this hour,

791
00:42:35,307 --> 00:42:37,947
Speaker 3: with the Highlanders beating the Fiji and drew last night

792
00:42:38,027 --> 00:42:41,587
Speaker 3: under the roof in Dunedin needed it too, a four

793
00:42:41,667 --> 00:42:45,347
Speaker 3: game losing streak snapped by the win over the Drawl

794
00:42:45,427 --> 00:42:48,547
Speaker 3: last night and the Blues getting up against Mowana pacifica

795
00:42:48,827 --> 00:42:50,987
Speaker 3: Super Rugby opicky final as well. We'll cover that off

796
00:42:50,987 --> 00:42:53,867
Speaker 3: before we close the show with the Blues going back

797
00:42:53,907 --> 00:42:57,427
Speaker 3: to back and beating Mata Tu in a thrilling final

798
00:42:57,507 --> 00:42:59,787
Speaker 3: last night at eden Park. But we start with the

799
00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:03,067
Speaker 3: Men and the Blues. They won back to back matches

800
00:43:03,547 --> 00:43:06,267
Speaker 3: for the first time in twenty twenty five, beating More

801
00:43:06,507 --> 00:43:09,227
Speaker 3: pacifica thirty six seventeen at Eden Park yesterday, all the.

802
00:43:09,227 --> 00:43:11,787
Speaker 17: Way left hand side, Bote and Bear kick and chose Bone, Bear,

803
00:43:11,867 --> 00:43:15,347
Speaker 17: regallus Bone and Bear of the try, great vision vote and.

804
00:43:15,427 --> 00:43:18,347
Speaker 3: Bearn Yeah, Rugby editor Elliot Smith, that's his voice. He

805
00:43:18,427 --> 00:43:20,187
Speaker 3: called the game for us and he joins us.

806
00:43:20,227 --> 00:43:20,427
Speaker 4: Now.

807
00:43:20,507 --> 00:43:22,387
Speaker 3: I know it's a small sample size and a bit

808
00:43:22,387 --> 00:43:24,507
Speaker 3: of a low bar, Elliott, but was this the Blues

809
00:43:24,987 --> 00:43:27,107
Speaker 3: best performance of twenty twenty five?

810
00:43:27,827 --> 00:43:28,907
Speaker 2: I think it was Piney.

811
00:43:29,227 --> 00:43:32,227
Speaker 17: They reverted to type almost from twenty twenty four and

812
00:43:32,427 --> 00:43:36,427
Speaker 17: just played direct and rolled their sleeves up. The Fords

813
00:43:36,467 --> 00:43:38,587
Speaker 17: went to work, which is what led them to the

814
00:43:38,627 --> 00:43:41,947
Speaker 17: title last year, and Zan got the job done. Didn't

815
00:43:41,987 --> 00:43:44,747
Speaker 17: allow Majana pacifica a bit of a look and we've

816
00:43:44,787 --> 00:43:47,747
Speaker 17: become conditioned to Mawana being a second half team and

817
00:43:47,827 --> 00:43:50,547
Speaker 17: finding that kick in the second spell, but the Blues

818
00:43:50,587 --> 00:43:54,107
Speaker 17: just suffocated them and didn't allow them to plan in

819
00:43:54,147 --> 00:43:56,227
Speaker 17: the right areas of the ground, didn't allow them any

820
00:43:56,267 --> 00:43:58,627
Speaker 17: ball really in the first spell of his two thirds

821
00:43:58,627 --> 00:44:02,307
Speaker 17: possession that the Blues had after forty minutes. So they

822
00:44:02,387 --> 00:44:05,147
Speaker 17: just denied Mawana any chance to get a foothold in

823
00:44:05,227 --> 00:44:08,587
Speaker 17: the game and played, as I said, more direct and

824
00:44:09,067 --> 00:44:12,307
Speaker 17: with a bit more intent than they've probably played all seasons.

825
00:44:12,307 --> 00:44:14,227
Speaker 17: So I think it has to be their best win

826
00:44:14,387 --> 00:44:16,147
Speaker 17: so far of twenty twenty five.

827
00:44:16,307 --> 00:44:18,547
Speaker 3: So they used the blueprint that was so successful for

828
00:44:18,667 --> 00:44:22,307
Speaker 3: them last season. Have they been trying to do that anyway,

829
00:44:22,427 --> 00:44:24,307
Speaker 3: but just not doing it as well? Is that what's

830
00:44:24,307 --> 00:44:25,187
Speaker 3: been happening this year?

831
00:44:25,667 --> 00:44:28,347
Speaker 17: I think so absolutely. I think they added a little

832
00:44:28,347 --> 00:44:30,267
Speaker 17: bit to the game, trying to play perhaps slightly more

833
00:44:30,307 --> 00:44:33,347
Speaker 17: expansively than what we saw last year. But in the

834
00:44:33,587 --> 00:44:35,707
Speaker 17: last few weeks have gone a little bit more direct

835
00:44:35,707 --> 00:44:37,707
Speaker 17: as the results haven't come their way and it just

836
00:44:37,827 --> 00:44:41,347
Speaker 17: hasn't clicked. They've had a number of injuries, of course,

837
00:44:41,347 --> 00:44:43,827
Speaker 17: and now they've got some of their first choice players

838
00:44:43,867 --> 00:44:46,587
Speaker 17: back out on the park, those players that help them

839
00:44:46,787 --> 00:44:49,787
Speaker 17: to that title last year, you know, Boden Barrett didn't

840
00:44:49,787 --> 00:44:52,987
Speaker 17: play last year, but he's still now getting his head

841
00:44:53,027 --> 00:44:55,507
Speaker 17: into that game planned at the Blues one to play

842
00:44:55,547 --> 00:44:58,147
Speaker 17: Hoskins and two they missed some game time through suspension,

843
00:44:58,347 --> 00:45:01,867
Speaker 17: Golden pap Elite has been injured. Some other of their fords,

844
00:45:01,987 --> 00:45:04,587
Speaker 17: Rockettelli Ekland have all been injured at certain points. So

845
00:45:04,947 --> 00:45:06,987
Speaker 17: you're getting the band back together at this point of

846
00:45:07,027 --> 00:45:09,427
Speaker 17: the season. And the band knows the tune they wanted

847
00:45:09,467 --> 00:45:12,147
Speaker 17: to play, and it was a very successful one last

848
00:45:12,227 --> 00:45:14,587
Speaker 17: year in the way they wanted to play. So I

849
00:45:14,587 --> 00:45:17,507
Speaker 17: think we're seeing, you know that the pieces come together

850
00:45:17,987 --> 00:45:20,907
Speaker 17: for the Blues, only you know the seat the first

851
00:45:20,947 --> 00:45:23,907
Speaker 17: time they got back to back wins so far this year,

852
00:45:23,987 --> 00:45:26,467
Speaker 17: but it feels like there's getting a semblance of the

853
00:45:26,467 --> 00:45:29,507
Speaker 17: game plan that they want to play in twenty twenty five.

854
00:45:29,667 --> 00:45:32,387
Speaker 3: So the Blues led twenty four to five at halftime,

855
00:45:32,507 --> 00:45:35,587
Speaker 3: which seems like a decent lead. How acutely aware would

856
00:45:35,587 --> 00:45:38,707
Speaker 3: they have been, though, of Mowana's ability to mount a

857
00:45:38,747 --> 00:45:40,707
Speaker 3: comeback as they have in recent games.

858
00:45:41,227 --> 00:45:44,107
Speaker 17: Very much so, I think, and with the power that

859
00:45:44,427 --> 00:45:47,227
Speaker 17: Mowana had on the bench. Tom Savage, who's usually their

860
00:45:47,227 --> 00:45:50,107
Speaker 17: first choice Locke was coming off the bench Patrick Pallagrini,

861
00:45:50,147 --> 00:45:53,667
Speaker 17: who's been in such great touch for Murana since making

862
00:45:53,667 --> 00:45:55,787
Speaker 17: his debut coming off the bench as well. It almost

863
00:45:55,787 --> 00:45:59,467
Speaker 17: felt like they were adding more firepower to what has

864
00:45:59,507 --> 00:46:02,387
Speaker 17: already been a strong bench for them this season. But

865
00:46:02,507 --> 00:46:05,667
Speaker 17: the first I thought ten fifteen minutes after the halftime

866
00:46:05,667 --> 00:46:09,587
Speaker 17: break were really crucial and just not allowing Mowana to

867
00:46:09,987 --> 00:46:13,507
Speaker 17: get a roll on. In that second spell, we saw

868
00:46:13,907 --> 00:46:17,107
Speaker 17: the Blues just hold on to possession in that first

869
00:46:17,107 --> 00:46:21,067
Speaker 17: ten minutes, deny them and then the clock becomes an

870
00:46:21,187 --> 00:46:24,027
Speaker 17: enemy for Mwana Pacifica and they just couldn't get really

871
00:46:24,067 --> 00:46:25,987
Speaker 17: out of their twenty two. Anytime they had the ball.

872
00:46:26,267 --> 00:46:29,187
Speaker 17: The Blues were able to diffuse it with poor exits.

873
00:46:29,387 --> 00:46:31,707
Speaker 17: The set piece of the Blues worked really really well

874
00:46:32,227 --> 00:46:35,547
Speaker 17: last night if you line out steels throughout the course

875
00:46:35,587 --> 00:46:38,587
Speaker 17: of the game, and Mowana just looked clunky compared to

876
00:46:39,027 --> 00:46:41,707
Speaker 17: the way they're played in recent weeks as well. So

877
00:46:42,147 --> 00:46:44,707
Speaker 17: I thought, in terms of sticking to a game plan

878
00:46:44,787 --> 00:46:48,347
Speaker 17: and nullifying the opposition's game plan, that was probably as

879
00:46:48,387 --> 00:46:51,827
Speaker 17: good as you'll get from the Blues in terms of

880
00:46:51,867 --> 00:46:54,547
Speaker 17: what we have come to expect from both the Blues

881
00:46:54,587 --> 00:46:57,187
Speaker 17: this season and Wanda Pacifica. They flipped it on their heads.

882
00:46:57,507 --> 00:47:00,587
Speaker 3: You mentioned Boden Barrett before back from a hand injury

883
00:47:00,627 --> 00:47:02,987
Speaker 3: and had a big say for the second straight game.

884
00:47:03,467 --> 00:47:05,507
Speaker 3: Are the Blues just a better side with him in

885
00:47:05,547 --> 00:47:06,227
Speaker 3: the ten jersey?

886
00:47:06,947 --> 00:47:09,947
Speaker 17: I think they are in a style they want to play,

887
00:47:10,147 --> 00:47:13,387
Speaker 17: and his ability to get them around the park. I

888
00:47:13,427 --> 00:47:16,987
Speaker 17: think he is, you know, clearly of the best first

889
00:47:17,027 --> 00:47:20,987
Speaker 17: five in the country, I think at the moment, and

890
00:47:21,507 --> 00:47:24,187
Speaker 17: you know, season out in Japan getting back into the

891
00:47:24,227 --> 00:47:27,467
Speaker 17: Blues environment and playing super rugby. Had that hand injury,

892
00:47:27,907 --> 00:47:31,227
Speaker 17: of course, it's noticeable, you know, compared to the game

893
00:47:31,267 --> 00:47:33,987
Speaker 17: against the Crusaders where he wasn't there and they had

894
00:47:33,987 --> 00:47:37,747
Speaker 17: about fifteen injuries in the ends. Just the difference that

895
00:47:37,787 --> 00:47:40,667
Speaker 17: he makes to this Blues team and his tactical kicking,

896
00:47:41,547 --> 00:47:43,627
Speaker 17: just the way pulls the strings in the back line.

897
00:47:43,707 --> 00:47:47,307
Speaker 17: He is playing really really good football for them this season.

898
00:47:47,827 --> 00:47:50,227
Speaker 17: A couple of weeks ago, obviously against the Hurricanes for

899
00:47:50,387 --> 00:47:52,267
Speaker 17: penalty goals, done it the last time he would have

900
00:47:52,347 --> 00:47:55,507
Speaker 17: kecked four penalty goals in a match. Boden Barrett. But

901
00:47:56,147 --> 00:47:59,187
Speaker 17: he's becoming adaptable, I think in the way that he's

902
00:47:59,187 --> 00:48:01,747
Speaker 17: playing with his Blues style, but also the way that

903
00:48:01,827 --> 00:48:04,467
Speaker 17: he wants to play in this environment as well. So

904
00:48:04,907 --> 00:48:06,827
Speaker 17: I think he suits the way the Blues want to play.

905
00:48:06,987 --> 00:48:09,707
Speaker 17: I think they're a better team with him in the mix.

906
00:48:09,867 --> 00:48:12,067
Speaker 17: And you know, at this point in the season, they're

907
00:48:12,107 --> 00:48:14,107
Speaker 17: not completely out of the playoff mix by any stretch

908
00:48:14,107 --> 00:48:16,667
Speaker 17: of the imagination, and if he stays fit, you know,

909
00:48:16,707 --> 00:48:19,067
Speaker 17: it's a big part of potentially they're run into the

910
00:48:19,067 --> 00:48:19,867
Speaker 17: playoffs as well.

911
00:48:20,107 --> 00:48:22,507
Speaker 3: Back to back wins. Then, since the buye and the

912
00:48:22,547 --> 00:48:24,467
Speaker 3: buy came off the back of that loss to the

913
00:48:24,467 --> 00:48:26,907
Speaker 3: Crusaders at Eden Park that both you and you and

914
00:48:26,947 --> 00:48:30,187
Speaker 3: I were at, and we've talked a lot, you and

915
00:48:30,227 --> 00:48:33,147
Speaker 3: I about how poor the Blues were that night, do

916
00:48:33,227 --> 00:48:36,587
Speaker 3: you think that performance would have compelled some pretty deep

917
00:48:36,987 --> 00:48:38,747
Speaker 3: self examination in the Blues camp.

918
00:48:39,507 --> 00:48:40,427
Speaker 15: I believe so. Yeah.

919
00:48:41,227 --> 00:48:43,267
Speaker 17: I'm of the understanding that when they came back after

920
00:48:43,347 --> 00:48:46,507
Speaker 17: that buye and he got a few players back, they

921
00:48:46,507 --> 00:48:48,907
Speaker 17: had some pretty tough conversations and Monday when they got

922
00:48:48,907 --> 00:48:51,987
Speaker 17: back into camp around the team and the way that

923
00:48:52,027 --> 00:48:54,747
Speaker 17: they wanted to play this season. They obviously have a

924
00:48:54,787 --> 00:48:58,587
Speaker 17: next man up mentality, but fifteen injuries is tricky for

925
00:48:58,627 --> 00:49:01,107
Speaker 17: any team to deal with, but what they turned out

926
00:49:01,107 --> 00:49:05,227
Speaker 17: against the Crusaders was really disappointing in any Super rug

927
00:49:05,267 --> 00:49:07,627
Speaker 17: big year where you know, coming off a championship year,

928
00:49:07,747 --> 00:49:10,187
Speaker 17: bit when the Crusaders are in their pomp, you know

929
00:49:10,267 --> 00:49:13,347
Speaker 17: that's one of the marquee games of Super Rugby and

930
00:49:13,627 --> 00:49:16,507
Speaker 17: an old rivalry and the Blues just didn't really turn

931
00:49:16,587 --> 00:49:19,987
Speaker 17: up that night, apart from perhaps the first five minutes

932
00:49:20,027 --> 00:49:22,307
Speaker 17: and the last ten or so when the game was done.

933
00:49:22,387 --> 00:49:25,947
Speaker 17: So there's been some honest conversations and cams are reverted

934
00:49:25,987 --> 00:49:28,267
Speaker 17: to what worked from them last season. They've got some

935
00:49:28,347 --> 00:49:30,947
Speaker 17: troops back and they're looking a little bit better for it,

936
00:49:31,027 --> 00:49:34,067
Speaker 17: and you know, winning breed's confidence. A couple of wins

937
00:49:34,147 --> 00:49:36,907
Speaker 17: under the belt, they head to crist Etch next week

938
00:49:37,387 --> 00:49:39,827
Speaker 17: on Good Friday with a few more players fit that

939
00:49:39,867 --> 00:49:43,427
Speaker 17: weren't near last time and look to turn the tables

940
00:49:43,467 --> 00:49:45,867
Speaker 17: on now the top of the table side and Super Uguy.

941
00:49:45,947 --> 00:49:47,507
Speaker 17: The Crusaders just want.

942
00:49:47,427 --> 00:49:49,347
Speaker 3: To look at the draw that the Blues have had.

943
00:49:49,427 --> 00:49:53,467
Speaker 3: Their New Zealand Derby's have been really front loaded this season. Elliott,

944
00:49:53,467 --> 00:49:55,347
Speaker 3: you talk about the Crusaders this week, so that'll be

945
00:49:55,427 --> 00:49:58,347
Speaker 3: nine games, eight of their first nine against the other

946
00:49:58,347 --> 00:50:01,747
Speaker 3: New Zealand sides including Mowana Pacifica. They're remaining five games.

947
00:50:01,827 --> 00:50:06,027
Speaker 3: Red's force drewer Mowana Pacifica Warritas. The draw has been

948
00:50:06,027 --> 00:50:08,627
Speaker 3: a bit up on the Blues, isn't it.

949
00:50:08,627 --> 00:50:11,267
Speaker 17: It has been. It's a tough one for them and

950
00:50:11,507 --> 00:50:14,107
Speaker 17: they've had to navigate that with a number of injuries

951
00:50:14,147 --> 00:50:16,147
Speaker 17: a lot of the derby's but as you say, they've

952
00:50:16,347 --> 00:50:19,667
Speaker 17: had the Chiefs twice, they've had the Crusaders once and

953
00:50:19,907 --> 00:50:23,627
Speaker 17: twice after this week in the Hurricanes as well, so

954
00:50:24,427 --> 00:50:27,267
Speaker 17: they do have what your term is an easier run home.

955
00:50:27,307 --> 00:50:29,747
Speaker 17: They do have to go play the Reds in Britain.

956
00:50:30,587 --> 00:50:33,267
Speaker 17: A lot of Pacificate on the other side of the

957
00:50:34,227 --> 00:50:37,187
Speaker 17: bridge will be a tricky prospect as well. But they've

958
00:50:37,187 --> 00:50:39,867
Speaker 17: got some games there where I think certainly they can

959
00:50:39,907 --> 00:50:41,627
Speaker 17: target and go we can get on a little bit

960
00:50:41,667 --> 00:50:44,947
Speaker 17: of a roll here and get ourselves into the Plobs.

961
00:50:45,067 --> 00:50:48,227
Speaker 17: It might be the home advantages perhaps beyond them now

962
00:50:48,227 --> 00:50:50,867
Speaker 17: in the Ploves, but they're you know, really only a

963
00:50:50,907 --> 00:50:54,907
Speaker 17: win and you know win outside the pluoffs when you

964
00:50:54,947 --> 00:50:58,787
Speaker 17: look at the table and they can really find their

965
00:50:58,867 --> 00:51:01,187
Speaker 17: momentum as they head in. So it's been a tricky

966
00:51:01,347 --> 00:51:04,867
Speaker 17: front half of the season. Then Cod has used golfing analogy.

967
00:51:05,347 --> 00:51:06,987
Speaker 17: You know that the front nine was pretty tough, but

968
00:51:06,987 --> 00:51:08,867
Speaker 17: they're on the back nine now and they have picked

969
00:51:08,907 --> 00:51:11,267
Speaker 17: up a couple of shots and you know they'll need

970
00:51:11,267 --> 00:51:15,507
Speaker 17: to head for home and channel Rory mcelroyl up this

971
00:51:15,547 --> 00:51:17,867
Speaker 17: morning in the third round and the Masters and flush

972
00:51:17,907 --> 00:51:20,387
Speaker 17: the first round which was terrible for Rory, and come

973
00:51:20,427 --> 00:51:21,827
Speaker 17: back strong in the second and third.

974
00:51:21,947 --> 00:51:24,667
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good analogy. Just to finish, you look

975
00:51:24,667 --> 00:51:26,747
Speaker 3: at the table. Everybody's played eight games now, so we

976
00:51:26,787 --> 00:51:31,107
Speaker 3: can make a genuine comparison with without Buyers etc. Four

977
00:51:31,187 --> 00:51:34,387
Speaker 3: Australian sides, all four Australian sides in the top six.

978
00:51:34,467 --> 00:51:39,627
Speaker 3: Brumby's third reads fourth warretas fifth force sixth. When is

979
00:51:39,667 --> 00:51:42,427
Speaker 3: it time to actually say right, there are probably going

980
00:51:42,507 --> 00:51:44,547
Speaker 3: to be too or three in the top six.

981
00:51:46,507 --> 00:51:48,827
Speaker 17: Look, I think the table will still have some movement

982
00:51:48,947 --> 00:51:51,707
Speaker 17: over the coming week. So we mentioned the Blues draw there.

983
00:51:52,507 --> 00:51:56,307
Speaker 17: They should win a few of those games. On the

984
00:51:57,067 --> 00:51:59,507
Speaker 17: face of it, they should win those games. If we're

985
00:51:59,707 --> 00:52:03,227
Speaker 17: judging previous results and judging previous seasons, the Blues should

986
00:52:03,227 --> 00:52:05,467
Speaker 17: be good enough. But we're also judging it against this

987
00:52:05,547 --> 00:52:08,627
Speaker 17: season where anyone can be anyone and it's very very

988
00:52:08,627 --> 00:52:12,147
Speaker 17: hard to predict. We thought that the Brumbies when last

989
00:52:12,227 --> 00:52:14,507
Speaker 17: night in a very good performance, I thought against the

990
00:52:14,587 --> 00:52:16,627
Speaker 17: Reds and I think there's still going to be some

991
00:52:16,667 --> 00:52:19,107
Speaker 17: teams beating up on each other. So I think there's

992
00:52:19,147 --> 00:52:22,827
Speaker 17: a little bit of change coming to the table over

993
00:52:22,867 --> 00:52:25,787
Speaker 17: the next few weeks. No one's really run away and

994
00:52:25,827 --> 00:52:29,067
Speaker 17: put themselves as the runaway leaders. We saw the Chiefs

995
00:52:29,067 --> 00:52:32,027
Speaker 17: obviously lose on Friday Night as well, so it's really

996
00:52:32,067 --> 00:52:34,907
Speaker 17: congested and that means in the closing weeks of the

997
00:52:34,947 --> 00:52:37,307
Speaker 17: season that every wind is going to mean more and

998
00:52:37,307 --> 00:52:40,587
Speaker 17: it is going to change that table a little bit further. So, look,

999
00:52:40,667 --> 00:52:43,227
Speaker 17: I think there'll be probably two teams from Australia, if

1000
00:52:43,267 --> 00:52:46,587
Speaker 17: not three, in the playoffs. The kerew we sides have

1001
00:52:46,627 --> 00:52:49,547
Speaker 17: lift themselves a bit of work to do, but there

1002
00:52:49,547 --> 00:52:51,907
Speaker 17: are wins to come and points still on the table

1003
00:52:52,387 --> 00:52:55,147
Speaker 17: that could shake up this table. So look, I think

1004
00:52:55,227 --> 00:52:58,467
Speaker 17: right until that final round where there's some interesting matchups,

1005
00:52:58,667 --> 00:53:00,067
Speaker 17: we're going to be looking at this table and it

1006
00:53:00,107 --> 00:53:03,107
Speaker 17: could change very dramatically over the closing weeks of the season.

1007
00:53:03,187 --> 00:53:05,427
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is what we've always wanted. Elliott, thanks so much,

1008
00:53:05,427 --> 00:53:08,267
Speaker 3: great call Las night on the Blues Wina pacifica game.

1009
00:53:08,507 --> 00:53:10,907
Speaker 3: Thanks for your time this afternoon. That's our rugby editor

1010
00:53:10,947 --> 00:53:14,787
Speaker 3: and lead commentator, Elliott Smith. So round nine is in

1011
00:53:14,827 --> 00:53:18,827
Speaker 3: the box. Everybody's played eight games and it is a

1012
00:53:19,027 --> 00:53:21,587
Speaker 3: very very tight table with as Elliott just said, the

1013
00:53:22,507 --> 00:53:26,347
Speaker 3: potential for it to change a lot in the six

1014
00:53:26,467 --> 00:53:32,107
Speaker 3: remaining games. Crusaders twenty eight, Chiefs twenty seven, Brumby's twenty three,

1015
00:53:32,187 --> 00:53:35,987
Speaker 3: Reds twenty three, Warata's twenty one Force twenty that's the

1016
00:53:36,027 --> 00:53:39,827
Speaker 3: top six at the moment. The Highland is seventeen, Hurricanes

1017
00:53:39,947 --> 00:53:44,507
Speaker 3: sixteen Blues sixteen, Moina Pacific of fifteen and really the

1018
00:53:44,547 --> 00:53:46,187
Speaker 3: only team you'd have to think who are out of

1019
00:53:46,187 --> 00:53:50,067
Speaker 3: top six contention the Fijian draw with just the seven points.

1020
00:53:50,147 --> 00:53:55,547
Speaker 3: So who are super rugby favorites? Is it the Crusaders

1021
00:53:56,867 --> 00:54:02,547
Speaker 3: after a dreadful twenty twenty four? Does there win over

1022
00:54:03,307 --> 00:54:07,627
Speaker 3: the Hurricanes on Friday night give you confidence that they

1023
00:54:07,667 --> 00:54:11,307
Speaker 3: are in fact super rugby favorites? Is it still the Chiefs?

1024
00:54:11,307 --> 00:54:13,187
Speaker 3: It is for me, I've still got the Chiefs as

1025
00:54:13,267 --> 00:54:16,547
Speaker 3: favorites despite their loss to the Waratars the other night.

1026
00:54:17,107 --> 00:54:20,427
Speaker 3: I still think they are Super Rugby favorites. And then

1027
00:54:20,467 --> 00:54:24,147
Speaker 3: you look at these Australian sites and I think over here,

1028
00:54:24,827 --> 00:54:29,147
Speaker 3: rightly or wrongly, we do not give the Australian sides

1029
00:54:29,267 --> 00:54:33,907
Speaker 3: enough credit. But the table doesn't lie. The Brumbies, the Reds,

1030
00:54:33,947 --> 00:54:37,547
Speaker 3: the Waratars and the Force are all in the top six.

1031
00:54:37,947 --> 00:54:41,427
Speaker 3: The Highlanders, the Hurricanes and the Blues are not. I

1032
00:54:41,467 --> 00:54:44,147
Speaker 3: don't think it's going to end up that way, but

1033
00:54:45,907 --> 00:54:47,707
Speaker 3: I wonder whether this year is the year that what

1034
00:54:47,827 --> 00:54:50,347
Speaker 3: we've always said we want it is going to come true,

1035
00:54:50,627 --> 00:54:54,547
Speaker 3: that we have a genuine Australian force when it comes

1036
00:54:54,587 --> 00:54:57,467
Speaker 3: to the super rugby sides, not just the Force, but

1037
00:54:57,507 --> 00:54:59,747
Speaker 3: the others as well. If you know what I mean,

1038
00:55:00,747 --> 00:55:02,307
Speaker 3: what do you make of it all? Eight hundred and

1039
00:55:02,307 --> 00:55:03,827
Speaker 3: eighty ten eighty let's talk to them right. We want

1040
00:55:03,827 --> 00:55:05,787
Speaker 3: to get inside the Highlanders camp at some stage soon

1041
00:55:05,827 --> 00:55:08,787
Speaker 3: with Dermody their assistant coach. They finally won a game

1042
00:55:09,267 --> 00:55:12,547
Speaker 3: after four straight losses. Pretty crucial win for the Highlanders

1043
00:55:12,627 --> 00:55:15,387
Speaker 3: last night. But they do have a very very tough

1044
00:55:15,587 --> 00:55:20,547
Speaker 3: running Chiefs Crusaders more Wona Pacifica Hurricanes Crusaders again. Chiefs again.

1045
00:55:20,867 --> 00:55:22,867
Speaker 3: So the Highlanders still have to pay the Chiefs home

1046
00:55:22,907 --> 00:55:25,547
Speaker 3: and away and the Crusaders home and away, plus the

1047
00:55:25,627 --> 00:55:29,907
Speaker 3: Hurricanes and more Onana pacifica that is a tough running

1048
00:55:29,947 --> 00:55:33,187
Speaker 3: for them. So have they actually left their run too late?

1049
00:55:33,227 --> 00:55:35,707
Speaker 3: After these losses to the likes of the Reds and

1050
00:55:35,747 --> 00:55:39,067
Speaker 3: the Brumbies and the Force. In fact, they've lost to

1051
00:55:39,107 --> 00:55:41,867
Speaker 3: all the Australian sides, the lost of the Waratahs, lost

1052
00:55:41,867 --> 00:55:44,187
Speaker 3: to the Reds, lost to the Brumbies, lost to the Force.

1053
00:55:44,707 --> 00:55:47,467
Speaker 3: So the Highlanders haven't been able to unpick the lock

1054
00:55:47,547 --> 00:55:51,387
Speaker 3: of the Australian sites. Have they left their run too late?

1055
00:55:51,787 --> 00:55:51,947
Speaker 15: Oh?

1056
00:55:51,987 --> 00:55:54,507
Speaker 3: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine, two ninety two.

1057
00:55:54,507 --> 00:55:56,947
Speaker 3: If you'd like to send a text on Super Rugby,

1058
00:55:57,547 --> 00:55:59,867
Speaker 3: we'll open it up. How are you feeling? Tell us

1059
00:55:59,907 --> 00:56:03,187
Speaker 3: about the team that you've got skinning Hurricanes fans? How

1060
00:56:03,227 --> 00:56:05,267
Speaker 3: are you feeling? I just wonder about the Hurricanes, you know,

1061
00:56:06,547 --> 00:56:09,627
Speaker 3: very good last year. They're my team, so I'm clearly biased,

1062
00:56:09,627 --> 00:56:12,267
Speaker 3: but I don't know They're gonna have to get a

1063
00:56:12,347 --> 00:56:14,107
Speaker 3: riggle on at some point. They've got a tougher way

1064
00:56:14,147 --> 00:56:16,507
Speaker 3: trip now the Force and then the Brumbies. They hardly ever,

1065
00:56:16,547 --> 00:56:19,827
Speaker 3: win in Canberra, then back home for Chiefs, Highlanders, Reads

1066
00:56:19,827 --> 00:56:22,547
Speaker 3: and more Waa Pacifica to finish see the Blues. I

1067
00:56:22,587 --> 00:56:26,067
Speaker 3: think they will benefit from a slightly easier on the

1068
00:56:26,107 --> 00:56:31,187
Speaker 3: face of things anyway, running after the Crusaders on Friday

1069
00:56:31,267 --> 00:56:33,947
Speaker 3: nightdown in christ Church. They don't have any more New

1070
00:56:34,027 --> 00:56:36,347
Speaker 3: Zealand derbies if we don't count more Wida Pacifica as

1071
00:56:36,347 --> 00:56:38,267
Speaker 3: a New Zealand team. They don't have to play any

1072
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Speaker 3: of the other New Zealand teams in the last five games,

1073
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Speaker 3: so maybe that'll be enough to loot them up into

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Speaker 3: into top six contention. Let's talk some rugby. Oh eight

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Speaker 3: hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two, nine to two

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Speaker 3: on text Back in a moment on Weekend Sport.

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Speaker 1: The Voice of Sport on your Home of Sport Weekend

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Speaker 1: Sport with Jason Vain and GJ Gunnoos, New Zealand's most

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Speaker 1: trusted home builder News Talks, HEV.

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Speaker 3: News Talks B one twenty five. We'll get you inside

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00:57:05,467 --> 00:57:08,227
Speaker 3: the Highlanders camp shortly after their win over the Fijian

1082
00:57:08,347 --> 00:57:10,827
Speaker 3: drewa last night and Dunedin taking some calls so on

1083
00:57:10,867 --> 00:57:17,147
Speaker 3: Super Rugby Hio Chris.

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Speaker 18: Talking about this Super season. This is, yeah, obviously the

1085
00:57:19,147 --> 00:57:22,507
Speaker 18: best season we've had for years, and I think it's

1086
00:57:22,587 --> 00:57:27,427
Speaker 18: down to the condensation of the Australian side when they

1087
00:57:27,467 --> 00:57:30,707
Speaker 18: got rid of the Rebels, a lot of their players

1088
00:57:30,747 --> 00:57:34,187
Speaker 18: that went into the four teams that are more competitive,

1089
00:57:34,547 --> 00:57:38,227
Speaker 18: which is made for a greater competition than the TV statistics.

1090
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Speaker 18: Haven't lied about that either.

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00:57:40,267 --> 00:57:43,387
Speaker 3: Now certainly, I think, yeah, the talent being spread across

1092
00:57:43,427 --> 00:57:47,427
Speaker 3: across four rather than five franchises certainly has made a difference,

1093
00:57:47,467 --> 00:57:51,187
Speaker 3: and I guess it it proves correct those who thought

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00:57:51,227 --> 00:57:55,027
Speaker 3: that that Australia wasn't deep enough in terms of its

1095
00:57:55,067 --> 00:57:59,667
Speaker 3: talent to sustain five teams. But they've got four quality teams.

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00:57:59,707 --> 00:58:02,027
Speaker 3: I already thought the force would have dropped off by now, Chris,

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00:58:02,027 --> 00:58:05,707
Speaker 3: but they haven't, so I mean good on them.

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Speaker 7: Said.

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Speaker 18: Look, when the Australian rugby was at its strongest, they

1100
00:58:12,387 --> 00:58:15,587
Speaker 18: only had three teams the Brumby's, Warrior Cars and Reds

1101
00:58:15,947 --> 00:58:18,867
Speaker 18: when Super twelve first came about, and that was the

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00:58:18,947 --> 00:58:21,187
Speaker 18: sort of the high days of the Wallaby rugby. But

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00:58:22,027 --> 00:58:25,107
Speaker 18: I can see that the Australian rugby is developing and

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Speaker 18: I think they're actually going to give the Irish. British

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00:58:28,387 --> 00:58:31,627
Speaker 18: and Irish Lions a little bit of a go this

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Speaker 18: year compared to thinking about it two years ago. I

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00:58:34,667 --> 00:58:36,787
Speaker 18: was going to go three nil. The poems of white

1108
00:58:37,027 --> 00:58:40,747
Speaker 18: the British will white them. But I think the developing

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00:58:41,587 --> 00:58:44,187
Speaker 18: quite nicely now and I think they might be a

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00:58:44,187 --> 00:58:46,067
Speaker 18: bit of a problem come the next World Cup.

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00:58:46,627 --> 00:58:49,427
Speaker 3: Do you think, also, Chris, that this might be the

1112
00:58:49,467 --> 00:58:51,747
Speaker 3: same thing happening in reverse and that there are a

1113
00:58:51,747 --> 00:58:54,467
Speaker 3: lot of players who are thinking to themselves, I've got

1114
00:58:54,467 --> 00:58:56,627
Speaker 3: a once in a career opportunity here to play against

1115
00:58:56,627 --> 00:58:59,427
Speaker 3: the British and Irish Lions and put my best foot

1116
00:58:59,467 --> 00:59:02,627
Speaker 3: forward to be in an Australian side at a home

1117
00:59:02,707 --> 00:59:04,547
Speaker 3: Rugby World Cup in a couple of years. So that

1118
00:59:04,627 --> 00:59:10,107
Speaker 3: has lifted the performance of pretty much every Australian player

1119
00:59:10,147 --> 00:59:10,907
Speaker 3: in super rugby.

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Speaker 18: Yeah you can.

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00:59:13,667 --> 00:59:15,027
Speaker 10: You can see it this year.

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00:59:16,107 --> 00:59:18,147
Speaker 18: They've come out of the wood work and they are

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Speaker 18: literally just giving it a go. The Australian sides in

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00:59:22,627 --> 00:59:25,267
Speaker 18: the last sort of ten years they haven't performed well,

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Speaker 18: but they have lifted. So we better be on our

1126
00:59:30,067 --> 00:59:34,227
Speaker 18: you know, don't just think that the Blader Slow Cup

1127
00:59:34,347 --> 00:59:39,347
Speaker 18: is ours. We need to be watching them, and yeah,

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Speaker 18: this is going to be some good rugby in the

1129
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Speaker 18: next two or three years.

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Speaker 10: So I assure you.

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Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, don't sleep on the wall of es.

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Speaker 3: In other words, Chris, you did right. I mean, you

1133
00:59:46,267 --> 00:59:48,707
Speaker 3: make a great point about the first of all, the

1134
00:59:49,987 --> 00:59:53,387
Speaker 3: fewer teams and the wider, sorry, the narrower spread of talent.

1135
00:59:53,467 --> 00:59:56,827
Speaker 3: That's obviously always going to happen. But you still got

1136
00:59:56,827 --> 01:00:00,187
Speaker 3: to integrate those players into your side and play consistently well.

1137
01:00:00,347 --> 01:00:02,987
Speaker 3: The other thing, you know, talked about it a lot

1138
01:00:02,987 --> 01:00:06,147
Speaker 3: on the show, just the week to week Jeopardy, see

1139
01:00:06,347 --> 01:00:10,667
Speaker 3: the war Tars beating the Chiefs the other night, and

1140
01:00:10,707 --> 01:00:12,467
Speaker 3: we spoke about this a little bit on the show yesterday,

1141
01:00:12,507 --> 01:00:14,667
Speaker 3: but the fact that they are such a different team

1142
01:00:14,707 --> 01:00:17,347
Speaker 3: at home than they are away. But the fact remains

1143
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Speaker 3: they were absolutely humbled by the Hurricanes in Wellington to

1144
01:00:22,387 --> 01:00:25,347
Speaker 3: the tune of fifty seven twelve. I think the final

1145
01:00:25,387 --> 01:00:28,307
Speaker 3: score was certainly the Hurricanes put fifty on them. Then

1146
01:00:29,107 --> 01:00:31,827
Speaker 3: Maana Pacifica beat the Waratars, who had a very healthy

1147
01:00:31,867 --> 01:00:34,147
Speaker 3: half time lead but couldn't hold on to it. But

1148
01:00:34,227 --> 01:00:37,707
Speaker 3: then next thing you know, they're across back home in

1149
01:00:37,747 --> 01:00:42,947
Speaker 3: Sydney and beating the Chiefs the competition favorites, so there

1150
01:00:42,987 --> 01:00:45,787
Speaker 3: is that jeopardy there the Force. Now the Force interest me.

1151
01:00:46,187 --> 01:00:50,587
Speaker 3: They had the buye this weekend. Their running is quite tough.

1152
01:00:51,027 --> 01:00:54,107
Speaker 3: They have the Hurricanes coming to town next Saturday, then

1153
01:00:54,147 --> 01:00:58,267
Speaker 3: they visit the Chiefs, then they play the Blues away welcome.

1154
01:00:58,307 --> 01:01:01,347
Speaker 3: The Brumbies go to Fiji and have the war Retars

1155
01:01:01,387 --> 01:01:04,427
Speaker 3: to finish. It feels to me as though that might

1156
01:01:06,107 --> 01:01:10,147
Speaker 3: not be exactly the run home the Force need if

1157
01:01:10,147 --> 01:01:12,507
Speaker 3: they are to feature in the Super Rugby playoff. So

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01:01:12,507 --> 01:01:14,947
Speaker 3: I can see them, I can see them dropping out.

1159
01:01:15,587 --> 01:01:17,467
Speaker 3: But then I thought that a couple of weeks ago

1160
01:01:17,467 --> 01:01:20,627
Speaker 3: and they're continuing to play well, so maybe it won't

1161
01:01:20,627 --> 01:01:22,227
Speaker 3: be that. After all, the Wallabies are going to be

1162
01:01:22,267 --> 01:01:26,347
Speaker 3: good this year, says this text that backline running is

1163
01:01:26,387 --> 01:01:28,587
Speaker 3: coming on. I can see it. The All Blacks need

1164
01:01:28,627 --> 01:01:30,747
Speaker 3: to be on their game to beat Australia this year. Look,

1165
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Speaker 3: I think we can all agree that is the case.

1166
01:01:34,667 --> 01:01:36,187
Speaker 3: Of course we all. I think we all, as All

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01:01:36,187 --> 01:01:38,947
Speaker 3: Blacks fans still think that the All Blacks will win

1168
01:01:38,987 --> 01:01:41,947
Speaker 3: the Blittersloe Cup. I think we just almost by default

1169
01:01:41,987 --> 01:01:46,747
Speaker 3: think that. But again, just like Super Rugby, don't we

1170
01:01:46,787 --> 01:01:49,347
Speaker 3: want Australia to be strong, don't. We want to go

1171
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Speaker 3: back to those days of not knowing from one Bledisloe

1172
01:01:52,827 --> 01:01:55,667
Speaker 3: Cup Test to the next whether we were going to

1173
01:01:55,707 --> 01:01:59,907
Speaker 3: win it or not. The late nineties and into the

1174
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Speaker 3: two thousands, where yes, there was a lot of heartbreak,

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01:02:02,947 --> 01:02:05,667
Speaker 3: of course there was. We had our hearts broken a

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01:02:05,707 --> 01:02:09,867
Speaker 3: lot by late, late tries and late kicks. I mean

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Speaker 3: John Eels in two thousand, so to ty kef who's

1178
01:02:13,747 --> 01:02:16,187
Speaker 3: late try. Matt Burke with a late try to deny

1179
01:02:16,267 --> 01:02:20,787
Speaker 3: us are winning the Bledisloe Cup. There were a lot

1180
01:02:20,787 --> 01:02:24,227
Speaker 3: of a lot of games between I want to say

1181
01:02:24,307 --> 01:02:26,667
Speaker 3: kind of nineteen a w in rugby went professional really

1182
01:02:27,107 --> 01:02:29,827
Speaker 3: from nineteen ninety six on until two thousand and three

1183
01:02:29,827 --> 01:02:31,907
Speaker 3: when it was the last time Australia had it. In

1184
01:02:31,947 --> 01:02:34,947
Speaker 3: those sort of six or seven years, the Bledislow Cup

1185
01:02:34,987 --> 01:02:38,667
Speaker 3: Test matches were absolutely the highlight of the rugby year

1186
01:02:40,147 --> 01:02:42,547
Speaker 3: and you did not know from one game to the

1187
01:02:42,587 --> 01:02:45,547
Speaker 3: next home or away who was going to win each

1188
01:02:45,547 --> 01:02:47,427
Speaker 3: of those games. I want to get back to that.

1189
01:02:48,347 --> 01:02:50,867
Speaker 3: And if you look at Super Rugby this year, you

1190
01:02:50,987 --> 01:02:53,187
Speaker 3: have to say there must be a lot more optimism

1191
01:02:53,747 --> 01:02:57,507
Speaker 3: around Wallaby's rugby circles than there has been previously. Now

1192
01:02:57,547 --> 01:02:59,467
Speaker 3: all they have to do is find a permanent coach.

1193
01:03:00,947 --> 01:03:04,867
Speaker 3: Joe Schmidt obviously has committed to the Lions Tour and

1194
01:03:04,907 --> 01:03:07,827
Speaker 3: now the Rugby Championship. But I've heard nothing you might

1195
01:03:07,867 --> 01:03:13,507
Speaker 3: have on on an appointment of a permanent coach anywhere

1196
01:03:13,507 --> 01:03:15,867
Speaker 3: in our future. Les Kiss seems to be the man.

1197
01:03:17,267 --> 01:03:20,307
Speaker 3: Kiss is the name on everyone's lips, not to put

1198
01:03:20,307 --> 01:03:22,227
Speaker 3: too much of a pun on it, but he seems

1199
01:03:22,267 --> 01:03:24,987
Speaker 3: to be the one, doesn't he. But at some stags

1200
01:03:25,027 --> 01:03:27,027
Speaker 3: they're probably gonna have to make that official. Maybe there

1201
01:03:27,067 --> 01:03:29,747
Speaker 3: is no hurry, Maybe they just get the Lions Tour

1202
01:03:29,787 --> 01:03:32,707
Speaker 3: and the Rugby Championship out of the way first. The Highlanders.

1203
01:03:32,787 --> 01:03:35,907
Speaker 3: They've snapped a four game losing streak beating the Fiji

1204
01:03:35,947 --> 01:03:39,387
Speaker 3: and drew a forty three to twenty in Dunedin, climbing

1205
01:03:39,467 --> 01:03:41,387
Speaker 3: up to seventh on the Super Rugby Ladder.

1206
01:03:41,707 --> 01:03:43,947
Speaker 19: Sam Gilbert gets a head of steam up goes right

1207
01:03:43,987 --> 01:03:46,587
Speaker 19: to ruta by the Buki did because the little goostep

1208
01:03:46,667 --> 01:03:49,067
Speaker 19: beckinsy Gilbert Gilbert, I'll get the.

1209
01:03:49,067 --> 01:03:51,587
Speaker 20: Try of the Highland. I'll finish this one with a

1210
01:03:51,627 --> 01:03:56,547
Speaker 20: try behind the post underneath the bar Sam Gilbert scores.

1211
01:03:56,307 --> 01:04:00,467
Speaker 3: And the Highland is forty three Fiji and drew a twenty.

1212
01:04:00,667 --> 01:04:03,467
Speaker 3: Let's bring in the Highlander's assistant coach, Clark Deermoty. Thanks

1213
01:04:03,467 --> 01:04:05,347
Speaker 3: for your time, Clark. Did this feel like a must

1214
01:04:05,347 --> 01:04:07,067
Speaker 3: win game the Highlanders?

1215
01:04:08,187 --> 01:04:08,347
Speaker 7: Oh?

1216
01:04:08,347 --> 01:04:10,467
Speaker 15: I think it was important for our confidence as the group.

1217
01:04:10,627 --> 01:04:13,387
Speaker 21: Well, I think we've been pretty close in every game

1218
01:04:13,467 --> 01:04:15,907
Speaker 21: so far this season, and to get into the position

1219
01:04:15,987 --> 01:04:17,667
Speaker 21: in the game where it got tied again and not

1220
01:04:17,827 --> 01:04:18,467
Speaker 21: and not let.

1221
01:04:18,347 --> 01:04:21,467
Speaker 15: It slip was important for our group.

1222
01:04:21,627 --> 01:04:24,987
Speaker 21: So obviously heading into some big derby games coming up.

1223
01:04:25,627 --> 01:04:27,427
Speaker 3: The losses in your last four games, as you say,

1224
01:04:27,427 --> 01:04:31,107
Speaker 3: we're all by single figure margins. Was there any frustration

1225
01:04:31,267 --> 01:04:33,827
Speaker 3: building that you couldn't chalk up an elusive win before

1226
01:04:33,907 --> 01:04:35,507
Speaker 3: last night.

1227
01:04:36,467 --> 01:04:36,627
Speaker 7: Oh?

1228
01:04:36,627 --> 01:04:37,747
Speaker 15: I don't know if it was frustration.

1229
01:04:37,947 --> 01:04:40,907
Speaker 21: I think it was I guess the young group we've

1230
01:04:40,907 --> 01:04:44,067
Speaker 21: got so learning how to close those games out or

1231
01:04:44,107 --> 01:04:48,107
Speaker 21: get in front of those games. We had plenty of

1232
01:04:48,147 --> 01:04:51,347
Speaker 21: opportunities in those games to be able to do that,

1233
01:04:51,467 --> 01:04:54,187
Speaker 21: but we just end up overplaying. And last night it

1234
01:04:54,227 --> 01:04:56,067
Speaker 21: was pleasing to see the boys stuck to the game

1235
01:04:56,107 --> 01:04:57,547
Speaker 21: plan and we're able to finish off.

1236
01:04:57,747 --> 01:05:01,267
Speaker 3: Yeah, apart from that obviously the game plan and finishing well.

1237
01:05:01,307 --> 01:05:04,707
Speaker 3: What else was most pleasing about the performance last night

1238
01:05:04,707 --> 01:05:08,227
Speaker 3: from a coaching group point of view, I think.

1239
01:05:08,267 --> 01:05:10,867
Speaker 15: Well, getting you know, sort of four or five.

1240
01:05:10,667 --> 01:05:13,107
Speaker 21: Boys back in the team that have been out for

1241
01:05:13,187 --> 01:05:15,907
Speaker 21: a long time, and they all added as well. So

1242
01:05:15,947 --> 01:05:19,547
Speaker 21: we had Olie Hague played eighty minutes, so that you're renting,

1243
01:05:20,227 --> 01:05:23,107
Speaker 21: they were big shifts from those boys. Having their experience

1244
01:05:23,147 --> 01:05:26,747
Speaker 21: back in that pack is really important. Phillour came on,

1245
01:05:27,027 --> 01:05:31,187
Speaker 21: had a good game, cam miller, Jacob Ratum, Tavuku Nikins

1246
01:05:31,187 --> 01:05:35,227
Speaker 21: as well, So it's pleasing for the squad go to

1247
01:05:35,667 --> 01:05:38,347
Speaker 21: have a competition of those spots going forward.

1248
01:05:38,467 --> 01:05:38,627
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1249
01:05:38,627 --> 01:05:39,827
Speaker 3: I want to ask you about a couple of those

1250
01:05:39,827 --> 01:05:41,587
Speaker 3: players in a moment, but just on the game. You

1251
01:05:41,747 --> 01:05:45,187
Speaker 3: led at halftime, then twenty four to eight after forty

1252
01:05:45,227 --> 01:05:47,507
Speaker 3: six minutes they closed it up. Did you let things

1253
01:05:47,547 --> 01:05:49,907
Speaker 3: get a little loose from the first ten to twelve

1254
01:05:49,947 --> 01:05:52,027
Speaker 3: minutes of the second half almost played into the hands

1255
01:05:52,027 --> 01:05:52,987
Speaker 3: of the drawer a little bit.

1256
01:05:54,507 --> 01:05:57,947
Speaker 21: Yeah, I think so. I think when you have a

1257
01:05:58,027 --> 01:06:00,587
Speaker 21: kicking game, if you're not accurate around that first couple

1258
01:06:00,587 --> 01:06:03,627
Speaker 21: of tackles, they allow, you know, allowed them to get

1259
01:06:03,667 --> 01:06:07,147
Speaker 21: those offloads in. That's their game and they're breat dangerous

1260
01:06:07,147 --> 01:06:08,987
Speaker 21: when that gets going, So that gave him a lot

1261
01:06:08,987 --> 01:06:11,867
Speaker 21: of energy, and like I said before, it's pleasing to

1262
01:06:11,867 --> 01:06:15,227
Speaker 21: be able to get those back in front and then

1263
01:06:15,347 --> 01:06:16,227
Speaker 21: double to put them away.

1264
01:06:16,307 --> 01:06:18,747
Speaker 15: So that's an area of growth for the team.

1265
01:06:18,867 --> 01:06:21,907
Speaker 3: Yeah, the bench impact was terrific, wasn't it. Nineteen unuanced

1266
01:06:21,947 --> 01:06:24,707
Speaker 3: points in the last twenty minutes, three tries all to

1267
01:06:24,747 --> 01:06:27,787
Speaker 3: your bench players. You're getting good value out of your

1268
01:06:27,787 --> 01:06:29,987
Speaker 3: full twenty three. Well you did last night.

1269
01:06:31,227 --> 01:06:31,507
Speaker 15: Yeah.

1270
01:06:31,627 --> 01:06:35,387
Speaker 21: Yeah, and again I think it's seving guys coming on

1271
01:06:35,547 --> 01:06:38,707
Speaker 21: that have been playing a lot of rugby and being

1272
01:06:38,707 --> 01:06:41,227
Speaker 21: able to start those boys that haven't had a lot

1273
01:06:41,307 --> 01:06:44,467
Speaker 21: of minutes. I think it's allowed the group to freshen

1274
01:06:44,547 --> 01:06:46,947
Speaker 21: up a bit, as I was so hopefully that competition

1275
01:06:47,067 --> 01:06:49,347
Speaker 21: the squad carries us through the season.

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01:06:49,587 --> 01:06:52,227
Speaker 3: The return of fall back Jacob up to make Tavuki Nipkins,

1277
01:06:52,267 --> 01:06:54,587
Speaker 3: as you mentioned his first appearance in twenty twenty five

1278
01:06:54,627 --> 01:06:56,987
Speaker 3: off the back of that nick injury he suffered, played

1279
01:06:56,987 --> 01:07:00,307
Speaker 3: a hand in three tries, pulled off a crucial intercept

1280
01:07:00,707 --> 01:07:03,067
Speaker 3: which led to a change in momentum in the second half.

1281
01:07:03,387 --> 01:07:04,787
Speaker 3: How big is it having him back?

1282
01:07:06,587 --> 01:07:09,427
Speaker 21: Yeah, I know he's great for the group, and as

1283
01:07:09,667 --> 01:07:12,307
Speaker 21: horrific as his injury was, he's been pretty positive throughout

1284
01:07:12,347 --> 01:07:15,947
Speaker 21: the whole rehead process. So he's been missed the group

1285
01:07:16,027 --> 01:07:19,827
Speaker 21: since Christmas time, so everyone's seen the progress he's been making,

1286
01:07:19,907 --> 01:07:22,507
Speaker 21: and you know he's already driven to get back and

1287
01:07:22,547 --> 01:07:24,667
Speaker 21: that sort of I guess that inspires.

1288
01:07:24,187 --> 01:07:26,667
Speaker 15: The group around him as well to see how motivated

1289
01:07:26,667 --> 01:07:27,867
Speaker 15: he is and then to.

1290
01:07:27,827 --> 01:07:29,707
Speaker 21: Be able to get back and do what he did

1291
01:07:29,747 --> 01:07:31,707
Speaker 21: last night was hugely impressive.

1292
01:07:31,947 --> 01:07:34,267
Speaker 3: Another one of your leaders, co captain Hughrenton, you mentioned

1293
01:07:34,347 --> 01:07:36,667
Speaker 3: him as well, got eighty minutes out of him. He's

1294
01:07:36,667 --> 01:07:40,067
Speaker 3: missed the last five games. How big is he t

1295
01:07:40,187 --> 01:07:40,867
Speaker 3: your playing group?

1296
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Speaker 15: Yeah?

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Speaker 21: I think having a young team as we have the

1298
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Speaker 21: leadership and I guess the calmness he brings to the

1299
01:07:48,627 --> 01:07:52,587
Speaker 21: group has been missed and I think this probably plays

1300
01:07:52,587 --> 01:07:54,507
Speaker 21: a part in the and what we just talked about

1301
01:07:54,507 --> 01:07:57,347
Speaker 21: around being close in games and not being able to

1302
01:07:57,347 --> 01:07:59,947
Speaker 21: get in front. So I know he had a big

1303
01:08:00,107 --> 01:08:03,507
Speaker 21: influence with Jim last night on the group around when

1304
01:08:03,507 --> 01:08:05,547
Speaker 21: it started getting tight in the messaging they were giving

1305
01:08:05,587 --> 01:08:06,947
Speaker 21: the boys and.

1306
01:08:06,987 --> 01:08:09,107
Speaker 3: At the other end of the experienced scale Tana Yella

1307
01:08:09,147 --> 01:08:12,027
Speaker 3: for in the morning on Super Rugby debut, a couple

1308
01:08:12,027 --> 01:08:15,467
Speaker 3: of tries in twelve minutes, including one with his first touch.

1309
01:08:15,467 --> 01:08:17,667
Speaker 3: He must be thinking this Super Rugby business is easy.

1310
01:08:19,027 --> 01:08:23,027
Speaker 21: Yeah, I reckon. I guess that's his job to take

1311
01:08:23,067 --> 01:08:27,827
Speaker 21: those opportunities. And he outside of the tries he scored off,

1312
01:08:27,627 --> 01:08:29,347
Speaker 21: he chase, kicked and got in the air and put

1313
01:08:29,387 --> 01:08:30,507
Speaker 21: pressure and that.

1314
01:08:30,467 --> 01:08:31,787
Speaker 15: Was that was all he asked of him.

1315
01:08:31,827 --> 01:08:34,867
Speaker 21: So I think that was just a bonus for him

1316
01:08:34,907 --> 01:08:36,907
Speaker 21: to be able to grab a couple of tries, but

1317
01:08:37,227 --> 01:08:38,267
Speaker 21: hopefully keeps doing it.

1318
01:08:38,467 --> 01:08:42,387
Speaker 3: Set peace. You happy enough with that, Clark, You're.

1319
01:08:42,187 --> 01:08:42,667
Speaker 15: Not too bad.

1320
01:08:42,707 --> 01:08:44,867
Speaker 21: I've we've got a wee bit clunky there at the start.

1321
01:08:44,947 --> 01:08:49,067
Speaker 21: I think we had some new combinations playing, so once

1322
01:08:49,067 --> 01:08:51,667
Speaker 21: he got into the game, we're able to get them

1323
01:08:51,707 --> 01:08:55,947
Speaker 21: all going and used it to sort of close the

1324
01:08:55,947 --> 01:08:57,947
Speaker 21: game out towards the end, which was which was cool

1325
01:08:57,987 --> 01:08:58,627
Speaker 21: to see as well.

1326
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Speaker 3: You got pretty tough running, haven't you. Six New Zealand

1327
01:09:01,987 --> 01:09:08,307
Speaker 3: Derbies in your last six matches, Chiefs Cruise, Pacific, Hurricanes,

1328
01:09:08,347 --> 01:09:12,867
Speaker 3: Crusaders again and Chiefs again. It's it's a pretty tough

1329
01:09:12,947 --> 01:09:15,427
Speaker 3: running you God, How will you approach that challenge.

1330
01:09:16,787 --> 01:09:20,267
Speaker 21: I think game at a time. I think we've sort

1331
01:09:20,267 --> 01:09:23,387
Speaker 21: of proven that in this season we've been at a

1332
01:09:23,387 --> 01:09:26,187
Speaker 21: game that's been able to test anyone. So I think

1333
01:09:26,187 --> 01:09:29,387
Speaker 21: it's focusing on that and then making sure that now

1334
01:09:29,427 --> 01:09:32,587
Speaker 21: we've got that, the boys back in the squad and

1335
01:09:32,627 --> 01:09:37,347
Speaker 21: having a pretty competitive squad across the group is using

1336
01:09:37,387 --> 01:09:40,867
Speaker 21: it wisely, and you're taking each games at a time

1337
01:09:40,907 --> 01:09:42,587
Speaker 21: and starting for the Chiefs this week.

1338
01:09:42,707 --> 01:09:44,667
Speaker 3: Do you think last night might become something of a

1339
01:09:45,107 --> 01:09:47,947
Speaker 3: blueprint for you, you know, a market that you can

1340
01:09:47,987 --> 01:09:50,507
Speaker 3: refer back to over the next six weeks and say

1341
01:09:50,547 --> 01:09:52,707
Speaker 3: that's that's how we want to play.

1342
01:09:53,987 --> 01:09:54,547
Speaker 15: No, I think so.

1343
01:09:54,587 --> 01:09:59,747
Speaker 21: I think obviously different opposition coming up. Fijian draw a player,

1344
01:09:59,827 --> 01:10:02,667
Speaker 21: different style what the Chiefs do, so we'll have to

1345
01:10:02,667 --> 01:10:05,707
Speaker 21: tweak the game plan a week, but it'll be I

1346
01:10:05,707 --> 01:10:07,827
Speaker 21: think it's a bit of a shot in the arm

1347
01:10:07,867 --> 01:10:11,947
Speaker 21: for the boys around being able to finish things and

1348
01:10:12,147 --> 01:10:13,787
Speaker 21: being able to execute in the twenty two and that

1349
01:10:13,827 --> 01:10:16,747
Speaker 21: sort of stuff at that Wendy games in any game

1350
01:10:16,787 --> 01:10:17,267
Speaker 21: of rugby.

1351
01:10:17,307 --> 01:10:20,867
Speaker 15: So yeah, that's gonna be a good challenge. Well, I

1352
01:10:20,947 --> 01:10:22,147
Speaker 15: know the boys are up for it.

1353
01:10:22,267 --> 01:10:23,867
Speaker 3: Do you feel like a top six side.

1354
01:10:26,227 --> 01:10:28,067
Speaker 15: Well, i'd like to think so. I think.

1355
01:10:29,347 --> 01:10:31,507
Speaker 21: So we got there last year and I feel like

1356
01:10:31,547 --> 01:10:34,147
Speaker 21: we're a better team this year. I think we're playing

1357
01:10:34,147 --> 01:10:38,907
Speaker 21: a better style and playing better rugby. But like I said,

1358
01:10:38,907 --> 01:10:41,467
Speaker 21: we just dropped a couple of games that potentially sort

1359
01:10:41,507 --> 01:10:42,987
Speaker 21: of put a few more points up.

1360
01:10:43,027 --> 01:10:45,627
Speaker 3: The good crowd last night again always seems loud down

1361
01:10:45,667 --> 01:10:47,547
Speaker 3: there under the roof another good crowd for you.

1362
01:10:49,867 --> 01:10:52,267
Speaker 21: Yeah, yeah, it was pretty loud and that sort of

1363
01:10:52,267 --> 01:10:54,587
Speaker 21: paid apart in a couple of the botch ups in

1364
01:10:54,627 --> 01:10:56,267
Speaker 21: the line out the boys that it was pretty loud,

1365
01:10:56,347 --> 01:10:59,427
Speaker 21: but it was the same as last year. The Fijian

1366
01:10:59,467 --> 01:11:03,787
Speaker 21: community came out in full force and supporting their team

1367
01:11:03,827 --> 01:11:04,507
Speaker 21: and our team and.

1368
01:11:06,587 --> 01:11:09,867
Speaker 15: It was a pretty loud crowd which was cool to see.

1369
01:11:10,027 --> 01:11:12,427
Speaker 3: Yep, good occasion for you. Congrats on the win last night, Clark,

1370
01:11:12,467 --> 01:11:15,547
Speaker 3: all the best as you planned for a big game

1371
01:11:15,547 --> 01:11:17,307
Speaker 3: against the Chiefs this week and then on towards the

1372
01:11:17,387 --> 01:11:19,427
Speaker 3: end of the regular season. Appreciate you taking them time

1373
01:11:19,427 --> 01:11:22,707
Speaker 3: for a chat mate. No thank you, no thank you, Clark.

1374
01:11:22,747 --> 01:11:25,067
Speaker 3: Clark Deermody, their assistant coach of the Heighlanders after they

1375
01:11:25,067 --> 01:11:28,147
Speaker 3: went over the drawer last night, under the roof four right.

1376
01:11:28,507 --> 01:11:31,267
Speaker 3: Just updating you from Topaul Brodi Kisteki has held onto

1377
01:11:31,307 --> 01:11:34,387
Speaker 3: pole position for this afternoon's third Supercars race after recording

1378
01:11:34,547 --> 01:11:37,547
Speaker 3: the fastest time in the top ten shootout. He pipped

1379
01:11:37,587 --> 01:11:41,667
Speaker 3: compatriot Anton depasqually, with Kiwi Ryan Wood set to start

1380
01:11:41,707 --> 01:11:44,427
Speaker 3: from third on the grid. The other kiwis Matt Payne

1381
01:11:44,587 --> 01:11:49,627
Speaker 3: and Andre Heimgartner qualified sixth and eighth respectively. The sixty

1382
01:11:49,707 --> 01:11:52,907
Speaker 3: one lapper goes at five pass three this afternoon. Just

1383
01:11:52,987 --> 01:11:55,787
Speaker 3: after our two o'clock news, we'll have Mark Scaife on

1384
01:11:55,827 --> 01:11:58,547
Speaker 3: the show. He's there in topor as a motorsport commentator,

1385
01:11:58,867 --> 01:12:02,267
Speaker 3: five times Supercars champion. Of course, he's won bathtist six times.

1386
01:12:02,307 --> 01:12:04,787
Speaker 3: He knows his why around a supercar. I can tell

1387
01:12:04,827 --> 01:12:06,307
Speaker 3: you that he's going to join us after two o'clock.

1388
01:12:06,467 --> 01:12:09,067
Speaker 3: Next up, though our regular catch up on a Sunday

1389
01:12:09,107 --> 01:12:11,787
Speaker 3: with James mconey. He's next on Weekend.

1390
01:12:11,427 --> 01:12:17,267
Speaker 1: Sport, The Big Issues on and After Fields Call eighty

1391
01:12:17,347 --> 01:12:19,707
Speaker 1: ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason.

1392
01:12:19,387 --> 01:12:20,467
Speaker 2: Paine and GJ.

1393
01:12:20,587 --> 01:12:24,147
Speaker 1: Gunnerhomes New Zealand's most trusted home builder News Talk to.

1394
01:12:24,227 --> 01:12:27,267
Speaker 3: Baby seventeen to two on a Sunday afternoon. We always

1395
01:12:27,267 --> 01:12:29,347
Speaker 3: get the pleasure of the company of James mcconey.

1396
01:12:29,347 --> 01:12:32,867
Speaker 10: Hello, mate, how are you Poney. Great to be on

1397
01:12:32,907 --> 01:12:33,787
Speaker 10: the show once again.

1398
01:12:34,267 --> 01:12:37,027
Speaker 3: Great have you on the show considering the fact this

1399
01:12:37,107 --> 01:12:39,307
Speaker 3: is your regular flot it has been for some time.

1400
01:12:40,147 --> 01:12:42,307
Speaker 3: It's good to have you with us as always. He

1401
01:12:42,387 --> 01:12:44,387
Speaker 3: have you been watching the golf at Augusta?

1402
01:12:45,547 --> 01:12:49,067
Speaker 10: I have the masters. I mean, look at the boiler

1403
01:12:49,187 --> 01:12:53,267
Speaker 10: suits worn by the caddies, the flowers, the patrons that

1404
01:12:53,467 --> 01:12:57,947
Speaker 10: allowed cell phones, the history. It's just incredible. And now

1405
01:12:58,347 --> 01:13:02,707
Speaker 10: the matchup between Rory mclroy and bryceon the Shambo, it's

1406
01:13:02,747 --> 01:13:03,747
Speaker 10: all set up, Pony.

1407
01:13:04,107 --> 01:13:06,627
Speaker 3: Ye're going to be box office, isn't it. Do you

1408
01:13:06,627 --> 01:13:10,427
Speaker 3: get the feeling that the vast majority of people want

1409
01:13:10,507 --> 01:13:11,627
Speaker 3: Rory McElroy to win.

1410
01:13:12,787 --> 01:13:13,467
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think so.

1411
01:13:14,347 --> 01:13:17,027
Speaker 10: He made a little sneaky tour trip to New Zealand

1412
01:13:17,067 --> 01:13:21,627
Speaker 10: over the summer. Rory a small fella. He's a wee man,

1413
01:13:21,747 --> 01:13:25,347
Speaker 10: slight man against the Chambeau with all his big muscles

1414
01:13:25,427 --> 01:13:28,587
Speaker 10: and big energy, and he's kind of a, you know,

1415
01:13:29,507 --> 01:13:33,307
Speaker 10: the new poster child of American golf, you know, and

1416
01:13:33,427 --> 01:13:37,867
Speaker 10: with his weird cutting style. But I think for Rory McLaury.

1417
01:13:37,907 --> 01:13:40,387
Speaker 10: It's all about the career Grand Slam, which is where

1418
01:13:40,387 --> 01:13:43,067
Speaker 10: you've got to win all four, not in the same year.

1419
01:13:43,147 --> 01:13:45,187
Speaker 10: No one's really done that. I think Tiger had a

1420
01:13:45,187 --> 01:13:48,267
Speaker 10: Tiger Slam where he held them all at the same time,

1421
01:13:48,307 --> 01:13:50,507
Speaker 10: but we didn't win them all in the same calendar year.

1422
01:13:50,627 --> 01:13:53,707
Speaker 10: So yeah, Rory's got he needs the masters to complete

1423
01:13:53,747 --> 01:13:57,987
Speaker 10: the set, and he really after an underwhelming first round,

1424
01:13:58,107 --> 01:14:01,267
Speaker 10: he's been brilliant. There was a couple of moments there

1425
01:14:01,107 --> 01:14:05,227
Speaker 10: that you would have seen the eagle, but it's really

1426
01:14:05,267 --> 01:14:09,587
Speaker 10: set up by did Shambo's part fifteen meters forty eight

1427
01:14:09,627 --> 01:14:13,507
Speaker 10: feet in the American terms, fifteen meters off the sort

1428
01:14:13,547 --> 01:14:16,467
Speaker 10: of the apron of the green on the eighteenth that

1429
01:14:16,627 --> 01:14:19,547
Speaker 10: cut the lead to two. That is pure drama in

1430
01:14:19,627 --> 01:14:23,587
Speaker 10: theater and it makes it so mouth ordering for tomorrow

1431
01:14:23,907 --> 01:14:24,227
Speaker 10: it does.

1432
01:14:24,307 --> 01:14:26,027
Speaker 3: Yeah for the neutral You're so right because Bryston d

1433
01:14:26,107 --> 01:14:28,787
Speaker 3: chambou what he picked up three shots on his last

1434
01:14:28,787 --> 01:14:31,787
Speaker 3: four holes, didn't He birdied fifteen, sixteen, and then as

1435
01:14:31,787 --> 01:14:34,347
Speaker 3: you said, he burnied eighteen as well. I think if

1436
01:14:34,347 --> 01:14:38,187
Speaker 3: he'd been say four or five shots back, that may

1437
01:14:38,227 --> 01:14:40,347
Speaker 3: well have been too much to make up two shots,

1438
01:14:40,347 --> 01:14:42,867
Speaker 3: though it doesn't seem like a lot, does.

1439
01:14:42,747 --> 01:14:46,107
Speaker 10: It, No, and they appear together. It's perfect.

1440
01:14:46,147 --> 01:14:47,267
Speaker 13: You actually need that.

1441
01:14:47,307 --> 01:14:49,907
Speaker 10: Really, you need something like that on the final day

1442
01:14:50,547 --> 01:14:52,907
Speaker 10: with somebody breathing down Rory's neck, and they will make

1443
01:14:52,947 --> 01:14:55,667
Speaker 10: it all the more sweeter if he gets it. I

1444
01:14:55,667 --> 01:14:57,547
Speaker 10: don't know if Donald Trump's turning up, but he is

1445
01:14:57,627 --> 01:15:02,027
Speaker 10: mates with the Shambo, but Rory famously he has played

1446
01:15:02,067 --> 01:15:05,267
Speaker 10: with come before, but after COVID he thought Trump was

1447
01:15:05,307 --> 01:15:08,947
Speaker 10: such an idiot just decline to play with him now,

1448
01:15:08,987 --> 01:15:10,947
Speaker 10: So it would be quite awkward to see if he

1449
01:15:11,067 --> 01:15:13,547
Speaker 10: won and Trump was there and how he had react

1450
01:15:14,467 --> 01:15:16,107
Speaker 10: because I think even when he was picking, and when

1451
01:15:16,227 --> 01:15:20,627
Speaker 10: he deliberately ignored Rory McClory in his form coming into it,

1452
01:15:21,027 --> 01:15:23,627
Speaker 10: even after he had the incredible second round, Trump was

1453
01:15:23,667 --> 01:15:26,347
Speaker 10: picking anybody else because of the snap.

1454
01:15:27,267 --> 01:15:30,227
Speaker 3: Anyone got Rory all right? Tomorrow We'll watch with interest

1455
01:15:30,307 --> 01:15:32,427
Speaker 3: McElroy and d Chambau battling it out on the final

1456
01:15:32,507 --> 01:15:35,187
Speaker 3: day at Augusta. Hey, who do you reckon our Super

1457
01:15:35,227 --> 01:15:39,947
Speaker 3: Rugby favorites? Everyone's played eight games now, who are favorites?

1458
01:15:41,027 --> 01:15:44,067
Speaker 10: I think the Crusaders are the favorites. I think they

1459
01:15:44,147 --> 01:15:47,307
Speaker 10: look to be a team that if they peak they

1460
01:15:47,347 --> 01:15:51,347
Speaker 10: have and get there, let's just say their full compliment

1461
01:15:51,467 --> 01:15:54,747
Speaker 10: of players out there, that they would look the strongest

1462
01:15:54,747 --> 01:15:58,547
Speaker 10: as well on paper. So look, they've done really you

1463
01:15:58,587 --> 01:16:03,267
Speaker 10: know more, Nanu at hooker filling in for Cody Taylor

1464
01:16:03,267 --> 01:16:07,027
Speaker 10: has been exceptional, and I think takem that has had

1465
01:16:07,027 --> 01:16:10,787
Speaker 10: that turning point season for him running the cutter at ten.

1466
01:16:10,907 --> 01:16:13,187
Speaker 10: Any number of half back seemed to be able to

1467
01:16:13,187 --> 01:16:16,227
Speaker 10: do the job. I'm almost miss Kyle Preston now, don't

1468
01:16:16,227 --> 01:16:18,987
Speaker 10: you you know? He was so electric there for winning

1469
01:16:19,027 --> 01:16:22,107
Speaker 10: Field and for Noah Hotham. So look, I think on

1470
01:16:22,227 --> 01:16:25,547
Speaker 10: paper it's the Crusaders. Yourself, Piny, I.

1471
01:16:25,627 --> 01:16:29,187
Speaker 3: Kind of still think the Chiefs are you know, I yeah, yeah,

1472
01:16:29,227 --> 01:16:33,747
Speaker 3: I take what you're saying about the Crusaders, But I've

1473
01:16:33,827 --> 01:16:36,867
Speaker 3: sort of been saying the Chiefs all along. And look,

1474
01:16:36,907 --> 01:16:39,387
Speaker 3: I think when they play the Crusaders in about a

1475
01:16:39,427 --> 01:16:41,187
Speaker 3: month or so, we'll get a pretty good gauge with

1476
01:16:41,227 --> 01:16:43,987
Speaker 3: only a couple of games to go until the finals.

1477
01:16:44,027 --> 01:16:47,267
Speaker 3: At that point, I just still think they have the

1478
01:16:47,427 --> 01:16:50,587
Speaker 3: strongest squad. It's an odd thing to say when you

1479
01:16:50,587 --> 01:16:54,147
Speaker 3: look at the Crusaders roster, but yeah, it's still the

1480
01:16:54,227 --> 01:16:54,827
Speaker 3: Chiefs for me.

1481
01:16:55,907 --> 01:16:58,147
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I mean, obviously my love for the Chiefs

1482
01:16:58,187 --> 01:17:01,947
Speaker 10: will never die. But I was watching them against the

1483
01:17:02,187 --> 01:17:05,267
Speaker 10: Warratahs and the wheels that came off of they lacked

1484
01:17:05,267 --> 01:17:08,107
Speaker 10: a little bit of direction. Even Joseph Suerley, he did

1485
01:17:08,187 --> 01:17:10,347
Speaker 10: slap the ball down and it should have been a

1486
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Speaker 10: penalty at the end. I don't think the Chiefs really

1487
01:17:12,307 --> 01:17:14,827
Speaker 10: had many answers they have. They had twenty four phases

1488
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Speaker 10: and didn't even threaten and they were still pottering around

1489
01:17:18,347 --> 01:17:21,147
Speaker 10: out by the twenty two. And normally a team in

1490
01:17:21,227 --> 01:17:24,107
Speaker 10: position well by just by sort of being at the

1491
01:17:24,147 --> 01:17:26,707
Speaker 10: door that often will make its way to the tryline.

1492
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Speaker 10: So there's definitely things to work on for the Chiefs

1493
01:17:29,827 --> 01:17:33,507
Speaker 10: at the moment. They've got to sort things out. I mean, look,

1494
01:17:33,907 --> 01:17:36,827
Speaker 10: watching Boden Barrett run the cutter for the Blues last night,

1495
01:17:36,987 --> 01:17:40,107
Speaker 10: you can't discount them, I think, you know, I think

1496
01:17:40,147 --> 01:17:42,307
Speaker 10: we've talked about this pony, but been a team in

1497
01:17:42,347 --> 01:17:44,947
Speaker 10: a state of flux. You know, Mark Kala could be leaving.

1498
01:17:45,027 --> 01:17:48,827
Speaker 10: Sounds like he's leaving Taylor Clark probably once they have

1499
01:17:48,867 --> 01:17:51,907
Speaker 10: a sabbatical and get away from this court case. All

1500
01:17:51,947 --> 01:17:54,507
Speaker 10: those things. But then when they got it together yesterday

1501
01:17:54,627 --> 01:17:58,227
Speaker 10: and just started to boss the game, they looked imperious.

1502
01:17:58,307 --> 01:18:02,027
Speaker 10: So maybe the Blues could steak one with their nice

1503
01:18:02,227 --> 01:18:04,547
Speaker 10: you know, sort of back nine as everyone's talking about

1504
01:18:04,587 --> 01:18:07,267
Speaker 10: for them are pretty kind or to finish the round

1505
01:18:07,307 --> 01:18:08,227
Speaker 10: robin just.

1506
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Speaker 3: Before we move from super right, could could the Could

1507
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Speaker 3: the Brumbies or the Reds win it? I feel like

1508
01:18:12,707 --> 01:18:16,427
Speaker 3: they could make the final. Do you think the Brumbies

1509
01:18:16,507 --> 01:18:18,307
Speaker 3: or the Reds could win it? Because it's likely I

1510
01:18:18,347 --> 01:18:19,547
Speaker 3: guess to be away from home.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, possibly the Brumbis. I mean it's I mean, yeah,

1512
01:18:24,067 --> 01:18:26,467
Speaker 10: they could. They could, There's there's no doubt. I mean

1513
01:18:26,667 --> 01:18:29,827
Speaker 10: what the Warritars could you know if they go they

1514
01:18:30,467 --> 01:18:32,507
Speaker 10: if they played like they did last night and played

1515
01:18:32,507 --> 01:18:35,067
Speaker 10: with that sort of intensity and you watch Joseph su

1516
01:18:35,187 --> 01:18:39,947
Speaker 10: Earlie improving the whole time that they do look like

1517
01:18:39,987 --> 01:18:42,427
Speaker 10: they're a team that could beat anyone and that's probably

1518
01:18:42,467 --> 01:18:44,547
Speaker 10: the best thing about the competition. But he just the

1519
01:18:44,547 --> 01:18:47,187
Speaker 10: word as well on wine in pacifica Patrick Pellegreen. He

1520
01:18:47,187 --> 01:18:49,467
Speaker 10: has been outstanding for them at ten. Why do you

1521
01:18:49,587 --> 01:18:52,827
Speaker 10: rest your tin? I mean it's not that hard for

1522
01:18:52,907 --> 01:18:55,467
Speaker 10: first five to play minutes it's not like they're bashing

1523
01:18:55,547 --> 01:19:00,467
Speaker 10: heads against and bodies like a forward. And to rest

1524
01:19:00,507 --> 01:19:03,027
Speaker 10: them in that game yesterday just seemed a little bit

1525
01:19:03,107 --> 01:19:04,147
Speaker 10: crazy than me playing.

1526
01:19:04,467 --> 01:19:08,147
Speaker 3: Yeah, very odd decision of very odd one. I'd have

1527
01:19:08,227 --> 01:19:11,467
Speaker 3: him running the cutter basically every day he was available.

1528
01:19:11,467 --> 01:19:14,347
Speaker 3: But you know in Tana they trust. So let's see

1529
01:19:14,347 --> 01:19:16,627
Speaker 3: what happens from here on. Hey, just before we leave rugby.

1530
01:19:16,667 --> 01:19:18,547
Speaker 3: Good Opeki final? Last night, wasn't it?

1531
01:19:19,387 --> 01:19:19,507
Speaker 4: Well?

1532
01:19:19,627 --> 01:19:22,827
Speaker 10: The Opeki final? You take the three finals they've had

1533
01:19:23,387 --> 01:19:27,427
Speaker 10: have been exceptional, just all cliffhangers, nail byers. There was

1534
01:19:27,467 --> 01:19:30,547
Speaker 10: the first one, remember I think it was Tanika Willison

1535
01:19:30,627 --> 01:19:33,987
Speaker 10: needed a regulation penalty to win it and duffed the

1536
01:19:33,987 --> 01:19:36,387
Speaker 10: shot and that went to Marta tu Last year the

1537
01:19:36,387 --> 01:19:40,387
Speaker 10: Blues got up again. These are all one one score victory,

1538
01:19:40,507 --> 01:19:44,507
Speaker 10: they're all basically within touching distance, and last night the

1539
01:19:44,507 --> 01:19:47,427
Speaker 10: Blues they looked they were like they were going to

1540
01:19:47,467 --> 01:19:50,427
Speaker 10: lose this one. Marty two had all the possession, banging

1541
01:19:50,507 --> 01:19:54,947
Speaker 10: on the door and then the incredible intercept and long

1542
01:19:55,027 --> 01:19:59,187
Speaker 10: range try from Braxton, Sorenson and McGee. Remember the name

1543
01:19:59,627 --> 01:20:03,547
Speaker 10: the young Blues fallback eighteen years old. But also the

1544
01:20:03,587 --> 01:20:05,947
Speaker 10: Blues using a tactic that I think the male players

1545
01:20:06,467 --> 01:20:10,267
Speaker 10: so latching onto, which is when players are trying to

1546
01:20:10,467 --> 01:20:12,987
Speaker 10: go for the line, they were dragging them into the

1547
01:20:13,027 --> 01:20:16,307
Speaker 10: dead ball area, into the goal and holding them up,

1548
01:20:16,627 --> 01:20:18,907
Speaker 10: you know, like a sort of Koala bear tackle if

1549
01:20:18,947 --> 01:20:21,307
Speaker 10: you like, you know, you just dragging them in. Of course,

1550
01:20:21,347 --> 01:20:23,987
Speaker 10: what the result now isn't a five minute scrub, It's

1551
01:20:24,027 --> 01:20:27,267
Speaker 10: a dropout from the line. So I just find the

1552
01:20:27,427 --> 01:20:30,507
Speaker 10: women's game. They quick to innovate, and yeah, it was

1553
01:20:30,627 --> 01:20:32,107
Speaker 10: just an incredible final.

1554
01:20:32,667 --> 01:20:35,227
Speaker 3: Let's finish with the NRL where the table looks like

1555
01:20:35,267 --> 01:20:37,467
Speaker 3: it's upside down. Well not with the Eels, but the

1556
01:20:37,507 --> 01:20:42,027
Speaker 3: Panthers are sixteen of seventeen teams one win from their

1557
01:20:42,067 --> 01:20:43,067
Speaker 3: first six matches.

1558
01:20:43,827 --> 01:20:47,467
Speaker 10: Yeah, the only team not to win in Australia. It's

1559
01:20:47,467 --> 01:20:49,267
Speaker 10: the only team not to win in the Southern Hemisphere.

1560
01:20:49,307 --> 01:20:52,827
Speaker 10: I mean, this is crazy to see, but I guess

1561
01:20:52,867 --> 01:20:56,627
Speaker 10: they do get picked off. Every year a star will leave,

1562
01:20:57,227 --> 01:21:00,147
Speaker 10: so we all know them kick our criton. They all

1563
01:21:00,187 --> 01:21:04,627
Speaker 10: go Louis the latest, and of course we've got James Fisherharis.

1564
01:21:04,627 --> 01:21:07,787
Speaker 10: So I think five and clear, who is really a

1565
01:21:07,827 --> 01:21:10,147
Speaker 10: modern day super touch. It's just been a step too far.

1566
01:21:10,587 --> 01:21:14,027
Speaker 10: But I'm noticing Nathan Cleary just as in himself, and

1567
01:21:14,107 --> 01:21:17,147
Speaker 10: I think it's because of love pony. I think he

1568
01:21:17,267 --> 01:21:20,507
Speaker 10: is in love, of course with Matilda striker Mary Fowler,

1569
01:21:20,787 --> 01:21:24,387
Speaker 10: who plays from Manchester City, and I think Nathan should

1570
01:21:24,427 --> 01:21:26,227
Speaker 10: just go and be with the one who loves. Just

1571
01:21:26,267 --> 01:21:29,227
Speaker 10: go to Manchester. There are rugby league clubs up there,

1572
01:21:29,907 --> 01:21:35,747
Speaker 10: plenty of them along that the sixty two, the motorway

1573
01:21:35,787 --> 01:21:39,867
Speaker 10: between Leeds and Manchester. Anyway, just go and be with

1574
01:21:39,987 --> 01:21:42,467
Speaker 10: Mary because it's not working out here with Penritt. And

1575
01:21:42,507 --> 01:21:44,427
Speaker 10: you've done all you can. You've won three in a row,

1576
01:21:44,827 --> 01:21:46,547
Speaker 10: and I think at some point you've got to do

1577
01:21:46,587 --> 01:21:47,547
Speaker 10: things for love Pony.

1578
01:21:48,067 --> 01:21:51,507
Speaker 3: Sporting Insight and romantic advice. We get it all with you,

1579
01:21:51,667 --> 01:21:54,787
Speaker 3: James Dooke. We are on a Sunday thanks a few.

1580
01:21:56,187 --> 01:21:57,387
Speaker 10: Advice, will you.

1581
01:21:58,147 --> 01:22:02,067
Speaker 3: I'm sure you'll get plenty. You will get plenty. James

1582
01:22:02,107 --> 01:22:04,707
Speaker 3: mccony part of our Sunday seventy two new Stalk.

1583
01:22:04,427 --> 01:22:09,187
Speaker 1: Sib Adilazing every review from every angle in the Sporting World.

1584
01:22:09,307 --> 01:22:12,907
Speaker 1: Weekend Sport with Jason Paine Call eight hundred and eighty

1585
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Speaker 1: eight US Talks eNB four.

1586
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Speaker 3: To two News next to two o'clock, then into the

1587
01:22:17,307 --> 01:22:19,747
Speaker 3: last hour of Weekend Sport for today. We start in

1588
01:22:19,747 --> 01:22:21,907
Speaker 3: topal with Mark Scaife as we'll look ahead to the

1589
01:22:21,947 --> 01:22:24,747
Speaker 3: sixty one lap of this afternoon Brodie Kistiki going to

1590
01:22:24,787 --> 01:22:27,947
Speaker 3: start on pole Ryan with the best of the kiwis

1591
01:22:27,987 --> 01:22:30,667
Speaker 3: in third on the grid. Mark Scafe going to preview

1592
01:22:30,747 --> 01:22:33,907
Speaker 3: that for us. We'll cover off the Super Rugby OPIKI

1593
01:22:34,027 --> 01:22:37,987
Speaker 3: final with victorious Blues coach Willie Walker. Aaron Clark as

1594
01:22:38,027 --> 01:22:40,427
Speaker 3: well out of the Warriors as they look to win

1595
01:22:40,507 --> 01:22:42,507
Speaker 3: four in a row, beat the Storm for the first

1596
01:22:42,507 --> 01:22:46,427
Speaker 3: time in sixteen attempts and it's his one hundredth RL match.

1597
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Speaker 1: The only place to discuss the biggest sports issues on

1598
01:22:51,467 --> 01:22:54,707
Speaker 1: and after fields, It's all on Weekend.

1599
01:22:54,387 --> 01:22:58,947
Speaker 2: Ford with Jason Paine on your home of Sport in.

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01:22:58,987 --> 01:23:02,827
Speaker 3: New York, eNB two o seven. Welcome back into the

1601
01:23:02,867 --> 01:23:05,427
Speaker 3: show and our left of Weekend Sport for today. Then

1602
01:23:05,467 --> 01:23:08,347
Speaker 3: the Weekend Collect takes over the Sunday edition hosted by

1603
01:23:08,747 --> 01:23:11,507
Speaker 3: Tim Beveridge, set to go from three o'clock this afternoon.

1604
01:23:11,507 --> 01:23:13,827
Speaker 3: Lots to get through though before we can hand over.

1605
01:23:13,947 --> 01:23:18,267
Speaker 3: Aaron Clark will this afternoon play his one hundredth NRL match,

1606
01:23:18,627 --> 01:23:20,947
Speaker 3: the majority of those, of course for the Gold Coast Titans.

1607
01:23:20,947 --> 01:23:23,587
Speaker 3: But back at the Warriors now, where, ironically enough, he

1608
01:23:23,627 --> 01:23:27,627
Speaker 3: played his very first NRL match, just the one that

1609
01:23:27,947 --> 01:23:31,187
Speaker 3: this afternoon he'll be a big part of the Warrior's side,

1610
01:23:31,187 --> 01:23:33,747
Speaker 3: looking to win a fourth straight match and a first

1611
01:23:34,627 --> 01:23:38,907
Speaker 3: over Melbourne Storm. For goodness only knows how long sixteen

1612
01:23:39,227 --> 01:23:41,827
Speaker 3: games I think I read during the week since they

1613
01:23:41,907 --> 01:23:43,947
Speaker 3: last had to win over the Storm. So eron Clark's

1614
01:23:43,947 --> 01:23:46,187
Speaker 3: on the show in the next hour Willie walk up

1615
01:23:46,427 --> 01:23:50,747
Speaker 3: coach of the Blues opicky champion winning side. Last night

1616
01:23:51,027 --> 01:23:53,467
Speaker 3: we're off to Supercars and Topour shortly we'll cover off

1617
01:23:53,467 --> 01:23:55,147
Speaker 3: some a league as well if we get the opportunity,

1618
01:23:55,387 --> 01:23:57,387
Speaker 3: So quite a bit to get through between now and

1619
01:23:58,307 --> 01:24:01,147
Speaker 3: three o'clock. Your cause and correspondence continue to be welcome

1620
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Speaker 3: on eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two ninety

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Speaker 3: two if you would like to send a text. But

1622
01:24:06,907 --> 01:24:08,707
Speaker 3: as we always do it around about this time on

1623
01:24:08,747 --> 01:24:10,867
Speaker 3: weekend sport, let's get you up to date with some

1624
01:24:10,867 --> 01:24:13,227
Speaker 3: of the things that might have escaped your attention in

1625
01:24:13,227 --> 01:24:15,507
Speaker 3: case you missed it. Starting in the NRL, where the

1626
01:24:15,627 --> 01:24:19,707
Speaker 3: upsets continue, the Cowboys beating the rabbit. O's can you do.

1627
01:24:19,867 --> 01:24:20,827
Speaker 2: Something here on that?

1628
01:24:21,067 --> 01:24:23,947
Speaker 22: Not in the moment his tablaa on the Purdu and

1629
01:24:24,027 --> 01:24:27,627
Speaker 22: he's gotta kick that out. I'm then the Sir Sidney

1630
01:24:27,667 --> 01:24:32,427
Speaker 22: Era and the Cowboys Paistan Jackson Perdu yeses.

1631
01:24:32,147 --> 01:24:36,187
Speaker 3: Over no problems though for the Raiders putting fifty on

1632
01:24:36,267 --> 01:24:38,867
Speaker 3: the hapless Paramount Eels shut it away.

1633
01:24:38,907 --> 01:24:41,627
Speaker 20: To Chris the gregler said it that best.

1634
01:24:42,747 --> 01:24:43,947
Speaker 2: It's a thrown back to.

1635
01:24:43,987 --> 01:24:47,547
Speaker 23: The days where Ricky was the half game and there

1636
01:24:47,587 --> 01:24:50,867
Speaker 23: was and there was Belcher, and there was Clyde and

1637
01:24:50,947 --> 01:24:54,187
Speaker 23: that was dead drunku that was daily. But the Raiders

1638
01:24:54,187 --> 01:24:55,467
Speaker 23: are playing with that spirit.

1639
01:24:55,707 --> 01:24:58,107
Speaker 3: To the A League we go Wellington Phoenix that went

1640
01:24:58,147 --> 01:25:00,587
Speaker 3: down three to two to Melbourne victory, but did score

1641
01:25:00,627 --> 01:25:02,347
Speaker 3: an eye catching second goal.

1642
01:25:02,387 --> 01:25:04,827
Speaker 19: Pains off on Roun barbarous Is once at part post,

1643
01:25:05,147 --> 01:25:09,107
Speaker 19: stay to the edge for rich Hey, Paulo rich Eye

1644
01:25:09,187 --> 01:25:12,547
Speaker 19: into the top corner and it's came on in Wellington.

1645
01:25:14,507 --> 01:25:18,107
Speaker 24: Paula Ritchey give us City Phoenix.

1646
01:25:17,707 --> 01:25:22,147
Speaker 19: A foothold and sets us up for an exciting last

1647
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Speaker 19: fifteen minutes.

1648
01:25:23,187 --> 01:25:25,707
Speaker 3: Auckland FC, meantime of extended their leader at the top

1649
01:25:25,747 --> 01:25:28,187
Speaker 3: to four points coming from two nil down to draw

1650
01:25:28,307 --> 01:25:32,507
Speaker 3: two to two with Sydney FC. Sackey the strata again.

1651
01:25:32,387 --> 01:25:33,307
Speaker 2: The little one too for.

1652
01:25:33,427 --> 01:25:36,507
Speaker 23: Sakay into the area, drives it across the face of goal.

1653
01:25:37,027 --> 01:25:42,947
Speaker 23: Debreeze hits it deflected anad grow square midway through the second.

1654
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Speaker 3: Half and in the Premier League Arsenal have lost ground

1655
01:25:45,347 --> 01:25:48,267
Speaker 3: on leaders Liverpool, drawing one one with Brentford.

1656
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Speaker 20: That was Collins is the equalator top ten.

1657
01:25:52,907 --> 01:25:53,867
Speaker 2: By ye andres up.

1658
01:25:54,147 --> 01:25:57,667
Speaker 19: He's called at this up swiveling in that sight six

1659
01:25:57,787 --> 01:26:00,187
Speaker 19: yard box, uses his body really.

1660
01:25:59,947 --> 01:26:03,347
Speaker 3: Well to spend really good guided finish and Manchester City

1661
01:26:03,467 --> 01:26:06,147
Speaker 3: up to fourth, coming back from two nil down to

1662
01:26:06,187 --> 01:26:13,907
Speaker 3: be Crystal Palace five to two Droiner Pfection from to.

1663
01:26:13,907 --> 01:26:16,827
Speaker 2: Driner Manchester City.

1664
01:26:16,987 --> 01:26:24,107
Speaker 1: Petting The Voice of Sport, Home of Sport Weekend Sport.

1665
01:26:23,827 --> 01:26:25,827
Speaker 2: With Jason van News talks invY.

1666
01:26:27,147 --> 01:26:30,547
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed it is with all sorts going on here

1667
01:26:30,587 --> 01:26:33,387
Speaker 3: in terms of beds and bits and pieces, but I

1668
01:26:33,427 --> 01:26:35,547
Speaker 3: think we've got the got the size of it with

1669
01:26:35,947 --> 01:26:38,547
Speaker 3: our incasion mistic feature going to get you to topor

1670
01:26:38,867 --> 01:26:42,707
Speaker 3: very shortly. Brodie Castecki has claimed pole position for the

1671
01:26:42,747 --> 01:26:45,587
Speaker 3: Feature sixty one lap race this afternoon at the top

1672
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Speaker 3: all round of the VAT Supercars, the last runner in

1673
01:26:47,787 --> 01:26:50,267
Speaker 3: the shootout, His time of one twenty five point seven

1674
01:26:50,307 --> 01:26:53,147
Speaker 3: oh five two seconds saw him claim pole by point

1675
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Speaker 3: one sixty seven seven seconds from Antonti Pisqually, who'll join

1676
01:26:57,387 --> 01:26:58,827
Speaker 3: him on the front right of the grid. Ryan would

1677
01:26:58,867 --> 01:27:01,267
Speaker 3: the best of the kiwis in third, Fellow kiwis Matt

1678
01:27:01,307 --> 01:27:05,387
Speaker 3: Payne and Andre Heimgartner sixth and eighth respectively, five time

1679
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Speaker 3: VAT supercachichampion, six times Bathurst one thousand winner. Now motorsport

1680
01:27:09,467 --> 01:27:12,427
Speaker 3: commentator Mark scafers with us. Mark, thanks for taking time

1681
01:27:12,467 --> 01:27:15,627
Speaker 3: in a very busy schedule to join us on ZIB.

1682
01:27:15,947 --> 01:27:18,387
Speaker 3: How strong a favorite is Brodie Kosticki on the evidence

1683
01:27:18,667 --> 01:27:19,467
Speaker 3: of the top ten.

1684
01:27:19,347 --> 01:27:23,867
Speaker 25: Shootout, Well, you'd have to say he's going to be

1685
01:27:23,947 --> 01:27:26,307
Speaker 25: the man to beat starting from poll, but there's a

1686
01:27:26,307 --> 01:27:29,147
Speaker 25: fair few guys right in behind him there, So Anthon

1687
01:27:29,227 --> 01:27:33,067
Speaker 25: Deepasquali alongside young Ryan Wood starts right in behind Brody,

1688
01:27:33,187 --> 01:27:36,747
Speaker 25: so I'm sure all the kiwis will be urging Ryan

1689
01:27:36,827 --> 01:27:39,907
Speaker 25: to get down to the first corner and be able

1690
01:27:39,987 --> 01:27:43,627
Speaker 25: to be aggressive and hopefully get some reasonable track position

1691
01:27:44,427 --> 01:27:46,587
Speaker 25: through the field. Obviously, you've got Matt Pain in six

1692
01:27:47,947 --> 01:27:52,267
Speaker 25: and Heimgartner in eighth for the kiwis. But yeah, I

1693
01:27:52,307 --> 01:27:54,107
Speaker 25: think Brody's going to take a fair bit of beating.

1694
01:27:54,307 --> 01:27:56,627
Speaker 25: I mean he made an unforced area yesterday when he

1695
01:27:56,667 --> 01:27:59,707
Speaker 25: come into the pit. He crashed into the tires on

1696
01:27:59,747 --> 01:28:02,147
Speaker 25: the right hand side. It did quite a lot of

1697
01:28:02,227 --> 01:28:04,427
Speaker 25: damage he and Chas Moss. It turned on a real

1698
01:28:04,467 --> 01:28:06,307
Speaker 25: show for us yesterday with a battle.

1699
01:28:06,027 --> 01:28:06,347
Speaker 2: For the left.

1700
01:28:07,467 --> 01:28:09,947
Speaker 25: So if he can just get down to the first

1701
01:28:09,947 --> 01:28:12,387
Speaker 25: corner and stay out of trouble. Remember we've got two

1702
01:28:12,427 --> 01:28:15,587
Speaker 25: compulsory pit stops today, so there would be a bit

1703
01:28:15,587 --> 01:28:18,107
Speaker 25: more action in the pits today as well as it

1704
01:28:18,227 --> 01:28:20,227
Speaker 25: being a longer race in terms of what the tie

1705
01:28:20,267 --> 01:28:22,387
Speaker 25: does for a longer period of time.

1706
01:28:23,347 --> 01:28:25,347
Speaker 3: As you say, we'd love a good hometown result. Ryan

1707
01:28:25,547 --> 01:28:28,307
Speaker 3: just twenty one years old. How do you like Ryan?

1708
01:28:28,347 --> 01:28:29,027
Speaker 3: What's driving?

1709
01:28:30,867 --> 01:28:31,027
Speaker 4: Look?

1710
01:28:31,067 --> 01:28:33,707
Speaker 25: I think he's driving really well. Anytime that you can

1711
01:28:33,747 --> 01:28:36,867
Speaker 25: outqualify Chas Moss that you've always done a really good job.

1712
01:28:37,707 --> 01:28:40,987
Speaker 25: He's aggressive, he doesn't look what he's overawed by the occasion.

1713
01:28:41,787 --> 01:28:43,947
Speaker 25: I was impressed with him here last year in the rain.

1714
01:28:44,787 --> 01:28:47,747
Speaker 25: He continues to improve. He's a champion in the making.

1715
01:28:47,787 --> 01:28:48,187
Speaker 7: For sure.

1716
01:28:48,747 --> 01:28:51,067
Speaker 3: What have you made of the Toepoor track? Do you

1717
01:28:51,147 --> 01:28:51,707
Speaker 3: like the race track?

1718
01:28:53,587 --> 01:28:54,107
Speaker 7: I love it.

1719
01:28:54,107 --> 01:28:56,587
Speaker 25: It's really compact, it's got a really good next up,

1720
01:28:56,627 --> 01:29:00,427
Speaker 25: slow and fast corners on the racing line. It's got

1721
01:29:00,547 --> 01:29:04,147
Speaker 25: thirty different surfaces, so on a new tie this weekend,

1722
01:29:04,307 --> 01:29:06,307
Speaker 25: a lot of the teams have really struggled to make

1723
01:29:06,427 --> 01:29:09,187
Speaker 25: the car nice on the new surface versus the old surface.

1724
01:29:09,907 --> 01:29:12,027
Speaker 25: And it's the same for everybody. I mean it means that,

1725
01:29:12,467 --> 01:29:14,187
Speaker 25: you know, everyone's got to deal with the same thing.

1726
01:29:14,307 --> 01:29:18,227
Speaker 25: So no, I really like it. I think it's reminiscent

1727
01:29:18,307 --> 01:29:21,427
Speaker 25: of the old Oran Park in Sydney. The cars look

1728
01:29:21,467 --> 01:29:24,147
Speaker 25: and feel very similar to that. They use a lot

1729
01:29:24,147 --> 01:29:27,147
Speaker 25: of curb and the cars move around a lot, so

1730
01:29:27,187 --> 01:29:28,987
Speaker 25: the cars look fantastic.

1731
01:29:28,427 --> 01:29:29,107
Speaker 12: On this layout.

1732
01:29:29,667 --> 01:29:29,987
Speaker 7: All right.

1733
01:29:30,147 --> 01:29:32,947
Speaker 3: Just to finish word that there will be two super

1734
01:29:32,947 --> 01:29:36,227
Speaker 3: car's legs and New Zealand next year. Christ it's reportedly

1735
01:29:36,587 --> 01:29:38,667
Speaker 3: being added. Would two legs in New Zealand be a

1736
01:29:38,707 --> 01:29:40,827
Speaker 3: popular move? Do you think in Australia.

1737
01:29:41,707 --> 01:29:43,427
Speaker 25: There's been a lot of conjecture about doing this for

1738
01:29:43,427 --> 01:29:45,907
Speaker 25: a long time. There's a couple of real benefits when

1739
01:29:45,947 --> 01:29:48,067
Speaker 25: you have two races in New Zealand. You can amortize

1740
01:29:48,107 --> 01:29:52,587
Speaker 25: the costs across two events, so that makes sense commercially

1741
01:29:52,587 --> 01:29:55,867
Speaker 25: and economically. I think for New Zealand tourism it would

1742
01:29:55,867 --> 01:29:58,187
Speaker 25: be a real shot in the arm because that means

1743
01:29:58,227 --> 01:30:01,307
Speaker 25: that the length of visitations for people coming from Australia

1744
01:30:01,347 --> 01:30:04,107
Speaker 25: and around the world to come into New Zealand, they're

1745
01:30:04,147 --> 01:30:06,827
Speaker 25: in New Zealand for longer, they get to more of

1746
01:30:06,827 --> 01:30:10,187
Speaker 25: the beautiful landscape and the beautiful natural features of the country,

1747
01:30:11,027 --> 01:30:15,507
Speaker 25: and overall it gives us another event which we used

1748
01:30:15,507 --> 01:30:17,587
Speaker 25: to do too, if you remember it in the older days,

1749
01:30:17,947 --> 01:30:20,267
Speaker 25: the Nest and Noble five hundred was a race on

1750
01:30:20,307 --> 01:30:23,107
Speaker 25: the streets of Wellington and then a race up at Koe.

1751
01:30:23,347 --> 01:30:26,347
Speaker 25: So we used to spend basically a two week period

1752
01:30:26,467 --> 01:30:29,267
Speaker 25: in New Zealand and I think for everybody that's that's

1753
01:30:29,307 --> 01:30:32,187
Speaker 25: the desired outcome. Let's hope we can make it make

1754
01:30:32,227 --> 01:30:32,587
Speaker 25: it work.

1755
01:30:33,027 --> 01:30:35,027
Speaker 3: Let's say so thanks in DPA time mark and O

1756
01:30:35,067 --> 01:30:37,547
Speaker 3: you're on tight time schedule. Thanks for joining us on

1757
01:30:37,627 --> 01:30:40,907
Speaker 3: zed B Markscafe, former multiple winner of the v at

1758
01:30:40,947 --> 01:30:43,947
Speaker 3: Supercas and six time bathist. When are joining us from

1759
01:30:43,987 --> 01:30:47,147
Speaker 3: Topoi here on news Talk, said B So yeah, just

1760
01:30:47,227 --> 01:30:53,027
Speaker 3: to confirm the grid for the sixty one lap feature race.

1761
01:30:53,067 --> 01:30:57,187
Speaker 3: Brodie Castecki we'll start from pole Anton deeper squally, we'll

1762
01:30:57,267 --> 01:30:59,467
Speaker 3: join him on the front row of the grid. Ryan

1763
01:30:59,547 --> 01:31:02,147
Speaker 3: Wood the best of the Kiwi's in third, with the

1764
01:31:02,147 --> 01:31:06,987
Speaker 3: fellow New Zealanders Matt Payne sixth and Andre i'm Gardner

1765
01:31:07,147 --> 01:31:10,867
Speaker 3: eighth in the final race of the weekend in Topore.

1766
01:31:10,947 --> 01:31:14,347
Speaker 3: Sixty one laps set to go at around five past

1767
01:31:14,347 --> 01:31:18,147
Speaker 3: three this afternoon. It's just on quarter past two. The

1768
01:31:18,187 --> 01:31:20,907
Speaker 3: Warriors back in action this weekend. They meet the Storm

1769
01:31:20,947 --> 01:31:24,867
Speaker 3: in Melbourne four o'clock this afternoon. That's New Zealand time.

1770
01:31:24,987 --> 01:31:28,507
Speaker 3: It's a milestone match for Warriors middle forward Aaron Clark.

1771
01:31:28,987 --> 01:31:32,347
Speaker 3: He'll play his one hundredth NRL game and he joins

1772
01:31:32,427 --> 01:31:35,467
Speaker 3: us now. Aaron, congratulations on game number one hundred. It's

1773
01:31:35,467 --> 01:31:37,547
Speaker 3: a bit of a full circle, isn't it. Your very

1774
01:31:37,627 --> 01:31:41,347
Speaker 3: first one was for the Warriors against the Storm back

1775
01:31:41,387 --> 01:31:44,987
Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen. That was before you set off on

1776
01:31:45,027 --> 01:31:48,187
Speaker 3: your NRL adventures. So what do you remember of your

1777
01:31:48,227 --> 01:31:50,187
Speaker 3: first game in the NRAL. I think you've only got

1778
01:31:50,187 --> 01:31:51,067
Speaker 3: about six minutes.

1779
01:31:52,627 --> 01:31:56,907
Speaker 5: Not very much, mate, not very much. I just remember

1780
01:31:56,947 --> 01:31:59,107
Speaker 5: sitting in the was pissing down that day. I was

1781
01:31:59,147 --> 01:32:02,747
Speaker 5: sitting out in the rain, full of just waiting, waiting, waiting.

1782
01:32:03,667 --> 01:32:05,427
Speaker 5: But lucky enough for me. I think a lot of

1783
01:32:05,467 --> 01:32:07,707
Speaker 5: kids dream of it, whether it was six minutes or

1784
01:32:08,147 --> 01:32:11,947
Speaker 5: one minute or seventy nine minutes, you know, people dream

1785
01:32:11,947 --> 01:32:14,787
Speaker 5: of that. That's those things. And I was lucky enough

1786
01:32:14,827 --> 01:32:16,547
Speaker 5: to get a debut hea at home.

1787
01:32:17,387 --> 01:32:19,307
Speaker 3: And here you are now on the cusp of one

1788
01:32:19,387 --> 01:32:21,827
Speaker 3: hundred games. Of course, you went off shore, spend time

1789
01:32:21,827 --> 01:32:24,307
Speaker 3: at Canberra, back to New Zealand and domestic rugby league,

1790
01:32:24,307 --> 01:32:27,547
Speaker 3: then to the Titans in twenty twenty ninety four games

1791
01:32:27,587 --> 01:32:29,707
Speaker 3: across five seasons there. How do you reflect back on

1792
01:32:29,747 --> 01:32:35,267
Speaker 3: your time on the Gold Coast.

1793
01:32:35,267 --> 01:32:38,307
Speaker 5: Firstly, they gave me opportunity. They kind of took a

1794
01:32:38,307 --> 01:32:44,267
Speaker 5: gable with me, had a lot of baggage and yeah,

1795
01:32:44,387 --> 01:32:48,227
Speaker 5: kind of earned a contract there. So pretty grateful for

1796
01:32:48,307 --> 01:32:50,547
Speaker 5: them for showing a bit of faith in me and

1797
01:32:50,587 --> 01:32:57,067
Speaker 5: giving this loss at the time kid ninety four rugby

1798
01:32:57,147 --> 01:32:59,547
Speaker 5: league games. Soah, I'm pretty lucky.

1799
01:32:59,947 --> 01:33:02,267
Speaker 3: I guess it kind of leads to a question about

1800
01:33:02,307 --> 01:33:05,107
Speaker 3: you now compared to you back when you left the Worries.

1801
01:33:05,147 --> 01:33:07,867
Speaker 3: I mean, how different a person an applier. Are you

1802
01:33:07,947 --> 01:33:10,067
Speaker 3: compared to when you left the Warriors like years ago?

1803
01:33:11,467 --> 01:33:15,067
Speaker 5: I think as a person, mate, that's kind of the

1804
01:33:15,067 --> 01:33:19,347
Speaker 5: biggest change I've seen in myself. Just having kids kind

1805
01:33:19,347 --> 01:33:24,747
Speaker 5: of changes your whole perspective and outlook on life. I

1806
01:33:24,787 --> 01:33:26,387
Speaker 5: was a kid back then when I devid, I think

1807
01:33:26,387 --> 01:33:30,427
Speaker 5: I was nineteen and kind of didn't realize what I

1808
01:33:30,467 --> 01:33:33,387
Speaker 5: had at the time. I was young, like I've said

1809
01:33:33,387 --> 01:33:37,147
Speaker 5: a lot of times, arrogant mate, and just thought I

1810
01:33:37,147 --> 01:33:41,107
Speaker 5: had it all when really had nothing. And then just

1811
01:33:41,587 --> 01:33:43,867
Speaker 5: I've learned to like a lot of gratitude ay being

1812
01:33:43,907 --> 01:33:46,627
Speaker 5: grateful for where I am and it can all get

1813
01:33:46,627 --> 01:33:49,307
Speaker 5: taken away like that. And because I've been through the

1814
01:33:49,427 --> 01:33:53,427
Speaker 5: hard route, I've kind of taught myself to be grateful

1815
01:33:53,467 --> 01:33:56,507
Speaker 5: for where I am. And you know, now I've got

1816
01:33:56,547 --> 01:33:59,867
Speaker 5: three kids looking up to me, and you know, you've

1817
01:33:59,867 --> 01:34:01,707
Speaker 5: got to be the best role model for them, and

1818
01:34:02,267 --> 01:34:05,147
Speaker 5: I don't want them making the same mistakes either. And yes,

1819
01:34:05,707 --> 01:34:08,307
Speaker 5: kind of a bit of a full circle, like you said, yeah.

1820
01:34:08,067 --> 01:34:10,867
Speaker 3: Well, it's a great outlook eron and you've come back

1821
01:34:10,867 --> 01:34:14,387
Speaker 3: to the Warriors, slipped into the thirteen jersey that Tahou

1822
01:34:14,427 --> 01:34:16,667
Speaker 3: Harris wore many times before he was in JIT midway

1823
01:34:16,707 --> 01:34:21,227
Speaker 3: through last season. Have you felt any responsibility to carry

1824
01:34:21,227 --> 01:34:25,307
Speaker 3: on a legacy of one of the warriors greatest evor mate,

1825
01:34:25,627 --> 01:34:26,147
Speaker 3: I beck you.

1826
01:34:26,187 --> 01:34:27,947
Speaker 5: Up on that. He probably was one of the greatest

1827
01:34:27,947 --> 01:34:33,347
Speaker 5: Warriors players. But I'm just trying to it sounds cliched,

1828
01:34:33,427 --> 01:34:37,307
Speaker 5: but be better every game. I tend to not really

1829
01:34:38,107 --> 01:34:41,507
Speaker 5: put that pressure on myself or obviously I know I

1830
01:34:41,587 --> 01:34:43,467
Speaker 5: got a big role to play because I'm not thirteen

1831
01:34:43,467 --> 01:34:47,347
Speaker 5: middle link to the Hars. But all I can do

1832
01:34:47,467 --> 01:34:50,467
Speaker 5: is control what I can control, and that's preparing well

1833
01:34:50,507 --> 01:34:52,867
Speaker 5: for game day and putting my best foot foot on

1834
01:34:52,907 --> 01:34:55,747
Speaker 5: the game when it comes to game day. So I

1835
01:34:55,827 --> 01:34:58,427
Speaker 5: focus on what I can control me. Then yeah, other

1836
01:34:58,507 --> 01:35:00,707
Speaker 5: stuff takes care of itself.

1837
01:35:00,787 --> 01:35:03,427
Speaker 3: Well, it certainly is at the moment. One number that

1838
01:35:03,467 --> 01:35:06,267
Speaker 3: stands out on your game is your tackle of fish

1839
01:35:06,427 --> 01:35:09,227
Speaker 3: and say, I mean, you hardly ever missed one. How

1840
01:35:09,307 --> 01:35:10,987
Speaker 3: much do you pride yourself on that?

1841
01:35:12,587 --> 01:35:12,787
Speaker 14: Oh?

1842
01:35:12,867 --> 01:35:14,427
Speaker 5: Man, I think you might have to watch the Roosters

1843
01:35:14,427 --> 01:35:16,307
Speaker 5: game because I must have tackled that led to the trial.

1844
01:35:16,427 --> 01:35:18,427
Speaker 3: So well, well, there's one you can have one.

1845
01:35:19,067 --> 01:35:20,147
Speaker 15: I was the crucial one.

1846
01:35:20,587 --> 01:35:23,267
Speaker 5: I don't miss many tackles, but I miss one crucial one.

1847
01:35:25,027 --> 01:35:26,387
Speaker 3: Is there something that you pride yourself?

1848
01:35:27,347 --> 01:35:29,707
Speaker 5: Ah, yeah, I do, Bro, And I think with games

1849
01:35:29,707 --> 01:35:32,947
Speaker 5: Fisher Harris coming to the club and Mitch Barnett there,

1850
01:35:33,467 --> 01:35:37,187
Speaker 5: that's like they pride themselves on our defense, and that's

1851
01:35:37,227 --> 01:35:40,187
Speaker 5: that's something that i'm and they pushed me to be

1852
01:35:40,267 --> 01:35:43,387
Speaker 5: better defensively all the time. And I think having fished

1853
01:35:43,387 --> 01:35:48,787
Speaker 5: there kind of changes my perspective on rugby league. He's

1854
01:35:48,867 --> 01:35:52,147
Speaker 5: kind of taught me the tough, the tough way rugby league,

1855
01:35:52,147 --> 01:35:55,707
Speaker 5: and that's and that's all defense orientated. And that's like,

1856
01:35:55,787 --> 01:35:58,907
Speaker 5: defense is hard, Bro, but it listen, is what.

1857
01:35:58,787 --> 01:35:59,347
Speaker 10: He said to me.

1858
01:35:59,347 --> 01:36:01,187
Speaker 5: He said, defense is tough, but it once your games

1859
01:36:01,187 --> 01:36:04,027
Speaker 5: at wins, your Grand Finals at once you listen to that.

1860
01:36:04,227 --> 01:36:08,107
Speaker 5: So I think having fish the kind of helped me

1861
01:36:08,147 --> 01:36:08,627
Speaker 5: in that way.

1862
01:36:08,867 --> 01:36:09,067
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1863
01:36:09,067 --> 01:36:12,507
Speaker 3: Well, it's certainly been a main feature or a feature

1864
01:36:12,547 --> 01:36:15,147
Speaker 3: of your last three performances as as a team that

1865
01:36:15,187 --> 01:36:18,307
Speaker 3: wins over the Sea Eagles, the Roosters and the Tigers

1866
01:36:18,307 --> 01:36:20,627
Speaker 3: off the back of what was a disappointing start in Vegas.

1867
01:36:21,027 --> 01:36:23,107
Speaker 3: What else? In the last three games, Erin has been

1868
01:36:23,627 --> 01:36:25,907
Speaker 3: kind of really key to those three victories.

1869
01:36:27,107 --> 01:36:30,307
Speaker 5: I think, like you talk about team culture and team

1870
01:36:30,667 --> 01:36:33,067
Speaker 5: like you put yourself brothers and a team, and I

1871
01:36:33,107 --> 01:36:36,667
Speaker 5: think we're seeing that bond. Like you look at back

1872
01:36:36,707 --> 01:36:39,747
Speaker 5: in the games, we're still fighting. Like we're down. I

1873
01:36:39,747 --> 01:36:44,107
Speaker 5: think the Roosters we were down and mainly sorry not

1874
01:36:44,147 --> 01:36:48,947
Speaker 5: mainly Tigers, we were down. And to claw back that

1875
01:36:49,147 --> 01:36:52,547
Speaker 5: just comes back to pure I think resilience and wanting

1876
01:36:52,587 --> 01:36:53,467
Speaker 5: to do it for each other.

1877
01:36:55,587 --> 01:36:55,787
Speaker 15: Yeah.

1878
01:36:56,227 --> 01:36:59,187
Speaker 5: Like, and to be honest, we still haven't even hit

1879
01:36:59,227 --> 01:37:01,587
Speaker 5: our strips. I think we've still got so much to

1880
01:37:01,627 --> 01:37:06,107
Speaker 5: improve on and hopefully we can slowly work on those

1881
01:37:06,107 --> 01:37:09,467
Speaker 5: things and it will hopefully work wonders and team performance.

1882
01:37:09,947 --> 01:37:13,307
Speaker 3: So after the three wins, then the bye of course,

1883
01:37:13,347 --> 01:37:15,587
Speaker 3: did that come at a slightly inconvenient time given the

1884
01:37:15,627 --> 01:37:17,987
Speaker 3: momentum you're built or was it Was it a chance

1885
01:37:18,027 --> 01:37:19,707
Speaker 3: to refresh a little bit?

1886
01:37:20,307 --> 01:37:22,347
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's it's how you look at the

1887
01:37:22,467 --> 01:37:25,267
Speaker 5: buye or the way you look at it. I think

1888
01:37:25,267 --> 01:37:29,147
Speaker 5: it was probably you can't control what's putting funny you say.

1889
01:37:29,587 --> 01:37:32,907
Speaker 5: I think we took it as more of a rest, recovery,

1890
01:37:32,987 --> 01:37:37,347
Speaker 5: reset and then get ready to go again because it's

1891
01:37:37,347 --> 01:37:40,547
Speaker 5: got a tough couple of weeks until the next one,

1892
01:37:40,627 --> 01:37:43,987
Speaker 5: so we've got to rest the bodies and to go again.

1893
01:37:44,947 --> 01:37:47,587
Speaker 3: Melourne, Yeah, fair enough, And just on the Storm. How

1894
01:37:47,667 --> 01:37:49,827
Speaker 3: formidable and opponents are they.

1895
01:37:50,987 --> 01:37:54,707
Speaker 5: Mate, They've been the benchmark for obviously, them and Penrith

1896
01:37:54,747 --> 01:37:56,827
Speaker 5: have been the benchmark of the competition for since I

1897
01:37:56,907 --> 01:38:02,187
Speaker 5: can remember, probably years, and they just they got key

1898
01:38:02,267 --> 01:38:04,867
Speaker 5: players all over the park and you can't just you

1899
01:38:04,947 --> 01:38:07,267
Speaker 5: can't switch off. So defensive, we've got to be ready

1900
01:38:07,307 --> 01:38:10,467
Speaker 5: and they'll throw the ball around from their own half

1901
01:38:11,547 --> 01:38:13,907
Speaker 5: as good as anyone. Say, we've got to be really

1902
01:38:14,027 --> 01:38:15,307
Speaker 5: really a gay sit.

1903
01:38:15,707 --> 01:38:17,227
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you're a numbers man or not,

1904
01:38:17,347 --> 01:38:19,667
Speaker 3: but it's been I've read this today. It's been sixteen

1905
01:38:19,787 --> 01:38:22,547
Speaker 3: games since the Warriors last week, the Storm. But do

1906
01:38:22,587 --> 01:38:25,427
Speaker 3: you feel like they'll fix you lest because you haven't

1907
01:38:25,427 --> 01:38:26,667
Speaker 3: actually been here for most.

1908
01:38:26,507 --> 01:38:30,307
Speaker 5: Of that, No, man, I think I got that same

1909
01:38:30,427 --> 01:38:33,667
Speaker 5: question today early in the day, and it was my RESPONSI.

1910
01:38:33,467 --> 01:38:34,747
Speaker 15: Was like the new year.

1911
01:38:35,187 --> 01:38:36,587
Speaker 5: I think every year a new year, and.

1912
01:38:38,307 --> 01:38:39,107
Speaker 12: This is a new team.

1913
01:38:39,187 --> 01:38:43,507
Speaker 5: And I never read into that stuff, and I don't

1914
01:38:43,547 --> 01:38:45,667
Speaker 5: think anyone does. But I think the team we've got

1915
01:38:45,747 --> 01:38:48,947
Speaker 5: now is good enough to do the job and I'm

1916
01:38:48,947 --> 01:38:52,627
Speaker 5: actually looking forward to them, and I'm pretty happy that

1917
01:38:53,587 --> 01:38:54,707
Speaker 5: one hundred's game fours on.

1918
01:38:54,747 --> 01:38:57,067
Speaker 18: This game, so yeah, I'm looking forward to it outstanding.

1919
01:38:57,147 --> 01:38:58,467
Speaker 3: And I know you're only looking at this one, but

1920
01:38:58,587 --> 01:39:00,867
Speaker 3: have you got a bit of a sneaky ring around

1921
01:39:01,147 --> 01:39:03,627
Speaker 3: round twenty one late July when you'll come up against

1922
01:39:03,627 --> 01:39:06,067
Speaker 3: the time. I can even I heard the laugh you

1923
01:39:06,147 --> 01:39:07,147
Speaker 3: knew I was talking about.

1924
01:39:09,227 --> 01:39:11,227
Speaker 10: I just hate that it's so far away, mate.

1925
01:39:12,107 --> 01:39:13,267
Speaker 15: I'm just I wish it was.

1926
01:39:13,507 --> 01:39:15,227
Speaker 5: I wish it was like next week or something, because

1927
01:39:16,347 --> 01:39:18,387
Speaker 5: but I still got good relationships with a few of

1928
01:39:18,427 --> 01:39:23,307
Speaker 5: the boys, so there would be a put of laugh Saturday, definitely.

1929
01:39:23,787 --> 01:39:26,387
Speaker 3: It's been so good watching you guys since you got

1930
01:39:26,427 --> 01:39:28,067
Speaker 3: back from Vegas three in a row. Let's hope you

1931
01:39:28,067 --> 01:39:30,187
Speaker 3: can make it four against the Storm. Congrats on reaching

1932
01:39:30,267 --> 01:39:31,987
Speaker 3: number one hundred air and hope it's a cracker.

1933
01:39:31,827 --> 01:39:34,107
Speaker 5: For you there's mate, Thank you very much, and do

1934
01:39:34,187 --> 01:39:34,587
Speaker 5: your weekend.

1935
01:39:34,667 --> 01:39:36,667
Speaker 3: You enjoy your weekend as well, erin and hopefully we

1936
01:39:36,707 --> 01:39:40,587
Speaker 3: can all enjoy you and and your Warriors teammates doing

1937
01:39:40,627 --> 01:39:42,907
Speaker 3: a number on the Storm this afternoon, four o'clock. That

1938
01:39:43,067 --> 01:39:47,187
Speaker 3: game is underway. That's New Zealand time. As the Warriors

1939
01:39:47,227 --> 01:39:49,747
Speaker 3: look to go four in a row. The loss of

1940
01:39:49,787 --> 01:39:53,227
Speaker 3: the Raiders just seems like a distant memory now, doesn't it.

1941
01:39:53,467 --> 01:39:56,507
Speaker 3: In Vegas, wins over the Sea Eagles, the Roosters and

1942
01:39:56,667 --> 01:39:59,827
Speaker 3: the Tigers the Storm this afternoon and then the Broncos

1943
01:39:59,947 --> 01:40:02,627
Speaker 3: so a couple of big assignments, But so too were

1944
01:40:02,667 --> 01:40:05,667
Speaker 3: the last three games, and the Warriors passed those three.

1945
01:40:05,787 --> 01:40:09,467
Speaker 3: So who's to say they can't break a long standing

1946
01:40:09,587 --> 01:40:12,907
Speaker 3: draught of wins against the Melbourne Storm a bit later

1947
01:40:13,027 --> 01:40:16,187
Speaker 3: on this afternoon to twenty four when we come back,

1948
01:40:16,267 --> 01:40:20,267
Speaker 3: We're back to rugby and Super Rugby. Opicky the trophy

1949
01:40:20,347 --> 01:40:23,627
Speaker 3: handed out last night to the Blues after a pulsating

1950
01:40:23,707 --> 01:40:27,267
Speaker 3: and hard fought win over Matatu at Eden Park, Coach

1951
01:40:27,307 --> 01:40:28,667
Speaker 3: of the Blues, will you walk it with us right

1952
01:40:28,707 --> 01:40:28,987
Speaker 3: after this?

1953
01:40:30,467 --> 01:40:33,387
Speaker 1: You be the TMO have your say on eight hundred

1954
01:40:33,387 --> 01:40:36,427
Speaker 1: and eighty ten eighty Weekends for It with Jason Hin

1955
01:40:36,667 --> 01:40:40,507
Speaker 1: and GJ. Guvnerholmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder News

1956
01:40:40,587 --> 01:40:41,187
Speaker 1: Talks there be.

1957
01:40:41,947 --> 01:40:44,307
Speaker 3: Two twenty seven on News Talks THEREB and Weekend Sport.

1958
01:40:44,347 --> 01:40:47,307
Speaker 3: The Blues have made history, the first back to back

1959
01:40:47,507 --> 01:40:50,787
Speaker 3: Super Rugby o Picky Champions due plus.

1960
01:40:50,667 --> 01:40:53,947
Speaker 20: C long ball out. It's accepted by Porsha Woodman week climb.

1961
01:40:54,067 --> 01:40:56,747
Speaker 20: Porsha Woodman. We cliff outside the twenty two. They just

1962
01:40:56,827 --> 01:40:59,507
Speaker 20: need to get it into touch now. The Blues control it,

1963
01:40:59,867 --> 01:41:02,627
Speaker 20: burn it. It's a touch and the Blues are the

1964
01:41:02,747 --> 01:41:04,747
Speaker 20: super Rugby old Picky Champions.

1965
01:41:04,867 --> 01:41:08,147
Speaker 3: Their early twelve NERL deficit and a late red card

1966
01:41:08,427 --> 01:41:10,587
Speaker 3: not enough to prevent the Blues from edging Mata to

1967
01:41:10,747 --> 01:41:14,227
Speaker 3: twenty six nineteen in an excellent final at Eden Park

1968
01:41:14,387 --> 01:41:17,427
Speaker 3: last night. Blues coach Willie Walker is with us back

1969
01:41:17,507 --> 01:41:21,187
Speaker 3: to back. Will he congratulations as the second more satisfying

1970
01:41:21,267 --> 01:41:24,187
Speaker 3: than the first or they both equally satisfying.

1971
01:41:25,587 --> 01:41:28,987
Speaker 26: I think they're pretty similar in terms of where they rank.

1972
01:41:29,907 --> 01:41:32,827
Speaker 26: Obviously a different group to the crew we had last year,

1973
01:41:34,787 --> 01:41:38,787
Speaker 26: but it's still special in the same breath. We worked

1974
01:41:38,787 --> 01:41:40,627
Speaker 26: really hard for it. The girls work really hard last

1975
01:41:40,707 --> 01:41:43,307
Speaker 26: night and we were put under pressure early on form

1976
01:41:43,507 --> 01:41:46,467
Speaker 26: to two, but we stuck in there and we talked

1977
01:41:46,507 --> 01:41:47,587
Speaker 26: about that at half time.

1978
01:41:47,507 --> 01:41:51,387
Speaker 7: That we had to play through eighty minutes to get

1979
01:41:51,427 --> 01:41:52,867
Speaker 7: a result and we came out on top.

1980
01:41:52,987 --> 01:41:55,467
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, Matter two did start better, didn't they?

1981
01:41:55,507 --> 01:41:58,267
Speaker 3: Twelve nearly head after twenty minutes. Any reason for the

1982
01:41:58,347 --> 01:42:00,347
Speaker 3: slightly slow start from your site.

1983
01:42:01,667 --> 01:42:04,587
Speaker 26: Now, I think we were starved, born and much too

1984
01:42:04,667 --> 01:42:06,867
Speaker 26: held onto it for a long period in that first

1985
01:42:06,867 --> 01:42:09,987
Speaker 26: twenty minutes. So we knew though that if we got

1986
01:42:10,027 --> 01:42:12,027
Speaker 26: hold of the board and we showed that we had

1987
01:42:12,067 --> 01:42:14,467
Speaker 26: two scrums I think scored two tries kind of back

1988
01:42:14,507 --> 01:42:17,267
Speaker 26: to back, and we knew that was going to be

1989
01:42:17,347 --> 01:42:21,947
Speaker 26: the case. And once we were able to build a

1990
01:42:21,987 --> 01:42:25,667
Speaker 26: few phases and create a few opportunities, yeah, you know,

1991
01:42:25,827 --> 01:42:29,027
Speaker 26: we kind of pulled away a little bit at the end,

1992
01:42:29,147 --> 01:42:30,947
Speaker 26: but it still.

1993
01:42:30,827 --> 01:42:33,187
Speaker 7: Was a little bit too tight from for my king.

1994
01:42:33,827 --> 01:42:36,307
Speaker 3: I want to get to the closing stages in a moment.

1995
01:42:36,387 --> 01:42:39,587
Speaker 3: But when you were down and then came back, how

1996
01:42:39,667 --> 01:42:42,787
Speaker 3: big are your experienced heads out there when you know,

1997
01:42:42,907 --> 01:42:48,187
Speaker 3: when when cool heads and experience are required, Yeah, huge.

1998
01:42:47,947 --> 01:42:48,227
Speaker 7: I think.

1999
01:42:48,307 --> 01:42:50,987
Speaker 26: But it wasn't just our experienced girls that stepped up.

2000
01:42:51,107 --> 01:42:52,827
Speaker 26: You know, We've got a young girl at the back

2001
01:42:52,867 --> 01:42:57,067
Speaker 26: of Braxton again share some special moments as well. So

2002
01:42:57,747 --> 01:43:00,147
Speaker 26: just across the board, just really happy was the way.

2003
01:43:00,227 --> 01:43:06,107
Speaker 26: Obviously everybody performed and contributed to what was a successful season.

2004
01:43:06,387 --> 01:43:09,747
Speaker 3: Yea, what a moment for your teenage fullback Braxton Sign

2005
01:43:09,827 --> 01:43:13,267
Speaker 3: and McGee. Ten minutes to go, she goes to lead

2006
01:43:13,307 --> 01:43:14,947
Speaker 3: to the field to score a try. She's a pretty

2007
01:43:14,947 --> 01:43:17,027
Speaker 3: special talented yes she is.

2008
01:43:17,227 --> 01:43:21,227
Speaker 26: I think we talked last night around generational players. Obviously

2009
01:43:21,507 --> 01:43:23,387
Speaker 26: we've got a number of those in our team, and

2010
01:43:24,027 --> 01:43:27,867
Speaker 26: it's quite a cool feeling. But perhaps somebody obviously starting

2011
01:43:27,907 --> 01:43:31,907
Speaker 26: out her career footing it with the likes of Portial Woodman,

2012
01:43:32,107 --> 01:43:37,747
Speaker 26: who obviously her accolades speak for themselves. It's a special

2013
01:43:37,827 --> 01:43:41,627
Speaker 26: place to be and I know that these young these

2014
01:43:41,667 --> 01:43:44,947
Speaker 26: young ladies are really enjoying that opportunity to be alongside

2015
01:43:44,987 --> 01:43:46,427
Speaker 26: some of the legends.

2016
01:43:46,107 --> 01:43:46,507
Speaker 7: Of the game.

2017
01:43:46,787 --> 01:43:49,507
Speaker 3: So how were the emotions as Mutta to attack your

2018
01:43:49,547 --> 01:43:52,427
Speaker 3: line late on while you were down to fourteen players.

2019
01:43:54,267 --> 01:43:56,627
Speaker 26: Yeah, she was pretty tense, I think up obviously up

2020
01:43:56,667 --> 01:43:59,387
Speaker 26: in the box. The we talked about it a half time.

2021
01:43:59,427 --> 01:44:03,307
Speaker 26: We needed to be disciplined, especially around that breakdown area,

2022
01:44:03,987 --> 01:44:06,867
Speaker 26: and the girls just study beat showed a lot of

2023
01:44:06,907 --> 01:44:11,267
Speaker 26: hard and we talked around how if we needed inspiration,

2024
01:44:11,467 --> 01:44:14,347
Speaker 26: just look around at the circle and the people across

2025
01:44:14,387 --> 01:44:16,467
Speaker 26: from you and and just dig and work hard for

2026
01:44:16,547 --> 01:44:16,827
Speaker 26: each other.

2027
01:44:16,907 --> 01:44:18,907
Speaker 7: And that's what they did. Was really awesome to see.

2028
01:44:19,467 --> 01:44:21,947
Speaker 3: I know you were firm favorites going in, you know,

2029
01:44:22,067 --> 01:44:24,987
Speaker 3: top qualifiers, home advantage, that sort of thing. But did

2030
01:44:25,067 --> 01:44:27,947
Speaker 3: you get the challenge you expected from Matatu last night?

2031
01:44:28,667 --> 01:44:29,587
Speaker 7: Yeah, we definitely did.

2032
01:44:29,707 --> 01:44:31,747
Speaker 26: We We knew that they were well, they were a

2033
01:44:31,827 --> 01:44:35,147
Speaker 26: quality side, a number of black fans in there. They

2034
01:44:35,307 --> 01:44:38,507
Speaker 26: obviously beat us last time around, so we knew we'd

2035
01:44:38,587 --> 01:44:40,347
Speaker 26: be in for a tough old night and finals for

2036
01:44:40,467 --> 01:44:41,507
Speaker 26: these a little bit different.

2037
01:44:41,307 --> 01:44:44,467
Speaker 7: To the rest. So everybody listening the.

2038
01:44:44,507 --> 01:44:47,267
Speaker 26: Game and we just needed to make sure that we

2039
01:44:47,427 --> 01:44:49,787
Speaker 26: controlled as much as we could around our own stuff, and.

2040
01:44:51,707 --> 01:44:53,307
Speaker 7: You know, we got the done of the ball on

2041
01:44:53,427 --> 01:44:53,707
Speaker 7: the night.

2042
01:44:54,427 --> 01:44:56,667
Speaker 3: I just want to ask about Carlos Spencer, So who's

2043
01:44:56,667 --> 01:44:59,307
Speaker 3: obviously part of your coaching group. I saw him cheering

2044
01:44:59,427 --> 01:45:02,187
Speaker 3: Braxton honors. She was sprinting down the field. A couple

2045
01:45:02,227 --> 01:45:04,787
Speaker 3: of expletives in there, if our reader's lips correctly as well.

2046
01:45:05,107 --> 01:45:08,227
Speaker 3: I have you enjoyed having Evan Carlos Spencer is part

2047
01:45:08,267 --> 01:45:08,707
Speaker 3: of your crew.

2048
01:45:09,747 --> 01:45:14,307
Speaker 26: I'm obviously very lucky to have somebody else Carlos's experience

2049
01:45:14,387 --> 01:45:16,827
Speaker 26: and elk and just the way he sees the game,

2050
01:45:18,467 --> 01:45:24,027
Speaker 26: you know, his vision and his innovation. I think it's

2051
01:45:24,227 --> 01:45:27,787
Speaker 26: invaluable his experience and you know the girls really thrive

2052
01:45:27,907 --> 01:45:31,627
Speaker 26: on on that knowledge. Yeah, he gets a little bit

2053
01:45:31,667 --> 01:45:33,587
Speaker 26: tense in the box mate, That's that's for sure. But

2054
01:45:34,267 --> 01:45:36,387
Speaker 26: well I actually had to get him off the sideline

2055
01:45:36,387 --> 01:45:38,107
Speaker 26: from last year. He wasn't allowed back down there, so

2056
01:45:39,027 --> 01:45:41,187
Speaker 26: it's a lot easier to keep control of the box.

2057
01:45:41,787 --> 01:45:44,347
Speaker 3: That's so good. And of course now you meet the

2058
01:45:44,347 --> 01:45:47,107
Speaker 3: Warratars on Thursday, the first crossover match between the New

2059
01:45:47,147 --> 01:45:49,747
Speaker 3: Zealand and Australian champions. How much you're looking forward to

2060
01:45:49,787 --> 01:45:50,107
Speaker 3: that game?

2061
01:45:51,227 --> 01:45:52,027
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's huge, I think.

2062
01:45:52,107 --> 01:45:55,827
Speaker 26: I think the whole idea of it, the opportunity for

2063
01:45:56,387 --> 01:46:00,627
Speaker 26: the exposure of what potentially openly looks like next year.

2064
01:46:01,307 --> 01:46:03,627
Speaker 26: If we can you know, involve the Aussies and grow

2065
01:46:03,707 --> 01:46:07,827
Speaker 26: this competition too to what it needs to be to

2066
01:46:07,907 --> 01:46:11,147
Speaker 26: be able to continue to improve the game for these

2067
01:46:11,227 --> 01:46:14,827
Speaker 26: ladies is something special and we're looking forward to it again.

2068
01:46:14,907 --> 01:46:17,467
Speaker 26: It's just a different challenge. We get used to playing

2069
01:46:17,547 --> 01:46:20,667
Speaker 26: these same teams every year, but to be able to

2070
01:46:20,747 --> 01:46:23,907
Speaker 26: play against an Australian side who will bring something different,

2071
01:46:24,987 --> 01:46:25,827
Speaker 26: it's really exciting.

2072
01:46:26,067 --> 01:46:27,427
Speaker 3: Where is that game being played?

2073
01:46:27,467 --> 01:46:29,787
Speaker 7: Will he it's going to be at North Other Stadium

2074
01:46:29,827 --> 01:46:32,147
Speaker 7: seven five five North Other Stadium.

2075
01:46:32,187 --> 01:46:33,627
Speaker 3: Good stuff will put a ring around that. But you

2076
01:46:33,707 --> 01:46:35,627
Speaker 3: still managed to have a well you and the team

2077
01:46:35,667 --> 01:46:37,707
Speaker 3: managed to celebrate a little bit last night, even with

2078
01:46:37,827 --> 01:46:39,347
Speaker 3: that game coming up Thursday.

2079
01:46:39,867 --> 01:46:43,707
Speaker 26: Yeah, we had a little b brief and then yeah

2080
01:46:43,747 --> 01:46:45,667
Speaker 26: we are. I mean we understand that we've got a

2081
01:46:45,707 --> 01:46:48,707
Speaker 26: bit of work to do before then, but we've you know,

2082
01:46:49,067 --> 01:46:54,787
Speaker 26: the girls deserve to to celebrate what has been a

2083
01:46:54,907 --> 01:47:00,507
Speaker 26: really tough season and the main goal was to win

2084
01:47:00,587 --> 01:47:03,067
Speaker 26: the Sopickie Final and you know they deserve or the

2085
01:47:03,387 --> 01:47:07,067
Speaker 26: opportunity they can to have a couple of quiet lemonades

2086
01:47:07,107 --> 01:47:11,507
Speaker 26: and reflect on what they've actually achieved.

2087
01:47:11,587 --> 01:47:14,747
Speaker 3: Absolutely they do, as do you. Congratulations on going back

2088
01:47:14,747 --> 01:47:16,307
Speaker 3: to back, will he thanks for the chat this afternoon.

2089
01:47:16,307 --> 01:47:17,947
Speaker 3: All the best against the Warritars on Thursday.

2090
01:47:18,467 --> 01:47:19,307
Speaker 7: Jeez, thank you very much.

2091
01:47:19,387 --> 01:47:21,027
Speaker 3: No, thank you, Willie. Will you walk with that coach

2092
01:47:21,267 --> 01:47:26,187
Speaker 3: of the championship winning Blues Super Rugby opicky side winners

2093
01:47:26,187 --> 01:47:29,547
Speaker 3: over Mata Too in a tight final last night, twenty

2094
01:47:29,947 --> 01:47:31,947
Speaker 3: six away from three. I want to get to some

2095
01:47:32,027 --> 01:47:34,227
Speaker 3: football shortly. Just want to circle back to the golf though,

2096
01:47:35,227 --> 01:47:38,747
Speaker 3: and the third round at the Masters of Rory McElroy

2097
01:47:38,987 --> 01:47:43,227
Speaker 3: a six under sixty six. He's gone twelve under at Augusta,

2098
01:47:43,387 --> 01:47:47,347
Speaker 3: so back to back six under pass sixty six rounds.

2099
01:47:47,507 --> 01:47:49,547
Speaker 3: In the second and third rounds. He leads Bryson D

2100
01:47:49,627 --> 01:47:52,787
Speaker 3: Chambau by two shots. Corey Connor is another two shots back.

2101
01:47:52,867 --> 01:47:57,467
Speaker 3: It has set up a really enticing final day with

2102
01:47:57,987 --> 01:48:01,307
Speaker 3: Rory McElroy and Bryson D. Chambeau going pretty much head

2103
01:48:01,347 --> 01:48:04,507
Speaker 3: to head for the green jacket. Overnight leader Justin Rose

2104
01:48:04,627 --> 01:48:08,347
Speaker 3: dropped off the pace down to I've und up seven

2105
01:48:08,427 --> 01:48:10,347
Speaker 3: shots behind Rory McElroy.

2106
01:48:10,667 --> 01:48:10,947
Speaker 5: I had.

2107
01:48:10,947 --> 01:48:13,787
Speaker 3: Did Roy McElroy feel about his third round?

2108
01:48:14,627 --> 01:48:19,707
Speaker 14: Yeah, obviously it was a dream start to to, you know,

2109
01:48:19,787 --> 01:48:22,867
Speaker 14: to get off to the start that I did, hit

2110
01:48:22,907 --> 01:48:28,107
Speaker 14: two perfect shots on on one and converted. I felt

2111
01:48:28,147 --> 01:48:30,187
Speaker 14: like I hit sort of three perfect shots on two,

2112
01:48:32,187 --> 01:48:34,067
Speaker 14: three perfect shots on three. I just it was a

2113
01:48:34,307 --> 01:48:38,187
Speaker 14: it was such a great way to start, and you know,

2114
01:48:38,427 --> 01:48:39,947
Speaker 14: just to come out of the blocks like that, I

2115
01:48:40,027 --> 01:48:45,027
Speaker 14: think as well. You know, from finishing yesterday afternoon to

2116
01:48:45,147 --> 01:48:46,867
Speaker 14: t and off today, it's quite a long time, and

2117
01:48:47,547 --> 01:48:51,987
Speaker 14: you know there's a lot of anticipate, anticipation and and

2118
01:48:52,107 --> 01:48:54,147
Speaker 14: sort of anxious energy that builds up you just want

2119
01:48:54,147 --> 01:48:55,027
Speaker 14: to get out there and play.

2120
01:48:55,147 --> 01:48:57,467
Speaker 3: So you know, with all of that, to to go

2121
01:48:57,547 --> 01:48:58,787
Speaker 3: out and start the way it did was.

2122
01:49:00,307 --> 01:49:00,987
Speaker 5: It was amazing.

2123
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Speaker 14: And then I you know, had that little bit of

2124
01:49:03,267 --> 01:49:06,467
Speaker 14: a wabble around to turn there with the boon it

2125
01:49:06,627 --> 01:49:09,227
Speaker 14: the mischance on nine and then the three put on ten,

2126
01:49:10,267 --> 01:49:12,307
Speaker 14: and I thought that the par pot on eleven was

2127
01:49:12,547 --> 01:49:15,547
Speaker 14: was huge just to to sort of get some momentum back,

2128
01:49:15,627 --> 01:49:17,907
Speaker 14: and you know, to get through eleven and twelve and

2129
01:49:17,947 --> 01:49:21,827
Speaker 14: even par u was great and then you know, all

2130
01:49:21,867 --> 01:49:23,787
Speaker 14: I was trying to do then was was take advantage

2131
01:49:23,787 --> 01:49:25,787
Speaker 14: of the par five's coming in, and you know, thankfully

2132
01:49:25,787 --> 01:49:26,587
Speaker 14: I was able to do that.

2133
01:49:28,547 --> 01:49:30,907
Speaker 3: So that's Roy talking about the round in general. How

2134
01:49:30,947 --> 01:49:33,827
Speaker 3: does it feel to Rory McElroy to have the crowd

2135
01:49:33,947 --> 01:49:35,347
Speaker 3: behind him in such big numbers.

2136
01:49:35,467 --> 01:49:40,187
Speaker 14: Yeah, look, it's it's amazing to have the support. You know,

2137
01:49:40,307 --> 01:49:43,867
Speaker 14: these these patrons and these galleries are are a pleasure

2138
01:49:43,907 --> 01:49:45,507
Speaker 14: to play in front of each and every year we

2139
01:49:45,627 --> 01:49:48,707
Speaker 14: come back. You know, they're they're some of the most knowledgeable,

2140
01:49:50,507 --> 01:49:53,667
Speaker 14: you know golf patrons, respectators that that we play in

2141
01:49:53,747 --> 01:49:57,227
Speaker 14: front of. And yeah, look it's a it's a pleasure

2142
01:49:57,307 --> 01:49:59,467
Speaker 14: to play in front of them and to have that

2143
01:49:59,587 --> 01:50:03,627
Speaker 14: atmosphere and to have that support. And you know, tomorrow

2144
01:50:03,707 --> 01:50:05,947
Speaker 14: and that final grip is going to be it's going

2145
01:50:05,987 --> 01:50:08,427
Speaker 14: to be ill little a little rity and a little loud,

2146
01:50:09,307 --> 01:50:11,147
Speaker 14: you know, And I'm just gonna have to, you know,

2147
01:50:11,267 --> 01:50:14,547
Speaker 14: settle in and you know, really try to you know,

2148
01:50:14,667 --> 01:50:17,507
Speaker 14: keep myself on my own little bubble and and keep

2149
01:50:17,547 --> 01:50:20,747
Speaker 14: my head done. And you know, sort of approached tomorrow

2150
01:50:20,787 --> 01:50:23,347
Speaker 14: with the the CM attitude that I you know that

2151
01:50:23,427 --> 01:50:26,267
Speaker 14: I've that I've tried to approach the last three days with.

2152
01:50:26,667 --> 01:50:29,627
Speaker 3: So what is that process? What process does Rory mcawroy

2153
01:50:29,707 --> 01:50:33,307
Speaker 3: go through tonight and in preparation for the full round tomorrow?

2154
01:50:33,547 --> 01:50:35,747
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think I still have to remind myself that

2155
01:50:35,827 --> 01:50:38,227
Speaker 14: there's a long way to go, just like I said yesterday,

2156
01:50:38,387 --> 01:50:42,467
Speaker 14: you know, eighteen holes, I just as much as anyone

2157
01:50:42,507 --> 01:50:45,067
Speaker 14: else know what can happen on the final day here.

2158
01:50:45,187 --> 01:50:48,547
Speaker 14: So you know, I've I've got a lot of experience.

2159
01:50:48,707 --> 01:50:51,507
Speaker 14: I you know, I came in there, I come in

2160
01:50:51,627 --> 01:50:54,667
Speaker 14: here talking about being the most complete version of myself

2161
01:50:54,707 --> 01:50:57,987
Speaker 14: as a golfer, and you know, I just have to

2162
01:50:58,067 --> 01:51:01,147
Speaker 14: keep reminding myself of that and remind myself that no

2163
01:51:01,267 --> 01:51:04,227
Speaker 14: matter what situation or scenario I find myself in tomorrow,

2164
01:51:04,987 --> 01:51:05,947
Speaker 14: I'll be able to handle it.

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Speaker 3: From Rory McElroy, a question about his incredible start to

2166
01:51:10,587 --> 01:51:14,147
Speaker 3: his third round, which had him go three three three

2167
01:51:14,307 --> 01:51:17,467
Speaker 3: three three three. He shot threes on the first six holes.

2168
01:51:18,467 --> 01:51:21,867
Speaker 3: Was he purposefully being aggressive at the start of his

2169
01:51:21,987 --> 01:51:22,547
Speaker 3: round today?

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01:51:22,747 --> 01:51:25,787
Speaker 14: Yeah, I was fast on the range, you know, That's

2171
01:51:25,787 --> 01:51:28,667
Speaker 14: what I'm talking about, even like that anxious energy that

2172
01:51:28,747 --> 01:51:31,827
Speaker 14: build up. You know, I was probably three or four

2173
01:51:31,907 --> 01:51:34,307
Speaker 14: miles in hour faster on the range than I have

2174
01:51:34,507 --> 01:51:37,787
Speaker 14: been all week, which is nice. So I didn't know.

2175
01:51:37,827 --> 01:51:39,627
Speaker 14: I didn't have to worry about the bunker on one

2176
01:51:39,787 --> 01:51:41,427
Speaker 14: or on two if I you know, just made a

2177
01:51:41,467 --> 01:51:45,507
Speaker 14: good swing. So it wasn't really about being aggressive. It

2178
01:51:45,627 --> 01:51:49,027
Speaker 14: was just, you know, it was making good, committed swings

2179
01:51:49,107 --> 01:51:51,947
Speaker 14: and annoying that if I did that that, you know,

2180
01:51:51,987 --> 01:51:54,307
Speaker 14: I could set myself up on you know, those first

2181
01:51:54,347 --> 01:51:54,787
Speaker 14: few holes.

2182
01:51:55,027 --> 01:51:59,227
Speaker 3: That's Rory McElroy, leader of the Masters at Augusta through

2183
01:51:59,387 --> 01:52:02,387
Speaker 3: three rounds, after a sixty six in his third round

2184
01:52:02,427 --> 01:52:05,427
Speaker 3: today to go to twelve under for the tournament, a

2185
01:52:05,507 --> 01:52:08,387
Speaker 3: two shot lead from Bryson d Chambeau, who came home

2186
01:52:08,987 --> 01:52:12,867
Speaker 3: very strongly with three birdies in his last four holes

2187
01:52:12,907 --> 01:52:15,347
Speaker 3: to move to ten under for the tournament, so just

2188
01:52:15,427 --> 01:52:19,067
Speaker 3: two shots back. The Canadian Corey Conners is alone in

2189
01:52:19,187 --> 01:52:22,267
Speaker 3: third place. He had a two hunder par round today

2190
01:52:22,427 --> 01:52:25,467
Speaker 3: of seventy and is eight under for the tournament. Then

2191
01:52:25,587 --> 01:52:28,947
Speaker 3: a couple of players on six hundred, Patrick Reid from

2192
01:52:29,187 --> 01:52:33,467
Speaker 3: the United States alongside the Swedish player Ludwig a Berg,

2193
01:52:33,627 --> 01:52:35,907
Speaker 3: and then you're down to the players on five under,

2194
01:52:36,307 --> 01:52:40,867
Speaker 3: including Jason Day, Scotti Scheffler, Shane Lowry and Justin Rose.

2195
01:52:41,427 --> 01:52:45,707
Speaker 3: Fairly well credentialed quartet there at five under the card.

2196
01:52:45,747 --> 01:52:48,147
Speaker 3: You just wonder whether perhaps they've left themselves with just

2197
01:52:48,187 --> 01:52:50,827
Speaker 3: a bit too much to do to catch more. Rory

2198
01:52:50,947 --> 01:52:54,867
Speaker 3: McElroy at twelve under through his three rounds. We'll have

2199
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Speaker 3: a lot of coverage of this as part of our

2200
01:52:57,147 --> 01:53:00,667
Speaker 3: news talk ZEBI Sports bulletins tomorrow morning here on z

2201
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Speaker 3: B twenty one to three. When we come back, want

2202
01:53:04,027 --> 01:53:05,547
Speaker 3: to finish up the show with a bit of football

2203
01:53:05,747 --> 01:53:09,547
Speaker 3: preview the Wellington Phoenix women's must win game this afternoon

2204
01:53:09,987 --> 01:53:12,667
Speaker 3: against Canberra and looking back at the Phoenix men and

2205
01:53:13,187 --> 01:53:16,987
Speaker 3: Auckland FC men's results from yesterday football When we come

2206
01:53:17,067 --> 01:53:18,267
Speaker 3: back on Weekend Sport.

2207
01:53:18,787 --> 01:53:20,627
Speaker 2: It's more than just a game.

2208
01:53:20,987 --> 01:53:25,667
Speaker 1: Weekend Sport with Jason Vine and GJ Garnomes, New Zealand's

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01:53:25,667 --> 01:53:27,747
Speaker 1: most trusted home builder News Talks.

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01:53:27,667 --> 01:53:30,627
Speaker 3: V News Talks have been Weekend Sports seventeen away from

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01:53:30,667 --> 01:53:32,307
Speaker 3: the three. You want to finish the show today with

2212
01:53:32,387 --> 01:53:35,307
Speaker 3: some football, looking back at the Wellington Phoenix men and

2213
01:53:35,387 --> 01:53:39,067
Speaker 3: Auckland FC men's games from yesterday. Shortly, but let's look

2214
01:53:39,067 --> 01:53:43,707
Speaker 3: ahead to this afternoon's game for the Wellington Phoenix women. Now,

2215
01:53:43,827 --> 01:53:46,867
Speaker 3: this is a very simple equation. They must win this

2216
01:53:47,027 --> 01:53:50,507
Speaker 3: game to stay in Top six contention ahead of their

2217
01:53:50,627 --> 01:53:54,027
Speaker 3: final match of the season next weekend. They're up against

2218
01:53:54,067 --> 01:53:57,227
Speaker 3: Canberra United. I'm not going to bother going through the

2219
01:53:57,307 --> 01:54:00,427
Speaker 3: table for you, just suffice to say it is a

2220
01:54:00,667 --> 01:54:03,387
Speaker 3: must win game. If the Phoenix do not win this

2221
01:54:03,547 --> 01:54:06,707
Speaker 3: game this afternoon, they will not have any chance of

2222
01:54:06,787 --> 01:54:08,587
Speaker 3: making the Top six. So it's as simple as that.

2223
01:54:08,707 --> 01:54:11,827
Speaker 3: I caught up with Phoenix midfielder Alyssa Winem during the

2224
01:54:11,867 --> 01:54:14,587
Speaker 3: week to see how the build up has been towards

2225
01:54:14,667 --> 01:54:16,107
Speaker 3: such a big match for the team.

2226
01:54:16,787 --> 01:54:19,107
Speaker 27: Yeah, it's been really good. I guess with the international break,

2227
01:54:19,147 --> 01:54:20,867
Speaker 27: we've kind of had two weeks leading up to it,

2228
01:54:20,947 --> 01:54:22,867
Speaker 27: so we've been focusing on them since the start of

2229
01:54:23,107 --> 01:54:25,467
Speaker 27: last week. So it's been really good. I think the

2230
01:54:25,547 --> 01:54:27,627
Speaker 27: girls are super focused and it's nice to have Fleam

2231
01:54:27,667 --> 01:54:30,427
Speaker 27: and I are back. But yeah, we played against the

2232
01:54:30,467 --> 01:54:32,947
Speaker 27: reserves and the weekend and they played as Canbra and

2233
01:54:33,067 --> 01:54:34,547
Speaker 27: we had a really good result.

2234
01:54:34,667 --> 01:54:36,147
Speaker 2: So let's hope we can do that again.

2235
01:54:37,667 --> 01:54:40,187
Speaker 3: Just on Annelie and and and I being away and

2236
01:54:40,267 --> 01:54:42,307
Speaker 3: then not getting the chance to play any games. What

2237
01:54:42,427 --> 01:54:44,867
Speaker 3: have they said about the experience of being away and

2238
01:54:44,947 --> 01:54:47,227
Speaker 3: then having those games taken away from them.

2239
01:54:47,507 --> 01:54:49,587
Speaker 27: Yeah, I think they've both kind of said it was

2240
01:54:49,827 --> 01:54:52,907
Speaker 27: a pretty crappy experience for them, traveling all that way

2241
01:54:52,947 --> 01:54:55,067
Speaker 27: and then no games, and I think they only trained

2242
01:54:55,107 --> 01:54:57,867
Speaker 27: twice and then they came back and it just wasn't

2243
01:54:57,907 --> 01:55:00,267
Speaker 27: a great experience. But we're grateful to have them back

2244
01:55:01,027 --> 01:55:03,147
Speaker 27: earlier because they were supposed to meet us over so

2245
01:55:03,187 --> 01:55:05,387
Speaker 27: it's nice we had them today and then tomorrow and

2246
01:55:05,467 --> 01:55:07,507
Speaker 27: we fly to more Smaster have them this week.

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01:55:07,827 --> 01:55:10,747
Speaker 3: Nice all right, So Canberra, see it was a long

2248
01:55:10,747 --> 01:55:12,307
Speaker 3: time ago since you played them at home. I think

2249
01:55:12,307 --> 01:55:15,467
Speaker 3: it's been Natalie's doground on the pitch. How do you

2250
01:55:15,547 --> 01:55:18,027
Speaker 3: assess their threats and how how do you assess your

2251
01:55:18,067 --> 01:55:20,307
Speaker 3: ability to get the result you need on the weekend?

2252
01:55:20,587 --> 01:55:23,227
Speaker 27: Yeah, I think we played them round two and we

2253
01:55:23,467 --> 01:55:26,307
Speaker 27: kind of dominated that game but just fell short one. Now,

2254
01:55:26,987 --> 01:55:28,907
Speaker 27: so that was a really tough loss we had to take.

2255
01:55:28,987 --> 01:55:31,467
Speaker 27: We reflected from that. We literally dominated the whole game.

2256
01:55:31,787 --> 01:55:33,947
Speaker 27: I think they have a lot of threats up top.

2257
01:55:34,667 --> 01:55:37,067
Speaker 27: They're a very direct team, so they just go straight

2258
01:55:37,147 --> 01:55:39,187
Speaker 27: and behind, but they're very good at what they do.

2259
01:55:39,747 --> 01:55:41,787
Speaker 27: So we've been working hard on that and how to

2260
01:55:41,867 --> 01:55:44,267
Speaker 27: stop that and then how we can kind of attack

2261
01:55:44,347 --> 01:55:46,547
Speaker 27: against that, and it's been looking good at training.

2262
01:55:47,227 --> 01:55:51,187
Speaker 3: Awesome, So goals obviously are needed. This weekend hasn't been

2263
01:55:51,587 --> 01:55:53,987
Speaker 3: the best couple of games for goal scoring. Have you

2264
01:55:54,107 --> 01:55:55,907
Speaker 3: worked specifically on the attacking third.

2265
01:55:56,227 --> 01:55:58,747
Speaker 27: Yeah, I think that was kind of the point, playing

2266
01:55:58,947 --> 01:56:00,867
Speaker 27: our reserve team as well, just to kind of get

2267
01:56:00,907 --> 01:56:03,667
Speaker 27: that confidence so out, just take that break, just breathe.

2268
01:56:04,027 --> 01:56:05,987
Speaker 27: And we had like a number of different goal scorers

2269
01:56:05,987 --> 01:56:08,267
Speaker 27: across that game, so that was good for the confidence.

2270
01:56:08,307 --> 01:56:10,027
Speaker 27: And now they're kind of like flowing and that training

2271
01:56:10,067 --> 01:56:13,147
Speaker 27: and everything seems to be flowing well in.

2272
01:56:13,227 --> 01:56:16,387
Speaker 3: A very consistent season for you. You've played pretty much

2273
01:56:16,387 --> 01:56:18,467
Speaker 3: every game, a lot of them from the start. How

2274
01:56:18,507 --> 01:56:20,107
Speaker 3: do you sort of assess what you are at the

2275
01:56:20,147 --> 01:56:22,027
Speaker 3: moment in terms of if you can pee yourself to

2276
01:56:22,107 --> 01:56:23,467
Speaker 3: last season or even the season before.

2277
01:56:23,867 --> 01:56:27,187
Speaker 27: Yeah, I think I've developed a lot, both on and

2278
01:56:27,307 --> 01:56:29,027
Speaker 27: off the pitch. I kind of say that every time,

2279
01:56:29,147 --> 01:56:31,427
Speaker 27: but I think I've probably matured a lot. I'm very

2280
01:56:31,467 --> 01:56:34,987
Speaker 27: grateful for the time that I do get. I've started

2281
01:56:35,067 --> 01:56:37,107
Speaker 27: obviously a lot of games this season. I think Tenths

2282
01:56:37,107 --> 01:56:38,867
Speaker 27: has put a lot of trust into me, So I'm

2283
01:56:38,947 --> 01:56:41,747
Speaker 27: very grateful for that, and I think the more I

2284
01:56:41,827 --> 01:56:44,547
Speaker 27: play with confidence, the better I am. And Yeah, each

2285
01:56:44,627 --> 01:56:46,507
Speaker 27: time I've been on the pitch, like, that's what I've

2286
01:56:46,547 --> 01:56:49,107
Speaker 27: been trying to do, Just bring what I bring and

2287
01:56:49,227 --> 01:56:51,627
Speaker 27: just be different and creative. And I think I'm happy

2288
01:56:51,707 --> 01:56:53,067
Speaker 27: with how I've done this season.

2289
01:56:53,267 --> 01:56:54,907
Speaker 3: Cool And how much would it mean to be able

2290
01:56:54,907 --> 01:56:56,947
Speaker 3: to bring to get the result on the weekend and

2291
01:56:56,987 --> 01:56:58,707
Speaker 3: then have the final game of the season at home

2292
01:56:58,827 --> 01:57:01,427
Speaker 3: is to Sunday with a chance to make the playoffs

2293
01:57:01,427 --> 01:57:01,947
Speaker 3: for the first time.

2294
01:57:02,147 --> 01:57:04,347
Speaker 27: Yeah, I think since I've been here from the start,

2295
01:57:04,507 --> 01:57:06,987
Speaker 27: like it's like so important and it kind of means

2296
01:57:07,027 --> 01:57:09,187
Speaker 27: the world to us. So I think we've been really

2297
01:57:09,267 --> 01:57:11,867
Speaker 27: dedicating the season to just making the top six no

2298
01:57:11,987 --> 01:57:14,627
Speaker 27: matter what, and now that unfortunately it's kind of done

2299
01:57:14,667 --> 01:57:17,867
Speaker 27: to like the last of wire, everyone's just like putting

2300
01:57:17,867 --> 01:57:20,667
Speaker 27: in a big shift to really dedicate ourselves to this

2301
01:57:20,827 --> 01:57:23,907
Speaker 27: big game and hopefully when we play Western at home,

2302
01:57:24,227 --> 01:57:26,587
Speaker 27: I think it's a big show and everyone will be

2303
01:57:26,707 --> 01:57:28,107
Speaker 27: there and it'll be so cool and we get the

2304
01:57:28,187 --> 01:57:29,347
Speaker 27: win in top six.

2305
01:57:30,427 --> 01:57:32,747
Speaker 3: That was really weird that it's a list of winm

2306
01:57:32,987 --> 01:57:35,867
Speaker 3: ahead of their game against Canberra United this afternoon five o'clock.

2307
01:57:35,947 --> 01:57:38,347
Speaker 3: Must win. If they do, they keep their top six

2308
01:57:38,427 --> 01:57:41,467
Speaker 3: hopes alive heading into their final regular season game. Let's

2309
01:57:41,507 --> 01:57:44,147
Speaker 3: got to the men. Auckland FC are top of the

2310
01:57:44,187 --> 01:57:46,147
Speaker 3: A League mens they have been for a while. A

2311
01:57:46,267 --> 01:57:50,867
Speaker 3: too two draw with Sydney FC yesterday in Sydney has

2312
01:57:50,947 --> 01:57:55,587
Speaker 3: them four points ahead of Melbourne City. Western United are

2313
01:57:56,867 --> 01:57:59,307
Speaker 3: six points behind Auckland, but they have a game in

2314
01:57:59,387 --> 01:58:02,107
Speaker 3: hand which they play later on today. So to to

2315
01:58:02,187 --> 01:58:05,907
Speaker 3: two yesterday Auckland FC were two kneeled down, So to

2316
01:58:05,987 --> 01:58:07,747
Speaker 3: come back to two to and get a point was

2317
01:58:08,387 --> 01:58:12,187
Speaker 3: was credible for them. How did coach Steve Coriker evaluate

2318
01:58:12,267 --> 01:58:15,067
Speaker 3: the performance overall? First of all, tough game.

2319
01:58:15,187 --> 01:58:20,147
Speaker 24: I was very entertaining his game as well. Obviously they

2320
01:58:20,227 --> 01:58:25,827
Speaker 24: scored two really good Goalscai obviously dangerous from distance, which

2321
01:58:25,907 --> 01:58:29,747
Speaker 24: we warned the players about. But yeah, they started really well.

2322
01:58:31,107 --> 01:58:34,707
Speaker 24: But I think we fought back, showed great courage, great

2323
01:58:34,787 --> 01:58:38,027
Speaker 24: character from the boys as well to keep going till

2324
01:58:38,067 --> 01:58:40,787
Speaker 24: the end, and you know, we got back into the game.

2325
01:58:40,867 --> 01:58:43,027
Speaker 24: And I think in the end, I think we should

2326
01:58:43,027 --> 01:58:45,347
Speaker 24: have won the game. With Nadar's opportunity and Jake had

2327
01:58:45,387 --> 01:58:49,627
Speaker 24: an opportunity Brimmer as well, really good ones to finish

2328
01:58:49,667 --> 01:58:53,027
Speaker 24: the game off and to win it. But still happy

2329
01:58:54,187 --> 01:58:56,387
Speaker 24: in the end with a point where we were to

2330
01:58:56,547 --> 01:58:59,787
Speaker 24: Niel down, but three points would have been a lot better.

2331
01:58:59,947 --> 01:59:02,827
Speaker 3: How happy was Steve Coricker though, with his side coming

2332
01:59:02,907 --> 01:59:04,507
Speaker 3: back from too nil down to get a point.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, no, I'm really proud of it, to be honest

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Speaker 24: with you, I think they never gave up. They had

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Speaker 24: belief that they would they would get back into the game.

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Speaker 24: We believed that halftime as well we could win the game,

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Speaker 24: and we changed things accordingly to do that. We wanted

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Speaker 24: to get a little bit further forward with our wing

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Speaker 24: We changed the system. We got our wing backs higher

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Speaker 24: and I think it changed the game for us.

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Speaker 3: The occasion for Steve Coricker was a return to the

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Speaker 3: club that he won premierships and championships with as a

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Speaker 3: player and as a coach. So how was Steve Coricker's

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Speaker 3: emotions going back to Sydney FC for the first time

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Speaker 3: as an opposition coach.

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Speaker 24: It was a very strange feeling when I first got here. Yeah,

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Speaker 24: I don't know really, it was the first time. You

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01:59:48,147 --> 01:59:51,987
Speaker 24: don't know what to expect when you come back. I

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Speaker 24: like that you said, I've been here for so long.

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Speaker 24: I gave everything to the club. You know, I was

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01:59:57,947 --> 02:00:01,147
Speaker 24: here a long time as a player coach, so you

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Speaker 24: know I've.

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Speaker 3: Done my bit.

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Speaker 24: Now we will see my focuses on Auckland and win

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Speaker 24: in the premiership.

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Speaker 3: And does Steve Kyriker believe that the Premier's plate is

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Speaker 3: still there for the taking despite the fact that they've

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Speaker 3: had a number of draws recently.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, we've picked up a lot of drawers of late.

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Speaker 24: But also that shows we're hard to beat because I

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Speaker 24: think it's twelve games now that we haven't been beaten

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Speaker 24: for and you know almost here when they went to

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Speaker 24: Neil up. But the boys fought back, like we said,

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Speaker 24: and it's amazing that they that they did that. And yeah,

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Speaker 24: we just keep going, you know, three games to go.

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Speaker 24: Now we're four points clear of City. We see what

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Speaker 24: the game happens tomorrow with Western Sydney and Western United. Yeah,

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Speaker 24: we just keep fine till the end. Obviously games are

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Speaker 24: running out, so if we can keep our our points

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Speaker 24: in front, we've got a good chance.

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Speaker 3: That is Steve Kyriker. After Auckland FC's two to a

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Speaker 3: draw with Sydney. The Wellington Phoenix yesterday at home went

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Speaker 3: down three two to Melbourne victory, so officially now they

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Speaker 3: cannot make the top six. I went to the postmatch

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Speaker 3: press conference and us G and Colo tally about a

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Speaker 3: player who impreached me yesterday and has the entire season.

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Speaker 3: That's Corbyn Piper. And I asked Gianclo Ataliana what he

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Speaker 3: saw in Corbyn Piper before he signed him and what

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Speaker 3: sort of development he's seen from him this season.

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Speaker 28: I think we were in the market for a not

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Speaker 28: a concert player, but a player that had potential that

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Speaker 28: we could work with, and I probably looked at him

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Speaker 28: more as a utility player, someone that could fill in.

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Speaker 28: He had a lot of good defensive abilities, a natural

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Speaker 28: inclination to defend, which is very hard to teach. It's instinctial.

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Speaker 28: So when you see players like that, it's like Luke

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Speaker 28: brook Smith with his attacking. It's got something you can't

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Speaker 28: teach it. You just got to harness it. The same

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Speaker 28: with Corpse. But for me, Corpse every week, you know,

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02:01:54,427 --> 02:01:57,027
Speaker 28: gives one hundred percent. That's all I asked for players.

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Speaker 28: One big thing I've learned this season is you can

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Speaker 28: be great tactically. You can have the best sessions, you

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Speaker 28: can have all that crap right, it doesn't matter if

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Speaker 28: you don't have the right mindset, it doesn't Everything fails.

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Speaker 28: For me, I never questioned his mindset. He gives me

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Speaker 28: one hundred percent. He's you know, we ask him to

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Speaker 28: do something, he does like even you know today, he

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Speaker 28: was still running at the end. He copped two hits

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Speaker 28: at the end, collisions you know probably you know he's

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Speaker 28: probably had a concussion or something, but he kept going

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Speaker 28: and he was a danger on Is he the Polish

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Speaker 28: version that we want now?

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Speaker 14: Is?

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Speaker 28: I think he's still got a lot of upside. But

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Speaker 28: for me, if every player had like that would be

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Speaker 28: very easy to win games. I think can you coach that, yes, yes,

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Speaker 28: that's you're then dealing with player expectation, group expectation, how you.

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Speaker 15: Deliver messages. Yeah, I think it's very coachable.

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Speaker 28: You know, I've seen some very poor teams win leagues.

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Speaker 28: For me, the most informat.

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Speaker 15: And it's no.

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Speaker 28: Disrespect to Renieri. Well sorry, the utmost respect to Renieri.

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Speaker 28: But when he took over Lester, no one gave him

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Speaker 28: a chance. But the mindset he instilled in that team

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Speaker 28: and incorporator was a very a massive collective togetherness. That's

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Speaker 28: something that I like to think that we try and

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Speaker 28: build here.

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Speaker 2: And I think the togetherness of.

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Speaker 28: The team is the extra player, it's the extra leg

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Speaker 28: It's the difference in the long term of winning and losing.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's understated. Again.

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Speaker 28: You can have the best players in the world. I've

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Speaker 28: seen Madrid, you know, have many teams stacked with unbelievable

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Speaker 28: stars Milan as well, But cohesion the dressing room, there's

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Speaker 28: not enough. You know, emphasis on the culture can fail

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02:03:38,027 --> 02:03:40,347
Speaker 28: very very quickly. Players do win your games, yes in

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Speaker 28: the short term, but the group will win you.

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Speaker 3: The Championships as Gian Callowa Taliano after his side three

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Speaker 3: two lost to Melbourne victory yesterday seven to three News

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