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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk Z'B.

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Speaker 2: After running out to an early tennerl Lee, the Warriors

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Speaker 2: turned in a mediocre display, really, conceding six tries to

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Speaker 2: three in front of a sold out crowd of twenty

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Speaker 2: four thousand. Bevan Dua was the voice you heard there

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Speaker 2: calling the game for Sky. He's with us now. The

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Speaker 2: Warriors had started the season so strongly, Bevan. How surprising

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Speaker 2: was that thirty two to fourteen loss to the Tigers

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Speaker 2: last night?

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Speaker 1: Ah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Piney, rather surprising, especially on paper pro the game.

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Speaker 3: You know, the Warriors were pretty stacks competed that to

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Speaker 3: the Tigers. They had no real players leading any stats

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Speaker 3: in the NRL, granted the early days in the NRL,

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Speaker 3: but they had no Jerome Lewai. They had a very

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Speaker 3: young team, a rather an experienced team, and they've come

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Speaker 3: to go medium Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland and they

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Speaker 3: ambushed us, really, or ambush the Warriors at least catching

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Speaker 3: everyone off guard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've mentioned that in you in your final whistle

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Speaker 2: call last night, the word ambushed. I don't think anybody

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Speaker 2: saw it coming. I saw some minds before the game.

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Speaker 2: I think the Tigers are paying four dollars thirty they

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Speaker 2: won the game, the Warriors a dollar twenty something like that.

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Speaker 2: Did they go away from what had worked for them

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Speaker 2: so well? The Warriors and they're opening three matches.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's hard to say. Look, you can't go

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Speaker 3: past the fact that Tigers defended very well, especially in

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Speaker 3: that second half. The Warriors went bang bang early in

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Speaker 3: the first and then the Tigers kind of just grinded away,

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Speaker 3: and then just before halftime they managed to score those

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Speaker 3: three tries and then the conference was there. And then, man,

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Speaker 3: you got to admit, the Warriors had the rubble of

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Speaker 3: the green riff the referee. They had outless literally countless

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Speaker 3: amounts of opportunity inside that attacking zone in that second

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Speaker 3: half to attack that Tiger's line. But the Tigers just

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Speaker 3: defended so well. So you need to really take your

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Speaker 3: head off to the Tigers and saying that with the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: I do wonder whether Tanner Boyd possibly why don't You

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Speaker 3: Beat used this word last night in the commentary. He

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Speaker 3: said Tanner Boyd needs to be a little bit more alpha,

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Speaker 3: and I think what he meant was maybe take the

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Speaker 3: reins a little bit more on attack. I noticed when

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Speaker 3: they started attacking the right hand side of the field,

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Speaker 3: they opportunities were came up a little bit more an attack,

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Speaker 3: especially right in their attacking zone. But yeah, it's an

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Speaker 3: interesting one. Hindsight's a beautiful thing. Pineer. I also think

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Speaker 3: about Luke Metcarth and I think was he rushed into

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Speaker 3: the first grade side a little bit too early? But again,

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Speaker 3: hindsight's a beautiful thing, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: The crazy thing is that about If that is the case,

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Speaker 2: there was no need to rush them back and was

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Speaker 2: there because they were playing well anyway? You know, I've

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Speaker 2: heard it suggested, and it was even suggested to Andrew

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Speaker 2: Webster after the game last night that bringing somebody in

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter who they are, into a settled team can

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Speaker 2: sometimes cause a bit of disruption and a couple of

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Speaker 2: teething problems. Did you see any of that out there

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Speaker 2: or do you think that the Metcalf void six seven

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Speaker 2: combo is the way forward? Once they get a bit

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Speaker 2: of time in the saddle together.

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Speaker 3: It probably is the way forward. But I think there

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Speaker 3: is merit in having him start off in New South

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Speaker 3: Wales Cup level. As you say, things were going good

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Speaker 3: Sanel Harris Tavita was fit again. He had a very

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Speaker 3: good first opening game in the opening round of the NRL.

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Speaker 3: Obviously he got injured that second game, but he would

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Speaker 3: have been fine in the number six jersey. Yes, I

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Speaker 3: think they are the right peer going forward, Metcalf and Boyd.

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Speaker 3: But I think again, hindsight's a beautiful thing. We all

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Speaker 3: wanted to rush him back, did it. None of us

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Speaker 3: were staying this, you know, three days ago where we

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Speaker 3: were all very excited about it. So look, a good

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Speaker 3: kick up the backside, Piney. It's very good that the

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Speaker 3: Warriors get this out of the way now and hopefully

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Speaker 3: they learn from this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, you're so right, that's right. I was amped

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Speaker 2: to see Metcalf.

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Speaker 3: We all look.

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Speaker 2: Metcalf back earlier than expected. This is crazy, This is fantastic.

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Speaker 2: But as his ans, it's always twenty twenty. Just back

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Speaker 2: to that period at the end of the first half.

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Speaker 2: The Tigers bang, bang, bang, three tries in seven minutes.

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Speaker 2: What happened?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just literally in the last fifting

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Speaker 3: and two of them possibly soft tries, and then it

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Speaker 3: just caught the Warriors off guard, and it's just a

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Speaker 3: massive punch in the nose and whatever Benjie Marshall said

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Speaker 3: to them at halftime, because they defended their hearts out

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Speaker 3: that second half. You know, just Warriors had nothing and

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Speaker 3: you look at at least this is happening in the

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Speaker 3: early parts of the season, Pinty. It's something that the

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Speaker 3: Waits can go back and ever look at. But again

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Speaker 3: you've got to tip your head off to the Tigers.

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Speaker 3: And again, as I say, such an inexperienced and young

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Speaker 3: side and to come to go medium Ount Smart Stadium

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Speaker 3: and did what they did. Benji Marshall would be very.

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Speaker 2: Proud, indeed he would. So as you say, it's early,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Sometimes they say a loss is a good

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Speaker 2: thing you win or you learn. If you want to

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Speaker 2: use another cliche, could this res don't refocus the Warriors

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Speaker 2: ahead of you know, of what lies ahead in the

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Speaker 2: next month or so.

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Speaker 3: Oh you'd like to think. So look, look, I'm not

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Speaker 3: I'm not accusing the Warriors of taking this game lightly,

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Speaker 3: but I kind of felt there was more of a

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Speaker 3: nervousness or more of an awareness when they played Sydney,

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Speaker 3: Canberra and Newcastle, and maybe they went into this game

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Speaker 3: a little bit more confident than usual, but again a

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Speaker 3: good kick up the backside. And you know, at least

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Speaker 3: it's happened. Now, learn from it, learn from your mistakes.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, Cornella, here we come on east of Sunday.

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Speaker 3: It will be a bit of a tough arc over there.

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Speaker 3: But the Warriors have proven that they can win big games.

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Speaker 2: So here we are and here we are so bottom

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Speaker 2: bottom line Warriors still I can. I mean, it's one game, Bev.

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Speaker 2: There's still a contender, there's still a good team. We

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Speaker 2: don't have to put away the is this our year

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Speaker 2: signage just yet?

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Speaker 3: Do we? No? Just if anything we move last night

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Speaker 3: is no game as a guarantee. Everyone was saying thirty plus,

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Speaker 3: no game is a guarantee. Treat every game like a

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Speaker 3: Grand final. Support your team, but take every team seriously.

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Speaker 2: Love it, love to call last night, Bev. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Bronie. Have a good weekend.

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Speaker 2: You have a good weekend too, Bev. I know You're

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Speaker 2: will always good to chat to you. Voice of the

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Speaker 2: Warriors on Skypevan Dua.

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