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Speaker 1: Darcy water Grave sports talk hosters with me, Hello.

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Speaker 2: Darce, never Blizzy Ellen.

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Speaker 1: Now, what's what is this? Is there a problem with

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Speaker 1: the pitch? Are they trying to dig the pitch for us?

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Speaker 1: Are they trying to are they trying to skew the

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Speaker 1: prep pitch? What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Slip of the tongue there?

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Speaker 3: What happened when England was over there and beat them

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Speaker 3: in the first Test a couple of years ago in

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Speaker 3: a five Test series? The next four wickets were diabolical.

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Speaker 3: They really didn't take it very well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 3: It's only been played on twice before and the first

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Speaker 3: time they played on it they were beaten by three

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Speaker 3: hundred and thirty three runs.

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Speaker 2: The second time they played on.

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Speaker 3: It they won comfortably.

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Speaker 2: And who scored a double century? Their rock star with

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Speaker 2: the I've just completely forgotten his name?

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Speaker 3: Are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you asking me to star in the Indian Square?

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Speaker 1: Who did you say? So?

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Speaker 3: What they're going to do now is they believe it's

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Speaker 3: going to be low and slow, and it's rolled and flat,

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Speaker 3: and it's made of black mud, so it's going to

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Speaker 3: be difficult to score off and they're going to load

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Speaker 3: their side up with spinners.

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Speaker 2: But last time. In that very first Test match, the

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Speaker 2: test umpire said.

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Speaker 3: Look, this is not fit for purpose. This is the

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Speaker 3: most awful It was over in three days.

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Speaker 1: How do you because apparently what they're doing there is

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Speaker 1: they're trying to prepare the pitch so that our fast

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Speaker 1: bowlers don't actually work that well there, how do you

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Speaker 1: do that? What do you do to the pitch?

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Speaker 2: You didn't it so it doesn't have the same.

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Speaker 1: Do you have I come out with like road rollers

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Speaker 1: or something.

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Speaker 2: Well, they can roll as flat as they want. They

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Speaker 2: can make it more dull for the bounce. The problem

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Speaker 2: here is trying to fight what we've gotten the paste department.

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Speaker 2: Wellow rourk he's extraordinarily tall. Well, it's a home test.

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Speaker 2: That's what happens.

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Speaker 1: You prepare, We do this kind of stuff for gold.

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Speaker 3: There. What we do is we wait till we get

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Speaker 3: a subcontinental team, right tests, we send them to the

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Speaker 3: need it and they freeze.

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Speaker 2: To death after the second day. It's cruel, but that's

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Speaker 2: what it's all about. It's the home advantage. But will

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Speaker 2: I rock?

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Speaker 3: It's got such a ridiculous high arch. He's so tall,

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Speaker 3: the steeples. It comes down from a great deal of height.

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Speaker 3: If anyone's going to extrain anything from the deck, it's

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Speaker 3: going to be him. But remember last time, they think,

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Speaker 3: win the toss this time and you'll have control of

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Speaker 3: the match, which is what happened last time. The Indians

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Speaker 3: won the toss and they have any control and they

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Speaker 3: fell apart. And I suspect, and I might be horribly

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Speaker 3: wrong here, that the pressure on board the Indians to

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Speaker 3: win this Test series so they can establish a position

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Speaker 3: in the World Test Championship Final, which they should do

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Speaker 3: with the rage of the players and the rage of

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Speaker 3: the crowds and the expectations coming at anything in that situation,

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Speaker 3: if you approach anything with anger, doesn't work out well.

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Speaker 1: No, which is good to add our advantage again.

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Speaker 3: And I think the new Centalanders sit back, super calm,

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Speaker 3: going it's on you guys.

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Speaker 2: Know what have you got? I'm really looking forward to.

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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by this what's going on with rugby. So

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Speaker 1: the former RA boss a chair up this says that

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Speaker 1: they should be poaching talent from NRL, which actually is

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Speaker 1: not a bad idea, right because the NRL plays that

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Speaker 1: game is fast, man.

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Speaker 2: It is good. We've had issues before though with NRL

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Speaker 2: players that have come across. Some have been very successful,

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Speaker 2: some have not been successful at all. The general callers

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Speaker 2: sought your grassroots out, start building rugby players from the

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Speaker 2: bottom up, and you should be okay. But they've been

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Speaker 2: working on that for twenty years. And so you look

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Speaker 2: at the success stories outside of his social media presence.

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Speaker 2: Israel Flower huge success story. It's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: You go back a few years Rogers came out of

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Speaker 3: rugby league, he was fantastic. Games changed a wee bit

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Speaker 3: now when All Sailor came out of a rugby league,

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Speaker 3: fantastic rugby player over here. We've had Sonny Bill Williams

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Speaker 3: who transferred particularly well Rods to Vasishik didn't he got

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Speaker 3: to the All Blacks. But I wonder if that's the

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Speaker 3: case of all that good or insit. I felt they

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Speaker 3: had to because they they've got him.

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Speaker 2: Over here, they might be gross down fair. I think

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Speaker 2: they put him in the wrong position.

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Speaker 3: Benji Marshall came over then coach of the bluest him

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Speaker 3: play in the NPC.

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Speaker 2: So when he turned up to play for.

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Speaker 3: The Blues and Super Rugby proper, he had no idea

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Speaker 3: what he was doing that it was an absolute disaster.

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Speaker 3: They used to call him Benchie Marshall because he's been

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Speaker 3: all this time on.

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Speaker 2: The bench, so it is fraught.

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Speaker 3: But Joseph Ali is the new guy and cost him

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Speaker 3: about five million bucks. But they think the effect that

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Speaker 3: he's going to have on the game in Australia is huge.

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Speaker 3: He's theorizing and he can hear more because I've spoken

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Speaker 3: with Hamos mclenan. He'll be on the show up after

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Speaker 3: seven tonight. Is that someone like Cleary has done everything

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Speaker 3: he can in rugby league. There's a World Cup in

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Speaker 3: Australia and last time and he could be the savior.

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Speaker 1: Oh here's a text for us, get a grip. Poaching

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Speaker 1: league players is like getting drafts players to play chess.

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Speaker 2: But the thing some of them have been really, really successful.

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Speaker 2: You can't deny that some of them been out and

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Speaker 2: out failure. I don't know, it's still a similar shape ball.

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Speaker 2: It's them on the game. And thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for your time.

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