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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs winger at Tenny Nanai Saturo has played every single

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Speaker 2: game of this season for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Running it back is I said, Turro over halfway and

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Speaker 1: then a little ship over the top chasing will He

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Speaker 1: gets the mouse, He gets the mouse, the taper from

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Speaker 1: Leo Willis Muss and non nice.

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Speaker 3: Saturo goes in in the left head corner.

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Speaker 2: He's been a standout for the Chiefs this season and

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Speaker 2: joins us now at any nan I Satura, thanks for

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Speaker 2: taking the time at Aenny. Not only will you play

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Speaker 2: your sixteenth game this afternoon in a row, it's your

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Speaker 2: sixteenth straight start. No other player has done that in

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Speaker 2: Super Rugby this season started sixteen straight game. So first

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Speaker 2: of all, mate, how's the body holding up?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, so it is hanging on a no, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but it's been lost. I guess it's just awesome to

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Speaker 3: get a couple of games under my belt. You know,

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Speaker 3: obviously know the last past five years I've been here,

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Speaker 3: I've been in and out because of injuries. But there's

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Speaker 3: probably my first season or for sixty years playing sixteen

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Speaker 3: games like you said, and yeah, that's good. Bodies, body's

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Speaker 3: all good. It's just hanging on. But yeah, I'm good

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Speaker 3: to go for this weekend.

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Speaker 2: And I guess also as well as staying injury free,

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Speaker 2: you've got to be playing well to continue to be

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Speaker 2: selected week after week.

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Speaker 3: Are you?

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Speaker 2: Are you happy with the way things are going by

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Speaker 2: to yourself and and and the chief season on the whole.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, now obviously you said it, but yeah, pretty

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Speaker 3: pretty happy with my performance. I think I've been going

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Speaker 3: be going all good. But obviously it's the finals finals

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Speaker 3: footy now, and I guess those players who play in

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Speaker 3: the it's one of the big the big stace that

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Speaker 3: they beget to share themselves what kind of a player

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Speaker 3: they are in the finals, the finals forty.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, you play mainly on the wing, obviously, but you've

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Speaker 2: had a few games at fallback as well. Do you

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Speaker 2: enjoy wearing the fifteen jersey?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome. I don't my swing or fallback, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: I've been getting a couple of games there this year.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, obviously fullback I guess my preferred position, but opposition,

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Speaker 3: but they should have been awesome place the last couple

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Speaker 3: of years so yeah, he's he plays a big role

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Speaker 3: in our team.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, something that's become a parent in your game recently,

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Speaker 2: well not recently, but over the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: as is your kicking.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Is that something you've worked on, perhaps with someone like

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Speaker 2: David Hill in the Chiefs environment.

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Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, yeah, David Hill and also like players like

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Speaker 3: Sean Steenson. Obviously he's got a big, big pannon on him.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's still still working on my left foot,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, I guess this year they've know the coaches,

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Speaker 3: the team, They've put a lot of ownership on myself

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Speaker 3: to use my boot more, especially on the left side,

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Speaker 3: to really pressure with Demos's boot. And also sure that

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Speaker 3: just kind of changes up I'll kick in, gives us

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Speaker 3: more kicking on austion. So yeah, it's going pretty good,

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Speaker 3: and yeah I'm still developing my boot.

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Speaker 2: Last weekend went over the Raids in the quarterfinal, pretty impressive,

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Speaker 2: particularly in the first half. Did it kind of feel

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Speaker 2: like everything really finally clicked for you guys in the

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Speaker 2: first half last weekend?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I feel like they're obviously our forwards, they're

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Speaker 3: on that game. I think they've hit the platform for us.

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Speaker 3: Great platform platform for us to prospects to strike it out. Word. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: everything was going well. We're playing in the right end

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Speaker 3: of the field. Also with a shortman shooter in the

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Speaker 3: first is using his boot. Really is a lot of

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Speaker 3: pressure fast in our house. We've got to continue there.

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Speaker 3: This week is going against going against the Kings. We

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Speaker 3: know what they bring in that they have.

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Speaker 2: Just on them. If you you know, you talked to

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Speaker 2: a lot of people talk about the Chiefs back three

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Speaker 2: and how impressive you have been. You look at the

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Speaker 2: Hurricanes back three for this one rare moreby love, how

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Speaker 2: much work do you put into diffusing what they might

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Speaker 2: bring this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they've got a good back three. I've played or

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Speaker 3: Sas he's good a ball in hand, Ruben as well,

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Speaker 3: Ruben loves at the back. He's got a good boot,

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Speaker 3: good skills and also fast as well. And also moreby

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Speaker 3: know he's he's cooked as well. But we know what

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Speaker 3: they're going to bring. We know that they're god of

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Speaker 3: ball in hand. But I think it for us is

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Speaker 3: just limiting the austion. Then I guess focusing more on

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Speaker 3: how we're how we're going to play on this second.

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Speaker 2: And Damien McKenzie and the ten jersey for you has

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Speaker 2: been directing you around the park all season. How have

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Speaker 2: you assessed the way he's gone in the in the

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Speaker 2: first five position for your for you guys this.

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Speaker 3: Season, he's he's he's awesome. He stood for us and

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Speaker 3: his knowledge, his brain. Yeah, especially when I was playing

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Speaker 3: full back. A couple of games I was playing full back. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he took a lot of pressure off me. And he's yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's got he's sort of like the voice fail team

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Speaker 3: and Evertin goes through him and yeah, he's been a

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Speaker 3: thing for me this year.

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Speaker 2: Of course, you were part of the New Zealand seven's

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Speaker 2: set up when Clark Laidlaw was was the national sevens coach.

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Speaker 2: He's now Hurricanes coach. Of course you want a Commonwealth

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Speaker 2: Games goal medal, Olympic silver medal with Clark Laidlaw. I think,

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Speaker 2: uh has it as a surprise you had quickly he's

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Speaker 2: adjusted to coaching fifteens.

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Speaker 3: No, not really, no cluck. He's a good coach. He's

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Speaker 3: also good of other stuff as well, just bringing him.

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Speaker 3: He's good around the off field as well. The culture

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Speaker 3: in there and I'm not surprised that they're going well

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Speaker 3: I know what it's like to be under Clark l

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Speaker 3: Law and yeah, yeah, not surprised.

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Speaker 2: He seems to be a really good man manager and

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Speaker 2: obviously it's there's a lot more people to manage when

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Speaker 2: you're a fifteen's coach. But did you find that in

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Speaker 2: the sevens environment under him that he was that he

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Speaker 2: was good one to one?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was really good around there, especially me

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Speaker 3: coming out of school. He was good for my confidence,

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Speaker 3: what was backing me And yeah, obviously as a young

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Speaker 3: player that that's what you want when you're as a coach,

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Speaker 3: you want coach to back and yeah he was, he was,

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Speaker 3: I was when I was under the club, all right.

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Speaker 2: And just to finish beaten in the semi final two

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Speaker 2: years ago, beaten in the final last year. Do you

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Speaker 2: feel like the Chiefs can take that last step and

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Speaker 2: win the whole thing this year?

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Speaker 3: I know that we can. We got the team for it.

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Speaker 3: It's just us turning up on the day. But we've

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Speaker 3: been there before and we spoke about it this week

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Speaker 3: and but I guess the precious not on us soon last.

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Speaker 3: We have to go out there in our front up

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Speaker 3: and I guess play our game.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be a big crowd there at

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Speaker 2: Anny this afternoon, over thirty thousand turning up. I get

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Speaker 2: the feeling most of them will probably be cheering for

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Speaker 2: the Hurricanes, but I'm sure you won't mind that in

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Speaker 2: the in the Chiefs either of mate. Hey, all the best,

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Speaker 2: all the best in the semi final. Like I say,

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Speaker 2: everybody's really looking forward to it. I appreciate you taking

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Speaker 2: the time for.

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Speaker 3: A chat, no no worries, Thanks for having me, thank you, no.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us at any at any and

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Speaker 2: then I satura there and have a present for the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs this season.

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