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Speaker 1: A Super Rugby final time. Of course, Blues face the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs that sold out Eden Park kickoff just after seven.

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Speaker 1: Eliot Smith's going to be doing the business for us

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Speaker 1: and he's well this morning to me morning. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever been to our hoo's by the way, happy? No,

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Speaker 1: I haven't happiest city in the world.

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Speaker 2: Oh on the list.

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Speaker 1: City of smiley people. Well you'll be treated. We're excited

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Speaker 1: about the all black ship, by the way, I.

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Speaker 2: Think we are. There's a little bit of intrigued. Squad's

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Speaker 2: out on Monday evening first first name by Scott Robertson.

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Speaker 2: Intrigue as to how here the shots down the squad?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Scott Robertson thinks. So as far as the physics

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Speaker 1: is concerned, this weekend it's one of those weird things,

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Speaker 1: isn't If you're sitting in duneed and you're not really gripped,

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Speaker 1: are you, because it's Blues and Chiefs and it's but

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Speaker 1: as a game, it's got potential, hasn't it.

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Speaker 2: That's right? And the Chiefs have come out of nowhere

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Speaker 2: really after the last couple of weeks. They head into

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Speaker 2: a plow from the fourth but the Blues and Hurricanes

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Speaker 2: were the story and they were expected to meet in

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Speaker 2: the final. But the Chiefs have stepped up to not

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Speaker 2: just one or two levels, but they seem to have

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Speaker 2: gone up and grown an extra leak to to use

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Speaker 2: a sporting cliche, over the last couple of weeks. They

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Speaker 2: didn't look like it during the regular season at all,

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Speaker 2: but have found their feet swept away the Hurricanes last

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Speaker 2: week on the Hurricanes home to the Blues have been

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Speaker 2: one of the form teams or the form team throughout

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Speaker 2: the entire competition, so it sits up an interesting final.

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Speaker 2: But you're right, from a neutral perspective in New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: yet it'll be a good game, certainly not in an Australia.

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Speaker 2: Which is the major issue for this comp is that

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Speaker 2: if you're a Brumbies fan or a Warritas fan, you

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Speaker 2: lost interest week.

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Speaker 1: See, there was the story, wasn't The Brumbies sort of

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Speaker 1: survived but they were not up to much and the

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Speaker 1: Rebels got booted out and the whole thing's just to

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Speaker 1: shambles to sell out. By the way, it's a genuine

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Speaker 1: sellout in genuine interest, which is good because the pictures

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Speaker 1: I saw last week were shocking, terrible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was thing. We got twelve thousand max at

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Speaker 2: the in for that for the Brumby semi final. Look,

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Speaker 2: the Rumby's on a draw card at the best of times.

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Speaker 2: The weather was poor. You can make any excuses you want.

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Speaker 2: Friday night an Auckland, terrible place to try and get

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Speaker 2: across the city. But for a semi final of what

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Speaker 2: is supposed to be a prestigious rugby competition, it was

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Speaker 2: a very very poor crowd. But they've sold at every

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Speaker 2: ticket they've got going tomorrow night.

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Speaker 3: So just so the Chiefs if they win, what is

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Speaker 3: that an upset A boil over? I think it is

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Speaker 3: an upset, Okay, from coming and forth from the season.

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Speaker 3: They lost to the Hurricanes twice, they lost to the Brumbies,

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Speaker 3: they lost to the Crusaders, they lost to you know,

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Speaker 3: the Reds as well. So they didn't have a great

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Speaker 3: regular season.

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Speaker 2: But they've stepped up when it counts, which probably speaks

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Speaker 2: to the fact that in this the way the competition

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Speaker 2: is run at the moment, if you target two weeks

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Speaker 2: you can probably get away with winning.

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Speaker 1: It's how you've finished that counts.

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Speaker 2: When you look at the Crusaders and what they did

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Speaker 2: last year, they were looking a little bit creaking at times,

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Speaker 2: and then came through at the end, demolished the Blues

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Speaker 2: in the semi final, beat the Chiefs and home saw.

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Speaker 2: I suspect the Chiefs might have taken a few listens

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Speaker 2: out of them.

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Speaker 1: The two Ploto thing is that as remarkable as they

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Speaker 1: seem to be making.

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Speaker 2: You never seen anything like it. Wow, medial ligament. He

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Speaker 2: out for six to seven weeks, gone from the all Blacks,

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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden he comes in on Monday,

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Speaker 2: does a gym seession, does a field session.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to go see. I had a knee

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Speaker 1: injury and it's taken months.

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Speaker 3: And you haven't played super Aby since and I've played No.

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Speaker 1: I don't played no super ra it all and it

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Speaker 1: took months to rehabit. So I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: hell he's on. So call it for me. So Blues

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Speaker 1: by five, all right? So good, tight game, I hope

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Speaker 1: so and yeah, I think And the forecast whether in

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Speaker 1: track looks fabulous.

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Speaker 2: Much better than it has been an Auckland in recent weeks.

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Speaker 2: So hoping the dry track and that should bring both teams.

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Speaker 2: There's still all black spots on the liners here that

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Speaker 2: squads out Monday night, a chance to impress one last time.

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Speaker 2: But also you know blues dropbracking title first one in

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Speaker 2: twenty one years. Chiefs having one on one ten And

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Speaker 2: do you pace yourself for the call yourself? I do, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you have to retine Mike, you've got on your mate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah go Well, nice to see you. Elliott Smith will

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