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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Pine

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Speaker 1: from newstalk SEDB, and.

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Speaker 2: This time every Saturday afternoon, we have the pleasure of

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Speaker 2: the company of Australian correspondent Adam Peacock who joins us

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Speaker 2: now and might want to talk some cricket and some football.

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Speaker 2: But can we start with Rugby? The wallaby speeding England

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Speaker 2: in dramatic fashion last weekend at Twickenham? Did anybody see

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Speaker 2: this coming?

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Speaker 3: First time?

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Speaker 4: I reckon, I've spoken to you Piney and I'm happy

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Speaker 4: to start with baking not no, to be brutally honest,

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Speaker 4: it was a very pleasant surprise when we awoke last

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Speaker 4: weekend to that result and the manner of it as well,

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Speaker 4: in that it was so dramatic as the death there.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, talking to someone from Rugby Australia who I

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Speaker 4: know quite well, who has just joined an organization the

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Speaker 4: last six months, he said that earlier last week everyone's

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Speaker 4: just kind of got a pep in their step again

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Speaker 4: what I can there's a bit of dooms don't have

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Speaker 4: the place over the last couple of years, which is

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Speaker 4: fair enough. There's been huge turmoil in the joint but

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Speaker 4: he's been new to the joint. He's just really happy

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Speaker 4: for the people who have been there for a while

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Speaker 4: and have lived through some pretty dark days to have

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Speaker 4: something like that. And yeah, no predictions about what's going

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Speaker 4: to go on this weekend, but it's certainly given people

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Speaker 4: a bit of hope about.

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Speaker 3: The next two years, which is massive because there's a

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Speaker 3: few big things on the horizon with the life to it.

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Speaker 3: And then it woke up down the track as well.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, see Joseph Sui. He played really well against England,

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Speaker 2: but down to the beach for this one against Wales.

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Speaker 2: What's been the initial assessment of his switched across from

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Speaker 2: rugby league.

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Speaker 3: To rugby Yeah, class, Yeah, you could see it with

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Speaker 3: some of those silky touches in the midfield, and you know,

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Speaker 3: he's a great addition and he kind of justified Joe

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Speaker 3: Schmid what seems on face value of massive gamble. So

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Speaker 3: he's going to be very good. I think I've probably

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Speaker 3: done the right thing with him. Like it is a

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Speaker 3: hard thing to do back to back, and these tours

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Speaker 3: are not easy, especially because they don't play anything in

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Speaker 3: between and there's no real rest. So yeah, they mixed

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Speaker 3: it up this weekend, but he's certainly a weapon off

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Speaker 3: the bench.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to football, the Soccer's and World Cup qualifying

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Speaker 2: and nil all draw with Saudi Arabia Thursday night. They

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Speaker 2: play bah Rain Wednesday morning. I've seen some mixed reviews

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Speaker 2: of the nil all draw online, as as usually the case,

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Speaker 2: What did you make of it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it could have been better, it could have been worse,

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Speaker 3: So I'm not going to bag the crap out of

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Speaker 3: the result, but I'm not going to sing its praises

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Speaker 3: or the performance. It wasn't fluid, it was a bit clunky,

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Speaker 3: but it's where we are and an opposition with a

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Speaker 3: new coach, so there was a noted bound there about

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Speaker 3: how they'll play. But yeah, it's with results that have

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Speaker 3: gone our way. It's destiny's still very much in our

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Speaker 3: own hands. Now we go to bah Rain and hopefully

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Speaker 3: they take this is a huge, a huge game obviously

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Speaker 3: won't have the stature of it was really good TV

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Speaker 3: ratings actually the Sprus hell and I'd over here, but

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Speaker 3: this one's going to be played at probably about four

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Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning, so there's not going to be

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Speaker 3: that huge nature about it. But it's in a way

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Speaker 3: probably a bigger game against Bahrain because they us over here.

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Speaker 3: There was a few antics that were going on with

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Speaker 3: diving and time wasting and carrying on like that, all

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Speaker 3: suffered a fatality every time they got found. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's a bit of that about it, and hopefully they

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Speaker 3: take that with the eyes to a bit of vengeance

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Speaker 3: against Bahrain and get the three points and definitely put

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Speaker 3: us on course to qualify automatically to the World Cup.

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Speaker 2: So what's the situation that there's different stages of Asian

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Speaker 2: World Cup qualifying, isn't there? So for example, Australia beat

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Speaker 2: bah Rain, that would put them in the box seat

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Speaker 2: for automatic qualification.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we need to finish top two. Japan off

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Speaker 3: and running. They're gone there are at the top and

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Speaker 3: they were like they're going to easily automatically qualify. So

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Speaker 3: we're on six points at the moment. I dare say

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Speaker 3: we need thirteen to fourteen points to qualify automatically in

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Speaker 3: this group of six. If it doesn't go away third

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Speaker 3: Asia now has eight and a half spots, not just

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Speaker 3: the four and a half which we've previously had. So

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Speaker 3: there's a few more layers to look out players who

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Speaker 3: would love because a lot of them in Europe, like

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Speaker 3: your guys as well, it's hard for them to trouble

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Speaker 3: with the outside of the well, go back to Europe

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Speaker 3: perform with their best at their club. It's better for

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Speaker 3: everyone if we qualify automatically because it means it's less

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Speaker 3: games that they have to come back for, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean. So yeah, it's crucial. So probably two

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Speaker 3: wins in a draw gets us through, but it won't

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Speaker 3: be easy.

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Speaker 2: All right, We'll keep eyes on that and back on

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Speaker 2: Australian soil. A hugely anticipated five Test series against the

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Speaker 2: Indian cricket team starting in Perth in test matches and

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Speaker 2: Adelaide that's a day nighter Brisbane, the Boxing day Test

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Speaker 2: in Melbourne and then in Sydney. Man, what a lineup

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Speaker 2: Australia against India. How much anticipation around ahead of this?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's huge And thanks for softening up the Indians

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Speaker 3: for us finding I'm serious, They're not coming here feeling

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Speaker 3: great about themselves. There's a lot of questions about the

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Speaker 3: Indian brigand team. Now they've got a lot of experience

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Speaker 3: about them, but do they have the ability to tie

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Speaker 3: it back all together again on totally different texts obviously,

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Speaker 3: like Verra Coley's got to make give us a record

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Speaker 3: area which is over fifty, So I dare say we

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Speaker 3: see a different Vera Coley. But what about those around him,

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Speaker 3: like Jay Swell, the very talent and opener never had

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Speaker 3: to face bowling on these pictures before like this, like

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Speaker 3: we know you're good? Is he good enough to handle this?

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Speaker 3: Rowan Shalma is going to miss the first one of

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Speaker 3: the first two, if not both at first and second

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Speaker 3: test with the family a family situation, So yeah, they're

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Speaker 3: kind of under the microscope a bit, but they're good

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Speaker 3: enough to come out of it. Our team conversity is

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Speaker 3: all about it who's going to open And they've chosen

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Speaker 3: Nathan McSweeney out of South Australia but at the left

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Speaker 3: field selection if you looked at it from six months ago.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we're pretty settle, our bowling units pretty settled.

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Speaker 3: So if everyone gets through Unscape the series, it's going

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Speaker 3: to be a fantastic series that I think Australia has

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Speaker 3: the edge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll certainly be keeping eyes on it over here.

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Speaker 2: Lots going on, As I say, both sides of the Tasman.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for keeping us up today. Adam will do it

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Speaker 2: again next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Bondy, No, thank you, Adam. Adam Peacock Rive safe,

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