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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks EDB.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs have demolished Mowana PACIFICA eighty five seven in

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Speaker 2: Hamilton to move back to the top of the Super

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Speaker 2: Rugby ladder.

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Speaker 3: Oh here we go. How good's that? What is Maiden?

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Speaker 3: Rahamarin pull the try?

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Speaker 4: Yeah fourteen on debut on the wing, pallace out to mackenzie,

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Speaker 4: McKenzie to Stevenson.

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Speaker 3: It's in the air. Who's running for it, who's got it?

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Speaker 3: Who's there? And if a dry bucky, is it a try? Don't?

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Speaker 4: We're going to have the penalty tries, the last one

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Speaker 4: which is going to take seven because you don't need

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Speaker 4: the conversion that is going to make it eighty five

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Speaker 4: points to seven, eighty minutes gone.

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Speaker 3: Pe try.

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Speaker 4: There's just too many tries on my sheet to go

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Speaker 4: through and name them all, but thirty one millar at halftime,

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Speaker 4: eighty five to seven at full time.

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Speaker 2: Here the Chiefs running in thirteen tries to one, posting

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Speaker 2: the biggest margin in the Super Rugby Pacific era and

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Speaker 2: the third biggest in Super Rugby history dating all the

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Speaker 2: way back to nineteen ninety six. Assistant coach of the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs is Roger Randall, or one of the assistant coaches

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Speaker 2: he joined us. Now, Roger, thanks for taking our call.

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Speaker 2: I guess hard to have too many complaints when you

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Speaker 2: chalk up eighty five points. But what were you and

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Speaker 2: the rest of the coaching staff most pleased about last night?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, previously, I think the way we're respected

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Speaker 5: one other way I've been playing and was pretty bone.

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Speaker 5: We had a bit of preparation for potentially in the

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Speaker 5: week and then probably doing a little bit more and

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Speaker 5: after that. But you were just pleased to put out

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Speaker 5: a plan that most of the time came off.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel like this performance was coming, not just

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Speaker 2: this week, but did you feel like a really big

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Speaker 2: point scoring performance from your team was coming at some

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Speaker 2: stage this season?

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Speaker 5: We played came on the moment this game really well,

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Speaker 5: had a settle, flat pets most of the eras when

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Speaker 5: our skill sets around twenty minutes and we've got three

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Speaker 5: tries up and then fortunately got a couple of tries

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Speaker 5: us for half time to to give us the more

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Speaker 5: confident than to see what happened last time we played

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Speaker 5: the Middle League p and then we you see mentionette,

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Speaker 5: but the guy in the bigger head them WHI very

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Speaker 5: good half team, very fat, and so we just started

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Speaker 5: well next eg and half and I went from here.

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Speaker 2: How hard is it for players to stay disciplined when

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Speaker 2: the result is beyond doubt, when you're you know, you're

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Speaker 2: so far clear, you know you're going to win the match.

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Speaker 2: How challenging is it for a player or a playing

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Speaker 2: group to stay disciplined in situations like that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're probably the pleading aspect that the guys didn't

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Speaker 5: move too far away from what was working well, move

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Speaker 5: the ball. It was all off the back of our

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Speaker 5: set piece in our carrying kling game, which give us

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Speaker 5: some pretty good ball for the backs. So pretty simple

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Speaker 5: recipe of bupt. I guess that the boys executed for

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Speaker 5: the US part pretty well.

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Speaker 2: Over five hundred points for the season. Now points stuff

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Speaker 2: is over two hundred. Are these metrics that that you're

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Speaker 2: proud of? Uh?

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Speaker 5: They ye are, But it's not we look at too often.

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Speaker 5: But I guess when they come down other points for

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Speaker 5: and against that that's always always handy. But but yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's nice to look at, I guess at times, so

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Speaker 5: we don't focus too much on the points for and

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Speaker 5: against us probably as the points on the table that

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Speaker 5: matter and getting those bonus points when when you can

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Speaker 5: and with little three of those slips, which is not ideal. Hence,

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Speaker 5: while we're the race is so tight at the moment,

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Speaker 5: so I think there's probably a few teams that could

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Speaker 5: say they've let some try screen bonus points go in

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Speaker 5: the past and maybe are losing bonus point here and there.

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Speaker 5: So all of the teams are in that top six

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Speaker 5: or fighting for positioning, those bonus points are pretty vital.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, as you say, it is so tight, you

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Speaker 2: still need to win your final game to be as

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Speaker 2: short of top spot. If you've got to go to

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Speaker 2: because behind you Crusaders and Brumbies who play one another,

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Speaker 2: so someone's probably going to win that game. How determined

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Speaker 2: spot and good advantage during the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. We've really started a couple of meetings today,

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Speaker 5: leadership meetings and obviously coaches meetings just to play in

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Speaker 5: the week out Friday night. He's on the team that's

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Speaker 5: been pretty unlucky. You know, they should have won last

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Speaker 5: week and the week before against the hurricane.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 5: You know they're not far away. And I think had

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Speaker 5: about ten or eleven bonus points or losing bonus points

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Speaker 5: for being within seven points. So barre a real tough

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Speaker 5: team to crack. And I know they'll be very motivated

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Speaker 5: to finance their season on the high. So you know,

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Speaker 5: we'll prepare accordingly.

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Speaker 2: How's Clayton mcmullandane in the last little while, we know

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Speaker 2: he's going. If you didn't know, would you know?

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Speaker 5: And there's Bau. We were as coaches who were kind

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Speaker 5: of we're just going on with our job, and we

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Speaker 5: spoke about it early doors around when he was, you know,

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Speaker 5: considering going and decided to go. That we're just concentrating

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Speaker 5: their roles and by the smart remark every now and then,

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Speaker 5: all jokes that we get coaches or players go out,

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Speaker 5: it's s s yeah, carrying on with business as usual

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Speaker 5: and just trying to we know what our goalders and

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Speaker 5: all of other teams, so we're just focusing on it.

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Speaker 2: And we saw him on the anotherwa go off early

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Speaker 2: in the game last night he reportedly went to hospital.

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Speaker 2: Any update you've got today.

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Speaker 5: From him, he's been stitched up so but tender around there,

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Speaker 5: but hopefully it's not too bad. So yeah, just a

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Speaker 5: wounded to let the look after. As a as above's

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Speaker 5: top up under of nose, so it's a big delicate place,

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Speaker 5: so we're to see how he pulls up over the

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Speaker 5: next couple of days.

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Speaker 2: All right, Roger, Well, congrats on a big one last

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Speaker 2: night and a great performance from your team. Hope you

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Speaker 2: can get the job done down in Dunedin and go

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Speaker 2: into the playoffs as top qualify. Mate. All the best

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Speaker 2: and thanks for the chat this afternoon, kids. I appreciate it, No,

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time, Roger. Thanks indeed, Roger Randall, Assistant coach

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Speaker 2: of the chief Stairs. So one round to go next

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Speaker 2: weekend before we have our top six who will go

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Speaker 2: forward to the finals, the playoffs, the postseason, whatever you

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Speaker 2: want to call it. Looking at the table currently, the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs have gone back to the top with that bonus

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Speaker 2: point win. They've got forty six points, the Crusaders have

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Speaker 2: forty five, the Brumbis have forty three. Now the Crusaders

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Speaker 2: and Brumbis play one another next in fact, this coming

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Speaker 2: Friday in Canberra, so whoever wins that game could potentially

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Speaker 2: finish top if the Chiefs don't beat the Highlanders. Now

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Speaker 2: they'll know that by the time they kick off, because

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Speaker 2: that's the opening game of the weekend. Highland As Chiefs

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Speaker 2: five past seven Friday night in Dunedin. The Highlanders are

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Speaker 2: currently bottom equal on points with the Drewer with twenty points,

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Speaker 2: so they can't make the six but what they can

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Speaker 2: do is at least finish with a bit of a

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Speaker 2: flourish Saturday is such an interesting day. So Chiefs, Crusaders, Bumbi's.

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Speaker 2: They're in the top six. They can't fur out of

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Speaker 2: the top six. The Hurricanes cannot fall out of the

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Speaker 2: top six either. They have thirty four points. The Reds

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Speaker 2: have thirty three. They cannot fall out of the top

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Speaker 2: six either. So we've got five of the top six.

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Speaker 2: The sixth position is going to be taken by one

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Speaker 2: of Mawanna Pacifica, the Blues or the war Retars. Now

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Speaker 2: the Blues and Waratars play one another on Saturday at

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Speaker 2: half past four. The war Retars, if they were to

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Speaker 2: beat the Blues, would jump above them and Mawana Pacifica,

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Speaker 2: But Mawonna Pacificas still have to play the Hurricanes, so

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Speaker 2: the warri Tars can still make the six if they

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Speaker 2: come to Edon Park and beat the Blues, which, given

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Speaker 2: the way the Blues have been playing the season a

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Speaker 2: but up and down wouldn't be a massive massive shop.

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Speaker 2: If the war Retars beat the Blues and then the

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Speaker 2: Hurricanes beat Mauna pacifica, the war Retars make the six

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Speaker 2: and we would have an even three to three split

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Speaker 2: in the top six Australian and New Zealand sides.

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