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

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Speaker 1: from newstalk EDB.

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Speaker 2: A big part of our Saturdays is our regular catch

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Speaker 2: up with Australian correspondent Adam Peacock, who joins us now, Adam,

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Speaker 2: let's start with rugby league confirmation this week that popa

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Speaker 2: New Guinea will join the NRL from twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: This has been widely telegraphed, of course it's now been confirmed.

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Speaker 2: How has this been received and what do you make

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Speaker 2: of it? PNG joining the NRL?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good a piney. It's split very much split an

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Speaker 3: opinion because it's a political football as much as a

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Speaker 3: rugby league football that we're talking about, and it's because

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Speaker 3: the Australian government has said, will give you six hundred

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Speaker 3: million dollars over ten years if you go and do

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Speaker 3: this thing. How would this all be happening without that?

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Speaker 3: I doubt it very much. Does that mean PNG doesn't

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Speaker 3: like it's rugby league? No, far from it, complete opposite.

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Speaker 3: They sort of the obsess over the sport up there,

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Speaker 3: but somehow we've ended up in this situation where we're

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Speaker 3: actually putting a team there and yeah, look you can

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Speaker 3: tell that there's a a like a above and beyond

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Speaker 3: tone to it, all to attract players in the sense

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Speaker 3: that I'll go up there and not have to pay tax,

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Speaker 3: So that says a lot. I just have an uneasy

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Speaker 3: feeling about it that. Okay, I say a politician comes

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Speaker 3: in in four years and goes, well, what's all this about?

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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous, and then after the ten it's done

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Speaker 3: or halfway through they pull the funded as politicians can

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Speaker 3: change their minds. So yeah, it's a precarious one. I'm

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Speaker 3: not totally comfortable with it, but some people are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's part of an expansion of the NRL,

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Speaker 2: which I think I read they want to get to

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Speaker 2: twenty teams either by the year twenty thirty or the

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Speaker 2: year twenty thirty two. Over here in New Zealand, we're

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Speaker 2: obviously very keen to have a second franchise. So are

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Speaker 2: the other candidates around the place for further expansion A

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Speaker 2: team in Perth for example, then an Adelaide. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're looking at Perth, they're definitely looking in Southeast

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Speaker 3: Queensland again, and they're looking in New Zealand. Now I

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Speaker 3: know regularly people look down upon football as a as

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Speaker 3: a second third class citizen in this part of the world.

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Speaker 3: But they shouldn't because they should be looking at what's

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Speaker 3: going on at Auckland with the A League and think,

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Speaker 3: oh wow, this could actually work on the South Island

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Speaker 3: as a munch on the North Island in reverse of

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Speaker 3: what happened. I mean, you were there last week the

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Speaker 3: case at points. So yeah, I hope that they deeply

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Speaker 3: consider a second New Zealand franchise and if that's going

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Speaker 3: to maybe include a Pacific element to it all as well,

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Speaker 3: that I don't think is a bad thing, because you

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Speaker 3: want to you want to grow the game in the Pacific,

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Speaker 3: because it seems like some tongue are showing things in

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Speaker 3: international football. So yeah, hopefully it's an open book when

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Speaker 3: it comes to the next two decisions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we hope so too. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 4: Test cricket.

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Speaker 2: The Australia India series has landed in Brisbane for the

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Speaker 2: third Test. Indie are comfortable winners in Perth, Australia comfortable

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Speaker 2: winners and Adelaide.

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Speaker 4: What do you predict for the next five days at

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Speaker 4: the Gabba?

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Speaker 3: That it probably won't go five days because the bowl

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Speaker 3: the bowling is too good unless it rains, Like there's

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Speaker 3: a bit of weather around Brisbane this time of the year.

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Speaker 3: In terms of four o'clock you're looking up at sky.

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Speaker 3: I do I know if he comes Today's still so yeah,

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Speaker 3: the weather might play a part, but I can't see. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: with the likes of former Cummings Hazelwood Stark in the mix,

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Speaker 3: you're hard pressed to find better fast bowling in the

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Speaker 3: last twenty thirty years. So how this goes on for

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Speaker 3: five days, I doubt how it ends up, I don't know,

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Speaker 3: because both teams have once they've got momentum in a game,

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Speaker 3: they've put the foot down and totally outplayed the other one.

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Speaker 3: So there's no reason to say that it can't happen

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Speaker 3: in this test with India and they do what they

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Speaker 3: did in Perth. Conversely, exactly the same for Australia. Did

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Speaker 3: nuble up on Adelaide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fascinating series. They seem pretty evenly matched

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Speaker 2: these two, and I guess the series score would suggest that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's as it. I mean, cricket's obviously the biggest game

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Speaker 2: in town and summer over there are people really and

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Speaker 2: to this a lot of eyeballs on it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's big. It's big, and they don't. Actually,

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Speaker 3: I've got to give Cricket Australia who are rappy. They've

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Speaker 3: done really well with their programming this year in the

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Speaker 3: sense that they've put some big women's matches on. They've

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Speaker 3: had just had a series against India. I think our

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Speaker 3: women's team is setting over to play you guys in

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Speaker 3: three one days. Around that, you've got big batch starting

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Speaker 3: this weekend, and around that you've got the Test series

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Speaker 3: which feels like a focal point at the moment, and

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Speaker 3: then there's a women's ashes at the end. So it's

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Speaker 3: really well mapped out and it is huge. It is

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Speaker 3: absolutely huge, and you're right, it's too even seems like

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Speaker 3: it's uncanny. We've got two really attacking number five bats

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Speaker 3: in the head and part we've got two legends of

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Speaker 3: the game at number four who were scratching around to

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Speaker 3: find their best Verit Colby founder in Perth conceived Smith

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Speaker 3: signed here your question marks at the top of the

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Speaker 3: order with young players coming in Joyce Well McSweeney so

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Speaker 3: and then the bowling units as well. Yes, it's a

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Speaker 3: great matchup.

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Speaker 2: And finally to the Premier League, where Ange postera conglu

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Speaker 2: one of your finest, if not the finest football manager

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Speaker 2: of all time is at the moment, I guess in

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Speaker 2: an interesting position with Tottenham there eleventh in the Premier League,

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Speaker 2: twenty points from their fifteen games, fifteen points behind the leaders.

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Speaker 4: Liverpool are one all drawer in the Europa League.

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Speaker 2: In the last couple of days at Rangers, I see

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Speaker 2: Ange came out and fired a shot at his German

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Speaker 2: striker Timo Werner.

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Speaker 4: Is an under a bit of pressure, Yeah, yeah, a bit.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's job defining just yet. I don't

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Speaker 3: think one result is going to twist it either way.

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Speaker 3: But it's five without them win up pumping Manchester City.

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Speaker 3: But before that it was up and down stuff from

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Speaker 3: Tottenham and that's the frustration that they show their brilliant

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Speaker 3: best and then don't back it up. Now. I don't

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Speaker 3: care where you are in life, if you're inconsistent about it,

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Speaker 3: you're going to frustrate people. And that's what's happening with

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Speaker 3: Dottenham fans at the moment. Everyone else is not a

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Speaker 3: Dottenham fan sense to be able to laugh at them

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Speaker 3: very easily, which is there Those things happen but and

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Speaker 3: how he finds the best from his societ, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: I watched that rangeous game yesterday and they were far

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Speaker 3: from their best. They just look a bit can't keep

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Speaker 3: a bit unsure of themselves. And people picked up on

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Speaker 3: it last year that if Ann's loses one or two

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Speaker 3: of his best center backs, oddly enough, that's a bit

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Speaker 3: of a big factor for because that they are asked

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Speaker 3: to make huge decisions quickly, because that's a catalierratitude when

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Speaker 3: they copper a transition. Those two center backs have to

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Speaker 3: come in and make a big play all the time

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Speaker 3: and if that timing's off, then they're going to look stupid.

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Speaker 3: And that's what's happened a few times to Tottenham, and

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Speaker 3: I can't say changing for those two center backsvan Aben

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Speaker 3: and Ramira haven't been readily available all the time. So

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Speaker 3: Southampton this week weekend I've got a League Cup quarter

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Speaker 3: final against matches to United and then Liverpool next weekend.

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Speaker 3: I think by Christmas will know exactly where An stands

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Speaker 3: for now.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, absolutely, Well it's it's it's under the harsh

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Speaker 2: glare over there. As we as we all know, Adam

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Speaker 2: great to get the chance to check to you as

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Speaker 2: always about Australian sport and enjoy your weekend. We'll catch

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Speaker 2: up again one more time before Christmas next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good, Thanks Bony, No, thanks adm.

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Speaker 2: Adam Peacock, our regular Australian corresponding here on these talks

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