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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 ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Across the Tasman Adam Peacock as our Australian correspondent. He

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Speaker 2: joins us now Adam. The Melbourne Rebels this week launched

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Speaker 2: a thirty million dollar lawsuit against Rugby Australia for dissolving

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Speaker 2: the franchise after last year's financial collapse. Always a little

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Speaker 2: bit unfortunate when things go off the grass and into

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Speaker 2: the courtroom. Has this got any legs though?

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Speaker 3: I don't know because I'm not a lawyer. I don't

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Speaker 3: wear one of those fancy weeks piney. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: Because Rugby Australian encountered like put in an application to

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Speaker 3: counter seal and not to believe, saying that the Melbourne

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Speaker 3: Rebels directors misled them about the true state of their finances.

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Speaker 3: So look, it's a sign of a code and in

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Speaker 3: particular in this case, not in rude health, if you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean. It's not unreal that you're dragging

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Speaker 3: yourself through courts to work out firstly who was in

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Speaker 3: the wrong here and secondly what the competition might look like.

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Speaker 3: Because now TV rights a sneaking up in terms of

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Speaker 3: renewals and such or going to market, and they don't

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Speaker 3: know what, like if the Melbourne Rebels might win their

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Speaker 3: way back through the courts into a situation where they're

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Speaker 3: back in the competition, what does it for rugby look

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Speaker 3: like from twenty six onwards. So it's all it's all

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Speaker 3: up in the air and something that Rugby Australia definitely

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Speaker 3: could do without. And it only serves as one thing.

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Speaker 3: The rugby community as a whole look at it and

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Speaker 3: go what are you guys doing and just get self

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Speaker 3: deflating about it. So yeah, a mess?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you and I work in the industry,

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Speaker 2: the sports industry where winning and losing is you know,

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Speaker 2: as part of the course. They don't seem to be

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Speaker 2: any winners here apart from the lawyers I kiss.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And obviously Melbourne Rebels and the people running

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Speaker 3: that club feel agreed, greatly agreees about it. So and

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Speaker 3: Rugby Australia I can only get through counter soon like

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Speaker 3: that just scratching their hair coming. I mean, it is

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Speaker 3: all your fault. So yeah, I can't think of another

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Speaker 3: word other than the one I just used. And that's mess,

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Speaker 3: all right?

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Speaker 2: Let's get on to some actual sport. They call it

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Speaker 2: the Great Race Mount Panorama, Bathurst on this weekend. Does

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Speaker 2: Bethorst still get mainstream cut through on your side of

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Speaker 2: the Testment?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not, as I reckon. It's as big as

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Speaker 3: the House in days of Peter Brock, Dick Johnson, Ford

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Speaker 3: v Hold and all of that. But it's still a

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Speaker 3: mammoth event. It's still going to go well on TV

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Speaker 3: and have a huge crowd up there. So what a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks Bathist that's had that last weekend they

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Speaker 3: had the Curry knock out, all the indigenous rugby league

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Speaker 3: teams going out and play a footy carnival, and then

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Speaker 3: this week they've got everyone filling up the mountain up

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Speaker 3: there and enjoying themselves as they do the matter racing fans.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's big, it's different like everything else is

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Speaker 3: in sport. But yeah, and it comes on a free weekend,

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Speaker 3: doesn't it. Pioneer within the national football The footy coades

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Speaker 3: are done, so yeah, this is a little gap in

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Speaker 3: the calendar that they're taking advantage of them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard, I've heard it said that those who

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Speaker 2: actually live in and around Bathurst aren't particularly enamored by

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Speaker 2: the whole thing. I guess there are. I guess they're

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Speaker 2: town and it really is just a town, isn't It

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Speaker 2: gets taken over once a year by thousands and thousands

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Speaker 2: of people. Some of them probably just get out of Dodge.

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Speaker 2: They get out of there, written there, renting their house

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Speaker 2: out for exorbitant amounts, and then come back when it's

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Speaker 2: all done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, probably that's the path I'd take if I

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Speaker 3: lives up there. It's a beautiful town, bat Actually it's

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Speaker 3: a It's a beautiful little country town. Some grave little

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Speaker 3: pubs and little cafes and restaurants. But it's good for

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Speaker 3: the local economy. That's amazing. And yeah, I think I'm

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Speaker 3: with you. May I reckon I'd be a b being

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Speaker 3: enjoying the proceeds somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: And finally, to the soccer US, Tony Popovich has taken

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Speaker 2: if you can call it, that is underway, with a

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Speaker 2: three to one win over China an Adelaide during the week.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you caught the game or some of it.

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Speaker 2: What was your reaction and what has the overall reaction

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Speaker 2: been to the first game of the Tony Popo its era.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, positive because it was a win and it was

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Speaker 3: what needed to happen, and that was just win the game.

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Speaker 3: Slightly not surprised, but happily. Yeah, eyebrows raised about how

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Speaker 3: Tony Povich went about it and how the team played.

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Speaker 3: They changed up their formation, They've tried some quicker short

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Speaker 3: passing stuff. It was actually good to watch. Now the

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Speaker 3: true test is going to come early next week when

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Speaker 3: they played Japan in Japan, and that's the ultimate litmus

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Speaker 3: test in this group. If we get something out of that,

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Speaker 3: we're actually, all of a sudden looking pretty good to

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Speaker 3: get one of those top two spots. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: a totally different equation up there because China are totally

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Speaker 3: out of form. You know, there's rumors that are going

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Speaker 3: to sack their coach. It's not a good picture there.

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Speaker 3: But no, it was pleasantly surprised about how we went out.

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Speaker 3: The all Whites go.

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Speaker 2: They in action, Yeah, they were. They beat They beat

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Speaker 2: Tahiti yesterday. Three nils. So, as you know, Oceanny is

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Speaker 2: a pretty small footballing pond. But in New Zealand got

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Speaker 2: the job done. They don't have a second game in

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Speaker 2: this window, two more in November, so yeah, they're off

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Speaker 2: to a winning start. Actually chatting to Captain Chris Wood

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Speaker 2: very shortly. Just back to the soccer Roos. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: what a man, what a.

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Speaker 3: Man your castle legends.

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Speaker 2: He's at Forest now as you know, Adam, but you

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Speaker 2: know his days in the in the black and white

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Speaker 2: are well documented to Just back to the soccer. Speaking

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Speaker 2: of players, I watched the game over here. Craig Goodwin's

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Speaker 2: goal another one out of the top drawer. Where is

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Speaker 2: Craig Goodwin now? Among you know, is he approaching the

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Speaker 2: status of one of your great soccer roos?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Who's like it's a hard club to get into

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Speaker 3: because Craig, I think, coupled with being great to the

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Speaker 3: soccer hos, we kind of judge it on where you

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Speaker 3: been in club football as well. And now Craig hasn't

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Speaker 3: played a big European club. He spent time over there

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Speaker 3: in Holland. But yeah, what he does in that soccer shirt,

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Speaker 3: I think kats Kim Cahill made himself Australia's most famous

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Speaker 3: Australian footballer. By virtue of what he get in the

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Speaker 3: soccer his shirt mainly scored a stack of golf. Everson

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Speaker 3: was fantastic in the Premier League, whereas Harry cule is

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Speaker 3: probably our best ever footballer we've produced. Is not Mark mcdooka,

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Speaker 3: but you have that recognition because of what you do

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Speaker 3: in the Gold Churt. So I think Craig good when

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Speaker 3: it's going to be looked upon very finally if he

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Speaker 3: keeps doing this and he's showing no signs of stopping

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Speaker 3: playing at Saudi Arabia at the moment. But he's from

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Speaker 3: a guy who got a late start to his professional career.

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Speaker 3: He got a youth league contract where he basically couldn't

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Speaker 3: even afford to put petrol in his car when he's

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Speaker 3: living in Melbourne. Ten years later he's played in Saudi

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Speaker 3: Arabia doing that in front of forty thousand people in Adelaide.

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Speaker 3: It's an incredible story and so happy for him and

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Speaker 3: hopefully you can pin a few more throughout the course

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Speaker 3: of this campaign because we need it.

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Speaker 2: Yep. Seems like a top bloke as well. Adam. As always,

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Speaker 2: thanks for your for your wrap of Australian sporting matters.

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Speaker 2: We'll do it again next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good munch.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Adam. Adam Peacock there, get him across your social platforms.

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Speaker 2: Just such his name. He's across all sorts of different

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Speaker 2: different media platforms in Australia and joins us every Saturday

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Speaker 2: afternoon at around one forty five here on news Talks.

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