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Speaker 1: Scored with TV thed Live within play.

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Speaker 2: Responsively Jason Pine sports talk host Hallo Piney, Hello, Heather.

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Speaker 2: Are the Warriors a top four side.

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Speaker 1: At the moment? They are? I'm looking at the table

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Speaker 1: and there they are tucked into fourth spot. But but

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Speaker 1: and this is the big butt. The lost of the

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Speaker 1: Titans the other day was not particularly helpful. And the

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Speaker 1: Pack are closing in. And when I say the Pack,

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Speaker 1: it's the Panthers who are closing in. They've won seven

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Speaker 1: in a row. Now, the Panthers, they are only three

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Speaker 1: points behind the Warriors with six games to go, and

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Speaker 1: it just feels to me as though there are some

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Speaker 1: stumbles going on here in Warriors Lands as we head

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Speaker 1: towards the end of the season. They were so good

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Speaker 1: earlier on in the season and we all said, yep,

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Speaker 1: this is a top four side. This is a team

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Speaker 1: that can actually go all the way potentially. Now they

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Speaker 1: are really fighting for their spot in that top four.

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Speaker 1: I think the Panthers will make it. The Warriors have

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Speaker 1: to beat the Dolphins at home on Friday night and

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Speaker 1: then massive game against the Bulldogs away in a couple

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Speaker 1: of I think if they can win those two then

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Speaker 1: we can start talking about them in top four terms again,

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Speaker 1: but it is less certain than it was a week

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Speaker 1: while ago.

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Speaker 2: So what do you I mean, did I or did

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Speaker 2: I not predict this for you? That they would play

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Speaker 2: well and then at the back half of the season

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Speaker 2: they just like they always do. So this is all

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Speaker 2: in their head, isn't it. This is completely in their head.

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Speaker 1: Part of it is. I think there's also the injuries concerns.

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Speaker 1: But having said that, every team faces injuries and their

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Speaker 1: effective life in a physical sport like rugby league. They

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Speaker 1: are missing some key players Luke Metcalf gone that is

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Speaker 1: very unhelpful. Mitch Barnett as well. Kurt Capele's got to

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Speaker 1: play in the centers at the moment, which isn't his position.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there are extenuating circumstances. But what your hope, Heather,

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Speaker 1: is that it's not in their heads that they can say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we can and will play better for

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Speaker 1: these last six games. Because if they're outside the top four,

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Speaker 1: it's very hard to go deep into the playoffs. It

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Speaker 1: really is difficult. So they've got to find a way

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Speaker 1: to get there.

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Speaker 2: Right Hey, By the way, listen, I could keep talking

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Speaker 2: about the worries, but I need to talk about what

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Speaker 2: happened to the Wallabies. Were the Wallabies he's hard done

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Speaker 2: by or actually could that player? That player could not

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Speaker 2: have got any lower, could they?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Jack Morgan coming in. Well. Opinion is absolutely divided

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Speaker 1: on this. CEO of Australian Rugby, Phil war former player himself,

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Speaker 1: has demanded a please explain. I'm not sure why people

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Speaker 1: do this because it's not going to change things. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to change the result. Jack Morgan was very

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Speaker 1: low the British and Irish lines player coming in. But

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Speaker 1: the fact remains he didn't wrap both of his arms

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Speaker 1: and he hit Tazaro on the net, which you're not

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Speaker 1: allowed to do.

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Speaker 2: So how much of his arms did he wrap?

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Speaker 1: He rapped from what his left arms on the ground. Either,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't wrapped his left arm at all. His right

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Speaker 1: arm is probably wrapped, it's a bit obscured by the camera,

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Speaker 1: but he hasn't wrapped his left arm.

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Speaker 2: Okay, is that because I can't remember that? But is

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Speaker 2: that because he's deliberately fowling or is it simply when

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Speaker 2: he's down there, suddenly he's off balance and he's having

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Speaker 2: to put it on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's his responsibility. If he doesn't think he can

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Speaker 1: retain balance, he shouldn't be going in there that I thought.

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Speaker 2: Also, he hit the other bloke on the neck. What

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Speaker 2: is that not one of those ones where you go, look,

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Speaker 2: there will be collisions accidentally. It's not deliberate, but it happens.

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Speaker 1: You can say that. But World Rugby have been adamant

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Speaker 1: that regardless of whether it's intentional or accidental, any contact

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Speaker 1: above the shoulders is punishable by a penalty and a

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Speaker 1: yellow card.

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Speaker 2: Is that broad a frustration with rugby and for once

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Speaker 2: actually that had some common sense and said this guy

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Speaker 2: couldn't have done apart from wrapping the arms a bit more,

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Speaker 2: couldn't have done anything else.

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Speaker 1: I think the frustration is that we're still now arguing

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Speaker 1: gray area or around the law. You know, they've tried

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Speaker 1: to make it safer and we still don't know what

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Speaker 1: the law is. We don't know why. You know, a

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Speaker 1: similar situation led to a red card to broder Retelic

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and this one isn't even

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Speaker 1: a penalty. So it's the gray area that is the

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Speaker 1: confusing bit.

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Speaker 2: Piney, good to talk to you. You're going to have

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Speaker 2: an absolute Stonker of a show at seven o'clock. I

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Speaker 2: can't wait, Jason Pine Sports Stalk Coast back at seven.

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