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Speaker 2: Hi there you god to good afternoon. Welcome into Weekend

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Speaker 2: Sport on News Talks EDB. For the final day of

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Speaker 2: the month. February twenty eight, Happy eighty sixth birthdata motor

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Speaker 2: racing legend Mario Andretti. Happy twenty seventh to basketball superstar

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Speaker 2: Luka Doncic. And Happy sixty ninth birthday to Smithy Ian Smith,

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Speaker 2: sixty three Test wicket keeper for US and now one

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Speaker 2: of the world's foremost cricket commentators. Hope you have a

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Speaker 2: great day, Smithy. I'm Jason Pineeshow producer Any McDonald. I

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Speaker 2: guess Smith he's an India, Isn't he wake up on

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Speaker 2: his birthday? In a few hours, I'm Jason Pineshow producer

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Speaker 2: Andy McDonald. We're here talking sport until three. The twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty NRL season is all but here. A couple of

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Speaker 2: games in Las Vegas tomorrow last season's Wooden Spooners. The

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Speaker 2: Newcastle Knights up against the North Queensland Cowboys three point fifteen,

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Speaker 2: Bulldogs Dragons at five point thirty. The Warriors open their

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Speaker 2: season at home against the Roosters on Friday. How are

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Speaker 2: they placed? How are they feeling going to find out?

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Speaker 2: Head coach Andrew Webster standing by the chat to us

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Speaker 2: and I'm keen to read your pulse too, Warriors fans?

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Speaker 2: Is it our year? From a wider sense? What does

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Speaker 2: success look like in twenty twenty six sixth last year?

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Speaker 2: Is top eight just a minimum requirement if we're talking

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Speaker 2: about success? And how likely is that? I've had a

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Speaker 2: check of the tav odds. They're not confident Rugby League

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Speaker 2: this out other matters around today. The black Caps, as

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Speaker 2: you heard in our sports news, with a nervy twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours to learn their fate at the T twenty

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Speaker 2: Crinket World Cup aforewick at loss to England in Colombo

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Speaker 2: this morning. They needed victory to guarantee their place in

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Speaker 2: the last four. We had them on the ropes, chasing

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Speaker 2: one sixty England one seventeen for six at one point,

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Speaker 2: heating forty three off the last three overs, but a

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Speaker 2: partnership of forty four and just sixteen balls between Will

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Speaker 2: Jackson World Cup debutante Raehan Ahmed got them home. So

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Speaker 2: we now need Sri Lanka to beat Pakistan tomorrow or

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Speaker 2: for Pakistan to win that game narrowly if we are

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Speaker 2: to go through to the Semis, finellen out of the

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Speaker 2: black Caps after one. And if you haven't yet watched

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Speaker 2: the footage of the New Zealand national anthem being played

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Speaker 2: before this game, I would encourage you at some point

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Speaker 2: to do that. One of the fastest renditions of our

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Speaker 2: national song I think I've ever seen, clearly the T

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Speaker 2: twenty version of the national anthem and the black Caps

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Speaker 2: players finding it hard to contain themselves as the anthem

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Speaker 2: went by in about forty seconds. The Western Force have

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Speaker 2: won their first Super Rugby game on New Zealand soil

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Speaker 2: since twenty twenty two. They beat me Wana PACIFICA thirty

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Speaker 2: five nineteen in Pocacoi last night in the thirteen Jersey

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Speaker 2: for the Western Force nineteen test all Black George Bridge,

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Speaker 2: he got a try and bombed another one. He's going

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Speaker 2: to join us for a chat about that this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: The Reds beating the Highlanders thirty one fourteen in the

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Speaker 2: late game last night. Auckland FC be game this afternoon

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Speaker 2: they take on Melbourne's City in the A League. Callan

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Speaker 2: Elliott's out of their team ahead of that and speaking

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Speaker 2: of the A League, the competition's new CEO, Steve Rossich

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Speaker 2: is on the show after two his first New Zealand interview,

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Speaker 2: a particular focus on New Zealand's influence in the A League.

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Speaker 2: Alpine skier Cory Peters is with US too, ahead off

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Speaker 2: his fifth Winter Paralympics, and Adam Peacock out of Australia

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Speaker 2: in his regular slot as well Live I Sport this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: The New Zealand Golf Open into its third round, thirteen

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Speaker 2: kiwis have made the cut. Christ Church amateur Yuki Miya

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Speaker 2: was the two round leader twelve under par a second

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Speaker 2: round four under sixty seven to follow his opening sixty three,

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Speaker 2: just one shot behind in a tie for second Daniel

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Speaker 2: eleven under. Those two underway in their third rounds at

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Speaker 2: around quarter to one. Mike Thorpe with hourly reports this

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Speaker 2: afternoon from the New Zealand Golf Open in Queenstown and

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Speaker 2: Plunket Shield cricket to keep an eye on as well.

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Speaker 2: They're back into the four day staff across three venues

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Speaker 2: in Napier, Wellington batting first against Central one hundred and

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Speaker 2: well against Canterbury having been sent in eighty nine without

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Speaker 2: the Outer Oval at Eden Park. We'll keep you up

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Speaker 2: to date with those cricket scores across the afternoon as well.

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Speaker 1: Midday the big names and the big calls on your

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Speaker 1: home of sport Weekend Sport with Jason News talks'd be.

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Speaker 2: The twenty twenty six NRL season is upon us two

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Speaker 2: games in Vegas tomorrow. The Warriors open their campaign with

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Speaker 2: a home game against the Roosters on Friday night at

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Speaker 2: go Media Stadium. Great pleasure to welcome into the show

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Speaker 2: for the first time in twenty twenty six. Head coach

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Speaker 2: of the Warriors, Andrew Webster. Andrew, thanks for joining us

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Speaker 2: to give us well a feel of how the team's

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Speaker 2: feeling just over all week out from your first game. Well,

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Speaker 2: how are you feeling about where the team is at?

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Speaker 4: No, I think every coach will always loves more time.

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Speaker 4: But I'm over preseason, you know, and I want to

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Speaker 3: With it for the boys and for all the fans.

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Speaker 4: I think where everyone's ready for footy, but you know,

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Speaker 3: At the moment. Yeah, looking forward to it. I think.

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Speaker 4: I mean, everyone's got a plan and to your punch

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's so let's say, so, how much do

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Speaker 2: you use twenty twenty five as preparation for twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 4: Well, definitely like this trends in the game that we

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Speaker 3: Ahead or get ahead of it. So you you think.

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Speaker 5: About that, you also think about what do we want

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Speaker 5: at and then if you're not considering where our improvements

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Speaker 4: You won't get better. So we certainly do. But I

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Speaker 2: That's you should is there a particular area of the

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Speaker 5: We're successful in a lot of those areas, But we're

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Speaker 3: So wheb identified that we feel like we.

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Speaker 4: If we concentrate it for longer and we're in the

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Speaker 4: we could put a score on a team or we could.

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Speaker 3: Win more tight games.

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Speaker 2: How coachable is that sort of thing? I feel like

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Speaker 2: most sports teams strive for consistency and sometimes it's elusive

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can definitely, definitely. I mean it could.

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Speaker 4: It could sometimes come to the point where it's you know,

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Speaker 3: Aim up to it. Then the person has to move

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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, you definitely can

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Speaker 4: impact it, that's sure, and you can coach it, and

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Speaker 4: that's something we've tried.

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Speaker 3: To do this pre season.

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Speaker 4: I think you just can't say to a play mate

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Speaker 4: you need to concentrate longer.

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Speaker 3: You actually need to put them in situations where they

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Speaker 4: And they learn from that time and where did their

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Speaker 2: It's till about the halves. Tomatow Martin out for at

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Speaker 2: least three months with a broken leg. Luke metcalf is

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Speaker 2: Will he be available for around one.

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Speaker 4: So so far, so good, so training today with the team.

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Speaker 3: He's looking better. But he'll do a four week for

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Speaker 3: training next week into round one to be ready to go.

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Speaker 2: And Tanner Boyd took the seven jumper when Luke Metcalfe

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Speaker 2: first crack again this season?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't like even way so many secrets,

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Speaker 3: That Tannis is going to be that guy. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's going to get the first opportunity and he deserves that.

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Speaker 3: He's had a great preseason. Did he finished really well

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Speaker 4: I thought he was dominant when he went back in

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Speaker 4: feel like he's ready to to probably take control of

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Speaker 2: Are there any players who have really put their hand

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Speaker 2: four months since you've been together preparing for twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: six even players, perhaps the fans might not be expecting

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Speaker 2: to be really important for you in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Is there anybody like that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 4: I know it's one of those questions I should bring

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Speaker 4: ahead and so don't ask this one because I've answered

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Speaker 4: it exactly the same made this so many I don't

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Speaker 4: want to single them out, like honestly, there's I feel

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Speaker 4: like we've got your fifteen to twenty fifteen to thirty

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Speaker 3: Calling young guys last year.

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Speaker 4: I'm really excited whether they can go from exciting talents

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Speaker 4: to like genuine dominant NURL players and I'm talking top

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Speaker 4: shelf and ural players. And then I think you've got

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Speaker 4: your rookies coming along that you guys would have all

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Speaker 4: seen in.

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Speaker 3: The trolls that had no secret, that had really good moments.

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Speaker 4: I think in the first til against Manly, all our

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Speaker 4: the way it when it gets some So, like to

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Speaker 4: answer your question, I'm really excited to see how this

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Speaker 2: Speaking of younger players lak a hell of Sema in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, an absolute breakout year for him. What

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Speaker 2: are you asking of him this season and how high

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Speaker 4: I think I will being physical, working hard. I want

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Speaker 2: All right, let's hope. So thanks, Andrew, appreciate your time.

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Speaker 7: I'll start off with them. They should be on the

437
00:23:03,747 --> 00:23:04,467
Speaker 7: Hall of Same.

438
00:23:04,867 --> 00:23:07,427
Speaker 2: I think what they do, Allison, as they wait for

439
00:23:07,467 --> 00:23:10,467
Speaker 2: a certain time beyond when you've finished your career. I

440
00:23:10,587 --> 00:23:12,947
Speaker 2: mean that would I thought Iran van Dyke was in

441
00:23:12,987 --> 00:23:15,107
Speaker 2: the Sports Hall of Fame. I would have thought I

442
00:23:15,147 --> 00:23:16,347
Speaker 2: would have thought she would have been in there.

443
00:23:16,347 --> 00:23:19,187
Speaker 7: I mean obvious as well, and want Laura the England

444
00:23:19,987 --> 00:23:21,747
Speaker 7: and they already on there. Well I looked. I tried

445
00:23:21,787 --> 00:23:23,387
Speaker 7: to look it up and I couldn't see where they

446
00:23:23,387 --> 00:23:25,787
Speaker 7: were there. But maybe you're right there, but I don't

447
00:23:25,787 --> 00:23:28,587
Speaker 7: think they are. But I just think sometimes they leave

448
00:23:28,627 --> 00:23:30,627
Speaker 7: it too late. You don't want to leave it too

449
00:23:30,667 --> 00:23:32,587
Speaker 7: late for some of these people. I just want to think.

450
00:23:32,627 --> 00:23:35,307
Speaker 7: I just think, why don't they give the recognition when

451
00:23:35,347 --> 00:23:37,787
Speaker 7: they first retire. I just think that would be better.

452
00:23:37,867 --> 00:23:39,507
Speaker 2: No, it's good, it's a good idea. I liston. And

453
00:23:40,227 --> 00:23:42,707
Speaker 2: I also think there might have been a bit of

454
00:23:42,707 --> 00:23:45,827
Speaker 2: a break from inducting people. I know, obviously they had

455
00:23:45,907 --> 00:23:50,227
Speaker 2: Richie mccawr and Dame Valerie Adams inducted just the other night,

456
00:23:50,267 --> 00:23:53,187
Speaker 2: didn't they. And I think that was the first one

457
00:23:53,227 --> 00:23:54,947
Speaker 2: for a while. Somebody might be able to correct me there,

458
00:23:54,947 --> 00:23:56,507
Speaker 2: but I think there's been a bit of a bit

459
00:23:56,507 --> 00:23:58,507
Speaker 2: of a break. So they need to catch up, don't they.

460
00:23:58,427 --> 00:24:00,907
Speaker 7: They need to they need to catch up. And just

461
00:24:00,947 --> 00:24:03,067
Speaker 7: in the cricket I should have kept my mouth shut.

462
00:24:03,187 --> 00:24:05,627
Speaker 7: I said, oh, well Brooke will get a good Harry

463
00:24:05,667 --> 00:24:07,987
Speaker 7: brook Wild get a good didn't have got twenty something.

464
00:24:08,147 --> 00:24:11,387
Speaker 7: Apparently he got one hundred in the previous one. He's

465
00:24:11,507 --> 00:24:13,827
Speaker 7: very good. I thought that we might have beaten him

466
00:24:13,827 --> 00:24:15,267
Speaker 7: when he didn't. Gives it's a good score. It just

467
00:24:15,307 --> 00:24:17,667
Speaker 7: shows you. Somebody else will come forward there, of course

468
00:24:17,947 --> 00:24:20,907
Speaker 7: and maybe get a good score. But as long as

469
00:24:20,907 --> 00:24:22,907
Speaker 7: we don't play. If it gets through, don't play and

470
00:24:22,907 --> 00:24:25,307
Speaker 7: then the kid in the Sydney finals, because we don't

471
00:24:25,347 --> 00:24:27,867
Speaker 7: want the same scenario there, do we? Because I just

472
00:24:27,867 --> 00:24:30,707
Speaker 7: think Mitch Fantler was so good on there, so wonderful

473
00:24:31,067 --> 00:24:32,387
Speaker 7: our captain, Yeah, wonderful.

474
00:24:32,547 --> 00:24:32,747
Speaker 6: Yeah.

475
00:24:32,787 --> 00:24:34,787
Speaker 2: No, it's a good players Andie Ellison and a good leader.

476
00:24:34,947 --> 00:24:36,307
Speaker 2: Thank you for your call. I appreciate it.

477
00:24:36,387 --> 00:24:36,547
Speaker 8: Yeah.

478
00:24:36,587 --> 00:24:40,627
Speaker 2: The Sports Hall of Fame, I think is yeah from

479
00:24:40,867 --> 00:24:43,147
Speaker 2: I can't remember who I was talking to about it,

480
00:24:43,187 --> 00:24:45,227
Speaker 2: but there was a school of thought or there was

481
00:24:45,267 --> 00:24:48,267
Speaker 2: a suggestion that they hadn't inducted anybody for a while

482
00:24:48,267 --> 00:24:50,747
Speaker 2: and they wanted to get back to doing that. So

483
00:24:51,307 --> 00:24:54,387
Speaker 2: I'm glad that they have and to Philly pair the

484
00:24:54,427 --> 00:24:59,787
Speaker 2: Good inductees with Dame Valerie Adams and Richie mccare inducted

485
00:25:00,507 --> 00:25:02,827
Speaker 2: the other day. Okay, here's a couple of predictions. First,

486
00:25:03,867 --> 00:25:09,027
Speaker 2: third beaten finalists. Well, that would suggest top eight obviously, Piney,

487
00:25:09,387 --> 00:25:12,467
Speaker 2: i'ved you've read that one that was about Luke metcalf. Third,

488
00:25:13,307 --> 00:25:16,547
Speaker 2: it's our year, sixth in the regular season, come through

489
00:25:16,587 --> 00:25:19,427
Speaker 2: to the Grand Final. Up the Wars, says Justin Yap

490
00:25:19,467 --> 00:25:23,187
Speaker 2: the Wars. We need up the Wars back. Sixth, says KD.

491
00:25:23,387 --> 00:25:26,027
Speaker 2: I hope top eight, says Trev, but I can't see

492
00:25:26,027 --> 00:25:29,467
Speaker 2: it happening. I think tenth, seventh, says David. Top four

493
00:25:29,507 --> 00:25:32,027
Speaker 2: if the Wars can stay healthy, and a huge chance

494
00:25:32,027 --> 00:25:35,067
Speaker 2: to win it, says Alex Aleck. Rather, if I'm honest,

495
00:25:35,107 --> 00:25:39,067
Speaker 2: up the Wise, Craig says, my prediction to make the eight,

496
00:25:39,147 --> 00:25:42,347
Speaker 2: but not the four, So fifth to eighth for me.

497
00:25:42,867 --> 00:25:44,227
Speaker 2: If I had to put a number on it, I'd

498
00:25:44,267 --> 00:25:48,347
Speaker 2: go with sixth. Craig, I feel that exact same way.

499
00:25:48,507 --> 00:25:51,947
Speaker 2: That's how I feel. I feel like this team isn't

500
00:25:51,947 --> 00:25:54,667
Speaker 2: a top fourteen, but I think they are a top eighteen.

501
00:25:55,787 --> 00:25:58,627
Speaker 2: That's and look, I think that's probably a generally held viewer,

502
00:25:58,627 --> 00:26:00,347
Speaker 2: isn't it. I don't think there be too many people

503
00:26:00,387 --> 00:26:04,467
Speaker 2: who hand on heart or hand on wallet would suggest

504
00:26:04,547 --> 00:26:07,507
Speaker 2: that the Warriors are a top fourteen with the pliers

505
00:26:07,547 --> 00:26:10,707
Speaker 2: they've lost and the pliers they need to come back.

506
00:26:11,507 --> 00:26:12,907
Speaker 2: But I think there were top eight, so I don't

507
00:26:12,947 --> 00:26:15,427
Speaker 2: think they've shown on the day they can beat anybody,

508
00:26:16,107 --> 00:26:16,427
Speaker 2: can I?

509
00:26:16,507 --> 00:26:20,267
Speaker 9: Frank, good day, Piney.

510
00:26:20,387 --> 00:26:22,507
Speaker 2: Here we go again, Frank, here we go again.

511
00:26:23,027 --> 00:26:28,067
Speaker 9: Here my flag has been en dormant in the drawer

512
00:26:28,187 --> 00:26:30,387
Speaker 9: at the moment. I'm hoping to get it out for

513
00:26:30,507 --> 00:26:36,267
Speaker 9: next week and wave it. But I very really use expletes.

514
00:26:36,307 --> 00:26:39,307
Speaker 9: But I had to use a few on that preseason

515
00:26:39,427 --> 00:26:42,907
Speaker 9: game last week. Ye god, they did it again. I

516
00:26:42,987 --> 00:26:47,427
Speaker 9: mean I felt that the older guys stood up. They

517
00:26:47,467 --> 00:26:50,547
Speaker 9: were looking pretty good. The younger guys were coming in

518
00:26:50,627 --> 00:26:55,027
Speaker 9: and they're looking good. And at thirty four, twenty man,

519
00:26:55,187 --> 00:27:01,707
Speaker 9: this is great. Ten minutes later, what the hell happened there?

520
00:27:02,027 --> 00:27:02,147
Speaker 8: Yea?

521
00:27:02,187 --> 00:27:04,507
Speaker 2: It was the three tries three converted tries the Dolphins

522
00:27:04,507 --> 00:27:06,067
Speaker 2: scored from in the last ten minutes.

523
00:27:06,147 --> 00:27:10,667
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I mean they've got us. I mean they've

524
00:27:10,707 --> 00:27:14,667
Speaker 9: done this before. You know, that looked like winning and

525
00:27:15,267 --> 00:27:17,427
Speaker 9: and they've dropped it at the last time. I feel

526
00:27:17,507 --> 00:27:22,827
Speaker 9: like the basketball, you know, you know, defense, defense, defense,

527
00:27:22,867 --> 00:27:25,867
Speaker 9: that's what they've got to do. But yeah, we we

528
00:27:26,107 --> 00:27:31,107
Speaker 9: I honestly feel that if we can stay injury free,

529
00:27:31,147 --> 00:27:35,867
Speaker 9: will our main main players stay injury free, I think

530
00:27:35,907 --> 00:27:38,947
Speaker 9: we could win this this I really do. I just

531
00:27:39,027 --> 00:27:41,827
Speaker 9: feel that the there's just a feel that there's a

532
00:27:41,867 --> 00:27:47,547
Speaker 9: momentum there just shore up that bloody sorry that last

533
00:27:47,787 --> 00:27:51,027
Speaker 9: you know, where they dropped their bundle or they they

534
00:27:51,187 --> 00:27:53,187
Speaker 9: sort of just think, oh, well, we've got this in

535
00:27:53,227 --> 00:27:58,987
Speaker 9: the bag. Yeah, right, we've lost. And also we've lost.

536
00:27:59,027 --> 00:28:01,507
Speaker 9: I'm in for Noah Blake, I mean, Reese Walsh. I mean,

537
00:28:01,547 --> 00:28:04,947
Speaker 9: look look at the way they're playing, and so we've

538
00:28:04,987 --> 00:28:08,907
Speaker 9: got up shore, They've got we Really I gotta just

539
00:28:09,107 --> 00:28:10,587
Speaker 9: I got a good feeling about it.

540
00:28:10,627 --> 00:28:11,107
Speaker 4: I really do.

541
00:28:11,227 --> 00:28:12,787
Speaker 2: Yeah, Frank I do too. I do too. And I

542
00:28:12,827 --> 00:28:14,907
Speaker 2: think we're allowed to be optimistic on the last day

543
00:28:14,907 --> 00:28:19,547
Speaker 2: of Febrie, aren't we. I think we're allowed to dream,

544
00:28:19,667 --> 00:28:21,427
Speaker 2: you know. And you talk about injuries, they always happened,

545
00:28:21,427 --> 00:28:23,267
Speaker 2: don't they. We couldn't have predicted Mitch Barnett and Luke

546
00:28:23,267 --> 00:28:25,827
Speaker 2: Metcalf last season. Goodness, if we'd had the chance to

547
00:28:26,107 --> 00:28:30,667
Speaker 2: to I don't know, ring fence theoretically one player and

548
00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:32,707
Speaker 2: say please don't let that guy get injured. It would

549
00:28:32,707 --> 00:28:35,907
Speaker 2: have been Luke Metcalf the way he was playing. Good

550
00:28:35,907 --> 00:28:37,867
Speaker 2: on your Frank, hope to speak often with you this

551
00:28:37,987 --> 00:28:43,227
Speaker 2: year and have that flag of yours flying nice and high. Hello, Andy, Hey.

552
00:28:42,987 --> 00:28:47,547
Speaker 10: Hey Finny, long time no chats with Yeah, I'm looking

553
00:28:47,627 --> 00:28:49,707
Speaker 10: top four for the Warriors at the moment.

554
00:28:50,387 --> 00:28:52,787
Speaker 2: Top four. What gives you that? What gives you that

555
00:28:52,907 --> 00:28:53,827
Speaker 2: level of confidence?

556
00:28:53,867 --> 00:28:58,147
Speaker 6: Andy, Well, we have diet, we actually have GPS.

557
00:28:58,147 --> 00:29:00,787
Speaker 10: We've got all these young players vines for the Fords,

558
00:29:00,867 --> 00:29:05,267
Speaker 10: like we've got Liga farm a young La Barnes, and

559
00:29:05,427 --> 00:29:10,587
Speaker 10: plus we also have Karen Clark, Frisher Harris and Kate

560
00:29:10,627 --> 00:29:15,267
Speaker 10: Well and all that. So it's basically up to Frisher

561
00:29:15,347 --> 00:29:18,187
Speaker 10: Harris to get his forge and lead as a leader.

562
00:29:18,227 --> 00:29:18,627
Speaker 10: He didn't.

563
00:29:18,627 --> 00:29:21,187
Speaker 11: He lost a bit of that last year of Harris.

564
00:29:22,107 --> 00:29:24,747
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would concur. I would concur without you're talking

565
00:29:24,747 --> 00:29:26,587
Speaker 2: about depth. I just worry, Andy, and I know it's

566
00:29:26,627 --> 00:29:28,307
Speaker 2: only the start of the season and I don't want it,

567
00:29:28,347 --> 00:29:29,827
Speaker 2: as I say, put it all in one player, but

568
00:29:30,427 --> 00:29:32,827
Speaker 2: I need Luke Metcalfe back in there, and hopefully round

569
00:29:32,827 --> 00:29:34,587
Speaker 2: seven is when he comes back. But without him and

570
00:29:34,587 --> 00:29:37,267
Speaker 2: Timmuddy Martin, it's just a bit light there in the

571
00:29:37,347 --> 00:29:37,987
Speaker 2: halves for me.

572
00:29:39,147 --> 00:29:40,787
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was, I was looking at that.

573
00:29:40,987 --> 00:29:44,787
Speaker 11: But we're also you know, might not be this year,

574
00:29:44,827 --> 00:29:47,227
Speaker 11: but next year we got that young Mallers and we've

575
00:29:47,227 --> 00:29:50,427
Speaker 11: got young Jeck Cleary coming in, so hopefully something might

576
00:29:50,467 --> 00:29:51,307
Speaker 11: happen within this.

577
00:29:51,427 --> 00:29:54,507
Speaker 2: Yet let's hope, So, Andy, let's hope. So top four,

578
00:29:54,507 --> 00:29:57,507
Speaker 2: I'll write you down for that top four. In terms

579
00:29:57,507 --> 00:29:59,587
Speaker 2: of additions. The other guy I'm looking forward to seeing

580
00:29:59,627 --> 00:30:03,147
Speaker 2: is Morgan Gannon this second row, and he can play

581
00:30:03,547 --> 00:30:06,187
Speaker 2: play lock as well. From the Leeds Rhinos. He's the

582
00:30:06,187 --> 00:30:08,187
Speaker 2: guy I think who has the biggest raps about the

583
00:30:08,187 --> 00:30:11,187
Speaker 2: ones who have come in. Obviously we've lost Bunty l Foller,

584
00:30:11,227 --> 00:30:15,907
Speaker 2: Freddy Lassek, Ed Costs he's gone, Mohila Graham tofa not

585
00:30:15,947 --> 00:30:17,787
Speaker 2: that he played a lot last season he's also gone.

586
00:30:17,827 --> 00:30:20,387
Speaker 2: So this is always the case. We gain a few,

587
00:30:20,427 --> 00:30:22,747
Speaker 2: we lose a few. Just the depth and the halves

588
00:30:22,827 --> 00:30:24,747
Speaker 2: is what worries me. Andy. Thanks for your call, mate,

589
00:30:24,827 --> 00:30:26,147
Speaker 2: Hello Paul, how are you feeling?

590
00:30:27,547 --> 00:30:31,867
Speaker 12: Good day, Fannie. Yeah, I must sit an interview I'd

591
00:30:31,867 --> 00:30:33,387
Speaker 12: like to have and have to go back and listen

592
00:30:33,387 --> 00:30:35,987
Speaker 12: to it again with some with you. But did he

593
00:30:36,107 --> 00:30:39,587
Speaker 12: say a thing about when we're expecting Barnett to come back?

594
00:30:39,627 --> 00:30:40,307
Speaker 2: Yeah? Round two?

595
00:30:41,667 --> 00:30:42,507
Speaker 12: Oh excellent?

596
00:30:42,627 --> 00:30:44,547
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's just going to miss a thirst day.

597
00:30:44,707 --> 00:30:46,067
Speaker 2: It might be one of those where if it was

598
00:30:46,107 --> 00:30:48,027
Speaker 2: a Grand Final that's coming, Frider Hi might have played,

599
00:30:48,067 --> 00:30:49,907
Speaker 2: but I think, yeah, they'll give it on one more week.

600
00:30:49,947 --> 00:30:52,027
Speaker 2: But round two against the Raiders, he's due back.

601
00:30:52,787 --> 00:30:55,507
Speaker 12: Oh good, I know. Listening to an interview with Barnett

602
00:30:55,587 --> 00:30:57,707
Speaker 12: La the other day, he said he's off to Sydney

603
00:30:58,067 --> 00:31:00,827
Speaker 12: for four days to do some specialized testing on his knee.

604
00:31:00,867 --> 00:31:02,987
Speaker 12: So I'm kind of thinking, is he going to use

605
00:31:03,027 --> 00:31:05,467
Speaker 12: those four days to talk to a few other clubs?

606
00:31:05,667 --> 00:31:07,987
Speaker 2: Well, I get we know he's going, right, what do

607
00:31:08,027 --> 00:31:10,067
Speaker 2: you I mean? It's an interesting little dynamic, isn't that

608
00:31:10,107 --> 00:31:12,107
Speaker 2: we know he's going and they always say, okay, well

609
00:31:12,107 --> 00:31:15,227
Speaker 2: it's sorted out. But he will give everything he has

610
00:31:15,267 --> 00:31:17,387
Speaker 2: to the Warriors the season. I don't know Mitch Barlett

611
00:31:17,427 --> 00:31:19,187
Speaker 2: at all, but that seems like what he would do.

612
00:31:20,147 --> 00:31:22,907
Speaker 12: Absolutely, you know he's I mean, people are saying that,

613
00:31:25,307 --> 00:31:29,627
Speaker 12: I mean questioning his his credibility, but he's given me

614
00:31:29,627 --> 00:31:32,987
Speaker 12: no reason to doubt legitimate. See where he's going and

615
00:31:33,667 --> 00:31:35,547
Speaker 12: the sort of the sort of guy he is. You know,

616
00:31:35,587 --> 00:31:37,947
Speaker 12: he's a real leader, and I'm just glad we've got

617
00:31:38,027 --> 00:31:40,267
Speaker 12: him for these next keen or so months. You know,

618
00:31:41,627 --> 00:31:43,827
Speaker 12: he's going to be there and the young boys coming through,

619
00:31:43,907 --> 00:31:47,067
Speaker 12: get get, get, get a full season underneath them, working

620
00:31:47,627 --> 00:31:49,587
Speaker 12: looming the ropes, and they'll be ready for the for

621
00:31:49,667 --> 00:31:52,107
Speaker 12: the following season. But like you Pine when you said,

622
00:31:54,147 --> 00:31:57,427
Speaker 12: you know, we really need to to get off to

623
00:31:57,427 --> 00:31:59,467
Speaker 12: a good start. You know, we can't afford, you know,

624
00:31:59,747 --> 00:32:03,507
Speaker 12: to lose games before too many games before Metcalf comes.

625
00:32:03,947 --> 00:32:05,667
Speaker 12: You know, we've got a really tough start with the

626
00:32:05,747 --> 00:32:09,267
Speaker 12: Roosters and camera. Thankfully it's at home, so hopefully we'll

627
00:32:09,267 --> 00:32:12,547
Speaker 12: get the win, but we can't afford to lose games

628
00:32:12,547 --> 00:32:15,867
Speaker 12: before Metcalf comes along. We really need to get some

629
00:32:15,867 --> 00:32:18,067
Speaker 12: some wins under, some points under our belt. But I'm

630
00:32:18,067 --> 00:32:21,707
Speaker 12: confident I'm definitely a top eighteen, top four. Yeah, it'll

631
00:32:21,747 --> 00:32:22,307
Speaker 12: be a bonus.

632
00:32:22,427 --> 00:32:25,147
Speaker 2: Good on your Paul. I always enjoy him. As I

633
00:32:25,227 --> 00:32:27,227
Speaker 2: was saying, as I was talking about Luke Metcalf. I mean,

634
00:32:27,267 --> 00:32:29,547
Speaker 2: he is only one guy, but he is a very

635
00:32:29,547 --> 00:32:31,867
Speaker 2: important guy, is he. I mean, I'm probably overstating it

636
00:32:31,867 --> 00:32:33,947
Speaker 2: and I'm proud to a bit of hyperbole sometimes, but

637
00:32:34,067 --> 00:32:35,347
Speaker 2: he is quite important, isn't he.

638
00:32:36,987 --> 00:32:39,587
Speaker 12: When he was when he was starting last year, we

639
00:32:39,587 --> 00:32:42,547
Speaker 12: were fizzing, you know, and what he bought, you know,

640
00:32:42,627 --> 00:32:46,027
Speaker 12: the attack. He was fit, he was fast, and you know,

641
00:32:46,107 --> 00:32:48,107
Speaker 12: then he got injured and the things kind of fell

642
00:32:48,147 --> 00:32:51,467
Speaker 12: the pizzas. But when he's when he's on, man, he's on,

643
00:32:51,667 --> 00:32:54,227
Speaker 12: and like you, with the depth of our halves, you know,

644
00:32:54,267 --> 00:32:56,587
Speaker 12: we are struggling, you know now that we've lost him

645
00:32:56,587 --> 00:32:59,827
Speaker 12: to Mighty, But I guess you know, next man up.

646
00:32:59,867 --> 00:33:02,107
Speaker 12: That Luke Hanson sort of impressed me in the trails

647
00:33:02,467 --> 00:33:06,307
Speaker 12: at number six tenor boy, he played well in the trial,

648
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Speaker 12: especially the last game in the first party bring the

649
00:33:10,347 --> 00:33:14,427
Speaker 12: Temur Tech looked pretty sharp. So but I'm really excited

650
00:33:14,507 --> 00:33:16,347
Speaker 12: the young guys, you know, the guy mentioned, you know,

651
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Speaker 12: Jacob Laban and Dimitric and all those young guys coming

652
00:33:19,667 --> 00:33:21,787
Speaker 12: through the future is bright mate.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff. Paul. Always like chatting league with you, mate,

654
00:33:24,187 --> 00:33:25,907
Speaker 2: Let's do it often throughout the year. I know we

655
00:33:25,947 --> 00:33:28,027
Speaker 2: will all the best teammate. Oh, eight hundred and eighty

656
00:33:28,067 --> 00:33:30,467
Speaker 2: ten eighty is our number seventeen away from one. Hold there,

657
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Speaker 2: Jordan with you shortly.

658
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Speaker 7: We're also before.

659
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Speaker 2: One, going to get your update. Our first of the

660
00:33:34,027 --> 00:33:36,787
Speaker 2: afternoon from the New Zealand Golf Open with a couple

661
00:33:36,867 --> 00:33:38,867
Speaker 2: of Kiwis near the top of the leader board. Back

662
00:33:38,867 --> 00:33:40,267
Speaker 2: in a second weekend sport.

663
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Speaker 1: From Grassroots to the grandst Weekend Sport with Jason Fain

664
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Speaker 1: and GJ. Gardnomes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder News Talks.

665
00:33:49,467 --> 00:33:51,347
Speaker 2: That'd be fourteen to one. The one hundred and fifth

666
00:33:51,347 --> 00:33:54,187
Speaker 2: New Zealand Golf Open into its third round, thirteen Kiwis

667
00:33:54,187 --> 00:33:56,467
Speaker 2: have made the cut. Christ Church amateur yu Ki Miya

668
00:33:56,827 --> 00:33:59,027
Speaker 2: the two round lead to twelve under part a second

669
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Speaker 2: round four under Togo with his sixty three on the

670
00:34:01,067 --> 00:34:03,547
Speaker 2: first day just one shot behind in a typher second

671
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Speaker 2: Daniel Hilly eleven under Eli. An other Kiwi's playing the

672
00:34:08,147 --> 00:34:11,507
Speaker 2: weekend our man at the New Zealand Openers Mike Thorpe

673
00:34:11,587 --> 00:34:13,707
Speaker 2: might give us a conditions check. First of all, how's

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00:34:13,747 --> 00:34:15,187
Speaker 2: the day, Piney?

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00:34:15,227 --> 00:34:18,867
Speaker 6: It absolutely sensational, mate, Blue skies as far as the

676
00:34:18,867 --> 00:34:22,427
Speaker 6: eye can see a very comfortable temperature and at least

677
00:34:22,427 --> 00:34:25,347
Speaker 6: for the spectators are handy breeze.

678
00:34:24,947 --> 00:34:27,107
Speaker 2: Good to hear. Well, that's that's a good start to

679
00:34:27,147 --> 00:34:30,547
Speaker 2: this report. What about the form of U ki Miya.

680
00:34:30,707 --> 00:34:32,427
Speaker 2: I must admit I'd never heard of him. I know

681
00:34:32,427 --> 00:34:35,187
Speaker 2: who Daniel Hillyer is obviously, but U kim mea this

682
00:34:35,267 --> 00:34:38,227
Speaker 2: amateur at of christ Church twelve under. Across the first

683
00:34:38,227 --> 00:34:40,027
Speaker 2: two rounds, no.

684
00:34:39,907 --> 00:34:42,587
Speaker 6: One had heard of them up until late on day

685
00:34:42,667 --> 00:34:45,707
Speaker 6: one when he was suddenly five under. We rushed out

686
00:34:45,747 --> 00:34:47,827
Speaker 6: to watch him finish and had to quick chat them

687
00:34:47,827 --> 00:34:50,547
Speaker 6: as he walked back in after the play was suspended.

688
00:34:51,227 --> 00:34:53,827
Speaker 6: What a lovely kid, I say, kid, he's twenty years old,

689
00:34:53,907 --> 00:34:57,107
Speaker 6: but he's very young and certainly in terms of and

690
00:34:57,187 --> 00:35:01,107
Speaker 6: he has looked completely at home amongst all these professionals.

691
00:35:01,147 --> 00:35:03,947
Speaker 6: So yeah, great round yesterday to back it up, finds

692
00:35:04,027 --> 00:35:07,507
Speaker 6: himself at twelve will easily I guess out of course,

693
00:35:07,867 --> 00:35:10,747
Speaker 6: alongside Dan Hillier. It is going to be a packed

694
00:35:10,827 --> 00:35:14,107
Speaker 6: caillerie throughout the day. Probably second biggest one is just

695
00:35:14,147 --> 00:35:17,387
Speaker 6: in front of me now with Herbert the Australian. From

696
00:35:17,427 --> 00:35:19,867
Speaker 6: the lift to her he's picked up a couple of

697
00:35:20,507 --> 00:35:23,707
Speaker 6: minus nine the best of the key we's so far

698
00:35:23,787 --> 00:35:27,747
Speaker 6: this morning. Michael Henry started with eagle on the wretchcal

699
00:35:27,827 --> 00:35:30,147
Speaker 6: par five first and he's back that up with a

700
00:35:30,187 --> 00:35:33,547
Speaker 6: birdie seat into eight under. You get the feeling today

701
00:35:33,587 --> 00:35:35,787
Speaker 6: has to be a big moving day. Traditionally the third

702
00:35:35,867 --> 00:35:39,227
Speaker 6: round is anyway, but whether won't necessarily be quite as

703
00:35:39,227 --> 00:35:41,267
Speaker 6: good tomorrow. So if they're going to make some ground

704
00:35:41,347 --> 00:35:43,387
Speaker 6: up on the field, today's the day to do it.

705
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Speaker 2: Just before we'll let you get back to it, Mike.

706
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Speaker 2: Is there a sense of optimism around? I mean, Daniel

707
00:35:48,227 --> 00:35:51,107
Speaker 2: Hillier seems the most obvious one, but Ki Mia there

708
00:35:51,147 --> 00:35:54,387
Speaker 2: as well. We've got carry Mount Castle within touching distance

709
00:35:54,427 --> 00:35:56,867
Speaker 2: and Henry, as you saying the charge today, is there

710
00:35:56,907 --> 00:35:59,347
Speaker 2: that sense of optimism that can we might win this tomorrow?

711
00:36:00,067 --> 00:36:00,307
Speaker 3: Yeah?

712
00:36:00,587 --> 00:36:02,587
Speaker 6: The one thing I would say about Hillia is that

713
00:36:02,707 --> 00:36:05,907
Speaker 6: he shot I think it was three under yesterday and

714
00:36:06,187 --> 00:36:09,267
Speaker 6: he was under the weather, so hopefully you can turn

715
00:36:09,307 --> 00:36:11,907
Speaker 6: that around today. Feels much better this morning. He certainly

716
00:36:11,907 --> 00:36:14,387
Speaker 6: looks a peck of them. If there's an ozzy lurking

717
00:36:14,427 --> 00:36:16,707
Speaker 6: that you want to look out for, it's the very

718
00:36:16,747 --> 00:36:21,227
Speaker 6: widely what Ormsby, who finished particularly strongly yesterday and could

719
00:36:21,227 --> 00:36:22,187
Speaker 6: feature again today.

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Speaker 2: Good man, Mike, great to get your report. We'll catch

721
00:36:24,147 --> 00:36:26,227
Speaker 2: up again in an hour or so. Mike Thorpe with

722
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Speaker 2: us from the one hundred and fifth New Zealand Gulf

723
00:36:28,947 --> 00:36:31,867
Speaker 2: Open in Queenstown with KI Media, the christ Church Amateur

724
00:36:31,947 --> 00:36:35,067
Speaker 2: and Daniel Hillyer just about to tee off in their

725
00:36:35,107 --> 00:36:38,467
Speaker 2: third rounds. We're talking warriors till one. Jordan, thanks for holding.

726
00:36:38,467 --> 00:36:40,267
Speaker 2: How optimistic Defiel have you?

727
00:36:40,467 --> 00:36:40,667
Speaker 6: Have you?

728
00:36:40,747 --> 00:36:43,267
Speaker 2: Has your optimism dropped since you've been on hold or not?

729
00:36:45,067 --> 00:36:45,107
Speaker 8: No?

730
00:36:45,387 --> 00:36:46,147
Speaker 13: Maybe elevated?

731
00:36:46,907 --> 00:36:48,227
Speaker 2: Beautiful? It's beautiful.

732
00:36:48,867 --> 00:36:51,147
Speaker 13: No, I mean I'm not domistic that such a tough gone,

733
00:36:51,187 --> 00:36:53,667
Speaker 13: isn't it. So I think a top eight is realistic.

734
00:36:54,667 --> 00:36:56,987
Speaker 13: I think every team is looking to improve every year,

735
00:36:56,987 --> 00:37:00,387
Speaker 13: and under the salary tap it's very possible. So it's

736
00:37:00,427 --> 00:37:02,867
Speaker 13: going to be hard to be top four this year,

737
00:37:02,907 --> 00:37:05,627
Speaker 13: but I think a top eight gives anyone a chance.

738
00:37:05,627 --> 00:37:08,467
Speaker 13: I mean, you got jugs. The Tantas went last year

739
00:37:08,507 --> 00:37:11,427
Speaker 13: to making that Grand Final from outside the top eight,

740
00:37:11,467 --> 00:37:13,107
Speaker 13: and I think if they did make it, they probably

741
00:37:13,107 --> 00:37:15,667
Speaker 13: beat the Storm in the Grand Final, or maybe not

742
00:37:15,707 --> 00:37:18,387
Speaker 13: the Broncos. But yeah, I think a number of callers

743
00:37:18,427 --> 00:37:21,107
Speaker 13: have talked about the fact we're developing quite a lot

744
00:37:21,147 --> 00:37:23,747
Speaker 13: of depth, and I think that shows whe he's quite

745
00:37:23,787 --> 00:37:26,907
Speaker 13: intelligent and building a roster. He's come from the Panthers

746
00:37:26,947 --> 00:37:30,387
Speaker 13: set up, which they know that, you know, when the

747
00:37:30,427 --> 00:37:34,067
Speaker 13: Origins time frame is on, that they can roll out

748
00:37:34,107 --> 00:37:35,827
Speaker 13: a team of kids that can still put up a

749
00:37:35,827 --> 00:37:38,947
Speaker 13: good fight. And I think that's what we're starting to develop.

750
00:37:39,187 --> 00:37:41,827
Speaker 13: We've got good depth in our halves, even though yes,

751
00:37:41,867 --> 00:37:44,107
Speaker 13: some of them are injured. We've got an Origin and

752
00:37:44,227 --> 00:37:48,027
Speaker 13: Kiwi stackboard pack, so there's a lot to be excited about.

753
00:37:48,067 --> 00:37:51,067
Speaker 13: I just think where we are lacking a little is

754
00:37:51,227 --> 00:37:56,947
Speaker 13: probably genuine star power to break a game apart. Without Metcalf.

755
00:37:57,907 --> 00:38:00,987
Speaker 13: We don't have Arrest Walsh, we don't have a kaeln Ponger,

756
00:38:02,307 --> 00:38:05,067
Speaker 13: we don't have a Nathan Cleary. We don't probably have

757
00:38:05,187 --> 00:38:08,227
Speaker 13: that genuine star power, particularly in the back line, and

758
00:38:08,787 --> 00:38:11,627
Speaker 13: I do think that's a concern and I think that's

759
00:38:11,667 --> 00:38:14,427
Speaker 13: where the teams can really Without Brice Walsh last year,

760
00:38:14,467 --> 00:38:17,987
Speaker 13: the Broncos don't win that calm, so, you know, having

761
00:38:18,027 --> 00:38:21,187
Speaker 13: someone outside of Reynolds who's a bit injury prone, they

762
00:38:21,227 --> 00:38:24,427
Speaker 13: needed the needed race and he came through and I

763
00:38:24,467 --> 00:38:27,867
Speaker 13: just don't think we have that. In saying that, I've

764
00:38:27,907 --> 00:38:30,987
Speaker 13: already booked my Smites to the Grand Final, so I'm

765
00:38:30,987 --> 00:38:34,067
Speaker 13: hoping that the Warriors are there. But as a Warrior's fan, mate,

766
00:38:34,067 --> 00:38:35,947
Speaker 13: you've got to have a second team, So it's not

767
00:38:36,747 --> 00:38:37,867
Speaker 13: it's not the Rusters.

768
00:38:37,547 --> 00:38:39,907
Speaker 2: Will be there. So you're going to be going to

769
00:38:39,907 --> 00:38:41,867
Speaker 2: have divided dor seas on Friday, then, aren't you with

770
00:38:41,907 --> 00:38:43,547
Speaker 2: the two of them, I guess you'll start You're still

771
00:38:43,547 --> 00:38:46,227
Speaker 2: Warriors until they're not, or your Roosters if they're not

772
00:38:46,227 --> 00:38:49,347
Speaker 2: playing the Warriors by the sounds of it, Yeah, that's right.

773
00:38:49,387 --> 00:38:51,987
Speaker 13: I mean I'm a Warrior's fan first and foremost, so yeah,

774
00:38:52,147 --> 00:38:53,947
Speaker 13: that's a real tough game first up. I mean the

775
00:38:54,067 --> 00:38:56,307
Speaker 13: Roosters are probably up there with the Premiership favorite. So

776
00:38:56,747 --> 00:38:58,547
Speaker 13: if we can, if we can hold our head up

777
00:38:58,587 --> 00:39:00,907
Speaker 13: by against them and put it in a good account

778
00:39:00,947 --> 00:39:02,707
Speaker 13: of ourselves, I think that's a good sign, even if

779
00:39:02,747 --> 00:39:05,707
Speaker 13: we do go down, but hopefully we get them.

780
00:39:05,827 --> 00:39:07,827
Speaker 2: Yeah good and Jordan, Hey, great to chat mate. Hopefully

781
00:39:07,907 --> 00:39:09,867
Speaker 2: we can do it often across the season. Appreciate your call.

782
00:39:11,547 --> 00:39:13,267
Speaker 2: All the best, may take it easy. And number was

783
00:39:13,387 --> 00:39:15,627
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, although the hour is

784
00:39:15,707 --> 00:39:19,187
Speaker 2: quickly rushing towards its climax. We'll talk Warriors often obviously

785
00:39:19,227 --> 00:39:22,907
Speaker 2: across the year, so just looking at their first bracket

786
00:39:22,947 --> 00:39:26,387
Speaker 2: of games, so we can kind of, I guess, you know,

787
00:39:26,467 --> 00:39:28,267
Speaker 2: start to think about where we might want to be

788
00:39:28,467 --> 00:39:31,427
Speaker 2: after the first month, or or or after a couple

789
00:39:31,467 --> 00:39:34,147
Speaker 2: of months. And again I'm sort of linking this and

790
00:39:34,187 --> 00:39:36,147
Speaker 2: when Luke Metcalf might be back. So here are the

791
00:39:36,187 --> 00:39:39,107
Speaker 2: first two months for the Warriors. The Roosters at home

792
00:39:39,147 --> 00:39:42,107
Speaker 2: on Friday, followed by the Raiders at home, so two

793
00:39:42,107 --> 00:39:44,307
Speaker 2: of the I think you'd say, a couple of teams

794
00:39:44,307 --> 00:39:46,187
Speaker 2: that are pretty firm favorites for the top eight. Then

795
00:39:46,307 --> 00:39:49,587
Speaker 2: away to the Knights at home against the Tigers, away

796
00:39:49,627 --> 00:39:52,467
Speaker 2: at the Sharks, away at the Storm that's another tough

797
00:39:52,467 --> 00:39:56,027
Speaker 2: little fortnite at home against the Titans at home, but

798
00:39:56,147 --> 00:39:59,267
Speaker 2: in Wellington against the Dolphins. Then the Eels away and

799
00:39:59,307 --> 00:40:01,747
Speaker 2: then the bye. That's the first nine, and then into

800
00:40:01,867 --> 00:40:05,667
Speaker 2: round ten with the buy for the Warriors. So yeah,

801
00:40:05,707 --> 00:40:08,427
Speaker 2: without at the risk of repeating myself, just you know,

802
00:40:08,467 --> 00:40:10,507
Speaker 2: just stay on the hunt, and you know what, they

803
00:40:10,547 --> 00:40:12,947
Speaker 2: could easily go out there and beat the Roosters and

804
00:40:12,987 --> 00:40:14,947
Speaker 2: beat the Raiders. You know this is what the Warriors

805
00:40:14,987 --> 00:40:17,667
Speaker 2: do both at home. As Jordan just said, you know,

806
00:40:17,747 --> 00:40:19,987
Speaker 2: tough opener against the Roosters. They're a good team. I

807
00:40:19,987 --> 00:40:22,187
Speaker 2: think fourth favorite at the tab to win the whole thing.

808
00:40:23,067 --> 00:40:25,427
Speaker 2: Warriors could beat them on Friday. You know it would

809
00:40:25,467 --> 00:40:27,347
Speaker 2: not be beyond the run with some possibility that a

810
00:40:27,387 --> 00:40:30,347
Speaker 2: week from now. That's what we're talking about. Seven to

811
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Speaker 2: one News Talks, HEB.

812
00:40:31,907 --> 00:40:36,027
Speaker 1: The biggest names and sport are here Weekend Sport with

813
00:40:36,307 --> 00:40:38,427
Speaker 1: Jason Vine, News Talks, HEBB.

814
00:40:38,667 --> 00:40:43,027
Speaker 2: News Talks, HEAB and Weekend Sport. Just got a text

815
00:40:43,027 --> 00:40:47,587
Speaker 2: from Jason Paris at you know, the CEO of One

816
00:40:47,627 --> 00:40:50,147
Speaker 2: New Zealand and the Warrior's biggest fan. He said, loving

817
00:40:50,187 --> 00:40:53,507
Speaker 2: the show. Bestlidemaking a Warriors afternoon not just an hour.

818
00:40:55,867 --> 00:40:57,907
Speaker 2: When you do this again in the season, I'll get

819
00:40:57,947 --> 00:41:01,387
Speaker 2: you a Warrior's top signed by the whole team. Let

820
00:41:01,427 --> 00:41:03,107
Speaker 2: me know the best address to send it to. Well,

821
00:41:03,107 --> 00:41:05,907
Speaker 2: my address, Jason, I'll give you that. It'll be very valuable.

822
00:41:05,907 --> 00:41:08,907
Speaker 2: Once were our first premiership in twenty twenty six. It

823
00:41:09,027 --> 00:41:10,907
Speaker 2: is our year. Good on you, Jason. The ego that

824
00:41:10,987 --> 00:41:14,627
Speaker 2: is what is called unconditional support from the CEO of

825
00:41:14,667 --> 00:41:17,987
Speaker 2: One New Zealand, Jason Parris. GOODAVIU listening and Jason always

826
00:41:18,067 --> 00:41:21,027
Speaker 2: enjoy getting your texts as well. Got a whole plethora here,

827
00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:24,187
Speaker 2: everything from winning the whole thing to a lot of

828
00:41:24,227 --> 00:41:26,027
Speaker 2: top eights to a couple of wooden spoons. But I

829
00:41:26,027 --> 00:41:28,147
Speaker 2: get the feel in there from fans of other teams.

830
00:41:28,187 --> 00:41:31,587
Speaker 2: We will talk Warriors often across the year. Finn Allen

831
00:41:31,627 --> 00:41:33,067
Speaker 2: though from the black Caps after one.

832
00:41:34,307 --> 00:41:37,627
Speaker 1: The only place to discuss the biggest sports issues on.

833
00:41:39,227 --> 00:41:40,227
Speaker 14: A head off the field.

834
00:41:40,387 --> 00:41:41,107
Speaker 8: You've got a score.

835
00:41:41,627 --> 00:41:44,747
Speaker 1: It's all on Weekend Sports with Jason Vine on your

836
00:41:44,827 --> 00:41:48,947
Speaker 1: home of Sports News Talks V one O seven.

837
00:41:48,987 --> 00:41:51,227
Speaker 2: Welcome and welcome back. This is Weekend Sport on News Talks.

838
00:41:51,187 --> 00:41:53,827
Speaker 2: He'd be until three o'clock this afternoon. I'm Jason Pine

839
00:41:53,827 --> 00:41:57,467
Speaker 2: with Andy McDonald running the cutter. Thank you for all

840
00:41:57,467 --> 00:42:00,107
Speaker 2: your calls and correspondence regarding the Warriors. I think we

841
00:42:00,187 --> 00:42:04,467
Speaker 2: had every finishing position suggested to us. We should have

842
00:42:04,507 --> 00:42:07,227
Speaker 2: done that thing that we did a years ago, Andy,

843
00:42:07,227 --> 00:42:11,307
Speaker 2: where we took it's a seventeen eighteen callers. How many

844
00:42:11,307 --> 00:42:14,427
Speaker 2: teams in the NRL I should know this seventeen, isn't

845
00:42:14,427 --> 00:42:18,747
Speaker 2: it about to be eighteen? And we did a suite,

846
00:42:18,787 --> 00:42:21,787
Speaker 2: didn't we And we picked a finishing position out and

847
00:42:21,827 --> 00:42:24,947
Speaker 2: assigned it to a listener. I'm not actually sure we

848
00:42:25,027 --> 00:42:28,027
Speaker 2: ever got the prize to the eventual win it. It's

849
00:42:28,067 --> 00:42:30,147
Speaker 2: your kind of area, not mine. If all disclosure, I

850
00:42:30,187 --> 00:42:35,187
Speaker 2: never had one. So well. Jason Parris, CEO of One,

851
00:42:35,227 --> 00:42:38,547
Speaker 2: New Zealand, has offered us a signed replica jersey for

852
00:42:38,587 --> 00:42:41,467
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six and as he said, it'll be historic

853
00:42:41,507 --> 00:42:44,867
Speaker 2: because it'll be the maiden championship. We need to find

854
00:42:44,867 --> 00:42:48,307
Speaker 2: a way to give that away some stage. We'll work

855
00:42:48,307 --> 00:42:49,667
Speaker 2: it out one way or the other. All right, well,

856
00:42:49,667 --> 00:42:51,907
Speaker 2: I'll leave that with you again. That is your area.

857
00:42:52,147 --> 00:42:54,667
Speaker 2: Prizes and those sorts of things support that team. So

858
00:42:54,667 --> 00:42:56,907
Speaker 2: I would actually go out to a list of us time. Right,

859
00:42:57,947 --> 00:43:01,107
Speaker 2: So the prize last time, it wasn't you didn't have one.

860
00:43:01,347 --> 00:43:07,267
Speaker 2: It's that you kept it, no comment. We'll find a

861
00:43:07,267 --> 00:43:08,907
Speaker 2: way to give that away. And thank you Jason. Great

862
00:43:08,947 --> 00:43:10,067
Speaker 2: to have you listening in and great to have you

863
00:43:10,067 --> 00:43:11,547
Speaker 2: offering up the prize. We'll find a way to give

864
00:43:11,587 --> 00:43:15,027
Speaker 2: that away at some stage, Curtis said. Our good mates

865
00:43:15,107 --> 00:43:18,427
Speaker 2: at one New Zealand, Jason Parris in particular. All right

866
00:43:18,507 --> 00:43:21,707
Speaker 2: this out going to talk a couple of things. Did

867
00:43:21,787 --> 00:43:24,427
Speaker 2: you see George Bridge last night playing for the Western

868
00:43:24,507 --> 00:43:27,867
Speaker 2: Force with the thirteen on his back? I thought he

869
00:43:27,907 --> 00:43:30,067
Speaker 2: had a good game apart from that one little lapse.

870
00:43:30,987 --> 00:43:32,547
Speaker 2: Did you see that when he went over the try

871
00:43:32,587 --> 00:43:33,787
Speaker 2: line he was there, he was You know what he

872
00:43:33,827 --> 00:43:35,147
Speaker 2: had to do was put the ball down and then

873
00:43:35,507 --> 00:43:38,347
Speaker 2: he didn't see. I'm a White of Pacific. A defender

874
00:43:39,627 --> 00:43:43,627
Speaker 2: closing fast, and that defender did enough so that George

875
00:43:43,667 --> 00:43:45,987
Speaker 2: Bridge didn't ground the ball properly. It didn't matter in

876
00:43:46,027 --> 00:43:47,507
Speaker 2: the end, he got his try ladder in the game

877
00:43:47,547 --> 00:43:49,907
Speaker 2: and got the win and the first win for the

878
00:43:49,947 --> 00:43:52,987
Speaker 2: Western Force in New Zealand since twenty twenty two. Would

879
00:43:52,987 --> 00:43:56,147
Speaker 2: you believe George Bridge is on the show in the

880
00:43:56,147 --> 00:43:59,907
Speaker 2: next little while. Adam Peacock our regular Australian correspondent as well,

881
00:43:59,947 --> 00:44:02,827
Speaker 2: and we'll talk with Finn Allen shortly out of India,

882
00:44:02,907 --> 00:44:05,307
Speaker 2: just updating you on Live Sport. We might as well

883
00:44:05,307 --> 00:44:08,467
Speaker 2: start with the cricket because three planket shield matches around

884
00:44:08,507 --> 00:44:10,467
Speaker 2: the place have all reached the lunch break on the

885
00:44:10,467 --> 00:44:15,187
Speaker 2: first day in Napier Wellington have been having been sent

886
00:44:15,267 --> 00:44:17,907
Speaker 2: into bat By Central Districts, are one hundred and fifty

887
00:44:17,947 --> 00:44:22,747
Speaker 2: five without loss at lunch. What a start. Similarly, at

888
00:44:22,747 --> 00:44:26,707
Speaker 2: Hagleyoval and christ Church Otago who was sent into bat By,

889
00:44:26,747 --> 00:44:30,147
Speaker 2: Canterbury are one hundred and ten for one at lunch,

890
00:44:30,707 --> 00:44:34,747
Speaker 2: and Auckland have recovered from losing three rather quick wickets

891
00:44:34,747 --> 00:44:37,347
Speaker 2: to be one fifty one for four having won the

892
00:44:37,387 --> 00:44:40,987
Speaker 2: toss and elected to bat first. At Eden Parks Outer

893
00:44:41,227 --> 00:44:45,827
Speaker 2: Oval at the New Zealand Golf Open, everybody is underway

894
00:44:46,907 --> 00:44:50,147
Speaker 2: and Daniel Hillier has birdied the first hole in his

895
00:44:50,307 --> 00:44:52,147
Speaker 2: third round to move to a share of the lead

896
00:44:52,187 --> 00:44:55,547
Speaker 2: at twelve under. Yuki Miya, who was his playing partner,

897
00:44:55,627 --> 00:44:59,187
Speaker 2: the christ Church amateur who is the name on everybody's

898
00:44:59,187 --> 00:45:02,027
Speaker 2: slips after the first two rounds birdie are sorry part

899
00:45:02,067 --> 00:45:04,707
Speaker 2: of the first hole, so Daniel Hillier and Yuki Miya

900
00:45:04,787 --> 00:45:07,827
Speaker 2: now lead at twelve under, and the Indian player Karen

901
00:45:07,867 --> 00:45:10,467
Speaker 2: deep Coacher, who I must admit I have never heard of,

902
00:45:10,827 --> 00:45:13,427
Speaker 2: has picked up three shots in his first four holes

903
00:45:13,867 --> 00:45:16,627
Speaker 2: to move into a typher third. Cary Mount Castle, another

904
00:45:16,707 --> 00:45:19,627
Speaker 2: Kiwi has also got a birdie in his first two

905
00:45:19,627 --> 00:45:23,627
Speaker 2: holes he is up to eleven under and Wade Ormsby,

906
00:45:24,067 --> 00:45:27,787
Speaker 2: who Mike Thorpe described as the wily old Ossie. He's

907
00:45:28,027 --> 00:45:30,947
Speaker 2: part his first hole. He stays at eleven under. Travis Smith,

908
00:45:31,307 --> 00:45:34,387
Speaker 2: another Australian, also at eleven under. To find the next

909
00:45:34,467 --> 00:45:36,307
Speaker 2: key wee. We get down to Michael Henry who's at

910
00:45:36,307 --> 00:45:38,947
Speaker 2: a very good front nine. He's four under in fact

911
00:45:38,947 --> 00:45:41,907
Speaker 2: through his first eight holes to move to nine under

912
00:45:41,907 --> 00:45:43,627
Speaker 2: the car so just three shots off the lead for

913
00:45:43,667 --> 00:45:46,867
Speaker 2: Michael Henry. Low scoring in Queenstown on a beautiful day

914
00:45:46,867 --> 00:45:50,587
Speaker 2: down there, so look forward to reports across the afternoon.

915
00:45:51,747 --> 00:45:53,787
Speaker 2: Farnell And is standing by the chat to us before

916
00:45:54,107 --> 00:45:57,027
Speaker 2: we chat to finnell And about what happened in the

917
00:45:57,027 --> 00:45:59,947
Speaker 2: cricket this morning. I don't know if you've caught up

918
00:45:59,987 --> 00:46:02,507
Speaker 2: with this. I might actually got up to watch this game.

919
00:46:02,747 --> 00:46:05,507
Speaker 2: And before the game, as usually happens, they do the

920
00:46:05,587 --> 00:46:10,547
Speaker 2: national anthem. Well, the New Zealand National Anthem was like

921
00:46:10,587 --> 00:46:15,067
Speaker 2: the New Zealand National Anthem on Helium. It was, oh,

922
00:46:15,147 --> 00:46:17,387
Speaker 2: I'm going to play a little bit for you. They

923
00:46:17,467 --> 00:46:19,627
Speaker 2: did the today version and then the English version and

924
00:46:19,627 --> 00:46:21,507
Speaker 2: I'll play the last little bit of it. Just to

925
00:46:21,547 --> 00:46:25,187
Speaker 2: give you an idea of how fast the National Anthem

926
00:46:25,307 --> 00:46:47,747
Speaker 2: was sung. Haven't listened to this study, so that's just

927
00:46:47,867 --> 00:46:51,547
Speaker 2: the last. But when it started with the TODAYO version,

928
00:46:51,987 --> 00:46:53,947
Speaker 2: you can see the players because you know the pen

929
00:46:54,027 --> 00:46:57,427
Speaker 2: across the line of the players and you can see

930
00:46:57,467 --> 00:46:59,987
Speaker 2: them all. They start to sing the today A version

931
00:47:00,387 --> 00:47:04,067
Speaker 2: and then they basically just start cracking up, laughing because

932
00:47:04,067 --> 00:47:07,667
Speaker 2: it's so fast. They just don't have any hope of

933
00:47:07,747 --> 00:47:11,347
Speaker 2: keeping up. And even by the time the English part

934
00:47:11,427 --> 00:47:14,107
Speaker 2: rolled around though none of them were really singing at all.

935
00:47:14,227 --> 00:47:16,587
Speaker 2: They were just looking at one of the fin Allen

936
00:47:16,707 --> 00:47:22,027
Speaker 2: is having a great laugh. Matt Henry Andy was showing

937
00:47:22,027 --> 00:47:24,427
Speaker 2: me some still photos this morning. Matt Henry is like

938
00:47:24,467 --> 00:47:26,787
Speaker 2: he's had a comedy gig. I mean, it's a little

939
00:47:26,787 --> 00:47:28,987
Speaker 2: bit disrespectful. I know we're not disrespectful. We're a little

940
00:47:28,987 --> 00:47:31,627
Speaker 2: bit out of place during the national anthem, but it's

941
00:47:31,827 --> 00:47:35,267
Speaker 2: so funny. How on earth have they got it that

942
00:47:35,427 --> 00:47:38,907
Speaker 2: wrong or why have they sped it up? I'd be

943
00:47:38,987 --> 00:47:42,307
Speaker 2: quite keen to get to the bottom of this. On

944
00:47:42,347 --> 00:47:45,467
Speaker 2: the field, after the anthems, the black Caps have their

945
00:47:45,467 --> 00:47:48,587
Speaker 2: semi final fate now out of their hands. A full

946
00:47:48,627 --> 00:47:51,747
Speaker 2: wicket loss to England in Colombo. This morning goes fine

947
00:47:51,827 --> 00:47:53,587
Speaker 2: now and always fine leg and that is it.

948
00:47:54,227 --> 00:47:57,147
Speaker 8: England have won this match out of nowhere.

949
00:47:57,187 --> 00:47:59,907
Speaker 1: Really, it was just minutes ago we were saying New

950
00:47:59,987 --> 00:48:03,507
Speaker 1: Zealand my brekeeper sent favorites to win it and England

951
00:48:03,507 --> 00:48:04,747
Speaker 1: have tanned it on its head.

952
00:48:04,947 --> 00:48:05,147
Speaker 15: Yeah.

953
00:48:05,227 --> 00:48:07,707
Speaker 2: After a hot start with bat, New Zealand slow down

954
00:48:07,707 --> 00:48:10,147
Speaker 2: a bit to one fifty nine for seven off their

955
00:48:10,187 --> 00:48:13,267
Speaker 2: twenty overs, Glenn Phillips and Tim Seifferd the top scorers

956
00:48:13,267 --> 00:48:16,267
Speaker 2: with thirty nine and thirty five respectively. England were scrambling

957
00:48:16,427 --> 00:48:19,787
Speaker 2: at one hundred and seventeen for six with just three

958
00:48:19,827 --> 00:48:23,347
Speaker 2: overs to go, but a really really good partnership of

959
00:48:23,467 --> 00:48:27,347
Speaker 2: forty four off just sixteen balls between Will Jacks and

960
00:48:27,467 --> 00:48:30,187
Speaker 2: Rayan Ahmed, who was on debut at this World Cup,

961
00:48:30,587 --> 00:48:33,827
Speaker 2: steered England to victory and kept them unbeaten through the

962
00:48:33,867 --> 00:48:37,867
Speaker 2: Super eight phase. They are into the semi finals. England

963
00:48:37,867 --> 00:48:40,707
Speaker 2: have made it through to the semis. Now, as far

964
00:48:40,787 --> 00:48:45,947
Speaker 2: as our fate is concerned, we need Sri Lanka to

965
00:48:45,987 --> 00:48:50,067
Speaker 2: beat Pakistan tomorrow. That's one possible way we can get through.

966
00:48:50,107 --> 00:48:53,147
Speaker 2: If Sri Lanka beat Pakistan, we go through Sri Lanka

967
00:48:53,187 --> 00:48:55,867
Speaker 2: are out, they can't make the Semis. But if they

968
00:48:55,867 --> 00:48:58,947
Speaker 2: beat Pakistan, they not Pakistan out. So that's the best

969
00:48:58,987 --> 00:49:02,107
Speaker 2: result for Sri Lanka to beat Pakistan. And this game

970
00:49:02,187 --> 00:49:04,907
Speaker 2: is in Sri Lanka and they'll be disappointed having not

971
00:49:04,947 --> 00:49:07,267
Speaker 2: made the Semis, so you hope that they will be

972
00:49:07,627 --> 00:49:10,267
Speaker 2: pretty fired up, pretty motivated to win the game. If

973
00:49:10,307 --> 00:49:12,987
Speaker 2: Pakistan were to win the game, they would have to

974
00:49:13,027 --> 00:49:16,427
Speaker 2: win it convincingly to go past New Zealand's on net

975
00:49:16,547 --> 00:49:19,547
Speaker 2: run rate, and the calculation that's been done is that

976
00:49:19,587 --> 00:49:23,667
Speaker 2: Pakistan would if they bat first, would have to win

977
00:49:23,787 --> 00:49:27,627
Speaker 2: by sixty five runs or more. If they bat second,

978
00:49:27,987 --> 00:49:31,867
Speaker 2: they would have to chase their target down inside thirteen overs.

979
00:49:32,667 --> 00:49:35,867
Speaker 2: So both of those things feel quite unlikely in a

980
00:49:35,907 --> 00:49:39,707
Speaker 2: game of T twenty. So I feel like we're favorite

981
00:49:39,747 --> 00:49:42,547
Speaker 2: to go through, but it won't be confirmed until that

982
00:49:42,587 --> 00:49:44,827
Speaker 2: game tomorrow morning at two thirty. So by the time

983
00:49:45,227 --> 00:49:48,067
Speaker 2: you wake up tomorrow morning, you'll know whether the black

984
00:49:48,067 --> 00:49:51,787
Speaker 2: Caps are into the semifinals or whether their tournament is over.

985
00:49:52,187 --> 00:49:55,507
Speaker 2: Let's bring in black Caps opener Finn Allen. As I say, Finn,

986
00:49:55,507 --> 00:49:58,787
Speaker 2: this puts your semi final hopes in the balance a

987
00:49:58,827 --> 00:50:01,627
Speaker 2: little bit how you're processing what played out in Colombo

988
00:50:02,227 --> 00:50:03,987
Speaker 2: in the game against England this morning.

989
00:50:05,147 --> 00:50:06,147
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was a close one.

990
00:50:06,707 --> 00:50:09,907
Speaker 16: Yeah, naturally disappointed as a group not to get the win,

991
00:50:10,587 --> 00:50:12,547
Speaker 16: but you know, I think it's it's still a lot

992
00:50:12,547 --> 00:50:14,987
Speaker 16: of positives for us to take from that game, you know,

993
00:50:15,587 --> 00:50:17,947
Speaker 16: unfortunately in somebody else's hands now, but I think it

994
00:50:17,947 --> 00:50:20,507
Speaker 16: will be a hell of a win for Pakistan to

995
00:50:20,547 --> 00:50:22,107
Speaker 16: go through. So I think, you know, we'll be watching

996
00:50:22,107 --> 00:50:25,587
Speaker 16: the game pretty closely tomorrow, and I guess yeah, like

997
00:50:25,627 --> 00:50:27,947
Speaker 16: we say, just you know, we were fresh, and take

998
00:50:27,987 --> 00:50:30,467
Speaker 16: the good from this and learn from the things that

999
00:50:30,507 --> 00:50:32,987
Speaker 16: we want to learn from and hope for the best.

1000
00:50:33,227 --> 00:50:35,227
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are the positives so you take from it? Actually,

1001
00:50:35,547 --> 00:50:37,427
Speaker 2: i'll throw one at you, the power play with yourself

1002
00:50:37,427 --> 00:50:39,507
Speaker 2: and tim cipher it at the start. How happy were

1003
00:50:39,507 --> 00:50:41,187
Speaker 2: you with the first six overs of the game.

1004
00:50:42,187 --> 00:50:42,387
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1005
00:50:42,387 --> 00:50:44,667
Speaker 16: Look, I think we said, me and Timmy said at

1006
00:50:44,667 --> 00:50:46,587
Speaker 16: the start that we just wanted to assess the power play.

1007
00:50:46,627 --> 00:50:49,427
Speaker 16: We thought it could be quite tricky, you know, Joffra

1008
00:50:49,507 --> 00:50:51,107
Speaker 16: with that new boy gets it's a talk affair.

1009
00:50:51,227 --> 00:50:52,307
Speaker 8: It was just a bit tacky.

1010
00:50:52,787 --> 00:50:55,467
Speaker 16: A lot of swing and sea movement, which you know,

1011
00:50:55,507 --> 00:50:58,467
Speaker 16: it's pretty tricky to come up against. And then yeah,

1012
00:50:58,467 --> 00:51:00,427
Speaker 16: we just kind of said we'll take what we can get.

1013
00:51:01,427 --> 00:51:03,907
Speaker 16: As long as we can be unscathed or as little

1014
00:51:03,947 --> 00:51:05,627
Speaker 16: down as possible. Then I think we could reap the

1015
00:51:05,667 --> 00:51:08,947
Speaker 16: rewards through the middle and really dominate this spinners.

1016
00:51:08,587 --> 00:51:09,547
Speaker 8: Through that middle period.

1017
00:51:09,547 --> 00:51:12,587
Speaker 16: And unfortunately we did the hard yards through the power play,

1018
00:51:12,627 --> 00:51:15,307
Speaker 16: and then we gave it away, probably both of us

1019
00:51:15,307 --> 00:51:19,547
Speaker 16: pretty cheaply, unfortunately. So I mean, yeah, like I said,

1020
00:51:19,547 --> 00:51:21,787
Speaker 16: there's this good and bad to take from that. Definitely

1021
00:51:21,787 --> 00:51:24,947
Speaker 16: some learnings and then yeah, I think, look, we got

1022
00:51:24,947 --> 00:51:27,267
Speaker 16: ourselves to a fighting score and I think for the

1023
00:51:27,267 --> 00:51:28,707
Speaker 16: most part we were on top of that game.

1024
00:51:28,747 --> 00:51:30,307
Speaker 8: And that's two twenty cricket.

1025
00:51:30,387 --> 00:51:34,067
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, just on the on the batting is the first

1026
00:51:34,067 --> 00:51:35,867
Speaker 2: over is a maiden? I don't think anybody had that

1027
00:51:35,907 --> 00:51:37,627
Speaker 2: on there, but on the bingo card at all. I

1028
00:51:37,627 --> 00:51:40,227
Speaker 2: can't remember the last time the first over was a maiden.

1029
00:51:40,267 --> 00:51:42,267
Speaker 2: What are the conversations you have after that with Tim?

1030
00:51:42,427 --> 00:51:43,907
Speaker 2: Does it do you just sort of say, well, okay,

1031
00:51:43,907 --> 00:51:45,867
Speaker 2: we couldn't get him away, let's go from here.

1032
00:51:46,827 --> 00:51:47,027
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1033
00:51:47,067 --> 00:51:49,707
Speaker 16: Look, I mean obviously i'd say yes' ald pretty well

1034
00:51:49,707 --> 00:51:52,187
Speaker 16: to get a maiden against one of us, especially the

1035
00:51:52,227 --> 00:51:55,107
Speaker 16: way Timmy's going. But I think, you know, it just

1036
00:51:55,147 --> 00:51:57,107
Speaker 16: showed that it was quite tricky to get the start.

1037
00:51:57,747 --> 00:52:00,067
Speaker 16: Tim He's been hitting the ball beautifully, so like I said,

1038
00:52:00,067 --> 00:52:02,067
Speaker 16: for him to bowl a maiden to him as you know,

1039
00:52:02,147 --> 00:52:04,467
Speaker 16: it's a good over, and I think we just said,

1040
00:52:04,507 --> 00:52:07,027
Speaker 16: you know, stay and it will be better for it.

1041
00:52:06,347 --> 00:52:08,907
Speaker 16: And the longer we beat, the deeper we could take

1042
00:52:08,907 --> 00:52:11,347
Speaker 16: it the bet off hopefully our team would be so

1043
00:52:11,387 --> 00:52:13,987
Speaker 16: and it just showed, you know, Timmy staying in it

1044
00:52:14,027 --> 00:52:15,667
Speaker 16: there in that last over, that joff for Bolt and

1045
00:52:15,707 --> 00:52:17,787
Speaker 16: the power player, I think it was the fifth you know,

1046
00:52:17,787 --> 00:52:19,307
Speaker 16: he got a fuel way and he really got us

1047
00:52:19,307 --> 00:52:22,227
Speaker 16: back in the game and well ahead of where we

1048
00:52:22,267 --> 00:52:25,427
Speaker 16: wanted to be. So I think it just shows sometimes

1049
00:52:25,467 --> 00:52:28,307
Speaker 16: when it's tricky at the top, staying in it and

1050
00:52:28,467 --> 00:52:31,347
Speaker 16: working with each other as we enjoy doing is really

1051
00:52:31,347 --> 00:52:32,747
Speaker 16: positive and powerful.

1052
00:52:32,587 --> 00:52:34,907
Speaker 2: And your own betting fun. How are you feeling about that?

1053
00:52:35,027 --> 00:52:37,787
Speaker 2: You're striking it nicely, You're getting good starts. You've got

1054
00:52:37,787 --> 00:52:40,107
Speaker 2: to start in most of your games. Yeah, I think

1055
00:52:40,107 --> 00:52:42,507
Speaker 2: you strike rates one seventy one eighty. Hey, you feeling

1056
00:52:42,667 --> 00:52:43,787
Speaker 2: your own betting at this tournament?

1057
00:52:44,507 --> 00:52:47,107
Speaker 16: Well, Honestly, it's been an incredibly frustrating tournament for me,

1058
00:52:49,027 --> 00:52:51,347
Speaker 16: start after start and then throwing it away. I feel

1059
00:52:51,387 --> 00:52:54,267
Speaker 16: like I've had a lot of soft dismissals, which in

1060
00:52:54,587 --> 00:52:57,907
Speaker 16: crucial games as well, which is, you know, extremely disappointing.

1061
00:52:59,147 --> 00:53:00,707
Speaker 16: Like I was saying before, I think I've been doing

1062
00:53:00,707 --> 00:53:04,267
Speaker 16: the hard work early and getting myself set and then yeah,

1063
00:53:04,347 --> 00:53:08,867
Speaker 16: just throwing it away. So yeah, again positives to take forward,

1064
00:53:08,867 --> 00:53:11,107
Speaker 16: but also things to learn from.

1065
00:53:11,747 --> 00:53:11,947
Speaker 8: You know.

1066
00:53:12,067 --> 00:53:14,427
Speaker 16: I just really hope that we can get another crack

1067
00:53:14,467 --> 00:53:17,827
Speaker 16: in this World Cup, in the super in the semi finals.

1068
00:53:17,907 --> 00:53:19,627
Speaker 2: So interesting to hear you say that, man, because I

1069
00:53:19,627 --> 00:53:21,587
Speaker 2: guess you think, okay, well, your job at the top

1070
00:53:21,587 --> 00:53:23,387
Speaker 2: with Tim is to get the team off to a

1071
00:53:23,387 --> 00:53:25,267
Speaker 2: good start, and if that means you know that after

1072
00:53:25,307 --> 00:53:27,707
Speaker 2: six seven overs, then then you know you're out and

1073
00:53:27,787 --> 00:53:30,067
Speaker 2: somebody else comes in. Your job's done. But that's not

1074
00:53:30,107 --> 00:53:31,067
Speaker 2: the way you feel.

1075
00:53:31,987 --> 00:53:36,147
Speaker 16: No, I think it's extremely disappointing. I think, you know,

1076
00:53:36,427 --> 00:53:38,227
Speaker 16: I know I'm better than that, and I want to

1077
00:53:38,227 --> 00:53:40,107
Speaker 16: be better than that, and I think that's something that

1078
00:53:40,107 --> 00:53:43,187
Speaker 16: I've worked really hard on in the last twelve months,

1079
00:53:43,307 --> 00:53:46,187
Speaker 16: is that consistency piece, and you know, not giving it away,

1080
00:53:46,227 --> 00:53:49,467
Speaker 16: and I think for multiple reasons. I think, you know,

1081
00:53:49,467 --> 00:53:54,147
Speaker 16: it just hasn't quite kicked on, which, as I said,

1082
00:53:54,187 --> 00:53:57,987
Speaker 16: is you're very frustrating and disappointing. But I think I'm

1083
00:53:58,107 --> 00:54:00,667
Speaker 16: starting well, it's just yeah, it's that next little phase

1084
00:54:00,747 --> 00:54:03,147
Speaker 16: that I just need to be a bit better and.

1085
00:54:03,187 --> 00:54:05,387
Speaker 2: All right, well we'll look forward to to seeing what

1086
00:54:05,427 --> 00:54:08,427
Speaker 2: happens over the next little in that regard, and he's

1087
00:54:08,467 --> 00:54:10,587
Speaker 2: break one fifty nine doesn't seem like a big total,

1088
00:54:10,587 --> 00:54:13,147
Speaker 2: but it was enough against against Sri Lanka, wasn't it.

1089
00:54:13,147 --> 00:54:14,947
Speaker 2: Did you feel that the halfway stage you were definitely

1090
00:54:14,947 --> 00:54:15,347
Speaker 2: in the game.

1091
00:54:16,307 --> 00:54:18,867
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, I think it was a competitive score. I

1092
00:54:18,947 --> 00:54:21,627
Speaker 16: think you'd always like to have a few more. A

1093
00:54:21,627 --> 00:54:24,027
Speaker 16: few different guys had different feelings about the Wicked, obviously

1094
00:54:24,027 --> 00:54:25,907
Speaker 16: betting at different times, but we could tell that it

1095
00:54:25,987 --> 00:54:29,267
Speaker 16: was you know, it was turning and bouncing, probably a

1096
00:54:29,307 --> 00:54:33,067
Speaker 16: little bit more consistently maybe than last game. But you know,

1097
00:54:33,147 --> 00:54:35,547
Speaker 16: we always back our bowlers in the way that Tisa

1098
00:54:35,627 --> 00:54:37,507
Speaker 16: and Locke started us off. You know, we can't ask

1099
00:54:37,507 --> 00:54:41,707
Speaker 16: so much more. You know, they've been incredible this tournament.

1100
00:54:42,387 --> 00:54:44,867
Speaker 16: Tias are particularly in that first over. You know, I'm

1101
00:54:44,907 --> 00:54:47,867
Speaker 16: pretty glad he's on my side. It looks horrible to face.

1102
00:54:47,947 --> 00:54:50,627
Speaker 16: So he's been getting like almost every best better in

1103
00:54:50,627 --> 00:54:53,187
Speaker 16: their team out in the first over, So you know,

1104
00:54:53,267 --> 00:54:56,227
Speaker 16: hats off to him. Have we have a big loss going

1105
00:54:56,267 --> 00:54:59,347
Speaker 16: home for the semi final if we get there, but

1106
00:54:59,507 --> 00:55:01,467
Speaker 16: you know, it just shows where his game's at at

1107
00:55:01,467 --> 00:55:04,867
Speaker 16: the moment, and also Lockie as well. So yeah, I

1108
00:55:04,867 --> 00:55:06,347
Speaker 16: think we definitely thought we were in for a pretty

1109
00:55:06,467 --> 00:55:07,187
Speaker 16: good chance there.

1110
00:55:07,427 --> 00:55:10,347
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I guess at one seventeen for six in

1111
00:55:10,427 --> 00:55:13,187
Speaker 2: the seventeenth you think, okay, we've got the upper hand here.

1112
00:55:13,267 --> 00:55:16,227
Speaker 2: So how difficult was it watching Will jacks and riham

1113
00:55:16,427 --> 00:55:18,147
Speaker 2: Armi'd sort of take it away from you at the end.

1114
00:55:19,027 --> 00:55:22,427
Speaker 16: It's always it's always a little bit heart ranging. But

1115
00:55:22,667 --> 00:55:24,707
Speaker 16: I think you know, Will Jackson has done it all

1116
00:55:24,707 --> 00:55:27,427
Speaker 16: tournament and he's finished off games for them extremely well.

1117
00:55:27,787 --> 00:55:30,507
Speaker 16: And you know, I've played credit with Ray Hahn a

1118
00:55:30,587 --> 00:55:32,787
Speaker 16: fair bit as well and watched him player. I know

1119
00:55:32,827 --> 00:55:34,467
Speaker 16: he can he can swing the back pretty nice, as

1120
00:55:34,507 --> 00:55:37,347
Speaker 16: he showed tonight. So I think as disappointing as it is,

1121
00:55:37,387 --> 00:55:39,747
Speaker 16: you know, someone has to lose, and that's twenty cricket.

1122
00:55:39,747 --> 00:55:42,067
Speaker 16: They played. They played pretty well to finish that game

1123
00:55:42,107 --> 00:55:43,627
Speaker 16: off and get the win. So hats off to them,

1124
00:55:43,627 --> 00:55:47,547
Speaker 16: and yeah, hopefully we can yeah make it through and

1125
00:55:47,587 --> 00:55:48,227
Speaker 16: see them again.

1126
00:55:48,307 --> 00:55:49,907
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you just sat on in now and

1127
00:55:49,947 --> 00:55:52,907
Speaker 2: cheer for Sri Lanka against Pakistandi. Oh I hope Pakistan,

1128
00:55:52,987 --> 00:55:54,907
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean it's a big ask, isn't it.

1129
00:55:54,947 --> 00:55:57,747
Speaker 2: I've seen some maths. They have to win inside thirteen

1130
00:55:57,787 --> 00:55:59,707
Speaker 2: overs all by sixty five runs, which is a big

1131
00:55:59,747 --> 00:56:00,987
Speaker 2: ass in T twenty, isn't it.

1132
00:56:01,747 --> 00:56:02,707
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a huge ass.

1133
00:56:02,747 --> 00:56:05,947
Speaker 16: And again both teams have incredibly quality players and it

1134
00:56:06,027 --> 00:56:08,507
Speaker 16: can be anyone's day on the day. That's CE twenty cricket, right.

1135
00:56:08,547 --> 00:56:11,947
Speaker 16: I think we've seen that this tournament. So yeah, look

1136
00:56:12,147 --> 00:56:15,707
Speaker 16: we'll we'll be cheering and hoping for the best. But yeah,

1137
00:56:15,707 --> 00:56:16,787
Speaker 16: that's all we can do at the moment.

1138
00:56:17,147 --> 00:56:22,467
Speaker 2: What was going on with the national anthem?

1139
00:56:22,507 --> 00:56:26,867
Speaker 16: Honestly, it's I felt bad because a few of us

1140
00:56:26,947 --> 00:56:29,667
Speaker 16: kind of couldn't stop or we were trying not to laugh.

1141
00:56:29,747 --> 00:56:31,987
Speaker 16: But the camera you can kind of see the little

1142
00:56:32,387 --> 00:56:34,187
Speaker 16: weirly thing at the front street on you and you're

1143
00:56:34,227 --> 00:56:37,787
Speaker 16: trying not to lose it. But yeah, that was pretty funny.

1144
00:56:37,787 --> 00:56:40,987
Speaker 16: It was a bit of a remix. It was quite

1145
00:56:40,987 --> 00:56:43,027
Speaker 16: hard to sing actually, a few of the boys were

1146
00:56:43,027 --> 00:56:44,347
Speaker 16: stuggling to keep up with the pace.

1147
00:56:44,427 --> 00:56:47,107
Speaker 8: But yeah, we had to wait like an.

1148
00:56:46,987 --> 00:56:48,747
Speaker 16: Extra three or four minutes when me and Timmy got

1149
00:56:48,827 --> 00:56:50,187
Speaker 16: up there because the anthems went.

1150
00:56:50,107 --> 00:56:50,907
Speaker 8: Too quick.

1151
00:56:52,387 --> 00:56:54,067
Speaker 2: On a shel she I thought I was waiting for

1152
00:56:54,107 --> 00:56:55,907
Speaker 2: the beat to drop. I thought it was the remix

1153
00:56:55,987 --> 00:56:58,787
Speaker 2: or something like that, crazy old stuff. All right, made

1154
00:56:58,787 --> 00:57:00,827
Speaker 2: Hey great to Chatford, Thanks as always, mate, look forward

1155
00:57:00,867 --> 00:57:03,547
Speaker 2: to Shri Lenka beating Pakistan and you guys into the semis.

1156
00:57:03,867 --> 00:57:05,347
Speaker 2: I hope that's the way it plays.

1157
00:57:05,027 --> 00:57:07,627
Speaker 8: Out, justly appreciate it, mat have a good one.

1158
00:57:07,627 --> 00:57:09,867
Speaker 2: Nayvor, good one too, Finn. Thanks indeed, Finn Allen there

1159
00:57:10,427 --> 00:57:13,267
Speaker 2: with his thoughts after this morning. So yeah, so just

1160
00:57:13,307 --> 00:57:18,187
Speaker 2: to repeat the equation that, yeah, let's just all chair

1161
00:57:18,187 --> 00:57:20,707
Speaker 2: for Sri Lanka. That's the easiest way to look at this.

1162
00:57:20,787 --> 00:57:23,907
Speaker 2: If Sri Lanka beat Pakistan tomorrow morning, then New Zealand

1163
00:57:23,947 --> 00:57:27,107
Speaker 2: are into the semifinals. That is the simple equation. The

1164
00:57:27,147 --> 00:57:29,867
Speaker 2: other part of it, if Pakistan were to beat Sri Lanka,

1165
00:57:29,907 --> 00:57:32,267
Speaker 2: then we don't want them to win by sixty five

1166
00:57:32,347 --> 00:57:36,147
Speaker 2: runs or chase down a total inside thirteen overs. There

1167
00:57:36,187 --> 00:57:38,947
Speaker 2: you go, that's what has to happen. The other game

1168
00:57:39,027 --> 00:57:41,747
Speaker 2: from the other Super Eights, Paul, that is really interesting

1169
00:57:41,947 --> 00:57:46,667
Speaker 2: is India against the West Indies. This is effectively a

1170
00:57:46,707 --> 00:57:50,027
Speaker 2: straight shootout for the semifinal. South Africa are already through.

1171
00:57:50,067 --> 00:57:53,827
Speaker 2: They play Zimbabwe. This game is when's that tomorrow night

1172
00:57:53,867 --> 00:57:56,387
Speaker 2: at ten thirty and then two thirty in the morning.

1173
00:57:56,427 --> 00:57:58,867
Speaker 2: This is all New Zealand time. Obviously two thirty in

1174
00:57:58,867 --> 00:58:01,147
Speaker 2: the morning Monday. Indian Arians the Western is. The winner

1175
00:58:01,147 --> 00:58:04,707
Speaker 2: goes into the semis. So we know that South Africa

1176
00:58:04,787 --> 00:58:09,147
Speaker 2: and England are there, one of US or Pakistan will

1177
00:58:09,147 --> 00:58:11,627
Speaker 2: be there and one of India or the West Indies

1178
00:58:11,667 --> 00:58:13,787
Speaker 2: will be there. So I guess the cream is rising

1179
00:58:13,827 --> 00:58:15,787
Speaker 2: to the top. I mean, be great if we were there,

1180
00:58:15,787 --> 00:58:17,827
Speaker 2: wouldn't it? You know? I don't know who we'd play.

1181
00:58:17,827 --> 00:58:20,547
Speaker 2: I don't know what the semifinal matchup is. It's all

1182
00:58:21,107 --> 00:58:23,587
Speaker 2: to be confirmed. But I feel like on our day,

1183
00:58:23,987 --> 00:58:26,267
Speaker 2: like any of these teams, we can beat anybody, can't

1184
00:58:26,267 --> 00:58:28,747
Speaker 2: We We could have beat in England this morning. You know.

1185
00:58:28,747 --> 00:58:30,587
Speaker 2: It's just that one over that went from about twenty

1186
00:58:30,627 --> 00:58:34,547
Speaker 2: I think Glenn Phillips bolted it was the eighteenth over

1187
00:58:34,627 --> 00:58:37,307
Speaker 2: from memory. That just that's kind of when it got

1188
00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:40,707
Speaker 2: away from us. And this can happen in T twenty.

1189
00:58:40,707 --> 00:58:43,027
Speaker 2: The number of times you talk to people about T

1190
00:58:43,147 --> 00:58:46,387
Speaker 2: twenty cricket and they talk about how within the space

1191
00:58:46,507 --> 00:58:50,827
Speaker 2: of four or five balls things can change. I'm just

1192
00:58:50,867 --> 00:58:54,107
Speaker 2: going to find this over. I'm pretty sure it was

1193
00:58:54,147 --> 00:58:57,067
Speaker 2: a Glenn Phillips over here. It was the eighteenth over

1194
00:58:57,147 --> 00:59:01,227
Speaker 2: and it went for twenty two runs a leg by

1195
00:59:01,387 --> 00:59:04,347
Speaker 2: a six, a single, another six, a four and a four,

1196
00:59:05,027 --> 00:59:07,827
Speaker 2: so twenty two off that, putting them right back in it.

1197
00:59:08,187 --> 00:59:10,707
Speaker 2: They then needed twenty one off the last two and

1198
00:59:10,747 --> 00:59:13,787
Speaker 2: they got there. Okay. The anthem. I've had lots of

1199
00:59:13,787 --> 00:59:25,867
Speaker 2: feedback about the anthem and the quickness of it. A

1200
00:59:25,867 --> 00:59:28,227
Speaker 2: lot of people like it. A lot of people like

1201
00:59:28,267 --> 00:59:31,707
Speaker 2: it that fast, Marilyn says Pineer love the anthem at

1202
00:59:31,747 --> 00:59:36,667
Speaker 2: that speed. Let's make it official, Piney says Judd. The

1203
00:59:36,707 --> 00:59:39,827
Speaker 2: national anthem usually it's a dirge, slow and boring. The

1204
00:59:39,867 --> 00:59:43,187
Speaker 2: fast one at least as a bit of oomph. Other

1205
00:59:43,267 --> 00:59:46,187
Speaker 2: countries have pep in their anthems. It's a lee Argentina,

1206
00:59:46,227 --> 00:59:48,667
Speaker 2: even Australias. Get you going, I don't know. I don't

1207
00:59:48,707 --> 00:59:50,787
Speaker 2: have a problem with the speed, and if the players

1208
00:59:50,787 --> 00:59:53,267
Speaker 2: know the words, they should keep up. Jud I'm sure

1209
00:59:53,267 --> 00:59:54,507
Speaker 2: they would be keep up. But they knew it was

1210
00:59:54,507 --> 00:59:56,347
Speaker 2: going to be that quick. Once they knew it was

1211
00:59:56,347 --> 00:59:59,147
Speaker 2: that quick, they were just laughing, BF says Jason. The

1212
00:59:59,227 --> 01:00:01,667
Speaker 2: National aanth, they probably thought two versions take too long.

1213
01:00:01,907 --> 01:00:05,307
Speaker 2: Everybody else only has one. Very funny though funny to

1214
01:00:05,347 --> 01:00:07,787
Speaker 2: hear and say though that once they got out there,

1215
01:00:07,867 --> 01:00:09,827
Speaker 2: the anthems had happened so quickly that they had to

1216
01:00:09,867 --> 01:00:13,227
Speaker 2: wait for three or four minutes, so the official start time. Piney,

1217
01:00:13,267 --> 01:00:15,907
Speaker 2: a brilliant version of the anthem, says this one. I've

1218
01:00:15,907 --> 01:00:18,427
Speaker 2: always wanted it to have a quicker tempo, but of

1219
01:00:18,507 --> 01:00:22,747
Speaker 2: a dirge when it's done normally. Peter says, that's exactly

1220
01:00:22,827 --> 01:00:24,867
Speaker 2: how fast it should be played, far better than the

1221
01:00:24,947 --> 01:00:28,787
Speaker 2: dreadful dirge normally sudden. There's that word again, dirge. I

1222
01:00:28,827 --> 01:00:30,907
Speaker 2: don't think we haven't had that word on the radio

1223
01:00:30,947 --> 01:00:32,307
Speaker 2: for a while, and now a couple of times in

1224
01:00:32,307 --> 01:00:35,707
Speaker 2: a minute. Here's one from uh doesn't say her the

1225
01:00:35,787 --> 01:00:38,307
Speaker 2: national anthem was always some too slow, like a dirge.

1226
01:00:38,507 --> 01:00:42,467
Speaker 2: There it is our anthems, A dirge. According to this person,

1227
01:00:42,547 --> 01:00:44,747
Speaker 2: stop making a mountain out of a molehill? Is that

1228
01:00:44,787 --> 01:00:46,587
Speaker 2: all we've got to talk about? No, I just thought

1229
01:00:46,587 --> 01:00:48,267
Speaker 2: it was funny. I just thought it was funny. With

1230
01:00:48,347 --> 01:00:50,387
Speaker 2: other things to talk about as well. We'll move on

1231
01:00:50,427 --> 01:00:53,107
Speaker 2: in a second, Piney says Josh. It's an improvement on

1232
01:00:53,147 --> 01:00:55,827
Speaker 2: our dull anthem. Let's keep it going that way. Isn't

1233
01:00:55,867 --> 01:00:58,307
Speaker 2: it great? They sped it up, says Trish, because it

1234
01:00:58,387 --> 01:01:07,147
Speaker 2: is such a dirge when it's slowly, Oh, brilliant, brilliant

1235
01:01:07,827 --> 01:01:09,947
Speaker 2: one twenty six. Be interesting to see what they do

1236
01:01:11,347 --> 01:01:13,707
Speaker 2: before the next game, the semi final, if New Zealand

1237
01:01:13,747 --> 01:01:17,227
Speaker 2: are in it. And I'd like to know what led

1238
01:01:17,267 --> 01:01:19,627
Speaker 2: to that, because that's clearly you know, that hasn't been

1239
01:01:19,627 --> 01:01:23,267
Speaker 2: the anthem that's been played before the other games. But

1240
01:01:23,347 --> 01:01:27,427
Speaker 2: when I mean again, it's it's you know, it's well,

1241
01:01:27,467 --> 01:01:29,667
Speaker 2: the more you hear it, the more you hear it,

1242
01:01:29,707 --> 01:01:31,187
Speaker 2: the more you think, you know what, it's actually not

1243
01:01:31,227 --> 01:01:41,187
Speaker 2: too bad starting it's not dirgy. It could not call

1244
01:01:41,267 --> 01:01:53,507
Speaker 2: this a dirge. As I say, I urge you to

1245
01:01:53,507 --> 01:01:55,907
Speaker 2: find the footage of the camera panning along the New

1246
01:01:55,987 --> 01:01:58,347
Speaker 2: Zealand players. Fin Allen's actually the first one. I think

1247
01:01:58,467 --> 01:02:02,227
Speaker 2: who breaks character. It starts, starts laughing and then they

1248
01:02:02,267 --> 01:02:04,827
Speaker 2: all join in one twenty seven. They's take a break

1249
01:02:04,827 --> 01:02:07,267
Speaker 2: and then get you to Super Rugby. The Western Force

1250
01:02:07,307 --> 01:02:11,347
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1251
01:02:11,427 --> 01:02:13,667
Speaker 2: playing at center for the Western Force, had a big

1252
01:02:13,947 --> 01:02:16,307
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1276
01:03:34,027 --> 01:03:37,987
Speaker 2: beaten Mina PACIFICA thirty five nineteen in Pooka Coe and

1277
01:03:38,067 --> 01:03:41,027
Speaker 2: the thirteen jersey for the Western Force, nineteen test all

1278
01:03:41,027 --> 01:03:44,747
Speaker 2: Black and five time Super Rugby champion with the Crusaders.

1279
01:03:44,867 --> 01:03:47,827
Speaker 2: George Bridge a long gay came Wana hold out fines

1280
01:03:47,867 --> 01:03:48,507
Speaker 2: Bridge Bridge.

1281
01:03:48,547 --> 01:03:52,827
Speaker 13: This time it's in a short browning from George Bridge

1282
01:03:53,067 --> 01:03:54,627
Speaker 13: that one will not be ruled out.

1283
01:03:54,947 --> 01:03:57,187
Speaker 2: George Bridge is with us on Weekend Sport. George, thanks

1284
01:03:57,187 --> 01:03:58,907
Speaker 2: for your time, big win for you and your team.

1285
01:03:59,227 --> 01:04:01,547
Speaker 2: Your first of the season, your first for a long

1286
01:04:01,667 --> 01:04:04,827
Speaker 2: time over here. How satisfying is that result and that

1287
01:04:04,907 --> 01:04:06,507
Speaker 2: performance for the team.

1288
01:04:06,867 --> 01:04:09,067
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was a great result for us last night.

1289
01:04:10,627 --> 01:04:13,147
Speaker 15: We're pretty disappointed about the first couple of rounds. I

1290
01:04:13,187 --> 01:04:15,627
Speaker 15: think we probably should have got a bit more out

1291
01:04:15,627 --> 01:04:19,427
Speaker 15: of our game against the Blues last weekend. So yeah,

1292
01:04:19,507 --> 01:04:21,507
Speaker 15: great result, great to start to our tour. We've got

1293
01:04:21,507 --> 01:04:24,667
Speaker 15: two more games here in New Zealand, so yeah, it's good. Good,

1294
01:04:24,827 --> 01:04:26,347
Speaker 15: good to get a bit of confidence.

1295
01:04:25,947 --> 01:04:29,667
Speaker 2: And anything in particular last night that was you know,

1296
01:04:29,827 --> 01:04:32,387
Speaker 2: was noticeably better than the first couple of games of

1297
01:04:32,387 --> 01:04:32,827
Speaker 2: the season.

1298
01:04:34,347 --> 01:04:37,627
Speaker 15: I think, well, fortunately we managed to score some points,

1299
01:04:37,667 --> 01:04:40,347
Speaker 15: so the first twenty minutes. We were pretty dominant against

1300
01:04:40,387 --> 01:04:44,027
Speaker 15: the Blues, against the Brumbies in round one and had

1301
01:04:44,067 --> 01:04:46,747
Speaker 15: to just out tries in the first twenty minutes and

1302
01:04:46,747 --> 01:04:49,347
Speaker 15: stuff like that. So we've been a bit annoyed that

1303
01:04:49,387 --> 01:04:51,707
Speaker 15: we were able to execute with all the pressure that

1304
01:04:51,707 --> 01:04:53,987
Speaker 15: we've been applying. So it was nice to score some

1305
01:04:54,067 --> 01:04:57,227
Speaker 15: points and score some tries.

1306
01:04:57,227 --> 01:04:57,627
Speaker 8: It's good.

1307
01:04:57,907 --> 01:04:59,747
Speaker 2: Do you feel like this is a good demonstration of

1308
01:04:59,747 --> 01:05:02,907
Speaker 2: what the Force are capable of when it does come together.

1309
01:05:04,187 --> 01:05:06,947
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think, yeah, we want to play pretty. I

1310
01:05:06,987 --> 01:05:09,747
Speaker 15: think that was a big sort of point for me

1311
01:05:09,787 --> 01:05:12,307
Speaker 15: to come to the forces, their attacking style of play

1312
01:05:12,387 --> 01:05:15,627
Speaker 15: and stuff. So it's good to see it starting to

1313
01:05:15,627 --> 01:05:17,667
Speaker 15: come out on the field and hopefully we can continue

1314
01:05:17,707 --> 01:05:21,907
Speaker 15: to go on it and yeah, keep winning some games.

1315
01:05:22,067 --> 01:05:24,267
Speaker 2: Back playing in New Zealand, did that add a bit

1316
01:05:24,347 --> 01:05:26,427
Speaker 2: extra to this one for you personally?

1317
01:05:27,587 --> 01:05:29,467
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's been a few years since I've played in

1318
01:05:29,507 --> 01:05:32,707
Speaker 15: New Zealand, so it's nice. Nice to be home, and yeah,

1319
01:05:32,827 --> 01:05:35,147
Speaker 15: plenty of familiar faces around. Had a bit of family

1320
01:05:35,387 --> 01:05:38,507
Speaker 15: in the stand, so yeah, I'm joining wonderful stuff.

1321
01:05:38,547 --> 01:05:41,267
Speaker 2: Now, the early opportunity you had you're over the line,

1322
01:05:41,307 --> 01:05:45,347
Speaker 2: didn't ground the ball. I've at least given you a

1323
01:05:45,387 --> 01:05:48,187
Speaker 2: couple of minutes before I brought it up. George, Well

1324
01:05:48,827 --> 01:05:50,147
Speaker 2: you knew at the time you didn't get it down.

1325
01:05:50,187 --> 01:05:51,627
Speaker 2: I saw your mouth something afterwards.

1326
01:05:52,587 --> 01:05:55,427
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's definitely a bit of a coach killer that one.

1327
01:05:55,467 --> 01:05:58,987
Speaker 15: And I've copped a few messages from all my mates

1328
01:05:58,987 --> 01:06:04,507
Speaker 15: and stuff spray me. So yeah, pretty dusty from my path.

1329
01:06:04,587 --> 01:06:08,027
Speaker 15: But fortunately was able to make up for it after that,

1330
01:06:08,267 --> 01:06:10,147
Speaker 15: so hopefully that doesn't happen again.

1331
01:06:10,227 --> 01:06:12,027
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you got you tried didn't you, and and

1332
01:06:12,107 --> 01:06:15,307
Speaker 2: played a big role in the in the result. Clearly,

1333
01:06:15,587 --> 01:06:17,387
Speaker 2: you can't turn back time, can you see what? You

1334
01:06:17,427 --> 01:06:18,867
Speaker 2: just have to put something like that out of your

1335
01:06:18,867 --> 01:06:19,627
Speaker 2: mind and carry on.

1336
01:06:20,627 --> 01:06:23,107
Speaker 8: Yeah, obviously you can't do anything about it.

1337
01:06:23,147 --> 01:06:26,547
Speaker 15: So we'd got the penalty anyway, so we're sort of

1338
01:06:26,787 --> 01:06:29,627
Speaker 15: still on the attack, so sort of just next next

1339
01:06:29,707 --> 01:06:31,427
Speaker 15: job focus And yeah, it was good.

1340
01:06:32,067 --> 01:06:34,547
Speaker 2: How are you enjoying it in the force environment? You

1341
01:06:34,547 --> 01:06:38,307
Speaker 2: talked there about the attacking philosophy there. You know how

1342
01:06:38,387 --> 01:06:40,307
Speaker 2: much you're enjoying your time there. I know it's only

1343
01:06:40,307 --> 01:06:41,667
Speaker 2: been a short time but you enjoying yourself.

1344
01:06:42,347 --> 01:06:43,107
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been great.

1345
01:06:43,187 --> 01:06:46,427
Speaker 15: Yeah, lots of good humans within the team and the

1346
01:06:46,507 --> 01:06:49,947
Speaker 15: management as well, and yeah, the attacking focus has been

1347
01:06:49,987 --> 01:06:54,387
Speaker 15: really good. I'm sort of more in the defensive sort

1348
01:06:54,427 --> 01:06:57,907
Speaker 15: of side of things and sort of the the.

1349
01:06:58,027 --> 01:06:59,187
Speaker 8: Leadership group and whatnot.

1350
01:06:59,267 --> 01:07:03,267
Speaker 15: So yeah, we're trying to trying to continue to grow

1351
01:07:03,347 --> 01:07:06,147
Speaker 15: and obviously getting the win last night as massive for us.

1352
01:07:06,907 --> 01:07:09,467
Speaker 15: We've got a big couple of games against the Highlanders

1353
01:07:09,467 --> 01:07:11,907
Speaker 15: and the Hurricanes over the next couple of weeks, so yeah,

1354
01:07:11,987 --> 01:07:13,827
Speaker 15: hopefully hopefully you go all right against them.

1355
01:07:13,907 --> 01:07:15,947
Speaker 2: We got used to your playing mainly on the wing

1356
01:07:16,027 --> 01:07:19,347
Speaker 2: of course during your time here. Are you enjoying playing

1357
01:07:19,387 --> 01:07:21,587
Speaker 2: a different position, getting that thirteen on your back?

1358
01:07:22,227 --> 01:07:25,347
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's been a good challenge. It's been exciting for me,

1359
01:07:25,427 --> 01:07:29,467
Speaker 15: sort of doing something new. I played had three years

1360
01:07:29,507 --> 01:07:32,027
Speaker 15: in France on the wings, sort of just chasing highballs

1361
01:07:32,027 --> 01:07:34,587
Speaker 15: and whatnot, so I was keen to do something new,

1362
01:07:34,627 --> 01:07:38,667
Speaker 15: and Simon Cron when I first arrived in person that

1363
01:07:38,707 --> 01:07:40,867
Speaker 15: he was looking at me as a center, which I

1364
01:07:40,987 --> 01:07:44,227
Speaker 15: was pretty well aligned with. So it was a good

1365
01:07:44,227 --> 01:07:47,987
Speaker 15: preseason sort of just learning the role and making a

1366
01:07:47,987 --> 01:07:50,147
Speaker 15: few connections with the boys inside and outside of me.

1367
01:07:50,227 --> 01:07:52,267
Speaker 8: And it's been fun so far.

1368
01:07:52,387 --> 01:07:55,467
Speaker 15: There's a fair few contacts in the centers and stuff

1369
01:07:55,507 --> 01:07:56,067
Speaker 15: which I'm not.

1370
01:07:56,027 --> 01:07:59,307
Speaker 8: So used to, but no, I definitely enjoyed it. Yeah.

1371
01:07:59,427 --> 01:08:02,387
Speaker 2: Have you played there at all growing up or had

1372
01:08:02,427 --> 01:08:04,267
Speaker 2: you played them? I, like I say, I've only ever

1373
01:08:04,307 --> 01:08:05,387
Speaker 2: really seen you play on the wing.

1374
01:08:05,907 --> 01:08:06,147
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1375
01:08:06,147 --> 01:08:08,987
Speaker 15: I used to finish a few games with the Crusaders

1376
01:08:09,027 --> 01:08:12,027
Speaker 15: at thirteen for like the last twenty minutes, and then

1377
01:08:13,067 --> 01:08:14,907
Speaker 15: my whole time in France, I was sort of I

1378
01:08:14,947 --> 01:08:17,187
Speaker 15: was playing on the wing but defending it at teen

1379
01:08:17,307 --> 01:08:20,667
Speaker 15: or thirteen off lineouts and stuff like that, so I

1380
01:08:20,787 --> 01:08:24,827
Speaker 15: had a fair idea, but yeah, it's more defensively, I

1381
01:08:24,867 --> 01:08:27,627
Speaker 15: feel fine, it's more the attacking side just sort of

1382
01:08:27,707 --> 01:08:31,027
Speaker 15: been that link between you know that our ten and

1383
01:08:31,467 --> 01:08:33,787
Speaker 15: outside backs and the forwards and stuff. So that's where

1384
01:08:33,827 --> 01:08:35,667
Speaker 15: I've sort of been putting on a lot of work,

1385
01:08:35,707 --> 01:08:38,987
Speaker 15: and I think the communication side of thing has been

1386
01:08:39,147 --> 01:08:40,027
Speaker 15: really important for me.

1387
01:08:40,147 --> 01:08:42,107
Speaker 2: Good stuff. How do you reflect back on your time

1388
01:08:42,147 --> 01:08:43,827
Speaker 2: playing in France over the last three years.

1389
01:08:44,667 --> 01:08:48,827
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was great. It was great experience. Rugby side

1390
01:08:48,827 --> 01:08:52,307
Speaker 15: of things was reasonably difficult. We had a pretty tricky

1391
01:08:52,307 --> 01:08:56,347
Speaker 15: few seasons at Montpellier, but all in all it was

1392
01:08:56,347 --> 01:08:59,747
Speaker 15: a great experience and I enjoyed my time doing something

1393
01:08:59,787 --> 01:09:02,307
Speaker 15: new and playing that sort of European style of footing.

1394
01:09:02,787 --> 01:09:05,587
Speaker 2: So, as you mentioned, Highlanders and Dunedin next weekend, then

1395
01:09:05,627 --> 01:09:08,907
Speaker 2: the Hurricanes and Nape the following Friday, and presumably you're

1396
01:09:08,907 --> 01:09:10,307
Speaker 2: staying over here the whole time, so I guess that

1397
01:09:10,387 --> 01:09:12,467
Speaker 2: gives you the opportunity, doesn't it, to spend a bit

1398
01:09:12,467 --> 01:09:14,947
Speaker 2: of time with one another, and not enough to get

1399
01:09:14,947 --> 01:09:17,427
Speaker 2: sick of one another, hopefully, but you'll have a you know

1400
01:09:18,347 --> 01:09:21,387
Speaker 2: it does I guess solidify some relationships within the team.

1401
01:09:21,867 --> 01:09:22,907
Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely.

1402
01:09:24,427 --> 01:09:26,907
Speaker 15: Going on tour for the Fellers is always a great

1403
01:09:26,947 --> 01:09:30,067
Speaker 15: time and we've got plenty of time to get around

1404
01:09:30,107 --> 01:09:32,307
Speaker 15: each other. We said in the team room we had

1405
01:09:32,307 --> 01:09:35,147
Speaker 15: a few beers with each other celebrating a win. So

1406
01:09:35,227 --> 01:09:37,547
Speaker 15: that's sort of that's kind of what you play for

1407
01:09:37,587 --> 01:09:39,387
Speaker 15: and that's when you get all of those tight connections

1408
01:09:39,427 --> 01:09:43,627
Speaker 15: and stuff. So yeah, we're pretty early doors in the

1409
01:09:43,427 --> 01:09:47,947
Speaker 15: in the tour, but head down and Dunedin tomorrow and

1410
01:09:48,187 --> 01:09:50,387
Speaker 15: get prepared for the game against the Islanders.

1411
01:09:50,507 --> 01:09:52,387
Speaker 2: Was that playing surface a bit ropy last night?

1412
01:09:53,787 --> 01:09:56,427
Speaker 15: Oh, I'm not going to lie to you. I've played

1413
01:09:56,427 --> 01:10:01,387
Speaker 15: on better, but it was it was all good. It was,

1414
01:10:01,907 --> 01:10:03,067
Speaker 15: it was, it was not too bad.

1415
01:10:03,467 --> 01:10:05,507
Speaker 2: That is good diplomacy from you, mate, That does good

1416
01:10:05,507 --> 01:10:08,267
Speaker 2: diplomacy world A. Congrats on the result last night, George.

1417
01:10:08,267 --> 01:10:09,707
Speaker 2: All the best for the week ahead as you're prepare

1418
01:10:09,707 --> 01:10:10,867
Speaker 2: for the Highlanders in Dunedin.

1419
01:10:11,307 --> 01:10:12,947
Speaker 8: See thank you very much, No, thank you mate.

1420
01:10:12,947 --> 01:10:15,307
Speaker 2: That is George Bridge out of the Western Force after

1421
01:10:15,347 --> 01:10:17,987
Speaker 2: their win over More on a pacifica at Pocacue. It

1422
01:10:18,067 --> 01:10:20,947
Speaker 2: was a bit ruby, especially down that the end that

1423
01:10:21,107 --> 01:10:24,227
Speaker 2: George Bridge first didn't score and then did score to

1424
01:10:24,267 --> 01:10:25,907
Speaker 2: the right of the screen. As you looked, it just

1425
01:10:25,947 --> 01:10:29,267
Speaker 2: looked a bit dusty, didn't it there at Pocacuey last night.

1426
01:10:29,307 --> 01:10:30,867
Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be more to be said about that.

1427
01:10:31,027 --> 01:10:33,187
Speaker 2: So super rugby. Oh last night as well, the Reds

1428
01:10:33,187 --> 01:10:37,667
Speaker 2: beating the Highlanders thirty one fourteen in Brisbane. So that's

1429
01:10:38,107 --> 01:10:41,987
Speaker 2: two straight defeats, isn't it for the Highlanders? I got

1430
01:10:41,987 --> 01:10:43,947
Speaker 2: that right? Did they lose last weekend year? The Chiefs

1431
01:10:43,947 --> 01:10:46,427
Speaker 2: beat them, didn't they down in Dunedin? So after their

1432
01:10:46,467 --> 01:10:49,587
Speaker 2: first up one of the Crusaders that straight or back

1433
01:10:49,627 --> 01:10:51,827
Speaker 2: to back defeats for the Highlanders. Today we've got a

1434
01:10:51,827 --> 01:10:54,947
Speaker 2: triple header to look forward to in Laotoka from four

1435
01:10:55,107 --> 01:10:57,627
Speaker 2: thirty five this afternoon. It is the Fiji and drewer

1436
01:10:57,987 --> 01:11:00,987
Speaker 2: up against the Hurricanes, and then a repeat of last

1437
01:11:01,067 --> 01:11:05,027
Speaker 2: year's Grand Final, albeit in Hamilton not christ Church as

1438
01:11:05,027 --> 01:11:07,107
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, who have won their for those two games,

1439
01:11:07,587 --> 01:11:11,387
Speaker 2: welcome the Crusaders who have lost their first two games.

1440
01:11:11,387 --> 01:11:13,547
Speaker 2: That's five past seven. And then at nine thirty five

1441
01:11:13,587 --> 01:11:16,787
Speaker 2: tonight in Canberra it is the Brumbies against the Blues.

1442
01:11:16,907 --> 01:11:19,227
Speaker 2: All three of those games we have them for you

1443
01:11:19,307 --> 01:11:22,627
Speaker 2: on gold Sport. And iHeartRadio four thirty five, seven o

1444
01:11:22,827 --> 01:11:26,787
Speaker 2: five and nine thirty five. As Round three of Super

1445
01:11:26,867 --> 01:11:29,267
Speaker 2: Rugby Pacific is completed, we'll wrap it all tomorrow. The

1446
01:11:29,267 --> 01:11:32,747
Speaker 2: big storylines will be here on Weekend Sport twenty one

1447
01:11:32,787 --> 01:11:34,427
Speaker 2: away from two. When we come back, we'll get you

1448
01:11:34,467 --> 01:11:36,747
Speaker 2: down to Queenstown and update the New Zealand Golf Open

1449
01:11:36,787 --> 01:11:39,467
Speaker 2: and then across the Tasman Adam Peacock from Australia in

1450
01:11:39,547 --> 01:11:42,347
Speaker 2: his regular slot. Don't stay on the sidelines.

1451
01:11:42,587 --> 01:11:46,547
Speaker 1: Call eight hundred eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason

1452
01:11:46,587 --> 01:11:50,427
Speaker 1: Pine and GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted home

1453
01:11:50,507 --> 01:11:51,947
Speaker 1: builder news talks that'd.

1454
01:11:51,747 --> 01:11:54,147
Speaker 2: Be coming up seventeen away from two, the one hundred

1455
01:11:54,147 --> 01:11:56,707
Speaker 2: and fifth New Zealand Golf Open into its third round,

1456
01:11:56,867 --> 01:12:01,107
Speaker 2: all players now out on course and the real, real

1457
01:12:01,227 --> 01:12:04,307
Speaker 2: congested look at the top of the leaderboard with plenty

1458
01:12:04,427 --> 01:12:07,067
Speaker 2: of New Zealand interest. Mike Thorpe is our in Queenstown.

1459
01:12:07,067 --> 01:12:09,227
Speaker 2: What's the letter she can tell us about this rather

1460
01:12:09,387 --> 01:12:10,547
Speaker 2: congested leaderboard?

1461
01:12:10,587 --> 01:12:13,467
Speaker 6: Mike, Well, I can tell you that the leader at

1462
01:12:13,467 --> 01:12:15,787
Speaker 6: the moment is at thirteen under and he is just

1463
01:12:15,947 --> 01:12:18,387
Speaker 6: about to punt to see if he can go to

1464
01:12:18,507 --> 01:12:27,507
Speaker 6: fourteen under you'll listen pretty much tells the stories John Birdie, Birdie,

1465
01:12:27,747 --> 01:12:32,347
Speaker 6: Birdie Birdie. That is carry Mountcastle. So he has hit

1466
01:12:32,387 --> 01:12:34,587
Speaker 6: the lead I think by two shots. At the moment.

1467
01:12:35,627 --> 01:12:38,987
Speaker 6: Dan Hilly is just about to approach here in Yuki

1468
01:12:39,027 --> 01:12:41,187
Speaker 6: Maya of course with him as well. Now Yuki's had

1469
01:12:41,227 --> 01:12:43,787
Speaker 6: a little bit of a stumble early on. Dan Hilly

1470
01:12:43,787 --> 01:12:45,987
Speaker 6: are quite the opposite. He's picked up two shots already

1471
01:12:46,027 --> 01:12:49,507
Speaker 6: so early days. But the scoring is hot well.

1472
01:12:49,547 --> 01:12:52,827
Speaker 2: The putting of Kerry Mountcastle as impeccable as the timing

1473
01:12:52,867 --> 01:12:55,347
Speaker 2: of us coming to you and in order to commentate

1474
01:12:55,427 --> 01:12:58,547
Speaker 2: it for us, Mike absolutely magnificent stuff. A good galleries,

1475
01:12:58,587 --> 01:13:02,307
Speaker 2: no doubt. Following Dan Hilly and Yuki Meyers as they

1476
01:13:03,027 --> 01:13:05,947
Speaker 2: go through their third rounds. A couple of Australians still

1477
01:13:05,987 --> 01:13:09,107
Speaker 2: in the mix, presumably, although I see Wade Ormsby might

1478
01:13:09,107 --> 01:13:10,467
Speaker 2: have dropped a shot today.

1479
01:13:10,947 --> 01:13:13,747
Speaker 6: Yes he has. He looked pretty good that he tuned through,

1480
01:13:13,827 --> 01:13:17,467
Speaker 6: but I lost him as he went through. I think

1481
01:13:17,467 --> 01:13:20,067
Speaker 6: it's the fourth and sorry the said and the fourth.

1482
01:13:20,587 --> 01:13:22,267
Speaker 6: I just didn't make their walk, to be honest, I

1483
01:13:22,307 --> 01:13:23,907
Speaker 6: was too lazy to try and get down there, so

1484
01:13:24,587 --> 01:13:26,867
Speaker 6: I stayed by the green and waited for him to

1485
01:13:26,867 --> 01:13:29,627
Speaker 6: come to me. He's not too far away. That look.

1486
01:13:29,667 --> 01:13:33,027
Speaker 6: Conditions are definitely probably the best they've had in the

1487
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Speaker 6: last two days. The greens are very receptive and looking

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Speaker 6: like they're rolling super true, and so that's why these

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Speaker 6: parts are going in.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely brilliant Mike. Thanks for your report and you're impeccable timing.

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Speaker 2: As I say, we'll catch up again an hour or

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Speaker 2: so from now. So kerry Mountcastle has just just putted in,

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Speaker 2: as you heard, their live for Bertie on what would

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Speaker 2: have been the fifth hole, So four berdiees on two, three,

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Speaker 2: four and five for kerry Mountcastle. He goes to fourteen

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Speaker 2: under the card now a too shot lead from Travis Smith,

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Speaker 2: the Australian at twelve under and Dan Hillyer who was

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Speaker 2: also at twelve under. He's picked up a shot today

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Speaker 2: to move from his own night score. Lucas Herbert is

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Speaker 2: at eleven under, along with Karen deep Coacher, the Indian player,

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Speaker 2: do We Moon from Korea, Curtis Luck from Australia and

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Speaker 2: Yuki Maya, who we mentioned before is also at eleven under.

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01:14:21,467 --> 01:14:25,667
Speaker 2: So it's a real, real crowded top of the leader board.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep you up to date with it across the

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01:14:27,947 --> 01:14:32,547
Speaker 2: afternoon with Mike Thorpe our man on course news talks

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01:14:32,547 --> 01:14:34,627
Speaker 2: here b it's beang on quarter to two as always

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01:14:34,667 --> 01:14:36,747
Speaker 2: on a Saturday, Let's get you across the Tasman. Adam

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01:14:36,787 --> 01:14:40,227
Speaker 2: Peacock are Australian correspondent. Is whether it's the NRL season

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01:14:40,507 --> 01:14:43,867
Speaker 2: starts in Vegas tomorrow Adam with two games there and

1510
01:14:43,907 --> 01:14:46,587
Speaker 2: then everybody else gets their chance at the back end

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Speaker 2: of next week. One of the major storylines is the

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01:14:50,187 --> 01:14:54,467
Speaker 2: new season gets underway up in the United States.

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Speaker 17: Afternon part Yeah, I did a feeling that they're begon

1514
01:14:59,347 --> 01:15:03,147
Speaker 17: looking beyond Vegas at the moment. What they do with

1515
01:15:03,267 --> 01:15:06,667
Speaker 17: Vegas is they actually get all the CEOs over there.

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01:15:06,667 --> 01:15:08,827
Speaker 17: If I'm not mistaken, I'm not sure who hasn't gone there.

1517
01:15:09,707 --> 01:15:11,747
Speaker 17: Even the guy's running the clubs that don't exist yet

1518
01:15:11,987 --> 01:15:15,227
Speaker 17: are over there. So it's this big jamboree of executives

1519
01:15:15,267 --> 01:15:18,427
Speaker 17: and ideas, and maybe they pass on a few things,

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01:15:18,467 --> 01:15:22,187
Speaker 17: but I get the feeling that they're looking at expanding

1521
01:15:22,387 --> 01:15:26,347
Speaker 17: this idea and going to other cities. Now I've got

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01:15:26,427 --> 01:15:29,507
Speaker 17: actually friends in Hong Kong who have expressed an interest in,

1523
01:15:29,787 --> 01:15:33,667
Speaker 17: you know, setting up something with the NRL for instance,

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01:15:33,707 --> 01:15:36,347
Speaker 17: to kind of maybe get a game there or a

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Speaker 17: weekend there. Maybe we're looking at an entire round around

1526
01:15:39,547 --> 01:15:42,947
Speaker 17: the world. The Land's keeps on talking about London, which

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01:15:42,987 --> 01:15:46,467
Speaker 17: is in London's one of the great cities of the world.

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Speaker 17: But it's the weird ones. I don't know when you

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01:15:49,707 --> 01:15:52,547
Speaker 17: play the games, but look, I don't think anything's off

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01:15:52,587 --> 01:15:55,467
Speaker 17: the table at the point, so we could see, like

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Speaker 17: it's not beyond the realms of possibilities. Within two years

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01:15:57,787 --> 01:16:01,107
Speaker 17: we're seeing around where every game is played in a

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Speaker 17: different part of the world, or two games are played

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01:16:04,027 --> 01:16:05,907
Speaker 17: in hubs around the world, and that's how we do

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01:16:05,947 --> 01:16:06,627
Speaker 17: the round.

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Speaker 2: They do seem very ambitious, don't they. The lanes Andrew

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01:16:10,947 --> 01:16:13,947
Speaker 2: abdo they seem ambitious about the growth of the NRL

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01:16:14,027 --> 01:16:16,267
Speaker 2: and what you've just seen. Then I guess as a

1539
01:16:16,467 --> 01:16:20,787
Speaker 2: perfect illustration of that, they're shameless and in their ambition,

1540
01:16:20,827 --> 01:16:21,267
Speaker 2: aren't they.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, but they look at rugby and you

1542
01:16:25,627 --> 01:16:27,627
Speaker 17: know they talk down on it and how to laugh

1543
01:16:27,667 --> 01:16:29,347
Speaker 17: about it and how I don't they have a pot

1544
01:16:29,387 --> 01:16:31,467
Speaker 17: at AFL. But one thing they take from rugby to

1545
01:16:31,547 --> 01:16:33,547
Speaker 17: think is the fact that there's got a global footprint.

1546
01:16:33,587 --> 01:16:36,707
Speaker 17: You can't deny that, and that's what rugby League would

1547
01:16:36,707 --> 01:16:37,027
Speaker 17: love to have.

1548
01:16:37,107 --> 01:16:37,227
Speaker 8: Now.

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01:16:37,267 --> 01:16:38,787
Speaker 17: It's one thing to sit there and look in the

1550
01:16:38,787 --> 01:16:40,547
Speaker 17: mirror and go, we wish you had this, but they

1551
01:16:40,587 --> 01:16:46,067
Speaker 17: actually go about being quite aggressive and they're approaching, investigating

1552
01:16:46,107 --> 01:16:48,387
Speaker 17: and seeing it. And it could be viewed as reckless.

1553
01:16:48,427 --> 01:16:51,707
Speaker 17: But I mean that the figures came out last week

1554
01:16:51,787 --> 01:16:54,867
Speaker 17: for twenty twenty five. They made a sixty million surplus.

1555
01:16:54,867 --> 01:16:57,467
Speaker 17: That's after all the grants to all the clubs and

1556
01:16:57,547 --> 01:17:00,347
Speaker 17: all distributions to state bodies and all of that. That's

1557
01:17:00,627 --> 01:17:03,387
Speaker 17: that's just money left over in the pill. So how

1558
01:17:03,427 --> 01:17:06,147
Speaker 17: they reinvest that And they're investing in things off board

1559
01:17:06,187 --> 01:17:09,427
Speaker 17: lay like commercial property. So what they're doing is their

1560
01:17:09,467 --> 01:17:11,427
Speaker 17: future proof in their business. Yes, they probably take a

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01:17:11,427 --> 01:17:13,627
Speaker 17: financial hit on Vegas, but they see that this is

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01:17:13,747 --> 01:17:15,627
Speaker 17: like a season launch, for instance, So if you're going

1563
01:17:15,627 --> 01:17:17,027
Speaker 17: to splash some cash, you may as well do it

1564
01:17:17,067 --> 01:17:19,907
Speaker 17: this way. And kind of we're talking about it for

1565
01:17:19,947 --> 01:17:23,187
Speaker 17: instance here we all know it's on on Sunday afternoon,

1566
01:17:23,347 --> 01:17:25,707
Speaker 17: So in that sense it's a bit of an answer strike.

1567
01:17:25,907 --> 01:17:28,907
Speaker 2: Indeed, right, let's go to football. The Women's Asian Cup

1568
01:17:29,027 --> 01:17:32,147
Speaker 2: is underway on your shores. It starts while it's underway

1569
01:17:32,147 --> 01:17:36,187
Speaker 2: tomorrow night when the Matildas meet the Philippines over in

1570
01:17:36,227 --> 01:17:39,507
Speaker 2: Perth at oppos A Stadium. The Matildas would be favored

1571
01:17:39,547 --> 01:17:41,787
Speaker 2: to win this, wouldn't they? Are they favorites to win

1572
01:17:41,827 --> 01:17:42,587
Speaker 2: this home tournament?

1573
01:17:43,587 --> 01:17:49,227
Speaker 18: Yeah, on the balance of having home support and having

1574
01:17:49,227 --> 01:17:52,307
Speaker 18: a really friendly atmosphere to play in and everyone behind them,

1575
01:17:52,347 --> 01:17:54,947
Speaker 18: and I know that the team feeds off that. They

1576
01:17:54,987 --> 01:17:56,907
Speaker 18: absolutely love the fact that they play in front of

1577
01:17:56,907 --> 01:17:59,147
Speaker 18: pack houses and they get so much love from the stands.

1578
01:17:59,907 --> 01:18:04,027
Speaker 17: That is the great undeniable. So how you weigh that

1579
01:18:04,147 --> 01:18:07,547
Speaker 17: up against form? Because on form, probably Japan should be favorites.

1580
01:18:08,027 --> 01:18:10,707
Speaker 17: But it's not as leny you as that football. It's

1581
01:18:10,707 --> 01:18:13,427
Speaker 17: in a national sport, so sometimes things are going to

1582
01:18:13,467 --> 01:18:15,987
Speaker 17: happen where you just can't explain it. I reckon you

1583
01:18:16,107 --> 01:18:20,827
Speaker 17: called one last week at Wellington goalkeeper misjudging a bounce

1584
01:18:22,347 --> 01:18:25,027
Speaker 17: like that. That happens on a regular basis that stuff,

1585
01:18:25,067 --> 01:18:28,667
Speaker 17: So I would say, yes, we're probably I'll call his

1586
01:18:28,787 --> 01:18:31,387
Speaker 17: joint favorites with Japan. Japan on pure football. If you

1587
01:18:31,427 --> 01:18:33,147
Speaker 17: were just going to line them up football wise, but

1588
01:18:33,227 --> 01:18:36,547
Speaker 17: the home the home crowd factor certainly brings them the

1589
01:18:36,587 --> 01:18:38,787
Speaker 17: Tilda's into it. And then you've got three other teams

1590
01:18:38,827 --> 01:18:41,827
Speaker 17: that can possibly win at China, Korea and North Korea.

1591
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Speaker 2: I look forward to that playing out. And just to finish,

1592
01:18:44,947 --> 01:18:46,507
Speaker 2: Craig Tiley as a guy you've had a bit to

1593
01:18:46,507 --> 01:18:50,467
Speaker 2: do with Australian Open tennis tournament director. He's got a

1594
01:18:50,507 --> 01:18:54,667
Speaker 2: new job as Chief executive of the United States Tennis Association.

1595
01:18:54,747 --> 01:18:57,267
Speaker 2: I think he's been with Tennis Australia for well over

1596
01:18:57,307 --> 01:18:59,987
Speaker 2: a decade. What will his legacy be as he leaves.

1597
01:19:00,507 --> 01:19:03,147
Speaker 17: Oh, that the Australian Open and what it's become has

1598
01:19:03,187 --> 01:19:07,587
Speaker 17: become this huge, huge event where you know, it spreads

1599
01:19:07,587 --> 01:19:11,027
Speaker 17: across three weeks now, it's got a huge footprint in

1600
01:19:11,067 --> 01:19:13,267
Speaker 17: the area that it has and wants to grow again

1601
01:19:13,347 --> 01:19:15,307
Speaker 17: as an area across the road where they have it

1602
01:19:16,147 --> 01:19:18,107
Speaker 17: the Australian Open, where they want to go into there

1603
01:19:18,187 --> 01:19:21,427
Speaker 17: and maybe make use of some land over there for

1604
01:19:21,507 --> 01:19:24,467
Speaker 17: the three weeks. It's an incredible event and he's driven that.

1605
01:19:24,827 --> 01:19:28,347
Speaker 17: He's had a player centric approach. He knows that Australia

1606
01:19:28,387 --> 01:19:31,227
Speaker 17: financially with our dollar can't compete dollars a dollar with

1607
01:19:32,187 --> 01:19:34,307
Speaker 17: a US Open or Wimbledon, but what we can do

1608
01:19:34,347 --> 01:19:36,507
Speaker 17: is make it the best possible experience for the players,

1609
01:19:36,507 --> 01:19:39,267
Speaker 17: and that's exactly what he's done it. There's lots of

1610
01:19:39,267 --> 01:19:41,907
Speaker 17: the players like working into a freaking five five star

1611
01:19:41,987 --> 01:19:44,507
Speaker 17: hotel where they play at the Australian Arth. It's incredible.

1612
01:19:44,547 --> 01:19:46,947
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's big, big leg Yeah, well big shows

1613
01:19:46,987 --> 01:19:49,907
Speaker 2: to Phil have They are there any candidates around apart

1614
01:19:49,907 --> 01:19:52,227
Speaker 2: from yourself who could take over as tournament director?

1615
01:19:55,547 --> 01:19:59,827
Speaker 17: Yeah, they've got a couple internal and even gil McLaughlin.

1616
01:19:59,867 --> 01:20:01,627
Speaker 17: I'm not sure if you aware that name. He's a

1617
01:20:01,667 --> 01:20:05,827
Speaker 17: guy that ran AFL. You know, he's one of these

1618
01:20:05,867 --> 01:20:09,627
Speaker 17: Melbourne It has been around for one hundred years down

1619
01:20:09,627 --> 01:20:12,867
Speaker 17: in AFL States. He's he's got a very good reputation

1620
01:20:12,907 --> 01:20:15,387
Speaker 17: of being a very strong leader. He's currently running the

1621
01:20:15,427 --> 01:20:16,347
Speaker 17: tad over here.

1622
01:20:16,387 --> 01:20:17,827
Speaker 2: But yeah, his.

1623
01:20:17,947 --> 01:20:20,347
Speaker 17: Name's been floated, but no, they'll do a proper search.

1624
01:20:20,387 --> 01:20:22,027
Speaker 17: I think Kyle's going in a couple of months times.

1625
01:20:22,067 --> 01:20:24,027
Speaker 17: So it's no Russia. He's going over to America to

1626
01:20:24,067 --> 01:20:27,187
Speaker 17: do exactly the same job at the us TA, which

1627
01:20:27,227 --> 01:20:30,507
Speaker 17: is overseeing the US Open. Of course, great job for

1628
01:20:30,587 --> 01:20:31,707
Speaker 17: him he choose to fill.

1629
01:20:31,747 --> 01:20:34,547
Speaker 2: But Dolfine someone I'm sure they will always great to

1630
01:20:34,547 --> 01:20:36,787
Speaker 2: catch up on Australian Sport. Adam, thanks, indeed, we'll do

1631
01:20:36,827 --> 01:20:39,147
Speaker 2: it again next Saturday. Funny, no, thank you made that

1632
01:20:39,147 --> 01:20:42,427
Speaker 2: Adam Peacock. Hear him every Saturday afternoon at around about

1633
01:20:42,427 --> 01:20:45,667
Speaker 2: this time. Just on the NRL's Vegas Round with those

1634
01:20:45,667 --> 01:20:47,347
Speaker 2: two games tomorrow. On the show tomorrow, we're going to

1635
01:20:47,387 --> 01:20:50,707
Speaker 2: preview those games with Chad Townsend, who's over there in Vegas.

1636
01:20:50,707 --> 01:20:53,627
Speaker 2: It seems like everybody's got a ticket over there in

1637
01:20:53,707 --> 01:20:56,187
Speaker 2: terms of the broadcast as the four teams and is

1638
01:20:56,187 --> 01:20:59,107
Speaker 2: it Fremont Street over there seems to be absolutely going off.

1639
01:20:59,507 --> 01:21:02,347
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll preview the opening round or the opening

1640
01:21:02,387 --> 01:21:05,387
Speaker 2: two matches of the opening round in Vegas with Chad

1641
01:21:05,427 --> 01:21:08,227
Speaker 2: Townsend on the show show tomorrow, coming up eight and

1642
01:21:08,267 --> 01:21:08,787
Speaker 2: a half to two.

1643
01:21:08,827 --> 01:21:13,507
Speaker 1: News talks HEB analyzing the plays and getting the inside

1644
01:21:13,667 --> 01:21:16,027
Speaker 1: weekend sport with Jason Vine.

1645
01:21:16,267 --> 01:21:17,307
Speaker 8: News Talks HEMB.

1646
01:21:17,587 --> 01:21:19,827
Speaker 2: Coming up five to two. Let's update you on some

1647
01:21:19,987 --> 01:21:23,067
Speaker 2: live sports, starting with our three plankets sheeld cricket matches

1648
01:21:23,067 --> 01:21:25,587
Speaker 2: going on around the country at the moment. Let's start

1649
01:21:25,627 --> 01:21:29,147
Speaker 2: in Napier. The Wellington Firebirds sent him by CD one

1650
01:21:29,227 --> 01:21:33,067
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy eight without loss. Just after lunch. Jesse

1651
01:21:33,227 --> 01:21:35,827
Speaker 2: Tashkoff is approaching his one hundred ninety four not out

1652
01:21:35,827 --> 01:21:38,347
Speaker 2: and agreeing with there on seventy nine. So really good

1653
01:21:38,347 --> 01:21:42,587
Speaker 2: start for Wellington against Central in Napier, down in christ Church,

1654
01:21:42,587 --> 01:21:46,187
Speaker 2: Otago one hundred and thirty for one, batting first against

1655
01:21:46,227 --> 01:21:48,747
Speaker 2: Canterbury and at Eden Parks out of Oval Auckland one

1656
01:21:48,867 --> 01:21:52,187
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy three for four after winning the toss

1657
01:21:52,227 --> 01:21:55,387
Speaker 2: and electing to bat first against Northern Districts. We'll keep

1658
01:21:55,387 --> 01:21:57,827
Speaker 2: you right up today with those scores across the afternoon

1659
01:21:58,187 --> 01:22:00,547
Speaker 2: and from the New Zealand Golf Open. When Mike Thorpe

1660
01:22:00,627 --> 01:22:02,467
Speaker 2: was with us a short time ago, you heard Carry

1661
01:22:02,547 --> 01:22:07,707
Speaker 2: Mountcastle drain his fourth birdie putt in five holes. Today.

1662
01:22:07,747 --> 01:22:10,827
Speaker 2: He's four under through five holes to move to fourteen

1663
01:22:11,027 --> 01:22:13,507
Speaker 2: under for the tournament. Kerry mount Castle one of the

1664
01:22:13,587 --> 01:22:16,307
Speaker 2: key we's in contention. He's now two shots clear of

1665
01:22:16,427 --> 01:22:19,427
Speaker 2: Travis Smith, the Australian and New Zealand number two and

1666
01:22:19,427 --> 01:22:22,667
Speaker 2: the highest ranked player in the field, Daniel Hillier twelve under.

1667
01:22:22,667 --> 01:22:25,707
Speaker 2: He's one under through four holes today is Daniel Hillier,

1668
01:22:25,747 --> 01:22:30,947
Speaker 2: then Lucas Herbert, Karen deep Koacher, Douyeb Mohnn, Curtis Luck

1669
01:22:31,107 --> 01:22:34,747
Speaker 2: and Yuki Miya the christ Church Amateur, all at eleven

1670
01:22:34,907 --> 01:22:37,067
Speaker 2: under the card. Just going a bit further down to

1671
01:22:37,067 --> 01:22:37,987
Speaker 2: find Michael Henry.

1672
01:22:37,987 --> 01:22:38,387
Speaker 6: Here he is.

1673
01:22:38,427 --> 01:22:42,027
Speaker 2: He's four under through eleven holes today. Michael Henry to

1674
01:22:42,107 --> 01:22:45,227
Speaker 2: be nine under for the tournament. Stephen Elker is also

1675
01:22:45,347 --> 01:22:50,627
Speaker 2: nine under, having a round through eight holes of two under.

1676
01:22:50,627 --> 01:22:54,107
Speaker 2: Part today. We'll keep you update updated rather as I say,

1677
01:22:54,267 --> 01:22:56,907
Speaker 2: after two but a football for you callan Elliott out

1678
01:22:56,947 --> 01:22:59,347
Speaker 2: of Auckland FC. They take on Melbourne City five o'clock

1679
01:22:59,347 --> 01:23:01,547
Speaker 2: this afternoon at GO Media and the head of the

1680
01:23:01,587 --> 01:23:04,547
Speaker 2: A League and new CEO for the A Leagues, Steve Rossich,

1681
01:23:04,747 --> 01:23:07,427
Speaker 2: is going to join us with particular regards to the

1682
01:23:07,427 --> 01:23:10,107
Speaker 2: New Zealand contribution to the A League, How does he

1683
01:23:10,227 --> 01:23:13,067
Speaker 2: rate Auckland f C's arrival and might there be a

1684
01:23:13,107 --> 01:23:16,587
Speaker 2: third New Zealand A League team.

1685
01:23:16,627 --> 01:23:19,427
Speaker 1: The only place to discuss the biggest sports.

1686
01:23:19,067 --> 01:23:19,827
Speaker 3: Issues on.

1687
01:23:21,507 --> 01:23:24,547
Speaker 1: A head off the field a story. It's all on

1688
01:23:24,627 --> 01:23:28,027
Speaker 1: Weekend Sport with Jason Vine on your home of sports

1689
01:23:29,067 --> 01:23:30,307
Speaker 1: news Talks ABN.

1690
01:23:30,707 --> 01:23:32,867
Speaker 2: News Talks AVN Weekend Sport coming up seven past two.

1691
01:23:32,907 --> 01:23:35,667
Speaker 2: Welcome and welcome back. Corey Peter's on the show this hour.

1692
01:23:35,747 --> 01:23:39,387
Speaker 2: One of our most successful Winter Paralympians. He is off

1693
01:23:39,427 --> 01:23:43,467
Speaker 2: to his fifth Winter Paralympics and he's got four medals,

1694
01:23:43,467 --> 01:23:46,427
Speaker 2: looking to make it five. Corey Peter's coming up this

1695
01:23:46,507 --> 01:23:49,387
Speaker 2: hour Callan Elliott out of Auckland f C as well

1696
01:23:49,467 --> 01:23:52,507
Speaker 2: and Steve Rossich, who is the new boss, or relatively

1697
01:23:52,587 --> 01:23:54,347
Speaker 2: new boss of the A leagues. He took on the

1698
01:23:54,387 --> 01:23:57,707
Speaker 2: post just before Christmas. He's going to join us for

1699
01:23:57,747 --> 01:24:01,147
Speaker 2: his first New Zealand interview and give us an idea

1700
01:24:01,227 --> 01:24:03,827
Speaker 2: of what his priorities are for the league. But also

1701
01:24:04,187 --> 01:24:06,067
Speaker 2: as far as the New Zealand teams are concerned, and

1702
01:24:06,387 --> 01:24:09,307
Speaker 2: there'd be a third one in our future as expansion

1703
01:24:09,947 --> 01:24:13,067
Speaker 2: a possibility here in New Zealand. Auckland FC, Wellington Phoenix,

1704
01:24:13,067 --> 01:24:15,947
Speaker 2: what about a third team? Steve Rossitch coming up in

1705
01:24:15,987 --> 01:24:17,707
Speaker 2: the next little while and we'll get you back to

1706
01:24:17,787 --> 01:24:20,667
Speaker 2: Queenstown where Mike Thorpe has been tracking mainly the Keywis

1707
01:24:20,667 --> 01:24:22,867
Speaker 2: but all of the players really. In round three of

1708
01:24:22,907 --> 01:24:26,707
Speaker 2: the one hundred and fifth New Zealand Gulf open. Our

1709
01:24:26,747 --> 01:24:29,227
Speaker 2: lines of communication remain open oh eight hundred and eighty

1710
01:24:29,307 --> 01:24:31,067
Speaker 2: ten eighty for phone calls nine two, nine to two

1711
01:24:31,107 --> 01:24:33,707
Speaker 2: for your texts and emails to Jason at Newstalk SEDB

1712
01:24:33,867 --> 01:24:37,107
Speaker 2: dot co dot nz. But as we always do at

1713
01:24:37,107 --> 01:24:39,507
Speaker 2: around about this time on weekend sport, before we move on,

1714
01:24:39,587 --> 01:24:41,707
Speaker 2: it's time to catch you up on some of the

1715
01:24:41,707 --> 01:24:44,827
Speaker 2: stuff that's already happened, some of the stuff you may

1716
01:24:44,827 --> 01:24:47,187
Speaker 2: have missed. In case you missed it. We start in

1717
01:24:47,227 --> 01:24:50,787
Speaker 2: the A League, Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory fighting out

1718
01:24:50,987 --> 01:24:53,827
Speaker 2: a draw last night at Amy Park with.

1719
01:24:53,907 --> 01:24:57,867
Speaker 19: Kitto, lovely turn kitto now for Johnny yell, Johnny ya, sir,

1720
01:24:57,947 --> 01:25:03,667
Speaker 19: it's what's afty good saved great finish Yeah.

1721
01:25:03,787 --> 01:25:06,547
Speaker 16: The Coley rights to celebrate with the traveling suppor.

1722
01:25:08,627 --> 01:25:09,787
Speaker 8: The lad We're behind for.

1723
01:25:09,787 --> 01:25:12,707
Speaker 2: All of eight minutes, the finished one one which keeps

1724
01:25:12,747 --> 01:25:16,347
Speaker 2: Auckland f C at second on the ladder. In Super Rugby,

1725
01:25:16,427 --> 01:25:19,467
Speaker 2: the Reds dominant over the Highlanders last night at sun Court,

1726
01:25:19,627 --> 01:25:20,667
Speaker 2: right down.

1727
01:25:20,547 --> 01:25:21,467
Speaker 8: Three minutes short.

1728
01:25:21,667 --> 01:25:24,627
Speaker 2: Where Sean has it now It comes across the end.

1729
01:25:24,587 --> 01:25:30,347
Speaker 10: Of a man and he watches out summer to try.

1730
01:25:31,267 --> 01:25:36,387
Speaker 4: And they land a very good night at Suncorp Stadium

1731
01:25:36,587 --> 01:25:38,827
Speaker 4: by putting.

1732
01:25:38,507 --> 01:25:42,467
Speaker 2: The Highlanders to the sword thirty one fourteen the final score.

1733
01:25:42,467 --> 01:25:45,707
Speaker 2: Speaking of putting teams to the sword, White Fern's batter

1734
01:25:45,827 --> 01:25:48,947
Speaker 2: merely batter's plural merely kerr And as he gazed at

1735
01:25:48,947 --> 01:25:51,227
Speaker 2: exactly that to Zimbabwe last night, I.

1736
01:25:51,347 --> 01:25:53,147
Speaker 8: Gets that up and over the top does as he

1737
01:25:53,267 --> 01:25:56,987
Speaker 8: gaze that will race away for you. Another boundary from

1738
01:25:56,987 --> 01:26:00,787
Speaker 8: real blade friends up super RASI tree.

1739
01:26:00,707 --> 01:26:03,587
Speaker 20: In a row as he gazed, flicked away off the

1740
01:26:03,627 --> 01:26:05,107
Speaker 20: pads and all the.

1741
01:26:05,067 --> 01:26:07,467
Speaker 8: Way first six of the merely kerr.

1742
01:26:07,467 --> 01:26:08,067
Speaker 3: What a way to.

1743
01:26:07,987 --> 01:26:12,027
Speaker 8: Bring up another half century super betting.

1744
01:26:12,067 --> 01:26:14,907
Speaker 2: This from Kurt those knocks helping the White Ferns to

1745
01:26:14,987 --> 01:26:18,027
Speaker 2: a one hundred and ten run win in Hamilton and

1746
01:26:18,107 --> 01:26:21,267
Speaker 2: finally a shock in the Premier League this morning, wolver

1747
01:26:21,427 --> 01:26:25,027
Speaker 2: Hampton Wanderers picking up just their second one of the season,

1748
01:26:25,107 --> 01:26:29,067
Speaker 2: beating third place Aston Villanoles. They're ready to get here,

1749
01:26:29,587 --> 01:26:31,747
Speaker 2: Schmoe go mess.

1750
01:26:33,067 --> 01:26:39,387
Speaker 10: And the shot j j in Rodrigo govers to steer

1751
01:26:39,427 --> 01:26:40,667
Speaker 10: the derby wad.

1752
01:26:41,067 --> 01:26:42,827
Speaker 8: Come over Hampton Wanderers.

1753
01:26:43,787 --> 01:26:45,227
Speaker 2: What's shy mother than you?

1754
01:26:46,427 --> 01:26:48,627
Speaker 8: In a campaign of despair.

1755
01:26:48,227 --> 01:26:52,267
Speaker 2: And stripe, It's a rare high lights.

1756
01:26:53,627 --> 01:26:57,787
Speaker 1: The biggest names in sport are here Weekend Sport with

1757
01:26:58,067 --> 01:27:00,027
Speaker 1: Jason Vine News Talks NB.

1758
01:27:00,307 --> 01:27:03,547
Speaker 2: Ten past two. Just before Christmas, the a Leagues appointed

1759
01:27:03,587 --> 01:27:07,427
Speaker 2: a new CEO, Steve Rossig, into the role, with over

1760
01:27:07,507 --> 01:27:11,227
Speaker 2: twenty five years of senior leadership and commercial experience in

1761
01:27:11,387 --> 01:27:15,627
Speaker 2: elite sport, including sixteen years as a CEO across the

1762
01:27:15,667 --> 01:27:19,387
Speaker 2: AFL at the Fremantle Dockers and in racing and major

1763
01:27:19,427 --> 01:27:23,587
Speaker 2: events at the Victoria Racing Club. Steve Rossich as well. Steve,

1764
01:27:23,587 --> 01:27:25,547
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us across New Zealand. You step into

1765
01:27:25,547 --> 01:27:28,307
Speaker 2: this role at a really pivotal time for the game

1766
01:27:28,307 --> 01:27:31,027
Speaker 2: of football in Australia and New Zealand. What was it

1767
01:27:31,027 --> 01:27:33,147
Speaker 2: about the role that you found attractive?

1768
01:27:34,427 --> 01:27:37,307
Speaker 19: Well, firstly, Jason, nice to talk to you and thank

1769
01:27:37,307 --> 01:27:39,187
Speaker 19: you for the work you do, not just across en

1770
01:27:39,307 --> 01:27:42,547
Speaker 19: z but you know, right around the league and it

1771
01:27:42,587 --> 01:27:45,587
Speaker 19: filters into Australia as well. And that intro makes me

1772
01:27:45,627 --> 01:27:49,987
Speaker 19: feel very old. But I'm delighted to be taking on

1773
01:27:50,027 --> 01:27:52,507
Speaker 19: this role. Sort of eight or so weeks in now

1774
01:27:52,827 --> 01:27:56,427
Speaker 19: and I took the role and was really pleased to

1775
01:27:56,427 --> 01:27:59,427
Speaker 19: take the role because of the opportunity that we see

1776
01:27:59,467 --> 01:28:02,387
Speaker 19: for the sport and the league across Australia, New Zealand,

1777
01:28:02,507 --> 01:28:05,267
Speaker 19: and I can say after the first couple of months

1778
01:28:05,307 --> 01:28:06,667
Speaker 19: under the desk that.

1779
01:28:06,707 --> 01:28:08,267
Speaker 8: Is absolutely clearly the case.

1780
01:28:08,307 --> 01:28:10,867
Speaker 19: There is a super opportunity that with all of us

1781
01:28:10,907 --> 01:28:12,827
Speaker 19: working together, well, I think we can capitalize on.

1782
01:28:13,187 --> 01:28:15,507
Speaker 2: So what does that look like? How do you unlock that?

1783
01:28:15,907 --> 01:28:18,987
Speaker 2: In practical terms? The potential of the game, absolutely, we

1784
01:28:19,027 --> 01:28:21,787
Speaker 2: all know it's there. How do you go about unlocking

1785
01:28:21,827 --> 01:28:23,107
Speaker 2: it to its fullest extent?

1786
01:28:25,347 --> 01:28:30,107
Speaker 19: So I think there's many elements to that question, and

1787
01:28:30,307 --> 01:28:35,547
Speaker 19: it's obviously at the end of the day, capitalizing the

1788
01:28:35,547 --> 01:28:38,027
Speaker 19: opportunity is about growth, So we need to grow our sport.

1789
01:28:38,147 --> 01:28:41,867
Speaker 19: We've got a great platform in terms of participation across

1790
01:28:41,867 --> 01:28:44,627
Speaker 19: Australia and New Zealand. You know, it's the number one

1791
01:28:44,667 --> 01:28:48,147
Speaker 19: participated sport across this side of the ditch with one

1792
01:28:48,187 --> 01:28:52,747
Speaker 19: point nine million participants and in NZ you know one

1793
01:28:52,827 --> 01:28:55,467
Speaker 19: hundred and eighty thousand registered players. Is a great result

1794
01:28:55,547 --> 01:29:00,467
Speaker 19: and growing. How we convert that participation base at youth

1795
01:29:00,547 --> 01:29:03,587
Speaker 19: level into senior level, all the families that participate in

1796
01:29:03,627 --> 01:29:08,867
Speaker 19: the game into agent with the league is really important

1797
01:29:08,867 --> 01:29:11,667
Speaker 19: and a fundamental one. We haven't capitalized on well enough.

1798
01:29:12,227 --> 01:29:14,307
Speaker 19: So there's some good work and important work that needs

1799
01:29:14,347 --> 01:29:18,627
Speaker 19: to be done there overall visibility and connection with the league,

1800
01:29:18,627 --> 01:29:23,587
Speaker 19: and that's largely around community engagement, at game engagement.

1801
01:29:23,067 --> 01:29:23,907
Speaker 14: And on the broadcast.

1802
01:29:23,987 --> 01:29:26,547
Speaker 19: So lots of work to do in terms of that,

1803
01:29:27,107 --> 01:29:29,547
Speaker 19: and I guess building up the platform that we have,

1804
01:29:29,627 --> 01:29:32,827
Speaker 19: which is an exciting league, a place in the ecosystem

1805
01:29:32,867 --> 01:29:35,627
Speaker 19: as a proven development of talent and something we can

1806
01:29:35,667 --> 01:29:36,627
Speaker 19: even enhance.

1807
01:29:36,387 --> 01:29:39,187
Speaker 14: More and a league that's really close.

1808
01:29:39,467 --> 01:29:42,867
Speaker 19: Men's and women's and competitive and the best club football

1809
01:29:42,907 --> 01:29:44,947
Speaker 19: you can see across two countries.

1810
01:29:45,547 --> 01:29:48,947
Speaker 2: How important is that quality of football and the consistency

1811
01:29:48,987 --> 01:29:52,227
Speaker 2: of the on field product in terms of engaging fans,

1812
01:29:52,267 --> 01:29:55,587
Speaker 2: but also what you're trying to build the A leagues into.

1813
01:29:57,187 --> 01:29:58,427
Speaker 19: Well, it's the fundamental, isn't it.

1814
01:29:58,467 --> 01:29:59,627
Speaker 8: That's what sport is.

1815
01:29:59,667 --> 01:30:03,107
Speaker 19: Sport is entertainment. It's a vehicle for people to engage

1816
01:30:03,107 --> 01:30:06,307
Speaker 19: in the sport needs to be played in the right spirit,

1817
01:30:06,387 --> 01:30:10,427
Speaker 19: which it absolutely is and a competitive game and it

1818
01:30:10,467 --> 01:30:14,267
Speaker 19: clearly is. It's a real advantage of our league across

1819
01:30:15,027 --> 01:30:18,387
Speaker 19: the men's and women's In any given weekend, any team

1820
01:30:18,907 --> 01:30:22,547
Speaker 19: can trump the other. And you know there's a few

1821
01:30:22,547 --> 01:30:24,427
Speaker 19: teams that are beating those odds at the moment and

1822
01:30:24,667 --> 01:30:26,347
Speaker 19: a few that would like to be doing better. But

1823
01:30:26,907 --> 01:30:29,507
Speaker 19: it's amazing to see so deep in the season, in

1824
01:30:29,547 --> 01:30:33,187
Speaker 19: both men's and women's, so many teams being capable of

1825
01:30:33,227 --> 01:30:36,867
Speaker 19: making the final six. And that includes Wellington who obviously

1826
01:30:37,027 --> 01:30:42,227
Speaker 19: got unfortunately beaten last week against their New Zealand rivals,

1827
01:30:42,227 --> 01:30:44,987
Speaker 19: but they're still in the hut in the men's and

1828
01:30:45,027 --> 01:30:49,227
Speaker 19: you're seeing the well women's team who you know, I

1829
01:30:49,267 --> 01:30:51,667
Speaker 19: think on the Customer Finals and maybe could give it

1830
01:30:51,707 --> 01:30:53,867
Speaker 19: a real shake and that's pleasing to see. So that

1831
01:30:53,947 --> 01:30:56,747
Speaker 19: competitiveness in the league is there and that's got to

1832
01:30:56,787 --> 01:30:59,067
Speaker 19: be a key pillar to drive in the competition. And

1833
01:30:59,107 --> 01:31:02,627
Speaker 19: the second element is our place in the football ecosystem.

1834
01:31:02,667 --> 01:31:05,467
Speaker 19: And there's no doubt that there's football economies that are

1835
01:31:05,467 --> 01:31:08,587
Speaker 19: bigger than ours, but we've got a punch about our

1836
01:31:08,627 --> 01:31:15,307
Speaker 19: weight consistently across our two countries. In identifying developing playing talent.

1837
01:31:15,387 --> 01:31:17,947
Speaker 19: We're already playing the most minutes for under twenty threes

1838
01:31:18,387 --> 01:31:21,907
Speaker 19: and really capitalizing that with building our list through that

1839
01:31:22,027 --> 01:31:26,627
Speaker 19: young talent, and then when appropriate, capitalizing on transfer fees

1840
01:31:26,627 --> 01:31:31,627
Speaker 19: internationally and funding that economy. So on field performance on

1841
01:31:31,987 --> 01:31:34,467
Speaker 19: development of on field talent is a key pillar and

1842
01:31:34,707 --> 01:31:36,787
Speaker 19: probably the key pillar of our competition.

1843
01:31:37,507 --> 01:31:40,547
Speaker 2: In terms of a commercial model, what does a successful

1844
01:31:40,627 --> 01:31:42,947
Speaker 2: commercial model for the A leagues look like?

1845
01:31:45,267 --> 01:31:48,187
Speaker 19: Well, we need to grow, and I think we've got

1846
01:31:48,187 --> 01:31:50,587
Speaker 19: a platform for growth, and maybe you haven't capitalized on

1847
01:31:50,627 --> 01:31:54,747
Speaker 19: that as we'd all would like. But there's some great examples.

1848
01:31:54,787 --> 01:31:59,507
Speaker 19: I mean, the most recent example is the emergence of

1849
01:32:00,387 --> 01:32:04,267
Speaker 19: Auckland in the last couple of years. Clearly a very

1850
01:32:04,307 --> 01:32:08,747
Speaker 19: well planned and executed strategy for the implementation of that

1851
01:32:08,867 --> 01:32:11,907
Speaker 19: new team, and they have now been the most successful

1852
01:32:11,907 --> 01:32:14,547
Speaker 19: team on the pitch consistently over the last two years

1853
01:32:14,587 --> 01:32:18,667
Speaker 19: in terms of percentage of wins, potentially on the cusp

1854
01:32:18,747 --> 01:32:23,467
Speaker 19: of their second Finals appearance and building what they delivered

1855
01:32:23,507 --> 01:32:28,627
Speaker 19: in an incredible first year. So that showcases that growth

1856
01:32:28,707 --> 01:32:31,347
Speaker 19: is possible in the right markets with the right strategy,

1857
01:32:31,387 --> 01:32:36,547
Speaker 19: with the right people. Is really implementing that same system,

1858
01:32:36,587 --> 01:32:39,347
Speaker 19: that same process in a different way across our league,

1859
01:32:39,907 --> 01:32:43,467
Speaker 19: across our teams and having a plan of growth and

1860
01:32:43,547 --> 01:32:45,067
Speaker 19: being all aligned with that. So there's a lot of

1861
01:32:45,067 --> 01:32:48,387
Speaker 19: alignment that needs to take place, and I'm really pleased

1862
01:32:48,427 --> 01:32:51,707
Speaker 19: with the conversations that I've been having across the football

1863
01:32:51,747 --> 01:32:54,747
Speaker 19: ecosystem that there's that desire to be aligned and a

1864
01:32:54,827 --> 01:32:56,067
Speaker 19: desire to work together to grow.

1865
01:32:56,907 --> 01:33:00,227
Speaker 2: What's your ideal step in terms of league size if

1866
01:33:00,227 --> 01:33:03,667
Speaker 2: we look at the men's specifically, what would you ideally

1867
01:33:03,827 --> 01:33:05,947
Speaker 2: like the size of the league to be?

1868
01:33:08,147 --> 01:33:10,507
Speaker 19: Well, I think two muths in. There's a further debate

1869
01:33:10,747 --> 01:33:13,907
Speaker 19: that'll be had at board level at the right time

1870
01:33:14,347 --> 01:33:19,147
Speaker 19: to look at that. We're certainly very comfortable with the

1871
01:33:19,267 --> 01:33:23,107
Speaker 19: current status, but we do see opportunity for strategic growth

1872
01:33:23,227 --> 01:33:26,267
Speaker 19: in the right time, including potentially at New Zealand down

1873
01:33:26,307 --> 01:33:32,587
Speaker 19: the track embedding Walklorn and Willington as a two team country.

1874
01:33:32,907 --> 01:33:35,027
Speaker 19: It will be the priority. And then who knows in

1875
01:33:35,107 --> 01:33:39,307
Speaker 19: a defined time whether there's further expansion in the league

1876
01:33:39,507 --> 01:33:42,667
Speaker 19: in New Zealand and potentially across Australia. But the main

1877
01:33:42,707 --> 01:33:45,427
Speaker 19: focus the moment is betting down, consolidating what we've got,

1878
01:33:45,867 --> 01:33:48,987
Speaker 19: making sure that's sustainable and or working towards that growth

1879
01:33:48,987 --> 01:33:50,987
Speaker 19: platform before further expansion.

1880
01:33:51,707 --> 01:33:54,107
Speaker 2: And in terms of the league structure, you believe you've

1881
01:33:54,107 --> 01:33:58,587
Speaker 2: got the right one. You're not looking at a second division, promotion, relegation,

1882
01:33:58,747 --> 01:34:01,387
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. You're happy with the league structure

1883
01:34:01,427 --> 01:34:02,547
Speaker 2: as it currently sits.

1884
01:34:03,947 --> 01:34:06,347
Speaker 19: Well, I think you know that's always going to be

1885
01:34:06,507 --> 01:34:10,587
Speaker 19: talked about in our sport because it's prevalent internationally. I

1886
01:34:10,587 --> 01:34:13,267
Speaker 19: think for the size of our sport economy. And keep

1887
01:34:13,267 --> 01:34:17,227
Speaker 19: in mind, you know, Australia and as you know, Jason

1888
01:34:17,267 --> 01:34:20,027
Speaker 19: and New Zealand punch well above their weight globally generally

1889
01:34:20,067 --> 01:34:22,747
Speaker 19: in sport, and that it includes the commerciality of sport.

1890
01:34:22,787 --> 01:34:26,387
Speaker 19: But the reality is, you know, we're smaller in economic terms,

1891
01:34:26,427 --> 01:34:29,867
Speaker 19: and you know other markets across the world in football,

1892
01:34:30,307 --> 01:34:34,787
Speaker 19: and you know it makes sense in those in that

1893
01:34:34,867 --> 01:34:38,227
Speaker 19: economic sense to be a closed league, and I think

1894
01:34:38,627 --> 01:34:42,027
Speaker 19: commerciality says that that's the right model. But you never

1895
01:34:42,067 --> 01:34:46,827
Speaker 19: say never. As we grow, as we show real sustainable

1896
01:34:46,867 --> 01:34:49,747
Speaker 19: across our league and the potential to have that system,

1897
01:34:49,787 --> 01:34:51,747
Speaker 19: well you can't rule it out at some point in

1898
01:34:51,747 --> 01:34:52,187
Speaker 19: the future.

1899
01:34:52,947 --> 01:34:56,987
Speaker 2: You mentioned Auckland FC before, and you're right. They've hit

1900
01:34:57,027 --> 01:34:59,307
Speaker 2: the ground running over here in the last year and

1901
01:34:59,347 --> 01:35:01,747
Speaker 2: a half of their participation in the A League means

1902
01:35:02,147 --> 01:35:05,227
Speaker 2: and their fans have embraced them so quickly and you'll

1903
01:35:05,227 --> 01:35:08,987
Speaker 2: have noticed, you know, how quickly the fan base has

1904
01:35:08,987 --> 01:35:11,947
Speaker 2: been mobilized what sort of lessons can the league take

1905
01:35:11,987 --> 01:35:14,587
Speaker 2: from the way Auckland FC have engaged with their fans.

1906
01:35:14,587 --> 01:35:17,307
Speaker 2: When you're looking at I guess existing teams doing the same,

1907
01:35:17,307 --> 01:35:22,387
Speaker 2: but also possible expansion teams doing the same, Well, there's.

1908
01:35:22,227 --> 01:35:22,907
Speaker 8: Lots of lessons.

1909
01:35:22,947 --> 01:35:25,227
Speaker 19: I'm looking forward to seeing that first hand in April,

1910
01:35:25,387 --> 01:35:28,947
Speaker 19: getting across to see both Wellington and Auckland in the

1911
01:35:28,987 --> 01:35:33,747
Speaker 19: flesh playing home games. And when you talk about Auckland

1912
01:35:33,787 --> 01:35:37,347
Speaker 19: fans and they're embracing you know, there was a number

1913
01:35:37,387 --> 01:35:40,867
Speaker 19: of traveling obviously to Wellington last weekend. The highlight of

1914
01:35:40,867 --> 01:35:43,227
Speaker 19: my light the week was seeing Nick.

1915
01:35:43,547 --> 01:35:44,507
Speaker 14: Nick Becker.

1916
01:35:46,307 --> 01:35:50,107
Speaker 19: Joining his supporters in the stands and clearly enjoying a

1917
01:35:50,147 --> 01:35:53,227
Speaker 19: celebration way too much, which I did point out to

1918
01:35:53,267 --> 01:35:56,547
Speaker 19: his fellow APL CEOs during the week. And if people

1919
01:35:56,587 --> 01:35:58,907
Speaker 19: haven't seen it, jump on the a League social media

1920
01:35:58,947 --> 01:36:03,227
Speaker 19: and see the Auckland CEO enjoying himself with a big

1921
01:36:03,267 --> 01:36:05,187
Speaker 19: red arrow above his head to make sure everyone knew

1922
01:36:05,187 --> 01:36:12,827
Speaker 19: who he was. But I watched that game on TV

1923
01:36:13,267 --> 01:36:16,867
Speaker 19: and you know it's it's that's sport, isn't it. And

1924
01:36:16,987 --> 01:36:21,587
Speaker 19: you know, Jason, your engagement that game was terrific. The

1925
01:36:21,627 --> 01:36:23,747
Speaker 19: way the fans engage with it. It obviously didn't go

1926
01:36:23,827 --> 01:36:26,987
Speaker 19: the way Wellington would have liked at their home ground

1927
01:36:27,027 --> 01:36:30,147
Speaker 19: against their big rival, but it showcased what's great about

1928
01:36:30,227 --> 01:36:34,547
Speaker 19: sport and our game. That's some competitive rivalry. And in

1929
01:36:34,587 --> 01:36:37,147
Speaker 19: this case, one team had the wood over the other

1930
01:36:37,187 --> 01:36:40,907
Speaker 19: and it had quite a convincing victory, but still compelling viewing.

1931
01:36:40,987 --> 01:36:45,027
Speaker 19: And you know, in a nutshell what you know Wellington

1932
01:36:45,107 --> 01:36:48,947
Speaker 19: have done recently and had a few challenges over the

1933
01:36:48,987 --> 01:36:51,547
Speaker 19: last year or two and no doubt they'll build from that.

1934
01:36:52,387 --> 01:36:54,547
Speaker 19: And what Orcold have done in a couple of years

1935
01:36:54,587 --> 01:36:56,867
Speaker 19: is here is a great example of what this league

1936
01:36:56,867 --> 01:36:59,387
Speaker 19: can do, and we can do better at sharing those

1937
01:36:59,467 --> 01:37:01,307
Speaker 19: experiences and learning them across the league.

1938
01:37:01,787 --> 01:37:04,067
Speaker 2: How important is it that that both New Zealand clubs

1939
01:37:04,067 --> 01:37:05,787
Speaker 2: are competed up And when you look at the Derby

1940
01:37:06,107 --> 01:37:09,267
Speaker 2: rick in Auckland FC fans are very quick to point out,

1941
01:37:09,387 --> 01:37:11,347
Speaker 2: you know the six and oh that they've had over

1942
01:37:11,347 --> 01:37:14,307
Speaker 2: the Phoenix and there are two seasons of Derby so far.

1943
01:37:15,227 --> 01:37:18,147
Speaker 2: How important is it that they're competitive at the same time?

1944
01:37:18,467 --> 01:37:22,707
Speaker 2: And can this rivalry become one of the league's marquee fixtures?

1945
01:37:23,987 --> 01:37:27,187
Speaker 19: I'll answer the last bit first. Absolutely, if it isn't already,

1946
01:37:27,267 --> 01:37:32,907
Speaker 19: it absolutely can be. I mean, two significant New Zealand

1947
01:37:32,947 --> 01:37:37,107
Speaker 19: sporting brands competing each other against each other in elite competition.

1948
01:37:37,907 --> 01:37:39,787
Speaker 14: You know, I think it's terrific.

1949
01:37:40,427 --> 01:37:46,227
Speaker 19: Again, notwithstanding it wasn't the closest game last weekend, it's

1950
01:37:46,227 --> 01:37:50,387
Speaker 19: still showcased what a great rivalry it is. I come

1951
01:37:50,427 --> 01:37:52,027
Speaker 19: from a long history of being a CEO of a

1952
01:37:52,027 --> 01:37:54,667
Speaker 19: club that in the AFL and a two team town

1953
01:37:54,787 --> 01:37:57,507
Speaker 19: and started off with probably a similar record to what

1954
01:37:57,547 --> 01:37:59,827
Speaker 19: Wellington have got against Auckland and the Free Badele Doctors

1955
01:37:59,827 --> 01:38:01,507
Speaker 19: against the West Coast Eagles.

1956
01:38:01,467 --> 01:38:03,107
Speaker 8: And we managed to revert it over time.

1957
01:38:03,307 --> 01:38:08,347
Speaker 19: And I've got no doubt Wellington revert that, but Auckland

1958
01:38:08,347 --> 01:38:10,267
Speaker 19: will try and keep it open for as long as possible.

1959
01:38:10,267 --> 01:38:14,027
Speaker 19: That's the beauty of rivalry. So it's an incredibly important

1960
01:38:14,027 --> 01:38:17,947
Speaker 19: part of the whole ecosystem and it's important for New

1961
01:38:18,027 --> 01:38:21,227
Speaker 19: Zealand football. I mean, it's amazing, you know, the amount

1962
01:38:21,227 --> 01:38:23,747
Speaker 19: of talent that's being developed for the national teams out

1963
01:38:23,787 --> 01:38:27,227
Speaker 19: of the two teams men's and women's and that's really

1964
01:38:27,267 --> 01:38:28,227
Speaker 19: really good to see.

1965
01:38:29,067 --> 01:38:31,347
Speaker 2: Just the backtrack on what you said before about expansion.

1966
01:38:31,387 --> 01:38:33,227
Speaker 2: I know you mentioned beating in and making sure that

1967
01:38:33,267 --> 01:38:35,387
Speaker 2: you consolidate the clubs that are there at the moment,

1968
01:38:35,667 --> 01:38:38,747
Speaker 2: but you wouldn't rule out a third New Zealand team

1969
01:38:38,907 --> 01:38:40,347
Speaker 2: at some time down the track.

1970
01:38:41,587 --> 01:38:42,787
Speaker 8: Well, that's not my decision.

1971
01:38:43,147 --> 01:38:46,067
Speaker 19: That'll be the decision of the owners in our league,

1972
01:38:46,547 --> 01:38:51,147
Speaker 19: including the two New Zealand teams. But you know, with

1973
01:38:51,267 --> 01:38:53,787
Speaker 19: a platform of growth that we need to build upon

1974
01:38:53,827 --> 01:38:56,427
Speaker 19: and generate if it's justified in the future, but then

1975
01:38:56,427 --> 01:39:00,827
Speaker 19: why not. I think there's every possibility at the right

1976
01:39:00,827 --> 01:39:03,107
Speaker 19: time that can be considered. But the energy in New

1977
01:39:03,147 --> 01:39:06,987
Speaker 19: Zealand terms is making sure Auckland and willing to operating

1978
01:39:07,027 --> 01:39:10,507
Speaker 19: really well capitalizing their markets. The next expansion into New

1979
01:39:10,587 --> 01:39:13,467
Speaker 19: Zealand will be the women's team for Auckland and we

1980
01:39:13,467 --> 01:39:15,467
Speaker 19: look forward to that in a short period of time.

1981
01:39:15,627 --> 01:39:17,147
Speaker 2: You know, update on that you can give us you,

1982
01:39:17,427 --> 01:39:18,867
Speaker 2: I mean, are we looking at next season? Do you

1983
01:39:18,867 --> 01:39:19,907
Speaker 2: think that might be when it is?

1984
01:39:20,907 --> 01:39:25,507
Speaker 19: Well, it was announced before my time and that it's

1985
01:39:25,547 --> 01:39:28,707
Speaker 19: more likely the following season, and so that's the planning

1986
01:39:29,307 --> 01:39:33,027
Speaker 19: and I'm sure with that planning timeline and the work

1987
01:39:33,707 --> 01:39:38,707
Speaker 19: that the Auckland club's doing, that'll be equally the success

1988
01:39:38,747 --> 01:39:39,667
Speaker 19: of the men's team.

1989
01:39:40,187 --> 01:39:43,827
Speaker 2: And Steve your success across AFL racing and major events.

1990
01:39:44,227 --> 01:39:46,147
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to make you feel old. I think

1991
01:39:46,187 --> 01:39:49,387
Speaker 2: experienced is probably the adjective I was after, just to

1992
01:39:49,427 --> 01:39:53,267
Speaker 2: demonstrate the breadth of experience you've had. What lessons translate

1993
01:39:53,387 --> 01:39:57,027
Speaker 2: best from what you've done to what you are now doing.

1994
01:39:58,827 --> 01:39:59,227
Speaker 8: Well.

1995
01:39:59,467 --> 01:40:02,827
Speaker 19: The main lesson I'm focused on at the moment of

1996
01:40:02,867 --> 01:40:06,147
Speaker 19: my first couple of months is listening and learning, really

1997
01:40:06,427 --> 01:40:13,147
Speaker 19: aging with clubs, our owners, the CEOs, getting out and

1998
01:40:13,147 --> 01:40:15,587
Speaker 19: seeing every team playing their home grounds. Said, I'm looking

1999
01:40:15,587 --> 01:40:18,467
Speaker 19: forward to seeing the two New Zealand teams in April,

2000
01:40:20,187 --> 01:40:23,867
Speaker 19: broader stakeholders in the economy, in our football economy, and

2001
01:40:23,947 --> 01:40:26,947
Speaker 19: really understanding them where they see the league and where

2002
01:40:26,947 --> 01:40:30,387
Speaker 19: we can improve. So that's the absolutely initial focus, and

2003
01:40:30,427 --> 01:40:34,027
Speaker 19: we've got some other big things We're focused on. Broadcast

2004
01:40:34,107 --> 01:40:38,227
Speaker 19: arrangements here in Australia, the Central Coast Matterners we're currently

2005
01:40:38,267 --> 01:40:41,667
Speaker 19: operating that license. So there's some key things we're focused

2006
01:40:41,707 --> 01:40:44,307
Speaker 19: on to deliver and that will then move to strategy

2007
01:40:44,347 --> 01:40:46,307
Speaker 19: for growth, which is what we're all here for to

2008
01:40:46,307 --> 01:40:48,627
Speaker 19: grow this game and forward deleting.

2009
01:40:48,227 --> 01:40:51,467
Speaker 2: That and if we're chatting in a year from now,

2010
01:40:52,027 --> 01:40:54,587
Speaker 2: which I'm almost positive we will be What will success

2011
01:40:54,627 --> 01:40:57,707
Speaker 2: look like in your first twelve months or so, it'll

2012
01:40:57,707 --> 01:40:59,507
Speaker 2: be a bit more than that obviously by that stage.

2013
01:40:59,587 --> 01:41:01,627
Speaker 2: What will success in the first year to year and

2014
01:41:01,627 --> 01:41:02,507
Speaker 2: a half look like for you?

2015
01:41:05,307 --> 01:41:09,147
Speaker 19: Well, I've got a different hair profile to you, Jason,

2016
01:41:09,227 --> 01:41:14,907
Speaker 19: so mine's going gray. So hopefully the stresses and strains

2017
01:41:14,947 --> 01:41:17,467
Speaker 19: will not enhance the grayness of my hair.

2018
01:41:17,507 --> 01:41:19,507
Speaker 8: But so it'll be one kpi.

2019
01:41:20,667 --> 01:41:24,867
Speaker 19: But really, in all seriousness, it's and it sounds boring

2020
01:41:24,907 --> 01:41:27,347
Speaker 19: because it's probably related to some of the answers. Is

2021
01:41:27,347 --> 01:41:29,747
Speaker 19: really delivering on the potential and the growth? So are

2022
01:41:29,787 --> 01:41:30,747
Speaker 19: we going to do that in one year?

2023
01:41:30,867 --> 01:41:30,907
Speaker 8: No?

2024
01:41:31,707 --> 01:41:35,707
Speaker 19: But you know, let's consolidate with Central Coast Mariners getting

2025
01:41:35,867 --> 01:41:36,467
Speaker 19: a new owner.

2026
01:41:36,667 --> 01:41:37,507
Speaker 14: It can help.

2027
01:41:37,347 --> 01:41:38,387
Speaker 8: Drive that club forward.

2028
01:41:38,787 --> 01:41:43,267
Speaker 19: Let's successfully embed you know, a new broadcast agreement in Australia.

2029
01:41:43,867 --> 01:41:48,107
Speaker 19: Let's start to tear our attention to the broadcast arrangement

2030
01:41:48,107 --> 01:41:51,387
Speaker 19: in New Zealand and enhance that with what's in place already,

2031
01:41:51,387 --> 01:41:55,507
Speaker 19: which is terrific. Let's get a new CBA and allow

2032
01:41:55,627 --> 01:41:58,307
Speaker 19: us to plan and execute for the future this growth plan.

2033
01:41:58,387 --> 01:42:00,787
Speaker 19: So there's lots of things and fundamentals we're doing now

2034
01:42:01,107 --> 01:42:03,387
Speaker 19: and hopefully we can capitalize on not just next year

2035
01:42:03,427 --> 01:42:04,187
Speaker 19: but into the future.

2036
01:42:04,467 --> 01:42:06,267
Speaker 2: Exciting times ahead for the game of football on your

2037
01:42:06,427 --> 01:42:08,547
Speaker 2: side of the Tasman and on ours as well. Steve,

2038
01:42:08,547 --> 01:42:10,347
Speaker 2: thanks so much for joining us across New Zealand today,

2039
01:42:10,347 --> 01:42:12,747
Speaker 2: really informative stuff. Look forward to seeing you when you're

2040
01:42:12,787 --> 01:42:13,587
Speaker 2: over here in April.

2041
01:42:14,267 --> 01:42:15,707
Speaker 8: Oh, I very much look forward to that.

2042
01:42:15,787 --> 01:42:16,187
Speaker 14: Jason.

2043
01:42:16,507 --> 01:42:19,587
Speaker 19: Hopefully we could have a chat both formally and informally

2044
01:42:19,867 --> 01:42:21,267
Speaker 19: when I'm in your beautiful parlor world.

2045
01:42:21,347 --> 01:42:23,827
Speaker 2: Yeah, look forward to that, Steve. Thanks indeed, Steve Rossitch

2046
01:42:23,907 --> 01:42:26,827
Speaker 2: the CEO of the A Leagues in that role for

2047
01:42:26,827 --> 01:42:28,747
Speaker 2: a couple of months now, and some interesting stuff there

2048
01:42:28,747 --> 01:42:30,467
Speaker 2: about what the league might look like in the future,

2049
01:42:30,947 --> 01:42:34,507
Speaker 2: with particular regard to perhaps a third New Zealand team

2050
01:42:34,547 --> 01:42:37,307
Speaker 2: to twenty six will stay with football. Callen Elliott out

2051
01:42:37,307 --> 01:42:39,347
Speaker 2: of Auckland FC ahead of their game against Melbourne City

2052
01:42:39,387 --> 01:42:40,627
Speaker 2: this afternoon. He's up next.

2053
01:42:41,107 --> 01:42:44,507
Speaker 1: We're the weekend's biggest calls of me we can Sport

2054
01:42:44,947 --> 01:42:46,827
Speaker 1: with Jason Finne and GJ.

2055
01:42:47,067 --> 01:42:48,267
Speaker 2: Gardner Holmes, new.

2056
01:42:48,227 --> 01:42:50,267
Speaker 1: Zealand's most trusted home builder.

2057
01:42:49,987 --> 01:42:51,987
Speaker 2: News talks that'd be two twenty eight. Big game for

2058
01:42:52,027 --> 01:42:54,507
Speaker 2: Auckland FC. This afternoon, they take on defending A League

2059
01:42:54,507 --> 01:42:57,667
Speaker 2: men's champions Melbourne City. Go Media Stadium kickoff at five

2060
01:42:57,747 --> 01:43:01,067
Speaker 2: Auckland FC and or watch defender Callen Elliott as well

2061
01:43:01,107 --> 01:43:02,867
Speaker 2: as thanks for taking the call on match day, Kellen.

2062
01:43:03,027 --> 01:43:05,787
Speaker 2: After a tough January where you had just one win

2063
01:43:05,867 --> 01:43:07,907
Speaker 2: and six men, February has been a lot better. You're

2064
01:43:07,947 --> 01:43:11,107
Speaker 2: unbeating this month. There's anything changed or clicked?

2065
01:43:11,907 --> 01:43:14,307
Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, like you said, Februy has been a

2066
01:43:13,987 --> 01:43:18,667
Speaker 20: lot better than jan jan results didn't really go away,

2067
01:43:18,827 --> 01:43:23,547
Speaker 20: but I think we've just continued doing what we've been doing.

2068
01:43:23,627 --> 01:43:26,987
Speaker 20: You know, we know we're a good enough team to

2069
01:43:27,067 --> 01:43:31,987
Speaker 20: beat anyone, and I think February we've just been taking

2070
01:43:31,987 --> 01:43:36,987
Speaker 20: our chances and considering less goals basically, which is got

2071
01:43:37,507 --> 01:43:38,267
Speaker 20: those results.

2072
01:43:38,387 --> 01:43:41,667
Speaker 2: Absolutely, That's the secret, isn't it to winning football games?

2073
01:43:41,707 --> 01:43:46,267
Speaker 2: Including a five nil win away in the derby last weekend.

2074
01:43:46,547 --> 01:43:51,667
Speaker 2: How satisfying was that result in that performance for Auckland FC.

2075
01:43:53,187 --> 01:43:57,467
Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean we always like beating those guys, but

2076
01:43:57,587 --> 01:44:00,267
Speaker 20: you know, not only because it's those guys, but because

2077
01:44:00,427 --> 01:44:03,227
Speaker 20: it's also getting to the end of the season. Where

2078
01:44:03,667 --> 01:44:05,587
Speaker 20: you know, we got Newcastle ahead of us, so we

2079
01:44:05,627 --> 01:44:07,907
Speaker 20: need to keep keep winning games. So to get that

2080
01:44:07,987 --> 01:44:12,347
Speaker 20: five mil was was really good, especially for our goal

2081
01:44:12,427 --> 01:44:15,587
Speaker 20: difference because with the leak so take it can come

2082
01:44:15,627 --> 01:44:19,347
Speaker 20: down to that at the at the end of the season.

2083
01:44:19,467 --> 01:44:22,107
Speaker 20: So yeah, we were really happy and you know we've

2084
01:44:22,107 --> 01:44:24,467
Speaker 20: gained a lot of confidence from it.

2085
01:44:25,227 --> 01:44:27,547
Speaker 2: How do you make sure because they're big games, aren't

2086
01:44:27,547 --> 01:44:30,467
Speaker 2: they derbies? Full of emotion, full of talking points, and

2087
01:44:30,987 --> 01:44:33,067
Speaker 2: I'm sure they take up a lot of energy, both

2088
01:44:33,067 --> 01:44:35,347
Speaker 2: physical and mental. How do you make sure there's no

2089
01:44:35,467 --> 01:44:38,547
Speaker 2: emotional drop off against Melbourne City this weekend?

2090
01:44:40,267 --> 01:44:43,027
Speaker 20: I think it just comes down to the because we

2091
01:44:43,107 --> 01:44:46,507
Speaker 20: have remaining eight games. I think it is and you

2092
01:44:46,547 --> 01:44:50,747
Speaker 20: know we've got Newcastle Newcastle ahead of us, they keep

2093
01:44:51,107 --> 01:44:53,907
Speaker 20: winning games, so you know we've got to got to

2094
01:44:53,947 --> 01:44:57,187
Speaker 20: do the same to try to get get past them.

2095
01:44:57,587 --> 01:45:00,067
Speaker 20: You know, a big goal of ours is to go

2096
01:45:00,187 --> 01:45:04,027
Speaker 20: back to back in the Premieres play, so you know,

2097
01:45:04,147 --> 01:45:07,027
Speaker 20: we take game by game and you know we have

2098
01:45:07,107 --> 01:45:09,187
Speaker 20: a lot of lot of motivation to try and win

2099
01:45:09,227 --> 01:45:09,587
Speaker 20: the league.

2100
01:45:09,587 --> 01:45:11,907
Speaker 2: Again, you're missing a couple of big players last week

2101
01:45:11,947 --> 01:45:15,667
Speaker 2: as well. Over Strata was injured. Sam Cosgrove was suspended.

2102
01:45:15,667 --> 01:45:18,507
Speaker 2: Lockie Brook started on the bench. Nando Pink is still out,

2103
01:45:18,507 --> 01:45:20,947
Speaker 2: of course injured. So you know, how proud are you

2104
01:45:21,027 --> 01:45:23,147
Speaker 2: of the of the ability within the Auckland f C

2105
01:45:23,307 --> 01:45:25,547
Speaker 2: side to have a bit of a next man up

2106
01:45:25,587 --> 01:45:28,387
Speaker 2: mentality and well, certainly there was no drop off in

2107
01:45:28,427 --> 01:45:30,827
Speaker 2: fact of anything. It was a it was a better performance.

2108
01:45:32,627 --> 01:45:37,427
Speaker 20: Yeah, all those players are great players, but you know,

2109
01:45:37,467 --> 01:45:40,227
Speaker 20: it just shows the depth that we have have here

2110
01:45:40,267 --> 01:45:43,747
Speaker 20: at Oklanders C. We've got players that can step in

2111
01:45:43,827 --> 01:45:46,947
Speaker 20: and do a job just just as good. So you

2112
01:45:46,987 --> 01:45:50,627
Speaker 20: know it's good to have those sorts of players in

2113
01:45:50,667 --> 01:45:52,307
Speaker 20: the back end of the season when you do pick

2114
01:45:52,387 --> 01:45:55,947
Speaker 20: up these injuries, because yeah, Sea teams pick up injuries

2115
01:45:55,947 --> 01:45:57,067
Speaker 20: and they sort of fall off.

2116
01:45:59,307 --> 01:45:59,907
Speaker 8: But yeah, for.

2117
01:45:59,947 --> 01:46:03,787
Speaker 20: Us, it was just just important for US players to

2118
01:46:03,827 --> 01:46:06,027
Speaker 20: come in and do the job that the others have

2119
01:46:06,107 --> 01:46:06,347
Speaker 20: been doing.

2120
01:46:06,827 --> 01:46:06,947
Speaker 15: Well.

2121
01:46:06,987 --> 01:46:09,707
Speaker 2: I guess you're you're kind of a great case study

2122
01:46:09,747 --> 01:46:12,387
Speaker 2: of this because both last year and this year, I mean,

2123
01:46:12,387 --> 01:46:15,107
Speaker 2: you know, you've you've had times during the season when

2124
01:46:15,107 --> 01:46:17,707
Speaker 2: you've been starting, and obviously earlier this season when Hiroarchi

2125
01:46:17,747 --> 01:46:19,267
Speaker 2: Sarka was out you're to run a games and then

2126
01:46:19,307 --> 01:46:22,427
Speaker 2: you're back in an impact role. You know, how have

2127
01:46:22,547 --> 01:46:27,347
Speaker 2: you managed yourself around not really knowing, potentially weak to

2128
01:46:27,427 --> 01:46:30,267
Speaker 2: week exactly what your involvement is going to be, but

2129
01:46:30,347 --> 01:46:32,587
Speaker 2: making sure that whatever it is is at a really

2130
01:46:32,587 --> 01:46:33,107
Speaker 2: good level.

2131
01:46:34,587 --> 01:46:34,827
Speaker 8: Yeah.

2132
01:46:34,867 --> 01:46:39,387
Speaker 20: Well it's basically just knowing that I can be called

2133
01:46:39,467 --> 01:46:42,507
Speaker 20: up at anytime. You know, It's it's very difficult to

2134
01:46:42,507 --> 01:46:44,867
Speaker 20: get ahead of Hiroki. You know, he's he's a great

2135
01:46:44,907 --> 01:46:48,707
Speaker 20: player and he's also the captain. So you know, for me,

2136
01:46:48,827 --> 01:46:52,147
Speaker 20: it's just about staying ready. You're working hard at training

2137
01:46:52,267 --> 01:46:54,827
Speaker 20: so when that call up does come, that I am

2138
01:46:54,907 --> 01:46:57,267
Speaker 20: ready and yeah, that's that's what I've been doing.

2139
01:46:57,307 --> 01:47:01,107
Speaker 2: So yeah, in that fullback role or wing back as

2140
01:47:01,107 --> 01:47:04,947
Speaker 2: the case may be, how do you balance the attacking

2141
01:47:05,027 --> 01:47:07,427
Speaker 2: side of it, the intent you have there, and your

2142
01:47:07,787 --> 01:47:10,787
Speaker 2: your defensive brief and defensive responsibility.

2143
01:47:12,307 --> 01:47:12,507
Speaker 8: Yeah.

2144
01:47:12,507 --> 01:47:16,907
Speaker 20: I mean for me personally, I need to work on

2145
01:47:17,227 --> 01:47:19,507
Speaker 20: my attacking more. I used to be a very attacking

2146
01:47:19,547 --> 01:47:25,427
Speaker 20: minded fullback. Now defending is probably my strong point. You know,

2147
01:47:25,547 --> 01:47:30,307
Speaker 20: I'm getting clean sheets. It's very important for us. So

2148
01:47:30,347 --> 01:47:32,547
Speaker 20: you know, I've been working on defending the past couple

2149
01:47:32,547 --> 01:47:37,707
Speaker 20: of years and it's it's improved dramatically. But yeah, like

2150
01:47:37,747 --> 01:47:40,107
Speaker 20: I said, for me, I want to get forward more.

2151
01:47:40,107 --> 01:47:43,627
Speaker 20: I probably don't get get the well. I haven't had

2152
01:47:43,667 --> 01:47:46,867
Speaker 20: any assists this season, which which at the start of

2153
01:47:46,907 --> 01:47:48,747
Speaker 20: the season I was I was hoping for a few.

2154
01:47:48,947 --> 01:47:52,467
Speaker 20: So that's my goal to just get get forward more

2155
01:47:52,707 --> 01:47:55,267
Speaker 20: and help create opportunities for the team.

2156
01:47:55,907 --> 01:47:57,707
Speaker 2: I used to Are you happy though with the way

2157
01:47:57,707 --> 01:47:59,227
Speaker 2: you're with the way you're tracking the season?

2158
01:48:00,467 --> 01:48:04,147
Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean I'm happy. You know, we've had games

2159
01:48:04,147 --> 01:48:08,507
Speaker 20: where we've been defensively strong and yeah, I feel like

2160
01:48:08,547 --> 01:48:10,467
Speaker 20: when I've played I've done a good job.

2161
01:48:11,707 --> 01:48:11,907
Speaker 8: Yeah.

2162
01:48:11,947 --> 01:48:15,107
Speaker 20: So overall, I'm pretty happy with my performances this season.

2163
01:48:15,547 --> 01:48:17,587
Speaker 2: No getting away from the fact that there's a World

2164
01:48:17,667 --> 01:48:20,587
Speaker 2: Cup looming on the horizon getting ever closer, a couple

2165
01:48:20,587 --> 01:48:24,227
Speaker 2: of War Whites games next month as well. How much

2166
01:48:24,347 --> 01:48:27,867
Speaker 2: is an All Whites call up on your mind at

2167
01:48:27,867 --> 01:48:28,267
Speaker 2: the moment.

2168
01:48:29,907 --> 01:48:32,907
Speaker 20: Yeah, it's always on the main to be fair, I'd

2169
01:48:32,947 --> 01:48:35,307
Speaker 20: be lying if I said it was in the back

2170
01:48:35,347 --> 01:48:39,707
Speaker 20: of my mind. You know, it's it's a dream to

2171
01:48:39,707 --> 01:48:42,387
Speaker 20: go to the World Cup. So everything I do is

2172
01:48:43,707 --> 01:48:47,307
Speaker 20: trying to get into that New Zealand team and hopefully

2173
01:48:48,347 --> 01:48:54,107
Speaker 20: I'll be selected for the March window. Yeah, because that'll

2174
01:48:54,147 --> 01:48:57,547
Speaker 20: be a good stepping storm for the World Cup squad

2175
01:48:57,587 --> 01:48:58,387
Speaker 20: when it comes about.

2176
01:48:58,707 --> 01:49:01,067
Speaker 2: So does that carrot of the All Whites and the

2177
01:49:01,067 --> 01:49:04,467
Speaker 2: World Cup, does it actually make you a better week

2178
01:49:04,507 --> 01:49:07,307
Speaker 2: to week player with Auckland FC, because I mean that's

2179
01:49:07,307 --> 01:49:08,987
Speaker 2: what's going to get you in the team, right.

2180
01:49:09,827 --> 01:49:10,627
Speaker 8: Yeah exactly.

2181
01:49:10,747 --> 01:49:15,627
Speaker 20: I mean you're always working that little bit extra leading

2182
01:49:15,707 --> 01:49:18,027
Speaker 20: up to World Cups try and make that squad, so

2183
01:49:19,227 --> 01:49:23,307
Speaker 20: you know everything I'd do at training, Yeah, first it

2184
01:49:23,347 --> 01:49:27,027
Speaker 20: is Auckland FC, but you know I'm also working towards

2185
01:49:27,027 --> 01:49:27,907
Speaker 20: that World Cup squad.

2186
01:49:28,867 --> 01:49:32,747
Speaker 2: There's consistency or staying consistent the caterble this or are there?

2187
01:49:32,867 --> 01:49:34,507
Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned it before in terms of getting

2188
01:49:34,547 --> 01:49:36,787
Speaker 2: up and down and maybe providing some assists that sort

2189
01:49:36,787 --> 01:49:39,827
Speaker 2: of thing. Are theither or is that a specific part

2190
01:49:39,827 --> 01:49:42,107
Speaker 2: of your gain that you're you're looking to add over

2191
01:49:42,147 --> 01:49:43,387
Speaker 2: the back end of the A League season.

2192
01:49:44,987 --> 01:49:49,147
Speaker 20: Yeah, definitely, I'd like a few assists. Maybe a goal

2193
01:49:49,267 --> 01:49:52,387
Speaker 20: or two would be nice, but they don't come around

2194
01:49:52,467 --> 01:49:57,067
Speaker 20: too often. But yeah, it's just consistency and playing time.

2195
01:49:57,507 --> 01:50:00,467
Speaker 20: Playing times a big one. You know, base ones players

2196
01:50:00,467 --> 01:50:04,467
Speaker 20: that I've got lots of minutes under their belts, So yeah,

2197
01:50:04,507 --> 01:50:07,027
Speaker 20: I've just got to try and keep my spot when

2198
01:50:07,067 --> 01:50:08,867
Speaker 20: I do get those opportunities to play.

2199
01:50:09,107 --> 01:50:11,387
Speaker 2: And you know, at international level there's a you know,

2200
01:50:11,467 --> 01:50:13,987
Speaker 2: there's a there's a lot of a lot of players

2201
01:50:14,067 --> 01:50:17,227
Speaker 2: getting minutes playing well for their clubs. It feels as

2202
01:50:17,267 --> 01:50:20,507
Speaker 2: though there's real competition for spots in the r Watch.

2203
01:50:21,147 --> 01:50:23,227
Speaker 2: You know, a two part question, I guess does that

2204
01:50:23,267 --> 01:50:24,547
Speaker 2: bring out the best in you? And how do you

2205
01:50:24,627 --> 01:50:26,987
Speaker 2: handle the pressure knowing that there are only so many

2206
01:50:26,987 --> 01:50:27,867
Speaker 2: seats on that plane.

2207
01:50:29,907 --> 01:50:30,107
Speaker 15: Yeah.

2208
01:50:30,147 --> 01:50:33,147
Speaker 20: I mean, at the end of the day, I can

2209
01:50:33,707 --> 01:50:39,387
Speaker 20: only do as well as I can personally. Do you know,

2210
01:50:39,587 --> 01:50:41,307
Speaker 20: if I come to the end of the season I've

2211
01:50:41,347 --> 01:50:44,307
Speaker 20: done my best and I don't get selected, you know,

2212
01:50:44,747 --> 01:50:48,467
Speaker 20: I'll be guided. But at the same time, like you know,

2213
01:50:48,627 --> 01:50:53,107
Speaker 20: like I said, I've done everything I could do. But yeah,

2214
01:50:53,467 --> 01:50:56,387
Speaker 20: I mean, the New Zealand team's very strong. Now You've

2215
01:50:56,427 --> 01:51:00,507
Speaker 20: got other players in Europe playing consistently, so it's going

2216
01:51:00,547 --> 01:51:03,987
Speaker 20: to be a difficult team to get into. Just yeah,

2217
01:51:04,067 --> 01:51:05,467
Speaker 20: fingers crossed, I can make it.

2218
01:51:05,667 --> 01:51:08,747
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, I mean everyone will have their own opinion.

2219
01:51:08,907 --> 01:51:11,787
Speaker 2: I get the feeling you'll be on that plane, but

2220
01:51:11,907 --> 01:51:15,867
Speaker 2: that's not my decision to make. Obviously. What would it

2221
01:51:15,907 --> 01:51:18,227
Speaker 2: mean though, what would it mean to go to a

2222
01:51:18,267 --> 01:51:20,987
Speaker 2: World Cup, a fief of Men's World Cup with the

2223
01:51:21,027 --> 01:51:21,427
Speaker 2: All Whites?

2224
01:51:21,467 --> 01:51:25,427
Speaker 20: For you'd be a dream come true. I mean you

2225
01:51:25,587 --> 01:51:28,547
Speaker 20: grow up, I'm wanting to play in the World Cup.

2226
01:51:28,587 --> 01:51:32,387
Speaker 20: You know, you watch it every four years just dreaming

2227
01:51:32,507 --> 01:51:35,707
Speaker 20: have been there one day. So to have that opportunity

2228
01:51:35,707 --> 01:51:38,707
Speaker 20: there to be able to go is is great and

2229
01:51:38,827 --> 01:51:40,627
Speaker 20: you know it's going to do a lot for New

2230
01:51:40,707 --> 01:51:44,507
Speaker 20: Zealand football. We have a very strong squad so I

2231
01:51:44,547 --> 01:51:47,627
Speaker 20: think you know we have we have a chance to

2232
01:51:47,667 --> 01:51:51,787
Speaker 20: get out of the pool and yeah, it'd just be

2233
01:51:52,307 --> 01:51:54,267
Speaker 20: surreal to go to be honest, I'll be it.

2234
01:51:54,307 --> 01:51:55,867
Speaker 2: Well. In the meantime, all you can do is play

2235
01:51:55,907 --> 01:51:58,307
Speaker 2: well for Auckland FC, which you have been doing Melbourne

2236
01:51:58,347 --> 01:52:00,347
Speaker 2: City this afternoon, five o'clock at go media all the

2237
01:52:00,387 --> 01:52:02,547
Speaker 2: best so that one, Kellen and thanks for taking the

2238
01:52:02,547 --> 01:52:04,707
Speaker 2: time for a chat. As always, thank you very much,

2239
01:52:04,707 --> 01:52:06,987
Speaker 2: in no ways, no thank you, Kellen. Kelly and Elliott

2240
01:52:06,987 --> 01:52:09,947
Speaker 2: their Auckland FC, Melbourne City this afternoon at five coming

2241
01:52:10,027 --> 01:52:12,547
Speaker 2: up twenty two to three. Corey Peters is going to

2242
01:52:12,587 --> 01:52:15,427
Speaker 2: be a five time Winter Paralympian. He's with us in

2243
01:52:15,507 --> 01:52:17,307
Speaker 2: just a sick and we'll check in on the New

2244
01:52:17,427 --> 01:52:19,427
Speaker 2: Zealand Golf Open in Queenstown when we come back.

2245
01:52:19,787 --> 01:52:23,867
Speaker 1: No TMO, no DRS, just your call on eight hundred

2246
01:52:23,987 --> 01:52:27,907
Speaker 1: eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason Paine and GJ.

2247
01:52:28,107 --> 01:52:31,467
Speaker 1: Gardner Homes New Zealand's most Trusted home Builder News Talks.

2248
01:52:31,467 --> 01:52:33,507
Speaker 2: There be nineteen to three on news Talks there be.

2249
01:52:33,627 --> 01:52:35,387
Speaker 2: Let's keep back to the one hundred and fifth New

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Speaker 2: Zealand Golf Opening Queenstown. Mike Thorpe is our man following

2251
01:52:39,507 --> 01:52:42,587
Speaker 2: the action across the weekend. Mike, last time we spoke,

2252
01:52:42,947 --> 01:52:47,347
Speaker 2: Kerry Mountcastle was at the head of a very congested leaderboard.

2253
01:52:47,387 --> 01:52:48,547
Speaker 2: What's the latest you can tell.

2254
01:52:48,507 --> 01:52:51,227
Speaker 6: Us, Well, he's still there. He's at thirteen under, but

2255
01:52:51,267 --> 01:52:53,627
Speaker 6: he's dropped one back. We were fourteen under. I think

2256
01:52:53,667 --> 01:52:55,827
Speaker 6: last time we spoke he's come one back. He stood

2257
01:52:55,867 --> 01:52:58,547
Speaker 6: with a one shot lead to outright leader. At the

2258
01:52:58,547 --> 01:53:01,107
Speaker 6: moment it's thirteen and under, but you're right congested. It

2259
01:53:01,147 --> 01:53:03,547
Speaker 6: looks like Franklin Road. At the moment he is about

2260
01:53:03,547 --> 01:53:07,227
Speaker 6: fifteen golfers. I think twelve under, eleven under, maybe ten under,

2261
01:53:07,347 --> 01:53:11,027
Speaker 6: so a three shot spread for an absolute stack of

2262
01:53:11,107 --> 01:53:14,347
Speaker 6: quality players, Lucas Herbert among them. He's probably been the

2263
01:53:14,347 --> 01:53:18,307
Speaker 6: biggest movie today going. He's five under at the moment

2264
01:53:19,187 --> 01:53:21,747
Speaker 6: into twelve under. I was hoping to give you some

2265
01:53:21,827 --> 01:53:24,867
Speaker 6: live action of Alca approaching on the seventeenth, but I

2266
01:53:24,867 --> 01:53:26,987
Speaker 6: think he's a weave through the becker. Think he's on

2267
01:53:27,027 --> 01:53:29,227
Speaker 6: the tee. Thankfully, because the guy that I thought he

2268
01:53:29,427 --> 01:53:32,147
Speaker 6: was I just found the drink in front of seventeen,

2269
01:53:32,307 --> 01:53:35,107
Speaker 6: so good news for Alchy. He's at minus ten start

2270
01:53:35,147 --> 01:53:37,867
Speaker 6: of the day at seven under. And if it's noisy here,

2271
01:53:37,907 --> 01:53:39,147
Speaker 6: I don't know if it is or not, but I'm

2272
01:53:39,187 --> 01:53:41,347
Speaker 6: in the middle of party Central, which is right in

2273
01:53:41,387 --> 01:53:44,107
Speaker 6: between the seventeenth and eighteenth, and it is where the

2274
01:53:44,147 --> 01:53:47,667
Speaker 6: spectators come to watch an exciting finish. It does start

2275
01:53:47,747 --> 01:53:49,987
Speaker 6: to get a wee bit rowdy later on this afternoon

2276
01:53:50,667 --> 01:53:53,067
Speaker 6: as the sun in lubrication sets in.

2277
01:53:54,027 --> 01:53:56,587
Speaker 2: Hopefully only in the fans, not in the reporters, Mike,

2278
01:53:56,667 --> 01:53:58,547
Speaker 2: but I'll leave that up to you to decide. Great

2279
01:53:58,547 --> 01:54:00,707
Speaker 2: to chat to you, mate. We'll catch up again tomorrow

2280
01:54:00,827 --> 01:54:03,787
Speaker 2: on Weekend Sport as the final round plays out. Mike

2281
01:54:03,827 --> 01:54:07,707
Speaker 2: Thorpe in Queenstown with carry Mountcastle the key we thirteen

2282
01:54:07,787 --> 01:54:09,707
Speaker 2: under the card. He has a one shot lead over

2283
01:54:09,747 --> 01:54:13,427
Speaker 2: a clutch of players on twelve under, including Daniel Hilliot.

2284
01:54:13,787 --> 01:54:16,947
Speaker 2: So exciting third round playing out and no doubt an

2285
01:54:16,947 --> 01:54:19,787
Speaker 2: exciting fourth round to come tomorrow at the New Zealand

2286
01:54:19,867 --> 01:54:22,107
Speaker 2: Golf Open. Great to welcome into the show. One of

2287
01:54:22,107 --> 01:54:26,627
Speaker 2: New Zealand's most successful Winter Paralympians, Paralympic champion, multiple medalist,

2288
01:54:26,667 --> 01:54:30,427
Speaker 2: one of the fastest sit skiers in the world, Corey Peters,

2289
01:54:30,507 --> 01:54:33,067
Speaker 2: who joins US now ahead of the Games, which are

2290
01:54:33,107 --> 01:54:35,427
Speaker 2: underway in just under a week. How are you feeling,

2291
01:54:35,427 --> 01:54:38,707
Speaker 2: Corey ahead of your fifth Winter Paralympics.

2292
01:54:39,587 --> 01:54:43,147
Speaker 14: Yeah, feeling good. Actually, we've had a good holding camp

2293
01:54:43,187 --> 01:54:48,227
Speaker 14: here in Italy, so yeah, skims feeling pretty confident, like

2294
01:54:48,267 --> 01:54:51,547
Speaker 14: the skiins are going really well. Had a bit of

2295
01:54:51,587 --> 01:54:53,987
Speaker 14: an up and down season, you know, some good results

2296
01:54:53,987 --> 01:54:57,267
Speaker 14: here in the World Cup along with you know, a

2297
01:54:57,267 --> 01:55:01,107
Speaker 14: few not too good results, but yeah, finished finished on

2298
01:55:01,107 --> 01:55:03,267
Speaker 14: a high at the last World Cup in vason O, Switzerland,

2299
01:55:04,027 --> 01:55:07,787
Speaker 14: and from there it's just been tracking really well. Excited

2300
01:55:07,787 --> 01:55:09,467
Speaker 14: to see what I see what I can do in

2301
01:55:09,507 --> 01:55:10,427
Speaker 14: the next couple of weeks.

2302
01:55:10,507 --> 01:55:13,267
Speaker 2: Did you believe in momentum you know, I guess you know,

2303
01:55:13,267 --> 01:55:15,987
Speaker 2: if you if things are going brilliantly say well, I'm

2304
01:55:15,987 --> 01:55:18,147
Speaker 2: going well, but but can you if things have been

2305
01:55:18,227 --> 01:55:21,627
Speaker 2: inconsistent as you've just outlined there, Does that actually matter

2306
01:55:21,707 --> 01:55:23,347
Speaker 2: once a pinnacle of vent ripes.

2307
01:55:24,987 --> 01:55:28,387
Speaker 14: Well, it does to some degree obviously. You know, if

2308
01:55:28,387 --> 01:55:30,187
Speaker 14: I'm skiing well, then I know it, and it sort

2309
01:55:30,227 --> 01:55:34,547
Speaker 14: of helps with self confidence and stuff like that. But

2310
01:55:34,667 --> 01:55:36,947
Speaker 14: in saying that, you know, like I've done it long

2311
01:55:37,067 --> 01:55:40,067
Speaker 14: enough that I know, you know, turning up these big events,

2312
01:55:40,387 --> 01:55:43,947
Speaker 14: how to kind of flick the switch, you know, so

2313
01:55:43,587 --> 01:55:48,587
Speaker 14: to speak, and just turn it on and perform to

2314
01:55:48,627 --> 01:55:52,027
Speaker 14: your best of your abilities. You know, some people sort

2315
01:55:52,027 --> 01:55:55,027
Speaker 14: of crumble I guess under that, under that big stage

2316
01:55:55,067 --> 01:55:57,787
Speaker 14: and you know, the pressure, let the pressure get to them.

2317
01:55:57,827 --> 01:56:01,627
Speaker 14: But yeah, I think it's been my fourth games. I

2318
01:56:01,627 --> 01:56:04,067
Speaker 14: think I've got the experience now to you know, be

2319
01:56:04,067 --> 01:56:08,827
Speaker 14: able to turn that switch on and hopefully perform to

2320
01:56:08,867 --> 01:56:10,187
Speaker 14: the best of my capabilities.

2321
01:56:10,427 --> 01:56:12,987
Speaker 2: You mentioned a very important word, their experience. How much

2322
01:56:12,987 --> 01:56:15,107
Speaker 2: do you think that matters? You know, having been to

2323
01:56:15,187 --> 01:56:19,027
Speaker 2: multiple games, how much does that matter in terms of

2324
01:56:19,027 --> 01:56:21,347
Speaker 2: being able to flick a switch, as you say, and

2325
01:56:22,107 --> 01:56:25,027
Speaker 2: really turn up on the biggest of big occasions.

2326
01:56:25,507 --> 01:56:30,027
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think experience plays a massive part, particularly for me.

2327
01:56:30,107 --> 01:56:32,427
Speaker 14: I think in the speed events, you know, it's not

2328
01:56:32,587 --> 01:56:34,587
Speaker 14: like a new bee can just sort of come along

2329
01:56:34,667 --> 01:56:40,267
Speaker 14: and start racing down all just because of I guess

2330
01:56:39,987 --> 01:56:43,627
Speaker 14: the risk involved basically, like you know, you need to

2331
01:56:43,627 --> 01:56:49,107
Speaker 14: have really good technique, good really good fundamental So for me,

2332
01:56:49,227 --> 01:56:51,587
Speaker 14: I think I've built that over the last sort of

2333
01:56:51,587 --> 01:56:56,067
Speaker 14: fourteen years of you know, competing professionally as a set skier,

2334
01:56:56,147 --> 01:57:00,667
Speaker 14: so I can kind of I just know how to

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01:57:00,707 --> 01:57:03,747
Speaker 14: turn that switch on hopefully you know when it comes

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Speaker 14: to it. So looking really forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to it's a little going into these

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01:57:08,067 --> 01:57:11,467
Speaker 2: games thinking about defending that gold from last time, That

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01:57:11,707 --> 01:57:12,987
Speaker 2: is that your mindset?

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Speaker 14: I try not to think about that. That's kind of

2341
01:57:15,427 --> 01:57:19,107
Speaker 14: like four years ago. I think we come into these

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01:57:19,147 --> 01:57:23,347
Speaker 14: games with a new clean slate. I think if I

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01:57:23,387 --> 01:57:27,387
Speaker 14: start putting expectations like that on myself, it's sort of,

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01:57:27,667 --> 01:57:32,907
Speaker 14: I guess, adds unnecessary pressure. So yeah, I think one

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01:57:32,987 --> 01:57:35,027
Speaker 14: thing that we've kind of worked on this season is

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01:57:35,107 --> 01:57:38,627
Speaker 14: kind of working more towards focusing on the process rather

2347
01:57:38,667 --> 01:57:43,027
Speaker 14: than the outcome. And I guess traditionally, like if I

2348
01:57:43,067 --> 01:57:45,147
Speaker 14: do that, then I tend to scare a lot better.

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01:57:46,027 --> 01:57:50,267
Speaker 14: You know, you get the fundamentals right and you just

2350
01:57:50,387 --> 01:57:52,627
Speaker 14: nail all the small things and the results tend to

2351
01:57:52,667 --> 01:57:56,907
Speaker 14: take care of themselves. So yeah, as much as you know,

2352
01:57:57,347 --> 01:57:59,787
Speaker 14: the goal is obviously to come home with a medal,

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01:58:01,907 --> 01:58:04,187
Speaker 14: but that's something that I try and push to the

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01:58:04,227 --> 01:58:06,947
Speaker 14: back of my mind, you know, and trade on the

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01:58:06,947 --> 01:58:09,947
Speaker 14: things that I can control. That's kind of out of

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01:58:09,947 --> 01:58:14,347
Speaker 14: my hands. I guess what your competition does and the

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01:58:14,427 --> 01:58:17,387
Speaker 14: end result in a way, So just concentrate on the

2358
01:58:17,387 --> 01:58:20,587
Speaker 14: small things and the things that I can control, which

2359
01:58:20,667 --> 01:58:22,707
Speaker 14: is skiing good and skin fast.

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01:58:23,267 --> 01:58:26,747
Speaker 2: Indeed, it's a high risk, high speed sport that you're

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01:58:26,747 --> 01:58:30,307
Speaker 2: involved in, Corey. How do you balance pushing the limits

2362
01:58:30,347 --> 01:58:33,427
Speaker 2: as much as you can without going over them?

2363
01:58:33,987 --> 01:58:40,787
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's a fine line for sure, especially in speed events. Wow. Yeah, yeah,

2364
01:58:40,787 --> 01:58:42,747
Speaker 14: And I guess when you look at the competitors that

2365
01:58:42,787 --> 01:58:46,747
Speaker 14: I'm up against, they nearly half my age, most of them,

2366
01:58:46,787 --> 01:58:50,227
Speaker 14: so you know, they're in their early twenties, mid twenties,

2367
01:58:50,947 --> 01:58:56,987
Speaker 14: pretty fearless, you know, no responsibilities, just completely yeah, just

2368
01:58:58,147 --> 01:59:00,947
Speaker 14: animals really, So for me, you know, the age of

2369
01:59:00,947 --> 01:59:03,867
Speaker 14: forty two now responsibilities at home with a little three

2370
01:59:03,907 --> 01:59:06,347
Speaker 14: and a half year old, you do start to question

2371
01:59:07,627 --> 01:59:13,147
Speaker 14: how much you push you over that line, But I think, yeah,

2372
01:59:13,147 --> 01:59:16,987
Speaker 14: it just comes back to that experience again, I guess,

2373
01:59:17,347 --> 01:59:21,307
Speaker 14: and just knowing how much you can and can't push.

2374
01:59:21,387 --> 01:59:23,467
Speaker 14: And yeah, we'll just see when we turn up there.

2375
01:59:23,267 --> 01:59:25,747
Speaker 14: We're rive into the village next week, so we'll be

2376
01:59:25,747 --> 01:59:27,867
Speaker 14: able to have a look at the hill and the

2377
01:59:27,907 --> 01:59:30,827
Speaker 14: snow conditions and yeah, hopefully we get some nice sunny weather.

2378
01:59:31,707 --> 01:59:34,387
Speaker 2: Do you allow yourself to think about your legacy now?

2379
01:59:34,547 --> 01:59:36,627
Speaker 2: I mean you've meddled at every Paralympics you've been to.

2380
01:59:37,227 --> 01:59:39,707
Speaker 2: About to go to your fifth, as I say, do

2381
01:59:39,787 --> 01:59:42,107
Speaker 2: you think about the legacy that you're leaving or will

2382
01:59:42,107 --> 01:59:44,547
Speaker 2: that come when you do finally finish?

2383
01:59:44,747 --> 01:59:47,947
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you reflect on that, like after these games,

2384
01:59:47,947 --> 01:59:50,507
Speaker 14: you know, if I decide to continue or you know,

2385
01:59:50,507 --> 01:59:55,627
Speaker 14: whether or not I call it, you know, that's sort

2386
01:59:55,667 --> 01:59:59,067
Speaker 14: of finished the career sort of thing. But yeah, it's

2387
01:59:59,067 --> 02:00:01,427
Speaker 14: been a pretty special career and you know, pretty life

2388
02:00:01,507 --> 02:00:05,547
Speaker 14: changing for me obviously with my motocross accident back in

2389
02:00:05,587 --> 02:00:09,067
Speaker 14: two thousand and nine, it's been amazing to be able

2390
02:00:09,067 --> 02:00:13,707
Speaker 14: to find a sport there. Yeah, I could sink my

2391
02:00:13,747 --> 02:00:16,947
Speaker 14: teeth into and excel in and get to travel the

2392
02:00:16,987 --> 02:00:20,427
Speaker 14: world and meet amazing people and collect a lot of

2393
02:00:20,427 --> 02:00:23,547
Speaker 14: olcaleades along the way. So it's been Yeah, it's been

2394
02:00:23,587 --> 02:00:29,827
Speaker 14: pretty amazing really and sort of doing that adversity into triumph. Really,

2395
02:00:29,907 --> 02:00:32,827
Speaker 14: I'm so pretty happy with myself, you know, in that

2396
02:00:32,867 --> 02:00:38,227
Speaker 14: regards with Yeah, just that sort of perseverance and determination

2397
02:00:38,467 --> 02:00:42,507
Speaker 14: and get up, pick yourself up and carry on in life.

2398
02:00:43,947 --> 02:00:47,067
Speaker 2: So you haven't decided yet, or you may have, you

2399
02:00:47,107 --> 02:00:48,747
Speaker 2: might just not want to tell us. But what is

2400
02:00:48,947 --> 02:00:51,427
Speaker 2: what's going to inform that decision for you, Cory? What

2401
02:00:51,427 --> 02:00:54,707
Speaker 2: what will make up your mind one way or another

2402
02:00:54,747 --> 02:00:58,027
Speaker 2: whether you whether you carry on beyond these games?

2403
02:00:58,787 --> 02:01:03,587
Speaker 14: Well, I think it's probably Yeah, it's evident in my

2404
02:01:03,707 --> 02:01:05,947
Speaker 14: mind that I probably wouldn't go another four years to

2405
02:01:06,027 --> 02:01:09,467
Speaker 14: another games. So this probably would be my last Paralympic Games.

2406
02:01:10,427 --> 02:01:13,667
Speaker 14: But that's not saying that I won't continue for another

2407
02:01:13,747 --> 02:01:16,107
Speaker 14: year or two and compete at the next World Champs

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02:01:16,147 --> 02:01:19,107
Speaker 14: and stuff like that next year in France. I think

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02:01:19,147 --> 02:01:21,747
Speaker 14: family has a big, big saying that, you know, like

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02:01:21,867 --> 02:01:25,227
Speaker 14: it's I've had a pretty good career in fourteen years,

2411
02:01:27,427 --> 02:01:29,827
Speaker 14: and it's one that I'm obviously you really proud of,

2412
02:01:29,907 --> 02:01:33,667
Speaker 14: and but there does come a point now where sort

2413
02:01:33,707 --> 02:01:35,867
Speaker 14: of been away for four months at a time, there's

2414
02:01:35,947 --> 02:01:39,227
Speaker 14: definitely hard with a little one at home, and you know,

2415
02:01:39,267 --> 02:01:41,107
Speaker 14: four months is as a third of the year, you know,

2416
02:01:41,267 --> 02:01:45,667
Speaker 14: so it definitely makes it tough been so far away

2417
02:01:45,667 --> 02:01:46,667
Speaker 14: from friends and family.

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02:01:47,187 --> 02:01:49,547
Speaker 2: I bet, I bet in just the two of you

2419
02:01:49,627 --> 02:01:52,827
Speaker 2: in the in the team, yourself and Adam Hall in

2420
02:01:52,867 --> 02:01:56,587
Speaker 2: this in this team, is there another wave coming Corey,

2421
02:01:56,867 --> 02:02:00,387
Speaker 2: have you since that there'll be you know, if indeed

2422
02:02:00,387 --> 02:02:02,387
Speaker 2: this is your last. I'm not sure what Adam's plans are,

2423
02:02:02,587 --> 02:02:04,427
Speaker 2: you know, is there a new wave to come through.

2424
02:02:05,427 --> 02:02:07,987
Speaker 14: I think there's there's a bunch of guys that are

2425
02:02:08,027 --> 02:02:11,787
Speaker 14: you know, skiing and six keys around the Warnaker Queenstown

2426
02:02:11,827 --> 02:02:17,347
Speaker 14: area for sure. Whether or not they you know, venture

2427
02:02:17,387 --> 02:02:19,667
Speaker 14: into the racing side of it, you know, the competition side,

2428
02:02:19,707 --> 02:02:23,787
Speaker 14: I'm not sure, but yeah, I mean it's it would

2429
02:02:23,827 --> 02:02:26,987
Speaker 14: be nice to have some younger guys coming through, for sure,

2430
02:02:26,987 --> 02:02:31,427
Speaker 14: because I think between Adam and myself we've got a

2431
02:02:31,427 --> 02:02:34,267
Speaker 14: lot of knowledge and experience that we could perhaps pass

2432
02:02:34,267 --> 02:02:37,947
Speaker 14: on to them as well. So yeah, whether or not

2433
02:02:38,027 --> 02:02:41,787
Speaker 14: we stay within the sport, and you know in that

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02:02:41,907 --> 02:02:47,387
Speaker 14: sort of context that that could be certainly on the cards,

2435
02:02:47,907 --> 02:02:50,427
Speaker 14: you know, just passing on, passing the torch on, you know,

2436
02:02:50,467 --> 02:02:51,427
Speaker 14: to the next generation.

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02:02:52,627 --> 02:02:55,987
Speaker 2: So sure, just to finish, I read or heard you

2438
02:02:56,027 --> 02:02:58,707
Speaker 2: describe your run in Beijing as the run of your life.

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02:02:59,107 --> 02:03:00,427
Speaker 2: You reckon, You've got one more of those.

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02:03:00,307 --> 02:03:06,147
Speaker 14: In you, I hope. Yeah, it was. It was a

2441
02:03:06,547 --> 02:03:11,067
Speaker 14: special run. And yeah, obviously it was a pretty unique games,

2442
02:03:11,107 --> 02:03:13,547
Speaker 14: you know, with the whole COVID situation and not being

2443
02:03:13,587 --> 02:03:15,347
Speaker 14: able to compete for a couple of years prior to

2444
02:03:15,387 --> 02:03:20,987
Speaker 14: that game, so this one's certainly different. You know, we've

2445
02:03:20,987 --> 02:03:26,467
Speaker 14: had a proper four year Olympic cycle, you know, where

2446
02:03:26,707 --> 02:03:30,547
Speaker 14: your competitors are continuing to get better and better, and yeah,

2447
02:03:30,547 --> 02:03:35,587
Speaker 14: the sport's grown so much. Competition will be tough, but

2448
02:03:36,027 --> 02:03:38,787
Speaker 14: I'm definitely going to give them by, give it my

2449
02:03:38,867 --> 02:03:42,227
Speaker 14: best and hopefully we can come away with us another

2450
02:03:42,307 --> 02:03:43,107
Speaker 14: near perfect run.

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02:03:43,787 --> 02:03:45,547
Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing how you go, mate. Thanks for

2452
02:03:45,627 --> 02:03:47,427
Speaker 2: jelllling to us, Corey all the best for the next

2453
02:03:47,467 --> 02:03:50,067
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, and yeah, we'll be watching with great introspect.

2454
02:03:50,107 --> 02:03:50,907
Speaker 2: And thanks for the jet.

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02:03:51,147 --> 02:03:52,787
Speaker 14: Okay, thank you very much, Thank.

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02:03:52,627 --> 02:03:55,867
Speaker 2: You Corey Corey Peters ahead of his fifth Winter Paralympic Games.

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