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Speaker 1: In Venezbo. Nick Bailey morning, Good morning, Luke. We've gone

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Speaker 1: from one extreme to another. Mentioned that the shortest Beth

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Speaker 1: Thurston history was last year, just shy of six hours.

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Speaker 1: The longest according to we Google search here was twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: which lasted just under eight hours. So somewhere in the middle,

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Speaker 1: I think it was closer to seven hours was yesterday's

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Speaker 1: But it was wet, it was chaotic. How good though

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Speaker 1: that we managed to get a key we top of

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Speaker 1: the podium though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Indeed, Matt Payne joining the list of pre handy

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Speaker 2: lists like Jim and Stephen Richards, Greg Murphy, the Giz

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Speaker 2: and Scott maclachlin and being a Kiwi to reign at

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Speaker 2: Mount Panorama and become King of the Mountain.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as you should have alluded to there. It's quite chaotic,

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Speaker 3: wasn't it. I don't think even Matt bad thought it

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Speaker 3: be in the mix climbing from what was the eighteenth

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Speaker 3: alongside Garth Canda to take the title Chaos Slate with

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Speaker 3: James gold and Cooper Murray colliding on the penultimate lap.

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Speaker 3: Even though Golden crossed the line first, he was handed

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Speaker 3: a five second penalty, effectively handing it over handing the

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Speaker 3: title to Matt Payin, but you take it anyway it comes.

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Speaker 1: I guess I really feel for that young Ryan Woods,

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Speaker 1: just twenty one. I think he clocks the fastest lap

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Speaker 1: in the opening day of practice and it was odds on.

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Speaker 1: He's backs by the likes of Greg Murphy, it was

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Speaker 1: odds on for him, and then the car just let

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Speaker 1: him down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's heart wrenching stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know, you put so much into it, as we've

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Speaker 3: talked about it at the sip of the long old day,

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Speaker 3: at least the best part of six closing in on

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Speaker 3: seven hours, and then for something like that to happen

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Speaker 3: so late in the piece, it's not you know, motus

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Speaker 3: sport of fishinado, but you know you've just been let

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Speaker 3: down by your vehicle. It is heart wrenching stuff. But

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned, twenty one years old, you feel like

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Speaker 3: the best is still to come and he'll be back.

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Speaker 1: We're going to see a lot more of him too.

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Speaker 1: Write to Rugby and you were in christ Church yesterday

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Speaker 1: afternoon the call for Canterbury v Counties. I'm amazed that

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Speaker 1: we were able to hear anything you were saying down

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Speaker 1: the mic with the wind yeah, it.

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Speaker 3: Had to stand facing away from the northweaster for most

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Speaker 3: of it.

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Speaker 2: Luke.

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Speaker 3: It was yet pretty similar to what many would have

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Speaker 3: seen at the Ashburton Showgrounds with the mid Canabury Hotophenol

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Speaker 3: Company game where it was going end on ends, so

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Speaker 3: there's wasted time trying to kick the ball into the

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Speaker 3: wind and it was all about the territorial game if

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Speaker 3: you're playing with it, and fair play to Counties Americo.

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Speaker 3: I thought they actually played better into the winds than

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Speaker 3: Canterbury did. Manage to hold on to their ten point lead,

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Speaker 3: take it all the way down to extra time. Canterbury

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Speaker 3: just a little bit too classing a little bit more

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Speaker 3: in the tank during that extra time period. But I

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Speaker 3: thought it was a fantastic game of rugby and yeah

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Speaker 3: we've got I think it's fair to say the four

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Speaker 3: best teams in the semifinals, or at least the top

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Speaker 3: four on the table Canterbury Hawks Bay the Saturday night

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Speaker 3: here in christ Church again and Otago Bay have plenty

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Speaker 3: Friday Night which really cracking contest. I feel Otarga course

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Speaker 3: ha won the ramps for the shield off Canterbury a

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Speaker 3: few weeks ago, hung on to be on Friday night.

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Speaker 3: They play a really exciting Brandon rugby at the month,

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Speaker 3: so very much wouldn't put to those semi finals.

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Speaker 1: Yeah too right, And I think there was an injection

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Speaker 1: of about seven all Blacks for NPC sides. The weekend

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Speaker 1: just been how many of them? Do you reckon? All

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Speaker 1: get the call up this morning because the squad for

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Speaker 1: the Grand Slam Tour is being announced, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it comes out at half past eleven, thirty six

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Speaker 3: man squad for those four tests Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Look,

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Speaker 3: I suspect most of those players will be there. I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't be totally shocked at the hooker position. I think

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Speaker 3: George Bell has come back with a relis and they're

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Speaker 3: all for Canterbury and he's basically competing against his provincial

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Speaker 3: teammate Brady McAllister for a spot in that all black squad.

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Speaker 3: I won't be surprised if there was a little swap

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Speaker 3: see there. But other than some injury replacements, of course,

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Speaker 3: no tupo vity on this tour. Maybe a guy like

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Speaker 3: Shandwry might have done enough another player in the Canterbury

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Speaker 3: mix to earn a call up. But yeah, we shall

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Speaker 3: find out. I think most of those players who were

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Speaker 3: involved in the Rugby Champampionship and starting those games with

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Speaker 3: regularity will be there for this trip. And whether they

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Speaker 3: play semi final rugby. I suppose it's just the older adager.

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Speaker 3: Do you wrap them up in cotton, will want to

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Speaker 3: protect them for what's to come, or do you give

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Speaker 3: them a couple of games. Maybe some of those fringe

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Speaker 3: guys will get a run this weekend. We should wait

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Speaker 3: to