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Speaker 2: Good afternoon and welcome in to the Sunday edition of

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Speaker 2: Weekend Sport on News Talks HEB May eighteen. I'm Jason Pines,

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Speaker 2: Show producer Andy McDonald. We've been waiting to get on

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Speaker 2: the year to talk to you. We're here until three

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Speaker 2: Talking Sports Super Saturday certainly delivered yesterday in christ Church.

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Speaker 3: That is it no extra time in the pack four.

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Speaker 3: It is a draw and in many ways that is

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Speaker 3: a fear reflection of what has been a truly absorbing

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Speaker 2: Women's rugby at sun Corp Stateia.

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Speaker 4: It's rarefied even Warriors second place on the letter.

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Speaker 2: And here they are make a time on the truck.

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Speaker 2: Another nail guy to though it's Albany, no.

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Speaker 5: Wonder over it.

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Speaker 2: Don't get the penalty head who got it?

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Speaker 4: Hey Savia for the Wada PACIFICA speak the Blues for

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Speaker 4: the third time.

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Speaker 2: In their history and in Melbourne advantage.

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Speaker 4: Alkland FC Logan Rogerson is the man of the hour

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Speaker 4: at all plad FT create another first a finals win.

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Speaker 2: At the first time of asking so much to keep

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Speaker 2: eyes on yesterday and into the evening. Gonna try and

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Speaker 2: cover off as much of it as we can for

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Speaker 2: you in the next three hours. Alkan FC coach Steve

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Speaker 2: Griffin after one mina PACIFICA winger and hat trick hero

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Speaker 2: want to know what grabbed your attention last night. I

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Speaker 2: want to chat through some of these games with you.

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Speaker 2: And are there any more words to describe Ardie Savier

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Speaker 2: other matters around today PGA Championship. The third round is complete.

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Speaker 2: As you heard from Elliott during the Sports News, A

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Speaker 2: bit of a roller coaster third round for Ryan Fox

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Speaker 2: five thirty six bogies one over seventy two type for

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Speaker 2: seventeen three under seven shots behind the leader Scotty Scheffler. Well,

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Speaker 2: I mean, even being in this tournament was something that

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Speaker 2: be within that shorter margin of the lead is something

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Speaker 2: Gray megars after two on that Wrexham Wrexham aheaded our

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Speaker 2: way playing a game of football against Wellington Phoenix in July.

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Speaker 2: There CEO Michael Williamson on the show this afternoon. The

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Speaker 2: Posnan Canoe Sprint and Power Canoe World Cup is coming

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Speaker 2: Cup event ki We Finn Murphy. He's on the show

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Speaker 2: James mcconey as well, with no doubt plenty to to

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Speaker 1: It's down to the line. You made a call on

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Speaker 2: Talksb Advantage Aukland FC in their A League Football semi

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Speaker 2: final against the Melbourne victory at Amy Park last night

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Speaker 2: makes us way back to Devrez who escapes the attention

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Speaker 4: Area beenheedited by Logan Rogerson.

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Speaker 6: First what Auckland FC and in front of their delighted

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Speaker 6: it again and Logan Rogerson stupid and heading home his

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Speaker 2: Auckland FC the advantage in League One and they held

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Speaker 2: on to it one nil winners last night. They bring

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Speaker 2: second half headed from midfielder Logan Rogerson the key moment

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Speaker 2: head coach Steve Corricker, who's with us from Melbourne. Steve,

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Speaker 2: congratulations on another terrific performance last night. In a season

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Speaker 7: Well, it's definitely right up there. It's one of the

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Speaker 2: Just before we unpecked the game. What was your broad

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Speaker 7: We knew we had to defend well. I think they've

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Speaker 2: Did you expect that from Melbourne Victory? Well, yeah, I did.

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Speaker 7: You know they were always going to start well and

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Speaker 7: And we spoke about that as well. You know, they

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Speaker 7: That's what's really important. Obviously we get the one goal

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Speaker 2: The goal, the score was from Logan Rogerson. Nine for

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Speaker 7: I just wanted more from him. I didn't think I

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Speaker 2: And he had the honor of scoring your fiftieth goal

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Speaker 2: Previous record hold it was your previous side, Sidney FC.

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Speaker 7: Don't do that. You know. We even when we go

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Speaker 2: One of the hallmarks of your season has been the

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Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously it helps. Obviously if they're all doing well

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Speaker 7: you know what you want, the consistency. The players get

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Speaker 7: But I think if you look at our bench as well,

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Speaker 7: it's really, you know, a really quality bench. You know,

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Speaker 7: Then you've got Brimmer, cam Howison didn't even get on.

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Speaker 7: The real quality players, Tommy Smith, Kallen Elliott. You know,

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Speaker 2: Another giant's stride in the right direction last night, Steve,

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Speaker 2: Steve Corika, the head coach of Auckland FC from Melbourne.

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Speaker 9: Good morning. I'd like to rerun to the media elits

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Peter, I think you're did right about

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Speaker 9: And it's great to see and please they came from

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Speaker 2: Indeed, Peytuck, good on you, mate. I appreciate your call.

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Speaker 1: Don't get caught offside call I. Eight hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: We are going to flick across the rugby and rugby league,

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Speaker 2: We'll show you and they certainly did. Will unpack the

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Speaker 2: Jacob Spoonley, former All Whites and Phoenix goalkeeper, our Sky

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Speaker 2: Sport analyst, was in the commentary box last night and

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Speaker 2: joins us now on Weekend Sport. Jacob A, you put

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Speaker 2: a lot of thought into your post match reviews and

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Speaker 2: you've been doing some deep thinking about this game last night.

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Speaker 2: What do you think gave Auckland FC the edge?

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Speaker 8: In short, the defense, the way they set up, the

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Speaker 8: architecture that Steve Kuraker has put in place, the emphasis

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Speaker 8: of Danny Hay and in the execution, especially from the

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Speaker 8: Lakes of Louis via Strata, the calm composed way that

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Speaker 8: he picked off Melbourne Victory and then also at times

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Speaker 8: set the press very confrontational through the middle of the park.

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Speaker 8: But if you got beyond Uverstrata, you then had to

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Speaker 8: overcome Nando Pinek and Dan Hall and then Hiracki Sucky

443
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Speaker 8: as well, and one on one confrontations they buy and

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Speaker 8: large came out on top. And the key thing for me,

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Speaker 8: Piney is if you look at it the game, If

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Speaker 8: you look at the game overall, the small moments, the

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Speaker 8: small wins, look at the fist pumps, look at the

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Speaker 8: little celebrations, the micro kind of moments where Auckland knew

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Speaker 8: they had put together a couple of small victories and

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Speaker 8: that not only gave them a little bit of momentum internally,

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Speaker 8: it also sends a message to Victory that they were

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Speaker 8: in for the fight and that Auckland wanted to ensure

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Speaker 8: that they took an advantage back to go media amounts

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Speaker 8: mart just.

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Speaker 2: To build on that defense of resilience. This is a

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Speaker 2: Melbourne Victory team that is widely regarded as one of

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Speaker 2: the most dangerous and an attacking sense in the entire

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Speaker 2: A league. They've got any number of game breakers, both

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Speaker 2: in the starting eleven and off the bench. That is

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Speaker 2: three straight games now that Auckland FC have kept them

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Speaker 2: scoreless again. You know, we can only talk so much

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Speaker 2: about the defense, but how big, huh, how big a

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Speaker 2: sign is that of just what Auckland FC have built

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Speaker 2: here in their first season.

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Speaker 8: Two hundred and seventy minutes. They've kept out a combination

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Speaker 8: of international stars and Soccoro's Nichean Volupola and Daniel Arzani.

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Speaker 8: They toiled away, but they really weren't given an inch

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Speaker 8: at all. In the postmatch interview, Azani cut a very

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Speaker 8: frustrated figure. He wanted to talk about penalties that weren't given,

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Speaker 8: fowls that weren't given. He wasn't able to talk about

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Speaker 8: any chances though, Piney, and that's huge. Now, I've got

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Speaker 8: this scenario in my head, so just bear with me.

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Speaker 8: But if you've seen Sacario, there's a solon called the Beast,

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Speaker 8: this ominous tune that lets you know that a big

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Speaker 8: moment's coming. And I'm just playing that over and over

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Speaker 8: in my head and thinking about the Melbourne victory. Sides

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Speaker 8: having to step out onto the field again, coming up

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Speaker 8: against the beast, coming up against the teeth of this

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Speaker 8: Auckland FC defense, and then looking up above that and

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Speaker 8: seen the port bouncing. They have everything to play for

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Speaker 8: and I think at the moment they're a bit of

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Speaker 8: a wounded animal. So it can go one of two

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Speaker 8: ways I see from Malbourn victory. Either they'll come out

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Speaker 8: swinging in the land a few blows in Auckland in

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Speaker 8: the weekend, or the wheels could come off and in

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Speaker 8: which case we could have a huge moment to celebrate

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Speaker 8: in Auckland next weekend.

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Speaker 2: Auckland f C know that if they don't concede next

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Speaker 2: week they're into the Grand Final. Will there be any

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Speaker 2: temptation for Steve Coricker to depart from what has been

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Speaker 2: a pretty attack minded strategy for the most part, not

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Speaker 2: all out attack, but certainly you know they don't. They

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Speaker 2: don't sit any temptation for Steve Coricker to just sit

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Speaker 2: next Saturday night.

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Speaker 8: You have to ask him, but I would say if

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Speaker 8: you round it up zero percent, pony. The blueprint for

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Speaker 8: Auckland has been very settled from the get go. There

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Speaker 8: we've seen some nuances, we've seen some wrinkles. Yes, they

499
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Speaker 8: convert to a bat five to see out games. The closer,

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Speaker 8: Tommy Smith comes on just to make things absolutely concrete.

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Speaker 8: But let's remember that this side has talked about success.

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Speaker 8: It's a mandate that's come down from Bill Foley. They've

503
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Speaker 8: got their first piece of silverware. They did so refining

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Speaker 8: this process, refining this attacking transition football throughout the course

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Speaker 8: of the season. Now, if you talk to them during

506
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Speaker 8: the week, if you have a chance to chat to

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Speaker 8: any players, what became very apparent was there was almost

508
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Speaker 8: a confrontational focus on the championship. They've got the Premiers

509
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Speaker 8: play now that's been locked away. It was paraded around

510
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Speaker 8: for around about a week. We haven't seen it. That

511
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Speaker 8: says to me that this side is squarely intent on

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Speaker 8: going to the Grand Final and giving the best account

513
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Speaker 8: of themselves as they possibly can. Now this second leg,

514
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Speaker 8: yes it has to be played, but in some ways

515
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Speaker 8: it is also preparation for the Grand Final. And I

516
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Speaker 8: I don't see Steve Coriker straining anywhere away from what

517
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Speaker 8: he has done all throughout the course of the season.

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Speaker 8: Let's remember, as you put in a tweet this morning,

519
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Speaker 8: consistency has been key for success of Auckland SC.

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Speaker 2: Just to finish, I want to ask you about the

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Speaker 2: two players who combined for the goal last night, Francis

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Speaker 2: Devrees and Logan Rogerson. A year ago, Logan Rogerson was

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Speaker 2: playing his football in Armenia. I don't think most people

524
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Speaker 2: could even pick that out on a map. No one

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Speaker 2: would have heard of FC Noah, which is where Logan

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Speaker 2: Rogerson was playing. Francis Devrees was looking for a professional

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Speaker 2: football club. Now in the white hot atmosphere of a

528
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Speaker 2: semi final they can bind for an absolutely crucial goal

529
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Speaker 2: and Jake both kiwis.

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Speaker 8: This is the underlying value to Auckland FC coming into

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Speaker 8: the competition, more opportunities for Kiwi players. We know that

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Speaker 8: the player po or has been maturing. You can look

533
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Speaker 8: at their high end the lights of Marcustone and it's

534
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Speaker 8: and Tyler Benden going to the Premier League being olden Lega.

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Speaker 8: But there's also this middle class of player is that

536
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Speaker 8: wants to have opportunities. They want to play in their

537
00:29:09,947 --> 00:29:12,827
Speaker 8: hometown and at times the way to Phoenix simply haven't

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Speaker 8: had the spots. But we've seen opportunities given to France

539
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Speaker 8: as defeasted up from the National League. Logan Rogerson, as

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Speaker 8: you said, wanted to have a chance to play in

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Speaker 8: a well resourced, well run club. He's got the chance

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Speaker 8: to do that and basically his hometown. This is the

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Speaker 8: thing that I think is so exciting, because yes, the

544
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Speaker 8: marquet players, the international stars will give you that sugar.

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Speaker 8: They've grabbed the attention. The connection is built through the hometown.

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Speaker 8: Boy come good, and we've got that in spades this season.

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Speaker 8: Logan Rogerson arguably the most consistent player across the competition.

548
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Speaker 8: Eight goals now to assist. Of course, it was going

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Speaker 8: to be him last night, and the dividend that we

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Speaker 8: will see from what these two players are doing will

551
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Speaker 8: be realized in ten to fifteen. Is time when you're

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Speaker 8: talking to an Auckland FC player that pulls on the

553
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Speaker 8: shirt and says, I was inspired by what I saw

554
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Speaker 8: from Francis to Freeze and Logan, I just sent all

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Speaker 8: the way back in year one.

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Speaker 2: Are you able to secure me a ticket for next weekend.

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Speaker 11: Partie?

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Speaker 8: I haven't slept mate, I mean an eighteen months old

559
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Speaker 8: who gets up at four am. I returned home at two.

560
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Speaker 8: I wasn't out partying ladies and gentlemen. I got to

561
00:30:23,827 --> 00:30:25,667
Speaker 8: we got to the end of the broadcast at twelve thirty,

562
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Speaker 8: went into Tyler Street to have a drink with a

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Speaker 8: couple of the staff at Auckland FC. They put on

564
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Speaker 8: a fantastic event at Tucky Thaid Square. It's got to

565
00:30:33,547 --> 00:30:37,427
Speaker 8: be said, two thousand plus people in their raucous atmosphere.

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Speaker 8: We saw the visuals last night. Had a chat to

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Speaker 8: Raf Turnbull and he said to me there's only around

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00:30:44,827 --> 00:30:46,787
Speaker 8: about five hundred tickets left, and that was at one

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Speaker 8: thirty in the morning this morning. I can't even imagine

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Speaker 8: the scarcity, that, the absolute toil that you're going to

571
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Speaker 8: have to go through to get your hands on month

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Speaker 8: these tickets the most sought after ticket in town this week,

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Speaker 8: all right.

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Speaker 2: So in other words, you can't secure me your ticket

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Speaker 2: for next weekend.

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Speaker 8: It's a soft note, Jason, It's a soft note, right.

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Speaker 2: Always enjoyed chatting Jacob, Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

578
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Speaker 2: Rest up Big Saturday Night coming a week from now.

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Speaker 8: I cannot wait to be in a commentary box as you.

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Speaker 8: Next week is going to be huge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be big, all right, Thanks Jacob,

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Speaker 2: Jacob Spoonley, They're from the sky Sport Football Team twenty

583
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Speaker 2: to one and says I lived in England for twelve

584
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Speaker 2: odd years and did as we all do, adopted an

585
00:31:26,627 --> 00:31:29,347
Speaker 2: English team as my side. But it's not quite the

586
00:31:29,347 --> 00:31:31,867
Speaker 2: same as having a club from your hometown. That's competitive.

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00:31:31,867 --> 00:31:35,107
Speaker 2: I'm just enjoying finally having a decent site. I can

588
00:31:35,147 --> 00:31:38,427
Speaker 2: truly call my club good stuff. In nineteen to one

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Speaker 2: on News Talk Set B, We're back after this.

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Speaker 1: Love Voice of Sport on your Home of Sport Weekend

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Speaker 1: Sport with Jason Vain and GJ. Gunner Homes New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: most trusted home builder.

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Speaker 2: News Talks sixteenty one from Ken on text, Hi, Jason,

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Speaker 2: very proud of Francis de Vreese, a fantastic ex student

595
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Speaker 2: from Cashmere High School in christ Yet good on you, Ken,

596
00:31:59,787 --> 00:32:02,307
Speaker 2: Thanks and DF your text. Thanks for all your feedback.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to rugby more. One of Pacifica have made

598
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Speaker 2: more history with a tweet seven twenty one win over

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Speaker 2: the Blues at Albany last night.

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Speaker 5: Right running ball, big Bridge, pass the time, boy flout.

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Speaker 6: Probas break get it rightway, got up Tyra time ooy

602
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Speaker 6: for out one two three tries.

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Speaker 2: It is the first time that Mona Pacifica have ever

604
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Speaker 2: beaten the Blues. Winger Kiraen to Mooi Filas scored a

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Speaker 2: hat trick of tries. As you heard there from our

606
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Speaker 2: commentator Elliott Smith, he joins us, now, Kiraen, congrats on

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Speaker 2: the win last night, your sixth of the season, third

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Speaker 2: in a row, first ever against the Blues. How big

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Speaker 2: a night was this for Mona Pacifica.

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Speaker 12: It was massive.

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Speaker 13: It was so big for us at Mina Obviously, like

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Speaker 13: you said, it's a history year we're having with Mono,

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Speaker 13: and I just feel like we're just growing street to

614
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Speaker 13: strength every game and what last night meant to us

615
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Speaker 13: and to our fans, it's just, yeah, it's beyond words.

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Speaker 12: It's just massive for us.

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Speaker 2: What do you think last night's victory was built on.

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Speaker 13: I think really good preparation week. I think, yeah, it

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Speaker 13: all started in our preparation. I think that we took

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Speaker 13: the emotion. There's a lot of emotion going into this game,

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Speaker 13: a lot of outside noise, and were just solely focused

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Speaker 13: on performance. I think that's what really led us to

623
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Speaker 13: going out there with a clear mind, mindset and everyone

624
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Speaker 13: was on the same page knowing that we had to

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Speaker 13: beat them. Up physically because we know they've got some

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Speaker 13: big boys, but strong bull carriers. We knew if we

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Speaker 13: took the physic physicality to them, then we can play

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Speaker 13: in the right areas with our game driving. And I

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Speaker 13: think the boys did.

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Speaker 12: That pretty well.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Such an interesting point you make there, because sport

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Speaker 2: is emotional, right, I know for the fans anyway, But

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Speaker 2: in the heat of the battle, how do you keep

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Speaker 2: a cool head? How do you go into such a

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Speaker 2: big occasion like that with a cool head?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 13: I think for us, like we just talked about, we

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Speaker 13: can just being task focused. There's a lot of noise.

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Speaker 13: We have an awesome crowd there, over ten dozen people there.

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Speaker 13: I think mus Winer boys we just see for the

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Speaker 13: real task focused so it's always the next job and

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Speaker 13: staying real president of the moment. It's what really got us.

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Speaker 13: I think so.

644
00:34:12,707 --> 00:34:14,907
Speaker 2: So Hettricker tries for you nine for the season. Now

645
00:34:15,067 --> 00:34:18,907
Speaker 2: you're the leading New Zealand based try scorer in Super rugby.

646
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:21,907
Speaker 2: Why do you think you've been so prolific try scoring

647
00:34:21,987 --> 00:34:22,707
Speaker 2: wise this season?

648
00:34:25,027 --> 00:34:27,667
Speaker 13: I think I've got some really good guys inside the

649
00:34:27,947 --> 00:34:31,667
Speaker 13: fitting me out for that. But no, I think, yeah,

650
00:34:31,667 --> 00:34:35,107
Speaker 13: I'm just lucky enough that the game plan allows me

651
00:34:35,227 --> 00:34:38,147
Speaker 13: to get my hands on the ball with Tanna as

652
00:34:38,187 --> 00:34:41,587
Speaker 13: the coach, and if it's in the air or get

653
00:34:41,667 --> 00:34:44,467
Speaker 13: a miss spoil or a kick, it's been pretty lucky.

654
00:34:44,547 --> 00:34:46,307
Speaker 13: So yeah, no, I'm loving it all right.

655
00:34:46,347 --> 00:34:48,027
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to let you get away without

656
00:34:48,067 --> 00:34:51,867
Speaker 2: talking about your third try, the little kickchase, the little grubber. Yeah,

657
00:34:51,947 --> 00:34:53,747
Speaker 2: just what goes through your mind? You get the ball

658
00:34:53,787 --> 00:34:55,427
Speaker 2: split second to make up your mind. What are you

659
00:34:55,827 --> 00:34:58,027
Speaker 2: doing as you're sizing up your options in that situation?

660
00:34:59,307 --> 00:34:59,507
Speaker 11: Yeah?

661
00:35:00,067 --> 00:35:02,067
Speaker 13: Well, once I got the ball, I was thinking, am

662
00:35:02,067 --> 00:35:05,347
Speaker 13: I going to do a dive tray here? But it

663
00:35:05,907 --> 00:35:08,987
Speaker 13: was I faced like he had me pretty well read.

664
00:35:09,147 --> 00:35:12,107
Speaker 13: So I've seen a little bit of space at the back,

665
00:35:12,147 --> 00:35:13,547
Speaker 13: so I thought I'd just put a little kick through

666
00:35:13,547 --> 00:35:17,667
Speaker 13: it and lucky enough to yeah get it away, and yeah,

667
00:35:17,787 --> 00:35:20,467
Speaker 13: get it through, get it and put it down, which

668
00:35:20,547 --> 00:35:22,147
Speaker 13: was cool. So that was pretty special.

669
00:35:22,347 --> 00:35:24,067
Speaker 2: I saw your WinCE a little bit afterwards. Did you

670
00:35:24,067 --> 00:35:24,907
Speaker 2: crampup or something?

671
00:35:25,947 --> 00:35:32,627
Speaker 13: Yeah, both Carls are crampy out. Yeah, I both go

672
00:35:32,787 --> 00:35:35,827
Speaker 13: again and dock gaging some pickle juice.

673
00:35:36,787 --> 00:35:38,867
Speaker 2: That's all you need and talk us through the last

674
00:35:39,347 --> 00:35:41,387
Speaker 2: last minute or so of the game you camped on

675
00:35:41,467 --> 00:35:44,027
Speaker 2: your line. They if they score a try and convert it,

676
00:35:44,107 --> 00:35:46,747
Speaker 2: they win. You know, what are the conversations out there?

677
00:35:46,787 --> 00:35:48,787
Speaker 2: Whose voices are the loudest.

678
00:35:49,587 --> 00:35:52,867
Speaker 13: Just the leaders man like we had odd Ardie s

679
00:35:53,267 --> 00:35:55,267
Speaker 13: he was He's our big talk and he was just

680
00:35:55,347 --> 00:35:58,387
Speaker 13: saying that we've just got to be really no pailties here.

681
00:35:59,907 --> 00:36:01,707
Speaker 13: You know, this is a sip scrum. I think we

682
00:36:01,827 --> 00:36:06,507
Speaker 13: had times up, you know, I think we just had

683
00:36:06,667 --> 00:36:08,907
Speaker 13: like for us backs, we just we knew we had

684
00:36:08,947 --> 00:36:11,347
Speaker 13: to go front four like to defend them. We're going

685
00:36:11,387 --> 00:36:14,907
Speaker 13: to go send the house. But yeah, when I already

686
00:36:14,947 --> 00:36:17,587
Speaker 13: got that turnover, it was massive. It was also it

687
00:36:17,707 --> 00:36:18,787
Speaker 13: was a special moment.

688
00:36:18,667 --> 00:36:19,187
Speaker 8: For our group.

689
00:36:19,267 --> 00:36:22,667
Speaker 13: And you can hear the fans too, which.

690
00:36:22,067 --> 00:36:24,307
Speaker 2: Was pretty cool that sol would be amazing. Yeah, everybody's

691
00:36:24,347 --> 00:36:27,307
Speaker 2: trying to find words to describe Artie's performance last night,

692
00:36:27,347 --> 00:36:29,587
Speaker 2: But it's not just last night, is it. It's you know,

693
00:36:29,667 --> 00:36:32,027
Speaker 2: he's been a game changer for the franchise. Are you

694
00:36:32,147 --> 00:36:36,667
Speaker 2: able to articulate his influence on your side internally?

695
00:36:38,187 --> 00:36:38,387
Speaker 4: Yeah?

696
00:36:38,467 --> 00:36:42,427
Speaker 13: So with odds, it's just the consistency of every week,

697
00:36:42,707 --> 00:36:46,547
Speaker 13: the way he prepped his week, he performs in trainings

698
00:36:47,027 --> 00:36:49,587
Speaker 13: leading up to the games. The character he is, he

699
00:36:49,707 --> 00:36:52,947
Speaker 13: leads by his actions and you feel it when you're

700
00:36:52,947 --> 00:36:55,387
Speaker 13: out there. You feel comfortable and you feel like you

701
00:36:55,467 --> 00:36:58,627
Speaker 13: know he's leading us. So he's a great leader, a

702
00:36:58,667 --> 00:37:01,027
Speaker 13: great captain, and I just know there's more to come.

703
00:37:01,387 --> 00:37:04,147
Speaker 2: Yeah, special man, as you say, great crowd, how much

704
00:37:04,267 --> 00:37:05,587
Speaker 2: energy did you get from them last night?

705
00:37:06,747 --> 00:37:09,267
Speaker 13: I was massive, man like, yeah, it was pretty cool.

706
00:37:09,347 --> 00:37:13,747
Speaker 13: Like bell allowed too, so all Ireland has Yellingcoln's screening.

707
00:37:14,347 --> 00:37:15,307
Speaker 12: But I was cool.

708
00:37:15,347 --> 00:37:16,547
Speaker 13: Man was loved it too.

709
00:37:16,987 --> 00:37:19,267
Speaker 2: All right. Just to finish your sixth two games to

710
00:37:19,347 --> 00:37:22,907
Speaker 2: go Chiefs away, Cans Away. You know that's tough. How

711
00:37:22,907 --> 00:37:24,707
Speaker 2: are you going to keep this going and make the

712
00:37:24,747 --> 00:37:25,787
Speaker 2: top six for the first time.

713
00:37:27,467 --> 00:37:30,947
Speaker 13: We're gonna whatever works for us during the week preparation wise,

714
00:37:31,107 --> 00:37:32,747
Speaker 13: we're going to prep for the Chiefs like that. But

715
00:37:32,827 --> 00:37:34,427
Speaker 13: we're going to try to take it to the next level.

716
00:37:34,427 --> 00:37:37,627
Speaker 13: I think we talked about have a good week weekend

717
00:37:37,987 --> 00:37:39,947
Speaker 13: when we get back for China. We're going to try

718
00:37:39,947 --> 00:37:41,267
Speaker 13: to take it to the next level because we know

719
00:37:41,307 --> 00:37:43,587
Speaker 13: it's going to be hard to beat the Chiefs and

720
00:37:43,707 --> 00:37:46,547
Speaker 13: the Hurricanes away. But yeah, first things for us to

721
00:37:46,587 --> 00:37:47,307
Speaker 13: trying to beat the Chiefs.

722
00:37:47,507 --> 00:37:50,467
Speaker 2: Ifrom just that you're earning a lot of admirers Kyra

723
00:37:50,507 --> 00:37:53,267
Speaker 2: and you and the team. Congratulations on a historic victory

724
00:37:53,307 --> 00:37:54,947
Speaker 2: last night. And I really appreciate you taking the time

725
00:37:54,987 --> 00:37:55,947
Speaker 2: for a chat this afternoon.

726
00:37:56,787 --> 00:37:58,387
Speaker 13: Oh good cheers, mate, have a good Sunday.

727
00:37:58,507 --> 00:38:00,387
Speaker 2: You have a good Sunday too, Karen. Great to chat

728
00:38:00,427 --> 00:38:02,627
Speaker 2: to you, Cara and toe moi filou there hat trick

729
00:38:03,067 --> 00:38:07,147
Speaker 2: hero from last night. There's mona pacific some more history

730
00:38:07,187 --> 00:38:10,307
Speaker 2: first ever won over the Blues. Yes, six wins this season.

731
00:38:10,387 --> 00:38:12,467
Speaker 2: Now the late game last night. The Brumbies beat the

732
00:38:12,507 --> 00:38:16,227
Speaker 2: Reds twenty four to fourteen. Earlier on the Fijian drewer

733
00:38:16,387 --> 00:38:19,947
Speaker 2: at Latoka, which seems to be an absolute fortress for them,

734
00:38:19,987 --> 00:38:22,707
Speaker 2: beating the four thirty eight to seven. So that is

735
00:38:22,827 --> 00:38:27,067
Speaker 2: round fourteen in the books. The Brumbies are top on

736
00:38:27,267 --> 00:38:30,227
Speaker 2: forty three points, but they've played one extra game than

737
00:38:31,147 --> 00:38:34,027
Speaker 2: all of the other teams in the top six, so

738
00:38:34,147 --> 00:38:36,987
Speaker 2: the Brumby's forty three. The Chiefs are second on forty one.

739
00:38:37,427 --> 00:38:41,067
Speaker 2: The Crusaders also have forty one, with a slightly inferior

740
00:38:41,147 --> 00:38:44,227
Speaker 2: points differential. Then it's a big gap back to the

741
00:38:44,387 --> 00:38:48,427
Speaker 2: Reds on thirty two in fourth place. The Hurricanes are

742
00:38:48,467 --> 00:38:53,027
Speaker 2: fifth on thirty Mawana Pacifica are sixth on twenty eight.

743
00:38:54,067 --> 00:38:57,867
Speaker 2: Now the Blues also have twenty eight points, but they've

744
00:38:57,907 --> 00:39:02,867
Speaker 2: played one more game. The Blues may well miss the six.

745
00:39:04,147 --> 00:39:06,747
Speaker 2: They've got one more game to go. I've got the

746
00:39:06,827 --> 00:39:09,467
Speaker 2: buy next week and then in their final game of

747
00:39:09,507 --> 00:39:12,867
Speaker 2: the season, they welcome the Waratars to Eden Park on

748
00:39:12,947 --> 00:39:15,787
Speaker 2: the Saturday of King's Birthday weekend. First of all, they

749
00:39:15,827 --> 00:39:18,827
Speaker 2: absolutely have to win that game, but that might not

750
00:39:18,987 --> 00:39:23,227
Speaker 2: even be enough in their favor. The Blues in their

751
00:39:24,187 --> 00:39:26,867
Speaker 2: quest to make it into the top six, and it

752
00:39:26,867 --> 00:39:30,707
Speaker 2: would just be squeaking into the top six. Mawana Pacific

753
00:39:30,867 --> 00:39:32,867
Speaker 2: is run and is very tough. As I just mentioned,

754
00:39:34,147 --> 00:39:39,987
Speaker 2: Chiefs away, Hurricanes away. But then you look what Maana

755
00:39:40,027 --> 00:39:42,187
Speaker 2: Pacifica did to the Blues last night, and you think

756
00:39:42,227 --> 00:39:44,907
Speaker 2: to yourself, you would not put it past them to

757
00:39:45,027 --> 00:39:46,987
Speaker 2: get something out of one or both of those games

758
00:39:49,067 --> 00:39:52,347
Speaker 2: if they were to lose them both. The Blues do

759
00:39:52,547 --> 00:39:55,307
Speaker 2: have the chance to sneak into the top six if

760
00:39:55,347 --> 00:39:58,987
Speaker 2: they were to beat the Warrior the Waratars over King's

761
00:39:59,027 --> 00:40:04,947
Speaker 2: Birthday weekend. The Waratars themselves theoretically could still make it.

762
00:40:04,987 --> 00:40:07,227
Speaker 2: They've got a couple of games left on twenty two points.

763
00:40:07,267 --> 00:40:11,347
Speaker 2: It would take a pretty strange set of circumstances for

764
00:40:11,467 --> 00:40:12,947
Speaker 2: them to sneak in. So I think we can talk

765
00:40:12,987 --> 00:40:16,667
Speaker 2: about seven teams being in contention for the top six,

766
00:40:17,867 --> 00:40:19,907
Speaker 2: and we can obviously put the Brumbies, the Chiefs and

767
00:40:19,907 --> 00:40:21,867
Speaker 2: the Crusaders in there. They're pretty much there. In fact,

768
00:40:21,907 --> 00:40:26,307
Speaker 2: they are mathematically there. Red's Hurricanes, Mowanna Pacifica Blues. Three

769
00:40:26,387 --> 00:40:29,187
Speaker 2: of those four are likely to make up the top six.

770
00:40:29,507 --> 00:40:31,427
Speaker 2: Going to talk more about the rugby after one o'clock.

771
00:40:31,507 --> 00:40:33,467
Speaker 2: In fact, I also want to get your thoughts on

772
00:40:34,107 --> 00:40:37,587
Speaker 2: on Addie Savia and just what a special player he is.

773
00:40:38,387 --> 00:40:41,227
Speaker 2: After his performance last night, I think people were just

774
00:40:41,347 --> 00:40:46,467
Speaker 2: rushing to the what's it called the thesaurus the thesaurus

775
00:40:47,147 --> 00:40:51,547
Speaker 2: or just looking on synonyms dot com to find new

776
00:40:51,587 --> 00:40:56,187
Speaker 2: adjectives to describe them. Just an absolutely superhuman performance last night.

777
00:40:56,587 --> 00:40:59,067
Speaker 2: A lot of people also saying, hey, if he leads

778
00:40:59,067 --> 00:41:02,147
Speaker 2: to Mawana Pacifica like that. Imagine if he was All

779
00:41:02,187 --> 00:41:05,107
Speaker 2: Blacks captain. We can chat about that after one as well.

780
00:41:05,187 --> 00:41:09,547
Speaker 2: Seven away from one, analyzing every view from every angle

781
00:41:09,747 --> 00:41:13,107
Speaker 2: in the Sporting World Weekends for It with Jason five

782
00:41:13,387 --> 00:41:17,547
Speaker 2: Call News Talks eNB four to one on text of

783
00:41:17,667 --> 00:41:19,147
Speaker 2: Artie is and Captain of the AB so they shared

784
00:41:19,147 --> 00:41:21,267
Speaker 2: always a lot of fans, including me, says this one.

785
00:41:21,907 --> 00:41:22,227
Speaker 12: I don't know.

786
00:41:22,267 --> 00:41:24,467
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit on the fence about this about

787
00:41:24,467 --> 00:41:27,547
Speaker 2: whether you make him captain of the All Blacks for

788
00:41:27,627 --> 00:41:30,387
Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. One is that Scott Robertson is

789
00:41:30,787 --> 00:41:33,787
Speaker 2: pretty much all in on Scott Barrett. They've worked together

790
00:41:33,947 --> 00:41:37,027
Speaker 2: a lot. He chose him last year as his captain.

791
00:41:37,467 --> 00:41:39,787
Speaker 2: I think it would be well. First of all, I

792
00:41:39,827 --> 00:41:41,387
Speaker 2: don't think he'll do it, And second of all, I

793
00:41:41,427 --> 00:41:43,667
Speaker 2: think it would be unfair if he did take the

794
00:41:43,747 --> 00:41:46,227
Speaker 2: captaincy off Scott Barrett. You know, for what reason, just

795
00:41:46,267 --> 00:41:49,027
Speaker 2: because you've got a superman there at your disposal. Maybe

796
00:41:49,107 --> 00:41:50,187
Speaker 2: let's talk about it after one.

797
00:41:51,907 --> 00:41:54,747
Speaker 1: The only place to discuss the biggest sports issues on

798
00:41:55,187 --> 00:41:59,107
Speaker 1: and after field, it's all on Weekends Forward with Jason

799
00:41:59,187 --> 00:42:05,107
Speaker 1: Paine on your home of Sport with us Talks one seven.

800
00:42:05,707 --> 00:42:07,827
Speaker 2: This is Weekend Sport on News Talks AB. I'm Jason

801
00:42:07,867 --> 00:42:10,387
Speaker 2: Pine and McDonald's through the glass producing the show. We're

802
00:42:10,387 --> 00:42:13,547
Speaker 2: hed till three. Piney says this text there are still

803
00:42:13,627 --> 00:42:15,907
Speaker 2: tickets available for Auckland f C next weekend. I just

804
00:42:15,987 --> 00:42:19,027
Speaker 2: bought two for my son and me. He's fired up

805
00:42:19,707 --> 00:42:22,867
Speaker 2: with his Rogerson twenty seven shirt ready to go. Actually

806
00:42:23,227 --> 00:42:25,067
Speaker 2: he hasn't taken it off for weeks.

807
00:42:25,107 --> 00:42:26,667
Speaker 14: I love it. I love it.

808
00:42:26,907 --> 00:42:29,987
Speaker 2: We'll get an official word from Auckland f C, hopefully

809
00:42:30,027 --> 00:42:33,147
Speaker 2: before the end of the show. As far as the

810
00:42:33,267 --> 00:42:38,347
Speaker 2: official word is concerned, how many tickets are left where

811
00:42:38,387 --> 00:42:41,387
Speaker 2: you can get them and how long they expect them

812
00:42:41,427 --> 00:42:45,787
Speaker 2: to last? What have we got coming up this out?

813
00:42:45,827 --> 00:42:49,627
Speaker 2: I want to talk abouit about Artie Savier and the

814
00:42:49,787 --> 00:42:52,827
Speaker 2: theme that always comes out when Artie plays well, which

815
00:42:52,907 --> 00:42:57,867
Speaker 2: is every week, should he be a contender for All

816
00:42:57,947 --> 00:43:03,427
Speaker 2: Blacks captain? He is clearly an absolutely inspirational leader of

817
00:43:03,587 --> 00:43:06,787
Speaker 2: men and my Wanda Pacifica are the lady team to

818
00:43:06,787 --> 00:43:11,787
Speaker 2: get the benefit of. That doesn't necessarily follow that he

819
00:43:11,867 --> 00:43:14,747
Speaker 2: should be the All Blacks captain as well? It might,

820
00:43:15,587 --> 00:43:18,627
Speaker 2: It might, and I'll tell you what if, Scott Robertson

821
00:43:18,707 --> 00:43:21,627
Speaker 2: says before the first Test of the year, Look, I'm

822
00:43:21,707 --> 00:43:24,947
Speaker 2: changing my captain. Ardie Savia is going to lead the

823
00:43:25,027 --> 00:43:27,347
Speaker 2: team this year. I don't think you get an argument

824
00:43:27,387 --> 00:43:31,947
Speaker 2: from anybody, but I just wonder whether you know you're

825
00:43:31,987 --> 00:43:34,987
Speaker 2: better off leaving Artie Savia unencumbered in an all Blacks

826
00:43:35,107 --> 00:43:39,107
Speaker 2: environment and just let him play the way he plays.

827
00:43:39,627 --> 00:43:42,507
Speaker 2: I don't think the captain c affects Artie Savia at all.

828
00:43:43,467 --> 00:43:45,427
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that he would be burdened by it,

829
00:43:45,507 --> 00:43:47,747
Speaker 2: but I just know that in an all Blacks environment

830
00:43:47,827 --> 00:43:50,707
Speaker 2: there is a lot more to it than in a

831
00:43:50,787 --> 00:43:56,267
Speaker 2: super rugby environment. Would he be better off just leading

832
00:43:56,427 --> 00:43:59,987
Speaker 2: as he does inside an all Blacks group and leaving

833
00:44:00,027 --> 00:44:03,107
Speaker 2: the other staff all the media commitments and the sponsor stuff,

834
00:44:03,107 --> 00:44:07,347
Speaker 2: which he does happily and readily and very well. But

835
00:44:07,507 --> 00:44:09,507
Speaker 2: you know, it's not everybody's favorite thing. I don't know

836
00:44:09,507 --> 00:44:11,907
Speaker 2: if it's Ardy's favorite thing or not. He always seems

837
00:44:11,987 --> 00:44:14,347
Speaker 2: very happy to talk to the media and to mix

838
00:44:14,427 --> 00:44:17,147
Speaker 2: with sponsors, but he always just seems more comfortable just

839
00:44:17,427 --> 00:44:20,867
Speaker 2: with the everyday fan, just sort of, you know, wandering

840
00:44:20,867 --> 00:44:23,827
Speaker 2: around the ground and signing autographs and taking selfies and

841
00:44:23,907 --> 00:44:27,107
Speaker 2: shaking hands anyway you might have a view. And Scott

842
00:44:27,147 --> 00:44:30,587
Speaker 2: Barrett's a very very good rugby player and clearly also

843
00:44:30,787 --> 00:44:33,507
Speaker 2: has huge respect inside that all Blacks environment as a leader.

844
00:44:34,587 --> 00:44:38,067
Speaker 2: And maybe I heard Scott Barrett say this actually earlier

845
00:44:38,147 --> 00:44:41,187
Speaker 2: this season when there were question marks around his performances

846
00:44:41,227 --> 00:44:44,387
Speaker 2: for the Crusaders. He said, look, the leadership is something

847
00:44:44,427 --> 00:44:49,107
Speaker 2: that I that does elevate me, it does enhance me.

848
00:44:50,067 --> 00:44:51,747
Speaker 2: And he doesn't have that at the Crusaders, does he.

849
00:44:51,827 --> 00:44:55,947
Speaker 2: Because David Harvili is the captain there, well co captain anyway,

850
00:44:55,947 --> 00:44:57,747
Speaker 2: I'm not sure Scott Barrett is the official captain or

851
00:44:57,787 --> 00:44:59,907
Speaker 2: any part of the leadership group at the Crusaders. I'm

852
00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:03,107
Speaker 2: sure they ask his opinion anyway. That's just me sort

853
00:45:03,147 --> 00:45:05,627
Speaker 2: of pontificating on keen to hear your views. We'll get

854
00:45:05,667 --> 00:45:07,107
Speaker 2: to the rugby shore. But I want to start this

855
00:45:07,227 --> 00:45:10,747
Speaker 2: hour with the Warriors because that is five wins on

856
00:45:10,827 --> 00:45:13,667
Speaker 2: the trot for the Warriors now. The latest are tight

857
00:45:14,107 --> 00:45:19,267
Speaker 2: sixteen twelve victory over the Dolphins in Brisbane yesterday. He

858
00:45:19,427 --> 00:45:21,107
Speaker 2: breaks through the prison bars himself.

859
00:45:21,187 --> 00:45:25,587
Speaker 4: You were playing quickly as well, metcalf pouncers, crabbers till

860
00:45:25,707 --> 00:45:27,067
Speaker 4: himself gets a belt.

861
00:45:27,307 --> 00:45:28,667
Speaker 2: Get it's a tape well.

862
00:45:28,907 --> 00:45:33,667
Speaker 15: Brilliant time look Meta doing it again.

863
00:45:33,507 --> 00:45:34,427
Speaker 13: For the Warriors.

864
00:45:34,947 --> 00:45:38,747
Speaker 2: The tape well scores and they've gone back. It's it

865
00:45:38,907 --> 00:45:42,027
Speaker 2: back at eight points to nil. The terrific try there.

866
00:45:42,027 --> 00:45:44,547
Speaker 2: The Warriors led sixteen nil worth ten minutes to go

867
00:45:44,707 --> 00:45:48,027
Speaker 2: before the Dolphins created something of a tense finish couple

868
00:45:48,067 --> 00:45:50,947
Speaker 2: of converted tries to go with co captain James Fisher

869
00:45:50,987 --> 00:45:53,867
Speaker 2: Harris being sent to the sin bin late in the contest.

870
00:45:53,947 --> 00:45:56,387
Speaker 2: But the Warriors got the job done, got the two points.

871
00:45:56,787 --> 00:45:59,067
Speaker 2: It keeps them in second on the ladder, just two

872
00:45:59,147 --> 00:46:02,067
Speaker 2: points behind the Bulldogs at the top and now four

873
00:46:02,147 --> 00:46:05,347
Speaker 2: clear of the Storm who lost thirty one twenty six

874
00:46:05,427 --> 00:46:08,507
Speaker 2: to the Sharks in the late game last night. Assistant

875
00:46:08,547 --> 00:46:10,467
Speaker 2: coach of the Warriors, Slave Griffins with us out of

876
00:46:10,507 --> 00:46:12,667
Speaker 2: Brisbane before they fly home. Slave, thanks for your time.

877
00:46:12,667 --> 00:46:15,467
Speaker 2: There's always five wins on the bounce, second on the table.

878
00:46:15,547 --> 00:46:18,467
Speaker 2: Your overall evaluation. First of all, on the way the

879
00:46:18,547 --> 00:46:19,547
Speaker 2: team played last night.

880
00:46:20,427 --> 00:46:23,147
Speaker 11: Yeah, we the boys. It was a tough game like

881
00:46:23,307 --> 00:46:26,307
Speaker 11: Dolphins turned up. They're an armorytional team as well, so

882
00:46:27,267 --> 00:46:31,267
Speaker 11: there's a lot of three. The boys had a big

883
00:46:31,387 --> 00:46:33,547
Speaker 11: chunk of period with there to defend the line and

884
00:46:34,347 --> 00:46:38,747
Speaker 11: show their resilience on their trial life. So look, the

885
00:46:38,827 --> 00:46:40,747
Speaker 11: boys have been working really hard for each other. That's

886
00:46:40,827 --> 00:46:42,747
Speaker 11: kind of the base of what we're doing at the moment.

887
00:46:43,107 --> 00:46:45,107
Speaker 11: We still clash up a few areas, and we still

888
00:46:45,107 --> 00:46:49,387
Speaker 11: think we've got improvement in us. But yeah, it's pretty

889
00:46:49,427 --> 00:46:51,627
Speaker 11: pleasing to be winning the close games here.

890
00:46:51,667 --> 00:46:53,947
Speaker 2: We've alluded to my next question. Your fifth win of

891
00:46:54,067 --> 00:46:56,187
Speaker 2: the season by four points or less. I'm sure it

892
00:46:56,267 --> 00:46:58,947
Speaker 2: does nothing for the heart rate up in the coaching box,

893
00:46:58,987 --> 00:47:01,907
Speaker 2: but it does speak to an ability to close out

894
00:47:02,027 --> 00:47:05,187
Speaker 2: and win tight games, which, let's be honest, wasn't always

895
00:47:05,227 --> 00:47:08,467
Speaker 2: the case last season. What's changed in twenty twenty five.

896
00:47:09,867 --> 00:47:11,547
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think the boys just trying to pay us

897
00:47:11,587 --> 00:47:14,107
Speaker 11: coaches back, just keep us on the edge of our seats,

898
00:47:14,227 --> 00:47:16,347
Speaker 11: try try to get rid of to hear we've got this.

899
00:47:16,627 --> 00:47:20,907
Speaker 11: But actually to your point, yeah, we lost i think

900
00:47:21,027 --> 00:47:25,267
Speaker 11: eight games plus six points blast year, so we did

901
00:47:25,307 --> 00:47:29,387
Speaker 11: a lot of work on it, like situational mental. So

902
00:47:29,507 --> 00:47:32,147
Speaker 11: the boys have worked really hard and yeah, I mean

903
00:47:32,747 --> 00:47:34,667
Speaker 11: join as many as we have the so far. The

904
00:47:34,747 --> 00:47:37,587
Speaker 11: seasons obviously been testament to what they've worked on, but

905
00:47:39,187 --> 00:47:41,147
Speaker 11: we've been very close to maybe running away for a

906
00:47:41,187 --> 00:47:44,187
Speaker 11: few kind of let teams back in it. Yeah, we'll

907
00:47:44,267 --> 00:47:44,987
Speaker 11: think words.

908
00:47:45,707 --> 00:47:48,147
Speaker 2: Just on the psychological part of this, because I guess

909
00:47:48,147 --> 00:47:50,587
Speaker 2: when you're defending your line, things can get a bit hectic,

910
00:47:50,667 --> 00:47:53,907
Speaker 2: a bit chaotic. Are you seeing Are you seeing cooler

911
00:47:54,027 --> 00:47:58,227
Speaker 2: heads out there, particularly from some of your more experienced plans.

912
00:47:59,467 --> 00:48:00,227
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got a.

913
00:48:00,227 --> 00:48:05,067
Speaker 16: Really good leadership groupe with Kate Well, Bunnett and Fish

914
00:48:05,227 --> 00:48:08,427
Speaker 16: and yeah, they've been awesome in those moments, and we're

915
00:48:08,467 --> 00:48:10,667
Speaker 16: worked really hard on connecting in those moments.

916
00:48:10,427 --> 00:48:12,907
Speaker 11: As well, so the boys they will get their breast

917
00:48:13,027 --> 00:48:16,867
Speaker 11: and zone in. So I just think, yeah, the whole

918
00:48:16,907 --> 00:48:19,907
Speaker 11: team is doing a really good job there. You can

919
00:48:20,267 --> 00:48:23,387
Speaker 11: obviously it's fatigue as well as sets in, but I've

920
00:48:23,427 --> 00:48:26,187
Speaker 11: showed the resilience on their try line and just Seed

921
00:48:26,227 --> 00:48:29,187
Speaker 11: by those send you guys, I mean just Inhage moment,

922
00:48:29,307 --> 00:48:31,787
Speaker 11: so he's going to really really can't head for the voice.

923
00:48:32,387 --> 00:48:34,427
Speaker 2: The last time you lost the game was that heavy

924
00:48:34,467 --> 00:48:36,947
Speaker 2: defeat to the Storm a month or so ago. Did

925
00:48:36,987 --> 00:48:40,347
Speaker 2: something happen after that game? Did Was there a pivotal moment,

926
00:48:40,467 --> 00:48:43,147
Speaker 2: a certain set of conversations that has set you off

927
00:48:43,187 --> 00:48:45,747
Speaker 2: on this run after that loss to the Storm?

928
00:48:48,347 --> 00:48:49,307
Speaker 17: Not that I can recall.

929
00:48:49,667 --> 00:48:53,907
Speaker 11: We were really every game pretty thoroughly. We're even to

930
00:48:54,067 --> 00:48:56,307
Speaker 11: the point where the boys are like, oh, I feels

931
00:48:56,347 --> 00:48:58,907
Speaker 11: like we lost the game because we're always the improvement

932
00:48:58,947 --> 00:49:02,547
Speaker 11: in us. We've been pretty strong. You know, we're learning

933
00:49:02,587 --> 00:49:04,427
Speaker 11: while we're winning, which is awesome. You don't need to

934
00:49:04,587 --> 00:49:09,107
Speaker 11: lose to to improve, you know. So not that I recall,

935
00:49:09,307 --> 00:49:11,987
Speaker 11: but I know I think the police did have a

936
00:49:12,027 --> 00:49:14,827
Speaker 11: little players chat, so that might have been pretty pivotal.

937
00:49:14,947 --> 00:49:18,307
Speaker 11: But obviously when looks like that, it didn't sur pride

938
00:49:18,347 --> 00:49:23,667
Speaker 11: and they really responded that they they galvanized and love

939
00:49:23,667 --> 00:49:24,547
Speaker 11: them playing for each other.

940
00:49:24,947 --> 00:49:27,227
Speaker 2: A couple of eye catching moments last night on attack

941
00:49:27,547 --> 00:49:31,147
Speaker 2: Luke Metcalf's skill and his rugby league. I Q really

942
00:49:31,187 --> 00:49:33,667
Speaker 2: to the four little grub a kick to collect and

943
00:49:33,707 --> 00:49:36,467
Speaker 2: sit up cape well for your second try. How was

944
00:49:36,547 --> 00:49:39,387
Speaker 2: his growth in the seven jumper being evaluated by the

945
00:49:39,427 --> 00:49:40,027
Speaker 2: coaching stuff?

946
00:49:41,307 --> 00:49:43,667
Speaker 11: Yeah, and he's I mean, yeah, this is the first

947
00:49:43,667 --> 00:49:48,707
Speaker 11: time he's propt back to back footy. He's still early

948
00:49:48,787 --> 00:49:50,547
Speaker 11: in his career and he's still learning as well. But

949
00:49:51,067 --> 00:49:54,787
Speaker 11: he had some huge moments. But she already yeah, he's

950
00:49:54,907 --> 00:49:59,187
Speaker 11: showing up and some like some really clutch moments. Then

951
00:49:59,267 --> 00:50:04,147
Speaker 11: he's he does some really nice attacking players. We're getting

952
00:50:04,187 --> 00:50:05,827
Speaker 11: that game cycle for the other team and then he

953
00:50:05,947 --> 00:50:09,427
Speaker 11: uses to create something. But yeah, he's a great good look.

954
00:50:09,507 --> 00:50:14,667
Speaker 11: He loves footy, loves learning, and yeah, well I worked

955
00:50:14,707 --> 00:50:16,787
Speaker 11: paying off. He's done a really good apprenticeship Na Sean,

956
00:50:17,027 --> 00:50:19,787
Speaker 11: and he's yeah, he's really excited to get his opportunity and.

957
00:50:19,867 --> 00:50:21,987
Speaker 2: You're welcomed Roger to us a shack back for the

958
00:50:22,027 --> 00:50:24,387
Speaker 2: first time last night since round three. How much of

959
00:50:24,427 --> 00:50:26,987
Speaker 2: a boosts us is availability to give you?

960
00:50:27,867 --> 00:50:31,747
Speaker 11: Oh awesome, like our centers system of pressure on our

961
00:50:31,747 --> 00:50:35,827
Speaker 11: wo defensively, but so it's called out him and him

962
00:50:35,867 --> 00:50:38,067
Speaker 11: and Allen back and Teane played really well as well.

963
00:50:38,187 --> 00:50:42,427
Speaker 11: So it was a little bit. I guess that's the

964
00:50:42,507 --> 00:50:45,147
Speaker 11: tame because he's put in some really good performances. But

965
00:50:45,707 --> 00:50:48,547
Speaker 11: girl know the caliber of Roger, and it's funny like

966
00:50:48,627 --> 00:50:50,747
Speaker 11: you look at the statue and he's run for you know,

967
00:50:50,867 --> 00:50:52,507
Speaker 11: top of the meta count, like two hundred and thirty

968
00:50:52,587 --> 00:50:55,467
Speaker 11: meters or something, and he just goes about his business.

969
00:50:55,507 --> 00:50:58,787
Speaker 11: I felt like really showing. You know, it was a

970
00:50:58,867 --> 00:51:03,067
Speaker 11: quiet game for Dodgers anything, but yeah, he had it

971
00:51:03,187 --> 00:51:06,707
Speaker 11: was a pretty decent layoff. So you know, he'll be

972
00:51:06,747 --> 00:51:08,747
Speaker 11: even better next week. So yeah, it's just called to

973
00:51:08,787 --> 00:51:10,587
Speaker 11: have a guy like that back. I know, as a

974
00:51:10,627 --> 00:51:12,947
Speaker 11: defensive coach, when a team that has a guy like him,

975
00:51:13,427 --> 00:51:16,147
Speaker 11: you're really worried. So yeah, I could imagine the headaches

976
00:51:16,187 --> 00:51:16,907
Speaker 11: he Causedes two.

977
00:51:16,747 --> 00:51:18,507
Speaker 2: The other teams and at the other end of the

978
00:51:18,587 --> 00:51:20,987
Speaker 2: experienced scale. And amongst it all, you were able to

979
00:51:21,027 --> 00:51:24,067
Speaker 2: hand a debut last night to Tannastouris Smith. How special

980
00:51:24,107 --> 00:51:26,347
Speaker 2: a moment for him and and how do you acknowledge

981
00:51:26,747 --> 00:51:28,907
Speaker 2: a new player into the Warriors family.

982
00:51:30,427 --> 00:51:33,787
Speaker 11: It was awesome. He's been the system, has always come

983
00:51:33,867 --> 00:51:37,027
Speaker 11: through the lower grade, so plays she ball, played New

984
00:51:37,107 --> 00:51:39,587
Speaker 11: South Law with the captain any debuts, so it was

985
00:51:39,627 --> 00:51:43,787
Speaker 11: awesome just for the club to develop those players. But

986
00:51:44,227 --> 00:51:46,467
Speaker 11: he's from christ which as well, so a little bit biased,

987
00:51:46,547 --> 00:51:49,427
Speaker 11: but it was really cool to see South Islander in

988
00:51:49,587 --> 00:51:51,827
Speaker 11: a crack and we've had faith in Tanpa for a

989
00:51:51,867 --> 00:51:55,627
Speaker 11: long time. Obviously we're we're pretty strong in the forwards

990
00:51:55,667 --> 00:51:58,507
Speaker 11: with our debt, but he's got his opportunity and he

991
00:51:58,547 --> 00:52:01,587
Speaker 11: played awesome luck he was Yeah, he was really good.

992
00:52:01,667 --> 00:52:03,707
Speaker 11: So I'm sure everyone will see a bit more of

993
00:52:03,707 --> 00:52:05,347
Speaker 11: a Tanner, but he was really cool out of his

994
00:52:05,427 --> 00:52:07,307
Speaker 11: dad come and see and you could. Yeah, it's just

995
00:52:07,427 --> 00:52:08,507
Speaker 11: it was a really cool list of.

996
00:52:08,507 --> 00:52:09,147
Speaker 16: The boys as well.

997
00:52:09,467 --> 00:52:11,387
Speaker 2: Also his father came and spoke before the game.

998
00:52:13,387 --> 00:52:18,067
Speaker 11: Yeah, yesterday, so yeahs father come and kind of presented

999
00:52:18,107 --> 00:52:18,707
Speaker 11: them as Jersey.

1000
00:52:18,947 --> 00:52:20,307
Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing moment.

1001
00:52:20,387 --> 00:52:23,067
Speaker 11: Yeah, his brother's there. He looks identical or a brother. Hilarious,

1002
00:52:23,107 --> 00:52:27,067
Speaker 11: But that's always called it, you know here what you

1003
00:52:27,147 --> 00:52:29,307
Speaker 11: know the parents did him growing up and just a

1004
00:52:29,347 --> 00:52:31,707
Speaker 11: little bit more about his backstory that you probably don't know.

1005
00:52:31,867 --> 00:52:35,307
Speaker 11: But yeah, it's always called for those kind of players

1006
00:52:35,347 --> 00:52:37,827
Speaker 11: to look back on what's got them there, and then

1007
00:52:37,947 --> 00:52:41,027
Speaker 11: for the players play on that day for him like

1008
00:52:41,227 --> 00:52:43,827
Speaker 11: they want to make a memorable debut. And it was

1009
00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:44,867
Speaker 11: a pretty cool moment for him.

1010
00:52:44,987 --> 00:52:48,667
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Right, let's finished by looking forward to what is

1011
00:52:49,067 --> 00:52:51,507
Speaker 2: said to be a mouthwater and clash a week from

1012
00:52:51,547 --> 00:52:55,827
Speaker 2: today back at home, Go Media, Camber Raiders. I don't

1013
00:52:55,827 --> 00:52:58,107
Speaker 2: know whether you even useless as a theme, but are

1014
00:52:58,147 --> 00:53:00,107
Speaker 2: you looking forward to getting a bit of revenge after

1015
00:53:00,147 --> 00:53:01,027
Speaker 2: what happened in Vegas?

1016
00:53:02,707 --> 00:53:04,827
Speaker 11: Yeah, we've had some really tough games the camera of

1017
00:53:04,867 --> 00:53:07,587
Speaker 11: the last couple of years, so every game is in

1018
00:53:07,667 --> 00:53:12,227
Speaker 11: the balance. And look, I was obviously really disappointing for us.

1019
00:53:13,627 --> 00:53:15,067
Speaker 11: It was tough for the fans as role as it

1020
00:53:15,107 --> 00:53:16,827
Speaker 11: committed all that money and all that time to go

1021
00:53:16,867 --> 00:53:20,547
Speaker 11: over to eight. So we have stayed at home for

1022
00:53:20,627 --> 00:53:22,347
Speaker 11: a long time years, so we're just excited to get

1023
00:53:22,387 --> 00:53:24,387
Speaker 11: back to month from I think it's been a while

1024
00:53:24,387 --> 00:53:26,627
Speaker 11: since we played at home. So yeah, our crowd has

1025
00:53:26,627 --> 00:53:28,867
Speaker 11: been awesome. I think it's sold out. Really, we were

1026
00:53:28,947 --> 00:53:32,987
Speaker 11: in our black cat rich looks really sharp, So no,

1027
00:53:33,147 --> 00:53:35,907
Speaker 11: we're really excited to play good stuff.

1028
00:53:35,947 --> 00:53:38,427
Speaker 2: Well, safe travels. Slate, congrats on the win last night

1029
00:53:38,427 --> 00:53:40,467
Speaker 2: and another one five in a row now. Always appreciate

1030
00:53:40,507 --> 00:53:41,707
Speaker 2: you taking the time for a chat mate.

1031
00:53:42,867 --> 00:53:44,227
Speaker 11: Cheers, cheers, thanks for the support.

1032
00:53:44,387 --> 00:53:47,107
Speaker 2: No, thank you for your time, Slate. Slake Griffin, assistant

1033
00:53:47,147 --> 00:53:49,147
Speaker 2: coach of the Warriors. Our Warriors fans is get into it.

1034
00:53:49,267 --> 00:53:52,467
Speaker 2: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Same thing as last week, right,

1035
00:53:52,667 --> 00:53:56,107
Speaker 2: and the week before and the week before that. I

1036
00:53:56,187 --> 00:53:59,947
Speaker 2: think winning the tight ones, it's just become a common theme.

1037
00:54:00,067 --> 00:54:02,827
Speaker 2: Last year they lost the tight games, the single figure

1038
00:54:02,907 --> 00:54:07,507
Speaker 2: margins went in favor of the opposition. This year, for

1039
00:54:07,627 --> 00:54:11,747
Speaker 2: the most part, they are going in fact every time.

1040
00:54:12,067 --> 00:54:14,347
Speaker 2: The two losses the Warriors have had this year have

1041
00:54:14,427 --> 00:54:17,827
Speaker 2: been by big margins. So anytime there's a small margin,

1042
00:54:18,467 --> 00:54:20,507
Speaker 2: the Warriors are on the winning side of it. If

1043
00:54:20,587 --> 00:54:24,347
Speaker 2: we want to be picky, should they maybe not let

1044
00:54:24,467 --> 00:54:28,667
Speaker 2: these teams get quite so close, particularly when they have leeds. Look,

1045
00:54:28,707 --> 00:54:31,067
Speaker 2: I'm just stating facts here, and it feels a bit

1046
00:54:32,427 --> 00:54:35,227
Speaker 2: unkind to be picky when your team has won five

1047
00:54:35,267 --> 00:54:37,467
Speaker 2: in a row. But last night, for example, they were

1048
00:54:37,587 --> 00:54:41,547
Speaker 2: sixteen knill ahead, Dolphins got back to sixteen twelve, which

1049
00:54:41,667 --> 00:54:45,667
Speaker 2: was the eventual final score against the Dragons. Last week

1050
00:54:47,307 --> 00:54:51,587
Speaker 2: the Warriors were fourteen knill ahead, the Dragons got back

1051
00:54:51,627 --> 00:54:54,027
Speaker 2: to fourteen all and then they got the late drop

1052
00:54:54,067 --> 00:54:57,547
Speaker 2: goal from Luke Metcalf to win that one fifteen fourteen

1053
00:54:58,227 --> 00:55:02,387
Speaker 2: Against the Cowboys. The previous week, the Warriors were ahead

1054
00:55:02,547 --> 00:55:06,707
Speaker 2: thirty points to twelve early in the second half, winning

1055
00:55:06,747 --> 00:55:11,187
Speaker 2: at thirty twenty six, so three tries for the Cowboys

1056
00:55:11,547 --> 00:55:15,147
Speaker 2: to close it up. I mean, should we worry about this?

1057
00:55:16,747 --> 00:55:18,947
Speaker 2: It feels like I'm scraping the bottle of the bottom

1058
00:55:18,987 --> 00:55:23,627
Speaker 2: of the worry barrel. Really, you know, when they're winning

1059
00:55:23,707 --> 00:55:26,667
Speaker 2: the games. But look, I'm sure if you asked Andrew

1060
00:55:26,667 --> 00:55:29,067
Speaker 2: Weis said Hey, I'll prefer we'd win, buy more, but

1061
00:55:29,307 --> 00:55:32,347
Speaker 2: the winner's the thing and anything else that stood out

1062
00:55:32,387 --> 00:55:34,707
Speaker 2: for you last night. Great to see Roger back. Love

1063
00:55:34,747 --> 00:55:36,787
Speaker 2: seeing him out there. I thought he might have gone

1064
00:55:36,787 --> 00:55:38,547
Speaker 2: into the centers, but none out onto the wing, and

1065
00:55:38,587 --> 00:55:40,427
Speaker 2: it seems as though that's where he'll be utilized most

1066
00:55:40,467 --> 00:55:45,467
Speaker 2: often this year. Just another very good performance in terms

1067
00:55:45,507 --> 00:55:48,307
Speaker 2: of the heart shown by this team and the mentality

1068
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Speaker 2: to defend your line late on in matches. Let's get

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Speaker 2: to the lines and talk some Warriors.

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Speaker 18: Hello, Frank, good nay, Jason. That flag will be flying

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Speaker 18: high at the tennis Nick Friday.

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Speaker 2: You're going to need are you going to need a

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Speaker 2: bigger flag, Frank.

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Speaker 18: Well, a bigger one that's getting worn out with all.

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00:56:08,187 --> 00:56:11,947
Speaker 2: That bloody being buffeted by the wind so much. Last year,

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Speaker 2: it was quite pristine, wasn't it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 18: First, firstly though, before I make a few points about

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Speaker 18: the Warriors, congratulations on your commentary on the soccer.

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Speaker 10: It is very good.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Frank, that's very kind.

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Speaker 18: No, what is port anyway? What we mate and I

1083
00:56:28,227 --> 00:56:30,587
Speaker 18: were trying to figure out what the port's of Walkland

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Speaker 18: or what is it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: The port? Yeah, that's what that's the name of the

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Speaker 2: of the sort of the very passionate act of support

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00:56:37,227 --> 00:56:41,147
Speaker 2: that follow the follow Walkland fc've it's it's a it's

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Speaker 2: a name they coined themselves. I'm not exactly sure what

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Speaker 2: the origin of it is. But yeah, when you hear

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Speaker 2: me talk about the port that is the very passionate

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Speaker 2: fan base of Auckland f C.

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Speaker 18: We were wondering if we were wondering about that. I've

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Speaker 18: just messaged a good friend of mine, Jeff at the Tennessee. He's,

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Speaker 18: like me, a warrior's a mad fan, and I put

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Speaker 18: down seven wins in a row, three on the road. Brilliant.

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Speaker 18: But and I said, we're going to have to discussed

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Speaker 18: the butt tomorrow on Monday. But yeah, it just seems

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Speaker 18: to me. I don't know. I mean, it's happened a

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Speaker 18: bit for me to tell Andrew Webber what to do.

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Speaker 18: But I would think if I was the coach at

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Speaker 18: halftime with a lead of ten nil, I would say

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Speaker 18: to the boys, right, forget the ten. The game starts

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Speaker 18: now in the second half. Now you start building a game.

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Speaker 18: Don't worry about that ten to get that for the moment,

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Speaker 18: just build on it. And I just don't feel we're

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Speaker 18: using the interchange bench. We've got these brilliant guys out there.

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Speaker 18: I mean, there's so many there that they're sitting waiting

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Speaker 18: in the wings. Some of our guys will be running

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Speaker 18: out of petrol obviously in that second half. I mean,

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Speaker 18: they defended to their bloody lives and it's got to

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Speaker 18: take a lot out of them. So give them a

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Speaker 18: bit of a rest and bring some of these as

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Speaker 18: he did. But I just feel that we need to

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Speaker 18: bring some of those newbies in and just sort of

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Speaker 18: round it out because we are We shouldn't be dropping

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00:58:13,547 --> 00:58:17,307
Speaker 18: those two tries again. I mean, you know we won, yeah,

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00:58:17,387 --> 00:58:20,947
Speaker 18: but oh god, as like wherebe I'm I haven't got

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Speaker 18: any bloody fingernails now, I'm just about down to be

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Speaker 18: bloody raw.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's good to be down to them, though, Frank,

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Speaker 2: When at the end of the day or end of

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Speaker 2: the game, you can look at the scoreboard and say, well,

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Speaker 2: they'll talk up another one. I know what you mean.

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Speaker 2: You'd probably prefer to be sitting back and you know,

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Speaker 2: and luxurious relaxation with a you know, thirty or forty

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Speaker 2: point winning margin. But the two points are the two points,

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Speaker 2: aren't they absolutely wins.

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Speaker 18: It win and let's just with the Raiders. Well, oh,

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Speaker 18: I think we can do it.

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Speaker 2: I totally agree, Frank, I totally agree. And the motivation

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Speaker 2: from Vegas, whether it's real or not, whether they use

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00:59:00,827 --> 00:59:03,107
Speaker 2: it as a frame of reference or not, whether they

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00:59:03,227 --> 00:59:06,707
Speaker 2: have revenge on their minds or not, going to be

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00:59:06,787 --> 00:59:09,467
Speaker 2: a heck of a contest. Extra seats have gone on

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Speaker 2: for the football next Saturday night, as you probably know,

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Speaker 2: And I was talking a couple of people last night

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Speaker 2: the Warriors pre show when I was out at sky

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00:59:16,587 --> 00:59:19,507
Speaker 2: Monty Betham and Richie Barnett were out there and they

1140
00:59:19,867 --> 00:59:21,987
Speaker 2: were saying that they've heard that those extra seats will

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00:59:22,067 --> 00:59:24,387
Speaker 2: be sold for the Warriors game the following day. I mean,

1142
00:59:24,427 --> 00:59:27,027
Speaker 2: there's no reason not to sell them as there, so

1143
00:59:27,347 --> 00:59:28,987
Speaker 2: let's hope that's the case. Frank, good to chat to

1144
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Speaker 2: your mate. Keep that flag flying high. John says on text,

1145
00:59:31,947 --> 00:59:34,627
Speaker 2: I'll take anyone for the Warriors, close or not. I'm

1146
00:59:34,667 --> 00:59:36,667
Speaker 2: sure the Blues would love five in a row. I

1147
00:59:36,747 --> 00:59:40,627
Speaker 2: think you're probably right, John, Greg. Hello, here you going,

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Speaker 2: Bunny good?

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Speaker 14: Greg. A bit strange to have the main event before

1150
00:59:46,307 --> 00:59:47,907
Speaker 14: the entree last night, wasn't it?

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Speaker 2: Are the ah, the Warriors before the Warriors before the

1152
00:59:52,387 --> 00:59:54,947
Speaker 2: rugby you're talking. Yes, indeed it was quite an unusual

1153
00:59:55,067 --> 00:59:57,347
Speaker 2: kickoff time, wasn't it. I must say I didn't mind it.

1154
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Speaker 2: It allowed me to watch it.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, Depth Defense composer go on, Hey, yeah, I think

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Speaker 14: I think that what they're doing is just you know,

1157
01:00:11,227 --> 01:00:15,987
Speaker 14: exactly right. I did listen to a bit of a

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Speaker 14: thing on the on the uh, the Auckland soccer team before,

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01:00:22,347 --> 01:00:24,827
Speaker 14: when they were talking about each other. They had the

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Speaker 14: players being interviewed and they were saying that they're like

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Speaker 14: a family, they're all stick together in tough times and good.

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Speaker 14: I think that's very much what the worries are all

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Speaker 14: about this year. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter whether

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Speaker 14: they've had a loss. They you know, they don't seem

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01:00:47,067 --> 01:00:48,867
Speaker 14: to dwell on it. They seem to get on with

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Speaker 14: what they're doing. I also think there's you know, like

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Speaker 14: a couple of players that don't get a lot of

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Speaker 14: cudos out there who are doing a lot of a

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Speaker 14: lot of hard work, like Cape Well Aaron Clark and

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Speaker 14: We're right in their corps.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 14: I think they are sort of setting the platform for

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Speaker 14: a lot of what goes on on the field. I

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Speaker 14: still think the jury's out on our friend Metcalf.

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Speaker 8: I don't.

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Speaker 14: I don't like his kicking game. He doesn't get enough

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Speaker 14: height on the ball. If you watch General Debeta Harris,

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Speaker 14: he gets a lot of height, gives time for the

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01:01:34,867 --> 01:01:37,227
Speaker 14: chase team to actually get right up in the face

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Speaker 14: of the other team, where Luke, you don't have a

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Speaker 14: chance to actually attack the ball. My thoughts could be

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Speaker 14: changed over the whole season though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good, I agree. I hope they are. And often

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Speaker 2: the number of the block, of the number seven jersey

1185
01:01:55,107 --> 01:02:01,347
Speaker 2: gets you know, it does does attract comment critique, and

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Speaker 2: I think we're right to critique players just as you

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Speaker 2: have there. I mean, you know, Seawan Johnson was off

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Speaker 2: a lightning rod, wasn't he? For people? When you know,

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Speaker 2: the one when the Warriors lost, It was often Sean

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Speaker 2: Johnson's fault. Luke Metcalf might be in for similar critique

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Speaker 2: from Warriors fans. But yeah, I must admit I really

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Speaker 2: like him. I just think the raw materials are definitely

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Speaker 2: there for him to steer this Warrior's ship around. I'm

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Speaker 2: enjoying watching him, enjoy chatting to you too, mate, Thanks

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Speaker 2: for your call, Gregor. Really appreciate it. Oh eight hundred

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Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty one twenty seven Back with more of

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Speaker 2: your calls on the Warriors right after this.

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Speaker 1: The Big Issues on and after Fields Call eight hundred

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Speaker 1: eighty ten eighty Weekends Forward with Jason Pain and GJ.

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Speaker 1: Gunner Homes New Zealand's most trusted O Milder News Talk

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Speaker 1: one thirty talking the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: Ye's good, isn't it Five in a row today?

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Speaker 14: Mark?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, he was championing out Luke Metcalf last week and

1205
01:02:55,627 --> 01:02:58,427
Speaker 10: took a bit of criticism, but objectively he stood on

1206
01:02:58,547 --> 01:03:03,147
Speaker 10: the LAM leaderboard at the moment. That's pretty pretty well rated,

1207
01:03:03,227 --> 01:03:05,307
Speaker 10: isn't it. He could he could be the LM Middle

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Speaker 10: Winner of the year.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean just to get the points right. You know,

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Speaker 2: at the stage of the season, after what ten games,

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Speaker 2: you have to think to yourself, he's doing a lot

1212
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Speaker 2: of the right things.

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Speaker 10: I think he's doing amazingly well. I think Andrew Webbs

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Speaker 10: is probably the best coach to Warrior's head and I

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Speaker 10: was just looking out, but I don't think. I don't

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Speaker 10: think an Australian born coach can be eligible for the

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Speaker 10: Heberg Halburg's. They give a lot of weight to the

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Speaker 10: Halburg Awards. But yeah, it's going to be interesting that

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Speaker 10: probably two of the best coaches of the year won't

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Speaker 10: be abble to receive the award.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she someone asked that question last hour, Mark and

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Speaker 2: I thought that they would be. But you're right, you've checked.

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Speaker 2: Somebody else has checked for me as well, and you're right.

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01:03:46,707 --> 01:03:50,827
Speaker 2: So Andrew Webster Steve Coricker cannot win the Hellburg Award

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01:03:50,907 --> 01:03:52,907
Speaker 2: for Coach of the Year. Even if one or both

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Speaker 2: guide their team to historic victories in the NRL or

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Speaker 2: the A League, they can't be Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 10: I think Andrew Webster if he wins, if they win

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Speaker 10: the Grand Final, I think they're going to have to

1230
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Speaker 10: check angel rules for their helbers, don't.

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Speaker 2: You look the coach, the coach who guides the Warriors

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Speaker 2: to their first NRL premiership and it could well be

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Speaker 2: this year, who knows. Let's not get carried away, but

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Speaker 2: the coach who does, I think the Halburg will be

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Speaker 2: probably you know, the least of their Warriors. They'll be

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Speaker 2: given the keys to the city and they'll be given

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Speaker 2: you know, free beer anywhere in Auckland. You know, all

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Speaker 2: this sort of stuff.

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Speaker 10: Knighthoods, knighthoods for all at the ticket parade, Thicke tape parade. Hey,

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Speaker 10: just on a sav I mean, what a legiend he is,

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Speaker 10: and I mean talking about the Halbergs, I reckon they

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Speaker 10: should just give him the sports Person of the Year

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01:04:41,907 --> 01:04:44,667
Speaker 10: award now, I mean, what a what a difference he's

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01:04:44,747 --> 01:04:47,947
Speaker 10: made in you know, I think he's gone up a

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Speaker 10: level since even leaving the Hurricanes, and you know, given

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Speaker 10: this this role at Moana, he's he's really just you know,

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Speaker 10: he's obviously a proud Pacific Island and he's really I

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Speaker 10: don't think anyone's ever made such a difference to a

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Speaker 10: team that.

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Speaker 2: He haswitching to lease stupendous.

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Speaker 10: They were lnguishing the more I know, and they were,

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Speaker 10: they were I don't know that the makeup team of

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01:05:14,387 --> 01:05:16,867
Speaker 10: the Super Rugby to me. And now he's turned that

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Speaker 10: completely around to beating the Blues last night. I think

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Speaker 10: it's just I think it's just tremendous.

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Speaker 2: Utterly tremendous. Mark, You're so right, and and what that

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Speaker 2: leads on to, who knows in terms of leadership and

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01:05:28,227 --> 01:05:29,827
Speaker 2: that sort of thing around the All Blacks. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: no one's a one man team. No team is a

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Speaker 2: one man team. That that would be a false statement

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Speaker 2: to make, but it is not exaggerating. I don't think

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Speaker 2: to say that Ardie Savia has almost single handedly changed

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Speaker 2: the fortunes of Morena PACIFICA has a rival. There has

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Speaker 2: been transformational, have gone from participants to contenders. Thanks Mark, Hey, Ben.

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Speaker 17: Hey Briny? How are you mean?

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Speaker 16: Good?

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Speaker 12: Ben?

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Speaker 14: Good?

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Speaker 17: What do we kend?

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Speaker 7: What do we hear?

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Speaker 17: Just I'm glad to pre the program director has got

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Speaker 17: it right and it all lined up in a row.

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Speaker 17: Usually it's like having public holiday on a Sunday, you know,

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Speaker 17: you sort of feel like you need to have one

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Speaker 17: of those set ups so you've got two or three TVs.

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Speaker 17: But now they got it right and didn't disappoint. From

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Speaker 17: a from a.

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Speaker 14: K TED.

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01:06:31,427 --> 01:06:37,227
Speaker 17: League and rugby background, good to see the Auckland f

1280
01:06:37,307 --> 01:06:42,587
Speaker 17: C doing what they do. But me, I just want

1281
01:06:42,627 --> 01:06:44,387
Speaker 17: to talk about the wise the.

1282
01:06:46,507 --> 01:06:46,707
Speaker 1: Match.

1283
01:06:46,787 --> 01:06:47,147
Speaker 15: Respect.

1284
01:06:48,067 --> 01:06:52,107
Speaker 17: But they're always doing it the hard way. You know,

1285
01:06:52,227 --> 01:06:56,347
Speaker 17: it's just been it's been a hard case. And you

1286
01:06:56,427 --> 01:06:59,627
Speaker 17: know Rogie Roger, yeah, will be the first one to admit,

1287
01:07:00,107 --> 01:07:02,347
Speaker 17: even though you know I sort of looked at it afterwards, Well,

1288
01:07:02,427 --> 01:07:04,587
Speaker 17: all those times when the rubb the green headn't gone

1289
01:07:04,627 --> 01:07:06,627
Speaker 17: our way it was. It was a good chart to

1290
01:07:06,707 --> 01:07:11,467
Speaker 17: see it finally go away, but that was a knock on.

1291
01:07:11,627 --> 01:07:15,507
Speaker 17: So take away six points and and that's team twelve,

1292
01:07:15,627 --> 01:07:18,427
Speaker 17: so now they're lucky there. It was good to see

1293
01:07:18,467 --> 01:07:22,107
Speaker 17: the because on a horsewll hornets man. Myself, I played

1294
01:07:22,227 --> 01:07:24,347
Speaker 17: for the m back in the nineties, so it was

1295
01:07:24,507 --> 01:07:31,987
Speaker 17: great to see the debut. But one thing that caught

1296
01:07:32,067 --> 01:07:34,987
Speaker 17: my last night was Alreadie. I just want to take

1297
01:07:35,027 --> 01:07:36,827
Speaker 17: it back to the when the guy was doing chip kicks.

1298
01:07:37,667 --> 01:07:41,147
Speaker 17: Was it three weeks ago? Catch and bounce and then

1299
01:07:41,267 --> 01:07:44,827
Speaker 17: try and then it was disallowed and just like the guy,

1300
01:07:44,947 --> 01:07:47,507
Speaker 17: you know, you could see how possessed he is. The

1301
01:07:47,627 --> 01:07:51,987
Speaker 17: guys just yeah, he's another level. And he comes back

1302
01:07:52,027 --> 01:07:54,547
Speaker 17: the week after that and its the same thing at

1303
01:07:54,587 --> 01:07:58,707
Speaker 17: scores a try, you've only got a You've only got

1304
01:07:58,787 --> 01:08:00,947
Speaker 17: to look at how the guy plays in the proofs

1305
01:08:00,987 --> 01:08:05,547
Speaker 17: and the pudding. He's not out next Av's cat.

1306
01:08:06,387 --> 01:08:06,707
Speaker 11: I don't know.

1307
01:08:06,987 --> 01:08:11,187
Speaker 17: I don't know who is you know, he's half beck,

1308
01:08:11,467 --> 01:08:13,947
Speaker 17: he's what was it, he's first five as well. He's

1309
01:08:13,987 --> 01:08:16,507
Speaker 17: not just a winger, he's the first five. Last night

1310
01:08:16,547 --> 01:08:19,507
Speaker 17: what did he do from five meters out to up

1311
01:08:19,547 --> 01:08:22,627
Speaker 17: to seventy Yeah, yeah.

1312
01:08:22,827 --> 01:08:26,547
Speaker 2: Utterly, utterly brilliant, ben Yeah, like like you know, I'm

1313
01:08:26,627 --> 01:08:29,147
Speaker 2: sort of struggling to find new ways of describing him,

1314
01:08:29,867 --> 01:08:32,187
Speaker 2: but yeah, like I say, he's just been transformational there

1315
01:08:32,187 --> 01:08:34,467
Speaker 2: and you're right, little chip kicks through There was one

1316
01:08:34,507 --> 01:08:36,267
Speaker 2: period of play where he did a chip kick through.

1317
01:08:36,387 --> 01:08:39,627
Speaker 2: He gathered about four guys, tried to tackle him, couldn't

1318
01:08:39,667 --> 01:08:41,667
Speaker 2: put him on the deck, He got up, he went again.

1319
01:08:41,787 --> 01:08:46,867
Speaker 2: Just utterly incredible from Artie last night, just stupendous. Thanks

1320
01:08:46,867 --> 01:08:50,907
Speaker 2: for you, coll ben Ay, Paul, Yeah, Tony.

1321
01:08:52,507 --> 01:08:55,667
Speaker 19: Just on the Wars last night, the game that the

1322
01:08:55,787 --> 01:08:58,867
Speaker 19: fans and in Australia at the Worry and age for

1323
01:08:58,987 --> 01:09:03,067
Speaker 19: themselves that they meet up all around Australia where the

1324
01:09:03,107 --> 01:09:06,267
Speaker 19: Worries are playing and they they gather and it's just fantastic.

1325
01:09:06,387 --> 01:09:09,147
Speaker 19: And I was just thinking maybe their port should or

1326
01:09:09,267 --> 01:09:12,067
Speaker 19: you know, this organ azed Sea fans should do something similar,

1327
01:09:12,227 --> 01:09:14,627
Speaker 19: you know, like the Warrior Nations are over there and

1328
01:09:14,907 --> 01:09:16,987
Speaker 19: really get behind the Orkland the Sea when they're playing

1329
01:09:17,027 --> 01:09:17,667
Speaker 19: in Australia.

1330
01:09:17,827 --> 01:09:19,227
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good point. There were a good a

1331
01:09:19,267 --> 01:09:22,067
Speaker 2: good little throng of them there last night for the

1332
01:09:22,107 --> 01:09:24,227
Speaker 2: semi final. They sort of packed them into a corner.

1333
01:09:24,747 --> 01:09:27,067
Speaker 2: They almost sort of squeezed them almost out of sight,

1334
01:09:27,187 --> 01:09:29,747
Speaker 2: but they were they were making some noise. But you're

1335
01:09:29,787 --> 01:09:32,147
Speaker 2: so right, Paul. Even talking to a couple of people

1336
01:09:32,147 --> 01:09:35,387
Speaker 2: who went to Magic Rounds, it seems like Brisbane's just

1337
01:09:35,427 --> 01:09:37,267
Speaker 2: a real hotbed for kiwis. And I know a lot

1338
01:09:37,267 --> 01:09:38,907
Speaker 2: of kiwis of on the Gold Coast and that, but

1339
01:09:39,307 --> 01:09:42,067
Speaker 2: it seems like Queensland is just full of kiwis And

1340
01:09:42,147 --> 01:09:44,507
Speaker 2: whenever the Warriors play there, it must feel like it

1341
01:09:44,747 --> 01:09:46,707
Speaker 2: must feel like an away game for the Dolphins and

1342
01:09:46,707 --> 01:09:47,267
Speaker 2: the Broncos.

1343
01:09:49,147 --> 01:09:49,387
Speaker 19: Yeah.

1344
01:09:49,507 --> 01:09:50,267
Speaker 8: Well, I know.

1345
01:09:53,107 --> 01:09:55,707
Speaker 19: Most of them come from live in Sydney, but they

1346
01:09:55,827 --> 01:09:58,867
Speaker 19: just they have a group chat and they meet various

1347
01:09:58,947 --> 01:10:00,987
Speaker 19: grounds where the Worries are playing, and it doesn't matter

1348
01:10:00,987 --> 01:10:02,667
Speaker 19: if it's camera or whatever, and they meet there and

1349
01:10:03,027 --> 01:10:05,227
Speaker 19: you got the drum and it's going off. But just

1350
01:10:05,347 --> 01:10:08,107
Speaker 19: on the game when he I'm really happy with our

1351
01:10:08,147 --> 01:10:10,707
Speaker 19: harvest combination. You've got a left foot ticker and Chanel

1352
01:10:10,787 --> 01:10:12,867
Speaker 19: and and then you've got the right foot kicker. And

1353
01:10:12,867 --> 01:10:15,467
Speaker 19: I was watching those two really closely and they just

1354
01:10:16,307 --> 01:10:20,587
Speaker 19: they both have an equal role and games game management,

1355
01:10:20,627 --> 01:10:23,587
Speaker 19: it seems, and it's working really well and Shanel's kicking

1356
01:10:23,627 --> 01:10:26,827
Speaker 19: his pretty pin point at the moment, and it's a

1357
01:10:26,907 --> 01:10:29,667
Speaker 19: really balanced team we've got at the moment. You know,

1358
01:10:29,787 --> 01:10:33,947
Speaker 19: we've we've got paid some really good forwards. You know

1359
01:10:34,067 --> 01:10:37,587
Speaker 19: that young Aaron Clark's just blows me away his work rates.

1360
01:10:37,667 --> 01:10:39,747
Speaker 19: So really happy with him win last.

1361
01:10:39,627 --> 01:10:39,987
Speaker 13: Night, mate.

1362
01:10:40,107 --> 01:10:43,107
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm absolutely the same. I just wanted to ask you,

1363
01:10:43,147 --> 01:10:45,667
Speaker 2: Paul about Wade Egan. He got a lot of headlines

1364
01:10:45,667 --> 01:10:47,387
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. He was terrific in twenty

1365
01:10:47,467 --> 01:10:49,907
Speaker 2: twenty three and he's still very very good every week,

1366
01:10:50,027 --> 01:10:52,467
Speaker 2: is he? But is he showing out as much as

1367
01:10:52,507 --> 01:10:54,547
Speaker 2: he always hairs? Have I missed that? Is he still

1368
01:10:54,547 --> 01:10:55,547
Speaker 2: as good as he always was?

1369
01:10:57,587 --> 01:10:57,627
Speaker 16: No?

1370
01:10:58,307 --> 01:10:59,947
Speaker 19: I think he is slowing down. I don't think he's

1371
01:10:59,947 --> 01:11:02,227
Speaker 19: an eighty minute player anymore. And when you have done

1372
01:11:02,267 --> 01:11:05,227
Speaker 19: your half, that's a tough position. You're making so many tackles.

1373
01:11:05,667 --> 01:11:08,747
Speaker 19: Don't give your He's still a good player. But I

1374
01:11:08,867 --> 01:11:11,867
Speaker 19: know there's a young Mitch Heey coming through uh and

1375
01:11:11,987 --> 01:11:13,947
Speaker 19: I know he's he's probably the next cab off the

1376
01:11:13,987 --> 01:11:18,947
Speaker 19: Ringers into the hocking roll. So yeah, but no, definitely

1377
01:11:18,987 --> 01:11:22,547
Speaker 19: way vegans. He is slowing down a bit. But Roger

1378
01:11:22,587 --> 01:11:25,867
Speaker 19: had a mixed berg last night. He dropped Balls's been

1379
01:11:25,907 --> 01:11:28,907
Speaker 19: of a shame for tang to a picky and but

1380
01:11:29,347 --> 01:11:31,787
Speaker 19: Fisher Harrison's first came back and you could tell him.

1381
01:11:31,987 --> 01:11:35,107
Speaker 19: He had his angry face on. And I'm really looking

1382
01:11:35,147 --> 01:11:38,307
Speaker 19: forward the game against Canberra. They're going to be real tough.

1383
01:11:38,427 --> 01:11:40,747
Speaker 19: We know how good they are, but you know, the

1384
01:11:40,827 --> 01:11:43,547
Speaker 19: thing is too piney. They're calling the Warriors over the bitch,

1385
01:11:43,627 --> 01:11:46,587
Speaker 19: fraudulent for without the table. They don't really talk to

1386
01:11:46,747 --> 01:11:48,387
Speaker 19: talk about them in the media or rate them. And

1387
01:11:48,427 --> 01:11:50,627
Speaker 19: I think it's good. We'll just fly under the radar

1388
01:11:50,707 --> 01:11:52,627
Speaker 19: for a while and we'll just kick some ass and

1389
01:11:52,667 --> 01:11:53,867
Speaker 19: then we'll see you in the finals.

1390
01:11:54,107 --> 01:11:56,707
Speaker 2: Love it, Paul, love it. I love being under the

1391
01:11:56,787 --> 01:12:00,147
Speaker 2: radar with you, mate, terrific. Always enjoy your calls. Yeah,

1392
01:12:00,187 --> 01:12:02,187
Speaker 2: James Fisher Harris. I wonder what he might get for

1393
01:12:02,267 --> 01:12:05,187
Speaker 2: that high shot he got put on report, didn't he

1394
01:12:05,787 --> 01:12:07,267
Speaker 2: off of the last three and a half minutes or

1395
01:12:07,267 --> 01:12:09,467
Speaker 2: whatever it was. I guess we'll find out tomorrow whether

1396
01:12:09,587 --> 01:12:11,707
Speaker 2: he'll be missing for the next game. Such a shame

1397
01:12:11,747 --> 01:12:13,907
Speaker 2: because of course, he's only just come back from that injury.

1398
01:12:13,947 --> 01:12:16,307
Speaker 2: What did he miss? He missed four games from memory

1399
01:12:16,347 --> 01:12:18,867
Speaker 2: with that injury back last night in the bin, so

1400
01:12:19,667 --> 01:12:22,627
Speaker 2: it's it's possible he won't be there for the Raiders

1401
01:12:23,547 --> 01:12:27,147
Speaker 2: next weekend and then Origin. And then you start thinking

1402
01:12:27,187 --> 01:12:29,467
Speaker 2: about the collateral damage of going so well, and you

1403
01:12:29,547 --> 01:12:31,947
Speaker 2: look at Mitch Barnett and Kirk cape Well and you say,

1404
01:12:32,307 --> 01:12:34,627
Speaker 2: could those guys be in the Origin picture. I know

1405
01:12:34,867 --> 01:12:37,307
Speaker 2: Andrew Webster was asked about that last night in the

1406
01:12:37,347 --> 01:12:38,987
Speaker 2: press conference. He might just play that before we go

1407
01:12:39,067 --> 01:12:44,387
Speaker 2: to a break on the Origin selection hopes of both

1408
01:12:44,467 --> 01:12:46,467
Speaker 2: Kurt cape Well and Mitch Barnett.

1409
01:12:46,667 --> 01:12:49,587
Speaker 20: If he played Many Killer, Yeah, he missed that. Reliable

1410
01:12:50,827 --> 01:12:54,027
Speaker 20: loves playing with Queenslone, like it it standing. I don't

1411
01:12:54,067 --> 01:12:57,507
Speaker 20: like about any he's a Queenslone, but he just loves

1412
01:12:57,907 --> 01:13:01,147
Speaker 20: loves the Jersey name and he's so reliable and he

1413
01:13:01,187 --> 01:13:04,227
Speaker 20: can play anywhere. But I'm not going to throw stones

1414
01:13:04,227 --> 01:13:07,507
Speaker 20: because I don't I'd trust me. I'm drawing up Queensland's

1415
01:13:07,507 --> 01:13:10,267
Speaker 20: team and know who's wearing what's going on there. But

1416
01:13:11,387 --> 01:13:12,947
Speaker 20: all we can do is vouch for how good he's

1417
01:13:12,987 --> 01:13:15,347
Speaker 20: gone if he play him that arena. We don't go

1418
01:13:15,467 --> 01:13:16,387
Speaker 20: great Bobby Shop.

1419
01:13:16,547 --> 01:13:17,027
Speaker 15: He's not there.

1420
01:13:17,387 --> 01:13:18,187
Speaker 20: He's unbelievable.

1421
01:13:18,587 --> 01:13:19,587
Speaker 7: Captain's not Kim Fish.

1422
01:13:19,627 --> 01:13:22,547
Speaker 13: I thought spectacular today, got.

1423
01:13:22,467 --> 01:13:25,107
Speaker 20: A young lot of young guys on the field at

1424
01:13:25,107 --> 01:13:27,827
Speaker 20: one time, and then you've got Barney playing the way

1425
01:13:27,867 --> 01:13:30,467
Speaker 20: he's playing, and then Fish come back in the team.

1426
01:13:30,467 --> 01:13:32,307
Speaker 7: I thought they were unbelievable.

1427
01:13:32,347 --> 01:13:34,747
Speaker 2: And Barney, I'm sure.

1428
01:13:34,787 --> 01:13:37,827
Speaker 20: I hope we'll get picked for Oregon and they'll be

1429
01:13:38,227 --> 01:13:41,667
Speaker 20: they'll be amazing because he's made for that arena.

1430
01:13:41,867 --> 01:13:43,387
Speaker 2: All right, We'll waiting to see you on the origin

1431
01:13:43,467 --> 01:13:46,507
Speaker 2: hopes of Kurt Capewell and Mitch Barney at nineteen to

1432
01:13:46,587 --> 01:13:49,227
Speaker 2: two when we come back, James mcconey in this regular

1433
01:13:49,307 --> 01:13:50,147
Speaker 2: Sunday slot.

1434
01:13:50,867 --> 01:13:56,067
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1435
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1436
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Speaker 1: to Baby.

1437
01:14:00,387 --> 01:14:04,787
Speaker 2: Coming at one forty five does not tell us of.

1438
01:14:04,987 --> 01:14:09,187
Speaker 4: Just what the fair shop, the big Manchester City, What

1439
01:14:09,347 --> 01:14:09,907
Speaker 4: a turn of.

1440
01:14:09,987 --> 01:14:15,747
Speaker 2: This is, what a moment fall of South London. I

1441
01:14:15,907 --> 01:14:20,867
Speaker 2: run shust Park and beyond where you were red and blue.

1442
01:14:21,347 --> 01:14:26,227
Speaker 4: This is the moment you've been waiting one hundred and twenty.

1443
01:14:26,267 --> 01:14:29,467
Speaker 2: Years four one hundred and twenty years for a trophy

1444
01:14:29,547 --> 01:14:32,667
Speaker 2: for Crystal Palace. James mcconey was watching on amongst all

1445
01:14:32,667 --> 01:14:34,947
Speaker 2: the other sport that he's been keeping eyes on this weekend.

1446
01:14:35,267 --> 01:14:37,987
Speaker 2: I was delighted for Crystal Palace, James.

1447
01:14:38,347 --> 01:14:42,947
Speaker 12: Amazing moment, incredible occasion. And also, even though I'm not

1448
01:14:42,987 --> 01:14:46,187
Speaker 12: a big fan of the monarchy, I really like Prince William,

1449
01:14:46,387 --> 01:14:49,147
Speaker 12: so you know I had it all. But the fairy

1450
01:14:49,187 --> 01:14:52,347
Speaker 12: tale story of Pallace was fantastic. And I mean you

1451
01:14:52,427 --> 01:14:53,787
Speaker 12: and I have watched a lot of football over the

1452
01:14:53,867 --> 01:14:55,867
Speaker 12: years Piney and it's one of those clubs that you

1453
01:14:56,107 --> 01:14:58,107
Speaker 12: kind of say would be unfashionable.

1454
01:14:58,707 --> 01:15:01,107
Speaker 2: Unfashionable is a great word. They're never going to win

1455
01:15:01,187 --> 01:15:04,907
Speaker 2: the Premier League. I don't think that is drawing along bo.

1456
01:15:05,067 --> 01:15:06,707
Speaker 2: I know Lester won it, but I I don't think

1457
01:15:06,747 --> 01:15:08,427
Speaker 2: Pallas are ever going to win the Premier League. So

1458
01:15:08,507 --> 01:15:12,707
Speaker 2: for them to finally win something significant like they have,

1459
01:15:12,907 --> 01:15:15,947
Speaker 2: I have just delighted. For fans of the Super Eagles.

1460
01:15:16,507 --> 01:15:18,627
Speaker 12: Well it's only been one hundred and sixty four years,

1461
01:15:18,907 --> 01:15:23,347
Speaker 12: so you know they eventually got across the line. But

1462
01:15:23,587 --> 01:15:25,667
Speaker 12: we I mean I remember a team back in the

1463
01:15:25,747 --> 01:15:28,707
Speaker 12: day in the early nineties with you know Ian Right

1464
01:15:28,747 --> 01:15:30,907
Speaker 12: and Mark Bryce, and of course they they've had to

1465
01:15:30,987 --> 01:15:33,507
Speaker 12: sell their plans back then, they really did. And I

1466
01:15:33,587 --> 01:15:36,027
Speaker 12: mean like Premier League clubs, like your beloved Liverpool, they

1467
01:15:36,067 --> 01:15:38,347
Speaker 12: love to swoop on a on a small and minnow

1468
01:15:38,467 --> 01:15:40,467
Speaker 12: team in the Premier League, don't they, you know, to

1469
01:15:40,547 --> 01:15:44,187
Speaker 12: find a Van Dyk or whoever a Saana. But I

1470
01:15:44,387 --> 01:15:48,707
Speaker 12: just hope that Crystal Palace then can keep there. They've

1471
01:15:48,747 --> 01:15:54,027
Speaker 12: got four England players there. One of them scored Ebbie Is,

1472
01:15:54,347 --> 01:15:58,267
Speaker 12: who's an incredible what do you call attacking midfielder, and

1473
01:15:58,347 --> 01:16:01,827
Speaker 12: they're the keeper as a mark Paston moment saved a penalty.

1474
01:16:02,307 --> 01:16:05,907
Speaker 12: And by the way, with that penalty, Earlin Harland, the

1475
01:16:05,987 --> 01:16:08,707
Speaker 12: Norwegy in the striking Viking, had the ball of teams.

1476
01:16:08,747 --> 01:16:10,627
Speaker 12: He was going to take the penalty and he was

1477
01:16:10,787 --> 01:16:15,507
Speaker 12: overruled by marmouse from Egypt. And obviously, I mean Egyptian

1478
01:16:15,547 --> 01:16:17,787
Speaker 12: players must be in fashion because of most sala or whatever.

1479
01:16:18,227 --> 01:16:20,027
Speaker 12: But the penalty was save pony.

1480
01:16:20,227 --> 01:16:23,587
Speaker 2: Who takes the football off Earling Harland.

1481
01:16:24,747 --> 01:16:26,667
Speaker 12: It just seemed crazy to me. I don't even know

1482
01:16:26,707 --> 01:16:29,387
Speaker 12: where that ruling came from, because suddenly he had the

1483
01:16:29,427 --> 01:16:31,227
Speaker 12: ball in his hands and there's a bit of a delay.

1484
01:16:32,747 --> 01:16:34,787
Speaker 12: That was the biggest drama of the game. But yeah,

1485
01:16:34,787 --> 01:16:37,347
Speaker 12: who would do that? But I'm glad they did because

1486
01:16:37,387 --> 01:16:40,507
Speaker 12: now we've got the Palace story and seeing those fans,

1487
01:16:40,587 --> 01:16:43,907
Speaker 12: those Palace fans in the stands. I got emotional watching that,

1488
01:16:44,507 --> 01:16:47,427
Speaker 12: And you know, we could have a similar situation in

1489
01:16:47,467 --> 01:16:48,187
Speaker 12: Auckland very soon.

1490
01:16:48,267 --> 01:16:49,707
Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say, I might not take

1491
01:16:49,707 --> 01:16:51,787
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty years for Auckland FC. It might

1492
01:16:51,867 --> 01:16:54,947
Speaker 2: take one year there, one game away from the Grand Final,

1493
01:16:54,987 --> 01:16:58,067
Speaker 2: which they'll host. If they make it. They've got to

1494
01:16:58,107 --> 01:17:00,907
Speaker 2: be a really good shot of winning the whole thing

1495
01:17:00,947 --> 01:17:01,907
Speaker 2: in their first year, don't they.

1496
01:17:02,827 --> 01:17:06,067
Speaker 12: Yeah, they did look very good in Melbourne last night,

1497
01:17:06,427 --> 01:17:08,667
Speaker 12: and I was kind of surprised at the way the

1498
01:17:08,787 --> 01:17:12,667
Speaker 12: victory approached the game, especially at the end. They threw

1499
01:17:12,707 --> 01:17:14,747
Speaker 12: people forward, and I thought, just take the one Nell

1500
01:17:14,907 --> 01:17:18,547
Speaker 12: loss and rebuild on what will probably be a much

1501
01:17:18,707 --> 01:17:23,427
Speaker 12: nicer pitch and hopefully a nicer evening in Auckland, because

1502
01:17:24,507 --> 01:17:27,827
Speaker 12: they almost conceded too. The Moreno hit the post. It

1503
01:17:27,947 --> 01:17:30,227
Speaker 12: was a double poster. You don't often see it Piney,

1504
01:17:30,667 --> 01:17:31,707
Speaker 12: but that was incredible too.

1505
01:17:31,907 --> 01:17:35,147
Speaker 2: Yep, the rarely seen double poster. And Andy my producers

1506
01:17:35,187 --> 01:17:37,907
Speaker 2: pointed out that he thinks it was an equal acterual

1507
01:17:37,987 --> 01:17:42,027
Speaker 2: triangle post to post to keeper. He reckons that's an

1508
01:17:42,027 --> 01:17:43,427
Speaker 2: equal actual triangle.

1509
01:17:44,587 --> 01:17:47,027
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly. We need Pythagoras to get out there and

1510
01:17:47,107 --> 01:17:52,147
Speaker 12: confirm this. The fact is that I thought that, oh,

1511
01:17:52,187 --> 01:17:54,547
Speaker 12: there's another thing that's weird as well that might intrigue

1512
01:17:55,147 --> 01:17:58,507
Speaker 12: Andy because he's into triangles. Is the Melbourne victory. Obviously

1513
01:17:58,667 --> 01:18:01,667
Speaker 12: I've got the V on their shirts, but the three

1514
01:18:01,747 --> 01:18:07,507
Speaker 12: most dangerous players are called Vergos, Valadon and vlopts.

1515
01:18:06,507 --> 01:18:10,787
Speaker 2: V's lots of v's and indeed, indeed and only only

1516
01:18:10,827 --> 01:18:13,107
Speaker 2: one nail behind him with lots of attacking threats, next

1517
01:18:13,147 --> 01:18:15,667
Speaker 2: week could be very interesting. Now, can I ask you

1518
01:18:15,667 --> 01:18:18,667
Speaker 2: about More on a PACIFICA. I absolutely loved this, not

1519
01:18:18,827 --> 01:18:20,467
Speaker 2: just because they beat the Blues. The Blues have been

1520
01:18:20,467 --> 01:18:22,347
Speaker 2: a bit of a you know. I mean, I know

1521
01:18:22,387 --> 01:18:23,747
Speaker 2: a lot of people just don't know the Blues because

1522
01:18:23,747 --> 01:18:26,467
Speaker 2: they're from Auckland. But I just thought More on a Pacifica,

1523
01:18:26,947 --> 01:18:27,987
Speaker 2: what a story this is.

1524
01:18:29,267 --> 01:18:31,947
Speaker 12: Yeah. The story helps with that the Blues will always

1525
01:18:32,027 --> 01:18:34,827
Speaker 12: regret not sending one more person to that ruck to

1526
01:18:34,947 --> 01:18:39,707
Speaker 12: clean out Artie Savier. So I watched it in the replayer.

1527
01:18:39,707 --> 01:18:41,507
Speaker 12: I was like, you just needed one more person to

1528
01:18:41,547 --> 01:18:44,307
Speaker 12: clean out or is probably aren't out left. They'd sort

1529
01:18:44,347 --> 01:18:46,067
Speaker 12: of done the damage and they are right on their

1530
01:18:46,107 --> 01:18:48,467
Speaker 12: goal line. But hey, it makes for the perfect narrative,

1531
01:18:48,547 --> 01:18:53,107
Speaker 12: doesn't it. Everyone loves a hero story. Artie Savia. He's

1532
01:18:53,147 --> 01:18:57,947
Speaker 12: been the best player all season. He's I think Wina

1533
01:18:58,027 --> 01:19:00,627
Speaker 12: Pacifica means more to him than the All Blacks. I

1534
01:19:00,707 --> 01:19:02,067
Speaker 12: think you're going to see it in the way that

1535
01:19:02,147 --> 01:19:06,107
Speaker 12: he plays leading that side. You know, he takes it personally,

1536
01:19:06,667 --> 01:19:10,427
Speaker 12: as Michael Jordan would say, and watch the breakdown on

1537
01:19:10,587 --> 01:19:15,227
Speaker 12: sky lad tonight. They're going to analyze his performance, his

1538
01:19:15,387 --> 01:19:20,307
Speaker 12: performance and also go over other compare it to other

1539
01:19:20,427 --> 01:19:24,427
Speaker 12: great individual performances in Super rugby history. I know you've

1540
01:19:24,427 --> 01:19:26,787
Speaker 12: probably got a few pioneer like a Christian Cullen or

1541
01:19:26,867 --> 01:19:29,267
Speaker 12: whatever the Hurricanes people dream about.

1542
01:19:30,227 --> 01:19:31,947
Speaker 2: No, we do, we dream. We dream a little bit

1543
01:19:31,947 --> 01:19:35,627
Speaker 2: about Christian Cullen on occasion. Yeah, absolutely, Well do.

1544
01:19:35,627 --> 01:19:38,107
Speaker 12: You dream about Walliser tit? I have nominated that one?

1545
01:19:38,627 --> 01:19:42,027
Speaker 2: I wonder well, actually, actually, well that's no, you're right

1546
01:19:42,067 --> 01:19:45,067
Speaker 2: that semi Final against the Hurricanes was was probably the

1547
01:19:45,107 --> 01:19:48,347
Speaker 2: most recent example of one man standing head and shoulders

1548
01:19:48,787 --> 01:19:51,307
Speaker 2: above the other forty five who took part in the game.

1549
01:19:51,667 --> 01:19:53,587
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean Artie last night. I've said it

1550
01:19:53,667 --> 01:19:55,507
Speaker 2: a few times on the shots. Impossible to find any

1551
01:19:55,547 --> 01:19:57,747
Speaker 2: more words really, so I'll look forward to seeing the

1552
01:19:57,787 --> 01:20:00,587
Speaker 2: analysis tonight. Hey, Warriors as well, five in a row

1553
01:20:01,827 --> 01:20:04,427
Speaker 2: winning the tight ones. I'm sure Andrew Robster would prefer

1554
01:20:04,467 --> 01:20:06,267
Speaker 2: it if they weren't quite so tight, but they're getting

1555
01:20:06,267 --> 01:20:07,027
Speaker 2: a across the line.

1556
01:20:08,187 --> 01:20:10,867
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I've been listening to your callers, very

1557
01:20:11,027 --> 01:20:14,387
Speaker 12: educated league public, i must add, and I sort of

1558
01:20:15,067 --> 01:20:17,947
Speaker 12: agreed with bits of what everyone was saying. But what

1559
01:20:18,107 --> 01:20:20,947
Speaker 12: I really do like is that the playmaking has been

1560
01:20:21,027 --> 01:20:23,347
Speaker 12: shared really nicely. And the key to that is that

1561
01:20:23,507 --> 01:20:26,947
Speaker 12: Aaron Clark has halfback skills, so when he's got the

1562
01:20:26,987 --> 01:20:29,707
Speaker 12: ball in his hands, you feel as confident as you

1563
01:20:29,787 --> 01:20:33,467
Speaker 12: do with anyone in that team. So it's such a

1564
01:20:33,547 --> 01:20:35,707
Speaker 12: bonus having a playmaker like that at Locke, and he

1565
01:20:35,747 --> 01:20:38,387
Speaker 12: obviously does all the hard work as well. Very tough

1566
01:20:38,467 --> 01:20:41,067
Speaker 12: man to put down, but I'd say that the reason

1567
01:20:41,147 --> 01:20:43,787
Speaker 12: why all they have seemed to function really nicely is

1568
01:20:43,827 --> 01:20:44,947
Speaker 12: because of Aaron Clark.

1569
01:20:45,267 --> 01:20:47,507
Speaker 2: Do you think, look, Metcalf's doing well. It seems to

1570
01:20:47,587 --> 01:20:50,827
Speaker 2: be divided opinion on this. I think he's doing pretty well,

1571
01:20:50,947 --> 01:20:51,227
Speaker 2: isn't he?

1572
01:20:52,227 --> 01:20:52,427
Speaker 14: Yeah?

1573
01:20:52,467 --> 01:20:52,587
Speaker 11: I do.

1574
01:20:52,747 --> 01:20:54,947
Speaker 12: I mean he's not an outrageous talent like some others

1575
01:20:55,107 --> 01:20:57,147
Speaker 12: that you see around around the league at the moment

1576
01:20:57,227 --> 01:20:59,027
Speaker 12: where you just go okay, you know, but it's hard

1577
01:20:59,067 --> 01:21:01,307
Speaker 12: to find a really good halfback. And I think you know,

1578
01:21:01,427 --> 01:21:05,507
Speaker 12: he's a great support player. He's clever as kicking has been.

1579
01:21:06,387 --> 01:21:08,587
Speaker 12: He's put in some fantastic checks. I mean there was

1580
01:21:08,627 --> 01:21:14,267
Speaker 12: another one at the weekend, right, So you can't fault

1581
01:21:14,587 --> 01:21:19,587
Speaker 12: I guess what he's done with his experience. You know,

1582
01:21:19,907 --> 01:21:23,907
Speaker 12: we've got to wait with Luke Metcalf. Just be patient. Yeah,

1583
01:21:24,107 --> 01:21:27,627
Speaker 12: but I also felt that without someone like tying to

1584
01:21:27,707 --> 01:21:29,507
Speaker 12: a picky who's been dropped for Roger two of us

1585
01:21:29,587 --> 01:21:31,747
Speaker 12: a ship. I get that, but it'd be nice to

1586
01:21:31,787 --> 01:21:34,027
Speaker 12: have room on the bench with someone who's that electric

1587
01:21:34,147 --> 01:21:37,067
Speaker 12: you mentioned him with fresh legs coming on in the

1588
01:21:37,147 --> 01:21:40,227
Speaker 12: second half, then all hal Blacks loose. Then you'll see

1589
01:21:40,267 --> 01:21:41,147
Speaker 12: the best of summer like.

1590
01:21:41,307 --> 01:21:44,827
Speaker 2: Luke A great rappers always, James, Am I going to

1591
01:21:44,867 --> 01:21:47,627
Speaker 2: see you at go Media Stadium next Saturday night for

1592
01:21:47,667 --> 01:21:49,467
Speaker 2: Auckland FC. Will you be able to make it along?

1593
01:21:50,387 --> 01:21:52,827
Speaker 12: I'll be standing right behind you, Poney, just like that

1594
01:21:52,947 --> 01:21:53,867
Speaker 12: scene from Ghosts.

1595
01:21:56,427 --> 01:21:59,067
Speaker 2: What the pottery scene, the pottery scene.

1596
01:21:59,347 --> 01:22:04,507
Speaker 12: Yes, I'll be there, singing unchained melody and and yeah,

1597
01:22:04,627 --> 01:22:06,107
Speaker 12: it's going to be one of the great nights of

1598
01:22:06,147 --> 01:22:08,187
Speaker 12: our I cannot wait.

1599
01:22:08,347 --> 01:22:12,027
Speaker 2: I simply cannot wait. Thanks James, James mcconey, Craig Goes Wild,

1600
01:22:12,387 --> 01:22:15,267
Speaker 2: alternative commentary, collective and all across your socials too, and

1601
01:22:15,347 --> 01:22:17,027
Speaker 2: a big part of our Sundays here on News Talk's

1602
01:22:17,107 --> 01:22:17,947
Speaker 2: EDB seven to two.

1603
01:22:18,827 --> 01:22:23,867
Speaker 1: Breaking down the Hail Mary's and the epic fails weekends

1604
01:22:23,987 --> 01:22:27,107
Speaker 1: for it with Jason Vine. News Talk ZB.

1605
01:22:27,227 --> 01:22:29,107
Speaker 2: Four to two from Jared on text, Pinty, that was

1606
01:22:29,147 --> 01:22:30,947
Speaker 2: some result for more on in a Pacific last night.

1607
01:22:31,067 --> 01:22:34,107
Speaker 2: I can't help but compare Artie to Michael Jordan who

1608
01:22:34,227 --> 01:22:37,627
Speaker 2: led his balls in the nineties with such commands. Amazing

1609
01:22:37,787 --> 01:22:40,787
Speaker 2: how one player can make such a difference, and Artie

1610
01:22:40,827 --> 01:22:44,307
Speaker 2: has been massive for this team. Thank you, Jarrett, absolutely

1611
01:22:44,587 --> 01:22:47,427
Speaker 2: bang on the money after two o'clock in case you

1612
01:22:47,507 --> 01:22:50,667
Speaker 2: missed it, and then we will look back on round

1613
01:22:50,747 --> 01:22:53,347
Speaker 2: three of the PGA Championship. Ryan Fox is in line

1614
01:22:53,427 --> 01:22:57,387
Speaker 2: for a top twenty finish at the year's second major.

1615
01:22:57,427 --> 01:22:59,107
Speaker 2: Graham Ago is going to run an eye over round

1616
01:22:59,147 --> 01:23:02,707
Speaker 2: three and his predictions for round four. And Wrexham FC

1617
01:23:03,187 --> 01:23:05,587
Speaker 2: are headed down Under. They're playing a game against the

1618
01:23:05,587 --> 01:23:09,587
Speaker 2: Wellington Phoenix in July. Their CEO, Michael Williamson is on

1619
01:23:09,707 --> 01:23:10,747
Speaker 2: the show after two as well.

1620
01:23:12,267 --> 01:23:15,107
Speaker 1: It's the only place to discuss the biggest sports issues

1621
01:23:15,267 --> 01:23:16,947
Speaker 1: on and after fields.

1622
01:23:17,427 --> 01:23:18,947
Speaker 12: It's all on Weekend.

1623
01:23:18,627 --> 01:23:23,467
Speaker 1: Sport with Jason Vaine on your Home of Sport, New.

1624
01:23:23,547 --> 01:23:26,947
Speaker 2: York two o seven. This is Weekend Sport for an

1625
01:23:26,947 --> 01:23:29,627
Speaker 2: hour or so more and then Tim Beveridge with the

1626
01:23:29,667 --> 01:23:33,747
Speaker 2: Sunday edition of the Weekend Collective. He'll take over before

1627
01:23:33,747 --> 01:23:36,747
Speaker 2: we can get there. I want to get you to

1628
01:23:38,027 --> 01:23:43,747
Speaker 2: Hungary where we'll have a chat to Finn Murphy. He's

1629
01:23:43,787 --> 01:23:46,947
Speaker 2: off to the Poznan Canoe Sprint and Power Canoe World

1630
01:23:47,067 --> 01:23:49,787
Speaker 2: Cup in the week ahead, competing in his first ever

1631
01:23:49,867 --> 01:23:53,467
Speaker 2: power World Cup event. Finn Murphy he was a rowing

1632
01:23:53,587 --> 01:23:57,427
Speaker 2: champion who lost his leg in a motorbike accident in

1633
01:23:57,507 --> 01:24:01,307
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one and in the time since has become

1634
01:24:01,467 --> 01:24:05,627
Speaker 2: a very very very good power canoeist. He's on the

1635
01:24:05,667 --> 01:24:08,547
Speaker 2: show to me. FC are on their way here to

1636
01:24:08,627 --> 01:24:11,267
Speaker 2: Wellington Anyway to take on the Phoenix in July. Their

1637
01:24:11,387 --> 01:24:14,667
Speaker 2: CEO is Michael Williamson. He's going to join us for

1638
01:24:14,667 --> 01:24:17,827
Speaker 2: a chat. Gray Magoes long shortly to review round three

1639
01:24:17,867 --> 01:24:21,987
Speaker 2: at the PGA Championship, look ahead to round four. Your

1640
01:24:22,067 --> 01:24:24,707
Speaker 2: causing correspondents continue to be welcome at any time. O

1641
01:24:24,787 --> 01:24:26,547
Speaker 2: eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty is our number

1642
01:24:26,587 --> 01:24:28,307
Speaker 2: nine two nine to two on text if you prefer

1643
01:24:28,387 --> 01:24:33,507
Speaker 2: to correspond in that manner. Eight past two, as we

1644
01:24:33,587 --> 01:24:35,667
Speaker 2: always do at around about this time, though, it is

1645
01:24:35,707 --> 01:24:37,427
Speaker 2: time to catch you up on some of the stuff

1646
01:24:37,467 --> 01:24:39,067
Speaker 2: you might have missed. There's been heaps happening over the

1647
01:24:39,147 --> 01:24:41,947
Speaker 2: last twenty four hours or so. We've covered off a

1648
01:24:42,027 --> 01:24:43,747
Speaker 2: little bit of it, but there's a lot more we

1649
01:24:43,867 --> 01:24:48,627
Speaker 2: haven't to the NRAL where a wind for Manly happened

1650
01:24:48,667 --> 01:24:49,707
Speaker 2: in North Queensland.

1651
01:24:50,107 --> 01:24:50,707
Speaker 12: Jerry of it's the.

1652
01:24:50,707 --> 01:24:55,787
Speaker 2: Bronx out of bed turviv it's Manly package test.

1653
01:24:57,027 --> 01:24:57,267
Speaker 1: Time.

1654
01:24:57,787 --> 01:25:00,627
Speaker 2: I don't even know what happened, but that Survivors has

1655
01:25:00,747 --> 01:25:02,747
Speaker 2: gone the time. That was a very odd wave of

1656
01:25:02,827 --> 01:25:07,347
Speaker 2: introducing that a windn't happened twenty four to six. It

1657
01:25:07,587 --> 01:25:11,387
Speaker 2: was the Sharks meantime, put in a big shift to

1658
01:25:11,467 --> 01:25:14,707
Speaker 2: beat the storm open Gravey for hides on the end

1659
01:25:14,747 --> 01:25:21,987
Speaker 2: girl Kennedy times he beat the past sky Star thirty

1660
01:25:22,107 --> 01:25:24,907
Speaker 2: one twenty six to the Sharks. There to super rugby.

1661
01:25:24,987 --> 01:25:28,307
Speaker 2: The Fiji and Draw ran all over the Western Force

1662
01:25:28,387 --> 01:25:30,667
Speaker 2: in Lautoka, still having a run.

1663
01:25:30,907 --> 01:25:33,627
Speaker 21: They're getting the little Murray So he's not the waiting

1664
01:25:33,667 --> 01:25:36,067
Speaker 21: down the kickdown town really getting back there.

1665
01:25:36,667 --> 01:25:38,387
Speaker 2: That's gonna come back right.

1666
01:25:40,147 --> 01:25:44,867
Speaker 14: Stairs, seller Sino ravel Talamunda.

1667
01:25:45,267 --> 01:25:47,547
Speaker 2: He got right last week. He's got another one to

1668
01:25:47,627 --> 01:25:50,627
Speaker 2: night thirty eight seven easily the Fiji and Drew's biggest

1669
01:25:50,707 --> 01:25:54,907
Speaker 2: winning margin of the season. The Brumby's moontime moved almost unnoticed.

1670
01:25:55,067 --> 01:25:56,307
Speaker 2: That has to be said on this side of the

1671
01:25:56,387 --> 01:25:58,467
Speaker 2: Tasman to the top of the table with a twenty

1672
01:25:58,587 --> 01:26:01,147
Speaker 2: four to fourteen went over the reds passing you itches out.

1673
01:26:01,307 --> 01:26:03,147
Speaker 14: It pulls the past beautifully.

1674
01:26:03,347 --> 01:26:06,067
Speaker 2: Oh they're right here, they're wrong, big time bright gun

1675
01:26:06,147 --> 01:26:11,787
Speaker 2: thing so too. Rosy tis post of the year and

1676
01:26:11,947 --> 01:26:15,347
Speaker 2: he celebrates a wake and sees him right stime with

1677
01:26:15,467 --> 01:26:18,507
Speaker 2: Oki Rugby and to the peg. Four Women's competition the

1678
01:26:18,547 --> 01:26:21,267
Speaker 2: Wallaroo's too strong for the United States.

1679
01:26:21,267 --> 01:26:24,747
Speaker 1: As the home side and a Lemon safety marks and

1680
01:26:24,867 --> 01:26:27,107
Speaker 1: the other Marthe.

1681
01:26:28,347 --> 01:26:30,787
Speaker 2: Again so strong shot.

1682
01:26:30,627 --> 01:26:34,227
Speaker 1: Balanced this time to ash Fasters with a second.

1683
01:26:33,947 --> 01:26:37,267
Speaker 2: Truck twenty seven nineteen they ran out winners to Formula one.

1684
01:26:37,427 --> 01:26:41,947
Speaker 2: Oscar Piastree has continued his strong form heading into tomorrow

1685
01:26:42,027 --> 01:26:43,707
Speaker 2: morning's Italian Grand Prix.

1686
01:26:43,907 --> 01:26:48,067
Speaker 1: Maks for Stafford currently splitting the two McLaren's fastest in

1687
01:26:48,187 --> 01:26:51,667
Speaker 1: that first sector poll here last year ensured him.

1688
01:26:51,747 --> 01:26:53,107
Speaker 2: That he could hold onto the win.

1689
01:26:53,587 --> 01:26:54,587
Speaker 19: Can he do it again?

1690
01:26:55,067 --> 01:26:56,467
Speaker 2: No, we can't. I.

1691
01:26:56,707 --> 01:27:00,587
Speaker 3: Oscar Piastree secures pole position.

1692
01:27:00,587 --> 01:27:04,387
Speaker 2: And finally Stephen Elker just two shots back in the

1693
01:27:04,627 --> 01:27:08,467
Speaker 2: tradition as he looked to win another senior golf major.

1694
01:27:08,707 --> 01:27:10,947
Speaker 2: Just anito and here for Steven Arker down and went

1695
01:27:11,067 --> 01:27:11,707
Speaker 2: out of the rake.

1696
01:27:12,507 --> 01:27:20,787
Speaker 8: Tevelman, Oh yes, favorable little hop three great shots, two misses.

1697
01:27:20,947 --> 01:27:22,347
Speaker 2: Can alca make the birdie?

1698
01:27:22,547 --> 01:27:25,387
Speaker 15: Kind of take advantage of these race there analyzing every

1699
01:27:25,507 --> 01:27:28,987
Speaker 15: view from every angle in the sporting world weekends for

1700
01:27:29,147 --> 01:27:32,427
Speaker 15: it with Jason Vye call eight hundred and eighty eighty

1701
01:27:32,827 --> 01:27:33,347
Speaker 15: talks end.

1702
01:27:33,587 --> 01:27:35,507
Speaker 2: At the time of it. Stephen Elk is having doing

1703
01:27:35,867 --> 01:27:40,067
Speaker 2: great things on the Seniors Tour, speaking of golf and

1704
01:27:40,267 --> 01:27:43,387
Speaker 2: up and down round for Kiwi Ryan Fox, but he

1705
01:27:43,467 --> 01:27:45,827
Speaker 2: remains on track for a top twenty finish at the

1706
01:27:45,907 --> 01:27:49,707
Speaker 2: year second major, the PGA Championship in Charlotte. He's parted

1707
01:27:49,747 --> 01:27:53,507
Speaker 2: a third round one over seventy two, mixing six bogies

1708
01:27:53,587 --> 01:27:57,347
Speaker 2: with five birdies. He's tied seventeenth three under for the tournament.

1709
01:27:57,667 --> 01:28:01,387
Speaker 2: Scottie Sheffler has the outright lead by three at eleven under,

1710
01:28:01,827 --> 01:28:04,667
Speaker 2: with birdies on seventeen and then on eighteen.

1711
01:28:05,147 --> 01:28:07,827
Speaker 15: So this for sixty on the round of the day

1712
01:28:08,787 --> 01:28:11,147
Speaker 15: and a three shot lead heading into the final round.

1713
01:28:14,387 --> 01:28:16,587
Speaker 2: It's a Cheffer showcase performance.

1714
01:28:19,107 --> 01:28:23,347
Speaker 6: Scotty's thinking, what green mile five under the last five

1715
01:28:23,467 --> 01:28:24,067
Speaker 6: holes for the.

1716
01:28:24,067 --> 01:28:28,267
Speaker 2: World number one? We're could have talking to I'll play

1717
01:28:28,307 --> 01:28:30,267
Speaker 2: in take the ball out of the cup.

1718
01:28:30,427 --> 01:28:34,347
Speaker 15: He was charged and they're channing Scottie here in Charlotte.

1719
01:28:34,307 --> 01:28:38,067
Speaker 2: They're channing Scotty. Indeed, Scotty Scheffler with a sixty five

1720
01:28:38,187 --> 01:28:41,627
Speaker 2: in the third round is his final few holes quite remarkable.

1721
01:28:42,147 --> 01:28:45,867
Speaker 2: He had a birdie on twelve, then a bogie on thirteen,

1722
01:28:46,067 --> 01:28:50,427
Speaker 2: an eagle on fourteen, bertie on fifteen, part sixteen birdied seventeen,

1723
01:28:50,947 --> 01:28:54,667
Speaker 2: birdied eighteen. Let's bring in Grahame Agars to wrap the

1724
01:28:54,787 --> 01:28:57,227
Speaker 2: round and look ahead to round four. I guess you

1725
01:28:57,347 --> 01:28:59,347
Speaker 2: look at that from Scotty Scheffer. Could that be the

1726
01:28:59,427 --> 01:29:01,907
Speaker 2: defining five or six holes for him, Graham? Could that

1727
01:29:02,027 --> 01:29:05,307
Speaker 2: be the stretch that wins him the PGA Championship?

1728
01:29:06,907 --> 01:29:10,147
Speaker 14: Yeah, could well be. That eagle, by the way, was

1729
01:29:10,187 --> 01:29:13,507
Speaker 14: a two on a par four, which makes it more

1730
01:29:13,787 --> 01:29:17,867
Speaker 14: impressive than a three on a par five. But Scotty

1731
01:29:17,987 --> 01:29:21,987
Speaker 14: played what they call the Green Mile the last three

1732
01:29:22,067 --> 01:29:26,347
Speaker 14: holes better than anybody did all day. It was treacherous.

1733
01:29:26,987 --> 01:29:29,627
Speaker 14: It was very windy today and it brought undone a

1734
01:29:29,707 --> 01:29:33,707
Speaker 14: lot of big name including Brython Deschambeau, who was in contention,

1735
01:29:34,627 --> 01:29:39,707
Speaker 14: Tilly tangled with that Green Mile, and also John Rahm

1736
01:29:40,147 --> 01:29:42,427
Speaker 14: who dropped back a little bit along that Green Mile

1737
01:29:42,507 --> 01:29:47,107
Speaker 14: as well. So Scheffler is doing what Scotty Cheffler normally does,

1738
01:29:47,307 --> 01:29:50,867
Speaker 14: just quietly go about his business, and then suddenly you

1739
01:29:50,947 --> 01:29:52,907
Speaker 14: look at the top of the leaderboard and there he is,

1740
01:29:53,067 --> 01:29:56,947
Speaker 14: going away from everybody. He's got a three shot lead

1741
01:29:57,587 --> 01:30:01,827
Speaker 14: going into the final round over Alex Norn, a Swede

1742
01:30:02,587 --> 01:30:06,027
Speaker 14: who's better than a journeyman, but certainly not a big

1743
01:30:06,147 --> 01:30:10,227
Speaker 14: time one major championship winner, and he's only played two

1744
01:30:10,307 --> 01:30:13,507
Speaker 14: tournaments this year, having been out injured for the whole season.

1745
01:30:14,107 --> 01:30:15,827
Speaker 14: You've got to go all the way back to six

1746
01:30:15,947 --> 01:30:20,547
Speaker 14: under define John Rahm, who's showing some decent form finally

1747
01:30:21,707 --> 01:30:25,507
Speaker 14: in the majors, and a shot further back, sixth back

1748
01:30:26,067 --> 01:30:29,147
Speaker 14: Bryson de Shamba, who, as I said, made a mess

1749
01:30:29,267 --> 01:30:33,347
Speaker 14: of the closing hole. So Scotty Scheffler has laid down

1750
01:30:33,387 --> 01:30:35,427
Speaker 14: the gaunt and to the rest of the field, he

1751
01:30:35,587 --> 01:30:39,787
Speaker 14: started the season slowly after injuring his hand. But the

1752
01:30:39,867 --> 01:30:42,027
Speaker 14: bad news for the rest of the field is he's

1753
01:30:42,147 --> 01:30:46,347
Speaker 14: back and he's ready to start winning again, and he's

1754
01:30:46,387 --> 01:30:48,507
Speaker 14: about to pick up his third major. As far as

1755
01:30:48,587 --> 01:30:49,627
Speaker 14: I'm concerned, yeah, it.

1756
01:30:49,627 --> 01:30:52,467
Speaker 2: Looks very likely. So with a three shot lead over

1757
01:30:52,707 --> 01:30:55,147
Speaker 2: the field, and as you say, more than that over

1758
01:30:55,227 --> 01:30:58,187
Speaker 2: the guys who you expect would make a run, how

1759
01:30:58,227 --> 01:31:00,827
Speaker 2: will Scotty Schiffler approach the fourth round? What does Scotty

1760
01:31:00,867 --> 01:31:03,227
Speaker 2: Shiffer do when he's got a three stroke lead hitting

1761
01:31:03,227 --> 01:31:04,627
Speaker 2: into the fourth round of golf tournament.

1762
01:31:06,347 --> 01:31:09,867
Speaker 14: He's getting used to it. He's let me see, I

1763
01:31:09,947 --> 01:31:12,707
Speaker 14: think The stats are that he's had fifty four hole

1764
01:31:12,827 --> 01:31:17,067
Speaker 14: league tournaments on the PGA Tour on seven occasions, and

1765
01:31:17,187 --> 01:31:20,467
Speaker 14: he's brought every single one of them home. So the

1766
01:31:20,547 --> 01:31:24,427
Speaker 14: odds are certainly in his favor, and it happens because

1767
01:31:25,347 --> 01:31:27,667
Speaker 14: he just knows how to go about his business. He's

1768
01:31:27,747 --> 01:31:32,147
Speaker 14: not a flamboyant player like De'shambeau who plays for the crowd.

1769
01:31:33,267 --> 01:31:35,427
Speaker 14: He's not a grumpy player. He might have been when

1770
01:31:35,467 --> 01:31:37,667
Speaker 14: he was a junior, but he's certainly not now because

1771
01:31:37,707 --> 01:31:42,307
Speaker 14: he's caddy keeps him calm and he's learned to just focused,

1772
01:31:42,507 --> 01:31:45,707
Speaker 14: as boring as it is, on one shot at a time.

1773
01:31:45,827 --> 01:31:49,067
Speaker 14: If he makes a bogey, he has the best bounced

1774
01:31:49,147 --> 01:31:52,147
Speaker 14: back statistic on the PGA Tour that is making a

1775
01:31:52,187 --> 01:31:55,027
Speaker 14: birdie on the very next hole. So he's just got

1776
01:31:55,227 --> 01:31:58,747
Speaker 14: all the tools that he needs to be a great player.

1777
01:31:58,947 --> 01:32:01,547
Speaker 14: And as I said, this would be his third major.

1778
01:32:01,627 --> 01:32:06,147
Speaker 14: But you know, we're looking really at a hole of

1779
01:32:06,667 --> 01:32:10,267
Speaker 14: career starting out here, and if he can keep up

1780
01:32:10,347 --> 01:32:13,987
Speaker 14: this sort of play and not get injured, the sky

1781
01:32:14,147 --> 01:32:16,067
Speaker 14: is a limit for him because there's just not a

1782
01:32:16,107 --> 01:32:20,387
Speaker 14: weakness in his bag. Last season, there was a little

1783
01:32:20,427 --> 01:32:23,747
Speaker 14: bit of doubt about his putting. He took some advice

1784
01:32:23,827 --> 01:32:27,707
Speaker 14: from Rory McElroy change from a blade putter to a

1785
01:32:27,867 --> 01:32:30,827
Speaker 14: mallet a big headed putter, and that seems to have

1786
01:32:30,947 --> 01:32:34,707
Speaker 14: solved that problem. So there's no weakness there and everybody

1787
01:32:34,787 --> 01:32:36,667
Speaker 14: else in the field knows it. So that helps him

1788
01:32:36,667 --> 01:32:37,547
Speaker 14: as well to.

1789
01:32:37,587 --> 01:32:41,627
Speaker 2: Give hope then to the others. Graham, there do seem

1790
01:32:41,667 --> 01:32:43,107
Speaker 2: to be a lot of holes on this golf course

1791
01:32:43,147 --> 01:32:46,147
Speaker 2: that are that are available for birdie, a lot of

1792
01:32:46,187 --> 01:32:49,027
Speaker 2: birdies being made, but by the same token, quite a

1793
01:32:49,067 --> 01:32:51,867
Speaker 2: few buggies as well. But is there something to give

1794
01:32:51,907 --> 01:32:54,787
Speaker 2: hope to the chasing pack that they can shoot low

1795
01:32:54,867 --> 01:32:55,427
Speaker 2: on this course?

1796
01:32:57,307 --> 01:33:00,267
Speaker 14: Yeah. The opening three holes are very difficult, so you

1797
01:33:00,347 --> 01:33:04,107
Speaker 14: don't see too many birdies there, and the closing three

1798
01:33:04,187 --> 01:33:07,947
Speaker 14: holes the Green mile are credibly difficult, particularly when it

1799
01:33:08,067 --> 01:33:11,347
Speaker 14: was windy like it was today, because there's water in

1800
01:33:11,427 --> 01:33:15,187
Speaker 14: play on every one of those holes. But the middle holes,

1801
01:33:16,187 --> 01:33:19,227
Speaker 14: you know, from four three to fifteen, there's plenty of

1802
01:33:19,267 --> 01:33:23,027
Speaker 14: holes out there, drivable par four's, easily reachable par fives

1803
01:33:23,787 --> 01:33:27,587
Speaker 14: that can give someone who has a hot day a

1804
01:33:27,747 --> 01:33:31,787
Speaker 14: chance to post, to come from behind. But you know,

1805
01:33:31,907 --> 01:33:34,147
Speaker 14: I'm thinking, and have thought most of the week at

1806
01:33:34,147 --> 01:33:38,667
Speaker 14: about thirteen under wins this championship. So Shefflin needs to

1807
01:33:38,747 --> 01:33:41,107
Speaker 14: go three under for the day and his score so

1808
01:33:41,267 --> 01:33:45,347
Speaker 14: far sixty nine, sixty eight, sixty five. But for the

1809
01:33:45,467 --> 01:33:49,667
Speaker 14: John Rams and the Shambows of the world, they're going

1810
01:33:49,747 --> 01:33:53,387
Speaker 14: to have to post near record low final rounds in

1811
01:33:53,547 --> 01:33:57,187
Speaker 14: majors to catch him. So that works in his advantage

1812
01:33:57,187 --> 01:33:59,227
Speaker 14: as well. But there are a group of holes, as

1813
01:33:59,267 --> 01:34:02,707
Speaker 14: I said, the sort of middle stage of the golf

1814
01:34:02,787 --> 01:34:05,827
Speaker 14: course where low numbers are available, but you're going to

1815
01:34:05,867 --> 01:34:07,467
Speaker 14: have to be on your game to get them.

1816
01:34:08,267 --> 01:34:10,227
Speaker 2: Well, let's say I look at Ryan Fox, so, as

1817
01:34:10,227 --> 01:34:13,707
Speaker 2: I say, a third round one over seventy two sex

1818
01:34:13,787 --> 01:34:15,907
Speaker 2: bogies with five birdies, which has been the story of

1819
01:34:15,987 --> 01:34:18,907
Speaker 2: his tournament, really fourteen birdies at the tournament, which is

1820
01:34:18,987 --> 01:34:21,507
Speaker 2: fourth equal, but he's made eleven bogies. So when you

1821
01:34:21,587 --> 01:34:23,947
Speaker 2: see score cards like that, what does that tell you

1822
01:34:23,987 --> 01:34:26,067
Speaker 2: about the way that Ryan Fox is playing this tournament?

1823
01:34:27,867 --> 01:34:28,027
Speaker 15: Yeah?

1824
01:34:28,067 --> 01:34:30,107
Speaker 14: I looked up in excuse me, I looked up his

1825
01:34:30,147 --> 01:34:32,747
Speaker 14: stats just to see what was going on, and they

1826
01:34:32,787 --> 01:34:35,187
Speaker 14: didn't surprise me. And it tends to point out the

1827
01:34:35,267 --> 01:34:37,947
Speaker 14: weakness and the reason he's gone backwards instead of forwards

1828
01:34:38,627 --> 01:34:43,147
Speaker 14: is he's number thirteen in distance for the players in

1829
01:34:43,187 --> 01:34:45,707
Speaker 14: the field, and there's seventy four of them left, so

1830
01:34:45,867 --> 01:34:50,307
Speaker 14: that is as expected he smashes it. He's number thirty

1831
01:34:50,387 --> 01:34:54,467
Speaker 14: four in driving accuracy, which is also excellent for somebody

1832
01:34:54,507 --> 01:34:57,067
Speaker 14: who hits it a long way, so there's no problems

1833
01:34:57,147 --> 01:35:00,107
Speaker 14: for him off the tee. His problem is that he's

1834
01:35:00,227 --> 01:35:04,787
Speaker 14: sixty out of seventy four in putting, and that's what's

1835
01:35:04,867 --> 01:35:08,067
Speaker 14: dropped him down. I watched a few of his holes

1836
01:35:08,107 --> 01:35:10,907
Speaker 14: today and there are a couple of really shaky puts.

1837
01:35:10,947 --> 01:35:14,067
Speaker 14: One that he missed from about four feet that barely

1838
01:35:14,187 --> 01:35:17,427
Speaker 14: reached a hole. So that's where the issue is. And

1839
01:35:17,987 --> 01:35:20,547
Speaker 14: it's not a good issue to have on these greens

1840
01:35:20,587 --> 01:35:24,747
Speaker 14: here because after five days of rain leading into the championship,

1841
01:35:24,827 --> 01:35:27,907
Speaker 14: the greens that now recovered and a rock hard and

1842
01:35:28,387 --> 01:35:31,507
Speaker 14: super fast, So if you're worried about your putting it all,

1843
01:35:32,107 --> 01:35:34,747
Speaker 14: that's where you're going to struggle. So after tea he's

1844
01:35:34,827 --> 01:35:38,227
Speaker 14: doing fine. It's just around the greens that he's having trouble.

1845
01:35:38,627 --> 01:35:40,307
Speaker 2: In many ways, it's a bit of a free hit,

1846
01:35:40,387 --> 01:35:42,307
Speaker 2: doesn't it. I'm not sure you can say that about

1847
01:35:42,307 --> 01:35:43,787
Speaker 2: a major, but of course, he didn't even think he

1848
01:35:43,907 --> 01:35:45,947
Speaker 2: was going to be here, Graham until he won at

1849
01:35:45,987 --> 01:35:49,627
Speaker 2: Myrtle Beach a week ago. Can you forgive Ryan Fox

1850
01:35:49,707 --> 01:35:52,667
Speaker 2: for perhaps, I don't know, being a bit fatigued after

1851
01:35:52,707 --> 01:35:55,587
Speaker 2: four straight tournaments, the elation of winning on the PGA

1852
01:35:55,707 --> 01:35:57,467
Speaker 2: Tour for the first time. Will these sorts of things

1853
01:35:57,547 --> 01:35:59,147
Speaker 2: be affecting him at all?

1854
01:36:00,667 --> 01:36:01,267
Speaker 10: Oh for sure.

1855
01:36:01,787 --> 01:36:03,707
Speaker 14: I mean he had a big hurdle to climb. First

1856
01:36:03,707 --> 01:36:06,267
Speaker 14: of all, you've got to deal with the letdown arp

1857
01:36:06,427 --> 01:36:09,547
Speaker 14: to a win, and everybody in the world suffers from

1858
01:36:09,587 --> 01:36:13,667
Speaker 14: addixcept tiger Woods or used to. It never seems the

1859
01:36:13,747 --> 01:36:17,147
Speaker 14: worry tick. He just picked up and started a new tournament.

1860
01:36:17,547 --> 01:36:21,827
Speaker 14: But then he's making a major championship, and he's coming

1861
01:36:21,907 --> 01:36:26,587
Speaker 14: in in very difficult circumstances because one of his planned

1862
01:36:26,667 --> 01:36:30,587
Speaker 14: practice rounds was completely washed out, so he only basically

1863
01:36:30,667 --> 01:36:33,147
Speaker 14: got one look at the course before he went out there.

1864
01:36:33,947 --> 01:36:37,907
Speaker 14: And the fairways, as has been discussed, were very very

1865
01:36:38,027 --> 01:36:40,867
Speaker 14: wet for the first two days. In fact, the first

1866
01:36:40,947 --> 01:36:43,707
Speaker 14: day they really should have played left, clean and pace

1867
01:36:43,747 --> 01:36:46,907
Speaker 14: as far as I'm concerned, because there were mud balls

1868
01:36:46,947 --> 01:36:50,027
Speaker 14: all over the place which was distorting the scoring. So

1869
01:36:50,507 --> 01:36:52,747
Speaker 14: it was an uphill battle always for him. But if

1870
01:36:53,187 --> 01:36:57,467
Speaker 14: he can manage all that and finish in the top twenty,

1871
01:36:57,827 --> 01:37:01,147
Speaker 14: that would be an excellent result for him. And going ahead,

1872
01:37:01,307 --> 01:37:03,547
Speaker 14: you know, he's got starts in big tournaments now for

1873
01:37:03,627 --> 01:37:06,707
Speaker 14: the rest of the year because he's a PGA two it.

1874
01:37:07,747 --> 01:37:09,587
Speaker 2: I had to scroll quite a way down to find

1875
01:37:09,627 --> 01:37:13,187
Speaker 2: Rory McElroy just speaking of bouncing back from victory. I mean,

1876
01:37:13,307 --> 01:37:16,067
Speaker 2: just such an emotional time for him at the Masters.

1877
01:37:16,507 --> 01:37:19,267
Speaker 2: I found him he had tied forty ninth, seventy four,

1878
01:37:19,387 --> 01:37:23,307
Speaker 2: sixty nine, seventy two. So maybe that proves the point Graham,

1879
01:37:23,347 --> 01:37:26,467
Speaker 2: And it's just so done difficult to win golf tournaments,

1880
01:37:26,507 --> 01:37:26,787
Speaker 2: isn't it.

1881
01:37:28,547 --> 01:37:31,507
Speaker 14: Yeah, it is the other thing that's working against him.

1882
01:37:31,547 --> 01:37:34,947
Speaker 14: This is a story that's actually developing. People don't realize

1883
01:37:34,987 --> 01:37:40,347
Speaker 14: that the rules that govern the faces on golf clubs

1884
01:37:40,467 --> 01:37:44,867
Speaker 14: are very specific these days, and on drivers in particular,

1885
01:37:44,987 --> 01:37:51,227
Speaker 14: because they have a restitution of rebound. In otherwis the

1886
01:37:51,347 --> 01:37:54,147
Speaker 14: face danse a little bit and then strings the ball

1887
01:37:54,187 --> 01:37:56,987
Speaker 14: out when you hit it. And I think the number

1888
01:37:57,067 --> 01:37:59,267
Speaker 14: now is it can't be more than point eight five.

1889
01:37:59,347 --> 01:38:02,267
Speaker 14: And I don't know what point eighty five means. It

1890
01:38:02,387 --> 01:38:05,507
Speaker 14: maybe point eighty three, but it's one of those numbers.

1891
01:38:06,427 --> 01:38:09,987
Speaker 14: So they periodically people from the USGA and the r

1892
01:38:10,067 --> 01:38:13,147
Speaker 14: and A pop out of the tournament and they test

1893
01:38:13,307 --> 01:38:17,187
Speaker 14: the drivers of players at random. And they tested i

1894
01:38:17,267 --> 01:38:20,707
Speaker 14: think up the seventy players here at the PGA, and

1895
01:38:20,907 --> 01:38:24,907
Speaker 14: Rory McElroy's driver was found to be non conforming. In

1896
01:38:25,027 --> 01:38:28,067
Speaker 14: other words, it was hot. So they made him change

1897
01:38:28,147 --> 01:38:29,987
Speaker 14: the head, which you do these days. You don't have

1898
01:38:30,067 --> 01:38:31,707
Speaker 14: to change the whole club. You just screw the head

1899
01:38:31,747 --> 01:38:34,107
Speaker 14: off and put a new one on. And they tested

1900
01:38:34,147 --> 01:38:36,947
Speaker 14: that one and that was okay. Now I'm not saying

1901
01:38:36,987 --> 01:38:40,467
Speaker 14: that Rory was cheating because one of the reasons they

1902
01:38:40,547 --> 01:38:45,347
Speaker 14: do test these clubs the manufacturers of always send them

1903
01:38:45,427 --> 01:38:48,987
Speaker 14: samples when they produce a new driver or new clubs

1904
01:38:49,027 --> 01:38:52,867
Speaker 14: of any sort. But the constant hitting that these guys do,

1905
01:38:53,267 --> 01:38:57,947
Speaker 14: and particularly the power with which McElroy hits, can soften

1906
01:38:58,067 --> 01:39:02,107
Speaker 14: up the face and increase the spring, which gives you

1907
01:39:02,187 --> 01:39:04,627
Speaker 14: a little bit more distant. It may also give you

1908
01:39:04,707 --> 01:39:08,987
Speaker 14: a little bit less control. That could vary. So Rory

1909
01:39:09,107 --> 01:39:12,307
Speaker 14: actually had to take the driver out of the bag,

1910
01:39:12,547 --> 01:39:14,747
Speaker 14: and nobody knows whether it's the one he used at

1911
01:39:14,787 --> 01:39:16,467
Speaker 14: a guster, and even if he did use it at

1912
01:39:16,507 --> 01:39:19,787
Speaker 14: a guster at that stage it could well been legal,

1913
01:39:20,187 --> 01:39:22,067
Speaker 14: but he had to take it out and substitute a

1914
01:39:22,107 --> 01:39:25,387
Speaker 14: brand new head, and he's been spraying them all over

1915
01:39:25,467 --> 01:39:28,147
Speaker 14: the golf course this week. So I think part of

1916
01:39:28,227 --> 01:39:31,187
Speaker 14: his problem is that he's not comfortable with the driver

1917
01:39:31,307 --> 01:39:35,627
Speaker 14: that he's using, even though in all respects it's supposed

1918
01:39:35,667 --> 01:39:38,827
Speaker 14: to be exactly the same as the one he was using,

1919
01:39:39,547 --> 01:39:43,387
Speaker 14: But obviously he's just not comfortable with it, and that's

1920
01:39:43,467 --> 01:39:45,067
Speaker 14: been his biggest problem this week.

1921
01:39:45,307 --> 01:39:49,467
Speaker 2: So interesting, So a compliant head can over time, if

1922
01:39:49,547 --> 01:39:53,667
Speaker 2: you're smack enough golf balls, will it become non compliant.

1923
01:39:55,347 --> 01:39:58,107
Speaker 14: That's correct, that's correct. And there was there was a

1924
01:39:58,187 --> 01:40:03,547
Speaker 14: stage where before they brought in this rebound rule. I

1925
01:40:03,707 --> 01:40:07,307
Speaker 14: call it that the manufacturers were made making hot drivers

1926
01:40:07,347 --> 01:40:09,427
Speaker 14: and I bought one ones just to try it out,

1927
01:40:10,387 --> 01:40:12,867
Speaker 14: and I couldn't control it. Of course, fell over the place.

1928
01:40:13,467 --> 01:40:16,027
Speaker 14: But I've still got it. I've still got it. And

1929
01:40:16,507 --> 01:40:19,867
Speaker 14: there are also people who built hot golf ball, and

1930
01:40:19,987 --> 01:40:23,307
Speaker 14: if you have the combination of a rebound driver and

1931
01:40:23,347 --> 01:40:26,227
Speaker 14: hot golf ball, you can do some quiet things, but

1932
01:40:27,187 --> 01:40:32,507
Speaker 14: it's not legal. So the fact is that these guys

1933
01:40:32,587 --> 01:40:36,227
Speaker 14: do actually damped the driver faces. John Daly was one

1934
01:40:36,227 --> 01:40:38,467
Speaker 14: of the first ones that I knew that dented them

1935
01:40:38,467 --> 01:40:41,267
Speaker 14: on a regular basis, and he had to swap out

1936
01:40:41,307 --> 01:40:45,187
Speaker 14: the whole club because back then, of course, you couldn't

1937
01:40:45,227 --> 01:40:47,387
Speaker 14: just screw on a new head. And I do know

1938
01:40:47,507 --> 01:40:51,347
Speaker 14: that Scottish Scheffler maybe last year or the year before,

1939
01:40:51,387 --> 01:40:54,267
Speaker 14: when he switched to one of these graphite faced drivers,

1940
01:40:54,387 --> 01:40:59,147
Speaker 14: not titanium faced drivers, he actually put a ball through

1941
01:40:59,227 --> 01:41:03,627
Speaker 14: the face on the practice range one day. He'd weakened

1942
01:41:03,667 --> 01:41:07,867
Speaker 14: the face the point where it just cracked. So you know,

1943
01:41:07,987 --> 01:41:13,027
Speaker 14: if technology moves on, so does the testing regime that's

1944
01:41:13,147 --> 01:41:17,427
Speaker 14: necessary to try and keep, you know, these guys within

1945
01:41:17,507 --> 01:41:19,667
Speaker 14: the bounds of the golf course, because if you let

1946
01:41:20,067 --> 01:41:23,667
Speaker 14: technology go crazy, there wouldn't be a golf course in

1947
01:41:23,747 --> 01:41:26,627
Speaker 14: the world that wouldn't become obsolete within two or three years.

1948
01:41:27,107 --> 01:41:30,667
Speaker 2: So interesting, so interesting, always in education. Chatting to your Graham,

1949
01:41:30,707 --> 01:41:33,627
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us as always on weekend Sport this afternoon.

1950
01:41:35,147 --> 01:41:37,867
Speaker 2: It's pleasure indeed, Thanks Jason, Thanks Graham. Gray may Gars

1951
01:41:37,907 --> 01:41:41,347
Speaker 2: there the one and only you always learn something, don't

1952
01:41:41,387 --> 01:41:41,627
Speaker 2: you win?

1953
01:41:41,747 --> 01:41:42,067
Speaker 14: Gray A.

1954
01:41:42,187 --> 01:41:44,587
Speaker 2: Gars is on the radio with us so Scotti. Scheffler

1955
01:41:44,987 --> 01:41:47,267
Speaker 2: is three strokes clear at the top, having fired a

1956
01:41:47,307 --> 01:41:49,827
Speaker 2: sixty nine or sixty eight and a sixty five. Is

1957
01:41:49,867 --> 01:41:53,107
Speaker 2: the only player to have shot three rounds under seventy

1958
01:41:53,187 --> 01:41:55,907
Speaker 2: the three shot lead eleven under the card Alex Norrin

1959
01:41:56,187 --> 01:41:59,867
Speaker 2: is his closest challenger at eight under. Then Davis Riley

1960
01:41:59,987 --> 01:42:03,587
Speaker 2: and JT. Posten are both at seven under, the two Americans,

1961
01:42:04,027 --> 01:42:06,547
Speaker 2: and then a bunch of players at six and five under.

1962
01:42:06,707 --> 01:42:10,307
Speaker 2: Ryan Fox currently tied for seventeenth. He is three under

1963
01:42:10,347 --> 01:42:13,427
Speaker 2: for the tournament, having fired a one over round of

1964
01:42:13,507 --> 01:42:16,347
Speaker 2: seventy two to four under in the first round even

1965
01:42:16,387 --> 01:42:18,827
Speaker 2: par yesterday, one over today, three under for the tournament.

1966
01:42:18,907 --> 01:42:21,587
Speaker 2: Ryan Fox so looking pretty good really if he can.

1967
01:42:22,347 --> 01:42:25,707
Speaker 2: If he can stay solid in the fourth round, stay

1968
01:42:25,747 --> 01:42:28,347
Speaker 2: on par, or maybe even pick up a couple of shots,

1969
01:42:28,507 --> 01:42:31,387
Speaker 2: he may well earn himself a top twenty finish at

1970
01:42:31,427 --> 01:42:34,747
Speaker 2: a major, which, let's not forget, he didn't even expect

1971
01:42:34,827 --> 01:42:37,427
Speaker 2: to be at a week ago. To twenty six on

1972
01:42:37,467 --> 01:42:39,027
Speaker 2: news Talk set be let's take a break and then

1973
01:42:39,507 --> 01:42:42,507
Speaker 2: talk a bit about rexam FC and their visit to

1974
01:42:42,587 --> 01:42:44,827
Speaker 2: New Zealand in the month or so ahead.

1975
01:42:46,187 --> 01:42:49,107
Speaker 1: You be the TMO have your say on eight hundred

1976
01:42:49,107 --> 01:42:52,187
Speaker 1: and eighty ten eighty weekends for It with Jason Pine

1977
01:42:52,347 --> 01:42:56,867
Speaker 1: and GJ. Guvnerholmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder News Talks.

1978
01:42:56,707 --> 01:43:00,347
Speaker 2: NB two twenty nine on News Talks ed B. Wrexham

1979
01:43:00,587 --> 01:43:02,947
Speaker 2: FC are coming down Under for the first time ever

1980
01:43:03,067 --> 01:43:06,227
Speaker 2: this July. They're going to play matches against Melbourne Victory

1981
01:43:06,387 --> 01:43:09,027
Speaker 2: and Sydney FC before meeting the Wellington Phoenix and the

1982
01:43:09,067 --> 01:43:13,467
Speaker 2: Capitol on Saturday, July nineteen. Tickets for that match already

1983
01:43:13,507 --> 01:43:16,307
Speaker 2: on sale, selling pretty strongly from what I understand. This

1984
01:43:16,427 --> 01:43:20,347
Speaker 2: tour takes place off the back of Wrexham's third straight promotion,

1985
01:43:20,867 --> 01:43:23,507
Speaker 2: which we'll see them play in the Championship next season

1986
01:43:23,547 --> 01:43:26,227
Speaker 2: that has just one rung below the Premier League. They

1987
01:43:26,227 --> 01:43:28,307
Speaker 2: are the first club in the history of the Football

1988
01:43:28,387 --> 01:43:32,387
Speaker 2: League to complete back to back to back promotions in

1989
01:43:32,587 --> 01:43:37,467
Speaker 2: three consecutive seasons. REXAMFC CEO is Michael Williamson, who joins

1990
01:43:37,547 --> 01:43:39,427
Speaker 2: us on the show. Michael, thanks for your time. I'm

1991
01:43:39,467 --> 01:43:42,027
Speaker 2: sure there would be many places around the world who

1992
01:43:42,107 --> 01:43:45,267
Speaker 2: would love to have Wrexham pay them a visit. You

1993
01:43:45,307 --> 01:43:48,107
Speaker 2: went to North America in the last two pre seasons.

1994
01:43:48,147 --> 01:43:51,227
Speaker 2: How did you decide upon Australia and New Zealand for

1995
01:43:51,307 --> 01:43:51,987
Speaker 2: this preseason.

1996
01:43:53,507 --> 01:43:54,747
Speaker 22: Well, first, thanks for having me on.

1997
01:43:55,707 --> 01:43:57,987
Speaker 21: Now, as you alluded to, we've done the last couple

1998
01:43:58,187 --> 01:44:01,867
Speaker 21: of preseason preparations in North America. It's been fantastic obviously

1999
01:44:01,947 --> 01:44:04,827
Speaker 21: with the documentary Welcome to Wrexham, which will be coming out.

2000
01:44:05,387 --> 01:44:09,627
Speaker 21: I guess tomorrow morning your time, tomorrow evening our time

2001
01:44:09,667 --> 01:44:12,507
Speaker 21: here this evening in the US, so trying to figure

2002
01:44:12,507 --> 01:44:14,627
Speaker 21: out all the different time zones. But no, it's been

2003
01:44:14,667 --> 01:44:17,027
Speaker 21: fantastic to to be able to engage directly with fans,

2004
01:44:17,027 --> 01:44:19,187
Speaker 21: and in North America it's been been you know great

2005
01:44:19,227 --> 01:44:21,227
Speaker 21: to get out there and and to have the fans

2006
01:44:21,307 --> 01:44:24,227
Speaker 21: be able to experience us in person and to have fan.

2007
01:44:24,227 --> 01:44:25,307
Speaker 22: Zones and engage with them.

2008
01:44:25,987 --> 01:44:28,707
Speaker 21: So obviously we're looking for what the next logical step

2009
01:44:28,947 --> 01:44:31,907
Speaker 21: was with that, and in Australia New Zealand was it

2010
01:44:32,067 --> 01:44:34,907
Speaker 21: was a clear you know, the clear you know front

2011
01:44:34,987 --> 01:44:35,387
Speaker 21: runner in.

2012
01:44:35,387 --> 01:44:37,107
Speaker 22: That and we looked at some of our metrics.

2013
01:44:37,187 --> 01:44:40,947
Speaker 21: We had over four million fans following us on our

2014
01:44:40,947 --> 01:44:44,707
Speaker 21: social media accounts from the region, and then we also

2015
01:44:44,747 --> 01:44:47,747
Speaker 21: looked at the documentary and discovered that you know, for

2016
01:44:48,267 --> 01:44:52,147
Speaker 21: the non scripted series on Disney Plus, for the last

2017
01:44:52,227 --> 01:44:55,947
Speaker 21: three years we ranked number two in the most watched

2018
01:44:56,907 --> 01:45:00,907
Speaker 21: UH non scripted series, behind the Kardassian So somehow Kim

2019
01:45:00,987 --> 01:45:03,307
Speaker 21: Kardassian and the Kardassians still beat us out. But we'll

2020
01:45:03,307 --> 01:45:05,787
Speaker 21: get them, don't worry. Just give us some time season four,

2021
01:45:05,867 --> 01:45:07,347
Speaker 21: I think you I think we'll pull ahead of them.

2022
01:45:07,907 --> 01:45:12,227
Speaker 2: Fantastic. So just on the document series, it's been so popular,

2023
01:45:12,387 --> 01:45:16,107
Speaker 2: immensely popular. Will any filming take place during this trip

2024
01:45:16,187 --> 01:45:16,627
Speaker 2: down under?

2025
01:45:18,107 --> 01:45:18,867
Speaker 7: I mean you'll see that.

2026
01:45:18,907 --> 01:45:23,187
Speaker 21: We always capture you know, content throughout all of our season,

2027
01:45:23,267 --> 01:45:26,267
Speaker 21: starting with the preseason, so storylines start there. I mean,

2028
01:45:26,307 --> 01:45:29,747
Speaker 21: new players come in, old players returning, so you know,

2029
01:45:29,827 --> 01:45:32,947
Speaker 21: definitely that's where the start of the entire season for

2030
01:45:33,147 --> 01:45:36,587
Speaker 21: the documentary initiates. That's where some of the storylines starts

2031
01:45:36,627 --> 01:45:39,227
Speaker 21: to develop. And then you see obviously over the course

2032
01:45:39,267 --> 01:45:42,667
Speaker 21: of the season how things evolve and and you know

2033
01:45:42,707 --> 01:45:45,187
Speaker 21: what underlying themes happen. So yeah, certainly there will be

2034
01:45:45,347 --> 01:45:48,147
Speaker 21: you know, content that's captured during those time periods there.

2035
01:45:48,867 --> 01:45:52,747
Speaker 2: Why do you think the story of Rixham FC has

2036
01:45:52,907 --> 01:45:55,827
Speaker 2: resonated so much with so many people?

2037
01:45:57,547 --> 01:45:59,707
Speaker 21: Yeah, you know, I get asked that question quite often,

2038
01:45:59,787 --> 01:46:01,667
Speaker 21: and I think what it is is that it's a

2039
01:46:01,707 --> 01:46:05,947
Speaker 21: story about a community and a town of people who

2040
01:46:06,027 --> 01:46:08,627
Speaker 21: happen the follow football club. And so when we look

2041
01:46:08,667 --> 01:46:13,107
Speaker 21: at our fans, you know, worldwide, they're not necessarily football fans.

2042
01:46:13,707 --> 01:46:16,267
Speaker 21: They're fans of a story about, you know, people in

2043
01:46:16,347 --> 01:46:19,067
Speaker 21: a community that they can relate to that we have

2044
01:46:19,187 --> 01:46:22,107
Speaker 21: somehow connected to, you know, with the hearts and minds

2045
01:46:22,307 --> 01:46:24,707
Speaker 21: in some sort of emotional level, to say, here's an

2046
01:46:24,747 --> 01:46:28,267
Speaker 21: amazing story that I relate to in some way or another,

2047
01:46:28,987 --> 01:46:30,827
Speaker 21: and that has allowed them to become fans of the

2048
01:46:30,827 --> 01:46:34,227
Speaker 21: football club as a result. And it's truly powerful, powerful

2049
01:46:35,347 --> 01:46:38,027
Speaker 21: to have that kind of connection with fans and with

2050
01:46:38,187 --> 01:46:40,987
Speaker 21: people globally who don't just follow you.

2051
01:46:41,067 --> 01:46:43,587
Speaker 22: Because of the results on the pitch. I mean, that's clearly.

2052
01:46:43,387 --> 01:46:46,427
Speaker 21: Important, but they're following you because of they want to

2053
01:46:46,467 --> 01:46:49,827
Speaker 21: see the success of this town, in this community and

2054
01:46:49,907 --> 01:46:52,227
Speaker 21: first and foremost, and that's what Rob and Ryan have

2055
01:46:52,507 --> 01:46:55,227
Speaker 21: really been able to accomplish and tap in here is

2056
01:46:55,267 --> 01:46:58,467
Speaker 21: because they are truly rooted to being a community football

2057
01:46:58,547 --> 01:47:00,427
Speaker 21: organization first and foremost.

2058
01:47:00,707 --> 01:47:02,307
Speaker 2: Just making all that community. There are a lot of

2059
01:47:02,307 --> 01:47:04,427
Speaker 2: people who have supported Rakesmith's safe for a long, long

2060
01:47:04,507 --> 01:47:08,827
Speaker 2: time lifelong fans. And obviously with with welcome to Raxam

2061
01:47:08,867 --> 01:47:11,787
Speaker 2: and the you know, the ownership change, a lot of

2062
01:47:11,827 --> 01:47:14,107
Speaker 2: new fans have jumped on board. How have the old

2063
01:47:14,187 --> 01:47:16,667
Speaker 2: fans been about that? You know they you know, where

2064
01:47:16,707 --> 01:47:17,787
Speaker 2: were you before.

2065
01:47:20,387 --> 01:47:20,507
Speaker 8: Now?

2066
01:47:20,907 --> 01:47:22,747
Speaker 21: To be very honest, that's the other thing that has

2067
01:47:22,827 --> 01:47:26,107
Speaker 21: made this really special is, you know, people a lot

2068
01:47:26,147 --> 01:47:28,107
Speaker 21: of times say, oh, it's amazing what Rob and Ryan

2069
01:47:28,187 --> 01:47:31,147
Speaker 21: have done for Wrexham and for for the city and

2070
01:47:31,187 --> 01:47:33,547
Speaker 21: the town, and I always correct them and say, they

2071
01:47:33,587 --> 01:47:36,747
Speaker 21: actually haven't done anything for the town. What they've done

2072
01:47:36,867 --> 01:47:39,107
Speaker 21: is shine a spotlight on the people in the town

2073
01:47:39,907 --> 01:47:42,387
Speaker 21: and what that has really comes down to is the

2074
01:47:42,427 --> 01:47:46,147
Speaker 21: fact that they're so warm and welcoming that they've embraced this,

2075
01:47:46,507 --> 01:47:48,147
Speaker 21: and in a way that's humble.

2076
01:47:47,947 --> 01:47:49,907
Speaker 22: Because they're like, you know, I can't believe you're here,

2077
01:47:50,227 --> 01:47:52,987
Speaker 22: you know, in Wrexham. But let me tell you about

2078
01:47:53,027 --> 01:47:53,467
Speaker 22: my story.

2079
01:47:53,507 --> 01:47:56,187
Speaker 21: You're from Australia, you're from New Zealand, you're from Mexico,

2080
01:47:56,307 --> 01:47:59,627
Speaker 21: you're from Norway, you're from you know, the US. Let

2081
01:47:59,867 --> 01:48:01,667
Speaker 21: come let me, you know, come in, have a pine.

2082
01:48:01,787 --> 01:48:04,427
Speaker 21: Let me tell you about Wrexham and that that that warm,

2083
01:48:04,547 --> 01:48:07,867
Speaker 21: welcoming embrace of this has really allowed this to become

2084
01:48:08,267 --> 01:48:12,107
Speaker 21: a global brand while still being very much rooted in

2085
01:48:12,147 --> 01:48:12,627
Speaker 21: the community.

2086
01:48:13,147 --> 01:48:16,187
Speaker 2: So the on field stuff, I know, whenever a new

2087
01:48:16,227 --> 01:48:18,787
Speaker 2: ownership group comes in with a bit of financial clout

2088
01:48:18,827 --> 01:48:22,107
Speaker 2: behind them, the skeptics will say, oh, you're just buying promotions.

2089
01:48:22,667 --> 01:48:24,747
Speaker 2: You know, you're just buying promotion from league to the

2090
01:48:24,827 --> 01:48:27,027
Speaker 2: League one, League one to the Championship. You're just gonna

2091
01:48:27,027 --> 01:48:29,347
Speaker 2: buy your way into the Premier League. What's your response

2092
01:48:29,387 --> 01:48:29,587
Speaker 2: to that.

2093
01:48:31,467 --> 01:48:33,547
Speaker 21: You know, we've been trying to do it and listen,

2094
01:48:33,547 --> 01:48:35,227
Speaker 21: that's why I've been brought in as well, to try

2095
01:48:35,267 --> 01:48:36,507
Speaker 21: to do it in a way that makes sure that

2096
01:48:36,547 --> 01:48:39,667
Speaker 21: we're sustainable, because the worst thing that could happen is

2097
01:48:39,707 --> 01:48:41,987
Speaker 21: for us to arrive to the Premier League and have

2098
01:48:42,147 --> 01:48:44,587
Speaker 21: it and not stay there and ultimately come back down.

2099
01:48:45,227 --> 01:48:48,467
Speaker 21: And once you start to come down in that downward spiral,

2100
01:48:48,547 --> 01:48:50,907
Speaker 21: it could you can get relegated very quickly and find

2101
01:48:50,947 --> 01:48:54,227
Speaker 21: yourself right back into you know, National league again. So

2102
01:48:54,707 --> 01:48:56,587
Speaker 21: to make sure that's not happening, we need to invest

2103
01:48:56,587 --> 01:48:59,307
Speaker 21: in the infrastructure around the club, but we also need

2104
01:48:59,427 --> 01:49:02,067
Speaker 21: to make sure that we're building it in a sustainable way.

2105
01:49:02,467 --> 01:49:04,507
Speaker 21: And when you look at it, this is not something

2106
01:49:04,547 --> 01:49:07,387
Speaker 21: where there's just a bunch of you know, billionaires pumping

2107
01:49:07,467 --> 01:49:11,747
Speaker 21: money into the club. It's actually driven through commercial revenues,

2108
01:49:11,787 --> 01:49:17,307
Speaker 21: through sponsorship, through partnerships, through merchandising. Ironically, not through ticket prices,

2109
01:49:17,387 --> 01:49:19,267
Speaker 21: because we have one of the things is that we've

2110
01:49:19,427 --> 01:49:22,107
Speaker 21: maintained among the lowest ticket prices in each of the

2111
01:49:22,227 --> 01:49:25,867
Speaker 21: leagues that we played in. So the idea, the concept is, yes,

2112
01:49:25,947 --> 01:49:28,667
Speaker 21: we are able to do this. It's certainly a unique

2113
01:49:28,707 --> 01:49:31,707
Speaker 21: model because without the documentary and and the and the

2114
01:49:31,747 --> 01:49:33,947
Speaker 21: global fan base that we have, and without obviously the

2115
01:49:34,067 --> 01:49:39,267
Speaker 21: marketing you know powers of Rob and Ryan Uh, you know, most.

2116
01:49:39,147 --> 01:49:40,227
Speaker 22: Clubs could not do this.

2117
01:49:40,387 --> 01:49:41,907
Speaker 21: But we are able to do this, and we've been

2118
01:49:41,907 --> 01:49:43,627
Speaker 21: able to do it in a way that has been

2119
01:49:43,667 --> 01:49:46,227
Speaker 21: sustainable and not just you know, pumping moneys from an

2120
01:49:46,227 --> 01:49:49,667
Speaker 21: owner that once that owner gets you know, either tired

2121
01:49:49,667 --> 01:49:51,307
Speaker 21: of pumping money into or whatever it might be, no

2122
01:49:51,427 --> 01:49:52,547
Speaker 21: longer decides to do it.

2123
01:49:52,907 --> 01:49:53,627
Speaker 22: That's not the case.

2124
01:49:53,667 --> 01:49:56,827
Speaker 21: We're building a model that is is you know, built

2125
01:49:56,867 --> 01:49:58,947
Speaker 21: in foundations that are sustainable so that once we get

2126
01:49:58,947 --> 01:50:01,267
Speaker 21: to the Premier League, which I'm fully confident we will

2127
01:50:02,627 --> 01:50:05,467
Speaker 21: not saying this year coming up, but you never know.

2128
01:50:06,467 --> 01:50:09,747
Speaker 22: But ultimately, you know, back to back to back to back,

2129
01:50:09,827 --> 01:50:10,867
Speaker 22: that's just a lot of backs.

2130
01:50:10,867 --> 01:50:11,187
Speaker 8: I don't know.

2131
01:50:12,147 --> 01:50:14,627
Speaker 21: I think, you know, for us just being the most

2132
01:50:14,667 --> 01:50:16,347
Speaker 21: important thing is once we get there, when we do

2133
01:50:16,467 --> 01:50:17,987
Speaker 21: get there, that we're able to stay there.

2134
01:50:18,867 --> 01:50:20,987
Speaker 2: You come into this roll, or came to this troll

2135
01:50:21,347 --> 01:50:24,027
Speaker 2: last year with you know, a great save, a many

2136
01:50:24,147 --> 01:50:26,987
Speaker 2: years on the board at into Milan, Michael, what what

2137
01:50:27,627 --> 01:50:30,187
Speaker 2: what is transferable from your time there to your time

2138
01:50:30,267 --> 01:50:31,547
Speaker 2: at Rakes and AFC.

2139
01:50:33,387 --> 01:50:35,987
Speaker 22: Surprisingly, I think I surprised. People want to say it's

2140
01:50:36,067 --> 01:50:36,547
Speaker 22: quite a bit.

2141
01:50:36,707 --> 01:50:40,067
Speaker 21: Actually yes, I mean that Enter is now going to

2142
01:50:40,107 --> 01:50:42,507
Speaker 21: be in a Champions League final here this year. There

2143
01:50:42,547 --> 01:50:44,387
Speaker 21: are two years ago as well, and they're a Champions

2144
01:50:44,507 --> 01:50:48,347
Speaker 21: League club. But when when I came in in twenty twelve,

2145
01:50:49,107 --> 01:50:51,547
Speaker 21: they had come off the Tripletta and they're going through

2146
01:50:52,147 --> 01:50:55,987
Speaker 21: a sort of a restructuring rebuilding of the organization. So

2147
01:50:56,627 --> 01:50:58,587
Speaker 21: it was a lot of change management that had to

2148
01:50:58,627 --> 01:51:04,467
Speaker 21: come in and build staffing, to improve the commercial areas,

2149
01:51:04,707 --> 01:51:06,787
Speaker 21: had to come in and build you know, hr to apartments,

2150
01:51:06,827 --> 01:51:09,587
Speaker 21: had to come in and invest in the training facilities,

2151
01:51:09,587 --> 01:51:12,547
Speaker 21: had to come in and invest in the stadium, you know,

2152
01:51:12,787 --> 01:51:16,387
Speaker 21: develop and connect with our global brand, our global fans worldwide,

2153
01:51:16,747 --> 01:51:19,547
Speaker 21: and as well as going through a change and transformation

2154
01:51:19,707 --> 01:51:21,467
Speaker 21: on the pitch. So if you take all of that,

2155
01:51:21,667 --> 01:51:23,827
Speaker 21: that was all being done to return it back to

2156
01:51:23,947 --> 01:51:26,667
Speaker 21: Champions League because it was a Champions League club. So

2157
01:51:27,307 --> 01:51:30,147
Speaker 21: a lot of those same principles are applied here at Wrexham,

2158
01:51:30,787 --> 01:51:33,027
Speaker 21: obviously not trying to return it to Champions League, but

2159
01:51:33,107 --> 01:51:35,787
Speaker 21: to bring it to Premier League, right, to bring.

2160
01:51:35,667 --> 01:51:37,107
Speaker 22: It to the top level.

2161
01:51:37,947 --> 01:51:40,827
Speaker 21: The same fundamentals still go into place and uh and

2162
01:51:40,907 --> 01:51:42,347
Speaker 21: so a lot of that is transferable, A lot of

2163
01:51:42,347 --> 01:51:45,467
Speaker 21: it has been interesting to to to to apply here. Obviously,

2164
01:51:45,627 --> 01:51:48,747
Speaker 21: you know you have to adapt and and and to

2165
01:51:48,867 --> 01:51:51,467
Speaker 21: the cultures into to the to the actual club and

2166
01:51:51,507 --> 01:51:54,147
Speaker 21: the story of the club and history of club. But

2167
01:51:54,267 --> 01:51:56,747
Speaker 21: it is surprisingly similar and as far as what we

2168
01:51:56,907 --> 01:51:58,547
Speaker 21: have to do and and and how we have to

2169
01:51:58,587 --> 01:52:00,467
Speaker 21: build this to be able to again arrive to the

2170
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Speaker 21: Premier League and stay there.

2171
01:52:01,867 --> 01:52:05,587
Speaker 2: Well, I know this high excitement down Under about Wrexham's arrival,

2172
01:52:05,707 --> 01:52:08,187
Speaker 2: certainly the ballers as well, but I would be remiss

2173
01:52:08,267 --> 01:52:11,787
Speaker 2: not to ask on behalf of our wider audience about

2174
01:52:11,867 --> 01:52:15,787
Speaker 2: the potential of Royan and Rob making the trip. I mean,

2175
01:52:15,827 --> 01:52:18,667
Speaker 2: I'm sure I don't have to sell the virtues of

2176
01:52:18,747 --> 01:52:20,987
Speaker 2: New Zealand to Michael. I know you'll be coming down,

2177
01:52:21,067 --> 01:52:23,347
Speaker 2: But what about Ron and Rob? Any chance they make

2178
01:52:23,387 --> 01:52:24,107
Speaker 2: a flying visit?

2179
01:52:25,267 --> 01:52:25,987
Speaker 14: Am I not enough?

2180
01:52:26,627 --> 01:52:26,907
Speaker 11: A lot?

2181
01:52:27,147 --> 01:52:30,467
Speaker 2: Look like I wasn't suggesting, Well, it's not suggesting that

2182
01:52:30,587 --> 01:52:31,507
Speaker 2: for a second.

2183
01:52:32,187 --> 01:52:34,947
Speaker 22: I have a deep rooted connection to to to the

2184
01:52:35,067 --> 01:52:35,467
Speaker 22: A League.

2185
01:52:35,467 --> 01:52:36,907
Speaker 21: You know. I actually I was at DC night and

2186
01:52:37,027 --> 01:52:39,347
Speaker 21: we had Danny Oss up there and and Fred who

2187
01:52:39,387 --> 01:52:41,747
Speaker 21: was a Brazilian in so you know, I know some

2188
01:52:41,867 --> 01:52:44,667
Speaker 21: of the talents down there, and so I'm excited to

2189
01:52:44,707 --> 01:52:46,507
Speaker 21: see that as far as you know. The question I

2190
01:52:46,547 --> 01:52:48,547
Speaker 21: always get about Rob and Ryan, and what I always

2191
01:52:48,587 --> 01:52:51,067
Speaker 21: say is is it depends a lot on their schedule,

2192
01:52:51,107 --> 01:52:52,187
Speaker 21: so it's to be determined.

2193
01:52:53,027 --> 01:52:54,627
Speaker 22: They obviously are really excited.

2194
01:52:54,667 --> 01:52:57,427
Speaker 21: I was just chatting with them earlier today to to

2195
01:52:58,147 --> 01:53:02,027
Speaker 21: you know, for specifically, Ryan really likes New Zealand as well.

2196
01:53:02,867 --> 01:53:05,987
Speaker 21: But you know, they're they're interested and and and obviously

2197
01:53:06,067 --> 01:53:09,427
Speaker 21: excited about the tour. They've posted an online even this

2198
01:53:09,507 --> 01:53:13,027
Speaker 21: morning and they grind posted again. You know, I think

2199
01:53:13,067 --> 01:53:15,947
Speaker 21: if they're able to come, They certainly would. It just

2200
01:53:16,027 --> 01:53:18,347
Speaker 21: depends on what their film schedule. Well I didn't realize this,

2201
01:53:18,507 --> 01:53:20,627
Speaker 21: you know, not being a Hollywood person, but they actually

2202
01:53:20,667 --> 01:53:22,787
Speaker 21: have full time jobs between.

2203
01:53:22,587 --> 01:53:25,867
Speaker 22: Marketing and filming and editing. And I had no idea.

2204
01:53:25,907 --> 01:53:27,947
Speaker 21: I just assumed they showed up for a couple hours

2205
01:53:28,027 --> 01:53:29,547
Speaker 21: on the set and they got to do all the

2206
01:53:29,587 --> 01:53:32,187
Speaker 21: fun things the Hollywood people do. That's not the case.

2207
01:53:32,787 --> 01:53:34,827
Speaker 21: So but yes, I mean, the answer, short answer is,

2208
01:53:35,227 --> 01:53:37,547
Speaker 21: you know, you never know what to expect. I've walked into,

2209
01:53:38,107 --> 01:53:41,267
Speaker 21: you know, the box at the race course and you know,

2210
01:53:41,347 --> 01:53:43,427
Speaker 21: turn around and there's Channing Tatum and I'm like, what

2211
01:53:43,547 --> 01:53:45,387
Speaker 21: are you doing here? And it's like, oh, just filming

2212
01:53:45,467 --> 01:53:48,747
Speaker 21: a Super Bowl commercial and Eva Ligoria and everyone else.

2213
01:53:48,787 --> 01:53:50,747
Speaker 21: So you never know who's going to show up for

2214
01:53:50,867 --> 01:53:52,947
Speaker 21: a recent match. So yeah, I guess that's the best

2215
01:53:52,947 --> 01:53:53,427
Speaker 21: way to put it.

2216
01:53:53,627 --> 01:53:55,627
Speaker 2: That's a great way of putting it. Look, and you, Michael,

2217
01:53:55,667 --> 01:53:57,427
Speaker 2: you're more than enough. We look forward to seeing you

2218
01:53:57,587 --> 01:54:00,307
Speaker 2: down here down on the during the trip, and we'll

2219
01:54:00,347 --> 01:54:02,507
Speaker 2: keep our rows peeled for any for any sort of

2220
01:54:02,947 --> 01:54:05,307
Speaker 2: celebrities on the periphery. We caunt White to have Rake,

2221
01:54:05,347 --> 01:54:08,387
Speaker 2: someom come down to to New Zealand in particular Michael.

2222
01:54:08,387 --> 01:54:10,067
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us today. We look forward to seeing

2223
01:54:10,067 --> 01:54:10,507
Speaker 2: you in July.

2224
01:54:11,427 --> 01:54:14,227
Speaker 21: We're excited and definitely go out and get your tickets

2225
01:54:14,267 --> 01:54:14,987
Speaker 21: while they're still there.

2226
01:54:15,187 --> 01:54:18,907
Speaker 2: Thanks Michael, I appreciate your time. Rexham CEO Michael Williamson

2227
01:54:19,227 --> 01:54:22,747
Speaker 2: down under Wrexham are headed the game against the Wellington

2228
01:54:22,787 --> 01:54:26,787
Speaker 2: Phoenix in the Capitol on Saturday July nineteen. Coming up

2229
01:54:26,867 --> 01:54:28,747
Speaker 2: nineteen away from three. We'll take a break and then

2230
01:54:28,867 --> 01:54:32,467
Speaker 2: talk to one of our up and coming Para new athletes,

2231
01:54:32,827 --> 01:54:35,387
Speaker 2: Finn Murphy, about to take part in his very first

2232
01:54:35,827 --> 01:54:38,627
Speaker 2: Power World Cup event in Posnan. He's on the show

2233
01:54:38,707 --> 01:54:39,147
Speaker 2: right after this.

2234
01:54:40,027 --> 01:54:43,907
Speaker 1: It's more than just a game. Weekend Sport with Jason

2235
01:54:43,987 --> 01:54:47,987
Speaker 1: Vine and GJ. Gunnomes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder

2236
01:54:48,107 --> 01:54:48,947
Speaker 1: News Dogs.

2237
01:54:48,907 --> 01:54:51,467
Speaker 2: B Coming up sixteen away from three, the pass Nan

2238
01:54:51,587 --> 01:54:54,707
Speaker 2: Canoe Sprint and Parwa Canoe World Cup comes up in

2239
01:54:54,827 --> 01:54:58,507
Speaker 2: the week ahead. Competing in his first ever Power World

2240
01:54:58,587 --> 01:55:01,587
Speaker 2: Cup event will be key we Finn Murphy, a former

2241
01:55:01,707 --> 01:55:05,347
Speaker 2: national rowing champion who lost his leg in a motorcycle

2242
01:55:05,387 --> 01:55:09,427
Speaker 2: accident twenty twenty one. Finn Murphy, as well as great

2243
01:55:09,427 --> 01:55:11,027
Speaker 2: to get the chance to chetty fin. How are the

2244
01:55:11,107 --> 01:55:14,347
Speaker 2: excitement levels as you look forward to your debut World

2245
01:55:14,347 --> 01:55:17,067
Speaker 2: Cup event? Yeah, they're pretty high.

2246
01:55:17,067 --> 01:55:22,027
Speaker 5: A it's I'm currently in Hungary for the new World Cup,

2247
01:55:22,107 --> 01:55:24,827
Speaker 5: which doesn't have a power event, but been near watching

2248
01:55:24,867 --> 01:55:28,307
Speaker 5: the beaverbody athletes compete, and that's that's gemming up pretty hard.

2249
01:55:28,347 --> 01:55:31,307
Speaker 2: So so, yeah, how has your build up been? Tell

2250
01:55:31,387 --> 01:55:33,107
Speaker 2: us about the last little while as you as you

2251
01:55:33,227 --> 01:55:34,427
Speaker 2: build towards Posman.

2252
01:55:35,427 --> 01:55:38,547
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it all happened pretty pretty quick, to be honest.

2253
01:55:38,707 --> 01:55:40,987
Speaker 5: I hadn't really expected to be over here this year.

2254
01:55:41,547 --> 01:55:43,467
Speaker 5: I was expecting to sort of have maybe another year

2255
01:55:43,507 --> 01:55:45,747
Speaker 5: of paddling on my boat before it before I came Ober,

2256
01:55:45,787 --> 01:55:48,067
Speaker 5: but managed to do a really quick time before Christmas.

2257
01:55:49,467 --> 01:55:50,787
Speaker 5: That sort of put me on the radar a bit.

2258
01:55:50,907 --> 01:55:53,027
Speaker 12: And it's so.

2259
01:55:54,907 --> 01:55:56,987
Speaker 5: I won the power event at Nationals and.

2260
01:55:57,707 --> 01:55:58,107
Speaker 14: Here I am.

2261
01:55:58,267 --> 01:56:01,227
Speaker 2: So so which discipline are you competing and and how

2262
01:56:01,307 --> 01:56:02,187
Speaker 2: strong is the field?

2263
01:56:02,547 --> 01:56:06,227
Speaker 5: With the power event? There's three events. There's KAL one

2264
01:56:06,387 --> 01:56:09,347
Speaker 5: through to KL three, with KL three being the lowest

2265
01:56:09,387 --> 01:56:12,307
Speaker 5: level of impairment. So I'm in the KL three events.

2266
01:56:13,347 --> 01:56:15,187
Speaker 5: I've just got to blow in the amputation, which which

2267
01:56:15,307 --> 01:56:20,907
Speaker 5: is pretty ideal in terms of impairment levels. I'm actually

2268
01:56:21,067 --> 01:56:23,307
Speaker 5: not too sure what the what the quality of the

2269
01:56:23,347 --> 01:56:25,147
Speaker 5: competition is going to be like over here this year

2270
01:56:25,187 --> 01:56:28,707
Speaker 5: because it's just af dur An Olympic, Olympic and Paralympic cycles.

2271
01:56:28,747 --> 01:56:30,627
Speaker 2: So a lot of a lot of the.

2272
01:56:31,107 --> 01:56:34,147
Speaker 5: Really competitive athletes have taken six months off post Olympics.

2273
01:56:34,547 --> 01:56:36,747
Speaker 5: If their southern hems for athletes, they probably haven't made

2274
01:56:36,747 --> 01:56:39,667
Speaker 5: their way over to Poznan. And likewise, if they're from

2275
01:56:39,667 --> 01:56:42,227
Speaker 5: the sort of far flung corners of Europe, they might

2276
01:56:42,267 --> 01:56:45,107
Speaker 5: not be over here. But based on what based on

2277
01:56:45,107 --> 01:56:46,867
Speaker 5: the able body athletes, there's a there's a pretty strong

2278
01:56:46,907 --> 01:56:50,547
Speaker 5: contingency of of countries that have come over. So so yeah,

2279
01:56:50,547 --> 01:56:52,227
Speaker 5: it'll be interesting to see see you next week and

2280
01:56:52,267 --> 01:56:55,667
Speaker 5: what what the dealers. But I'm excited anyway, absolutely, and

2281
01:56:55,787 --> 01:56:57,187
Speaker 5: so you should be. How long has this been a

2282
01:56:57,267 --> 01:57:00,267
Speaker 5: goal for you? I mean even even before I opted

2283
01:57:00,307 --> 01:57:02,187
Speaker 5: for the amputation, it was in the back of my mind.

2284
01:57:02,907 --> 01:57:05,827
Speaker 5: I didn't lose my league immediately after my motor accident,

2285
01:57:05,867 --> 01:57:06,987
Speaker 5: so I had a bit of time to sort of

2286
01:57:07,347 --> 01:57:09,667
Speaker 5: think about it, and prior to making the decision to

2287
01:57:09,707 --> 01:57:12,107
Speaker 5: imitate I I was definitely like, well, if I do,

2288
01:57:12,307 --> 01:57:16,507
Speaker 5: then that opens up the opportunity to pursue Olympic goal

2289
01:57:16,587 --> 01:57:19,547
Speaker 5: or something along those lines. So yeah, it's been in

2290
01:57:19,587 --> 01:57:21,067
Speaker 5: the back of my mind for sort of at least

2291
01:57:22,467 --> 01:57:23,667
Speaker 5: three and a half four years now.

2292
01:57:24,547 --> 01:57:28,027
Speaker 2: Tell us about the accident and then the subsequent decision

2293
01:57:28,147 --> 01:57:31,187
Speaker 2: to opt for the amputation that you did.

2294
01:57:32,067 --> 01:57:35,427
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it was I think it was October sixteenth,

2295
01:57:35,467 --> 01:57:38,627
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one. I was on my way to get

2296
01:57:38,667 --> 01:57:41,907
Speaker 5: my second dose to the COVID vaccine, so I helped them.

2297
01:57:41,947 --> 01:57:46,147
Speaker 5: A motorbike was getting into my local GP and on

2298
01:57:46,227 --> 01:57:47,747
Speaker 5: the way there, about four hundred meters down the roof

2299
01:57:47,747 --> 01:57:49,947
Speaker 5: of my house, a band turned in front of me

2300
01:57:50,267 --> 01:57:52,427
Speaker 5: going into a petrol station. My front tire or my

2301
01:57:52,467 --> 01:57:54,707
Speaker 5: motorbike didn't have enough air in it, so when I

2302
01:57:54,707 --> 01:57:56,907
Speaker 5: applied the brakes slipped me off and I went feet

2303
01:57:56,907 --> 01:57:59,027
Speaker 5: first into the side of this van. Pretty much checked

2304
01:57:59,107 --> 01:58:02,307
Speaker 5: my ankle and a million pieces compound pressure of my tip.

2305
01:58:02,387 --> 01:58:05,227
Speaker 5: For Yeah, the league was really the worst, but I

2306
01:58:05,307 --> 01:58:06,707
Speaker 5: had I had a bunch of injuries like a brain

2307
01:58:06,787 --> 01:58:10,827
Speaker 5: lead and spinal fractures, So in terms of how life

2308
01:58:10,867 --> 01:58:12,587
Speaker 5: threatening it was, I had other things going on at

2309
01:58:12,587 --> 01:58:15,107
Speaker 5: the time. Didn't really worry too much about the ankle.

2310
01:58:15,347 --> 01:58:17,467
Speaker 5: But yeah, after after about a year, if I rehab

2311
01:58:17,547 --> 01:58:20,947
Speaker 5: that I had some complications. I've managed to break all

2312
01:58:20,987 --> 01:58:23,507
Speaker 5: the metal fixings and that they put into my ankle.

2313
01:58:23,587 --> 01:58:24,747
Speaker 5: So I was going to have to have some sort

2314
01:58:24,787 --> 01:58:27,547
Speaker 5: of original surgery rather than spend another year going to

2315
01:58:27,587 --> 01:58:27,947
Speaker 5: rehab it.

2316
01:58:28,027 --> 01:58:28,467
Speaker 12: I forget.

2317
01:58:28,507 --> 01:58:30,667
Speaker 5: If I get rid of it, then it's start fresh

2318
01:58:30,747 --> 01:58:32,547
Speaker 5: with an ankle. I can't feel so so do you

2319
01:58:32,587 --> 01:58:32,947
Speaker 5: know it was?

2320
01:58:35,427 --> 01:58:37,667
Speaker 2: I know you've probably told the story a lot of times,

2321
01:58:37,747 --> 01:58:39,987
Speaker 2: but you know it all seems so offhand. I'll just

2322
01:58:40,027 --> 01:58:41,707
Speaker 2: get rid of it. I'll just get rid of my

2323
01:58:41,827 --> 01:58:45,587
Speaker 2: leg below below the knee. But you know, how did

2324
01:58:45,667 --> 01:58:46,787
Speaker 2: you come to that decision?

2325
01:58:47,827 --> 01:58:50,427
Speaker 5: So that in that year that i'd sort of I'd

2326
01:58:50,507 --> 01:58:54,627
Speaker 5: had some in the amputection, I'd been walking with pretty

2327
01:58:54,627 --> 01:58:59,187
Speaker 5: severe arthritis, and my limb was about and shorter than

2328
01:58:59,227 --> 01:59:01,187
Speaker 5: it had been before the accident, so I had a

2329
01:59:01,227 --> 01:59:03,587
Speaker 5: bit of a hobble going on for those things. Factoring

2330
01:59:03,667 --> 01:59:07,947
Speaker 5: in the pain element and permanence of it, amputations a

2331
01:59:08,027 --> 01:59:10,387
Speaker 5: pretty good option as opposed to having arthritis for the

2332
01:59:10,387 --> 01:59:12,027
Speaker 5: rest of my life. And it also meant that if

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Speaker 5: I if I did amputate. I could get my leg

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Speaker 5: to be the same link because the other as my

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Speaker 5: good leg, and that way I wouldn't get authrighters my

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Speaker 5: knee or my hip. Later well, I could at least

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Speaker 5: the later progression of that potentially. So yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 5: how I sort of arrived at the decision.

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Speaker 2: And how did you find your way to power canoeing?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I'd always been interested in the water. I

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Speaker 5: Like I said, I did sort of six seasons of

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Speaker 5: club rowing and then swap to the surfboats. So after

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Speaker 5: that I was sort of looking for something water based

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Speaker 5: and kayaking do the natural option. I thought they'd be

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Speaker 5: quite a bit of crossover between the two between two sports. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it was a good decision. I'm loving loving at the moment,

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Speaker 5: and I think two hundred meter distance is a there's

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Speaker 5: a lot better distance for me than the two thousand

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Speaker 5: meters distance in rowing.

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Speaker 2: So how long did it take you to uh to

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Speaker 2: get used to being in the boat? Did you fall

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Speaker 2: out much?

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Speaker 14: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I was in the water every session pretty

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Speaker 5: much for the first six months. I'd bet my coach

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Speaker 5: made by a wetsuit because because I couldn't train, couldn't

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Speaker 5: train to the winter without going in the water.

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Speaker 14: So it took me.

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Speaker 5: Definitely took me a while to get the hang of

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Speaker 5: the balance. Whereas in a robot it's it's pretty intuitive.

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Speaker 5: With a kayak, it's it's a real skill that you

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Speaker 5: have to sort of work on. It something that even

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Speaker 5: the sort of elites continue to work on well into

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Speaker 5: their careers. So it took a bit.

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Speaker 2: Again used to well, you've obviously mastered up mate, ahead

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Speaker 2: of your first World Cup event, what about if we

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Speaker 2: look forward for other Paralympics in Los Angeles and twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty eight on your radar.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's that's a big one for sure. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: everything everything from now until then will be will be

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Speaker 5: aiming for that ultimate goal of making it to the

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Speaker 5: to the twenty twenty eight Paralympics. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 5: I've got a couple of couple of dates on the

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Speaker 5: horizons to look forward to. I've got the World champ

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Speaker 5: event in August, so I'll be back over in Europe

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Speaker 5: then to compete in that that's in Italy, and then

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Speaker 5: hopefully over the next couple years and can get a

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Speaker 5: few more, you more international events under my belt to

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Speaker 5: get a bit more experience. She's put me in best

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Speaker 5: position for competing in LA.

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Speaker 2: Well, sounds like you're heading in the right direction, Finn.

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Speaker 2: Great to jet to you mate, thanks for telling us

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Speaker 2: your story. All the best in the week ahead at

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Speaker 2: the pos Nan Canoe Sprint and Para Canoe World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Look forward to hearing a lot more about your mate

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Speaker 2: as we head towards the Paralympics in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: That is Finn Murphy joining us on News Talks EDB

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Speaker 2: coming up nine away from three.

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Speaker 1: Let's school from the drag field and the court on

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Speaker 1: your home of sort Weekend Sport with Jason Vine News Talks.

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Speaker 2: NB six and a half away from three. That's pretty

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Speaker 2: much us for weekend Sport, for today and for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Just a reminder that next weekend on Saturday, our show

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Speaker 2: will be coming to you live from Tyler Street.

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Speaker 12: Sport.

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Speaker 2: It is right in the heart of Auckland City at

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Speaker 2: britam Art and has become the home away from home

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Speaker 2: of Auckland FC. It's where they packed it last night

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Speaker 2: to watch the one Ni'll win in the first leg

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Speaker 2: of the semi final against Melbourne Victory. Can only imagine

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Speaker 2: what it's going to be like there next week in

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Speaker 2: the build up to the home leg which kicks off

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Speaker 2: at six o'clock next Saturday at go Media Stadium. I'm

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Speaker 2: told there are still tickets left, but they are expecting

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Speaker 2: them to go. This is for the game itself in

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Speaker 2: the next twenty four to forty eight hours, so if

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Speaker 2: you can to get along to that game then I

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Speaker 2: would not mess about too much. Get on Auckland FC's website,

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Speaker 2: follow your o's and pick yourself up some tickets and

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Speaker 2: we'd love to see you at Tyler Street Sport between

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Speaker 2: midday and three next Saturday for the Weekend Sports Saturday edition.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. Tim

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Speaker 2: beverages on the radio after three o'clock with the Weekend Collective.

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Speaker 2: Huge thanks to any McDonald's always for producing the show

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Speaker 2: exit song today as we continue New Zealand Music Month

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Speaker 2: in May gone with a song that I think skyrocketed

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Speaker 2: into newfound popularity by being involved than an add for bread.

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Speaker 2: You sound sure and your facts they're finding I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: I'm effects very good. I think they used this at

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Speaker 2: the in the Mollenberg, didn't they. I thought they did that.

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Speaker 2: The running chant song. You know we all want our

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Speaker 2: Mollenberg all right, I'm not sure. I know I've always

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Speaker 2: related to this one from Chris Knox. Might have been

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Speaker 2: a bit before my time again, maybe it was. Enjoy

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Speaker 2: the rest of the afternoon. Enjoy yours as well. Chris

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Speaker 2: Knock's not given likely taking us out. We'll see tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night on Sports Talk between seven and eight, when we'll

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Speaker 2: discuss this question. Should Ardie Savilla be All Blacks captain

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Speaker 2: by for now?

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Speaker 5: This isn't easy? Oh might not write enough?

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Speaker 8: You love.

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Speaker 16: You that I true that I am.

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Speaker 17: Very love give it lightly, but I'm here.

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Speaker 5: What is kind of you that it's you.

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Speaker 7: That lightly?

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Speaker 15: But I you that.

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Speaker 5: That I love?

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Speaker 11: What is like?

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Speaker 16: Yet?

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Speaker 11: You love?

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Speaker 5: Get man?

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Speaker 8: You love?

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Speaker 15: What is?

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Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine. Listen live

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Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.