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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talk ZB.

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Speaker 2: James mcconey, a regular part of our Sundays. So much

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Speaker 2: to talk about, James, can we start with all Blacks Ireland.

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Speaker 2: You've given it the overnight test, as we all have.

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Speaker 2: What stands out most about yesterday's one in Dublin for you?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I don't usually do this, pony, but I

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Speaker 3: think I'm ready to talk about tight forwards. I think

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Speaker 3: I am ready fair enough, fair enough, let's do this,

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Speaker 3: Let's do this. I think all Moore was huge. It

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Speaker 3: was a big step up for him because he came

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Speaker 3: in replacing Cody Taylor. Questions about his throwing, but he

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Speaker 3: was massive and that assists the pickup offers bootlacers, so

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Speaker 3: tis he actually had to scoop one up before him

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Speaker 3: as well. But Will Jordan's try our only try, I

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Speaker 3: think was just crucial clutch play from him, and I

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Speaker 3: can't say enough about him. You must have been stoked

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Speaker 3: as a canesman. Oh.

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Speaker 2: I loved it, loved watching a suffer one more and

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Speaker 2: I thought, you know, you talk about core roles. One

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Speaker 2: of these trendy phrases throwing into the line out. There

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Speaker 2: was just that one at the start that was not straight.

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Speaker 2: Ireland didn't contest. There was some confusion around whether that's

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Speaker 2: actually a rule at the moment or not in the

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Speaker 2: Autumn Internationals. But otherwise I think around the field great,

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Speaker 2: he made his tackles and his line out throwing was good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And then beside him, I think our front rowers

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Speaker 3: the props have been outstanding. The reserves coming on Torssi

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Speaker 3: and Talum the fussy the best in the world really

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Speaker 3: in terms of steadying the scrum. They're almost unplayable. You

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Speaker 3: could tell the Irish we're not keen on scrum. The

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Speaker 3: guy with the corners was dreading it when he had

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Speaker 3: to come back on and it's been subbed off and

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Speaker 3: he just said, no, please don't make me base another Behemo.

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Speaker 3: And so I think the other thing is Patrick Tupulto.

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Speaker 3: I just want to give a special shout out to

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Speaker 3: him because I think he's been world class for a

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Speaker 3: long time and a beast for a long time. But

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Speaker 3: we just haven't seen them play in big All Blacks tests,

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Speaker 3: and that's mainly because of Brittallic and white Lock and

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Speaker 3: Scott Barrett. They formed a sort of blockade where you've

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Speaker 3: got your three world class locks, but two plots every

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Speaker 3: bit world class. And so it's actually we're lucky that

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Speaker 3: he's still around and playing at that level, because I

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Speaker 3: don't I think only South Africa can emulate that by

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Speaker 3: bringing it on. R G. Stamen rights as a world

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Speaker 3: class Locke substitute.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Scott Barrett too, Paulvai, who's really come on? And

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Speaker 2: Patrick Tweek Polotto. It's a good little a good little trio,

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Speaker 2: a good big trio of big second rowers to choose from. Hey,

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Speaker 2: now I've done the sums. Twenty three thirteen. That's thirty

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Speaker 2: six points in that game. This morning at TWIG both

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Speaker 2: England and Australia scored that many by themselves forty two

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Speaker 2: thirty seven no defense.

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Speaker 3: I know it's crazy really, but I mean, look, the

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Speaker 3: thing is what they did is by picking Joe Schmidt,

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Speaker 3: by picking Joseph Suele was just straight away gave him

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Speaker 3: X factors, something they've been missing. And it shows the

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Speaker 3: difference of having an X factor player on your team.

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Speaker 3: But the All Blacks have the opposite problem. This is

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Speaker 3: an abundance. You know, we leave someone like you Hoskinsituto

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Speaker 3: at home and then we bring you know, unearthed Satisis.

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Speaker 3: There's no no drama in the end because we were

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Speaker 3: really replacing it with expector. But I think the Wallabies

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Speaker 3: desperately needed that. Jorgensen then his last minute to try

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Speaker 3: And I think if you go back to the Island Test,

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Speaker 3: that's what they missed. They don't really have that much

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Speaker 3: X factor probably And when I say expected, I'm talking

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Speaker 3: about athleticism that can just change the game. They probably

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Speaker 3: haven't had that since Pino DRIs school. But one thing

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Speaker 3: I did want to touch on Piney was how good

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Speaker 3: can Royguard was off the bench. I thought he was exceptional,

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Speaker 3: but in the in the first half, Nick Berry did

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Speaker 3: poor quartiers at art in no favors. It was an

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Speaker 3: absolute shambles. And you know, when he didn't give an

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Speaker 3: Irish player yellow card, I thought, this is the last

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Speaker 3: straw of Berrys. And then now the Irish fans are

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Speaker 3: saying you're like another all black Berry, and then by

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Speaker 3: the end of the game some of them wanted to

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Speaker 3: poison Berry. I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: What a goose berry is anyway, let's move on to

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Speaker 2: that's a little bit unkind but I just wanted to

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Speaker 2: join in really more than any.

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Speaker 3: It's a good one brainstorming with me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Oh love it, love it. Hey.

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Speaker 2: Now, Chris Wood has been named the Premier League's Player

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Speaker 2: of the Month for October a Kiwi winning the Premier

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Speaker 2: League's PFA Player of the Month, which is voted for,

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Speaker 2: as I understand it by his fellow professionals. What an

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Speaker 2: akala for Chris Wood?

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Speaker 3: I know, four goals in three games, just the difference

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Speaker 3: make owning the stage. And I think I said to

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Speaker 3: you before that without Harry Kane there, they have to

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Speaker 3: talk about someone and it's now Chris Wood when it

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Speaker 3: comes to strikers because you've got Arling Harlan and the

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Speaker 3: next name on everybody's lips is Chris Wood, which is

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Speaker 3: wonderful to see. I don't think you know there's never

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Speaker 3: been a New Zealand player that's one Premier League Player

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Speaker 3: of the Month or Nottingham Forest player. You go back

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Speaker 3: and it's all the big clubs with a couple of outliers.

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Speaker 3: But what I think it does because what's happened here

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Speaker 3: is Forest are third on the table. So you're Liverpool

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Speaker 3: second Man it's Forrest and Brighton, and I'm thinking, could

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Speaker 3: Forrest or Brighton do what listed it in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 3: and be you know, absolute anomally winning the Premier League?

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Speaker 3: And well maybe they could, but unfortunately I think Brighton

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Speaker 3: are better equipped to do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I feel like that too, and I don't know

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Speaker 2: whether either of them will. I would love to see it,

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Speaker 2: and even the Liverpool fan and me would love to

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Speaker 2: see it because Lester is one of the all time

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Speaker 2: great Premier League stories. But yeah, I just wonder, well,

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Speaker 2: who knows. We're only ten or eleven games and aren't

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Speaker 2: we so not even a better third of the way

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Speaker 2: through the season, so who knows? But I think what

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Speaker 2: it's done for Forrest though, is getting these points early

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Speaker 2: to go through a bit of a slump mid season

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Speaker 2: or early in the new year, and you're still going

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Speaker 2: to be okay. You're not going to find yourself in

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Speaker 2: a relegation battle because you've already you've already banked a

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Speaker 3: Of the season, exactly. And one thing like people out

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Speaker 3: there is I'm vaguely aware of Chris Wood. What why

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Speaker 3: is he so good? What's he like? Well, the thing

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Speaker 3: about Chris Wood is he doesn't get many chances and

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Speaker 3: he buries them. So this is the thing if you

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Speaker 3: are if you compare him to say Gabrielle Jesus, He's

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Speaker 3: they've both got a similar amount of Premier League goals.

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Speaker 3: Chris Wood is actually a head on seventy seven. He's Jesus'

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Speaker 3: seventy three, but bluddy Jesus player has played at the

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Speaker 3: Man City at Arsenal, meaning how many chances he gets

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Speaker 3: every single game. I mean out there, Chris Wood is

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Speaker 3: out there starving for chances and makes it count and

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Speaker 3: he's just clinical. And yeah he's a six yard box,

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Speaker 3: big heading center forward, but he can score them from anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yep. They all count for one, hey, quickly on the

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Speaker 2: black Caps. We're in a T twenty series over in

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Speaker 2: five all out in the twentieth over in the first one,

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Speaker 2: Shri Lanka got there with an over despair, Zach Folks.

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Speaker 2: Though he scored twenty seven off sixteen balls batting it

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Speaker 2: and gets three for twenty. Who is Zach Folks?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? Good question? Who is Zach Folks? Well, he's from Canterbury.

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Speaker 3: I think he went to Sir Andrews. He's a tall

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Speaker 2: This is the thing.

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Speaker 3: The pr machine does not work well enough for cricket

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Speaker 3: that we're going Who is Zach Folks? He made his

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Speaker 3: dable in April Pony and you think about any orbit

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Speaker 3: they are and what they had for breakfast with Replex responsors.

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Speaker 3: But this is the thing, Zach Folks. We've got to

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Speaker 3: get used to some of these names because I know

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Speaker 3: T twenty isn't that important, but we should be knowing,

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Speaker 3: you know, newcomers to our major national teams. I think.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And just to finish, speaking of cricket, the test

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Speaker 2: which is the Suzy Cricket documentary has been released or

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Speaker 2: the promo has anyway, they don't mind throwing the odd

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Speaker 3: The Australians honestly watch this promos. It's hilarious. It's all

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Speaker 3: the bad is Steve Smith, David Warner. I think it's

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Speaker 3: Travis head All losing the plot. Warner versus the water

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Speaker 3: the bowlers are just sort of chilling out, going on.

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Speaker 3: There they go again. And it reminded me that I've

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Speaker 3: been a journal for a while, Pony, and I've interviewed

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Speaker 3: so many Australian cricketers over the years. A lot of

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Speaker 3: bowlers never had a problem with him, always enjoyed them.

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Speaker 3: Craig McDermitt moves tough, Shane Warren, Grett Lee great guy,

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Speaker 3: Jason Gillispie even better. Richard Johnson, you know, always had

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Speaker 3: time for you. But batners all nuts, all of them.

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Speaker 3: And I mean so am I so I can spot one.

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Speaker 3: But I'm telling you the Australian batners as a breed

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Speaker 2: Well, it's proven yet again in this promo which I've

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Speaker 2: also seen, James and I can totally concur with what

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Speaker 2: you say. Good on your mate. Always good to chat,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for thanks for taking our callers. Always on a

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