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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks.

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Speaker 2: EDB afternoon they play the rabbit O's in Sydney from

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Speaker 2: four o'clock. Worry is half back Luke Metcalfe turning a

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Speaker 2: lot of heads this season.

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Speaker 3: So metcalf to the game.

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Speaker 1: Justin she is good.

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Speaker 3: Sa does his legs go out from Yes they do? Yes,

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Speaker 3: the price savor from metcalf It's a beauty metcalf.

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Speaker 1: He is thinking one pointer and he's got it. It

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Speaker 1: stays inside the right up right they go early.

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Speaker 3: Metcalf takes them one. A trice saving tackle from metcalf

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Speaker 3: on tew Loggy has provenily the difference and may those Feds.

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Speaker 2: Celebrate here some of his many highlights this season. Luke Metcalf,

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Speaker 2: as will us, thanks for joining us on game day. Luke,

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Speaker 2: your five game winning streak came to an end last

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Speaker 2: weekend against Canberra. As you've reviewed that, what sort of things.

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Speaker 2: Here's the review of that game, throwing up ahead of

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Speaker 2: this next game this afternoon against the rabbit Os.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously it was good to we went and we'll

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Speaker 4: run there to get some wins. But yeah, no, just

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Speaker 4: sort of like we'll happy like with our defense against

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Speaker 4: the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, just sort of want.

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Speaker 4: To get get back to what winds us games and

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Speaker 4: know what I mean, does like all that hard sort

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Speaker 4: of effort stuff that we've been priding ourselves signing attack

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Speaker 4: and defense.

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Speaker 3: Get back to that and hopefully get back in the

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Speaker 3: winners circle.

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Speaker 2: Each time you've lost this season, which hasn't been very often,

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Speaker 2: you've bounced back with an impressive win. You beat the

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Speaker 2: Sea Eagles after losing to the Raiders in Vegas, you

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Speaker 2: beat the Broncos after losing to the Storm. How much

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Speaker 2: do defeats fuel you as a team to quickly put

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Speaker 2: things right the next week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're right, it's pretty easy to sort of

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Speaker 3: recreate a bit of hunger after you do have a loss, Yes,

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Speaker 3: because you always what you want to go out there

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Speaker 3: and right you're wrongs. So yeah, it's never nice to lose.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, that sort of a positive comes out of it,

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Speaker 4: is that you're pretty hungry to get stuck in for

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Speaker 4: your next game.

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Speaker 2: So looking at the the season as a whole, you've

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Speaker 2: partnered Chanelle Harris Tavita in the halves every game this season.

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Speaker 2: How much has that partnership developed between the two of

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Speaker 2: you over the last eleven or twelve games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been cool. I've love been playing with Chanelle.

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Speaker 4: It's been cool to sort of like training together in

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Speaker 4: the preseason and then come out into these games and

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Speaker 4: sort of nearly halfway through the season now, I feel

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Speaker 4: like it's a combination that's getting better every week. And yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm loving sort of playing with him and then got

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Speaker 4: weighed and it done me half as well. Who helps

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Speaker 4: helps us out there, So yeah, I'm loving it.

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Speaker 2: Look back to last year and even the year before,

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Speaker 2: and all of your starts for the Warriors were at

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Speaker 2: five eighth. This year they've all been at half back.

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Speaker 2: How big an adjustment does that look? Come to wear

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Speaker 2: seven compared to wearing six?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, it's a lot different obviously in terms

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Speaker 4: the main voice of the team.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I've been loving it.

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Speaker 4: It's something that I did when I was younger, has

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Speaker 3: So I'm just happy I've been able to get that chance.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I've been loving doing that and yeah, so

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Speaker 4: it's pretty it's pretty different, it is, but yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like I feel like the more responsibility I have,

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Speaker 2: So you're always keen to do it. And did you

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Speaker 2: did you feel as though there might be a possibility

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Speaker 2: you'd wear six again, someone like tomto Martin might might

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Speaker 2: wear seven or you know, we've alerted fairly early on

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Speaker 3: I was free.

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Speaker 4: I was pretty vocal, like like we wabe that I

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I feel like I did that, And yeah,

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Speaker 2: Just speaking of Andrew Webster, whenever he gets asked about you,

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Speaker 2: he always talks, you know, he's obviously happy with the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just sort of want to just keep going.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, You're like I sort of say, sort

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Speaker 4: of the people when I ask my question, they're always

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Speaker 4: going to chase perfection, you know what I mean, Like

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Speaker 4: you want it, you want to be the best player

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Speaker 4: you can be. So just sort of molding all the

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Speaker 4: my running game, my passing, and my kicking, just sort

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Speaker 4: of being the complete play, like the complete halfback that

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Speaker 4: can do all those sort of things. So that's probably

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Speaker 4: the thing that I just want to every game keep

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Speaker 2: Is there a way of responsibility that comes with that

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Speaker 2: Warriors number seven jersey? Given some of the iconic players

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Speaker 3: You could you could say that, but I'm not. I

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Speaker 4: Like it's obviously it's a privilege to be able to

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Speaker 4: great number seven's come play over here. So it's far

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Speaker 4: find there's a privilege to sort of be another person

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Speaker 4: mentioned it, like some of the greatest players they ever

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Speaker 2: And Stacy Jones obviously part of the coaching staff. Now,

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Speaker 2: how much help has he been to you as you

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Speaker 2: look to develop your craft in that position.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been massive. So yeah, he's really big.

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Speaker 4: He's so good at just like on the field and

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Speaker 4: off the field, just helping your botching video or staying

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Speaker 4: out with you doing your kicking and all the pointers

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Speaker 3: It's awesome. I love talking footy with Stace.

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Speaker 4: He's someone obviously one of the best half backs to

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's so cool. I'm lucky.

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Speaker 4: It's really lucky that I've got him in my corner

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Speaker 2: So over the next month or so, Luke, You've got

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Speaker 2: the rabbit Os today, then the Sharks and Broncos and

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Speaker 2: they're both in the top eight at the moment. The

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Speaker 2: still four time defending champions. Does it feel like this

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Speaker 2: little period over the next month or so could be

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Speaker 2: quite important in the context of your top four aspirations.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I suppose so, yeah, like obviously sort of every

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Speaker 4: never going to be easy, so yeah, sort of taking

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Speaker 4: You know, then you get the old four point weekend

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Speaker 2: And you're leading the delim voting after twelve rounds. I

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Speaker 2: know you probably look at these things but aren't driven

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Speaker 2: take pride in the fact that you've obviously been playing

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Speaker 2: well in the first dozen games or so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty as cool.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, Like would be lying if I said like it

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Speaker 2: And you welcome you to co captains back this week.

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Speaker 2: Mitch Barnet's come through origin. Okay, has he Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I spoke to him the morning after the game.

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Speaker 3: He said he was all good. He said he was fine.

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Speaker 2: And James Fisher Harris too. Can you talk a bit

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's awesome fishing and how he's brought sus like

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Speaker 4: amongst the group has been Yeah, it's been awesome. You

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Speaker 4: Is he's just someone that have around the Group's been

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Speaker 2: And just to finish, does this feel about like twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three? We all know the Rider took us on

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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. Does it feel like like

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Speaker 4: I feel like, yeah, that's a little bit different that

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three was like that was the Warrior's first

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Speaker 4: of that this bit of a different sort of fuel. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I feel like this year was yeah, just just taking

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Speaker 3: Bit of a different feel.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, but it's a bit early in the season

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Speaker 4: if it is or not.

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Speaker 2: Well, corgrets on an impressive season so far for you,

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Speaker 2: Luke personally and for the team as well. All the

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Speaker 2: best against the Rabbits. Thanks for taking the time for

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Speaker 2: a chet.

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Speaker 3: Mate, sweet thanks mate, no worries, thank you.

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Speaker 2: No thank you. Luke. Luke metcalf there ahead of the

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Speaker 2: Warriors against the rabbit Os this afternoon.

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