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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 Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: A thrilling first quarter final in Rugby's NPC last night.

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Speaker 2: From about forty nine meters out right foot round the corner,

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Speaker 2: kick up towards that post.

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Speaker 1: That is over.

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Speaker 3: Came over over.

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Speaker 2: Cities next week there it is a long range penalty

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Speaker 2: after the hood from first five, cam Miller has given

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Speaker 2: Otago a forty four forty one victory over Waikato. Under

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Speaker 2: the roof in Dunedin, kam Miller joins us Cam the

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Speaker 2: penalty is awarded. It's fifteen meters or so on the angle.

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Speaker 2: Did you always fancy a shot at goal?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah I did. I think every kicker wants to

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Speaker 3: take that opportunity. You know, we make some of the

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Speaker 3: sum but was always a democrat.

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Speaker 2: So you kick it. You look up to watch the

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Speaker 2: flight of the ball. Did it feel over off your boot?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It started off looking pretty good down the middle

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Speaker 3: and then started fading right but late, which made me

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Speaker 3: a wee bit nervous. But yeah, lucky enough it snuck

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Speaker 3: over in the end, which is good.

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Speaker 2: And how are the emotions when the flags go up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? That was just Pierre eupour you I suppose. I'm

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Speaker 3: not even really sure what I was doing after I

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Speaker 3: got it over, but yeah, obviously pretty stoked.

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Speaker 2: The phone blow up afterwards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a few messages on the phone. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if I've ever got to them all yet,

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Speaker 3: but that's Yeah. It's been pretty.

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Speaker 2: Good continuation of a really good season for Otago. Eight

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Speaker 2: wins from ten in the round robin to finish second,

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Speaker 2: you claim the Ranfilly Shield. You'll have that over the

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Speaker 2: summer into the NPC semi finals. Now, what has gone

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Speaker 2: so well for Otago in twenty twenty five and why

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Speaker 2: have things gone so well?

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Speaker 3: I think our knew coach Mark Browns just created an

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Speaker 3: environment wherever I can be themselves and I think it's

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Speaker 3: just a culmination of everyone's strength coming together. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: we've just bonded really well and have been able to

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Speaker 3: put together some really good footy.

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Speaker 2: Was there a point during the season when you realized, hey,

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Speaker 2: actually we're we're going well here, because I think we

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Speaker 2: had the had great day first up and you're down

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Speaker 2: in a Vicago beat Southland down there, but then a

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Speaker 2: loss to Hawk's Bay. Was there a point after that

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Speaker 2: where you thought, hey, we're actually traveling pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we played Wellington in one of the

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Speaker 3: early rounds and it was a really tight affair, but

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Speaker 3: we managed to scrape a wind. I think from that

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Speaker 3: game onwards we've just been able to build momentum and

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Speaker 3: belief and it's just keep stacking games and yeah, we've

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Speaker 3: got ourselves at this point from there.

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Speaker 2: Just back to last night, did you know that your

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Speaker 2: skipper Sam Gilbert had a drop goal in his locker?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen it at training quite a bit actually,

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Speaker 3: but when I passed it to him, I had no

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Speaker 3: care he was going for it. But it turned out

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Speaker 3: to be quite a crucial three points in the end.

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Speaker 2: So that put your forty one twenty seven ahead, so

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Speaker 2: out to the two tri margin with seven minutes to go.

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Speaker 2: What happened between then and the eighties when they scored

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Speaker 2: a couple of tries to bring it back to forty one?

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Speaker 3: All, I think we just had a couple of years

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Speaker 3: in our own half and then I sit Peace was

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Speaker 3: struggling in the inn there and we lead a probably

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Speaker 3: a pretty couple easy tries and to be fair, so yeah,

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Speaker 3: we'll have a look at that tomorrow. I suppose, But yeah,

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Speaker 3: pretty grateful we were able to scrape a win there,

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Speaker 3: because to be fair, we didn't close it out as

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Speaker 3: well as we should.

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Speaker 2: Have had you started to prepare yourself for extra time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did have that thought. But yeah, I was

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Speaker 3: pretty pretty desperate to get that penalty over because, to

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Speaker 3: be honest, the lungs were hurting. I was kidding just

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Speaker 3: the end it there and avoid the extra extra time.

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Speaker 2: I guess the other option would have been to kick

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Speaker 2: for the line right and set up and move from

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Speaker 2: a line out or something like that. But but that

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Speaker 2: wasn't even disgusting. You just said, no, no, this is me.

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Speaker 2: I'm taking this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I wasn't even discussed. I just yeah, I just

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to have a crack, and I knew

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Speaker 3: that i'd probably have the leg, so yeah, why not?

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Speaker 3: Why not give it a go?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you're half back. Dylan Pledger goes all right,

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Speaker 2: doesn't he?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what a handy player doing is Yeah, it's awesome.

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Speaker 3: I'm just able to try get him in the right

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Speaker 3: parts of the field and when he gets out smiling

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Speaker 3: around the rocks is seriously dangerous player with a with

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Speaker 3: a massive future.

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Speaker 2: So you're into the into the semi finals. You won't

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Speaker 2: know who you're playing until after the last quarter final tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: But is it kind of nice to be able to

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Speaker 2: enjoy the weekend, watch the other three quarter finals play out,

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Speaker 2: and know that you'll be there next weekend for you know,

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Speaker 2: for another week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is I was, Yeah, I was unsure how

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Speaker 3: a Friday game would go with the short turnaround, but

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Speaker 3: it's worked out good now for us because we get

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Speaker 3: that full week going into the semi final to prepare.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's nice to put the feed up on

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Speaker 3: a twenty degree today? Didn't They pretty uncommon?

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Speaker 2: Is it really? Is it twenty degrees down there today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, everything found out just perfectly.

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Speaker 2: What is your range?

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Speaker 3: Mate?

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Speaker 2: Could you kick fifty five? I've watched you, what's your

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Speaker 2: what's the our limit of your kicking range?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? That was touching it last night. I would say

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Speaker 3: fifty one fifty two, just just behind halfways, pushing it

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Speaker 3: for a real good strike.

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Speaker 2: Because you probably you may have watched it back, but

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Speaker 2: when he gave the penalty in your signal to the post,

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Speaker 2: Beno Keith, the referee kind of gave it the up

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Speaker 2: eyebrows you know, thinking, oh man, he's keen to have

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Speaker 2: a crack here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, no. I think there was a few

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Speaker 3: people given those, but oh well now.

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Speaker 2: It has happened. Now mate, it's not a dream into

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Speaker 2: the semi finals. Well, I'm camp to you and the

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Speaker 2: team on what's been in a terrific season so far. Mate.

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Speaker 2: May there be a couple more Saturdays for you. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you. Kem cam Miller there the kicker of

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Speaker 2: the winning penalty for Otago last night, forty four to

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Speaker 2: forty one.

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