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Speaker 1: Read station plans here.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you. Hello Ryan, So was it worth

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Speaker 2: staying up for last night?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean inevitably no, but no, Look, I think

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Speaker 3: you know, India deserve to win the game. There's no

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Speaker 3: way of getting around that. I just wonder about New

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Speaker 3: Zealand's approach to it in terms of selection, Ryan. They knew,

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Speaker 3: I think fairly early in the piece that Matt Henry

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Speaker 3: probably wasn't going to make it. They went like for like,

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Speaker 3: brought Nathan Smith and as a scene bowler only bowled

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Speaker 3: two overs. India have been playing in Dubai for the

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Speaker 3: last month and have played four spinners in every game.

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Speaker 3: As it happened last night, thirty five of the forty

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Speaker 3: nine overs we BOLBD with spin over. So I reckon

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Speaker 3: you could have left Nathan Smith out, maybe stiff, and

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Speaker 3: the batting up a bit with Mark Chapman or even

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Speaker 3: Devin Conway. But I incited a wonderful thing. I don't

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Speaker 3: think it would have changed the change of the result.

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Speaker 3: But I just thought it was an interesting little selection

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Speaker 3: decision they made at the start of the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Super Rugby season those going fantastically, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: How good Apart from the fact you've got to scroll

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Speaker 3: all the way to the bottom to find the Hurricanes,

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Speaker 3: which is a little bit problematic in my part of

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Speaker 3: the country. I think it's tremendous. I mean, across the weekend,

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Speaker 3: you know, we had upsets again, the Blues losing to

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Speaker 3: the Brumbies, the Chiefs who hadn't lost at all, losing

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Speaker 3: to the Fijian Drewer, my Hurricanes going down to Morena Pacifica.

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Speaker 3: There are three Australian sides in the top six at

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Speaker 3: the moment, and really from week to week, from game

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Speaker 3: to game, you don't know who's going to beat who.

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Speaker 3: Which is I think the bad rock of any good

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Speaker 3: sporting competition. So look, who knows whether the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: teams will end up rising to the top at the

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Speaker 3: end of the season or not. I actually don't think

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Speaker 3: they will. I think this will be one of the

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Speaker 3: more even super rugby competitions we have. I wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: at all surprised if the likes of the Fijian Drewer

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Speaker 3: even more on a Pacifica, and certainly a couple of

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Speaker 3: the Australian sides find themselves in the in the playoffs

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Speaker 3: at the end of the season.

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Speaker 2: Interesting. That's bad for us, though, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess if you zoom out, it is. But

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Speaker 3: if you just look at Super Rugby as an entertainment product,

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Speaker 3: I think is great for the competition. I'm sure the

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Speaker 3: all will be okay.

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