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Speaker 2: To get afternoon. Welcome in to the Sevenday edition of

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Speaker 2: Weekend Sport on News Talks. It'd be welcome to February,

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Speaker 2: first day off forty four years since this.

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Speaker 3: It looks to me is if they're going to go

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Speaker 3: under arm off the last ball. Rod marsh is saying

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Speaker 3: on an under armed delivery if the umpires have been told.

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Speaker 3: But that's going to have been told, and this is

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Speaker 3: possibly a little bit disappointing. We're going to vath an

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Speaker 3: under armed where I've believed it. That's a disappointing finish,

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Speaker 2: Through the crowd coom here one of the all time

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Speaker 2: great understatements from Bill Laurie and that piece of commentary.

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Speaker 2: This is possibly a little bit disappointing. It led in

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Speaker 2: the immediate aftermath to one of the all time great

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Speaker 2: closing addresses from Richie Benno.

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Speaker 4: Let me just tell you what I.

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Speaker 5: Think about it.

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Speaker 4: I think it was a disgraceful performance from a captain

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Speaker 4: who's got his sums wrong today, and I think it

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Speaker 4: should never be permitted to happen again. We keep reading

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Speaker 4: and hearing that the players are under a lot of pressure,

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Speaker 4: and that they're tired and jaded, and perhaps their judgment

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Speaker 4: and their skill is blunted. Well, perhaps they might advance

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Speaker 4: that as an excuse for what happened out there today.

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Speaker 4: Not with me, they don't. I think it was a

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Speaker 4: very poor performance, one of the worst things I have

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Speaker 2: But still a very cheery good night from Richie Benno

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Speaker 2: at the end, Happy under arm day to those who celebrate.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jason pineshow producer Andy McDonald here too. We're talking

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Speaker 2: sport until three. How good are Auckland f C guing

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Speaker 2: right now? Midway through their very first season top of

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Speaker 2: the al Gladder at home again this afternoon in front

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Speaker 2: of what will be another burg big crowd at go

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Speaker 2: Media Stadium. Head coach step Corrick is here. He stopped

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Speaker 2: off shortly. Keen to hear from you as well, Auckland

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Speaker 2: FC fans, how much are you enjoying this ride other

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Speaker 2: matters around today. Dame Sophie pasco with us after one

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Speaker 2: following news this week she's bringing the curtain down on

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Speaker 2: her incredible swimming career. Super Raby now less than a

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Speaker 2: fortnight away. I'm not lying. It starts on the fourteenth

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Speaker 2: of feb All six New Zealand based teams have pre

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Speaker 2: season games this weekend on a Pacific Cup, and the

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Speaker 2: Highlanders played yesterday, so did the Crusaders and the Blues.

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Speaker 2: Crusader's coach Rob Penny with us to look ahead to

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Speaker 2: his side's campaign. The Hurricanes and Chiefs meet in New

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Speaker 2: Plymouth this afternoon. Israel Aardisigner returns to the octagon tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 2: He takes on narsuden Imovov in Saudi Arabia, his first

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Speaker 2: for US. Adam Peacock along in his regular slot with

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Speaker 2: sporting matters from across the Tasman around one forty five

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Speaker 2: Live Sport. While we're on the air, Big the Basin

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Speaker 2: Elimination finals in the T twenty Super Smash, and the

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Speaker 2: women's game Wellington v Northern underway at twelve forty. We'll

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Speaker 2: keep eyes on that for you. The men's knockout game

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Speaker 2: is from four to twenty five Northern against Canterbury. The

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Speaker 2: play the Hurricanes from two o'clock this afternoon in New

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Speaker 1: Analyzing every view from every angle in the Sporting World.

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Speaker 1: Weekend Sport with Jason vine Nicall Oh eight hundred and

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Speaker 2: The Auckland FC juggernaut just keeps rolling on.

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Speaker 6: It's a late chants here for Auckland's navy Moreno hits

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Speaker 6: it with thirty seconds to go the Super sob has

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Speaker 2: Home with it three points. At the midway points of

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Speaker 2: their very first season, Auckland FC top of Football's A

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Speaker 2: League by two points. They have the best defense in

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Speaker 2: Auckland FC head coach Steve Coricker has joined us in studio. Steve,

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Speaker 2: thanks so much for popping in on game day midway

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Speaker 2: through the season. Your top of the A League. What

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Speaker 2: you think for your really good form and success so far.

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Speaker 7: I think consistency. You know, we started wonderful with six

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Speaker 7: or seven straight wins. Obviously that builds a lot of

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Speaker 7: do this. You know, it was a really hard preseason

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Speaker 7: With the late goals, I think that's a lot of

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Speaker 7: And yeah, I think obviously very pleased with the start

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Speaker 2: I want to come back to those late goals because

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Speaker 2: there's such a talking point. But speaking of goals, no

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Speaker 2: doubt you sit them with the team preseason. Have you

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Speaker 7: No, I think you know, our focus was and you

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Speaker 7: he wants to win a trophy, you know, it doesn't

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Speaker 7: You know, he's ambitious and he wants a New Zealand

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Speaker 7: you know it's and we're in a good position. Still

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Speaker 7: But you know, I can't complain the way we've started.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting approach because I think you ask most

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Speaker 2: Most of them say, we want to make the top

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Speaker 2: than that deliberately. Was that driven mainly by Bill Foley

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Speaker 7: I think it's obviously Bill, But I've always been my

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Speaker 7: and I'm motivated by that obviously. You know, if I've

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Speaker 2: Let's look at the team. You've got a core of

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Speaker 2: when you are putting eleven together and deciding who starts

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Speaker 8: Well, Louis Vustrade is your first pick.

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Speaker 2: That's certainly my certainly the guy I put down first.

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Speaker 7: No, obviously, you know form boys that have done well

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Speaker 7: we've had a really good back line. Obviously, Dan Hall

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Speaker 7: he's experienced player. He actually brings something else to the

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Speaker 7: I think he dominates and he makes play for us.

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Speaker 7: So but yeah, it's just for me, it's about consistency.

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Speaker 2: Would you like to be scoring more goals?

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Speaker 8: But you know that I think that's the.

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Speaker 2: The late goals, as I mentioned before, such a talking

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Speaker 2: You've talked at length about why you think it happens,

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Speaker 2: But do you think the more it happens, the more

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just a never give up, never give in

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Speaker 2: To give you're the best defensive team in the competition

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Speaker 7: Well, it's pretty simple really a four four two. But

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Speaker 7: you know, I think you know for me that that's

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Speaker 7: And it's not we're not talking about the back four

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Speaker 2: It's been clear from your sideline emotions this season. How

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Speaker 7: We're not going to get together with the staff and

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Speaker 7: I think you know, we've had obviously a great start,

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Speaker 8: We've played most of the top teams now, I think

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Speaker 7: And you know, it's about making sure we turn up

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Speaker 7: And if they do that, I think they've showed before

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Speaker 2: So you reckon you can win the whole thing.

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Speaker 7: Of course, I believe that, you know, and I think,

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Speaker 8: Luck, as chief would say, you know you do.

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Speaker 2: Great half season so fast. They've all the best against

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Speaker 2: It's Steve Corickett, head coach of Auckland FC, with us

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Speaker 2: in studio here on Weekend Sport twelve twenty six, five o'clock.

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Speaker 2: This afternoon they take on MacArthur at Go Media. You've

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Speaker 2: time on match day. Auckland f C fans, can I

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Speaker 2: please read your pulse on this season? Are you actually

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Speaker 2: I know we're only halfway through the season, let's not

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Speaker 2: Are you starting to believe something special is happening here?

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, let's take some calls

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Speaker 2: It's cool, it is cool to support this team. Is

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and just on the

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Speaker 2: Eleven of those twenty two so half beyond the seventy

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Speaker 2: and five times Auckland FC have scored a goal beyond

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Speaker 2: the ninety minute mark. And these are not just goals

433
00:21:17,227 --> 00:21:21,387
Speaker 2: to inflate score lines. These are crucial match winning or

434
00:21:22,107 --> 00:21:26,907
Speaker 2: match saving goals. I saw a fact during the week

435
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Speaker 2: of every Auckland FC game had stopped at ninety minutes,

436
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Speaker 2: they would not be in the top four. The goals

437
00:21:36,507 --> 00:21:39,907
Speaker 2: they've scored in added time have earned them eight points.

438
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Speaker 2: Without those eight points they would be fifth. Instead they

439
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Speaker 2: are top. Now you can drill down into the reasons why.

440
00:21:47,387 --> 00:21:50,467
Speaker 2: Superior fitness and never say die attitude, moments of inspiration

441
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Speaker 2: from certain players. There's no one reason why this is happening.

442
00:21:54,187 --> 00:21:56,867
Speaker 2: But as I said to Steve Corriker, the more it

443
00:21:56,947 --> 00:21:59,227
Speaker 2: happens you feel like the more it's likely to happen

444
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Speaker 2: when Auckland FC go beyond ninety minutes. Now they know

445
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Speaker 2: from a repeated experience they can score goals, and almost

446
00:22:05,627 --> 00:22:09,387
Speaker 2: as importantly, the opposition know that as well. If they're

447
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Speaker 2: ahead as the clock ticks past ninety minutes, there's more

448
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Speaker 2: than a shred of doubt in the back of the

449
00:22:17,547 --> 00:22:21,507
Speaker 2: opposition's mind that the points aren't safe. It's just one

450
00:22:21,627 --> 00:22:25,027
Speaker 2: reason for Auckland FC's success, but it's one which has

451
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Speaker 2: and will continue to be pretty integral I think to

452
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Speaker 2: how the rest of their first season plays out. One

453
00:22:30,027 --> 00:22:32,027
Speaker 2: thing is for sure. If you go along to an

454
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Speaker 2: Auckland FC game, you do not leave early because you'll

455
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Speaker 2: probably miss something. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten, eight twelve,

456
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Speaker 2: twenty nine. It is let's talk some football, Hollo Todd.

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Speaker 2: You Are you aboard the Auckland FC bandwagon?

458
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Speaker 12: I certainly am. I'm the when I say I convert.

459
00:22:49,947 --> 00:22:51,987
Speaker 12: I've been a football fan whole life and I still

460
00:22:52,027 --> 00:22:55,467
Speaker 12: play for the geriatric League actually over forty fives.

461
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Speaker 2: Yes, I know the one.

462
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Speaker 12: I know the one we have ZIM I call it

463
00:23:00,107 --> 00:23:03,267
Speaker 12: the zimmer Fame League or the Moldy Aldies. We have

464
00:23:03,307 --> 00:23:06,107
Speaker 12: our crutches and wheelchairs, but get stuck in the grass

465
00:23:06,107 --> 00:23:08,787
Speaker 12: a bit. But I'm that we're still running around. It's

466
00:23:08,827 --> 00:23:14,347
Speaker 12: great Auckland Auckland United. Actually, I'm a new fan. I've

467
00:23:14,387 --> 00:23:18,307
Speaker 12: never really watched the AEFC much the Aussie League March

468
00:23:18,747 --> 00:23:20,907
Speaker 12: until the Auckland teams got involved. I went for the

469
00:23:20,907 --> 00:23:24,227
Speaker 12: first time to Mount Smart. I'm what was that three

470
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Speaker 12: or four weeks ago? We won three nil against City yep,

471
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Speaker 12: and I was so impressed the speed the football that

472
00:23:32,147 --> 00:23:36,547
Speaker 12: you know, two world class goals if my memory serves

473
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Speaker 12: me right, and I think there's a real ground scroll.

474
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Speaker 12: I think people are really loving it.

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Speaker 2: It's so interesting to hear yourself not interesting, Todd. In fact,

476
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Speaker 2: it's not a surprise to me to hear that, because

477
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Speaker 2: you're one of a number of voices. I'm hearing around this.

478
00:23:50,947 --> 00:23:53,507
Speaker 2: You know, Auckland hasn't had a professional team, as we

479
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Speaker 2: know since the demise of the New Zealand Knights all

480
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Speaker 2: the way back in what two thousand and seven, And

481
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Speaker 2: even when Auckland FC were being mooted, people say, oh,

482
00:24:01,387 --> 00:24:02,907
Speaker 2: you know, is it just going to be the same again.

483
00:24:03,227 --> 00:24:05,347
Speaker 2: You know they might at a thousand couple of thousand

484
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Speaker 2: turn up. Right from day one, this team has just

485
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Speaker 2: had a support base. And as you've said, now you're

486
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Speaker 2: a new fan, I beat You're one of hundreds, probably thousands,

487
00:24:17,067 --> 00:24:19,027
Speaker 2: so have given it a crack and thought, you know what,

488
00:24:19,147 --> 00:24:21,067
Speaker 2: this is a good day out.

489
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Speaker 12: Oh for sure. And look the feeling in the crowd.

490
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Speaker 12: I haven't been to the next games. I'm trying to

491
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Speaker 12: get to one of those. But I mean that's even

492
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Speaker 12: more so, right, but they were really good, crowd, really

493
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Speaker 12: full and people were just into it and the port

494
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Speaker 12: just watching them. I'm just going to come to watch them,

495
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Speaker 12: I think.

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Speaker 2: The football, yes, well that's the thing I hear. If

497
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Speaker 2: you get bought board with the football for a bit,

498
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Speaker 2: you just watch the fans.

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Speaker 12: Todd comment, if I may, I don't know, but look

500
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Speaker 12: I'm a believer. I think we can go all the way.

501
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Speaker 12: It's early days still, you know, halfway through. But if

502
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Speaker 12: it wasn't for those two late goals and that cracker,

503
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Speaker 12: that late goal and then the unmarked header the game

504
00:24:58,547 --> 00:25:03,267
Speaker 12: before and Ossie, where would we be sitting and and

505
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Speaker 12: I just hope the momentum continues and we that the

506
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Speaker 12: wills don't fall off. You know, I shouldn't say that,

507
00:25:08,947 --> 00:25:09,227
Speaker 12: should I?

508
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Speaker 10: No?

509
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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: But I mean I love it that you're calling us

511
00:25:13,227 --> 00:25:15,867
Speaker 2: we already Todd, so you're on board. I love that. Yeah,

512
00:25:15,867 --> 00:25:18,947
Speaker 2: Look without the look without the goals that scored beyond

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Speaker 2: ninety minutes, including the two you've just talked about Nata,

514
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Speaker 2: I don't know's the other day that got them, the

515
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Speaker 2: one they'll win over Western Sydney and Logan Rogerson's header

516
00:25:26,387 --> 00:25:28,227
Speaker 2: that got them, the two all draw late laid on

517
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Speaker 2: against Adelaide. Without all of the goals, that's Gordon at

518
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Speaker 2: a time that have eight fewer points, they would be

519
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Speaker 2: fifth instead. They're time right.

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Speaker 12: Right, But that's what champions do, right, They grind it out,

521
00:25:39,227 --> 00:25:40,907
Speaker 12: they score at the end. I mean, you look at

522
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Speaker 12: Manchester United. I don't even want to mention that name.

523
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Speaker 12: I'm a Liverpool fan but you know all those years

524
00:25:45,547 --> 00:25:47,867
Speaker 12: ago with Sergia the goals, they would score an injury

525
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Speaker 12: time and after and that's what champions do and that's

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Speaker 12: what we're going to be hopefully absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: Todd, good stuff mate, Great to have you a calling

528
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Speaker 2: up mate. If you get into the game this afternoon, enjoyed.

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Speaker 2: If you're not, I don't know. You'll be back put

530
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Speaker 2: a ring around the twenty second of February as well.

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Speaker 2: Three weeks from today that's the derby, the third Derby

532
00:26:04,707 --> 00:26:07,227
Speaker 2: with Wellington Phoenix coming to go Meet Stadium. And yes

533
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Speaker 2: they've had a challenging season, but I can tell you

534
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Speaker 2: what they will come to Auckland in three weeks. It

535
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Speaker 2: will be another I would say, sold out game. So

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Speaker 2: if you're if you're keen on getting along, I would

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Speaker 2: get a ticket to that quick, smart because I can say,

538
00:26:22,387 --> 00:26:24,787
Speaker 2: without any fear of contradiction, that game will sell out.

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Speaker 2: On the twenty second of February. It's twelve thirty three.

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Speaker 2: We're taking some calls and texts on the football I

541
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If like Todd, you're a convert,

542
00:26:34,467 --> 00:26:37,267
Speaker 2: if you have thought, I'll give this a go, you know,

543
00:26:37,307 --> 00:26:40,187
Speaker 2: tell us about your experiences and like I say, what

544
00:26:40,227 --> 00:26:42,947
Speaker 2: about your kids? Are they coming home and instead of

545
00:26:42,987 --> 00:26:46,787
Speaker 2: wanting a Warrior's jersey or a Blues jersey, are they saying, hey,

546
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Speaker 2: can I get one of those Auckland FC jerseys? And

547
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Speaker 2: how far are people traveling? If you're traveling to the game,

548
00:26:52,467 --> 00:26:55,387
Speaker 2: maybe you're coming from I don't know, somewhere Topoor North.

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00:26:55,827 --> 00:26:57,587
Speaker 2: I'm not sure you'd come any further than that. What

550
00:26:57,707 --> 00:26:59,787
Speaker 2: do you you might if you're traveling to the game today?

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00:26:59,787 --> 00:27:02,227
Speaker 2: Tell us where from eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

552
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Speaker 2: twenty six to one, back with more of your calls

553
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Speaker 2: after this. On News Talks, heb.

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Speaker 1: Voice of Sport on Your Home of Sport Weekend Sport

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Speaker 1: with Jason Lyne and GJ. Gunner Homes New Zealand's most

556
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Speaker 1: trusted home builder, News.

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Speaker 2: Talk twenty three to one talking football and in Auckland

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Speaker 2: f C and fans of Auckland f C. Hello, die,

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00:27:24,267 --> 00:27:26,507
Speaker 2: oh hi, how you going? I'm doing well? Are you

560
00:27:27,147 --> 00:27:30,267
Speaker 2: a fan? A sort of a new fan of Auckland

561
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Speaker 2: f C.

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Speaker 13: Oh, look, I'm a football window on the weekend. My

563
00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:38,427
Speaker 13: husband's from England and he watches football from four o'clock

564
00:27:38,427 --> 00:27:42,307
Speaker 13: in the morning, any day or night, and one of

565
00:27:42,307 --> 00:27:44,627
Speaker 13: our lovely daughters brought us, took us to go and

566
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Speaker 13: see the or from football on the eighteenth for his birthday.

567
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Speaker 13: It was the best reason we've ever had. We had

568
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Speaker 13: the time of our lives. I've never been to a

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Speaker 13: big match. I've that before in my life except in England,

570
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Speaker 13: and it's on a part of going and watching them

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Speaker 13: at Wembley was just brilliant. The crowd was fantastic and

572
00:28:05,147 --> 00:28:08,867
Speaker 13: is destroy us, you know. It's brilliant, really lovely, great

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Speaker 13: for families. Saw a lot of kids off and the

574
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Speaker 13: kids zone having a great time.

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Speaker 14: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: And when they support the Bamiami supporters came in coming

577
00:28:18,347 --> 00:28:21,827
Speaker 13: down the steps. God, they look magic, you know. And

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00:28:21,867 --> 00:28:23,587
Speaker 13: they didn't say I don't know what they're on, but

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Speaker 13: they didn't stop chanting the whole game. So it's just incredible.

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Speaker 15: Loved it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I die. This is I love that word joyous.

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00:28:31,307 --> 00:28:34,587
Speaker 2: That is such a brilliant description. It is that way,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. If you your husband obviously and you you've

584
00:28:36,907 --> 00:28:39,987
Speaker 2: watched games in England, how does your husband find the quality?

585
00:28:40,027 --> 00:28:42,307
Speaker 2: Because it'd be spoilt watching the likes of the Premier

586
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Speaker 2: League and such like.

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Speaker 13: I think he thought it was right up there, you know.

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00:28:48,067 --> 00:28:51,107
Speaker 13: Mind you he does follow Tottenham.

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Speaker 12: So.

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Speaker 2: He's having a tough time of it at the moment.

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Speaker 13: Goodness me, challenging time, challenging time, and that's the conversation

592
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Speaker 13: I have to not listen to at home.

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00:29:04,187 --> 00:29:05,987
Speaker 12: But you know he.

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Speaker 13: Could the quality and you can see where the manager's

595
00:29:08,787 --> 00:29:11,507
Speaker 13: coming across with his team. They believe in him and

596
00:29:11,547 --> 00:29:15,027
Speaker 13: he believes in them, you know. And I managed a sport.

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00:29:15,067 --> 00:29:17,867
Speaker 13: I managed archery at a college and it's the same thing.

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Speaker 13: If you have a buy in with your coaches and

599
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Speaker 13: your management side together and you bring it together, everyone's

600
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Speaker 13: fecial confidence. Everyone follows on and they have a great time.

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Speaker 13: They enjoy their sport and a bit on the side,

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Speaker 13: we go down to Buddings as everyone does quite often

603
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Speaker 13: done Roy Lake and yeah, and there's this gorgeous guy

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Speaker 13: who runs the kitchens down there. He's from the Middle

605
00:29:43,347 --> 00:29:46,267
Speaker 13: East and he goes. He's the one that brought us

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Speaker 13: into it, so he goes every week since they started,

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Speaker 13: and he just gets so much enthusiasm and feeling part

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Speaker 13: of it. You know, it's just neat you talk to something.

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Speaker 2: They're really eying it archery and secondary school? Is that?

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Speaker 2: Is that getting bigger?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 13: I tell you, if you ever free on a Wednesday

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Speaker 13: afternoon and February March, go up to Auckland Archery Club,

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Speaker 13: One Tree Hill and Monk Kitty and you will see

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00:30:15,907 --> 00:30:18,867
Speaker 13: so many sports. I think we've got about forty scores competing.

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Speaker 13: And also up at Mount Talbert where the bear boat

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Speaker 13: teams go and is beautiful to watch. I'm from a

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Speaker 13: girls college and we're very, very strong with our archery

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Speaker 13: who love beating the boys. We're up against all the

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Speaker 13: big colleges are all there from throughout Auckland, from the

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Speaker 13: north Shore out west south central. It's fantastic. It's giving

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Speaker 13: a fabulous alternative sport to a lot of young people

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Speaker 13: that maybe don't want to do competitive contact sports.

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Speaker 2: Love it. I love it. We need to do a

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Speaker 2: feature on archery. I'm going to get Andy to write

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Speaker 2: that down.

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Speaker 11: Hey.

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Speaker 2: In the meantime, Die, I hope you enjoy the game

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Speaker 2: this afternoon. I hope things swing upwards for Tottenham as

630
00:31:03,347 --> 00:31:06,027
Speaker 2: well for your husband's sake, and I think it's so

631
00:31:06,147 --> 00:31:08,507
Speaker 2: much for calling in this afternoon. We should definitely do

632
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Speaker 2: something on archery on Obviously I knew it was a sport,

633
00:31:10,867 --> 00:31:13,747
Speaker 2: but forty schools that I say are involved in it.

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00:31:13,867 --> 00:31:16,547
Speaker 2: And as she quite rightly pointed out, what a good

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00:31:16,587 --> 00:31:19,787
Speaker 2: alternative to contact sport. If that's not something that you

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00:31:19,787 --> 00:31:22,707
Speaker 2: know you're into, we'll do something on archery. I think

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00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:26,227
Speaker 2: we'll write that down. Andy Great All Blacks teams of

638
00:31:26,267 --> 00:31:27,787
Speaker 2: the past, says this text used to score in the

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00:31:27,867 --> 00:31:30,107
Speaker 2: dying stages of a game to win a game. Yeah, look,

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00:31:30,107 --> 00:31:33,347
Speaker 2: it's a It's not necessarily the hallmark of all great teams,

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00:31:33,907 --> 00:31:37,547
Speaker 2: but Todd, I think it was earlier mentioned. Manchester United

642
00:31:37,627 --> 00:31:42,107
Speaker 2: in their heyday under Alex Ferguson or Sir Alex, they

643
00:31:42,147 --> 00:31:45,587
Speaker 2: used to call it Fergie Time, the minutes beyond the

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Speaker 2: ninety that Manchester United would inevitably score in to win

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Speaker 2: games or to rescue games. Like I say, the stats

646
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Speaker 2: are there for all to see. Without the goals beyond

647
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Speaker 2: the ninetieth minute, Auckland FC would not be in the

648
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Speaker 2: position they are. They would be outside the top four.

649
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Speaker 2: Not only would they not be top they wouldn't even

650
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Speaker 2: be in the top four if it weren't for the

651
00:32:07,227 --> 00:32:11,667
Speaker 2: goals that they have scored beyond the ninetieth minute. We

652
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Speaker 2: tried to get tickets, says Phil, to the derby a

653
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Speaker 2: few weeks ago. They were sold out. Loving Auckland FC.

654
00:32:17,667 --> 00:32:19,627
Speaker 2: They're a breath of fresh ae F in New Zealand football. Phil,

655
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Speaker 2: get on and get tickets for the derby. On the

656
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Speaker 2: twenty second of fed mate, it's going to be a cracker.

657
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Speaker 2: We've traveled to three Auckland FC games from Hamilton, says

658
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Speaker 2: this one. We already have our tickets to the derby.

659
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Speaker 2: We watch the games every week, a great afternoon out,

660
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Speaker 2: good value for money. Our kids absolutely love it. Just

661
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Speaker 2: on eighteen to one, Grant hold there with you. After

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Speaker 2: this a speareline. We're talking football at Auckland f C

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Speaker 2: It's caught it to one talking Auckland f C. Hello Jackie,

671
00:32:59,387 --> 00:33:02,467
Speaker 2: you off to the game today? Yeah, good on you.

672
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Speaker 2: How old are you mate?

673
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Speaker 11: I'm eleven?

674
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Speaker 2: And how many games. Have you been to two?

675
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Speaker 9: This is my third?

676
00:33:10,867 --> 00:33:12,387
Speaker 2: Amazing? So what do you like about it?

677
00:33:14,227 --> 00:33:19,187
Speaker 17: I like the atmosphere from the pourt wonderful?

678
00:33:19,227 --> 00:33:20,747
Speaker 2: Do you do you join in with the singing?

679
00:33:21,747 --> 00:33:21,947
Speaker 12: Ah?

680
00:33:22,027 --> 00:33:23,547
Speaker 11: Yeah?

681
00:33:23,627 --> 00:33:23,987
Speaker 9: So Jack?

682
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Speaker 2: Who do you who do you normally go with? Do

683
00:33:25,627 --> 00:33:28,267
Speaker 2: you go with family or some friends? Who takes you along?

684
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Speaker 9: Yeah?

685
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Speaker 14: I usually go with my dad.

686
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Speaker 9: And my sister and our last two games have been

687
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Speaker 9: free because I did the halftime show and Savannah got

688
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Speaker 9: to walk on.

689
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Speaker 14: With the players.

690
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Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing, How cool? So do you think have you

691
00:33:45,947 --> 00:33:47,347
Speaker 2: got Have you got like a Have you got like

692
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Speaker 2: a shirt? The blue and black shirt to wear?

693
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Speaker 14: Yeah?

694
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Speaker 2: Good stuff. You need to tell Dad that there are

695
00:33:52,587 --> 00:33:56,467
Speaker 2: lots of other ones he could buy you, okay, Jack?

696
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Speaker 2: Or I'll look out for you this afternoon at the game? Mate?

697
00:33:59,067 --> 00:34:00,467
Speaker 2: Do you think? What do you think the score is

698
00:34:00,467 --> 00:34:04,387
Speaker 2: going to be today?

699
00:34:04,947 --> 00:34:05,187
Speaker 11: Love it?

700
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Speaker 9: Jack?

701
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Speaker 2: Good on your thanks for calling in. You keep on

702
00:34:07,947 --> 00:34:10,587
Speaker 2: supporting that team. Sing loud and proud, mate. Good to

703
00:34:10,667 --> 00:34:11,587
Speaker 2: have you on the show with us.

704
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Speaker 11: Grant Hi, Yeah, finally, I'm a rugby fan, but I

705
00:34:15,827 --> 00:34:21,267
Speaker 11: have been watching the every game that Auckland played live

706
00:34:21,387 --> 00:34:25,867
Speaker 11: start then delayed slightly on free to wear. I'm a pensioner,

707
00:34:25,907 --> 00:34:30,347
Speaker 11: so I can't afford Sky. So the channel fifteen for

708
00:34:30,387 --> 00:34:32,947
Speaker 11: anyone that doesn't have Sky and is not going to

709
00:34:32,987 --> 00:34:37,107
Speaker 11: the game, Channel fifteen one to five Sky Open Live

710
00:34:37,187 --> 00:34:39,787
Speaker 11: start at five o'clock again, and then after about ten

711
00:34:39,787 --> 00:34:43,227
Speaker 11: minutes they have an a the ad break and then

712
00:34:43,267 --> 00:34:46,067
Speaker 11: it's slightly delayed. They know you don't miss anything, you know,

713
00:34:46,107 --> 00:34:48,307
Speaker 11: they just stop the pretty or button stop the video

714
00:34:48,387 --> 00:34:51,307
Speaker 11: and it resumes from the throwing or whatever, and okay,

715
00:34:51,307 --> 00:34:53,427
Speaker 11: the game finishes a sort of cord of an hour

716
00:34:53,507 --> 00:34:55,987
Speaker 11: after it actually finishes. That doesn't matter because you don't

717
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Speaker 11: know the score. So fantastic. I'm really enjoying it.

718
00:34:59,067 --> 00:35:01,907
Speaker 2: Excellent. So you actually have been watching You're obviously a

719
00:35:01,987 --> 00:35:04,947
Speaker 2: rugby man, but you're enjoying it. You should try and

720
00:35:04,987 --> 00:35:06,627
Speaker 2: I know you know, I'm not sure where what part

721
00:35:06,627 --> 00:35:09,707
Speaker 2: of the country you and Grant Auckland have you been

722
00:35:09,747 --> 00:35:11,627
Speaker 2: along to a game? Have you've actually physically been to

723
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Speaker 2: a game.

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Speaker 11: I am a pensioner.

725
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Speaker 2: I've seen pinsions there. I've seen I've seen pensions there.

726
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Speaker 11: Well. With my situation, I can barely afford to pay

727
00:35:24,987 --> 00:35:29,587
Speaker 11: groceries at the supermarket, so unfortunately I can't. But well,

728
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Speaker 11: I mean, I guess. So if it's the Aukland FCRE

729
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Speaker 11: listening and they want to arrange for a free ticket,

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Speaker 11: I'll be a starter.

731
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Speaker 2: I love grum Well. Funnily enough, I know Auckland's this

732
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Speaker 2: FC are listening because I've just sent me a message

733
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Speaker 2: about the derby. In terms of tickets, about eight hundred

734
00:35:47,067 --> 00:35:50,147
Speaker 2: general admission tickets are left in the South stand. That's

735
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Speaker 2: all everywhere else oh sorry, everywhere else very limited but

736
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Speaker 2: not yet sold out. All right, so I didn't mean

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Speaker 2: to give the impression that it had sold out. Still

738
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Speaker 2: three weeks away it will sell out, but thanks to

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Speaker 2: other team at Auckland FC, so eight hundred general admission

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Speaker 2: tickets and limited tickets elsewhere. It's the south stand for

741
00:36:09,947 --> 00:36:13,907
Speaker 2: GA tickets. Thank you Ian from Auckland FC for updating us.

742
00:36:14,347 --> 00:36:16,707
Speaker 2: Good to know that you're you're listening in as well.

743
00:36:17,307 --> 00:36:19,027
Speaker 2: Uh let's get a tom hate.

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Speaker 15: Tim say piney. This is a dead serious question. I'm

745
00:36:23,587 --> 00:36:25,867
Speaker 15: sort of a general fan, but nothing obsessed. But I've

746
00:36:25,907 --> 00:36:28,547
Speaker 15: been rugby boy because I've made nearly sixty All my life,

747
00:36:28,667 --> 00:36:31,107
Speaker 15: I've watched soccer on the periphery or football as you

748
00:36:31,187 --> 00:36:34,027
Speaker 15: call it, heroin God's name. Do they have hundreds and

749
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Speaker 15: hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and national bodies

750
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Speaker 15: and interventions and restructures and overlooking boards. Yet Foley and Co.

751
00:36:44,827 --> 00:36:47,907
Speaker 15: Come along out of the blue and fill the stands

752
00:36:47,947 --> 00:36:50,667
Speaker 15: full of the very fans that rugby should want. We

753
00:36:50,787 --> 00:36:53,067
Speaker 15: all believe that we can't fill our rugby sands, super

754
00:36:53,147 --> 00:36:56,547
Speaker 15: twelve of us every year there's an excuse for the problems.

755
00:36:56,147 --> 00:36:56,587
Speaker 9: Of the game.

756
00:36:57,147 --> 00:37:00,347
Speaker 15: These guys so professionally come along, organize it. The very

757
00:37:00,387 --> 00:37:03,067
Speaker 15: kid you just had on of a next generation of

758
00:37:03,227 --> 00:37:06,987
Speaker 15: listeners for forever. They're all loving it, They're all converted,

759
00:37:07,067 --> 00:37:09,907
Speaker 15: and they're still in the stands. One standard that would

760
00:37:09,947 --> 00:37:12,227
Speaker 15: be more than a rugby cloud for the whole season.

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00:37:12,827 --> 00:37:15,667
Speaker 15: How can it be? How of all the resources and

762
00:37:15,747 --> 00:37:18,947
Speaker 15: a national sport of rugby, shall we be so disjointed

763
00:37:19,067 --> 00:37:22,027
Speaker 15: and so far off having our finger on the pulse.

764
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Speaker 15: And that's not a criticism of Soccrs's incredible what they've done.

765
00:37:25,707 --> 00:37:27,987
Speaker 15: They just walk on and we have never even had

766
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Speaker 15: an Auckland team, and within six months we're organized, halfway

767
00:37:31,867 --> 00:37:34,827
Speaker 15: leading the league. They've got every can in Auckland's game

768
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Speaker 15: and everybody's looking forward to the game. You don't hear

769
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Speaker 15: of punch ups, violence, anything. It's just incredible what they've done.

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Speaker 2: Tim. It's a great summary from you to answer your question,

771
00:37:45,387 --> 00:37:49,507
Speaker 2: how's this happened? Look, there's probably a couple of reasons

772
00:37:49,547 --> 00:37:52,387
Speaker 2: I can pick up on. One is that Auckland football

773
00:37:52,387 --> 00:37:54,667
Speaker 2: fans have waited a long time for this, so it

774
00:37:54,747 --> 00:37:57,307
Speaker 2: is new and you know that I guess the proof

775
00:37:57,307 --> 00:37:59,267
Speaker 2: of that pudding will be in six, seven, eight, nine

776
00:37:59,347 --> 00:38:02,027
Speaker 2: years are they still turning up in such big numbers?

777
00:38:02,067 --> 00:38:04,667
Speaker 2: So it's new, which helps. The second part of it,

778
00:38:04,707 --> 00:38:07,027
Speaker 2: I think is the experienced people get when they go

779
00:38:07,107 --> 00:38:09,787
Speaker 2: along to a game. It's more than just what happens

780
00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:12,307
Speaker 2: on the grass. And you know, you look at the

781
00:38:12,307 --> 00:38:14,907
Speaker 2: Blues they won it last year. The rugby they're playing

782
00:38:15,467 --> 00:38:17,267
Speaker 2: as good or if not better than any of the

783
00:38:17,307 --> 00:38:20,947
Speaker 2: other teams. But it's all about what else happens. I think,

784
00:38:21,267 --> 00:38:24,547
Speaker 2: especially for younger people, when they get to the game.

785
00:38:24,747 --> 00:38:27,667
Speaker 2: What sort of atmosphere are they going to get caught

786
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Speaker 2: up and what sort of occasion are they going to

787
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Speaker 2: be a part of that? Those are two things I

788
00:38:31,987 --> 00:38:37,427
Speaker 2: immediately would pick up on. Yeah, I'm still here, I

789
00:38:37,427 --> 00:38:39,787
Speaker 2: hope you heard all that. I was just giving you

790
00:38:39,947 --> 00:38:42,707
Speaker 2: the explanation to I hope you got that. But look,

791
00:38:43,627 --> 00:38:46,307
Speaker 2: it's a challenge for those in Auckland, not just for

792
00:38:46,747 --> 00:38:49,347
Speaker 2: the Blues but for the Warriors as well because their

793
00:38:49,387 --> 00:38:53,347
Speaker 2: season is going to start soon and some people, you know,

794
00:38:53,467 --> 00:38:56,387
Speaker 2: in fact, a lot of people don't have the discretionary

795
00:38:56,387 --> 00:38:59,067
Speaker 2: income to go to everything they want to. They can't

796
00:38:59,107 --> 00:39:01,187
Speaker 2: go to the Blues and the Warriors and Auckland FC,

797
00:39:01,427 --> 00:39:05,067
Speaker 2: all three of who over the next few months are

798
00:39:05,107 --> 00:39:07,147
Speaker 2: going to be playing in their competition and Super Rugby

799
00:39:07,147 --> 00:39:08,947
Speaker 2: starts in two weeks. Win is in ourl start any

800
00:39:08,947 --> 00:39:13,187
Speaker 2: about a month away from the NRL starting and the

801
00:39:13,227 --> 00:39:15,827
Speaker 2: A League season goes through until May, so in sort

802
00:39:15,867 --> 00:39:19,387
Speaker 2: of March April May, all three teams in the Auckland

803
00:39:19,427 --> 00:39:22,307
Speaker 2: region are going to be playing. So people won't be

804
00:39:22,307 --> 00:39:24,827
Speaker 2: able to afford to go to them all, so they're

805
00:39:24,867 --> 00:39:29,067
Speaker 2: going to choose. And I tell you what, it's a

806
00:39:29,107 --> 00:39:35,907
Speaker 2: battleground for eyeballs and for discretionary spending dollars, and Auckland

807
00:39:35,947 --> 00:39:37,947
Speaker 2: FC are doing great in that battle. They really are.

808
00:39:38,107 --> 00:39:39,387
Speaker 2: Eight to one. US talks eb.

809
00:39:40,827 --> 00:39:43,467
Speaker 1: The scoop from the track fields and the Court on

810
00:39:43,627 --> 00:39:48,747
Speaker 1: your home of sorts the Weekend Sport with Jason Vine TALKSB.

811
00:39:48,267 --> 00:39:49,987
Speaker 2: Five to one, just mopping up the final couple of

812
00:39:49,987 --> 00:39:53,027
Speaker 2: texts before the news and the battle for Auckland spectators

813
00:39:53,187 --> 00:39:55,667
Speaker 2: is this one largely? I think Warriors fans won't go

814
00:39:55,707 --> 00:39:59,147
Speaker 2: to Auckland FC games and vice versa, but rugby fans

815
00:39:59,187 --> 00:40:02,907
Speaker 2: would go to both. Therefore Rugby will be the loser.

816
00:40:03,387 --> 00:40:06,747
Speaker 2: It's interesting, be interesting to do it, be fascin to

817
00:40:06,747 --> 00:40:09,947
Speaker 2: do one of those what are they called Venn diagrams

818
00:40:10,267 --> 00:40:13,907
Speaker 2: when you overlay fans of each of them, because I

819
00:40:14,627 --> 00:40:18,387
Speaker 2: guess I always assumed I believe this to be true

820
00:40:18,867 --> 00:40:22,507
Speaker 2: that Blues fans would go to the Warriors and vice versa.

821
00:40:22,947 --> 00:40:24,627
Speaker 2: Some would just go to one, some would just go

822
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Speaker 2: to the other. But rugby and rugby league quite similar

823
00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:29,347
Speaker 2: to one another, aren't they. Football is very different, so

824
00:40:29,467 --> 00:40:31,467
Speaker 2: as there as much of a crossover between football and

825
00:40:31,547 --> 00:40:34,427
Speaker 2: rugby league, or football and rugby. And sometimes he there

826
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Speaker 2: makes because they're winning. If their bottom no one would

827
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Speaker 2: be going. Look if the Warriors last year showed us anything,

828
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Speaker 2: it's that it doesn't matter. The Warriors sold out every

829
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Speaker 2: home game last season and had a very ordinary season.

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Speaker 2: They found the holy grail of getting people along regardless

831
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Speaker 2: of results. You can't rely just on what happens on

832
00:40:56,627 --> 00:41:00,667
Speaker 2: the field or on the court. If you're a professional

833
00:41:00,667 --> 00:41:06,827
Speaker 2: sporting organization, your success cannot be that's your commercials suc says,

834
00:41:06,867 --> 00:41:12,227
Speaker 2: cannot be, you know, exclusively tied to the on field results,

835
00:41:12,227 --> 00:41:14,867
Speaker 2: because it's affect of life. You can't win every week.

836
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Speaker 2: The Warriors of Cracked at Auckland FC are a wee

837
00:41:17,947 --> 00:41:22,027
Speaker 2: way along that track as well. After one o'clock, Dame

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00:41:22,107 --> 00:41:24,987
Speaker 2: Sophie Pasco is with us this week she announced her

839
00:41:25,067 --> 00:41:28,827
Speaker 2: retirement from competitive swimming. Our greatest ever Olympian.

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Speaker 16: After one's the only place to discuss the biggest sports

841
00:41:33,387 --> 00:41:37,907
Speaker 16: issues on and after field. It's all on Winter and Ford.

842
00:41:37,707 --> 00:41:40,187
Speaker 1: With Jason Vane on your home of.

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Speaker 2: Sport in New York. Welcome into the show one o seven.

844
00:41:45,387 --> 00:41:48,187
Speaker 2: I'm Jason Pine, Andy McDonald's show producer. We're talking sport

845
00:41:48,267 --> 00:41:52,387
Speaker 2: until three updating live sport as well across the afternoon

846
00:41:52,787 --> 00:41:54,427
Speaker 2: in about an hour or so. If we can get

847
00:41:54,467 --> 00:41:57,587
Speaker 2: any score reports, I don't know whether we can or

848
00:41:57,587 --> 00:42:01,747
Speaker 2: whether they even mean anything. Super Rugby preseason New Plymouth

849
00:42:02,427 --> 00:42:08,227
Speaker 2: Hurricanes Chiefs the Hurricanes are taking forty seven. Came forty seven?

850
00:42:08,907 --> 00:42:13,507
Speaker 2: Goodness me anyway. We'll keep you updated with that as

851
00:42:13,547 --> 00:42:15,267
Speaker 2: we will from the base in Reserve, where it's the

852
00:42:15,267 --> 00:42:19,267
Speaker 2: elimination finals in both the men's and women's Super Smash

853
00:42:19,307 --> 00:42:23,987
Speaker 2: competitions today are waiting the winner of the women's game

854
00:42:24,587 --> 00:42:27,187
Speaker 2: are the Otago sparks. Eden Carson with us in about

855
00:42:27,187 --> 00:42:31,947
Speaker 2: an hour or so, one of the real stars of

856
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Speaker 2: New Zealand cricket, best bowler in the women's Super Smash

857
00:42:35,747 --> 00:42:38,907
Speaker 2: in terms of wickets taken with eighteen. She's on with

858
00:42:38,987 --> 00:42:40,467
Speaker 2: us in an hour or so. But at the moment

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Speaker 2: it's Wellington against Northern for the right to play Otago tomorrow.

860
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Speaker 2: Northern won the toss and sent Wellington into bats and

861
00:42:48,387 --> 00:42:50,427
Speaker 2: in the seventh over there fifty three for two, so

862
00:42:50,547 --> 00:42:54,107
Speaker 2: going along okay in terms of run rate. So the

863
00:42:54,187 --> 00:42:56,427
Speaker 2: sevens or eights and over the cursed Sisters are in,

864
00:42:57,067 --> 00:43:00,867
Speaker 2: which is a good thing for Wellington cricket fans. Amelia

865
00:43:00,947 --> 00:43:03,627
Speaker 2: Kerr opened the batting. She's twenty one not out, joined

866
00:43:03,627 --> 00:43:05,747
Speaker 2: by a Jess, her sister, who is unbeaten on five

867
00:43:05,747 --> 00:43:09,027
Speaker 2: at the moment, so fifty three for two in the

868
00:43:09,107 --> 00:43:12,107
Speaker 2: seventh over. We'll keep you updated with that. As far

869
00:43:12,107 --> 00:43:15,347
Speaker 2: as the men's elimination finalists concern that also features Northern

870
00:43:15,347 --> 00:43:20,627
Speaker 2: against Canterbury are stacked Canterbury team ten internationals in that team.

871
00:43:20,987 --> 00:43:23,787
Speaker 2: The winner of that will face the Central Stags tomorrow.

872
00:43:24,147 --> 00:43:26,467
Speaker 2: Jaden Lennox from the Central Stags actually on the show

873
00:43:26,467 --> 00:43:29,907
Speaker 2: this out, so we'll keep you across that as well.

874
00:43:30,867 --> 00:43:33,227
Speaker 2: Just before we move on from the football, Justin on

875
00:43:33,347 --> 00:43:36,107
Speaker 2: techs Pine, I'm a father of a rugby mad family,

876
00:43:36,147 --> 00:43:39,347
Speaker 2: five kids in the far far North. We're going to

877
00:43:39,387 --> 00:43:41,027
Speaker 2: try and get some tickets for the twenty second and

878
00:43:41,027 --> 00:43:43,307
Speaker 2: the head down. Normally try to get a couple of

879
00:43:43,307 --> 00:43:46,307
Speaker 2: Blues or Chiefs games in, but never ever been to

880
00:43:46,387 --> 00:43:49,147
Speaker 2: a live game of football. The kids though, are all

881
00:43:49,187 --> 00:43:52,587
Speaker 2: talking about how good in the Auckland FC are and

882
00:43:52,627 --> 00:43:54,547
Speaker 2: we've been trying to watch all the games. I never

883
00:43:54,627 --> 00:43:57,227
Speaker 2: thought I would see the day I would even consider

884
00:43:57,667 --> 00:43:59,787
Speaker 2: going to watch a football match. Good on you, Justin.

885
00:44:00,147 --> 00:44:03,867
Speaker 2: I guaranteemate if you come down, especially for the derby,

886
00:44:03,987 --> 00:44:07,267
Speaker 2: you will absolutely love it and your kids will too,

887
00:44:07,307 --> 00:44:10,067
Speaker 2: and that's probably the most important thing. Thanks for getting

888
00:44:10,067 --> 00:44:12,947
Speaker 2: in touch mate, and numbers eight hundred and eighty ten

889
00:44:13,027 --> 00:44:15,027
Speaker 2: eighty text line ninet two nine two Get in touch

890
00:44:15,027 --> 00:44:18,507
Speaker 2: whenever you like if anything catches your ear. If anything

891
00:44:18,747 --> 00:44:23,227
Speaker 2: catches your ear, then get in touch. The opportunity and

892
00:44:23,307 --> 00:44:27,027
Speaker 2: invitation is there coming up. Teen past one. Our greatest

893
00:44:27,067 --> 00:44:31,347
Speaker 2: Olympian is bringing the curtain down on her incredible career.

894
00:44:31,467 --> 00:44:34,707
Speaker 18: Sophie Pasco. It is all about the keyw as she

895
00:44:34,787 --> 00:44:38,227
Speaker 18: brings it home. Ten meters to go, Sophie Pasco, good

896
00:44:38,267 --> 00:44:40,227
Speaker 18: stroke rating, dragging it out.

897
00:44:40,467 --> 00:44:41,547
Speaker 2: She's only got half of this.

898
00:44:41,627 --> 00:44:43,307
Speaker 18: A wee bit of a response coming from one of

899
00:44:43,307 --> 00:44:47,747
Speaker 18: the Australians, But Pasco touches first. No problem, Sophie Pasco one,

900
00:44:47,907 --> 00:44:49,387
Speaker 18: eighteen point oh nine.

901
00:44:49,507 --> 00:44:53,747
Speaker 19: It is gone for New Zealand. A second gold in Nepal, but.

902
00:44:53,947 --> 00:44:58,867
Speaker 18: Sophie Pasco from christ Church delight for her messive smile.

903
00:44:59,147 --> 00:45:01,747
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got to know that mess of smile. Quite

904
00:45:01,787 --> 00:45:06,347
Speaker 2: a lot. Didn't wear nineteen Paralympic medals across four Paralympic Games.

905
00:45:06,467 --> 00:45:10,587
Speaker 2: Eleven of those nineteen medals were gold, including four in

906
00:45:10,707 --> 00:45:17,267
Speaker 2: succession in her specialty two hundred individual medley, twenty seven

907
00:45:17,747 --> 00:45:22,187
Speaker 2: World Championship medals, five Commonwealth Games gold medals over a

908
00:45:22,267 --> 00:45:25,707
Speaker 2: dozen world records, and in twenty twenty two she was

909
00:45:25,747 --> 00:45:29,427
Speaker 2: made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

910
00:45:29,427 --> 00:45:32,707
Speaker 2: Who else but Dame Sophie Pasco who joins us now,

911
00:45:32,947 --> 00:45:34,827
Speaker 2: Dame Sophie, thanks for taking the time for a chat.

912
00:45:34,867 --> 00:45:37,027
Speaker 2: How did you come to this decision?

913
00:45:37,987 --> 00:45:41,107
Speaker 19: Look, I think it was a pretty natural evolution for me.

914
00:45:41,667 --> 00:45:44,787
Speaker 19: You know, the day of retirement is always obviously going

915
00:45:44,827 --> 00:45:48,667
Speaker 19: to be upon an athlete at some stage, and yeah,

916
00:45:48,787 --> 00:45:50,747
Speaker 19: you know has taken some serious thought. You know, I

917
00:45:50,827 --> 00:45:55,027
Speaker 19: haven't made this decision lately. I still obviously intended to

918
00:45:55,187 --> 00:45:59,027
Speaker 19: go to World Championships in twenty twenty three and then

919
00:45:59,467 --> 00:46:02,627
Speaker 19: the Paris Paralymic Games in twenty four. You know, I

920
00:46:02,667 --> 00:46:07,427
Speaker 19: felt pregnant with my son, and it just became a

921
00:46:07,507 --> 00:46:13,227
Speaker 19: natural evolution that actually, you know, I couldn't go to

922
00:46:13,307 --> 00:46:16,547
Speaker 19: Paris and I couldn't go to the World Championships due

923
00:46:16,587 --> 00:46:22,187
Speaker 19: to my sickness. But then also postpart in and last year,

924
00:46:22,227 --> 00:46:25,267
Speaker 19: when I had the opportunity to present the Paralympic Games

925
00:46:25,267 --> 00:46:31,107
Speaker 19: alongside Scotti Stevenson with TVNZ's it actually sort of helped

926
00:46:31,107 --> 00:46:34,667
Speaker 19: my decision. I felt really content where I was. I

927
00:46:34,787 --> 00:46:36,547
Speaker 19: felt like I was still part of the team, but

928
00:46:36,747 --> 00:46:39,467
Speaker 19: in a different capacity. But also I was right where

929
00:46:39,467 --> 00:46:42,827
Speaker 19: I needed to be, which was to be a mother

930
00:46:42,907 --> 00:46:45,067
Speaker 19: to my son and to be a wife and just

931
00:46:45,147 --> 00:46:48,947
Speaker 19: be a family unit. But I also have the opportunity

932
00:46:48,987 --> 00:46:51,947
Speaker 19: to still have a voice for the Paralympic movement and

933
00:46:51,987 --> 00:46:55,187
Speaker 19: to showcase our incredible athletes. So that sort of definitely

934
00:46:55,467 --> 00:46:59,467
Speaker 19: helped cement my decision. But obviously I've taken this time

935
00:47:00,867 --> 00:47:04,347
Speaker 19: post the twenty twenty four Parliament Games to really make

936
00:47:04,347 --> 00:47:07,427
Speaker 19: a decision around this next four year cycle, because absolutely

937
00:47:07,507 --> 00:47:13,307
Speaker 19: I could go through LA but right now my focus

938
00:47:13,307 --> 00:47:17,067
Speaker 19: has shifted into wanting to be a mother and give

939
00:47:17,067 --> 00:47:21,587
Speaker 19: one hundred percent to that and really focus on you know,

940
00:47:21,627 --> 00:47:23,667
Speaker 19: bringing my son up and being a family unit.

941
00:47:24,027 --> 00:47:26,347
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like a pretty good rationale to me.

942
00:47:26,827 --> 00:47:31,507
Speaker 2: So having made the decision, what were your overriding emotions?

943
00:47:32,147 --> 00:47:35,907
Speaker 19: Look, there's definitely you know, I don't stay my retirement

944
00:47:36,027 --> 00:47:39,147
Speaker 19: with sadness. You know, I say it with celebration that

945
00:47:39,467 --> 00:47:43,667
Speaker 19: it's been an incredible twenty year plus journey. You know,

946
00:47:43,707 --> 00:47:47,427
Speaker 19: the biggest of the biggest part of it being the

947
00:47:47,507 --> 00:47:49,907
Speaker 19: people that have been involved in this journey and the

948
00:47:49,987 --> 00:47:54,907
Speaker 19: friendships and the family that I've created, it's you know,

949
00:47:55,027 --> 00:47:57,587
Speaker 19: I couldn't have done this on my own. And the

950
00:47:57,627 --> 00:48:00,027
Speaker 19: fact that I've had a huge support network that's been

951
00:48:00,067 --> 00:48:04,187
Speaker 19: able to be standing by my side through every step

952
00:48:04,227 --> 00:48:08,187
Speaker 19: of the journey. You know, I feel very fortunate. I

953
00:48:08,347 --> 00:48:13,027
Speaker 19: feel like I've left the sport proud and proud knowing

954
00:48:13,067 --> 00:48:16,227
Speaker 19: that you know, I've made an impact not just within

955
00:48:16,267 --> 00:48:20,507
Speaker 19: the pool, but also out of the pool. The fact

956
00:48:20,507 --> 00:48:24,307
Speaker 19: that sport can change people's lives and I've just been

957
00:48:24,587 --> 00:48:25,747
Speaker 19: a small contribution to that.

958
00:48:26,587 --> 00:48:29,227
Speaker 2: What are your fondest swimming memories?

959
00:48:31,347 --> 00:48:35,187
Speaker 19: Look, the biggest, one of the biggest memories and probably

960
00:48:35,187 --> 00:48:37,227
Speaker 19: one of my biggest achievements that I veshed the pool

961
00:48:37,267 --> 00:48:39,747
Speaker 19: with is in two thousand and eight. You know, my

962
00:48:39,787 --> 00:48:44,987
Speaker 19: first Paralympic Games. I was fifteen years of age. I won,

963
00:48:45,507 --> 00:48:48,907
Speaker 19: when I touched the wall and won and also had

964
00:48:48,907 --> 00:48:51,787
Speaker 19: a world recognise to it. Standing up on the podium

965
00:48:51,907 --> 00:48:54,307
Speaker 19: was the first time I heard the national anthem play

966
00:48:54,387 --> 00:48:57,107
Speaker 19: for me, and you.

967
00:48:57,067 --> 00:48:58,187
Speaker 17: Know, at the moment of.

968
00:48:59,707 --> 00:49:02,187
Speaker 19: Pride, it's you know, I had a dream of it

969
00:49:02,747 --> 00:49:05,507
Speaker 19: when I was a young child, wanting to represent New

970
00:49:05,587 --> 00:49:08,627
Speaker 19: zeal And where the affirm and that moment came true.

971
00:49:08,787 --> 00:49:10,867
Speaker 19: But then also up in the stands with my family

972
00:49:11,427 --> 00:49:15,307
Speaker 19: and you know, a father who doesn't shed a lot

973
00:49:15,307 --> 00:49:18,467
Speaker 19: of emotion, who was part of the accident on the

974
00:49:18,547 --> 00:49:21,787
Speaker 19: day which created an image for him of a young

975
00:49:21,827 --> 00:49:24,987
Speaker 19: disabled girl, And in that moment I got to change

976
00:49:25,027 --> 00:49:27,787
Speaker 19: that into a world champion. And that's one of the

977
00:49:27,827 --> 00:49:29,627
Speaker 19: greatest things that I get to walk away with that.

978
00:49:30,427 --> 00:49:32,947
Speaker 19: It does go to show that sport can change people's lives,

979
00:49:33,067 --> 00:49:36,387
Speaker 19: and I've been able to do that for my family

980
00:49:36,507 --> 00:49:41,387
Speaker 19: and for myself and people with disabilities that sport doesn't sorry,

981
00:49:41,387 --> 00:49:45,667
Speaker 19: that a disability doesn't define who you are. And yeah,

982
00:49:45,707 --> 00:49:46,427
Speaker 19: I'm proud.

983
00:49:46,187 --> 00:49:47,187
Speaker 11: Of that time.

984
00:49:47,227 --> 00:49:50,547
Speaker 2: So if you've operated in a high pressure, high performance

985
00:49:50,627 --> 00:49:53,827
Speaker 2: environment for so long, now, how much do you reckon

986
00:49:53,867 --> 00:49:56,467
Speaker 2: you'll enjoy not being in that environment.

987
00:49:58,147 --> 00:49:58,667
Speaker 17: Absolutely.

988
00:49:58,747 --> 00:50:02,667
Speaker 19: I think there's also been another contributing factor to my decision.

989
00:50:02,707 --> 00:50:05,667
Speaker 19: You know, I have been in a high performance environment

990
00:50:06,427 --> 00:50:08,107
Speaker 19: for twenty years, and.

991
00:50:09,667 --> 00:50:12,067
Speaker 17: You know, to now, you know, have that.

992
00:50:12,067 --> 00:50:17,707
Speaker 19: Pressure release a little bit, it is it is really enjoyable.

993
00:50:17,827 --> 00:50:20,547
Speaker 19: I am far more relaxed, for sure. I mean I'm

994
00:50:20,547 --> 00:50:23,387
Speaker 19: definitely on my toes all the time with bringing up

995
00:50:23,387 --> 00:50:26,387
Speaker 19: a son who's you know, nearly one and running around

996
00:50:26,507 --> 00:50:29,747
Speaker 19: and he's throwing new challenges at me that I have

997
00:50:29,827 --> 00:50:32,307
Speaker 19: to navigate. But I love it. You know, this is

998
00:50:32,307 --> 00:50:37,827
Speaker 19: the beauty of motherhood and it's just incredibly rewarding to

999
00:50:37,987 --> 00:50:40,827
Speaker 19: know that, you know, he is worth more than a

1000
00:50:40,827 --> 00:50:45,347
Speaker 19: gold medal in title to me right now and he

1001
00:50:45,427 --> 00:50:47,827
Speaker 19: sees me as mum, you know, he doesn't put me

1002
00:50:47,867 --> 00:50:50,587
Speaker 19: on a pedestal and see me as Sophie Pasco and

1003
00:50:52,107 --> 00:50:56,267
Speaker 19: you know, it's just it's a really rewarding position to

1004
00:50:56,347 --> 00:50:58,467
Speaker 19: be in and I'm absolutely loving motherhood.

1005
00:50:58,667 --> 00:51:01,827
Speaker 2: Brilliant stuff. Well, apart from your exploits in the pool

1006
00:51:01,907 --> 00:51:06,547
Speaker 2: which have been absolutely magnificent, you've been driving for in

1007
00:51:06,547 --> 00:51:08,787
Speaker 2: the Paralympic movement. I look at you know what the

1008
00:51:08,827 --> 00:51:12,667
Speaker 2: Paralympic movement looked like when you entered it and how

1009
00:51:12,707 --> 00:51:15,387
Speaker 2: it looks now and it's just streets ahead and a

1010
00:51:15,387 --> 00:51:17,947
Speaker 2: lot of that is down to the trial you've blazed

1011
00:51:18,067 --> 00:51:22,387
Speaker 2: so well. Your advocacy of the Paralympic movement continue even

1012
00:51:22,427 --> 00:51:24,867
Speaker 2: though you're now retired as an athlete.

1013
00:51:25,627 --> 00:51:29,507
Speaker 19: Absolutely, it doesn't leave me, you know, Yes, it's goodbye

1014
00:51:29,587 --> 00:51:32,227
Speaker 19: to following a black line and seeing me in the water,

1015
00:51:33,307 --> 00:51:38,027
Speaker 19: But I certainly still will use my voice to you know,

1016
00:51:38,267 --> 00:51:41,667
Speaker 19: relish the platform that I've been able to create to

1017
00:51:41,787 --> 00:51:45,627
Speaker 19: enhance the Paralympic movement and you know, be an advocate

1018
00:51:45,707 --> 00:51:47,347
Speaker 19: for inclusion and equality.

1019
00:51:48,227 --> 00:51:49,147
Speaker 17: It will never leave me.

1020
00:51:49,227 --> 00:51:51,947
Speaker 19: You know, I have a huge passion for the sport

1021
00:51:52,027 --> 00:51:58,187
Speaker 19: and the Paralympic community, and yeah, I'm here to continuously

1022
00:51:58,267 --> 00:52:01,227
Speaker 19: use that voice that I've been able to create over

1023
00:52:01,267 --> 00:52:06,307
Speaker 19: the years and empower others and share what the disabled

1024
00:52:06,347 --> 00:52:09,147
Speaker 19: community can do on a world and global stage.

1025
00:52:09,387 --> 00:52:10,907
Speaker 2: I know there'll be things that you won't miss, and

1026
00:52:10,947 --> 00:52:12,507
Speaker 2: you've outlined a few of them, But what do you

1027
00:52:12,547 --> 00:52:14,107
Speaker 2: think you'll miss the most?

1028
00:52:15,987 --> 00:52:19,907
Speaker 19: I think what I miss the most is the friendships

1029
00:52:21,387 --> 00:52:25,427
Speaker 19: and the racing. You know that seeing my friends overseas

1030
00:52:26,347 --> 00:52:31,027
Speaker 19: getting in the race togs and feeling that adrenaline rush. Absolutely,

1031
00:52:31,787 --> 00:52:34,027
Speaker 19: and most of all, I'm going to miss going into

1032
00:52:34,707 --> 00:52:37,307
Speaker 19: you know, the gym and the pool every day and

1033
00:52:37,347 --> 00:52:41,027
Speaker 19: seeing my other family. But you know, I've created lifelong

1034
00:52:41,067 --> 00:52:44,467
Speaker 19: friendships with all those people that I've mentioned, and you know,

1035
00:52:44,507 --> 00:52:47,587
Speaker 19: I know that I will still be able to connect

1036
00:52:47,627 --> 00:52:51,427
Speaker 19: with them and share the new chapter and life's journeys

1037
00:52:51,467 --> 00:52:51,827
Speaker 19: with them.

1038
00:52:52,147 --> 00:52:54,467
Speaker 2: Well, Dame Sophie you've been, as I mentioned, an absolute

1039
00:52:54,467 --> 00:52:58,507
Speaker 2: trailblazer in the Paralympic movement, a role model to so

1040
00:52:58,587 --> 00:53:04,427
Speaker 2: many people, and an exceptional athlete in our history. Congratulations

1041
00:53:04,947 --> 00:53:07,507
Speaker 2: on everything you've achieved. All the best for the next

1042
00:53:07,587 --> 00:53:09,627
Speaker 2: chapter on. It'll be an exciting one for you and

1043
00:53:09,667 --> 00:53:12,227
Speaker 2: your family. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thank

1044
00:53:12,267 --> 00:53:14,547
Speaker 2: you so much, No, thank you. Dame Sophie. Dame Sophie

1045
00:53:14,547 --> 00:53:18,987
Speaker 2: Pasco announcing this week that the curtain is coming down

1046
00:53:19,067 --> 00:53:24,947
Speaker 2: on her elite swimming career. Where does she sit among

1047
00:53:25,427 --> 00:53:26,627
Speaker 2: our absolute grades?

1048
00:53:26,907 --> 00:53:27,187
Speaker 11: For you?

1049
00:53:28,587 --> 00:53:30,787
Speaker 2: Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, if you've got

1050
00:53:30,787 --> 00:53:36,307
Speaker 2: a view. Nineteen nineteen Paralympic medals. No one has that many,

1051
00:53:36,587 --> 00:53:41,027
Speaker 2: not even close. Eleven of those are gold, twenty seven

1052
00:53:41,427 --> 00:53:45,427
Speaker 2: twenty seven World Championship medals. Where on earth would she

1053
00:53:45,547 --> 00:53:45,907
Speaker 2: keep them?

1054
00:53:45,947 --> 00:53:46,107
Speaker 9: All?

1055
00:53:47,307 --> 00:53:51,347
Speaker 2: Five Commonwealth Games goals, over a dozen world records. She

1056
00:53:51,507 --> 00:53:57,147
Speaker 2: has been, apart from an elite athlete right at the top,

1057
00:53:57,547 --> 00:54:01,827
Speaker 2: the very top of her sport, an absolute trailblazer for

1058
00:54:01,907 --> 00:54:06,027
Speaker 2: the Paralympic movement. So who picks up that mental now?

1059
00:54:06,347 --> 00:54:09,187
Speaker 2: He's still going to be an advocate, obviously, but who

1060
00:54:09,187 --> 00:54:13,827
Speaker 2: picks up that mental now? As a current athlete. I

1061
00:54:13,827 --> 00:54:15,987
Speaker 2: think Anna Grimaldi is the obvious one. We've had Anna

1062
00:54:16,027 --> 00:54:17,787
Speaker 2: Grimordy on the show a few times, what an absolute

1063
00:54:17,827 --> 00:54:20,267
Speaker 2: diamond of a human being she is. But like Dame

1064
00:54:20,307 --> 00:54:25,867
Speaker 2: Sophie Pasco, actually, because every sport needs its poster athletes

1065
00:54:27,627 --> 00:54:30,867
Speaker 2: and Paralympics, I say, probably more than many other sports.

1066
00:54:31,867 --> 00:54:35,467
Speaker 2: They're the ones who, through their deeds and their words

1067
00:54:35,507 --> 00:54:40,347
Speaker 2: and their actions, show those who might believe that sport

1068
00:54:40,507 --> 00:54:46,067
Speaker 2: is not for them, that sport can be for them. Oh,

1069
00:54:46,147 --> 00:54:49,427
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two ninety two

1070
00:54:50,187 --> 00:54:52,947
Speaker 2: is our text line on text she is a champion

1071
00:54:53,027 --> 00:54:59,827
Speaker 2: individual first and foremost. Yeah, I mean that's that's really obvious,

1072
00:54:59,867 --> 00:55:02,627
Speaker 2: isn't it? From listening to Dame Sophie that she is

1073
00:55:02,667 --> 00:55:06,627
Speaker 2: a quality human being as well. And you know, often

1074
00:55:06,627 --> 00:55:10,867
Speaker 2: you hear, don't you, great humans become great sports people.

1075
00:55:11,987 --> 00:55:18,267
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are dickheads who do okay in sport,

1076
00:55:18,667 --> 00:55:23,227
Speaker 2: but the vast majority of top top sports people, I say,

1077
00:55:23,947 --> 00:55:24,907
Speaker 2: are quality of humans.

1078
00:55:24,907 --> 00:55:29,027
Speaker 10: Helloween, good afternoon, Jason. Listen, how you going there? But

1079
00:55:29,227 --> 00:55:30,627
Speaker 10: my friend Oran great?

1080
00:55:30,667 --> 00:55:32,547
Speaker 2: Thanks very good? Yeah, really good? How about you?

1081
00:55:33,547 --> 00:55:35,187
Speaker 10: I'm all right now? Yeah, I had a bit of

1082
00:55:35,187 --> 00:55:36,987
Speaker 10: a couple of weeks ago. I had a bit of

1083
00:55:37,267 --> 00:55:39,867
Speaker 10: the old heart trick, but I was just on the andy.

1084
00:55:40,067 --> 00:55:42,427
Speaker 10: It's all right now, things are coming right. Well, that's good.

1085
00:55:42,667 --> 00:55:44,747
Speaker 2: Looks good to hear. Look, and I'm so pleased that

1086
00:55:44,827 --> 00:55:46,387
Speaker 2: off the back of that, you've decided to give us

1087
00:55:46,387 --> 00:55:46,667
Speaker 2: a call.

1088
00:55:47,547 --> 00:55:51,067
Speaker 10: I haven't rang it for a while. Made that was

1089
00:55:51,147 --> 00:55:53,867
Speaker 10: part of it. Because the rugby is still starting, Jayce,

1090
00:55:53,907 --> 00:56:00,107
Speaker 10: So listen. Sophie Pasco miracle, fantastic, lovely woman, one of

1091
00:56:00,147 --> 00:56:04,027
Speaker 10: the best, a para Olympic woman. I didn't realize until

1092
00:56:04,067 --> 00:56:07,267
Speaker 10: she started swimming at fifteen years years old that girl

1093
00:56:07,307 --> 00:56:09,587
Speaker 10: had a bad leg or had done some damage to

1094
00:56:09,667 --> 00:56:12,907
Speaker 10: that leg. And she's just a miracle maker, mate. She's

1095
00:56:12,987 --> 00:56:16,347
Speaker 10: just brought all these other say people that are weabit

1096
00:56:16,467 --> 00:56:20,227
Speaker 10: handicapped and helped them out swimming whatever. You know, she's

1097
00:56:20,267 --> 00:56:22,547
Speaker 10: a fantastic woman, mate. I just wanted to give my

1098
00:56:22,667 --> 00:56:26,747
Speaker 10: regards to her and the little baby and to her family. Mate.

1099
00:56:26,907 --> 00:56:29,307
Speaker 2: Good on you, Ian and so great to hear your voice. Mate.

1100
00:56:29,347 --> 00:56:31,587
Speaker 2: You look after yourself. We need you around for a

1101
00:56:31,627 --> 00:56:34,067
Speaker 2: lot longer yet. Mates. As you say, rugby season just

1102
00:56:34,107 --> 00:56:37,067
Speaker 2: started or about to. I know we'll chat again soon.

1103
00:56:38,147 --> 00:56:41,187
Speaker 2: I think she has shown people what is possible and

1104
00:56:41,547 --> 00:56:43,587
Speaker 2: I think you know, most of us know the background

1105
00:56:43,667 --> 00:56:49,067
Speaker 2: to how you know she, you know, came to be

1106
00:56:49,107 --> 00:56:51,987
Speaker 2: a para athlete. In terms of the accident that she suffered.

1107
00:56:52,547 --> 00:56:57,307
Speaker 2: Her dad basically, you know, ran over her league with

1108
00:56:57,387 --> 00:57:01,867
Speaker 2: a lawna. I imagine that from a father, the absolute

1109
00:57:01,907 --> 00:57:06,307
Speaker 2: guilt you would feel for having inflicted such an her rena,

1110
00:57:06,427 --> 00:57:09,987
Speaker 2: this injury on your daughter. But then for Dame Sophie Pasco,

1111
00:57:10,347 --> 00:57:12,987
Speaker 2: she has always said, and she even said just in

1112
00:57:13,027 --> 00:57:15,987
Speaker 2: that chat just now, that she wanted to show her

1113
00:57:16,067 --> 00:57:19,667
Speaker 2: dad what good has come from it. And my goodness,

1114
00:57:20,467 --> 00:57:24,147
Speaker 2: nineteen Paralympic medals, twenty seven World Championship medals, every time

1115
00:57:24,187 --> 00:57:27,387
Speaker 2: she meddles, every time she competes. Her dad must be

1116
00:57:27,467 --> 00:57:30,827
Speaker 2: so proud, so proud, I mean, I'm sure he'll never

1117
00:57:30,907 --> 00:57:34,227
Speaker 2: ever completely get over what happened all those years ago.

1118
00:57:35,307 --> 00:57:39,467
Speaker 2: But talk about turning into a positive for Dame Sophie Pasco. Simon,

1119
00:57:39,507 --> 00:57:40,747
Speaker 2: you would have had a bit to do with Dame

1120
00:57:40,787 --> 00:57:44,187
Speaker 2: Sophie at some stage, no doubt, during your elite photography

1121
00:57:44,787 --> 00:57:46,627
Speaker 2: years which are still ongoing on my day.

1122
00:57:47,707 --> 00:57:52,107
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks Piney I've been a flying on the war

1123
00:57:52,387 --> 00:57:56,827
Speaker 5: around Dame Sophie. Like we've never had a conversation, but

1124
00:57:56,947 --> 00:58:00,627
Speaker 5: boy have I been impressed with her, both in the

1125
00:58:00,707 --> 00:58:04,627
Speaker 5: pool and outside that, mainly out of the pool. You

1126
00:58:04,667 --> 00:58:08,387
Speaker 5: know's a there's a vision I have of national swimming

1127
00:58:08,467 --> 00:58:12,707
Speaker 5: championships in Henderson. Must have had a good ten twelve

1128
00:58:12,827 --> 00:58:18,107
Speaker 5: years ago where she was it. You know, the mid

1129
00:58:18,147 --> 00:58:24,747
Speaker 5: career New Zealand Swimming brought Ian Thorpe over to be

1130
00:58:23,307 --> 00:58:27,707
Speaker 5: a role model and an advocate for swimming at that time,

1131
00:58:28,227 --> 00:58:34,907
Speaker 5: and she and and Ian four took center stage, but

1132
00:58:35,027 --> 00:58:39,867
Speaker 5: she took center stage in a much more subtle, humble

1133
00:58:40,147 --> 00:58:46,547
Speaker 5: sort of way. People gravitate to Dave Sophie and and

1134
00:58:47,427 --> 00:58:51,427
Speaker 5: she treats everybody with absolute equality. And you know that

1135
00:58:51,427 --> 00:58:56,667
Speaker 5: that adversity question that she has, you know she passes

1136
00:58:56,707 --> 00:59:00,147
Speaker 5: that on and in such a lovely way. And you

1137
00:59:00,187 --> 00:59:03,867
Speaker 5: know she would be one of the greatest sports people

1138
00:59:03,947 --> 00:59:07,707
Speaker 5: that New Zealand has ever seen. And and what she

1139
00:59:07,827 --> 00:59:11,867
Speaker 5: continues to do. You just listen to her speak to

1140
00:59:11,907 --> 00:59:13,827
Speaker 5: your pony and it's so uplifting.

1141
00:59:14,787 --> 00:59:18,347
Speaker 2: Yeah, A great word, great word, That's how I felt.

1142
00:59:18,387 --> 00:59:22,627
Speaker 5: That's as to her, Yeah, it doesn't matter actually, whether

1143
00:59:22,707 --> 00:59:28,267
Speaker 5: it's sport or anything else, she's that phenomenal advocate for

1144
00:59:28,587 --> 00:59:33,907
Speaker 5: a life and what how how life treats you? You

1145
00:59:33,907 --> 00:59:37,627
Speaker 5: you you've overcome that and you have that ability to

1146
00:59:37,707 --> 00:59:41,707
Speaker 5: overcome that, you know. I just think she she's magnificent

1147
00:59:41,907 --> 00:59:47,067
Speaker 5: and just as you said, Pine, just this wonderful human

1148
00:59:47,147 --> 00:59:51,907
Speaker 5: being and that you know, not only yeah, we're just

1149
00:59:51,947 --> 00:59:55,227
Speaker 5: so proud of her. I think anybody that's come into contact.

1150
00:59:54,867 --> 00:59:59,187
Speaker 2: With her with no her quality, well said Simon, well said,

1151
00:59:59,187 --> 01:00:00,947
Speaker 2: make drive safe, look forward to catching up so and

1152
01:00:01,067 --> 01:00:04,507
Speaker 2: thanks for calling in with your your observations. Look, yeah,

1153
01:00:04,747 --> 01:00:07,107
Speaker 2: I think anyone who's seen Dan Sophie as you say,

1154
01:00:07,147 --> 01:00:10,227
Speaker 2: most of us have probably you know, just watched her

1155
01:00:10,307 --> 01:00:14,147
Speaker 2: from afar, marveled at her feets in the water. Look,

1156
01:00:14,227 --> 01:00:16,707
Speaker 2: I've had, you know, the very very happy privilege of

1157
01:00:16,987 --> 01:00:19,107
Speaker 2: chanting to her like in an interview like the one

1158
01:00:19,107 --> 01:00:21,347
Speaker 2: we just did, and others as well, and you never

1159
01:00:21,427 --> 01:00:28,427
Speaker 2: ever get anything other than articulate, uplifting answers from Dame Sophie.

1160
01:00:28,427 --> 01:00:30,627
Speaker 2: Thanks Simon, all the best team mate, Ellison, you're from

1161
01:00:30,707 --> 01:00:32,547
Speaker 2: christ he which where Dame Sophie's from.

1162
01:00:32,907 --> 01:00:36,707
Speaker 20: It's oh absolutely inspiration always so positive. And I remember

1163
01:00:36,747 --> 01:00:39,027
Speaker 20: when she came when the comraft As so many years ago,

1164
01:00:39,187 --> 01:00:41,347
Speaker 20: when the Comrast Games, and she carried a baton and

1165
01:00:41,387 --> 01:00:43,907
Speaker 20: the children just loved her. They were swarming around her.

1166
01:00:43,987 --> 01:00:47,467
Speaker 20: And she's always so well happy. And when she presented

1167
01:00:47,507 --> 01:00:50,507
Speaker 20: the the co presenting, she mentioned that didn't you at

1168
01:00:50,547 --> 01:00:53,227
Speaker 20: the Paradlemic game you land so much about all the

1169
01:00:53,267 --> 01:00:56,547
Speaker 20: other competitors, not just the promise, but she knows them all,

1170
01:00:56,707 --> 01:00:59,467
Speaker 20: like Anna Grimaldi and will Step and all the other ones.

1171
01:00:59,467 --> 01:01:03,507
Speaker 20: And she's so supportive of all those other athletes. And

1172
01:01:03,627 --> 01:01:06,067
Speaker 20: I just think she's fantastic. I went to see years

1173
01:01:06,067 --> 01:01:08,547
Speaker 20: ago her book Laint as well, and she's always been

1174
01:01:08,627 --> 01:01:11,267
Speaker 20: inspirational and I put her at the top of the

1175
01:01:11,347 --> 01:01:13,827
Speaker 20: list at the stage. I mean others may come after here,

1176
01:01:14,147 --> 01:01:16,067
Speaker 20: but at this stage I would definitely say. And I

1177
01:01:16,307 --> 01:01:18,507
Speaker 20: must have mentioned particularly her grandmother. I think he's pass

1178
01:01:18,547 --> 01:01:20,947
Speaker 20: away a couple of years ago, Evon, And she was

1179
01:01:20,987 --> 01:01:25,827
Speaker 20: such a wonderful supporter also Sophie, and the dedicator she's

1180
01:01:25,867 --> 01:01:28,387
Speaker 20: kept phones, she met all other people like which you

1181
01:01:28,467 --> 01:01:30,587
Speaker 20: were call all over refred in that. But she was

1182
01:01:30,627 --> 01:01:33,067
Speaker 20: such a lovely inspiration too to Sophie.

1183
01:01:33,227 --> 01:01:35,627
Speaker 2: Wonderful Yeah, good on you, Ellison, well said, and I

1184
01:01:35,667 --> 01:01:39,107
Speaker 2: think what will happen is that, or what has happened,

1185
01:01:39,187 --> 01:01:41,787
Speaker 2: is that some of the athletes you've mentioned there have

1186
01:01:41,907 --> 01:01:45,467
Speaker 2: probably taken inspiration from Dame Sophie and there will be

1187
01:01:45,547 --> 01:01:47,587
Speaker 2: many more in the years to come who have been

1188
01:01:47,627 --> 01:01:50,827
Speaker 2: shown what is possible, because, like I say, the Paralympic

1189
01:01:50,827 --> 01:01:53,547
Speaker 2: movement has come a long long way, a long long

1190
01:01:53,587 --> 01:01:58,147
Speaker 2: way that now, as I say, people who thought, hey,

1191
01:01:58,187 --> 01:02:01,707
Speaker 2: sport might not be for me, sport can be for you.

1192
01:02:02,427 --> 01:02:04,947
Speaker 2: It can be. And Dame Sophie, I mean, whatever she

1193
01:02:05,067 --> 01:02:09,907
Speaker 2: ends up doing, and officially and unofficially, she just strikes

1194
01:02:09,907 --> 01:02:12,867
Speaker 2: me as a force for good, somebody who can have

1195
01:02:12,907 --> 01:02:17,067
Speaker 2: a real influence, a positive influence on whatever she channels

1196
01:02:17,067 --> 01:02:20,187
Speaker 2: her energy towards. At the moment, that's being a mum,

1197
01:02:20,307 --> 01:02:22,867
Speaker 2: and anyone who's been a mum or been a parent

1198
01:02:23,587 --> 01:02:27,867
Speaker 2: knows that that is a challenge in itself, and she's

1199
01:02:27,867 --> 01:02:29,747
Speaker 2: tackling that head on at the moment, John says, Sophie

1200
01:02:29,747 --> 01:02:32,387
Speaker 2: pasco legend. Hopefully she'll eventually get the o n Z

1201
01:02:32,507 --> 01:02:37,227
Speaker 2: Award Humble, dignified, inspiring, simply the best. Thanks John, agree,

1202
01:02:37,267 --> 01:02:39,667
Speaker 2: totally going to move in a minute one twenty eight

1203
01:02:40,627 --> 01:02:43,667
Speaker 2: updating you from the base in reserve where Merely Kurr

1204
01:02:43,827 --> 01:02:46,467
Speaker 2: is out. So that's a massive wicket for the Northern

1205
01:02:46,667 --> 01:02:50,747
Speaker 2: Brave as they look to try and restrict the blaze.

1206
01:02:50,787 --> 01:02:53,947
Speaker 2: There's seventy nine for three and the twelfth over Merely

1207
01:02:53,987 --> 01:02:56,107
Speaker 2: curR out for twenty nine of twenty four balls. Another

1208
01:02:56,107 --> 01:03:00,347
Speaker 2: good contribution from her, Jess curstill out there, Maddie Brown

1209
01:03:00,347 --> 01:03:06,307
Speaker 2: has joined her arm and Wellington's seventy nine eighty now

1210
01:03:06,427 --> 01:03:09,587
Speaker 2: for three, eighty for three and the twelfth over. Jamie

1211
01:03:09,627 --> 01:03:14,027
Speaker 2: says piny center. But unfair that the Otago Sparks finished

1212
01:03:14,027 --> 01:03:16,987
Speaker 2: top and may have to play Wellington in Wellington in

1213
01:03:17,027 --> 01:03:20,347
Speaker 2: the final. I think in this situation they should get

1214
01:03:20,347 --> 01:03:23,307
Speaker 2: the advantage of automatically winning the toss in the final.

1215
01:03:23,507 --> 01:03:26,947
Speaker 2: Goodness me, Jamie, they would have pair to hand them

1216
01:03:27,027 --> 01:03:29,187
Speaker 2: quite a big advantage. But as you say, having to

1217
01:03:29,227 --> 01:03:33,667
Speaker 2: play in Wellington potentially against Wellington, if that's your reward

1218
01:03:33,667 --> 01:03:36,347
Speaker 2: for finishing top, obviously the reason, and I know you know,

1219
01:03:36,867 --> 01:03:40,227
Speaker 2: is that they've given finals weekend to one venue, so

1220
01:03:40,267 --> 01:03:44,027
Speaker 2: elimination finals today, grand finals tomorrow, so four games a

1221
01:03:44,067 --> 01:03:47,187
Speaker 2: cricket across the two days and presumably they put out

1222
01:03:47,187 --> 01:03:50,787
Speaker 2: a tender or said hey, who wants these games? And

1223
01:03:50,827 --> 01:03:52,987
Speaker 2: I suppose everybody would have said, yep, we're in for this,

1224
01:03:53,187 --> 01:03:57,107
Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, the Basin reserve was chosen. The

1225
01:03:57,147 --> 01:04:00,627
Speaker 2: men aren't going to be there. The Wellington Firebirds haven't

1226
01:04:00,667 --> 01:04:03,627
Speaker 2: made it through to the elimination final, so they're not

1227
01:04:03,667 --> 01:04:06,627
Speaker 2: going to be there. So yeah, for Wellingtonians, they're hope

1228
01:04:06,667 --> 01:04:09,707
Speaker 2: is that the Blaze can win today and contest the

1229
01:04:09,707 --> 01:04:12,947
Speaker 2: final tomorrow, Jamie. Just to finish on that too. Otago

1230
01:04:12,947 --> 01:04:15,947
Speaker 2: have already played Wellington once at the Basin this season

1231
01:04:16,227 --> 01:04:19,227
Speaker 2: and Otago won that game by seven wickets, really really

1232
01:04:19,227 --> 01:04:22,227
Speaker 2: comprehensive win. So I don't think they'll fear playing the

1233
01:04:22,227 --> 01:04:24,747
Speaker 2: Blaze at the Basin tomorrow if that comes to pass.

1234
01:04:25,027 --> 01:04:26,987
Speaker 2: Thanks for your text, though, mate, one point thirty. Speaking

1235
01:04:27,027 --> 01:04:30,587
Speaker 2: of cricket, the Central Stags already into the final of

1236
01:04:30,627 --> 01:04:33,747
Speaker 2: the men's competition by virtue of finishing top of that table,

1237
01:04:34,027 --> 01:04:38,147
Speaker 2: so they now sit back and wait for their opposition,

1238
01:04:38,467 --> 01:04:40,667
Speaker 2: which you'll be found later on today. Jayden Lennox has

1239
01:04:40,707 --> 01:04:44,627
Speaker 2: been really really good for them, the left orthodox spinner,

1240
01:04:44,707 --> 01:04:47,867
Speaker 2: terrific fielder as well. He is with us shortly as

1241
01:04:48,307 --> 01:04:51,427
Speaker 2: he looks forward to tomorrow's Super Spanish Men's final at

1242
01:04:51,467 --> 01:04:54,427
Speaker 2: the Basin. Jayden Lennox after this on news Talk Sepek.

1243
01:04:54,227 --> 01:04:58,947
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Speaker 2: Just on twenty seven to two are well in Loost

1247
01:05:06,747 --> 01:05:08,867
Speaker 2: another wicked other think, said Maddie Brown, Maitland Brown. Of course,

1248
01:05:08,947 --> 01:05:13,427
Speaker 2: Maitland Brown. She's out though, so that is not great

1249
01:05:13,467 --> 01:05:16,067
Speaker 2: for her. Out for five. Jess Courstall there on twenty

1250
01:05:16,147 --> 01:05:19,387
Speaker 2: joined by Jess mcfagen and Wellington eighty three for four

1251
01:05:19,427 --> 01:05:21,667
Speaker 2: and the thirteenth over so they gon okay in terms

1252
01:05:21,667 --> 01:05:25,267
Speaker 2: of run rape, but four wickets down. Now Wellington against Northern.

1253
01:05:26,587 --> 01:05:28,227
Speaker 2: You might have just before we move on back to

1254
01:05:28,227 --> 01:05:30,987
Speaker 2: the cricket, you might have heard Grant speaking with us

1255
01:05:30,987 --> 01:05:33,187
Speaker 2: be four one o'clock. We were talking Auckland FC and Grants.

1256
01:05:33,227 --> 01:05:34,947
Speaker 2: You look, I've never been to a game and probably

1257
01:05:35,307 --> 01:05:39,667
Speaker 2: can't afford to Grant. Just give us a quick buzz mate,

1258
01:05:39,707 --> 01:05:41,667
Speaker 2: because we've had a caller who and this is here's

1259
01:05:41,707 --> 01:05:45,027
Speaker 2: the ZB audience for you who rung off air and

1260
01:05:45,027 --> 01:05:47,507
Speaker 2: said to Andy Hay, if Grant's keen, I'm keen to shout,

1261
01:05:47,547 --> 01:05:50,787
Speaker 2: I'm a ticket to the game. So Grant, the next

1262
01:05:50,787 --> 01:05:54,187
Speaker 2: is not today, Not today, mate, the next game. So

1263
01:05:54,787 --> 01:05:57,387
Speaker 2: give us a l. Andy'll put you in touch with

1264
01:05:57,707 --> 01:06:00,747
Speaker 2: our caller and we'll leave you to make the arrangements.

1265
01:06:00,747 --> 01:06:03,627
Speaker 2: But yeah, here go, it's the said b audience for you,

1266
01:06:04,107 --> 01:06:06,147
Speaker 2: absolutely treminous. Grant, give us l you know the number,

1267
01:06:06,427 --> 01:06:10,387
Speaker 2: pull it off on enough. Twenty six to two, the

1268
01:06:10,427 --> 01:06:15,947
Speaker 2: Central Stags have qualified directly for tomorrow's Super Smash Men's final.

1269
01:06:15,987 --> 01:06:17,627
Speaker 2: They finished well clear at the top of the regular

1270
01:06:17,667 --> 01:06:21,907
Speaker 2: season table six wins, two losses, two no results. They

1271
01:06:21,947 --> 01:06:24,307
Speaker 2: now await the winner of the elimination final this afternoon

1272
01:06:24,307 --> 01:06:27,347
Speaker 2: between Northern and Canterbury. Jaden Lennox has played a key

1273
01:06:27,467 --> 01:06:30,427
Speaker 2: role in the Stags run to the final. Yeah, oh

1274
01:06:30,547 --> 01:06:34,907
Speaker 2: that's brilliant. That is really good from Jaden Lennox, claims

1275
01:06:34,947 --> 01:06:38,627
Speaker 2: about tape and that's got to be close that.

1276
01:06:39,027 --> 01:06:44,547
Speaker 18: Yeah, everything's coming up roses for Jayden Lennox.

1277
01:06:44,587 --> 01:06:47,907
Speaker 2: Indeed, he was the side's most economical bowler across the competition,

1278
01:06:47,987 --> 01:06:51,067
Speaker 2: also picking up nine wickets. He took nine catches as well,

1279
01:06:51,107 --> 01:06:54,947
Speaker 2: including a Stag's record four in one game against the

1280
01:06:54,987 --> 01:06:57,467
Speaker 2: Northern Brave. In that same innings, he had his season's

1281
01:06:57,507 --> 01:07:01,027
Speaker 2: best figures of three for fourteen. Jayden Lenox is with us.

1282
01:07:01,227 --> 01:07:03,867
Speaker 2: Jayden numb Well, congrats on your season. For you and

1283
01:07:03,947 --> 01:07:06,027
Speaker 2: for the Stags would have been the main keys to

1284
01:07:06,067 --> 01:07:08,987
Speaker 2: the side Guide's success during the round robin segment.

1285
01:07:11,587 --> 01:07:13,667
Speaker 9: I suppose it's pretty hard to put your finger on

1286
01:07:13,667 --> 01:07:17,467
Speaker 9: one thing. I think where we're probably tracking nicely, and

1287
01:07:17,627 --> 01:07:20,267
Speaker 9: we're probably tracking a little bit more confidently confidently than

1288
01:07:20,267 --> 01:07:22,187
Speaker 9: we have in the I suppose the past couple of years.

1289
01:07:22,187 --> 01:07:23,747
Speaker 9: It feels like when we get ourselves into a little

1290
01:07:23,747 --> 01:07:25,907
Speaker 9: bit of a tangle, that we're sort of trusting our

1291
01:07:25,987 --> 01:07:27,987
Speaker 9: own games and trusting each other enough to just kind

1292
01:07:27,987 --> 01:07:29,547
Speaker 9: of take the games as deep as we need to.

1293
01:07:29,987 --> 01:07:32,107
Speaker 9: We're in the past, we've kind of panicked a little

1294
01:07:32,107 --> 01:07:34,627
Speaker 9: bit and we've been chasing Niglie totals. We've kind of

1295
01:07:35,027 --> 01:07:37,187
Speaker 9: fallen a stepar too short. So I think the fact

1296
01:07:37,187 --> 01:07:38,947
Speaker 9: that we've kind of grown in confidence and that we're

1297
01:07:38,987 --> 01:07:42,027
Speaker 9: started to win hard games, there's probably a huge area

1298
01:07:42,067 --> 01:07:43,347
Speaker 9: of progression for us this season.

1299
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Speaker 2: Does that confidence you talk about there, does that come

1300
01:07:46,347 --> 01:07:48,507
Speaker 2: really only with experience?

1301
01:07:50,267 --> 01:07:50,427
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1302
01:07:50,467 --> 01:07:52,067
Speaker 9: I think if if you look through our sort of

1303
01:07:52,067 --> 01:07:53,987
Speaker 9: eleven or twelve players that have played the majority of

1304
01:07:53,987 --> 01:07:56,307
Speaker 9: this campaign, there is a lot of experience there, and

1305
01:07:57,027 --> 01:07:59,107
Speaker 9: I think the guys that are less experienced are kind

1306
01:07:59,107 --> 01:08:01,267
Speaker 9: of leaning on the guys with a shipmoad of experience.

1307
01:08:01,347 --> 01:08:03,867
Speaker 9: So yeah, I think it's one of those things that

1308
01:08:03,907 --> 01:08:05,907
Speaker 9: there's there's a good balance of experience and a little

1309
01:08:05,947 --> 01:08:08,227
Speaker 9: bit of youth and an experience there which is kind

1310
01:08:08,267 --> 01:08:11,387
Speaker 9: of lights the fire and everybody and kind of getting

1311
01:08:11,387 --> 01:08:13,347
Speaker 9: your arm around some of the guys with this experiences

1312
01:08:13,347 --> 01:08:16,947
Speaker 9: cool when you know that when there's advice is falling

1313
01:08:16,947 --> 01:08:17,787
Speaker 9: on good shoulders.

1314
01:08:17,827 --> 01:08:20,587
Speaker 2: I guess now, even though you didn't actually, as it

1315
01:08:20,627 --> 01:08:23,147
Speaker 2: turns out, need the win in your last game to

1316
01:08:23,187 --> 01:08:26,227
Speaker 2: finish top, how much confidence did you take from the

1317
01:08:26,307 --> 01:08:31,867
Speaker 2: victory over Auckland on Wednesday, especially taking forty five off

1318
01:08:31,907 --> 01:08:33,627
Speaker 2: the last sixteen balls to win that game.

1319
01:08:34,347 --> 01:08:34,547
Speaker 10: Yeah.

1320
01:08:35,027 --> 01:08:38,947
Speaker 9: We've spoken about momentum a lot this season, and I

1321
01:08:38,947 --> 01:08:41,587
Speaker 9: think it was really nice to obviously know that we

1322
01:08:41,627 --> 01:08:43,187
Speaker 9: didn't need to win that game, but the fact that

1323
01:08:43,227 --> 01:08:44,627
Speaker 9: we sort of pulled that out of the fire a

1324
01:08:44,667 --> 01:08:46,587
Speaker 9: little bit. And that's kind of the games that we've

1325
01:08:46,587 --> 01:08:48,747
Speaker 9: been speaking about is in the past, we've done a

1326
01:08:48,747 --> 01:08:51,307
Speaker 9: way to lose those games. We've had our backs up

1327
01:08:51,307 --> 01:08:52,947
Speaker 9: against the wall. But we've kind of found a little

1328
01:08:52,947 --> 01:08:54,467
Speaker 9: bit of a method about taking the game a little

1329
01:08:54,467 --> 01:08:56,387
Speaker 9: bit deeper than in the past, and we're kind of

1330
01:08:56,667 --> 01:08:59,427
Speaker 9: proving it to ourselves that we can do that. And YEA,

1331
01:08:59,627 --> 01:09:01,147
Speaker 9: for the last couple of seasons, as I say, we've

1332
01:09:01,227 --> 01:09:04,587
Speaker 9: kind of struggled in those situations. So to win those

1333
01:09:04,587 --> 01:09:06,507
Speaker 9: games and get a little bit more momentum. I think

1334
01:09:07,107 --> 01:09:09,707
Speaker 9: before that Auckland game, we hadn't played in nine days

1335
01:09:09,707 --> 01:09:12,067
Speaker 9: because of two rain So to get on the park

1336
01:09:12,107 --> 01:09:15,307
Speaker 9: and get a win that's pretty crucial to getting back

1337
01:09:15,707 --> 01:09:18,267
Speaker 9: on the winner's side of the table was pretty cool.

1338
01:09:18,707 --> 01:09:21,747
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about your bowling. What's been

1339
01:09:21,787 --> 01:09:24,067
Speaker 2: the secret or what of being the keys of your

1340
01:09:24,187 --> 01:09:27,147
Speaker 2: economy in the T twenty comp this season.

1341
01:09:29,627 --> 01:09:32,267
Speaker 9: I don't really know. I think it's probably a combination

1342
01:09:32,307 --> 01:09:36,187
Speaker 9: of experience and sort of I do quite a bit

1343
01:09:36,187 --> 01:09:39,187
Speaker 9: of work on the analytics of the game and kind

1344
01:09:39,187 --> 01:09:41,707
Speaker 9: of figure out little niche areas where I can save

1345
01:09:41,747 --> 01:09:43,947
Speaker 9: one or two runs against most betters, so I kind

1346
01:09:43,987 --> 01:09:46,347
Speaker 9: of let those one percenters kind of stack up a

1347
01:09:46,387 --> 01:09:49,667
Speaker 9: little bit. But I think it's just a combination of

1348
01:09:49,707 --> 01:09:52,427
Speaker 9: being experienced now and working closely with the guys around

1349
01:09:52,467 --> 01:09:55,667
Speaker 9: me to kind of formulate a plan and figure out

1350
01:09:55,667 --> 01:09:57,267
Speaker 9: how I can kind of try and have my impact

1351
01:09:57,307 --> 01:09:57,707
Speaker 9: on the game.

1352
01:09:58,307 --> 01:10:00,067
Speaker 2: Are you trying to take wickets out there? Like would

1353
01:10:00,107 --> 01:10:01,907
Speaker 2: you be happier with I don't know, would you be

1354
01:10:01,907 --> 01:10:04,907
Speaker 2: happy with two for thirty or none for twenty eight.

1355
01:10:07,307 --> 01:10:10,067
Speaker 9: It's probably a little bit depends on the game scenario.

1356
01:10:10,147 --> 01:10:13,907
Speaker 9: But I think kind of my role with it within

1357
01:10:13,947 --> 01:10:15,427
Speaker 9: our team at the moment is to kind of be

1358
01:10:15,467 --> 01:10:17,867
Speaker 9: the glue in the middle that can kind of restrict

1359
01:10:18,267 --> 01:10:21,947
Speaker 9: whatever the situation is. So the fact that I'm going

1360
01:10:21,987 --> 01:10:24,147
Speaker 9: to less runs and a lot of other people that's

1361
01:10:24,987 --> 01:10:28,307
Speaker 9: my avenue and trying to provide a little bit of

1362
01:10:28,347 --> 01:10:30,587
Speaker 9: control and when there's a big over, Tom can kind

1363
01:10:30,587 --> 01:10:32,747
Speaker 9: of throw them the ball and he'll know more or

1364
01:10:32,827 --> 01:10:36,067
Speaker 9: less what he's going to get. And I suppose knowing

1365
01:10:36,107 --> 01:10:38,027
Speaker 9: that people are allowed to have their day with the

1366
01:10:38,027 --> 01:10:39,787
Speaker 9: bed as well, so not being too hard on yourself

1367
01:10:39,827 --> 01:10:42,707
Speaker 9: and you don't have those good days, it's probably the

1368
01:10:42,787 --> 01:10:45,747
Speaker 9: key to my role because you're never going to bowl

1369
01:10:45,867 --> 01:10:48,227
Speaker 9: done to twenty or two to thirty every day. There's

1370
01:10:48,227 --> 01:10:50,947
Speaker 9: going to be days where you go for fifty, So

1371
01:10:51,147 --> 01:10:53,067
Speaker 9: just accepting that's probably a big part of it as well,

1372
01:10:53,067 --> 01:10:55,387
Speaker 9: and being at ease with knowing that these days that

1373
01:10:55,427 --> 01:10:56,827
Speaker 9: the betters are going to take you down.

1374
01:10:57,387 --> 01:10:58,987
Speaker 2: At the start of a bowling innings, do you have

1375
01:10:59,027 --> 01:11:02,227
Speaker 2: a general idea of which overs you're likely to bowl

1376
01:11:02,307 --> 01:11:04,307
Speaker 2: or does that very much depend on how the innings

1377
01:11:04,587 --> 01:11:05,907
Speaker 2: pans out? Saying the power.

1378
01:11:05,707 --> 01:11:10,987
Speaker 9: Play, Nah, I think we're we'd probably like to say

1379
01:11:11,027 --> 01:11:14,147
Speaker 9: that everybody should have a good idea, but the nature

1380
01:11:14,147 --> 01:11:17,467
Speaker 9: of twenty twenty cricket, especially in yelmba game, the game

1381
01:11:17,587 --> 01:11:19,787
Speaker 9: progresses pretty quickly, so sometimes you get a little bit

1382
01:11:19,787 --> 01:11:21,827
Speaker 9: of a right, who shall we bowl here? And then

1383
01:11:21,827 --> 01:11:24,587
Speaker 9: you have a bit of a midfield conference with Tom

1384
01:11:24,627 --> 01:11:27,027
Speaker 9: and you decide, right, it's it's time to try and

1385
01:11:27,027 --> 01:11:29,747
Speaker 9: shut shutting over down inside the power play, which typically

1386
01:11:29,747 --> 01:11:33,587
Speaker 9: i'd kind of go sort of maybe seven, oh, the

1387
01:11:33,627 --> 01:11:37,547
Speaker 9: seventh over, maybe the eleventh and thirteenth, and then somewhere

1388
01:11:37,547 --> 01:11:39,907
Speaker 9: around the eighteenth. So yeah, you just got to be

1389
01:11:39,907 --> 01:11:41,307
Speaker 9: really it's kind of one of those games and you

1390
01:11:41,307 --> 01:11:43,147
Speaker 9: sass to be prepared to bowl every year over the game.

1391
01:11:43,707 --> 01:11:45,787
Speaker 2: You mentioned Tom Bruce there before. He's I mean, he's

1392
01:11:45,827 --> 01:11:48,707
Speaker 2: a terrific T twenty player, isn't he. How keys has

1393
01:11:48,787 --> 01:11:50,787
Speaker 2: batting been and the batting of of a guy like

1394
01:11:50,867 --> 01:11:53,427
Speaker 2: Jack Boyle to your success this season.

1395
01:11:53,587 --> 01:11:57,227
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's been. It's been all we've had. I suppose

1396
01:11:57,227 --> 01:11:59,907
Speaker 9: we've had one one guy in the past going well

1397
01:11:59,987 --> 01:12:02,387
Speaker 9: in the tournament. It's kind of and that always contributes

1398
01:12:02,427 --> 01:12:04,267
Speaker 9: to games. When you get somebody that can average sort

1399
01:12:04,267 --> 01:12:06,307
Speaker 9: of I suppose you get somebody that can average fifty

1400
01:12:06,347 --> 01:12:09,147
Speaker 9: throughout the tournament. That's pretty special for for somebody to

1401
01:12:09,187 --> 01:12:11,427
Speaker 9: do across sort of the eleven game tournament. But to

1402
01:12:11,467 --> 01:12:13,787
Speaker 9: have have two or three guys that are contributing to

1403
01:12:13,787 --> 01:12:17,227
Speaker 9: winning games for us consistently, it just means that you're

1404
01:12:17,227 --> 01:12:20,027
Speaker 9: not losing wickets at both ends. And sometimes when you lose,

1405
01:12:20,027 --> 01:12:23,347
Speaker 9: a look at both ends and you don't really find

1406
01:12:23,467 --> 01:12:25,587
Speaker 9: ways to get momentum through the middle. So the fact

1407
01:12:25,587 --> 01:12:27,787
Speaker 9: that we've got three or four guys that are all

1408
01:12:27,787 --> 01:12:30,787
Speaker 9: of a pretty rich of veniform of moments, it's really

1409
01:12:30,787 --> 01:12:32,227
Speaker 9: co and we've got a lot of confidence with the

1410
01:12:32,267 --> 01:12:35,627
Speaker 9: lower order as well, like when we saw the other

1411
01:12:35,707 --> 01:12:38,067
Speaker 9: night that Curtis came out in a different role at

1412
01:12:38,107 --> 01:12:40,547
Speaker 9: number six or seven, got us across the line with Shwsey,

1413
01:12:40,667 --> 01:12:43,987
Speaker 9: who's a gain pretty inexperience. It's cool to see because

1414
01:12:44,147 --> 01:12:46,347
Speaker 9: we're all backing each other as well. So the fact

1415
01:12:46,387 --> 01:12:49,187
Speaker 9: that everybody's leaning on each other within Satting unit, it's

1416
01:12:49,227 --> 01:12:52,147
Speaker 9: pretty cool and it's something that we've kind of pride

1417
01:12:52,187 --> 01:12:54,787
Speaker 9: ourselves on for this campaign especially. We worked seriously hard

1418
01:12:54,827 --> 01:12:57,987
Speaker 9: and we had some pretty tough conversations posts Super Smash

1419
01:12:58,067 --> 01:13:00,427
Speaker 9: last year about how we just didn't quite hit our

1420
01:13:00,467 --> 01:13:02,747
Speaker 9: straps and we weren't prepared to take the games deep

1421
01:13:02,787 --> 01:13:06,947
Speaker 9: enough so we can come out trumps up to the

1422
01:13:06,947 --> 01:13:08,187
Speaker 9: stages pretty broading.

1423
01:13:08,347 --> 01:13:09,867
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Have you had a bat yet?

1424
01:13:10,107 --> 01:13:10,347
Speaker 11: Have you?

1425
01:13:10,427 --> 01:13:12,307
Speaker 2: Have you betted you haven't had one yet?

1426
01:13:12,427 --> 01:13:12,827
Speaker 5: I haven't.

1427
01:13:12,907 --> 01:13:15,747
Speaker 9: No, I've had to put the pads on twice, I think,

1428
01:13:15,787 --> 01:13:17,867
Speaker 9: but it wasn't even I wasn't even close to going out,

1429
01:13:17,867 --> 01:13:21,387
Speaker 9: which is that's pretty cool to know that sort of

1430
01:13:21,387 --> 01:13:23,987
Speaker 9: I don't even think Blair is bettered and he's won

1431
01:13:24,027 --> 01:13:26,067
Speaker 9: in front of me, so nineteen eleven haven't had to bat.

1432
01:13:26,107 --> 01:13:29,227
Speaker 9: It's kind of shown the prowess of our top order,

1433
01:13:29,707 --> 01:13:32,067
Speaker 9: which is yes, it's an awesome, awesome thing to be

1434
01:13:32,107 --> 01:13:32,507
Speaker 9: part of it.

1435
01:13:32,467 --> 01:13:34,187
Speaker 2: The moment, Yeah, it really has. Do you think you're

1436
01:13:34,187 --> 01:13:36,587
Speaker 2: a team that prefers to chase in T twenty I

1437
01:13:36,747 --> 01:13:38,947
Speaker 2: it's a very general question, but I mean, you have

1438
01:13:39,067 --> 01:13:40,867
Speaker 2: won a lot of games chasing the summer. Is that

1439
01:13:40,947 --> 01:13:41,507
Speaker 2: your preference?

1440
01:13:43,707 --> 01:13:47,987
Speaker 9: Typically I would say no, but I think this season, yeah,

1441
01:13:48,027 --> 01:13:50,107
Speaker 9: I think we definitely have figured out a little bit

1442
01:13:50,147 --> 01:13:53,067
Speaker 9: of a GreenPrint to go out there and chase scores.

1443
01:13:54,507 --> 01:13:56,667
Speaker 9: And I think just because of the nature of the wickets,

1444
01:13:56,667 --> 01:13:58,387
Speaker 9: the wickets have been a little bit more abrasive, so

1445
01:13:58,427 --> 01:14:02,947
Speaker 9: I think it has been difficult to sort of bat

1446
01:14:03,067 --> 01:14:04,587
Speaker 9: first and know what a good scorer is. No, if

1447
01:14:04,627 --> 01:14:06,307
Speaker 9: you've gone hard enough or if you've gone too hard,

1448
01:14:06,427 --> 01:14:08,867
Speaker 9: you can sometimes leave yourself short. So I think going

1449
01:14:08,867 --> 01:14:10,867
Speaker 9: out there and getting good read We've got a pretty

1450
01:14:10,867 --> 01:14:14,547
Speaker 9: experienced bowling attack, so we're pretty attuned to giving some

1451
01:14:14,547 --> 01:14:17,307
Speaker 9: pretty good feedback to the betters and knowing what they

1452
01:14:17,347 --> 01:14:19,827
Speaker 9: can do in terms of chasing scores down. And I

1453
01:14:19,827 --> 01:14:21,587
Speaker 9: think that's that experience coming to the floor as while

1454
01:14:21,587 --> 01:14:24,587
Speaker 9: everybody's comfortable chasing scores and the fact that we're trusting

1455
01:14:24,627 --> 01:14:27,987
Speaker 9: our own games and each other's means that we're actually

1456
01:14:28,347 --> 01:14:29,707
Speaker 9: chasing scores pretty comfortably.

1457
01:14:30,107 --> 01:14:33,027
Speaker 2: And beyond this weekend, Jaden is back to FORLL Trophy

1458
01:14:33,027 --> 01:14:35,147
Speaker 2: and Planket Shield. You're featured for the Stags and both

1459
01:14:35,187 --> 01:14:38,187
Speaker 2: of those competitions before Christmas. You're keen to be an

1460
01:14:38,227 --> 01:14:40,027
Speaker 2: all format player for CD.

1461
01:14:40,867 --> 01:14:41,107
Speaker 10: Yeah.

1462
01:14:41,187 --> 01:14:44,387
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's kind of a goal. That's I've worked worked

1463
01:14:44,427 --> 01:14:47,387
Speaker 9: tirelessly to get my red ball game up to a

1464
01:14:47,507 --> 01:14:50,827
Speaker 9: level where I can come compete for spots. A second,

1465
01:14:51,467 --> 01:14:53,747
Speaker 9: if there's a second spinner, I've kind of tried to

1466
01:14:53,747 --> 01:14:57,587
Speaker 9: homee my craft enough to be I suppose that second

1467
01:14:57,627 --> 01:14:59,427
Speaker 9: spinner roll and for Ages is away with the black

1468
01:14:59,467 --> 01:15:01,987
Speaker 9: Caps to be the one that's picked. So yeah, I'm

1469
01:15:01,987 --> 01:15:05,467
Speaker 9: definitely keen to keep donning the baggy green and go

1470
01:15:05,547 --> 01:15:06,987
Speaker 9: out there and performing cricket.

1471
01:15:07,107 --> 01:15:08,587
Speaker 2: Good Man, Well, you've got the white ball stuff to

1472
01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:10,147
Speaker 2: get out of the way first, mate, All the best

1473
01:15:10,187 --> 01:15:12,827
Speaker 2: tomorrow and the final against whoever it's against, either Northern

1474
01:15:12,947 --> 01:15:16,427
Speaker 2: or Canterbury. Jayden Lennox from the Central Stags, the side

1475
01:15:16,907 --> 01:15:19,787
Speaker 2: who finished top in the regular season and earned direct

1476
01:15:19,947 --> 01:15:22,787
Speaker 2: entry into tomorrow's final, seventeen to two. Let's take a

1477
01:15:22,827 --> 01:15:25,107
Speaker 2: break when we come back across the Tasman, Adam Peacock,

1478
01:15:25,147 --> 01:15:26,387
Speaker 2: our Australian correspondent.

1479
01:15:27,267 --> 01:15:28,387
Speaker 9: Should you be the.

1480
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1481
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1482
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1483
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Speaker 2: Be thirteen to two. Let's get you across the Tasman,

1484
01:15:40,627 --> 01:15:44,027
Speaker 2: our regular Australian correspondent Adam Peacock as well as Adam,

1485
01:15:44,067 --> 01:15:47,547
Speaker 2: I know it's been done and dusted, but with the

1486
01:15:47,547 --> 01:15:50,027
Speaker 2: benefit of a few days hindsight after the Australian Tennis

1487
01:15:50,067 --> 01:15:52,027
Speaker 2: Open that you were deeply involved in the coverage of,

1488
01:15:52,267 --> 01:15:54,227
Speaker 2: how do you regard the twenty twenty five edition?

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Speaker 21: Awesome Piney, Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It didn't have

1490
01:15:59,467 --> 01:16:03,947
Speaker 21: thinking about it, didn't have the incredible, amazing viral moments

1491
01:16:03,947 --> 01:16:06,827
Speaker 21: if you like, throughout and you know, in part towards

1492
01:16:06,867 --> 01:16:08,867
Speaker 21: the fact that Nicurious lost in the first round and

1493
01:16:08,907 --> 01:16:11,707
Speaker 21: he didn't play the doubles, and yeah, various other reasons

1494
01:16:11,707 --> 01:16:14,427
Speaker 21: that the crescendo on the weekend for two different reasons.

1495
01:16:14,467 --> 01:16:17,347
Speaker 21: The women's final was just a n epic contest and

1496
01:16:17,547 --> 01:16:21,227
Speaker 21: Madison Key's really heartwarming story that she got it done,

1497
01:16:21,467 --> 01:16:23,627
Speaker 21: and then the performance of the annex Cenna goes down

1498
01:16:23,667 --> 01:16:26,387
Speaker 21: as one of the great Grands Sman Final performances of

1499
01:16:26,427 --> 01:16:28,787
Speaker 21: all time. To not even face a break point against

1500
01:16:28,827 --> 01:16:31,387
Speaker 21: the second best player in the world, it's just it's

1501
01:16:31,467 --> 01:16:35,107
Speaker 21: insane tennis. So, for varying reasons, the final weekend was

1502
01:16:35,547 --> 01:16:38,427
Speaker 21: bloody enjoyable in terms of watching high level.

1503
01:16:38,227 --> 01:16:39,227
Speaker 8: Sports, great stuff.

1504
01:16:39,267 --> 01:16:42,107
Speaker 2: Loved your coverage of that. Let's move to the other

1505
01:16:42,627 --> 01:16:45,707
Speaker 2: big summer sport. In both of our country's cricket. Both

1506
01:16:45,707 --> 01:16:47,747
Speaker 2: of your men's and women's teams are in action at

1507
01:16:47,747 --> 01:16:51,827
Speaker 2: the moment and both absolutely dominating their opposition. Let's start

1508
01:16:51,867 --> 01:16:55,067
Speaker 2: and gaul Australia six hundred and fifty four for six

1509
01:16:55,147 --> 01:16:57,867
Speaker 2: declared Sri Lanka one hundred and thirty six for five.

1510
01:16:58,147 --> 01:17:00,027
Speaker 2: Goodness me, yeah.

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01:16:59,827 --> 01:17:02,107
Speaker 22: A bit of a gap between the two sides. Unfortunately, though,

1512
01:17:02,547 --> 01:17:05,547
Speaker 22: the weather looks to kind of help the Slannkins yesterday

1513
01:17:05,627 --> 01:17:07,827
Speaker 22: and knows what the weather's going to serve up in

1514
01:17:07,867 --> 01:17:11,707
Speaker 22: the next two days, So Australia basically have two days

1515
01:17:11,747 --> 01:17:14,707
Speaker 22: to take fifteen wickets. I can't imagine that we've had again,

1516
01:17:15,187 --> 01:17:19,147
Speaker 22: unless something extraordinary happens. But yeah, it's a tough ass.

1517
01:17:19,667 --> 01:17:21,627
Speaker 22: They're well rested. I guess though the ball was after

1518
01:17:21,987 --> 01:17:26,267
Speaker 22: missing out for most of Day three. But yeah, total domination.

1519
01:17:26,347 --> 01:17:28,547
Speaker 22: Didn't expect this. The way that we bat it was

1520
01:17:28,667 --> 01:17:33,067
Speaker 22: so impressive and that wicket probably didn't suit the Shrilankans

1521
01:17:33,107 --> 01:17:35,347
Speaker 22: as well as it might have. And I dare say,

1522
01:17:35,387 --> 01:17:36,827
Speaker 22: I think they're going to play in the same deck

1523
01:17:36,867 --> 01:17:38,427
Speaker 22: in the second Test, so who knows what they're going

1524
01:17:38,467 --> 01:17:39,747
Speaker 22: to serve up And that one could be one of

1525
01:17:39,747 --> 01:17:41,867
Speaker 22: those lossteries that we've seen in Pakistan in the last

1526
01:17:41,907 --> 01:17:45,347
Speaker 22: couple of years, where they put all kinds of things

1527
01:17:45,387 --> 01:17:47,027
Speaker 22: on the pitch to dry it out and make it

1528
01:17:47,107 --> 01:17:50,347
Speaker 22: turn from ball one on day one. But at the moment,

1529
01:17:50,347 --> 01:17:53,067
Speaker 22: Australia in a commanding position and bat it so well.

1530
01:17:53,067 --> 01:17:56,707
Speaker 22: It was mccawajhor the best of them with two hundred plus.

1531
01:17:56,907 --> 01:18:01,067
Speaker 2: His opening partner Travis hid Sam Constace of course, turned

1532
01:18:01,107 --> 01:18:02,707
Speaker 2: plenty of head to the back end of the series

1533
01:18:02,707 --> 01:18:05,227
Speaker 2: against India. A surprise to you he wasn't selected to

1534
01:18:05,267 --> 01:18:05,747
Speaker 2: open here.

1535
01:18:06,747 --> 01:18:09,107
Speaker 22: A little bit like if we're looking at it and

1536
01:18:09,147 --> 01:18:11,387
Speaker 22: saying that, okay, we want sam Flosis to be part

1537
01:18:11,427 --> 01:18:14,227
Speaker 22: of the test set up for the next fifteen years

1538
01:18:14,387 --> 01:18:17,667
Speaker 22: and essentially a dead rubber test because it doesn't mean

1539
01:18:17,707 --> 01:18:21,067
Speaker 22: anything for making World Test Championships. Why don't we give

1540
01:18:21,147 --> 01:18:23,107
Speaker 22: him a go? But then you point it back to

1541
01:18:23,147 --> 01:18:26,147
Speaker 22: Australia just wanting to win every Test and picking the

1542
01:18:26,147 --> 01:18:28,907
Speaker 22: best possible team available at that moment, and you can't

1543
01:18:28,987 --> 01:18:31,267
Speaker 22: argue with Josh English the man to come in. They

1544
01:18:31,307 --> 01:18:32,987
Speaker 22: push Travis Het up to the top of the order

1545
01:18:33,427 --> 01:18:36,827
Speaker 22: and they put Josh Engliss in at five. Really it

1546
01:18:36,867 --> 01:18:40,827
Speaker 22: gives him an opportunity to impress on turning decks and

1547
01:18:40,867 --> 01:18:44,747
Speaker 22: he did that with a Runnaball century. So the selectors

1548
01:18:44,747 --> 01:18:47,707
Speaker 22: over here they have over the journey in and be

1549
01:18:47,747 --> 01:18:50,267
Speaker 22: saying over there they picked someone who's against the grain

1550
01:18:50,427 --> 01:18:53,387
Speaker 22: or it's not with public opinion, and that kind of

1551
01:18:53,387 --> 01:18:55,427
Speaker 22: everyone blows up. But the selectors in the last few

1552
01:18:55,507 --> 01:18:58,347
Speaker 22: years they made right choice after right choice and they've

1553
01:18:58,347 --> 01:18:58,947
Speaker 22: got it right again.

1554
01:18:58,987 --> 01:19:02,147
Speaker 2: To you, and closer to home, the women's ashes is

1555
01:19:02,187 --> 01:19:05,747
Speaker 2: happening in Australia. This has been utterly lopsided. There were

1556
01:19:05,787 --> 01:19:10,187
Speaker 2: three internationals or one by Australia, three T twenty internationals,

1557
01:19:10,267 --> 01:19:12,507
Speaker 2: or one by Australia and in the sold teast to

1558
01:19:12,587 --> 01:19:15,947
Speaker 2: day nighter in Melbourne, England all out one seventy Australia

1559
01:19:16,027 --> 01:19:17,427
Speaker 2: four twenty two for five.

1560
01:19:18,507 --> 01:19:22,347
Speaker 22: Yeah, these are the top of tours that at the

1561
01:19:22,427 --> 01:19:24,667
Speaker 22: end of it, one team celebrates and the other one

1562
01:19:24,707 --> 01:19:28,427
Speaker 22: goes home and has an independent review. Not so much

1563
01:19:28,587 --> 01:19:31,787
Speaker 22: just like a heart to heart chat in the dressing

1564
01:19:31,867 --> 01:19:34,347
Speaker 22: room after, like we're talking at board level, what the

1565
01:19:34,347 --> 01:19:35,867
Speaker 22: hell is going on? And I think that's going to

1566
01:19:35,867 --> 01:19:37,507
Speaker 22: happen with England out of the back of this one.

1567
01:19:37,547 --> 01:19:39,827
Speaker 22: This has been a complete disaster from their perspective, and

1568
01:19:40,387 --> 01:19:42,707
Speaker 22: it shouldn't happen because they've got a really strong domestic

1569
01:19:43,107 --> 01:19:46,227
Speaker 22: setup on paper and they've got a competition which is

1570
01:19:47,187 --> 01:19:49,387
Speaker 22: attracting players from all around the world called one hundred

1571
01:19:49,467 --> 01:19:51,907
Speaker 22: that they have every year, so their cricket should be

1572
01:19:51,907 --> 01:19:55,267
Speaker 22: better and just hasn't been. In Australia, who were just

1573
01:19:55,547 --> 01:19:58,747
Speaker 22: prodded into action after missing out at the last World Cup.

1574
01:19:59,147 --> 01:20:02,827
Speaker 22: They've come back and just absolutely given it to the English.

1575
01:20:02,827 --> 01:20:06,307
Speaker 22: So it's good from an Australian perspective, but yeah, England

1576
01:20:06,627 --> 01:20:09,467
Speaker 22: have a lot, a lot to consider when they may

1577
01:20:09,467 --> 01:20:10,587
Speaker 22: get home after this tour.

1578
01:20:10,827 --> 01:20:12,747
Speaker 2: Have people been checking this out, have they been turning

1579
01:20:12,827 --> 01:20:14,107
Speaker 2: up to watch or watching on TV?

1580
01:20:14,867 --> 01:20:17,467
Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah, good ratings on TV. And look that they've

1581
01:20:17,467 --> 01:20:19,347
Speaker 22: held this one at the MCG. They've taken a bit

1582
01:20:19,387 --> 01:20:21,667
Speaker 22: of a throw at the stumps and when it was

1583
01:20:21,787 --> 01:20:25,987
Speaker 22: raining yesterday it got all the cricketing viewers on the

1584
01:20:25,987 --> 01:20:27,427
Speaker 22: eyes of the ashes and I think a lot of

1585
01:20:27,427 --> 01:20:29,947
Speaker 22: people realize that why they're having this at the end.

1586
01:20:30,187 --> 01:20:31,667
Speaker 22: They have the Test at the end of the multi

1587
01:20:31,747 --> 01:20:35,067
Speaker 22: format series. It kind of feels like a bit of

1588
01:20:35,107 --> 01:20:35,827
Speaker 22: a dead rubber.

1589
01:20:35,867 --> 01:20:36,067
Speaker 9: Now.

1590
01:20:36,307 --> 01:20:38,787
Speaker 22: Conversely, if you end up with all the play for

1591
01:20:39,027 --> 01:20:41,747
Speaker 22: and it's eighty six in terms of points going into

1592
01:20:41,747 --> 01:20:43,987
Speaker 22: the last Test, which is worth four points, it's a

1593
01:20:44,027 --> 01:20:46,307
Speaker 22: complete opposite. But I kind of agree with the summation

1594
01:20:46,507 --> 01:20:48,427
Speaker 22: that maybe the Test match should be at the front

1595
01:20:48,827 --> 01:20:51,467
Speaker 22: if we're going to prioritize that. But whatever the case,

1596
01:20:51,547 --> 01:20:54,387
Speaker 22: yeah it is. It is getting good, really good viewership

1597
01:20:55,027 --> 01:20:57,267
Speaker 22: on television and pretty handy crowds throughout.

1598
01:20:57,267 --> 01:20:58,987
Speaker 5: Although it doesn't look a bit empty they're having a

1599
01:20:59,027 --> 01:20:59,747
Speaker 5: game like this at the.

1600
01:20:59,787 --> 01:21:02,467
Speaker 22: MCG, there's still some healthy crowds coming through the gate,

1601
01:21:02,507 --> 01:21:03,227
Speaker 22: which is good to see.

1602
01:21:03,307 --> 01:21:05,827
Speaker 2: Yeah, good to hear. I believe today might have been

1603
01:21:05,867 --> 01:21:08,427
Speaker 2: your first off all year, so thank you for taking

1604
01:21:08,427 --> 01:21:11,227
Speaker 2: at least ten minutes out of a to jet to us. Mate,

1605
01:21:11,267 --> 01:21:13,227
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to disturb you. Will get you back on

1606
01:21:13,267 --> 01:21:13,787
Speaker 2: next surnay.

1607
01:21:13,907 --> 01:21:16,467
Speaker 22: That suits sounds good, Mate, sounds good.

1608
01:21:16,587 --> 01:21:19,467
Speaker 2: Cheers man. That's Adam Peaclock, our Australian correspondent, even on

1609
01:21:19,507 --> 01:21:21,947
Speaker 2: his day off, joining us here on News Talks. Heb

1610
01:21:22,107 --> 01:21:24,747
Speaker 2: with all of the big sports stories from across the

1611
01:21:24,747 --> 01:21:26,787
Speaker 2: Tasman seven and a half to two News Talks. Heb

1612
01:21:27,667 --> 01:21:28,907
Speaker 2: when it's down to the line.

1613
01:21:29,187 --> 01:21:33,267
Speaker 1: You made a call on eight ten eighty Weekend Sports

1614
01:21:33,307 --> 01:21:34,987
Speaker 1: with Jason Hine News Talks.

1615
01:21:34,987 --> 01:21:37,067
Speaker 2: Heb just on four and a half away from two.

1616
01:21:37,467 --> 01:21:40,267
Speaker 2: Eden Carson leads us off after two. She is the

1617
01:21:40,347 --> 01:21:44,787
Speaker 2: leading wicket taker across the men's and women's competitions in

1618
01:21:44,867 --> 01:21:48,827
Speaker 2: the Super Smash eighteen wickets across both the men's and women's. Well,

1619
01:21:48,907 --> 01:21:51,547
Speaker 2: that's the most across the two. She's taken eighteen and

1620
01:21:51,667 --> 01:21:55,267
Speaker 2: led Otago all the way to the final tomorrow. So

1621
01:21:55,507 --> 01:21:58,227
Speaker 2: Eden Carson with us after two will also look at

1622
01:21:58,347 --> 01:22:03,307
Speaker 2: Israel Adasanya's return to the octagon. He is in action

1623
01:22:03,467 --> 01:22:07,707
Speaker 2: tomorrow at UFC Fight night in South Arabia. That's tomorrow morning,

1624
01:22:07,707 --> 01:22:12,387
Speaker 2: New Zealand time. Nasadene Imeovov is his opponent. It's the

1625
01:22:12,427 --> 01:22:16,187
Speaker 2: first time he's been in the ring since August when

1626
01:22:16,227 --> 01:22:19,187
Speaker 2: he submitted in the fourth round against Treecus duples C.

1627
01:22:19,987 --> 01:22:22,907
Speaker 2: So a long time between bounce for Israel and he's

1628
01:22:22,947 --> 01:22:26,187
Speaker 2: off back to back defeats. Actually, so what's his mentality

1629
01:22:26,667 --> 01:22:29,267
Speaker 2: heading into this one? Updating you from the Basin Reserve

1630
01:22:29,267 --> 01:22:32,387
Speaker 2: and the Women's Super Smash elimination final. The Blaze one

1631
01:22:32,507 --> 01:22:35,227
Speaker 2: hundred and twelve for five and the eighteenth Over one

1632
01:22:35,347 --> 01:22:38,147
Speaker 2: hundred and twelve for five with two and a bit

1633
01:22:38,187 --> 01:22:40,427
Speaker 2: overs to go, trying to set a total for the

1634
01:22:40,467 --> 01:22:42,867
Speaker 2: Brave to chase down for the right to face Eden

1635
01:22:42,907 --> 01:22:46,427
Speaker 2: Carson and Otago in the final. Tomorrow News Next at.

1636
01:22:46,347 --> 01:22:51,787
Speaker 16: Two, The only place for the big names, the big issues,

1637
01:22:52,467 --> 01:22:57,467
Speaker 16: the big controversies and the big conversations heads all on

1638
01:22:57,507 --> 01:23:01,307
Speaker 16: Weekend Sport with Jason Vaime on your home of Sport

1639
01:23:01,747 --> 01:23:04,707
Speaker 16: News Talks had been two seven.

1640
01:23:04,747 --> 01:23:06,227
Speaker 2: This is Weekend's fourth for the first day of feb

1641
01:23:06,667 --> 01:23:09,107
Speaker 2: We had till three. Tim Beveridge ready to take over

1642
01:23:09,467 --> 01:23:12,107
Speaker 2: after three set of the edition of the Weekend collective

1643
01:23:12,907 --> 01:23:16,667
Speaker 2: hosted by the Great Man before we get the chance

1644
01:23:16,707 --> 01:23:18,107
Speaker 2: to hand over the quite a bit of sport to

1645
01:23:18,107 --> 01:23:21,547
Speaker 2: get through between now and three o'clock, including a chat

1646
01:23:21,587 --> 01:23:26,187
Speaker 2: about Israel Aardissonna's return to the octagon tomorrow morning against

1647
01:23:26,267 --> 01:23:31,307
Speaker 2: a nasudin imevov Raven de Hernia from UFC on Sky

1648
01:23:31,507 --> 01:23:35,307
Speaker 2: going to preview that for US. Eden Carson very shortly

1649
01:23:36,307 --> 01:23:39,267
Speaker 2: out of the Otago cricket team, and we're going to

1650
01:23:39,347 --> 01:23:41,907
Speaker 2: chat to a man this hour who has many talents,

1651
01:23:42,827 --> 01:23:45,627
Speaker 2: not least of which he is a very accomplished marathon

1652
01:23:45,747 --> 01:23:49,707
Speaker 2: swimmer and will shortly look to complete the New Zealand

1653
01:23:49,867 --> 01:23:54,467
Speaker 2: Marathon swimming triple crown. He's donecooked straight, He's swum the

1654
01:23:54,547 --> 01:23:58,027
Speaker 2: length of Lake topor Fovo straight is the one remaining

1655
01:23:58,347 --> 01:24:01,627
Speaker 2: and he's just waiting for the weather to come to

1656
01:24:01,667 --> 01:24:03,307
Speaker 2: the party so he can do that. His name is

1657
01:24:03,627 --> 01:24:07,427
Speaker 2: doctor Dave Edgar, fascinating bloke. He's on the show this

1658
01:24:07,507 --> 01:24:10,067
Speaker 2: hour as well. We'll continue to update you on live sport.

1659
01:24:10,107 --> 01:24:12,667
Speaker 2: In fact, we can tell you the Blaze have clocked

1660
01:24:12,747 --> 01:24:15,627
Speaker 2: up one thirty three for six in their twenty overs

1661
01:24:15,667 --> 01:24:19,387
Speaker 2: batting first against the Northern Brave in the Women's Super

1662
01:24:19,387 --> 01:24:22,987
Speaker 2: Smash elimination final at the basin one thirty three for

1663
01:24:23,067 --> 01:24:25,947
Speaker 2: six off twenty overs. The Brave need one thirty four

1664
01:24:26,107 --> 01:24:30,107
Speaker 2: to win that game and progress through to tomorrow's Women's

1665
01:24:30,147 --> 01:24:33,507
Speaker 2: Super Smash Final. The Blaze obviously need to restrict them

1666
01:24:33,507 --> 01:24:35,987
Speaker 2: to less than that. We will keep you up to

1667
01:24:36,067 --> 01:24:38,467
Speaker 2: date as I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten

1668
01:24:38,507 --> 01:24:40,707
Speaker 2: eighty is our number nine two ninety two if you

1669
01:24:40,747 --> 01:24:43,227
Speaker 2: would prefer to send a text. But as we tick

1670
01:24:43,307 --> 01:24:46,427
Speaker 2: past eight pass two, as we always do on weekend sport,

1671
01:24:46,867 --> 01:24:49,307
Speaker 2: it is time to keep you or bring you perhaps

1672
01:24:49,387 --> 01:24:51,427
Speaker 2: up to date with some of the sport you might

1673
01:24:51,467 --> 01:24:56,227
Speaker 2: have missed in case you missed it. Every Saturday and

1674
01:24:56,227 --> 01:24:58,347
Speaker 2: Sunday at this time we start in the A League.

1675
01:24:58,547 --> 01:25:02,467
Speaker 2: The Western Sydney Wanderers have continued to inflict more misery

1676
01:25:03,307 --> 01:25:07,427
Speaker 2: on Brisbane Raw during their dreadful A League season. Stif

1677
01:25:07,507 --> 01:25:11,907
Speaker 2: think as well as is called and headed in the.

1678
01:25:11,867 --> 01:25:17,507
Speaker 6: Opening goal arrives. It's quasi dark triads. You've got great connection,

1679
01:25:18,027 --> 01:25:19,387
Speaker 6: great direction.

1680
01:25:20,027 --> 01:25:22,107
Speaker 9: And there was nothing the Brisbane defense could do.

1681
01:25:22,347 --> 01:25:24,707
Speaker 2: The former Phoenix player Bosja Kray have scoring the goal

1682
01:25:24,747 --> 01:25:27,627
Speaker 2: on a one nil win. Brisbane have won just one

1683
01:25:27,987 --> 01:25:32,667
Speaker 2: of their fourteen games this season to cricket. India have

1684
01:25:32,747 --> 01:25:35,307
Speaker 2: wrapped up their T twenties series against England with a

1685
01:25:35,347 --> 01:25:37,467
Speaker 2: game to spare thanks to a couple of big knocks

1686
01:25:37,467 --> 01:25:43,867
Speaker 2: from Hardek Pandya and Shivan Tube. I've told you that

1687
01:25:44,547 --> 01:25:45,387
Speaker 2: he hauled.

1688
01:25:45,147 --> 01:25:48,427
Speaker 16: His ship and Hardrick Bunder has got.

1689
01:25:48,267 --> 01:25:51,987
Speaker 2: To an extraordinary half century without seeming to bludget the

1690
01:25:51,987 --> 01:25:53,227
Speaker 2: ball and he's at four sixes.

1691
01:25:54,187 --> 01:25:57,147
Speaker 19: Beats the man at coma two fifty comes up?

1692
01:25:57,147 --> 01:26:00,147
Speaker 18: What you bub don beyonest come back to the Indian side.

1693
01:26:00,387 --> 01:26:03,987
Speaker 2: India winners by accountable fifteen runs. Meantime, a dream knock

1694
01:26:04,027 --> 01:26:07,747
Speaker 2: in the women's ashes for Australia's Annabelle Sutherlands. Here she

1695
01:26:07,947 --> 01:26:13,147
Speaker 2: is at the mcg of Victorian on ninety nine, cuts

1696
01:26:13,147 --> 01:26:19,507
Speaker 2: away for four, from sparkly eye to childhood.

1697
01:26:18,947 --> 01:26:23,427
Speaker 1: Dreams to a moment that we'll be cherished for a lifetime.

1698
01:26:24,387 --> 01:26:26,867
Speaker 2: Parenting's ending when he was bold for one hundred and

1699
01:26:26,947 --> 01:26:30,227
Speaker 2: sixty three. Australia currently lead by two hundred and fifty

1700
01:26:30,227 --> 01:26:32,427
Speaker 2: two runs at the end of two days. Maybe a

1701
01:26:32,467 --> 01:26:35,147
Speaker 2: nervous night's sleep for Beth Mooney. She finished the day

1702
01:26:35,227 --> 01:26:39,507
Speaker 2: unbeaten on ninety eight and the Six Nations is underway

1703
01:26:39,547 --> 01:26:43,027
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five and it was a near cricket

1704
01:26:43,067 --> 01:26:46,547
Speaker 2: score as France ran over the top of Wales forty

1705
01:26:46,667 --> 01:26:51,627
Speaker 2: three nil. The cross keck and Gayton's waiting for it.

1706
01:26:52,067 --> 01:26:55,507
Speaker 18: He's only been on a match of seconds and France

1707
01:26:55,547 --> 01:26:59,107
Speaker 18: have another try the vision of the woman and Tomac.

1708
01:27:01,107 --> 01:27:04,427
Speaker 2: It is becoming a demonstration from.

1709
01:27:04,267 --> 01:27:08,827
Speaker 1: France from the track fields and the court on your

1710
01:27:08,907 --> 01:27:12,667
Speaker 1: home of Lord Sport with Jason Vine News.

1711
01:27:12,507 --> 01:27:15,387
Speaker 2: Talk eleven past two. Why are saying the sports news

1712
01:27:15,507 --> 01:27:20,547
Speaker 2: thirteen straight defeats? Now for Wales thirteen straight defeats? Andy

1713
01:27:20,587 --> 01:27:23,227
Speaker 2: had a quick check, not that we didn't believe. Why no,

1714
01:27:23,747 --> 01:27:27,507
Speaker 2: But the last time Wales won a rugby match, when

1715
01:27:27,507 --> 01:27:30,027
Speaker 2: did you say? It was at the twenty twenty three

1716
01:27:30,107 --> 01:27:33,347
Speaker 2: Rugby World Cup. They beat what Georgia and Paul Play.

1717
01:27:33,467 --> 01:27:34,387
Speaker 2: Was the last time they won?

1718
01:27:34,467 --> 01:27:37,147
Speaker 23: Yeah, they beat Georgia and Paul Play in the twenty

1719
01:27:37,747 --> 01:27:40,107
Speaker 23: twenty three Rugby World Cup. So they went all last year.

1720
01:27:41,067 --> 01:27:42,387
Speaker 23: I've got the things in front of me. They win

1721
01:27:42,467 --> 01:27:45,627
Speaker 23: all last year. They lost three times, I believed to Australia,

1722
01:27:46,147 --> 01:27:49,067
Speaker 23: which that's not good. One of them was a fifty

1723
01:27:49,147 --> 01:27:52,907
Speaker 23: two to twenty loss. Then then the previous game before

1724
01:27:52,907 --> 01:27:55,867
Speaker 23: this one forty three zero. They lost to South Africa

1725
01:27:55,947 --> 01:27:58,867
Speaker 23: forty five twelve to finish the year, so they're pretty

1726
01:27:58,907 --> 01:28:01,707
Speaker 23: bad scores. They lost to Fiji last year. They also

1727
01:28:01,747 --> 01:28:06,267
Speaker 23: lost to Italy. They lost everyone absolutely.

1728
01:28:06,867 --> 01:28:09,947
Speaker 2: I don't know actually what's worth the losing streaks bad.

1729
01:28:10,267 --> 01:28:14,027
Speaker 2: Shipping forty points is bad, but not scoring any nil

1730
01:28:14,187 --> 01:28:16,947
Speaker 2: in rugby is so uncommon now nil.

1731
01:28:17,027 --> 01:28:20,107
Speaker 23: It's been nearly an entire year since they've last scored

1732
01:28:20,107 --> 01:28:23,667
Speaker 23: points in the Six Nations pine ha, Yes, yeah.

1733
01:28:23,547 --> 01:28:26,507
Speaker 2: I mean you can. You can use stats and calendar

1734
01:28:26,547 --> 01:28:28,267
Speaker 2: facts any way you like. I think the fact is

1735
01:28:28,787 --> 01:28:31,907
Speaker 2: Warren Gatland has to be a man under pressure if

1736
01:28:31,907 --> 01:28:33,787
Speaker 2: he wasn't already. As soon as you lose four or

1737
01:28:33,787 --> 01:28:37,147
Speaker 2: five six games in a row, questions start getting asked.

1738
01:28:37,587 --> 01:28:42,827
Speaker 2: Thirteen straight defeats for Wales astonishing. Well, we'll actually wrap

1739
01:28:42,907 --> 01:28:45,747
Speaker 2: the Six Nations tomorrow. There are two more games tomorrow morning.

1740
01:28:45,867 --> 01:28:47,907
Speaker 2: Are Martin Gillingham going to join us about this time?

1741
01:28:47,947 --> 01:28:50,307
Speaker 2: Actually tomorrow on the show to wrap the first weekend

1742
01:28:50,347 --> 01:28:52,387
Speaker 2: of Six Nations? Be keen to hear how much pressure

1743
01:28:52,667 --> 01:28:56,907
Speaker 2: Wales coach Kiwi Warren Gatland is actually under thirteen past two.

1744
01:28:56,947 --> 01:29:00,347
Speaker 2: Any chance asks this text of the occasional update on

1745
01:29:00,387 --> 01:29:04,107
Speaker 2: the Hawk Cup cricket challenge, currently into its second day

1746
01:29:04,107 --> 01:29:05,907
Speaker 2: in AP I can do that. I can do that

1747
01:29:05,947 --> 01:29:09,427
Speaker 2: for this the Hawk Cup. It's very famous trophy in

1748
01:29:09,707 --> 01:29:12,147
Speaker 2: sort of districts cricket, not provincial cricket, but the one

1749
01:29:12,147 --> 01:29:14,827
Speaker 2: below that, regional cricket. I'm not quite sure what the

1750
01:29:14,907 --> 01:29:17,587
Speaker 2: right definition is. Any I can tell you this is

1751
01:29:17,627 --> 01:29:20,387
Speaker 2: a very odd scoreboard. Hawks Bay hold the Hawk Cup.

1752
01:29:21,227 --> 01:29:24,027
Speaker 2: They're trying to fend off a challenge from Tartanaki. Hawks

1753
01:29:24,067 --> 01:29:28,227
Speaker 2: Bay in their first innings fifty nine for seven declared

1754
01:29:29,107 --> 01:29:33,387
Speaker 2: fifty nine for seven declared very odd innings. Tatanaki then

1755
01:29:33,427 --> 01:29:36,307
Speaker 2: came out well bowled out for one fifty seven and

1756
01:29:36,347 --> 01:29:38,827
Speaker 2: in their second innings Hawks Bay are fifty one for five.

1757
01:29:39,667 --> 01:29:41,627
Speaker 2: So they're the holders of the Hawk Cup. They took

1758
01:29:41,667 --> 01:29:44,947
Speaker 2: it off Canterbury Country last summer, fend it off challenges

1759
01:29:44,987 --> 01:29:49,107
Speaker 2: from Mulawit to County's Manico, Canterbury Country again, then South Canterbury.

1760
01:29:49,547 --> 01:29:52,667
Speaker 2: But they trail by forty seven runs with just five

1761
01:29:52,867 --> 01:29:57,667
Speaker 2: second innings wickets left. So yeah, it's looking as though

1762
01:29:57,667 --> 01:30:02,027
Speaker 2: the Hawk Cup might be headed to Tananaki. Well occup

1763
01:30:02,027 --> 01:30:04,347
Speaker 2: eyes on that for you as well. Thank you for

1764
01:30:05,067 --> 01:30:08,147
Speaker 2: asking the question. Hopefully that the answer that you were after.

1765
01:30:08,267 --> 01:30:11,867
Speaker 2: Hope you're not a Hawk's Bay fan, but maybe you are.

1766
01:30:11,907 --> 01:30:13,467
Speaker 2: Maybe you're a ton of nicky fan and waiting for

1767
01:30:13,467 --> 01:30:16,347
Speaker 2: the Hawk Cup to come home. Staying with cricket, the

1768
01:30:16,347 --> 01:30:20,027
Speaker 2: Otago Sparks straight into tomorrow's final of the women's Super Smash,

1769
01:30:20,107 --> 01:30:23,707
Speaker 2: winning seven of their ten games to secure top spot

1770
01:30:23,707 --> 01:30:25,747
Speaker 2: on the regular season. They now wait the winner of

1771
01:30:25,747 --> 01:30:29,107
Speaker 2: the current game between Wellington and Northern Otago Sparks been

1772
01:30:29,427 --> 01:30:33,187
Speaker 2: Eden Carson, the top wicket taker across both the men's

1773
01:30:33,267 --> 01:30:34,587
Speaker 2: and women's competitions.

1774
01:30:35,707 --> 01:30:38,387
Speaker 24: That's a big top edge as it found space. No,

1775
01:30:38,507 --> 01:30:41,307
Speaker 24: it hasn't just found the safe hands of Hayley Jensen.

1776
01:30:42,587 --> 01:30:44,707
Speaker 24: How do you build Teshua through dots and ones? That's

1777
01:30:44,707 --> 01:30:49,387
Speaker 24: a great shout, smack bang in front. It's two wickets

1778
01:30:49,387 --> 01:30:51,827
Speaker 24: for the over and Eden Carson and she has turned

1779
01:30:51,827 --> 01:30:56,947
Speaker 24: this game on its head. Yes and straight through disrupts

1780
01:30:56,987 --> 01:30:59,147
Speaker 24: the off stump and Eden Carson.

1781
01:30:59,747 --> 01:31:00,467
Speaker 9: What a come back.

1782
01:31:00,627 --> 01:31:04,547
Speaker 2: Eighteen wickets across the regular season for Eden Carson, including

1783
01:31:04,547 --> 01:31:06,587
Speaker 2: a best of five for eighteen against the High and

1784
01:31:06,627 --> 01:31:09,747
Speaker 2: Palmerston North, and she went across the competition for less

1785
01:31:09,747 --> 01:31:12,027
Speaker 2: than six and a half runs over on average. She

1786
01:31:12,067 --> 01:31:16,307
Speaker 2: also affected four runouts and took three catches. Pretty decent

1787
01:31:16,347 --> 01:31:18,787
Speaker 2: regular season for Eden Carson who joins us. Now what

1788
01:31:18,827 --> 01:31:21,027
Speaker 2: a supersmash has been for you, eat An and for

1789
01:31:21,067 --> 01:31:24,267
Speaker 2: the Sparks. What do you put the team's success down

1790
01:31:24,267 --> 01:31:25,347
Speaker 2: to in the regular season?

1791
01:31:26,427 --> 01:31:26,547
Speaker 24: Hi?

1792
01:31:27,507 --> 01:31:31,547
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you know, we've been the similar team

1793
01:31:31,547 --> 01:31:33,067
Speaker 14: in the past couple of years, and I think that

1794
01:31:33,147 --> 01:31:36,707
Speaker 14: was so comes down to our coach k Cumming. He's

1795
01:31:36,747 --> 01:31:40,067
Speaker 14: been a big anchor within this team of you know,

1796
01:31:40,347 --> 01:31:42,867
Speaker 14: where we've come from. When you first amates the team,

1797
01:31:42,947 --> 01:31:46,427
Speaker 14: we were onto both in streets. So yeah, for him

1798
01:31:46,467 --> 01:31:48,427
Speaker 14: to come in and kind of change every thing up

1799
01:31:48,467 --> 01:31:51,347
Speaker 14: and then for us to be as successful as we

1800
01:31:51,427 --> 01:31:52,907
Speaker 14: have been in the last three years, we put it

1801
01:31:52,947 --> 01:31:55,467
Speaker 14: down to him and then just a senship that we

1802
01:31:55,547 --> 01:31:56,987
Speaker 14: have within the group on NASA.

1803
01:31:56,787 --> 01:31:57,427
Speaker 19: Field as well.

1804
01:31:57,987 --> 01:32:00,707
Speaker 2: As the success has come across the season, has that

1805
01:32:01,067 --> 01:32:04,427
Speaker 2: helped to you know, to continue the momentum if you like?

1806
01:32:04,467 --> 01:32:07,187
Speaker 2: You know that does winning actually lead to a winning

1807
01:32:07,187 --> 01:32:07,707
Speaker 2: more often?

1808
01:32:08,747 --> 01:32:11,987
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, I think that is true. I think you know,

1809
01:32:12,467 --> 01:32:15,507
Speaker 14: we didn't start off the season as we would have liked,

1810
01:32:15,507 --> 01:32:18,987
Speaker 14: having a loss against a good Cannibory side. So yeah,

1811
01:32:19,107 --> 01:32:21,947
Speaker 14: I think coming back harder against I think we had

1812
01:32:21,947 --> 01:32:25,707
Speaker 14: the Hinds next, or no, we had the open Hearts next,

1813
01:32:26,427 --> 01:32:27,787
Speaker 14: So we came out a bit harder then, and then

1814
01:32:27,907 --> 01:32:29,827
Speaker 14: we started winning some more games and then you know,

1815
01:32:30,027 --> 01:32:31,947
Speaker 14: kind of slapped off a little bit and then we

1816
01:32:31,947 --> 01:32:34,387
Speaker 14: came back winning. So yeah, I think being able to

1817
01:32:34,387 --> 01:32:36,507
Speaker 14: carry that momentum of winning a game to the next

1818
01:32:36,507 --> 01:32:38,907
Speaker 14: game kind of helped us throughout the season and you know,

1819
01:32:39,067 --> 01:32:40,907
Speaker 14: got us where we are now being able to go

1820
01:32:40,947 --> 01:32:42,627
Speaker 14: straight through to their final ones someday.

1821
01:32:42,947 --> 01:32:45,147
Speaker 2: So even winning seven out of ten and T twenty,

1822
01:32:45,187 --> 01:32:46,987
Speaker 2: that's pretty good. I mean, you know how volatile a

1823
01:32:47,027 --> 01:32:50,427
Speaker 2: game it can be. So, you know, as consistency something

1824
01:32:50,467 --> 01:32:53,147
Speaker 2: that you guys as players and Craig Is your coach,

1825
01:32:53,147 --> 01:32:54,027
Speaker 2: have been pretty happy with.

1826
01:32:54,867 --> 01:32:57,987
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, a consistency is something that we talk about

1827
01:32:57,987 --> 01:33:01,187
Speaker 14: as a group with you know, in field, with the

1828
01:33:01,187 --> 01:33:03,587
Speaker 14: ball and with the bats. So yeah, to be able

1829
01:33:03,627 --> 01:33:06,747
Speaker 14: to be consistent throughout the season has got to where

1830
01:33:06,787 --> 01:33:08,427
Speaker 14: we are. You know, we would have had I would

1831
01:33:08,467 --> 01:33:10,267
Speaker 14: have liked to have a few more wins, but you know,

1832
01:33:10,427 --> 01:33:13,147
Speaker 14: see seven out of ten we're pretty heavy worth, especially

1833
01:33:13,187 --> 01:33:16,587
Speaker 14: with also been in the HBJ with six on sex

1834
01:33:16,627 --> 01:33:19,387
Speaker 14: as well in that format. So no, we've we're on

1835
01:33:19,427 --> 01:33:21,787
Speaker 14: the right track for both formats at the moment, which

1836
01:33:21,827 --> 01:33:24,667
Speaker 14: is pretty proud something to be proud of in the group.

1837
01:33:24,867 --> 01:33:28,147
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Of course, Wellington have been the flag bearers for

1838
01:33:28,307 --> 01:33:30,867
Speaker 2: this competition and for women's cricket in the last little while.

1839
01:33:30,947 --> 01:33:33,827
Speaker 2: But you had two comfortable wins over them, seven wicket

1840
01:33:33,867 --> 01:33:36,987
Speaker 2: wins in both of your matches against them. How much

1841
01:33:36,987 --> 01:33:40,427
Speaker 2: confidence do you take from from taking down the Blaze.

1842
01:33:40,787 --> 01:33:44,747
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you know that Blaze Steam has had

1843
01:33:44,747 --> 01:33:46,627
Speaker 14: a target on their back for a few years now

1844
01:33:46,707 --> 01:33:49,227
Speaker 14: from all teams in the comps, so you know, to

1845
01:33:49,267 --> 01:33:51,707
Speaker 14: be able to get two wins against a quality side

1846
01:33:51,787 --> 01:33:54,507
Speaker 14: like them, you know, it's pretty special for some of

1847
01:33:54,507 --> 01:33:56,867
Speaker 14: the girls as well. I think when we bet them

1848
01:33:56,907 --> 01:33:59,827
Speaker 14: the first twenty, I don't I think since I've been

1849
01:33:59,827 --> 01:34:02,587
Speaker 14: in the team, we've only met them once and before that,

1850
01:34:02,747 --> 01:34:05,307
Speaker 14: so yeah, it was a long time coming. So it

1851
01:34:05,347 --> 01:34:07,027
Speaker 14: was pretty nice to get one over them. And then

1852
01:34:07,387 --> 01:34:09,667
Speaker 14: I think someone my girls are walking the other day,

1853
01:34:09,827 --> 01:34:13,107
Speaker 14: it'd be pretty nice to face them against face them

1854
01:34:13,187 --> 01:34:15,827
Speaker 14: in the final and potentially get one over them in

1855
01:34:15,867 --> 01:34:17,987
Speaker 14: the SUPERSMA final, which would be nice. But you know

1856
01:34:17,987 --> 01:34:19,587
Speaker 14: that whoever shows up on the day and it could

1857
01:34:19,627 --> 01:34:21,707
Speaker 14: be nd we could be playing and on Sunday, so

1858
01:34:22,227 --> 01:34:24,307
Speaker 14: you know, Watchever team, I'm looking forward to that.

1859
01:34:24,307 --> 01:34:27,787
Speaker 2: Battle your own bowling, Eden. How much has your bowling

1860
01:34:27,947 --> 01:34:30,987
Speaker 2: changed the way you bowl in tee twenty in the

1861
01:34:30,987 --> 01:34:32,787
Speaker 2: time that you've been playing the game, which is which

1862
01:34:32,827 --> 01:34:33,707
Speaker 2: is a few years now.

1863
01:34:35,187 --> 01:34:38,627
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, I think my game has evolved a lot.

1864
01:34:38,667 --> 01:34:41,587
Speaker 14: I'm always learning on the job, especially even since I

1865
01:34:41,667 --> 01:34:44,427
Speaker 14: got my Micpans contract, been able to work with you know,

1866
01:34:44,787 --> 01:34:48,227
Speaker 14: call of the Spring coaches such as Paul Waite on

1867
01:34:48,267 --> 01:34:51,667
Speaker 14: which he's been based had a lot of technique changes.

1868
01:34:52,867 --> 01:34:54,987
Speaker 14: You know, a lot of technical stuff has gone into

1869
01:34:55,027 --> 01:34:58,067
Speaker 14: that game. So yeah, there's always learning on day and

1870
01:34:58,107 --> 01:35:01,027
Speaker 14: then you know taking that into their each game against

1871
01:35:01,027 --> 01:35:01,947
Speaker 14: different betters.

1872
01:35:02,427 --> 01:35:05,507
Speaker 2: Now five wicket bags pretty rare and T twenty cricket

1873
01:35:05,507 --> 01:35:08,227
Speaker 2: only bowl four over or what went so well for

1874
01:35:08,307 --> 01:35:09,267
Speaker 2: you that day in Palmi?

1875
01:35:11,587 --> 01:35:13,787
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think just setting to my plans throughout that

1876
01:35:13,867 --> 01:35:17,187
Speaker 14: whole day. You know, it's almost nice to grab work

1877
01:35:17,227 --> 01:35:19,307
Speaker 14: out to be able to grab five was pretty special

1878
01:35:20,147 --> 01:35:22,587
Speaker 14: and just kind of doing my bubble in the day,

1879
01:35:22,627 --> 01:35:25,507
Speaker 14: but really it wasn't all around performance that day. I think,

1880
01:35:25,987 --> 01:35:28,147
Speaker 14: you know, Central Hinds are really good side and I

1881
01:35:28,147 --> 01:35:32,427
Speaker 14: think they've been pretty unlucky throughout this year. So yeah,

1882
01:35:32,507 --> 01:35:36,347
Speaker 14: great bowling team in a great batting side. So to

1883
01:35:36,387 --> 01:35:38,547
Speaker 14: be able to get five wickets, to get some quality

1884
01:35:38,587 --> 01:35:41,187
Speaker 14: batters was you know, I'm pretty happy with Are.

1885
01:35:41,027 --> 01:35:43,227
Speaker 2: You going out now in T twenty with the express

1886
01:35:43,267 --> 01:35:47,987
Speaker 2: intention of taking wickets or is it still about restricting runs?

1887
01:35:49,027 --> 01:35:49,707
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think.

1888
01:35:49,667 --> 01:35:53,547
Speaker 14: Still restricting runs because the restricting runs comes wickets from

1889
01:35:53,587 --> 01:35:56,147
Speaker 14: the bit of pressure. But yeah, I kind of just

1890
01:35:56,187 --> 01:35:59,587
Speaker 14: want to do my job on the day and I

1891
01:35:59,627 --> 01:36:01,307
Speaker 14: hope not with the bat, I hopefully I don't have

1892
01:36:01,347 --> 01:36:04,267
Speaker 14: the bat, but in the with the ball and in

1893
01:36:04,307 --> 01:36:08,547
Speaker 14: the field. So yeah, we're I can do my dramas

1894
01:36:08,907 --> 01:36:10,187
Speaker 14: I hope to be best at.

1895
01:36:10,267 --> 01:36:12,427
Speaker 2: You know absolutely well, you're a big part of the

1896
01:36:12,427 --> 01:36:14,707
Speaker 2: White Ferns when at the T twenty World Cup. How

1897
01:36:14,747 --> 01:36:18,627
Speaker 2: much confidence did you take from that into the summer

1898
01:36:18,667 --> 01:36:19,227
Speaker 2: with Otago.

1899
01:36:20,507 --> 01:36:23,667
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think coming out of that woman had a

1900
01:36:23,667 --> 01:36:27,147
Speaker 14: lot more confidence within my game and my bowling because

1901
01:36:27,187 --> 01:36:29,107
Speaker 14: I've been kind of in and out of that team

1902
01:36:29,547 --> 01:36:32,707
Speaker 14: are the White Ferns for a few tours. I'd been

1903
01:36:32,747 --> 01:36:35,267
Speaker 14: packed for not really playing just for the conditions and

1904
01:36:35,307 --> 01:36:38,107
Speaker 14: matchups and things like that. But I feel like I

1905
01:36:38,147 --> 01:36:41,107
Speaker 14: took my opportunity when I was given it, which I'm

1906
01:36:41,107 --> 01:36:44,787
Speaker 14: pretty proud of. And you know, coming off when a

1907
01:36:44,827 --> 01:36:46,627
Speaker 14: lot of people didn't think that would be able to do,

1908
01:36:46,827 --> 01:36:49,187
Speaker 14: and then coming back to domestic, you know, there's that

1909
01:36:49,187 --> 01:36:51,827
Speaker 14: little bit of pressure to perform well. But I was

1910
01:36:51,867 --> 01:36:53,907
Speaker 14: just happy to be back with the Sparks. As you know,

1911
01:36:53,947 --> 01:36:55,827
Speaker 14: I love playing for the Sparks and for my region.

1912
01:36:56,267 --> 01:36:59,027
Speaker 14: A bit of blood run blue and gold down here.

1913
01:36:59,107 --> 01:37:02,907
Speaker 17: So yeah, do you.

1914
01:37:02,867 --> 01:37:04,867
Speaker 2: Still think back to that T twenty World Cup? I

1915
01:37:04,867 --> 01:37:07,027
Speaker 2: mean like often or a you now got to the

1916
01:37:07,067 --> 01:37:09,187
Speaker 2: point where I only occurs to you occasionally.

1917
01:37:10,387 --> 01:37:13,227
Speaker 14: Yeah, sometimes just pops up in my mind just randomly

1918
01:37:13,307 --> 01:37:14,707
Speaker 14: during the day. I was like, oh my god, we

1919
01:37:14,827 --> 01:37:17,507
Speaker 14: did that, Like who would have thought because I didn't

1920
01:37:17,587 --> 01:37:20,667
Speaker 14: think that initially. And then you know, I'm just like,

1921
01:37:20,827 --> 01:37:23,947
Speaker 14: we will champs, and I'm like that is.

1922
01:37:23,947 --> 01:37:25,427
Speaker 11: Crazy, very cool.

1923
01:37:26,067 --> 01:37:29,147
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're the best bowler in the comp merely

1924
01:37:29,227 --> 01:37:30,987
Speaker 2: curves the best batter in the comp How much do

1925
01:37:31,027 --> 01:37:34,027
Speaker 2: you enjoy bowling to her when you get the opportunity.

1926
01:37:34,467 --> 01:37:38,147
Speaker 14: Yeah, I we always to all we battle Merely and

1927
01:37:38,187 --> 01:37:41,307
Speaker 14: I come from also having battles in the nets when

1928
01:37:41,307 --> 01:37:43,787
Speaker 14: we have white friends camps, and you know, sure it's

1929
01:37:43,787 --> 01:37:45,747
Speaker 14: gives me a bit of stick saying oh that's a

1930
01:37:45,867 --> 01:37:51,027
Speaker 14: fort for and I'm like no, So it'll be interesting

1931
01:37:51,027 --> 01:37:54,987
Speaker 14: if she does that against stuff, hopefully on Sunday. But

1932
01:37:55,027 --> 01:37:57,187
Speaker 14: now it's always a good competition against merely. You know,

1933
01:37:57,467 --> 01:37:58,987
Speaker 14: we have a bit of chat on the field and

1934
01:37:58,987 --> 01:38:01,987
Speaker 14: things like that, so yeah, got to bolt her. You know,

1935
01:38:02,027 --> 01:38:03,907
Speaker 14: one of the best surrounders in the world as well.

1936
01:38:04,067 --> 01:38:08,787
Speaker 14: So and I some player of the year, so that

1937
01:38:08,867 --> 01:38:10,787
Speaker 14: adds to it a bit. So hopefully looking for her

1938
01:38:10,827 --> 01:38:12,427
Speaker 14: worck at good stuff.

1939
01:38:12,467 --> 01:38:13,947
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you have to wait and see whether

1940
01:38:14,187 --> 01:38:16,187
Speaker 2: it's Wellington or Northern you come up against on Sunday.

1941
01:38:16,227 --> 01:38:17,987
Speaker 2: Congress on a great season with the Sparks so far,

1942
01:38:18,107 --> 01:38:20,347
Speaker 2: Eden and all the best with whoever you come up

1943
01:38:20,347 --> 01:38:23,307
Speaker 2: against on Sunday. Yeah, thank you very much, thank you,

1944
01:38:23,667 --> 01:38:25,987
Speaker 2: Eden Carson. They're out of the Otago Sparks, so they

1945
01:38:26,027 --> 01:38:30,987
Speaker 2: wait patiently or maybe impatiently for their opponent to be confirmed,

1946
01:38:31,067 --> 01:38:33,187
Speaker 2: and it'll be confirmed in the next hour and a

1947
01:38:33,227 --> 01:38:36,307
Speaker 2: half or so. Northern Brave chasing one hundred and thirty

1948
01:38:36,347 --> 01:38:38,467
Speaker 2: four to beat the Blaze at the base and they've

1949
01:38:38,467 --> 01:38:40,867
Speaker 2: started pretty well fourteen without loss. At the end of

1950
01:38:40,867 --> 01:38:43,587
Speaker 2: the second over. Jess Watkins come out and got all

1951
01:38:43,587 --> 01:38:47,547
Speaker 2: fourteen of their runs. She's decided to take the long

1952
01:38:47,627 --> 01:38:50,227
Speaker 2: handle and has had a couple of boundaries. So the

1953
01:38:50,267 --> 01:38:52,867
Speaker 2: Northern Brave looking good at the moment. That never count

1954
01:38:52,867 --> 01:38:55,307
Speaker 2: the Blaze out. They've got a few game changes when

1955
01:38:55,307 --> 01:38:57,747
Speaker 2: it comes to their bowling attack as well. The Brave

1956
01:38:57,907 --> 01:39:00,587
Speaker 2: fourteen without loss is at the end of the first over.

1957
01:39:01,027 --> 01:39:03,547
Speaker 2: It is not the second over, the first over, so

1958
01:39:03,707 --> 01:39:06,827
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's been a red hot start by Jess

1959
01:39:06,867 --> 01:39:10,467
Speaker 2: Watkin and the Northern Brave. Two twenty three, we're going

1960
01:39:10,507 --> 01:39:14,107
Speaker 2: to take a break. We've got some UFC for you

1961
01:39:14,227 --> 01:39:16,867
Speaker 2: before three o'clock with Israel adiss On. You're back in

1962
01:39:16,907 --> 01:39:20,427
Speaker 2: the octagon tomorrow. But next a man of many talents

1963
01:39:20,467 --> 01:39:23,987
Speaker 2: who is about to try and complete the triple Crown

1964
01:39:24,187 --> 01:39:27,587
Speaker 2: of marathon swimming in New Zealand by crossing the Fovo Strait.

1965
01:39:28,027 --> 01:39:31,107
Speaker 2: Doctor Dave Edgar with us after this on Weekend Sport.

1966
01:39:31,827 --> 01:39:33,747
Speaker 16: He's more than just a game.

1967
01:39:34,107 --> 01:39:38,747
Speaker 1: Weekend Sport with Jason Vine and TJ Garnomes New Zealand's

1968
01:39:38,747 --> 01:39:40,907
Speaker 1: most trusted home builder news Dogs MB.

1969
01:39:41,147 --> 01:39:44,387
Speaker 2: Two twenty six on news DOGSB and Weekend Sport. Doctor

1970
01:39:44,507 --> 01:39:47,707
Speaker 2: Dave Edgar is a man of many talents. He's a

1971
01:39:47,707 --> 01:39:51,227
Speaker 2: major in the New Zealand Army, currently Officer Commanding Physical

1972
01:39:51,547 --> 01:39:55,787
Speaker 2: Performance Squadron. He has an extensive background working in rugby

1973
01:39:55,827 --> 01:39:58,747
Speaker 2: as a strength and conditioning coach for Whitecuttle, the chiefs

1974
01:39:58,747 --> 01:40:01,707
Speaker 2: man of some More, and also in Japan. And He's

1975
01:40:01,787 --> 01:40:06,667
Speaker 2: an accomplished marathon swimmer and endurance athlete. He'll what they

1976
01:40:06,667 --> 01:40:10,147
Speaker 2: look to complete the New Zealand Marathon Swimming triple crown

1977
01:40:10,587 --> 01:40:13,987
Speaker 2: by swimming Fovo straight. He's already completed the length of

1978
01:40:14,027 --> 01:40:17,307
Speaker 2: Lake Topor and Cook straight. He's also on a mission

1979
01:40:17,307 --> 01:40:20,467
Speaker 2: to conquer the Ocean seven, which I'm keen to find

1980
01:40:20,467 --> 01:40:22,667
Speaker 2: out more about. He's doing all of this to help

1981
01:40:22,747 --> 01:40:27,667
Speaker 2: raise awareness for dyslexia and those with learning challenges. Doctor

1982
01:40:27,707 --> 01:40:29,627
Speaker 2: Dave Egger as well as Dave, this is amazing. Let's

1983
01:40:29,667 --> 01:40:33,107
Speaker 2: start with your upcoming swim. What are the specific challenges

1984
01:40:33,187 --> 01:40:35,067
Speaker 2: of swimming the Fovo straight.

1985
01:40:36,067 --> 01:40:38,347
Speaker 9: Hey get it at Piney. Great to be here and mate,

1986
01:40:38,347 --> 01:40:41,947
Speaker 9: thanks for the awesome intro. Yeah, look the Fovo. The

1987
01:40:43,227 --> 01:40:47,027
Speaker 9: big challenges is, look, we've got the tide window. It's

1988
01:40:47,027 --> 01:40:49,427
Speaker 9: always the weather. So I'm talking with the boat captain

1989
01:40:49,467 --> 01:40:51,587
Speaker 9: down there daily at the moment to try and nail

1990
01:40:51,667 --> 01:40:55,427
Speaker 9: the ideal day it's looking like next Tuesday or Friday.

1991
01:40:56,347 --> 01:40:58,427
Speaker 9: And then around that just the winds, trying to get

1992
01:40:58,467 --> 01:41:02,227
Speaker 9: the best winds to ride across and water temperature. I've

1993
01:41:02,227 --> 01:41:04,027
Speaker 9: done a heck of a lot of cold water training.

1994
01:41:04,067 --> 01:41:06,027
Speaker 9: And probably the other thing that's in the back of

1995
01:41:06,027 --> 01:41:08,507
Speaker 9: the mind is the old great things float around in

1996
01:41:08,507 --> 01:41:09,227
Speaker 9: the water down there.

1997
01:41:09,787 --> 01:41:13,347
Speaker 2: Yes, I would imagine that'd be something you'd like to avoid.

1998
01:41:13,547 --> 01:41:17,107
Speaker 2: So when you are looking for ideal conditions and you've identified,

1999
01:41:17,107 --> 01:41:19,827
Speaker 2: as you say, a window that might be your perfect day,

2000
01:41:20,347 --> 01:41:21,507
Speaker 2: what does that day look like?

2001
01:41:22,467 --> 01:41:25,147
Speaker 9: Okay, what does that look like? Yeah, I guess we

2002
01:41:25,227 --> 01:41:27,707
Speaker 9: target these windows pretty early out and it goes off

2003
01:41:27,747 --> 01:41:29,467
Speaker 9: the tides. You want to eb tide, which is the

2004
01:41:30,227 --> 01:41:33,707
Speaker 9: I guess the lowest tide of the month or one

2005
01:41:33,707 --> 01:41:35,227
Speaker 9: of the lowest of the months, so there's less water

2006
01:41:35,267 --> 01:41:37,347
Speaker 9: pushing you around. You still go on the high tide,

2007
01:41:37,387 --> 01:41:40,187
Speaker 9: so you get the flow, so you can target that

2008
01:41:40,227 --> 01:41:43,427
Speaker 9: you know months out going off different predictions and tides

2009
01:41:43,467 --> 01:41:47,107
Speaker 9: and knew and whatnot. The challenging point then becomes obviously

2010
01:41:47,187 --> 01:41:49,947
Speaker 9: the weather. You can follow weather patterns, but you're not

2011
01:41:50,307 --> 01:41:53,267
Speaker 9: sure exactly what's going to happen at that time. So

2012
01:41:53,387 --> 01:41:56,827
Speaker 9: really it's just being ready to go, confident that you

2013
01:41:56,867 --> 01:42:00,027
Speaker 9: can do it, and hoping the stars align a little bit,

2014
01:42:00,027 --> 01:42:02,027
Speaker 9: because if it doesn't come off, you know, you've got

2015
01:42:02,027 --> 01:42:04,507
Speaker 9: that risk. You've invested so much. Do you jump in

2016
01:42:04,547 --> 01:42:06,507
Speaker 9: and do it or do you just hold off a

2017
01:42:06,507 --> 01:42:08,227
Speaker 9: few more weeks, a few months or wait till the

2018
01:42:08,267 --> 01:42:08,707
Speaker 9: next year.

2019
01:42:09,467 --> 01:42:12,707
Speaker 2: Do you have a target time in mind to swim sover?

2020
01:42:14,347 --> 01:42:18,427
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've looked at this and it's an interesting one

2021
01:42:18,467 --> 01:42:20,027
Speaker 9: because you can put a target time on it, but

2022
01:42:20,467 --> 01:42:22,627
Speaker 9: you really, I don't want to have a set target

2023
01:42:22,667 --> 01:42:24,467
Speaker 9: time in my head and then things don't quite go

2024
01:42:24,547 --> 01:42:28,027
Speaker 9: to plan and you're getting pushed, you know, one way

2025
01:42:28,107 --> 01:42:29,627
Speaker 9: or the other, and it's taking a bit longer. But

2026
01:42:30,267 --> 01:42:32,467
Speaker 9: I really think it's achievable in sort of that eight

2027
01:42:32,507 --> 01:42:34,987
Speaker 9: to ten hours, all going well closer to the eight

2028
01:42:36,107 --> 01:42:38,027
Speaker 9: and it's just you know, sticking to a plan, listening

2029
01:42:38,027 --> 01:42:40,147
Speaker 9: to your crew, and just pushing as hard as can.

2030
01:42:40,587 --> 01:42:43,707
Speaker 2: How does that compare it to swimming Cookstraight or Lake Topoor.

2031
01:42:45,067 --> 01:42:47,827
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess I've had been asked that quite a bit.

2032
01:42:47,907 --> 01:42:50,747
Speaker 9: I mean, the difference between the fresh water and the

2033
01:42:50,747 --> 01:42:54,307
Speaker 9: salt water, for a start, is that when I look at, say,

2034
01:42:54,347 --> 01:42:57,667
Speaker 9: I compare cook Straight to Lake Talpo, I was probably

2035
01:42:57,667 --> 01:43:01,067
Speaker 9: a lot more beaten up swimming Lake Talpo Wow Wow,

2036
01:43:01,147 --> 01:43:04,147
Speaker 9: because you sit lower in the water, you don't have

2037
01:43:04,147 --> 01:43:06,827
Speaker 9: the buoyancy and you just swim in a one straight

2038
01:43:06,867 --> 01:43:10,027
Speaker 9: line all day. And on that swim, I got through

2039
01:43:10,027 --> 01:43:12,427
Speaker 9: it no worries, but my I had one of my burser,

2040
01:43:12,467 --> 01:43:14,507
Speaker 9: my left bursa, and my shoulder sort of started to

2041
01:43:14,507 --> 01:43:16,147
Speaker 9: not play the game with about two hours to go,

2042
01:43:16,347 --> 01:43:18,427
Speaker 9: So that was sort of quite agony because you're sitting

2043
01:43:18,467 --> 01:43:20,147
Speaker 9: lower in the water, You're reaching up and I was

2044
01:43:20,227 --> 01:43:23,907
Speaker 9: really sore. The cook Straight not so sore. Body was

2045
01:43:23,907 --> 01:43:26,627
Speaker 9: in good nick, but I was just really tired, probably

2046
01:43:26,667 --> 01:43:29,707
Speaker 9: from being pushed around a little bit more on the tide.

2047
01:43:29,827 --> 01:43:34,027
Speaker 9: So yeah, with the FOVO, same sort of thing. Tapering.

2048
01:43:34,067 --> 01:43:36,227
Speaker 9: Now I've done a heck of a lot of strength work,

2049
01:43:36,227 --> 01:43:39,027
Speaker 9: conditioning work obviously, lots and lots of swimming. Now some

2050
01:43:39,187 --> 01:43:42,307
Speaker 9: you know, pretty decent swims over the summer upwards of

2051
01:43:42,347 --> 01:43:45,467
Speaker 9: sort of twenty four to twenty five ks and yeah,

2052
01:43:45,547 --> 01:43:47,227
Speaker 9: just getting his best neck as I can and freshening

2053
01:43:47,307 --> 01:43:48,227
Speaker 9: up just to be ready to go.

2054
01:43:48,467 --> 01:43:50,467
Speaker 2: So how long did cook straight take you? What was

2055
01:43:50,507 --> 01:43:51,187
Speaker 2: the time for that?

2056
01:43:52,147 --> 01:43:54,987
Speaker 9: My cook straight time was eight hours forty seven?

2057
01:43:55,067 --> 01:43:56,587
Speaker 2: Okay, so about the same, about the same as what

2058
01:43:56,627 --> 01:43:58,907
Speaker 2: you're aiming for for five Oh yeah.

2059
01:43:58,707 --> 01:44:01,027
Speaker 9: About the same. And again, like I say, you've got

2060
01:44:01,067 --> 01:44:03,227
Speaker 9: to be prepared for everything. Point to point, cook straight

2061
01:44:03,267 --> 01:44:06,227
Speaker 9: was twenty three kilometers. I swam eight hours forty seven,

2062
01:44:06,467 --> 01:44:08,067
Speaker 9: but I covered forty four k's that day.

2063
01:44:08,187 --> 01:44:12,227
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, eight forty.

2064
01:44:11,987 --> 01:44:13,787
Speaker 9: Seven was still a pretty damn good time, and there

2065
01:44:13,827 --> 01:44:15,987
Speaker 9: was a few people didn't even get across this summer.

2066
01:44:16,067 --> 01:44:20,147
Speaker 2: So yeah, what is it about marathon swimming that appeals

2067
01:44:20,187 --> 01:44:20,347
Speaker 2: to you?

2068
01:44:21,907 --> 01:44:22,547
Speaker 9: Oh?

2069
01:44:22,627 --> 01:44:23,867
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get asked this a lot.

2070
01:44:23,867 --> 01:44:26,547
Speaker 9: Look, it's I guess I've always been an endurance an

2071
01:44:26,587 --> 01:44:31,107
Speaker 9: indurance athlete and endurance junkie probably more so, and it's

2072
01:44:31,147 --> 01:44:33,347
Speaker 9: opened up another whole world for me because I mean,

2073
01:44:33,347 --> 01:44:36,267
Speaker 9: I'm fifty two. Now I've represented I have represented New

2074
01:44:36,347 --> 01:44:39,147
Speaker 9: Zealand and trython an Ironman, an Ironman Trithon was my sport.

2075
01:44:39,227 --> 01:44:40,947
Speaker 9: Did Hawaii iron Man and that was me, it's going

2076
01:44:40,987 --> 01:44:42,627
Speaker 9: to be a pro. And I had this career laid out,

2077
01:44:42,667 --> 01:44:45,347
Speaker 9: but then my knees sort of didn't play the game.

2078
01:44:45,587 --> 01:44:47,987
Speaker 9: Maybe too many years in the military and caring packs

2079
01:44:47,987 --> 01:44:51,267
Speaker 9: and whatnot what we do didn't help. But now open

2080
01:44:51,307 --> 01:44:54,627
Speaker 9: the water swimming, because I find, regardless of age, it's

2081
01:44:54,667 --> 01:44:57,587
Speaker 9: not as tough on the body, it's not as pounding,

2082
01:44:57,627 --> 01:44:59,827
Speaker 9: and it's tiny. It's opened up this whole new world

2083
01:44:59,867 --> 01:45:03,387
Speaker 9: to me. In that triathlete. You know, we prided ourselves

2084
01:45:03,387 --> 01:45:05,587
Speaker 9: on being skinny and lean. It's a whole different world

2085
01:45:05,587 --> 01:45:07,787
Speaker 9: I've had to put on in fact, just to stay

2086
01:45:07,787 --> 01:45:10,027
Speaker 9: warm in the water, the time in the water, the

2087
01:45:10,107 --> 01:45:13,027
Speaker 9: mental challenges, dealing with the cold, dealing with currents, dealing

2088
01:45:13,027 --> 01:45:16,347
Speaker 9: with you know, sea light, just all these different challenges

2089
01:45:16,987 --> 01:45:19,347
Speaker 9: that are all down to you to push through on that.

2090
01:45:19,347 --> 01:45:20,267
Speaker 9: That self challenge.

2091
01:45:20,507 --> 01:45:22,827
Speaker 2: Amazing. So tell us about the Ocean seven.

2092
01:45:24,067 --> 01:45:27,827
Speaker 9: Yeah, the Ocean seven. So that's it's I guess it's

2093
01:45:27,867 --> 01:45:30,907
Speaker 9: it's a series or it's you know, it's that it's

2094
01:45:30,907 --> 01:45:34,867
Speaker 9: a challenge that it's the toughest seven ocean swims in

2095
01:45:34,867 --> 01:45:36,867
Speaker 9: the world. Any one of them on the given day

2096
01:45:36,947 --> 01:45:39,267
Speaker 9: is a tough one. So that's sort of the real

2097
01:45:39,307 --> 01:45:44,227
Speaker 9: benchmark of open water international swimming. There's sorry, was that.

2098
01:45:44,347 --> 01:45:45,987
Speaker 2: No, I was going to ask you how far and

2099
01:45:46,027 --> 01:45:47,827
Speaker 2: wide you'll have to go if you if you are

2100
01:45:47,907 --> 01:45:48,507
Speaker 2: to achieve that.

2101
01:45:49,307 --> 01:45:52,547
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, she's she's pretty decent. I've done the cook straight.

2102
01:45:52,587 --> 01:45:55,707
Speaker 9: That's one. Then you've got In Europe, there's a few.

2103
01:45:55,747 --> 01:45:58,707
Speaker 9: So there's the English Channel, the Northern Channel, which is

2104
01:45:58,787 --> 01:46:04,587
Speaker 9: Ireland to Scotland. In Europe, there is the Gibraltar which

2105
01:46:04,627 --> 01:46:07,867
Speaker 9: is pretty much Europe to Africa, Catalina which is Catalina

2106
01:46:07,907 --> 01:46:11,627
Speaker 9: Islands to San Francisco, cold waters and chucks to sue

2107
01:46:11,667 --> 01:46:14,947
Speaker 9: you straight in Japan which is the mainland of Japan

2108
01:46:15,067 --> 01:46:20,307
Speaker 9: to Hakkaido, and Malachai Channel in Hawaii, so all over

2109
01:46:20,307 --> 01:46:22,147
Speaker 9: the place. I'm really cold, some really warm.

2110
01:46:22,347 --> 01:46:25,987
Speaker 2: Amazing. What a challenge for you. Why does the raising

2111
01:46:25,987 --> 01:46:28,747
Speaker 2: of awareness for dyslexia when you're doing all of this

2112
01:46:28,907 --> 01:46:31,467
Speaker 2: resonate particularly with you, Dave.

2113
01:46:32,227 --> 01:46:38,147
Speaker 9: Well, pretty simple, really dyslexic, and I've faced a heck

2114
01:46:38,187 --> 01:46:40,267
Speaker 9: of a lot of challenges in my time. Man. I

2115
01:46:40,307 --> 01:46:42,387
Speaker 9: guess it sort of goes hand in hand something that

2116
01:46:42,507 --> 01:46:45,227
Speaker 9: maybe I used to try and hide or put to

2117
01:46:45,267 --> 01:46:47,707
Speaker 9: the side and not want people to know. But I've

2118
01:46:47,747 --> 01:46:49,947
Speaker 9: found ways to get through it. And I mean the

2119
01:46:49,987 --> 01:46:52,507
Speaker 9: endurance sport, the swimming has just been a really really

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01:46:52,547 --> 01:46:55,427
Speaker 9: good platform to use that I'm pushing this area. You know,

2121
01:46:55,467 --> 01:46:59,147
Speaker 9: I pushed myself physically but mentally as well, so hence

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01:46:59,707 --> 01:47:01,787
Speaker 9: you know I have a platform. I swim off doctor

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01:47:01,867 --> 01:47:05,427
Speaker 9: Dave swims. And that's because even as you know, the

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01:47:05,707 --> 01:47:08,747
Speaker 9: early challenge as I faced, I managed to achieve getting

2125
01:47:08,747 --> 01:47:11,667
Speaker 9: my PhD. I never thought i'd have a degree, let

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01:47:11,667 --> 01:47:14,147
Speaker 9: alone a PhD. I'm a proud born and bred took

2127
01:47:14,147 --> 01:47:16,707
Speaker 9: it all boy, left school, worked in a bush gang.

2128
01:47:16,707 --> 01:47:19,267
Speaker 9: I was pretty proud of that. But I just, you know,

2129
01:47:20,107 --> 01:47:22,307
Speaker 9: early on, I thought this is okay, but I can

2130
01:47:22,347 --> 01:47:24,707
Speaker 9: achieve some cool stuff. And I just kept pushing through.

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01:47:24,827 --> 01:47:26,547
Speaker 9: Joined the military, got a degree, and just sort of

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01:47:26,587 --> 01:47:30,267
Speaker 9: pushed from there. So advocating learning that we can achieve.

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01:47:30,347 --> 01:47:32,307
Speaker 9: We've just got to find pretty much our own way

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Speaker 9: to achieve.

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Speaker 2: The end loop amazing and all of us you've worked

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01:47:36,227 --> 01:47:37,867
Speaker 2: about in rugby as well. Tell us about that.

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Speaker 9: Yeah mate, Yeah, I've had a pretty cool career. I

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01:47:42,907 --> 01:47:44,947
Speaker 9: again talked about my endurance sport and I went to

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01:47:44,947 --> 01:47:48,107
Speaker 9: Otiger University when I first left the military, and you know,

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Speaker 9: as we do, I sort of thought I'm going to

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01:47:49,827 --> 01:47:51,467
Speaker 9: get a job an endurance and then realized that New

2142
01:47:51,547 --> 01:47:55,067
Speaker 9: Zealand actually did very few jobs, so rugby was the

2143
01:47:55,067 --> 01:47:56,667
Speaker 9: way to go. I played rugby when I was younger.

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01:47:56,707 --> 01:48:00,227
Speaker 9: I always I was a pirates man, pirates teper. Yeah,

2145
01:48:00,787 --> 01:48:03,387
Speaker 9: and I thought pretty early this is the way to go.

2146
01:48:03,467 --> 01:48:06,067
Speaker 9: So yeah, straight, I've managed to work at the university clubs,

2147
01:48:06,107 --> 01:48:08,187
Speaker 9: had degree and I was lucky enough to get my

2148
01:48:08,227 --> 01:48:10,387
Speaker 9: first rugby job was back with my boyhood team of

2149
01:48:10,387 --> 01:48:13,427
Speaker 9: Whitekato and that was in the early days when Warren

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01:48:13,467 --> 01:48:17,347
Speaker 9: Gatlan come back. So had some success there assistant trainer

2151
01:48:17,387 --> 01:48:20,307
Speaker 9: with the Chiefs, and then journey sort of carried on.

2152
01:48:20,387 --> 01:48:22,507
Speaker 9: I was lucky enough to get the job with Sarmore.

2153
01:48:22,547 --> 01:48:25,147
Speaker 9: I was the manage some wore head strength conditioning coach

2154
01:48:25,627 --> 01:48:29,147
Speaker 9: for four years, did the two eleven World Cup, and

2155
01:48:29,147 --> 01:48:31,827
Speaker 9: then off the back of that, managed to go to Japan.

2156
01:48:31,987 --> 01:48:36,747
Speaker 9: I was actually I was employed by Eddie Jones at

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01:48:36,787 --> 01:48:39,547
Speaker 9: Suntery to look after the Suntry Club. Had two years

2158
01:48:39,587 --> 01:48:42,227
Speaker 9: there and had some success and that was a pretty

2159
01:48:42,227 --> 01:48:45,067
Speaker 9: cool journey. Another couple of years around Japan, and then

2160
01:48:45,107 --> 01:48:46,987
Speaker 9: sort of headed back to New Zealand for my kids

2161
01:48:46,987 --> 01:48:48,907
Speaker 9: to do high school and relinked for some more. So

2162
01:48:49,467 --> 01:48:51,787
Speaker 9: it's been a pretty cool journey. And I've done three

2163
01:48:51,787 --> 01:48:54,387
Speaker 9: World Cups now with Somemore and now sort of trying

2164
01:48:54,427 --> 01:48:56,067
Speaker 9: to bring a lot of that high performance work into

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01:48:56,067 --> 01:48:59,147
Speaker 9: the defense force as well with rugby and within my jobs.

2166
01:49:00,547 --> 01:49:03,147
Speaker 9: So trying to the bridge bridge the performance world's into

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01:49:03,147 --> 01:49:05,227
Speaker 9: defense and rugby and everything as we go.

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Speaker 2: Amazing, what journey it's been, and much more to come

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01:49:08,747 --> 01:49:10,867
Speaker 2: by the sounds of it, Dave. The immediate point of

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01:49:10,867 --> 01:49:14,067
Speaker 2: business is swimming fovo straight. Let's hope the window opens

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01:49:14,107 --> 01:49:16,547
Speaker 2: for you and stays open. People can find out more

2172
01:49:16,547 --> 01:49:17,947
Speaker 2: at your website. What's the website?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, look at my website ww dot doctor Dave Swims

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01:49:23,627 --> 01:49:27,707
Speaker 9: dot org dot inz. Also look on Facebook, doctor Dave Swims.

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01:49:27,787 --> 01:49:30,147
Speaker 9: I've got a Facebook page and I'm promoting the swim

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01:49:30,187 --> 01:49:32,507
Speaker 9: but also trying to teach people about it. You know,

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01:49:32,547 --> 01:49:35,027
Speaker 9: why we do cold water of ours and how does

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01:49:35,107 --> 01:49:37,027
Speaker 9: nutrition work and all the crazy stuff that goes with

2179
01:49:37,107 --> 01:49:39,667
Speaker 9: it that people don't understand, so you have a look

2180
01:49:39,707 --> 01:49:39,907
Speaker 9: at that.

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01:49:40,467 --> 01:49:42,227
Speaker 2: Been a great pleasure catching up with your Dave. All

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01:49:42,267 --> 01:49:44,107
Speaker 2: the best for FAU vote and look forward to tracking

2183
01:49:44,107 --> 01:49:46,987
Speaker 2: your progress as your head towards the guts of Ocean

2184
01:49:47,067 --> 01:49:48,787
Speaker 2: seven as well. Been a pleasure to catch up.

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01:49:49,467 --> 01:49:51,907
Speaker 9: Thanks Tony, really appreciate it. And if people want to

2186
01:49:51,907 --> 01:49:53,867
Speaker 9: get on to that site and have a look, I'll

2187
01:49:53,867 --> 01:49:55,867
Speaker 9: have the GPS tracker up so you can watch me

2188
01:49:55,947 --> 01:49:58,307
Speaker 9: chasing those sharks all day or swimming away from those sharks.

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01:49:58,307 --> 01:50:01,107
Speaker 2: All the let's open that one. Good to chab mate,

2190
01:50:01,107 --> 01:50:03,067
Speaker 2: all the best, Thanks mate, thank you very much, No,

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01:50:03,107 --> 01:50:06,547
Speaker 2: thank you Dave. Doctor Dave Edgar there marathon swimmer and

2192
01:50:07,507 --> 01:50:10,387
Speaker 2: extremely good rooster. You could pick up from that chat

2193
01:50:10,947 --> 01:50:16,067
Speaker 2: doctor Dave Swims. That's Dr Daveswims dot org dot nzd

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01:50:16,467 --> 01:50:19,147
Speaker 2: Dave Swims dot org dot NZEV or just look for

2195
01:50:19,187 --> 01:50:22,467
Speaker 2: doctor Dave Swims on Facebook. What a good man, What

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01:50:22,587 --> 01:50:25,867
Speaker 2: a really good man? What are we twenty three away

2197
01:50:25,867 --> 01:50:28,827
Speaker 2: from three? Updating you from the basein reserve where Northern

2198
01:50:28,867 --> 01:50:31,747
Speaker 2: have lost a couple of quick wickets. They're twenty eight

2199
01:50:31,827 --> 01:50:33,667
Speaker 2: for two, Jess, what can they were still there? I

2200
01:50:33,707 --> 01:50:36,387
Speaker 2: get the feeling this whole game hinges on how long

2201
01:50:36,467 --> 01:50:39,227
Speaker 2: she can stay out there. They're actually thirty two for two.

2202
01:50:39,267 --> 01:50:42,187
Speaker 2: Now thirty two for two, Jess, what Cain has twenty

2203
01:50:42,267 --> 01:50:45,387
Speaker 2: five of those runs? So cheap? It feels to me

2204
01:50:45,427 --> 01:50:47,627
Speaker 2: holds the key for this. One hundred and thirty four

2205
01:50:47,707 --> 01:50:49,787
Speaker 2: is the target for Northern if they are to make

2206
01:50:49,827 --> 01:50:54,227
Speaker 2: tomorrow's final against the Otago Sparks. We'll keep eyes on

2207
01:50:54,267 --> 01:50:57,987
Speaker 2: that for you. Israel Adissonna is back in the octagon

2208
01:50:57,987 --> 01:51:01,427
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning, his first fight since August. What's it all about?

2209
01:51:01,427 --> 01:51:04,907
Speaker 2: Who's he up against? Should he win? And win? Mike

2210
01:51:05,027 --> 01:51:08,347
Speaker 2: Israel decide? You know what? Enough is enough? He's thirty

2211
01:51:08,387 --> 01:51:10,667
Speaker 2: five now, so I wonder when that time might be.

2212
01:51:10,787 --> 01:51:13,867
Speaker 2: Ravender Hunia from UFC on Sky joining us on Weekend

2213
01:51:13,907 --> 01:51:14,787
Speaker 2: Sport right after this.

2214
01:51:15,627 --> 01:51:19,347
Speaker 1: The Tough Questions off the Turf Weekend Sport with Jason

2215
01:51:19,387 --> 01:51:23,107
Speaker 1: Tyne and GJ. Gunnerholmes, New Zealand's most trusted.

2216
01:51:22,787 --> 01:51:23,627
Speaker 16: Home builder.

2217
01:51:24,907 --> 01:51:28,747
Speaker 2: Nineteen away from three three. Israel Adisona returns to the

2218
01:51:28,747 --> 01:51:33,587
Speaker 2: octagon tomorrow morning against Nasaudene imevov At UFC Fight Night

2219
01:51:33,987 --> 01:51:36,987
Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia. It'll be his first fight since August

2220
01:51:37,347 --> 01:51:40,427
Speaker 2: when he submitted in the fourth round against Drinka's duplace.

2221
01:51:40,747 --> 01:51:43,107
Speaker 5: Bit right hand three a ro old for Duke plus

2222
01:51:43,587 --> 01:51:46,547
Speaker 5: and now drags out of Signia down straight to thrown

2223
01:51:46,667 --> 01:51:47,227
Speaker 5: one hook in.

2224
01:51:47,307 --> 01:51:48,587
Speaker 2: Let's see if Oh, he's got the two.

2225
01:51:49,707 --> 01:51:50,667
Speaker 12: He's got the two.

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01:51:51,987 --> 01:51:52,427
Speaker 2: Du plus?

2227
01:51:53,667 --> 01:52:02,467
Speaker 12: Yes, good, Africauntry we plus remains the band? What any five?

2228
01:52:02,987 --> 01:52:03,147
Speaker 9: Yeah?

2229
01:52:03,187 --> 01:52:05,467
Speaker 2: So that was the last time he was in the

2230
01:52:05,547 --> 01:52:07,507
Speaker 2: ring or in the ok again. Rather, you can watch

2231
01:52:07,867 --> 01:52:11,467
Speaker 2: UFC Fight Night in Saudi Arabia live on ESPN and

2232
01:52:11,547 --> 01:52:15,307
Speaker 2: stream on skysport now from six o'clock tomorrow morning. Let's

2233
01:52:15,307 --> 01:52:18,827
Speaker 2: bring in Ravenda Hernia from UFC on sky Revender, thanks

2234
01:52:18,867 --> 01:52:20,627
Speaker 2: for taking the time to chat to us. As always,

2235
01:52:20,867 --> 01:52:23,947
Speaker 2: Israel comes in after losing back to back fights for

2236
01:52:24,027 --> 01:52:27,267
Speaker 2: the first time in his twenty eight bout professional MMA career.

2237
01:52:27,667 --> 01:52:30,587
Speaker 2: What sort of mindset and mentality will he bring into

2238
01:52:30,587 --> 01:52:31,067
Speaker 2: this one?

2239
01:52:32,387 --> 01:52:32,547
Speaker 11: Oh?

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01:52:32,667 --> 01:52:35,347
Speaker 17: I think here will come into this obviously wanting a win.

2241
01:52:35,387 --> 01:52:38,187
Speaker 17: That's what any fighter would want in this situation. But

2242
01:52:38,227 --> 01:52:41,547
Speaker 17: I think the pressure of not having to be fighting

2243
01:52:41,547 --> 01:52:44,427
Speaker 17: for his title is a pressure that he probably welcome.

2244
01:52:44,507 --> 01:52:48,627
Speaker 17: He's been fighting the last twelve fights straight title fights.

2245
01:52:48,827 --> 01:52:50,707
Speaker 17: I mean, they're still a main event, but it's not

2246
01:52:50,747 --> 01:52:52,667
Speaker 17: a pay per view, so that pressure is off of him.

2247
01:52:52,667 --> 01:52:55,787
Speaker 17: He's fighting nazadin Imovov, who is number five in the division,

2248
01:52:55,827 --> 01:52:57,627
Speaker 17: and he's just made a bit of a name of

2249
01:52:57,707 --> 01:53:02,347
Speaker 17: himself having three successful fights last year against top ten guys.

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Speaker 17: So I think that the pressure is off this fight,

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01:53:04,827 --> 01:53:06,587
Speaker 17: and I think he can, you know, maybe a coach.

2252
01:53:06,667 --> 01:53:07,907
Speaker 17: This fight was a little more freedom.

2253
01:53:08,067 --> 01:53:10,227
Speaker 2: Do you think he feels he has something to prove

2254
01:53:10,347 --> 01:53:11,707
Speaker 2: after successive defeats.

2255
01:53:12,867 --> 01:53:13,067
Speaker 11: Oh?

2256
01:53:13,107 --> 01:53:16,027
Speaker 17: Absolutely, And I think even if he wasn't defeated, he

2257
01:53:16,067 --> 01:53:18,467
Speaker 17: still feels like he has something to prove it. You know,

2258
01:53:18,507 --> 01:53:20,507
Speaker 17: that's the name of the game. But I think for

2259
01:53:20,667 --> 01:53:25,547
Speaker 17: him it'll be motivating, uplifting and a win could you know,

2260
01:53:25,667 --> 01:53:28,587
Speaker 17: definitely bring up the spirits. But you know, at the

2261
01:53:28,587 --> 01:53:31,987
Speaker 17: same time, the reality of this one means that he's another,

2262
01:53:32,667 --> 01:53:35,267
Speaker 17: you know, one fight or two maybe away from another

2263
01:53:35,267 --> 01:53:37,467
Speaker 17: title shot, which is absolutely where he would want to be.

2264
01:53:37,707 --> 01:53:39,067
Speaker 2: I saw some of the media he did in the

2265
01:53:39,107 --> 01:53:41,107
Speaker 2: lead up to tomorrow morning, and one of the things

2266
01:53:41,107 --> 01:53:43,267
Speaker 2: he said, which I thought was interesting was this one's

2267
01:53:43,267 --> 01:53:45,547
Speaker 2: for me. I'm doing this for me. I often fight

2268
01:53:45,627 --> 01:53:47,627
Speaker 2: for other people from a team, a family, et cetera.

2269
01:53:47,907 --> 01:53:49,907
Speaker 2: This one's for me. Did that kind of resonate with

2270
01:53:49,947 --> 01:53:50,427
Speaker 2: you as well?

2271
01:53:51,147 --> 01:53:51,387
Speaker 12: Yeah?

2272
01:53:51,427 --> 01:53:53,987
Speaker 17: Absolutely, And he hasn't kind of been in that mindset

2273
01:53:54,027 --> 01:53:56,427
Speaker 17: for a little while. So, you know, when he fought

2274
01:53:56,747 --> 01:54:00,347
Speaker 17: Sean Stricklan, when he fought Richistuplasi and was unsuccessful. You know,

2275
01:54:00,427 --> 01:54:03,907
Speaker 17: he was going through having made a movie, having you know,

2276
01:54:03,947 --> 01:54:06,867
Speaker 17: things were going on externally. For him to come into

2277
01:54:06,867 --> 01:54:08,467
Speaker 17: this prone and say that this is for me, and

2278
01:54:08,907 --> 01:54:12,267
Speaker 17: you know, having that to prove and nothing else kind

2279
01:54:12,267 --> 01:54:14,507
Speaker 17: of you know, being a hindrance on him makes an

2280
01:54:14,507 --> 01:54:16,947
Speaker 17: absolute difference in terms of his mindset coming in, even

2281
01:54:17,027 --> 01:54:18,907
Speaker 17: though we know that when he comes into these fights

2282
01:54:18,947 --> 01:54:22,187
Speaker 17: psychologically he's always so very strong or that's the way

2283
01:54:22,227 --> 01:54:24,707
Speaker 17: he likes to, you know, perceive himself to the public.

2284
01:54:24,707 --> 01:54:30,027
Speaker 2: We just seem to have lost Ravi the right midstream.

2285
01:54:30,067 --> 01:54:32,827
Speaker 2: We'll get Andy to get her back because we wanted

2286
01:54:32,867 --> 01:54:34,227
Speaker 2: to get we wanted to get the rest of that.

2287
01:54:36,307 --> 01:54:39,467
Speaker 2: So we're just trying to get Ravi back on the line.

2288
01:54:39,907 --> 01:54:41,387
Speaker 2: Let's just say if we can do that. So tomorrow

2289
01:54:41,467 --> 01:54:44,747
Speaker 2: morning from six on ESPN as where you can pick

2290
01:54:44,827 --> 01:54:50,027
Speaker 2: up UFC Fight Night in Saudi Arabia with Israel Disuna

2291
01:54:50,147 --> 01:54:54,947
Speaker 2: fighting the French with a bit of Russian background. Nasu

2292
01:54:55,027 --> 01:54:59,067
Speaker 2: Deen Imovov at Fight Night in Saudi Arabia. I think

2293
01:54:59,067 --> 01:55:01,587
Speaker 2: we've got Ravi back, so we can we can bring

2294
01:55:01,627 --> 01:55:05,227
Speaker 2: her back in I think maybe just a bad reception

2295
01:55:05,307 --> 01:55:08,707
Speaker 2: area or something some so let's yep, we can bring

2296
01:55:08,707 --> 01:55:10,147
Speaker 2: it back. Rab We were just lost it there. But

2297
01:55:10,547 --> 01:55:12,987
Speaker 2: I was just going to ask about whether there was

2298
01:55:13,027 --> 01:55:15,587
Speaker 2: ever a chance in your mind that Israel might have

2299
01:55:15,627 --> 01:55:18,107
Speaker 2: called her a day. What's seven years in UFC mighty

2300
01:55:18,467 --> 01:55:19,347
Speaker 2: have called her a day?

2301
01:55:20,867 --> 01:55:21,107
Speaker 12: Yeah?

2302
01:55:21,387 --> 01:55:25,547
Speaker 17: Possibly, I mean seven years at any job is as

2303
01:55:25,547 --> 01:55:27,627
Speaker 17: a long fought battle. But you know, when you think

2304
01:55:27,627 --> 01:55:30,147
Speaker 17: about the sport and the demand that that has on

2305
01:55:30,187 --> 01:55:33,227
Speaker 17: your body and you know it where's you're down, it

2306
01:55:33,227 --> 01:55:35,267
Speaker 17: really does. And then when you kind of get to

2307
01:55:35,307 --> 01:55:37,907
Speaker 17: the pinnacle, you know, when you're the champion, you've been

2308
01:55:37,907 --> 01:55:39,427
Speaker 17: a champion for so long, and then you get a

2309
01:55:39,467 --> 01:55:41,707
Speaker 17: couple of losses, you're kind of, you know, looking on

2310
01:55:41,947 --> 01:55:43,867
Speaker 17: the other side of things. So I wouldn't I wouldn't

2311
01:55:43,867 --> 01:55:46,347
Speaker 17: blame him, you know, obviously, financially he's probably set up

2312
01:55:46,347 --> 01:55:48,907
Speaker 17: for life. He's helped set his family up too, So

2313
01:55:49,227 --> 01:55:51,387
Speaker 17: what is there no kind of left to prove? And

2314
01:55:51,467 --> 01:55:54,507
Speaker 17: I think but now, like you said, he wants to

2315
01:55:54,507 --> 01:55:57,427
Speaker 17: prove something to himself. It's no longer about you know,

2316
01:55:57,547 --> 01:55:59,107
Speaker 17: I need to do this for my family, I need

2317
01:55:59,147 --> 01:56:01,027
Speaker 17: to do this for the fans. To Smith's math, it's

2318
01:56:01,347 --> 01:56:03,187
Speaker 17: basically just him and the love of the sport.

2319
01:56:03,667 --> 01:56:07,867
Speaker 2: So let's talk about his opponent tomorrow. Nasadine Imovov joined

2320
01:56:07,867 --> 01:56:10,427
Speaker 2: at UFC in twenty twenty, a seven and two record,

2321
01:56:10,467 --> 01:56:12,667
Speaker 2: one not contest. What sort of fighter is he and

2322
01:56:12,747 --> 01:56:14,907
Speaker 2: what are the main threats that he poses?

2323
01:56:16,227 --> 01:56:19,187
Speaker 17: Well, you know, despite being you know, from Dugastan, where

2324
01:56:19,187 --> 01:56:20,987
Speaker 17: we all know, you know, the best wrestlers in the

2325
01:56:21,027 --> 01:56:25,067
Speaker 17: will come from, and the likes of Kabebza Makachev, he's

2326
01:56:25,147 --> 01:56:27,387
Speaker 17: very much a stand up fighter. He's based in France

2327
01:56:28,307 --> 01:56:31,187
Speaker 17: and has you know, come together with a new team

2328
01:56:31,347 --> 01:56:33,907
Speaker 17: to kind of fine tune those skills. He's a striker,

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Speaker 17: he's a stand up fighter, but he is quite competent

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Speaker 17: on the ground as well. We saw that against the

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01:56:39,027 --> 01:56:42,467
Speaker 17: likes of Brendan Allen. Brendan Allen in his last fight

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01:56:43,547 --> 01:56:45,707
Speaker 17: is a grappler in the middleweight division, and he totally

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01:56:45,827 --> 01:56:48,787
Speaker 17: nullified anything that Brendan Allen brought to him, which shows

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Speaker 17: that he has great defensive skills for takedowns. But we

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01:56:51,627 --> 01:56:53,187
Speaker 17: know that Israel a desk when he doesn't bring that

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01:56:53,307 --> 01:56:55,747
Speaker 17: kind of fight either, so I'm expecting a stand and bang.

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01:56:57,547 --> 01:57:00,027
Speaker 17: Nobody Invov likes to fight a little bit shorter. He

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01:57:00,107 --> 01:57:03,267
Speaker 17: has a long reach seventy five, whereas I think as

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01:57:03,307 --> 01:57:06,307
Speaker 17: he has the advantage of five inches there, so I'm

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01:57:06,467 --> 01:57:09,387
Speaker 17: expecting a stand and bang. But Nasadin he's not afraid

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01:57:09,427 --> 01:57:11,427
Speaker 17: to get into the pocket. He's not afraid to get close.

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Speaker 17: He's happy to, you know, have those punches coming his

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01:57:14,747 --> 01:57:16,867
Speaker 17: way to give what he needs to do. He's very

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01:57:16,907 --> 01:57:20,507
Speaker 17: slick on was his boxing. So I'm expecting a stand

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01:57:20,547 --> 01:57:23,067
Speaker 17: and bang. But I wouldn't be surprised coming up against

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01:57:23,067 --> 01:57:25,507
Speaker 17: a fighter like israela deaths on you where we've seen

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01:57:25,547 --> 01:57:28,227
Speaker 17: a blueprint there for takedowns. Obviously, his last fight he

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01:57:28,667 --> 01:57:31,307
Speaker 17: lost by a renneckad choke to drink Astiplasi, so some

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01:57:31,507 --> 01:57:36,387
Speaker 17: ground game could be expected, but I think Nazadi Imovov

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01:57:36,467 --> 01:57:38,387
Speaker 17: will would definitely want to prove that he has fire

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01:57:38,467 --> 01:57:39,067
Speaker 17: in his hand.

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Speaker 19: As well as is He.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how big a foight is this for Imovov? Because

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01:57:42,067 --> 01:57:44,267
Speaker 2: I feel like anyone who fights is He, it's a

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01:57:44,307 --> 01:57:46,227
Speaker 2: big fight for them, maybe their biggest EMBI fight.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, and you know, on the Shark UFC on Sky

2357
01:57:49,627 --> 01:57:52,067
Speaker 17: this week, my co host Dan Hooker described it as

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01:57:52,467 --> 01:57:56,227
Speaker 17: life changing for Imovov and he said to us in

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Speaker 17: an interview that he's been preparing for israela Dstonia long

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01:57:59,467 --> 01:58:01,467
Speaker 17: before he came into the UFC in twenty twenty. And

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01:58:01,507 --> 01:58:03,667
Speaker 17: of course, when we think back at that time, Israel

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01:58:03,747 --> 01:58:06,947
Speaker 17: was at as absolute pique as the champions. So this

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01:58:07,027 --> 01:58:09,107
Speaker 17: will be life changing. And to have a fighter like

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Speaker 17: Israel adesks on you're on your CV, serves you. Well,

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Speaker 17: I don't want to call Israel a desk On, you're

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01:58:14,187 --> 01:58:17,347
Speaker 17: a gatekeeper, but man, a win over Israel is an

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01:58:17,387 --> 01:58:20,707
Speaker 17: absolute you know, he's going to have his name in

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01:58:20,827 --> 01:58:23,467
Speaker 17: title talks in the next couple of fights if he

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01:58:23,507 --> 01:58:26,027
Speaker 17: can get through Israel. So it's absolutely life changing if

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01:58:26,227 --> 01:58:27,587
Speaker 17: you know Imovov can get the job.

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Speaker 2: Done, all right, Ra, But well, just before you go,

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Speaker 2: regardless of what happens tomorrow morning, Israel adis sonya as

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01:58:32,307 --> 01:58:36,027
Speaker 2: thirty five years old, now, what do you predict for him?

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01:58:36,067 --> 01:58:37,907
Speaker 2: How much longer will he go on?

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01:58:39,587 --> 01:58:40,667
Speaker 22: I think that's up to him.

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01:58:40,907 --> 01:58:42,827
Speaker 17: You know, like we've seen fighters go. I mean some

2377
01:58:42,947 --> 01:58:45,347
Speaker 17: fighters go well, you know, well into their forties and

2378
01:58:45,427 --> 01:58:48,307
Speaker 17: you think to yourself, oh jeez, maybe you should hang

2379
01:58:48,427 --> 01:58:50,547
Speaker 17: up the gloves. But you know, he's he's one of

2380
01:58:50,587 --> 01:58:53,507
Speaker 17: those fighters when you think of like and he likened

2381
01:58:53,547 --> 01:58:56,027
Speaker 17: himself early on in his career like Floyd Mayweather, where

2382
01:58:56,107 --> 01:58:59,107
Speaker 17: he likes to you know, throw out hits and not

2383
01:58:59,587 --> 01:59:01,947
Speaker 17: be hit back, you know. So defense has always been

2384
01:59:02,027 --> 01:59:04,707
Speaker 17: something that has served him well to not take those hits,

2385
01:59:05,027 --> 01:59:07,027
Speaker 17: which means you know, long give in the game. So

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01:59:07,147 --> 01:59:10,787
Speaker 17: I mean it's totally up to him. But yeah, I

2387
01:59:10,947 --> 01:59:12,627
Speaker 17: just think that that is up to him. But you know,

2388
01:59:13,147 --> 01:59:15,427
Speaker 17: when you're thinking realistically, like I said before, in a

2389
01:59:15,467 --> 01:59:17,747
Speaker 17: sport like MMA, it does wear you down.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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01:59:18,227 --> 01:59:20,867
Speaker 17: Israel, he's doesn't have a family, you know, children or

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01:59:20,987 --> 01:59:22,627
Speaker 17: things like that, and that might be an aspect that

2393
01:59:22,707 --> 01:59:24,787
Speaker 17: he wants to think about too, about settling down in

2394
01:59:24,907 --> 01:59:27,827
Speaker 17: life outside of the UFC. And he's absolutely set himself

2395
01:59:27,867 --> 01:59:28,587
Speaker 17: in his family.

2396
01:59:28,467 --> 01:59:28,947
Speaker 10: Up for life.

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01:59:30,067 --> 01:59:31,747
Speaker 17: But no, I think, you know, I think that this

2398
01:59:31,947 --> 01:59:34,987
Speaker 17: is his possibly last run at trying to get back

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01:59:35,027 --> 01:59:37,907
Speaker 17: on top and leave on a good note from the UFC.

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01:59:37,987 --> 01:59:40,427
Speaker 17: He's an absolute superstar and the sport and will be

2401
01:59:40,707 --> 01:59:42,027
Speaker 17: no matter how long he stays in the game.

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01:59:42,107 --> 01:59:44,227
Speaker 2: All right, let's see what happens tomorrow morning, early start

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01:59:44,267 --> 01:59:47,107
Speaker 2: for all of us six am coverage starts tomorrow morning

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Speaker 2: on ESPN and Skysport now Rave thanks for joining us

2405
01:59:49,747 --> 01:59:51,107
Speaker 2: as always with your great analysis.

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01:59:52,107 --> 01:59:52,987
Speaker 17: Thank you for having me.

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01:59:53,067 --> 01:59:55,067
Speaker 2: All the best. Robinda Hernia there you can catch her

2408
01:59:55,107 --> 01:59:57,907
Speaker 2: on UFC on Sky one of the best voices going

2409
01:59:57,987 --> 02:00:00,947
Speaker 2: around in terms of your knowledge and insight into UFC

2410
02:00:01,107 --> 02:00:04,187
Speaker 2: and mixed martial arts. Six am tomorrow morning. UFC Fight

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02:00:04,307 --> 02:00:10,267
Speaker 2: Night in Saudi Arabia featuring Israel Adissonna against Narsadene Imeovov.

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Speaker 2: It's the headline act on the card tomorrow morning. Coming

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02:00:13,627 --> 02:00:16,227
Speaker 2: up ten to three. News Talk's headbu.

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Speaker 1: Breaking down the Hail Mary's and the epic fails weekends

2415
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Speaker 1: for it with Jason Lyme.

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Speaker 2: News Talk ZENB coming up seven and a half away

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Speaker 2: from three. Let's update you from the basin where Jess

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02:00:28,427 --> 02:00:30,627
Speaker 2: Watkin is out and in fact the Blaze have just

2419
02:00:30,667 --> 02:00:35,027
Speaker 2: taken a fourth wicket fourth Brave wicket sixty for four,

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Speaker 2: now sixty for four in the eighth over, so seventy

2421
02:00:38,987 --> 02:00:42,787
Speaker 2: four more runs needed for the Brave to win this one,

2422
02:00:43,187 --> 02:00:46,307
Speaker 2: six wickets in hand and twelve overs to do it.

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02:00:46,707 --> 02:00:48,587
Speaker 2: Merely Kurz just come on and taking a wicket I

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02:00:48,627 --> 02:00:51,027
Speaker 2: think with her first ball. So it's the way to

2425
02:00:51,107 --> 02:00:53,987
Speaker 2: make an impact from the captain. So yeah, a tight

2426
02:00:54,107 --> 02:00:56,867
Speaker 2: tussle going on at the basin as the Blaze and

2427
02:00:57,147 --> 02:00:59,227
Speaker 2: the Brave go head to head for the right to

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Speaker 2: face Otago in tomorrow's final. That is US four Weekend

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Speaker 2: Sport for today. We're back tomorrow after midday. Tomorrow's John

2430
02:01:06,867 --> 02:01:09,067
Speaker 2: Kerwin joins us on the show. You might have caught

2431
02:01:09,107 --> 02:01:12,347
Speaker 2: the news yesterday that after a decade with Sky Sport

2432
02:01:12,467 --> 02:01:15,307
Speaker 2: he is stepping away from that role. Very mutual by

2433
02:01:15,347 --> 02:01:18,547
Speaker 2: the sounds of things between he and Sky Sports. So

2434
02:01:18,987 --> 02:01:21,187
Speaker 2: how do Sir John Kerwin reflect on his time in

2435
02:01:21,307 --> 02:01:23,867
Speaker 2: broadcasting And I want to drill a bit deeper into

2436
02:01:23,947 --> 02:01:28,747
Speaker 2: the role of particularly former players in the broadcast of sports.

2437
02:01:28,747 --> 02:01:31,747
Speaker 2: So that's tomorrow. We'll also talk some more cricket, a

2438
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Speaker 2: little bit of rugby as well as we review the

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Speaker 2: first weekend of six Nations. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: tuning in. It's been a please to bringing you the show.

2441
02:01:40,267 --> 02:01:43,467
Speaker 2: Tim Beverage after three with the Saturday edition of the

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Speaker 2: Weekend Collective song to take us Out. Thanks to you

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02:01:45,987 --> 02:01:49,067
Speaker 2: Andy for all your work today. What have you chosen?

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Speaker 23: Yes, I don't know if you caught the news this

2445
02:01:50,947 --> 02:01:54,707
Speaker 23: week Piney Toto, great band returning to New Zealand. So

2446
02:01:54,867 --> 02:01:58,867
Speaker 23: of course that leads to the obvious choice of Africa

2447
02:01:58,947 --> 02:02:00,227
Speaker 23: to lead us out today.

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Speaker 2: I think the only song in history with the word

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Speaker 2: Culliman Jarro in it, I stand to be corrected. Thanks

2450
02:02:05,387 --> 02:02:08,427
Speaker 2: for that fact. Look, it's it's all the facts I've

2451
02:02:08,467 --> 02:02:10,307
Speaker 2: given you. It's the most recent ones, and I'm not

2452
02:02:10,387 --> 02:02:13,067
Speaker 2: saying it was a fact. I think you're probably right,

2453
02:02:13,467 --> 02:02:15,467
Speaker 2: all right. Enjoy the last bit of Africa from title

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02:02:15,507 --> 02:02:16,347
Speaker 2: We'll see them Mark.

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02:03:03,387 --> 02:03:03,627
Speaker 12: Boy.

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02:03:03,827 --> 02:03:04,867
Speaker 11: She's reading that.

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02:03:09,747 --> 02:03:12,307
Speaker 2: You're thinking the way.

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Speaker 16: A matter undred men of lot.

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02:03:17,747 --> 02:03:22,307
Speaker 5: Ever, I best the lays down.

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Speaker 16: In as a Forgot. I'm best aways.

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02:03:26,947 --> 02:03:34,267
Speaker 7: Down in as Africot, I best grays down in Asta.

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02:03:35,747 --> 02:03:39,267
Speaker 7: I guess the rays down in as a forgot.

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Speaker 13: I guess the.

2464
02:03:41,747 --> 02:03:44,427
Speaker 5: Rays down in a forgot.

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02:03:46,307 --> 02:03:48,947
Speaker 16: It takes some time to do about things.

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02:03:48,667 --> 02:03:49,387
Speaker 9: And never.

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Speaker 2: For more from Weekends Sport with Jason Fine.

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Speaker 1: Listen live to news talks it be Weekends from midday,

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