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

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Speaker 1: from newstalk zed B.

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Speaker 2: Hit You'll cross the Tasman for a regular catch up

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Speaker 2: with Australian correspondent Adam Peacock. You no doubt still likes

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Speaker 2: furiating and what your Manly Sea Eagles did the other

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Speaker 2: night in their first game under new coach Karen Foran,

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Speaker 2: putting fifty fifty on the Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Piney, good afternoon. It is literally an East the miracle.

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Speaker 3: We kept known for odd things happening, and hey, look

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Speaker 3: at that. We were frocious for the first three weeks,

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Speaker 3: in particular the Newcastle game, which on reflection probably was

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Speaker 3: the one that proved the end for Anthony Sebold and

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Speaker 3: then they were like, oh, well that was the end,

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Speaker 3: but I just in case there's something that comes out

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Speaker 3: of it against the Ruses the week after anyway, they

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Speaker 3: made the call Seabult gone for an end. Was it

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Speaker 3: had a kind of effect. You knew it was going

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Speaker 3: to have some kind of effect because he's a really

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Speaker 3: straight up and then down guy who everyone respects, so

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Speaker 3: you get the feeling that the players were going to

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Speaker 3: really put in for him. But to that extent. No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: I just couldn't say that happening.

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Speaker 2: Well, I were fifty two niller hit as well. The

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Speaker 2: Dolphins kind of closed it up with three tries in

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Speaker 2: the last ten minutes or so. But and I saw

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Speaker 2: Kern four enough to would say that he was so

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Speaker 2: nervous he put on about five or six k around

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Speaker 2: around Brisbane with his steps on the day of the game.

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Speaker 2: You know, all the shat about whether he's too young

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Speaker 2: for the job. It's only one game, isn't it. But

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Speaker 2: it's a pretty good start.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. The simple thing for a coach coming in

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Speaker 3: one game is to get there because something bad has happened.

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Speaker 3: You're not there because something good's happened, So you've got

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Speaker 3: to reset. And it's a psychological thing. First up and

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Speaker 3: care and four and understands how footy players think. Now

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Speaker 3: the axes and o's and the ins and outs, whether

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Speaker 3: or not he has a good enough squad that'll expose

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Speaker 3: itself over the next six weeks. But it is as

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Speaker 3: good a start as you could possibly hope for because

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Speaker 3: it gives him a bit of credit in the bank,

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Speaker 3: takes a heat away. I was looking at as a

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Speaker 3: man tan going with the bl and as and what's

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Speaker 3: that going to do for his coaching career long term?

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Speaker 3: But no, it's that washes all of that away straight away.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now, speaking of putting fifty on teams, the Panthers

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Speaker 2: did that to the Storm last night, the first time

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Speaker 2: the Storm have conceded fifty since two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: The Panthers are five from five. So the Panthers are

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Speaker 2: clearly back, are they?

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Speaker 3: Oh, they are far ahead of everyone else at the moment.

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Speaker 3: It is not funny. You have a look at the

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Speaker 3: four and against I think they're plus one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty after five games or something like that. It's yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's insanely good what they're doing. Look, Origin will play

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Speaker 3: a factor, They'll get a stack of players again in

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Speaker 3: for Origin. It's a long season. Can they keep this

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Speaker 3: intensity up? But yeah, and when you get to September,

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Speaker 3: look at about three or four Southern Death games, two

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Speaker 3: in particular Southern Dead games. So you know they're not

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Speaker 3: across the line yet. But you'd be a both human

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Speaker 3: being to suggest that they're not playing in the last

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Speaker 3: game of the season at the moment. But there's one

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Speaker 3: more spot left for the Grand Final. It's just remarkable

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Speaker 3: they're doing and it's very much at their best, their

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Speaker 3: best from a couple of years ago. This is an

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Speaker 3: improvement on that. So it's scary stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, rest of the NRL absolutely on notice now. Former

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Speaker 2: rol star Zach Lomax is now playing rugby. Of course,

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Speaker 2: sit to make as super rugby Pacific day boo off

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Speaker 2: the bench tonight when the Force play the Reds and Brisbane.

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Speaker 2: How much anticipation and curiosity is there around this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a fair bit. Actually, it takes a bit.

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Speaker 3: Super Rugby for one reason or another, doesn't really have

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Speaker 3: the mass hut through it does in the rugby union

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Speaker 3: community with the war Tales and Brumbies and Reds in

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Speaker 3: particular the Western Force, we're not really sure how they

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Speaker 3: proceed because it's on the other side of the country.

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Speaker 3: Cold rugby is just about to start here, so maybe

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Speaker 3: a void is about to be filled in terms of attention.

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Speaker 3: So it might divert away a bit from Super rugby,

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Speaker 3: but in a general sense, yes, absolutely, there's a focal

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Speaker 3: point on Zach la Max tonight. The thought is that

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Speaker 3: like they've done it right at the Western Force. They

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Speaker 3: didn't rush him into the Chiefs game they'll give him

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Speaker 3: a bit of time off the bench in a familiar

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Speaker 3: surround of Sun Courts Stadium where he's playing Origin last year.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think the expectations are sky high for him,

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Speaker 3: and everyone recognizes in rugby that, you know, the little

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Speaker 3: things that we always talk about, the contact and the

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Speaker 3: body positioning and all of that. They Okay, we know

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Speaker 3: that if Western Force put a bomb up, this guy

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Speaker 3: is going to go up and probably take it, you know,

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Speaker 3: do some good things in that in that realm. But

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Speaker 3: it's those little things that will be there'll be a

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Speaker 3: sharp eye on from a rugby union perspective later tonight.

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Speaker 3: It's Uncourt all right.

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Speaker 2: And finally to football, where former Soccer Roose coach Graham Arnold,

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Speaker 2: who took the soccer Rooster to the last World Cup,

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Speaker 2: as off to the next one, this time with Iraq

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Speaker 2: I Rack, the last of the forty eight teams to

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Speaker 2: confirm their qualification during the week. This is a really

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Speaker 2: cool story for Graham Arnold.

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Speaker 4: It's an amazing story and one that I wouldn't have

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Speaker 4: thought possible four years ago when he took the soccer

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Speaker 4: US to the World Cup, and then a couple of

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Speaker 4: years later he decides that no, my time is up

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Speaker 4: with the soccer whose I can't take this group any further,

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Speaker 4: so he stepped aside tape of which had a really

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Speaker 4: good time.

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Speaker 3: Of it when he took over it and got the

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Speaker 3: soccer whos automatically to a World Cup. But for only

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Speaker 3: to go off and do this, this is one of

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Speaker 3: the great sporting coaching achievements in the history of Australia.

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Speaker 3: It's certainly up there with and winning a Europa League

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Speaker 3: with Tottenham impurely a football sense, but yeah, to get

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Speaker 3: this group of players together after so long and get

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Speaker 3: them to a World Cup is just one of the

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Speaker 3: marketerpiece basically from Arne and good on him he deserves it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely look forward to seeing how he goes when June

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Speaker 2: rolls around. Always good chatting sport with you, Adam. Enjoyed

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Speaker 2: the rest of your Easter and we'll chet again next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good, Thanks Bonny, No, thank you, mate.

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Speaker 2: That's Adam Peacock, our regular Australian correspondent at IRAN about

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Speaker 2: this time every Saturday.

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