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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks ed b in.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs through to their third consecutive Super Rugby Final

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Speaker 2: in pretty dominant fashion, beating the Brumbies thirty seven seventeen

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Speaker 2: in their semi in Hamilton last night. Quincy Pie first receiver.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he beats one, he beats two, about five out

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Speaker 1: balls quickly going a dry.

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Speaker 3: Fine the light it pick it up. He scored. It's

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Speaker 3: fine seven, the righter out and nothing.

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Speaker 2: He's done with Simmy Reese and he scored twenty two

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Speaker 2: points off the boot of Damien McKenzie. Pretty crucial both sides,

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Speaker 2: scoring three tries. Let's bring a chief midfielder Daniel Daniel

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Speaker 2: congratulations for the third year in a row. You've got

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Speaker 2: a Grand Final to prepare for. What do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: The coaching staff and the players will be most happy

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Speaker 2: about after last night's performance and result.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we defended really well last night. Had

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Speaker 3: to go some big beat hits there Autotoice, especially early on,

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Speaker 3: and think the boys stood up intensive believe so sure

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Speaker 3: that we really put out offics on defense.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, you had a pretty intense game against the Blues.

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Speaker 2: Last weekend. Was it equally intense out there last night?

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Speaker 2: Did you feel like it ramped up you know the

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Speaker 2: rugby during during finals football?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, finals, very it's really really physical. Obviously boys

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Speaker 3: a boy a lot harder. So yeah, that's just what

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Speaker 3: you can expect. Yess with finals footage, it's good.

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Speaker 2: But they scored just after halftime that made it nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventeen to you. But then a burst of eighteen unanswered

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Speaker 2: points in eighteen minutes from the Chiefs. What do you

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Speaker 2: think was behind that little period of play which basically

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Speaker 2: won you the game?

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Speaker 3: I mean, per last night put us in the right

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Speaker 3: here in the field and obviously was really good off

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Speaker 3: the team, so he's definitely personally it was probably a

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Speaker 3: big reason why that was the case. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: think we just went with the storm in the first

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Speaker 3: half and then turning our fire and yeah, I just yeah,

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Speaker 3: just played really well.

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Speaker 2: So did you get a decent view of Damien McKenzie's

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Speaker 2: tri saving tackle on Tom Wright.

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't do. I was crossed on the side

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Speaker 3: of the field, so I wasn't too short. It's gone.

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Speaker 3: I thought we were coming in and they definitely scored

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Speaker 3: and then what's them going? They were chicking something and

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Speaker 3: I thought they must have been checking something from earlier

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Speaker 3: in the player, like pay but it was pretty pretty unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: I was ta, yeah, righteous stuff. So for about the

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Speaker 2: I think five or six the game in a row,

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Speaker 2: or certainly in recent times, you've been in midfield with

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Speaker 2: Quintin Pie again last night. How much you enjoyed that partnership.

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Speaker 3: No, I love it. I think he's such a class player,

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Speaker 3: and I think we really really work well. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's a leader in our background, and he's playing some

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Speaker 3: really really good football, So I really enjoying it.

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Speaker 2: Has Anton Lennart Brown still been in and around the group,

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Speaker 2: even though he now can't play with that injury he's picked.

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Speaker 3: Up Yeah yeah, yeah, essfinitely stalling them around the group

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Speaker 3: and has been saying in the week to week he's

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Speaker 3: just started getting back into a little bit of training

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Speaker 3: with us, running the defense defense against us, and I'm

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Speaker 3: pretty sure I have doing the game again this week,

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Speaker 3: which really good.

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Speaker 2: You must. I mean, obviously it's it's misfortune for Anton,

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Speaker 2: but for you, it's opened up that thirteen jersey which

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Speaker 2: you've you've grabbed hold of. You must be enjoying having

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Speaker 2: a decent run in the side in that jersey, are

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Speaker 2: you Yeah, obviously.

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Speaker 3: It must be playing footy in the position that I

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Speaker 3: enjoyed the most. Obviously not great supers that prounsanded, but

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Speaker 3: it's just happened. That's all for me. Get more time

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Speaker 3: than a jersy which spots.

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Speaker 2: How much did last weekend and the loss of the

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Speaker 2: Blues sting the playing group?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely hurting the felling and changing the boys

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Speaker 3: as all week it was. It was a big week

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Speaker 3: and the boys crepped really well and the palty was

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Speaker 3: just a big edge through the week and we're going

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Speaker 3: to put out a good performance last night. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And as you look ahead to the week ahead, as

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Speaker 2: I say, this is the third year in a row

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Speaker 2: you'll be preparing for a Grand Final. I mean everyone's

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Speaker 2: heard the stats. It's very very difficult to beat the

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Speaker 2: Crusaders in christ you to come knockout time. Will your

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Speaker 2: preparation be any different this week? And what do you

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Speaker 2: think the main focus will be?

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Speaker 3: M Well, i'd table we'll keep a Princeton. There's no

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Speaker 3: point trying to change change our weeks for our bread

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Speaker 3: just because a grand final. Trust the work that we've

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Speaker 3: done and the week that's got us here so far,

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Speaker 3: and just really enjoy the week. I guess the finals

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Speaker 3: don't come around too often. Been about really enjoying the

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Speaker 3: week and getting that body gian and and then just

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Speaker 3: getting out of our detail and getting down a crist

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Speaker 3: which where you go.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Clayton McMillan hasn't made this about him at all,

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Speaker 2: but has have the players talked, you know, at all

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Speaker 2: about wanting to send off your coach as a Super

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Speaker 2: Rugby champion?

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Speaker 3: Uh No, there hasn't been been too much about that,

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Speaker 3: but I guess that's always in the back of everyone's minds,

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Speaker 3: you know, taking Bunks done so much for his club

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Speaker 3: and he's been a massive part of the club ground

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Speaker 3: and well what we've been a three four Grand finals

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Speaker 3: in the last five years to say, and it's it

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Speaker 3: comes down to a lot to do with bank and

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Speaker 3: be nice in and out on the win.

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Speaker 2: And famously, of course you were pouring concrete full time

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Speaker 2: before you picked up your your first Chiefs contractor are

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Speaker 2: presuming you you're not missing being on the tools.

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Speaker 3: Hobofinitely not. They obviously I missed because I was doing

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Speaker 3: it with a couple of good mates and so I

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Speaker 3: missed going to work with them, but definitely definitely miss

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Speaker 3: them all. It is.

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Speaker 2: Well, you've earned yourself another Monday, another week to prepare

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Speaker 2: for a Grand Final. Congratulations on the win last night,

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Speaker 2: Daniel and your pardon it all the beast for the

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Speaker 2: week you hit as you prepare to go to christ

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Speaker 2: and try and win the Super Rugby title. Yes much perfect, No,

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Speaker 2: thanks for joining us, Daniel. Daniel Rhana there out of

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs camp. Another very good performance from him last night.

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Speaker 2: He's he's stepped up, hasn't he, Daniel Roner, Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: was pouring croncred. He was included in the wider training

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Speaker 2: group from memory in twenty twenty three, came in, did

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Speaker 2: really well enough to win a deal, so no more concreting.

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Speaker 2: It's rugby for Daniel Roner in a nice partnership. He's

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Speaker 2: forming with Quintu Pie in the Chiefs midfield with Antony

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Speaker 2: Lennart Brown out for the season.

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