WEBVTT - One Aussie Team Remains 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:08.000 Holly team and welcome into your finals edition of Between 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.200 two Posts. It was a good weekend if you're a 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.200 Brumbies fan, you know what, it was a good weekend. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:13.920 If you're an Aussie rugby fan. Be course, we've got 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.920 one team still tracking in their hope for a title, 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.880 their first since twenty twenty twenty twenty four, two thousand 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.800 and four. Morgantinually James Hall, has it really been that long? 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.800 Twenty years? Longer twenty one years into Brumbies one? 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:27.360 I think so? 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.080 Look yeah, look, I mean they've been in a number 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.800 of finals since then, but they did everything they could 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.400 on Saturday night to get the job done, be alive 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.400 for another week. So yeah, really good performance from the bus. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.559 Tough to win. Kevy aren't there? You know? Like are 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:40.840 there and there and thereabouts? 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.320 Every year the Brumbies, every year we think are hick 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:44.800 on the Reds or the TARSI going to move up? 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.080 They're still the standard bear in Australian rugby. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.640 I did the odds with Morgs before the match closed 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.440 out between the Blues and Chiefs the other night, So 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.080 we just use bookis odds to try and calculate the 0:00:55.240 --> 0:01:00.160 likelihood of having the Brumbies host the Blues in the 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.920 the final, right, so we needed the obviously need the 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.800 Blues to win. The other night you need the Brumbies 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.280 to win, and then this week we obviously need Brumbies 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.000 and Blues to both win as well. Ninety to one. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.440 It was, so the first two legs are ticked off, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.600 two to go this weekend. Fellas before we preview, what's 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.399 the come, Let's sink our teeth into that cold Oh 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.000 my god, that cold canbra night where it was three 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.280 degrees that kickoff felt like about minus two down. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.839 They see what was out? 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:36.240 The gloves were out Panel Atkinson, Ferguson Shepherd two of 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:37.039 the three war gloves. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.039 Who do you think you had the gloves on? 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:39.679 Atkinson Shepherd? 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.200 Yeap are soft ass? 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.320 No wonder that was so bad at Phinishy this year. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.320 No resilience those two. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.680 I've got to give the game some context. So the 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.240 way it was shaping up was it was going to 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.560 be rubber between the Brumbies and the Hurricanes. What all 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.560 of us desperadoes wanted was to have something on the 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.440 line in the game. We wanted some feelings and vibe. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.680 So that meant that the Blues need to beat the Chiefs. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.560 So closing stages of that game sideline, the Hurricanes are 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.680 lined up around Morgues and the rest of the crew. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.760 Morgs here it is as you're watching the final try 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:15.280 getting out with Pete among A Jensen and is this 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.600 when so two to two was held up? What's this? 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.160 This when like so this is like management from Hurricanes 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:20.800 going what's happening? 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.760 What's what is that? Is that? Is that crawling? Is 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.960 that they happened on the advantage. It's still on. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.280 They're going to come back and Peter among A Jensen there, 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.680 you saw it as soon as that tries scored and 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.880 given he's better go warm up, this game means a 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:33.639 little bit more. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.200 We lose them, they're on our way to mad Monday. Okay, fellas, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.720 So I mean this match was such a good game 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.040 of finals, given they were low scoring the two games 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.919 that preceded it, and they've just come out throwing haymakers 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.040 at each other. Rub And loves the first man to 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.000 go in, and you're watching you think this Canes back 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.680 line is immaculate and Kevy they were so good with 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:54.639 his first dry. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.360 Oh, their ability to move the ball and they're off 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.480 floating through the tackle is just impressive. And I think 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.520 they have, you know, the last back half of this 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.880 Super Rugby season, I think they've been probably the form 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.600 team and you know, you didn't want to play them 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.440 become finals, but the Brumbies the whole type five. I 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.960 think for the Brumbies this game really stood up, particularly 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:13.520 on I think in that first half it was sort 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.200 of a bit of ying and yang, whereas the Hurricanes 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.679 were using the balls, spreading it wide and the Brumbies 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.480 just went back to their you know, their core game, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.760 the mall, the scrum, tight forwards, carrying the ball hard 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.480 and it was all square after sort of twenty two 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:27.360 twenty three minutes. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.800 But if you're the Hurricanes today Monday and you're reviewing it, well, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.400 you know, if you're the coaching staff, if you're want status, 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.360 you know, but you have to that's your job, right. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.839 Clark's in there, is in the game because if you're 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.400 a head coach in superb you are a statist. He 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.960 can't be disappointed with the way his team played. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:46.440 Do they played well? 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:51.120 They played the best version of themselves tactically smart got 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.120 to the edges on the Brumbies when the Brummies were 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.440 trying to come up and close. You know they'll be 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.720 disappointed they couldn't hold maybe one moll out. They win 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.360 the game like a couple of tiny things. But it's 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.120 one of the best losing performances in an elimination final 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:03.560 life scene. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.360 They were excellent, so so good the Canes. So too 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.320 was Alan Abletowa, who scored his eighth try the season, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.600 and we had to bring up the stats stack again 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.800 after he went over man because when you reveal it, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.039 you will see that his previous ten years of Super Robi, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.920 he had only scored four tries total. This year he 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.880 has gone through the roof Cavy wild stuff. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:33.160 Meters gain for those tries a question total he's been. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.880 He's in good for I think you know he's critical 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.560 for the Wallaby success this year. He's been that good 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.960 and that important for this run beside, but looking forward, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.800 we need him on the park and hurt when he 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:44.279 wasn't there. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.120 You know, we always try and look for the why 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:47.520 and that how why is that? 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.839 Why had he never scored more? But why now is 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:51.640 he s called double? 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.360 A decade worth of tries like we've seen, how good 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.520 he is close to the line. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.080 But it's not like he just learned it. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.520 No, do we think that there's more a big man 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.919 let's goal kicking from penalties, so there's more opportunities that 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:03.839 you're in the twenty two. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.520 Yeah, maybe so teams, but he's finish. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:07.360 Yeah, but no one has. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.880 Spending more time. So you's seeing more forwards scoring tries 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.040 because teams are spending more time in the opposition. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.760 So the only real change is the dropout law. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.760 Yeah, so he's there, like you know before, if you 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.280 got held up, you just came back. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.400 He had a five moved to strom. Now it's a 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.640 massive turnover. Maybe there's much more emphasis on how low 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.400 that body. He seems to be pretty much the best 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.320 in the comp almost getting lower than defense. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.400 Like and like the defensive onne where you've got to 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.320 stay behind that last minute like that makes it really 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:38.680 hard to. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.640 Pretty much impossible to legally defense. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:41.359 Yeah it is. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.039 I mean you've got to bend it and if you 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.520 miss it by millisecond, Gonza, it's impossible to stop. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.680 So he gets about to fourteen fourteen, and then right 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.960 on halftime the Brummy's get a chance to take three 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.320 and take the lead at the break, they choose not 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.680 to and it was so amusing to see the reaction 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.080 of coach Stephen Larkins. A little flick over the top 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.799 from Lonigan just missed the chasing Tommy Wright. So Steve 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.040 Larkins in the box, we can't really shot to him 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.440 and the arms across and he looks real pensive and 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.480 Good says, no, he's on board with this? I said, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.400 is he? Is? He good? He doesn't look like he's key. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.919 But then they construct again fellas this rolling moll. What 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.080 are they doing well with this rolling more to give 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.599 themselves a halftime lead. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.480 Well, I think the core game for the Brumbies, for 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.680 almost as long as I can remember, has been with 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.159 Stephen Largan as a coach, has been around belt, around 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.520 the mall. So I think the ability to get the 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.480 player up and down and get the front of your 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.640 mare set is the key to morning. If you get 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.720 that front guard set, the depth and get the ball 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.160 along which you see here Billy Poll, it makes it 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.560 really hard to defend. And then you see the backs 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.040 coming in and adding the X ray. But it all 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.560 starts with the guys up front, where Billy Poyd does 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.400 well to finish it there on the left hand side 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.960 that should go to the guys. I think's Nick Frisce 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:58.120 Slipper all to that front core piece of you more. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.280 If you can get that right with no dis option 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.120 where it makes it very hard to defend legally, and 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.640 that's what they did, and they get the ball long, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.640 then you can't have the swimmers through on the ball. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.480 It becomes that edging edging, edging, and then the Canes 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.480 got to put players in. Billy Pollard picks the gap, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:14.320 picks on the nine. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.160 Good footing gives him a twenty one to fourteen lead. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:21.000 And then Morg's early into the second half, early ish 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.120 in the second half, after turning away the Hurricanes and 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.760 dodging one with duple c Kerith his hands tragically for 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.080 the Canes going missing on him. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:31.200 I've never seen these. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.640 Such a crazy is a good play. We'll talking about 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.480 him in the post game soon as well. But then 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.000 a little bit of magic from the Brumbys sets up 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:37.640 a handy lead. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.360 It's the world's easiest Mackram. It is the Champagne Rugby 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.480 Union moment of the week. It's a two phase play 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.000 and as much as Stephen Larkham tries to facetiously deny it. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.880 It's one hundred percent plan. It's even the switch here. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.240 Everyone's thinking Valentine needs to carry and that's the change up, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.040 changes the point of contact and Robbie's he's in his 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.560 slot to Alima gainst their late as his role. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.840 Noel runs the one at the back and then just 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:03.520 through the middle. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:08.280 It's absolutely perfectly replicated what they would have done a 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.080 Norton cross as Kevy on the training Paddy. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.040 Yeah, exactly, and I think you can see. I think 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.560 there was one earlier in the Crusaders. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.520 Twice one week one a few weeks. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.200 Against against the Hurricanes, and it's probably just it's the 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.360 slight of hand of that inside runner taking the attention 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.440 of who is it the number five there, I think 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.760 for the Canes, and just the late run where right 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.040 comes in late, you know in division. Late is just 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.480 such a great piece of work. And the ball from 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.920 Bobby Valentini is nice, just a little one. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.520 Handed inside, just the way they use Valentine. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.360 So if you're opposite Valentini, your third defender, So it's 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.000 a three man forward shape that we see Valentini square. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.920 He's got the tip option on the outside, he's got 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.960 inside support if he needs it usually just to clean 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.839 out and obviously the poll parts out the back to 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.160 Noel a laser which we see fifty times a game. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.520 Rob Valentini carries every single time. The genius is in 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.360 the change. You show the same picture and you just 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:06.320 show a slightly different variation. Crusades have done it, Island's 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.840 done it. We've seen teams do it. But but the 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.040 fact that it's Valentini is such great deception because if 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.200 I'm opposite him and third, all I'm thinking about is 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.800 blinkers on. I've got to tackle this guy. If I'm 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.719 the tip guy, I've got to tackle Pollard as a 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.959 tip I'm just vision square. We've got a good defensive line. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.800 We've all done our job, and suddenly the picture changes 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.480 and it is an untouched try. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.880 It used to be something you do always on the outside. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.400 It's the old I think where the insights and slider 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.360 the third end comes on the inside. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:35.840 It's just doing that on it. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.480 Doing it on the inside is just a nice touch 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.319 from the Bruns, and as Mark said, a couple of 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:41.320 teams have been starting. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:41.360 To do it. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:42.840 So it's do you know what I felt for? In 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.840 that passage? You play Flanders He's landed the shot of 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.200 the last five years on Bob Ballatin. He become the 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.720 first man a stop in front of has hammered him 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.120 and then pops up and goes got him and goes, ah, shit, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.640 what happened? I did my job? Where were you? 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:01.120 Bloats? 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.080 So that makes it twenty eight to fourteen, and that's 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.360 a handy lead, obviously, as you both know, in a 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.760 qualifying final. But then Sullivan hits back this the outside 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.120 in line here was just so pretty to watch. Is 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.400 there anything better outside in at pace? 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.160 I just just because it's such a blind spot to 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.280 come from, it's so effective. And then even to square 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.840 up through the line and get outside of Rhyma who's despairing. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.120 So what happens often is you come back hard against 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.480 the grange TV. You'll know because anytime there was space, 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.240 Kevy didn't want it right. He just wanted to run 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.240 into the teether box. So he come back hard against 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:34.960 the line and off and you go into the next defender. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.160 But he comes through and almost wants a reverse j 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:37.959 line back out. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:38.560 It was brilliant. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.719 It's difficult because as you're so close to the line, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.600 you're watching the ball, you want to get off the line. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.760 The little bobble there at nine, he comes up. They 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.280 were all looking to try and stop him, and he 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.080 just you get outside iron outside I and you just 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:51.720 miss him. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.280 It was good foot which brought it back to a 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.840 seven point marchin. The Brummies then get another opportunity to 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.199 take points with twenty two to go to make it 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.079 a ten point leads say, ah, we're kicking the line, 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.480 thank you very much. I mean, this was a throwdown 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.240 three the way that Nah was hitting him the other night. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.760 We're going to catch up with that man on between 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.280 two posts extra tomorrow. So they go to them all 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.600 and then it's your old mate, Kevy, it's your good 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.319 friend James Slipper off the tap play. Eventually. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:19.400 Yeah. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.280 Look, I mean I think at the time of the 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.439 game you're thinking, you know, if I'm put your head 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.320 on as a captain, I'm probably taking the three there 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.160 just to get two scores ahead. But I guess it 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.719 showed the confidence, the ability. I think Steve they just 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.200 wanted to build pressure down in that zone, which they 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.120 felt they didn't last time they played the Crew the 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:41.120 Hurricanes and slips doesn't score many and not many from 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.920 far out but I think again he's he's been so 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.880 good for the Brahms and he's going around again. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.000 It's got one, Alan got one and Pollo got too. Yes, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.640 so there's a lot of captain's question for you. So 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.800 I got a feeling that the Brumbies early on worked 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.360 out that this was going to be a straight out 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.400 shootout and the multiples of three probably aren't enough, and 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.000 that proved right a couple of times there As a captain, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.480 do you sometimes go look to me like that was 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.120 almost a compliment of the Hurricanes, like three points is 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:10.520 not enough. 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.840 We've got to keep going. Do you feel that in games? 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.360 I think you have to, but you're always got to 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.040 look a where the key is, Like those were right 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.560 in front. They're gimmes, right like you definitely three points? 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.000 You know you used to always look and sit there 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.599 and go, well, you know what of the odds of 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.240 kicking it, you work out where your kicks and go, well, look, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.200 i'd rather kick it to touch because there's a chance 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:26.840 he's going to miss this. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:27.520 They're gimmes. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.880 So I think building points and momentums are big thing 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.280 in games now, and the ability to hold and build 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.520 in the twenty two is key for teams being successful 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.200 in this competition so far. So I think that certainly 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.800 to your point, marks plays into it. But you know, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.160 I think when we'll talk about the Chiefs game, I 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.120 think they probably kicked too much for gold. They probably 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.360 should have gone for touch more and Bilk scored. They 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.880 sort of went into themselves and just tried to chip 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:51.199 it over. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.320 They go for penalty goal those two times they lose 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:54.600 the bun. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.480 Yes, yeah, it's not that simple, but you know. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.760 And as you say, the Carrians were playing such good 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.120 for the toss. He scored again late, but it wasn't 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.080 enough to get the result men, So the Brummies go ahead. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.880 The Canes bounce out. I wanted to touch on the 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.800 postmatch interview, he's the closing stages. Now it goes and 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.679 whips it in a touch, so they bank their spot 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.640 the closing stages of the game. So post game rather 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:24.040 where good justin Harrison interviews doeople see careefy, how good 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.040 that little exchange was, How great that little bit of 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.760 insight was that they both shared. It's a shame that 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.520 the Canes got to bounce out. It's a shame that 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:32.679 had to be losing the other night. 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.160 Yeah, I think Look, I mean Griffy himself is what 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.240 a player, what a guy that But look, I think 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.720 it shows you what it means to play in this 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:46.319 sort of finals appearance. And as you said, like both 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.440 teams mores touch on it. Canes can certainly hold their 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.480 heads high for that performance. It was sort of tough 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.319 to have to be a loser that night, and probably 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.079 up until about two minutes before they were about to 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.880 go warm art, we're probably thinking. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:58.640 We're going through anyway. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.640 We're going through anyway, so it doesn't matter about the performance. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:01.800 We get another crack next week. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.160 They could have won the comp probably maybe scrum deep 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.360 in but back line, back road, the line out pressure. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.120 I put the Brumbies under the brand of rugby. They 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.560 played the ability to kick as well when they needed to. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.560 Later on the next couple of weeks they kept going 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:18.520 talk about not wanting to play someone. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.040 We wonder how much those injuries early on in the 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.680 year hurt them. That they made a late run in 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.720 the comp that got them to where they were. I mean, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.840 they dropped some games early on that they probably when 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.360 you look at they probably should not have if they 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.440 picked them up. They're sitting you know, third, second home 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.920 game and game in Wellington, second crack at it probably 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:38.720 if they lost top. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.280 Two is important? 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:41.880 Well, when are we going to? When do you want 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.000 to talk? Should we talk about it now? In this segment? 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.400 Is this where it sits best? So we want to 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.120 get to it after Chiefs Blues. Let's go now, shall we? 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.240 You're cool? Okay? There's been some constant The right term 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:59.080 is consternation around the final setup. Now. I think it's 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.680 ridiculous all of us up about it now because the 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.960 rules of beating place since the ball was kicked the 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.040 start the season, which dictated that there would only be 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.480 the shuffling of the seeds at the back end, which 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.240 meant that if you finish first, you drop into the 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:12.880 second seed, but if the second seed, when you go 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.520 up in the first seat, which is kind of a 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.400 little confusing. But anyway, despite that, we knew that, and 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.200 we also knew that if you finish first and you 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.200 lose your first week, if you lose your first week, 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.720 you cop andel you still get to host the semi 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.120 final the next week. Why did I'm just trying to 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.760 work out why no and push back on it, or 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.160 why this wasn't highlight early because it doesn't for me 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.680 as a fan watching scene quite right. So I think 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.440 if you lose back of the queue, you go where 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:42.680 do you see it? Are you okay with it? 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.920 Keevy? I'm okay. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:46.920 The in the consens of where we are now, I 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.520 think this I reckon. My view is that we could 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.280 do the final system a little bit different, where one 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.000 and two get a week off. Okay, three plays six 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.280 and five plays four yep, straight knockout. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.240 They then go to it and then one would play 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.520 the one would play with lowest. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.200 Rank gotcha, and then basically always at home and they win. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.520 That you've got one less game to got to one 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:07.400 less game to make it. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:07.880 To the final. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.960 So I think, yes, okay, that's your compromise. Where do 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.640 you sit on this whole finals conundrum? 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.280 Well, I think I think one the big point you 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.880 make is everyone knew the rule exactly start. Everyone has 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.160 first ever been beaten before since the days of top 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:27.720 four and maybe went to top eight when the crusade 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:29.840 from fourth. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.440 They might have gone to South Africa and one over. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.120 There they beat the lines over there, first place lines. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.400 I think the Lines might have been first anyway. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.320 Anyway, So one it's it's like, it's not something you 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.640 think is going to happen, and then the defending champions sneak. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:43.920 In the sixth. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.960 But I reckon it will put it this way, it 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.520 won't be there next year. I couldn't imagine it'll be changed. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.200 Why did none of the clubs push back on it initially? 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:55.600 So you actually think it's a fair run. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.880 So I don't think many analyze them much. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.520