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Andrew Alderson: ZB Sports Anchor gives a Super Rugby finals recap · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Andrew Ordison's with this morning mate. Greetings Mike, did
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  Speaker 1: you do something rural over the weekend? Did you chop
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  Speaker 1: a bit of firewood or put a fence up, or
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  Speaker 1: dag a sheep or something?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not really clearing out a house. And all I
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  Speaker 2: was saying is you don't want to spestos in a house.
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  Speaker 1: I'd agree with that. I think that's I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you're breaking any news there, but I think just a
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  Speaker 1: word of warning for listeners, did you want did you
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  Speaker 1: inhale a small amount of it all?
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping not, but it's been there for about fifty
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  Speaker 2: years and I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if I depart early on, so it was
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  Speaker 1: asbestosis it got them in the end. What do you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about? See? I see they've got all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of just quickly the Blues and Eden Park looks
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  Speaker 1: good as a facility when it's full, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh great, because we'll talk about this very thing last
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  Speaker 2: week Gray seats and semi final. But yeah, when it's full,
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  Speaker 2: people in the pond, ponchos and getting out there and.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the wet it was great. Shame about the
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  Speaker 1: game though as a final.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I thought it was going to be closer
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  Speaker 2: than that. Actually, yeah, but then you know, the Blues
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  Speaker 2: were so convincing and just a real juggernaut and led
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  Speaker 2: by Topolota but also Van Kotter. Just he is a
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  Speaker 2: relentless task master there and just seems to have guarded
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  Speaker 2: the respect and was able to deliver across the season.
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  Speaker 2: So in twenty one years, I mean it's been we've
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  Speaker 2: always I mean ever since I've been working here, we've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about the Blues resurgences.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's here or do we get excited about this afternoon?
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  Speaker 1: Because I mean the squad he announces as a squad
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  Speaker 1: of about eight hundred and so, I mean everyone's in it.
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  Speaker 1: I Mean what we really want to know is who
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  Speaker 1: plays the test? Don't That's when it gets crach interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It's the preamble, is it thirty two man squad for
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  Speaker 2: the All Blacks. I think it's more about I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 2: there'll be some new names, but it's more about the delivery,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. And how Robertson approaches it in the first instance. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think just how he demonstrates how he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the mentor or guide the All blacks and what
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  Speaker 2: he puts out there, and it'll bit to just see what,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll get a gauge of the style he
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  Speaker 2: wants to play it.
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  Speaker 1: Are you excited about the all? I looked at the
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  Speaker 1: schedule this morning just to confirm in my mind what
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  Speaker 1: was going on. So England coming here, that's good to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's different, it's a bit unusual.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, I'm all for tours.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and one, but once again, here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: So it's Australia in South Africa. How many times do
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  Speaker 1: we have to play then before you think, oh, you've
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  Speaker 1: seen all this before. And we've got I think Japan,
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  Speaker 1: so you know what's going to happen there, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got Fiji and you know it's going to happen. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's got that whole here we
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  Speaker 1: go again vibe.
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  Speaker 2: But it is a touch ho hum and I think
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  Speaker 2: but I love the idea of the tour coming back
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  Speaker 2: and the things I can come here, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: a post World Cup year, that's a good element to
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  Speaker 2: address for it. So yeah, that's the that's the part
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  Speaker 2: that I'm most excited by. And I think just the
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  Speaker 2: fact you've got a new All Blacks coach and just what,
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  Speaker 2: as I say, what style is going to bring to
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  Speaker 2: and stamp on the team. Then yeah, it's uh, that's
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  Speaker 2: something to anticipate.
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  Speaker 1: I feel very sorry for Webster this morning or just
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  Speaker 1: generally after the weekend. I don't know, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you do with that.
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  Speaker 2: Just I mean, I've seen the highlights. It just seemed like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, well, not that there were many highlights as
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  Speaker 2: far as the Warriors, but it's just like a turnstile
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  Speaker 2: all the way through. I mean, I imagine you were
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  Speaker 2: Philly apoplectically about what I.
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  Speaker 1: Was expecting was the turnaround at half time. And so
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  Speaker 1: we've seen this many times over the years. Things go
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  Speaker 1: wrong in the first half, they get a rah cup,
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  Speaker 1: they come back, they may not come back to win
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  Speaker 1: because we were thirty nil down or something like that. So,
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  Speaker 1: but there's something there on the second half to think, right, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So but there was nothing. It was like there was
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  Speaker 1: like two first halfs and we didn't know what we
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  Speaker 1: were doing and nothing happened and nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like this is slipping into Warriors territory of
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  Speaker 2: old pretty quickly. Mean now, because it's just that extra
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  Speaker 2: two points too, and now the two points further back
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  Speaker 2: from the top eight. There's that element, the whiff of desperation. Hmm, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not looking convincing.
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  Speaker 1: Watch the IF one. If you haven't already well worth watching.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched. What's it seems to be. The start is
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  Speaker 2: the most started getting passed.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't get a good start, but George Russell must
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  Speaker 1: have got away good though, absolutely brilliant. It came from
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  Speaker 1: fourth to first in a brilliant move on the corner.
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  Speaker 1: But Mercedes are back. It's kind a bit about and
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  Speaker 1: Russell and Mercedes are back and Ferrari's okay, McLaren is
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  Speaker 1: certainly back. So the whole thing's bunched up, fields bunched up.
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  Speaker 2: We needed this, you know, for fans who are just
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  Speaker 2: looking don't have a team necessarily, but love love following.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's just that's great for this exactly, so
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  Speaker 2: you might go well for stuff and still one though,
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  Speaker 2: yes he did that. And for more from News Talks
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