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Elliott Smith: Newstalk ZB Sports Reporter talks the Warriors, Super Rugby, Formula 1 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: And to talk us through his highs and lows of
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  Speaker 1: the weekend in Sport. Elliott Smith is with.
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  Speaker 2: Us morning morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good weekend for the Warriors.
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  Speaker 2: Very good and I think this will give him a
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  Speaker 2: lot of confidence. I mean, when was the last time
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  Speaker 2: you saw a team taker penalty shot at goal in
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  Speaker 2: rugby league from fifty meters out lid alone and golden
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  Speaker 2: It was a very odd game. The Warriors had it
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  Speaker 2: in control in the end. I don't know whether it
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  Speaker 2: was the conditions, but the Broncos sort of came back
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  Speaker 2: into it right at the end, sent it to golden
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  Speaker 2: point and then dear old Reese Walsho obviously left. The
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  Speaker 2: Warriors makes the era from the kickoff and Luke Metcalf,
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  Speaker 2: who had been shopping off the tee, comes in. Now
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  Speaker 2: is it from fifty meters? You don't really see that
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  Speaker 2: in rugby league ever, but it kind of when that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the back of that poor game against
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  Speaker 2: the Storm last week, might just give the Warriors a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of confidence. Or in christ Church this week
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  Speaker 2: for the anzact day game, so quick, quish turn around,
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  Speaker 2: but the Nights are certainly beatable and hopefully this will
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  Speaker 2: swing the Warriors back into the winning ways.
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  Speaker 1: He is a special game, the Anzact game. Who are
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  Speaker 1: they playing?
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  Speaker 2: News? Yeah, so they've changed it around. So I've got
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  Speaker 2: a home game. It's in christ It sold out weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Should be a pretty special occasions.
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  Speaker 1: Now a lot of super rugby taking place over the weekend. Geez,
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  Speaker 1: my heart bled for Mina Pacifica because they've been playing
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  Speaker 1: so well and with such heart, and it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: great game against it.
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  Speaker 2: It was terrible commentated this game actually, and it was
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  Speaker 2: nil with forty minutes on the clock and it was
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  Speaker 2: five and a half time and then Maida just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get into the game. And they clearly missed Ardie Savia,
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  Speaker 2: which shows how big his impact has been. But also
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  Speaker 2: when he's not in the team he was on rest
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  Speaker 2: on the weekend, how much they still struggle without him,
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  Speaker 2: and they just didn't have it defensively, didn't have it
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  Speaker 2: on attack. And now you know they're on the outside
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  Speaker 2: looking in, as are the Blues, as other Hurricanes trying
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  Speaker 2: to chase these playoff spots and Super Rugby that are
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  Speaker 2: whittling down by the week. It's becoming very very tight
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  Speaker 2: this race, and you can't really afford to drop too
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  Speaker 2: many points and unfortunately for Mowana they did in the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a drewer this weekend back at home at
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  Speaker 2: North Harbor Stadium. That's now really a must win for them,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a lot of ground that sees teams still
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  Speaker 2: have to make up the Force and Hurricanes. They drew
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  Speaker 2: both teams and the playoff mix the Blues obviously losing
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  Speaker 2: to the Crusaders on Good Friday.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a depressing start to Easter.
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  Speaker 2: Well not so much for our Canterbury list as I'm sure,
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  Speaker 2: but for you, yeah obviously. And yeah, look, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's really really tight and in super rugby, which is
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  Speaker 2: what we want going into these last few weeks of
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  Speaker 2: the seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Of course Checks did well against the very.
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  Speaker 2: Good Yeah, came back really well after a pool couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks with have kind of just looked a little
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  Speaker 2: bit off that lost to the Waratas just swept the Highlanders.
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  Speaker 1: I love the way you walk in here without any notes,
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  Speaker 1: but you seem to have the rugby schedule in your
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  Speaker 1: head with the person I know I need to text on. Hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: let's touch briefly on the Formula one. Liam Lawson not
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  Speaker 1: quite in the points yet, but good to see him
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  Speaker 1: sort of steadying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And look, it was such as
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  Speaker 2: shock to the system. I'm sure he would have been
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  Speaker 2: expecting that full season and Red Bull. Now he has
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  Speaker 2: and it's kind of the mindset shift and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to take him a few races to go. Actually, I'm
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  Speaker 2: back in racing bulls. I've got to start from behind
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  Speaker 2: on the grid because that's the nature of you being
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  Speaker 2: in the development team. So look, you top that time
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  Speaker 2: penalty day and then their race they should have been
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  Speaker 2: probably eleventh finished and twelfth. But I don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: think there's some positive signs there the building and maybe
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  Speaker 2: just some time out of the spotlight in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the international spotlight might actually be good for him. Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: he can just you know, now the spotlight's gone and
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  Speaker 2: it's now on Yuki Snoda and everyone else, and the
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  Speaker 2: way the McLaren's going up the top of the grid
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  Speaker 2: and the standings, maybe just some time out of the
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  Speaker 2: spotlight for Liam Wilson might be a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think so too. Just leave him alone and.
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  Speaker 2: It's right doing it as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Elliott, appreciate your time this morning.
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