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The Muster- Nathan Burdon: Simon Jones And His Winning Week · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster on Hokonui.
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  Speaker 2: It is time to catch up with our resident sporting guru,
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  Speaker 2: Nathan Burden, based in Invercargill.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Nathan. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very good, mate. Yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's a big afternoon happening in Invercargill. The Northern
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  Speaker 2: Southland Trots getting underway. First race, 3.29pm. Paul Hales informed
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  Speaker 2: me this morning. Why do they start a race at
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  Speaker 2: 3.29pm and not 3.30pm?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know other than I guess it'll be some
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  Speaker 4: sort of TV scheduling situation would be my guess.
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  Speaker 2: This All Blacks team's been announced. Very quickly, we'll go
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  Speaker 2: through it. Front row, De Groot, Taylor, Newell, Barrett, Lord, Vai, Lakai, Satiti, Roygard, McKenzie, Carter, Barrett, Tupai, Jordan, Barrett. Reserves, Amoa, Bauer, Tossie, Frizzell, Cegna, Preston,
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  Speaker 2: Ioane and Morby. Interesting regarding Ethan Blackadder. He's a guy
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  Speaker 2: based on his physicality when he's fit. I thought he
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  Speaker 2: would have fitted in there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you like him, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: And I do, you know, he was pretty handy towards
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  Speaker 4: the back end of that South African series. And I
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  Speaker 4: do feel, yeah, it just feels maybe a little bit bitsy,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a little bit unsettled, that loose forward combination that
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  Speaker 4: they've ultimately gone for. And there's another story potentially too with,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, two players who are on the comeback trail
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  Speaker 4: for different reasons or two loose forwards on the bench
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Bowdoin Barrett at 15, interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems to be. I think the drums were
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  Speaker 3: sort of beating for Bowdoin Barrett at number 10, but
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  Speaker 3: that would have been a massive call. Lots of props,
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  Speaker 3: perhaps sort of disappointment with Bowdoin Barrett, obviously very experienced
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  Speaker 3: and a classy player at his best, but we didn't
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  Speaker 3: see him at his best over in South Africa. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he was ever a realistic.
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  Speaker 4: option in terms of being handed the keys for this test.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely the safer option to have Damien McKenzie at 10
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  Speaker 4: and Bowdoin Barrett at 15.
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  Speaker 2: This Australian team, I mean, they beat the Springboks a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Admittedly, it was a totally different
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  Speaker 2: team to what the All Blacks played. But there's always
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  Speaker 2: intrigue going into Bledisloe, and it's like a Renfrewley Shield challenge.
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  Speaker 2: You're always a glimmer of hope going into the series,
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  Speaker 2: bearing in mind they haven't won at Eden Park since 1986.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't had the Bledisloe Cup since, what, 2003, 2002.
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  Speaker 4: I think that weight of history probably weighs more heavily
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  Speaker 4: on the All Blacks team Maybe that's just our black
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  Speaker 4: eye patch that we wear.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it weighs more heavily on the All
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  Speaker 3: Blacks than it does on the Wallabies. You know, those
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  Speaker 3: players in yellow.
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  Speaker 4: Jerseys will be absolutely itching for a chance to make history.
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  Speaker 4: And I think they're more than a glimmer of hope.
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  Speaker 4: The Australians lift to play us in the same way
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  Speaker 4: that we lift to play South Africa. And I think
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  Speaker 4: they're a real chance at Eden Park on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: The Roosters got the business done in the NRL Grand Final,
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  Speaker 2: beating the Knights by a point. Simon Jones, you talked
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  Speaker 2: about this last week, the Stags Connection fitness coach for
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  Speaker 2: the Roosters.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us a bit more about Simon. This is a
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  Speaker 1: good yarn that Sav put out the other day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jones, he's had a real varied career. Started out
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  Speaker 4: as a teacher, but always, I guess, sort of had
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  Speaker 4: ambitions to do something in that strength and conditioning space.
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  Speaker 4: got his start with the Steel and the Stags locally
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  Speaker 4: and then moved overseas had a stint with Japan and
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  Speaker 4: then brought his young family back home to Dunedin at
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  Speaker 4: the Highlanders where he probably would have been for a
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  Speaker 4: stretch of time but then got sort of shoulder tapped
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  Speaker 4: to go and have an opportunity in the NRL and
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  Speaker 4: Jonesy's just a just a really outgoing and ambitious sort
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  Speaker 4: of a bloke and one of those people who just
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  Speaker 4: sort of says yes to an opportunity and it sort
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  Speaker 4: of ended up with him winning an NRL title, which
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  Speaker 4: is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't deny stories like this, can you? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's gone from a vicargo, he's done the work that
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  Speaker 2: he's had to, and it just shows that there is,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's very niche being a trainer, opportunities exist
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  Speaker 2: if you're seen by the right people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, he was always going to, He was always
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  Speaker 3: going to head places. I do remember him back in
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  Speaker 3: the day. He was a New Zealand junior sprinting representative
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  Speaker 3: and then turned his hand to rugby, playing on the
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  Speaker 3: wing for the Blues, but doing the old down-ups and
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  Speaker 3: the sprint practices on a... on a Tuesday night down
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  Speaker 3: at Conant Street with Blues, and he'd be winning them
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  Speaker 3: by about 100 metres. And then he had a go
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  Speaker 3: at cycling, actually, and was a very handy sprint cyclist
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  Speaker 3: on the track as well. Probably could have gone actually
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  Speaker 3: a wee bit further in that sport too. He did
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  Speaker 3: represent New Zealand, but probably could have had a wee
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  Speaker 3: bit more success if he had got on a bike
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  Speaker 3: earlier in his career. So he's a man that can
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  Speaker 3: turn his hand to quite a few different things.
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  Speaker 2: And just finally, Bathurst 1000 on Sunday. This is when
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  Speaker 2: all petrolheads or wannabe petrolheads, they get up there, they
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  Speaker 2: smell that octane and they get into it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a big old day, isn't it? Lots of
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  Speaker 4: parties around south and settle in for the afternoon. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure what the forecast is like. Hopefully a wee
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  Speaker 4: bit brighter than it was last year. Yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 4: a great day out.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it? Good on you, Nath.
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  Speaker 1: We'll carry on. Always appreciate your time on the muster.
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  Speaker 4: Lovely.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, mate.
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  Speaker 2: spring shouts continue this evening. Five o'clock, Brunel Peaks Cafe
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  Speaker 2: at Blackmount and South Otago Town and Country Club in Balclutha.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to the team at Beef and Lamb.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Waimumu, your turn tomorrow at the Waimumu Titipu Hall.
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