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Riki Flutey: Black Ferns backs and skills coach on the injuries, clash against Japan · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Injury update for the Black Ferns this morning. They crushed
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  Speaker 1: Spain of course forty five eighths. It was the win
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  Speaker 1: to start the week. Next up they take on Japan
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  Speaker 1: at Sandy Park in England. That's one am our time,
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning. Ricky Foti is a Black Ferns Backs and
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  Speaker 1: Skills coach and joins me this morning. Ricky, Good morning, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing you well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Really well? How are your girls doing? How the
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  Speaker 1: injury is looking.
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  Speaker 2: Now? Our ladies are good, mate, As you were seen,
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  Speaker 2: we had a couple of middles throughout the game there
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  Speaker 2: with Kai, Poetia and Dups picking up little injuries. But
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  Speaker 2: they all really need further assessment on their return to
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  Speaker 2: play and they're in great hands of our medical staff.
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  Speaker 2: But we're really confident that they are going to be
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  Speaker 2: available next week actually.
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  Speaker 1: So they'll be there for Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they'll be available for selection, that's what we're hoping.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll get that. We'll get that information the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of days from our medics.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's downplaying the significance of the Japan game. You guys aren't.
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  Speaker 1: What's the what's the challenges there? What are you state,
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  Speaker 1: what are you strategizing focusing.
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  Speaker 2: On No, Hey, just like Spain, really we're not. We're
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  Speaker 2: not taking Japan lightly at all. We're respecting them. You know, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a Rugby World Cup. You know, Japan well
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  Speaker 2: coached and our hard working team. They've got they've got
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  Speaker 2: threats throughout their team. But we're really confident with the
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  Speaker 2: team that we're going with, you know that that that
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  Speaker 2: we can beat this this Japan team. So yeah, they've
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  Speaker 2: got their game from what we've seen, they've got really
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  Speaker 2: good set piece, they've got a good kicking game. They
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  Speaker 2: vary their kicking game. And the other part is they're
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  Speaker 2: one of the top steps around turnover balls, so really
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  Speaker 2: good tacklers and they always looking at turning the ball over.
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  Speaker 2: So a couple of things that we're aware of in
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  Speaker 2: their game. But you know, we're going into this game
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  Speaker 2: more focusing on us and how we needed to improve
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  Speaker 2: off the back of our Spain performance. Spain, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: they showed a lot of heart and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: passion in their game and put us under pressure and
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  Speaker 2: put our skill sets under pressure. So we were a
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  Speaker 2: little bit clunky and our timing was often a lot
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  Speaker 2: of parts of our game and having an area rate
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  Speaker 2: of around twenty two. You know, we're going into this
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  Speaker 2: game making sure that we're a lot more clinical than
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  Speaker 2: our Spain performance.
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  Speaker 1: Ricky, what's the vibe like, what are the crowds like?
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  Speaker 1: What's the atmosphere like? Then?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hey, the Okay, the English have done a fantastic
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  Speaker 2: job and Will Rugby done a fantastic job around promoting
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup here in England. When we're up York
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  Speaker 2: through that whole week leading into our Spain game, just
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  Speaker 2: the city had an awesome vibe around it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of locals all knew that the World Cup
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  Speaker 2: was in you could tell with the energy that was
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  Speaker 2: around the city. And then heading to the game against Spain, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was pretty electrone. The crowd was into
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  Speaker 2: it and that was an awesome, awesome vibe and I
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  Speaker 2: think the girls loved it. And I'm sure as the
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  Speaker 2: Pool games move on and get into the playoffs, that
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  Speaker 2: energy and it is going to be something awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck for this weekend, Ricky.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, Thank you very much, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: That's Ricky Flooty Black Ferns Backs and Skills coach with
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