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Elliott Smith: ZB Rugby Commentator ahead of the Super Rugby Final between the Blues and the Chiefs · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A Super Rugby final time. Of course, Blues face the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs that sold out Eden Park kickoff just after seven.
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  Speaker 1: Eliot Smith's going to be doing the business for us
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  Speaker 1: and he's well this morning to me morning. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever been to our hoo's by the way, happy? No,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't happiest city in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Oh on the list.
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  Speaker 1: City of smiley people. Well you'll be treated. We're excited
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  Speaker 1: about the all black ship, by the way, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think we are. There's a little bit of intrigued. Squad's
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  Speaker 2: out on Monday evening first first name by Scott Robertson.
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  Speaker 2: Intrigue as to how here the shots down the squad?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Scott Robertson thinks. So as far as the physics
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  Speaker 1: is concerned, this weekend it's one of those weird things,
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  Speaker 1: isn't If you're sitting in duneed and you're not really gripped,
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  Speaker 1: are you, because it's Blues and Chiefs and it's but
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  Speaker 1: as a game, it's got potential, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right? And the Chiefs have come out of nowhere
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  Speaker 2: really after the last couple of weeks. They head into
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  Speaker 2: a plow from the fourth but the Blues and Hurricanes
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  Speaker 2: were the story and they were expected to meet in
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  Speaker 2: the final. But the Chiefs have stepped up to not
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  Speaker 2: just one or two levels, but they seem to have
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  Speaker 2: gone up and grown an extra leak to to use
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  Speaker 2: a sporting cliche, over the last couple of weeks. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't look like it during the regular season at all,
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  Speaker 2: but have found their feet swept away the Hurricanes last
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  Speaker 2: week on the Hurricanes home to the Blues have been
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  Speaker 2: one of the form teams or the form team throughout
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  Speaker 2: the entire competition, so it sits up an interesting final.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right, from a neutral perspective in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: yet it'll be a good game, certainly not in an Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Which is the major issue for this comp is that
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  Speaker 2: if you're a Brumbies fan or a Warritas fan, you
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  Speaker 2: lost interest week.
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  Speaker 1: See, there was the story, wasn't The Brumbies sort of
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  Speaker 1: survived but they were not up to much and the
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  Speaker 1: Rebels got booted out and the whole thing's just to
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  Speaker 1: shambles to sell out. By the way, it's a genuine
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  Speaker 1: sellout in genuine interest, which is good because the pictures
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  Speaker 1: I saw last week were shocking, terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was thing. We got twelve thousand max at
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  Speaker 2: the in for that for the Brumby semi final. Look,
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  Speaker 2: the Rumby's on a draw card at the best of times.
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  Speaker 2: The weather was poor. You can make any excuses you want.
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  Speaker 2: Friday night an Auckland, terrible place to try and get
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  Speaker 2: across the city. But for a semi final of what
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  Speaker 2: is supposed to be a prestigious rugby competition, it was
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  Speaker 2: a very very poor crowd. But they've sold at every
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  Speaker 2: ticket they've got going tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: So just so the Chiefs if they win, what is
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  Speaker 3: that an upset A boil over? I think it is
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  Speaker 3: an upset, Okay, from coming and forth from the season.
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  Speaker 3: They lost to the Hurricanes twice, they lost to the Brumbies,
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  Speaker 3: they lost to the Crusaders, they lost to you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Reds as well. So they didn't have a great
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  Speaker 3: regular season.
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  Speaker 2: But they've stepped up when it counts, which probably speaks
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  Speaker 2: to the fact that in this the way the competition
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  Speaker 2: is run at the moment, if you target two weeks
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  Speaker 2: you can probably get away with winning.
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  Speaker 1: It's how you've finished that counts.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the Crusaders and what they did
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  Speaker 2: last year, they were looking a little bit creaking at times,
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  Speaker 2: and then came through at the end, demolished the Blues
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  Speaker 2: in the semi final, beat the Chiefs and home saw.
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  Speaker 2: I suspect the Chiefs might have taken a few listens
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  Speaker 2: out of them.
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  Speaker 1: The two Ploto thing is that as remarkable as they
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  Speaker 1: seem to be making.
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  Speaker 2: You never seen anything like it. Wow, medial ligament. He
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  Speaker 2: out for six to seven weeks, gone from the all Blacks,
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden he comes in on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: does a gym seession, does a field session.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to go see. I had a knee
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  Speaker 1: injury and it's taken months.
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  Speaker 3: And you haven't played super Aby since and I've played No.
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  Speaker 1: I don't played no super ra it all and it
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  Speaker 1: took months to rehabit. So I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: hell he's on. So call it for me. So Blues
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  Speaker 1: by five, all right? So good, tight game, I hope
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  Speaker 1: so and yeah, I think And the forecast whether in
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  Speaker 1: track looks fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: Much better than it has been an Auckland in recent weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So hoping the dry track and that should bring both teams.
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  Speaker 2: There's still all black spots on the liners here that
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  Speaker 2: squads out Monday night, a chance to impress one last time.
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  Speaker 2: But also you know blues dropbracking title first one in
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  Speaker 2: twenty one years. Chiefs having one on one ten And
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  Speaker 2: do you pace yourself for the call yourself? I do, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but you have to retine Mike, you've got on your mate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah go Well, nice to see you. Elliott Smith will
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