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Who Wins Tonight? AUS Vs NZ preview · The Shed with Corey Oates, Sam Thaiday and Kip

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  Speaker 1: Over my horizon, she's a slice of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Piece of heaven. Oh, no. Well, I just said Kevin
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  Speaker 2: because Kevin Walters is the coach of the.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the Australian World Cup Rugby League team. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Australian Kangaroosa.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed. So, World Cup kicking off. Australia, New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: tonight now.
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  Speaker 2: Do you actually, just quickly, do you ever play Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister's 13? No.
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  Speaker 1: No, you didn't get a trip up there? No, I
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  Speaker 1: got picked.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, actually, that's always a good thing because it means that...
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  Speaker 2: I always knew that if I was playing in PNG
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  Speaker 2: for the Prime Minister's 13, it means the Broncos went back.
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  Speaker 2: Because again, it used to be the weekend before the
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  Speaker 2: grand final.
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  Speaker 1: I think I got, I could be wrong, but I'm
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: going to go four or five times I got told
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  Speaker 1: by somebody at the club that I got pulled out.
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  Speaker 1: of selections because they wanted me to have surgery or.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, because your body was always failing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Or they didn't want me to go because of my body.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I went, no, yeah, don't worry about it. It's
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  Speaker 1: all good. I'll just never make it. We went up
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  Speaker 1: there one year for a trial match. P & G,
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  Speaker 1: loved it.
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  Speaker 2: It was so much fun, eh?
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  Speaker 1: One of the most eye-opening trips of my life. You know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: never been.
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  Speaker 2: It's different.
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  Speaker 1: It's confronting but humbling after it oh yeah humbling sorry
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  Speaker 1: after it i i think i might have said it
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  Speaker 1: to you kip it's one of the greatest trips i've
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  Speaker 1: ever been on yeah like just understanding um great for
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  Speaker 1: what what the game can mean oh they love you
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  Speaker 1: to people but like.
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  Speaker 3: It's a footy player yeah and.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding that's all it is it's just pure pride happiness
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  Speaker 1: and excitement about you know Something that you live and
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  Speaker 1: breathe for. And it's right there. And I honestly loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still devastated about, there was a piece that someone
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  Speaker 1: handmade for me. It was a Bronco's head out of wood.
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  Speaker 1: You remember it, eh? And you said it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the coolest, unbelievable things you've ever seen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Because we got blind the night before. I forgot it
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  Speaker 1: and I left it at the hotel and rang them
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  Speaker 1: up and they said, no, no, we didn't see it
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  Speaker 1: because it's so good. It was so, yeah, but unreal.
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  Speaker 1: It was, yeah, it was a great trip.
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  Speaker 2: P & G get to host a couple of games
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  Speaker 2: up there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Which is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Which is great, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be great. The crowd will be unreal.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm excited. Australia take on New Zealand Thursday night
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  Speaker 2: to kick off the Rugby League, or tonight, sorry. Tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Kick off the Rugby League World Cup, so. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a tough game for the Aussies as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting. So Australia is favourites, but by a short margin,
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  Speaker 3: you reckon probably the shortest I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's wrong. I don't think it should be
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  Speaker 1: this far apart. I think if I'm, correct me if I'm,
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  Speaker 1: I believe this is the best World Cup we've ever
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  Speaker 1: seen on paper. And if you go by form of
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  Speaker 1: the players in the year and the way it's built
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  Speaker 1: up in the last few years with those international teams,
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  Speaker 1: I can't pick a winner. I can't say the Australians
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  Speaker 1: deserve to be that. that far ahead in the betting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even for this game tonight, I think it
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  Speaker 1: should be.
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  Speaker 3: Would you want to go through?
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  Speaker 2: Let's have a look.
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  Speaker 1: It should be even. It should be even. This game
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  Speaker 1: should be even. It's going to be incredible this game.
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  Speaker 3: So fullback number one, Reece Walsh and Calum Ponga for
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: How good.
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  Speaker 3: So on form, it's probably Ponga, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, before we move on from that, so Reece, he
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  Speaker 3: got the spot in front of James Tedesco, who this year,
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  Speaker 3: you have to say, has had the better season, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Apart from Ponga, I think he's the best fullback in
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  Speaker 1: the game this year.
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  Speaker 2: It tends to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Most influential fullback, too.
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  Speaker 3: He was great in origin.
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  Speaker 1: Apart from Ponga, you put him and Ponga, I reckon,
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  Speaker 1: on par.
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  Speaker 3: So do you feel like, if you're a big Teddy fan,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a Roosters fan, I reckon you'd feel a
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  Speaker 3: little bit ripped that he's not playing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, 100%. He would be feeling pretty ripped too, actually,
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  Speaker 2: in all honesty. Because there's... He's definitely put himself in
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  Speaker 2: a position to be the number one Australian fullback. He
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  Speaker 2: just won a grand final. He was very, very influential...
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 1: For the Roosters.
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  Speaker 3: Man of the match in the grand final.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He was also, you know, done a brilliant job
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  Speaker 2: when he come to New South Wales as well. This series.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Wayne used to say, the great players are always
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  Speaker 1: good in a losing team. Tedesco this year, I can't
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  Speaker 1: say he played a bad game. Like a game where
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  Speaker 1: you go, geez, he didn't do much. Or he could
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  Speaker 1: have done more. Like even in the games they lost
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  Speaker 1: and played bad.
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  Speaker 3: He was good.
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  Speaker 1: He still was good. And he was still influential in
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  Speaker 1: certain areas. And I, you know, Walsh's comments a week
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  Speaker 1: ago about, you know, actually looking forward to being under
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  Speaker 1: Teddy and understanding that he probably wouldn't get picked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think was unreal. I was actually excited to see
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  Speaker 1: what Walsh would do with that.
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  Speaker 2: And learn.
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  Speaker 1: And learn.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke about it, you know, we got another job,
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye. Oh, do you? On radio this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And I said that, for me, Walshie, you know, is
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  Speaker 1: the most talented, skillful, you know, of players in our game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In my eyes, he truly is. But he hasn't nailed
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  Speaker 1: the consistency and performing to his best every week. And
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  Speaker 1: I feel like James Tedesco this year has shown that.
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  Speaker 2: And over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought Walsh could have been like, how do
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  Speaker 1: I do that? How do I get to you? I
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  Speaker 1: want to be that every week and I want to
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  Speaker 1: consistently do it and I want to consistently be the best.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought that it would have been just perfect
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  Speaker 1: for him to be able to do that in this
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  Speaker 1: world car.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the only thing, the only other factor
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  Speaker 2: which we have to factor into this at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day is we don't know how Kevi wants
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  Speaker 2: to play this game.
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  Speaker 1: True.
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  Speaker 2: Whether he wants to play an all-out attack, that's why
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  Speaker 2: you would pick Reece Walsh. Yep. Or if you've got
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  Speaker 2: more of a defensive mindset, you would then go for
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  Speaker 2: a player like Teddy. So what I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: in this game is if that's the way we're going
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  Speaker 2: to play, all-out attack, I want to see Walsh with
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  Speaker 2: his hands on the ball all the time. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see him getting busy.
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  Speaker 1: Confident, not throwing silly passes, holding the ball when it's
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  Speaker 1: not there. We've seen it a little bit this year,
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  Speaker 1: but then you're seeing frustration creep back into him.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I think you want to see a controlled Walshie, but
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  Speaker 1: a controlled Walshie is all out of tact. Yeah. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just not throwing the glory play, understanding it'll come
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  Speaker 1: when it comes.
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  Speaker 3: They're both fullbacks, but they play different positions, hey? Like,
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  Speaker 3: Walshie's sort of out, particularly in attack, Walshie's more out wide,
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  Speaker 3: and Teddy tends to run up the guts. Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Teddy, he hangs around the middles a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the Roosters game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Their forward packs go forward.
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  Speaker 2: Always has been. Always forward packs.
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  Speaker 1: It has been.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a game that Kevi doesn't necessarily know, that
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  Speaker 3: style of play, or why.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think? It's hard to say because when you've
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  Speaker 1: got a team, like if I go, for instance, when
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  Speaker 1: we had Milf, Darbs, and Hunty, depending on where the
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  Speaker 1: ball was, we had enough blokes to support. Manth and
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  Speaker 1: Milford was a great team. support runner. Like, if someone
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  Speaker 1: made a break, he was there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And vice versa. If he was on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: Darbs was there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hunty was there. Cody Nicarima was there.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew McCulloch.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew McCulloch was there for a little bit until he,
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  Speaker 1: until everyone got found in second gear and he was,
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  Speaker 1: he was too slow. But, yeah, like, I think.
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  Speaker 2: On the treadmill. On the treadmill. He had the short legs.
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  Speaker 2: He does.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he ran down it in Joe Wallace and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, He'll let Jared Wallace ever live that down.
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  Speaker 2: Run down Jared Wallace.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not hard.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: But I think, yeah, it's that team they have now.
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  Speaker 1: They've got those roaming dudes. So Walsh, he could probably
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  Speaker 1: be on ball a lot, like, you know, on the swing.
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  Speaker 1: A lot more out the back of shape.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got, I mean, Trebojevich. Yeah, yeah. You've
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  Speaker 1: got Latrell Mitchell. So many guys that can be there
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  Speaker 1: to support him.
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  Speaker 3: Is it as simple as just that he knows, that
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  Speaker 3: Kevi knows Walshie, and so he knows how he's going
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  Speaker 3: to play, and he doesn't really know Tedesco's game?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it helps if you've got that relationship to start
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  Speaker 2: off with, yeah. 100%. So, yeah, Kevi can sit him
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  Speaker 2: down and go, mate, this is how we want to play.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I need you to do. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully that conversation's already been had because... Yeah, it's game
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  Speaker 2: time tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like we spoke about it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's game. You know, how you want to play the game,
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  Speaker 1: your game plan, and knowing what Walshie brings. But also,
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  Speaker 1: we never know. Like, is Sadesco got a little niggle
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  Speaker 1: that he's like, look, I'm not 100%, I'm 95%. And
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  Speaker 1: KV's be like, you know, well, I want a 100% team.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you another week. We have no idea because
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  Speaker 1: not all that stuff comes out in a World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough game to start off your World Cup
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  Speaker 2: campaign at the end of the day. New Zealand are
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  Speaker 2: a great, great team. They've got a lot of form players.
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  Speaker 2: I think you've got players in there like Dane Gagai
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  Speaker 2: who went through to the grand final. Callum Ponga through
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  Speaker 2: to the grand final. The Warriors went deep into the finals.
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  Speaker 1: Their bench has got enough... The Roosters are starting pro.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a few forwards that played in the grand
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  Speaker 2: final as well. So, yeah, they've got some form teams. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it could be a case of we want
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  Speaker 2: to be peaking in the come finals time. Or do
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: you want to peak now in the first game?
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  Speaker 1: If they hold the ball... tight, like, you know, control
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  Speaker 1: the game, it could be nil-all.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that's why Moses has been picked in
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  Speaker 2: the halves because he's got such a great kicking game. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if the Kiwis front load their energy and
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  Speaker 2: really get stuck into the forwards of the Aussie boys,
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  Speaker 2: there's still that great opportunity. I think Moses was.
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  Speaker 2: Looked over as one of the better players within the
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  Speaker 2: New South Wales team this year.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's been great in the last few years.
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  Speaker 2: He kicked them out of trouble so many times. And
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, that's such a great big asset. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people moving down the team list, talking about
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: Sammy Walker not being in the team. I think what
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  Speaker 2: Sammy Walker brings is absolutely fantastic, but very, very different
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  Speaker 2: to what... Mitchell Moses brings. Also, I think that Mitch
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  Speaker 2: Moses compliments Munster in the sense that Munster doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: the long, long kicking game anymore. He can do some
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  Speaker 2: nice little attacking dinks.
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  Speaker 1: He can do some awful dinks too.
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  Speaker 2: He can do some more. I've seen some more. There's
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  Speaker 2: been some dink shanks in there. But, yeah, the more
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  Speaker 2: I kind of sit back and have a look at
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  Speaker 2: the team a little bit more, try to break it down,
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  Speaker 2: I still would have liked to have seen maybe– uh,
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  Speaker 2: a winger, winger in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. You've got Jack Bostock who's playing on the wing.
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  Speaker 3: Should we go through the other matchups? So Bostock on
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  Speaker 3: the wing for Australia taking on, and Asako. So you've
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  Speaker 3: got the Dolphins wingers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's a center and a winger.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But he did play a fair bit of wing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But he's played the whole season this year.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think that's who I'd be going at.
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  Speaker 1: Like you can find him out.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Um, Latrell Gagai, that's the other matchup there. So Gagai
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  Speaker 3: playing for New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good matchup.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good matchup.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen it. We saw it in the first round
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  Speaker 1: of the semis, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Staggs for Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Great matchup.
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  Speaker 3: McLean, Casey McLean.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great matchup. I think they've been, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually surprised because Casey's been carrying a hand
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: injury throughout.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a hand, is it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the end of the season. And, like, he's had
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  Speaker 2: it pretty heavily strapped. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Just needle it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See what happens. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Just numb it up.
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  Speaker 2: Just numb it up. Just numb the pain.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and speaking of non-wingers, you've got Travojevic for Australia
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  Speaker 3: in the number five and Moolatalo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which I think what will happen there, I believe
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  Speaker 2: that he'll play more of a roaming winger. So he
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: might play out the back of a bit of shape.
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  Speaker 1: It's defensively for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, it's a decision, you know, a split decision. Whether
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  Speaker 1: they have a, you know, a certain uh movement where
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  Speaker 1: they don't have it like it stays the same yeah
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  Speaker 1: no matter what you don't make decisions we're up and
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  Speaker 1: out like.
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  Speaker 2: Whether they're up or out or we're up and in yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's that all changes when if things go different
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  Speaker 1: uh if things go wrong it gets if the ball's
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  Speaker 1: in play for a long time tired like that's my
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: part where i'm like you need swingers like so i
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  Speaker 1: do agree like i'm a bit worried about yeah really.
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  Speaker 2: Good though defensive um diffusers on the wing they're unreal
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  Speaker 2: they're great so you've got Jack Bostock on one side
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  Speaker 2: and Turbo on the other you've got Ronaldo Molotalo who's
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  Speaker 2: brilliant in the air Jermaine not so much from the
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  Speaker 2: you know cross field side of things but he's a.
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  Speaker 1: Great try scorer he can still get involved he can
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  Speaker 1: still get his body in.
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  Speaker 2: The way but those two tall guys on the wing
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  Speaker 2: you know are bomb diffusers.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day how do you feel
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  Speaker 3: as a winger Corey though that they picked Nong Wing
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  Speaker 3: do you feel like is it like saying anyone can.
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  Speaker 2: Do it yeah pretty much pretty much yeah Anyone can
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  Speaker 2: play wing. You just gotta hang out there.
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  Speaker 1: Just, yeah. Anyone can play back row too. Just gotta
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  Speaker 1: make it.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta what? You couldn't make it in the back row.
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  Speaker 2: I played, mate. I played.
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  Speaker 1: Don't even start.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a starting number on your back row?
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  Speaker 1: I did, actually. Yes. Mate, I scored two tries against
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  Speaker 1: Tigers in my second season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: No, I started hole 80. Even 30 minutes in, I
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: was looking at Wayne going, sometimes. I scored and just
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  Speaker 1: take me off. Damn. We won that game.
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  Speaker 2: I scored two tries.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard. Suck it.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard, see?
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  Speaker 1: You played wing?
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  Speaker 2: I played 30 minutes. I'm looking to get off.
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  Speaker 1: I played 80, mate. I tried to go off. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, see?
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  Speaker 1: You didn't play a wing.
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  Speaker 3: Jerome Hughes is halfback for the Kiwis. He's had a
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: pretty quiet year with the Storm. I mean, he's been injured.
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  Speaker 1: I still think he's been good, though.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: No, he has been great, yeah. The Storm have just
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: been feeling their way through the whole season.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: It's been a tough season for them. Yeah.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: It's so many years.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: But I look at the Australian team and I'm going
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: to say that the Australian team has had way more
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: injuries this year than the New Zealand team.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Like a lot of.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Players in the Australian team have been out for long stints.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of players out for a long time.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jerome's one of them for Kiwis.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: But the Kiwis, there's not many.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: If any. I don't know anybody. I like what you
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: did there. A bit of scribe.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Very good.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Check, check.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: And Cam Munster, so the other Melbourne half, Cam Munster
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: for Australia and Cody Nicarima, who's had a great year.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Codes has had one
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: probably the season of his career.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: On form, you'd pick Cody this year.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: What about his last kind of, I'm just thinking, like
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: his last... Four seasons have been absolutely brilliant. He was
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: on the scrap heap at one stage.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: He was a big fella.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: He jumped on the dolphins and then that combination he
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: had with Izzy Cattell was brilliant. Now he's signed a
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: really lucrative deal with the Dragons. Cash. Good on him.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: He's finished off on a high with some cash. That's
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: what you need to do. He's had a great year.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Long career.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: I hope that success follows him into this Kiwis team
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: as well. So he'll be great. Jerome will run things,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: and he'll play that same type of role, which he
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: does with Izzy Cattell.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: All right, let's have a look at the pack. So
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Paddy Carrigan for Australia, Fisher Harris for New Zealand. Fisher
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Harris had a great year.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: The Nines is a good little match-up, actually.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't argue there.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Harry Grant and Jeremy Marshall King.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: That's cool. Another Dolphin, too. The Dolphins are well-represented.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Aren't they?
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: They've had a good season.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: They've had a great year.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Then Big Tino for Australia and Moses Liotta.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Yep, great matchup.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: That's pretty even money for how they're both going.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Jacob Preston.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Preston and Papa Lee for Ozawa Papa Lee.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Onyaponga and Liotta are going to go.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: That would have been great going into camp.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you reckon Ponga's got one over him?
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: That was the hit from Ponga on Liotta, wasn't it?
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hopefully Liotta, I reckon.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I think Liotta would respect it because it was a
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: good hit.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Day one of camp, like at least.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: It would have been a good laugh. Yeah.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Carried his bag up to his room and that's it.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: 100%. Or it would have been in defense. Everyone would
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: have been like, you two, you're going, let's go. And
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: probably Liotta would have got one over him.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Ponga's strong. I'll give him that.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: You know why?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Because there's a bit of ginger in his hair.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: He does have a little bit of ginger.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: He does.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: And number 12, Liam Martin and Nick Ara.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: That's a solid match-up. I like them. They're great back rowers. Competitive.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Long minutes is important too. And they all run great lines.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: That is the exciting part. They all run a hard,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: tight line as a back rower. And I think... We
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: need more of it. It's so good.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: And the Lox Tarponay for New Zealand and Yo.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great matchup. This game is even. How
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the bookies have got this so far away apart is
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: just amazing.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: What about Nafahu White?
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I know, that's what I mean.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: He was the best front rower this season, I believe.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: He's on the bench. Yeah, he can't even make the
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: starting team. And it just shows you how good their
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: team is.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Well, the World Cup is, to be honest. It's so exciting.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I actually can't wait.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually went up to Nafahu after the grand
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: final and said, mate, you had a cracking year. You're
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: one of my favourite front rowers.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: He was. I loved him.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Even last year. And just to see his development too
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: because there was a stage there where he was struggling
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: to even get a start. He was coming off the bench.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: He was playing, you know, like 30 minutes.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Am I right in saying back in the last year
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: he started and then I don't think he lost his spot?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I kept saying, this guy.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Where's he come from?
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Where's this guy come from?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Jamaica. I'm serious, though.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Like, the power, the skill, you know, the fitness. Like,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: he's a weapon.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And one of the only Broncos to make
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: it is Willison, who's playing on the bench. Again, like,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: our best.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Player of the year. Yeah. And I think he's up
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: there with one of the best front rowers all year. Yeah. Yeah, north-south, bro.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: North-south all day. But the teams, to me, I just
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: think they're so even.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a cracking game anyway. Great game
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: to start. Really looking forward to it. And a great
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: way to kick off the Rugby League World Cup.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: If you were going to have a punt, what do
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: you think? Big score and.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Who's going to win?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Nah. I don't know if it'll be a big score.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I'm really unsure.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I can't pick a winner.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't pick a winner. I would pick some
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: try scorers maybe.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Should we make a multi?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: For the game.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Shall we make a multi for the.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, why not?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: All right, so any time try a score a multi.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yep. A quarter.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, nice.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: You're down Britain. I like that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Okay. I think Jacob Preston on debut for Australia. He's
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: a try scorer. I think he's in good form. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: like Jacob.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be backrollers and backrollers we could always
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: be picking the only three and actually you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Know where he um what he does really well actually
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: he scores a lot of tries off um short grubbers
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: and mitch moses is and monsters they're both brewing in
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: at that yeah so it's that it's that up and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: in defense in your face defense yep and then it's
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: a kick in in behind so It's, you know, try
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: to get Cal and Ponga to go on the blind side.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually, yeah, it's a game where I don't
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: think I've seen it like this for so long where,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: where is it going to come from? Yeah. Like, yeah.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with the traditional try score in Bostock. Bostock? Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So what side has he played? Right?
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Well, he has been playing on the right side, yeah,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: because Herbie was playing left centre all year. So, yeah,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: he's been playing right.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So that's up against Ronaldo, right?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Ronaldo is a.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Left. He's a left.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Is he?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's a left.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: So Bostock v. Ronaldo?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Is that what you're thinking? I'm thinking.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: That should be good in the air. That'll be interesting.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Bostock will play.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. No idea. I haven't watched him train or anything.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Me neither. I forgot it was coming up.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: That, by the way, those three, Preston, Nakora and Bostock
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: is paying $ 35.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nice.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: That's a nice little multi there.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And who are you going? And Bostock.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Okay.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: We'll gamble responsibly and enjoy that. Six bucks gets you 200.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: So just think about that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Gamble responsibly though.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. Responsibly, yes. And tomorrow we'll run through
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: all the other teams that are playing across the next
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: few days because World Cup is here.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Rugby League. On Channel 7. What? What?