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- Chad: It's fun, she's exciting, and it's only three weeks in. Byron: be honest you I'm loving it And results are all over the place. Chad: Yeah, I know. Do you want to go through it? Because I've actually, I've got a bit of a theory or hope. I don't know what it is yet. Byron: Okay, so do you want to do your theory slash hope first or do you want me to just read the results or do you want to go through game by game? Chad: We'll do the results and then I'll tell you why I think what I think. Byron: Okay, so ⁓ the round started off with Force beating Moana. Force were away from home 35-19. ⁓ Force have played three good games, which always surprises me because I have no offense to them, zero to no expectation of them even putting a point on the board when they play. Chad: Yep. I wasn't expecting that. The Heft! you But maybe that's also why, because the expectations are so low that it's really easily met. But they played really well. Byron: Yeah, I mean, even so they lost to the Blues the week before and they lost to the Brumbies for the first week. But they put real points on the board. They put 24 on the board against Brumbies and 32 on the board against the Blues and 35 against Moana. Chad: Yeah. Yeah, blues game was a lot closer than I thought it was going to be. I thought that was going to be a Byron: Yeah, that score, that 10 point difference is not really, no, it was close. ⁓ Reds beating the Highlanders, another, for me personally, a little bit of a surprise because I was very vocal about the New Zealand sides versus the Aussie sides. ⁓ And then to put more icing on the cake, Drew beat the Hurricanes. ⁓ Another New Zealand loss for the week. ⁓ Chad: Yeah. Yep. Wild. Byron: and we try to bring the clip up into this, but that Druer Intercept try was as if someone wrote the script down, they told him what they were going to do, and then he executed it perfectly. He read that game as if he was the one playing on PlayStation. Great Intercept. And then I guess the result that makes you happy, but kind of a little bit of a shock for everybody. Crusaders beating the Chiefs, 43-33. Chad: Yep. Yep, down south. Byron: ⁓ And then to end off the rounds, round three, Brumby's beating the Blues in an 80 minute plus try to end that game off, which was a big shocker as well. if you look at the New Zealand sides, every game they played, they lost basically, Crusaders being the only New Zealand team to pick up a win. And that's because they played another New Zealand side. So there was still a New Zealand loss for that game. Chad: yeah so i knew one one kiwi sad one crazy wild Byron: Crazy. And that's because they're playing another Kiwi side. would assume if they, I don't know, the other teams that were left were kind of, you got four specific. But you never know, you never know what happens. Chad: Yeah. Crazier things have happened. But, which kind of feeds into my theory, if the competition carries on this way, the way we predicted the... well, what we thought was going to be the opening game, but the game against Australia versus New Zealand becomes a little bit... Byron: ⁓ huh. So the second game for Australia and New Zealand in the World Cup. Chad: Yeah, it becomes a bit dicey. Byron: It becomes a bit more plausible. But it's still hard to believe. It's because it's the All Blacks. don't... All Blacks generally, but All Blacks in a World Cup, you never think they're gonna lose. No matter who they play against, how poorly they're playing, how well they're playing, you just don't expect them to lose a World Cup game. Chad: It is. Yes. Yeah. Byron: So, ⁓ it's a scary theory, it kinda holds more hope, I would say at this point. But look, it's one bad week, we're still a year out, blah, blah. Chad: I know. it's, it's, was literally one bad weekend. Here we are. But it's just, it's just for me, it's how close that gap is between the Australian teams and the Kiwi teams. We're like in the last couple of years, it's been, yeah. ⁓ Byron: Yeah, and. Night and day, yeah. Well, so we spoke about the number of crossfield kicks last week and how there were just too many of them. But now if I look at after watching, so the week prior was too many kicks this week, there were significantly less crossfield kicks, but the Blues were passing the ball as if they were doing crossfield kicks. They were doing skip eight. Passes. Chad: I mean, to be fair, the other games, the weather was terrible and the wind was howling and blowing and all that kind of stuff. But that's what I was saying like the week before the Aussie teams are holding the ball in hand more and getting much better results doing it. Byron: Yeah, I mean, Druid did that brilliantly this weekend. They held onto the ball for as long as possible, which if you look at the Fiji national side, and obviously Druid's basically Fiji without their into the players that play overseas. They're known for their flair and their flash, but they held onto the ball this week, even when they weren't making ground, they still kept ball in hand. I think it made a massive difference for them. Chad: Yeah. It's good to see it. I hope the competition carries on in this direction that's going. It's fun. is. I still reckon it's the best competition in the world, especially when it's like these tight closed games. Byron: It's been great.