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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talks. It'd be.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thirteen minutes to eight. Worries, aren't that far away from
getting there? Giggle one around about thirteen minutes before kickoff.
He's training up, he's warming up. His name is Tanner
stours at Smith. That caught up with him last night
to talk about him and this game. Good evening, mate,
you're well, you're looking forward to it. It's huge game
(00:35):
for your ow. It's you can hardly underestimate the import
of this next fixture, and I'm presuming that's been loaded
on all of you guys by the coaching staff, the
senior members of the tea. You got to turn this around,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Sort of trying to get any differently,
but yeah, it is a big one for us and
we need to get this one to get the ship
back back on track. So yeah, looking forward to at
least what have.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You been looking toward? Where are your improvements, what of
the coaching start being working with what you can contribute
from the bench.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I haven't really talked about that sort of stuff. It's
more just playing my own game really, not trying to
be someone else or be a player that I'm not.
You know, I want to stick to my game. That's
what's got me there. So just trying to give give
my ole every week off the bench and work as
hard as I possibly can.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You've played quite a few games now, haven't you. It's
been a long time coming, but you've You've hit the
ground quite a lot with the nature of injuries. How
do you think you're fitting in I suppose to the NRL,
to the top level.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No, yeah, pretty good. I think having sort of a
lot of really good role models has set me out
quite well. Like I'm looking up sufficient which mine and
that sort of stuff. It's been a bit easier to
sort of know my role was the middle and have
(02:03):
clarity around what we want to do and how we
the play its. It's definitely good having those two boys
in front of me that that sort of guide me
and mental me. So yeah, how much of.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Things changed for you since you debuted? When did you
first play back in May? I think it was. How's
your development been since then? What's been the progression now
that you've played first grade?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It's been Yeah, I can't really remember when when that
game was very but no, it was, it's it's been
a it feels like it's been a long long year.
But I think just more the building confidence sort of
side to it, more the mental game. I think physically
it's it's it's all good. Just sort of learning the
little details around my role as a as a as
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a fun roll and that sort of stuff, and just
learning as we keep progressing through the through the games,
but sort of just get more the confidence piece and
getting more games and minutes helped the lungs out and
help the brain out.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So yeah, representing or to take christ Church which is
good to see some Mainlanders turn up to towars Land.
Have you been next in Auckland City.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm not too sure you do, probably not bro but
always be three at a heart, So make sure I proudly,
proudly represent that place.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Tell us about your style of play, about what you
like to implement, what you like to put down. There's
a lot of runs straight over top of your props,
which is all well and good, like we had adding
Fanilla Blake, who's a little more of a twin caled
toad player. So how would you describe yourself playing in
that brutal possision Tanner.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think I think it's a bit max. Really it's
sort of hardcome off the bench and trying to make
an impact. When I think my game Wi Roll was
around working really hard, Like that's sort of what I
want to prove myself on, is getting out there and
moving fast and being in everything, you know, sort of
having a very high work rate, especially defensive root That's
something that I sort of pride my game on instead
(03:58):
of being sort of a spencer ling use off the
bench that just come and to the game open. It's
it's more of a process for me and to be
able to go out there and leave nothing, leave no
gas in the tank.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Really, the whole group, the Warriors group. We talked earlier
in the year Andrew Webster around the ability to slot
and when you have injury, because that's inevitable in the NRL,
and we've seen that over the last a few weeks
and a lot of you young guys have had to
stand up and approve yourselves as player at a first
grade level. Appears to be working so far, you guys
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as a group, the likes of your your eddies and
your dimitrics and like its first grade full stop. But
how's your relationship around what you are actually bringing to
the Warriors as young players, as next generation players.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We all have a different sort of talents, like obviously
Liqua and what you can do in dimetric Jacob Eddie
now it's just debuted like everyone sort of has their
own sort of talents that they bring and attributes that
they bring into the team. So it's pretty cool to
be able to or most of the time all of
us the on the field at the same time and
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show everyone that that sort of next up mentality is
working here. And it just shows the quality of the
squad and the young boys always being ready and we'll
be backing our abilities. So it's pretty cool to be
able to step forward, you know, young boys fellow young
boys and do a good job.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Is it worth going back to what happened last week
or did you just flush that and move on?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You've got to wed you know, quite intense review about
it and iron some stuff out doesn't really help. Yeah,
when the weather obviously and the key playmakers sort of
webbing's mighty going down early, But there's there's no excuses
and no one's sort of blaming anyone, you know besides ourselves,
and where we need to be better, So it's more
(05:52):
of a flush. Get through that flushed and get to
focus on this week.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Really, where do you think, future wise your improvements need
to be? If you've been super hard on yourself, where
do you need to lift?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I guess I can improve like a lot diferent ways
attack and defense. I think as a front row, you know,
you gotta run for big meters and that sort of stuff,
and that's that's the game nowadays. So I think trying
to get sort of my I work right, I'm a
bit higher and that sort of thing, like trying to
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a lot of a lot more minutes to my game
and sort of the meters to help my squad and
the tackles you know, you see binding that running for
one hundred and eighty meters and jackling forty times. So
that's that sort of stuff is where I want to
get my game.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And growing up, was there a prop that you looked towards?
Did you have like a guy who you wanted to
immolate and time poster maybe on the wall.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So Mannering really that was yeah? He was. He was
the guy that even still now like what he can
do for a team and the way he got around
the park sort of. It's some match. So he was
definitely as a young kid looking up and that sort
of dinnis the era of the Warriors when they were successful.
He was a big part of that and he's definitely
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want to look up to and I want to emulate
my game around.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, let's hope you can end up with your face
in the corridor at Mount Smart when you pick up
a Simon Mannering Metal. We'd like to think so, Tanna
Stoururs Smith, thanks so much for joining us. I wish
you the best. Get in there, get busy and remember
the hit and spin is a super old school move
and you should carry on with that for as long
(07:37):
as you play. And don't forget fall on your front. Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
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