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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
EDB coming up thirteen past two massive occasion in coming
at a sold out Mount Smart Stadium tonight in NRL
Round fifteen action, the Warriors looking for a fourth straight
victory up against the top of the table Melbourne Storm.
Warriors second rower Jackson Ford is one of only two
players to start every game for the Warriors this season, Tod's.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And on the left the signe.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Jackson gone.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Over for the Warriors yep.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Fourteen starts from fourteen games for Jackson Ford this season.
The other player to start every game, Mitch Barnett. Jackson,
thanks for taking the time for a chat. What has
been different these last three games with with three straight
victories for the Warriors, Not.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Real sure to be honest, We've had a the game
against penwith we had a bit of a you know,
a few injuries in that. I think the Boosters sort
of thoughts now whenever you know, we're sort of slipping
down the end of the table. We've got a fair
bit to play for each week, but I think there
are some games they'll sort of must wins for us.
But there's definitely a lot of confidence now in the Boys,
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and hopefully we can start to get a roll on
over these next few weeks and start to, yeah, just
climb that table.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Last weekend's went over the Cowboys. What forty two twelve
felt like a real statement that the Warriors are back
on track? Is that how it felt internally?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, in a way like I feel like our attacks
sort of coming back and our defense is coming back.
I feel like you're sort of starting to see how
we can play now. I think we've could have been
in a bit of a slumpet. I know we can
definitely play, you know, that nice attacking, sorder and defensive game.
And we're just trying to improve each week and it's
good to see that we're getting some.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Results as a team.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
How did you handle the challenges of going five straight
games without a win from mid April into mid May.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, it's tough, like when you're in that sort of slut,
but you don't know, you don't sort of know exactly
why you're sort of losing, and you know, he's got
to sort of just keep coming into training after a
loss and sort of just looking forward to that next win.
But when you don't get that next win, you've got
to come in again, and you know you're battered and
Brews and you know, we had plenty of injuries after
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each game, but we you know, you just got to
keep getting in there, ripping in and just sort of
believing that we're going to turn it around.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, it certainly has come right last weekend. You move
from the second row into prop. Does that change much?
You know as far as the specific challenges or requirements
of that role are concerned.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, I felt like I was pretty comfortable with getting
comfortable with that back row spot. But now you know,
there's some sort of different parts in the game that
I've got to sort of focus on. Like it's just
I don't know, in a way, it sort of it
becomes a bit more energy efficient, Like when you're you know,
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in that spot, like when you're not thinking clear and
like you don't really know what like you're in different positions,
it sort of takes it out of you a bit.
But just the main thing just is tackle and keep
running hard in the in the middle, it's just a
sort of washing machine, as they say, like you just
trying to win every tackle and there's a lot of
tackles in there, so just got to sort of keep going.
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But yeah, I've been liking it. It's been been fun
and it's good to see we've been getting some wins,
so it's been good.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Good stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Those collision areas. It must take something pretty strong mentally
to want to, you know, tackle after tackle, game after
game go into those collision areas. Is that something that
you've developed over your career or have you always had it?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I don't know, a bit of both, probably, Like it's
it's definitely pretty tough, Like I can't say definitely like
I haven't worked for a buck. I don't know. It's
not of it is tough. I guess you've got to
win the first couple, or if you don't win the
first ones and they get some quick play the balls,
you're going to be struggling to get the next two.
So I guess you got to win those first couple
and they give away six agains.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Is it mental? And is it mental? In many ways?
You know, actually wanting to put your body on the
line like that.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, if you're if you've got some injuries and like
you know, you got a source, you know, arm or
something like a sternhum or something like that, and you're
not fully prepared to put your body on the line,
you're definitely not gonna you're gonna show it out there,
and I think you've got to come each week mentually
ready to put your body on the line. To the boys.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Sean Johnson back tonight, how does that change the shape
of the team, particularly on a tack.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
He'll provide a lot for us. He's got a good
king game. He's keen asked to get back in there,
and I'm sure he's watching from the sidelines training heart.
So it won't change much. We sort of we sort
of keep it our sort of game pan somebody will
still be there. So he's been doing the shipp around
pretty well, like he's very well. Actually, he's been unreal
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for us while Sean's been away. So it's good to
have both of them now and hopefully they're both informed
and playing off each other nicely.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, you're right about to Mighty Martin and everyone's been
just some priest with with how he's gone and that
Steven Jumper. I guess internally you would have known how
good he was. But but has it been in any
way a pleasant surprise that he's stepped up in Sean's absence.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah, he's an unreal trainer and like he you know,
he's put a lot of work into his game over
the last two years, so he's he's definitely deserved the
of what he's gotten in that middle row where he
gets to touch the ball a lot more. He's definitely
succeeded and he's been done it. It's good to see.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And your second season at the Warriors, obviously you've played
more games in those two seasons and I'm only been
halfway through this one. Then you did in all four
of your years at Saint George. Wherever the big growth
theory is come in your game that have led to
you becoming a regular starter at the Warriors.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Sort of just moved over here for an opportunity. I know,
I had to knuckle down. Like to be honest, there
not many teams wanted me after the Saint George, but
where he gave me an opportunity, and I just knew
that it was sort of my time to you know,
like it was my time. If I wanted to be
an a player, I've got to train hard and I
come over here to knuckle down and maybe he sort
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of has to look back and he's been started me
and I've been you know, I haven't been very grateful
for every every week I.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Get why don't you think?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Do you really think not many other teams were that
keen on you?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh yeah, I was not really Like I didn't play
very many games at all, Like, and I was just
coming off the bench, man playing twenty minutes and men
manager had a girl, chatt and we didn't have much coming.
So I just sort of thought best thing for my
career would be to head over Zan and just slowly
focused on football.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And you've tuned up here and you've hardly missed a game,
so it's obviously being the right decision.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, it's really good decision.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Absolutely. The Storm, the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Can't get away from the fact the Warriors haven't beaten
the Storm for quite a long time.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Why are they so difficult to overcome?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
They're just a great team. They've been great for the
last century sort of thing, like, they're just a really
good team. They got their big forwards and they've got
their speedmen out at the back that fights everything. I
don't know, just their team culture always everyone knows the
sort of talks about that. I guess, so they're just
a yeah, they're a really good team and they don't
lose many games.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I think back to round two, you you know, it
looked like you were going to break that long standing duck.
How much did that last minute loss with Xavier Coach
scoring that outrageous try at the end, how much of
that on that night?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
That was a hard one. That was a hard one
to swallow. I think everyone sort of always hard to
you know, you can't do that. You don't think you're
going to win the game with you know, ten minutes
to go. You've got to keep keep going. And we
sort of fell asleep a little bit there. And but
there were some freakish tries there, like we did. We
tried our best, but you just sort of give it
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to the team as well, like they they probably you
come up with some really good players there that got
them to win in the end.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And yeah, and another massive crowd coming tonight, sold out
again and hardly surprising with a with a contest of
this magnitude that must be really cool. Is it when
you're driving to the game and you see fans sort
of getting ready to get there and sort of loading up,
getting themselves ready. Is that kind of add a little
bit of extra energy to you as you as you
know you're going to have these pack stands again tonight.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, it's a massive. Home games are massive for us.
That's Mart's always. I think they've sold out for the
next three leaks or the next to your home games,
which is crazy. And I don't think we've played there
that hasn't been sold out for the last my whole
pretty much my whole career. Yeah, the Warriors, Yeah, it's
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good to drive in, see all the jerseys, all the
flags going around. It's a going to be like a
night one, so it's going to be nice and dark hopefully,
and know how they light up there as they come
out of the shed there. It's an unreal feeling. And
can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, we can't wait either, Jackson, great to chat. You
made all the Beast against the storm tonight. Really appreciate
you're taking the time for a chat.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
No cheers, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
No, I appreciate your time, Jackson, Jackson Ford. Then out
of the Warriors seven thirty tonight. Good to know that
for sports viewers who enjoy their rugby and their rugby league,
no clash Super Rugby semi Final four to thirty Warriors
at seven thirty. If this Super Rugby semi final happens
to be level after eighty minutes, they go into golden point. Sorry,
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they go into extra time and then golden point extra time,
and then if it's still level after that, so there's
ten minutes of there's ten minutes of extra time. If
it's still level, they play up to ten minutes of
golden point extra time, so the first team to score
a try or a drop goal or a penalty wins.
If it's still level after that, they go to they
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go to the shots at goal. Five players have to
have a shot at goal from along the twenty two.
They line one up basically in the middle and then
off to the side and then out on the sideline,
and five players have to kick at goal. It's like
a penalty shootout. I don't think i've ever seen one.
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I know they've happened, I've seen online footage. I'm not
suggesting that's what we're after tonight, but that is the
way they separate the teams in the Super Rugby semi
if they are level at the end, extra time for
ten minutes, golden point extra time and then the shots
at goal shootout. But they want to call it New
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Zealander five without lost coming towards the end of the
first over chasing forty one to beat Uganda at the
T twenty World Cup. On email from Leon, always enjoy
your correspondence, Leon Piney. The idea of holding an origin
game in Auckland could be lucrative, but the biggest herd
life feel will be its midweek and the finishing time.
Most in attendance would have work and school the next day,
so arriving home between one and two in the morning
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would be a big obstacle. Also, in the NBA Finals,
I picked, says Leon Boston and six it looks like
Dallas will save some face today, but in saying that
it'll most likely wrap early next week in Game five,
the Celtics will be happy to return home and win
it all in front of their home fans. And what
is known as a gentleman's sweep, that's when you win
four to one. Here's a crazy stat says Lee on
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History Shows that teams leading three games to nil are
one hundred and fifty six. And oh and I can't
see that Celtics changing that this series finally go your
Hurricanes tonight and what should be a close and brutal contest.
It'd be nice to see the Canes host the final
after a very consistent season. Well I agree with that, Leon,
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but then I'm very biased when it comes to the Hurricanes.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
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