Ben Hurley

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Mate, it is one of the days to be in Raglan today.

It is absolutely insane.

The sun's just coming up.

The wind's dropped off.

There's bloody hardly anyone down here yet, so you can get a good seat right out front.

It is stellar.

Jeremy Wales.

It's so true.

And he's neither.

I was quite keen to have some pretty solid weather chat with him this morning, but after your rural round-up, Ben, that was... I'd say you're on top there.

Yeah, so we're down to... The women had their semi-final last night, and it was just one of those nights that everyone's performing really well, including the crowd.

Right.

And...

And yeah, so the men have got their, I think it's quarters and semis and down to the final.

The biggest error ever that Manu Vale has had yesterday.

It was a 10 score, yeah.

We were sitting directly behind the photographers and he almost got as high as that rugby ball and hit a plane.