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Speaker 1: Jason pine Is with US Spooks Talk host a seven

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Speaker 1: pm tonight on News Talk, said, B Jason, Good, afternoon, giddy, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Should Tim Sauvey play in

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Speaker 1: the Test in Hamilton? What do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: What a very good question. What a very good question,

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Speaker 2: one which I know a lot of cricket fans will

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Speaker 2: be pontificating about across the weak ahead. Look, I think

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Speaker 2: it all comes down to whether you favor sentiment or

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Speaker 2: whether you favor selecting the best side to win a

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Speaker 2: game of game of cricket, because I think the first

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Speaker 2: tests are the first two tests of shyness. That Tim

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Speaker 2: Soudy is not in the best form of his career. Unfortunately.

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Speaker 2: What's happened with the signaling of this as his farewell

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Speaker 2: valedictory tour just about is that I'm almost certain Ryan,

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Speaker 2: they'll play him in Hamilton. Really, I'm almost.

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Speaker 1: Certain that they will.

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Speaker 2: I think so. I think so. And to be fair,

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Speaker 2: you say, okay, well they're two nil down, they can't

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Speaker 2: win the series. They can only lose three nils. So

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Speaker 2: maybe it doesn't matter, But actually it does matter. You

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Speaker 2: don't just give away test caps to people I know. Look,

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Speaker 2: I feel a little bit. I wouldn't say sorry for

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Speaker 2: Tim Soude, but he's had a absolutely outstanding career, has

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Speaker 2: been one of our best all format cricketers for well

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Speaker 2: over a decade and a half and I just worry

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Speaker 2: about legacy being tarnished a bit by what's happening here

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Speaker 2: at the end. You think back a year, Neil Wagner

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Speaker 2: was never given the given the you know, the privilege

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Speaker 2: of having a fair well. He was basically told in

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Speaker 2: no uncertain terms that he needed to retire, whereas Tim

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Speaker 2: Soudi has been given this, this final tour where it

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Speaker 2: seems to be written in the stars that will play

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Speaker 2: an all three Test matches regardless of conditions or match situation.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, look, I'm almost willing to bet my house

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Speaker 2: on the fact that Tim Soudi will play this final

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Speaker 2: Test in Hamilton. Whether you agree with that or not,

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Speaker 2: I guess it's a different story.

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Speaker 1: Plus, there's got to be lots of other young ones

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Speaker 1: coming through that could do with the opportunity is that

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Speaker 1: you would have thought as a young one coming through.

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Speaker 2: You are on the Drive show, you know these opportunities

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Speaker 2: have to be handed out, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, Jason Howe Auckland. You see got so good so fast.

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Speaker 2: I love this. I love this story and I love

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Speaker 2: it as much off the field as on the field.

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Speaker 2: It was lucky enough to be at go Media Stadium

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Speaker 2: on Saturday to witness the derby and look Auckland FC

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Speaker 2: played six one six. I mean, you can't do much

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Speaker 2: better than that. Just incredible from them, and I think

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Speaker 2: it's down to shrewd investment and really engendering a passion

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Speaker 2: in these players. But off the field, twenty six thousand

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Speaker 2: turning up. They had the same number in their opening game.

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Speaker 2: I saw a stat today, Ryan. In four home games,

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Speaker 2: Auckland FC have got a bigger cumulative crowd than the

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Speaker 2: entire two season life of the New Zealand Knights twenty

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Speaker 2: one home games in two thousand and five, six and seven.

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Speaker 2: Across those twenty one games, Auckland f C have already

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Speaker 2: beaten that cumulative total in just four home matches.

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Speaker 1: Incredible, it is incredible. Jason, thank you for that. I

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Speaker 1: love to talk to you. That is Jason Pines's sports

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