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Speaker 1: Now good times though for christ this weekend. Not only

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Speaker 1: those census stats we gave you this week, but they

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Speaker 1: got the Super Rugby playoffs. Of course, Crusaders, Blues, Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and Brumbies have to go at it in the tron.

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Speaker 1: But Colin Mainsbridge is the Crusader CEO, of course, and

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Speaker 1: he's back with us. Is Friday morning, Colin Morning Modern

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Speaker 1: of Mike.

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Speaker 2: How are you making very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed? Is there a vibe about town? We got a

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Speaker 1: bit of a build up to.

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Speaker 2: This, there's a bit of a build up. I think

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Speaker 2: Mayor Wayne Brown's pop down to banter off with Phil

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Speaker 2: Major and I've had Andrew Hohr in my all week

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Speaker 2: chirping away. He's worse than Rico and so yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: plenty of tension around town, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: What's your view of Super Rugby. Did the Australians come

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Speaker 1: to the party. I mean, I know the Brumbi's are

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Speaker 1: there and all that, but the Australians sort of hold

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Speaker 1: up their end of the bargain this year or not?

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Speaker 2: I think they did the challenges. You've got to stick

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Speaker 2: with these things for a wee while it's very you know,

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Speaker 2: minor PACIFICA is sort of the exception where you put

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Speaker 2: a bunch of athletes together and then they performed, you know,

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Speaker 2: within a couple of years, they're performing at the top

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Speaker 2: of the game. Generally, you have to build these things

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Speaker 2: over a longer period of time, and I think the

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Speaker 2: likes of the Reds and the Brumbies in particular and

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Speaker 2: the Force have been quietly chipping away at it for

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Speaker 2: a while that these things don't happen quickly. They take

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Speaker 2: a little bit of time.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of the lucky loser idea?

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Speaker 2: I think it's a bit unfeatical. The Chiefs are lucky loser.

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Speaker 2: I mean they've been pretty outstanding all year, so and

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Speaker 2: that game, I mean that's especially isn't it When you

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Speaker 2: go to that extra extra period in another format, they

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Speaker 2: you know they'd have qualified one and potentially got through

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Speaker 2: and not had to play that week. So so I

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Speaker 2: think it's sort of had you never knew what was

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Speaker 2: going to happen until the very end, despite everyone suggesting

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Speaker 2: it was because we're going to be We've had no

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Speaker 2: dead rubbis. So yeah, I'd have to have a wee

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Speaker 2: look at it, but I still think it's made plenty

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Speaker 2: of chatter and that's probably not bad things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think overall either of that game, and there's

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Speaker 1: plenty of you guys have played, so I mean it's

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Speaker 1: been very high quality rugby, hasn't it.

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Speaker 2: It has. I think Jack Messli, the super CEO, he

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Speaker 2: keeps banging on about how he wants to see jeopard

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Speaker 2: in every match, and I think last weekend was a classic,

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Speaker 2: you know, to see Blues and Chiefs, and I think

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Speaker 2: that did surprise us. It didn't surprise the Blues obviously,

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Speaker 2: but surprised most of us. So I think that's been

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Speaker 2: the nature of the competition this year. You don't know

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Speaker 2: who's going to win, and that's really that's what you want,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Really?

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Speaker 1: Well, I do know who's going to win, as it

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Speaker 1: turns out, Colin and I see Crusaders winning against the Blues,

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Speaker 1: and then they'll play the Chiefs and then they'll beat

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Speaker 1: them and then there'll be that, won't it.

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Speaker 2: That would be nice? Nice, That would be nice. Probably

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Speaker 2: a little bit harder than just saying it, that would

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Speaker 2: be nice. But yeah, plenty, Look, I think these guys

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Speaker 2: are going to turn up. It's interesting that mind games

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Speaker 2: that have been played this week vern, great man.

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Speaker 1: You know you're not falling for that stuff, though, are

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Speaker 1: you calling?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, it's funny, but it's fun. Actually it

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Speaker 2: is fun and it's funny, but it is interesting to see,

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Speaker 2: you know, every tactic that is being brought to bear,

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Speaker 2: which is what makes it such a great content.

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Speaker 1: Now it's good stuff. Now this job at the Rugby Union, well,

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Speaker 1: well where are we going with that? If you put

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Speaker 1: your application in, is that going? Well, what's happening?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely yes, CV being does is off thrown And

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Speaker 2: no it's a It's a tough gig, isn't it. It's

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Speaker 2: one of those jobs. If you're the All Blacks head coach,

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Speaker 2: you can you win a World Cup and you're a hero.

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Speaker 2: You don't and you're not, of course, but you win

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Speaker 2: a World Cup in your hero I don't think many

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Speaker 2: people hero the poor old ended rs. They've just got

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Speaker 2: to bag away at this thing for months and months

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Speaker 2: and months, all the hard yards, get none of the

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Speaker 2: credit and and get all of the criticism. So and

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Speaker 2: it's a tough you know, it's a toast get given

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Speaker 2: where the game's at and where we want to be.

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Speaker 1: But you're the men to the job.

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Speaker 2: Colum, thank you. It's three to kind of you to

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Speaker 2: say so. But I think this place here, it's hard

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Speaker 2: to suck somebody out of some Crusaders HQ. It's a

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Speaker 2: pretty special place.

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Speaker 1: I reckon that's true. All right, Well, nicely dodged. If

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Speaker 1: you're dodging. I don't know Colin Mainsbroog, who is the

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Crusaders. They also had Greg foran lined up,

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Speaker 1: which I thought was not It was that struck me

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Speaker 1: as one of those articles where we just picked a

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Speaker 1: few random names of people who might be looking for works.

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