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Speaker 1: The All Whites are just two games away from securing

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Speaker 1: a spot at the fee for World Cup. This is

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. They take on Fiji tonight in the

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Speaker 1: Capitol as part of the second semi final. All things

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Speaker 1: going well, they'll head back to Auckland on Monday for

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Speaker 1: the final and a place at the world's biggest sporting event.

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Speaker 1: Ricky Herbert is the former All Whites coaches with me now, Hi, Ricky, Hi?

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Speaker 2: Ryan? Thanks?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good, thank you. The All Whites are They're a

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Speaker 1: shoeing here, aren't they.

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Speaker 2: Look you'd like to think so, but you know, let's

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Speaker 2: pay respect. This is going to be a wonderful opportunity

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Speaker 2: for Fiji to showcase themselves as well, given the direct entry.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure there'll be massive motivation coming from the

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Speaker 2: opposition camp as well. But one would like to think

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Speaker 2: we should be good enough to win tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there'll be some fingers crossed, but I'm sure not

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Speaker 1: too hard. Is the qualifying A lot of talk this

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Speaker 1: week about the qualifying process for the World Cup? Is

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Speaker 1: it too easy now that they've removed that into a

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Speaker 1: continental playoff?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think it changes the landscape, doesn't it

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Speaker 2: quite quite simply who you have to play. I mean,

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Speaker 2: ironically we've got two home games, send me final the

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Speaker 2: final on our own back door stap hopefully, so you

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Speaker 2: know that bodes well for us. We're not traveling to

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Speaker 2: different parts of the world to play in a way fixture,

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Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. So yeah, the end of the day, though, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: we've still got to step up tonight. We've got to

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Speaker 2: get the job done. That's the main concentration. This is

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Speaker 2: the one that can take us through to our final,

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Speaker 2: to give us that shot to be back in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six and appear and you know our field will

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Speaker 2: cut which would be outstanding. So look, why can't our

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Speaker 2: confederation have the right to be there? You know, and

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Speaker 2: I think you know, talking about it the other day,

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Speaker 2: it's it's getting through this and like I say, fingers crossed,

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Speaker 2: we get through it. But then it's making a statement

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Speaker 2: at the World Cup as well. And you know, can

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Speaker 2: we add on from twenty ten and win some fixtures,

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Speaker 2: we'll get out of the group and really make a

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Speaker 2: statement again worldwide. So that's the It's the big outcome

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Speaker 2: for me is let's go and deliver at a World

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Speaker 2: Cup in twenty twenty six, and you know, make people

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Speaker 2: stand up and go, Yes, we certainly deserve to be there.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's hope it happened, Ricky, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for being with me. Ricky Herbert for more, All Whites Coach.

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