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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks, ed B.

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Speaker 2: What a year it's been for the ran Furley Shield

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Speaker 2: Tlanacky started twenty twenty five with it fended off King Country,

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Speaker 2: Thames Valley and Northland before white Cuttor came to New Plymouth.

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Speaker 3: Beg it comes to cons favoring.

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Speaker 4: He gets it at a judge maybe says it's all over.

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Speaker 3: Why Hello have won the rain Philly Shield.

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Speaker 2: Their first defense was against Southland eight days later.

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Speaker 5: Hellas what dead Southland? I got pasled that's going South.

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Speaker 5: They have done the impossible. They have done the unthinkable.

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Speaker 2: The Stags in turn put it up against Canterbury the

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Speaker 2: following weekend.

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Speaker 6: Emphatic Channerbury have won the rain Philly Shield fifty four

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Speaker 6: points to fourteen. Channerbury win the rain Philly Shield for

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Speaker 6: the seventeenth time from most of any province in the

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Speaker 6: extraordinary life of the log of Wood, while Southern's equal

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Speaker 6: the record for the shortest tenure ever that.

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Speaker 2: Is just six days, and Cannery themselves very nearly lost

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Speaker 2: at the following week trailing Tasman after the final hoosa numbers.

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Speaker 4: To the lift. Canterbury hold on to the sheld. George

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Speaker 4: Bell writes his name to Red Philly Shield folklore. He

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Speaker 4: fluid from Wellington for sporting and he scores the matchwinter

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Speaker 4: at the eighty fourth minuts.

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Speaker 2: But as that as it turned out, that only extended

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Speaker 2: their tenure by one week.

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Speaker 3: Back to Bella.

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Speaker 4: Otago have done it. Otago they win the Red Philly

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Speaker 4: Shield for the eighth time of their history.

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Speaker 2: Is Nita ran Philly Shield headed for Dunedin after Otago's

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Speaker 2: come from behind thirty eight thirty six win over cannabi

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Speaker 2: Are in christ Church yesterday, up against a team that

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Speaker 2: was seven from seven and ahead by fifteen points worth

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Speaker 2: twenty five minutes to go. The Log award has now

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Speaker 2: changed hands four times this season, the first time that

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Speaker 2: has happened since nineteen fifty. Otago head coach is Mark Brown.

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Speaker 2: How was your night, mate?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a good night, Thanks Finny. We stay

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Speaker 3: at the ground for quite a while and then yeah

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Speaker 3: went back to the hotel starting together. Just yeah, stay

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Speaker 3: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Really, I bet, I bet who looked after the shield

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Speaker 2: last night? Who was put in charge of it on

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Speaker 2: overnight duty?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, massive responsibility, So we gave it to We got

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Speaker 3: it to Charles Elton, who it's one of our sort

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Speaker 3: of more experienced members of the team. But he's not

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Speaker 3: actually in that contract with squad. He's in his injured cover.

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Speaker 3: So very responsible man to have that have those duties.

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Speaker 2: Excellent stuff. Has anyone in your team ever won it

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Speaker 2: was anyone in the team when you last had it?

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Speaker 3: Well, you've got me there. I'm not too sure to

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Speaker 3: be fair, I know, Joan, I think there's a couple

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Speaker 3: potentially who who have had a shield rang with the TAGA.

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Speaker 2: You, of course were co coach of Canterbury for a

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Speaker 2: couple of seasons and involved in the team for a

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Speaker 2: long time. So was this bittersweets or was it extra

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Speaker 2: special for you?

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Speaker 3: I'm reflection it's probably a little bit. It's like sprinkles

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Speaker 3: on top. I suppose it's when the schedule came out.

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Speaker 3: It was always a game I was looking forward to.

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Speaker 3: But the fact that both teams and were going well

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Speaker 3: and it was sort of one versus two on the

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Speaker 3: table and then you had to have the shield thrown

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Speaker 3: then for good measure. It became a become a pretty

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Speaker 3: exciting fixture. And yeah, it was really just focusing on

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Speaker 3: on the fixture itself, not not the occasion or what

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Speaker 3: was going on and behind it. But yeah, I'm reflectioning

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Speaker 3: it's it is nice to do that, but yeah, I'm

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Speaker 3: really grateful and for my time at Kenerbury. So it's

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Speaker 3: not there's no bitter sweetness here, it's just it's always

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Speaker 3: nice to get one get one up on somewhe where

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Speaker 3: you previously.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely so, did you just try to keep your week

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Speaker 2: normal leading in or did you in some ways embrace

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Speaker 2: the fact that this was a special occasion.

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Speaker 3: Good question. We didn't hide from the fact that the

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Speaker 3: shield was up for Grares, so we spoke about it

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Speaker 3: earlier in the week, but then just tried to keep

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Speaker 3: things normal, just said a normal week and treated it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: like we had to be really well prepared because Kenery

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Speaker 3: were going really good. They're a good side, so we

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Speaker 3: just said to look after ourselves and that was the focus.

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Speaker 3: Once we had reduced the shield, you.

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Speaker 2: Were thirty six twenty one down with twenty five minutes

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Speaker 2: to go. What sort of messages were you sending down

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Speaker 2: at that point?

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Speaker 3: It was a case of just really sticking to what

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Speaker 3: we were doing. Through glimpses throughout that game. We were

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Speaker 3: periods of play that you know, when we held the

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Speaker 3: ball and sort of played the way we want to,

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Speaker 3: we were creating opportunities and sometimes we them sometimes we

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Speaker 3: just fretted them away. So it was more we knew,

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Speaker 3: we knew if we just got into our work that

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Speaker 3: the opportunities would be there. And I think the message

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Speaker 3: at halftime was just to try and win the collisions.

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Speaker 3: Think Canterbury were very good naturally staff physically, we didn't

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Speaker 3: make a lot of headway and then when they were

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Speaker 3: carrying we sort of gave them the game line. So

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Speaker 3: it was just a message at half time to go

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Speaker 3: out and win collisions, which the boys did really well.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, it was then it was just sticking to

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Speaker 3: what we're how we plan to play, Cannibrillyan, trusting that

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Speaker 3: and then when the opportunities come up, just for the

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Speaker 3: boys just to have a swing.

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Speaker 2: You mean, look as Casey goes all right, doesn't.

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Speaker 3: He he's not bad? Yeah, yeah, he's yeah, some talent

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Speaker 3: he's he was club player of the year down here

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Speaker 3: and played a couple of games last year for Tom

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Speaker 3: Donley and he was exceptional in the club season. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was pretty evident pretty early that he was able

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Speaker 3: to transfer what he was doing at Club Rag to

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Speaker 3: this level and he's just keeps gone to new heights,

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Speaker 3: doesn't he?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, secrets out, doesn't it. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 2: how old would he be. He is he just a

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Speaker 2: kid or was he a bit older?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: You know? Any young? Oh wow?

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so so yeah, so the next level, I mean,

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Speaker 2: without wanting to pump a young guys ties up too much,

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Speaker 2: to the next level is something you could see him

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Speaker 2: aspiring to.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, yeah, he's he's like he's a true athlete.

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Speaker 3: He's very skillful, but he's very explosive and that they

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Speaker 3: will take you a long way.

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Speaker 2: So now you need to keep it. This year is

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Speaker 2: shown have difficult That is North Harbor on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Do you foresee any problems refocusing your boys, because if

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Speaker 2: you wouldn't that you keep it for the summer.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's right? Yeah? Yeah, ordinarily you know it's coming

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Speaker 3: off games like that, it might be it might be

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Speaker 3: a challenge, and these games sort of take a little

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Speaker 3: bit out of you, not only physically but mentally. But

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Speaker 3: we're just going to have to the front up because

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Speaker 3: no disrespect to the shield, but we've got Liam Coltman's

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Speaker 3: one it's game this week, so yeah, there'll be no

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Speaker 3: excuses not to not to honor him with the performance and.

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Speaker 2: Just to finish how worthy emotions in the coaching box

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Speaker 2: after the final whistle. On our radio commentary, our boys

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Speaker 2: said that they could hear the windows being bashed behind them.

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Speaker 2: Was a bit of excitement, no.

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Speaker 3: Doubt, otherwise denying it was. There's a range of personalities

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Speaker 3: up there and the responses once that ball got kicked

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Speaker 3: out reflect the salities in the box.

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Speaker 2: Great to chat to you, Mark, Congratulations made I think yeah,

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Speaker 2: like for the neutral I mean terrific game of rugby

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Speaker 2: and and love seeing the love seeing the shield change hands.

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Speaker 2: All the best of the week ahead, mate, and for

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Speaker 2: for Liam Cokpman's hundredth and holding onto the shield. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate the chat.

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Speaker 3: Thanks very much. Fine, appreciate it no good only.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Thank you Mark. Mark Brown there, head coach of

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Speaker 2: Otago shield Holders. They put it on the line against

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Speaker 2: North Harbor this coming Saturday, so next weekend one o'clock.

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Speaker 2: If they win that they hold it for the summer.

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Speaker 2: If they were to give it up to No Harbor,

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Speaker 2: North Harbor would have one further challenge to negotiate against

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Speaker 2: Southland the following Friday, so it's quite possible, and who

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Speaker 2: would bet against it Given the year we've had that

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Speaker 2: it might change hands a couple more times o Targo

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Speaker 2: though if they beat North Harbor next Saturday, we'll hold

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Speaker 2: it across the summer months.

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