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Speaker 1: Some are calling it the biggest match in rugby since

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Speaker 1: the twenty three World Cup final. Degree the All Backs

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Speaker 1: will be taking on the spring Box at Eden Park

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Speaker 1: and it's happening this Saturday. The All Backs have been

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Speaker 1: undefeated there for fifty straight test Fortress Eden Park. Last

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Speaker 1: time they lost was back in nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 2: Do you have the Beziers greatest moment a series win

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Speaker 2: over New Zealand France twenty three New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Twenty That was the very first game of All Backs

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Speaker 1: rugby ever went to and we lost from the try

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Speaker 1: from the end of the world. Next sorting as the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Eden Park Neck, gooday.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Andrew, and thanks to your time. Nervous a

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Speaker 2: little bit the staff. Obviously we've got a full time

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Speaker 2: and casual workforce of over three thousand of the putting

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Speaker 2: together this weekend's event and things important. We acknowledged that

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Speaker 2: effort from the volunteers to the train drivers, they all

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Speaker 2: contribute to the en Field performance, but also ensuring that

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Speaker 2: Fortress continues.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, there's a team of five million behind

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Speaker 1: this team mate. To be fair, but you still haven't

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Speaker 1: seen whether you're nervous or not.

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Speaker 2: I am it certainly is the CEO. I don't want

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Speaker 2: the record to be broken. And the All Blacks are

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Speaker 2: great for business. Events like the Test on the weekend

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Speaker 2: highlight the benefits and major events to the city in

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Speaker 2: the country and we want that record to continue. And

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Speaker 2: unconfident will does.

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Speaker 1: It break the brand if they do lose? And have

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Speaker 1: you have you got a campaign ready after the unthinkable?

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Speaker 2: Well, we do feature the Fortress signing throughout and when

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Speaker 2: teams come to play at Eden Park they play the

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Speaker 2: All Blacks or the Black Ferns, but they also played

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Speaker 2: in Park and I'm sure there's something special about our

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Speaker 2: venue as you know, and memories are created and lifelong

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Speaker 2: stories are told.

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Speaker 1: And is the attention it's a setout that's huge. I

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Speaker 1: mean the attention is enormous. There are parties in Kings

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Speaker 1: happening as well, and this is all reinstating the fact

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Speaker 1: that this is our national stadium.

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Speaker 2: That's correct. I was with a business yesterday. They took

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Speaker 2: a two hundred person booking for Saturday. Gates open for

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Speaker 2: corporates at four pm with public at five pm. We

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Speaker 2: want people to arrive early. We want to be part

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Speaker 2: of that atmosphere. There's a huge range of food and

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Speaker 2: beverage offers at the venue and we want to ensure

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Speaker 2: that the street to the seed experience is what people expect.

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Speaker 1: I meanwhile, we had some news yesterday the Blues are

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Speaker 1: going to call ead And Park home for twenty six

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Speaker 1: twenty seven after flirting with Mount Smart. Now that would

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Speaker 1: have been a worrying development for you because that's your

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Speaker 1: anchor client.

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Speaker 2: The Blues are critical to our business model and rugby.

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Speaker 2: It has been an important phase for us. We are

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Speaker 2: looking at how we can assist the Blues in their

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Speaker 2: thirtieth year to change the experience for our fans and

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Speaker 2: that was important conversation for us. But to secure six

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Speaker 2: games over the next two years was a great outcome

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Speaker 2: for our national stadium.

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Speaker 1: Well good on you and good luck and of course

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Speaker 1: you've got some big events coming Metallica can't wait for

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Speaker 1: that and of course the Edinburgh Military tat too. But

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Speaker 1: here's a question for you. Could split in sell out

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Speaker 1: Eden Park?

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Speaker 2: I think they could. I think particularly with the shortage

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Speaker 2: of content over the next music content over the next

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Speaker 2: sort of six to twelve months, people are looking for

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Speaker 2: that escapism. We also have Hot Wheels, Monster trucks and

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Speaker 2: International Rugby League. But that diversity and one off content

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Speaker 2: that make memories of something that we're focused on.

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Speaker 1: Will split end set out Eden Park. Could that happen now?

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Speaker 1: Are You're not allowed to tell me, are you?

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Speaker 2: That's for the promoter to consider, And what I would

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Speaker 2: suggest is since we've got our consequencent, we've had sellout

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Speaker 2: from each year and through to Coldplay, Coldplay, through to

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Speaker 2: Pink and Pink through the Metallica.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all great. Next, Saughtner, have a great weekend. I

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Speaker 1: know you work very hard over that weekend and your

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Speaker 1: whole team. Thank you so much for making a good

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Speaker 1: venue even greater on these big days as well.

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