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Speaker 1: The Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand Southeast International, Realty,

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Speaker 1: local and global exposure like no other.

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Speaker 2: TV Pardoner, the last five seconds of the preliminary final

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Speaker 2: history has been made the year's Helen Warriors. I'll into

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Speaker 2: the Grand Final. Tompson's still coming, Dubbies go, it's clarious

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Speaker 2: for the Grand Final.

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Speaker 3: Toddson, Yeah, Glorios are one game away from the NRL

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Speaker 3: Grand Final.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to your sports huddle for Friday Night. Matt Brown

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Speaker 4: is Acciana Football Confederation and giggling in the background as

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Speaker 4: Nicky Star as sports journalists and Warriors groupie. Good evening, guys,

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Speaker 4: Good evening, Addie, Nikki. Are you holding out? You're always

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Speaker 4: holding out? I hope aren't you?

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Speaker 1: This is our year.

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Speaker 5: I'm starting to sound like Mike Cosking. Yeah, look, oh hey,

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Speaker 5: we die hard Warriors fans are always holding out. But

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Speaker 5: you know, like any year, you win some, you lose some,

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Speaker 5: and you lose some good players and you win some

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Speaker 5: good players. So Craky, I don't have a crystal ball

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Speaker 5: at the stage.

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Speaker 6: What do you want to Nie? NICKI took my line

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Speaker 6: the Mike Costking mine. I think I was going to

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Speaker 6: say the same thing, but look, I think I think

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Speaker 6: they're probably going to be better than last year. Let's

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Speaker 6: face it, last year was not a good year, and

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Speaker 6: I think that with Adam Vanua Blake going that that's

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Speaker 6: a bit of a bayer up front, to be honest.

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Speaker 6: But look who they've replaced him with and Fisher Harris.

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Speaker 6: He's an outstanding, outstanding prop and I think he's still

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Speaker 6: got his best years ahead of m PEPs. I met

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Speaker 6: the Warriors, so he'll be he'll be big for them.

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Speaker 6: I think the forwards will go well. So yeah, I'm

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Speaker 6: going to be optimistic. Luke Metcalf of course has the

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Speaker 6: Seawan Johnson shoes to fill. That'll be tough, but look,

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Speaker 6: let's be optimistic and not quite. I'm not going to

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Speaker 6: say that this is our year, but I think they're

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Speaker 6: going to get better than last year.

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Speaker 4: How much do you wish you were actually there in Vegas? Nikki, Well, I'll.

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Speaker 5: Tell you his story then, So about I'm going to

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Speaker 5: say about seven or eight years ago, I went Scott

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Speaker 5: and I went on the Vegas flight for with some

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Speaker 5: of those Warriors players. It was grab a Seat's fifth birthday,

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Speaker 5: so we did that fans flight and oh my gosh,

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Speaker 5: it was just five days of so much fun to Vegas,

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Speaker 5: and I actually messaged one of the guys that runs

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Speaker 5: it and said where was our invite? We wanted to go.

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Speaker 5: It just looked like so much fun. So yes, I'm

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Speaker 5: just a little bit jealous that I'm not there, but hey,

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Speaker 5: what a fantastic spectacle. So, you know, pats off to

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Speaker 5: them for doing it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my brother's over there at the moment and I

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Speaker 4: text them two days ago, haven't heard back. We'll be

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Speaker 4: back in just a second. We've got these sports Huddle

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Speaker 4: for your Friday night. Matt Brown and Nikki staris here

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Speaker 4: on News Talks.

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Speaker 1: EB Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand Southby's International Elevate

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Speaker 1: the marketing of your Home.

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Speaker 4: Twelve to six On the Sports Huddle, Matt Brown and

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Speaker 4: Nicky Styris Welcome back, guys. Matt Caleb Clark, He's played guilty.

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Speaker 4: He's a young guy. He made us what sounds like

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Speaker 4: a very stupid mistake and says that he freaked out

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Speaker 4: when he was being chased by the police. The holicopter

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Speaker 4: was up there, the lights were on, the sirens are going,

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Speaker 4: all of that sort of stuff. But he takes off

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Speaker 4: and he takes off really quickly. What do you think

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Speaker 4: should happen to him, Matt.

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Speaker 6: Well, I've got a pretty clear view, and I think

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Speaker 6: he should be treated just like you or I would be.

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Speaker 6: Will you as a celebrity, me as a media and

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Speaker 6: comms manager. My job involves me. I mean one of

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Speaker 6: the excuses is he's got to travel internationally. In some

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Speaker 6: countries you know, don't let you in if you've got

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Speaker 6: a criminal conviction. But I would think that if I

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Speaker 6: did that and I had the book thrown at me,

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Speaker 6: I would impact my jobs. I'm just not going to

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Speaker 6: do it. So I think personal responsibility plays a big part,

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Speaker 6: and I don't believe an athlete should be treated different

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Speaker 6: to anyone else who's working, you know, working for a

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Speaker 6: I think you should be treated the same. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: I do think he should be convicted.

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Speaker 4: Okay, interesting because I mean regardless of that, like like

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Speaker 4: nothing to do with who he is or what his

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Speaker 4: job is, but just just somebody that age, who's had

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Speaker 4: that record, who's you know, otherwise been good in society,

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Speaker 4: who has a job, etc. Nikki, what's your thoughts on that?

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Speaker 5: I'd like to see the stats on other young people

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Speaker 5: whether they receive the same treatment. You know, how many

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Speaker 5: kids are discharged without conviction, So you're sort of comparing

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Speaker 5: apples with apples, I think. And of course the other

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Speaker 5: thing too is, you know, is it a career ending conviction?

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Speaker 5: Doesn't mean that it's going to really impact his career

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Speaker 5: so much that you know they would take that into consideration.

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Speaker 5: The other thing I would say is, speaking of law,

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Speaker 5: if you look at precedent, which is often what judges do,

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Speaker 5: you know, I can give you an entire first fifteen

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Speaker 5: of players that have been discharged without conviction in prior years,

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Speaker 5: ranging from drink driving to you know, quite serious assault

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Speaker 5: George Moela ta Vita, Julian Salvi and Lci Filippo pretty whipper,

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Speaker 5: and the list actually goes on. So I would be

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Speaker 5: very surprised if this particular judge, I'm a seemings of

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Speaker 5: judge and not a jury go you know we are

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go against you know, president here and

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Speaker 5: actually convict you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, what about having what about though? The impact of

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Speaker 6: you know, in the reality is if you can get it,

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Speaker 6: if people keep getting away with it, it doesn't encourage

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Speaker 6: people to change their ways. And if anybody you know,

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Speaker 6: so and so, if some of these players, you know,

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Speaker 6: if things do happen and they do get convicted, them

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Speaker 6: might just make some people think twice.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more. But if it

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Speaker 5: actually happens, I'll be quite surprised.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, interesting. All right, let's move on to talk

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Speaker 4: about something different. Let's let's go we don't worries? What

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Speaker 4: about Sky TV? I saw in Shane Curry's colin this

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Speaker 4: week he was talking to the boss of Sky TV,

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Speaker 4: the chair, I should say, saying essentially, we're not going

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Speaker 4: to buy those rugby rights at any cost. And this

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Speaker 4: interview took place before Design. The rumors of Design coming

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Speaker 4: in with their own bid propped up and cropped up

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Speaker 4: in the media. But I guess, I mean, they don't

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Speaker 4: just have an empty check, do they? Sky? They will have,

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Speaker 4: But if they don't get the rights, then I guess

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Speaker 4: what happens to the Matt Well.

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Speaker 6: I think Sky would be in trouble because I think

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Speaker 6: I think still and I'm not updated on the latest stats,

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Speaker 6: but I do think the rugby rights are the sort

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Speaker 6: of the holy grail. They always have been the all

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Speaker 6: blacks have always been you know, on Sky since professional rugby,

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Speaker 6: and they've got what four hundred and sixty odd thousand subscribers.

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Speaker 6: How many would they lose if they lost the rugby rights.

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Speaker 6: I think there would be a considerable number, and it

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Speaker 6: would have a massive impact on Sky and what they

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Speaker 6: can do, So it would be massive, and I think

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Speaker 6: that maybe the most one of the most likely options

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Speaker 6: because of the rugby union's desperate desire for more cash

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Speaker 6: and more money to fund everything they are doing, is maybe,

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Speaker 6: think there's been a suggestion maybe they could potentially buy Sky.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, they're that big, it's not beyond the

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Speaker 6: realms of possibility, so that could be. But yeah, competition,

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Speaker 6: look thinks for the rugby union, competition is good. Let's

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Speaker 6: face it, they're driving the price up for them. They

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Speaker 6: need the cash and it's going to be interest fascinating

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Speaker 6: to see how this one plays out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what about you now, Sky?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Sky definitely needs the rugby I guess

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Speaker 5: for the question is does the rugby union need Sky?

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Speaker 5: I mean, let's not forget too though, that the m

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Speaker 5: Z are have a five percent share in Sky. There's

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Speaker 5: a conflict interest immediately, so you know they do they

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Speaker 5: need to protect that share. I mean, I think it

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Speaker 5: sort of equates too. And I did a little bit

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Speaker 5: of homework on this. I think they get about eighteen

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Speaker 5: million dollars from that percentage share. So if Sky, you know,

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Speaker 5: the bottom falls out of Sky, they lose that as well. However,

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Speaker 5: also New Zealand Rugby has a lot of its own issues,

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Speaker 5: the grassroots. They've got funding for their team, women's teams

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Speaker 5: and so they've got a lot of expenditure and so

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Speaker 5: then I guess they have to look at their base

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Speaker 5: costs and go, well, if we don't, if we hold

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Speaker 5: onto Sky, we have to somehow save this money somewhere else.

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Speaker 5: So I think it's a very interesting prospect and i'd

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Speaker 5: like to I'm looking forward to seeing it play out.

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Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, same, thank you guys, we have to leave it.

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Speaker 4: They've also got an an ineus sized hole in their

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Speaker 4: budget too. That Brown Oceana Football Federation media manager, thank

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Speaker 4: you so much for being with us. Matt, great to

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Speaker 4: have you on. And Nicky Styrs sports journalist for your

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