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Speaker 1: Confusion is growing around a photo on social media of

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Speaker 1: the Fijian Drew Super rugby team. It shows the team

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Speaker 1: piled into the back of a luggage track after their

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Speaker 1: arrival in Auckland last month. Now official was a blaming

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Speaker 1: a breakdown and communication that led to their bus not arriving.

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Speaker 1: This is before they played a game Injuriest thing is

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Speaker 1: the FBC sports journalist with us this afternoon. Good evening,

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Speaker 1: Good evening, Groan Andrew, thanks for being with me. What

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Speaker 1: is the team saying about this?

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Speaker 2: Well, look on the eve of a massive clash against

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs in Lowchalka. It's been more or less always

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Speaker 2: shedded by what has transpired over the last couple of days. Ryan,

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Speaker 2: initially coach Glenn Jackson. Jacko had said that they had

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Speaker 2: faced some issues as they arrived into Auckland to play

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Speaker 2: to go on to Napier to play the Canes. That's

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Speaker 2: all he said that he's a weekly press conference. But

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Speaker 2: as of yesterday we've seen that media outlet in Australia

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Speaker 2: has published a photo shows that the Fiji and Drewer

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Speaker 2: were actually in the back of a truck heading from

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Speaker 2: Auckland to a hotel. They were stayed in for the

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Speaker 2: night before flying out to Napier the next morning. Mind you,

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Speaker 2: the Drewer franchise is saying they are satisfied what is

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Speaker 2: transplied in terms of the action taken by Super Rugby

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Speaker 2: specific But the question that still lingers on is what

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Speaker 2: actually happened.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we still don't really no other than the bus

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Speaker 3: wasn't there and they jumped into the back of a truck.

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Speaker 3: And then the next day it gets even worse when

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Speaker 3: they're in actually make it to Napier. The hotel, the Hurricane,

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Speaker 3: they're all at the same hotel. The Hurricanes get to

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Speaker 3: check out late and then go to the game and

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Speaker 3: they have to check out on time. What's up with that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Speaking to a couple of closed soursers within within

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Speaker 2: the Drewer franchise, the only disappointment at the moment they

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Speaker 2: have with the Canes is that they did not get tickets,

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Speaker 2: which would have put their families and friends in a

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Speaker 2: better place in Napier. They had to resort to sitting

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Speaker 2: out on the embankment. That's what we've been told the hotel. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they were told to check out early, and they claimed

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Speaker 2: that the Canes checked out you know later on, and

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Speaker 2: they were allowed to do that. Was it mind games? Well,

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Speaker 2: it was it favoritism. Nothing forthcoming as yet. But I

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Speaker 2: think the biggest, biggest question that arises here is what

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Speaker 2: the Drew camp is saying is when the teams visit Fiji,

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Speaker 2: and even this was with the chiefs arrival, they get

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Speaker 2: police eyes Scots, and they got the best busses and

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Speaker 2: they get transported to hotels and things like that. But

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Speaker 2: in this instance, landing in Auckland and getting in the

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Speaker 2: back of a truck reminds you. We did ask the

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Speaker 2: question why did they get onto the truck because if

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Speaker 2: they wanted, they could have refused, but we've been told

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Speaker 2: that they had to get on and geta is to rest.

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Speaker 2: If not, they would have missed the flight next morning

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Speaker 2: to Napier and perhaps forfeited the game against the Canes,

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Speaker 2: which would have been even a bigger disaster.

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously not a legal thing to do either.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for running us through that interesting interesting FBC sports journalist.

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