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Speaker 1: Darcy Watergrave Sports Talk Coasters with me, Hey Dares, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: it's going on with the Indian Panthers and are they

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Speaker 1: not playing? They're not paying their players. This is a

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Speaker 1: crazy story. Did this thing just start up? I was

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Speaker 1: right eight weeks ago, right from the get go, it

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Speaker 1: was stumbling very late. Addition to the league, the whole

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Speaker 1: idea of that was a development side with a whole

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Speaker 1: of Indian players coming over to play out of South

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Speaker 1: Auckland and the Indian Panthers. And then things started to

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Speaker 1: go wrong. The first thing that went wrong, they only

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Speaker 1: turned up with three or four players because suddenly all

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Speaker 1: of the players that they like signed up got called

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Speaker 1: into Indian basketball camps for national duty. So suddenly they

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Speaker 1: got tricked and hobbled by that. And then since then,

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Speaker 1: well they can't win for a start, it's not ideal,

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Speaker 1: but they haven't had the full gathered of players, so

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Speaker 1: that's understand a lot of Keewis and other imports have

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Speaker 1: been climbing into help out. The coach left even before

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Speaker 1: the first game started, and then night they didn't even

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Speaker 1: play in their initial game. There was yeah, there was

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Speaker 1: talk of a walkout on live TV, but didn't happen

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Speaker 1: because they didn't play. But what we officially told was

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Speaker 1: the reason that they no. No one team said we

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Speaker 1: missed the Oh we couldn't deal with the traffic, and

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Speaker 1: the other team said, yeah, well we're not We're not

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Speaker 1: doing this anymore. And so there's been basketball is Zeland

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Speaker 1: have been with the sales NBL Commission today in meetings

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Speaker 1: with all twelve teams involved in the NBA. We heard

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Speaker 1: Nick Mills earlier today saying get them out, but they won't.

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Speaker 1: They'll work out a way to keep them. And I

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Speaker 1: suppose when you look at the ramifications of being thrown

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Speaker 1: out of the league, it comes down to the sponsorship,

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Speaker 1: It comes down to other teams playing and what they've

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Speaker 1: promised their sponsors. It's it's very messy, it's very tied up.

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Speaker 1: The easiest thing to go get out you've been a disaster.

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Speaker 1: But they can't do that now because presumably the whole

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Speaker 1: thing is set up, the rosters set up and whatnot

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Speaker 1: for who plays her. Yeah, they know what the timetable

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Speaker 1: is and they've ad have planned for renting out of

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Speaker 1: various courts to go and play it, and so and so,

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Speaker 1: and there's one guy who claimed on social media to

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Speaker 1: get paid for two months. So I'm up and I've gone,

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Speaker 1: and I've gone to the Giants. Where's the due diligence

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Speaker 1: before you admitted squad? Well, you listen out to the

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Speaker 1: CEO because he joins us on the show this evening

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Speaker 1: up after seven o'clock. Yeah, it's messy, and there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of excuses floating around. There's talk of someone who

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Speaker 1: has gone into the side, who's got bad blood with

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Speaker 1: the team, and they are trying to undermine the team,

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Speaker 1: and they're going out of their way to undermine the team.

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Speaker 1: But you look back at and you go, this is

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Speaker 1: a mess. And my first thought when they started this

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Speaker 1: team off was hey, this is very fast. This is

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Speaker 1: too quick, too quick, and you cannot climb into something

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Speaker 1: like this with no preparation and expect things to go. Well,

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Speaker 1: they won't. You cannot tell they won't. You cannot tell me.

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Speaker 1: Liz Kiss is a real name. Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's Leslie or Leicester. I'm not entirely sure's Kiss.

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Speaker 1: Le's Kiss. That's not a real name. Might be telling

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Speaker 1: that No, No, I think that's Leicester, but not yet

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Speaker 1: because he's waiting for another year because he's got to

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Speaker 1: see out his reads contract, okay, And so what I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: and I think of nothing to back this up. What

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking is Rugby Australia wan, oh, you can't really

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Speaker 1: afford to pay his contract outside Joe, could you stick

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Speaker 1: around for another year? And Joe is just going to

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Speaker 1: knock it out of the past and we'll give you

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Speaker 1: maybe half of the money that we had to give

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Speaker 1: him to buy. I don't know this, but I'm just

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Speaker 1: throwing these ideas in there. But that's what happened. But

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Speaker 1: it's really good for Australian rugby because Lis Kiss is

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Speaker 1: an Ass's League player, but he's an Aussie and the

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Speaker 1: Reds have gone really, really well and a year under

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Speaker 1: the wing of Joe Schmidt massive the sky to learn

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Speaker 1: the trade. So it's a good news story for Australian rugby.

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Speaker 1: And it's not Eddie Jones. And again it's not a key.

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Speaker 1: We thank you Darsky. I appreciate any day it's not

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Speaker 1: Eddie Jones, is a good day. Dusky water Grave Sports

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