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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: At Tyler Street Sport.

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Speaker 3: This is Weekend Sport and a league semi final day today.

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Speaker 3: Leading us off to the more influential members of the

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Speaker 3: Auckland FC staff.

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Speaker 2: CEO Nick Beckers, popt.

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Speaker 4: In cad I, Nick Kay Piney, how are you very good?

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Speaker 3: Great Devy with us Director of Football Terry mcflinn as well.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, Terry.

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Speaker 2: Very good.

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Speaker 3: Let's actually start with a general read of the vibe

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Speaker 3: and how you're both feeling. Just under six hours to

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Speaker 3: kick off. Terry, you're looking very relaxed.

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Speaker 5: I must say, yeah, it's been a good week. The

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Speaker 5: boys have trained really well this week. Good trip back

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Speaker 5: from Australia last week, a couple of days off for

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Speaker 5: the boys this week.

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Speaker 2: They're prepared, they're ready.

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Speaker 5: We had a good session yesterday at Gormdia Stadium, a

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Speaker 5: couple of video sessions as well, so the boys are relaxed,

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Speaker 5: looking forward to a full host of gold media today.

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Speaker 2: Just take us inside the minds of the players.

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Speaker 3: They often say we want to play in the biggest games,

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Speaker 3: but there's also I guess the danger of playing the

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Speaker 3: game before it actually arrives. Do you ask them to

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Speaker 3: embrace the occasion or treat it like another week.

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Speaker 5: Look, I think you've got in bris the occasion. You know,

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Speaker 5: you can share away from the fact that it's a

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Speaker 5: semi final. I you know, we spoke to the boys

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Speaker 5: in Melbourne last week. We've got two hundred minutes of

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Speaker 5: football left for this season. You know, we started on

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Speaker 5: the first of July this season with twelve players. We've

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Speaker 5: got to this point. Everything that they've done in the gym,

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Speaker 5: on the trend and pitch games, travel all comes down

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Speaker 5: to this. And as a footballer, these are big games

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Speaker 5: that you want to play in, you want to be

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Speaker 5: a part of. We're extra seats in nice with given

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Speaker 5: more people in the in the stadium. So these are

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Speaker 5: the games that as a professional footballer you want to

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Speaker 5: hundred minutes of football out of their life.

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Speaker 2: And Nick, what about you, mate, you're looking relaxed as well.

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Speaker 3: I think everybody at the football club just always strikes

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Speaker 3: me as being very relaxed on the outside of right.

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Speaker 6: If you just got a good poker face, pint of

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Speaker 6: good poker face pretty I'm not nervous, but we always

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Speaker 6: get a little bit kind of you know, the nerves

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Speaker 4: Air on a match day, but also super excited.

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Speaker 6: It's a it is a you know, we're going to

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Speaker 6: be around for one season, but a big day, right,

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Speaker 6: This is a massive day for us, and I think

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Speaker 6: we all you know, kind of it's been the group,

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Speaker 6: what that message has been flying. You know, everybody is

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Speaker 6: glorious blue blue sky suns out, you know, go media

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Speaker 6: going to be packed with those, to Terry's point, extra seats,

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Speaker 6: and they're about twenty eight thousand, six hundred. In fact,

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Speaker 6: actually I can give you hot of the press because

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Speaker 6: I believe the A League released a few tickets last night.

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Speaker 4: There's one hundred and seventy left there.

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Speaker 6: So if anyone is listening and want to get down there,

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Speaker 6: they're better be very quick.

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Speaker 3: Okay, one hundred and seventy taking the I know it's

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Speaker 3: hard to actually give us the exact capacity, but is

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Speaker 6: Just under I think twenty eight thousand, six hundred and something.

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Speaker 3: So I mean the footballers can look after the football work.

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Speaker 3: What's what's the best use of your week leading into

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Speaker 4: Like this great question.

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Speaker 6: I think what I've I mean, I've tended to do

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Speaker 4: You know, we all know how important it is.

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Speaker 6: It's actually kind of a bit funny because the A

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Speaker 6: it's sort of like that mess of how involved you get,

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Speaker 4: But you know, I don't mind it.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I get accused of that all the time.

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Speaker 3: Maybe the voice rather than the face talking it is

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Speaker 3: probably quite a good but Terry, You've played in a

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Speaker 3: Grand finals O five six the first one Steve Korriker

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Speaker 3: got the winning goal that day twenty nineteen as well,

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Speaker 3: when it's extra time and penalties.

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Speaker 2: How do players pass the time on a day like this?

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Speaker 2: How did you used to do it?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Look, I think the players of creatures of habit so

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Speaker 5: at home. We tried to take a lot of the

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Speaker 5: A lot of destructions could be around tickets and things

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Speaker 5: the boys will be relaxed. They'll have their own routine.

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Speaker 5: They'll they go for breakfast, they go for a walk

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Speaker 5: We'll do a video session before the warm up and

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Speaker 5: then as soon as as soon as you get in

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Speaker 3: This is the biggest game of many of their lives

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Speaker 3: and hopefully next weekend will be bigger.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 2: Let's lead there.

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Speaker 3: Off to one side. Do you sense any nerves? Do

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Speaker 2: Surely there must be some.

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Speaker 5: No, really, Look, we've got a mental performance coach him

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Speaker 3: So July one was when using it at your benchmark,

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Speaker 3: show from GO Media Stadium. Actually, you both well, we were

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Speaker 3: thirty one weeks ago.

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Speaker 4: Incredible, amazing.

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Speaker 3: I remember you both being positive, optimistic about the season here,

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Speaker 3: as you rightly should have been.

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Speaker 2: Did you realistically expect this season?

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Speaker 6: I mean it's definitely exceeded expectations bin Any. But look,

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Speaker 6: we knew right from the start that we were going

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Speaker 6: We didn't know we'd sell out four games. We didn't

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Speaker 6: so far and it hasn't done yet to tear his

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Speaker 6: But you know, seasons like this don't come acround around often,

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Speaker 6: super hard to get where we are. It's sort of

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Speaker 6: you know, to your point earlier, we look quite relaxed,

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Speaker 6: So yeah, we had a and that goes down to

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Speaker 6: some amazing Not only the fans have been incredible, but

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Speaker 6: some of our commercial partners have been We just had

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Speaker 6: to ask me what I've been doing this week. I've

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Speaker 6: been out a lot, We've had a lot of functions,

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Speaker 6: But one of my favorites was on Thursday night we

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Speaker 6: Breaking Party for us, and they literally they created a

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Speaker 6: It's the orknft C first season exclusive vinyl, which your

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Speaker 6: dolcet tones are all over Piney, so we wanted you

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Speaker 4: But the point of that piece.

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Speaker 6: Was another one of 's fantastic campaigns, and they've been

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Speaker 6: I mean the only thing missing from and that artwork

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Speaker 6: say we can get that fixed up, but no, it's

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Speaker 6: been brilliant. But it covers off, you know, all the

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Speaker 6: against us. You know, the crowds have broken records again

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Speaker 6: and again and again all season in terms of we've

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Speaker 6: We've had the highest attendance twice in terms of both

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Speaker 6: our home derbies. And then one of my favorite records

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Speaker 6: that in those days, one young Terry mcflynn and Steve

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Speaker 6: been a it's been an epic season and so far,

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Speaker 6: to go just another sort of eight days, seven days,

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Speaker 6: whatever it is. So yeah, I would have chomped your

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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate the gift very much.

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Speaker 3: It's wonderful and just another illustration of how the football

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well obviously is working. And I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we've practiced at all.

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Speaker 3: The crazy thing is you haven't any practiced at all

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Well it's We've got a couple of

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Speaker 2: Has Bill Folly been in touch this week?

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Speaker 6: He actually told the story about the Vegas Golden Knights

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Speaker 3: All right, I just wonder that actually again, without wanting

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean he said he has, he said he will.

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Speaker 6: You know, Bill's trouble schedule, you can never pin down

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Speaker 4: But but yeah, I would love to see him down here.

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Speaker 6: I know definitely Robber's son and Courtney's daughter are going

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Speaker 2: To see Bill here too, brilliant. Just a question on

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Speaker 3: I know we're focusing on the men's side of things,

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Speaker 2: You've got the update on that, No, I'm not at

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Speaker 5: you are with a man's and we'll strategically we'll piece

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Speaker 5: We'll get a culture, it's approven winner, and we'll get

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll look forward to more progress on that.

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Speaker 3: Just finally, how I'll ask you to be how do

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Speaker 2: Terry? Where are you during a game?

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Speaker 6: Talk us through your pocon I answered, that is the

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Speaker 2: Well, how does Nick Bigger watch a game? Named Terry mcflinn,

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Speaker 3: Well, as Terry said, I mean there's been extra hospitality sold.

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Speaker 3: The things that you've done that have been different, like this,

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Speaker 4: No, the slide is going to be there today.

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Speaker 6: And I think that all comes to you know, it's

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Speaker 6: I think it costs about ten thousand dollars out of China,

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Speaker 3: You know, yeah, I can only endorse that, like enough

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Speaker 2: Guys. So what do you what are we now? Nearly

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: What's your what's your agenda today?

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Speaker 6: First, pony, I'll present you with your shirt for today

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Speaker 6: to week. So we've got we've got you a home

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Speaker 6: we lost a why so we just called you Pine.

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Speaker 6: But Pioneer is how I'll always know and love you.

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Speaker 6: So gift from us to you in the nine I

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Speaker 2: You so now you've handled that over, where will you

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Speaker 6: So I've got a couple of other sort of things

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Speaker 4: You know, I'll be over Now. We've got a lounge

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Speaker 4: because the Black Night Lounge.

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Speaker 6: I'll be in there from when that opening, watch the

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Speaker 2: And Terry, you got to find yourself a place to

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Speaker 2: watch the game. But what do you what were you doing?

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Speaker 5: No, not the simuls on as playing Penny. I'll go

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Speaker 5: getting ready and one up, five, five seventeen.

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Speaker 3: All the best guys. Look, congrats on getting us this far.

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Speaker 3: Let's hope there's another week of it. Let's hope we're

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Speaker 3: back here in a week's time chatting about a Grand Final.

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Speaker 3: But really appreciate you stopping in on match day. Terry mcfleln,

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Speaker 3: Nick BEECKA, thanks, thank you. It's Nick Becker, CEO of

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Speaker 3: Auckland FC. Terry mcflin, director of football for the football club.

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