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Speaker 1: Lots of texts coming and I'm working from home, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: my daughter This is interesting. My daughter works for a

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Speaker 1: business that allows working from home, but not on Mondays

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Speaker 1: or Fridays or days next to a long weekend. Guess why,

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Speaker 1: asks Malcolm Ryan. I am much more productive when I

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Speaker 1: work from the garden bar at the viaducts, particularly on

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Speaker 1: the Friday.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that one. Dan.

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Speaker 1: Jason plans here with Sport weekend Sport hosts mid Dad

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Speaker 1: or three tomorrow and Sunday on news talks. Be Hey Jason,

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Speaker 1: Hey Ryan, So the Super Rugby you wouldn't work well,

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Speaker 1: we can't work from home, can we?

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Speaker 2: So we're not well?

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Speaker 3: I mean unless they set something I like this up

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Speaker 3: at our house. I mean the state of the art

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Speaker 3: studio we find ourselves in. Look, I don't you know

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Speaker 3: what even if we could, I wouldn't, wouldn't you? Nah?

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Speaker 3: I just like the people, do you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure they like me that much, but I

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Speaker 3: like being here where the people are.

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Speaker 2: You like the opposite of make hosking.

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Speaker 1: In more ways than what hey, Super Rugby the pre

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Speaker 1: season got a couple of matches this weekend.

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Speaker 3: We have here all six jew Zealand bas sides are

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Speaker 3: actually playing playing currently or will play across the weekend.

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Speaker 3: It's funny, isn't it. What are we It's not even

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Speaker 3: February yet, but the Super Rugby season is two weeks away.

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Speaker 3: Two weeks from now, you and I will be chatting

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Speaker 3: about the first Super Rugby game on Valentine's Day night,

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Speaker 3: So that's how close it's getting. So yeah, preseason headouts,

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure you can read much into these. The

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Speaker 3: Hurricanes play the play the Chiefs tomorrow. Do you know

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Speaker 3: how many players they're taking to the game? Forty seven?

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Speaker 3: Forty seven?

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Speaker 2: Aren't there meant to be fifteen fifteen on the field.

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Speaker 3: You can have twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Week expert but no has seems a lot, Honey. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure that we'll be on the team the field

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Speaker 1: at the same time. Rhyme, But forty seven? So what

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Speaker 1: I mean? How do you get them all on? How

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Speaker 1: do you find combinations? What do you learn when you're

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Speaker 1: basically bringing your whole extended, extended playing squad. And I

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Speaker 1: think they're just trying to get minutes into everybody's legs

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Speaker 1: and create a bit of team culture. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure you can read much into the results. The Highlanders,

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Speaker 1: for what it's worth, have beaten more on a pacifica

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. I don't think that means anything.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what about all benefs?

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Speaker 3: A win means everything to them. And they're doing pretty well,

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Speaker 3: aren't they. You know, halfway point of the season, top

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Speaker 3: of the league. I'm not sure anybody expected this. The

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Speaker 3: big part of this is the late goals they've scored.

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Speaker 3: They've scored five goals after the ninety minute bak. Once

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Speaker 3: you get to ninety minutes, they add on injury time.

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Speaker 3: Auckland have scored five goals in injury time and those

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Speaker 3: goals have been worth eight points to them in terms

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Speaker 3: of winning games or drawing games. Take away those eight points, Ryan,

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Speaker 3: They're not even in the top four. Those late goals

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Speaker 3: have been a huge part of their success. They play

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Speaker 3: MacArthur tomorrow go Media Stadium in Auckland, another huge crowd

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Speaker 3: in coming. They've really engaged with the Auckland football fan base.

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Speaker 3: And look, you don't leave if you get If it's

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Speaker 3: ninety minutes and you want to, oh, I might get

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Speaker 3: away and beat the traffic. Not when you're watching Auckland FC.

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Speaker 3: Because they're likely to score back it out.

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Speaker 1: All the action happens late in the piece. So can

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Speaker 1: you just tell me it is? How big of a

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Speaker 1: deal is it that they're leading the table at the moment?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is this a big league? Is this an

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Speaker 1: important league? Because football is I must say, not my fortee.

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Speaker 2: But no, not sho. Should we be really excited by this?

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Speaker 3: We should for a couple of reasons. One is there

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Speaker 3: a brand new team. So a brand new team coming

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Speaker 3: into any competition and making the impact that they have

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Speaker 3: is impressive. Normally it takes teams a little while to

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Speaker 3: get used to it. You know, they weren't even a

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Speaker 3: thing a year ago. Now they're in the league and

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Speaker 3: winning it midway part of the season. Should we be excited? Look,

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Speaker 3: there's still thirteen games to go, they've played fourteen thirteen

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Speaker 3: to go, but look they've made every postal winner so far.

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Speaker 3: Momentum is a powerful thing. I think, Look, I think

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Speaker 3: we should be excited about them. I know the fans are.

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Speaker 3: They're getting good numbers. So look, you can't You certainly

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Speaker 3: can't win the league in late January, but you can

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Speaker 3: go a long way towards creating the momentum that might

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Speaker 3: win it. For you in May.

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Speaker 1: Nice Piney, thanks so much for see you in the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you, Jason Pine News Talks.

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