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Speaker 1: Early season treat for the football fans. The new Auckland

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Speaker 1: AFC or the Auckland FC get to go head to

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Speaker 1: head with the A leagues establish New Zealand branch, which

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Speaker 1: of course comes in the form of the Phoenix country's

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Speaker 1: first ever a professional football derby. Sky Stadium Chief Executive

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Speaker 1: Warwick Dent is in charge of hosting his with us

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Speaker 1: Warwick Morning. I like Auckland. I'm not a football fan,

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Speaker 1: but I like what they're about. They attract a good crowd.

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Speaker 1: The Phoenix attract a good crowd. I mean that's recipe

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Speaker 1: for a good weekend for you, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Oh. I think it's going to be a great weekend.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a real excitement both here and Wellington,

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Speaker 2: but in Auckland amongst football fans but general sports fans

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Speaker 2: and as you said, New Zealand's first professional football derby,

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Speaker 2: and we're just really pleased to be hosting that here

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Speaker 2: at the home of the Wellington Phoenix sky Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Fis wise, where does it sit between I don't know,

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Speaker 1: Super Rugby, NPC rugby, another sort of event you would hold.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we think it's right up there with a big

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Speaker 2: Super rugby clash in terms of a traditional rivalry between

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Speaker 2: the Super Rugby New Zealand Super Rugby franchises. We're expecting

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Speaker 2: a crowd of an excess of twenty thousand, so we

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Speaker 2: think it's going to be a great occasion.

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Speaker 1: Is that good? I mean, I don't want to burst

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Speaker 1: your bubble, but you hold thirty something. If the two

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Speaker 1: top football sides in this country can't sell out a stadium,

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Speaker 1: is there something wrong or not?

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Speaker 2: I think, Mike, if you look at crowd sizes for

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Speaker 2: the A League, a crowd in excess of twenty thousand

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Speaker 2: for regular season, that's really good. No, we've got stadiums

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Speaker 2: that are built to larger, larger capacities. But if we

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Speaker 2: can get crowds of twenty up to twenty five thousand

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Speaker 2: for a regular season football match, and as we saw

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Speaker 2: with the Phoenix last season when they'd made that run

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Speaker 2: into the semifinals, we'll we did fill it out for

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Speaker 2: the semi final. There's an audience there.

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Speaker 1: You got the weather because I watched the MPC finally

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Speaker 1: last week it was miserable.

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Speaker 2: It was a little bit all last weekend. I please

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Speaker 2: to say that this weekend is looking a lot better.

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Speaker 2: I think tomorrow looking at sort of almost twenty degrees sun,

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Speaker 2: not much wind, to be a great evening for football.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Go well, mate, appreciate it very much. My

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Speaker 1: wife said to me on our walker is the day.

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Speaker 1: All you do on the weekend is watch sport. That's

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Speaker 1: what she said to me. We were holding hands at

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Speaker 1: the time, but she turned to me and I said

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Speaker 1: all the things we were going to do this weekend.

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Speaker 1: She goes, why are you doing this? All we do?

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Speaker 1: All you do is watch sport. For more from the

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