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Speaker 1: Houses for caring about your fans. A Auckland Football club

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Speaker 1: is setting up a group. It's a fan representative group

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Speaker 1: and basically the point of the thing is to get

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Speaker 1: feedback from fans and people who go along to the

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Speaker 1: matches on how to make the experience even better. They've

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Speaker 1: already got a chair for it. It's Tim Adams and

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Speaker 1: he's with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hey Tim, Hey, how's it going?

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Speaker 1: Very good? Thank you? So how does this work? If

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Speaker 1: you go along to a match can and you think, oh,

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Speaker 1: that would be better if the hot dogs came by

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Speaker 1: every five minutes or whatever, could we just drop you

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Speaker 1: a line and give you that feedback?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So each club has a fan feedback form which

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Speaker 2: asks for feedback for any anything about the about the game,

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Speaker 2: transport through hostility, entertainment, any of that stuff. So one

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Speaker 2: of those forms out and then it goes to the

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Speaker 2: club and the club give that to us as a

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Speaker 2: committee and we have looked at that and see what

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Speaker 2: areas you want to try and improve on.

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Speaker 1: How much power have you got? Like if I wrote

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Speaker 1: to you and I said I don't like going to

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Speaker 1: Mount Smart and I'd much rather go to Eden Park,

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Speaker 1: could you pull that one off?

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Speaker 2: Probably not, but I mean put it in if you want.

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Speaker 2: I think those things are I mean we're starting out,

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Speaker 2: we're early, early, early doors, but I think those things

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Speaker 2: are good to know in the long term because you know,

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Speaker 2: the group will want to know what fans feel about

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Speaker 2: the stadium.

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Speaker 1: Have you got have you got anything coming in just yet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've We've had an artificial survey to members only

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Speaker 2: for the first two games while this was getting set up,

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Speaker 2: and we've seen a bit of stuff in there about

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Speaker 2: hostility and entertainment for those first two games. So it

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Speaker 2: was good to sit down at that and look at

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Speaker 2: those at the meeting and talk about, you know, where

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Speaker 2: we are in terms of those things versus other other

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Speaker 2: other places.

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Speaker 1: Anybody raised the Mount Smart versus Eden Park thing.

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Speaker 2: Ah, there was a bit of people saying mouths, mu's

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Speaker 2: hard to get to him. No, not just you, but

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Speaker 2: I think you know, at the moment, it's a good

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Speaker 2: size for what we're doing and you know, a great atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: So I think those those fears, maybe once you get

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Speaker 2: to a game, will be dispelled a bit by some

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Speaker 2: of those members.

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Speaker 1: Tim Listen, this is a fantastic idea, and especially at

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Speaker 1: the time where everybody's sort of fighting to get the

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Speaker 1: fans to, you know, to engage with various sports. Given

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Speaker 1: there so much that we can get engaged with at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Whose idea is this? Is this a you

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Speaker 1: guys thing or an A League thing?

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Speaker 2: It's part of the participation criteria for the A League,

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Speaker 2: so every A League team has one and then there's

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Speaker 2: a group of all the chairs on a league wide

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Speaker 2: f I g to then talk to the A League

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Speaker 2: directly about things, which is exciting. But I think it's

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Speaker 2: from my experience so far, or can I see are

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Speaker 2: very genuine with their need and want to listen to

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Speaker 2: their fans. They've been very, very upfront and very receptive

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Speaker 2: to ideas, so I think whilst it's something they had

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Speaker 2: to do, certainly not of tech Blok gets size from

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Speaker 2: that point of.

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Speaker 1: View, Tim, How stressful was that game last night?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Yes, sir, that was That was definitely what I

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Speaker 2: call a leagu classic, had about everything?

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Speaker 1: Did it? What did you know that? Did you did

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Speaker 1: you feel had you given up? Like had you left

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Speaker 1: your seat kind of thing? And then in the last

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Speaker 1: five minutes realized actually you didn't need to give up. Hope.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean as a football fan, you always know

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Speaker 2: this time and I think you have shown a bit

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Speaker 2: of character. It's scoring on a late goal, so I

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Speaker 2: was positive, but you know, a bit of nervous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a bit nervous. Tim, Thanks very much, good luck

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Speaker 1: with all the fan feedback. That's Tim Adams, chairman of

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Speaker 1: Auckland f c's fan representative group. If you didn't watch

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Speaker 1: the game last night, what happened was that Melbourne were

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Speaker 1: leading for the vast majority of it. In the last

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Speaker 1: five minutes of stoppage time, Auckland FC managed to equalize

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Speaker 1: and so it was two too, and so they still

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Speaker 1: haven't lost. They've had basically wins in one draw. But

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Speaker 1: there was also the own goal. Now the own goal,

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Speaker 1: I mean there are own goals and then there are

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Speaker 1: own goals, and that was one of those. Was one

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Speaker 1: where the guys were like, oh, hold on, they just

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Speaker 1: kick the ball backwards to the to the you know

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Speaker 1: how they do that. They turn around. It's a weird

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Speaker 1: thing they do in football, turn around, kick the ball

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Speaker 1: backwards to the goalie and the goalie picks it up

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Speaker 1: and sort of punts it down the park. Except the

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Speaker 1: goalie just let it keep going and it went straight

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Speaker 1: into the goal.

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