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Speaker 1: Heather Duke for CELA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're putting on extra security for the football in

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Speaker 2: Wellington tomorrow. This is of course the first big derby

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Speaker 2: between the Wellington Phoenix and the newcomers Auckland FC and

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Speaker 2: the Phoenix reckon that there have been threats of organized

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Speaker 2: violence from visiting fans on social media. Now. Nick Becker

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Speaker 2: is the CEO of AFC and with us Hey.

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Speaker 1: Nick, Hey, Heather, how are you doing well? Thanks?

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Speaker 2: Mate? Is this credible? You've seen any of these threats?

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Speaker 1: No, it's absolute nonsense. I haven't seen anything. I've asked

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Speaker 1: Wellington to send me their proof. They haven't sent me anything.

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Speaker 1: So I think it might just be a little keyboard warrior.

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Speaker 1: So it's probably some spotted little fourteen year old getting

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Speaker 1: over excited. But no, there's absolutely no credibility to it

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Speaker 2: Possible that is a bit of smack talk from the Phoenix.

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Speaker 1: It could be. I mean, they'd be quite smart for them,

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Speaker 1: so it might be.

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Speaker 2: Are they getting you back for the stunt that you

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Speaker 2: people pulled with the T shirt thing?

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Speaker 1: Ah, that wasn't us here, that came.

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Speaker 2: Oh the stunt that was pulled on your.

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Speaker 1: Behalf, it was it was on our behalf. It was

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Speaker 1: somebody representing Orkan FC, and I think they did a

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Speaker 1: great job. But there definitely wasn't I didn't have anything

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Speaker 2: I forget the details. I forget the details, but I'm

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Speaker 2: loving this rivalry already. Hey, how many fans?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 2: It is good. It makes it really interesting. We don't

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Speaker 2: have enough of this stuff in the country, don't you think.

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Speaker 1: No, it's exciting. And it's like, you know, you want

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Speaker 1: to bet football's tribal, right, and you want to have

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Speaker 1: that tribalism. You want fans to have a bit of bands.

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Speaker 1: You want it to be fun, you want it to

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Speaker 1: be entertaining, and that's and that's exactly what it is.

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Speaker 1: Kiwi football fans aren't hooligans and there's not going to

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Speaker 1: be any trouble tomorrow. It's it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: fantastic moment for New Zealand football.

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Speaker 2: Now, how many fans do you reckon? You've got headed

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Speaker 2: down because that's a lot of yellow that they've got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it how's it? They've got a

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Speaker 1: loocs as well, But we've got I reckon. We had

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Speaker 1: about four or five hundred coming down so it could

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Speaker 1: be more. We've the port who are our official supporters club,

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Speaker 1: said that they've got about four hundred of them going down.

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Speaker 1: So they'll bring the noise, they'll bring the energy, they'll

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Speaker 1: bring the fun. It's going to be a great night.

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Speaker 2: Did you see the tab odds are stacked against you?

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Speaker 1: Are they? No? I haven't I unless them? What are they?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't remember exactly. I thought that's

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Speaker 2: what off because I would have thought you guys would

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Speaker 2: be the favorites, given that you've come and hot.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you want it? You want to go in as

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Speaker 1: an underdog? Done, you snatch three points and then get

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Speaker 1: out of work, well into as quickly as we can.

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Speaker 2: How how far do you reckon? You can take the

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Speaker 2: swimming streak in your first season?

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Speaker 1: Oh well, you know, we've got to keep our feet

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Speaker 1: firmly on the ground. But we have had we've had

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Speaker 1: a dream start. I think the boys. The boys have

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Speaker 1: jowled really well and they're just going to get better.

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Speaker 1: Even from round one to round two we've improved. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm confident that we're going to come down here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna put up everything that we've got

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Speaker 1: and you know, if we get the three points, fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Long may the streak continue. I don't want to put

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Speaker 1: in I don't want to jinx it by saying it

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Speaker 1: could go on forever, but yeah, we want it. Will

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Speaker 1: play as hard as we can.

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Speaker 2: What's the magic source? Like, what's making you guys click

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Speaker 2: so well? Is it the money?

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Speaker 1: Now? I think it's it's more the people, right. We

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Speaker 1: from day one we said we're going to go out

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Speaker 1: and we're going to get good people. We've got Steve Kayaker,

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Speaker 1: proven winner, he's won as a player, he's wonner as

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Speaker 1: And I've worked in football for over twenty years, and

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Speaker 1: you know, the guys get on so well. I think

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Speaker 1: we've been really clever with some of our foreign players.

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Speaker 1: The visa spots that come in, you can get up

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Speaker 1: Heroki who's our club captain. You know, he's gone to

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Speaker 1: got a bit of South American flair, and we've got

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Speaker 1: the first two games. So Steve's got them playing really well.

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Speaker 1: That plays a style that we want to play, attacking,

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Speaker 1: exciting football. And we've got some great Kiwis in there too.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've got five current All Whites. We've got

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Speaker 1: so it's an exciting young team and we can't wait

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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Nick, I'm convinced you're gonna win. Good on you,

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Speaker 2: Nick Becker, the CEO of Auckland FC. Laura producer. Laura

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Speaker 2: just looked up the tab odds. She knows how to

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Speaker 2: do this thin. She's into that kind of thing. She says.

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Speaker 2: Wellington is paying two dollars forty five and Auckland's paying

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Speaker 2: two dollars seventy, so it's not like not a huge

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Speaker 2: difference is it?

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