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Speaker 1: The Friday sports Huddle with New Zealand Southeby's International Realty,

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Speaker 1: local and global exposure like no other.

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Speaker 2: Back you over writed, no back kicking in.

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Speaker 3: I feel like broadcasters should be helping us grow our

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Speaker 3: sport and help these athletes who just won matches on

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Speaker 3: the biggest stage enjoy one of their biggest moments.

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Speaker 2: The last thing you want is supply is thinking, actually,

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Speaker 2: well I'm going to leave school at fifteen and to

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Speaker 2: go in to Australia play NRL or whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just we've got to be really thoughtful

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Speaker 2: about eligible team.

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Speaker 4: All right, just get into a sports huddle out of Friday.

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Speaker 4: We've got Eliot Smith, our deputy sports news director, and

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Speaker 4: Lavina Goods, sports journalist.

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Speaker 3: Hello people, afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Yep, good an, nice to chat with you.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, How good was that Curry story?

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Speaker 5: Eliot?

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Speaker 3: Oh, fantastic. Look, I I know my sister her husband

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Speaker 3: had got tickets. They got the months ago. They live

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Speaker 3: in West Melton, which is about ten minutes drive away

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Speaker 3: from Kerwei. So there's some of the two thousand extras

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Speaker 3: that are coming into Kerwei for the afternoon, and no

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Speaker 3: doubt they'll have an afternoon out. I know special to

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Speaker 3: see rugby go to these regions, whether it's pre season

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Speaker 4: Well, the Crusaders are getting them a cat. Couldn't they

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Speaker 3: Quite possibly? You know, three thousand people times. Whatever they

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Speaker 3: or whatever it might be, is probably not going to

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Speaker 3: be too much skin off the nose of the Crusaders.

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Speaker 3: Mind you, they're not getting Richie and Wanga back, so

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Speaker 3: maybe they need to get the money in when they can.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Elliott's just brought up the elephant of the room,

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Speaker 4: Levenna Richie mul Langa. Why do you think Razor didn't

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Speaker 4: it Richie didn't want to come back or we couldn't

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Speaker 5: I think the big question actually is did the All

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Speaker 5: Blacks need more anger? And that's a big fact, yes,

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Speaker 5: without doubt. I mean, body Barrett's getting a bit old

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Speaker 5: and McKenzie's really not making the cart at the moment

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Speaker 5: and at this stage the way it stands, even though

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Speaker 5: Razor was saying we'll get him back, it doesn't look

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Speaker 5: like he'll be available till mid next year, which will

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Speaker 5: be far too late I think for the All Blacks.

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Speaker 5: It's just a bit ironic. Maybe in July next year.

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Speaker 5: This year, sorry, he'll be playing for an invitational fifteen

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Speaker 5: against the Lions as a warm up where the All

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Speaker 5: Blacks will play against France. I guess you know. The

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Speaker 5: other thing is do I want Richie more On going

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Speaker 5: to play for the All Blacks?

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Speaker 5: I feel sorry for him earning six million dollars playing

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Speaker 5: for Japan for three years.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 5: Should New Zealand Rugby change its rules if they want

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Speaker 5: the All Blacks to be successful in twenty twenty five, probably, yes,

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Speaker 5: we need more anger. You should be here.

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Speaker 4: Well yeah, okay, but that again you could have another

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Speaker 4: question is can we open up selection overseas?

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Speaker 1: Why not?

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Speaker 5: In a way, I think that might be the way

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Speaker 5: So whether or not you know you can open up

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Speaker 4: Elliot's watched every single All Blacks game this season, So

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Speaker 3: Look, I think the time is coming where they're going

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Speaker 3: they want to protect super rugby as much as possible,

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Speaker 3: At least you know he's out of there. He's not

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Speaker 3: They would have to play all blacks, fees and various

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Speaker 3: pretty soon for New Zealand Rugby to make a call

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Speaker 3: think it ultimately it's looking like a battle. They're probably

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Speaker 4: Elliott and Levina as Levina is on the sports huddle

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Speaker 4: and we're going to continue in a few minutes time,

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Speaker 4: and we're going to talk tennis, and we're going to

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Speaker 4: talk crickets, and we're going to talk sailing.

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Speaker 1: The Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand Southeby's International Realty

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Speaker 4: A very good and Elliot Smith. This is the sports huddle,

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Speaker 4: I mean, Dickens. It is five all in the first set,

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Speaker 4: and that first set has been going for an hour.

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Speaker 4: This is great tennis this year, Elliott.

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Speaker 3: It has been absolutely and I think when you take

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Speaker 3: It's been a great tournament so far. There's been obviously

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Speaker 4: I hope so, because I'm working until seven. So Lavina,

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Speaker 4: here's the thing. Novak called out Tony Jones, Ben Sheldon

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Speaker 5: I actually wasn't offended by John Fitzgerald's comments in reference

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Speaker 5: quite colloquial and patriotic, and I just look, the thing

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Speaker 5: if everyone agrees with this andrel and Elliott, but the

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Speaker 4: We don't want to watch amagon tennis players, so why

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Speaker 4: the Super Smash is a fantastic product, but not enough

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Speaker 3: Absolutely we should. It should be the first thing on

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Speaker 3: But it's the natural comparison that people make and the

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Speaker 3: Right now in January, you've got to join or you're

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Speaker 4: And Navin a last question for you should or complay

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Speaker 4: anything to get sale DP back.

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Speaker 5: What twenty five people turn up to watch it and

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Speaker 5: that's a really good thing. It's a great event. But

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Speaker 5: South Island. Do we have to fork out for that?

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Speaker 5: It might just come down to the fact approach more

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Speaker 5: they're great events and it's wonderful to watch. I just

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Speaker 5: don't know if we can afford to fork out when

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Speaker 5: we've got to pay for roads, good pay for education, got

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Speaker 5: to pay for health.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you had a restaurant down and CBD,

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Speaker 4: you just go yep, yep, yep, yep, and then yep.

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Speaker 5: You know what I mean.

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