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Speaker 1: Now rugby the nine year old. So the nine year

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Speaker 1: old Auckland boy, he's from Counties Mancal has been told

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Speaker 1: he can't play rugby in the same grade as his

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Speaker 1: friends because he's too heavy. This is the county's Manecau

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Speaker 1: club competition. He's fifty four CAGs but the year four

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Speaker 1: grade has a weight limit of forty five cag's.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Kevin part is a rugby commentator and with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, hey Kevin, good afternoon, Heather.

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Speaker 1: Apparently it's unsafe. Have they made the right call?

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Speaker 2: Look, it's not unnecessarily about the right call. They've got

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Speaker 2: systems in place to try and look after safety. There's

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Speaker 2: just as many of the kids that are on the

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Speaker 2: other end of the scale that parents are going, well,

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Speaker 2: my little lad's not playing if it's not going to

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Speaker 2: be a safe game. So they've got to have some

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Speaker 2: sort of bandwidth. I guess the argument is where does

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Speaker 2: that go? Is a couple of cage's forgivable. But if

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Speaker 2: I'm you know, I was one of those skinny little

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Speaker 2: guys that was sort of around thirty five kg's playing

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Speaker 2: against the fifty five, I imagine mum would have been a

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Speaker 2: little bit concerned as well.

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Speaker 1: Does I mean if if you've got a weight limit

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Speaker 1: of forty five, so that's the uppermost right, So as

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Speaker 1: you say, there might be thirty five little boys and

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Speaker 1: like thirty five kg dudes in there, yep, is that

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Speaker 1: going to make a difference that extra nine cag's above

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Speaker 1: the limit?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look it does. Around safety, you've seen what's happening,

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Speaker 2: not just at the baby level that we're talking about

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Speaker 2: at professional level. Safety is the key thing. You know

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Speaker 2: that they've actually taken away tackle from the had they

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Speaker 2: had rip a rugby going for years. So please, we're

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Speaker 2: talking now about an exclusion of an individual. They're trying

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Speaker 2: to save the game as it is at the moment,

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Speaker 2: So I can understand if they had not given alternative

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Speaker 2: or some sort of compromise, then you could have a

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Speaker 2: real moan about it. But they said, well, hey, play

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Speaker 2: up a grade. Mum said no, that's not good enough,

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Speaker 2: my lad, And she's well within her rights. Well I

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Speaker 2: tell you what, in which case, go play football for

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Speaker 2: a year, get some good skills, come back and better

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Speaker 2: be a better rugby player. But if she had no

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Speaker 2: other options then it would have been a little bit unfair.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Kevin, I really appreciate it. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for your time. That's Kevin Putt be commentator.

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