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Speaker 1: The Blues. The Blues are considering ditching Eden Park and

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Speaker 1: playing their games at Mount Smart instead, the start of

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Speaker 1: canvassing the views of fans before they make a call

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Speaker 1: for next season. Andrew Hall is the Blue CEO and

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Speaker 1: with us.

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Speaker 2: Morning Andrew, good morning, How are you today?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well? Thank you? Are you? Are you just

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Speaker 1: having a look around or are you serious about this?

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Speaker 2: No, we're serious about having a look around. We over

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Speaker 2: the last few years, I think one of the changes

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Speaker 2: that is happening in rugby is becoming far more fan centric.

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Speaker 2: And that's a good thing, right. I heard you one

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Speaker 2: a log there this morning and I agree with a

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Speaker 2: lot of it. But to be the sport we want

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Speaker 2: to be, we've got to talk to our fans and

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Speaker 2: find out what is going to motivate them. We've seen

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Speaker 2: growth and broadcast numbers, which is great, and we've seen

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Speaker 2: a slight increase in crowds over the last three years,

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Speaker 2: but we want to accelerate that now. It may not be.

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Speaker 2: It may not be moving from Eden Park that is

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Speaker 2: the answer, but it could be, and we've got to

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Speaker 2: investigat a revenue.

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Speaker 1: Have you asked fans why they don't want to come

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Speaker 1: to the park, whatever the park is.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we have over the over the years and

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Speaker 2: we do every year. Okay, members, we have and largely

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Speaker 2: the team results, which which you would argue in the

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Speaker 2: last few years as we've made finals, I being we

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Speaker 2: sold the final out in three years I heard. You've

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Speaker 2: got to be very careful in a situation like this.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to look at specific fixtures, but the fact

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Speaker 2: is the crowds are that have been on the intercrease.

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Speaker 2: It was twenty six thousand there for the Chiefs sold

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Speaker 2: out final. What they're looking for is team performance first

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Speaker 2: and then followed by that match experience. We are food

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Speaker 2: and beverage, sound system, transport are all taken into account

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Speaker 2: and have all been part of the questions that we're

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Speaker 2: asking people to come back to us on.

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Speaker 1: So if you're just serious about looking around, is it

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Speaker 1: wrong for me to deduce that you're doing this actually

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Speaker 1: to pressure Eden for a better deal, Like you have

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Speaker 1: no plans to move, You just want a better you

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Speaker 1: want to screw a better deal out of them.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, We're we're genuinely asking our fans.

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Speaker 2: I just think we've got to be careful that a

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Speaker 2: domestic sport or a club sport isn't trying to solve

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Speaker 2: what is potentially national stadium issues here and we're we're

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Speaker 2: committed to staying at Edton Park if that's what people

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Speaker 2: deem as important to them. So no, that's not the case.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask ask these questions?

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Speaker 1: Andrew? I got the best idea that I had pitched

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Speaker 1: to me was actually what you guys should do is

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Speaker 1: take the franchise around the province, right, So go down

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Speaker 1: to book A COWI play a fixture there, go to Manedo,

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Speaker 1: were playerf fixture there in North Harbor because then it

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Speaker 1: becomes an event.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've played I think last year you've seen

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Speaker 2: we've been to northumb and it was a it was

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Speaker 2: a fantastic success, there's no doubt about that. We often

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Speaker 2: we play our pre seasons at Takapoona. We can't play

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Speaker 2: in Pocka Coe because that's actually Chiefs Country. But don't

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 1: Don't do that to me because I'm from Pooka Coe

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Speaker 1: and I thought that I was in Blues country. Are

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Speaker 1: you telling me now because it's switched as it.

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Speaker 2: Well yet well technically, but you I'm pleased to hear

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Speaker 2: you that's good. Yes, you're you're of a generation where we,

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Speaker 2: like myself, where where Counties was part of part of

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Speaker 2: Blues and we very much enjoyed that.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to have to swap jersey now.

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Speaker 2: Just no chance we'll get a blue one to you.

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Speaker 2: We know you're go under the Eaton park box regularly.

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Speaker 2: That's me.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm Blues all the way, have to be Andrew,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much, really appreciate Andrew hall Auckland Blue CEO.

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Speaker 1: Lord who knew.

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Speaker 3: Switched Steelers talk you you were doing yesterday? You really

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Speaker 3: should have known that. I should have known. Mind you,

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Speaker 3: there are still a lot of Northland supporters who feel

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Speaker 3: more aligned with the Chiefs because it was you know,

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Speaker 3: it used to be Wyat over Northland and the middle

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Speaker 3: was the Blues.

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Speaker 1: Where it is you know what it is, where your

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Speaker 1: soul is, you know where your soul believes it belongs,

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Speaker 1: rather than and my soul has been with the Blues.

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Speaker 1: I'm just what I'm trying to do right now is

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Speaker 1: just digging myself at a giant hole where I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize that being on the board it means you just

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Speaker 1: get traded for more

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