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Speaker 1: from newstalk ZEDB, the only place to discuss the biggest

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Speaker 3: Ford with Jason Vane on your home of sport news

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Speaker 3: Talk Killing.

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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, Welcome into Weekend Sport, the Sunday edition for

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Speaker 4: April twenty seven. Happy birthday to Ni Kurios. I'm Jason Pine,

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Speaker 4: show producer Bevan Dua. We are here talking sport until

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Speaker 4: three this afternoon. Auckland FC our A League premieres at

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Speaker 4: the first time of asking. A nilall draw for second

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Speaker 4: place to Melbourne City against Adelaide United last night meant

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Speaker 4: that they now cannot catch Auckland f C at the top,

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Speaker 4: so the regular season silver aware. The Premier's plate is

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Speaker 4: Auckland f C's and what an occasion it promises to

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Speaker 4: be this afternoon at go Media Stadium when the Black

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Speaker 4: Knights host Perth Glory, looking to extend their unbeaten run

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Speaker 4: to fourteen matches. After the game, the Premier's plate will

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Speaker 4: be presented to the team in front of what is

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Speaker 4: likely to be another sold out crowd. What an occasion.

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Speaker 4: The weather I got to report not that flash in

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Speaker 4: Auckland today, but I doubt that'll dampen the enthusiasm of

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Speaker 4: the club's passionate fan base on this historic afternoon. CEO

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Speaker 4: of the club, Nick Becker standing by the chat with

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Speaker 4: his key players in the team, Nando Pineker and Louis

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Speaker 4: Vstrata both on the show this afternoon. So too is

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Speaker 4: Perth Glory and All Whites goalkeeper Olie's Sail. They are

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Speaker 4: it's a real contrast between they and Auckland FC. But

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Speaker 4: could they spoil the party somewhat this afternoon by by

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Speaker 4: getting a result? It wouldn't affect the Premier's plate, but

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Speaker 4: I'm sure Perth Glory are here to try and win

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Speaker 4: the match. Ali Sail on the show. Penny of time

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Speaker 4: for your calls and reaction to to this quite remarkable achievement.

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Speaker 4: This club didn't even exist at the start of twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty four and now they're lifting a trophy. Auckland FC

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Speaker 4: fans who have been there from the start, how good

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Speaker 4: How is it because from the outside looking in it

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Speaker 4: looks magnificent. Other matters around today, Round eleven is super

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Speaker 4: rugby in the books. The Crusaders joined the Chiefs at

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Speaker 4: the top last night without forty three to ten humbling

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Speaker 4: of the Highlanders down in Dunedin, the Hurricanes into the

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Speaker 4: top six. They beat the Brumbies in Canberra for the

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Speaker 4: first time since twenty seventeen. Wina Pacifica stayed in the

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Speaker 4: playoff picture with victory over the Fiji, and Drew will

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Speaker 4: cover those games off and try to predict the top six.

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Speaker 4: We know the Crusaders and the Chiefs will be one

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Speaker 4: and two in some order or another, but good luck

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Speaker 4: predicting the rest. And also we complete our journey around

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Speaker 4: the New Zealand franchise CEOs Andrew Ware from the Blues

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Speaker 4: with us after one o'clock today. The Ice Blacks, that's

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Speaker 4: our men's ice hockey team about to start the IIHF

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Speaker 4: that's the end National Ice Hockey Federation twenty twenty five

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Speaker 4: World Championship Division two Group B tournaments in deneed It.

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Speaker 4: Head coach Cam Freer is with us ahead of their

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Speaker 4: first game tonight and still a football actually barring an

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Speaker 4: utter catastrophe, Liverpool are going to win the Premier League

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Speaker 4: this season, and possibly as early as tomorrow morning. Chair

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Speaker 4: of the official Liverpool Supporters Group of Wellington, Andrew McGoff

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Speaker 4: on that James McConney along in his regular slot with

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Speaker 4: his Sunday offerings Live Sport this afternoon. The first round

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Speaker 4: of the NBA playoffs ongoing. In fact, there's game on

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Speaker 4: right now between the Clippers and the Nuggets. This game

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Speaker 4: the Nuggets are head by eighty five to sixty five,

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Speaker 4: of seven, of course. Earlier today, okay, see the Oklahoma

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Speaker 4: At twelve thirty this afternoon in San Francisco, the Golden

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Speaker 4: Auckland FC have won the A League Premiers plate after

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Speaker 4: an incredible inaugural season.

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Speaker 5: What havings us the whistle in his mouth and says

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Speaker 5: that will do and this result here Tonight's meets that

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Speaker 5: Auckland are the premieres in their debut season on an

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Speaker 2: It'll be some.

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Speaker 5: Party in New Zealand's later on this weekend.

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Speaker 4: There certainly will be that'll be this afternoon. With two

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Speaker 4: games remaining in their regular season, Auckland FC have sealed

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Speaker 4: Melbourne City drew nillall with Adelaide United last night. That

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Speaker 4: result leaves Auckland in an unassailable position with just one

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Speaker 4: regardless of the result against Perth Glory, Auckland will lift

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Speaker 4: the Premier's Plate in front of an expected sold out

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Speaker 4: home crowd at go Media Stadium. Club CEO is Nick Becker,

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Speaker 4: who joins us our on Weekend Sport. Thanks for your time, Nick,

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Speaker 4: and congratulations to you and everybody involved in the football club.

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Speaker 4: With the messages flying around last night when the final

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Speaker 6: Twelve or so, they were piney, thank you for having

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Speaker 6: just shows we have been the best team across the

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Speaker 6: but still that doesn't change the feeling, which is fantastic

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Speaker 4: It certainly won't dilute the occasion this afternoon. Well, now,

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Speaker 4: can you confirm the plate itself will physically be at

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Did any part of you sort of hope that

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, I actually I had a gut finess.

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Speaker 4: Why do you think this team has been so successful

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Speaker 6: He did a great job in recruiting Steve Character, who

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Speaker 4: You mentioned before that it was your stated aim, you know,

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Speaker 4: Bill Fowley. Did you, in your heart of HEARTSNAK predict

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Speaker 6: Know what, as right at the start, I was confident

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Speaker 6: right at the start, Piny, I was hopeful. I wasn't.

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Speaker 4: And you've set the standard off the field as well.

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Speaker 4: Your regular season average crowd is going to be in

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Speaker 4: the region of eighteen thousand, and I mean, having experienced

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Speaker 4: it a number of times myself, it's the best place

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Speaker 6: Ah, the Aucan fans have been a revelation. They've been

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Speaker 6: absolutely amazing. The thing that's bright their way is there's

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Speaker 6: They've done that and so that's I think that kind

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Speaker 10: of given this. I definitely it's given a new light

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Speaker 10: to sort of how amazing and how cool it is

433
00:21:23,387 --> 00:21:25,747
Speaker 10: and why it's sort of, you know, one of the

434
00:21:25,747 --> 00:21:26,747
Speaker 10: best sports in the world.

435
00:21:27,307 --> 00:21:28,907
Speaker 4: Indeed, have you been along to many games?

436
00:21:30,467 --> 00:21:31,947
Speaker 10: Yeah, been to a couple of year, as you say,

437
00:21:32,027 --> 00:21:34,347
Speaker 10: I went to sort of won two three games in

438
00:21:34,387 --> 00:21:35,947
Speaker 10: and then you just you're hooked.

439
00:21:36,107 --> 00:21:39,187
Speaker 11: You're hooked. Good stuff.

440
00:21:39,667 --> 00:21:42,147
Speaker 4: Yeah, good on your John got on, you make great

441
00:21:42,187 --> 00:21:44,667
Speaker 4: and dead right good to get that experience from here

442
00:21:44,667 --> 00:21:47,347
Speaker 4: from living in the city. Yeah, that's what it feels

443
00:21:47,387 --> 00:21:49,827
Speaker 4: like up here. I'm up in Auckland today. That's what

444
00:21:49,827 --> 00:21:53,547
Speaker 4: it feels like. It's it's an incredible sporting ecosystem in Auckland.

445
00:21:53,587 --> 00:21:55,187
Speaker 4: You know, when you think of of the Blues and

446
00:21:55,267 --> 00:21:58,107
Speaker 4: more Wana, Pacifica, the Warriors and now Auckland f C.

447
00:21:58,747 --> 00:22:02,027
Speaker 4: I'm sure they can all happily coexist. They must be

448
00:22:02,067 --> 00:22:04,707
Speaker 4: able to. It's a big enough city but Auckland f

449
00:22:04,747 --> 00:22:07,747
Speaker 4: C have come in and they've they've turned head straight away.

450
00:22:07,787 --> 00:22:09,787
Speaker 4: Look if you if you're a sporting body and you're

451
00:22:09,787 --> 00:22:11,907
Speaker 4: not paying attention to what Auckland f C you're doing,

452
00:22:12,467 --> 00:22:16,307
Speaker 4: then you know you're missing a trick. Thanks for your call, John, Hey, Sean.

453
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Speaker 8: Mate, how are you good?

454
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Speaker 4: Sean?

455
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Speaker 12: Good?

456
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Speaker 8: Excellent, excellent. Look, I'm just ringing to say. Look, I've

457
00:22:22,427 --> 00:22:25,347
Speaker 8: been I've grown up with rugby league, I've gone to

458
00:22:25,387 --> 00:22:29,267
Speaker 8: a number of games, I've played for my country and

459
00:22:29,707 --> 00:22:33,987
Speaker 8: now now all of a sudden, I'm just blowing away

460
00:22:34,027 --> 00:22:38,827
Speaker 8: with the results and you know, and I've I've become

461
00:22:38,827 --> 00:22:45,227
Speaker 8: a fan overnight with AFEC. Just the momentum, incredible results

462
00:22:45,307 --> 00:22:47,867
Speaker 8: and you know, the results speak to themselves. And yeah,

463
00:22:48,027 --> 00:22:50,547
Speaker 8: look jumping on the bad wagon. You asked that later on,

464
00:22:50,667 --> 00:22:52,907
Speaker 8: that's me and very excited. I'm going to go to

465
00:22:52,947 --> 00:22:56,147
Speaker 8: the game for the first time today and yeah, really

466
00:22:56,187 --> 00:22:56,907
Speaker 8: really looking.

467
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Speaker 7: Forward to it.

468
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Speaker 4: Sure, and you will absolutely love it, mate, even though

469
00:22:59,187 --> 00:23:01,067
Speaker 4: it's a little bit damp today, Mate, you'll love it.

470
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Speaker 4: And I can almost guarantee without knowing fo one hundred percent, sir,

471
00:23:04,627 --> 00:23:06,067
Speaker 4: but I can almost I can say with a fair

472
00:23:06,107 --> 00:23:09,947
Speaker 4: degree certainty that that after today you'll you'll be looking

473
00:23:09,947 --> 00:23:11,907
Speaker 4: for a ticket for the semi final. Mate, I think

474
00:23:11,947 --> 00:23:14,827
Speaker 4: you'll really enjoy it. And I've always said about bandwagons,

475
00:23:14,827 --> 00:23:17,627
Speaker 4: they're off infinite size. Everybody is welcome. It doesn't matter

476
00:23:17,627 --> 00:23:19,707
Speaker 4: if you jump on right at the end when things

477
00:23:19,707 --> 00:23:21,667
Speaker 4: are going well, or you've been through the thick and thin.

478
00:23:21,747 --> 00:23:24,267
Speaker 4: I mean, goodness me Warriors fans have been through thick

479
00:23:24,307 --> 00:23:26,587
Speaker 4: and thin. They get bandwagon fans jumping on and off

480
00:23:26,587 --> 00:23:29,107
Speaker 4: all the time, as you probably know. But you know,

481
00:23:29,267 --> 00:23:33,067
Speaker 4: but anybody you know, you're allowed. That's what band wagons are.

482
00:23:33,147 --> 00:23:35,027
Speaker 4: You can jump on and off as much as you like.

483
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Speaker 6: Yeah.

484
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, Look, I'm really looking forward to it. As you say,

485
00:23:39,547 --> 00:23:42,507
Speaker 8: it's my first game and the results are there. They've

486
00:23:42,547 --> 00:23:44,267
Speaker 8: got a winning formula. I don't know what it is

487
00:23:44,707 --> 00:23:46,987
Speaker 8: listening carefully, it could be the coach to be the players.

488
00:23:47,027 --> 00:23:49,547
Speaker 8: The attitude's there, but getting along in a bag wagon.

489
00:23:49,587 --> 00:23:51,387
Speaker 8: I'm certainly looking forward to it, mate, it should be

490
00:23:51,427 --> 00:23:54,547
Speaker 8: a fantastic game. Good I'm sure I'm a supporter, mate,

491
00:23:54,547 --> 00:23:56,067
Speaker 8: one hundred percent supporter good Man.

492
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Speaker 4: Sure, I just find them just well, I've got your mate,

493
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Speaker 4: you reckon the Warriors will do it right this year.

494
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, results all about results in

495
00:24:03,707 --> 00:24:06,587
Speaker 8: the field. I'm used to those results through my care

496
00:24:07,427 --> 00:24:09,507
Speaker 8: you know. And and it's got to turn up on

497
00:24:09,547 --> 00:24:11,587
Speaker 8: the day mate, And the Warriors have been turned up

498
00:24:11,587 --> 00:24:13,867
Speaker 8: for every game. Look, they haven't got all the star

499
00:24:13,987 --> 00:24:16,307
Speaker 8: players that they have a few injuries, but you know

500
00:24:16,507 --> 00:24:19,827
Speaker 8: it's all about attitude, as you know, any any league,

501
00:24:19,827 --> 00:24:23,507
Speaker 8: any professional games about attitude. So yeah, look I think

502
00:24:23,507 --> 00:24:25,747
Speaker 8: they'll do well, but today it's all about AFC mat

503
00:24:25,827 --> 00:24:28,667
Speaker 8: They're going to do well and really really looking forward

504
00:24:28,667 --> 00:24:31,667
Speaker 8: to going to the game. What a fantastic thing to

505
00:24:31,707 --> 00:24:33,467
Speaker 8: be part of, a dynasty be part of and I

506
00:24:33,467 --> 00:24:35,547
Speaker 8: think they will create a dynasty in New Zealand. Well

507
00:24:35,587 --> 00:24:36,067
Speaker 8: done to them.

508
00:24:36,267 --> 00:24:38,707
Speaker 4: Love it sean good stuff mate, enjoy yourself this afternoon.

509
00:24:38,787 --> 00:24:41,187
Speaker 4: I guarantee you will. And amongst the crowds there at

510
00:24:41,227 --> 00:24:43,067
Speaker 4: go media stay in this afternoon. I think there are

511
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Speaker 4: still tickets left. I know that they're they're they're pretty

512
00:24:46,387 --> 00:24:49,307
Speaker 4: close to selling it out. I do. I do believe

513
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Speaker 4: there are tickets left. That won't be the case for

514
00:24:51,947 --> 00:24:54,747
Speaker 4: the semi final and if they make it the Grand final,

515
00:24:54,787 --> 00:24:58,347
Speaker 4: that'll be cheap as you'll you'll have to really be quick.

516
00:24:58,827 --> 00:25:01,187
Speaker 4: I don't know whether those tickets have gone on sale yet.

517
00:25:01,387 --> 00:25:03,387
Speaker 4: I probably should have asked Nick Becker when they'll go

518
00:25:03,467 --> 00:25:06,187
Speaker 4: on sale. Maybe I know that they listening to the

519
00:25:06,187 --> 00:25:08,307
Speaker 4: sh shoh. Maybe somebody from the club will let us know.

520
00:25:09,467 --> 00:25:11,627
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think there are still a few tickets

521
00:25:11,627 --> 00:25:15,707
Speaker 4: for this afternoon. They've sold it out three times, opening

522
00:25:15,787 --> 00:25:18,627
Speaker 4: Day when they beat Brisbane and the two derbies against

523
00:25:18,627 --> 00:25:21,867
Speaker 4: Wellington Phoenix, both of which they won. Those were the

524
00:25:21,907 --> 00:25:26,627
Speaker 4: three sellouts they've had, but they've had. I I worked

525
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Speaker 4: it out that if they get over twenty two thousand today,

526
00:25:29,907 --> 00:25:35,667
Speaker 4: their season average will be eighteen thousand, eighteen thousand. It's

527
00:25:36,107 --> 00:25:39,707
Speaker 4: you know, you look at any super rugby side would

528
00:25:39,867 --> 00:25:44,307
Speaker 4: kill for an eighteen thousand average crowd across a twelve

529
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Speaker 4: thirteen game season. Any of them would bite your hand

530
00:25:48,427 --> 00:25:50,427
Speaker 4: off for that. So, as I say, you have to,

531
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Speaker 4: if you are in sports administration at any level, look

532
00:25:55,227 --> 00:25:57,627
Speaker 4: at what Auckland FC have done as a case study

533
00:25:58,587 --> 00:26:02,267
Speaker 4: and ask yourself what you can take from it. Twenty

534
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Speaker 4: eight Away from One News Talk sai'd b o eight

535
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Speaker 4: hundred and eighty ten eighty. This talks on football now

536
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Speaker 4: to pinic at a come before one o'clock as well, would.

537
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Speaker 1: You be the TMO have your say on eight hundred

538
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Speaker 1: eighty eighty Weekends Sport with Jason Hym and GJ. Guvnerholmes,

539
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's most trusted home builder news Talks, there'd.

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Speaker 4: Be twenty five to one. Just keeping an eye on

541
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Speaker 4: Live Sport and NBA basketball. I think I mentioned the

542
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Speaker 4: three quarter time score between the Clippers and the Nuggets

543
00:26:28,627 --> 00:26:33,587
Speaker 4: in LA and it was eighty five sixty five at

544
00:26:33,587 --> 00:26:36,507
Speaker 4: three quarter time to the Denver Nuggets, so a twenty

545
00:26:36,547 --> 00:26:39,227
Speaker 4: point lead. The Clippers have closed that up to a

546
00:26:39,387 --> 00:26:42,147
Speaker 4: one point game with a minute thirty eight to go

547
00:26:42,387 --> 00:26:45,947
Speaker 4: ninety six ninety five, the Nuggets lead the Clippers now,

548
00:26:46,547 --> 00:26:49,547
Speaker 4: so what a fourth quarter from the Clippers in front

549
00:26:49,547 --> 00:26:50,187
Speaker 4: of their home fans.

550
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Speaker 12: Hello, Mike, Yeah, Hi Piney, Yeah, that's a great release.

551
00:26:55,347 --> 00:26:58,267
Speaker 12: I'm really impressed with what Auckland FC you have done

552
00:26:58,507 --> 00:27:02,667
Speaker 12: and what they had achieved. And I don't really follow

553
00:27:02,747 --> 00:27:07,107
Speaker 12: football myself, but apart from what I've heard from you

554
00:27:07,187 --> 00:27:10,627
Speaker 12: usually on a Saturday or Sunday about what the results

555
00:27:10,627 --> 00:27:13,667
Speaker 12: have been and things, and you yourself definitely have an

556
00:27:13,707 --> 00:27:18,467
Speaker 12: ability to create a lot of enthusiasm, which is quite

557
00:27:19,387 --> 00:27:20,147
Speaker 12: quite addictive.

558
00:27:21,627 --> 00:27:24,267
Speaker 4: Other things like that. Well, I hope, I think, I

559
00:27:24,307 --> 00:27:26,107
Speaker 4: hope that's a good thing. I hope that's a good thing.

560
00:27:26,267 --> 00:27:28,147
Speaker 7: Well it is, Yeah, you know you do.

561
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Speaker 12: And you know I've just been listening in over the

562
00:27:31,267 --> 00:27:34,827
Speaker 12: weeks and months and I really am impressed. But you

563
00:27:35,267 --> 00:27:39,267
Speaker 12: gave last weekend, you gave some equations and you said

564
00:27:39,307 --> 00:27:44,427
Speaker 12: that Auckland FC were on fifty points and Melbourne were

565
00:27:44,467 --> 00:27:48,227
Speaker 12: on forty four. So the equation was that if Auckland

566
00:27:48,347 --> 00:27:52,467
Speaker 12: lost two games and Melbourne won two games, then they

567
00:27:52,467 --> 00:27:54,507
Speaker 12: would be drawn at fifty points and it would come

568
00:27:54,547 --> 00:27:56,747
Speaker 12: down to you said, a points differential or something.

569
00:27:56,827 --> 00:27:59,347
Speaker 4: Yeah, gold difference here, oh your gold diferend.

570
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Speaker 12: And I thought, oh, here we go this this could

571
00:28:01,787 --> 00:28:05,067
Speaker 12: this could potentially be a Chapel underarm bowl here.

572
00:28:05,587 --> 00:28:08,347
Speaker 7: So that would be yeah, that would that. That would

573
00:28:08,387 --> 00:28:09,067
Speaker 7: be if.

574
00:28:09,827 --> 00:28:14,107
Speaker 12: Auckland lost both games and then Melbourne won the first

575
00:28:14,227 --> 00:28:16,587
Speaker 12: and got to the second with Newcastle. I saw on

576
00:28:16,587 --> 00:28:19,747
Speaker 12: the internet and Newcastle thought, well, we don't want to

577
00:28:19,747 --> 00:28:21,507
Speaker 12: give it to New Zealand. So if it comes down

578
00:28:21,547 --> 00:28:23,267
Speaker 12: now to a gold of frugal they could have let

579
00:28:23,347 --> 00:28:26,227
Speaker 12: a feen goals through, Melbourne would have got the plate.

580
00:28:26,467 --> 00:28:31,147
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, look it's it's it's it's a scenario. It's

581
00:28:31,147 --> 00:28:33,107
Speaker 4: a far fetched one, Mike, But no, you did right

582
00:28:33,307 --> 00:28:34,947
Speaker 4: that that could you know? You're right? That was the

583
00:28:35,067 --> 00:28:37,787
Speaker 4: That was exactly the equation, exactly as you outlined it.

584
00:28:37,987 --> 00:28:40,187
Speaker 4: If Auckland lost those in Melbourne City won both and

585
00:28:40,227 --> 00:28:43,627
Speaker 4: the swing of goals was enough, yeah, Melbourne City would

586
00:28:43,627 --> 00:28:46,187
Speaker 4: have It's all a moot point now with them not

587
00:28:46,267 --> 00:28:47,947
Speaker 4: being able to get a win last night, but yeah,

588
00:28:48,227 --> 00:28:51,227
Speaker 4: it's yeah, I would hate to think that though the

589
00:28:51,267 --> 00:28:54,947
Speaker 4: other the other other eleven teams twelve teams in the

590
00:28:54,987 --> 00:28:58,347
Speaker 4: league would conspire against Auckland FC. But you never know.

591
00:28:59,387 --> 00:29:02,107
Speaker 12: Yeah, And so I thought this was it until you

592
00:29:02,147 --> 00:29:03,307
Speaker 12: mentioned the Grand finals.

593
00:29:03,347 --> 00:29:04,787
Speaker 7: So could you just please repeat?

594
00:29:05,267 --> 00:29:07,787
Speaker 12: So how many games have we got to get into

595
00:29:07,907 --> 00:29:09,427
Speaker 12: and how many do we have to win to get

596
00:29:09,467 --> 00:29:11,507
Speaker 12: into the grant and play in the Grand Final?

597
00:29:11,587 --> 00:29:14,147
Speaker 4: Okay, so we skip the first round because the top

598
00:29:14,187 --> 00:29:17,627
Speaker 4: two goes straight to the semi finals. So yep. So

599
00:29:17,627 --> 00:29:19,707
Speaker 4: so Auckland FC are in the semi finals. The semi

600
00:29:19,707 --> 00:29:22,027
Speaker 4: finals are home and away, so two games there, so

601
00:29:22,067 --> 00:29:24,867
Speaker 4: you've got to win a win aggregate across the two

602
00:29:24,947 --> 00:29:27,667
Speaker 4: legs and then the Grand Final itself is a one

603
00:29:27,747 --> 00:29:31,427
Speaker 4: off game, so they've got to win a win across

604
00:29:31,467 --> 00:29:34,387
Speaker 4: two games on aggregate to make the Grand Final, and

605
00:29:34,427 --> 00:29:35,987
Speaker 4: then they've got to win the Grand Final, so three

606
00:29:36,027 --> 00:29:39,507
Speaker 4: games basically to lift the champion the championship.

607
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Speaker 12: Well, if we get into the Grand finals, there any

608
00:29:42,867 --> 00:29:44,867
Speaker 12: chance they could move it over to the Inner Park.

609
00:29:44,907 --> 00:29:46,347
Speaker 7: I'm sure that's sell all those tickets.

610
00:29:46,907 --> 00:29:49,027
Speaker 4: Yeah, And this is the other talking point as well,

611
00:29:49,187 --> 00:29:51,427
Speaker 4: like is that once you get to the finals, the

612
00:29:51,427 --> 00:29:54,667
Speaker 4: ticket revenue doesn't go to the club, it goes to

613
00:29:55,147 --> 00:29:58,787
Speaker 4: the APL, which is the organizing body of the a League.

614
00:29:58,787 --> 00:30:01,307
Speaker 4: So clearly they'd want it at the biggest possible venue

615
00:30:01,747 --> 00:30:03,587
Speaker 4: to get as many tickets sold as they can so

616
00:30:03,587 --> 00:30:06,347
Speaker 4: they can fill their coffers. Auckland FC, on the other hand,

617
00:30:06,387 --> 00:30:08,307
Speaker 4: would prefer to have it at Mount Smart where they've

618
00:30:08,347 --> 00:30:10,867
Speaker 4: created a bit of a fortress. And what might help

619
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Speaker 4: them is that on the night, the Saturday night of

620
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Speaker 4: the Grand Final, the Blues are playing at Eden Park,

621
00:30:16,787 --> 00:30:20,027
Speaker 4: so they couldn't play there unless they decided to play

622
00:30:20,027 --> 00:30:22,387
Speaker 4: the Grand Final on the Sunday, which is a possibility.

623
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Speaker 7: Okay, all right, that's great. Oh well, good news and

624
00:30:26,627 --> 00:30:27,387
Speaker 7: yeah he's hoping.

625
00:30:27,467 --> 00:30:29,147
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, Mike, thanks for the call. I

626
00:30:29,187 --> 00:30:31,827
Speaker 4: appreciate it very much. Eleven away from note twenty one

627
00:30:31,827 --> 00:30:34,307
Speaker 4: away from one. It's twelve thirty nine. That's twenty one

628
00:30:34,347 --> 00:30:36,427
Speaker 4: minutes away from one. Taken right, come back. Nando Pinaker

629
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Speaker 4: out of the Auckland f C playing squad with us.

630
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Speaker 2: It's more than just a game.

631
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Speaker 1: Weekend sport with Jason Payne and GJ Gunnomes, New Zealand's

632
00:30:46,387 --> 00:30:49,747
Speaker 1: most trusted home builder news Dogs, they'd be nostrado.

633
00:30:49,787 --> 00:30:50,387
Speaker 11: It's a good ball.

634
00:30:50,547 --> 00:30:52,227
Speaker 13: Pinnaker at the towering hat.

635
00:30:53,747 --> 00:30:57,507
Speaker 5: That's Awland in the shadows of halftime, as they so

636
00:30:57,667 --> 00:31:00,027
Speaker 5: often to open the scoring.

637
00:31:00,227 --> 00:31:02,307
Speaker 4: Yeah. One of four goals this season so far for

638
00:31:02,347 --> 00:31:05,307
Speaker 4: Auckland FC defender Nanda Pinick, who joins US now, Nanda,

639
00:31:05,307 --> 00:31:07,987
Speaker 4: thanks for taking the time. I guess at the start

640
00:31:08,027 --> 00:31:09,267
Speaker 4: of the week you didn't know what was going to

641
00:31:09,267 --> 00:31:11,747
Speaker 4: happen last night. It might have been that you needed

642
00:31:11,787 --> 00:31:14,267
Speaker 4: a draw this afternoon at least against Perth to secure

643
00:31:14,267 --> 00:31:16,547
Speaker 4: the Premier's Play. You don't now, of course, but at

644
00:31:16,547 --> 00:31:18,827
Speaker 4: the start of the week and across the week, was

645
00:31:18,867 --> 00:31:21,547
Speaker 4: there a conscious effort to keep things as normal as

646
00:31:21,547 --> 00:31:23,947
Speaker 4: possible and to stay grounded, stay focused.

647
00:31:25,027 --> 00:31:28,587
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, definitely for sure. Even though Pertha are at

648
00:31:28,627 --> 00:31:31,307
Speaker 14: the bottom of the table, we lost them last time,

649
00:31:31,387 --> 00:31:33,907
Speaker 14: so we still remember that. So we want to give

650
00:31:33,947 --> 00:31:36,187
Speaker 14: one back to them, so to speak, and hopefully we

651
00:31:36,187 --> 00:31:38,947
Speaker 14: can put on a really good performance at our last

652
00:31:38,947 --> 00:31:40,747
Speaker 14: home game. So yeah, we're all really excited.

653
00:31:40,827 --> 00:31:42,067
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that was a bit of an outlly,

654
00:31:42,227 --> 00:31:44,907
Speaker 4: wasn't it, the loss to Perth only two losses all season.

655
00:31:44,907 --> 00:31:48,467
Speaker 4: They're the only team to have beaten you over in Australia.

656
00:31:48,787 --> 00:31:51,147
Speaker 4: What happened that night? Have you looked back at that game?

657
00:31:51,227 --> 00:31:53,467
Speaker 4: Is there anything you can take from it that will

658
00:31:53,507 --> 00:31:54,347
Speaker 4: be useful today.

659
00:31:54,787 --> 00:31:57,427
Speaker 14: I haven't looked back at it since we played there

660
00:31:57,707 --> 00:31:59,867
Speaker 14: a long time ago. Now I do remember that. Yeah,

661
00:31:59,867 --> 00:32:02,067
Speaker 14: we had a lot of chances that we didn't manage

662
00:32:02,107 --> 00:32:04,867
Speaker 14: to score, so I think we were a bit unlucky

663
00:32:04,907 --> 00:32:07,867
Speaker 14: not to score in the game. So hopefully we can. Yeah,

664
00:32:08,067 --> 00:32:10,227
Speaker 14: obviously put our chances away in this game.

665
00:32:10,627 --> 00:32:12,547
Speaker 4: So the success of the side has been built on

666
00:32:12,587 --> 00:32:15,107
Speaker 4: a number of factors, one of which is the best

667
00:32:15,507 --> 00:32:18,667
Speaker 4: defense in the league. Just twenty three goals conceded in

668
00:32:18,707 --> 00:32:22,427
Speaker 4: twenty four matches, eleven clean sheets. As a defender yourself, Nando,

669
00:32:22,707 --> 00:32:24,867
Speaker 4: how much pride do you take in stats like that?

670
00:32:25,467 --> 00:32:27,867
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it's it's amazing as a defender, but

671
00:32:27,947 --> 00:32:30,387
Speaker 14: also for the whole team. I don't think it's just

672
00:32:30,467 --> 00:32:33,267
Speaker 14: the defenders that played their part with that. I think

673
00:32:33,347 --> 00:32:35,987
Speaker 14: it's it's from the front, from the strikers. Obviously we

674
00:32:36,027 --> 00:32:38,667
Speaker 14: have Alex and Gol who's been Yeah, I think amazing

675
00:32:38,707 --> 00:32:40,787
Speaker 14: for us, but it's the whole team in general working

676
00:32:40,787 --> 00:32:43,827
Speaker 14: hard for each other keeping that ball out of our net.

677
00:32:43,947 --> 00:32:44,907
Speaker 7: So, yeah, it's been good.

678
00:32:45,067 --> 00:32:48,787
Speaker 4: The back five has been really consistent with Alex, Paulson,

679
00:32:48,867 --> 00:32:53,187
Speaker 4: goal yourself, Haroki, Sakai, Francister, Vreez. You've all played pretty

680
00:32:53,267 --> 00:32:56,747
Speaker 4: much every game, Dan Hall who came back from injury,

681
00:32:56,747 --> 00:32:58,707
Speaker 4: Tommy Smith was there while he was in jed. So

682
00:32:59,267 --> 00:33:01,827
Speaker 4: how much has that consistency helped Having pretty much the

683
00:33:01,867 --> 00:33:03,587
Speaker 4: same guys we can week out.

684
00:33:04,387 --> 00:33:08,387
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's been great obviously. So we've kind of, I guess,

685
00:33:08,427 --> 00:33:10,747
Speaker 14: improved together since the start of the season, although we

686
00:33:10,787 --> 00:33:13,547
Speaker 14: had obviously a very good start, keeping a bunch of

687
00:33:13,627 --> 00:33:16,027
Speaker 14: clean sheets at the start, But I think over the

688
00:33:16,067 --> 00:33:19,347
Speaker 14: course of the season. Yeah, you learn each other's abilities,

689
00:33:19,387 --> 00:33:20,827
Speaker 14: what they're good at, what they're may be not so

690
00:33:20,867 --> 00:33:23,227
Speaker 14: good at, so you can help them out in certain moments.

691
00:33:23,267 --> 00:33:25,987
Speaker 14: And that's really helped us throughout the season, getting through

692
00:33:26,707 --> 00:33:29,907
Speaker 14: tough games so that we can, yeah, obviously have the

693
00:33:30,187 --> 00:33:32,267
Speaker 14: best defense of the league.

694
00:33:32,867 --> 00:33:33,067
Speaker 15: Yeah.

695
00:33:33,067 --> 00:33:38,507
Speaker 4: I will to somehow articulate your captain, Hiroki Sakai's influence

696
00:33:38,547 --> 00:33:39,427
Speaker 4: on your playing group.

697
00:33:40,307 --> 00:33:41,787
Speaker 6: Wow, that's very difficult.

698
00:33:41,827 --> 00:33:44,587
Speaker 14: I think he's incredible as a player and as a

699
00:33:44,667 --> 00:33:45,187
Speaker 14: human being.

700
00:33:46,067 --> 00:33:46,307
Speaker 6: Yeah.

701
00:33:46,427 --> 00:33:48,827
Speaker 14: I've said it before. It's a privilege to be with

702
00:33:48,907 --> 00:33:52,347
Speaker 14: them at training and obviously play with him. Yeah, I

703
00:33:52,387 --> 00:33:55,587
Speaker 14: think he's been amazing for us. I learned from him, yeah,

704
00:33:55,627 --> 00:33:57,907
Speaker 14: every single day, and I love just watching him play

705
00:33:58,667 --> 00:34:00,747
Speaker 14: play football as well. So yeah, I think for us

706
00:34:00,787 --> 00:34:02,707
Speaker 14: he's been absolutely amazing.

707
00:34:02,707 --> 00:34:03,547
Speaker 7: To be honest, and.

708
00:34:03,507 --> 00:34:06,027
Speaker 4: The man behind you, Alex Poulson. He leads the league

709
00:34:06,027 --> 00:34:08,107
Speaker 4: and a lot of the goalkeeping stats in terms of

710
00:34:08,187 --> 00:34:11,267
Speaker 4: clean sheets and safe percentages, things like that. Can you

711
00:34:11,267 --> 00:34:14,027
Speaker 4: give us an idea of how Alex Paulson compares to

712
00:34:14,187 --> 00:34:16,027
Speaker 4: some of the other goalkeepers you've played in front of.

713
00:34:17,587 --> 00:34:20,707
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think AP's been amazing, especially this season. So

714
00:34:20,867 --> 00:34:22,827
Speaker 14: before the season, I hadn't really played I don't know

715
00:34:22,827 --> 00:34:25,587
Speaker 14: if I've actually ever played with him before in a

716
00:34:25,667 --> 00:34:28,147
Speaker 14: competitive match, so I didn't know too much of what

717
00:34:28,227 --> 00:34:31,267
Speaker 14: to expect. But yeah, he's been amazing for us.

718
00:34:31,307 --> 00:34:32,067
Speaker 7: I think he's.

719
00:34:32,107 --> 00:34:33,667
Speaker 14: Grown a lot and he has a lot of like

720
00:34:33,787 --> 00:34:37,307
Speaker 14: Aura and prisons, So I think some teams are almost

721
00:34:37,387 --> 00:34:39,707
Speaker 14: worried when they face him because I know that if

722
00:34:39,747 --> 00:34:41,587
Speaker 14: I make a mistake or makes a mistake in the

723
00:34:41,587 --> 00:34:44,547
Speaker 14: striker runs through goal, he still has yeh Alex debeat,

724
00:34:45,187 --> 00:34:48,427
Speaker 14: which is tough enough. So yeah, I think he's going

725
00:34:48,507 --> 00:34:49,867
Speaker 14: to be top top keeper.

726
00:34:49,907 --> 00:34:52,867
Speaker 4: He already is, so yeah, Yeah, I love that description Aura,

727
00:34:52,987 --> 00:34:56,347
Speaker 4: that describes it perfectly. You've played in front of a

728
00:34:56,347 --> 00:34:59,187
Speaker 4: bunch of goalkeepers, I'm sure some of who wouldn't have

729
00:34:59,267 --> 00:35:02,667
Speaker 4: been quite so effective. Is there a real security in

730
00:35:02,707 --> 00:35:04,147
Speaker 4: having someone like him behind you?

731
00:35:05,027 --> 00:35:05,267
Speaker 7: Yeah?

732
00:35:05,387 --> 00:35:08,307
Speaker 14: Definitely, definitely think Alexy he's not only good with his hands,

733
00:35:08,307 --> 00:35:10,267
Speaker 14: but he's good with his feed as well. So if

734
00:35:10,267 --> 00:35:12,147
Speaker 14: we're in trouble playing out from the back, then I

735
00:35:12,147 --> 00:35:14,827
Speaker 14: know that Alex is there to help us out with

736
00:35:15,027 --> 00:35:17,107
Speaker 14: that area as well. So yeah, for us, it's it's

737
00:35:17,147 --> 00:35:19,947
Speaker 14: been amazing to have him there for every single game,

738
00:35:20,947 --> 00:35:22,707
Speaker 14: and I know that it's it's really difficult for the

739
00:35:22,707 --> 00:35:25,667
Speaker 14: opposition to score, so that really helps us out and

740
00:35:25,667 --> 00:35:26,067
Speaker 14: gives us.

741
00:35:26,187 --> 00:35:29,307
Speaker 4: Confidence and down the other end. Nando, four goals this

742
00:35:29,467 --> 00:35:31,707
Speaker 4: season for you as well, how much have you enjoyed

743
00:35:31,747 --> 00:35:33,947
Speaker 4: contributing the attacking end as well.

744
00:35:34,587 --> 00:35:35,947
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's been a bit new to me.

745
00:35:36,027 --> 00:35:38,507
Speaker 14: I haven't scored too many goals, but obviously really want

746
00:35:38,507 --> 00:35:41,427
Speaker 14: to improve in all areas of my game, and yeah,

747
00:35:41,427 --> 00:35:44,347
Speaker 14: obviously scoring it as one of them. So that's been, yeah,

748
00:35:44,427 --> 00:35:47,707
Speaker 14: really enjoyable. Hopefully you get one or two more before

749
00:35:47,507 --> 00:35:51,347
Speaker 14: the season is finished. Yeah, no, it's been it's been great.

750
00:35:51,347 --> 00:35:54,307
Speaker 14: But it's also the team created a lot of opportunities

751
00:35:54,307 --> 00:35:57,467
Speaker 14: from from set pieces and corners, which has been where

752
00:35:57,627 --> 00:35:59,667
Speaker 14: most of my goals have come from, so it's not

753
00:35:59,707 --> 00:36:00,107
Speaker 14: all of them.

754
00:36:00,187 --> 00:36:01,907
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's been been really good.

755
00:36:01,987 --> 00:36:04,507
Speaker 4: Now, have you pointed out to your central defensive partner

756
00:36:04,587 --> 00:36:07,987
Speaker 4: Dan Hall that he hasn't yet scored his first goal

757
00:36:08,027 --> 00:36:08,707
Speaker 4: for Auckland f C.

758
00:36:09,787 --> 00:36:12,387
Speaker 14: Yeah, there is a little joke going around between the

759
00:36:12,427 --> 00:36:15,107
Speaker 14: defenders who can score the most goals, but yeah, I

760
00:36:15,147 --> 00:36:18,267
Speaker 14: think there's one coming for Dan, so maybe it's this weekend.

761
00:36:18,347 --> 00:36:22,267
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe today is the day you were overseas for

762
00:36:22,307 --> 00:36:25,067
Speaker 4: a long time, Nando, playing in Europe for five years.

763
00:36:25,427 --> 00:36:27,507
Speaker 4: How much convincing did you need to come back to

764
00:36:27,547 --> 00:36:29,227
Speaker 4: Walkland after so much time away?

765
00:36:30,547 --> 00:36:31,747
Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously a little bit.

766
00:36:31,787 --> 00:36:33,907
Speaker 14: I didn't know what the plan was going to be

767
00:36:34,187 --> 00:36:36,147
Speaker 14: for me. I knew that I wanted to get out

768
00:36:36,147 --> 00:36:39,387
Speaker 14: of Ireland at the time, and that New Zealand or

769
00:36:39,427 --> 00:36:42,867
Speaker 14: Auckland the Sea was one of the options. Obviously, because

770
00:36:42,907 --> 00:36:44,907
Speaker 14: the club had never played in the A League before,

771
00:36:44,947 --> 00:36:48,467
Speaker 14: I didn't know too much what to expect, and there

772
00:36:48,547 --> 00:36:50,587
Speaker 14: was just sort of I heard that there was going

773
00:36:50,627 --> 00:36:52,747
Speaker 14: to be a club, but there was no coach yet,

774
00:36:52,747 --> 00:36:54,907
Speaker 14: there were no players, so there's kind of like, Okay,

775
00:36:54,987 --> 00:36:56,867
Speaker 14: let's wait and see a little bit, what's what's going

776
00:36:56,907 --> 00:36:59,667
Speaker 14: to happen? And then once the Yeah, once the coach

777
00:36:59,787 --> 00:37:01,587
Speaker 14: was named and then Danny came on board to us

778
00:37:01,667 --> 00:37:05,067
Speaker 14: worked before, and there's a bunch of players from the

779
00:37:05,067 --> 00:37:07,347
Speaker 14: All Whites obviously and some some good friends of mine.

780
00:37:07,987 --> 00:37:10,507
Speaker 14: It didn't need too much more convincing than that.

781
00:37:10,707 --> 00:37:13,707
Speaker 4: So once you did get together and the imports all

782
00:37:13,827 --> 00:37:17,467
Speaker 4: arrived and you started training together, did it feel like

783
00:37:17,507 --> 00:37:19,787
Speaker 4: this would be a team that would be challenging for

784
00:37:19,867 --> 00:37:21,147
Speaker 4: silverware straight away.

785
00:37:23,147 --> 00:37:26,387
Speaker 14: At the very start, probably not, because we've never played

786
00:37:26,667 --> 00:37:27,347
Speaker 14: together before.

787
00:37:27,387 --> 00:37:28,027
Speaker 7: We didn't know.

788
00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:31,907
Speaker 14: There was a sort of unexpectedness, if that's a word,

789
00:37:32,827 --> 00:37:34,947
Speaker 14: or apprehension of what was going to happen that season.

790
00:37:35,747 --> 00:37:37,947
Speaker 14: You could sense that we had a yeah, obviously a

791
00:37:37,947 --> 00:37:42,107
Speaker 14: really good group of players as football players, but also

792
00:37:42,107 --> 00:37:44,587
Speaker 14: as people. I think we have really a really good

793
00:37:44,627 --> 00:37:48,107
Speaker 14: group of humble, humble players and humble people, So.

794
00:37:48,067 --> 00:37:50,867
Speaker 7: I think that's really been one of our strengths this season.

795
00:37:50,867 --> 00:37:51,707
Speaker 7: We've all stuck.

796
00:37:51,507 --> 00:37:55,947
Speaker 14: Together throughout the good times and the time, so yeah, I.

797
00:37:55,907 --> 00:37:57,827
Speaker 7: Think that's really helped us.

798
00:37:57,987 --> 00:38:00,427
Speaker 4: And you're still pretty young. I mean, you've got many

799
00:38:00,467 --> 00:38:03,067
Speaker 4: many more years ahead of you as a professional footballer.

800
00:38:03,147 --> 00:38:05,387
Speaker 4: Is it your ambition, Nando to play overseas again at

801
00:38:05,387 --> 00:38:05,987
Speaker 4: some stage?

802
00:38:06,507 --> 00:38:07,987
Speaker 7: Ah, yeah, definitely, definitely.

803
00:38:08,067 --> 00:38:12,147
Speaker 14: Obviously I'm enjoying this season as much as as much

804
00:38:12,187 --> 00:38:14,427
Speaker 14: as I can, and then yeah.

805
00:38:14,267 --> 00:38:14,587
Speaker 6: I don't know.

806
00:38:14,627 --> 00:38:16,667
Speaker 14: I have a three year contract with Auckland, so I'm

807
00:38:16,707 --> 00:38:19,707
Speaker 14: really enjoying my time here. We're obviously having a good

808
00:38:19,707 --> 00:38:21,987
Speaker 14: season this season, so we'll we'll see what happens in

809
00:38:21,987 --> 00:38:24,747
Speaker 14: the future. But yeah, at some point obviously, I'd love

810
00:38:24,747 --> 00:38:28,747
Speaker 14: to go back overseason. Yeah, see how it goes over there.

811
00:38:28,827 --> 00:38:30,507
Speaker 4: And I know you're only focusing on the A League

812
00:38:30,547 --> 00:38:32,667
Speaker 4: season at the moment, but the World Cup is now

813
00:38:32,787 --> 00:38:34,667
Speaker 4: just over a year away. Of course, you're part of

814
00:38:34,707 --> 00:38:38,507
Speaker 4: the squad that earned qualification last month for the World

815
00:38:38,587 --> 00:38:41,907
Speaker 4: Cup in North America next year. How driven a to

816
00:38:41,947 --> 00:38:43,187
Speaker 4: be part of your white squad for that?

817
00:38:43,827 --> 00:38:44,827
Speaker 11: Yeah? Very driven.

818
00:38:44,987 --> 00:38:47,347
Speaker 14: These World Cups they don't come around too often. Obviously,

819
00:38:47,347 --> 00:38:50,187
Speaker 14: this is the New Zealand's third World Cup, so I

820
00:38:50,227 --> 00:38:52,427
Speaker 14: definitely want to be a part of it. And yeah,

821
00:38:52,467 --> 00:38:55,307
Speaker 14: obviously I want to make sure that I'm somewhere I'm

822
00:38:55,307 --> 00:38:58,907
Speaker 14: playing regularly and performing well. So hopefully if that's Auckland,

823
00:38:58,947 --> 00:39:02,227
Speaker 14: then that's great. And yeah, so I'm really looking forward

824
00:39:02,227 --> 00:39:03,307
Speaker 14: to the World Cup.

825
00:39:03,427 --> 00:39:05,947
Speaker 4: So five o'clock kickoff this afternoon. Most of the home

826
00:39:05,987 --> 00:39:09,147
Speaker 4: games have been five o'clock kickoffs. What is your match

827
00:39:09,227 --> 00:39:12,907
Speaker 4: day routine? What do you do on a day when

828
00:39:12,947 --> 00:39:13,987
Speaker 4: the game's at five o'clock?

829
00:39:15,067 --> 00:39:16,907
Speaker 14: Not too much, to be honest, I try to. I

830
00:39:17,067 --> 00:39:19,667
Speaker 14: like to be quite relaxed on game day, so obviously

831
00:39:19,787 --> 00:39:23,587
Speaker 14: like a bit of a sleeping, just chill breakfast, might

832
00:39:23,587 --> 00:39:26,307
Speaker 14: go for a little walk. I live quite close to

833
00:39:26,347 --> 00:39:28,987
Speaker 14: the beach, very lucky, so we'd go for a little

834
00:39:29,027 --> 00:39:31,907
Speaker 14: walk on the beach for fifteen to twenty minutes or so,

835
00:39:32,627 --> 00:39:34,467
Speaker 14: and then yeah, just be at home. I like to

836
00:39:34,467 --> 00:39:38,147
Speaker 14: be around your friends and family are my girlfriends, So yeah,

837
00:39:38,267 --> 00:39:41,027
Speaker 14: just try to be as chill as possible before the

838
00:39:41,067 --> 00:39:44,067
Speaker 14: storm before the game. So yeah, that's kind of what

839
00:39:44,147 --> 00:39:46,867
Speaker 14: my yeah prematch routine looks like.

840
00:39:46,987 --> 00:39:49,547
Speaker 4: And just to finish, this is just step one in

841
00:39:49,587 --> 00:39:51,667
Speaker 4: your goal to win both the premiers played and the

842
00:39:51,707 --> 00:39:54,827
Speaker 4: A League Championship in the first year for Auckland FC.

843
00:39:55,227 --> 00:39:57,827
Speaker 4: Those goals I'm sure have been talked about internally. Are

844
00:39:57,867 --> 00:40:00,467
Speaker 4: they starting to feel more real now as we as

845
00:40:00,507 --> 00:40:03,187
Speaker 4: we really reach the business end of the season.

846
00:40:03,427 --> 00:40:05,827
Speaker 14: I think so. I think yeah, the team and the players,

847
00:40:05,867 --> 00:40:07,867
Speaker 14: coaching stuff, we all have the belief that we can

848
00:40:07,947 --> 00:40:11,307
Speaker 14: obviously go all the way when the minor premiership and

849
00:40:11,347 --> 00:40:14,027
Speaker 14: the major premiership. You know, obviously now we're just focused

850
00:40:14,027 --> 00:40:15,587
Speaker 14: on Perth at the moment, and then we're going to

851
00:40:15,627 --> 00:40:19,027
Speaker 14: be fully focused on making sure all the players are

852
00:40:19,067 --> 00:40:22,907
Speaker 14: in the best but this they can be going into

853
00:40:22,947 --> 00:40:25,027
Speaker 14: the finals. So yeah, definitely.

854
00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:28,227
Speaker 4: Definitely exciting time. Snander congratulations on first of all the

855
00:40:28,227 --> 00:40:31,027
Speaker 4: Premier's plate win. That's so on up and you'll look

856
00:40:31,067 --> 00:40:34,827
Speaker 4: forward to showing it off to the crowd at at

857
00:40:34,827 --> 00:40:37,227
Speaker 4: Go Media this afternoon. All the best for the rest

858
00:40:37,227 --> 00:40:38,867
Speaker 4: of the season as well, and thanks for taking the time.

859
00:40:38,787 --> 00:40:40,987
Speaker 14: For a chat mate, No worries, Thanks very much.

860
00:40:40,907 --> 00:40:42,867
Speaker 4: No thank you, Nando, Nando Pinka. They're a big part

861
00:40:42,867 --> 00:40:46,387
Speaker 4: of the Auckland FC side this season. Seven and a

862
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Speaker 4: half to one Us Talks EB.

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Speaker 1: When it's down to the line, you made a call

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Speaker 1: on eight Weekend Sports with Jason Hine, News Talks MB a.

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Speaker 4: Couple of bits of correspondents to finish the Vicky says Jason,

866
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of saltiness about Auckland FC talking about

867
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Speaker 4: a billionaire buying talent, but my sense is that they've

868
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Speaker 4: recruited really good key we players. That's the core of

869
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Speaker 4: the team. Players like Cam Howison and a pineker Francis Devrees,

870
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Speaker 4: even an old boy like Tommy Smith. They were hardly

871
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Speaker 4: household names before this year for the majority of viewers.

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00:41:16,347 --> 00:41:18,587
Speaker 4: I honestly think the club has showing how a Keiwi

873
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Speaker 4: football side can succeed with a great bunch of local boys.

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Speaker 4: And some selected imported stars. I can't wait to see

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Speaker 4: how far they go. Great points well made, Vicki, and

876
00:41:28,267 --> 00:41:31,067
Speaker 4: Peter says no, I think I've already read that one

877
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Speaker 4: from Joe. What a season Auckland FC have had. Congratulations

878
00:41:34,507 --> 00:41:36,827
Speaker 4: to them and their team management for a stadium in

879
00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:38,787
Speaker 4: the heart of an industrial area that people around the

880
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Speaker 4: planning and organization of the game day experience deserve a

881
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Speaker 4: massive congratulations. Whether it's football, rugby or league, they've all

882
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Speaker 4: done a great job. Thanks Joe, appreciate your text, Appreciate

883
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Speaker 4: all your correspondents on Auckland FC. We're going to flick

884
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Speaker 4: our attention across to rugby after one o'clock, look at

885
00:41:55,467 --> 00:41:58,427
Speaker 4: the final few games in around eleven of Super Rugby

886
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Speaker 4: and complete our trip around the CEOs of the New

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Speaker 4: Zealand based franchises. Auckland Blue CEO Andrew Hohre.

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Speaker 1: The only place for the big names, the big issues,

889
00:42:11,867 --> 00:42:16,827
Speaker 1: the big controversies and the big conversations. It's all on

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Speaker 1: Weekend Sport with Jason him on your home of sports

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Speaker 1: News Talk, said b.

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Speaker 4: Well one O seven, Welcome in or welcome back. This

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Speaker 4: is Weekend Sport on News Talks headb I'm Jason Pine,

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Speaker 4: Devin you a show producer. We're Hit till three. Rugby

895
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Speaker 4: is our focus this our James mcconey is along at

896
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Speaker 4: the back end of the hour as well with a

897
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Speaker 4: bunch of different things to talk about. We'll keep eyes

898
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Speaker 4: on live sport as well, including as you heard from

899
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Speaker 4: Reuben during our Sports News, an astonishing finish to the

900
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Speaker 4: Nuggets Clippers game. I was updating you on the scores

901
00:42:49,187 --> 00:42:51,587
Speaker 4: at the back end of the hour. What happened at

902
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Speaker 4: the end, I don't think I've ever seen. It was

903
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Speaker 4: ninety nine all, so that the Clippers had come back

904
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Speaker 4: from they were twenty points down and one stage twenty

905
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Speaker 4: two points down. They came back and it was tied

906
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Speaker 4: at ninety nine all with eight seconds to go. Nikola

907
00:43:09,947 --> 00:43:17,867
Speaker 4: Jokich of the Nuggets threw up this shot and it

908
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Speaker 4: was missing, So his teammate Aaron Gordon jumped up, grabbed

909
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Speaker 4: the shot and dunked it with point one seconds remaining

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Speaker 4: on the clock. Now it was so close that nobody

911
00:43:29,627 --> 00:43:32,227
Speaker 4: knew whether the ball had gone through the hoop from

912
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Speaker 4: the dunk before the final buzzer sounded. Now, luckily, what

913
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Speaker 4: they have in the NBA, you might have seen. This

914
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Speaker 4: is when the clock reaches zero, the backboard lights up,

915
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Speaker 4: so that's a visual indicator that time is up. So

916
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Speaker 4: they were able to watch it frame by frame whether

917
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Speaker 4: Gordon had dunked this dunk before the lights flashed on

918
00:43:56,867 --> 00:43:59,947
Speaker 4: the backboard indicating that time was up, and it was

919
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Speaker 4: frame by frame and you couldn't tell. Eventually they decided

920
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Speaker 4: he had had got it into the net. I guess

921
00:44:08,747 --> 00:44:10,627
Speaker 4: they had to go through the riom and into the net.

922
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Speaker 4: Like I say, frame by frame you couldn't tell, but

923
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Speaker 4: they decided he had got it through. So the Nagge's

924
00:44:17,267 --> 00:44:20,027
Speaker 4: won at one oh one ninety nine and tied up

925
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Speaker 4: the series at two all. The third of the games

926
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Speaker 4: today is underway now. It's in San Francisco Golden State

927
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Speaker 4: Warriors at home to the Houston Rockets. In the first quarter,

928
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Speaker 4: the Warriors lead eighteen seventeen. The series is tied up

929
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Speaker 4: at onon apiece as well, so pretty important third game

930
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Speaker 4: going on, which, as I say, we will keep you

931
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Speaker 4: right up to date with here on News Talk SEB

932
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Speaker 4: and we can sport. Let's continue our journey around the

933
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Speaker 4: Super rugby franchises based here in New Zealand with the

934
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Speaker 4: opportunity over last weekend and yesterday to chat to the

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Speaker 4: CEOs of the Highlanders, the Crusaders, the Hurricanes and the Chiefs,

936
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Speaker 4: and we've arrived at the Blues. Blue CEO Andrew Wore

937
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Speaker 4: joins us on the show. Andrew, thanks for taking the time.

938
00:45:03,507 --> 00:45:07,507
Speaker 4: I guess it's been what you might call fairly challenging

939
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Speaker 4: season on the field for the Blues, particularly given the

940
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Speaker 4: success of last year with that drought breaking title that

941
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Speaker 4: the Blues won. You're latest outing a lost of the

942
00:45:17,387 --> 00:45:21,147
Speaker 4: Reds on Friday night, So as CEO, what can you

943
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Speaker 4: do to try and help out?

944
00:45:24,707 --> 00:45:27,547
Speaker 15: Yeah, no, it is, and I think everyone we agree

945
00:45:27,587 --> 00:45:31,947
Speaker 15: after the fantastic performance of last week, we didn't quite

946
00:45:31,947 --> 00:45:34,107
Speaker 15: get the same. And I think that the key thing

947
00:45:34,227 --> 00:45:39,107
Speaker 15: is you support good people and this group doesn't go

948
00:45:39,747 --> 00:45:44,227
Speaker 15: from good to tell by the night and searching for

949
00:45:44,267 --> 00:45:47,387
Speaker 15: the answers, and you've got to support them in finding

950
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Speaker 15: those solutions, because I think we've shown and I think

951
00:45:50,987 --> 00:45:54,747
Speaker 15: people would agree that the next four games, if we

952
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Speaker 15: get up and get into that even fifth or sixth spot,

953
00:45:59,187 --> 00:46:00,867
Speaker 15: it's on for young or old, and that's the beauty

954
00:46:00,867 --> 00:46:03,787
Speaker 15: of the competition. So panicking and getting in a flux

955
00:46:03,907 --> 00:46:07,867
Speaker 15: is going to do anything. It's actually supporting and and

956
00:46:07,947 --> 00:46:13,187
Speaker 15: motivating and supporting these people to reach their potential. And

957
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Speaker 15: if we do that, there's still a lot of season

958
00:46:15,747 --> 00:46:17,747
Speaker 15: to go, which is when you look at how far

959
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Speaker 15: through the season we are, it certainly is a fantastic

960
00:46:20,627 --> 00:46:21,267
Speaker 15: competition this.

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Speaker 4: Year, Oh, without question, without question, Yeah, one of the

962
00:46:24,787 --> 00:46:27,107
Speaker 4: best I can remember. And you talk about supporting the

963
00:46:27,147 --> 00:46:30,947
Speaker 4: coaching staff, the playing group and such like, what does

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00:46:30,987 --> 00:46:36,987
Speaker 4: that support look like? What can you actually specifically physically do.

965
00:46:38,507 --> 00:46:38,667
Speaker 11: Well?

966
00:46:38,707 --> 00:46:41,827
Speaker 15: Sometimes I think the best thing you can do is

967
00:46:41,827 --> 00:46:44,747
Speaker 15: actually just listen. Listen about how they're working through those

968
00:46:44,787 --> 00:46:48,507
Speaker 15: problems and what they're looking to do. Make sure that

969
00:46:48,547 --> 00:46:51,587
Speaker 15: you've got an environment that's enabling to give them the

970
00:46:51,627 --> 00:46:55,427
Speaker 15: time to breed and the support that they need within

971
00:46:55,467 --> 00:46:58,827
Speaker 15: that environment. They may need some time where they need

972
00:46:58,867 --> 00:47:02,387
Speaker 15: extra time as a team, and making that time available.

973
00:47:03,227 --> 00:47:07,947
Speaker 15: There's also just staying to systems and structures which we

974
00:47:08,067 --> 00:47:11,747
Speaker 15: know works, and looking out for those people as well,

975
00:47:11,787 --> 00:47:14,507
Speaker 15: so that they've got support at times of high stress.

976
00:47:14,507 --> 00:47:19,027
Speaker 15: Because you're going in each week and yet your work

977
00:47:19,707 --> 00:47:23,947
Speaker 15: is on a scoreboard in front of well, now you

978
00:47:24,027 --> 00:47:25,907
Speaker 15: know there's been one hundred and fifty three million dealers

979
00:47:25,907 --> 00:47:29,227
Speaker 15: a curistic glovings all alone, that's a lot of people

980
00:47:29,307 --> 00:47:33,587
Speaker 15: that have a lot of opinions, and that can be trying,

981
00:47:33,627 --> 00:47:37,507
Speaker 15: and that can be challenging for people at times when

982
00:47:37,507 --> 00:47:40,467
Speaker 15: they're working so bloody hard to get it right and

983
00:47:40,587 --> 00:47:45,107
Speaker 15: sometimes they're so entwined into what they're doing they need

984
00:47:45,147 --> 00:47:49,507
Speaker 15: to step back and giving that ability to breathe. And

985
00:47:49,547 --> 00:47:53,747
Speaker 15: I think we saw that after during the break can

986
00:47:53,787 --> 00:47:58,827
Speaker 15: sometimes be the best thing you can do. So making

987
00:47:58,867 --> 00:48:03,827
Speaker 15: sure that they're not getting embroiled and getting shuck into

988
00:48:03,867 --> 00:48:07,547
Speaker 15: that into that spiral, and so that they can come

989
00:48:07,547 --> 00:48:11,347
Speaker 15: out and think clearly at times of high pressure.

990
00:48:11,907 --> 00:48:14,067
Speaker 4: Yeah, word you mentioned there, which is always going to

991
00:48:14,067 --> 00:48:17,427
Speaker 4: be around top level sport is opinions. And you know

992
00:48:17,467 --> 00:48:19,747
Speaker 4: what fans are like, you know what people involved in

993
00:48:19,787 --> 00:48:25,227
Speaker 4: the game are like. How do you separate the unhelpful

994
00:48:25,347 --> 00:48:28,667
Speaker 4: noise from the helpful noise but also embrace the fact

995
00:48:28,667 --> 00:48:31,707
Speaker 4: that people actually care a lot about your team?

996
00:48:32,067 --> 00:48:33,347
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's the key.

997
00:48:33,867 --> 00:48:38,267
Speaker 15: You've got to remind yourself. They weren't into here and interested.

998
00:48:38,867 --> 00:48:43,347
Speaker 15: They probably invested and that can be your family at

999
00:48:43,347 --> 00:48:46,027
Speaker 15: home and everything that you do.

1000
00:48:46,747 --> 00:48:50,747
Speaker 16: And so I think keeping their head on the facts

1001
00:48:51,347 --> 00:48:54,347
Speaker 16: and where you're at in that season.

1002
00:48:54,387 --> 00:48:58,747
Speaker 7: See very easy now to start looking at which could.

1003
00:48:58,627 --> 00:49:00,987
Speaker 15: Have, should have, would have done, But in reality we're

1004
00:49:01,027 --> 00:49:03,307
Speaker 15: still in the fight in this season. So it's what

1005
00:49:03,667 --> 00:49:07,907
Speaker 15: can we do and what leaders do we pull now

1006
00:49:08,867 --> 00:49:17,027
Speaker 15: and not getting embroiled and sometimes going into those comments

1007
00:49:17,147 --> 00:49:21,067
Speaker 15: and with social media and a like, but respecting that

1008
00:49:21,067 --> 00:49:22,587
Speaker 15: people are entitled to a view too.

1009
00:49:23,547 --> 00:49:25,467
Speaker 7: A person writing a columns entitled.

1010
00:49:25,307 --> 00:49:28,227
Speaker 15: To write a point there as well, and you've just

1011
00:49:28,267 --> 00:49:33,307
Speaker 15: got to that that is the job and accepting that

1012
00:49:33,467 --> 00:49:35,787
Speaker 15: and just going well, okay, what can I control them

1013
00:49:35,787 --> 00:49:36,347
Speaker 15: the situation?

1014
00:49:36,427 --> 00:49:37,547
Speaker 7: What am I going to go back to?

1015
00:49:37,707 --> 00:49:39,387
Speaker 15: What can we do as a team? What can I

1016
00:49:39,387 --> 00:49:43,547
Speaker 15: do as an individual? And we've really worked hard in

1017
00:49:43,587 --> 00:49:46,907
Speaker 15: the club in the last few years around self responsibility,

1018
00:49:47,507 --> 00:49:48,427
Speaker 15: So it starts with.

1019
00:49:48,867 --> 00:49:52,427
Speaker 7: You and what you can do to enhance.

1020
00:49:52,947 --> 00:49:57,467
Speaker 15: The team, enhance our own performance, and then how do

1021
00:49:57,507 --> 00:50:00,507
Speaker 15: you help the others within your team an organization to

1022
00:50:00,947 --> 00:50:02,947
Speaker 15: get out of the whole. And we've seen some great

1023
00:50:02,987 --> 00:50:06,347
Speaker 15: examples that are ye teams and organizations that have done

1024
00:50:06,507 --> 00:50:10,107
Speaker 15: that to a lot of success. I think if we're

1025
00:50:10,107 --> 00:50:13,747
Speaker 15: the Crusaders were last year to where they are this year,

1026
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Speaker 15: and we're seeing it with the chiefs so to us

1027
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Speaker 15: for you, so even with our own competition, and that's

1028
00:50:21,507 --> 00:50:24,947
Speaker 15: the beauty of sport, right, you get another week and

1029
00:50:24,987 --> 00:50:27,107
Speaker 15: then you may not have the end of the year

1030
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Speaker 15: and you get another.

1031
00:50:28,427 --> 00:50:30,907
Speaker 7: Preseason if you looked in that context.

1032
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Speaker 15: And so again we've got a real chance here to

1033
00:50:36,627 --> 00:50:39,187
Speaker 15: get this rise and we've had glimpses when we've got

1034
00:50:39,267 --> 00:50:43,587
Speaker 15: it right, and so it's working that out and staying

1035
00:50:43,627 --> 00:50:45,627
Speaker 15: present in the moment to do that over the next

1036
00:50:45,627 --> 00:50:46,467
Speaker 15: few weeks.

1037
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Speaker 4: Do you think the spotlight shines brighter and more harshly

1038
00:50:51,067 --> 00:50:54,427
Speaker 4: on the Blues compared to other New Zealand franchises as

1039
00:50:54,467 --> 00:50:58,987
Speaker 4: the side based in our biggest city, You know.

1040
00:50:59,187 --> 00:51:04,507
Speaker 15: I look statistically, we generally have higher one of the

1041
00:51:04,547 --> 00:51:09,107
Speaker 15: higher media reaches, and you can't get away from that

1042
00:51:08,827 --> 00:51:13,987
Speaker 15: that they it's a thirty year old institution that people

1043
00:51:13,987 --> 00:51:14,907
Speaker 15: are passionate about.

1044
00:51:15,747 --> 00:51:19,107
Speaker 7: So yeah, I do. In the same way I think

1045
00:51:19,107 --> 00:51:21,467
Speaker 7: the Wartars probably are in Sydney.

1046
00:51:21,787 --> 00:51:25,667
Speaker 16: And and that again that is that is the job

1047
00:51:25,787 --> 00:51:30,627
Speaker 16: you take on and I wouldn't want it any other way,

1048
00:51:30,787 --> 00:51:34,267
Speaker 16: to be honest with you, I think rugby is I've

1049
00:51:34,307 --> 00:51:37,547
Speaker 16: always said to you as a game I deeply love,

1050
00:51:37,587 --> 00:51:40,027
Speaker 16: and I know that people in our organizations deeply love

1051
00:51:40,067 --> 00:51:43,427
Speaker 16: and are on it to represent the rugby players in

1052
00:51:43,427 --> 00:51:47,427
Speaker 16: our region. So if you've got that to group me

1053
00:51:48,187 --> 00:51:53,147
Speaker 16: because of the size of population, et cetera, celebrate that

1054
00:51:53,747 --> 00:51:55,387
Speaker 16: in reality, as hard as.

1055
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Speaker 7: That sometimes can be.

1056
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Speaker 15: And so yeah, I think so it's like the argument

1057
00:52:01,467 --> 00:52:04,187
Speaker 15: about you know, keeping every player. The fact is, you

1058
00:52:04,227 --> 00:52:07,027
Speaker 15: only get a squad of thirty eight and you've just

1059
00:52:07,027 --> 00:52:09,507
Speaker 15: got to make sure as many as the kids as

1060
00:52:09,507 --> 00:52:12,387
Speaker 15: you can for as long as you can to then

1061
00:52:12,467 --> 00:52:15,947
Speaker 15: be able to produce the best squads you can. And

1062
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Speaker 15: yet we get under a scrutiny. So those kind of

1063
00:52:18,627 --> 00:52:20,347
Speaker 15: things can be a little bit out of balance.

1064
00:52:20,067 --> 00:52:23,387
Speaker 7: Because of that. But you just have to accept that.

1065
00:52:23,067 --> 00:52:25,427
Speaker 15: That's actually it's an honor if you look at it

1066
00:52:25,467 --> 00:52:27,707
Speaker 15: another way, and.

1067
00:52:28,867 --> 00:52:31,787
Speaker 7: That that's that's.

1068
00:52:31,867 --> 00:52:34,427
Speaker 15: The way we should approach it, I think, and make

1069
00:52:34,507 --> 00:52:39,387
Speaker 15: sure just and foremost that rugby stays the permanent sort

1070
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Speaker 15: of sport in our region, because you know, it's broader

1071
00:52:45,707 --> 00:52:50,827
Speaker 15: pressures on the game right now, and that celebrate the

1072
00:52:50,867 --> 00:52:52,947
Speaker 15: sport that it is and the competition we're in.

1073
00:52:53,787 --> 00:52:56,467
Speaker 4: And let's not forget you're won at last year. We

1074
00:52:57,107 --> 00:52:58,947
Speaker 4: can't move on too quickly from that. I know we're

1075
00:52:58,987 --> 00:53:01,307
Speaker 4: in a new season now, but how much did the

1076
00:53:01,747 --> 00:53:04,187
Speaker 4: title when last year mean to you?

1077
00:53:06,507 --> 00:53:07,867
Speaker 7: I think it means a lot to a lot of people.

1078
00:53:08,067 --> 00:53:09,147
Speaker 7: I was really proud of.

1079
00:53:10,987 --> 00:53:14,147
Speaker 15: An ib Blues the women's team this year, back to

1080
00:53:14,187 --> 00:53:18,227
Speaker 15: back and playing such great rugby too in the trans Tasman.

1081
00:53:19,427 --> 00:53:20,307
Speaker 7: Final as well.

1082
00:53:20,627 --> 00:53:26,827
Speaker 15: So you're always really delighted for your people when they excel.

1083
00:53:27,067 --> 00:53:32,187
Speaker 15: And I think the region needed the Blue and probably

1084
00:53:32,227 --> 00:53:34,107
Speaker 15: the competition the Blues to be successful.

1085
00:53:34,147 --> 00:53:36,027
Speaker 7: I think what we've got to do is look.

1086
00:53:35,867 --> 00:53:43,787
Speaker 15: At getting an improved response after victories like that, and

1087
00:53:43,827 --> 00:53:47,707
Speaker 15: if you look outside of one organization and everyone else

1088
00:53:47,747 --> 00:53:50,467
Speaker 15: has actually struggled to go back to back in this competition.

1089
00:53:50,547 --> 00:53:51,227
Speaker 15: I think the only e.

1090
00:53:52,907 --> 00:53:54,667
Speaker 7: Was a Blues on the other day.

1091
00:53:54,827 --> 00:53:58,387
Speaker 15: So that is our challenge and that is not over

1092
00:53:58,507 --> 00:54:01,867
Speaker 15: yet and there will be some learnings. I can assure

1093
00:54:01,867 --> 00:54:07,587
Speaker 15: you that. And you know we forget that for He's

1094
00:54:08,107 --> 00:54:10,347
Speaker 15: This is the first time as head coaching a super

1095
00:54:10,467 --> 00:54:14,787
Speaker 15: environment and that is distinctly different to France. You've got

1096
00:54:15,387 --> 00:54:18,667
Speaker 15: far more variables, far more people coming back from New Zealand,

1097
00:54:18,747 --> 00:54:22,627
Speaker 15: Ay and the All Blacks there that you have to

1098
00:54:22,627 --> 00:54:26,387
Speaker 15: integrate in and those kinds of things, and I'm sure

1099
00:54:26,387 --> 00:54:29,747
Speaker 15: there'll be some learnings, but it's not over yet. But

1100
00:54:29,827 --> 00:54:32,147
Speaker 15: as far as what did it mean to people, I

1101
00:54:32,187 --> 00:54:35,387
Speaker 15: think you saw the response with the sellout in three

1102
00:54:35,427 --> 00:54:37,467
Speaker 15: hours and those kinds of things. But we can't live

1103
00:54:37,507 --> 00:54:41,627
Speaker 15: on that now. That's in the past, and we've got

1104
00:54:41,667 --> 00:54:44,547
Speaker 15: to ever say stay right here, right present, right here, now, right.

1105
00:54:44,387 --> 00:54:46,867
Speaker 4: Now, just to look ahead the next year. Rico you want,

1106
00:54:46,907 --> 00:54:48,867
Speaker 4: he's going to miss next season as he takes up

1107
00:54:48,907 --> 00:54:52,227
Speaker 4: his opportunity in Ireland. How did these discussions play out?

1108
00:54:54,787 --> 00:54:55,107
Speaker 7: Well?

1109
00:54:55,827 --> 00:55:01,347
Speaker 15: Generally, as an athlete goes through their career, I think

1110
00:55:01,547 --> 00:55:04,267
Speaker 15: all of us are cognizant of the fact that you

1111
00:55:04,387 --> 00:55:06,747
Speaker 15: want to keep them fresh and not having style so

1112
00:55:06,867 --> 00:55:10,507
Speaker 15: used as a financial component to these athletes going overseas.

1113
00:55:10,547 --> 00:55:13,267
Speaker 15: But there's there can be at times sometimes a chance

1114
00:55:13,307 --> 00:55:16,987
Speaker 15: to freshen them so that they want to stay here.

1115
00:55:17,347 --> 00:55:23,587
Speaker 15: And so what happens is and as as time goes on,

1116
00:55:23,667 --> 00:55:26,187
Speaker 15: I mean, every representative of their player tries to push

1117
00:55:26,227 --> 00:55:30,267
Speaker 15: for it earlier and earlier to get these reason incentives.

1118
00:55:30,747 --> 00:55:35,147
Speaker 15: And it was, you know, the time of doing Rito's

1119
00:55:35,227 --> 00:55:40,307
Speaker 15: contract that was agreed and we wish him well. You know,

1120
00:55:40,427 --> 00:55:44,627
Speaker 15: he there's Japanese clubs at one of them for three

1121
00:55:44,747 --> 00:55:47,387
Speaker 15: four years and he's chosen to come back here and

1122
00:55:47,427 --> 00:55:51,747
Speaker 15: represent his country and represented his blues and as a.

1123
00:55:50,667 --> 00:55:55,187
Speaker 7: Proud grammar and pontsanbe boy that that feels he's I

1124
00:55:55,267 --> 00:56:00,507
Speaker 7: was with his dad last night. Then we're delighted that

1125
00:56:00,547 --> 00:56:01,267
Speaker 7: he'll come back.

1126
00:56:01,587 --> 00:56:05,107
Speaker 15: And obviously that'll give the likes of the zab Tayles

1127
00:56:05,147 --> 00:56:08,027
Speaker 15: of this world of Kennedy shine and we saw of

1128
00:56:08,027 --> 00:56:15,027
Speaker 15: gotten some that in the Chiefs game this year. So yeah,

1129
00:56:15,027 --> 00:56:18,547
Speaker 15: come with the come with the animal, and those people have.

1130
00:56:18,547 --> 00:56:19,227
Speaker 7: To come to the war.

1131
00:56:20,467 --> 00:56:23,347
Speaker 4: Are you tied to Eden Park as your home venue?

1132
00:56:25,227 --> 00:56:25,947
Speaker 7: No, no, we're not.

1133
00:56:26,347 --> 00:56:26,547
Speaker 6: No.

1134
00:56:26,587 --> 00:56:30,467
Speaker 15: That's a that's a choice and.

1135
00:56:32,107 --> 00:56:34,947
Speaker 7: One that's done us proud over the years. It's still.

1136
00:56:37,187 --> 00:56:40,827
Speaker 15: It's still a venue that people want to go to.

1137
00:56:40,947 --> 00:56:45,067
Speaker 15: It has its challenges when crowds aren't to where we

1138
00:56:45,427 --> 00:56:47,107
Speaker 15: want to be. But I think if you with the

1139
00:56:47,187 --> 00:56:48,947
Speaker 15: Chiefs this year, with that sort of twenty three and

1140
00:56:48,987 --> 00:56:51,707
Speaker 15: a half, you're starting to really get at.

1141
00:56:51,587 --> 00:56:52,387
Speaker 7: The bounce there.

1142
00:56:54,187 --> 00:56:56,987
Speaker 15: And even on the lighter games, what we've try to

1143
00:56:57,027 --> 00:56:58,267
Speaker 15: do is.

1144
00:56:59,747 --> 00:57:02,147
Speaker 7: Make sure we've used that we st end a lot more.

1145
00:57:02,587 --> 00:57:04,227
Speaker 7: It will change it this year, whether it be a

1146
00:57:04,227 --> 00:57:06,467
Speaker 7: corporate function or whether it be bound to cast of

1147
00:57:06,507 --> 00:57:09,227
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff that changed the change the environment.

1148
00:57:10,467 --> 00:57:14,827
Speaker 15: And the other beauty of eating part was probably with

1149
00:57:14,987 --> 00:57:20,827
Speaker 15: minor Pacifica match when we had the Pacifica Festival, which

1150
00:57:20,867 --> 00:57:23,107
Speaker 15: I've got to stay with outstanding out of two thousand

1151
00:57:23,147 --> 00:57:24,747
Speaker 15: people with through them and we ended up with eighteen

1152
00:57:24,787 --> 00:57:26,027
Speaker 15: and a half thousand electrics.

1153
00:57:26,107 --> 00:57:28,267
Speaker 7: She last year only well eight and a half.

1154
00:57:28,307 --> 00:57:31,587
Speaker 15: So there's things you can do with even part of

1155
00:57:31,987 --> 00:57:34,507
Speaker 15: which I think we've sort of tried this.

1156
00:57:34,587 --> 00:57:38,147
Speaker 7: Year and a bit of work.

1157
00:57:38,587 --> 00:57:42,387
Speaker 15: Sometimes it doesn't and you know we look each and

1158
00:57:42,467 --> 00:57:45,747
Speaker 15: review that each and every year. I think Don Ray,

1159
00:57:45,947 --> 00:57:49,787
Speaker 15: for example, last year was outstanding for us. They got

1160
00:57:49,867 --> 00:57:51,387
Speaker 15: us off to an absolute little buy and it was

1161
00:57:51,387 --> 00:57:54,627
Speaker 15: ten and a half thousand people and it looked it

1162
00:57:54,627 --> 00:58:00,107
Speaker 15: looked incredible from a broadcast perspective, and I think that's

1163
00:58:00,107 --> 00:58:02,987
Speaker 15: what some of the environments, some of the stadiums can

1164
00:58:03,027 --> 00:58:04,827
Speaker 15: give you when you've got those small crowds.

1165
00:58:05,267 --> 00:58:11,787
Speaker 7: Cross Christmas year to EFC versus one of the teams

1166
00:58:12,027 --> 00:58:12,907
Speaker 7: in New South Wales.

1167
00:58:12,907 --> 00:58:14,387
Speaker 15: There there, I think the force on the table they

1168
00:58:14,387 --> 00:58:16,547
Speaker 15: had eleven and a half thousand there and it was

1169
00:58:16,587 --> 00:58:21,627
Speaker 15: still bouncing and so horses for courses and we've got

1170
00:58:21,667 --> 00:58:23,067
Speaker 15: to consider that each and every year.

1171
00:58:23,867 --> 00:58:26,947
Speaker 4: Just to finish, you operate in a sporting ecosystem which

1172
00:58:26,987 --> 00:58:30,467
Speaker 4: is getting increasingly crowded. Andrew, you've got one in Pacific

1173
00:58:30,667 --> 00:58:33,827
Speaker 4: in your city. The Warriors, of course are now Auckland FC,

1174
00:58:33,947 --> 00:58:36,907
Speaker 4: who are pulling big crowds every time they play at home.

1175
00:58:36,987 --> 00:58:40,387
Speaker 4: How challenging is the sporting ecosystem of Auckland.

1176
00:58:42,707 --> 00:58:46,467
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we're all much of a muchness.

1177
00:58:46,907 --> 00:58:50,747
Speaker 15: I think the Warriors probably would tip on average the

1178
00:58:50,827 --> 00:58:53,187
Speaker 15: great I think we've got to embrace that. To be

1179
00:58:53,227 --> 00:58:56,507
Speaker 15: honest with you, my attitude changed quite a lot because

1180
00:58:56,587 --> 00:58:59,587
Speaker 15: if you look at Melbourne, you look at Sydney. I

1181
00:58:59,587 --> 00:59:02,107
Speaker 15: think we're going to be a city not too too

1182
00:59:02,187 --> 00:59:05,067
Speaker 15: long away at one point act to two million people.

1183
00:59:05,547 --> 00:59:10,547
Speaker 15: And if we can put a product on the field

1184
00:59:11,267 --> 00:59:13,987
Speaker 15: which is exciting like this year and intriguing, and we

1185
00:59:14,027 --> 00:59:16,987
Speaker 15: can perform, then you will have a place in the

1186
00:59:17,067 --> 00:59:20,507
Speaker 15: sporting landscape. And we've got to start celebrating the fact

1187
00:59:20,507 --> 00:59:24,027
Speaker 15: that you know, work in the UK for over fifteen

1188
00:59:24,107 --> 00:59:27,947
Speaker 15: years and kids don't get the same opportunities from a

1189
00:59:27,987 --> 00:59:30,827
Speaker 15: sports expective that they do in New Zealand and so

1190
00:59:30,987 --> 00:59:35,227
Speaker 15: we actually are a sports mad nation as of Australia,

1191
00:59:35,827 --> 00:59:39,907
Speaker 15: and I actually do truly believe that these sports can coexist.

1192
00:59:40,987 --> 00:59:43,947
Speaker 15: I would, yeah question, having two professional rugby teams and

1193
00:59:44,027 --> 00:59:50,067
Speaker 15: an economy our sides is challenging, but it can be done,

1194
00:59:50,547 --> 00:59:54,587
Speaker 15: and a rugular league shown that. So we've got to

1195
00:59:54,627 --> 00:59:58,387
Speaker 15: embrace it and not be threatened by it. We've got

1196
00:59:58,427 --> 01:00:02,267
Speaker 15: to celebrate what's good about our sport, our comp and

1197
01:00:03,707 --> 01:00:06,947
Speaker 15: make the most of been probably New Zealand's camp sport.

1198
01:00:07,907 --> 01:00:10,067
Speaker 15: I know that to aggravate some but the simple fact

1199
01:00:10,147 --> 01:00:13,267
Speaker 15: matter is now with the Breakers, with the Warriors, with

1200
01:00:14,027 --> 01:00:16,427
Speaker 15: the football. I think there was that weekend in March

1201
01:00:16,427 --> 01:00:19,427
Speaker 15: where you could go to effectively four different sporting events,

1202
01:00:19,467 --> 01:00:21,627
Speaker 15: where you could go to the poly Fest. How does

1203
01:00:21,667 --> 01:00:23,467
Speaker 15: that not make for a great city. I went to

1204
01:00:23,467 --> 01:00:26,187
Speaker 15: the cricket on Friday night and then obviously our game,

1205
01:00:26,467 --> 01:00:30,467
Speaker 15: and so Cameron, George and I caught up for a

1206
01:00:30,507 --> 01:00:34,107
Speaker 15: coffee and I think we're both the same mindset that

1207
01:00:34,227 --> 01:00:36,827
Speaker 15: there is opportunity in this that we can make this

1208
01:00:36,987 --> 01:00:43,147
Speaker 15: work for all codes and actually enhance the lifestyle for

1209
01:00:43,227 --> 01:00:46,587
Speaker 15: many Oklanders and more broadly whether it be South Aukland

1210
01:00:46,667 --> 01:00:54,227
Speaker 15: or North Oakland and Northland to have activities that they

1211
01:00:54,227 --> 01:00:54,987
Speaker 15: can do every weekend.

1212
01:00:55,467 --> 01:00:57,867
Speaker 4: Could not agree more, could not agree more with that

1213
01:00:58,187 --> 01:01:00,987
Speaker 4: big month coming up for your fourth drawm onea Pacific

1214
01:01:00,987 --> 01:01:03,627
Speaker 4: a war Ataz Andrew, all the best on the field

1215
01:01:03,627 --> 01:01:05,587
Speaker 4: to the team and thank you for being so generous

1216
01:01:05,627 --> 01:01:06,947
Speaker 4: with your time off at the afternoon.

1217
01:01:08,267 --> 01:01:09,907
Speaker 7: No problems, Thanks mate, have a good day.

1218
01:01:10,067 --> 01:01:11,907
Speaker 4: You have a good day too, Andrew thinks indeed, Andrew

1219
01:01:11,947 --> 01:01:14,627
Speaker 4: whare with a conversation and went a bit longer than

1220
01:01:14,627 --> 01:01:16,747
Speaker 4: I thought it might actually some interesting thoughts, some very

1221
01:01:16,747 --> 01:01:18,987
Speaker 4: interesting thoughts on a wide range of topics there from

1222
01:01:18,987 --> 01:01:21,667
Speaker 4: Andrew ware Blue CEO. Thank you for your time, Andrew,

1223
01:01:21,987 --> 01:01:23,747
Speaker 4: and in fact thank you to all of the five

1224
01:01:23,827 --> 01:01:27,267
Speaker 4: CEOs four joining us on weekend sport over the last

1225
01:01:27,307 --> 01:01:29,507
Speaker 4: couple of weekends. You might have some thoughts Blues fans

1226
01:01:29,507 --> 01:01:32,587
Speaker 4: and what you heard there. The other thing I wanted

1227
01:01:32,587 --> 01:01:34,267
Speaker 4: to do was to try and work out who's going

1228
01:01:34,347 --> 01:01:37,507
Speaker 4: to finish in the top six. So round eleven is

1229
01:01:37,507 --> 01:01:40,707
Speaker 4: done and dust it. Just to remind you what happened

1230
01:01:41,107 --> 01:01:44,067
Speaker 4: Friday night seems like an age ago, doesn't it. The

1231
01:01:44,147 --> 01:01:46,347
Speaker 4: Chiefs beat the Fourth fifty six twenty two. The Reds

1232
01:01:46,387 --> 01:01:49,547
Speaker 4: beat the Blues thirty five twenty one. Three games yesterday

1233
01:01:49,547 --> 01:01:51,667
Speaker 4: morning Pacific a thirty four to fifteen winners over the

1234
01:01:51,667 --> 01:01:54,187
Speaker 4: Fiji and Drewer, the Crusaders doing a number on the

1235
01:01:54,227 --> 01:01:56,467
Speaker 4: Highlander is under the roof in dned in forty three

1236
01:01:56,627 --> 01:02:00,987
Speaker 4: ten and the Hurricanes for the first time in eight

1237
01:02:01,107 --> 01:02:05,027
Speaker 4: years winning in Canberra beating the Brumbies thirty five twenty nine.

1238
01:02:05,147 --> 01:02:07,947
Speaker 4: So at the moment looks like this. The Chiefs and

1239
01:02:07,987 --> 01:02:10,267
Speaker 4: the Crusaders, I think we can safely say are going

1240
01:02:10,267 --> 01:02:12,667
Speaker 4: to be the top two. They have cleared out really

1241
01:02:12,707 --> 01:02:16,147
Speaker 4: from the rest thirty seven points apiece. The Chiefs are

1242
01:02:16,227 --> 01:02:19,947
Speaker 4: top courtesy of a better points diff the Crusaders a second,

1243
01:02:19,947 --> 01:02:22,547
Speaker 4: but they're on equal points. Then it's eight points back

1244
01:02:23,027 --> 01:02:26,227
Speaker 4: to the Brumbies in third on twenty nine. The Reds

1245
01:02:26,227 --> 01:02:29,147
Speaker 4: have twenty seven and then it gets ready congested from

1246
01:02:29,187 --> 01:02:33,307
Speaker 4: five down to eight Hurricanes twenty two Force twenty two

1247
01:02:33,427 --> 01:02:38,467
Speaker 4: Waratars twenty one to ONEA pacificat twenty the Blues have seventeen,

1248
01:02:38,467 --> 01:02:41,907
Speaker 4: the Highlanders have seventeen, The Fiji and Dreuer have eleven.

1249
01:02:42,107 --> 01:02:44,947
Speaker 4: So even there, you look at teams like the Blues

1250
01:02:44,947 --> 01:02:47,587
Speaker 4: and the Highlanders who occupy places nine and ten on

1251
01:02:47,627 --> 01:02:51,147
Speaker 4: the ladder, they're only a bonus point one outside the

1252
01:02:51,187 --> 01:02:54,227
Speaker 4: top six. So what is the top six going to be?

1253
01:02:54,667 --> 01:02:56,667
Speaker 4: Let's lock the Chiefs and the Crusaders in, shall we

1254
01:02:57,187 --> 01:03:01,987
Speaker 4: let's make that call. Remember, everybody plays fourteen matches. Most

1255
01:03:01,987 --> 01:03:04,987
Speaker 4: teams have played ten. The Reds and the war Retars

1256
01:03:05,027 --> 01:03:07,627
Speaker 4: have each only played nine, so they've got a game

1257
01:03:07,667 --> 01:03:11,227
Speaker 4: in hand. Which of the New Zealand sides is not

1258
01:03:11,347 --> 01:03:13,707
Speaker 4: going to make it? I worry for the Highlanders. I

1259
01:03:13,747 --> 01:03:16,907
Speaker 4: have to say, I just I want them to meet

1260
01:03:16,987 --> 01:03:19,387
Speaker 4: a lot better than they are. But that is back

1261
01:03:19,427 --> 01:03:25,747
Speaker 4: to back concessions of forty points while only scoring ten themselves.

1262
01:03:25,827 --> 01:03:29,107
Speaker 4: They had very similar scorelines actually the last two weeks.

1263
01:03:29,627 --> 01:03:32,147
Speaker 4: Last weekend they lost forty six ten to the Chiefs.

1264
01:03:32,867 --> 01:03:36,747
Speaker 4: Last night they lost forty three to ten to the Crusaders. Yes,

1265
01:03:36,747 --> 01:03:40,507
Speaker 4: they are the top two sides, so let's not catastrophize

1266
01:03:40,547 --> 01:03:43,387
Speaker 4: things here, but the Highlanders are going to have to

1267
01:03:43,387 --> 01:03:46,147
Speaker 4: get a move on if they are to play in

1268
01:03:46,187 --> 01:03:49,627
Speaker 4: the finals. And as I mentioned yesterday, their problem is

1269
01:03:49,667 --> 01:03:53,027
Speaker 4: that they've got a very difficult running. They host more

1270
01:03:53,107 --> 01:03:57,307
Speaker 4: Una Pacifica, they visit the Hurricanes, they visit the Crusaders,

1271
01:03:57,627 --> 01:03:59,587
Speaker 4: and they host the Chiefs, so they still got to

1272
01:03:59,587 --> 01:04:02,827
Speaker 4: play the Chiefs and the Crusaders again. So I don't know.

1273
01:04:02,907 --> 01:04:08,587
Speaker 4: I just barring a real quite stark turnaround in form,

1274
01:04:08,627 --> 01:04:10,107
Speaker 4: I just don't know whether the highland Is are going

1275
01:04:10,147 --> 01:04:13,507
Speaker 4: to make it. The Blues well, as I just said

1276
01:04:13,507 --> 01:04:15,627
Speaker 4: to Andrew Whore, I think they're running, is a lot

1277
01:04:15,627 --> 01:04:19,427
Speaker 4: more favorable force at home Fiji and drew Away. That's

1278
01:04:19,427 --> 01:04:22,867
Speaker 4: in Suva, though not Alloudtoka where the Fijian draw always

1279
01:04:22,867 --> 01:04:26,907
Speaker 4: seemed to win. Then Maina Pacific at Albany and they

1280
01:04:26,907 --> 01:04:29,427
Speaker 4: finished with the Warortars at Eden Park. That's a much

1281
01:04:29,467 --> 01:04:33,187
Speaker 4: more That's a much friendlier running, isn't it for the Blue?

1282
01:04:33,227 --> 01:04:35,427
Speaker 4: So I reckon they've still got it in them to

1283
01:04:35,467 --> 01:04:38,027
Speaker 4: make it. It's just a matter of who drops out.

1284
01:04:38,387 --> 01:04:40,147
Speaker 4: Have you got some thoughts if you want to pump

1285
01:04:40,227 --> 01:04:43,427
Speaker 4: up the tires of your own team. Crusaders fans are

1286
01:04:43,467 --> 01:04:46,667
Speaker 4: your back, aren't you? Just like watching the Crusaders of

1287
01:04:46,707 --> 01:04:50,027
Speaker 4: two years ago? How much did they miss Will Jordan

1288
01:04:50,107 --> 01:04:53,107
Speaker 4: last year? The guy's just a magician on the rugby field,

1289
01:04:53,107 --> 01:04:56,907
Speaker 4: doesn't He Just an absolute genius of a rugby player.

1290
01:04:57,787 --> 01:05:00,907
Speaker 4: And you forget that he didn't play at all last

1291
01:05:00,947 --> 01:05:03,627
Speaker 4: year in Super Rugby and look what happened to the Crusaders.

1292
01:05:03,667 --> 01:05:05,827
Speaker 4: I'm not saying they're a one man team, but he

1293
01:05:05,907 --> 01:05:09,827
Speaker 4: makes a massive difference to that Crusaders team. Will Jordan

1294
01:05:09,987 --> 01:05:13,587
Speaker 4: just an absolutely superb rugby player. Forty three to ten

1295
01:05:13,947 --> 01:05:15,667
Speaker 4: last night with a couple of tries to Will Jordan

1296
01:05:15,747 --> 01:05:18,347
Speaker 4: early on in the piece and you know straight away

1297
01:05:18,387 --> 01:05:21,787
Speaker 4: after fifteen minutes they're out to fourteen nil. It was

1298
01:05:21,867 --> 01:05:24,627
Speaker 4: such a shame to see Taha Kimaa come off, wasn't it.

1299
01:05:25,427 --> 01:05:27,787
Speaker 4: And he was just starting to kind of get the

1300
01:05:27,827 --> 01:05:30,987
Speaker 4: hang of super rugby, wasn't he just starting to to

1301
01:05:31,147 --> 01:05:33,427
Speaker 4: I think find his feet. They've they've wrapped a lot

1302
01:05:33,427 --> 01:05:37,507
Speaker 4: of support around him. They've backed him to wear the

1303
01:05:37,587 --> 01:05:40,867
Speaker 4: ten jersey. Unlike last year they had about five or

1304
01:05:40,867 --> 01:05:45,827
Speaker 4: six blokes playing first five. He's been the man and

1305
01:05:45,827 --> 01:05:47,747
Speaker 4: even James O'Connor wasn't on the bench last night, So

1306
01:05:47,867 --> 01:05:49,707
Speaker 4: river'z Raehana came on, didn't he and actually did a

1307
01:05:49,707 --> 01:05:51,987
Speaker 4: pretty decent job too. But for tahe Kim and I

1308
01:05:51,987 --> 01:05:53,987
Speaker 4: haven't heard any more about the knee injury. But it

1309
01:05:54,067 --> 01:05:57,947
Speaker 4: looked bad, didn't it. You know, it looked just like

1310
01:05:58,027 --> 01:05:59,987
Speaker 4: one of those where he's not going to recover in

1311
01:06:00,027 --> 01:06:02,747
Speaker 4: a week or so. I hope it's not the dreaded

1312
01:06:02,787 --> 01:06:05,667
Speaker 4: acl which has you out for months and months. Haven't

1313
01:06:05,707 --> 01:06:09,627
Speaker 4: heard anything. We'll obviously get some some further detail on

1314
01:06:09,627 --> 01:06:11,427
Speaker 4: that in the week ahead. But yeah, such a shame.

1315
01:06:11,467 --> 01:06:15,387
Speaker 4: But the Crusaders, man, I mean, just how good are

1316
01:06:15,387 --> 01:06:18,547
Speaker 4: they looking? How good are they looking? This takes some calls.

1317
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Speaker 4: One hundred and eighty ten eight nine two nine to

1318
01:06:20,547 --> 01:06:23,227
Speaker 4: two on text twenty nine away from two talking super

1319
01:06:23,307 --> 01:06:24,547
Speaker 4: Rugby when we come back.

1320
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Speaker 1: The tough Questions off the turf Weekends Sport with Jason

1321
01:06:28,867 --> 01:06:29,867
Speaker 1: Tyne and GJ.

1322
01:06:30,027 --> 01:06:32,587
Speaker 3: Gunnerholmes New Zealand's most Trusted home.

1323
01:06:32,467 --> 01:06:36,427
Speaker 4: Builder twenty six to two. Michael on text, I'm a

1324
01:06:36,507 --> 01:06:39,867
Speaker 4: very very happy Hurricanes fan. See is Michael? I am too? Michael,

1325
01:06:40,187 --> 01:06:42,387
Speaker 4: I am too. I was beginning to get a little

1326
01:06:42,387 --> 01:06:46,747
Speaker 4: bit worried. Welcome back, Billy Procter. Hello, Bruce you good o.

1327
01:06:46,867 --> 01:06:47,227
Speaker 11: Mate.

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01:06:47,627 --> 01:06:53,187
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm a Blues fan and I'm looking at the

1329
01:06:53,267 --> 01:06:56,907
Speaker 9: drawer coming up. I can see us making the top six.

1330
01:06:57,747 --> 01:06:59,427
Speaker 6: But to be quite.

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01:06:59,187 --> 01:07:04,227
Speaker 9: Frank, unless they change their game plan, they're just not

1332
01:07:04,267 --> 01:07:08,027
Speaker 9: going to get anywhere in terms of the I mean,

1333
01:07:08,147 --> 01:07:12,907
Speaker 9: I'm really frustrated with the way that they're playing and

1334
01:07:14,307 --> 01:07:18,187
Speaker 9: it's just such a narrow game. They're not They're the

1335
01:07:18,267 --> 01:07:21,147
Speaker 9: worst New Zealand side to watch. I'd have to say

1336
01:07:21,587 --> 01:07:22,107
Speaker 9: they won.

1337
01:07:22,027 --> 01:07:24,347
Speaker 4: It last year playing a similar way though Bruce didn't

1338
01:07:24,387 --> 01:07:25,067
Speaker 4: they They didn't.

1339
01:07:25,107 --> 01:07:25,427
Speaker 11: They weren't.

1340
01:07:25,587 --> 01:07:28,307
Speaker 4: They went very expensive last year either. They kept it

1341
01:07:28,347 --> 01:07:30,627
Speaker 4: in tight, they bashed up the middle. Eventually they got

1342
01:07:30,667 --> 01:07:32,467
Speaker 4: it out to the likes of Clark and Talaya, but

1343
01:07:32,507 --> 01:07:35,667
Speaker 4: they didn't really you know, run it from anywhere last

1344
01:07:35,707 --> 01:07:36,147
Speaker 4: year either.

1345
01:07:37,827 --> 01:07:40,267
Speaker 9: They didn't. But they still use their backs a bit

1346
01:07:40,267 --> 01:07:43,107
Speaker 9: more than I feel that what they're doing this year,

1347
01:07:43,147 --> 01:07:48,667
Speaker 9: and it's just like it's yeah, it's just I just

1348
01:07:48,707 --> 01:07:50,387
Speaker 9: don't think. I mean, I look at the form of

1349
01:07:50,467 --> 01:07:55,267
Speaker 9: Rico at the moment and he's had an pull appolloling season.

1350
01:07:55,947 --> 01:07:59,507
Speaker 9: He's been a non event. Every time he gets the bull,

1351
01:07:59,547 --> 01:08:03,547
Speaker 9: he knocks it on. If that guy gets put into

1352
01:08:03,587 --> 01:08:06,667
Speaker 9: the midfield for the All Blacks, it'll be one of

1353
01:08:06,707 --> 01:08:10,587
Speaker 9: the great travesties. Mate, like he does not deserve to

1354
01:08:10,627 --> 01:08:16,067
Speaker 9: be picked. I watched the Hurricanes last night and Billy Proctor,

1355
01:08:16,787 --> 01:08:20,827
Speaker 9: you know, like, you know, he's just streets ahead of Rico,

1356
01:08:21,467 --> 01:08:26,067
Speaker 9: and you know, as a digression, I think that the

1357
01:08:26,147 --> 01:08:31,667
Speaker 9: Hurricanes could be a real dark horse moving forward. But yeah,

1358
01:08:31,867 --> 01:08:34,707
Speaker 9: just I just don't think, you know, like they need

1359
01:08:34,787 --> 01:08:38,107
Speaker 9: to have a serious, serious look at themselves and the

1360
01:08:38,147 --> 01:08:41,947
Speaker 9: way that they're playing, because they're not utilizing the players

1361
01:08:41,987 --> 01:08:43,227
Speaker 9: that they've gotten the team.

1362
01:08:44,107 --> 01:08:46,667
Speaker 4: Thanks Bruce. Look, I agree on on Rico. I think

1363
01:08:46,707 --> 01:08:49,347
Speaker 4: he's had a disappointing Super Rugby season. I think by

1364
01:08:49,347 --> 01:08:51,467
Speaker 4: his own admission, he would probably say the same thing.

1365
01:08:51,507 --> 01:08:53,827
Speaker 4: I don't know this to be true, but you know,

1366
01:08:54,387 --> 01:08:57,627
Speaker 4: by his own very high standards, his own All Black standards,

1367
01:08:57,627 --> 01:09:00,627
Speaker 4: once he played eighty Test matches, he's a high quality

1368
01:09:00,627 --> 01:09:04,187
Speaker 4: All Black. He hasn't had a good season. You're right,

1369
01:09:04,387 --> 01:09:07,507
Speaker 4: he hasn't. And for Billy Proctor to come back last

1370
01:09:07,587 --> 01:09:11,467
Speaker 4: night after so long away and play the way he did,

1371
01:09:11,667 --> 01:09:15,067
Speaker 4: Clark laidlaw in the postmatch press conference. The question was

1372
01:09:15,107 --> 01:09:17,427
Speaker 4: asked of him what was different tonight and he just

1373
01:09:17,467 --> 01:09:20,627
Speaker 4: said Billy Proctor and then he laughed and he expanded

1374
01:09:20,627 --> 01:09:24,947
Speaker 4: a bit, But actually the fact is the Hurricanes looked

1375
01:09:24,987 --> 01:09:29,307
Speaker 4: so much better with him in the starting side. Now,

1376
01:09:29,907 --> 01:09:33,187
Speaker 4: when the All Blacks are chosen for the French Series

1377
01:09:33,227 --> 01:09:37,267
Speaker 4: in July, I could almost say, without fear of contradiction,

1378
01:09:37,347 --> 01:09:39,587
Speaker 4: that Rico Yoanni will be in the side. Of course

1379
01:09:39,587 --> 01:09:42,587
Speaker 4: he will. He's one of those players who's been around

1380
01:09:43,067 --> 01:09:46,587
Speaker 4: for long enough that his reputation speaks for itself. But

1381
01:09:47,387 --> 01:09:49,187
Speaker 4: if you are picking on form, then he's going to

1382
01:09:49,267 --> 01:09:52,507
Speaker 4: have to play a lot better in the last month

1383
01:09:52,547 --> 01:09:55,547
Speaker 4: and it may well be that he and others lift

1384
01:09:55,587 --> 01:09:59,067
Speaker 4: their game and they do make the top six. Andrew

1385
01:09:59,107 --> 01:10:01,067
Speaker 4: Ward just said before, Look, if we make the top six,

1386
01:10:01,107 --> 01:10:03,347
Speaker 4: I back us, of course, I mean anyone who makes

1387
01:10:03,347 --> 01:10:07,227
Speaker 4: the top six. It's a slightly unusual format. But in

1388
01:10:07,347 --> 01:10:10,787
Speaker 4: knockout rugby you've got game breakers the likes of Talaya

1389
01:10:11,107 --> 01:10:14,387
Speaker 4: and Clark and Rick Owanni and others. So the Blues

1390
01:10:14,387 --> 01:10:17,307
Speaker 4: can beat anybody on their day, and it was only

1391
01:10:17,387 --> 01:10:20,187
Speaker 4: last year that they beat everybody on their day. But yeah,

1392
01:10:20,187 --> 01:10:21,627
Speaker 4: they're gonna have to lift their game. Bruce, thanks for

1393
01:10:21,627 --> 01:10:22,547
Speaker 4: you call. M'd appreciate it.

1394
01:10:22,747 --> 01:10:28,747
Speaker 17: Peter, Hello, Hey, funny, absolutely loving, super ruppy. At the moment,

1395
01:10:28,907 --> 01:10:32,507
Speaker 17: I just every week it's there's a list two good

1396
01:10:32,627 --> 01:10:36,907
Speaker 17: games that have been played that are just solid football games.

1397
01:10:36,947 --> 01:10:42,307
Speaker 17: And I think it's great the rule changes, just how

1398
01:10:42,707 --> 01:10:46,347
Speaker 17: the teams are going about their general player is just

1399
01:10:46,667 --> 01:10:50,547
Speaker 17: as exciting to watch. Like the Fiji and Amina game

1400
01:10:50,627 --> 01:10:54,187
Speaker 17: last night, the Hurricanes game last night, brilliant games. Just

1401
01:10:55,267 --> 01:11:00,507
Speaker 17: really good to see an end to what we hated

1402
01:11:00,587 --> 01:11:05,427
Speaker 17: about the last two seasons. Yeah, you know, it's a

1403
01:11:05,627 --> 01:11:09,027
Speaker 17: huge change. I'm loving that the ref doesn't give a

1404
01:11:09,027 --> 01:11:12,747
Speaker 17: crap if someone goes down play on, you know. I'm

1405
01:11:13,427 --> 01:11:16,827
Speaker 17: loving that they're not just just stopping the game for

1406
01:11:17,707 --> 01:11:21,027
Speaker 17: you to listen to themselves. It's just yeah, it's just great.

1407
01:11:21,147 --> 01:11:26,267
Speaker 17: And Hurricanes is a Hurricane fan, I'm quite excited what

1408
01:11:26,587 --> 01:11:33,107
Speaker 17: after they went after and camera and and I think

1409
01:11:33,147 --> 01:11:37,107
Speaker 17: they're still missing a combination of that hardy saber and

1410
01:11:37,587 --> 01:11:40,987
Speaker 17: that steady stead pass of Jordan. But I think they can,

1411
01:11:42,267 --> 01:11:44,747
Speaker 17: they can, they can get up there. I'm not worried

1412
01:11:44,787 --> 01:11:45,267
Speaker 17: about the Blues.

1413
01:11:45,307 --> 01:11:45,747
Speaker 9: Who cares?

1414
01:11:45,987 --> 01:11:48,747
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, that's.

1415
01:11:49,107 --> 01:11:51,507
Speaker 4: The that's the spirit. Peter, You're right about the games though,

1416
01:11:51,547 --> 01:11:54,827
Speaker 4: there's hardly been a dud. I mean, if you're like me,

1417
01:11:55,147 --> 01:11:56,907
Speaker 4: I tend to watch most of the games most weekends,

1418
01:11:56,947 --> 01:11:58,627
Speaker 4: I kind of have to. But but I think most

1419
01:11:58,667 --> 01:12:00,707
Speaker 4: fans watch their own team and they might watch the

1420
01:12:00,787 --> 01:12:03,107
Speaker 4: derby's but I think now, I mean, I I'll never

1421
01:12:03,187 --> 01:12:05,267
Speaker 4: look at anything now because they're all such good games.

1422
01:12:06,627 --> 01:12:11,707
Speaker 17: I'm happy that Australia has stood up in the last

1423
01:12:11,707 --> 01:12:14,627
Speaker 17: couple of years. Has been and New Zealand and Australia

1424
01:12:14,667 --> 01:12:19,027
Speaker 17: haven't featured with. Now you going, oh, okay, hang on.

1425
01:12:20,267 --> 01:12:23,467
Speaker 17: Your Hurricanes just drough to the Force last weekend and

1426
01:12:23,827 --> 01:12:29,827
Speaker 17: they won. I believe the Force this week, didn't they yep, yep, yeah, yeah,

1427
01:12:29,867 --> 01:12:33,827
Speaker 17: so it's awesome. It was awesome. It's the old Super

1428
01:12:33,987 --> 01:12:36,547
Speaker 17: twelve days coming back slowly.

1429
01:12:36,667 --> 01:12:40,707
Speaker 4: So yeah, so the Force didn't know. Sorry, the Force

1430
01:12:40,747 --> 01:12:42,147
Speaker 4: didn't win, mate, they got they got a hammerd by

1431
01:12:42,187 --> 01:12:44,347
Speaker 4: the Chiefs. They drew with our Hurricanes last week. No

1432
01:12:44,347 --> 01:12:46,747
Speaker 4: only you to raise that fem memory I had as well.

1433
01:12:47,387 --> 01:12:50,467
Speaker 17: So yeah, yeah, got.

1434
01:12:50,267 --> 01:12:52,787
Speaker 4: On your yeah, got on your makee grunty chat and

1435
01:12:53,587 --> 01:12:56,107
Speaker 4: I totally endorse what you said at the start. It's

1436
01:12:56,147 --> 01:12:59,267
Speaker 4: great to watch and that's it's been a common theme

1437
01:12:59,307 --> 01:13:02,467
Speaker 4: this year. The rugby is good to watch, and that

1438
01:13:02,547 --> 01:13:04,627
Speaker 4: hasn't always been the case, Like I said, I used

1439
01:13:04,627 --> 01:13:05,947
Speaker 4: to watch You know, most fans, I think you used

1440
01:13:05,947 --> 01:13:07,787
Speaker 4: to watch their team or watch the New Zealand derby's.

1441
01:13:08,227 --> 01:13:11,787
Speaker 4: They couldn't really be bothered watching a game between a

1442
01:13:11,827 --> 01:13:13,987
Speaker 4: team from New Zealand that wasn't their team and one

1443
01:13:13,987 --> 01:13:16,227
Speaker 4: of the Australian sides because you kind of knew what

1444
01:13:16,347 --> 01:13:19,387
Speaker 4: was going to happen. Now you don't, you don't. And

1445
01:13:19,427 --> 01:13:22,347
Speaker 4: I went through the table before and with four games

1446
01:13:22,387 --> 01:13:26,027
Speaker 4: to go, we've still got three Australian sides in the

1447
01:13:26,027 --> 01:13:29,147
Speaker 4: top six and the warratas just one point outside. So

1448
01:13:29,187 --> 01:13:33,267
Speaker 4: the four Australian sides are in the top seven, occupying

1449
01:13:33,307 --> 01:13:37,667
Speaker 4: places three, four, six and seven. There could easily be

1450
01:13:37,787 --> 01:13:42,387
Speaker 4: three teams three teams in the from Australia in the

1451
01:13:42,387 --> 01:13:46,187
Speaker 4: top six, easily nineteen away from two. Have to knock

1452
01:13:46,187 --> 01:13:47,347
Speaker 4: it on the head there, I'm afraid you have to

1453
01:13:47,347 --> 01:13:49,387
Speaker 4: get to James mcconey. Here's with us and as regular

1454
01:13:49,707 --> 01:13:50,347
Speaker 4: Sunday slot.

1455
01:13:50,427 --> 01:13:53,667
Speaker 1: Right after this, the biggest seams in sports are on

1456
01:13:54,067 --> 01:13:59,147
Speaker 1: Weekend Sports with Jason Pine and GJ. Gunnomes, New Zealand's.

1457
01:13:58,667 --> 01:14:00,187
Speaker 2: Most trusted home builder.

1458
01:13:59,947 --> 01:14:04,547
Speaker 4: NEWSTORMSB NEWSTALKSV quarter to two on Sunday, which means well

1459
01:14:04,627 --> 01:14:05,907
Speaker 4: a few things. I don't know what you do at

1460
01:14:05,947 --> 01:14:07,707
Speaker 4: quarter to two. So on a Sunday AN normally chat

1461
01:14:07,747 --> 01:14:09,827
Speaker 4: to James McConney if I can get my mouse in

1462
01:14:09,827 --> 01:14:12,907
Speaker 4: the right place and get them on the Yir Hello mate.

1463
01:14:12,947 --> 01:14:16,747
Speaker 7: Hello piney, if you've got pre match nerves because it's

1464
01:14:16,747 --> 01:14:17,387
Speaker 7: such a big day.

1465
01:14:17,467 --> 01:14:20,947
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Jeffery, Yeah, but Jeffery. Although although I mean,

1466
01:14:21,267 --> 01:14:23,627
Speaker 4: I guess the players, I'd be interested to know to

1467
01:14:23,667 --> 01:14:25,467
Speaker 4: know what you think about this. How will the players

1468
01:14:25,907 --> 01:14:29,267
Speaker 4: be feeling for Auckland FC because they don't have to

1469
01:14:29,307 --> 01:14:31,707
Speaker 4: do anything today and they still get the plate at

1470
01:14:31,747 --> 01:14:32,267
Speaker 4: the end of it.

1471
01:14:32,987 --> 01:14:34,987
Speaker 7: I know it is strange. I'll have to fire up

1472
01:14:35,027 --> 01:14:37,587
Speaker 7: somehow and play because they won't want to lose and

1473
01:14:37,667 --> 01:14:41,187
Speaker 7: lift the plate. No, No, at least that'll be they

1474
01:14:41,227 --> 01:14:42,707
Speaker 7: need to put on a show. I think there'll be

1475
01:14:42,747 --> 01:14:47,147
Speaker 7: a festival atmosphere anyway, because you know, even despite the rain,

1476
01:14:47,747 --> 01:14:49,787
Speaker 7: the fans will be out, the port will be packed.

1477
01:14:50,707 --> 01:14:54,827
Speaker 7: There'll be an incredible atmosphere there at Mount Smart. But yeah,

1478
01:14:54,867 --> 01:14:57,187
Speaker 7: it's a strange one that they are the plate for

1479
01:14:57,307 --> 01:15:01,187
Speaker 7: the Premiers plate winners. And I looked at actually what

1480
01:15:01,267 --> 01:15:04,227
Speaker 7: happened next and it actually it doesn't help them that

1481
01:15:04,347 --> 01:15:06,307
Speaker 7: much really because they have to play a two leagues

1482
01:15:06,347 --> 01:15:09,347
Speaker 7: semi final. Presumably they get the second league at home?

1483
01:15:09,427 --> 01:15:10,587
Speaker 7: Is that right, Piney, Yeah, that's right.

1484
01:15:10,667 --> 01:15:12,347
Speaker 4: Yeah. Nick Becker was on the show earlier. He said

1485
01:15:12,387 --> 01:15:14,747
Speaker 4: that will be on Saturday, the twenty fourth of May.

1486
01:15:15,387 --> 01:15:18,827
Speaker 4: So this come. So they've got another regular season game

1487
01:15:18,867 --> 01:15:20,667
Speaker 4: next weekend, then they get a week off and then

1488
01:15:20,747 --> 01:15:23,267
Speaker 4: home and away away first, So yeah, they get the

1489
01:15:23,267 --> 01:15:25,387
Speaker 4: second League at home and then I guess the big

1490
01:15:25,427 --> 01:15:27,267
Speaker 4: price for finishing top is that if you make the

1491
01:15:27,267 --> 01:15:29,147
Speaker 4: Grand Final, you host the Grand Final.

1492
01:15:30,107 --> 01:15:33,347
Speaker 7: That's the one. So I mean there's a rub you

1493
01:15:33,427 --> 01:15:36,147
Speaker 7: need to actually get through this minefield of a two

1494
01:15:36,227 --> 01:15:40,347
Speaker 7: league semi final. I think that's really tricky for Auckland City.

1495
01:15:40,467 --> 01:15:43,667
Speaker 7: I mean, Auckland is c but at the same time

1496
01:15:43,747 --> 01:15:47,947
Speaker 7: they've built their whole season on defense, right, So they've

1497
01:15:48,027 --> 01:15:51,307
Speaker 7: conceded the least amount of goals twenty three goals. Only

1498
01:15:51,387 --> 01:15:55,107
Speaker 7: Melbourne City of twenty four goals conceded came close. So

1499
01:15:55,147 --> 01:15:59,067
Speaker 7: they are built around this wall. And of course you

1500
01:15:59,107 --> 01:16:03,547
Speaker 7: know Hierarchi Sakai, the heroic captain, as the one who's

1501
01:16:03,627 --> 01:16:05,907
Speaker 7: kind of led them and that's been probably one of

1502
01:16:05,907 --> 01:16:07,747
Speaker 7: the best signings in a league history.

1503
01:16:07,827 --> 01:16:10,107
Speaker 4: Yeah, just absolutely brilliant and just on the two legged thing.

1504
01:16:10,147 --> 01:16:13,067
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Wellington Phoenix was second last year,

1505
01:16:13,187 --> 01:16:16,107
Speaker 4: so they missed the first the first round of the

1506
01:16:16,107 --> 01:16:17,947
Speaker 4: playoffs and they had the home and away. They couldn't

1507
01:16:17,947 --> 01:16:21,147
Speaker 4: negotiate it. They couldn't make it through to the Grand Final.

1508
01:16:21,267 --> 01:16:23,347
Speaker 4: So not that they would have hosted it because they

1509
01:16:23,347 --> 01:16:26,067
Speaker 4: were second, but the fact remains. It's not a fatal

1510
01:16:26,107 --> 01:16:29,107
Speaker 4: complete that you that you can get through, you know,

1511
01:16:29,147 --> 01:16:31,067
Speaker 4: two ninety minute games and as it was last year,

1512
01:16:31,067 --> 01:16:32,507
Speaker 4: there was extra time as well. So it's a lot

1513
01:16:32,547 --> 01:16:34,747
Speaker 4: of football before you get to the Grand Final.

1514
01:16:35,147 --> 01:16:36,987
Speaker 7: It is, and that's the whole thing. I think, you know,

1515
01:16:36,987 --> 01:16:40,147
Speaker 7: you're going to appreciate this when I think Steve Curriker

1516
01:16:40,307 --> 01:16:42,427
Speaker 7: said to me a couple of weeks ago, this is

1517
01:16:42,787 --> 01:16:45,827
Speaker 7: how most leagues around the world are measured. First past

1518
01:16:45,867 --> 01:16:49,267
Speaker 7: the posts. Like this, the grand Final, where you played

1519
01:16:49,307 --> 01:16:53,347
Speaker 7: for the toilet seat is an oddity of the A

1520
01:16:53,467 --> 01:16:56,147
Speaker 7: League and a few other places where they have you know,

1521
01:16:56,307 --> 01:16:59,787
Speaker 7: sort of they split the league in some European countries

1522
01:16:59,947 --> 01:17:03,347
Speaker 7: for the final series. But look it's been a massive

1523
01:17:03,387 --> 01:17:05,467
Speaker 7: season for them, and I was just thinking to you, Piney,

1524
01:17:05,467 --> 01:17:08,387
Speaker 7: because it's such a big Liverpool fans. You've got quite

1525
01:17:08,747 --> 01:17:11,507
Speaker 7: quite a weekend on your hands, haven't you, Because they're

1526
01:17:12,467 --> 01:17:16,227
Speaker 7: pretty much going to win the Premier League and and

1527
01:17:16,627 --> 01:17:19,227
Speaker 7: and actually there are similarities and only both teams have

1528
01:17:19,267 --> 01:17:22,707
Speaker 7: only lost two games each, so I'm looking at the

1529
01:17:22,747 --> 01:17:25,707
Speaker 7: way they stack up statistically. I know there's more games

1530
01:17:25,747 --> 01:17:28,347
Speaker 7: in the EPL, but quite similar seasons.

1531
01:17:28,427 --> 01:17:31,267
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want the defense wins championships, as they often say.

1532
01:17:32,027 --> 01:17:34,627
Speaker 4: And yeah, if you're if you're not conceding, you're not losing.

1533
01:17:34,667 --> 01:17:37,387
Speaker 4: And you're right, Liverpool haven't lost many games. You're not

1534
01:17:37,427 --> 01:17:40,067
Speaker 4: as civilized as time. Five o'clock this afternoon, Great time

1535
01:17:40,107 --> 01:17:42,347
Speaker 4: for a game of football. Three point thirty tomorrow morning.

1536
01:17:42,787 --> 01:17:43,587
Speaker 4: Not quite so much.

1537
01:17:44,547 --> 01:17:45,667
Speaker 7: Yeah you'll be up, though, pony.

1538
01:17:45,747 --> 01:17:47,107
Speaker 4: I we'll be up. I'll be up having a look

1539
01:17:47,107 --> 01:17:48,667
Speaker 4: at it. I'll be up having a look at it. Hey,

1540
01:17:48,707 --> 01:17:50,827
Speaker 4: can we talk some super rugby? Do you think the

1541
01:17:50,867 --> 01:17:51,947
Speaker 4: Blues are going to make the six?

1542
01:17:53,987 --> 01:17:58,507
Speaker 7: No? I feel bad for the Blues because they're actually

1543
01:17:58,507 --> 01:18:03,227
Speaker 7: better than what their season has shown. And yesterday the

1544
01:18:03,307 --> 01:18:06,827
Speaker 7: Reds were They're pretty determined team the Reds Michael line

1545
01:18:06,867 --> 01:18:10,027
Speaker 7: has Son Tom Liner having an absolute blinder at first

1546
01:18:10,067 --> 01:18:12,747
Speaker 7: five as well that didn't help them. And then also

1547
01:18:12,907 --> 01:18:16,027
Speaker 7: the TMO getting involved pretty much every time they crossed

1548
01:18:16,067 --> 01:18:19,427
Speaker 7: the line, the TMO was in there, and of course

1549
01:18:19,467 --> 01:18:24,547
Speaker 7: having that television match official, I guess slow your flow

1550
01:18:24,987 --> 01:18:27,827
Speaker 7: is really tough for me. And of course compounded by

1551
01:18:27,827 --> 01:18:31,427
Speaker 7: a red card to there arguably the biggest attack weapon,

1552
01:18:31,547 --> 01:18:34,507
Speaker 7: Mark Tallire who got done for a spear tackle. So

1553
01:18:36,147 --> 01:18:41,187
Speaker 7: it's not great for the Blues. But meanwhile for the Hurricanes,

1554
01:18:41,267 --> 01:18:43,667
Speaker 7: let's look on the positives there there. Season looked down

1555
01:18:43,707 --> 01:18:46,427
Speaker 7: and dusted there for a while, but with that when

1556
01:18:46,427 --> 01:18:49,587
Speaker 7: they're against the Brumbies, that was pretty amazing stuff last night. Piney,

1557
01:18:49,627 --> 01:18:50,267
Speaker 7: you would have loved that.

1558
01:18:50,427 --> 01:18:50,667
Speaker 18: I did.

1559
01:18:50,827 --> 01:18:52,707
Speaker 4: I did, And I was just talking about Billy Procter

1560
01:18:52,787 --> 01:18:55,587
Speaker 4: before and how much of a difference he made. It's

1561
01:18:55,587 --> 01:18:57,827
Speaker 4: interesting when you know, you talk about a guy coming

1562
01:18:57,867 --> 01:18:59,507
Speaker 4: back into a team and making a difference, and you

1563
01:18:59,547 --> 01:19:02,747
Speaker 4: often think about a raw boned, loose forward, or maybe

1564
01:19:02,787 --> 01:19:05,467
Speaker 4: you know your captain who's a lock, or maybe you're hooker.

1565
01:19:05,507 --> 01:19:07,907
Speaker 4: You don't often think of you of your center coming

1566
01:19:07,907 --> 01:19:09,987
Speaker 4: back and making such a big difference. But he was

1567
01:19:10,747 --> 01:19:12,187
Speaker 4: terrific last night, Billy.

1568
01:19:11,987 --> 01:19:14,867
Speaker 7: Proctor, Yeah, he was exceptional. I really do like the

1569
01:19:14,867 --> 01:19:17,587
Speaker 7: way that the Hurricanes forwards went about their business as well.

1570
01:19:17,627 --> 01:19:20,787
Speaker 7: I think there was a fifteen or five minute period

1571
01:19:20,827 --> 01:19:25,067
Speaker 7: where they silenced the Aussie commentators, which is no mean feat.

1572
01:19:25,347 --> 01:19:29,987
Speaker 7: You know how biased that getting Justin Harrison. Justin Harrison

1573
01:19:30,027 --> 01:19:34,627
Speaker 7: with his very very pro Brumby's commentary. But the thing

1574
01:19:34,707 --> 01:19:38,747
Speaker 7: is when the Hurricanes showed their attack, it was really

1575
01:19:38,787 --> 01:19:41,267
Speaker 7: slow forwards and backs and he said that's the best

1576
01:19:41,347 --> 01:19:44,867
Speaker 7: rugby he's seen played this Super Rugby season, but none

1577
01:19:44,987 --> 01:19:47,867
Speaker 7: so the Hurricanes have got it in them. Billy Proctor, however,

1578
01:19:47,907 --> 01:19:50,467
Speaker 7: we need to talk about that. Yes, as a center,

1579
01:19:50,547 --> 01:19:53,907
Speaker 7: I think he's eclipsing ricoe Yowani at the moment. I think,

1580
01:19:54,067 --> 01:19:56,907
Speaker 7: at age twenty five, he's at the peak of his powers.

1581
01:19:57,147 --> 01:19:59,867
Speaker 7: He's showing what he can do. The combo with Riley

1582
01:19:59,907 --> 01:20:02,467
Speaker 7: Higgins is what I guess everybody's wanted to see, all

1583
01:20:02,547 --> 01:20:06,147
Speaker 7: rugby fans, but especially Hurricanes fans, and to be on

1584
01:20:06,587 --> 01:20:08,907
Speaker 7: now that we've in love is settled into that number ten,

1585
01:20:09,227 --> 01:20:11,787
Speaker 7: would do you even move him? When Harry Godfrey comes

1586
01:20:11,827 --> 01:20:12,907
Speaker 7: back I think not.

1587
01:20:13,427 --> 01:20:16,827
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's so interesting. And yeah, the bit about

1588
01:20:16,907 --> 01:20:20,067
Speaker 4: Billy Proctor and what he could become. You know, you

1589
01:20:20,107 --> 01:20:21,787
Speaker 4: don't want to pump a guy ties up too much.

1590
01:20:21,827 --> 01:20:24,067
Speaker 4: But he's actually been around for a while, Billy Proctor.

1591
01:20:24,067 --> 01:20:26,987
Speaker 4: They liked him as a as a teenager, and you know,

1592
01:20:26,987 --> 01:20:28,347
Speaker 4: he had to sort of live in the shadow of

1593
01:20:28,347 --> 01:20:30,507
Speaker 4: his brother Matt for a while. But he's in there

1594
01:20:30,507 --> 01:20:32,707
Speaker 4: now and yet look, I think he's making them, making

1595
01:20:32,707 --> 01:20:34,587
Speaker 4: a great fist of things. So good to have him

1596
01:20:34,627 --> 01:20:37,227
Speaker 4: back from that, from that our killer's injury. Hey, can

1597
01:20:37,227 --> 01:20:40,987
Speaker 4: we finish with the an Zach anthem at the AFL.

1598
01:20:41,067 --> 01:20:44,507
Speaker 4: Did you happen to catch this over the weekend?

1599
01:20:45,267 --> 01:20:48,227
Speaker 7: I did. It was impressive. This is private Heavy Adams

1600
01:20:48,227 --> 01:20:52,147
Speaker 7: from the New Zealand Army Band. Her anthem, her rendition

1601
01:20:52,267 --> 01:20:55,747
Speaker 7: of God Defend New Zealand was so good that that

1602
01:20:56,107 --> 01:20:59,187
Speaker 7: they had all the commentators and raptures saying, pipes of

1603
01:20:59,187 --> 01:21:02,227
Speaker 7: an Angel, the greatest rendition of the national anthem I've

1604
01:21:02,267 --> 01:21:04,787
Speaker 7: ever heard. But Ozzie's were loving it. They were saying

1605
01:21:04,787 --> 01:21:08,867
Speaker 7: that our anthem slaps pie, which is very rare, and

1606
01:21:09,707 --> 01:21:12,467
Speaker 7: exults of praise for a national anthem which is much malign,

1607
01:21:13,067 --> 01:21:14,947
Speaker 7: but she made it her own. As they say in

1608
01:21:15,187 --> 01:21:18,307
Speaker 7: American Idol. She was not pitching at all, but she

1609
01:21:18,507 --> 01:21:24,187
Speaker 7: was on the pitch and fantastic rendition Maori and English

1610
01:21:24,267 --> 01:21:27,707
Speaker 7: verse there at the mcg We probably don't have time

1611
01:21:27,747 --> 01:21:30,347
Speaker 7: for both verses, but I think we should go out

1612
01:21:30,387 --> 01:21:34,747
Speaker 7: with Hettie Adams singing God Defend New Zealand. She made

1613
01:21:34,747 --> 01:21:36,027
Speaker 7: the crowd go wild.

1614
01:21:38,107 --> 01:21:38,827
Speaker 3: Good.

1615
01:21:43,987 --> 01:21:54,347
Speaker 4: And well boy sweet.

1616
01:21:55,787 --> 01:21:56,507
Speaker 16: Gardy.

1617
01:21:57,147 --> 01:22:45,867
Speaker 19: Breaking down the Hail Mary's and the epic fails Weekend

1618
01:22:45,907 --> 01:22:49,387
Speaker 19: Sport with Jason Hine, News Talk ZENB.

1619
01:22:49,267 --> 01:22:52,587
Speaker 4: Four to two, updating you from the NBA Playoffs halftime

1620
01:22:52,787 --> 01:22:55,147
Speaker 4: in Game three between the Golden State Warriors and Houston

1621
01:22:55,227 --> 01:22:58,147
Speaker 4: Rockets and San Francisco and the Rockets league forty nine

1622
01:22:58,147 --> 01:23:01,467
Speaker 4: to forty six at halftime that seven game series tied

1623
01:23:01,547 --> 01:23:05,747
Speaker 4: up at one apiece. After two o'clock, we're back into

1624
01:23:06,027 --> 01:23:09,547
Speaker 4: a football for you. Louis Strata out of Auckland FC.

1625
01:23:10,227 --> 01:23:12,307
Speaker 4: They've claimed the Premier's plate. They take on Perth this

1626
01:23:12,387 --> 01:23:15,667
Speaker 4: afternoon in Golf of Perth. Ollie Sale all Whites goalkeeper.

1627
01:23:15,707 --> 01:23:18,827
Speaker 4: He's on the show as well. And Liverpool, as James

1628
01:23:18,867 --> 01:23:21,987
Speaker 4: mcconey mentioned, could secure the Premier League tomorrow morning, we'll

1629
01:23:21,987 --> 01:23:24,027
Speaker 4: talk to one of their biggest fans.

1630
01:23:24,027 --> 01:23:27,107
Speaker 1: True the only place to discuss.

1631
01:23:26,747 --> 01:23:29,907
Speaker 3: The biggest sports issues on and after fields.

1632
01:23:30,387 --> 01:23:31,987
Speaker 2: It's all on Wee James.

1633
01:23:31,667 --> 01:23:36,427
Speaker 3: Ford with Jason Vaine on your home of Sport, Use

1634
01:23:36,507 --> 01:23:38,387
Speaker 3: York two six.

1635
01:23:38,547 --> 01:23:40,787
Speaker 4: This is Weekend Sport until three. Then Tim Beveridge takes

1636
01:23:40,827 --> 01:23:43,587
Speaker 4: over with the weekend collective ice Hockey for you this hour.

1637
01:23:44,027 --> 01:23:47,307
Speaker 4: Cam Freer is the coach of the Ice Blacks. That's

1638
01:23:47,347 --> 01:23:49,667
Speaker 4: our New Zealand national ice hockey side. They're about to

1639
01:23:49,707 --> 01:23:52,707
Speaker 4: embark on a tournament in Dunedin. First game tonight. Cam

1640
01:23:52,747 --> 01:23:55,987
Speaker 4: frea this hour with his thoughts and hopes and expectations

1641
01:23:56,027 --> 01:23:59,107
Speaker 4: for the week ahead. Liverpool could win the Premier League

1642
01:23:59,107 --> 01:24:02,427
Speaker 4: tomorrow morning. The head of the Wellington branch of the

1643
01:24:02,427 --> 01:24:05,547
Speaker 4: official Liverpool Supporters Club, Andrew McGoff, going to chat about

1644
01:24:05,547 --> 01:24:08,987
Speaker 4: that football as well from go Media Stadium with Auckland

1645
01:24:09,027 --> 01:24:12,307
Speaker 4: FC up against Perth Glory. Louisvis Strata and Olie Sayle

1646
01:24:12,387 --> 01:24:15,187
Speaker 4: and goal for Perth Glory. He's an Auckland boy of course,

1647
01:24:15,227 --> 01:24:18,147
Speaker 4: but plays his football out west. How is he feeling

1648
01:24:18,147 --> 01:24:20,987
Speaker 4: about coming back home and being part of an occasion

1649
01:24:21,547 --> 01:24:23,227
Speaker 4: such as the one which is about to hit us

1650
01:24:23,267 --> 01:24:26,747
Speaker 4: this afternoon, causing correspondence continue to be welcomed on the show.

1651
01:24:26,787 --> 01:24:28,667
Speaker 4: Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty gets you throw

1652
01:24:28,667 --> 01:24:31,067
Speaker 4: on the phone nine two ninety two if you wish

1653
01:24:31,107 --> 01:24:34,507
Speaker 4: to send a text. But as we always do it

1654
01:24:34,507 --> 01:24:36,907
Speaker 4: about this time on weekend Suport, it's time to bring

1655
01:24:36,907 --> 01:24:38,427
Speaker 4: you up today with the stuff you might have missed.

1656
01:24:38,427 --> 01:24:40,467
Speaker 4: It's called in case you missed it, and we start

1657
01:24:40,507 --> 01:24:45,547
Speaker 4: with Super Rugby and recapping yesterday's games. Minor Pacifica won

1658
01:24:45,587 --> 01:24:48,227
Speaker 4: the Battle of the Pacific against the Fiji and drawer

1659
01:24:48,227 --> 01:24:49,227
Speaker 4: at Albany a.

1660
01:24:49,307 --> 01:24:52,107
Speaker 20: Kind of vetty release it and just after it it's away.

1661
01:24:52,307 --> 01:24:56,467
Speaker 20: Matabeta offer and he'll score underneath the horns and that

1662
01:24:56,707 --> 01:24:58,947
Speaker 20: will be enough from a one on a win kicked

1663
01:24:58,987 --> 01:25:03,427
Speaker 20: over the touch line at Pacific ragging rights belonged to

1664
01:25:03,507 --> 01:25:07,267
Speaker 20: Momana Pacifica. Thirty four fifteen.

1665
01:25:06,667 --> 01:25:09,267
Speaker 4: The Crusaders went to Dunedin and did a number on

1666
01:25:09,307 --> 01:25:11,387
Speaker 4: the Highlanders, who were starting to slip out of top

1667
01:25:11,427 --> 01:25:13,747
Speaker 4: six contention. That is the end of the game.

1668
01:25:13,827 --> 01:25:16,987
Speaker 21: It is the Crusaders who are scored six tries to

1669
01:25:17,067 --> 01:25:20,027
Speaker 21: two after leading back twenty one points to nil at

1670
01:25:20,067 --> 01:25:25,107
Speaker 21: halftime a runout, convincing winners by forty three points to ten, and.

1671
01:25:25,147 --> 01:25:27,627
Speaker 4: The Hurricanes became the first New Zealand side to win

1672
01:25:27,787 --> 01:25:30,947
Speaker 4: in Australia this season, beating the Brumbies in Canberra with

1673
01:25:30,987 --> 01:25:34,587
Speaker 4: their wingers to the four pruck to to hearken. They

1674
01:25:34,747 --> 01:25:38,827
Speaker 4: draw all the Brumbies defense across to the right wing side,

1675
01:25:38,947 --> 01:25:40,027
Speaker 4: and he comes the.

1676
01:25:39,987 --> 01:25:42,747
Speaker 20: Hollow, shut the gate to me, boys.

1677
01:25:42,467 --> 01:25:47,147
Speaker 4: Bolted, try to the NRL. The greatest side of modern times.

1678
01:25:47,187 --> 01:25:50,107
Speaker 4: We'll finish this weekend at the bottom of the ladder.

1679
01:25:50,587 --> 01:25:52,467
Speaker 17: Sure he have aginst Hello.

1680
01:25:55,387 --> 01:26:01,747
Speaker 18: Totoler He's so quicked, he is so fast.

1681
01:26:02,547 --> 01:26:03,747
Speaker 17: He came from.

1682
01:26:03,507 --> 01:26:07,507
Speaker 4: Nowhere here Penrith losing twenty sixteen some manly meantime, the

1683
01:26:07,547 --> 01:26:09,827
Speaker 4: Cowboys thrashing the Titans.

1684
01:26:11,187 --> 01:26:12,347
Speaker 11: All right, Well that's the.

1685
01:26:12,387 --> 01:26:15,987
Speaker 22: End of that total second half domination. That man gets

1686
01:26:15,987 --> 01:26:20,427
Speaker 22: an actrey, That man gets an ulcer. North Queensland over

1687
01:26:20,427 --> 01:26:23,787
Speaker 22: the Gold Coast Titans fifty eighteen and.

1688
01:26:23,867 --> 01:26:28,187
Speaker 4: The first FA Cup semi final played overnight Crystal Palace,

1689
01:26:28,707 --> 01:26:32,027
Speaker 4: securing their place in the final, beating aston Villa three nil.

1690
01:26:32,427 --> 01:26:33,507
Speaker 19: A casa get.

1691
01:26:33,347 --> 01:26:37,587
Speaker 22: Away here and really settler, it's my LASSA.

1692
01:26:36,587 --> 01:26:37,467
Speaker 23: It does.

1693
01:26:39,627 --> 01:26:43,267
Speaker 6: Right away to wrap it up his course.

1694
01:26:43,907 --> 01:26:48,267
Speaker 22: Two against Aston Villa again as he did in February

1695
01:26:49,507 --> 01:26:53,347
Speaker 22: game sets and much to Crystal Palace.

1696
01:26:53,827 --> 01:26:58,867
Speaker 1: On crutch Hold Engage Weekend Sport with Jason Hym and

1697
01:26:59,147 --> 01:27:02,747
Speaker 1: GJ Gunner Homes New Zealand's Lost Trusted No Milder News

1698
01:27:02,747 --> 01:27:03,827
Speaker 1: talks to Baby.

1699
01:27:03,747 --> 01:27:07,027
Speaker 4: Yeah, well done to Super Palace Gone email this morning

1700
01:27:07,027 --> 01:27:09,467
Speaker 4: from a regular listen to the show Glenn, who says,

1701
01:27:09,507 --> 01:27:13,267
Speaker 4: morning Jason, I cannot express my joy and happiness at

1702
01:27:13,307 --> 01:27:15,387
Speaker 4: the result this morning. I must have walked five k

1703
01:27:15,587 --> 01:27:18,667
Speaker 4: in my lounge and made one hundred passes and fifty

1704
01:27:18,787 --> 01:27:23,147
Speaker 4: tackles watching Crystal Pallace. I'm exhausted despite the adrenaline. Three

1705
01:27:23,267 --> 01:27:25,987
Speaker 4: nil was not as easy as it sounds, but on

1706
01:27:26,027 --> 01:27:27,947
Speaker 4: the other hand, it could so easily have been by

1707
01:27:28,067 --> 01:27:31,827
Speaker 4: six as we missed Penn and two absolute sitters that

1708
01:27:31,907 --> 01:27:34,867
Speaker 4: against a team who made the Champions League quarterfinals and

1709
01:27:34,947 --> 01:27:39,107
Speaker 4: almost the Semis and marvelous performances against Paris Saint Germain.

1710
01:27:39,347 --> 01:27:41,387
Speaker 4: Just at Auckland FC to win today, says Glenn, for

1711
01:27:41,427 --> 01:27:45,907
Speaker 4: the trifecta Warriors Palace and Auckland FC South London and

1712
01:27:45,947 --> 01:27:48,387
Speaker 4: proud good on you, Glenn. Thanks for your email. I

1713
01:27:48,467 --> 01:27:52,307
Speaker 4: enjoyed getting it earlier on today. Speaking of Auckland FC,

1714
01:27:52,467 --> 01:27:55,307
Speaker 4: they are in action this afternoon five o'clock against Perth Glory.

1715
01:27:55,387 --> 01:27:59,147
Speaker 4: Belgian midfielder Louis Vastrata has been a massive part of

1716
01:27:59,187 --> 01:28:03,787
Speaker 4: their success this season. Hi arriving now, it's over his heads.

1717
01:28:03,867 --> 01:28:06,027
Speaker 5: The threes for Strata.

1718
01:28:06,547 --> 01:28:10,027
Speaker 6: Turn loi for strata for all times.

1719
01:28:11,427 --> 01:28:13,307
Speaker 5: That's Steve Coracer's term.

1720
01:28:13,707 --> 01:28:14,707
Speaker 6: Have hit the front.

1721
01:28:15,307 --> 01:28:19,227
Speaker 4: Yes, so they are in front of everybody else in

1722
01:28:19,267 --> 01:28:21,747
Speaker 4: the league and will win the Premiere's plate. They've claimed it.

1723
01:28:21,987 --> 01:28:23,627
Speaker 4: Of course we spoke earlier in the show about this.

1724
01:28:23,707 --> 01:28:26,987
Speaker 4: With Melbourne City drawing Nilo last night, Auckland FC have

1725
01:28:27,147 --> 01:28:30,787
Speaker 4: won the regular season silverware. Louivi Strata joins us. Thanks

1726
01:28:30,787 --> 01:28:33,227
Speaker 4: for taking our call, Lowie. Why do you think Auckland

1727
01:28:33,387 --> 01:28:36,427
Speaker 4: FC have been so successful this season?

1728
01:28:37,507 --> 01:28:38,747
Speaker 24: Yeah, I've thought about it.

1729
01:28:38,787 --> 01:28:42,227
Speaker 25: I think the main so obviously there is a lot

1730
01:28:42,227 --> 01:28:44,987
Speaker 25: of quality in the team. Without quality, it's it's not

1731
01:28:45,027 --> 01:28:48,307
Speaker 25: possible to reach anything. But second of all, I think

1732
01:28:48,387 --> 01:28:51,747
Speaker 25: the way we defend as a as a team. I

1733
01:28:51,787 --> 01:28:55,907
Speaker 25: think this is what what makes us better than other

1734
01:28:55,987 --> 01:28:59,747
Speaker 25: teams because we obviously we will score goals, but I

1735
01:28:59,747 --> 01:29:03,627
Speaker 25: think we have the best defense in the league statistic wise.

1736
01:29:04,067 --> 01:29:07,067
Speaker 25: But it's not just the defenders, it's also deals and

1737
01:29:07,307 --> 01:29:10,747
Speaker 25: even strikers the way they they help the team out.

1738
01:29:10,867 --> 01:29:13,827
Speaker 25: I think this is quite extraordinary because if you look

1739
01:29:13,867 --> 01:29:17,747
Speaker 25: at other teams, I think not eleven players on the

1740
01:29:17,747 --> 01:29:20,627
Speaker 25: pitch really work for each other. And I think this

1741
01:29:20,667 --> 01:29:24,347
Speaker 25: has been the main difference between us and other teams.

1742
01:29:24,387 --> 01:29:25,787
Speaker 25: I think why we've been successful.

1743
01:29:26,027 --> 01:29:29,467
Speaker 4: I remember your coach, Steve Corker saying that when you

1744
01:29:29,587 --> 01:29:32,107
Speaker 4: first spoke to him, you told him that you love

1745
01:29:32,187 --> 01:29:36,067
Speaker 4: to defend. It's not everybody's capite, but you love defending

1746
01:29:36,387 --> 01:29:39,587
Speaker 4: in those midfield spaces. So do you take a sense

1747
01:29:39,627 --> 01:29:42,667
Speaker 4: of personal pride for your part and the solid defense

1748
01:29:42,707 --> 01:29:43,547
Speaker 4: of the team this season?

1749
01:29:44,787 --> 01:29:46,747
Speaker 25: Yeah, I think I try to do my job as

1750
01:29:46,787 --> 01:29:50,867
Speaker 25: good as possible. Like you said, I told Steve before

1751
01:29:50,867 --> 01:29:52,987
Speaker 25: I came here what he can expect from me and

1752
01:29:53,307 --> 01:29:55,387
Speaker 25: what I like to do on the pitch, and I

1753
01:29:55,667 --> 01:29:56,307
Speaker 25: tried to do.

1754
01:29:56,467 --> 01:29:57,467
Speaker 24: As good as possible.

1755
01:29:57,507 --> 01:30:00,787
Speaker 25: And I must say I'm quite satisfied with my season

1756
01:30:00,867 --> 01:30:03,867
Speaker 25: so far, but we still have to finish it off

1757
01:30:03,907 --> 01:30:05,227
Speaker 25: at a pretty good note.

1758
01:30:05,307 --> 01:30:09,307
Speaker 4: So and last week of course, she scored a goal

1759
01:30:09,547 --> 01:30:13,187
Speaker 4: and assisted another one against Melbourne Victory and the two

1760
01:30:13,387 --> 01:30:17,027
Speaker 4: nil went over there. But a superb all ram performance

1761
01:30:17,107 --> 01:30:19,067
Speaker 4: from you as well, Louis. I know you probably don't

1762
01:30:19,067 --> 01:30:21,587
Speaker 4: want to talk about yourself too much, but was that

1763
01:30:21,627 --> 01:30:24,707
Speaker 4: one of your best games for Auckland FC this season?

1764
01:30:25,747 --> 01:30:25,947
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1765
01:30:26,027 --> 01:30:28,427
Speaker 24: I think I felt pretty good in that game.

1766
01:30:28,467 --> 01:30:31,707
Speaker 25: But it's always when when you get some statistics, when

1767
01:30:31,747 --> 01:30:34,547
Speaker 25: you have a goal and assist, all of a sudden

1768
01:30:34,587 --> 01:30:35,587
Speaker 25: your performance is.

1769
01:30:35,547 --> 01:30:38,947
Speaker 24: Like is way better than it than it actually was.

1770
01:30:38,987 --> 01:30:41,507
Speaker 25: I think I was satisfied with the performance, but I,

1771
01:30:41,787 --> 01:30:44,107
Speaker 25: for example, I had a better feeling the week before,

1772
01:30:44,187 --> 01:30:47,307
Speaker 25: So sometimes, like your your own personal feeling on the

1773
01:30:47,347 --> 01:30:50,387
Speaker 25: pitch is maybe not how people perceive the game when

1774
01:30:50,427 --> 01:30:53,987
Speaker 25: they were watching. But obviously I felt I felt good

1775
01:30:54,067 --> 01:30:56,787
Speaker 25: and it was nice to get the goal. And that's

1776
01:30:56,827 --> 01:31:00,027
Speaker 25: also what the support is and what everyone remembers, so

1777
01:31:00,187 --> 01:31:00,907
Speaker 25: that's that's good.

1778
01:31:01,387 --> 01:31:05,307
Speaker 4: When you first agreed to come to Auckland FC, what

1779
01:31:05,347 --> 01:31:07,867
Speaker 4: were you expect before you arrived?

1780
01:31:09,307 --> 01:31:12,027
Speaker 25: To be fair, I did not really know what to

1781
01:31:12,107 --> 01:31:15,827
Speaker 25: expect because there was so many question marks. I didn't

1782
01:31:15,867 --> 01:31:18,027
Speaker 25: know how the what the level of the league was,

1783
01:31:18,867 --> 01:31:21,267
Speaker 25: how our new team was how we were going to

1784
01:31:21,307 --> 01:31:25,747
Speaker 25: perform the first year. We obviously most of us didn't

1785
01:31:25,787 --> 01:31:27,987
Speaker 25: know each other. We hadn't played with each other yet,

1786
01:31:29,187 --> 01:31:31,667
Speaker 25: so there was a lot of uncertainty. And I think

1787
01:31:31,707 --> 01:31:34,467
Speaker 25: I just came with an open mind and I wanted

1788
01:31:34,467 --> 01:31:36,667
Speaker 25: to be I want to personally, I just wanted to

1789
01:31:37,707 --> 01:31:41,307
Speaker 25: prove myself to to to other people gave me the

1790
01:31:41,307 --> 01:31:44,907
Speaker 25: confidence to to sign here. But it was yeah, I

1791
01:31:44,947 --> 01:31:48,027
Speaker 25: didn't really have like a goal in mind for what

1792
01:31:48,107 --> 01:31:50,387
Speaker 25: I wanted to achieve the season. I just wanted to

1793
01:31:50,427 --> 01:31:53,267
Speaker 25: play every game and and I wanted to be a

1794
01:31:53,347 --> 01:31:54,827
Speaker 25: reliable player for the team.

1795
01:31:54,907 --> 01:31:56,667
Speaker 24: That was my main main objective.

1796
01:31:57,067 --> 01:32:00,427
Speaker 4: How long after you arrived then did you realize that

1797
01:32:00,707 --> 01:32:03,867
Speaker 4: this team was a good team and that it could

1798
01:32:04,187 --> 01:32:06,147
Speaker 4: actually do something pretty special.

1799
01:32:05,827 --> 01:32:06,107
Speaker 6: In this.

1800
01:32:08,067 --> 01:32:11,347
Speaker 25: I think, to be fair, I noticed straight away that

1801
01:32:11,347 --> 01:32:14,707
Speaker 25: we had we had called in the team, but especially

1802
01:32:14,747 --> 01:32:18,667
Speaker 25: the preseason games. We when I arrived at the same

1803
01:32:18,707 --> 01:32:22,147
Speaker 25: time as Jim in Philippe and Nada still had to

1804
01:32:22,187 --> 01:32:25,467
Speaker 25: come so we were not like our full strength yet,

1805
01:32:25,867 --> 01:32:28,907
Speaker 25: and we still we still also physically weren't at our best.

1806
01:32:29,467 --> 01:32:33,467
Speaker 25: So for me, I think after our first first two

1807
01:32:33,507 --> 01:32:38,667
Speaker 25: or three official games, then then I started to realize, okay,

1808
01:32:38,867 --> 01:32:41,547
Speaker 25: we might we might be able to do something this season.

1809
01:32:41,987 --> 01:32:43,987
Speaker 25: But I think for for me and for the team,

1810
01:32:44,267 --> 01:32:47,547
Speaker 25: those first victories were really important to to get the

1811
01:32:47,627 --> 01:32:50,667
Speaker 25: self believe up and to give us a boost.

1812
01:32:51,467 --> 01:32:53,627
Speaker 24: And what we could have achieved, what we could achieve

1813
01:32:53,707 --> 01:32:54,187
Speaker 24: this season?

1814
01:32:54,427 --> 01:32:56,707
Speaker 4: And what about the standard of the football in the

1815
01:32:56,707 --> 01:32:58,587
Speaker 4: I League? Louis was that what do you expect and

1816
01:32:58,627 --> 01:33:00,147
Speaker 4: what do you what do you make of the standard

1817
01:33:00,187 --> 01:33:00,827
Speaker 4: in the I League?

1818
01:33:01,947 --> 01:33:03,787
Speaker 25: Like I said, I didn't know what to expect, but

1819
01:33:04,267 --> 01:33:06,627
Speaker 25: I must say it's it's a very good league, very

1820
01:33:06,667 --> 01:33:10,827
Speaker 25: competitive league, a lot of talent in the league as well.

1821
01:33:10,867 --> 01:33:12,307
Speaker 24: I think I think.

1822
01:33:12,147 --> 01:33:16,347
Speaker 25: Also that that that I think on on a global skill, I.

1823
01:33:16,387 --> 01:33:18,787
Speaker 24: Think the league is not valued as it should.

1824
01:33:18,867 --> 01:33:22,187
Speaker 25: I think there are very very good players in this

1825
01:33:22,307 --> 01:33:26,907
Speaker 25: league and the way I think as a neutual fan,

1826
01:33:27,027 --> 01:33:29,147
Speaker 25: I think it's also nice to watch the games because

1827
01:33:29,147 --> 01:33:31,667
Speaker 25: there was so much, so much goals, and it's it's

1828
01:33:31,707 --> 01:33:35,107
Speaker 25: open place. So I didn't know what to expect, but

1829
01:33:35,187 --> 01:33:39,187
Speaker 25: I didn't expect this, that's for sure. It's it's been

1830
01:33:39,227 --> 01:33:41,107
Speaker 25: a very good experience, I must say.

1831
01:33:41,267 --> 01:33:43,547
Speaker 4: And what about the travel, because I know when you

1832
01:33:43,587 --> 01:33:46,027
Speaker 4: were based in Europe and playing over there, you wouldn't

1833
01:33:46,307 --> 01:33:48,347
Speaker 4: have had to travel the distance as you do here

1834
01:33:48,347 --> 01:33:51,587
Speaker 4: for away games. You know, trains Tasman across to Australia

1835
01:33:51,667 --> 01:33:54,907
Speaker 4: every other week. Have you adjusted to the extra travel

1836
01:33:55,107 --> 01:33:56,067
Speaker 4: required down here.

1837
01:33:57,307 --> 01:34:00,507
Speaker 25: Yeah, for me, especially in the beginning, it was it

1838
01:34:00,547 --> 01:34:02,987
Speaker 25: was a bit hard for me because, like you said,

1839
01:34:03,067 --> 01:34:05,347
Speaker 25: like the longest trip I did in Belgium was two

1840
01:34:05,387 --> 01:34:08,187
Speaker 25: hours with the bus, and and in my mind that

1841
01:34:08,307 --> 01:34:10,827
Speaker 25: was already a long trip. So when we went to Perth,

1842
01:34:11,027 --> 01:34:14,747
Speaker 25: or even the first time we went to Sydney, for me,

1843
01:34:14,787 --> 01:34:17,787
Speaker 25: it was I needed. It was quite an adaptation for

1844
01:34:17,867 --> 01:34:22,467
Speaker 25: me because especially the flying for me, it takes takes

1845
01:34:22,507 --> 01:34:22,827
Speaker 25: a bit of.

1846
01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:23,547
Speaker 24: Energy out of me.

1847
01:34:24,867 --> 01:34:28,947
Speaker 25: But yeah, we we always go a little bit on beforehand.

1848
01:34:29,227 --> 01:34:32,027
Speaker 24: We we have a lot of like we.

1849
01:34:32,107 --> 01:34:37,067
Speaker 25: Tried, let's say our physical coach. He wants to create

1850
01:34:37,107 --> 01:34:40,787
Speaker 25: the best circumstances. So yeah, that all helps. But in

1851
01:34:40,827 --> 01:34:43,347
Speaker 25: the end, it's it's tricky and you have to you

1852
01:34:43,427 --> 01:34:46,147
Speaker 25: have to be mindful, like how you travel, trying to

1853
01:34:46,187 --> 01:34:49,467
Speaker 25: get up in the plane. Also you have to get

1854
01:34:49,547 --> 01:34:52,787
Speaker 25: used to sleeping in a hotel so much away from home.

1855
01:34:53,187 --> 01:34:54,547
Speaker 24: So it's all little factors.

1856
01:34:54,587 --> 01:34:58,587
Speaker 25: But now I'm quite used to it, but yeah, that

1857
01:34:58,707 --> 01:34:59,747
Speaker 25: was that was quite often.

1858
01:35:00,507 --> 01:35:02,467
Speaker 24: I had to adapt to that. Yeah, I wasn't. I

1859
01:35:02,507 --> 01:35:04,107
Speaker 24: wasn't ready in the beginning, let's.

1860
01:35:03,907 --> 01:35:07,347
Speaker 4: Say, and before last weekend, when of course beat Melbourne victory,

1861
01:35:07,467 --> 01:35:11,067
Speaker 4: you'd drawn five of the previous six games, and three

1862
01:35:11,067 --> 01:35:14,347
Speaker 4: of those were at home after holding the lead. So

1863
01:35:15,267 --> 01:35:17,867
Speaker 4: was that becoming in any way frustrating that you couldn't

1864
01:35:17,867 --> 01:35:21,827
Speaker 4: convert some of those draws, particularly at home, into wins.

1865
01:35:22,627 --> 01:35:23,427
Speaker 24: Yeah, I think.

1866
01:35:23,627 --> 01:35:26,747
Speaker 25: I think also you could say, like in the beginning

1867
01:35:26,787 --> 01:35:28,867
Speaker 25: of the season, look was a little bit on our side,

1868
01:35:28,867 --> 01:35:33,467
Speaker 25: and I think at that period luck wasn't. There were

1869
01:35:33,467 --> 01:35:35,547
Speaker 25: a few games I think we always should have won.

1870
01:35:36,667 --> 01:35:39,467
Speaker 25: They also it's always easy afterwards. But I think also

1871
01:35:39,867 --> 01:35:43,227
Speaker 25: I remember, like the Atheleate game, like some referee decisions

1872
01:35:43,267 --> 01:35:45,587
Speaker 25: that were not in our favor. So I think it

1873
01:35:45,787 --> 01:35:49,787
Speaker 25: was multiple factors and I'm not quite sure what it

1874
01:35:49,867 --> 01:35:53,267
Speaker 25: was why we drew so much, but I felt that

1875
01:35:53,307 --> 01:35:57,227
Speaker 25: we should have won at least a few of those games.

1876
01:35:58,267 --> 01:36:00,147
Speaker 25: But in the end, it's football and you need that

1877
01:36:00,227 --> 01:36:02,387
Speaker 25: bit of luck and sometimes you have it and sometimes

1878
01:36:02,387 --> 01:36:02,787
Speaker 25: you don't.

1879
01:36:02,827 --> 01:36:05,267
Speaker 24: So yeah, it's part of the game.

1880
01:36:05,187 --> 01:36:05,467
Speaker 14: All right.

1881
01:36:05,507 --> 01:36:07,747
Speaker 4: Hey, Lewi. Thanks for the time today, Tavia chat to us.

1882
01:36:08,027 --> 01:36:10,587
Speaker 4: Enjoy yourself this afternoon at what will be a great

1883
01:36:10,587 --> 01:36:14,867
Speaker 4: occasion at go Metia Stadium. Louis vu Strata, Belgian midfielder

1884
01:36:14,867 --> 01:36:18,467
Speaker 4: for Auckland FC, now in goal for Perth, a familiar

1885
01:36:18,507 --> 01:36:22,467
Speaker 4: face all Whites goalkeeper Ollie's Sale is back in his

1886
01:36:22,587 --> 01:36:24,267
Speaker 4: hometown and he joins us, how does it feel to

1887
01:36:24,307 --> 01:36:26,747
Speaker 4: be back in your hometown Ollie for a game of football,

1888
01:36:26,747 --> 01:36:28,707
Speaker 4: even though you are on the opposition side.

1889
01:36:29,547 --> 01:36:33,027
Speaker 26: It's great, mate, Obviously I love playing at home in

1890
01:36:33,067 --> 01:36:36,267
Speaker 26: Auckland in front of friends and family and obviously an

1891
01:36:36,307 --> 01:36:40,787
Speaker 26: exciting time for myself, first taste of Orcan FC and

1892
01:36:40,867 --> 01:36:43,987
Speaker 26: nowt's smart and modern occasion because obviously it's going to

1893
01:36:43,987 --> 01:36:46,627
Speaker 26: be a big crowd and it's nice to kind of

1894
01:36:47,147 --> 01:36:50,507
Speaker 26: tap into what they're feeling this year and all that excitement.

1895
01:36:50,587 --> 01:36:52,547
Speaker 11: So I'm really looking forward to this evening.

1896
01:36:52,747 --> 01:36:55,547
Speaker 4: Absolutely a big occasion coming, as I say, for the

1897
01:36:55,547 --> 01:36:57,987
Speaker 4: home side. But how do you approach it as the

1898
01:36:58,107 --> 01:37:00,787
Speaker 4: visitors as you try to spoil their party?

1899
01:37:01,707 --> 01:37:04,467
Speaker 26: Yeah, look, obviously without coming across as too much of

1900
01:37:04,467 --> 01:37:04,867
Speaker 26: a villain.

1901
01:37:04,907 --> 01:37:07,107
Speaker 11: I don't want people to dislike me too much. We

1902
01:37:07,187 --> 01:37:08,387
Speaker 11: are here to spoil the party.

1903
01:37:08,467 --> 01:37:12,107
Speaker 26: And you know, from my perspective as a as a

1904
01:37:12,227 --> 01:37:16,467
Speaker 26: usual football advocate, as an orcand boy, as a friend

1905
01:37:16,507 --> 01:37:20,947
Speaker 26: of many of the orcand boys, there's there's so much

1906
01:37:20,947 --> 01:37:22,987
Speaker 26: I mean that's really excited about what they're doing.

1907
01:37:23,027 --> 01:37:27,067
Speaker 11: And I'm so proud of them, and you know, it's easy.

1908
01:37:27,067 --> 01:37:29,067
Speaker 26: It's slightly easier for me to say because we're not

1909
01:37:29,067 --> 01:37:30,947
Speaker 26: not at the end of the table competing with them,

1910
01:37:31,667 --> 01:37:34,107
Speaker 26: but I am extremely happy for them.

1911
01:37:34,187 --> 01:37:36,027
Speaker 11: But yeah, like I said, we've got a job to do.

1912
01:37:36,067 --> 01:37:39,027
Speaker 26: And you know, we got one over one over them

1913
01:37:39,067 --> 01:37:42,547
Speaker 26: at home earlier in the season and for us, we've

1914
01:37:42,547 --> 01:37:43,547
Speaker 26: got our own ambitions.

1915
01:37:43,627 --> 01:37:45,787
Speaker 11: So yeah, look, we're here to spoil the party.

1916
01:37:46,027 --> 01:37:47,867
Speaker 4: Just on the game where you beat them over in

1917
01:37:47,947 --> 01:37:50,507
Speaker 4: Western Australia. There only lost two games all year, as

1918
01:37:50,547 --> 01:37:54,187
Speaker 4: you'll know, only one away and that was to you guys.

1919
01:37:54,187 --> 01:37:57,147
Speaker 4: Can you take anything from that game that might be

1920
01:37:57,267 --> 01:37:57,987
Speaker 4: useful today?

1921
01:37:58,947 --> 01:38:02,067
Speaker 26: Absolutely, you know that they're they're a really big side,

1922
01:38:02,107 --> 01:38:05,787
Speaker 26: a very physical side, and looking back on it, probably

1923
01:38:05,947 --> 01:38:07,787
Speaker 26: it was one of the few games this season where

1924
01:38:07,827 --> 01:38:10,827
Speaker 26: we really fronted up physically with energy.

1925
01:38:11,307 --> 01:38:12,067
Speaker 11: Obviously at home.

1926
01:38:12,467 --> 01:38:15,707
Speaker 26: We're very fortunate even during tough circumstances, we get a

1927
01:38:15,747 --> 01:38:16,507
Speaker 26: really good following.

1928
01:38:17,067 --> 01:38:20,787
Speaker 11: An HbF Park is a fantastic atmosphere, and yeah, we

1929
01:38:20,947 --> 01:38:24,067
Speaker 11: just really fronted up physically. We matched everything there through

1930
01:38:24,107 --> 01:38:24,347
Speaker 11: it us.

1931
01:38:24,427 --> 01:38:27,307
Speaker 26: We almost bullied them, which is a really strong part

1932
01:38:27,347 --> 01:38:29,787
Speaker 26: of their game, and yeah, we just didn't really allow

1933
01:38:29,827 --> 01:38:32,427
Speaker 26: them into the game. They started to build some momentum

1934
01:38:33,347 --> 01:38:35,267
Speaker 26: in the back end of the second half and we

1935
01:38:35,387 --> 01:38:37,307
Speaker 26: were very resolute and just stood tall.

1936
01:38:37,427 --> 01:38:39,707
Speaker 11: So yeah, looking looking to hurt them early like we

1937
01:38:39,787 --> 01:38:41,067
Speaker 11: did last time. I think that helps.

1938
01:38:41,507 --> 01:38:45,867
Speaker 26: They're a very strong side, but they don't necessarily score

1939
01:38:45,947 --> 01:38:48,387
Speaker 26: heaps of goals. I think it's their defense, the defensive

1940
01:38:48,427 --> 01:38:52,467
Speaker 26: structure and defensive efforts that have put them in this position.

1941
01:38:52,707 --> 01:38:55,827
Speaker 26: So if we can rattle their cage early and hopefully

1942
01:38:55,867 --> 01:38:58,067
Speaker 26: score really then I think, yeah, it puts the pressure

1943
01:38:58,067 --> 01:39:00,547
Speaker 26: on them. And obviously, like you just touched on, it's

1944
01:39:00,547 --> 01:39:02,547
Speaker 26: an occasion for them and we don't really have anything

1945
01:39:02,587 --> 01:39:04,747
Speaker 26: to lose, so we're just going out there playing with

1946
01:39:04,827 --> 01:39:07,387
Speaker 26: freedom and looking to enjoy the occasion in the atmosphere.

1947
01:39:07,787 --> 01:39:10,507
Speaker 4: The win over Auckland FC was one of the high

1948
01:39:10,507 --> 01:39:13,627
Speaker 4: points and what has been a difficult season for Perth

1949
01:39:13,667 --> 01:39:16,467
Speaker 4: Glory why hasn't it gone your way?

1950
01:39:16,547 --> 01:39:21,467
Speaker 26: This season looks it's obviously still a period of change,

1951
01:39:21,507 --> 01:39:23,947
Speaker 26: and I know the fans are probably frustrated here in that,

1952
01:39:24,067 --> 01:39:27,547
Speaker 26: and we are too. I think since the beginning of

1953
01:39:27,627 --> 01:39:30,347
Speaker 26: last season, when we went through some difficulties with ownership

1954
01:39:30,387 --> 01:39:31,747
Speaker 26: and all of that sort of stuff.

1955
01:39:32,107 --> 01:39:33,107
Speaker 11: We're slowly rebuilding.

1956
01:39:33,187 --> 01:39:35,107
Speaker 26: But I think we started the season with a very

1957
01:39:35,227 --> 01:39:38,507
Speaker 26: very young side and we were on the back foot early.

1958
01:39:39,267 --> 01:39:43,307
Speaker 26: We've got a new coach that's implementing his structure and philosophies,

1959
01:39:43,387 --> 01:39:49,067
Speaker 26: and it just hasn't quite arrived quickly enough, and everything

1960
01:39:49,107 --> 01:39:50,867
Speaker 26: hasn't quite fallen into place quickly enough.

1961
01:39:50,867 --> 01:39:51,747
Speaker 11: There's been glimpses.

1962
01:39:52,307 --> 01:39:56,427
Speaker 26: I think probably since January, we've we've shown enough in

1963
01:39:56,627 --> 01:40:00,027
Speaker 26: just about every game, probably bout one or two to

1964
01:40:00,427 --> 01:40:02,507
Speaker 26: win and to take positives out of the game. But

1965
01:40:02,587 --> 01:40:06,267
Speaker 26: we're just we're just struggling to complete a really solid

1966
01:40:06,427 --> 01:40:10,347
Speaker 26: ninety minutes. I think a really good example is we

1967
01:40:10,667 --> 01:40:13,667
Speaker 26: played probably our best game of the year last time

1968
01:40:13,707 --> 01:40:15,987
Speaker 26: out at home against.

1969
01:40:17,067 --> 01:40:19,267
Speaker 11: Against Adelaide United, and we just put them to the sword.

1970
01:40:19,587 --> 01:40:22,187
Speaker 26: But even so we still managed to give them a

1971
01:40:22,227 --> 01:40:24,187
Speaker 26: really soft goal. And that's just kind of been the

1972
01:40:24,267 --> 01:40:27,707
Speaker 26: story of our campaign. Fortunately enough for us, we played

1973
01:40:27,787 --> 01:40:29,947
Speaker 26: so well and took our chances at the other end,

1974
01:40:29,987 --> 01:40:32,787
Speaker 26: which it didn't really matter, but we just we tend

1975
01:40:32,907 --> 01:40:35,587
Speaker 26: to play quite well but then just let teams into

1976
01:40:35,627 --> 01:40:38,867
Speaker 26: the game. So it's about consistency for us and putting

1977
01:40:38,867 --> 01:40:41,947
Speaker 26: together ninety minute performance. But I think what we're building

1978
01:40:42,387 --> 01:40:44,187
Speaker 26: is starting to look positive, and I think the back

1979
01:40:44,267 --> 01:40:47,387
Speaker 26: up of the season has kind of shone more glimpses

1980
01:40:47,427 --> 01:40:47,627
Speaker 26: of that.

1981
01:40:47,907 --> 01:40:52,107
Speaker 4: Certainly, and talking of building and rebuilding and adding on.

1982
01:40:52,427 --> 01:40:54,987
Speaker 4: Nothing's been confirmed here yet, but there's some fairly strong

1983
01:40:55,107 --> 01:40:57,827
Speaker 4: male that a couple of your former Phoenix teammates might

1984
01:40:57,867 --> 01:41:00,707
Speaker 4: be joining you at Perth Glory next season. Sam Sutton,

1985
01:41:01,107 --> 01:41:04,267
Speaker 4: Scott Wotton. If that were to happen, what would they

1986
01:41:04,307 --> 01:41:05,267
Speaker 4: add to your playing group?

1987
01:41:06,387 --> 01:41:08,587
Speaker 26: Well, yeah, like you said, I have heard those rumors too,

1988
01:41:09,267 --> 01:41:12,667
Speaker 26: so I think for me, whether it's true or not,

1989
01:41:12,787 --> 01:41:17,067
Speaker 26: it signals it shows that the clubs got the right intent.

1990
01:41:17,147 --> 01:41:18,787
Speaker 26: You know, they want to add experience, they want to

1991
01:41:18,787 --> 01:41:22,507
Speaker 26: add good quality, like young player in the form of Sutz,

1992
01:41:23,307 --> 01:41:24,227
Speaker 26: who brings.

1993
01:41:24,747 --> 01:41:27,787
Speaker 11: You energy and knows what it takes to compete at

1994
01:41:27,827 --> 01:41:28,507
Speaker 11: the top of the league.

1995
01:41:28,867 --> 01:41:32,827
Speaker 26: Off the back of last seasons, fantastic campaign for Wellington,

1996
01:41:32,867 --> 01:41:35,147
Speaker 26: and then obviously you've got Scotty who just brings a

1997
01:41:35,267 --> 01:41:36,787
Speaker 26: wealth of experience.

1998
01:41:36,347 --> 01:41:40,467
Speaker 11: And solidity at the back.

1999
01:41:41,507 --> 01:41:44,187
Speaker 26: He's played at all sorts of levels and both great

2000
01:41:44,307 --> 01:41:47,267
Speaker 26: characters as I know well, So, yeah, if those two

2001
01:41:47,427 --> 01:41:49,667
Speaker 26: signings were to come true and those come to fruition,

2002
01:41:49,827 --> 01:41:53,827
Speaker 26: then I think from the fans perspective at Perth, it's

2003
01:41:53,867 --> 01:41:55,787
Speaker 26: a strong show of intent and I hope that we

2004
01:41:55,867 --> 01:41:58,427
Speaker 26: can continue building building a really strong squad.

2005
01:41:58,667 --> 01:42:00,827
Speaker 4: And it wasn't that long ago you were an organ actually,

2006
01:42:01,187 --> 01:42:05,067
Speaker 4: of course, with the All Whites securing your place at

2007
01:42:05,107 --> 01:42:08,507
Speaker 4: the World Cup next year, how motivated are you personally

2008
01:42:08,587 --> 01:42:10,547
Speaker 4: only to be part of that squad that goes to

2009
01:42:10,587 --> 01:42:11,147
Speaker 4: the World Cup?

2010
01:42:12,267 --> 01:42:13,147
Speaker 11: Hugely? Hugely?

2011
01:42:13,187 --> 01:42:15,787
Speaker 26: Obviously, it's been a gym mine for a long time

2012
01:42:15,907 --> 01:42:18,267
Speaker 26: and it's been something that I've been walking towards for

2013
01:42:18,667 --> 01:42:21,187
Speaker 26: a long period of time, and the decisions that I've

2014
01:42:21,227 --> 01:42:23,067
Speaker 26: made over the last few seasons have all kind of

2015
01:42:23,107 --> 01:42:26,187
Speaker 26: centered around the plan to play it next year's World Cup.

2016
01:42:26,267 --> 01:42:29,387
Speaker 26: And for me, obviously, it's been a frustrating period with

2017
01:42:29,507 --> 01:42:32,147
Speaker 26: football over the last two seasons and I've kind of

2018
01:42:32,427 --> 01:42:33,947
Speaker 26: slipped down the pecking order a little bit at the

2019
01:42:33,947 --> 01:42:36,267
Speaker 26: All Whites, but if anything, being a part of the

2020
01:42:36,347 --> 01:42:40,547
Speaker 26: qualification campaign most recently in those games in March, it

2021
01:42:40,747 --> 01:42:43,147
Speaker 26: just it just fueled the fire inside of me that

2022
01:42:43,787 --> 01:42:45,267
Speaker 26: I want to be playing and that I want to

2023
01:42:45,307 --> 01:42:48,667
Speaker 26: be out there performing at the World Cup. So yeah,

2024
01:42:48,707 --> 01:42:51,627
Speaker 26: it was, it was so much fun. It's fantastic group.

2025
01:42:51,667 --> 01:42:53,707
Speaker 26: I can't speak highly enough of the group and the

2026
01:42:53,747 --> 01:42:57,947
Speaker 26: culture that everyone a part of that, everyone at in

2027
01:42:57,947 --> 01:43:00,947
Speaker 26: football has been a part of the build that, and yeah,

2028
01:43:01,067 --> 01:43:02,107
Speaker 26: it's very exciting time.

2029
01:43:02,307 --> 01:43:05,747
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, it has an exciting occasion coming this afternoon. Well,

2030
01:43:05,787 --> 01:43:07,827
Speaker 4: I hope as far as you're concerned, Oli end for

2031
01:43:07,907 --> 01:43:11,107
Speaker 4: Perth Glory that you can play the villain this afternoon.

2032
01:43:11,267 --> 01:43:14,147
Speaker 4: I get the feeling, as I say, you'll still be

2033
01:43:14,187 --> 01:43:16,507
Speaker 4: asked for plenty of autographs him self. He's afterwards, mate,

2034
01:43:16,547 --> 01:43:18,187
Speaker 4: thanks for taking the time for a chat. Look forward

2035
01:43:18,227 --> 01:43:19,747
Speaker 4: to seeing you in a few hours.

2036
01:43:20,347 --> 01:43:22,107
Speaker 11: My pleasure. Thanks for having me as always, Pony.

2037
01:43:22,187 --> 01:43:23,867
Speaker 4: Good on you, Olli thanks and Dad Ali sail there.

2038
01:43:24,067 --> 01:43:28,427
Speaker 4: Perth Glory goalkeeper, All Whites goalkeeper and former Wellington Phoenix

2039
01:43:28,627 --> 01:43:32,347
Speaker 4: player of course, and in Aucklander he grew up and

2040
01:43:32,387 --> 01:43:34,307
Speaker 4: played a lot of his junior football in Auckland, so

2041
01:43:34,307 --> 01:43:36,347
Speaker 4: it must be quite nice for him to come home,

2042
01:43:36,427 --> 01:43:39,747
Speaker 4: even though he'll be very much a supporting act. You'd

2043
01:43:39,787 --> 01:43:42,147
Speaker 4: have to think this afternoon at go Media Stadium when

2044
01:43:42,187 --> 01:43:44,707
Speaker 4: Auckland FC play Perth Glory and at the end of

2045
01:43:44,747 --> 01:43:46,347
Speaker 4: it all, regardless of what happens on the field, I

2046
01:43:46,467 --> 01:43:49,067
Speaker 4: love the Premier's plate at the end of it to

2047
01:43:49,387 --> 01:43:51,227
Speaker 4: twenty seven, let's take a break when we come back.

2048
01:43:51,307 --> 01:43:54,667
Speaker 4: Ice Hockey. Our ice Blacks that's our New Zealand men's

2049
01:43:54,707 --> 01:43:58,067
Speaker 4: ice hockey team about to embark on a World championship

2050
01:43:58,147 --> 01:44:01,987
Speaker 4: tournament on home ice in Dunedin. They're head coaches with us.

2051
01:44:02,107 --> 01:44:03,667
Speaker 4: Right after this on Weekend Sport.

2052
01:44:04,467 --> 01:44:07,987
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2053
01:44:08,107 --> 01:44:11,947
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2054
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2055
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Speaker 4: News Talks Bang on two thirty Sunday afternoon. The Ice

2056
01:44:16,467 --> 01:44:19,707
Speaker 4: Blacks that's our New Zealand men's ice hockey team, are

2057
01:44:19,747 --> 01:44:23,907
Speaker 4: about to start the International Ice Hockey Federation twenty twenty

2058
01:44:24,027 --> 01:44:29,707
Speaker 4: five World Championship Division two Group B tournament in Dunedin.

2059
01:44:30,027 --> 01:44:32,747
Speaker 4: Ice Black's head coach is Cam Freer, he joins us

2060
01:44:32,747 --> 01:44:36,347
Speaker 4: ahead of opening game tonight against Chinese Taipei. Cam, thanks

2061
01:44:36,387 --> 01:44:38,547
Speaker 4: for taking the time for a chat. Tell us about

2062
01:44:38,547 --> 01:44:42,467
Speaker 4: the schedule for the team this week. After Chinese Taipei

2063
01:44:42,987 --> 01:44:45,307
Speaker 4: tonight in your opening game, then who do you face?

2064
01:44:46,187 --> 01:44:49,027
Speaker 27: So yeah, Chinese Typeay tonight, and then we played Georgia

2065
01:44:49,147 --> 01:44:52,467
Speaker 27: tomorrow night, and then we have a day off and

2066
01:44:53,107 --> 01:44:55,347
Speaker 27: to kind of recharge the batteries. And then from there

2067
01:44:56,267 --> 01:45:00,707
Speaker 27: we played Thailand, then Bulgaria, then Iceland. So yeah, our

2068
01:45:00,827 --> 01:45:02,507
Speaker 27: last game being next Saturday.

2069
01:45:02,747 --> 01:45:05,027
Speaker 4: All right, So when you look at those nations, you'll

2070
01:45:05,067 --> 01:45:07,827
Speaker 4: come up against who who is likely to be your

2071
01:45:07,907 --> 01:45:09,147
Speaker 4: toughest opponent.

2072
01:45:10,347 --> 01:45:12,347
Speaker 2: You would you would think Iceland.

2073
01:45:12,467 --> 01:45:15,427
Speaker 27: Iceland was relegated from the division above last year, so

2074
01:45:15,787 --> 01:45:16,787
Speaker 27: they'll be very strong.

2075
01:45:17,227 --> 01:45:18,307
Speaker 2: And then Georgia as well.

2076
01:45:19,027 --> 01:45:22,267
Speaker 27: We beat Georgia, managed to beat Georgia last year, but yeah,

2077
01:45:22,267 --> 01:45:24,267
Speaker 27: they're a very strong ice hockey nation.

2078
01:45:24,707 --> 01:45:27,667
Speaker 4: And it's just a full round robin, no semi's, no final.

2079
01:45:27,787 --> 01:45:30,587
Speaker 4: You just just whoever finishes top after the round robin.

2080
01:45:30,667 --> 01:45:31,347
Speaker 4: Is that how it works?

2081
01:45:31,587 --> 01:45:34,187
Speaker 27: Yeah, So whoever finishes tops you get three points for

2082
01:45:34,307 --> 01:45:38,027
Speaker 27: a regular time win, two points for an overtime will

2083
01:45:38,067 --> 01:45:42,547
Speaker 27: shootout win or one point for an overtime we'll shootout loss,

2084
01:45:42,587 --> 01:45:44,547
Speaker 27: and it's just whatever team has the most amount of

2085
01:45:44,587 --> 01:45:46,787
Speaker 27: points after the five game round robin.

2086
01:45:46,987 --> 01:45:49,707
Speaker 4: Now, of course, our women's team, the Ice Ferns, claimed

2087
01:45:49,787 --> 01:45:53,707
Speaker 4: silver at their recent equivalent, also played in Dunedin. How

2088
01:45:53,787 --> 01:45:55,867
Speaker 4: motivated were you buy there if it only listened to

2089
01:45:55,907 --> 01:45:59,467
Speaker 4: Australia the eventual winners in an overtime shootout in their tournament.

2090
01:45:59,867 --> 01:46:00,947
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really motivating.

2091
01:46:00,987 --> 01:46:03,387
Speaker 27: That did such a great job of representing ice hockey

2092
01:46:03,427 --> 01:46:06,547
Speaker 27: New Zealand on the world stage, and yeah, we're we're

2093
01:46:06,587 --> 01:46:08,867
Speaker 27: hoping to do just as well or hopefully try and

2094
01:46:08,907 --> 01:46:09,427
Speaker 27: win this thing.

2095
01:46:09,827 --> 01:46:12,467
Speaker 4: Tell us about the team you've assembled and the mix

2096
01:46:12,587 --> 01:46:15,267
Speaker 4: of experience and youth that you have at your disposal

2097
01:46:15,347 --> 01:46:15,707
Speaker 4: this week.

2098
01:46:16,067 --> 01:46:18,027
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is we looked to

2099
01:46:18,347 --> 01:46:19,267
Speaker 2: find some experience.

2100
01:46:19,587 --> 01:46:22,347
Speaker 27: So we've got you know, players that have played up

2101
01:46:22,387 --> 01:46:24,787
Speaker 27: to fifty games like Jordan Challis for the Ice Flax,

2102
01:46:25,547 --> 01:46:28,387
Speaker 27: and then you know other players that have become naturalized

2103
01:46:28,707 --> 01:46:32,307
Speaker 27: like Colin Macintosh and Justin Diagel who both playing professional

2104
01:46:32,347 --> 01:46:36,267
Speaker 27: hockey overseas, and so we've got a lot of experience.

2105
01:46:36,347 --> 01:46:39,947
Speaker 27: But then we really have some strong new young players

2106
01:46:40,027 --> 01:46:45,067
Speaker 27: coming through Jacob Carey, and we have four other New

2107
01:46:45,147 --> 01:46:47,587
Speaker 27: Zealand under twenty players that were in the team that

2108
01:46:47,707 --> 01:46:50,587
Speaker 27: won gold their respective gold this year as well.

2109
01:46:50,867 --> 01:46:52,827
Speaker 4: The young players who take up the sport, I mean

2110
01:46:52,867 --> 01:46:56,987
Speaker 4: it's not widely available in secondary schools is if at all?

2111
01:46:57,747 --> 01:47:01,067
Speaker 4: How do the young players who find their way to

2112
01:47:01,227 --> 01:47:03,787
Speaker 4: the top level of the sport find their way into

2113
01:47:03,827 --> 01:47:04,227
Speaker 4: the sport?

2114
01:47:04,827 --> 01:47:07,507
Speaker 2: I think we've got ice hockey. New Zion's done a really.

2115
01:47:07,347 --> 01:47:09,907
Speaker 27: Good job at advertising and getting people wanted to learn

2116
01:47:09,947 --> 01:47:13,187
Speaker 27: to play programs all around the country and from there

2117
01:47:13,627 --> 01:47:16,627
Speaker 27: being able to develop them through that. And yeah, they're

2118
01:47:16,667 --> 01:47:19,467
Speaker 27: doing a great job managing to we're seeing the fruits

2119
01:47:19,507 --> 01:47:22,547
Speaker 27: of it now of having you know, five under twenty

2120
01:47:22,627 --> 01:47:25,787
Speaker 27: players and the national men's team is just almost unheard of.

2121
01:47:25,947 --> 01:47:27,187
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're doing a great job.

2122
01:47:27,467 --> 01:47:29,947
Speaker 4: And what about your own background, Cam, what's your background

2123
01:47:30,027 --> 01:47:30,507
Speaker 4: in the sport?

2124
01:47:31,227 --> 01:47:31,267
Speaker 11: So?

2125
01:47:31,427 --> 01:47:36,267
Speaker 27: I played for the Stampede for the Sky City Stampede

2126
01:47:36,307 --> 01:47:38,507
Speaker 27: for roughly one hundred and seventy games, and then I

2127
01:47:38,587 --> 01:47:41,387
Speaker 27: played three seasons with the Denean Thunder as well.

2128
01:47:41,507 --> 01:47:43,507
Speaker 2: So my background as a player.

2129
01:47:43,947 --> 01:47:46,347
Speaker 27: I played for the ice Blacks back in twenty thirteen,

2130
01:47:47,387 --> 01:47:50,427
Speaker 27: and then I was injured in twenty eighteen. And I've

2131
01:47:50,467 --> 01:47:54,267
Speaker 27: been coaching the Sky City Stampede since twenty nineteen, so

2132
01:47:54,467 --> 01:47:56,107
Speaker 27: this would be my seventh year as the head coach

2133
01:47:56,187 --> 01:47:59,227
Speaker 27: of the Stampede, and then this is my second year

2134
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Speaker 27: with the Ice Blacks.

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01:48:00,347 --> 01:48:03,307
Speaker 4: Did you always feel like you would move into coaching

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01:48:03,787 --> 01:48:04,627
Speaker 4: while you were playing?

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01:48:05,747 --> 01:48:06,187
Speaker 2: Honestly?

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01:48:06,467 --> 01:48:09,547
Speaker 27: Know, you know, I ruptured my achilles playing touch rugby

2139
01:48:09,627 --> 01:48:12,707
Speaker 27: in the summer, so your hot playing hockey for one

2140
01:48:12,747 --> 01:48:15,427
Speaker 27: season was kind of not going to work out for me.

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01:48:15,827 --> 01:48:18,787
Speaker 27: And we had a professional American coach in Queenstown and

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01:48:19,387 --> 01:48:21,587
Speaker 27: he had to go home, and you know, the kind

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01:48:21,627 --> 01:48:24,147
Speaker 27: of the stars aligned and the senior players and the

2144
01:48:24,187 --> 01:48:26,267
Speaker 27: Stampede asked me to coach for a few weeks while

2145
01:48:26,307 --> 01:48:28,027
Speaker 27: we found another coach.

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01:48:28,107 --> 01:48:30,107
Speaker 2: And I'm still here seven or eight years later.

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01:48:31,467 --> 01:48:33,307
Speaker 4: Good stuff, Well it must be, it must be in

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01:48:33,347 --> 01:48:35,107
Speaker 4: the blood. And when you when you look to develop

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01:48:35,147 --> 01:48:37,467
Speaker 4: yourself as a coach and look to do the best

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01:48:37,587 --> 01:48:39,987
Speaker 4: possible job for the Ice Blacks, where where do you

2151
01:48:40,267 --> 01:48:41,907
Speaker 4: where do you take your inspiration from?

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01:48:42,787 --> 01:48:44,467
Speaker 27: I think it's you know, taking a little bit of

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01:48:45,227 --> 01:48:47,587
Speaker 27: you know, what I thought made each coach that I've

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01:48:47,627 --> 01:48:51,707
Speaker 27: had successful throughout and then you know, and then try

2155
01:48:51,747 --> 01:48:53,507
Speaker 27: and apply there in a in a genuine way that

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01:48:54,067 --> 01:48:58,227
Speaker 27: the players you know, find easy to digest. And then

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01:48:58,267 --> 01:49:00,907
Speaker 27: for me, it's not just you know, coaches, it's it's

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01:49:00,987 --> 01:49:03,027
Speaker 27: meeting people, you know, whether it's in business.

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01:49:02,787 --> 01:49:05,427
Speaker 2: Or whether it's you know, in life and taking parts

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01:49:05,467 --> 01:49:06,067
Speaker 2: of what people do.

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Speaker 27: You know, whether they're a person could, they're personable, they're

2162
01:49:08,947 --> 01:49:11,547
Speaker 27: a great public speaker. You take parts of that and

2163
01:49:11,627 --> 01:49:13,267
Speaker 27: then and then from there that kind of makes up

2164
01:49:13,267 --> 01:49:16,147
Speaker 27: you coaching. And it's always moving as well as there's

2165
01:49:16,187 --> 01:49:19,827
Speaker 27: new information available and different ways to communicate stuff, and

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01:49:20,227 --> 01:49:22,307
Speaker 27: you know, with different generations the way that you would

2167
01:49:22,307 --> 01:49:23,987
Speaker 27: talk to people was a little bit different as well.

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Speaker 4: Love that And have you had any sort of any

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01:49:26,467 --> 01:49:30,267
Speaker 4: sort of decent preparation leading to this week ahead?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So we've managed to be able to be in

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01:49:32,707 --> 01:49:34,347
Speaker 2: Goodeeden for for almost of the week.

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01:49:34,387 --> 01:49:36,427
Speaker 27: So we've had about six or seven trainings and then

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01:49:36,467 --> 01:49:40,627
Speaker 27: we had a an exhibition match against like a Dunedin

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Speaker 27: Thunder and Canterbury Red Devils combined team on Thursday.

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01:49:46,147 --> 01:49:48,267
Speaker 4: Fantastic and the ice how's the ice in d Need

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01:49:48,307 --> 01:49:50,467
Speaker 4: and at the at the facility you'll be using.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the facility looks amazing. They've they've done such a

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01:49:53,867 --> 01:49:56,387
Speaker 2: good job of getting it ready and yeah, we're really

2179
01:49:56,467 --> 01:49:57,867
Speaker 2: excited to be able to play it home.

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Speaker 4: Outstanding. Well, all the best for a very exciting week

2181
01:50:00,587 --> 01:50:03,107
Speaker 4: starting tonight against Chinese Taipe Ai and then right across

2182
01:50:03,147 --> 01:50:06,227
Speaker 4: the week until you made Iceland on Saturday. That's next Saturday.

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01:50:06,347 --> 01:50:08,747
Speaker 4: That might even come in the form of some sort

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Speaker 4: of grand final arrangement. Hey, Cam, all the best to

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01:50:12,067 --> 01:50:13,987
Speaker 4: you and the team mate. Thanks for taking the time

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01:50:14,027 --> 01:50:14,627
Speaker 4: for a chet today.

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01:50:14,987 --> 01:50:16,307
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks very much, mate.

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01:50:16,227 --> 01:50:19,707
Speaker 4: No, thank you, Cam Freer, the coach and former player

2189
01:50:19,827 --> 01:50:23,387
Speaker 4: for our ice Blacks, our national ice hockey team. So

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01:50:23,587 --> 01:50:26,427
Speaker 4: tonight Chinese Taipei. All of these games I think they

2191
01:50:26,507 --> 01:50:28,427
Speaker 4: play at eight o'clock every night, Yes they do. So

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Speaker 4: Chinese taypepay tonight. Then it's Georgia tomorrow a day off,

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01:50:33,787 --> 01:50:37,867
Speaker 4: and then Thailand on Wednesday. On Friday night Bulgaria and

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01:50:38,067 --> 01:50:41,147
Speaker 4: next Saturday it's Iceland. And as you heard Cam say,

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01:50:41,467 --> 01:50:43,587
Speaker 4: Iceland are likely to be the ones who provide the

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01:50:43,667 --> 01:50:48,467
Speaker 4: stiffest competition for New Zealand. They've dropped down from the

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01:50:48,547 --> 01:50:51,067
Speaker 4: division above, so they're likely to be the ones. I

2198
01:50:51,147 --> 01:50:53,627
Speaker 4: could well be that when that game comes around on

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01:50:53,747 --> 01:50:56,707
Speaker 4: Saturday evening in Dunedan, that it's a bit of a

2200
01:50:56,787 --> 01:51:00,227
Speaker 4: Grand Final. Let's up look at some live sport happening

2201
01:51:00,267 --> 01:51:03,467
Speaker 4: around the place over in San Francisco. For starters, it's

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01:51:03,547 --> 01:51:06,787
Speaker 4: three quarter time in game three of the year round

2203
01:51:06,867 --> 01:51:10,027
Speaker 4: one NBA clash between the Golden State Warriors and the

2204
01:51:10,107 --> 01:51:13,067
Speaker 4: Houston Rockets. Series are locked up at one all after

2205
01:51:13,147 --> 01:51:15,347
Speaker 4: two games, and at three quarter time in game three,

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01:51:15,387 --> 01:51:18,627
Speaker 4: the Rockets with a slender leads seventy one sixty nine

2207
01:51:19,027 --> 01:51:21,427
Speaker 4: and that one and just about to get under way.

2208
01:51:21,707 --> 01:51:25,307
Speaker 4: In our National Basketball League match, it's the league leading

2209
01:51:25,387 --> 01:51:28,267
Speaker 4: Wellington Saints up against the Hawks bay Hawks that one

2210
01:51:28,307 --> 01:51:31,667
Speaker 4: at the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington. Just about to

2211
01:51:31,707 --> 01:51:34,147
Speaker 4: get started in that one, the Saints top of the

2212
01:51:34,187 --> 01:51:37,707
Speaker 4: table with seven wins from nine, in fact joint top.

2213
01:51:37,787 --> 01:51:40,787
Speaker 4: I shouldn't forget the Canterbury Rams, otherwise we'll be in

2214
01:51:40,827 --> 01:51:43,307
Speaker 4: trouble again with the good folk of christ Jurch. The

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01:51:43,347 --> 01:51:47,587
Speaker 4: Canterbury Rams also seven and two, and in fact Canterbury

2216
01:51:47,667 --> 01:51:50,467
Speaker 4: are top because they've got a better points differential, So

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01:51:51,427 --> 01:51:53,987
Speaker 4: I should probably have done a bit more research on that.

2218
01:51:54,107 --> 01:51:56,547
Speaker 4: Maybe the Saints can win an eighth game in the

2219
01:51:56,627 --> 01:52:00,027
Speaker 4: next couple of hours and go to the top. Just

2220
01:52:00,147 --> 01:52:03,147
Speaker 4: on twenty two away from three. We'll take another break

2221
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Speaker 4: when we come back. It's back to football. Been quite

2222
01:52:04,747 --> 01:52:06,587
Speaker 4: a bit of football on the show today, but that's

2223
01:52:06,827 --> 01:52:09,307
Speaker 4: where we are, I guess in the calendar In Liverpool.

2224
01:52:09,707 --> 01:52:12,267
Speaker 4: Liverpool fans have waited a wee while for a Premier

2225
01:52:12,347 --> 01:52:14,547
Speaker 4: League title. The last time they won one was during

2226
01:52:14,627 --> 01:52:18,187
Speaker 4: COVID times, a very odd Premier League season. But tomorrow

2227
01:52:18,267 --> 01:52:22,187
Speaker 4: morning they could clinch this year's Premier League title with

2228
01:52:22,547 --> 01:52:25,747
Speaker 4: four games to spare. So how are they feeling over

2229
01:52:25,827 --> 01:52:28,427
Speaker 4: the side of the world in the New Zealand division

2230
01:52:28,827 --> 01:52:30,787
Speaker 4: of the Liverpool Supporters Club. We'll find out when we

2231
01:52:30,867 --> 01:52:32,187
Speaker 4: come back here twenty two to three.

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01:52:32,227 --> 01:52:36,187
Speaker 1: Back in a monte the Big Issues on and after

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01:52:36,307 --> 01:52:40,467
Speaker 1: Fields Call eight hundred eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason.

2234
01:52:40,227 --> 01:52:41,267
Speaker 4: Paine and GJ.

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Speaker 1: Gunnerhomes New Zealand's first trusted home builder News Talks a BB.

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01:52:45,787 --> 01:52:47,947
Speaker 4: Two forty one on News Talks, he'd be barring and

2237
01:52:48,147 --> 01:52:51,707
Speaker 4: utter catastrophe. Liverpool are going to win the Premier League

2238
01:52:51,747 --> 01:52:54,227
Speaker 4: this season. And possibly as early as tomorrow morning.

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01:52:54,467 --> 01:52:58,747
Speaker 18: Out to seller honey much to take his class, and

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Speaker 18: he's done it quite beautifully, a dozening goal from the

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01:53:04,947 --> 01:53:11,787
Speaker 18: havoc sala Liverpool's advantage. What a glorious finish.

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01:53:12,387 --> 01:53:15,867
Speaker 4: So Liverpool have five games left and they're twelve points

2243
01:53:15,987 --> 01:53:20,307
Speaker 4: clear at the top. Second placed Arsenal have just four

2244
01:53:20,427 --> 01:53:24,347
Speaker 4: games left, so that means Liverpool need just one point

2245
01:53:24,707 --> 01:53:28,587
Speaker 4: so a drawer from their remaining five games to clinch

2246
01:53:28,707 --> 01:53:31,387
Speaker 4: a second title in the Premier League era and a

2247
01:53:31,507 --> 01:53:36,387
Speaker 4: twentieth top flight title overall. They host Tottenham tomorrow morning

2248
01:53:36,467 --> 01:53:40,107
Speaker 4: at what will be, no doubt a celebrating anfield. Let's

2249
01:53:40,147 --> 01:53:43,787
Speaker 4: bring in Andrew McGoff, chair of the official Liverpool supporters

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Speaker 4: group of Wellington. Andrew, thanks for your time. That almost,

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Speaker 4: as I'm explaining, it sounds too easy. It's almost a

2252
01:53:50,707 --> 01:53:53,667
Speaker 4: fader complete. Does that dilute the achievement at all?

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01:53:54,787 --> 01:53:54,907
Speaker 3: Oh?

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01:53:55,387 --> 01:53:57,947
Speaker 28: Absolutely not? Like care, I really hope that it is

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Speaker 28: a celebration at Ntil tomorrow and I guess it's the

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01:54:02,267 --> 01:54:06,267
Speaker 28: huge assumption that Liverpool will go ahead and at least

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01:54:06,387 --> 01:54:09,907
Speaker 28: get a draw against Hers on Monday morning our time.

2258
01:54:10,907 --> 01:54:13,747
Speaker 28: But I'll tell you what It's been a great old

2259
01:54:13,827 --> 01:54:19,027
Speaker 28: season for Liverpool and certainly not one that a lot

2260
01:54:19,067 --> 01:54:22,347
Speaker 28: of fans would have expected, particularly with Hug and Klop

2261
01:54:22,587 --> 01:54:23,747
Speaker 28: leaving at the end of last season.

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01:54:23,907 --> 01:54:25,387
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to talk about the new boss, Anna

2263
01:54:25,427 --> 01:54:28,427
Speaker 4: Slott in just a moment. But in terms of the

2264
01:54:28,547 --> 01:54:31,547
Speaker 4: dominance of this team in the Premier League such that

2265
01:54:31,627 --> 01:54:33,907
Speaker 4: they are going to probably or or could well win

2266
01:54:33,987 --> 01:54:36,747
Speaker 4: it with four games up their sleeve, what have been

2267
01:54:36,827 --> 01:54:39,227
Speaker 4: the reasons for Liverpool's dominant league form.

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01:54:40,867 --> 01:54:43,547
Speaker 28: I think there'd be a couple of things that kind

2269
01:54:43,587 --> 01:54:44,267
Speaker 28: of stand out to me.

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Speaker 7: Piney.

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Speaker 28: One is whilst we have had our injuries, we haven't

2272
01:54:49,907 --> 01:54:52,587
Speaker 28: had the muscle injuries that Well always had under Clop

2273
01:54:52,627 --> 01:54:54,947
Speaker 28: with his style of football, and I think the backroom

2274
01:54:55,027 --> 01:54:57,707
Speaker 28: staff that Slot's bought in with him have managed the

2275
01:54:57,747 --> 01:55:01,427
Speaker 28: players extremely well, and we just seem to have been

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01:55:01,507 --> 01:55:04,227
Speaker 28: so consistent over the season. There's only one loss that

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01:55:05,867 --> 01:55:07,827
Speaker 28: Chris Woods, not Ingham Forest. In the first half of

2278
01:55:07,907 --> 01:55:11,227
Speaker 28: the season. We had some huge results in the Champions

2279
01:55:11,307 --> 01:55:14,947
Speaker 28: League as well, particularly that one over Real Madrid that

2280
01:55:15,347 --> 01:55:17,827
Speaker 28: fansa remember so well. It's been a team that we

2281
01:55:17,947 --> 01:55:21,827
Speaker 28: haven't enjoyed playing over recent years. But I just think

2282
01:55:21,827 --> 01:55:24,027
Speaker 28: it's the consistency. There's some stats coming out where our

2283
01:55:24,107 --> 01:55:26,147
Speaker 28: first half and second half of the season have almost

2284
01:55:26,227 --> 01:55:29,747
Speaker 28: mirrored themselves. And there's a lot of chats in the

2285
01:55:29,907 --> 01:55:33,267
Speaker 28: UK media in particular and fans on social media about

2286
01:55:33,667 --> 01:55:35,867
Speaker 28: Liverpool's drop off in the second half of the season,

2287
01:55:36,427 --> 01:55:38,427
Speaker 28: and it kind of has felt like that in a way.

2288
01:55:38,467 --> 01:55:41,067
Speaker 23: I guess it felt that the season wasn't as dominant

2289
01:55:41,067 --> 01:55:43,667
Speaker 23: as the first half, but as I say, the results

2290
01:55:43,707 --> 01:55:46,787
Speaker 23: almost mirrored themselves, and slot's been able to bring in

2291
01:55:46,867 --> 01:55:48,787
Speaker 23: that belief in the side and.

2292
01:55:50,587 --> 01:55:55,747
Speaker 28: Keep those key players playing at at a hugely high level.

2293
01:55:55,827 --> 01:55:59,707
Speaker 28: You look at Mohammed Sala and what his output has

2294
01:55:59,747 --> 01:56:02,507
Speaker 28: been again, particularly in the first half of the season

2295
01:56:02,707 --> 01:56:07,107
Speaker 28: is just almost unplayable. And yeah, it's been it's been

2296
01:56:07,187 --> 01:56:10,027
Speaker 28: epic to see really just to see how we've been

2297
01:56:10,067 --> 01:56:12,467
Speaker 28: able to just well say where I may now have

2298
01:56:12,547 --> 01:56:14,787
Speaker 28: see of course, have been able to go through and

2299
01:56:15,867 --> 01:56:20,467
Speaker 28: just really just just dominate. And what is against some

2300
01:56:21,347 --> 01:56:24,267
Speaker 28: salty fans belief has been a really strong Premier League

2301
01:56:24,667 --> 01:56:27,987
Speaker 28: this year where there's been upsets from bottom half teams

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01:56:28,027 --> 01:56:30,347
Speaker 28: beating top half teams, and you have to look at

2303
01:56:30,347 --> 01:56:33,267
Speaker 28: the Champions League with aston Villa and Arsenal in particular

2304
01:56:33,387 --> 01:56:35,307
Speaker 28: doing so well. They're just to show what a what

2305
01:56:35,387 --> 01:56:38,107
Speaker 28: a strong Premier League it is, So let's just be

2306
01:56:38,187 --> 01:56:41,747
Speaker 28: the icing on the on the cake having Liverpool winning

2307
01:56:41,787 --> 01:56:42,907
Speaker 28: such a strong Premier League.

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01:56:43,107 --> 01:56:45,147
Speaker 4: You mentioned the departure of Jigen clab at the end

2309
01:56:45,187 --> 01:56:48,507
Speaker 4: of last season. He was such a popular manager for Liverpool.

2310
01:56:49,827 --> 01:56:52,867
Speaker 4: Can you remember what your expectations were at the start

2311
01:56:52,907 --> 01:56:53,427
Speaker 4: of the season.

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01:56:55,227 --> 01:57:02,747
Speaker 28: I know they weren't high. Pinely like, I wasn't particularly overwhelmed. Intact,

2313
01:57:02,827 --> 01:57:05,627
Speaker 28: I was underwhelmed by it by Slot coming in. Admittedly

2314
01:57:05,627 --> 01:57:08,667
Speaker 28: I didn't know if you lot about him, but it

2315
01:57:08,827 --> 01:57:10,827
Speaker 28: wasn't one of those big name managers that you thought

2316
01:57:10,867 --> 01:57:14,747
Speaker 28: would come in and win the fans over and be

2317
01:57:14,827 --> 01:57:18,987
Speaker 28: able to sign some marquee players. But while he's really

2318
01:57:19,067 --> 01:57:22,227
Speaker 28: proved me wrong, and I honestly thought that would be

2319
01:57:22,947 --> 01:57:26,707
Speaker 28: scraping into Champions League this season. I thought this probably

2320
01:57:26,707 --> 01:57:28,547
Speaker 28: would have been Arsenal's title to win.

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Speaker 7: Man City.

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01:57:30,027 --> 01:57:33,947
Speaker 28: We know that every year, well that's such a comittable side,

2323
01:57:33,987 --> 01:57:36,667
Speaker 28: they usually take the title out and I really thought

2324
01:57:36,747 --> 01:57:39,147
Speaker 28: Chelsea would have would have given a better showing to themselves.

2325
01:57:39,227 --> 01:57:41,787
Speaker 28: So yeah, for me, it was sort of looking to

2326
01:57:41,867 --> 01:57:45,507
Speaker 28: scrape into that fifth spot and hopefully clinch Clint Champions

2327
01:57:45,587 --> 01:57:46,067
Speaker 28: League's place.

2328
01:57:46,667 --> 01:57:48,787
Speaker 4: Well, it's certainly going to finish off a lot better

2329
01:57:48,827 --> 01:57:50,587
Speaker 4: than that in terms of the Premier League. The last

2330
01:57:50,587 --> 01:57:54,027
Speaker 4: time Liverpool wanted, of course, was during COVID and you

2331
01:57:54,107 --> 01:57:56,667
Speaker 4: know a lot of fans, not just Liverpool fans, will

2332
01:57:56,747 --> 01:58:00,347
Speaker 4: remember the trophy being lifted in front of nobody. Basically

2333
01:58:00,467 --> 01:58:03,547
Speaker 4: it was a very odd, odd time for us all.

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01:58:04,267 --> 01:58:07,987
Speaker 4: How much more will this mean, you know, and presumably

2335
01:58:08,027 --> 01:58:09,827
Speaker 4: at some point they will get the chance to lift

2336
01:58:10,147 --> 01:58:12,667
Speaker 4: the trophy itself at home. How much more will it mean,

2337
01:58:13,347 --> 01:58:17,347
Speaker 4: you know, given the more traditional environment of you know,

2338
01:58:17,467 --> 01:58:19,307
Speaker 4: a huge fan base for this football club.

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01:58:20,827 --> 01:58:23,467
Speaker 28: Well, I've been looking at some interviews from Ana Slots

2340
01:58:23,507 --> 01:58:26,307
Speaker 28: and Uje van Dyke and just saying how important to

2341
01:58:26,387 --> 01:58:29,707
Speaker 28: them it is that they'll be able to perform and

2342
01:58:29,867 --> 01:58:33,107
Speaker 28: hopefully clunch the Premier League in front of a pack Danfield,

2343
01:58:33,507 --> 01:58:35,667
Speaker 28: It's been thirty five years since I've been able to

2344
01:58:37,187 --> 01:58:40,027
Speaker 28: to win the title at home in front of a

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Speaker 28: packed house. Obviously, as you mentioned, that was in front

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Speaker 28: of an empty stadium in the COVID era, and I

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Speaker 28: guess one of the big things for fans. Were Liverpool

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Speaker 28: fans over in the city is they really gathered that

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Speaker 28: they couldn't have a parade for the team and the team.

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Speaker 28: I know the team felt that as well from the

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Speaker 28: interviews that have come out, and I've got friends over

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Speaker 28: there who are really looking forward to being able to

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Speaker 28: be a part of that, and you know, just be

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Speaker 28: able to do it at anfield, as I say, like

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Speaker 28: in front of the fans, not relying on other results.

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Speaker 23: I think if you remember back to the nineteen twenty season,

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Speaker 23: there's videos went around of the Liverpool team watching the

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Speaker 23: Chelsea City game and Chelsea got up there, which Clint's

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01:59:20,827 --> 01:59:23,467
Speaker 23: just clinched the league for Liverpool. So just be able

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Speaker 23: to do it under our own steam will be will

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Speaker 23: be pretty epic and yeah, what an atmosphere it will be.

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Speaker 28: It'll be on Monday morning.

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Speaker 4: Any chance at all Tottenham win this game and delay

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Speaker 4: the celebrations by at least a week.

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Speaker 6: They could, they could.

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Speaker 23: I think it's what we always used to joke amongst

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Speaker 23: friends of mine that when you're putting on sport maulties,

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Speaker 23: never to include Tottenham because they would lose.

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Speaker 28: The ones that were.

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Speaker 23: Lose, the ones that they're obviously going to win, and

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Speaker 23: win the ones you wouldn't count them. I think probably

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Speaker 23: what works in Liverpool's favors. I've got a Spurs I've

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Speaker 23: got a big semi final coming up a couple of

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Speaker 23: days after. I hear that Son's not playing either, which

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Speaker 23: he's always been a bogey player for Liverpool, and I

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Speaker 23: guess it's never felt easy against Tottenham, but surely they can.

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Speaker 23: Liverpool can just clinch a point based on their existing

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Speaker 23: form throughout the season and hopefully that should be enough

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Speaker 23: to do it. I just really hope it's not a

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Speaker 23: not a nervely ninety minute. It'd be nice to be

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Speaker 23: able to watch it comfortably.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of an unfriendly time though, wasn't it for

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02:00:33,267 --> 02:00:34,547
Speaker 4: us over the side of the well? Was it three

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Speaker 4: thirty tomorrow morning?

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Speaker 28: It kicks off as sure as an early start on.

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Speaker 28: I've got my first day of work on a new

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02:00:40,027 --> 02:00:44,107
Speaker 28: job on this first day back at school to watch

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Speaker 28: the game, So yeah, we'll be We'll be in our

2389
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Speaker 28: lounge at three point thirty in the morning watching the game.

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Speaker 28: I understand the liquor licensing laws and why they are

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Speaker 28: how they are, but it is a real shame that

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Speaker 28: friends can't come together to watch this game and enjoy

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Speaker 28: the moment together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm sure that will follow when when not not,

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Speaker 4: when Liverpool do get this point over the next five

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Speaker 4: games and when the Premier League. Hey, Andrew, look, I

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Speaker 4: was going to say sleep well tonight, you'll probably want

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Speaker 4: get a couple of hours then get up. You're not

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Speaker 4: going to push through, are you.

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Speaker 28: I certainly won't be pushing through. I'm so old for

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Speaker 28: that now, but I'll try and get an early night.

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Speaker 28: It's fair to say it will be uh, it'll be

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Speaker 28: pretty broken sleep. But yeah, I'm really looking forward to

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Speaker 28: three thirty tomorrow morning and watching that with my oldest

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Speaker 28: son and hopefully, hopefully just getting that point so we

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Speaker 28: can celebrate the twentieth title for Liverpool.

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Speaker 4: Good man, Andrew, great to chat mate. Thanks for taking

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Speaker 4: the time this afternoon.

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Speaker 7: Always a pleasure party.

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Speaker 28: Thank you so much for having me on.

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Speaker 4: No, thanks for joining us, Andrew, Andrew McGoff there, he's

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Speaker 4: the chair of the Wellington branch of the Official Liverpool

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Speaker 4: Supporters Club. Three point thirty tomorrow morning and field. It'll

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Speaker 4: be jumping when they take on Tottenham and as mentioned

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Speaker 4: a couple of times, just a point, that's all they need,

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Speaker 4: just to draw and if it doesn't come tomorrow, they've

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Speaker 4: still got four more games and that is provided that

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Speaker 4: arsenal when they're remaining four games. So look, it's it's

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Speaker 4: based Liverpool's title. It's just a matter of when it

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Speaker 4: will officially be confirmed same time tomorrow morning. Actually, Chris

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Speaker 4: Wood is in action in the FA Cup semifinals, Nottingham

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Speaker 4: Forest up against Manchester City. This game is at Wembley.

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Speaker 4: They play the semifinals at Wembley, so Chris Wood will

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Speaker 4: be at Wembley tomorrow morning three point thirty trying to

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Speaker 4: help Nottingham Forest into the FA Cup Final. It's then

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Speaker 4: more Manchester City Crystal Palace earning their place with a

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Speaker 4: three mil win over Aston Villa in the early hours

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Speaker 4: of this morning. Nine away from three News Talks it be.

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Speaker 1: The scoons from the track Fields and the Court on

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Speaker 1: your home of Lord Weekends for it with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: News Talks.

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Speaker 4: B and that is us for Weekend Sport for today.

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Speaker 4: Five and a half away from three. After the three

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Speaker 4: o'clock news, Tim Beveridge in the chair with the Sunday

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Speaker 4: edition of the Weekend Collective who knows what gems he

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Speaker 4: will have to regal you with. I can see him

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Speaker 4: out there beavering away, putting the final touches on the

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Speaker 4: preparation for his show. So he's up after three o'clock

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Speaker 4: back on sports Talk tomorrow night, looking forward to bringing

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Speaker 4: you that between seven and eight. Huge thanks to Bevan

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Speaker 4: Dua for producing across the weekend or some work mate,

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Speaker 4: Thanks indeed for stepping in. I don't know where Andy is.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he's around somewhere. I'm sure he'll be back

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Speaker 4: at some point, but if not, I've got a very

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Speaker 4: very handy replacement through the glass here in Bevin. Thanks indeed, mate,

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Speaker 4: Thank you for listening in as well as far as

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Speaker 4: an exit song goes today well, Auckland f C, as

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Speaker 4: we've been mentioning in all afternoon, have signed up the

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Speaker 4: Premier's plate. Majority owner of course is Bill Foley, and

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Speaker 4: he has sporting interests all around the world, including an

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Speaker 4: expansion team in the NHL Ice Hockey competition, the Vegas

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Speaker 4: Golden Knights. They launched in twenty seventeen and won the

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Speaker 4: Stanley Cup, which is the big ice hockey price. In

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Speaker 4: their sixth season. Auckland FC have got some silverware and

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Speaker 4: just there first, so a Vegas theme. I thought to

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Speaker 4: take us out today. Katie Perry waking up in Vegas.

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Speaker 4: EM it makes a litt risty you're waking say tomorrow night.

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Speaker 13: To toss that brings you can't waking up.

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Speaker 3: And bad.

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Speaker 13: Cup. That's what's your wake up?

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Speaker 14: And what to day say?

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Speaker 3: Say cast up by.

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Speaker 13: Cash up ma m hmmmmmmm.

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