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Speaker 1: Darcy's here with sport. Hey Darcy, today you can't avoid

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Speaker 1: politics because sport and politics are colliding with the stadium business.

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Speaker 1: So they're still in the meeting. What's the latest, what's happening. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're still launching custard pies and savories at each other

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Speaker 1: across the desk. Always like to be a fly in

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Speaker 1: a wall at these council meetings. What they actually talk about,

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Speaker 1: what they achieve, who's asleep, how much gets drunk, who

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Speaker 1: pays attention. They're still trying to work out if it's

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Speaker 1: going to be Eden part two point one three point

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Speaker 1: eight or they're going to go to Than which is

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Speaker 1: the key park exercise. So they've had the submissions. They're

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Speaker 1: now thumbing through all of these submissions early doors. It

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Speaker 1: looks like they're not happy as it was released at

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Speaker 1: the start of the week with any of them. So

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Speaker 1: now they're going to thrash it out. Honestly, the Warriors

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Speaker 1: will win the NRL before we get a new stadium

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Speaker 1: in Auckland. I just don't see it happen with Titong.

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Speaker 1: That's where the money's come from. That is one thing

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Speaker 1: I think that we've been burnt a few times by

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Speaker 1: private equity silver Lake and also investments from billionaires overseas.

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Speaker 1: How much can you trust that you got the issue

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Speaker 1: with Tito of building then over top of train stations,

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Speaker 1: they've got to look at the land, how long the

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Speaker 1: lease is for and of course Eden Park accusations there

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Speaker 1: as well. It's lego. Every couple of years they clip

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Speaker 1: a new bid on it and they hope for the

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Speaker 1: best that the advantage of eden Park is there. They've

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Speaker 1: got a train station turning up and then the city

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Speaker 1: roill link turns up to be right there and there.

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Speaker 1: But the piecemeal approach is that satisfactory? How do you

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Speaker 1: feel about one two three billion dollars being spent on

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Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening. I don't see the

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Speaker 1: wherewithal for everyone and Awkland to get it done. Well,

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Speaker 1: we will wait and see, hope it might come on

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Speaker 1: my show, might come on your show next year? What's

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Speaker 1: what's what's on the show? Know? Who have you got

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Speaker 1: on the show tonight? You know? So we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about the resulting meeting through the council. Nothing's happened

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Speaker 1: with it but to do it. But we will be

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Speaker 1: joined by Heath Mills He is the chief executive of

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Speaker 1: the WCA, which is the World Cricketers Association. Are looking

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Speaker 1: at trying to rebuild the international program, to give it

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Speaker 1: some relevance and more of a coherent view that people

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Speaker 1: actually understand, because at the moment it's an absolute mess.

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Speaker 1: It's a dog's breakfast. No one knows who's running it,

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Speaker 1: what the matches are all about. So they're proposing one

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Speaker 1: of the proposals is to have four twenty one day

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Speaker 1: windows where international cricketers play with relevance, not just pointless

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Speaker 1: bilateral series. Because the interesting fact out of this Ryan

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Speaker 1: is that apparently every day, almost every day of the year,

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Speaker 1: there is a game going on in a T twenty

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Speaker 1: league somewhere in the world. Too much cricket, creeping death,

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Speaker 1: too much cricket, Well, we know you think it cricket.

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Speaker 1: Well no, well yes, yes, frankly, it's boring and there's

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Speaker 1: too much of it. And you've just proved my point. Darcy.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll see you tonight. Heaven watch it. You

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Speaker 1: know you can turn it off if you have to go. Darcy,

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Speaker 1: see you at seven. OK. For more from Hither Duplessy

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