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Speaker 1: Sport with the tab app download and get your bed

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Speaker 1: on our eighteen bit Responsibly.

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Speaker 2: We have Elliott Smith's sports talk host with us.

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Speaker 1: Hello Elliott, Hello Heather.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So Grace Weirkere has doubled down on her support

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Speaker 2: for Dame Noles, Has.

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Speaker 1: She she has? Yeah. I thought that maybe she might

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Speaker 1: have had a moment's regrets. Well, no she hasn't, because

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Speaker 1: she's been asked at the airport as they fly out

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Speaker 1: for the Constellation Cup first game on Friday, whether she

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Speaker 1: regretted this stand that she made postgame after the last

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Speaker 1: series against South Africa, where basically she backed Noline total

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Speaker 1: to the hilts and basically stood and said, if you're listening,

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Speaker 1: we love you, we miss you, we want you back

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Speaker 1: in charge of the team. She fronted media today and

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Speaker 1: was asked whether she stood by those words and basically said, yes,

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Speaker 1: I do so quite remarkable stuff.

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Speaker 2: Let's have a listen.

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Speaker 3: I think if I had to do it over, I

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Speaker 3: would took my worries a bit more relatively. But but thing,

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Speaker 3: I do regret what I said, and I am confident

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Speaker 3: to feel strongly about my position but also fully back

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Speaker 3: the team and the girls there and the job to do.

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Speaker 2: So I wonder if what she would have said, with

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Speaker 2: which words she would have been more selective about, is

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Speaker 2: we love.

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Speaker 1: You, possibly more I want you back, or being more

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Speaker 1: about myself rather than speaking on behalf of the team.

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Speaker 1: Her senior colleagues may not necessarily be aligned, and the

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Speaker 1: alignment so I back her. I think it's a good

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Speaker 1: stance to have. We want players to be speaking out.

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Speaker 1: This whole thing is an absolute shamozzle and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not Grace Week's fault. It's not Anyone's fault that

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Speaker 1: it's got to this point.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's some people's fault.

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Speaker 1: Peo really badly handled by Its bad, but it's not

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Speaker 1: it's not great. It's not Grace Week's fault. It's got

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Speaker 1: to this point. And so her speaking out, I think

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Speaker 1: good on it.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you something though, I was I was

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Speaker 2: having a chat to one of your your contemporaries out

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Speaker 2: there in the sports department, and Clay, who has you know,

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Speaker 2: is on the show from time to time and has

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Speaker 2: got some very clear mind about this and the conclusion

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Speaker 2: that I can't speak for him, but that I certainly

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Speaker 2: came to is there is a path back for Dame Knowles,

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Speaker 2: but Jenny Wiley's got to go.

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Speaker 1: Someone has got someone's got to go. I think there's

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Speaker 1: got to be someone that falls on their sword. And

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Speaker 1: whether it's ordered for Dame to exactly and it's And

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Speaker 1: if Dame Nolin Todd he's not going back with then

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Speaker 1: she's the one that goes. Yes, So I don't think

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Speaker 1: the status quo can remain.

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Speaker 2: But do you agree with me that she can come

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Speaker 2: back if Jenny.

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Speaker 1: Goes potentially yes, but I think there needs to be

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Speaker 1: some change that happening, though pretty slim, also giving slimmer

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Speaker 1: as time goes on. If you are the consolation cut

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Speaker 1: this is the biggest series of the year, starting tomorrow Friday.

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Speaker 2: Night, Play the four D Chess. Here you are, Matt Winner, Ay,

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Speaker 2: you're the chair. You have to decide who is more

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Speaker 2: important to you. Is it Jenny Wiley the CEO, or

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Speaker 2: is it Dame Knowles who has the public support by

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Speaker 2: the looks of things, and as a legendary coach.

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Speaker 1: I think Nipple needs the public support. So this has

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Speaker 1: some Basically, their broadcast has been cut down in their prime.

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Speaker 1: The sport's clearly not being run that well at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So go with the part that is doing well, and

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Speaker 1: that is Dame No Loyd for a diamond doesn't That's right,

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Speaker 1: you can go fine, So chances still slim.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to make this thing happen. I don't know

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Speaker 2: that it can. All right, So if you go to

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Speaker 2: if you're a rugby league player and you go to

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Speaker 2: the Saudis, you're banned from playing rugby league for ten years.

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Speaker 1: This is just chumm in the last five minutes or so,

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Speaker 1: NRL saying that any player that goes to quote unquote

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Speaker 1: unrecognized football competitions, we know what those are, it's R

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Speaker 1: three sixty will be banned for ten years. That means

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Speaker 1: if you sign a player of a letter of intent,

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Speaker 1: a playing contract, or any other form of agreement with

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Speaker 1: R three sixty, you will not be welcomed in rugby

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Speaker 1: league for ten years. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Ten years from the point of signing or the point wow.

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Speaker 1: But if you're Ryan Pappenhausen, you're Roger T. E varsishit going, yeah,

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Speaker 1: might go to R three sixty for a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: then come back and play a bit of NRAL to

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Speaker 1: finish up my career. Your banned for ten years. That's

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Speaker 1: your career done.

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Speaker 2: Would you do that or would you actually end your

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Speaker 2: career at the.

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Speaker 1: Well you quae Possibly would't, But if you're a player

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Speaker 1: in your prime as well going yeah, okay, I've got

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Speaker 1: AR three sixty for two years, then my options are open.

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Speaker 1: You can't go play rugby anymore, you can't go play

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Speaker 1: rugby league. They're closing the doors.

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Speaker 2: This all this is going to do is it's going

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Speaker 2: to drive up your contract with R three sixty and

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Speaker 2: linth in your contract right, So you're not going to

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Speaker 2: take a two year contract from the soudis.

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Speaker 1: Now you you're going to go I want five year contracts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're going to want a lot more money possible.

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Speaker 2: And they've got a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: They've got a lot of money, but they're basically been

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Speaker 1: painted as a rebel league. No one wants to deal

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Speaker 1: with them, and they've got to get no engagement from

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Speaker 1: World Rugby. They've got nothing from NRL. So I don't

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Speaker 1: see how they can go forward now because they're just

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Speaker 1: gonna be painted as a rebel competition. You need they're

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Speaker 1: pitched has been it can come play for R three sixty.

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Speaker 1: You can still play test rugby well, all those unions

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Speaker 1: have gone no, you can't. They've gone play for You

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Speaker 1: can still play for you know, the Kiwi's coress.

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Speaker 2: Although, isn't it, Elliott, because there will be a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of players who are at the tail end of

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Speaker 2: their career who will go, well, do I go to

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Speaker 2: Japan like I think Aaron Smith?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Do I go to Japan and get so many million?

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Speaker 2: Or do I go to the Saudis and ask for

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Speaker 2: three times as much?

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Speaker 1: It might well happen, but is that going to be

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Speaker 1: a viable competition over a long period of time. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I hope that that.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see this thing.

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Speaker 1: To see three sixty happen.

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 1: Why what interest have you got in the Madrid Magicians

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Speaker 1: playing with three all blacks a couple of.

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Speaker 2: It's not like you do not want more sport.

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Speaker 1: I want the right sport here. I just want to I.

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Speaker 2: Want something to give world rugby a shakeup.

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Speaker 1: But no one watches. No one in New Zealand watches

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Speaker 1: the URC as it happens. No one watches the French

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Speaker 1: Top fourteen, No one watches japan Top League. We only

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Speaker 1: watch the NPC. We don't even barely watch Super Rugby,

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Speaker 1: so what is another rugby competition. I'm not saying we're

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Speaker 1: going to watch it, you just want to. I just

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Speaker 1: want world rugby to get a shakeup. Elliott, Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in a trouble making move today

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