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Speaker 1: Twist on next year's Rugby League World Cup was to

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Speaker 1: be played in Australia and Papu New Guinea hold my ba.

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Speaker 1: Christ Church now part of the venue action, we get

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Speaker 1: a Kiwi double header. Greg Peters is the New Zealand

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Speaker 1: Rugby League CEO and he's back. Well, this is Greg,

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Speaker 1: morning to your now win did this emerge?

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Speaker 2: It's been on the cards for a little while now,

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Speaker 2: obviously with the opening of Takaha down there, so we've

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Speaker 2: been talking to them for a little while about MB

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Speaker 2: money and also christ Chitch money to make this happen.

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Speaker 2: So it's exciting to see it that we'll see some

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Speaker 2: Rugby League World Cup action in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Could you have swung them on New Zealand as a

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Speaker 1: venue if christ Church hadn't had a new stadium or

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Speaker 1: is this unique to christ Church?

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Speaker 2: I think that's a special nature of it. I mean

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Speaker 2: the game we're playing against Cook Islands and Kiwi fans

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Speaker 2: against France, so we needed a bit of a I

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Speaker 2: think a unique factor to that, and Takaha is obviously

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Speaker 2: that it would be a more difficult to sell in

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Speaker 2: other parts of the country, I.

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Speaker 1: Think right, So, without wanting to cause a diplomatic incident.

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Speaker 1: What on earth is P what What on earth is

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Speaker 1: P and G doing as a host? I mean, are

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Speaker 1: they up for this?

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Speaker 2: I think so. I mean they've hosted the Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: of CD up there and it'll largely been NRL run

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Speaker 2: a vent up there any rate. But I think the

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Speaker 2: main thing is, as you probably know, the government play

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Speaker 2: the six hundred million that they're putting into the So

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Speaker 2: it's all part of that feel good factor. OU suppose

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Speaker 2: for rugby league into Papua New Guinea, I'll get some

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Speaker 2: good crowds.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, as long as they're up for it. As

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Speaker 1: far as christ Church is a league venue, now we've

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Speaker 1: seen the Warriors obviously, but the Warriors are different to

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Speaker 1: league generally. Is christ Church a league venue?

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Speaker 2: I think so. Like last year, for the first time

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Speaker 2: in my time in this job, we had a Kiwi's

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Speaker 2: crowd down there, proper Kiwi's crowd barracking against Australia so

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Speaker 2: and we sold out. So I think there's there's a

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Speaker 2: real opportunity down there when we take another game back

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Speaker 2: for the Kiwis Kiwi fans against Australia to sell out

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Speaker 2: to Kaha too. So it's changing, Mike Good.

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Speaker 1: Nice talk to you, Greg, Greg PAGs with the Rugby

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