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Speaker 1: Jason pine though sports talk host with us right now,

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Speaker 1: Hey Piney, Hello, Heather now Piney Wow Auckland FC. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but how like, what is it that these guys do? Like,

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Speaker 1: what is it that Foley is doing that makes all

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Speaker 1: of his squads so successful?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What a great question, and I'm not sure I

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Speaker 2: have a succinct answer. It's probably a few things. I

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Speaker 2: think the recruitment of this team was exceptional. The players

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Speaker 2: that were assembled at the start of the season were,

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Speaker 2: you know, without exception, really excellent acquisitions. But then you've

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Speaker 2: got to put them together, and they've got to create

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Speaker 2: something together which is going to be successful on the field.

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Speaker 2: They've clearly done that, and you know, the secret source,

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Speaker 2: I think is just probably the togetherness of a bunch

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Speaker 2: of players who are already good footballers and who had

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Speaker 2: a desire from the start to show everybody how good

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Speaker 2: they actually were. So I don't think anybody expected this.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people said to me, hey, did you

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Speaker 2: expect this when they got together at the start of

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Speaker 2: the season. I didn't. I thought they'd be competitive. I

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Speaker 2: didn't have any thought in my mind that they would

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Speaker 2: go on to win the Premieres plate and be favorites

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Speaker 2: for the Grand Finals. So yeah, what a triumph in

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Speaker 2: their first season.

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Speaker 1: But Piney, if all it is is finding good players

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Speaker 1: and then making sure that they can play well together,

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Speaker 1: why can't have the people? Why can't the Phoenix do it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just not that simple to people.

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Speaker 2: Right, I've tried try. I don't know, as you're saying this,

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to put it into into into let's say,

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Speaker 2: cooking terms. Yes, you might have all the ingredients, but

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Speaker 2: you're still going to mix them together correctly. Otherwise would

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Speaker 2: all be master chef, wouldn't we? So I guess it's

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Speaker 2: you can assemble all the ingredients and you say, hey,

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Speaker 2: these are tasty. We should we should be able to

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Speaker 2: make something really cool out of this. But often it

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Speaker 2: you know, it sinks in the oven, or you know,

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Speaker 2: it tastes terrible. Not that's probably a terrible analogy.

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Speaker 1: He's just really good. He folly knows what it takes

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Speaker 1: and he's got it in his head and so he

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Speaker 1: can execute it.

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Speaker 2: Well. He's the money man, right, He's allowed them to

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Speaker 2: stretch the resources right out. It is. Let's not forget

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Speaker 2: a salary camped league. You can't just buy the best players.

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Speaker 2: You do have to stay under the salary cap couple

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Speaker 2: of exceptions, so it's not like you can go and

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Speaker 2: actually buy a championship in the A League. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: and look, let's give some curtos to the coaching staff

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Speaker 2: as well. Who are I guess the chefs If you

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Speaker 2: use the similar analogy, you know, Steve Coricks mixed together

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Speaker 2: the ingredients and it's tasting great.

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Speaker 1: So maybe Foley is just really good at picking the

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Speaker 1: people who are good at picking the team, you know,

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Speaker 1: like that may be the thing. He's good at spotting

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Speaker 1: those people. But going from one amazing I hope you're

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Speaker 1: jealous of the fact that I now live in Auckland.

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Speaker 1: Going from one amazing Auckland franchise to another amazing Oakland franchise,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: Go media stadiums are like a success magnet, isn't it,

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Speaker 2: Even though they of course played down in christ Chests

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Speaker 2: on the weekend, second or sorry, joint best ever start

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Speaker 2: through seven games. The only other time they've gone five

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Speaker 2: and two to start a season was twenty eighteen. They

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Speaker 2: made the finals that year. But look, I'm just really

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Speaker 2: impressive their resilience hither you know, they lost in Vegas

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Speaker 2: and they were really disappointed. Came back home and won

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Speaker 2: the next three. Then they played the Storm. They were

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Speaker 2: what thirty six zerol down at half time, terrible half.

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Speaker 2: Bounce back win the next two, including the nights on

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Speaker 2: the weekend. So there's something about this team. And they're

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Speaker 2: missing some pretty big players. You know, James fisherharis not there,

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Speaker 2: Delan why Tennis, Lesnie At, Roger tu Vasachek, all the

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Speaker 2: hyphenated surnames not there. So when they come back, who

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Speaker 2: knows what this team might do.

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Speaker 1: Amazing Piney, thank you so much, appreciate it. That's Jason

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Speaker 1: Pine's Sports store Coast. He'll be back seven o'clock this

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Speaker 1: evening here on News Talk Zedby.

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