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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: Edb advantage Auckland FC in their A League Football semi

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Speaker 2: final against the Melbourne victory at Amy Park last night,

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Speaker 2: makes his way back to Devrees who escapes the attention

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Speaker 2: of Arsani and towards.

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Speaker 3: The area and headed it.

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Speaker 4: By Logan Rogerson, first one AUCKLANDFC and in front of their.

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Speaker 2: Delighted traveling supports. Francis Devrees so.

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Speaker 4: Often the provider does it again and.

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Speaker 5: Logan Rogerson stooping and heading home his ninth goal of

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Speaker 5: the season and giving Auckland FC the advantage in League.

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Speaker 2: One and they held onto it one nil winners last night.

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Speaker 2: They bring that advantage back to Auckland for the second league.

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Speaker 2: That second half headed from midfielder Logan Rogerson the key

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Speaker 2: moment in the match. The second leg is Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: six o'clock Ago Media Stadium. We'll try and get you

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Speaker 2: a ticket update, but last I heard there were only

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Speaker 2: a couple one hundred left in what will be a

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Speaker 2: capacity of thirty thousand next week once they add the

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Speaker 2: extra seats and we'll get an actual official update. Don't

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Speaker 2: want to tell you there are no tickets if there are,

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Speaker 2: But before we do any of that, let's bring in

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Speaker 2: head coach Steve Coricker, who's with us from Melbourne. Steve,

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Speaker 2: congratulations on another terrific performance last night. In a season

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Speaker 2: of very very good performances from your team, where does

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Speaker 2: this one rate.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's definitely right up there as one of the

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Speaker 3: most important games of the season at that stage. Really

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Speaker 3: gritty defensive effort. I thought, you know that they didn't

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Speaker 3: have any shots on target, so that's real credit to

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Speaker 3: the whole team working hard for each other. And obviously

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Speaker 3: Logan popped up with a very important goal.

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Speaker 2: Just before we unpack the game, What was your broad

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Speaker 2: strategy going into it.

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Speaker 3: We knew we had to defend well. I think they've

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Speaker 3: got a lot of strengths going forward, a lot of

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Speaker 3: individual players that can change games. And obviously the two

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Speaker 3: wingers are Zani velupl and Mchash were the real threats

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Speaker 3: that we spoke about a fair bit that we wanted

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Speaker 3: to make sure that we limit the time they had

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Speaker 3: on the ball, and I think, you know, the boys

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Speaker 3: did it exceptionally well. When one player got beat the

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Speaker 3: other one, someone else was there to, you know, to

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Speaker 3: take over from him, and that's what we spoke about,

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Speaker 3: just more everyone working hard for each other and getting

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Speaker 2: You needed to soak up a fair degree of early pressure.

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Speaker 2: Did you expect that from Melbourne Victory?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I did. You know they were always going

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Speaker 3: to start well and they were on top, you know,

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Speaker 3: obviously that first fifteen to twenty minutes, and also I

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Speaker 3: think probably with us not playing last week as well,

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Speaker 3: it took us a little while to get into the game,

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Speaker 3: I thought. But I think once we did, yeah, we

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Speaker 3: started to play some good football and obviously started to

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Speaker 3: create chances and yeah, I think we pretty much control

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Speaker 2: As you said, Steve, Melbourne Victory didn't register a single

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Speaker 2: shot on target. Alex Paulson didn't have to make us

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Speaker 2: save although there were seven blocked shots. So how much

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Speaker 2: did your back for protect your keeper last night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Back four, But also I put that down to

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Speaker 3: everyone really, but there was a lot of blocks from

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Speaker 3: they do shoot from distance and you have to put

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Speaker 3: did it. Last night, and you know it kept a

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Speaker 3: clean sheet. That's what's really important. Obviously we get the

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Speaker 3: end with Nadas when they hit the double post, we

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Speaker 3: were up celebrating almost and yeah, you know, obviously going

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, away from home, it's never easy

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Speaker 3: home now to go media in front of thirty thousand.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully we can you know, bring it home there.

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Speaker 2: The goal you did score was from Logan Rogerson. Nine

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Speaker 2: gave him a bit of a serve at halftime, is

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Speaker 2: that right?

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Speaker 3: I just wanted more from him. I didn't think I

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Speaker 3: he produced in the second half, obviously with a very

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know, nine for the season.

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Speaker 2: I don't know whether he's he's always been that prolific.

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Speaker 2: Did you expect him to be? You know, nearly a

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Speaker 2: double figure goal scorer for you at the start of

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Speaker 3: In that position there, you know, I'd like them to

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Speaker 3: a winger. I don't think he's probably ever scored that

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Speaker 3: and you know, he's a real threat on goal now,

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Speaker 3: is which is good for us. We need players like that,

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Speaker 3: especially our wingers, popping up with goals. And if he

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Speaker 2: And he had the honor of scoring your fiftieth goal

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Speaker 2: of the season. You've got there faster than any other

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Speaker 2: side has ever gotten to fifty goals twenty seven games.

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Speaker 2: Previous record hold it was your previous side, Sidney FC.

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Speaker 2: You've been excellent defensively, as we've outlined. But as a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Terry showed me that last night after the game.

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Speaker 3: That's I was surprising, but that's I think it just

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Speaker 3: you know, credit to you know, like we speak a

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Speaker 3: keeping clean sheets, but you know we are scoring you know,

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Speaker 3: A League after you know, to get fifty goals, that's

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Speaker 2: And you keept on going too. You talked about Nato

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Speaker 2: Modino's you know chants at the end and yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think get to five the laws of physics not going in.

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Speaker 2: Some are heating boat both posts and then rebounding straight

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Speaker 2: to Jack Duncan. But it wasn't as though you said

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Speaker 2: we know that he's very good at closing things out.

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Speaker 2: Kellen Elliott too, but you clearly didn't tell your team

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Speaker 2: just to sit back and park a bus. Steve, No, we.

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Speaker 3: Don't do that. You know. We even when we go

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Speaker 3: And you know we got the wide players that will

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Speaker 3: don't sit back. We were quoe solid defensive league with

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Speaker 2: One of the hallmarks of your season has been the

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Speaker 2: consistency you've managed and chosen through selection. Eleven of your

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Speaker 2: players have played in twenty three or more of your

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Speaker 2: twenty seven matches. How key has that been to you

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Speaker 2: to be able to put out a very similar side

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously it helps. Obviously if they're all doing well

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Speaker 3: you know what you want, the consistency, the players to

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Speaker 3: But I think if you look at our bench as well,

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Speaker 3: you've got need comes on he Sea's already scored I

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Speaker 3: don't know, eight goals or something this season as well.

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Speaker 3: Then you've got Brimmer, cam Howison didn't even get on.

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Speaker 3: The real quality players, Tommy Smith, Kellen Elliott. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's a real strength to the team and good depth

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Speaker 3: as well, and they're all in it together. You know,

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Speaker 3: they all want to play, but there's a real support

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Speaker 2: How wet was it last night.

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Speaker 3: When we first started? It was quite wet obviously for

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Speaker 3: it stopped. But obviously that pitch is quite slippery anyway

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Speaker 3: and fast, and you know there's it's actually good for

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Speaker 3: playing playing conditions. You know, the boys liked it, enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, they all had their studs on except for Logan,

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Speaker 3: but Daddy Hay wasn't too happy with Logan having no studs.

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Speaker 3: But obviously he popped up with a goal, so that's

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Speaker 5: I think.

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Speaker 3: Was he out there in Maldis He was, Yes, he

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Speaker 3: obviously feels comfortable in molds.

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Speaker 2: He knows better than that. Just to finish, what do

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Speaker 2: you reckon? It's going to be like it go media

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Speaker 2: next Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's going to be an amazing atmosphere. They've obviously

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Speaker 3: be like thirty thousand is going to be brilliant. They've

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Speaker 3: definitely been right behind us all season, and yeah, we

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Speaker 3: just want to bring it home for them. And get

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Speaker 3: start about just getting there, it's about winning. So we've

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Speaker 3: for the whole club.

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Speaker 2: Another giant's stride in the right direction last night, Steve,

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Speaker 2: thanks for the check. Congratulations on the win last night.

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Speaker 2: Safe travels mate, Thanks Bony, cheers me good on Steve.

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Speaker 2: Steve Coreka, the head coach of Auckland FC from Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: They'll come home, they'll regroup, they'll refresh and then on

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Speaker 2: Saturday night Go Media Stadium will go mad. I would

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Speaker 2: imagine with close to thirty thousand there, they're throwing the

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Speaker 2: bit difficult to tell it go Media what the actual

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Speaker 2: capacity is. They're adding twenty seven hundred extra seats. Earlier

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Speaker 2: this season they got twenty seven thousand there for the

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Speaker 2: derby against Wellington Phoenix. So I guess if you add

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Speaker 2: twenty seven hundred to twenty seven thousand, you're getting close

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Speaker 2: to thirty thousand seats. We'll try and get an update

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Speaker 2: for you. There will be no seats available very soon,

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Speaker 2: I would imagine, but depending on when the extra seats

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Speaker 2: their ticketback or whatever it is, there might be some

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Speaker 2: tickets available a bit later in the week. We are

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Speaker 2: going to broadcast the show next Saturday from Tyler Street, Sport,

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Speaker 2: so midday to three next Saturday will be right in

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Speaker 2: the heart of Auckland FC country ahead of the game,

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Speaker 2: which kicks off at six.

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