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Speaker 1: Now for a sport that's hardly sizzling in a sports

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Speaker 1: world that is, the paint for New Zealand Rugby has

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Speaker 1: clearly got a whole lot worse than the last twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. Enios had a six year deal worth apparently

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Speaker 1: forty eight million dollars. That's about eight million bucks a year.

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Speaker 1: They've walked three years early and as a result of

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Speaker 1: being sued by the NZDA. I don't blame them, Sir.

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Speaker 1: Jim Radcliffe interesting bloke. He's involved, if you don't know,

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Speaker 1: an English football through Manchester United Mercedes F one. He

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Speaker 1: was involved in the America's Cup with Ben Ainsley, but

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Speaker 1: has subsequently fallen out. I quite like his cars. I

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Speaker 1: mean he wanted to keep making the old Landrover Defender

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Speaker 1: when they upgraded it a couple of years ago. He

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Speaker 1: offered to buy the designs Landrover said no, so he

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Speaker 1: invented his own, a thing called the Grenadier, which, although

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Speaker 1: no Landrover Defender, is not a bad looking vehicle to

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Speaker 1: run up a paddock. I suppose you could ask whether

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Speaker 1: Radcliffe is even aware of any of this, but my

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Speaker 1: guess is yes. Given his performance at the football and

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Speaker 1: the sailing He's omnipresent question. Has n z are in

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Speaker 1: Inios's eyes, done something wrong? Have they not delivered on

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Speaker 1: some KPIs for example? Is there a counter case here?

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Speaker 1: In what court is this to be heard? How much

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Speaker 1: time will it take and what will it cost? Is

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Speaker 1: it a World Trade Organization type thing whereby it's off

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Speaker 1: and not really worth a hassle because nothing tangible comes

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Speaker 1: out of it? Is it simply one of those contracts

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Speaker 1: where as much as you want to put it down

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Speaker 1: on paper, people and actions count for more. And if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to do business, then basically that's the

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Speaker 1: end of that. The union other biggest losers, of course,

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Speaker 1: and I do feel sorry for them. No one at Anios,

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Speaker 1: I suspect gives the monkeys about this. Ineos are a

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Speaker 1: global player from F one to EPL. The All Blacks,

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Speaker 1: although big and Rugby, aren't huge globally, and the whole,

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Speaker 1: the whole left is more pressing for a sport, I

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Speaker 1: would have thought than a petrochemical company that brings in

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Speaker 1: fifty five billion dollars a year. Ratcliff's yes, he looks

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Speaker 1: shabby at this point of the union cases correct, and

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Speaker 1: he is simply walked away from this, but a doubt

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Speaker 1: he's losing sleep. For more from the mic Asking Breakfast,

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