1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,199 Speaker 1: Big weekend ahead for the capital. About twenty five thousand 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,119 Speaker 1: fans are expected at the Caketon to watch the Hollywood 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: back Ricksham team take on the Phoenix. David Dome is 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: the Wellington Phoenix general manager. 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: Morning David, morning head. 6 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Are you phizzing? 7 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? Pretty excited about it. We met the Rex and 8 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 2: guys turned up them yesterday. Had a bit of a 9 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: pulpy ndedces. Good bunch of guys. Day loving it. They're 10 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 2: loving it here in New Zealand and it's going to 11 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: be a great event to the city tomorrow night. Can't wait. 12 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: Do you guys have it in you to beat them? 13 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: Yeap, of course we've Sydney played them on Tuesday night, 14 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: beat them to one. They had a very young team 15 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 2: on in the second half. I know for a fact 16 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: that our academy is a hundred times better than Sydney's. 17 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 2: We've got better players, we've got better coaches, got better 18 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 2: staff in our academy. I know for the fact that 19 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 2: we'll put out a very good team on the team 20 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: on their ground in the second half and tomorrow night 21 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 2: and who knows, who knows what we can do but 22 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: good players. We've got good players in the club. 23 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: Are you hardened by a crowd that book? 24 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good right, I mean the thing is right 25 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 2: of New Zealand and willing to wance events like this. 26 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: People need to turn out and it's no good for us. 27 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 2: People are sitting home watching it on TV. But they 28 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,759 Speaker 2: have twenty five thousand at Sky Stadium on Saturday night. 29 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 2: It's a great result and it really does help us 30 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: trying to attract events like this for potentially next season. 31 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 2: So that's really good. 32 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: I mean I feel like we've been saying this for 33 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: a very long time, but somehow it does feel like 34 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: football is coming of age in this country. 35 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, you know, we've been doing 36 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 2: the hard jacker for about fifteen years now and playing 37 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 2: the professional game along and like I say, the amount 38 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 2: of money our owners to put into the academy and 39 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: now the women's program is going great guns and that's 40 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: going to be a very very strong program next year. Look, 41 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: we've been doing a lot of the hard work, but 42 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 2: it's now great. Auklands come on board, they've done well. 43 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: Football is really going somewhere. The all whites are doing well, 44 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: the fans are doing well. It's going to be the 45 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: future is very bright for the next you know, five 46 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: ten years off the back of what we've been doing. 47 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant. Hey listen, good luck. I hope you guys 48 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: win and I'm looking forward to watching its. David Dome, 49 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: Wellington Phoenix General Manager. Well football is football really is 50 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: coming of ages. And there's a store on Ponsonby Row 51 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: which is a cool man's store, so it's near I 52 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: live in that part of Auckland, and they've got they've 53 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: got on display in the windows the old Auckland Football Club, 54 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: you know, t shirts for the kids and stuff like that, 55 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: and that seems to be like people love it. People 56 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: are buying it all the time. I bought a couple 57 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,239 Speaker 1: for the nephews for Christmas, very lucky. Did not expect 58 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: to have to pay that much, and I had to 59 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: wait for them to be bought in because they had 60 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: already sold out of them. So something is, something is 61 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: going on with football in this country and I quite 62 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: appreciate it. For more from the Mi Casking Breakfast, listen 63 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: live to news talks that'd be from six am weekdays, 64 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.