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Speaker 2: Jason Pine, of course, is the sports talk host this

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Speaker 2: evening High Pony. Hello Heather, do you think SOLGP is

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Speaker 2: too unsafe?

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Speaker 1: No, but I think they do need to look at

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Speaker 1: their at their safety protocols. Obviously, after what happened on

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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon with the Black Falls colliding with the French team,

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Speaker 1: it seemed to me either to be a symptom of

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Speaker 1: so many boats on the course and only so many

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Speaker 1: patches of water in which each of those boats can go,

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Speaker 1: and when they're doing high speed maneuvers, then things like

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Speaker 1: this are always, I guess, you know, potentially likely to happen.

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Speaker 1: But what they have to balance here is the is

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Speaker 1: the visual spectacle of it all, because they split the

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Speaker 1: fleet as we know yesterday and when there were thirteen

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Speaker 1: boats on the course, it was unbelievable. You didn't know

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Speaker 1: we to look from one moment to the next. But

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Speaker 1: when there are only five or six boats out there,

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Speaker 1: it's far less compelling as a viewing proposition. And that's

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Speaker 1: I guess what they have to weigh up. What is

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Speaker 1: the most spectac but also the most safe. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's an extreme sport. They call it Formula one on

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Speaker 1: the water, so it's always going to have some inherent risk.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, they've just got to find that balance. I

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Speaker 1: think is that the.

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Speaker 2: Primary problem is just the number of boats they have

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Speaker 2: out there.

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Speaker 1: I think so in the small racecourse in Auckland, it's

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Speaker 1: smaller tighter than most of the other ones on the

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Speaker 1: sale GP circuit. So you add those two things together,

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Speaker 1: how close they are to shore as well, which is

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Speaker 1: another part of the attraction, of course, of this type

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Speaker 1: of sailing and air all combined together. I think that

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Speaker 1: we you know, like I say, the likelihood of it

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Speaker 1: happening is magnified under those circumstances.

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Speaker 2: Now, what do you make of Kiwis being eligible and

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Speaker 2: I suppose anybody playing for the English Rugby League squad

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Speaker 2: as well for playing in the state of origin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is this is just a natural progression.

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Speaker 1: You still have to fulfill the state of origin criteria,

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Speaker 1: which means you either have to have been born in

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Speaker 1: New South Wales of Queensland, lived there since before the

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Speaker 1: age of thirteen, or had a father who's played for

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Speaker 1: one of the two teams. But what it does is

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Speaker 1: that it takes away the necessity that you have to

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Speaker 1: have played for Australia or one of the Pacific nations

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Speaker 1: now Keiwi's and those who've played for Great Britain who

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Speaker 1: fulfill the other criteria can play state of origin. So

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Speaker 1: I guess kaylen Pong is probably the best example of

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Speaker 1: someone who hasn't up until now been able to is

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Speaker 1: now able to. I think it's a sensible decision.

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Speaker 2: What's brought it on? Because I mean it's am I

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Speaker 2: reading too much into it if I think that it's

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Speaker 2: because of Kaylen ponger.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, I think he's probably he's probably been

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Speaker 1: a test case in all of this, and they say

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Speaker 1: that state of origin is the pinnacle of the game.

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Speaker 1: And when you're leaving world class players like that out

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Speaker 1: of it just because they happen to have represented the

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Speaker 1: Kiwi's and not Australia, when he ticks every other box,

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Speaker 1: you think, why shouldn't kaylen Pong be there? And under

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Speaker 1: these new rules he'll be able.

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Speaker 2: To now Piney because one of the rules, obviously, as

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Speaker 2: you mentioned, is that you have to have lived in

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Speaker 2: the state since you were thirteen years old. Is this

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Speaker 2: going to encourage scouting to happen before that age.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that could be the unintended consequence, right, is that

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Speaker 1: it's that there's a kew over here who's looking good

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Speaker 1: at age eleven or twelve. Goodness me, when do they start? Piney,

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Speaker 1: It's a bit later than that, Heather. It's normally kind

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Speaker 1: of in that sort of sixteenth rold. You know, when

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Speaker 1: you're playing first fifteen rugby, for example. I know the

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Speaker 1: scouts from NRL clubs are very very watchful of first

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Speaker 1: fifteen rugby. You're not normally in that team. Well, you're

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Speaker 1: not when you're twelve years old or thirteen years old.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure that that unintended consequence will happen regularly.

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Speaker 2: Piney listen, thank you very much, appreciate your time. Jason

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Speaker 2: Pine sports talkhost, to be back at seven this evening.

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