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Speaker 1: Darcy water Grave Sports Talk coasters with me right now, Hey, Dust.

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Speaker 2: We go again.

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Speaker 1: So the Blues, it's not you, it's not I'm not

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Speaker 1: making that noise at you. I'm making that noise at

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Speaker 1: what is his name? Is it? Richard? Richard wrote the

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Speaker 1: opinion piece. Okay, so Richard's written an opinion piece and

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Speaker 1: it says why the Blues can hold three all blacks

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Speaker 1: first fives while other Super Rugby teams have none, and

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Speaker 1: then it starts with New Zealand Rugby did not approach

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Speaker 1: the Blues to ask whether they would consider relinquishing one

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Speaker 1: of their three all blacks first eights to play for

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Speaker 1: Super Rugby Pacific team because they.

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Speaker 2: Don't interfere it. They never had, so you're not going to.

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Speaker 1: Why write an opinion piece about New Zealand Rugby not

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Speaker 1: doing something that the rules don't let them do.

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Speaker 2: What upsets that? Maybe the Crusaders had to bring over

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Speaker 2: James O'Connor to help their first five eighth stocks because

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Speaker 2: they haven't got very many. I'm actually it wasn't good

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Speaker 2: last year. What I really like about this though, who

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Speaker 2: was the team that used to hoard first five?

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Speaker 1: Stop the Crusaders?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? I think that it's important and we'll talk

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Speaker 2: more about that of the evening up after seven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Chris l Ejem joining us. He's the gem of professional

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Speaker 2: rugby for n z are. Yeah, what their attitude is,

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Speaker 2: how they operated? Do they stick their nose and why

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Speaker 2: don't they stick their chausetas is?

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Speaker 1: We don't do this, we don't. We don't do a

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Speaker 1: player trading system. We don't say to Bowden Barrett, you

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Speaker 1: have to go to the Crusaders now used to be

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Speaker 1: back in the day.

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Speaker 2: When it started. We need to spread our best talent

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Speaker 2: right over super rugby. That's twenty five years ago. It's

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Speaker 2: a long time ago now, and I think it's very

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Speaker 2: important that the players have some control over where they're going,

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Speaker 2: where they're playing, and how they're playing. You look at

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Speaker 2: the Melica back in the day, right couldn't get a

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Speaker 2: shoe in the blue. So you know what, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to take control of this. I'm going down to a

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Speaker 2: tag go bang. Isn't all black? This does happen. But

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Speaker 2: when you look at Auckland Well Boden Barrett's a fallback

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Speaker 2: come first five eighth, Harry Plumbers a second five eighth.

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Speaker 2: So they play in different posients. Stephen Pierre fifth, here

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Speaker 2: is a fallback and a first five eight. There are injuries,

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Speaker 2: so you need not a great deal on the ground

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Speaker 2: of first five eighths, but doesn't mean to say you

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Speaker 2: need to spread them.

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Speaker 1: Is Richard trying to start a discussion about whether maybe

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Speaker 1: we should be spreading our talents around, whether ins are

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Speaker 1: actually maybe should have a greater saying where the players are.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to. I can't climb into his

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Speaker 2: head and say that. And there's also discussions around the draft,

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Speaker 2: and maybe we need a draft process to make this

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Speaker 2: appear slightly more equal.

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Speaker 1: That's where Richard's going with it. I am on board

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Speaker 1: with it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how it would operate, particularly because

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Speaker 2: these clubs aren't privately owned, so the arguments between could

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Speaker 2: be interesting. But I don't think ins are are afraid

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Speaker 2: of that. I think they just need to tread carefully

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Speaker 2: and then look at it. Look, we have players out

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Speaker 2: there first five eight. You to remember that over a

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Speaker 2: number of years that role was dominated by a couple

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Speaker 2: of players, so really hard for players to come to

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of good players out there.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you dealing with my frustration there Darcie and

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Speaker 1: trying to do.

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Speaker 2: I'm only doing it in the studio on a purely

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Speaker 2: professional basis. I'm not going to deal with anything outside

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Speaker 2: of this.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Darcy, appreciate it does. Water Grave will be

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