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Speaker 1: Afternoon. Dave Readie is the new head coach for the

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Speaker 1: All Blacks, announced at lunchtime today he's going to start

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Speaker 1: full time in June, once he finishes up coaching in Japan.

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Speaker 1: The chair of New Zealand Rugby is David kirk Hi

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Speaker 1: David Hi, Have David. If he's starting in June. It's

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Speaker 1: a tight run thing to the first Test against the

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Speaker 1: French in July, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? It is a type but he's not actually starting

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Speaker 2: in June. That's when the Japanese competition finishes, and actually

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Speaker 2: it's a week before the Tuber Rugby finishes, so he'll

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Speaker 2: be coming down here on a pretty regular basis when

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Speaker 2: they have bi weeks up in Japan. So Dave's given

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Speaker 2: us a sort of calendar of when he'll be here.

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Speaker 2: So there are three from memory, there are three times

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Speaker 2: when he's here for pretty much a week during that

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Speaker 2: period and a number of other times in which he'll

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Speaker 2: be working with New Zealand Rugby. So we feel as

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Speaker 2: if that's acceptable, it would be idea. It's not ideal.

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Speaker 2: We would like to have him here the whole time,

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Speaker 2: but the reality, as the All Black coaches don't get

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Speaker 2: a lot of access to the players during Super Rugby,

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Speaker 2: they're in the Super Rugby environment and there are no

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Speaker 2: some sort of draft team together.

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Speaker 1: Do you worry that it's not enough lead up as

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Speaker 1: well to the Rugby World Cup, which is in what

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Speaker 1: like just slightly over eighteen months.

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Speaker 2: I think it ideally we would have a longer lead up,

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Speaker 2: but we're not in an ideal world. I think we

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Speaker 2: can definitely manage it. Dave's made the point really strongly,

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Speaker 2: which I think is a really good one, that it's

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Speaker 2: a real gift to him to have the rugby's greatest

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Speaker 2: rivalry this year. That as he gets to go away

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Speaker 2: with the players for six or seven weeks, play four

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Speaker 2: times against the world champions South Africa on a tour,

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Speaker 2: he just feels that that's really good the understanding of

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Speaker 2: the game model, the type of game that Dave wants

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Speaker 2: to play, help build their culture, have the team focused

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Speaker 2: on the on the details. He feels that that sort

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Speaker 2: of tours is ideal in accelerating his engagement with the

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Speaker 2: team and their learning of how he wants them to

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Speaker 2: play the game.

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Speaker 1: Why did you pick him over Jamie Joseph?

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Speaker 2: I just thought probably not, probably go into look an

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Speaker 2: extended scorecard. But I think what Dave is Dave has

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Speaker 2: shown in a selection panel was a really broad range

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Speaker 2: of international experience and success in pretty much all of

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Speaker 2: those environments. Coached in New Zealand, Wellington one or two

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Speaker 2: in NBC, and then the Chiefs in Super Rugby, and

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Speaker 2: then he's had international experience with Glasgow, coached them to

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Speaker 2: a Pro fourteen final with the Wallabies, and he's also

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Speaker 2: coached across in Japan and had success there as well,

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Speaker 2: So a lot of experience. The game is very global

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Speaker 2: at the moment, innovations coming from lots of different parts

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Speaker 2: of the world, and I think we've got Frankly, I

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Speaker 2: think we've got plenty to learn from the rest of

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Speaker 2: the world. So he and bring that back to us. Also,

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Speaker 2: we were very very impressed with his ability to build

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Speaker 2: culture and his clarity and detailed on views about what

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Speaker 2: was the appropriate game plan for New Zealanders to play

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Speaker 2: our type of rugby and win the modern game.

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Speaker 1: How was it you wrapped up contract negotiations so fast

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Speaker 1: because you had your interviews yesterday, You had to make

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Speaker 1: a decision overnight, take it to the board this morning,

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Speaker 1: get sign off and then that would have only left

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Speaker 1: you what like four hours or five hours or something

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Speaker 1: before you had to announce it to the public.

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Speaker 2: Good question, And the answer is, we did them before.

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Speaker 2: But we did the we agreed the contract contractual arrangements

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Speaker 2: before we concluded who we were going to appoint hold on.

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Speaker 1: So are you saying that you when you were doing

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Speaker 1: your interviews yesterday, you were basically doing your contract negotiations.

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Speaker 2: No, they were already done before we did the interviews.

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Speaker 1: When did you do that?

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Speaker 2: We'll just over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Jeez, that's your heart. That's tough, because surely if you

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Speaker 1: were if you were wanting to be the successful candidate,

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Speaker 1: you'd go as low as you possibly could, wouldn't You.

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Speaker 2: Would be like to do it.

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Speaker 1: For five dollars.

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Speaker 2: They have that, they have managers or agents work with them,

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Speaker 2: and there is a there's a there's a sort of

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Speaker 2: a global rate if you like the expectation. And we

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Speaker 2: also had a very clear benchmark, which was what the

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Speaker 2: previous coach was on and their contract at that time

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Speaker 2: stretched out another two years, so we knew what we

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Speaker 2: would have otherwise been paying a coach, and we obviously

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Speaker 2: benchmarked around that.

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Speaker 1: Now he seems quite keen on picking overseas based players,

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Speaker 1: are you.

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Speaker 2: Every coach that you talk to wants to put the

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Speaker 2: best players on the field, best players that they possibly can,

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Speaker 2: that they know that they know of, and so obviously

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Speaker 2: Dave has been working with Brodie and others up in

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Speaker 2: Japan and he knows that they're playing very good rugby.

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Speaker 2: So it's not unexpected at all that he would propose

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Speaker 2: that we continue to look at There's nothing on the

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Speaker 2: table though as far as the board concerned at the

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Speaker 2: moment to change any to change any of our regulations

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Speaker 2: regarding overseas players, so at the moment that is not

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Speaker 2: under consideration.

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Speaker 1: David, thank you very much, really appreciate your time. As always,

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Speaker 1: David Kirk, New Zealand Rugby Chair. For more from Hither

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