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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from newstalk ZEDB past one.

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Speaker 2: Auckland FC will face Melbourne Victory in their two legged

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Speaker 2: semi final in Football's a league. How they look for

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Speaker 2: Rassini It's against Clerk and if it stands a double lot,

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Speaker 2: but Oarsarni's tricks.

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Speaker 1: His way plus both of them.

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Speaker 3: Here's a victors.

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Speaker 2: It's two to one Melvine Victory Senadvershafs with the finish

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Speaker 2: and that's how it finished. Victory confirming their spot in

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Speaker 2: the Final four with a two to one elimination final

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Speaker 2: win over the Western Sydney Wanderers last night. So Auckland

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Speaker 2: FC will travel to Melbourne for the first leg of

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Speaker 2: the semifinal next Saturday night nine thirty five, before hosting

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Speaker 2: leg two at go Media Stadium a week later. That'll

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Speaker 2: be a six o'clock kickoff on the night of Saturday

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Speaker 2: May twenty four. The other semifinal will feature home and

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Speaker 2: away matches between Melbourne City and Western United. Let's bring

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Speaker 2: in former a league champion, a League Golden Boot winner

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Speaker 2: and the Joe Marston middleist for Man of the Match

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Speaker 2: in the twenty twelve to thirteen Grand Final now A

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Speaker 2: Leagues commentator Daniel mcbreen, who was on the call with

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Speaker 2: Simon Hill last night, MACA, thanks for your time. Did

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Speaker 2: Victory deserve the win last night over the Wanderers and

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Speaker 2: their progress through to the semifinals?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think they did. I thought they were the

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Speaker 3: better team last night and it goes to show with

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Speaker 3: finals football is about. Wanderers were the favorites and at

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Speaker 3: one stage, I think after twenty minutes when Victory were

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Speaker 3: doing really well, the tight start of the turn and

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Speaker 3: go to Western Sydney and you thought, here we go,

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Speaker 3: they've done this before. But Zinady mashashs put paid to

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Speaker 3: that with a goal which really just flattened Western Sydney

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Speaker 3: Wanderers and they were very unconvincing in the second half,

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Speaker 3: really couldn't find their mojo and that was all for

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Speaker 3: Melbourn Victory. The way they played, they defended as a

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Speaker 3: great group and obviously they've got players like Daniel Larzani

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Speaker 3: and he did that last night.

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Speaker 2: So Melbourne Vick's, as we know, have real finals pedigree.

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Speaker 2: Auckland can't have it because they're in their first season,

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Speaker 2: But how much will finals experience help Melbourne victory in

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Speaker 2: a two legged semi against Auckland.

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Speaker 3: Look, yeah, you're right, they've got the experience. They were,

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Speaker 3: you know, about a minute away from holding the championship

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Speaker 3: trophy last year until the Mariners found something. So they've

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Speaker 3: got that heartache as well that they can draw on

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Speaker 3: to say, right, that's not going to happen again. I

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Speaker 3: think the advantage lays with Auckland. Yes their premiers and

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Speaker 3: yes they're the favorites, but I think the advantage lays

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Speaker 3: with two games. They've shown over the course of the

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Speaker 3: year that they are forced to be reckoned with that

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Speaker 3: that they've lifted the premiers play and I think if

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Speaker 3: a one off game, anyone in the top six can

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Speaker 3: beat anyone. But I think over two legs may show,

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Speaker 3: you know, Auckland's quality might shine through and they get

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Speaker 3: past that first game in Melbourne and they can come

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Speaker 3: away there with a good result. I think when they

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Speaker 3: that might get and the lift to get them through.

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Speaker 2: How much motivation will there be for Steve Carriker and

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Speaker 2: Auckland FC too, I don't know, be a little bit

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Speaker 2: conservative and League one. As you say, Macerate's across two leagues.

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Speaker 2: Once the first game has done, we're only at half

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Speaker 2: time and the tie, do you expect them to sit

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Speaker 2: back a bit in League one?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Look, yeah, I don't think it's going to be Kamakazi

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned, so, I think when you're going away

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Speaker 3: from home generally you are a little bit more pragmatic.

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Speaker 3: But look, they've got the best defense in the league

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Speaker 3: They've got probably I would say the best goalkeeper in

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Speaker 3: I think they'll be very confident at home that they

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Melbourne Victory's Soccer Who's attack of Daniel Larsani

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Speaker 2: best player out there last night? Wasn't he how big

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Speaker 2: a part of Victory's championship hopes? Do you think he is?

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Speaker 3: Well? Huge? We all know that when we see when

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Speaker 3: he's at his best, he is extremely good. But when

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Speaker 3: he has it off day, he can be very quiet.

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Speaker 3: And that's the probably the big thing that everyone spoke

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Speaker 3: about Daniel Larsani over the past few years is we

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Speaker 3: know he's got outstanding talent, but it's just that consistency

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Speaker 3: But he just seems to be in very confident mood

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Speaker 3: at the moment since himself and missal Vloupla went into

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Speaker 3: the Soccer Who's camps and Tomy Popovich gave him a

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Speaker 3: be better than and the confidence is great and when

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Speaker 3: he gets in one v one situations at the moment,

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Speaker 3: there's not too many defenders that can stop him because

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Speaker 3: he's electric, he's quick, he's talented and he's also very

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Speaker 2: Aside from him Mecca. You know, for Auckland DFC fans

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Speaker 2: looking to try and match these two teams up, how

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Speaker 2: against Melbourne victory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're very good. Look, Auckland's defensive setup

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Speaker 3: as I said Alex Paulson in goals and the two

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Speaker 3: That's the reason they're the best defense in the league

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Speaker 3: because they are strong, aggressive, experienced and I think if

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Speaker 3: anyone's going to keep Nisan Volupa and Daniel Larzani quiet,

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Speaker 3: They're two big, strong players who you know, don't let

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Speaker 3: I'm really excited.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we all are too. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 3: Well, I think when they went the first was it

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Speaker 3: think Stevie coach has put a very good team together here.

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Speaker 3: I must admit I thought goal scoring would be a

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Speaker 3: just think they've just got more confident better as the

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Speaker 3: this is a difficult task we've got here. So I

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Speaker 3: think it's just been a steady build. They started off

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Speaker 3: they could score from outside box. Yeah. As it went on,

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Speaker 3: I probably say about halfway through the season, you were

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Speaker 2: And we saw some interesting scenes just after the final

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Speaker 2: whistle last night, the two head coaches coming together with

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Speaker 2: some heated words by the looks. Have you managed to

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Speaker 2: find out what went on there?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be honest. I was up in the

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Speaker 3: backroom staff of Victory and Alan Stadgies for quite some

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Speaker 3: believed that Arthur Dillis didn't shake hands with Studs when

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Speaker 3: he shook when they got beat. Now I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: if that's true or not. I haven't had chance to

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Speaker 2: Interesting stuff for Weston. Suddenly you're right, backer, You know,

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Speaker 2: I had them as favorites going in last night, you

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Speaker 3: It, Yeah, it was. Look, you've got to give credit

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Speaker 3: to Melbourne Victory because they defended fantastically. We've spoke about

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Speaker 3: Ryan Teigue at nauseam this year, but Jordi Valadon's performance

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Speaker 3: to close down any Western Sydney attack was therefore all

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Speaker 3: to see. Nicholas Milanovitch, who we all thought would set

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Speaker 3: There was probably a ten to fifteen minute period in

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Speaker 3: they snuffed that out and they couldn't really get a

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Speaker 2: Melbourne's obviously the power base of a league football. Because

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Speaker 2: the other two Melbourne teams, Melbourne City and Western United,

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Speaker 3: Well, that's a good question, fining. You put me on

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Speaker 3: the spot there. Look, Western United were fantastic in their

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Speaker 3: a bit of a shadow of their former selves from

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Speaker 3: the first half of the season. If I was Stevie Coricter,

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Speaker 3: one team that he'd be looking at with a little

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Speaker 3: bit of trepidation would be Western United. Obviously, Auckland lost

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Speaker 3: three games this year incredibly. One of them was against Perth.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how that happened. The other two losses

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Speaker 3: looking at Melbourne City and same, please get through because

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Speaker 3: Western United seemed to have the wood on us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting, intriguing final series ahead or semi

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Speaker 2: home and away, AUCKLANDFC and Melbourne victory. Mecha, I love

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Speaker 2: to call last night as always, thanks for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: Thanks BIANI always a pleasure mate.

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Speaker 2: Good on you mate. Then Daniel mcgreen there joining us

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Speaker 2: out of Australia. So our semi five finals are set.

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Speaker 2: Auckland f C will take on Melbourne Victory. And just

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Speaker 2: another reminder, these are home and away matches. It is

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Speaker 2: the winner across the two legs that will progress to

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Speaker 2: the final. So Auckland FC, by virtue of finishing top

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Speaker 2: of the table, have elected to have the home leg second.

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Speaker 2: So the first leg Melbourne Victory Auckland f C will

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Speaker 2: take place on Saturday night, Saturday Night, the seventeenth of May,

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Speaker 2: a nine thirty five kickoff New Zealand time, nine thirty

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Speaker 2: five New Zealand Time, Western United Melbourne City in the

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Speaker 2: first of the semis. That's Friday night, and then the

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Speaker 2: second legs are the following weekend and the twenty fourth

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Speaker 2: Media Stadium, Auckland f C will host Melbourne Victory. That

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Speaker 2: is a six o'clock New Zealand time kickoff. Now I've

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Speaker 2: They are hosting semi final watch parties next Saturday, and

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Speaker 2: they've got them in three different places. Takutai Square, Tyler

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Speaker 2: Street Sport and the brit are all hosting watch parties now.

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Speaker 2: Taku Thai Square is going to put up a big

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Speaker 2: thirty square meter big screen and going to have other

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Speaker 2: entertainment cage football, which isn't as daunting as it sounds,

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Speaker 2: are DJ games and other things, making it ideal for families.

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Speaker 2: Tyler Street Sports and the Brits for obviously over eighteen's

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Speaker 2: only because they're licensed premises. They're all free events now

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Speaker 2: from Auckland FC's release here. Tyler Street Sport best suited

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Speaker 2: to port members and fans who are keen to sing,

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Speaker 2: cheer and stand right throughout the game. The brit will

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Speaker 2: provide a more relaxed atmosphere, more suited too, I guess

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Speaker 2: you know. I guess you more civilized members, but still

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Speaker 2: those who get excited and Tacutai Square ideal for families,

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Speaker 2: with the build up starting early for those who won't

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Speaker 2: make it to the no I'm thirty five kickoff time.

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Speaker 2: So again you have to hand it to Auckland FC.

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Speaker 2: They're innovating around this and as far as the tickets

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Speaker 2: to the home semi are concerned, And let me just

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Speaker 2: bring up this, So this is the home league on

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Speaker 2: the twenty fourth of May. Tickets for Auckland FC members

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Speaker 2: on sale now. So if you're an Auckland FC member,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've already got your ticket tickets for away

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Speaker 2: fans ten o'clock on Monday. That's ten o'clock tomorrow and

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Speaker 2: I think that's also when the general sale for Auckland

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Speaker 2: FC goes on sale, so tomorrow morning at around ten o'clock. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: if you go to the Auckland FC website, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you can follow your nose to find your tickets.

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