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Speaker 1: Too right, it is said today the big dance is

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Speaker 1: at the ashboot and Showgrounds. The Maids Cup Final is

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Speaker 1: EMC Hemmers take on the team's very swamp Foxes, the

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Speaker 1: repeat of last year's Grand Final. Helping pull it all

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Speaker 1: together is Kenny Edison from mid Kenniby Rugby. Mate, I

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Speaker 1: feel like hemma fever is starting to sweep the region.

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Speaker 1: Can you fail it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We can.

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Speaker 3: We felt out at the weekend in the semi final,

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Speaker 3: and I know Matt and the coaches had certainly talked about,

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Speaker 3: you know, the benefit that the boys feel when everybody's

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Speaker 3: there supporting them, and we certainly felt that.

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Speaker 2: I think the crowd roared them home.

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Speaker 3: For the last five minutes of that that game against

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Speaker 3: y Bush And yeah, just driving around town, you can

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Speaker 3: still see, you know a lot of the shop fronts

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Speaker 3: and all sort of dressed in their green and gold

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Speaker 3: and people around town wearing the march and their jerseys

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Speaker 3: and things like that.

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Speaker 2: So it's awesome. It's really cool.

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Speaker 1: The best way to back to Heims is of course

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Speaker 1: to be there. So what do we need to know?

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Speaker 3: Two or five kickoff at the showgrounds on Saturday. We're

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Speaker 3: hoping that the weather's going to be good again this week.

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Speaker 3: Still doing ten dollars at the gate for adults under

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Speaker 3: sixteens free and if you're bringing the car coming via

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Speaker 3: bruce Field, have and we'll get you into plenty of

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Speaker 3: parking spaces. Our lovely lines ladies will be there working

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Speaker 3: with us as well, doing their very best.

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Speaker 2: We'll be busy, yeah, they will be busy.

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Speaker 3: Look, we're expecting it to be really busy, and so

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Speaker 3: the earlier you can get there, come and get a

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Speaker 3: seat in the grand stand over on the bank and

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Speaker 3: then soak up the occasion. We'll have the merch store

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Speaker 3: open early on Saturday as well, got about the midday.

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Speaker 3: So again that's landed really well with the community.

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Speaker 2: So there's a few things left.

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Speaker 3: There's not too much, but we've got a few hoodies

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Speaker 3: and a few caps and some of the mid Canoby

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Speaker 3: socks which have gone blooming well this year.

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Speaker 1: So business time and the socks. Do you have any

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Speaker 1: toddler side stuff?

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Speaker 2: Now, we sold out.

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Speaker 3: We did a small amount just to see what it

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Speaker 3: would look like, but it went pretty quickly, so there's

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Speaker 3: a little bit of that's a little bit of marketing

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Speaker 3: insight for me for next year. It was a little

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Speaker 3: bit of concept selling this year, but it's been it's

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Speaker 3: been great. As I say, it's nice to see people

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Speaker 3: wearing mid Cannibury colors. We've had pictures sent to us from.

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Speaker 2: All over the world.

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Speaker 3: Family out in Perth sending us in Australia. Their pictures

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Speaker 3: are a Western Force game earlier in the year with

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Speaker 3: their mid Canterbury tops on and you know, on the

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Speaker 3: live stream we're seeing people dialing in from the Gold

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Speaker 3: Coast watching the games and Ozzie and a couple of

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Speaker 3: guys in the UK. So it's been fabulous and it

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Speaker 3: tells you that the support for the team is strong

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Speaker 3: and it comes from all parts of the globe, which

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Speaker 3: is super appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Scott must be stouts because they haven't had to move

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Speaker 1: their track in about three weeks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been pretty handy between them and guys that

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Speaker 3: are coming to paint the field and all those cool things. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was. It was great to see that extra logo

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Speaker 3: on the field and we'll have that again this week.

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Speaker 3: Your right Sky will be there will be live streaming

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Speaker 3: again through Facebook with Asha and his team.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's exciting.

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Speaker 3: You know, we'll a representative from the Meads family to

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Speaker 3: come and present the trophy.

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Speaker 1: If there's any special guests, yeah, yeah, minutes to coming.

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Speaker 2: Right, Why we might have the new mayor. She might

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Speaker 2: be on handle Liz.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, of course the New Zealand Rugby are invested

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Speaker 3: in this as well, so no doubt we'll see some

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Speaker 3: of some of the guys from New Zealand Rugby down.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully we'll see Steve.

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Speaker 3: Lancaster there and I think Matt Cooper, the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: Rugby president, is going to be coming down. So it's

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Speaker 3: going to be a day for all and I think

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Speaker 3: that's a really important thing. As I said, this team

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Speaker 3: has done a great job of connecting itself to the

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Speaker 3: and they know who they're representing, and I'm sure they

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Speaker 3: would love to lift a trophy in front of their

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Speaker 3: home fans this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Would be one hake of an occasion. Credit to yourself

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Speaker 1: and the time at mid Canibury Rugby, because I could

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Speaker 1: imagine that there's a lot going on behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: to make this happen.

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Speaker 3: There is there is Yeah to Nathan who's just come

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Speaker 3: on board with us to Kirsty and Jack and to

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Speaker 3: the board as well. We've just had a board meeting

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Speaker 3: for thing this morning just to try and get through

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Speaker 3: all the logistics. So it's a huge amount of effort,

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Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, but you know, this is why

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Speaker 3: we're involved in the game as well.

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Speaker 2: It's an awesome game.

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Speaker 3: And as I said to you earlier Welfare, you know,

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Speaker 3: there's often too many negative stories connected with rugby, but

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Speaker 3: there's a lot to be really thankful for and in

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Speaker 3: terms of the game and when you're putting the work

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Speaker 3: in and you see everybody enjoying themselves on a Saturday

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Speaker 3: and the players getting out of it what they want

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Speaker 3: and the community getting a lift, then in tough times,

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Speaker 3: things like rugby can make a massive difference.

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Speaker 2: So we love doing it.

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Speaker 1: So Bread of Fellers. They talk about the Melbourne Cap

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Speaker 1: being the race that stops a nation, I would say

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Speaker 1: this is the game that will and truly stops the district.

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Speaker 1: So bring on the show, stop it. That is going

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Speaker 1: to be the Meads Cup Final on set today. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see you they can it

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Speaker 2: Blowing awesome, Go the Hammers