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Speaker 1: Kenny Edison from Mid Canterbury Rugby dropped by yesterday with

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Speaker 1: a very special guest to the studio. The Hannon Shields,

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Speaker 1: which is in our possession after far too long. Weighs

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Speaker 1: an absolute ton. It's made of solid wort hand. It's

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Speaker 1: inscribed with a few plaques. The one at the top

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Speaker 1: presented by tim Arumya ab Hannan back in nineteen forty five,

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Speaker 1: so this has seen a few rugby fixtures since then,

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Speaker 1: and then we plaques for South Canterbury North Otago. Yep,

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Speaker 1: there's Mid Canterbury but also Eshburton on there as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we were Mid Canoby Rugby was the

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Speaker 2: Ashburton team originally before the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union took

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Speaker 2: its form.

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Speaker 1: Before we noticed that we've got goalkickers like tom Riekey

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Speaker 1: Outam Mefin and we needed to widen.

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Speaker 3: The scope exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: You haven't got it engraved yet, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Come on, it's been busy. It's been doing a tour

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Speaker 2: of the region recently. Obviously the boys had on the

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Speaker 2: Saturday night after after the game at South Cany.

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Speaker 1: I noticed it's been There's a few strit marks from

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Speaker 1: what's obviously been a cloth.

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Speaker 2: That's probably because my office now, probably because my office

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Speaker 2: was dirty. And there's not a chance I'm throwing the

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Speaker 2: boys under the bus, No way, no way.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant that we're going to have all summer to engrave that.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got North of Tago coming up next weekend,

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Speaker 2: but we're going to be the optimist.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And to our credit, our eased, our A team, the

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Speaker 2: development team, they took out the hand and Cup last weekend.

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Speaker 2: We've got the set back to back victories over South

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Speaker 2: Canary two weeks in a row, which was phenomenal and

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Speaker 2: a great crowd.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I've got a big shout out to.

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Speaker 2: All of our supporters within the region and people actually

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Speaker 2: turned up in big numbers to come and support the

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Speaker 2: A's before the Hammers game as well. So the A's

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Speaker 2: were playing in front of a you know, a raucous

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Speaker 2: crowd who got right behind them and it was a

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Speaker 2: proper arm wrestle as well. It was, Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a real tight affair. It's great to see.

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Speaker 1: So while they can raced easy, Hemma's match on and

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Speaker 1: to round Saven and defeated on the right this weekend

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Speaker 1: against Poverty.

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Speaker 2: By absolutely I mean Poverty By know that if they

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Speaker 2: can win their next two games, they are well in

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Speaker 2: the hunt for a semi final.

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Speaker 3: For the Meats Cup.

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Speaker 2: So for them, there's huge incentive and they'll absolutely take

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Speaker 2: plenty away from a victory last weekend against South Canterbury.

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Speaker 2: And someone said to me in at the show grounds

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Speaker 2: last week when we were playing, when was the last

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Speaker 2: time South Cament we lost too in a row? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know it's it's not something you hear a lot,

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Speaker 2: so that gives you an insight into you know the

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Speaker 2: fact that Poverty Bear are a good side and they're

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Speaker 2: sitting there with twenty one points for a reason, and

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Speaker 2: we certainly won't be taking them lightly.

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Speaker 3: I say we, I mean Matt and the boys. I

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Speaker 3: had nothing to do with that.

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Speaker 2: It's a big effort from the boys and from everyone

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Speaker 2: that's involved, you know, Jase Tennant from a logistics point

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Speaker 2: of view as manager, and our physios.

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Speaker 3: And you know conditioning guys.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to prep the players as well as we

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Speaker 2: can for getting on the field and then straight away

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Speaker 2: we're into the recovery mode as soon as they walk

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Speaker 2: off the field to.

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Speaker 3: Make sure that they're in fine condition for the following.

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Speaker 1: Week Actually on that the Hemmer's physio, did I spot

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Speaker 1: that there was a really special milestone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Audra completed one hundredth game last weekend and really

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Speaker 2: well celebrated. You know, she's hugely important to the Hammers,

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Speaker 2: to the Union obviously, I remember at the Celtic Rugby

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Speaker 2: Club as well. So and look when we talk about volunteers,

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Speaker 2: these are the unsung heroes of our game. So it

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Speaker 2: was brilliant to see not only the team and the Union,

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Speaker 2: but the players themselves, you know, the coaches, the management

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Speaker 2: celebrate ordres one hundredth game and hopefully there's plenty more,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hands on quite literally. I'm sure there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of wives that are particularly thankful for her because if

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Speaker 1: she wasn't working out the kinks after the game, imagine

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Speaker 1: how much they would mon when they get home. Right,

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Speaker 1: all my bag, all my cabs.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of raidocks going in the bar.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to be able to catch a stream

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Speaker 1: of this? I was gatted a few weeks back that

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Speaker 1: South Canterbury didn't go and put the thing on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: My understanding was poverty b game was live streamed last

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Speaker 2: weekend and there war was footage. But again those are

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Speaker 2: the kinds of things that we know, we'll we'll find

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Speaker 2: out and we'll we'll share on our social media. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: every province is battling the week, you know, at the moment,

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Speaker 2: and sometimes, to be fair Luke, it's just that there

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Speaker 2: aren't people around in their area to actually do what

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Speaker 2: is required to get the game set up and live stream.

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Speaker 2: We're really lucky we've got good commentators that come down

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Speaker 2: and support and people who give up their time to

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Speaker 2: do that and to say we've got asher as a

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Speaker 2: good crew. But collectively as a union, you know, as

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Speaker 2: a group of Heartland unions, we're working hard to try

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Speaker 2: and find ways to see if we can get games

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Speaker 2: live streamed. Obviously there is a game of a week

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Speaker 2: every week that Sky do and the following week against

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Speaker 2: North of Tago will be live on sky on TV.

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Speaker 1: Yep, so that is so good. They Bush game was good.

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Speaker 1: There's somebody healthy enough to hold a KM coded tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Keeping on your socials for that, fingers crossed. Anything else

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Speaker 1: maybe a little closer to home that's worth keeping on

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Speaker 1: this weekend? Is there rather rugby action on?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, we've got game out at Mount Summers this

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Speaker 2: weekend against the West Coast, So it's some of our

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Speaker 2: younger lads, they under eighteens and on the sixteens are

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Speaker 2: going up to the un the sixteens tournament up in

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Speaker 2: christ Shirt, so they head up at the weekend for

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Speaker 2: a couple of days of rugby as well. So if

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Speaker 2: you are looking to get out and watch a little

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Speaker 2: bit of rugby, get out to mount Summers and keep

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Speaker 2: an eye on our social media pages for kickoff times

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Speaker 2: and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: We're just trying to work with the teams like West.

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Speaker 2: Coast and Buller who do struggle to get games and

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Speaker 2: they do struggle to get people to come and play them,

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Speaker 2: and so we sort of been able to find a

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Speaker 2: closer to them.

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Speaker 1: Is the real draw the working when they can stop

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Speaker 1: by the Mountain Summer's store on the White Home and

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Speaker 1: pick up one of the time beef read Devin Paws.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure it would be. I mean, it's got to

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Speaker 3: be right.

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Speaker 1: It might well be the best pie in mid Canterbury.

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Speaker 1: We're going to find it after right.

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Speaker 2: I've been listening. I've been listening. That's that's a controversial

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Speaker 2: it's difficult. I mean, pie wise, I'm a bit of

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Speaker 2: a sucker. I hit because I live up in West Melton.

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Speaker 2: I'm sort of out Sheffield where I'm I'm a bit

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Speaker 2: lucky for Sheffield. If you need to go across the river,

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Speaker 2: then I can sneak into Oxford and grab a pie

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Speaker 2: out some good options up there. But anyway, I believe

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Speaker 2: there's an app that you can rate pies.

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Speaker 3: Ah, yeah, there's a New Zealand app.

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Speaker 2: So if you go to the app store, there is

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Speaker 2: an app that you can get into and it allows

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Speaker 2: you to go and rate bakeries and rate.

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Speaker 3: The quality of their pies. So maybe that's one for

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Speaker 3: you to do a bit of research.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sink my tight into that. Anything else that's worth

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Speaker 1: Keevin tebbs on this weekend, Not so much this.

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Speaker 2: Weekend, as I say, there's plenty of going on with

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Speaker 2: some of the Junior rep stuff which is awesome, and

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Speaker 2: the Hammers got going on and then probably the Lens

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Speaker 2: just to keep a wee eye on for the following

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Speaker 2: week against North Otago. It's our charity game, so we're

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Speaker 2: supporting the men and Foundation and I'm sure there'll be

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Speaker 2: much more commentary on that in the in the week

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Speaker 2: week go two leading up, watch this space. There's plenty

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Speaker 2: more to come in the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Neat, I hope you've been doing some stretches to hold

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Speaker 1: this very heavy hen and shield out talking shields super

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Speaker 1: quick because you spent a bit of time running the

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Speaker 1: North Harbor Union. Can they find their first w the

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Speaker 1: one that counts for the fifth exchange of the log

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Speaker 1: Award this weekend to take it back up north with them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, I've got a lot of strong connections still up

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Speaker 2: there and good friends ag and the CEO is a

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Speaker 2: good made of mine, and yeah, listening to him. You know,

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Speaker 2: they've had a really tough season, but there's a part

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Speaker 2: of me that was love them to go down and

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Speaker 2: do it. I think I heard a start yesterday. They've

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Speaker 2: won it once in the early two thousands, and then

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Speaker 2: I've had fifteen other attempts to try and win it

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Speaker 2: and I've never never managed to get the shield. But

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Speaker 2: the season that they're having at the moment, I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: sure winning the shield and then potentially having a train

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Speaker 2: routine at the following week against Southland could mak a

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Speaker 2: breaker season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look at the wild stats, and if there's one

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Speaker 1: season that proves anything possible, it's this one. So it

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Speaker 1: is and you'll be keeping tabs on that.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And I think you and I touched

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Speaker 2: on it earlier. Two fabulous seasons. This year, you know,

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Speaker 2: Heartland Rugby is alive and kicking. We need to continue

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Speaker 2: to support and market it. You look at the NPC,

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Speaker 2: it isn't any different. There are teams that can beat

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Speaker 2: each other on any given day and we're going to

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Speaker 2: go right to the end of that season as well.

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Speaker 2: And as I say, I'd love to see the Shield

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Speaker 2: get back on a plane and fly out at Duneedin

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Speaker 2: on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah on your mind. Cheers A dropping boy, Kenny Edison.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, thanks, look cheers