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

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Speaker 1: from News Talk ZB.

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Speaker 2: Steve Coriker joins U. Steve, thanks for taking the time

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Speaker 2: for a chat. I want to ask you about the

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Speaker 2: way you approach these derbies. First of all, you have

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Speaker 2: always as a head coach embraced these games and the

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Speaker 2: occasions that they are. Some coaches say, oh, look, it's

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Speaker 2: just another game. They're all worth three points. It's no

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Speaker 2: different from playing another opponents. But you always talk about

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Speaker 2: how big these derbies are for fans and for players,

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Speaker 2: and I guess the coaches as well. Why do you

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Speaker 2: take that view?

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Speaker 3: Well, they're all worth three points, but the Derbies are

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Speaker 3: something special, I think, and you have to treat them

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Speaker 3: that way. You know, it's the first time, well second

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Speaker 3: year in a row now that there's been a Derby

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Speaker 3: in New Zealand, so and you saw the first three

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Speaker 3: were amazing, even the last one that we won with

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Speaker 3: nine men. They always bring something special and I think

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Speaker 3: Derby's meant to be like that. The fans love them.

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Speaker 3: You know, today obviously there's going to be hopefully a

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Speaker 3: full house in our Go Media Stadium, which obviously they

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Speaker 3: bring the noise and bring the atmosphere and that's what

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Speaker 3: that's what football's about as well.

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Speaker 2: Did you all love of these big occasions get sort

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Speaker 2: of fostered by your time as boss of Sydney FC,

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Speaker 2: when you had those those derbies against Western Sydney two

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Speaker 2: or three times a year, and you embrace those occasions

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely we do. You know, there are some amazing

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Speaker 3: atmospheres as well. In the Sydney Derby even I think

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Speaker 3: when I was an assistant coach under Graham Arnold, we

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Speaker 3: had sixty five thousand I think at Anz Stadium for

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Speaker 3: a domestic derby, So you know that's pretty special, I think,

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Speaker 3: you know, and you can just feel the passion, the

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Speaker 3: noise and obviously the Kiwi Derby is going down that track.

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Speaker 3: It's obviously you know, obviously at the moment we're four

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Speaker 3: nila up. But you know, you can't take you can't

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Speaker 3: rest on what's happened in the past. It's it's if game.

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Speaker 3: Football is a strange game. You can play your best

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Speaker 3: football and still lose. So you have to be right

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Speaker 3: on your on the game.

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Speaker 2: And your passion for these games and your attitude towards

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Speaker 2: them is clearly permeated into your players as well. The

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Speaker 2: way they've talked about these games during the week. Do

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Speaker 2: you have to step in any way control their emotions

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Speaker 2: and weeks like this and going into games like these,

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Speaker 2: you definitely.

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Speaker 3: Can tell when it's Derby week. You know, they get

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Speaker 3: very excited. Obviously they know it's coming. Trying not to

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Speaker 3: treat every game on his laurels and that my Derby's

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Speaker 3: obviously something different, and I think that's the way we

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Speaker 3: try and treat them. You know, it's sometimes you have

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Speaker 3: to calm them down a little bit. You don't want

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Speaker 3: to overplay the game too much in your head during

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Speaker 3: the week. You want to stay obviously just focused. And

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Speaker 3: during the week we try and keep it much the

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Speaker 3: same to make sure that you know, they do continue

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Speaker 3: doing that they do normally in games, but then when

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Speaker 3: you get to match day, you know it's different. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's been working for us and hopefully we continue to

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Speaker 3: keep winning. Obviously winning is nice, never nice to lose one,

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Speaker 3: but hopefully that won't happen today.

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Speaker 2: You come into this game off the back of a

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Speaker 2: rare defeat. Do you have to filter last week through

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Speaker 2: the fact that for the last twenty minutes or so,

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Speaker 2: the conditions were basically unplayable.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of positives out of last week. We

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Speaker 3: created a lot of chances. Probably a negative part of

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Speaker 3: that is we didn't we didn't punish them when we

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Speaker 3: had the opportunity. And then obviously the conditions were tough

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Speaker 3: for both teams come the end of the game, which

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Speaker 3: they had the lead already by then, so it's made

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Speaker 3: it a little bit more difficult for us. But I've

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Speaker 3: also spoke about, you know, we're conceding. We can see

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Speaker 3: the two goals last week and they were quite sloppy goals.

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Speaker 3: So it's about working keeping clean sheets this week and

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Speaker 2: Are you missing Hiroki Sarkis on field leadership, Well, he.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't talk much, Hiroki, but you know he does lead

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Speaker 3: by example on the pitch, and you know, as much

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Speaker 3: as Kallen Elliotts I think has done it has done

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Speaker 3: a great job for us. You know, I think the

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Speaker 3: boys know when Hiroki's not playing, so he sort of

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Speaker 3: calms the team a little bit just by his presence

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Speaker 3: and his experience. So you know, obviously we'll have him

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Speaker 3: back into the squad next week, but right now we

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Speaker 3: don't have him today, and you know, Callen's been doing

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Speaker 3: a great job for us, so you know, if he

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Speaker 3: remains focused Kellen and he does what he's been doing

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Speaker 3: in the last couple of weeks, that's all we can ask.

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Speaker 2: Was there any temptation to try and have Hiroki involved

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Speaker 2: in this one today?

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Speaker 3: No, none at all. I think we you know, we

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Speaker 3: knew six weeks ago this is the game he's going

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Speaker 3: to come back. Hamstrings are quite quite tough if you

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Speaker 3: try and force him back, you know, even a couple

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Speaker 3: of days earlier, a week early, you know you could

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Speaker 3: be facing another six to twelve weeks out, So we

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Speaker 3: didn't want to risk that. Obviously, Darby's are important, but

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Speaker 3: I think it's important that we get Hierarchi back fully

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Speaker 3: fit and continues for the rest of the seasons as

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Speaker 3: much as, you know, as as quickly as possible after today.

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Speaker 2: What about Gijure Moomi. We saw him this last week.

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Speaker 2: He'd played the first five games of the season, but

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Speaker 2: it felt as though looked as though, and you'll be

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Speaker 2: able to confirm this, that he was he wasn't one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent. He picked up another knock. I know last week.

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Speaker 2: What's his likely contribution this afternoon going to be he's

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Speaker 2: in the metch day squad presumably.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's back in. He's trained the last couple

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Speaker 3: of the last three days. So yeah, Listen, he had

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Speaker 3: an operation on his knee in pre season, you know,

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Speaker 3: obviously desperate to get back for the start of the season,

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Speaker 3: so you know he was back for that, not fully

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Speaker 3: fit as well. Once he did come back physically, and

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Speaker 3: it's taken him a little bit of time and obviously

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Speaker 3: still feeling a little bit of that knees it will swollen.

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Speaker 3: He got he got it drained last week and had

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Speaker 3: some some of the stuff, so you know, hopefully he

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Speaker 3: said it's much better this week, but you know, I

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Speaker 3: think it's going to be ongoing for a little bit longer.

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Speaker 3: So but it's good to have him back into the squad.

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Speaker 3: And you know, he's a quality player and he did

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Speaker 3: so well for us last year and we just need

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Speaker 3: to get him back to what he was doing last

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Speaker 3: last season.

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Speaker 2: Both of your goals in the first derby the season

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Speaker 2: came from defeating the Phoenix. As much talked about high line,

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Speaker 2: how much of your attacking focus has has been on

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Speaker 2: that again, or do you expect to have to use

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Speaker 2: different strategies today.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think, you know, definitely that plays the part

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Speaker 3: of it, because they are playing still playing the high line,

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Speaker 3: so obviously there's something we've spoken about and worked on

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Speaker 3: today and for today's game, and but there's there's obviously

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Speaker 3: other ways as well to beat them, and you know,

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Speaker 3: we can't be just one dimensional. We have to have

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Speaker 3: other options as well, and you know we've looked at

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Speaker 3: that also, and yeah, so we'll go from there and

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Speaker 3: hopefully it all pans out nicely.

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Speaker 2: And I know you're only worrying about today, but after

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Speaker 2: this game five or of your next six are away

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Speaker 2: from home, how much does your prep and approach change,

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Speaker 2: Steve in a typical week with so much travel to

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Speaker 2: be factored into it all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we've had three home games, which are

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Speaker 3: going to be great, obviously great, but then then you've

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Speaker 3: got to travel. So we got three in a row

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Speaker 3: think another two or three away.

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Speaker 2: So it's going to.

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Speaker 3: Be difficult, there's no doubt about that. But I think

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Speaker 3: last year we showed we were just as good away

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Speaker 3: from home as at home, So I'm hoping it's going

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Speaker 3: to be much the same this season. But you know,

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Speaker 3: the travel does take it is toll on players, you know, physically. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: we try and do the best we can to make

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Speaker 3: sure that they recover properly and give them, you know,

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Speaker 3: days off so they can freshen up. But yeah, I'm

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Speaker 3: actually looking forward to obviously having a few games away

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Speaker 3: from home as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, looking forward to a big occasion to go Media

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Speaker 2: Stadium this afternoon in the first instance. Thanks for chatting

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Speaker 2: to us on matchday, Steve all the best today.

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Speaker 3: Thanks thank you Banion.

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