Speaker 1: Football Fever with News Talks MB's voice of Football, Jason
Speaker 1: Paine and Bonnie Jensen.
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Speaker 2: Jason Pine. Bonnie Jensen is here and as we record,
Speaker 2: we're just over forty eight hours out from another massive
Speaker 2: occasion in New Zealand football, sellout crowd and coming for
Speaker 2: New Zealand Derby two point zero.
Speaker 1: Bonnie, how are you feeling.
Speaker 3: Derby two point zero? Piney, I'm so excited. I am
Speaker 3: like a bit gutted that it's come around so quickly.
Speaker 3: I probably would have liked a few more weeks in
Speaker 3: between each Derby's you know, it's only thirty five days
Speaker 3: between when they played at Wellington to what's going to
Speaker 3: happen on Saturday. But nevertheless, super excited. The sun's meant
Speaker 3: to be shining and obviously sold out as you.
Speaker 2: Say, yeah, it's a good point you make because I guess,
Speaker 2: in ideal terms, when you have a draw for a season,
Speaker 2: if you're playing a team three times, you space it out,
Speaker 2: don't you. But it'll only be the sixth game that
Speaker 2: the Phoenix have played and Aukland next week because they
Speaker 2: they've had the buy as well, and they've played the
Speaker 2: same team twice, where there's been a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: teams they haven't even locked horns with. But here we are,
Speaker 2: and you know, no point complaining about a sold outgo
Speaker 2: Media Stadium on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Just in very
Speaker 2: general terms, who do you think are favorites for the game?
Speaker 3: I think Auckland FC are one hundred percent favorites, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously given their start to the season five wins in
Speaker 3: or you know, five straight wins, clean sheets. But they're
Speaker 3: also playing at home and yes it's kind of a
Speaker 3: Phoenix home game depending on how you look at it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you can't you can't criticize their start. So yeah,
Speaker 3: Auckland are the bookies' favorites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you trust the actual bookies. I'm just
Speaker 2: looking at the odds right now. Auckland FC a dollar
Speaker 2: ninety one. Wellington are paying three dollars ninety to win
Speaker 2: this game. I think that's pretty good money for Wellington
Speaker 2: if you fancy a flutter on, who are now the
Speaker 2: away team? Because you know, Phoenix has been coming to
Speaker 2: Auckland for over ten years, and they've always been the
Speaker 2: home team when.
Speaker 1: They're there, and they've played well there.
Speaker 2: They've only lost one of their eighteen games in Auckland,
Speaker 2: so they always play well up there. But it's a
Speaker 2: complete flip of the script, isn't it. They're going to
Speaker 2: have a small little pocket of yellow Fever and that's.
Speaker 3: All it is. And I'm excited to see how many
Speaker 3: Yellow Fever fans turn out and how many you know,
Speaker 3: Auckland is is wearing Phoenix fans and they've stuck by,
Speaker 3: you know, they've stuck with their loyalty. I'm going to
Speaker 3: be surprised if there's not a good, decent chunk of
Speaker 3: fans wearing yellow shirts. I don't know if it's too
Speaker 3: soon to call it pioneer. I mean, we'll probably do
Speaker 3: our predictions at the end of the podcast, but I
Speaker 3: think Wellington, the Wellington Phoenix will win this game.
Speaker 2: I actually agree, And let's get to our predictions at
Speaker 2: the end. But I actually agree, and I think even
Speaker 2: and we'll explain our reasons why. I think it's the
Speaker 2: best narrative as well. If the Phoenix were to go
Speaker 2: there on Saturday and win as Auckland did a month
Speaker 2: ago in Wellington and one it just completes a brilliant narrative.
Speaker 2: And then we've got number three to come, which we
Speaker 2: do have to wait a while for. It's not to
Speaker 2: the back end of February. But yeah, look, let's let's
Speaker 2: not get let's not get too far ahead of ourself.
Speaker 1: Just on the yellow foevere to all.
Speaker 2: So, obviously there's the designated block, but you expect all
Speaker 2: around the ground there to be dots of yellow.
Speaker 3: Oh, I hope so, and I hope in that designated area.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a big chunk. I'm hoping. You know
Speaker 3: that there were what five hundred Auckland supporters down in
Speaker 3: Wellington for that derby a month ago. I'm hoping there's more.
Speaker 3: There's more yellow, you know. Wellington Phoenix fans, yes, dotted
Speaker 3: around as well, potentially, but I'm pretty sure they're banned
Speaker 3: from anywhere in the south stand or anywhere in the
Speaker 3: port section at least. Bumped into a couple of Phoenix
Speaker 3: fans at the opening game who said, no, we can't
Speaker 3: go and sit in there with a Phoenix scarf on.
Speaker 3: So yeah, definitely going to going to be interesting to
Speaker 3: see if there's any fans trying to sneak in there
Speaker 3: and cause some banter.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, why would you though that's the That's
Speaker 2: like Auckland fans trying to get into yellow Fever and Wellington.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just no point in it, because there
Speaker 2: there's no point in it. There's plenty of other places
Speaker 2: to sit. You're right about the yellow Fever zone that
Speaker 2: will be absolutely rammed with Phoenix fans. I don't know
Speaker 2: how many tickets were allocated their way, but it's got
Speaker 2: to be let's say, three four, five, one hundred, let's
Speaker 2: say up in that section. We talked earlier in the
Speaker 2: year about the placement of that of that zone. It
Speaker 2: seems an odd place for me to have the away
Speaker 2: fans up, you know, up in an upper tier up
Speaker 2: to the port's left. I would have preferred it if
Speaker 2: they were at the other end, you know, if they
Speaker 2: were at they were end on, like in Wellington, for example,
Speaker 2: the port were all down the northern end.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know they can't do it because of the bank
Speaker 2: and all that sort of thing, but it seems like
Speaker 2: an odd place for the away fans to be.
Speaker 3: So they're quite close to each other, and I actually
Speaker 3: think that's a really annoying thing for the Port because
Speaker 3: I think the Yellow Fever out chant the Port. You know,
Speaker 3: they've got some amazing existing chants which I could roll
Speaker 3: off my tongue, you know, growing up down there. You know,
Speaker 3: ones that have been around for years. But and I
Speaker 3: think they're going to be loud and you know, the
Speaker 3: Port of building their chances as we speak and as
Speaker 3: we go on these weeks. So yeah, it's a shame
Speaker 3: for the Port that they're so close to the Yellow Fever,
Speaker 3: I think in this instance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in many ways that'll make them lift their
Speaker 2: game as well, won't it, you know, And you're right,
Speaker 2: I mean Yellow Fever have had a seventeen year head
Speaker 2: start on the Port in terms of getting their chants
Speaker 2: and getting themselves in unison and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But I thought the Port did a pretty good job
Speaker 2: down at Wellington when they came down for the for
Speaker 2: the first derby, and obviously it helps when you win.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we look forward to seeing the interaction between
Speaker 2: the two sets of fans on the pitch. Let's drill
Speaker 2: down a little bit into this. Who do you perceive
Speaker 2: to be the really important players for both sites?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: I think for the Phoenix, undoubtedly someone like Alex ruth
Speaker 3: A Costa Barbarus's Tim Payne. You know, the three or
Speaker 3: whites that are going to need to step up and
Speaker 3: keep their team together. Obviously, you know mentally it's a
Speaker 3: huge game for them coming up here. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, the Japanese imports have been so good and
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be probably an import from
Speaker 3: either side who's going to decide the team when it
Speaker 3: comes to Auckland. I think the back line Alex Paulson
Speaker 3: and Nando and Dan Hall in front of them, they're
Speaker 3: going to need to be switched on because no doubt
Speaker 3: Chief he has analyzed over these first five six weeks
Speaker 3: exactly how to break this back line down, and that's
Speaker 3: currently how to clean sheet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the most important player for Auckland is
Speaker 2: the bloke who plays the same position as Alex Rufer
Speaker 2: does for the Phoenix, and that's Lou for Strata. I
Speaker 2: think the way that he is sat in front of
Speaker 2: that back four and just basically cut teams off at
Speaker 2: the pass even before you get to the back four.
Speaker 2: And Alex Bawson. When a team keeps five clean sheets,
Speaker 2: you go man. The goalkeeper must be good, and he is.
Speaker 2: And you say, well, the back four must be really good,
Speaker 2: and they are. But I think he's the man. I
Speaker 2: think he's like a nightclub bouncer. He just sits in
Speaker 2: front of that back four and he's any trouble, he
Speaker 2: just turns it away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's I expected him to be taller than what
Speaker 3: he was, and when I caught up with him during
Speaker 3: the week, I was I think it's just his presence
Speaker 3: on the park. I said to him. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I thought you were taller, and I think I offended
Speaker 3: him quite quite a bit. But I think it's just
Speaker 3: because his presence on the park is just incredible, you know.
Speaker 3: He stands so tall and dominates as you say, so, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he is another key player for Auckland.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They always look bigger on TV, do, don't they. I've
Speaker 2: often thought that about players you go down to. I
Speaker 2: thought the same about Giguomo Mai when I interviewed him
Speaker 2: after the first game, and he was.
Speaker 1: A lot, you know, more short of stature. Then I thought.
Speaker 2: You look at them out on the pitch, and yet
Speaker 2: they sort of growl a little bit, don't they on
Speaker 2: the on the television and in the way that they play.
Speaker 2: Let's hear a few of the answers that luisva Strata
Speaker 2: gave you when you chet up to them the other
Speaker 2: day about Auckland's excellent start to their their life and
Speaker 2: the a.
Speaker 4: Leg I knew we had a good team when I
Speaker 4: arrived here, but winning five games in a row not
Speaker 4: conceding a goal is quite extraordinary, so I didn't expect
Speaker 4: it to be honest. Yeah, we just take each game
Speaker 4: individually and we tried to keep the nill as far
Speaker 4: as much as possible each game, so we'll see how
Speaker 4: far we can take this. I think we have quality wise,
Speaker 4: that we have a good squad. It all starts for
Speaker 4: me with quality. So this is the quality is really good,
Speaker 4: the players and stuff everyone involved. And also we are
Speaker 4: all like I think, good, good people as well, so
Speaker 4: we are we are a good team and it's it's
Speaker 4: falls together nicely. Yeah. I think everyone is doing really well.
Speaker 4: You know, nobody is standing out. I think our strength
Speaker 4: is the team as a whole, not the individual, so
Speaker 4: I think that's that's how strengthened. Also that each player
Speaker 4: is is interchangeable, so we are like HAROKEI didn't play
Speaker 4: last weekend. Someone else came in and we performed just
Speaker 4: as good. So for me, is this seem so we
Speaker 4: have a good squad. We have Dibtzel. That's the that's
Speaker 4: the real, the real strengthening team.
Speaker 1: That is the voice of Louis Vastrata.
Speaker 2: So I think that last comment was in response to
Speaker 2: the question you asked him about about his own performances.
Speaker 2: You suggested to him that a lot of people in
Speaker 2: the media, fans, everybody are saying how impressive he's been.
Speaker 2: He was very quick to deflect away from himself, wasn't he.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was. I don't know if that's a cheeky
Speaker 3: thing to me to ask, especially when Francis to Reez
Speaker 3: was standing right next to us. But he has been
Speaker 3: He has been stand out, and I'm sure all of
Speaker 3: his teammates and the coaches have have noticed that. And
Speaker 3: as you say, Piney, he's been so key for this
Speaker 3: team and will be again on Saturday.
Speaker 2: So when you look at the way they're going to
Speaker 2: line up, if Hiroki Sakai is fit, he'll clearly come
Speaker 2: back and out right back. I thought Callin Elliott had
Speaker 2: a good game there the other day. His first game
Speaker 2: of football for a long time. We can go into
Speaker 2: the reasons for that another day. But I thought he
Speaker 2: came in and played really well. But Hiroki sarkives the
Speaker 2: captain of the team. If he's fits, he plays, So
Speaker 2: let's assume he does, you know, past whatever fitness tests
Speaker 2: he needs to and starts. Can you see any other
Speaker 2: changes to the starting side for Auckland FC.
Speaker 3: You know, I think you're right. Hiroki does start, and
Speaker 3: I understand that he is first and he's saving himself
Speaker 3: for this game. The only other questionable one is whether
Speaker 3: Nata Moreno comes in for the likes of Logan Rogerson
Speaker 3: or Liam Gillion. He scored an absolute worldy of a
Speaker 3: goal in the last game. It was just yes, so
Speaker 3: so nice kind of half volley on the side of
Speaker 3: the foot. But you know, whether he deserves his starting
Speaker 3: position or not after that goal, I'm not sure. I
Speaker 3: think I get the feeling, and I asked Steve Croker
Speaker 3: as well. I get the feeling he's going to stick
Speaker 3: with that same starting lineup that's kind of worked for
Speaker 3: him so well. And Nata Moreno's come on in a
Speaker 3: couple of games now and you know, done a job.
Speaker 3: So yeah, why change that up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all I'd say is that I'm not sure that
Speaker 2: Logan Rogerson has absolutely seized his opportunity in this team. No,
Speaker 2: he got the start at the start of the season,
Speaker 2: but he and Liam Gilligan, because I mean you watched
Speaker 2: a lot of their preseason and it was Gillian and
Speaker 2: Rogerson who kind of jumped the kill a little bit
Speaker 2: ahead of Jesse Randall and Joey Champness really for those
Speaker 2: starting spots because Nadal Moreno of course was late arriving,
Speaker 2: wasn't He didn't get that till right at the start
Speaker 2: of the season, so he wasn't ready to start. But
Speaker 2: I don't know whether I think Liam Gillian's done enough.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that Logan Rogerson has done absolutely enough
Speaker 2: to hold off Nate A Moreno. And as you and
Speaker 2: I've said a lot, you know, if you're an import,
Speaker 2: you really need to be starting. If it's not this week,
Speaker 2: I get the feeling at some stage he will. I
Speaker 2: wonder whether it is this week that Moreno gets let
Speaker 2: off the leash from the start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't mind it from choreography, does decide
Speaker 3: to do it, you know, change it up? Chief, He's
Speaker 3: probably expecting that Loan does start and they go with
Speaker 3: what worked well for them. But you're right Piney, and
Speaker 3: I agree that I don't think Logan's had a great
Speaker 3: couple of last games. You know, he obviously scored in
Speaker 3: that opener, which shows he's good and big moments, so
Speaker 3: maybe that's why they'll go with him again. But it
Speaker 3: is close to call, and again, a great problem to have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. It's good.
Speaker 2: A good problem to have for Steve Coriker, not just there,
Speaker 2: but right across his squad just before we moved to
Speaker 2: Wellington Phoenix. Auckland FC could break a couple more records
Speaker 2: this weekend. The most minutes without conceding at the start
Speaker 2: of an A League season is four hundred and sixty nine.
Speaker 2: The Mariners did that in the seven eight season, so
Speaker 2: if Auckland FC don't concede before the twenty minute mark,
Speaker 2: they will beat that record. That seventeen year old record
Speaker 2: now the most minutes without conceding at the start of
Speaker 2: any season in Australian men's league history. And this is
Speaker 2: going back before the A League, back to the National
Speaker 2: Soccer League as it used to be called four Dred
Speaker 2: seventy four minutes by Preston Macedonia in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2: So if Auckland don't concede before the twenty five minute mark,
Speaker 2: they'll beat that record as well, which is thirty.
Speaker 1: Eight years old.
Speaker 2: And finally, if they were to keep another clean sheet,
Speaker 2: that would be six. No one in a league history
Speaker 2: has ever kept six consecutive clean sheets. It's quite the
Speaker 2: remarkable set of records that they've put together and continue
Speaker 2: to look to break.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, that's crazy. I mean, whoever searched this up,
Speaker 3: whether it was you pioneers.
Speaker 1: Impressive, wasn't mean no, it wasn't me. No, it wasn't me.
Speaker 2: Andy Howe, who is the A Leagu's official statistician, has
Speaker 2: provided these numbers. But yeah, as impressive as the researchers,
Speaker 2: the you know, the continual ability to just keep goals
Speaker 2: out of their net is amazing by Auckland FC.
Speaker 3: It is. And you know, I asked Steve as well
Speaker 3: earlier during the week, you know, because they bring on
Speaker 3: Tommy Smith as their kind of closer for the match
Speaker 3: and they you know, kind of go to the A
Speaker 3: three at the back and they've got a real plan
Speaker 3: to kind of keep this clean sheet. Record going and
Speaker 3: very very tight defensively. Well done to Alex Paulson, who
Speaker 3: you know could have gone either way coming in. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very impressed. And you know those Kiwi boys in particular Nando,
Speaker 3: Alex Paulson, Francis Devrez, Tommy Smith, they're all putting their
Speaker 3: hand up for the All Whites.
Speaker 2: I noticed from Alex Paulson as well. You know, at
Speaker 2: the start of the season and certainly in the first derby,
Speaker 2: which was in Wellington, he was a little bit reserved
Speaker 2: in terms of a celebrations. Yess, he celebrated with the
Speaker 2: team and all that. But after that game the other
Speaker 2: day against Newcastle, he's whacking the badge on his chest
Speaker 2: and he's all in Auckland.
Speaker 1: I've seen now is in the ap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he is. And actually shout out to Dane Ingham,
Speaker 3: was it, who played for Newcastle, who's also a Kiwi.
Speaker 3: I thought he was. He was great in that game
Speaker 3: against AFC, and you know he clearly had a bit
Speaker 3: of a grudge against his fellow Kiwi players and yeah,
Speaker 3: hopefully someone like Darren Baize was watching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, no, you're bang on. I thought Danning
Speaker 2: was the best Newcastle Jets player. You know, it was
Speaker 2: in a battle with Francis Devreeze up and down Newcastle's
Speaker 2: right Auckland's left. He had to deal with Liam Gillian
Speaker 2: as well and the strikers. So yeah, I thought, thought, yeah,
Speaker 2: Danningham had a really good game. All right then, So
Speaker 2: in the face of all of that, how do Wellington
Speaker 2: Phoenix become the first team to break down Auckland f C.
Speaker 2: And the second part of that question is do you
Speaker 2: have faith that gian Carlo Italiano has a plan to
Speaker 2: do that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: He has a plan, Pioney, he has a plan. He's
Speaker 3: a very smart man, very smart coach. I really rate
Speaker 3: him as a coach. And you know, if it wasn't
Speaker 3: for that blunder that josh Aliwayimi, you know, conceded in
Speaker 3: that first match, it would have been nill Like. I
Speaker 3: truly believe that. So they are not to be ruled
Speaker 3: out whatsoever coming into this game. Despite auckland season incredible start.
Speaker 3: You know, the Phoenix two have had a great start.
Speaker 3: I think you told me Pine it's the second best
Speaker 3: start in the club's history. So they've got a plan
Speaker 3: and I again, I think they're gonna win. As they
Speaker 3: said earlier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, let's jump into predictions. I think they'll win
Speaker 2: it as well. I think they'll win it one nil.
Speaker 2: This isn't going to be a three all draw or
Speaker 2: a five to four thriller. Both teams are very good defensively.
Speaker 2: We talk about Auckland's The Phoenix have only at three
Speaker 2: in and they're five games, and two of those were
Speaker 2: against Auckland. You know, one was the mistake by Olloway
Speaker 2: Emmy and the other one was a goal when when
Speaker 2: Willington were chasing the game in the ninety seventh minute.
Speaker 2: So they're both very good defensively. I just feel as
Speaker 2: though Wellington have more tools to unlock Auckland than vice versa.
Speaker 2: We've talked about Logan Rogerson. You know, Liam Gillians had
Speaker 2: seventeen shots without scoring. Gmo Mais only got one goal
Speaker 2: in five games. You know, A Brimmer got those two
Speaker 2: goals against Wellington, but they were a little bit you know,
Speaker 2: they're not necessarily a result of cutting teams apart. The
Speaker 2: only goal I can think of where they really cut
Speaker 2: a team apart was the very first goal they got,
Speaker 2: that own goal against Brucebane, where it was that really
Speaker 2: lovely passing move down the right Sarko puts it across
Speaker 2: the box and Harry Vandersarke puts it in his own net,
Speaker 2: so they're not taking teams apart, whereas I just feel
Speaker 2: with Barbarusis, Marco Roja Sa Dicky a Shiga that Wellington
Speaker 2: do have those game breakets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do, and obviously plenty more experience in the league,
Speaker 3: so that's definitely something to consider. You're right, Pineyer in
Speaker 3: terms of I don't know if it's too harsh to say,
Speaker 3: but a lot of Auckland's goals have been quite fluky,
Speaker 3: but at the same time they have managed to close
Speaker 3: out games regardless. So yeah, the next will be aware
Speaker 3: of that, but I feel like they've got a plan
Speaker 3: to Yeah, they'll be looking at that defense in terms
Speaker 3: of how to break them down. And remember, Alex Poulsen
Speaker 3: was the goalkeeper last year. They know him probably better
Speaker 3: than what his own teammates know him currently.
Speaker 2: You know, what would be an amazing scenario to play
Speaker 2: out in this game would be a penalty to Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Alex Paulson what last year save three of the five
Speaker 2: penalties he faced in a Wellington Phoenix shirt. He knows,
Speaker 2: Alex Rufer, he knows Costa barbarusis who are I guess
Speaker 2: two of the more likely penalty takers.
Speaker 1: He knows which way they typically go. He would have faced.
Speaker 2: Goodness only knows how many penalties from both of them
Speaker 2: during training down the years. Imagine if there's a ninety
Speaker 2: fourth minute penalty for Wellington Phoenix to win it, and
Speaker 2: it's Alex Paulson staring down Alex Rufer.
Speaker 3: Imagine and it's down that end of the port and
Speaker 3: the yellow fever where they are, I could just oh,
Speaker 3: it would be so exciting if that were to happen.
Speaker 3: And as you say, you know, great for the narrative. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel I'd feel so nervous for
Speaker 3: app and you know whoever is to take the Phoenix,
Speaker 3: but it would make a pretty iritable story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. It was a mount smart
Speaker 2: when he saved that one from Jamie McLaren last year,
Speaker 2: wasn't it for men Melbourne City? So he knows the
Speaker 2: ground well, obviously it's his homeground. Now, so many layers
Speaker 2: to this. Yeah, So I've got the Phoenix winning at
Speaker 2: one nil.
Speaker 3: Okay, I also have the Phoenix winning at one nil
Speaker 3: or nil. All it's going to be like a really
Speaker 3: annoying grudge deadlock match which everyone will be gutted about.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you think about the first Derby and
Speaker 2: that was nil all for eighty nine minutes.
Speaker 3: That's what I mean. It's going to be another one
Speaker 3: of those. And I hope it's not. I hope it's
Speaker 3: a five four thriller, as you say, but I just
Speaker 3: don't think it's going to be.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: I just don't think it's in either of these teams
Speaker 2: DNA to open themselves up so much at the back
Speaker 2: they let four or five goals in. It just feels
Speaker 2: as though it was going to be cag And I
Speaker 2: remember saying in commentary in the first one that it
Speaker 2: felt more and more as the game went on, as
Speaker 2: though it was going to be a moment of utter
Speaker 2: brilliance or a mistake by somebody, and it was, you know,
Speaker 2: hindsight a wonderful thing, but it was. It was a
Speaker 2: mistake by Olloway Emmy that opened the door for Auckland
Speaker 2: f C. What your hope is that actually the game
Speaker 2: is broken open by a moment of magic. What would
Speaker 2: be good, Bonnie, would be an early goal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be great to get an early goal.
Speaker 3: First half goal. Because what you've got the stat Painty
Speaker 3: that a lot of Auckland f C's goals have come
Speaker 3: really late, and it's it's not fun for a footballer,
Speaker 3: ye or it's not I mean maybe for a football
Speaker 3: fan like us who get it. You know, we understand
Speaker 3: the ins and outs of it. But there's going to
Speaker 3: be a lot of you know, neutral fans that you
Speaker 3: know are there for the spectacle and we want goals.
Speaker 3: So I hope there's an early goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Six of their eight goals Auckland f C have come
Speaker 2: after the seventy five minute mark, so yeah, so they
Speaker 2: are late scorers, but they find a way. Even that
Speaker 2: Jets game the other day, it's nil all going past
Speaker 2: the eightieth minute and they went at two nil they
Speaker 2: found away. Same with Sydney FC, you know, one nil
Speaker 2: sorry nil all deep into at a time and Nando
Speaker 2: Pinicke back heels won and for one nill they find
Speaker 2: a way and you know they They're momentum has been terrific.
Speaker 3: The longer, the longer the game is drawn out, Auckland
Speaker 3: f C win right, So the Phoenix, if they're winning
Speaker 3: this game, they need to get on the board early.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're the ones, you know, scoring late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting little dynamic, asn't they have. They
Speaker 2: haven't had to score late this season Wellington, have they to?
Speaker 2: They did again the other day against Melbourne victory Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was That was the latest goal by Costa
Speaker 2: barbarusis linking with Marco Rojas. The two Neil one over
Speaker 2: Perth was was a goal in each half. The three
Speaker 2: one over the Mariners. They would turn a love at halftime.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah, I think well Auckland have proven
Speaker 2: themselves to be these, you know, the masters of the
Speaker 2: late show. So so maybe it comes that way again
Speaker 2: now Corbyn Piper just wanted to hear from him. He
Speaker 2: played for Birkenhead, of course for a long long time.
Speaker 2: Not a long time, but he certainly played for Birkenhead
Speaker 2: this year. He set some time in Ireland as well,
Speaker 2: I think, but born and raised in Auckland. He's now
Speaker 2: with the Phoenix and as there as a utility really
Speaker 2: I think you played in a sort of a creative
Speaker 2: midfield role for Bergenhead, but he's been playing sort of
Speaker 2: right back, center back, even up top off the bench
Speaker 2: for Wellington during the week I spoke briefly with him
Speaker 2: and asked him if he thought that actually coming from Auckland,
Speaker 2: whether Auckland f C might be his more natural road
Speaker 2: into the pro game.
Speaker 5: Initially, it was Auckland f C for me, like I was,
Speaker 5: that was my goal. I didn't really think about Wellington
Speaker 5: Phoenix because I did think that they were pretty academy
Speaker 5: focused and you had to be in the academy to
Speaker 5: then graduate into the first thing, which is how it
Speaker 5: should be. I think that's a really good way of
Speaker 5: doing it. So yeah, I was looking at Auckland f
Speaker 5: C and playing as a ten. I just felt there
Speaker 5: just wasn't room and Auckland FC for me as a ten.
Speaker 5: But thankfully Wellington Phoenix actually looked outside the academy and
Speaker 5: looked at me in different positions and looked at my
Speaker 5: best attributes i'd say, and slid me into a center
Speaker 5: back or fullback or striker role. So yeah, that's just
Speaker 5: how it came about. Yeah, that's it. Well, I can
Speaker 5: speak on behalf of all the boys. We're pretty keen
Speaker 5: to smash them and get rid of that wedding street good.
Speaker 2: But a heat there at the end from Corbyn Piper,
Speaker 2: I think he's pretty keen to be involved in a
Speaker 2: game on home. So interesting that yeah, he was passed
Speaker 2: over by Auckland FC. I don't know whether they looked
Speaker 2: at him or not, but yeah, it's an interesting little
Speaker 2: storyline that he's ended up down in Wellington.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I hope he gets more game time for Wellington because
Speaker 3: I had heard of him during the kind of Northern
Speaker 3: League phase just from some mates and football going, hey,
Speaker 3: keep an eye on this guy. He's really good. So yeah,
Speaker 3: glad he's been picked up by either of the teams,
Speaker 3: and just hope he gets, you know, more minutes for
Speaker 3: the knicks and whatever position that is by It sounds
Speaker 3: he's all over the place all right.
Speaker 2: Just to finish, as we've said, huge crowd in coming
Speaker 2: officially sold out. You sent me a link this morning
Speaker 2: for tickets on trade me going for quite a bit
Speaker 2: more than they would have been bought.
Speaker 3: For actually crazy like four hundred bucks. Scalpers are trying
Speaker 3: to sell them off for and I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's terrible, and anyone listening to this podcast, don't
Speaker 3: buy those tickets. As Nick Becker said to told The
Speaker 3: Herald that you know, go and watch it at a bar.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of great bars you know, around the country
Speaker 3: to watch it from rather than or around Auckland, rather
Speaker 3: than paying that much for a ticket if it's legit
Speaker 3: or not. But I think the funny thing is the
Speaker 3: fact that this A League match is getting so much
Speaker 3: hype that these scalpers are like, oh, let's give it
Speaker 3: a go. You know, I feel like that that would
Speaker 3: have never happened in the A League maybe a final
Speaker 3: or something like that. But yeah, pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: Never ever, never, ever, ever, you know, has anybody ever
Speaker 2: not been able to get a ticket to a football
Speaker 2: match in New Zealand?
Speaker 1: Is the is the question? Really? And it would have happened.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe maybe the Football World Cup last year.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's that's a good example, Yes, that one. But
Speaker 2: a mystic game between two New Zealand sides. I don't
Speaker 2: think it. I don't.
Speaker 3: Oh it's bah Rain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again an international game, not domestic between I mean,
Speaker 2: if you'd said to me, you know a year ago
Speaker 2: when Auckland first was mooted as a possibility in the
Speaker 2: A League, Okay, six or seven weeks into the regular season,
Speaker 2: you're going to have to go to a scalper and
Speaker 2: pay four hundred bucks for a ticket to watch this
Speaker 2: team play.
Speaker 1: It would have been laughed out of town.
Speaker 3: Bonnie laughed at sound exactly. And you know, hats off
Speaker 3: again to Auckland FC's marketing that they've they've made it
Speaker 3: this way. They've opened up the seating, they opened up
Speaker 3: the north stand, the bank and they're trying to break
Speaker 3: the record by a cheeky number one more than what
Speaker 3: the Wellington Phoenix got. So yeah, it hats off to
Speaker 3: the marketing team of Auckland f C. And yeah, just
Speaker 3: making this derby so incredible. You know, it is going
Speaker 3: to be a special occasion and I'm just gutted that
Speaker 3: these scalpers are kind of ruining it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think someone will buy the tickets. Yes,
Speaker 2: some I think like a rich dad or mum will
Speaker 2: buy it for their kids. Well, they'll buy a couple
Speaker 2: of tickets, and there'll be people who want to go
Speaker 2: to the game haven't been able to get a ticket,
Speaker 2: and we'll just say, oh, okay, well I'll pay the
Speaker 2: four hundred bucks's I mean, it's a regular season game.
Speaker 2: It's just incredible we're even talking about this. But again,
Speaker 2: it's an illustration of just what has happened around this
Speaker 2: new A League club. Jacob Spoonley, friend of the podcast
Speaker 2: and my co commentator on Sky Sport, does have. He
Speaker 2: wanted me to tell people he's got one ticket to
Speaker 2: give away, but he's and he's doing it on x
Speaker 2: or Twitter. So hit up Jacob Spoonley on Twitter. You'll
Speaker 2: find the post. You've got to reply to it with
Speaker 2: a good reason why you should get it or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how Jacob's ended up with one ticket.
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be more palatable if it was
Speaker 2: a family pass or something like that. But he's got
Speaker 2: the one ticket and he wanted me to shout it out.
Speaker 2: So hit him up and you could be the the
Speaker 2: twenty six, two d and fifty third person there ensuring
Speaker 2: that the regular season's season attendance record is broken. On
Speaker 2: Saturday at Mount Smart.
Speaker 1: The FFFE with Piny and Body.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Wellington Phoenix Women. They're back in
Speaker 2: action after their bye week or the international break or
Speaker 2: was it the buye that they had, It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: They didn't play last weekend. They played this coming Sunday
Speaker 2: four o'clock back home at Pottido Park. They had their
Speaker 2: first win in U Nite Round, beating Adelaide United one
Speaker 2: nil in Sydney. Pretty important for them to get a
Speaker 2: win after three straight losses.
Speaker 3: I thought it was so cool they got a win
Speaker 3: by a not so bad goal and that they played
Speaker 3: a right I felt like it was coming for this team,
Speaker 3: that they were going to get a result soon. They've
Speaker 3: got a good, good team, regardless of how many players
Speaker 3: left last season, and I loved that they won over there,
Speaker 3: which seems like ages ago now, but they had a
Speaker 3: great yellow fever continue there on the sidelines that they
Speaker 3: all celebrated with after and then obviously the men went
Speaker 3: on to win later that weekend. So yeah, great that
Speaker 3: they got the three points and hopefully they can continue
Speaker 3: it on this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was coming, wasn't it, Because what they lost
Speaker 2: the previous week one nil to New cast or the
Speaker 2: week before that one nil to Canberra.
Speaker 1: They had that terrible.
Speaker 2: Twenty minutes in the first game against Western United when
Speaker 2: they let four and that game was gone. They haven't
Speaker 2: actually been that bad, and defensively they've been pretty good,
Speaker 2: like I say, and now in the last three games
Speaker 2: only two goals conceded, so they're tightening themselves up there.
Speaker 2: I'd love to see more up top from them, you know,
Speaker 2: I'd love to see some of the you know, some
Speaker 2: of the goal scoring prowess of the likes of Emma Maine,
Speaker 2: Olivia Ferguson the New Import. We saw Mia McCutcheon score
Speaker 2: a goal that won them the game against Adelaide United.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I know, without Mney, Una speke Meyer and
Speaker 2: without Laboring the point watch her banging and goals for
Speaker 2: Melbourne City, as we've talked about a couple of times
Speaker 2: on the podcast, and just what a huge loss he
Speaker 2: was to that team.
Speaker 3: Well there's no reason why Grace Jarlay, who is you know,
Speaker 3: had got quite a few caps for New Zealand, played
Speaker 3: at a World Cup, why she can't be you know,
Speaker 3: banging in goals and nothing against Grace, you know, but
Speaker 3: I think the team needs to find a way to unlock,
Speaker 3: unlock a player like Grace Jarlay, even someone like a
Speaker 3: list of win him. You know, she's so close. So
Speaker 3: I think it's coming for this this team as long
Speaker 3: as they you know, don't they're not They're not too
Speaker 3: hard on themselves and they stick together because you know,
Speaker 3: if these results don't come. You know how how tense
Speaker 3: it becomes between between teammates and things like that. So
Speaker 3: they've got to stay together and hope that they can
Speaker 3: keep building off this most recent result.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another reason why it was important to get it right.
Speaker 2: If they've gone four games without a win, then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you start to wonder where it's going
Speaker 2: to come from. Now they've got it, they got Brisbane,
Speaker 2: then they go away to Melbourne, victory, home to Sydney
Speaker 2: FC and away to Melbourne City. So it's a tough
Speaker 2: December for Paul Temple's team. Brisbane a second three wins
Speaker 2: and a last. They lost their opening game to Canberra,
Speaker 2: but then they've won their last three one nil, three
Speaker 2: nil and four nil, so they're good defensively as well.
Speaker 2: A coach by former Wellington Phoenix men's player Alex Smith,
Speaker 2: so he'll enjoy a return back to back to Wellington,
Speaker 2: although the game will be played at Potido A Park.
Speaker 2: Really sad news about Rebecca Lake though, Bonnie another defender
Speaker 2: out for the season for Wellington.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you message me Piney saying there needs to be
Speaker 3: more education around a cl injuries and women's sport, and
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more. It's yeah, just so gutting. I
Speaker 3: really rate Rebecca Lake as a player. You know, she
Speaker 3: was so good on the domestic scene for so long,
Speaker 3: got her opportunity with the Next last season, and yeah,
Speaker 3: just or was she her season with the next last
Speaker 3: year was cut short? Wasn't it? With another injury? But yeah,
Speaker 3: just so gutted that that she's.
Speaker 1: Done her a cl and Wells is an ankle. It's great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's Malia Steinmetz has done the ace. How that's
Speaker 1: when I sent you that message.
Speaker 3: But the thing is a rambo.
Speaker 2: But even even the fact that that, you know, it
Speaker 2: was like another one another one, another one exactly, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel terrible for for Rebecca Lake. I
Speaker 2: think she's an absolute positive force around that group, was
Speaker 2: really starting to find her way without MAURICEA.
Speaker 1: Vandermere there.
Speaker 2: She was set to be a big part of that,
Speaker 2: you know, that Phoenix defense alongside Mac Bowry. And I
Speaker 2: just rarely like the way she goes about her football.
Speaker 2: And as you say, missing some of last season and
Speaker 2: now all of this such a you know, because you
Speaker 2: only get a small window for these things.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's quite a senior player, I guess. I
Speaker 3: mean she's still young. I want to say she's twenty
Speaker 3: four to twenty five, but she's she's quite you know,
Speaker 3: played in big games domestically, so yeah, definitely a big
Speaker 3: loss is a leader at the back. But yeah, just
Speaker 3: just gutted. It's another person on the season in season
Speaker 3: ending injury list.
Speaker 2: Olivia Kelly has been brought in by the Wellington Phoenix.
Speaker 2: She is an American center back. She will be available,
Speaker 2: as I understand it, for the game on Sunday. She
Speaker 2: is taking up her first professional contract. She played in
Speaker 2: college over in the US for New Hampshire Wildcats before
Speaker 2: joining the North Carolina State wolf Pack. I think it
Speaker 2: is yeah, North Carolina State University. The wolf Pack is
Speaker 2: the name of their team. So hopefully she'll bring some
Speaker 2: of that ferocity to the back line for the Wellington
Speaker 2: Phoenix women. As I say, they play on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 2: four o'clock at Potidowa Park Football Fever. Emma Humphries is
Speaker 2: the new Wellington Phoenix Academy director. Again, one of the
Speaker 2: many messages that you send me when things happen in
Speaker 2: the football world landed in my phone for context Emma
Speaker 2: Humphrees is the wife of Bev Priestman, who has recently
Speaker 2: been relieved of her duties as Canadian head coach after
Speaker 2: the drone spying scandal at the Games. You wrote a
Speaker 2: piece in The Herald chatting to Tom Somani about the
Speaker 2: possibility of Bev Prieseman being the new Football Ferns coach.
Speaker 1: Are the stars aligning here?
Speaker 3: She's coming home, piiney. This is she's just plotting. It's
Speaker 3: one step at a time. And Emma Humphreys as well.
Speaker 3: Her I kind of was in discussions with people about
Speaker 3: who could possibly, you know, be in the mix with
Speaker 3: the Ferns. She's a former Fern herself and you know,
Speaker 3: could have taken up an assistant role or something like that.
Speaker 3: But the fact she's come back to the Panis Academy great.
Speaker 3: I think she'll be really, really great in that role.
Speaker 3: And you know, a Bev Priestman may have a coffee
Speaker 3: or two with New Zealand football.
Speaker 1: Who knows, Yeah, who knows? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know, I don't know, but I would like to
Speaker 3: see it.
Speaker 2: Well, geographically, it makes sense, doesn't doesn't it. You know,
Speaker 2: if Emma humphreyes is here looking after the Phoenix academy,
Speaker 2: then obviously Bev Priesteman is going to be here as
Speaker 2: well being her wife, so I guess if she's in
Speaker 2: the country then she's probably in the convice.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, let's not forget as well that Auckland f C
Speaker 3: are going to be on the hunt for a woman's
Speaker 3: first team coach. They're obviously joining the A League woman
Speaker 3: next season, so I understand that there's been some names shortlisted.
Speaker 3: So perhaps Bev Priestman what her suspension would end around
Speaker 3: July next year, just in time for the A League
Speaker 3: season to kick off.
Speaker 2: It's all coming together. Emma Humphrey star is as a
Speaker 2: good hire for Wellington Phoenix, as you say, former Football
Speaker 2: Fern coach Canada, the under seventeen Women's World Cup assistant
Speaker 2: coach at Liverpool for a couple of seasons, has had
Speaker 2: some really high, high profile coaching jobs and to oversee
Speaker 2: the academy is that's a good role, a really good
Speaker 2: role and a good hire for Wellington Phoenix. To get
Speaker 2: Emma Humphries into that role, you know they might have
Speaker 2: got a whisper that that Emma was in the frame
Speaker 2: for the football Ferns jobs. I thought we better get
Speaker 2: her before she gets her head turned by that job.
Speaker 2: But we wait and see what happens with Bev Priestman.
Speaker 2: The plot thickins, but we just we'll keep an eye
Speaker 2: on them.
Speaker 1: Football time marching on.
Speaker 2: We'll leave Kiwis overseas for this week, but I do
Speaker 2: want to talk about the National League Championship Finals which
Speaker 2: were held at Albany last weekend. Auckland United beating Waterside
Speaker 2: Carrory three to one in the women's final. I think
Speaker 2: that makes it four titles, doesn't it. This season for
Speaker 2: Auckland United, they are just well, they've just monstered everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, really happy for them. They've got a
Speaker 3: really solid team. They had the likes of Paige Satchel
Speaker 3: starting the final on the bench for Auckland United. She
Speaker 3: only came in for the National League season. But still
Speaker 3: you know they've got such a great roster and good
Speaker 3: on them for winning and saying that. I am gutted.
Speaker 3: I'm always keen to see the underdog or another team.
Speaker 3: Weren't it just to change it up?
Speaker 2: Look, I think everybody who wasn't an Auckland United fan
Speaker 2: wanted water Side to win the same with the men's final,
Speaker 2: which we'll get to in a moment, but as soon
Speaker 2: as as soon as the first goal winning, which was early,
Speaker 2: wasn't it two minutes in p of Locke hit there
Speaker 2: one from outside the area, which actually the wolf Is
Speaker 2: keeper problemably could have done better. With all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: your one kneel down and the wind comes out of
Speaker 2: your sales. You want to start fast against an overwhelming
Speaker 2: favorite and you know keep you know, keep nice and
Speaker 2: tight at the back and all of a sudden won
Speaker 2: nil down after two minutes.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's not ideal, particularly in a final. You know,
Speaker 3: the championship games you always want to be on the
Speaker 3: usually their grudge matches right to the end, which kind
Speaker 3: of happened in the men's game. But yeah, not ideal
Speaker 3: for water Side to concede that early.
Speaker 2: But let us give kudos to Walkland United. You know
Speaker 2: you've still got to win these things. So they add
Speaker 2: the National League Championship to the Kate Shepherd Cup, the
Speaker 2: OFC Women's champions League and their win in the Northern
Speaker 2: League Women's Premiership. So congratulations to Walkland United and all
Speaker 2: conquering year for you. So you'll enjoy your summer. And
Speaker 2: the men's final Birkenhead United against perennial champions and finalists
Speaker 2: Auckland FC. This one went to extra time, angus Kill
Speaker 2: Collie scoring the winning goal again I thought. I mean,
Speaker 2: by contrast to the earlier game, Burkenhead started a really well,
Speaker 2: nice guy by Monty Patterson. They were Rehead and just
Speaker 2: couldn't hold on.
Speaker 3: I really hoped Burkenhead were gonna get the job done.
Speaker 3: I think they had an incredible season, even in the
Speaker 3: regional phase. They were the most challenging side for these
Speaker 3: top teams like Auckland City, like Wellington Olympic and yet
Speaker 3: get to take Auckland City to extra time is pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: But I think any team that kind of well, I
Speaker 3: mean it didn't happen in the Chatham Cup final, but
Speaker 3: a lot of teams that take Auckland City right to
Speaker 3: the end. Auckland City, they're kind of like Auckland f C.
Speaker 3: They always find a way to win.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: They find a way and at the end of the
Speaker 2: day they're the ones with the trophy because they found
Speaker 2: a way. Good experience in that team. Angus Kill Coli'S
Speaker 2: are say scoring the winning goal. He's been around the
Speaker 2: domestic scene for a while. Mario Ilitch, I don't think
Speaker 2: the tac like ever get older. He seems talking bit
Speaker 2: around about thirty years he talks about twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seriously, and remember Auckland City. It's a good win
Speaker 3: for them because they're playing in the Club World Cup
Speaker 3: next next year. I actually believe the draw comes out
Speaker 3: tomorrow morning, Friday morning as we record this. So they've
Speaker 3: got a big kind of focus to turn their heads
Speaker 3: too now and this will be a good confidence booster
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 2: Weld on Auckland CITYFC. Weld on Auckland United National League
Speaker 2: champions for twenty twenty four. That brings oh issue we
Speaker 2: should mention to Libby Cacacchi and c J Bot nominated
Speaker 2: and FIFA's the best awards, so eleven defenders in the
Speaker 2: men and eleven defenders and the women, and Libby Cacachy
Speaker 2: and c J Bott are among them.
Speaker 1: I mean, good thank.
Speaker 3: I mean if you were to ask me Piney, who
Speaker 3: of our national team players would make that, you know,
Speaker 3: you would probably guess those two. Maybe someone like Chris Wood,
Speaker 3: but he's only just recently kind of gone all right,
Speaker 3: But yeah, very very impressed and.
Speaker 2: So happy for them, very happy for them. Indeed, all right,
Speaker 2: that is us on football fever. Are you going to
Speaker 2: be celebrity spotting on Saturday up in the corporates for
Speaker 2: this game? Have you got a ticket to the to
Speaker 2: the you know the area where only the very special
Speaker 2: A listers are allowed to go.
Speaker 1: Are you going to be watching it from the port?
Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
Speaker 3: Well, look, Parney, I'll do a bit of work first.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be roving around trying to speak and
Speaker 3: interview some punters. So if you see me down there
Speaker 3: with a herald mic in hand, you know, don't be
Speaker 3: afraid to come up and chat the game with me.
Speaker 3: But yes, I will be loitering around, loitering around seeing
Speaker 3: who's who's there and who's turned up for the occasion,
Speaker 3: but just so excited to watch it and see what
Speaker 3: happens on the day.
Speaker 2: You should maybe like a try, you should put your
Speaker 2: media pass on trade me. You probably make about one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: It's got my head shot on it.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: No one's going to be able to use.
Speaker 1: It, that's true. That's true. Like I was only I
Speaker 1: was only half I was only half joking. It's the
Speaker 1: hottest It's the hottest ticket in town. Body. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. Someone someone to pay five hundred bucks for
Speaker 1: him to tell you.
Speaker 3: I could do with that. That'd be great, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, if you're making it along on Saturday, we look
Speaker 2: forward to seeing you there. Let's hope the occasion delivers
Speaker 2: on the hype which has been monstrous this week. Just
Speaker 2: can't wait for another great occasion in New Zealand football.
Speaker 2: We will review it all for you on Football Fever
Speaker 2: next week, whichever day takes our fancy. It could be Monday,
Speaker 2: could be Thursday, who knows. We don't seem to operate
Speaker 2: to any particularly structured roster here on Football Fever, but
Speaker 2: we will chat next week, Bonny.
Speaker 3: We'll see it then.
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