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Speaker 1: Our good news for Rugby Superfinals to sellout took a

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Speaker 1: couple of hours and forty four thousand people are going

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Speaker 1: to watch the Blues face the Chief, so that's exciting.

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Speaker 1: Blue CEO Andrew Hall with is Andrew Morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. How are you today?

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Speaker 1: Very well? Indeed, talk me through what I saw last

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Speaker 1: week in the semi final with next to no one

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Speaker 1: there and the sellout. What's happened there? How do we

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Speaker 1: explain this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, there's a couple of things. Yeah. One look, overall,

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Speaker 2: we've absolutely delighted with the comp like TV broadcast has

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Speaker 2: gone up again. There was seven hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: watched Blues versus Crusaders for example, and record number actually

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Speaker 2: for the Crusaders Best of Mona which was interesting. So overall,

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Speaker 2: along with the digital reach, and we're really happy with

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Speaker 2: the over twenty thousand we've had in the other games

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Speaker 2: we've had at Eden Park this year. So last week

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Speaker 2: I think we've said the competition organizers and what we've

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Speaker 2: delighted about is having a new commission because we think

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Speaker 2: we'll finally be listened to. Is that Auckland and Sydney

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Speaker 2: is not a great environment on a Friday evening when

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Speaker 2: there's a weather bomb and quarter finals don't or semi finals.

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Speaker 2: We've still got work to do on I was the

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Speaker 2: opposition that said, we're delighted with the week before in

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Speaker 2: the quarter final against the Drill, which really brought an

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Speaker 2: atmosphere which was outstanding. So we're not a finished product.

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Speaker 2: We've got to keep working really hard to get this

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Speaker 2: commission up and running and really driving things forward. Because

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Speaker 2: they've shown that they're already prepared to listen, they're already

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Speaker 2: get some afternoon games, so that's good good.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, but the problem with the afternoon games is

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Speaker 1: we love it as a spectator, but of course television

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Speaker 1: not so good. I mean, you can't do you get

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Speaker 1: eyeballs at night, don't you. That's what it boils down to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does, And it's getting that balance. It's a

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Speaker 2: bit like the high performance fandom piece, like we went

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Speaker 2: a little bit too much. Everything was about high performance

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Speaker 2: were actually it's about the fan and getting them down there,

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Speaker 2: and the boys love playing in front of people. So

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Speaker 2: it's that whole balance. Mike, Hey, you know it's and

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Speaker 2: isn't it nice to have balance of not having the

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Speaker 2: crusaders in the farm.

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Speaker 1: Yes, did the collection. So how does the money work

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Speaker 1: by hosting the final if not a semi final? Do

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Speaker 1: you gain by that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We do, Yeah, we do. In our competition it's

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Speaker 2: always been the way. There is a payment to the

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Speaker 2: other team as well, but that's why so and so

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Speaker 2: when you don't have that, this is the problem with

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Speaker 2: the comp at the moment. Unlike mr L with there's

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Speaker 2: a really strong base payment which gives commercial stability. We

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Speaker 2: sort of live the finals and if you don't make

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Speaker 2: finals then you're in a you're in a really tough spiral, right,

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Speaker 2: So there's got to be something we've got to look

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Speaker 2: at in that whole model. We agree with that. However,

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Speaker 2: when it comes around, you're almost saving for the day

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Speaker 2: that it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. As far as the ticket sales are concerned,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you is it all the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: coming north or does Auckland support Auckland.

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Speaker 2: No, we found that this has been Britain. I think

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Speaker 2: it shows too that Auckland is big enough now to

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Speaker 2: you know, to be successful in both league and rugby union.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think it's one versus other.

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Speaker 1: Of course not.

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Speaker 2: Our majority of our tickets were sold to a membership

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Speaker 2: base before even on public. Well, not a majority, but

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Speaker 2: a large percentage which are which are Awkland people, which

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Speaker 2: is outstanding. There's no doubt they mate, you can't get

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Speaker 2: away from it. They're coming up the motorway and that

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Speaker 2: that actually makes it more exciting, which is brilliant. We'll

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Speaker 2: have a really good atmosphere, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Good on you mate, go well, appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Hall, who's the the Blue CEO the Big Final.

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