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Speaker 1: So I might not have Darcy who's got a NIXT

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Speaker 2: Hello, I tell are you good?

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Speaker 1: And you're not denying it either, are you? No?

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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't be able to. I don't think of it.

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Speaker 2: Although there's been a blow and black in there at

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Speaker 2: the moment as well. With the way Auckland FC go, that.

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Speaker 1: Was an amazing performance. You just saw the midfield in

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Speaker 1: the backs. They are a wall. They are amazing, and

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Speaker 1: they're physical and they're tough and they're bruises.

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Speaker 2: They're all of those things and there's a reason why

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Speaker 2: they're the best offensive team in the comp and it's

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Speaker 2: just what you've outlined there. They are just very hard

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Speaker 2: to break down Auckland f C. And look making a great,

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Speaker 2: great fist of their of their made and a league

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Speaker 2: season and long mate continue.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Chief he is watching and learning and that'll be good, eh, Yes, maybe?

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Speaker 1: Speaking about football, the big news over the week is

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Speaker 1: that Chris Wood resigned with Nottingham Forest. Now I would

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Speaker 1: have thought there would have been loads of people looking

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Speaker 2: I think you're probably right Andrew, which I think has

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Speaker 2: probably compelled Nottingham Forest to say, hey, with all of

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Speaker 2: these others sniffing about, I think we better tie this

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Speaker 2: bloke down. So they have for two and a half years,

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Speaker 2: taken through to May of twenty twenty seven, by which

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Speaker 2: stage he'll be approaching his thirty seventh birthday. This is

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Speaker 2: a great story Andrew. As you know, he left New

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Speaker 2: Zealand's a seventeen year old to go and seek his

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Speaker 2: football in fortune, and it took him a while. He

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Speaker 2: played in a lot of teams in a lot of levels,

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Speaker 2: career renaissance. I just wonder, you know, whether in May

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Speaker 2: and Black. Maybe he comes home and finishes his career

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Speaker 2: at Auckland FC, not at the next It depends how

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Speaker 2: the two teams are going and who's got the biggest

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Speaker 2: check book. I suppose in a couple of.

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Speaker 1: Years, you know, I was the Kings. I was sitting

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Speaker 1: the Kings, I remember going along to a lot of

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Speaker 1: their games to watch Winton roof for play because he

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Speaker 1: not a bad idea.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's see what happens. But I think at the

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Speaker 2: moment scoring goals for Nottingham Forrest and doing it pretty.

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Speaker 1: Well, pretty well, pretty well, gosh, you're a hard man

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Speaker 1: to impress. He's on fire.

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Speaker 2: There we go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now we've got Australian Open semi finals today, We've

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Speaker 1: got Djokovic versus Verev, We've got Cinner versus Shelton. So

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Speaker 1: I reckon if you went to the tab and put

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Speaker 1: came to be, you'd make a fortune.

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Speaker 2: You would, and it would have to come to be

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Speaker 2: for you to make that fortune, And I just don't

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Speaker 2: see how it can. Sverev, I think, is a better

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Speaker 2: chance to beat Djokovic than Shelton is a beating Sinner.

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Speaker 2: Ben Shelton twenty first seed's got to the semis with

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Speaker 2: that having to raally beat anybody of note, certainly nobody

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Speaker 2: Againstjarnick Cinner. Dokovic Zverev is really interesting. Alexander vere has

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Speaker 2: never won a major. He's reached two finals, been in

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Speaker 2: Dokovic going for his twenty fifth major. I reckon Djokovic

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Speaker 2: Ciner is probably the final most people would like to see.

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Speaker 2: I think it's probably the one we will see.

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Speaker 1: And then who would win that match? Because I hate

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Speaker 1: to say it. I was watching Ciner the other day

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Speaker 2: I think would be underdog against you, alex Iner, world

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Speaker 2: and you wouldn't put it past Djokovic to win number

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Speaker 2: twenty five in twenty twenty five, and I think Soner

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Speaker 1: And one of the odds that Jason Plain could end

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Speaker 2: And useless, I'll flip you for it.

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Speaker 1: Oh too tempting, all right, Betty, thank you so oh

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Speaker 1: you've got to be listening a bit later on because

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Speaker 1: we're talking about that little town of Kerwee which is

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Speaker 1: hosting the Blues versus Canterbury.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to that?

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Speaker 1: Is that going to be great?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Glory?

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Speaker 1: Okay, buddy, Thank you for more.

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