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Speaker 1: Darcy Watergrave sports stalk hosters with me right now. Hey, Darce, I.

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Speaker 2: Love your enthusiasm when I come into the studio. Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 1: You're more than welcome. Always always trying to match your energy.

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Speaker 1: Alex Paulson, how great is this news after Bournemouth? Coolest story,

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Speaker 1: isn't it cool?

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Speaker 2: And I'd say nothing to do with the fact people saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: you might back over here with Akaka, because I don't

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Speaker 2: think that's possible. We've talked about that previously legally, but

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Speaker 2: put it out to one side because that doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Darsie. Think about this. The kid is born in Auckland,

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Speaker 1: goes to school in Wellington and he is now going

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Speaker 1: to goalkeep against some of the best strikers in the world.

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Speaker 2: Well he's over there on contract. There he gets to

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Speaker 2: actually launch at the very top level. We will see.

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Speaker 2: But the fact the matter is, we talk about inspiration,

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Speaker 2: we talk about aspiration. This is something that says to

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Speaker 2: all the kids out there, that's right, boys and girls,

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Speaker 2: men and woman. You know what. Being at the bottom

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Speaker 2: end of the world is not playing in the A League.

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Speaker 1: It's all right, we.

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Speaker 2: Can get there. If anything, you're isolated. People see more

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Speaker 2: of you, because there's so few people.

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Speaker 1: Interesting that you say that. Because the moment I read

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Speaker 1: that story, I sent it to my sister in law

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Speaker 1: because she's got an eleven year old who's like fully

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Speaker 1: into football and thinks Manchester City's the best thing in

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Speaker 1: the world. And I said to her, read him this

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Speaker 1: story so he knows he can do this too.

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Speaker 2: Anywhere we've got cupreach. Seeing he started off in Auckland

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Speaker 2: and went down pretty much by himself to Wellington to

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Speaker 2: try and forge your path, when of course to the Phoenix,

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Speaker 2: then disappeared over to Germany. Not quite sure what he's

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Speaker 2: doing now, but it's entirely possible. When I was a kid,

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Speaker 2: there is no way you'd even think about it.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain something to me?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 1: The four million dollars that's paid is paid to the

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Speaker 1: Wellington Phoenix, not to him.

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Speaker 2: I asked him about the money that he actually pocketed

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Speaker 2: in this and he said, I think the quote was

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Speaker 2: I respectfully do not want to tell you, but he

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Speaker 2: will get a payment, he'll be on a salary whatever

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Speaker 2: that is. But then the transfer fee goes directly to

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Speaker 2: the Wellington Phoenix because they found him, they nurtured him,

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Speaker 2: and then.

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Speaker 1: They can spend it on buying other players.

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Speaker 2: So it works well as a nursery. I suppose you'd say,

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Speaker 2: and look, hey, you looked after the guy. And that's

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Speaker 2: the cool thing about about football. You don't get no compute,

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Speaker 2: so you don't get no compensation. Perfect. I don't getting

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Speaker 2: no conversation, right, Sorry, companies out there upset me.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry aboutn't care, okay, because it's we're respectfully co

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Speaker 1: opting something, just like I'm.

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Speaker 2: Just like focusing on mile mate, Miles Davis.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who's going to win tonight?

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Speaker 2: I don't care. I should technically say that I would

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Speaker 2: like the Marines to win because I lived over in

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Speaker 2: the Gold Coaster What's sex seven months and I watched

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Speaker 2: football over there with people who are wearing maroon. So

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Speaker 2: if that's a very tenuous link, I'll take it. But

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Speaker 2: when push comes to shove, I just want to see hard, fast,

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Speaker 2: brutal rugby league. And even though some people say, well,

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Speaker 2: it's not the best of the best anymore, because there

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Speaker 2: are so many Pussifica and English and New Zealand players

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Speaker 2: there that are the best in their position, so it's

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Speaker 2: not really the best of the best. Anymore's come up

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Speaker 2: there somewhere. But over the last few year is it

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Speaker 2: always provides I go watch a bit of watch a bit, yeah,

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes and I'm like, wow, this is awesome. So

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Speaker 2: as much as I might go, prepare, it'll be well

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Speaker 2: worth it.

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Speaker 1: Have you got Alex on the show this evening? How

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Speaker 1: did you just like not mention that before?

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Speaker 2: I was just waiting for you to go stumbling into it?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know a takes You are on the podcast

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Speaker 2: as well, Sports Fix if you want to take.

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Speaker 1: This stop it? Are you plugging the podcast as well?

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Speaker 2: Of course we're going great guns at the moment. We're climbing,

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Speaker 2: you know, and one of these days I will knock

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Speaker 2: on the door of HD P A A. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what.

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Speaker 1: Number are you you?

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Speaker 2: What number? What? Globally? Nationally within the factory?

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Speaker 1: You saw the spreadsheet came out yet yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a few downloads. Look, look, the boss

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Speaker 2: and the producer just said we're going well promoted. I said, okay,

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Speaker 2: Because I am Ron Burgundy, I just do what I'm told.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Darcy, looking forward to the show this evening.

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Speaker 1: Darcy water Grave Sports talk host for more from Hither

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