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Speaker 1: Jason Pine Weekend Sport hosters with me right now, Hey Piney,

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Speaker 1: Hello Heather, Now, hold on, I thought that the A

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Speaker 1: League Grand Final was going to be at Mount Smart.

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Speaker 1: Are you telling me that's not true?

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Speaker 2: No, it is going to be at Mount Smart. There

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Speaker 2: was there was talk that it might be moved to

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Speaker 2: Eden Park because of a bigger capacity. Auckland f C

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Speaker 2: don't get to make the decision. It gets made by

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Speaker 2: the powers that be at the A League. Who would

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Speaker 2: I'm sure looked at a forty five thousand capacity stadium.

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Speaker 2: I thought we can get a lot more ticket revenue

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Speaker 2: there than we would add a twenty seven twenty eight

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Speaker 2: thousand capacity Mount Smart. So somebody at Auckland FC has

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Speaker 2: the powers of negotiation to have convinced them that, no,

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Speaker 2: we should have it at Mount Smart. So if Auckland

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Speaker 2: FC make the A League Grand Final, it'll be at

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Speaker 2: Mount Smart.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the right thing to do, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Pine Absolutely, absolutely, everybody's got.

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Speaker 1: Used to going there and it's the place that they've

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Speaker 1: played it, then he may as well just continue there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man. And home advantage. Yeah, home advantage is called

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Speaker 2: home advantage for a reason. If they would have played

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Speaker 2: at Eden Park. It'd be unfamiliar to the Auckland FC players.

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Speaker 2: You know so, and it's the best player to watch it,

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Speaker 2: you know what, even parks like watching a game on

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Speaker 2: a rectangular field your miles away Mounts Mark. Great decision, Well.

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Speaker 1: Done, guess so the Crusaders are going to play the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs tomorrow and out in it. Do you think that

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Speaker 1: this is basically what the Grand Final is going to

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Speaker 1: look like?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Could well be. They're the two teams at the

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Speaker 2: top by quite some distance, with the best records, they've

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Speaker 2: played the best all year. I think it could well

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Speaker 2: be a precursor to what we see in the Grand

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Speaker 2: Final in a month and a half or so. Crusaders

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Speaker 2: I see a favorites because probably because they're playing at home.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs beat the Crusaders forty nine twenty four in

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Speaker 2: round two and the Crusader's about to make a change

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Speaker 2: at first five rivers. Rayhanna has come in. The Chiefs

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Speaker 2: have got Damien McKenzie back. I kind of like the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs in this, if I'm honest, Heather, I quite like

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Speaker 2: them to win this and I think they will probably

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Speaker 2: if they do win tomorrow, finish top of the table

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Speaker 2: and get hosting rights through They've lost the last two

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Speaker 2: Grand finals. Maybe twenty twenty five is the year of

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs. I like this prediction.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to remember this Piney, because you know I

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Speaker 1: know your prediction. I know you will Jason Pynes, we

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Speaker 1: can sport host.

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