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Speaker 1: Darcy Walter Graves here was sport Darcy, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Ryan, good afternoon to yourself.

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Speaker 1: TJ Pier and are the protest the haker? We've had

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Speaker 1: the full rundown in the Herald today. What's your take.

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Speaker 2: That you use any situation you can to push your cause,

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Speaker 2: but you do not do it as the leader of

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Speaker 2: a hakker representing not only the All Blacks but the

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Speaker 2: entire nation. That's not right.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that got me was that he didn't

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Speaker 1: ask his teammates. I mean, you know, like it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter whether it's rugby or what the situation is. If

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Speaker 1: you're in a team environment and you're going to make

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Speaker 1: something that's so significant, a significant move, you consult with him,

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Speaker 1: don't you.

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Speaker 2: I'd think so. I just think it shows I know

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Speaker 2: he is very passionate about that. A lot of people are.

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Speaker 2: I know that politically that's the way Eileen as well.

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Speaker 2: But to drag the whole team without them knowing exactly

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Speaker 2: what you're going to do, that's just mean. It's just

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Speaker 2: you can't do that to the rest of the team.

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Speaker 2: That Look, it's a case of in spead of asking

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Speaker 2: a mission, he's going to beg.

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Speaker 1: For forgive exactly at the end of it.

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Speaker 2: I just don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't because the guys that they had no choice

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Speaker 1: but to do the hacker and they were none the

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Speaker 1: wiser so they and a lot of them probably didn't

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Speaker 1: even know what they were Marty.

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Speaker 2: They had no idea about what he was actually, So

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Speaker 2: I don't think the message was a bad message, but

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Speaker 2: the fact that he said, if you don't let me

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Speaker 2: say something, I'm gonna I'm not going to lead the harker,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to walk. So it puts New Zealand Rugby

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Speaker 2: in a really difficult position the lesser of two evils.

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Speaker 2: Do we let him do it and risk blowback or

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Speaker 2: do we get rid of him and people start going

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Speaker 2: where's TJ on the very last match? So difficult situation

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Speaker 2: for them to be. It is.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, Super Rugby has done this big season, launch a

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Speaker 1: ton of players that injured already and we're not even

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Speaker 1: got a first game yet.

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Speaker 2: No, and if you look at the Crusaders, and I'd

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Speaker 2: say a vast amount of Super fans couldn't care less

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Speaker 2: and they'll be pointing and laughing. They've I think they're

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Speaker 2: injury tolls in double figus down. I mean, Cody Taylor's

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Speaker 2: the latest out, Brandon Enna's gone, You've got Quentin Stranger, Hannah,

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Speaker 2: You've got McNulty. It just goes on and on and on.

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Speaker 2: Sam Darry he's been invalid out of the Aland side.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure there's a few more sniffing around, but

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Speaker 2: most of the all the coaches have said, we're going

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Speaker 2: to work it out and integrate these guys. We can't

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Speaker 2: just throw them straight back in again. The problem here

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Speaker 2: is it's the start of the super season. What do

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Speaker 2: you want to do. You want to put your best

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Speaker 2: foot forward. You want to show the punters. These are

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Speaker 2: our rock stars, these are our all blacks, these are

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Speaker 2: the best players. Yet these guys have only just come

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Speaker 2: back after an Northern tour, They've had some r and

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Speaker 2: r as, they need their retraining again, and suddenly they

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Speaker 2: get thrown into the thick of it. I'm not quite

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Speaker 2: sure it's good for the well being of athletes long term,

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Speaker 2: and then there'd be something there. So like your athletes,

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Speaker 2: just play, if your break so well, get the next

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Speaker 2: quick going, move on, Let's get another one. So then

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Speaker 2: it gets underway. On the fourteenth, the launch happened now

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Speaker 2: and their big new package, their Fantasy Super Rugby is

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Speaker 2: to date underway.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow sorry Friday, finally, so it will be in time

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Speaker 1: and on time. I should say that's something. Thank you, Darcy.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you seven enjoy tomorrow. Thank you very much,

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