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Speaker 1: Darcy Walter Grave, sports talk host. Yeah, okay, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Blues are off to Mount Smart two games.

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Speaker 2: Well possibly possibly that Michael Burgers wrote the story in

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Speaker 2: the Herald generally has very good connections, so I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: think he's making up Porky's here and the attempt to

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Speaker 2: get hold of eden Park and the Blues and everybody else.

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Speaker 2: You can't so when that happens, normally there's some truth

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Speaker 2: and it isn't there.

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Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, yeah, they indicated they were

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Speaker 1: going to do it, and it's not a bad idea,

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Speaker 1: is it.

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Speaker 2: I thought that the Auckland NPC team would have been

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Speaker 2: better going first. I seem a bit round the wrong way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean you do make a fair point.

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Speaker 1: But listen, Darcy, just for the Blues going to Mount

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Speaker 1: Smart not a bad idea, is it?

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Speaker 2: No? For smaller games possibly. What I worry here with

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Speaker 2: this we know that at eden Park when it's full

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Speaker 2: of people's amazing. I've been to some fantastic Super Rugby

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Speaker 2: games there at eden Park final semifinals. The problem here

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Speaker 2: is when you start splitting your fan base where they go,

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Speaker 2: where they come back. I'm not going to say it's

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Speaker 2: going to confuse people, but it could confuse people. Where's

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Speaker 2: your home ground? And the players, where's our home ground?

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Speaker 2: Where are our fans? We saw them with Mona Pussyfiker.

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Speaker 2: They got a number of players or fans to turn

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Speaker 2: up across the bridge at nor for Harbor. No one

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Speaker 2: ever thought it would happen. Why did that happen Because

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Speaker 2: they built a wonderful game and people wanted to see them. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and they got that fan base. So splitting the fan

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Speaker 2: base now.

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Speaker 1: But what you do is they're testing the water, so

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Speaker 1: they're taking it to Mount Smart and if we turn

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Speaker 1: up for the two games at Mount Smart, then they

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Speaker 1: will move all the games to Mount Smart.

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Speaker 2: No, but what happens if they get into a semi

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Speaker 2: final against the Crusaders, for example, they could pump forty

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Speaker 2: thousand people, give the Glory games to eat. Okay, so

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Speaker 2: Glory Games to Eden Park the build up games there.

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Speaker 2: How I'm going to talk about this tonight. Craig Dowd's

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Speaker 2: going to join us on air a former aukron form

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Speaker 2: of Blues, former All Black, about playing at a ground,

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Speaker 2: getting used to the ground, what the crowd will do,

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Speaker 2: whether they will depart, whether they will actually stretch their

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Speaker 2: legs and go there, or whether they're so familiar with

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Speaker 2: Eden Park they won't. I think the big thing around

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Speaker 2: this is the finances, how much money it costs to

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Speaker 2: open up Eden Park. And I don't think that New

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Speaker 2: Zealand Rugby, be it Blues or auckland ENPC or All

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Speaker 2: Blacks have got enough money to pay for it. It's

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Speaker 2: a huge, huge amount of coin there.

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Speaker 1: Of the four players who've left, oh.

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Speaker 2: There are so many players that have gone. Now I've

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Speaker 2: lost I've lost track because of course.

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Speaker 1: We know Kellie Jackson's gone from the Pulse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do know that. We know that Whitney Sooner

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Speaker 2: has just announced that she's disappearing. Karen Berger disappeared up

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Speaker 2: before that, Kate Heffernan from down in Southland. There are

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Speaker 2: so many players. But I don't see this as being

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Speaker 2: a bad thing. No it's not. It's a future thing

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Speaker 2: and we have a better silver fur inside for it.

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Speaker 2: I just wish it had stopped because I speaking happening

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Speaker 2: every day, like slow down, lady, slow down, breathe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, thank you, Darcy appreciated Darcy water Grave. Sports

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