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Speaker 1: Quick little message, Christmas message, if you will, to all

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Speaker 1: the PR people out there, advising sports people and sporting organizations,

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Speaker 1: could you please start talking like now. The less you talk,

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Speaker 1: the dodgier you look. Stop hiding your CEOs and your

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Speaker 1: board chairs under bushes and the hope that scandals and

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Speaker 1: poor decisions will be overlooked and forgotten and swept under

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Speaker 1: the carpet. Because if twenty twenty five has taught us anything,

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Speaker 1: it's that they won't and they don't. Jenny Wiley is

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Speaker 1: gone from Netball New Zealand. No surprises there, and there'll

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Speaker 1: be no surprises either when half the board probably follows

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Speaker 1: her out the door. They'll be lining that up as

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Speaker 1: we speak, with announcements to come soon. I would have thought,

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Speaker 1: but like cricket, we've got the top dog at a

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Speaker 1: top sporting body disappearing before Christmas without a once over

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Speaker 1: and the press from their higher ups. Matt Winner Ray

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Speaker 1: is not fronting on this. Jenny's gone, Winner Rays apparently,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, clearly on holiday somewhere somewhere, not here.

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Speaker 1: In the world of American football. Right now, much is

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Speaker 1: being made of Travis Kelcey's media management. He's refused to

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Speaker 1: do a bunch of interviews postmatch because well, they lost

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Speaker 1: a game. Yes that's Taita's boyfriend for those who are interested,

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Speaker 1: and yes that's the Kansas City Chiefs. They've won a

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Speaker 1: few Super Bowls recently of late, and now they're not

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Speaker 1: even going to make the playoffs. So he's upset. Obviously

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to talk to pesky journos. And I get that.

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Speaker 1: I understand that because they're athletes, they're emotional, they're up

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Speaker 1: and down like a yo yo. But when something goes

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Speaker 1: down in the business of sport, in my view, you

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Speaker 1: should front it in the same way as a regular

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Speaker 1: company CEO or a politician would. The fans are the voters,

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Speaker 1: the shareholders, and they deserve some respect. Respect is shown

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Speaker 1: through communication, and right now they are getting the corporate

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Speaker 1: equivalent of a middle finger. And all of this is

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Speaker 1: made worse by the fact that this is what got

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Speaker 1: them into them has to begin with with Dame Knowles.

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Speaker 1: They didn't front. When they did, they didn't say anything,

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Speaker 1: and then the mood reached fever pitched and almost every

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Speaker 1: single silver fern whodever donned a bib came out and

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Speaker 1: had their say through their five cents into the bucket.

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Speaker 1: Then the government steps in, then finally things changed. One

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Speaker 1: of the reasons I quite like netball, in fact that

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons I love netball and watching it

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Speaker 1: and following it as a sport is because of the

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Speaker 1: straight up, hard as Nail's personalities that tend to dominate it.

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Speaker 1: They're no nonsense, they straight up the guts, and I

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Speaker 1: think management ought to take a leaf out of their book.

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