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Speaker 1: So it looks like the rugby bosses may have already

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Speaker 1: realized how big a mistake they made with that Haukker,

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Speaker 1: because we've now learned that they've cut the political bit

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Speaker 1: that TJ Petanada did. They've cut that out of the

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Speaker 1: version of the Hauker that they've uploaded to their social

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Speaker 1: media accounts. So if you went onto their Instill, Twitter

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Speaker 1: or whatever, you wouldn't even know necessarily that he'd done that.

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Speaker 1: And if they have done that because they realized that

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Speaker 1: they made a mistake to say yes to it, they

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Speaker 1: are right. Big mistake from the All Blacks, big mistake

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Speaker 1: from Scott Robertson personally saying yes to TJ when TJ

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Speaker 1: said he was going to do this. Now, before we

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Speaker 1: get into why I think it's a big mistake, let's

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Speaker 1: just clear something up first. TJ is entitled, like we

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Speaker 1: all are, to have a political opinion, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody's going to be surprised that he would come

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Speaker 1: down with this particular political opinion right, that he would

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Speaker 1: be in support of the hikoy because we know where

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Speaker 1: he stands on things. I mean, he's already publicly supported

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Speaker 1: Igumato and he's publicly supported the Wellington women's team when

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Speaker 1: they did their anti government hucker. So what a surprise. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is not a TJ problem. This is an All

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Speaker 1: Blacks problem, because the All Blacks are not in a

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Speaker 1: position where they can afford to lose fans and viewers

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Speaker 1: and piss people off, especially when so many of us

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Speaker 1: are already talking about how much we prefer watching the

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Speaker 1: Warriors at the moment to watching rugby union. The problem

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Speaker 1: that the All Blacks have got in particular here is

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Speaker 1: that I reckon that they're most rusted on the viewers

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Speaker 1: would be Heartland, New Zealand. So we're talking about farms,

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Speaker 1: rural communities, old blokes who feel really loyal to the game.

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Speaker 1: And I reckon quite a few of those rusted on

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Speaker 1: viewers I just described to you would actually disagree with

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Speaker 1: TJ as to whether or not they support the he

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Speaker 1: coy And given how intense this Treaty Principles and Hecoy

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Speaker 1: debate is, I reckon quite a few of them might

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Speaker 1: just feel kind of a bit annoyed with him that

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Speaker 1: he's presumed that he represents the views of the whole

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Speaker 1: country with that hakka, because he doesn't. And this may

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Speaker 1: be a surprise to TJR. I don't know, but if

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Speaker 1: he goes and has a look at the most recent polling,

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Speaker 1: he will find that almost twice as many key we

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Speaker 1: actually like Seymour's principles I do as oppose it. So

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Speaker 1: the support that the Hikoy has is probably a lot

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Speaker 1: less than the support that David Seymour has based on

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Speaker 1: that polling anyway, So for tj well known anti meat,

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Speaker 1: anti government chap, no problem at all with what he's done,

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Speaker 1: right because he's heading off on a new career and

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Speaker 1: his water off a ducks back and who cares. He's

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Speaker 1: made a statement and we're all talking about him. He's

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Speaker 1: probably stoked about that. For New Zealand Rugby though, fighting

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Speaker 1: to retain its audience, and for Scott Robertson, fighting to

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Speaker 1: prove himself as the new All Blacks coach, Big Mistake.

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