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Speaker 1: Noel in Tarua. I mean it isn't the first coach

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Speaker 1: to be badly treated, of course, but she might actually

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Speaker 1: be the most successful and well regarded and sport I

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Speaker 1: was thinking to himself over the week. It's funny, old thing,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? These days and these it sort of seems

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Speaker 1: to want to walk a line between being successful and

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Speaker 1: being modern or dare I suggest the word woke? See

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Speaker 1: last week when reports of players feeling unsafe emerged, I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know what that actually meant. Unsafe to me anyway,

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Speaker 1: Unsafe for something that might happen in the dark in

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Speaker 1: an alley. It's a physical danger thing, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: an emotional state on a court. On a court, you

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Speaker 1: can be exhausted or exhilarated or furious or related. I

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Speaker 1: just can't work out how you are unsafe, which in

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Speaker 1: part is the problem. I think it's an invention or

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Speaker 1: a new derivation of the word. Your environment has been

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Speaker 1: interfered with, even if you accept its new usage. It's

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Speaker 1: the sort of thing you might find on a university

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Speaker 1: campus among the angsty. On a sport field or a court,

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Speaker 1: it's got no place, even less so if that court

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Speaker 1: is at the elect level. I mean cycling had a

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Speaker 1: horrible time if you remember that. But that was abuse?

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Speaker 1: Is Netbull talking about abuse? Does Tarua abuse people? That

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be the suggestion. Next problem is the

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Speaker 1: lack of clarity, if not honesty, all reports seem to

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Speaker 1: indicate unsafe is code for the coach being a bit

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Speaker 1: old fashioned, demanding high standards, not putting up with slackness. See,

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Speaker 1: we used to like that approach. That approach was the norm.

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Speaker 1: The only purpose of elite sport, if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: the only purpose is victory. It exists for no other

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Speaker 1: reason than to let a chosen few express themselves in

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Speaker 1: a way where they win and others can piggyback by

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Speaker 1: way of television licensing or ticket sales or just being

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Speaker 1: a fan. Unless Nolan Tarua has had a personality transformation

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Speaker 1: and they're all wandering around netball in New Zealand going, oh,

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Speaker 1: what happened to Nole's man? That Knowles has changed, hasn't she?

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Speaker 1: Which I suspect hasn't happened. Then what we are left

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Speaker 1: with is the inescapable conclusion that Tarua is the victim

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Speaker 1: of soft management in a world where every cry baby

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Speaker 1: is heard and the ultimate victim. Irony of Ironies is

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Speaker 1: one of the best and one of the sport's greatest

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Speaker 1: ever exponents. She is benched while the woke in the

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Speaker 1: boardroom wreck the national women's sport. For more from the

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