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Speaker 1: Jason Pine Weekend Sport host is with me in studio

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Speaker 1: right now. How piney? Hello, you're here for sale GP.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looking forward to it. Yeah. Broadcasting tomorrow mid day

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Speaker 2: to three and again on Sunday. So looking forward to

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Speaker 2: sale GP. Hopefully the weather's going to improve a little bit.

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Speaker 2: By the sounds of it's not going to rain tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: but will blow So I think, isn't it good?

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Speaker 1: Isn't it a little bit of a blowy day? Although

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Speaker 1: what does a blowy day do for people coming to

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Speaker 1: sit in the stands and watch the thing? Well?

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Speaker 2: I mean you even bring a jacket, don't you. I

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Speaker 2: think you know you want to see high intensity racing,

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Speaker 2: and I think that obviously the stronger the wind, you know,

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Speaker 2: within reason, gives you that. So I think they'll be

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Speaker 2: up on their foils and absolutely ripping round White to

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Speaker 2: Mata Harbor tomorrow. Think it'll be a great spectator action.

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Speaker 1: Can I suggest to you that there hasn't been enough

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Speaker 1: advertising of this?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, have you have you not? Sort

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Speaker 2: of have you not caught the vibe in the city of.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like vaguely aware of it, but at

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Speaker 1: no point has it been pitched to me, you need

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Speaker 1: to get tickets for you and your family to come

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Speaker 1: and see this happen. Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And actually like that. I don't know. Is it a

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Speaker 1: family event? It seems like it might be.

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Speaker 2: Well. I think the good thing about it is it's

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Speaker 2: it's over and done with fairly quickly. If you know,

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Speaker 2: you're not sort of sitting there for hours on end.

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Speaker 2: It's in a ninety minute window, three races and four

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Speaker 2: if they can fit them in between four and five thirty.

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Speaker 2: They're expecting twenty five twenty six thousand across the two

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Speaker 2: days plats. That's in the paid seats, plus you can

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Speaker 2: line the shore if you want to and not pay

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Speaker 2: and watch it. I think it's it's fairly striking in

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Speaker 2: a visual sense, so hopefully they'll get some they'll get

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Speaker 2: the people turning up. They've extended the grand stand this year,

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Speaker 2: so that tells you that there is the demand for it.

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Speaker 1: Now. I'm not going to suggest that Ants the producer

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Speaker 1: knows what he's talking about, but he suggested that is

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Speaker 1: if this keeps on growing in popularity, we may have

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Speaker 1: trouble retaining it in Auckland. What do you think?

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Speaker 2: I think antswer for once is right? I think he.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what we're going towards, because I remember

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Speaker 2: speaking to Sir Russell Coots last year when we broadcast

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Speaker 2: live from sal GP and he said, we've got a

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Speaker 2: five year deal in front of Auckland. Auckland didn't pick

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Speaker 2: that deal up. This is the last year at the

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Speaker 2: moment that it's contracted for. There are cities all around

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Speaker 2: the world who want to bring sale GP to their harbor.

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Speaker 2: So unless Aukland fronts up with the money to keep

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Speaker 2: it here. I mean to Rusal Coots is a key

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Speaker 2: we that helps, but only to a certain degree. He

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Speaker 2: just wants to make this as big and as successful

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Speaker 2: as possible.

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Speaker 1: Because at some point you just get pissed off with

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Speaker 1: our lack of gratitude.

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Speaker 2: Ay, you've got the ability to cut through where I

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Speaker 2: sort of fath around the edges.

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Speaker 1: Because you use nice words, not like I just did. Hey,

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Speaker 1: so super Rugby turns thirty this year, now, is it?

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Speaker 1: I just okay, I've stopped watching it. I stopped watching it.

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Speaker 2: Multiple years ago.

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Speaker 1: I haven't watched it for years. Wow, But I'm told

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Speaker 1: by everybody who still watches it it's actually a better

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Speaker 1: spectacle than the test rugby because it's faster. Is it

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Speaker 1: possible that they have reformed too late really to still

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Speaker 1: be a.

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Speaker 2: Thing you mean to get back people like you who

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Speaker 2: have just given up on it a long time ago. Well,

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Speaker 2: I think lest they're giving it a crack. I think

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Speaker 2: they recognized and Jack Measley hit a super rugby I

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Speaker 2: no you've spoken to an occasion has recognized that the

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Speaker 2: fans have been perhaps deserting the product because of very reasons,

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Speaker 2: and at least they've tried to do something about it. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they've spared the game up again this year, some more

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Speaker 2: law tweaks. The problem, I guess is when super rugby

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Speaker 2: players then play test rugby where the rules don't apply.

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Speaker 2: What does that do to them when they play a

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Speaker 2: test game. That's a different conversation. I think it'll be

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Speaker 2: an exciting season. Thirty years ago first ever game Palmerston

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Speaker 2: North was the first game of sper rugby. Why well again,

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Speaker 2: as has been doing God's work today because he told

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Speaker 2: me that it's because the sevens were in Parmeston North

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety six. That's where they used to have

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Speaker 2: them and they thought, well, that seems like a place

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Speaker 2: that could hold a big event. Ah, it isn't that

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Speaker 2: weird Farmeerster North can hold a big event. The first

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Speaker 2: ever game is super Rugby. Got a lot of good

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Speaker 2: friends in the Monther were two. But that seems odd

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Speaker 2: to me anyway. Thirty years ago, that's what it was.

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Speaker 2: And here we are thirty years on and some of

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Speaker 2: us are still watching it either.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, you have to fig a job, otherwise you

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Speaker 1: probably wouldn't Piney, Thank you appreciate it, Jason Pine Weekend

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Speaker 1: Sport hosts will be back at midday during the Sale GP.

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