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Speaker 1: A little bit of a bill that they will come

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Speaker 1: as Super Rugby confirms that the new Christturch Stadium will

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Speaker 1: host around next year, around eleven three days from April

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Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty six, five games under the roof

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Speaker 1: Mark Robinson's and New Zeild Rugby CEO and as with us, Mark,

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Speaker 1: very good morning.

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Speaker 2: To you morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: It opens on the twentieth and you're kicking off on

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Speaker 1: the twenty fourth. How confident you're feeling about those numbers?

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Speaker 2: Well, based on all the feedback we're getting out of Christchurch,

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Speaker 2: we're really confident. And I was down there a couple

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Speaker 2: of months ago and got a brief look through it

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Speaker 2: and it's looking fantastic. It's really an amazing facility and

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Speaker 2: a huge credit to all the people involved in it. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think it'll bring a massive amount of

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Speaker 2: excitement into the city and the region and obviously it

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Speaker 2: would be great for rugby as well.

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Speaker 1: Are you maxing out the opportunity? It is a smallish stadium,

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Speaker 1: it's so I mean, if you did the same thing

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Speaker 1: you need in part you can get more people.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, you know, we obviously acknowledge that christ Jich

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Speaker 2: has gone through incredibly challenging time responded amazingly well to

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Speaker 2: what happened after the earthquakes. So this has always been

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Speaker 2: on the radar for us to want to give back

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Speaker 2: to a region that you know, frankly loves it's rugby

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Speaker 2: and has been a massive supporter of rugby at many levels.

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Speaker 2: So so look, you know, we obviously considered other options here, Mike,

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Speaker 2: you know, in Australia in the Pacific, but we feel

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Speaker 2: this is you know, not only a great event that

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Speaker 2: at all levels stacks up, but it's awfully symbolic too,

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Speaker 2: given how christ Us is going now.

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Speaker 1: Is it a one off in that case?

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Speaker 2: No, Look, we wouldn't rule out possibility for the future

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Speaker 2: at all. I don't know if there's any detail around

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Speaker 2: those conversations yet, but we had to sketched through the

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Speaker 2: first one and see how that goes.

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Speaker 1: How do you do the revenue for the people who

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Speaker 1: don't have a home game and have to go across

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Speaker 1: town or down country.

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Speaker 2: I'll look at the compensation arrangements for that, Mike. So

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Speaker 2: that's all cleared up. Being set out in previous super

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Speaker 2: rounds in Melbourne are well understood by all the.

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Speaker 1: Participants indeed, and it's just as funny because the league

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Speaker 1: is thinking about the goal coast in Vegas and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Is this kind of a thing for sports, So you

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Speaker 1: take it out and you take it to a place

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Speaker 1: and make it like a I don't know, a party,

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Speaker 1: a festival whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it isn't that, you know, it's it's

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Speaker 2: proving really popular and arrange of different sports, and certainly,

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Speaker 2: you know, tourism entities that are proactive in our vision

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Speaker 2: for their region acknowledged that sport's an amazing platform to

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Speaker 2: do that. And you know, we're were hopefully you know,

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Speaker 2: we've gone out recently looking to what national team all

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Speaker 2: Blacks and black foodstucts will look like over the next

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Speaker 2: two to three years and hoping to see great responses

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Speaker 2: to that in the same Vein good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Listen, while I've got you this Mulwanga thing, I count

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Speaker 1: for the work. All the people are angsty about it.

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Speaker 1: I can't work out what the problem is. So if

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Speaker 1: you're really good, you write your own ticket, don't you.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that how it works in the real world.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, I haven't really you know, after we launched

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Speaker 2: the news obviously, I haven't really kept too close to

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Speaker 2: what people are saying. We're pleased, Richie's pleased, you know,

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Speaker 2: the all Blacks are pleased and being really clear around

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Speaker 2: what the arrangement is, and we think it's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, he's playing in Japan and he won't play

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Speaker 1: the same and it's all different and he shouldn't go

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Speaker 1: away and come back and come away, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just like, oh god.

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Speaker 2: I just like, well, you know, I mean we've seen

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Speaker 2: we've seen loads of cases where that's been proven not

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Speaker 2: to be the case. And we know Richie's a really

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Speaker 2: in diligent athlete and he'll work really hard and get

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Speaker 2: back and get into formed pretty quickly. In fact, he's

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Speaker 2: an amazing form now. So you know, we're really pleased

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Speaker 2: with that.

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Speaker 1: We'll move on, Mike Good two from two from Argentina.

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Speaker 2: Look where I'm taking off tomorrow night and I'm looking

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Speaker 2: forward to getting over to see Argentinian friends. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's been interesting watching them, hasn't it. They had a

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Speaker 2: great game against the Lions, but we're less impressive against

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Speaker 2: the English. But we know they're getting all the all

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Speaker 2: their players back. They'll be really tough. But hopefully we

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Speaker 2: get a couple of great performances.

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Speaker 1: Good on you go, well, appreciate it very much. Mike Robinson,

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Speaker 1: who's the New Zealand Rugby CEO. Was there a definitive answer?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't really a definitive answer, wasn't It wasn't. If

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Speaker 1: I was the CEO of New Zealand Rugby and somebody

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Speaker 1: like Hoskin asked me a question two from two from Argentina,

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Speaker 1: I'd say something, well, of course, what else would you expect?

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the answer you want.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it?

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