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Speaker 1: Some Crusaders fans are really unhappy at next season's membership prices.

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Speaker 1: Costs are jumping by up to forty percent as the

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Speaker 1: team moves into the new stadium. Nick Bewley is the

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Speaker 1: News talksz'd be Crusader's commentator and with us Hello, Nick.

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Speaker 2: Good day Heather.

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Speaker 1: Is this value for money or is it a ripoff?

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Speaker 2: Well, as Colin Man's, which of the Crusader's CEO, puts,

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Speaker 2: the experience will be akin to driving ferrari as opposed

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Speaker 2: to a Ford Katina going from the Central City or

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Speaker 2: going from the Addington Stadium to the Central City Stadium,

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Speaker 2: which is online in April next year, and I kind

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Speaker 2: of get where he's coming from. However, the fact of

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Speaker 2: the matter is the Crusaders have seven home games in

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Speaker 2: this what makes up your membership ticket next year, three

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Speaker 2: of which are still out at the old stadium in Addington,

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Speaker 2: four in the new stadiums. That's probably why some fans

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Speaker 2: are most upset. But to be perfectly honest, I felt

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Speaker 2: like it was always going to be a big jump

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Speaker 2: because the stadium costs well over or almost at least

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Speaker 2: half a billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm am I reading this right, The adult reserved seating,

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Speaker 1: which cost one hundred and forty dollars, is now going

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Speaker 1: to jump up to about one hundred, four hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars.

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Speaker 2: The numbers I've got in front of me here there

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Speaker 2: so they ye have. The silver for this year was

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty for the season, so seven games,

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Speaker 2: twenty bucks a game. Effectively that's now at two seven nine,

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Speaker 2: so that's effectively double. So these are seats that are

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Speaker 2: behind the posts for those who are familiar with rugby.

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Speaker 2: For the gold seating, two hundred ninety bucks this year,

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Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty five next year. These are all

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Speaker 2: adult prices, by.

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Speaker 1: The way, premium of three.

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Speaker 2: Eighty five to seven five. Yes, well obviously there's there's

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Speaker 2: just more capacity for the corporate hospitality and VIP seating,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. When you go from a fifteen thousand seat

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Speaker 2: stadium to a thirty thousand seat stadium, you can pay

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Speaker 2: upwards of three thousand, two hundred dollars for a season pass.

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Speaker 2: It gets you into what's dubbed the Auto Tahi lounge.

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Speaker 2: All sorts of perks. Lovely fancy chair I see even

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Speaker 2: here says luxurious toilets. So look, it's a completely different

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Speaker 2: experience than the premium offering at Apollo Project Stadium in

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Speaker 2: Addington was five hundred and seventy five, so it obviously

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Speaker 2: is more, but I go back to the point that

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Speaker 2: it is a very different experience. It may price a

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Speaker 2: few people out, which is unfortunate, but this is the

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Speaker 2: reality of the new stadium in christ Church and also

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Speaker 2: the reality of having a substandard stadium for the last

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Speaker 2: fourteen years.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Nick, Thanks very much, Nick Beuley News Talks,

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Speaker 1: he'd be Crusaders commentator five hundred and seventy five dollars

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Speaker 1: for the premium membership up to three thousand, two hundred

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Speaker 1: who South Island's doing well if you can afford that.

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