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Speaker 1: We lost John Mayhew yesterday. Sadly, Doc was a familiar voice,

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Speaker 1: of course on this station. He was a long serving

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Speaker 1: All Blacks doctor, spent time with North Harbor, the Blues

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Speaker 1: and the Warriors. The All Black stint was between eighty

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Speaker 1: eight and two thousand and four, which encompassed most of

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Speaker 1: Sean Fitzpatrick's career. He was there for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty one test, more than two hundred matches and Shawn's

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Speaker 1: with us morning mate Morning Mike sixty nine to seventy.

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Speaker 1: It's not right, is it.

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Speaker 2: No, it's a very very sad day. I wor up

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Speaker 2: this morning and had a number of messages on my

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Speaker 2: phone about per ol John, And to be honest, it

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Speaker 2: sort of brought a smile to my face because he

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Speaker 2: has such a such a big presence in my life.

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Speaker 2: He was my doctor for almost over forty years. I

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Speaker 2: was there for nearly all my All Black career. Just

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Speaker 2: a very very special in news oleander.

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Speaker 1: And a lovely I mean it's one thing to be

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Speaker 1: the all Blacks doctor, but a nice guy.

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Speaker 2: With it, yeah, a lovely man, a confidante. Calm managed

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Speaker 2: to bring humor two very tense situations. But yes, other said,

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Speaker 2: just the most wonderful human being and sadly missed, just

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Speaker 2: far too young to go.

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Speaker 1: What was his role on the field, because I assume

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Speaker 1: at that level he sprays on more than just water.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, he put a lot of stitches in my body,

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Speaker 2: that's for sure over the years. But yes, I said,

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Speaker 2: just that calming influence. Had had a real feel for

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Speaker 2: the game. And you think back to those early sort

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Speaker 2: of days in his career in the sort of mid

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Speaker 2: eighties tour to Australian eighty eight. You know, it was

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Speaker 2: him and him and Abbo with the two medical persons

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Speaker 2: and then we had a manager and that was it basically.

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Speaker 2: So he was very much part of part of the

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Speaker 2: team on and off the field.

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Speaker 1: He was very open about the heart condition too, wasn't

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Speaker 1: I remember when he had had an attack, he sort

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Speaker 1: of went public with it and encourage people to get

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Speaker 1: checked and look after your health and all that sort

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Speaker 1: of stuff, which is invaluable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very much. So he was, you know, he was

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Speaker 2: a very very fit man and it was such surprise

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Speaker 2: when he when he had that heart attack a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago. But you know, obviously our thoughts very

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Speaker 2: much for this family and with Sue and the kids,

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Speaker 2: and you know, as I said, it was just a

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Speaker 2: very sad time to wake up this morning, but you

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Speaker 2: know the underlying feeling of Dot May, who was the lovely,

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Speaker 2: lovely memories and such a such, such a confidante to

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Speaker 2: so many people.

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Speaker 1: Brew Well said, Sean loves to catch up. Appreciated brew

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Speaker 1: very much. Sean Fitzpatrick, who was I think he's with

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Speaker 1: us out of France this morning.

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