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The Muster-Nathan Burdon: NPC Semi Finals Time · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Our resident sporting guru is Nathan Burden, joining up with
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  Speaker 1: us a day earlier this week for a particular reason.
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  Speaker 2: Nathan, good afternoon. How's everything?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very good, mate. Yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very well, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking to people, the mood's changed a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: the weather's been on the improve.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah, talk about the weather improving. You talk about
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  Speaker 2: summer sports.
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  Speaker 1: I've actually got Jacob Duffy on the show tomorrow, so
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  Speaker 1: I've had a bit of a move around. Cricket season's
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  Speaker 1: already here, or pretty much here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be great to have Jake and catch up
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  Speaker 3: on his thoughts. Obviously he's had somewhat of a break
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  Speaker 3: after just a huge 18 months, maybe even longer, of
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  Speaker 3: cricket and found some of the best cricket form of
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  Speaker 3: his life, hasn't he, during that time. So that'll be
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  Speaker 3: a great catch-up. Actually, I was in Christchurch yesterday and
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  Speaker 3: had an Indian taxi driver who was very excited about
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  Speaker 3: the Indians coming here. He's not so confident about how
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  Speaker 3: they'll go on the test, but very confident about the
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  Speaker 3: line-up that they've got for the white ball stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the depth they've got, there's a 15-year-old who lit
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  Speaker 1: up the IPL. Tell me more about this individual.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: What's his name?
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  Speaker 3: I was going to leave this one to you, actually, mate.
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  Speaker 2: I'll try it. Vaibhav Sharanbanshi.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think we're all going to know it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if things work out, because this kid, we
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  Speaker 3: did see him on debut, sending some of the best
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  Speaker 3: bowlers in the IPL back over their heads so obviously
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  Speaker 3: a special talent and from the conversations I was having
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  Speaker 3: with this guy he reckons if it works out this
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  Speaker 3: guy is Tendulkar, Saywag, Dravid etc all sort of rolled
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  Speaker 3: up into one batsman which is a bit of a scary.
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  Speaker 1: Prospect All these cricketers like coming to New Zealand from
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  Speaker 1: the continent, Indians especially, because they can walk down the street,
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  Speaker 1: buy an ice cream when they're not accosted.
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  Speaker 2: And back home, they've got to go out at night
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  Speaker 2: to do their shopping.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a different situation, isn't it? And I always
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  Speaker 3: sort of hark back to one of my former bosses
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  Speaker 3: who had a great story about going up to Queenstown
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  Speaker 3: to cover a warm-up game involving India. Two big 40-seater
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  Speaker 3: buses parked outside the Queenstown airport and Tendulkar and his
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  Speaker 3: family getting off at the front and hopping in one
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  Speaker 3: 40 seater on their own and then the other 40
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  Speaker 3: seater for the rest of the team so it sort
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  Speaker 3: of goes to show it's operating at a different level.
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  Speaker 1: The MPC the semi-finals are here Northland against Otago and
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  Speaker 1: Canterbury against Taranaki. Northland let's be honest this is a
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  Speaker 1: team a lot of people want to go through and
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  Speaker 1: win just because of the feel good factor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how good would that be? I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: of those four teams, you'd potentially, and maybe it's just
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  Speaker 3: a bit of that sort of underdog mentality, but they've
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  Speaker 3: just had such a great season, and there's no reason
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  Speaker 3: that they can't carry on. You know, obviously, they've got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of belief, and they've done a huge job
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  Speaker 3: to be able to sort of keep things, keep that
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  Speaker 3: momentum going, even though they had, you know, they had
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  Speaker 3: a good Ranford East Shield tenure, but even when they
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  Speaker 3: lost it, they've been able to sort of keep that momentum,
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  Speaker 3: so the 25 have just been absolutely huge, it'd be
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  Speaker 3: a real sort of a Cinderella story for them to
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  Speaker 3: do it but if I was a betting man it'd
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  Speaker 3: probably go potentially as a Cinetago Canterbury final Tour.
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  Speaker 1: Of Southland, when does this crank into gear because this
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  Speaker 1: is a special edition.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah it is a special year even aside from
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we're hosting two of these races in
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  Speaker 3: the same year which is a bit of a which
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  Speaker 3: is a unique situation. But yeah, it is the 70th
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  Speaker 3: year of the SBS Bank Tour of Southland, the first
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  Speaker 3: week of November. And yeah, as we all know, this
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  Speaker 3: is part of the DNA of the Southland sporting landscape.
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  Speaker 3: And I guess for any event to get to its
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  Speaker 3: 70th year, especially something that's as big an undertaking as
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  Speaker 3: a seven-day bike race, you know, it's pretty special to
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  Speaker 3: get to this point. And there's... You know, there's a
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  Speaker 3: number of past winners who are going to be back
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  Speaker 3: down in Southland to help celebrate that as well, which
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  Speaker 3: is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Even though it's the second edition for the year due
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  Speaker 1: to the weather events of 12 months ago, it'll still
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  Speaker 1: be a popular event, are you thinking?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be huge. And, you know, it's a massive
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  Speaker 3: undertaking in terms of, I guess, the volunteer involvement. So
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  Speaker 3: to have those guys fronting up... you know, right down
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  Speaker 3: to the marshals who stand on those corners with a flag,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for hours in all sorts of weather. To
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  Speaker 3: have those people sort of putting their time aside twice
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  Speaker 3: in one year is, I know the people that run
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  Speaker 3: this race are very grateful to have that ongoing support.
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  Speaker 3: it'll be just as good and I guess that 70th
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  Speaker 3: does add something a wee bit more special.
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  Speaker 1: And just quickly to wrap up, the Wallabies head tails
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  Speaker 1: are between their legs. What do the All Blacks need
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  Speaker 1: to do to preserve that winning record over the Wallabies?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like 12 games now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm possibly a wee bit sheepish about that. I
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  Speaker 3: think I was talking up the Wallabies' chances this time
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  Speaker 3: last week and obviously the All Blacks went out and
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  Speaker 3: did a number. You can You could tell, I think,
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  Speaker 3: the preparation and I guess the fire that the All
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  Speaker 3: Blacks went through over in South Africa. They were probably
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  Speaker 3: relishing playing a team that wasn't in a green jersey
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  Speaker 3: and wasn't absolutely whacking them. So once they got on top,
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  Speaker 3: they stayed on top. It is hard to see probably
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  Speaker 3: the Wallabies bouncing back from that situation. But they have
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  Speaker 3: beaten South Africa this year. So if anything, the All
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  Speaker 3: Blacks can't be complacent.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, no. Thanks for your time as always and we'll
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  Speaker 2: catch up next week.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, mate.
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