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Tim Adams: Auckland FC Fan Group Representative previews the A-League Grand Final clash · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Which is about how much you had to pay for
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  Speaker 1: an Auckland FC ticket if you were going through the season.
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  Speaker 1: They are heading for their first A League Grand Final
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  Speaker 1: v Sydney FC. First time an A League Grand Final
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  Speaker 1: has played in New Zealand, first time a Kiwi team
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  Speaker 1: has made it this far in the competition. Go Media
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  Speaker 1: is a sellout. Tim Adams Alkandestee fan group with us
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Morning.
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  Speaker 3: Timm, Hey, Ryan, how are we going to?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Good things? Hey? What'd you pay for your ticket
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  Speaker 2: for the final?
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  Speaker 3: I was one of the lucky ones. I got in
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  Speaker 3: at my reasonable ticket price about thirty five bucks for
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  Speaker 3: the port.
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  Speaker 1: So oh that's pretty good because they were getting a
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  Speaker 1: bit pricey, weren't they the last couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, because the A League runs the ticket prices
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  Speaker 3: for the finals, not the club and they obviously are
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  Speaker 3: you trying to make some money that that organization, so
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  Speaker 3: they set the prices a little bit more aggressively.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think it's going to be now that
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  Speaker 1: it's a sell out at go Media this weekend? What's
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  Speaker 1: it going to be like there?
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  Speaker 2: Do you reckon?
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  Speaker 3: I actually think it's going to be actually insane. I
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  Speaker 3: think the the ability to comprehend being in a final
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  Speaker 3: and being in a home final after having a club
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  Speaker 3: for only two years. It's actually just crazy. So I
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  Speaker 3: think people are just going to really know, the hardcore
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  Speaker 3: fans are really going to just make it an event
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  Speaker 3: to be not forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because a lot of the players are imports
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  Speaker 1: for this team, right because I've been thinking about the
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  Speaker 1: All Blacks and you know how there's all the rules
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  Speaker 1: around year overseas base you can't play for the All Blacks.
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  Speaker 1: Football fans don't really care, do they.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's still a hardcore group of Kiwis.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's I think you're like five imports in
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  Speaker 3: an A league squad. But yeah, like Quis, football fans
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  Speaker 3: don't really care as long as the teams are winning.
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  Speaker 1: Basically exactly like money talks. That's what I kind of
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  Speaker 1: like about the football fans. You're not there's no snobbery.
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  Speaker 2: There, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, Bills come in with
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  Speaker 3: a brash, bold claim about winning the league within a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years, and I don't think anyone really believed
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  Speaker 3: them when he said it, But now he's you know,
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  Speaker 3: put the the put the proof on the table and
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  Speaker 3: there's money is counted and is Hi the best and
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing the results of that.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. So what's the school going to be this weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. I think I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: for two nil, maybe two to one to organ.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic. I hope we at least get some goals. That's
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  Speaker 1: the other thing about football that kind of annoys me
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes there are none.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean the thing with the port and
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  Speaker 3: the fans there and stuff, is any single goal is
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  Speaker 3: going to be celebrated with absolute, you know, extreme.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be crazy, going to be nasty, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be making Tim good luck this weekend. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you enjoy yourself and your thirty five bucks will
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  Speaker 1: be well worth it.
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  Speaker 2: Tim Adams, AUGN Fan Rep Group Chair.
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