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Andrew Alderson: ZB sports reporter on the reduced crowd numbers for Super Rugby semi-finals · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Come now for some sport, Andrew some morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Greetings Mike the super Rugby. Do you watch much of it?
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. I mean, God bless sky, but they
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  Speaker 1: did this beautiful I'm assuming it's a drone drone shot
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  Speaker 1: on on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: Gray seats.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, are you serious? It's like, what's the
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  Speaker 1: point of a drone shot? If you're showing an empty
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  Speaker 1: stadium with thirty people running around the center of the field.
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  Speaker 2: You need something like the Gabba, don't you where they
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  Speaker 2: sort of well, they pepper pot the seats, that sort
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  Speaker 2: of the I know, Crimson and the yellow and the
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  Speaker 2: blue and that, just to make it look like real
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  Speaker 2: people are there. Yeah, I presume it's a disposable income
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  Speaker 2: thing at the moment. I mean, if you've got the
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  Speaker 2: Warriors on as well, et cetera, I reckon, people don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, here's my thing. So I asked Andrew Sell the
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  Speaker 1: same sort of question. He goes cost of living. The
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  Speaker 1: other thing he says is maybe it's you know, people
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  Speaker 1: have got other things to do with the time. Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You go to Detroit, whether he often cites you either
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  Speaker 1: go to Detroit or Pittsburgh or Boston, or New York
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of winter they're full. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL stadiums are full. You know, you either love your
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  Speaker 1: sport or you don't. And if you can't in a
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  Speaker 1: city of a million and a half people find what
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  Speaker 1: forty thousand to turn up for some rugby, there's something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you. Well, I think there's apathy.
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  Speaker 2: Is there also the fact that they and I guess
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  Speaker 2: you don't reveal the eyeballs on the screens, but the
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  Speaker 2: people think, ah, put the fire on, put your feet up,
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  Speaker 2: of course, get some pizza and just you watch it,
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  Speaker 2: have a couple of beers a home.
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  Speaker 1: Could you also argue then that's part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: they did the afternoon game in Wellington, so you get
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  Speaker 1: people along in a bit of daylight and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to deal with trouble on the way. Something not right.
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  Speaker 2: I've always preferred that the daylight afternoon footy is just
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  Speaker 2: so much it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's better to watch.
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  Speaker 2: I think you get a bit of quality of rugby
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  Speaker 2: as well, just with the lights.
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  Speaker 1: With a TV. Of course, if you don't get the
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  Speaker 1: audience at four o'clock in the afternoon, that you do it, no,
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  Speaker 1: But I just I just refuse to believe that this
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  Speaker 1: is the sharp end of the season. This is not
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  Speaker 1: Round one building into it. There's something not quite right there.
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  Speaker 1: Just give me your entry.
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  Speaker 2: Horus just talk about this this morning actually on our
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  Speaker 2: boards and it's just saying I'm in the expectations they'll
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  Speaker 2: get a crowded over forty thousand. So yeah, well, if
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  Speaker 2: you can't for a final.
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  Speaker 1: You can't for an unpark for the final.
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  Speaker 2: For New Zealand's national supposedly national game.
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  Speaker 1: There's something there's something seriously wrong this T twenty thing.
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  Speaker 1: What this seems to have been a complete cluster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're asking a lot if you're going
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  Speaker 2: if you've got one venue or group in South America
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  Speaker 2: and you've got another in New York Dallas. It's just
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  Speaker 2: so widespread across the I mean, the Caribrant Bean is
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  Speaker 2: what fifteen nations as a whole who are part of
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  Speaker 2: the West Indies. Yeah, it's been you're hard to I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's coming from a cricket fan, but I just
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  Speaker 2: think too that I know T twenty is just there
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  Speaker 2: seems to be so much focused on it and you've
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  Speaker 2: just come out of the IPL. I guess they're pushing
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  Speaker 2: to get cricket into America. It seems to be the
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  Speaker 2: focal point with the Major League cricket coming on the
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  Speaker 2: back of this. But yeah, and the New Zealand teams
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  Speaker 2: has performed poorly.
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  Speaker 1: So it's I saw came Williams the end of one
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  Speaker 1: of the match. He goes, oh, it's a game of
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  Speaker 1: fine margins, and I thought, well, that's that's that's a
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  Speaker 1: delicate way of putting out. Wasn't margins against you can?
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  Speaker 1: And no, exactly. We just weren't up for it. We
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  Speaker 1: were underdone and it was embarrassing at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day. We should have been We should have done
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  Speaker 1: that's fair, Yeah, we should have done better. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know you're following the golf this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I am, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't watch a lot of golf anymore, but I
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  Speaker 1: was watching that d Chambeau bloke. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: who's capturing the crowd one hundred cent? But you can
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  Speaker 1: see why his stance and this is a classic example
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  Speaker 1: of you know, you look at how you should stand
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  Speaker 1: and address the ball. He addresses the ball all wrong,
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  Speaker 1: he's twisted up like it. But look at what he does.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting the result. Go back to the gym fury
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  Speaker 2: is he I was intered with his parting stands. That's all.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Pinocchio or something far?
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  Speaker 1: Rather watch your Fred Couples or Nielsuffle.
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  Speaker 2: I love Kuffles. Both their swings actually big, easy, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The swings you want you flay a bit around if
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  Speaker 1: you're playing with someone that this this the the sheer
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  Speaker 1: relaxation of it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's going to be good this morning. The chambo
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  Speaker 2: has got his chambo has got the three stroke lead
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  Speaker 2: Macroy and the hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to hand them down? Is he looking
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  Speaker 1: for a fuse major in ten years? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Go to get to watch all right on those on
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  Speaker 2: the turtle back.
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  Speaker 1: Greens and threw all this.
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