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The Muster- Nathan Burdon: Up The Wahs! · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hokonui. Our resident sporting guru
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  Speaker 1: is Nathan Burden. Nathan, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Hold the line by Toto.
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  Speaker 1: Just brings back memories of somebody going into Rices and Gore,
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  Speaker 1: buying a Pioneer tape recorder, complete with graphic equaliser, and
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  Speaker 1: doing domes on the main street here with a bit
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  Speaker 1: of Toto cranking. It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a blast from a couple of angles there, mate.
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  Speaker 3: The old Rices and the Rices Expo was... It was
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  Speaker 3: one of those things you put in the calendar and
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  Speaker 3: looked forward to back in the day too, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: And then the Repo sailed about three weeks later.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, look, the Stags, they're back on track after
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  Speaker 1: an impressive win over a disappointing Bay of Plenty at
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. Taranaki awaits them on Sunday. It'll be interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see how they back up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and, gee, a week is a long time in sport,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it? We were probably a bit down in the
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  Speaker 3: mouth after that county's performance, and then about seven days later,
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  Speaker 3: you get to have another crack. It's one of the
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  Speaker 3: great things about rugby and sport in general, and the
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  Speaker 3: Stags took every single opportunity that they were presented with,
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  Speaker 3: that second-half effort into the wind at Rugby Park and
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  Speaker 3: seeing some of those young guys have a real crack,
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  Speaker 3: the Muli Aina try, The Rutledge try, you know, some
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  Speaker 3: great names there, isn't there? And seeing the Stags get
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  Speaker 3: away with a big win at home, probably it's reignited
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  Speaker 3: their season in many ways, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it had to.
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  Speaker 1: If they lost, they pretty much also ran yet again.
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  Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, they go up to New
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  Speaker 1: Plymouth with renewed optimism against a side which, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been itself compared to what it was, say, two,
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  Speaker 1: three years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're a Stags fan, faith, Faith never dies.
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  Speaker 2: We are so fickle. We are so, so fickle. But
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  Speaker 2: you're allowed to be at September.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Look, I've been up to the bullring many
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  Speaker 3: times to watch Southland rugby teams not do so well.
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  Speaker 3: So I would love nothing more than for them to
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  Speaker 3: go up there and take one over the knacky. So
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  Speaker 3: it would be great to go up there and grab
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  Speaker 3: a win.
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  Speaker 1: And as well, Northland, they've got one Ramfrey Shield defence
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  Speaker 1: left for the year. They're playing counties. If they hold it,
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  Speaker 1: they've got it for the season. If counties wins it,
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  Speaker 1: Hawke's Bay, who's top of the table, they lost last
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  Speaker 1: weekend to Harbour, they get the last challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Northland.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. I think Hawke's Bay have been a great
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  Speaker 3: story all year in terms of the MPC competition, but
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  Speaker 3: Northland have been the story, haven't they, ever since they...
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  Speaker 3: famously took that shield off Canterbury and in much the
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  Speaker 3: same way that Southland did when we've held it in
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  Speaker 3: recent times really sort of treasured it and it's been
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  Speaker 3: part of the community so they bar up for these
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  Speaker 3: games and I wouldn't be surprised if the Taniwha do
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  Speaker 3: hold it right through to the end of.
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  Speaker 1: The season No, that would be fantastic. Now, the Warriors,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to Eden Park. They sold it out pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They're up against the Newcastle Knights side with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of optimism and reason as well. There was favourites going
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  Speaker 1: into this game, but this is a pretty darn good
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  Speaker 1: Newcastle side as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is going to be an absolute barn burner,
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  Speaker 3: I think. When I think back to the last time
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  Speaker 3: that they met, it was an absolute cracker of a game,
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  Speaker 3: but that was a 12-man game. Newcastle team so you've
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  Speaker 3: just got to wonder what this game's going to be
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  Speaker 3: like whether the Warriors can lift for playoff that extra
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  Speaker 3: intensity that playoffs footy brings they weren't able to do
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  Speaker 3: it against the Dolphins they probably had players there that
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  Speaker 3: will whether that was because it was their first taste
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  Speaker 3: at that level or whether they just hadn't prepared right
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  Speaker 3: to get themselves up for that they just weren't quite
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  Speaker 3: there beauty is they get another crack but now it
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  Speaker 3: is do or die so um it'll be interesting i
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  Speaker 3: think you know if they were if they were truly
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  Speaker 3: at home um you would have to you have to
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  Speaker 3: put them down as the favorites going to eden park
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  Speaker 3: where they don't have a record or don't have a
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  Speaker 3: great record um probably adds an extra wrinkle so gee
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  Speaker 3: you know i don't know which way this one's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to go And all of a sudden, the talk's
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the press, especially in the Australian press,
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  Speaker 1: about the Warriors. They've now outgrown Mount Smart, given their
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  Speaker 1: supporter base, which I think is bullpucky.
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  Speaker 2: They need to stay at their spiritual home.
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  Speaker 1: A big game like this, this is being driven purely
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  Speaker 1: by the NRL coffers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And, I mean, it's probably one of the
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  Speaker 3: things that I don't enjoy about sport is that we
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  Speaker 3: just don't understand the scarcity factor. and it's all about
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  Speaker 3: growth and making as much money as you can. I
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  Speaker 3: get that, but I think the fact that it is
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  Speaker 3: hard to get a Warriors ticket, unless you know Jason Parris,
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  Speaker 3: there's just something about that. You want to repay the faithful.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that they can sell that ground out and
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  Speaker 3: get such a great atmosphere, that's worth more than money
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  Speaker 3: to that club. You know, it's just the culture of
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  Speaker 3: being a Warriors fan. And those guys that have followed
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  Speaker 3: that team through thick and thin, they deserve to get
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  Speaker 3: the chocolates now. And, you know, hopefully that'll last for
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  Speaker 3: another week.
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  Speaker 1: And if they win this game, they go and play
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  Speaker 1: a preliminary final against Penrith, and that'll be a different
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  Speaker 1: kettle of fish over in Australia. But no, All Roads
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  Speaker 1: lead Eden Park. Jason Parris, that's a pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Name to name drop.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a good blues man, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a double pass for you if you want
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  Speaker 2: to go to Eden Park? Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 3: No, well, he's actually moved on, but it's probably, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but in recent times he's looked after a few Southenders
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  Speaker 3: and managed to get some people tickets when they needed them, so.
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  Speaker 2: You reckon Eden Park's got the best catering?
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  Speaker 1: It's got a lot of downsides around it.
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  Speaker 2: You reckon the catering there for the media is pretty top-notch?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's sacrilegious to say anything negative about our
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  Speaker 3: national stadium, but I've never been a massive fan of
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  Speaker 3: my previous experiences of Eden Park. Maybe it's because most
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  Speaker 3: of the time I've been watching Southland get absolutely bumped
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  Speaker 3: by an Auckland team and and had Auckland media staring
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  Speaker 3: down their nose at me. But I must say, if
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  Speaker 3: there's one positive of Eden Park in my experience, that
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  Speaker 3: the catering in the media box was probably as good
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  Speaker 3: as I've seen it at any stadium around the country.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're lucky you're not having to fork out a
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  Speaker 1: second mortgage to buy a round of drinks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it was free drinks too, to be fair,
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  Speaker 3: which always keeps the media pretty happy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, good on you, Nathan. Leave it there. Antlers up.
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  Speaker 3: Antlers up, mate.
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