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Nick Bewley: Newstalk ZB Canterbury Sports Commentator on Christchurch City Council's efforts to get a NRL team · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Prospective of South Island an NRAL team looking better than ever.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the christ Church Council is backing Sir Graham Low's
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  Speaker 1: Southern Orcers bid. Council has met with the NRAL and
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  Speaker 1: outlined a commercial plan and there's a razor twist. Nick
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  Speaker 1: Buley News Talks HEB Canterbury Sports commentated with us this morning. Neck,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good moright. All right, so starting to look promising,
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  Speaker 1: is it?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly the wheels in motion.
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  Speaker 3: Look the council we're doing its due diligence and new
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  Speaker 3: documentation that has been reported this morning from newstalks hy
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  Speaker 3: B showing you know, conversations started a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: They're starting to ramp up.
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  Speaker 3: And the warriors were in town in christ Church in
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  Speaker 3: June and NRAL officials who hear, Council officials who hear
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  Speaker 3: there's no exact request for proposal around a twentieth license
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  Speaker 3: to enter the NRL just yet, but they're getting all
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  Speaker 3: their ducks in ur and they really need to you
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  Speaker 3: know that the NRL timeline and an ideal world is
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  Speaker 3: that a club would be stood up, the Southern Orcas
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  Speaker 3: or whoever it's going to be here in christ Church
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  Speaker 3: would be stood up by twenty twenty nine, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking half years away, and that there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: to do, including obviously the report yesterday and MS hiring
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  Speaker 3: a coach and finding players and sponsors and getting members
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  Speaker 3: and hiring.
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  Speaker 2: All sorts of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So look, it's encouraging signs for people down here in
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  Speaker 3: the South who you know, want to have an NRL.
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  Speaker 2: Team here, But it's there's certainly a lot to do.
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  Speaker 1: The razor thing. Is that a headline grabber or is
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  Speaker 1: that a serious.
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  Speaker 2: Pitch for me? Anyway? Ryan, it's the headline grabber.
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  Speaker 3: But look, I've observed Scott Robertson and the Crusaders environments.
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  Speaker 3: He is more these days, well, certainly at that point
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  Speaker 3: in time what you'd call a culture coach. He's not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily the ones doing the hard graft On field. That's
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  Speaker 3: what he gets some experienced assistant coaches in and around
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  Speaker 3: to do. And I suppose that's the pitch from Sir
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  Speaker 3: Graham Low and Andrew Chalmers at the Southern Orcas, you know,
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  Speaker 3: come in, be that that guy that can provide a
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  Speaker 3: winning culture. He certainly did that at the Crusaders. And
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  Speaker 3: then we'll wrap around experience in and around him. Personally,
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  Speaker 3: think it's a little bit bold for someone with zero
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  Speaker 3: rugby league experience given the cut and thrust of NRL,
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  Speaker 3: one of the toughest domestic competitions in Australasian sport. But
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  Speaker 3: it certainly would grab attention as it did yesterday and
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  Speaker 3: the fact we are talking about it right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, hey very quickly. Is the council looking at putting
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  Speaker 1: rate payer money into this or we don't know yet.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know yet, and that's the fascinating thing for me. Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: There'll be I mean, I'm a rugby league not through
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  Speaker 3: and through, but there'll be certain people out there that
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  Speaker 3: are going to tell the council to stick to what
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  Speaker 3: they know in terms of the water and rubbish and
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  Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff is getting into bed with
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  Speaker 3: rugby league really considered a top priority when we're supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be curbing rate rises.
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  Speaker 2: So that'll be one to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Indeed, Nick Buley News Talks, there'd be Cannibury Sports
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  Speaker 1: Commentated with.
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  Speaker 2: Us for more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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