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The Muster- Mark Kelly: Sporting Weekend Preview · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: I come from a land of love.
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  Speaker 2: And for me there's no.
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  Speaker 1: One mentioned love. Man at work, that's the music this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the muster on Hakanui. Mark Kelly is
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  Speaker 1: producer for Newstalk ZB. Joins us this afternoon, MK, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Super Rugby Squad, it's a bit announced in the last
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  Speaker 1: day or so. They've kind of flown under the radar,
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  Speaker 1: but I suppose comparing Super Rugby to the MPC, which
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  Speaker 1: you're very passionate about, it's a bit of a different comparison,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, g'day Andy, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a funny one, right? So the MPC only finished, well,
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  Speaker 2: a matter of five sleeps ago, four sleeps ago, and
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  Speaker 2: the Super Rugby teams are out. I don't really know
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  Speaker 2: why they had to be announced this week of all weeks,
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  Speaker 2: but it still was a bit of fun sort of
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  Speaker 2: going through each team list and seeing where Bay of
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  Speaker 2: Plenty steamers, I'm sure you did the same for your
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  Speaker 2: Southland Stags, who's playing where. But yeah, they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get some hype for the competition, which... they definitely struggle with,
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  Speaker 2: and with the summer of cricket just getting underway as well,
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  Speaker 2: classic NZR just always trying to stay in the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: 16-odd rounds of Super Rugby next year, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot. Are they just trying to stay relevant
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  Speaker 1: in the news at the moment on the back of
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  Speaker 1: the MPC?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say strike where the iron's hot sort of thing,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a competition that struggles where you kind of
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  Speaker 2: can already... almost right down to four teams that are
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the semifinals. The Aussie teams struggle.
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  Speaker 2: We know that, I hope for your guys' sake, down
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  Speaker 2: the south, the Landers get a bit better. But you
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  Speaker 2: kind of know it's going to be the Chiefs, Crusaders,
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  Speaker 2: Hurricanes and Blues again. Maybe a Brumbies might slide into
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  Speaker 2: that fourth spot. But yeah, it's a competition that definitely struggles.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't really know how you fix it, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you what is going crazy at the
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  Speaker 1: moment is this Rugby League World Cup, although it is
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  Speaker 1: very long.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and there's been some big blowouts. But I
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  Speaker 2: like to go back to that because people aren't enjoying
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  Speaker 2: the big scores and whatnot. But it's kind of every
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. Rugby Union World Cup, we smashed, what was it,
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  Speaker 2: Spain or Portugal early on in the tournament in the
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  Speaker 2: last instalment in, what, 2023? And it's It's good. They've
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  Speaker 2: got to develop in the game to get it there,
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  Speaker 2: and it is awesome to see the Tongas, the Samoas,
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  Speaker 2: even Fiji's quite competitive. It's a cracking World Cup, and
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  Speaker 2: we've got one more round-robin round, and then into the
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  Speaker 2: semis and finals, but it should be an absolute bum-burn
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  Speaker 2: of those semifinals with probably us, Australia, Samoa, and Tonga
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  Speaker 2: in the semifinals, which should be absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Rugby league's had quite a bit of traction after the
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  Speaker 1: WAS season. Down here, they're trying to get all they have.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a kids' competition up and running at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a competition next year that has just kind
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  Speaker 1: of seen, I don't know, the Warriors' movement just seems
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  Speaker 1: to be on the rise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's success, right? Kiwis love a winning sports team,
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  Speaker 2: and if the Warriors can keep that up and go
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  Speaker 2: a couple further games more into the competition, that would
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  Speaker 2: be great, and There's a lot of talk about that, what,
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  Speaker 2: 20th team being played out of the Christchurch News Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: which would be fantastic. But yeah, and Kiwis and all
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  Speaker 2: around the country, they love a rugby, just a World
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  Speaker 2: Cup in general. We got behind the All Whites earlier
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  Speaker 2: on this year at the Football World Cup when we
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  Speaker 2: had really no hope of doing anything at that one.
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  Speaker 2: But when it comes to the rugby league, there's a sniff.
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  Speaker 2: We've won it a couple of times. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: while since we've won it last, but I think this
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  Speaker 2: year we can definitely, we're almost favourites, I think.
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  Speaker 1: The T20 series between the Black Caps and India, the
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  Speaker 1: juggernaut that is Indian cricket, rolls into Eden Park tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 1: or onto Eden Park, that should be. Based on what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen at the Cageton, I reckon we need to
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  Speaker 1: ban international sport in Wellington. That just continues a lot
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  Speaker 1: of frustration in that stadia for New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I see the CEO of the Cageton came
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  Speaker 2: out and spoke to Sports Talk and New South ZB
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  Speaker 2: last night, and had all sorts of excuses, and it
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  Speaker 2: is tough. What was it, a Tuesday night?
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  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock on a Tuesday on a school night, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I get it, and it's a day after Labour weekend,
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  Speaker 2: so it was definitely, the odds were stacked against them,
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  Speaker 2: but you saw it in Christchurch when the first game,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, was on a Wednesday or a Thursday. It
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  Speaker 2: was still a sellout. Auckland's obviously going to have 40-odd
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  Speaker 2: thousand tomorrow, Eden Park, but it does help. It's a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be fascinating to see what Hamilton's like this coming weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I think the fifth and final T20s on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, they look poor, and it never helps them
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  Speaker 2: with those bright yellow seats, so you can work out
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  Speaker 2: how many people are kind of there. But it doesn't, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's sad to see Wellington sports fans, and they struggle
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  Speaker 2: now to even sell out the All Blacks, which normally
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  Speaker 2: would be, well, you could almost guarantee that that would
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  Speaker 2: be a sellout. But I get that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are losing jobs down there, and they've got a
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  Speaker 2: cost-of-living crisis at the moment, so.
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  Speaker 2: But I did look it up, and it was only
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  Speaker 2: $ 35 a ticket, which is not too bad for international sport.
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  Speaker 2: You get a good four and a half hours of
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  Speaker 2: entertainment out of it, but you're throwing a couple of
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  Speaker 2: bottles of hot chips and a couple of frosties as well.
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  Speaker 2: It turns out to an expensive night, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Logic would suggest you go and play at the Basin Reserve,
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  Speaker 1: but unfortunately, due to the juggernaut that is the BCCI,
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  Speaker 1: that time zone is going to be the issue. Basin
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  Speaker 1: would have been the perfect location.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no lights and all that sort of stuff. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I get it, but you still think they will be
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  Speaker 2: able to get 25,000, 26,000 people there. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: half understand where the Caketon and the Wellingtonians are coming
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  Speaker 2: from because it is tough. Tuesday night, starting off the
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  Speaker 2: work week as well after a long weekend, probably people
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  Speaker 2: have gone away that weekend, spent some extra dosh that
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  Speaker 2: they didn't need to, and they couldn't sort of go
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  Speaker 2: to the cricket. But it did look poor, and it
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  Speaker 2: sort of took away from what was a very, very
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  Speaker 2: impressive game of cricket by particularly the Indian batsmen, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 1: That Indian top order, or even the middle order, is
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  Speaker 1: something else to behold. And the way they just took
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  Speaker 1: us apart, I mean, 100 off runs off five overs,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who you are, let alone an international attack.
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  Speaker 1: That's a stick cricket coming to life.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, exactly that. And I said that to somebody,
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  Speaker 2: exactly that, stick cricket, because I remember you always tried
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  Speaker 2: to get 50 off the first two overs.
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  Speaker 1: Because you could, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it was... Yeah, they broke the power
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  Speaker 2: play record for an international T20 cricket game by four runs.
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  Speaker 2: I think they got 119 or something like that. The
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  Speaker 2: next best was 115. It was impressive. They do come
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  Speaker 2: out very aggressive. They swing at everything. They honestly could
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  Speaker 2: score 300, 350 at Eden Park it feels like this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: particularly with When we play in those New Zealand stadiums,
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  Speaker 2: they are short boundaries, and I think the Indians are
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  Speaker 2: loving it at the moment, particularly, as you said, that
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  Speaker 2: top order is very, very impressive and making our bowlers
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  Speaker 2: look very ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Mark Kelly. Always appreciate your time on
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  Speaker 1: the muster. Go the Stags.
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  Speaker 2: Go the Bay. Thanks, Andy. Have a great week, mate.
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