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The Muster- Daryl Moyles: Sgt Dan Stockfoods · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to hurt you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that I made you cry.
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  Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hokanui.
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  Speaker 2: Daryl Moyles of Sgt Dan's Stock Foods joins us once again.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you what, you talk about the drive-thrus being busy
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  Speaker 2: and gore at 7 o'clock during the evening. Well, during
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  Speaker 2: the day here, as I look out from Hokanui Studios,
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  Speaker 2: I can see nothing but just lines and lines of
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  Speaker 2: trucks going through the drive-thru at Sergeant Dan's Stock Feed.
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  Speaker 2: It is, of course, the big figure on the score
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  Speaker 2: skyline just over the railway line here with the thistle
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  Speaker 2: on the side.
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  Speaker 1: And Daryl joins us this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what, Daryl, if you want a good
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  Speaker 2: date night, go and give him some flowers and a
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  Speaker 2: bowl of molasses.
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  Speaker 3: OK, that's a new one on me. Yeah, why not?
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  Speaker 3: Good call.
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  Speaker 1: Good smell through Gore the other day.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about this, especially during wintertime, you get that
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  Speaker 2: waft coming through Main Street. The other day it was
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  Speaker 2: prevalent and it was a thing of beauty. Like you say,
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  Speaker 2: you're immune to the smell, but rest assured when you
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  Speaker 2: get that waft, you know that things are going on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm pleased it's a pleasant smell. Andy, it would
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  Speaker 3: be a bit untidy if it wasn't so pleasant to
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  Speaker 3: the nose, but no, the molasses smell is pretty sweet,
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  Speaker 3: so there's no dramas there. It's always going on. We've
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  Speaker 3: always got quite a tonne. We normally hold about 60
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  Speaker 3: tonnes of the stuff in the plant most days, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's better than pond sludge, put it that way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it is. Yeah, I'll go with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go with that, Daryl. Look, you guys, you've
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  Speaker 2: been busy at the moment. You see the lights on
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  Speaker 2: at Sparrowfart. You're going late into the day. There's just
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  Speaker 2: a situation at the moment. You've got quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: going on regarding calf feed or cattle feed, cow nuts.
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  Speaker 3: All of the above, really. I mean, October's our busiest
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  Speaker 3: month by quite a bit. So, obviously, the dairy feed's
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  Speaker 3: at its peak. The girls are coming into mating, so
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  Speaker 3: guys are feeding them well to keep them... on that
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  Speaker 3: rising plane, and car feed, it's pretty much peaks this
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  Speaker 3: month around Labor Weekend, it's normally the peak for us
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  Speaker 3: on car feed going out, so we're flat out trying
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  Speaker 3: to keep plenty of stock in front of the people
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  Speaker 3: that are using that, so there's plenty to do to
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  Speaker 3: fill the day, and of course we're doing all the
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  Speaker 3: other lines, chicken, pig, you name it, so very busy
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  Speaker 3: month for us, yep, and the lights are on early,
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  Speaker 3: I think Blue's normally not here just after five, and
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  Speaker 3: I think I think Darren was away till half past seven,
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  Speaker 3: eight o'clock yesterday, so we're going as fast as we
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  Speaker 3: can go, pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: Are you having to go six or seven days a
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  Speaker 2: week at the moment? Has it come to that, or
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  Speaker 2: is everything organised?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually did work Saturday, Sunday last weekend, and
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  Speaker 3: we do plan to work at least Saturday this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: But we've only got so many trained staff that can
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  Speaker 3: run the plant, so we can't go indefinitely. And it's
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  Speaker 3: really a seasonal business, so those busy months, September, October, November,
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  Speaker 3: we just have to stretch everyone as far as we
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  Speaker 3: can and then give them a spell when we're quieter.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the plan.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, Karen, the palletiser, can only do so much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she doesn't talk back, and she's going pretty good,
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  Speaker 3: going very fast. The boys are putting through a minimum
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  Speaker 3: of about 50 tonne a day through their bagging car feed,
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  Speaker 3: and we need to be putting out at least that.
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  Speaker 3: So we're trying to do 75 to 80 tonne a day.
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  Speaker 3: It just depends on the staff availability and what else
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  Speaker 3: we're making in the plant. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So the key message is you're keeping up with demand
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  Speaker 2: at the moment. If anybody wants to talk regarding feed
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  Speaker 2: for dairy cattle, then by all means get in touch.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. We're not really looking for any extras. We're just
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  Speaker 3: trying to keep our satisfier existing, guys. But always, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if someone needs a hand, we'd probably attempt to do
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  Speaker 3: something for them. That's for sure. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else ticking away?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no dramas. The plant's going good and plowing. Staff
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  Speaker 3: are all good, so there's no dramas at all, really.
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  Speaker 3: We're just enjoying the nice weather, and hopefully that'll take
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  Speaker 3: the pressure off a lot of farmers going forward. Another
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  Speaker 3: week of fine weather, and that might take a wee
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  Speaker 3: bit of pressure off, hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: Chicken feed's a big one for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're still doing big volumes of chicken. We're doing
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  Speaker 3: close to 120 tonne a month of chicken, which is
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  Speaker 3: a lot of feed for a chicken, and that's going
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  Speaker 3: exceptionally well. We do a lot of free-range chicken, customers
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  Speaker 3: who are buying half-tonne and one-tonne bags, and that's huge
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  Speaker 3: for us, very good product. Natalie's got that one pretty
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  Speaker 3: well tuned, and the production out of that's going really,
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  Speaker 3: really well. Everyone comments on how good the chickens go
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  Speaker 3: on it for bird health and egg production, so a
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  Speaker 3: very popular product.
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  Speaker 2: Is the chicken situation pretty much a kickback from the
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  Speaker 2: COVID era?
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  Speaker 3: I think it is. There's still a lot of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't sell anything like this prior to that, So
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  Speaker 3: a lot of free-range outfits out there and anywhere from
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  Speaker 3: 100 to 1,000 birds. And we've got the Pringles up
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  Speaker 3: at Clydevale with about 6,000. I think last time I
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  Speaker 3: talked to Tony, they're running around their dairy farm. So
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  Speaker 3: they chew up a bit of feed, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Natalie Crystal, your animal nutritionist. We talk about
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  Speaker 2: her more often than not because she's got the formula
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  Speaker 2: that comes.
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  Speaker 1: Up with the goods.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she's pretty smart when it comes to most
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  Speaker 3: classes of stock, but chicken is one of her fortes,
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  Speaker 3: and so the formulations are very robust. Most people that
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  Speaker 3: buy our chicken feed should agree that it's a pretty
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  Speaker 3: good product.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, your Mauritius contract has come to an end.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we haven't heard any more from Mauritius. We did
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  Speaker 3: have a bit of drama around MAF numbers, and they're
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  Speaker 3: very fussy on what can come into that country. And
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  Speaker 3: we've done a lot of work with our biosecurity people
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  Speaker 3: and MPI, but they just wanted a lot of paperwork
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  Speaker 3: that we didn't have or don't have in this country.
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  Speaker 3: So we have heard no more from Mauritius. So unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: I won't be going to visit them at this stage anyway, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: No tax write-off coming off there. How did this actually
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  Speaker 2: come about again? Was it just a random one-off order?
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  Speaker 3: No, there's a relative who lives in New Zealand from
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  Speaker 3: the guy that runs the big deer farm over there.
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  Speaker 3: And he was researching all over the world and found
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  Speaker 3: that the product he wanted was pretty much matched what
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  Speaker 3: we were producing as a standard line for velvet production.
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  Speaker 3: And so through that, we got the order to send
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  Speaker 3: her over. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: No way it means, I suppose. That's certainly something to
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  Speaker 1: put on your CV.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah, it's a one-off, one-hit wonder, but we'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we'll talk a bit of Cove with you, Darrell,
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  Speaker 1: because he can before we wrap up. The Bledisloe Cup,
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  Speaker 1: the All Blacks.
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  Speaker 2: Are you nervous about the Zazie side heading into next
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  Speaker 2: year's World Cup?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. I'm always nervous about Australia. They seem to
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  Speaker 3: just come up with a team every now and then,
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  Speaker 3: and they've got the ability to beat us when you
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  Speaker 3: don't expect it. So, yeah, even though it's a second
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  Speaker 3: or third string Springbok team, they're looking quite sharp. So
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  Speaker 3: it'll be a good game. I'm really looking forward to it, actually.
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  Speaker 2: There's an individual who stood out in the NRL Grand
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  Speaker 2: Final on Sunday evening. He played for the Sydney Roosters,
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  Speaker 2: formerly of the Australian Sevens. His name's Mark Naokanitawasi. He's
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  Speaker 2: a winger.
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  Speaker 1: He is very, very good. He is a name you
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  Speaker 1: need to look out for next year. I'm giving you
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  Speaker 1: the tip.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. No, I didn't watch the leg.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a leggy, I know.
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  Speaker 3: No, but it was good to see the Roosters win it, actually.
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  Speaker 3: That used to be a... Really? A team I followed
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  Speaker 3: way back in the day, absolutely, yep.
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  Speaker 1: What, you're talking about like.
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  Speaker 3: Had a shirt and all, because they had City Ford.
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  Speaker 1: City Ford, I had one of them too back in
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 2: That was around the time that Kurt Sherlock played for them,
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  Speaker 2: and if memory serves me correctly, he played Union for
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  Speaker 2: Auckland back in the early days of the MPC in
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  Speaker 2: the 80s.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember him. The only reason I started following
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  Speaker 3: the league was when Matthew Ridge went to Manly, so
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  Speaker 3: I was actually a Manly supporter way back. We had
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  Speaker 3: the Iroh boys there, so that was the team I followed,
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  Speaker 3: but that was a couple of years ago now.
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  Speaker 2: And the irony of John Gallagher going to league with
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  Speaker 2: Matthew Ridge, it was Ridge he wouldn't have gone over
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  Speaker 2: because John Gallagher was the incumbent fullback during the tour
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  Speaker 2: of 1989 to the UK.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, but Ridge did pretty well over there. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: mind you, he had a pretty good coach in Graham Lowe,
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  Speaker 3: so he didn't do too bad at league.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't the worst guy going around, that's for sure, Daryl. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Sgt Dan's Stock Foods. How do people get in touch, Daryl?
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  Speaker 3: Just 800-S-G-T-D-A-N.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, mate. Keep up the great work. We'll
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  Speaker 1: catch up again.
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  Speaker 3: Good to talk to you, Andy.
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  Speaker 1: Cheers. Daryl Moyles of Sgt Dan's Stock Food. Dairy cattle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've said that saying for a while.
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  Speaker 1: First time for everything, right?
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  Speaker 2: Harry McCallum. Hazza McCazza of Te Ana Young Farmers. He
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  Speaker 2: wraps up the show next.