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rather than buy the licence and move forward with a new direction of the team.

And I think that's where, this is just from my observations, I heard Tracey Atinga, who we've talked to before, who runs the Kanaloa bid, and I heard her on the radio the other day, and she was pretty straightforward with what's going on.

There seems to be like two different things that are wanted here.

There's like a takeover where you get the license and you get to change it into whatever you want to make it into.

And the other takeover or the other idea is to, hey, we still want to run this team.

We still want to do everything, but we're looking for a cash flow investment to keep it going.

And I guess that lands where we're better.

New Zealand loves underdogs.

Sorry, go Mark, sorry.

No, what I'm saying is like the fear is obvious though, right?

Like we know what the fear would be.

If you've got an individual, like if you think about how Fiji Endura has been run.

the Fiji Enduro players are all signed up, they're part of the Fijian kind of rugby union circles.

If you had an individually run team that was predominantly Pacific Islanders, and they became the dream team to go to, using the Warriors for example, a lot of young athletes right now, they want to become Warriors because of the community, the success, the story of how people are behind it, the crowds, all that kind of stuff.

If you had that happen in rugby through Moana Pacifica,

and all of a sudden every young rugby player didn't want to play for the Blues, didn't want to play for the Chiefs, the young Pacific Islanders all wanted to go play for a team that was individually contracted, away from NZR, and we had no control of where that next talent goes, that would be a scary proposition.

If they became super popular,

That would be a scary proposition for NZR because they couldn't control the likes of an Adi Salvia contract.

It would be super scary and I don't think it's in their best interest, and this is me looking from the outside in, it wouldn't be in their best interest to have an individually contracted team that plays within the New Zealand competition, that drags talent over to them because it's a cool place to go play.

Those are my generation.