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I'd never forgive John Hart for the way that he treated me. You know, he used to
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wine and dine me up at his house with breakfasts and all that and talk about and blow wind up my ass and then he
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sacks me. The way that he [music] sort of, you know, was grooming Ivan for the position and I've never spoken about
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this before. You know, it was really hard to take, you know, cuz I put my put my life into that club for for so many
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years. And I remember sitting up there and I was having a cry in the car, you know, and you know, and this my
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coaching career is over and I talked to my mate. I gave a call and I talked to him. He was saying, "Yeah, get your
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thoughts together and and come back, you know, and let's let's really handle this
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handle this right, man. You're 35, you know, like you've you've had a hell of a
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run." And I think the way that that exit strategy worked for me by handling it
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correctly is sort of driven things that have since been really good for me. Again, I'm I'm never ever going to
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regret it. I gave my best crack, you know, there's like I said about Hardy's,
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there's parts of it that I'd I thought could have been handled better, but
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[music] you know, tell me how many other blokes in New Zealand have had a chance to coach
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Warriors?