"'To me it is bizzare. He (Spithill) has an unhealthy obsession with Team New Zealand, how it is managed, how it is funded and what its strategies are,' said Shoebridge. He went on to accuse Spithill of trash-talking the NZ team, and suggesting that Spithill's replacement management team for Team NZ, were all close to Oracle Team USA, all of them had gone with Russell Coutts to sail for Alinghi in 2003, beating a talent-stripped Team NZ and taking the America's Cup to Switzerland. "
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