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Speaker 1: It is October, the West still talking footy because the

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Speaker 1: trade period has just come to an end. Now this

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Speaker 1: is like now. I was going to say every blokes

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Speaker 1: dream night in front of the couch watching the Trade,

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Speaker 1: but there were plenty of women watching it as well.

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Speaker 1: My sister had it on the we had it.

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Speaker 2: In our house.

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Speaker 3: And then I was scrolling through the gram and the

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Speaker 3: amount of my friends who are filming their husband's watching

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Speaker 3: the Trade. And Emma Hawkins was filming Tom and she's like,

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Speaker 3: what are you watching? And he turned around and said, well,

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Speaker 3: this guy, this guy's been traded to this club, this

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Speaker 3: guy's and he made no, no, no, he made it

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Speaker 3: all up. Everything he was saying. He was just kind

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Speaker 3: of putting her off the scent. And then all these

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Speaker 3: people were applying to her going, oh my god, my

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Speaker 3: husband's just watched this and he's having a meltdown that

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Speaker 3: all these players are being trade.

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Speaker 1: That's funny, that is very good. So once upon a

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Speaker 1: time it used to be two days the trade period.

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Speaker 4: Now it's they've got a bit of Hollywood about it,

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Speaker 4: a bit like you know, the NBA, the NFL have

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Speaker 4: their trade periods overseas, so the AFL have tried to

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Speaker 4: recreate that and it's now I think it's ten, which

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Speaker 4: is par too long.

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Speaker 2: But they're not in the Marvel Stadium boats for tender.

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Speaker 1: Day one and the final day. They're at Marvel Stadium

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Speaker 1: where they line up in these corporate boxes and they

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Speaker 1: jettison from one to the next based on the deal.

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Speaker 1: And there was one manager last night, and I'll start

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Speaker 1: with Zach Merritt. Here is the big story of this

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Speaker 1: trade period because he tried to get out of Essendon.

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Speaker 1: He's the captain. He tried to get to Hawthorne. His

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Speaker 1: manager was sure it was going to happen, but the

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Speaker 1: Bombers they put a bounty on his head, which is

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Speaker 1: four draft picks, and ultimately Hawthorne didn't want to cough

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Speaker 1: that up, which means Merritt has to go back to Tullamarine,

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Speaker 1: to the hangar with his tail between his legs.

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Speaker 3: So how do we like, why did he want to

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Speaker 3: leave Essendon to go to Hawthorne. Did he ever say

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Speaker 3: I want to leave for this reason or it was

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Speaker 3: because it was very publicly not to leave?

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Speaker 1: Think, I mean, look, the Bombers have been struggling on

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Speaker 1: the field for a while. I think he'd just fallen

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Speaker 1: out of love.

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Speaker 3: With him, right and he was it always Hawthorne or

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Speaker 3: he just wanted to get.

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Speaker 1: Out of For the most part, it had been the Hawks.

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Speaker 1: They showed the most interest. Okay, so this is how

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Speaker 1: it all went down with the Bombers, this is their reaction.

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Speaker 5: How do you mend it?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 6: With Zach he's been pretty open that he doesn't want

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Speaker 6: to beat your footy club. How do you go about

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Speaker 6: men in that relationship?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's not ideal, we've said, you know, it's just

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Speaker 5: the start of last week and even further back with

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Speaker 5: other club representatives. It's not ideal. That's been uncomfortable. We

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Speaker 5: didn't want to be in this situation. But you need

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Speaker 5: to show and look at the positives in it as

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Speaker 5: well and look for the opportunities to galvanize and unite.

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Speaker 1: And what are the books, there's all the positives. Ah

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Speaker 1: that he's obviously the leader of the club where he

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Speaker 1: has immense leadership potential.

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Speaker 7: But surely he'd lose the captaincy with that count and.

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Speaker 2: Also surely he'd hate the entire administration, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Surprisingly, a lot of Essendon fans don't begrudge him

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Speaker 1: for it, like they're sort of embracing him. But there's

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Speaker 1: a few.

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Speaker 3: There was another player like last year who was maybe

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Speaker 3: a captain or a big player who wanted to leave

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Speaker 3: and he didn't get to and then he went on

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Speaker 3: to win the Best in Ferris Well.

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Speaker 1: Also there was a captain who did change clubs yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That was Jack Steele who went to the Demons, who

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Speaker 1: is just a fine specimen of a man he is,

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Speaker 1: so good luck to him. Okay, some success stories. Our

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Speaker 1: friend Christian Petrarca is off to the Gold Coast Sons

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Speaker 1: to go and cook up.

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Speaker 7: How do you feel about that? Being a mad dec I.

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Speaker 1: Don't think his heart was in it when it comes

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Speaker 1: to Melbourne, so I'm happy for him to go. And

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Speaker 1: I think Albourne got a good deal out of it.

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Speaker 2: Three draft picks and he did a good job for them.

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Speaker 1: He did. He won a premiership, won in Norm Smith Medal.

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Speaker 1: So he goes with my blessing.

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Speaker 7: Remember Andrew the footy enuff he used to live across

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Speaker 7: road from he will it'll be a sad day in

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Speaker 7: the house today.

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Speaker 1: But all jokes aside. A lot of the kids who

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Speaker 1: wear number five jumpers will be distraught trying to explain

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Speaker 1: to them that tracks off to the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 2: Well, what do you do?

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Speaker 3: Do you now break for the Gold Coast or do

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Speaker 3: you stay with D's and see if you get another,

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Speaker 3: get another, you.

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Speaker 1: Get another good player Now, Carlton fans, I'm so sorry,

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Speaker 1: but one of your favorites, Charlie Kurno, he is now

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Speaker 1: officially a Sydney Swan and he made it official with

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Speaker 1: his video. Gay Bloods members and fans can't wait to

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Speaker 1: get involved and come up to Sydney and looking forward

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Speaker 1: to playing with all the other boys. Hopefully we are

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Speaker 1: to catch up soon. Go to Mighty Bloods.

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Speaker 5: I think that's right.

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Speaker 2: I think that's right. At the end Mighty blood.

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Speaker 7: When he was ready to go out of the polo

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Speaker 7: shirt merch at the Swan.

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Speaker 2: Shot, I think that's right.

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Speaker 1: Just final, there was one more player who didn't get

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Speaker 1: where he wanted. It's Calamarchie, who just a few weeks

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Speaker 1: ago played in a Lion's Premiership. Right. He was wanting

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Speaker 1: to get to Adelaide. Now his manager was very very angry.

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Speaker 1: His manager actually is the winner, A big brother Number

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Speaker 1: one Ben Ben Williams is his manager.

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Speaker 2: So he stood up he's the one that beat Blair.

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Speaker 1: He stood up last night and was very firm in

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Speaker 1: his view.

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Speaker 6: He's leaving. He's going to Adelade's committed to get to

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Speaker 6: the Adelaide footy club. Adelaide used the west endeavors to salletate.

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Speaker 6: The trade wasn't at Brisbane's liking. So the only avenue

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Speaker 6: through cal to get there is through the preseason trade

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Speaker 6: for pre season draft. And that's what he want to

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Speaker 6: which is a pointing for care on his family.

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Speaker 7: But he's committed to last. We're committed to him.

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Speaker 6: So and of course you're just going to have to

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Speaker 6: take the long route.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 7: Shout out to Gretel and Sara Marie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He should have done a bum dance on

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Speaker 1: the way out. So fans now know the drafts for

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Speaker 1: national draft is that for the young good players, well

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Speaker 1: you've got a pre season draft first, which is where

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Speaker 1: that play is going to get right.

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Speaker 3: Right, So for players like Mason Cox, well he's just done.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's just uncontracted.

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Speaker 2: Does he go in that draft.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't made a decision yet as to whether he

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Speaker 1: can still be recontracted elsewhere there's opportunities.

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Speaker 3: He's gone he's gone back to America for the He

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Speaker 3: was like, this one feels weird because I don't know

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Speaker 3: what my future is.

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Speaker 7: It'd be really tough being in that situation.

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Speaker 1: We have been there.

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Speaker 7: I feel for.

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Speaker 1: Him being having no family here as well.

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Speaker 7: Yes, well there you go.

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Speaker 1: Done for another year.

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Speaker 2: Did my team get any good plays?

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Speaker 1: This chest's gone two to seven.

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Speaker 7: You're in a rebuilding day.

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Speaker 1: When are we going to bottom of build? Lauren?

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Speaker 3: Lauren wake up feeling good following them on the socials