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Speaker 1: Connext.

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Speaker 2: Guess there's a towering defender for the Weston Bulldog not

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Speaker 2: behind a pretty efforts. Please welcome to the show. Long morning, Rory, Long,

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Speaker 2: Good morning mates, Good morning zed Out.

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Speaker 3: I said you're in early this morning, but you said

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Speaker 3: you're a morning person.

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Speaker 2: I am, But I don't know how you guys feel.

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Speaker 2: But surely Daylight Savings finished soon. It's getting.

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Speaker 4: Love Daylight Savings in the afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just it's what time do you start work?

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Speaker 5: What time are you due today?

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Speaker 2: No, we're heading out today, so we're going to We're

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Speaker 2: at one o'clock. So yeah, I mean I was awake anyway,

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Speaker 2: so I was happy to come in. But yeah, when

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Speaker 2: I usually go to training, i'd leave around I'll say seven.

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Speaker 6: When I see the teams travel, it's very reminiscent of

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Speaker 6: school camp.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: If you guys get given little lunchboxes and stuff.

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Speaker 2: That, Yeah, we do get a couple of sandwiches on

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Speaker 2: the way out on you want to.

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Speaker 3: Eat, well, can't be eating the chips and dip that

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Speaker 3: they give you on the plane on the day before.

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Speaker 7: Someone get shamed if they hit the call bell and

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Speaker 7: buy pringles. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't think our dietician would be too happy for

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Speaker 2: eating chips and dip.

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Speaker 4: On the engine and tonic. But I was asking Rorry

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Speaker 4: before because you're how tall are you?

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Speaker 2: Six foot ten?

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Speaker 3: Six foot ten? That's a big man in an economy seat.

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Speaker 3: So I was trying to work out how does it

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Speaker 3: work in business of the economy and he said it's

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Speaker 3: all based on age and height.

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Speaker 4: Age, he said, I tick both.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Is there a delegation that gets sort of up the front?

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Speaker 5: There is, I would So what.

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Speaker 2: The AFL agreed on is if you're if you don't

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Speaker 2: get an exit and you're a bit shorter, you usually

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Speaker 2: have a seat in between you. But then that stopped

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Speaker 2: happening after COVID, So a couple of the boys getting

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Speaker 2: pretty squished. But all the tall guys, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: have to worry, so I'll sit at the front. It's

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Speaker 2: fine six every time? Well three C or three are

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Speaker 2: four C? You're around there? Yeah, the one the one

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Speaker 2: just behind business the.

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Speaker 3: Front roll of economy. Yeah right, I mean you deserve that.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, I mean, I've played two hundred games now,

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Speaker 2: I'm thirty three years old.

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Speaker 7: On getting carried off.

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Speaker 3: Bloody when you say you're the old boy in thirty three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well the second oldest Afterliver, So yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: like to admit that, but yeah.

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Speaker 4: Thirty three, you're a baby.

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Speaker 1: Did last week feel good? I'm sure it did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Giants always good to beat my old team.

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Speaker 2: I like to beat the other team as all free

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Speaker 2: as much as I like to beat Giants. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've got the wood over them at the moment. And

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Speaker 2: I mean I'm out there running around talking with them

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Speaker 2: half the game. I mean, when the ball's not coming

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Speaker 2: into that second half, it's just good to catch up

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Speaker 2: with a few. So it's like a reunion essentially. I

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Speaker 2: mean it can be at times when the center bounce.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's so important these days. And our mids

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Speaker 2: got on top and they were just getting it into

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Speaker 2: our ball line. I was essentially doing little shuttle runs

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Speaker 2: just the same circle. So I wasn't doing too much.

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Speaker 6: When past the local footy field last week and I

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Speaker 6: was kick was on and yeah when the balls at

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Speaker 6: the other end, the kids where you know, the gameplay

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Speaker 6: isn't happening, they end up just sitting down having a chin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's not that bad, is it.

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Speaker 4: Who was the Bulldogs by the used to do handstands

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Speaker 4: all the time.

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Speaker 1: It was Brisbane and doggies as well.

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Speaker 4: And then he started telling houses and he was still

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Speaker 4: doing handstands.

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Speaker 7: Oh my god. He colored his hair too.

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Speaker 2: You're a I mean, I'm not doing any handstands in

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Speaker 2: the boundary.

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Speaker 7: I mean.

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Speaker 2: I used to play with Matt Tabana at Freo and

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Speaker 2: he used to sit on the ground and do some

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Speaker 2: glute stretches every now and again. I would walk past,

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Speaker 2: what are you doing, mate, Like, what's going on? It

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Speaker 2: was pretty funny.

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Speaker 5: So this is a big challenge on the road. The

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Speaker 5: Crows there, they're a pretty handy outfit as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they beat us both times last year,

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Speaker 2: so we feel like we didn't really have whoops going

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Speaker 2: off for my alarm. I don't know, sorry about that. Yeah, no, no,

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Speaker 2: it's like an alarm.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, wake up, my whoop.

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Speaker 2: It's a whoop whoop to work. It's just yeah, yeah, yeah, you're.

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Speaker 1: The one that has one.

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Speaker 2: It monitors that you sleep, your recovery like it measures

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Speaker 2: everything like it's it's it's like or yeah, it's like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if it's going off on an alarm.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just from when I usually wake.

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Speaker 4: Up Oh it wakes you up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you normally missed the first forty five minutes

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Speaker 7: of the show.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess, so maybe I'm going to set it

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Speaker 2: for forty five minutes earlier.

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Speaker 6: What I love is you just don't It's no mate,

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Speaker 6: I've never established however.

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Speaker 4: Okay, back to Adelaide. It's going to be a big game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be a big game.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, they beat us both times last year.

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Speaker 2: We haven't won in Adelaide in a little while, so

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Speaker 2: it's a big test for us. We feel like we're

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Speaker 2: playing some some decent footy. We've got a few things,

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Speaker 2: more things to work on. But the game is so

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Speaker 2: quick these days it's hard to defend at times. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean it'll be a good bit of a shootout.

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Speaker 2: Would say.

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Speaker 5: A lot of people are talking the Doggies up as

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Speaker 5: a potential, you know, flag winner this year. How does

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Speaker 5: that sit with you? Does it bother you? Do you

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Speaker 5: sort of embrace it?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: I feel like they say that about us every year.

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Speaker 2: Up and down is a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I remember when the Bulldogs just won that random Grund final. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: my Stepdud barracks for the Bulldogs and you know I

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Speaker 3: love a bandwagon, so I was there and the Bulldogs stuff.

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Speaker 1: The Bulldogs sixteen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the whit Nooval was packed for the celebrations.

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Speaker 1: But it could be this year as well.

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Speaker 7: Rory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're just you just got to take

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Speaker 2: it week to week, to be honest, and early in

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Speaker 2: the year you're just trying to work out what other

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Speaker 2: teams are doing. You can see the games evolving with

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Speaker 2: these new rule changes with the ruck and also the

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Speaker 2: stand rule where you actually have to stand. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: some teams are explorting it. I feel like we're doing

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Speaker 2: a really good job of moving our ball from the

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Speaker 2: back half and it would be good to win it

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Speaker 2: a little bit further up the ground rather than defending

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Speaker 2: in your D fifty. That seems to be the way

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Speaker 2: it's going.

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Speaker 4: What's the stand rule?

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Speaker 1: Stand sad, he stand no.

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Speaker 2: So the new rule is if you're anywhere within the

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Speaker 2: five meters of the contest, someone has to stand in there.

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Speaker 2: So sorry, So if they take a mark, take a mark,

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Speaker 2: you can't move out of that space unless the umpire allows.

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Speaker 4: You to play on. So you can't play on.

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Speaker 5: You can't you know, basically back in the day, if

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Speaker 5: you were standing the mark. You could sort of agitate

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Speaker 5: a little bit, jump around.

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Speaker 7: So you're saying, just you stand, you can't come.

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Speaker 6: But like, if I take the mark, if momentum is

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Speaker 6: still pushing me, you know, down the field a little bit,

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Speaker 6: that's fine.

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Speaker 7: You take the mark defensive, right.

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Speaker 1: So you're standing the mark just one person.

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Speaker 4: The whole team has to stand, just like statues.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, statues just one. Yeah, but there was a stand

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Speaker 2: rule previously, but this one. You used to be able

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Speaker 2: to just back out quickly and you didn't have to

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Speaker 2: do it, but now you have to be in there.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I hear that a lot throughout the game.

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Speaker 1: People, Why is the question that a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of people have been I don't like stand so late.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear a lot. You'll hear the umpire. You listen tonight.

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Speaker 4: Hard for the umpires when there's new ruals.

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Speaker 7: Hey, I just before we let you go, I've been

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Speaker 7: told you bought something.

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Speaker 2: With Yeah, I've heard you flip flop around I know

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Speaker 2: with some teens my God department. I mean, this one's

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Speaker 2: not signed, so I feel like I feel like I

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Speaker 2: got to get you a signed one. I mean, and

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Speaker 2: they gave me on the way out.

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Speaker 6: Because VOSSI was in the other week. He gave me

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Speaker 6: a Blues one. He's trying to get me to jump

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Speaker 6: ship to the Blues.

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Speaker 2: I mean we're too o though, so I know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a number on the back.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't That's what I mean they gave me on

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Speaker 2: the way out. I feel like I can do better.

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Speaker 2: So next time, I mean I might bring you a

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Speaker 2: different one. You can have this one form now, can

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Speaker 2: you ask.

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Speaker 1: What size is it?

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Speaker 3: It looks to it does look I'll wait till next

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Speaker 3: week sign that one.

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Speaker 1: And also, he ain't a Western Suburbs guy. He's a

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Speaker 1: Bay side guard.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever been to Yes when.

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Speaker 7: Frank was someone furniture.

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Speaker 3: Because we're at our office Christmas party over there and

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Speaker 3: he said, I'm not coming.

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Speaker 7: That's too far.

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Speaker 5: Dirty peak out some good old restaurants down that high street,

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Speaker 5: isn't there.

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Speaker 2: It's great for sure. I mean I crossed the West

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Speaker 2: Gate every day, mate. I mean you could to get

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Speaker 2: over there.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not going to go to the restaurants and

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Speaker 7: fit the large job. Give you the whole. Hey, good

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Speaker 7: luck for this weekend to get to Crows mate.

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Speaker 2: So thank you.

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Speaker 5: Jason, Lauren, Lauren wake up feeling good following them on

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Speaker 5: the socials,