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Speaker 1: This is the Fits in Whipper with Kate Richie podcast

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Speaker 1: NRL continued.

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Speaker 2: It was the first game for the Melbourne Storm under

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Speaker 2: this man. They have never lost their debut game or

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Speaker 2: the Round one game fifty six to eight. Aen Storm

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Speaker 2: absolutely flogged Paramounta yesterday. There is an unbelievable documentary that's

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Speaker 2: on stand right now. It's called Craig Bellamy Inside the

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Speaker 2: Storm and for twenty two years he has led this

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Speaker 2: team to so much success and we are very lucky

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Speaker 2: to have him on the line this morning. Craig, thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Buddy.

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Speaker 3: Hey guys, don't have a look at him on a

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Speaker 3: fresh Melbourne morning.

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Speaker 2: Craig Bellamy, We're all put on this earth with a

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Speaker 2: special gift, right You were put on this earth to

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Speaker 2: lead young men and to see how you can individually

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Speaker 2: get to each player and work out their personalities very early,

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Speaker 2: but also get the best out of them. I think

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing that I learned about this it's not

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Speaker 2: about football at all. This is about this is learning

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Speaker 2: about work ethic and further in life as well, Like

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Speaker 2: you're setting these young men up to go and lead

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Speaker 2: their lives after football as well, to have that culture

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Speaker 2: and that work ethic is big for you, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably the main thing for me.

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Speaker 3: My dad just always tell me a little saying about

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Speaker 3: hard workers get lucky. Sometimes you don't get as luckily

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Speaker 3: lucky as quickly as you like, but you could work

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Speaker 3: and art and you'll get lucky. And that's what I've

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Speaker 3: always done. So, you know, the main message for me

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Speaker 3: to play as young players when they come in, and

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Speaker 3: even like older players, is is this really what you

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Speaker 3: want to do? You need to do what's important to you.

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Speaker 3: You know, at your age, at your stage of life,

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Speaker 3: do what's important to you. But when you decide what's important,

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Speaker 3: you've got to give it all you've got, you know,

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Speaker 3: grab it and run with it, run with it hard.

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Speaker 2: Okay. The three things that I picked up. Number one,

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Speaker 2: I love the program that you do for every new

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Speaker 2: player that comes to the Melbourne Storm. They have to

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Speaker 2: train every day, obviously, but they go out and they

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Speaker 2: work on a work site for two weeks. And your

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Speaker 2: mentality behind that is, boys, if you don't want to

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Speaker 2: play football, if you don't want to put in the

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Speaker 2: hard yards, this is what you're going to be doing.

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Speaker 2: If you're not playing football, so that's always and that's

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Speaker 2: even the big recruits that you get to the club

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Speaker 2: as well, Craig. Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: It wasn't only like about if you don't make a

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Speaker 3: success of footy, this is what you're going to be doing.

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Speaker 3: I think sometimes, you know, some players get caught up

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Speaker 3: in the web of footing and they don't sort of

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Speaker 3: mix a whole hoop with people outside footing, you know.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I think it's a good lesson for

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Speaker 3: younger players and older players to go out and see

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Speaker 3: that you know, other people doing different jobs or you know, like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's important to them too. You know, it's not your

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Speaker 3: foot isn't just everything. You know that there's other people.

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Speaker 3: You know, they have to go out and support their family.

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Speaker 3: They see their their jobs as really important and they

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Speaker 3: are so like I say, it's just a little thing

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Speaker 3: about just because you're an NRL player, that doesn't make

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Speaker 3: it more important than anybody else.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about your grandkids softening you up before when

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Speaker 2: they came into the world, Craig, You've got to be

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Speaker 2: patient when you coach a young man by the name

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Speaker 2: of cam Munster. This documentary is great and it's on

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Speaker 2: stand now. You've got to go see it. But is

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Speaker 2: he the one player that gets away with a lot

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Speaker 2: of stuff with you, Craig Bellamy, because the amount of

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Speaker 2: times he dacked you in this documentary and you let

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Speaker 2: him get I.

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Speaker 1: Think the only way I can pay him back and

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Speaker 1: just punch him in there. Don't do that. I'd probably

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Speaker 1: get a hide.

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Speaker 3: And anyway, Yeah, the one thing that I'm probably disappointed

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Speaker 3: in my career is I've never found the consistency in

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Speaker 3: Munster and I'd be very glad to meet someone if

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Speaker 3: they could work that out.

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Speaker 1: He always keeps it keeps me, So you're going to

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Speaker 1: find those special ones.

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Speaker 2: Your son works with you in the box on matchday.

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Speaker 2: Is is it true that the players go to your

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Speaker 2: son after a bad loss and say, can you bring

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Speaker 2: your kids up so we don't get a so we

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Speaker 2: don't get yelled out by Craig after the game?

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Speaker 1: Is this true? Craig Bellamy, It's a little bit true.

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Speaker 3: Grand kid is now all at school, so but yeah,

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Speaker 3: they used to ask him to bring him down on

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Speaker 3: our review day. That's when I saw that make a

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Speaker 3: few points there, So that happen these days.

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Speaker 2: So hey, the other day as well, we're on our

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Speaker 2: show we did our phone. Did you have a nickname

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Speaker 2: growing up that you had no idea what it was

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Speaker 2: all about? Did your family call you something? Because you

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Speaker 2: revealed that you were called Ned and you are still

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Speaker 2: called Ned now by your family, but for thirteen years

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Speaker 2: you had no idea what it meant.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know where Ned come from, you know.

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Speaker 3: And then they I got a bit older, and then

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Speaker 3: that was short for Edward. I didn't Edward. I didn't

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Speaker 3: sort of understand, but I think, I mean, Mom told

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Speaker 3: me and she said, you was a wild little bastard

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Speaker 3: when you were you were a kid, so it was

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Speaker 3: wild as Ned Kelly. That used to be the same

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Speaker 3: apparently back in the day. So that's how I got

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Speaker 3: net No.

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Speaker 1: I love her.

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Speaker 2: It is unbelievable. He is one of the greatest coaches

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Speaker 2: this country has ever produced. Craig Bellamy Inside the Storm.

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Speaker 2: It's only on stand right now. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for your time, mate, and good luck for twenty twenty five.

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