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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, the city of dreams, where the possibilities are

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Speaker 1: endless and the only limit, the only limit is your imagination.

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Speaker 2: Good one.

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Speaker 1: For the third year running, this is where the National

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Speaker 1: Rugby League has daringly chosen to kickoff its prenticeship season.

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Speaker 1: Our amazing game played out in a far away theater

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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, for Heaven's sake, the land of eternal

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Speaker 1: Saturday Nights, where over the Top is just the beginning. Sunday,

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Speaker 1: a Fox League exclusive triple header. Following hul Kingston Rovers

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Speaker 1: and Leeds Rhydos, the Big League takes center stage. First up,

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Speaker 1: it's the Knights and the Cowboarder.

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Speaker 3: Ah, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Newcastle, a big side city that somehow perfectly reflects its people,

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Speaker 1: a wonder built on industry cole and plain hard work

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Speaker 1: with nearby Dylan Brown, an understated coach in justin Holbrook

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Speaker 1: and this very familiar superstar run and only Kaylen Ponger

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Speaker 1: again scol trying to pick goat what about him? And yes,

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Speaker 1: how about this other lot a world away North Queensland. Ah,

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Speaker 1: They're cowboys, Tommy did Sharpeas and the brilliant Scott drink Water.

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Speaker 4: The Cowboys set up welcome sir, Welcome.

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Speaker 5: Them.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys and outfit right at home in this city of dreams.

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Speaker 1: Next up, Next up, it's Dragons and the Bulldogs. It's

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Speaker 1: impossible to tell you about the Bulldogs without first telling

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Speaker 1: you about their culture, their people.

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Speaker 3: How it's one.

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Speaker 1: Big celebration down through the generations, how they carry one

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Speaker 1: another through premierships and player powerhouses, present and past champion

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Speaker 1: players like current Captain Stephen Criton. Yeah, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: they don't make players like this anymore. Hi, you're having

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Speaker 1: a party without me, Like Barbara the Great Terry Lamb

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Speaker 1: didn't he know how to have fun?

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Speaker 2: He still does?

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Speaker 1: And finally, the Dragons, the Red v Captain Cliff Gunson,

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Speaker 1: Damian Cook, quick as a flash, foul homes and this

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Speaker 1: fella Jade Sewer.

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Speaker 6: Can't he go.

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Speaker 1: Sas on a way to kick off twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: back in Vegas, and even I believe daring the dreams,

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Speaker 1: the biggest of dreams.

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Speaker 3: Right here on Fosse League.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to around Old three sixty.

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Speaker 7: You won't believed from every angle brought to you by

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Speaker 7: Macas and we are less than twenty four hours away

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Speaker 7: from the biggest season launch in NRL history right here

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Speaker 7: in Las Vegas, in the best seat in the house,

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Speaker 7: surrounded by iconic hotels, Planet Hollywood, Caesars Palace, the Ballagio

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Speaker 7: up above Las Vegas Boulevard. And I've got three of

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Speaker 7: the best with me joining me, Good and Tallas, Dan

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Speaker 7: Kanain and Maddie John's tens of thousands of supporters walking

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Speaker 7: the streets every minute of the day.

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Speaker 2: This has been incredible, hasn't it.

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Speaker 8: Brak.

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Speaker 9: First, I just want to say, weld do under you.

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Speaker 9: We're staying at the same hotel as new kids on

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Speaker 9: the block where they're playing. A lot of middle aged

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Speaker 9: women have been just harassing this poor blow. The man's

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Speaker 9: one dog, one bone. Can you just leave him alone?

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Speaker 8: On work purposes I made. I'm proud of your break.

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Speaker 8: You've been strong, You've done the right stuff. I know

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Speaker 8: how it feels.

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Speaker 5: Dan.

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Speaker 2: Have you been out and about it or you're looking

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Speaker 2: you're glowing bet again?

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Speaker 9: The weather exactly. The weather has been magnificent. It's the

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Speaker 9: best we've had in the three es here in Vegas.

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Speaker 9: It's been They've done it. I don't know how they've

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Speaker 8: And that was a little bit better than than you one.

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Speaker 8: They've done a pretty.

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Speaker 6: Good job then, RL you mate love Vegas.

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Yet yeah, I reckon I've had at every joint behind

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Speaker 8: I'm going to go.

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Speaker 3: It's great fun. And that's said before you walk around.

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Speaker 5: From North Queensland, from Newcastle Doggie supporters, Georgia Warrior supporters,

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Speaker 5: and it's just it's it's fantastic.

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Speaker 10: I know we covered the fan fast night, but incredible

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Speaker 2: The amount of fans that are here.

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Speaker 10: But the atmosphere down there was just next level, wasn't

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Speaker 10: it Like it's And I don't think any of us

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Speaker 9: When look, I know back home there's a lot of

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Speaker 9: week has taken over Las Vegas, well there's your proof.

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Speaker 9: There is your proof right there, because the people there

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Speaker 9: at Fremont Street that have you know, sooner, done everything,

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Speaker 9: so they've never had a situation like this whether and

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Speaker 9: they've had boxing events there where they've had Waynes and

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Speaker 8: And when people like that are saying it, then it

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Speaker 3: Well, Dan, they were talking about it.

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Speaker 5: I think three years ago, I think Australians were probably

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Speaker 5: number twelve and people visiting Las Vegas we're number two now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, what about the English fans.

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Speaker 11: Maddie looks into a couple of them last night as well,

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Speaker 11: But it's so good for those guys to be here

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Speaker 5: And we ran into Gordie's old mate Terrier Connor and

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Speaker 5: he uses his face as a weapon. But it's fantastic.

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Speaker 6: Cow.

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Speaker 10: Wait for the Super League game, Okay, are taking on

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Speaker 10: the Leads Rhinos. Let's get to one of the big games,

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Speaker 10: the Bulldogs taking on the Dragons. Let's start with the

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Speaker 10: Bulldogs made I'll come to you first, and I think

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Speaker 10: you know, all the talk has really been around their

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Speaker 2: Our eyes will be on that combination in this game.

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Speaker 5: God, you say, very similar to the Knights you know

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Speaker 5: you haven't got a pure seven. There's a few things

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Speaker 5: about Burt and they do split the side into and

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Speaker 5: watching the trial game and it looks so easy to

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Speaker 3: It's like the Goldilocks effect when pass the ball. He

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Speaker 3: He just gets exactly right. A couple of steps tip

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Speaker 5: How well they can They could contain that left side

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Speaker 3: It's the best left side. It's the best best edge

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Speaker 10: And that's great analysis made. Now I want to come

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Speaker 10: to you Dan on the actual story. Though you know

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Speaker 10: you work in the media, you're on Triple Am, you're

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Speaker 10: on Fox League, Lachlan Galvin. It is a big story,

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Speaker 10: isn't it. And how do you see though from your perspective?

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Speaker 9: Well, last year they put them together and it was

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Speaker 9: the attitude was they had about three months from when

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Speaker 9: they bought Galvin to the finals.

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Speaker 6: They'll work it out.

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Speaker 9: They'll put them together and they'll find a way by

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Speaker 2: And they didn't.

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Speaker 6: They didn't.

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Speaker 9: They didn't work it They didn't work it out. But

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Speaker 9: I'm fascinated what a preseason does. Now they actually have

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Speaker 9: time away, they can actually strategize. It's another chance for

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Speaker 9: Galvin to really bet himself because he didn't know who

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Speaker 9: he was at the end of that season. Was he

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Speaker 9: a runner? Was he a passer? Was he was he

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Speaker 9: directing traffic? Was was he playing ad hoc? So you've

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Speaker 9: got to think they're going to be better equipped in

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Speaker 3: Six responsibly at the back. Yeah, if you've got a

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Speaker 5: Not natural seven ballplayer, you've got to have your back rowers.

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Speaker 3: They've got to plug into him a lot of times.

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Speaker 3: The one thing about.

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Speaker 5: Lockie, watched him playing the trial games, still got let's

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Speaker 6: Can he turned into an number seven, genuine number.

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Speaker 2: Seven over a preseason too by like.

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Speaker 6: Oh maybe by the end of the.

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Speaker 5: Year Okay, if you look at Bla like Cooper Kronk,

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Speaker 5: Y Kronk's the best example. Yeah, he was a utility

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Speaker 5: went to seven one was the most important thing with Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: All the players on.

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Speaker 5: His outside were plugged into Cooper. All he had to

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Speaker 5: Let's go to the far post or like that. That's

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Speaker 5: a really important thing for the Dogs, all on.

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Speaker 10: The same, very simple lesson's more sometimes now the Dragons,

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Speaker 10: let's get to them. You I'm not sure if you've

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Speaker 2: How was he feeling? What was he thinking? How do

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Speaker 5: You know one thing about the Dragons, they're a side

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Speaker 5: that can be anyone on their day. They'd be Brisbane

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Speaker 5: last year, a bit Melbourne a lot of the top

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Speaker 3: Yeah. One offs are really important, the big step.

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Speaker 5: If we talk about this game singularly, they can knock

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Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 5: There's talent all the way along the big tests, in

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Speaker 5: the in the big picture, the long term picture, as

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Speaker 5: far as this season, it's mental toughness which leads into consistency.

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Speaker 5: That's the big challenge for the Dragons.

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Speaker 6: Do they have the forward pack down to challenge?

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Speaker 8: I don't think.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, you know, it's fascinating.

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Speaker 8: Forget what I think. Shane Flanagan came out yesterday. I

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Speaker 8: saw a quote somewhere and he said, we're not going

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Speaker 8: to win the pulp.

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Speaker 9: Now, yes, he's accurate, but it's interesting for a coach

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Speaker 9: to say that, and I appreciate that honesty. I don't

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Speaker 9: know if the fans appreciate that direct bluntness that they're

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Speaker 9: not going.

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Speaker 6: Surely they know that they don't have the ross to

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Speaker 2: You don't hear that from a coach, that from a

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Speaker 6: But do you think they can win the ground? No?

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Speaker 3: No, But did anyone think the penrith to win it?

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Speaker 5: Two thousand and three At a point, what happens all

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Speaker 5: the time, what we view as insignificant changes to the rules,

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Speaker 5: that ends up being a pretty big thing. And what

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Speaker 5: we're seeing the twenty forty rule. Twenty forty rule is

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Speaker 5: no penalties past the twenty meter. It's going to lead

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Speaker 5: to a different style of football like the Bulldogs with

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Speaker 5: attention on their halves.

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Speaker 10: Galvin Burton, it's similar right at the Dragons. I'll come

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Speaker 10: to you again on this one. Madey Atkinson easy a seven?

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Speaker 10: Can he be a seven? Thoughts on that combinator.

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Speaker 5: He's a runner, There's no doubt about Kyle's more natural

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Speaker 5: Look, you know in Fine spoke about this when you

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Speaker 3: But he'll be the more natural seven even though we're

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Speaker 8: The dogs are that good.

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Speaker 9: They're going to win more than enough games even if

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Speaker 8: Landing clicks, that's that is going to get.

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Speaker 5: A lot of attention Flannel is good at rebuilding, right,

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Speaker 10: Think they can surprise us because it couldn't have been

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Speaker 9: I think Canterbury can't because they know who they are, bright,

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Speaker 9: they know and I'll tell you what. The skinny field

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Speaker 8: How the Dragon is going to get points?

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Speaker 6: What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Dogs? Little bit would be a good game, will be

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Speaker 10: Let's have a look at the next one now, Newcastle

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Speaker 10: Knights still and Brown the biggest story, well, the highest

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Speaker 10: biggest deal in the history of the game, moving to

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Speaker 2: Over here in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 6: It's to.

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Speaker 2: Here is the team.

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Speaker 5: Thanks the sports Bet for the Knights and Fletcher Sharp

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Speaker 10: Big one there made he in the sixth position, of

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Speaker 10: six do you like it?

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Speaker 5: I love Fletcher Sharp, a couple of all the confidence

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Speaker 3: But now I saw Fletcher. I've never met him before.

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Speaker 8: So the other night.

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Speaker 3: The other great thing about Fletch it was like he said,

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Speaker 5: Seven's know, that's his thing and a little bit like

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Speaker 6: Mad.

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Speaker 11: If you spend half an hour with Dylan Brown, what

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Speaker 6: Knowing how proud the region is.

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Speaker 5: I would say, don't let the number dictate your natural game.

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Speaker 3: One bit about Doylan. One thing about I.

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Speaker 5: Love Dylan When he runs the ball right, it's very

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Speaker 5: simple to do when he has a discipline to run

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Speaker 5: the ball. The thing I don't like sometimes with Dylan

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Speaker 5: You know that pretty football. That's not his goal. But

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Speaker 2: But you did face the face with him.

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Speaker 6: What was he like?

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Speaker 3: Where was I saying on the interview?

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Speaker 2: He did better than me?

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Speaker 3: It was six thirty in the morning. It was catastrophic interview.

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Speaker 2: I heard you a little hungover when he did that

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Speaker 10: His mentality though? Was he in a good space? Was

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Speaker 10: he ready for the season confident? Do you expect him

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Speaker 12: It's hard to tell. And he's so chilled right away.

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Speaker 12: Does doesn't give him? He doesn't volt Is that dangerous

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Speaker 12: with Kale and Ponger. Yeah, he's very chilled as well.

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Speaker 12: Kale and Ponger they say, doesn't really Well.

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Speaker 5: God, do you bring up a really interesting point. Kalon's

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Speaker 5: at a junction in his career.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Do you want to be known as a great player

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Speaker 5: a bloke in twenty years that they show on YouTube

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Speaker 5: highlight rules.

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Speaker 8: That frees out.

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Speaker 10: It's a big year for who is the chief playmaker

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Speaker 10: in the Newcastle Knights team?

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Speaker 5: How to identify I don't know what Justin Holwood's going

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Speaker 5: to do tactically. If I was coaching, I wouldn't put

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Speaker 5: it on Dylan, but yeah, Fletcher's a younger bloke.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of the direction might come from Kayla.

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Speaker 9: I'm fascinated how this plays out because the big problem

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Speaker 9: under Adam O'Brien was the chopping and the changing of

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Speaker 9: the harves. Now it's not like, you know, they didn't

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Speaker 9: have superstars in those positions, but last year they had

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Speaker 9: eight different halves combinations, fifteen different changes. Twenty four weeks,

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Speaker 9: So he's got to sort that out, Justin Holbrook. It's

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Speaker 9: only going to be two choices, really, it's Dylan Brown's

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Speaker 9: going to be one of the halves and it's either

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Speaker 9: Sanded Smith. So hopefully he works that out in the

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Speaker 9: first few We've got.

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Speaker 3: To stay the course, you're idean, You've got to stay

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Speaker 5: As you know, Brak, they've got to let halves full combination.

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Speaker 10: Justin Holbrook, big job for him, and we've heard a

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Speaker 10: lot about him. He's done a great job as a

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Speaker 10: coach and this is would be his biggest challenge. What

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Speaker 10: have you heard madey from the camp about him?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's typular football sides. Everyone loves. If

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Speaker 3: you acquaintance, they come and what's it. Oh mate, it's fantastic,

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Speaker 5: Thing I like about Justin and he played at Newcastle

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Speaker 5: of the things I really loved was when he first

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Speaker 5: you understand Newcastle, the steel mills, the coal mines.

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Speaker 3: That they are just part of the football.

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Speaker 6: Team working right. He's trying to teach them.

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Speaker 5: It's a blue collar football side about and you know,

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Speaker 5: Gordy as you know, back in the early.

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Speaker 3: Days of the nights, the honey and mate, you never.

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Speaker 6: Went to Marathon Stadium without getting beaten up.

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Speaker 5: Worry about the school board you've got I remember Wayne

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Speaker 5: Pearce used.

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Speaker 3: To call the drive up there and the one the

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Speaker 8: That's we've got.

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Speaker 3: You've got to obviously playose sheds were because John's boys

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Speaker 5: Water flood is right, all right, as hellish as the nightclubs,

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Speaker 5: all right, let's let's lead in or dive into the

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Speaker 5: North Queensland Cowboys.

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Speaker 10: A lot said about them as well. Todd Peyton obviously

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of.

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Speaker 5: Speculations surrounding him and his team. What do we think

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Speaker 9: There a lot of the coaches that were in the

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Speaker 9: hot seed ahead of Peyton gone, so I think he

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Speaker 9: games early. They've got oh god, I just realized who

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Speaker 9: they've gotten the first three weeks.

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Speaker 8: Gold Coaster is one of them. They've also got the West.

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Speaker 6: You're seeing, which now, Dan.

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Speaker 8: Gordy, I don't like being this intimate with you. It's

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Speaker 8: surely in the night.

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Speaker 6: I've said it before.

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Speaker 8: And I'll say it again.

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Speaker 9: No, in all honesty, they are under the pumpy because

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Speaker 9: you look at that list and you think, how the

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Speaker 8: Or work last year nine wins? I liked it.

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Speaker 9: They've got Clifford and Deaden as the harves because you look,

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Speaker 9: Clifford is vanilla and he's no frills, but they win

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Speaker 9: more with him there. I know they want Perdue in

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Speaker 9: and better when Clifford's there.

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Speaker 2: Red Marney, we will he bring will he helped Clifford

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Speaker 9: Do you know he was very good before the Bulldogs

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Speaker 9: booted him out because if you remember, he was giving

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Speaker 9: Then he actually really cleaned up his act, but he

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Speaker 10: How do you see the spy in there? Including all

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Speaker 10: three of we're just spoken of cleiff It's a really

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Speaker 10: important one. I like Jake, I really as a player.

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Speaker 10: Jake's big thing is getting off to a good start

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Speaker 3: There's a real sensitive bloke.

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Speaker 5: Naturally, he doesn't have natural confidence, and so I want

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Speaker 3: Marney is so important.

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Speaker 5: Marny is one of those things where people talk about

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Speaker 5: you as a player like you know, Gordon me and

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Speaker 5: they will hard men.

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Speaker 3: All they say was real maneyl Time made.

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Speaker 5: He gets in their faces and all that, and he

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, he's up that picked him.

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Speaker 5: He's got to be a leader, got to change his

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Speaker 5: game round and he Luky well yeah yeah, because he

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Speaker 3: He's one of those you just the bloke deserves to

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Speaker 5: Seasonal and then I I mean, they got enough talent,

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Speaker 5: they do what a player, So who wins this one?

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Speaker 9: I think it's going to be tight Cowboys, because you

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Speaker 9: know what you're going to get with the Cowboys. You're

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Speaker 9: still waiting to see how Sharp and Brown are going

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Speaker 9: to Jael. But I think this might be closer than

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Speaker 5: I probably think at the moment of Cowboys, still waiting

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Speaker 5: for the combinations around the spine to form.

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Speaker 3: A little bit worried about the middle cast.

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Speaker 10: All let's head over. I'll talk about now in Super League.

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Speaker 10: And we got Brad Arthur from the Leeds Rhinos coming up.

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Speaker 10: We had Willie Peters some whole KR on the show

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Speaker 10: earlier on in the week to be a game whole

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Speaker 10: KR four titles real. He's on fire at the moment.

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Speaker 10: But Brad, he's done a good job. Come forth with

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Speaker 10: the Leeds Rhinos in his first season there. He wants

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Speaker 10: it in our old job. Rumors circling about both the

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Speaker 10: coaches are returning at some point, but this game sets

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Speaker 10: up to be a beauty.

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Speaker 5: Leads are a massive club, one of the biggest club's

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Speaker 5: great history.

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Speaker 3: Whole Kingston Rovers.

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Speaker 5: What he is done, Willie Peters like I remember the

450
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Speaker 5: first Challenge couple we ever saw in nineteen eighty and

451
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Speaker 5: they had Roger Mill, John Dory, Gavin Miller was over

452
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Speaker 5: there for a stint I think at the time gave

453
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Speaker 5: and in that next twenty six twenty seven they've gone

454
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Speaker 5: through highs and lows, mostly lows for Willy to go there.

455
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Speaker 5: They've won the four trophies, Challenge Cup, won a Premiership title.

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Speaker 3: And then beat the Broncos. And as you know, you

457
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Speaker 3: know Willy really well. No one doubts Willy ability as

458
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Speaker 3: far as tatics concern. But he's such a sweetheart. People said,

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Speaker 3: is he going to have tough enough for edge?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 3: What he has done and this side's done, mate. They'll

462
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Speaker 3: talk about them in fifty years times too. It's been

463
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Speaker 3: remarkable there.

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Speaker 9: I'm looking forward to it and I think they've got

465
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Speaker 9: the day, right, the three games, right, we have to

466
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Speaker 9: have England part of it, and at four was just

467
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 9: too many last year. And it's not being disrespectful to

468
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Speaker 9: the girls. It didn't matter what they cut, they had

469
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Speaker 9: to cut something.

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Speaker 3: They had to bring their women's over eachin over it.

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Speaker 8: In extent. And can I just say.

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Speaker 9: This so you know pet Velandi's next big thing is

473
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Speaker 9: this London doubleheader, which I kind of liked the idea.

474
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Speaker 9: It'd be nice to fish where the fish are actually,

475
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Speaker 9: and I know London's not the north of England. But

476
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Speaker 9: if we do it, we've got to make Super leg

477
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 9: a big thing part of this. We can't just have

478
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 9: them as a token part of not that they're token here.

479
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Speaker 8: But let's help them.

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Speaker 9: And if we're going to go over there, let's make

481
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Speaker 9: it a magic weekend.

482
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Speaker 7: Right.

483
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Speaker 9: Put the Super League on all day on the Saturday

484
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Speaker 9: or on the Friday night, and then the NL on

485
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Speaker 9: the Sunday. I think we can make it an extravaganza.

486
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Speaker 5: Talking about the English game and this controversial I would

487
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Speaker 5: if I was changed, I'd send it back to a

488
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 5: Winter sports what just happened back in the day ultimate

489
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 5: seasons and their greatest players would come out for guests

490
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Speaker 5: with us Ellery Hanley, Garry Schofield.

491
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Speaker 3: It goes on Kevin Ward and our best.

492
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Speaker 5: Players would go over there, added so much depth to

493
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Speaker 5: both the competitions.

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Speaker 10: Now, at the end of last year, I was I

495
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 10: don't know where I was, but my phone lit up

496
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Speaker 10: with co owners of the Gold Coast Titans and it

497
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Speaker 10: was these two men sitting next to me, Gordon Tallas

498
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Speaker 10: and Maddie Johns, which for me come from nowhere. But

499
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Speaker 10: I'm intrigued to know how it eventuated and how are

500
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Speaker 10: you enjoying it so far?

501
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Speaker 6: I'm absolutely loving it at the moment.

502
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Speaker 11: We're very lucky that we've got very generous owners and

503
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Speaker 11: Brett and Rebecca Frazzelle and they offered us a share

504
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 11: and all the other owners. It's given us a purpose. Well,

505
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 11: it's given me back a purpose in rugby ley to

506
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 11: get skin back into the game and have to go

507
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 11: over with the Australian side. So on buzz and for

508
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Speaker 11: the season we've had a good start, we haven't lost

509
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 11: the game yet, but the real stuff's just around the corner.

510
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Speaker 8: I'm fascinated by the deal.

511
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 9: I'm actually fascinated, and not in a negative zones. I'm

512
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 9: actually really interested because for the first time, rugby league

513
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 9: is actually a profitable venture for owners because the TV

514
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,679
Speaker 9: money is so good and it's going to be so

515
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:48,360
Speaker 9: much better.

516
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 8: The next time as well.

517
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 9: So you've got in at a good time and you

518
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 9: bring connections and know how so kind of it really works.

519
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 2: But I'm fascinated.

520
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Speaker 8: Why did they give up part of the club for you?

521
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 6: Dan? I tear.

522
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 5: Firstly want to say this is that I would not

523
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 5: have been involved in no goodons saying if they have said, hey, listen,

524
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 5: we'll give you a knockdown price. We're pulling, We're paying

525
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 5: full trade. There's no sweetheart deal or any of that

526
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 5: sort of stuff. And that's the first thing. And the

527
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 5: other thing is the factors good and said, I've been

528
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 5: fifty years in the game, right, i just love that.

529
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Speaker 5: It's been my whole life. And I've been been a player,

530
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Speaker 5: I've been a fan, I've been a player, been the media, and.

531
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Speaker 3: Now you're in ownership and you know.

532
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Speaker 5: And they've brought us in because the Frazel family are unbelievable.

533
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 5: Their business acuimen is second to none. But they're like,

534
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 5: our shortcoming is know the ins and outs of Brad Luke,

535
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 5: Who's who in the zoo?

536
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 3: That's what we can do.

537
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Speaker 2: Like, why did you want to be a part of

538
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 2: the Titans?

539
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 6: What? What? What?

540
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Speaker 3: Dan Well?

541
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Speaker 5: I tear you sorry, Braith. Firstly, first of all, to

542
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 5: get involved with the game, you don't. You don't get

543
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 5: offered ownership opportunity. But my grandfather, when he was a

544
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 5: massive gold case goals fan, he left the family.

545
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Speaker 3: He's dead now, son, talk about this.

546
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 5: He left my grandmother and mudgy and moved up to

547
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 5: the Gold Coast.

548
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 3: A bit of a chancer, but he made us to

549
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 3: make love the Gold Coast seagulls.

550
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 5: So for me to go up there, I always think

551
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 5: about pop a little bit, but actually now more than that,

552
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 5: it's just to make money come out.

553
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Speaker 8: What a story that it was, like, I was there.

554
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Speaker 10: You know what, Buck Guys, they are tracking very well.

555
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 10: I'm hearing very good things out of the camp.

556
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 2: Josh Hanna. He's very impressive. Na is really impressed. They've

557
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 2: started really good.

558
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 5: Anyway, we've got to get to Allegian Stadium where Lara

559
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Speaker 5: Pitt is standing by.

560
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 13: Well, yes, Graith, we are almost ready to rock and

561
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Speaker 13: roll here at Allegiance Stadium.

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Speaker 4: The turf has been rolled out.

563
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Speaker 13: Our footy posts have been put up earlier this morning,

564
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 13: and of course the markings from an NFL field to

565
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 13: a rugby league field are ready to go ahead of

566
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 13: a massive day on Fox League. All six of our

567
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 13: teams in action have been through the facility right now.

568
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Speaker 4: The Bulldogs are having.

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Speaker 13: Their tra run here and I can tell you, no

570
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Speaker 13: matter how many times you see this stadium, for many

571
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 13: of the players today it was their first time. It

572
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 13: simply blows your mind. Three billion dollars, state of the

573
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 13: art facility. We know it's only one of two stadiums

574
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 13: in the USA where the field and the turf can

575
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 13: actually be rolled in and out. That process now takes

576
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 13: about ninety minutes. The turf looks a treat, the players say,

577
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 13: a little bit firm underfoot, but simply cannot wait to

578
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 13: get out.

579
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Speaker 4: He spoke to Dane Gagay.

580
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Speaker 13: He's played in a lot of big games, in a

581
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,159
Speaker 13: lot of big venues of rugby league and he just

582
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 13: could not believe seeing it up close and personal for

583
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 13: the first time, the roof being on it just makes

584
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 13: for such an incredible atmosphere. So if we get forty

585
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Speaker 13: forty five thousand here tomorrow. It will certainly be absolutely buzzy.

586
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 4: Now.

587
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Speaker 13: The Bulldogs, as I said, going through their training run,

588
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 13: the thing we all wanted to see was whether their

589
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 13: number six, Matt Burton.

590
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Speaker 4: Could put a bomb up and hit the roof.

591
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Speaker 13: I can tell you from speaking to the venue that

592
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Speaker 13: it is about a fifty six meter gap that he

593
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 13: has to make up to get there, and he came

594
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Speaker 13: so very close to doing it. The good news of

595
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 13: Bulldogs fans is he.

596
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 4: Was putting in plenty of bombs.

597
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Speaker 13: He got close to hitting a speaker in fact, and

598
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Speaker 13: I think if he gave it he's all he could.

599
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 4: Easily have hit the roof.

600
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Speaker 13: So good news with Bulldogs fans is that he gave

601
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 13: that hamstring a very good workout and there was certainly

602
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 13: no signs that that is going to slow him down

603
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 13: against Saint.

604
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Speaker 4: George Illawarra in our third game.

605
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Speaker 13: But break Yeah, it's an incredible place to come and

606
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 13: we cannot wait to bring it to you on Fox League.

607
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 13: So we've all got to get a bit of an

608
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 13: early night. That's the Boss's orders, because we cannot wait

609
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Speaker 13: to bring home and officially open the twenty twenty six

610
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Speaker 13: Rugby League season from this Allegiance Stadium,