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Speaker 2: most crucial things when it comes to finals football, there's

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Speaker 2: the spine. Crucial factor of course, yardage of course, but

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Speaker 1: Number one, we think alike Cleary.

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Speaker 2: To Lungey Edwards, the captain of defense, Mitch Canny, and

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Speaker 2: you've got to have Isaiah in the in the spine.

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Speaker 1: When I was sitting down through it, going through, I

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Speaker 1: Runner and the game managers are Isaiaho and Nathan, so

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Speaker 2: I've got the Raiders as well. Foggedy, Strange, kayle Weeks,

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Speaker 2: But number two, this is exciting Number three roosters.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like Matt Burton does it in the yardage

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Speaker 2: Then smashed with their spine. Metalf was a monumental loss.

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Speaker 1: Is it yours of mine?

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Speaker 1: Is it yours of mine? I'm taking it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I do. Look, I just feel like what

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Speaker 1: because you don't forget to write a bike this team

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Speaker 2: Totally agree, Totally agree, And do you know what coops

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Speaker 2: The other night with Melbourne, I thought the first time

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Speaker 2: Regress. Yeah, that's right. Question for the Dogs. Another left

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Speaker 2: Let's throw something that cha please, don't just dismiss it.

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Speaker 2: I'll wait till you throw and Burton left center. Galvin

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Speaker 1: Honestly, you're not far off the mark, But I don't

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Speaker 2: Okay. Said along that, who wins? Do you think Melbourne win?

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Speaker 1: What they need to do is the middle forward's leg

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Speaker 2: Tough road trip to Auckland, but very tough matchup for

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Speaker 2: He's the key man in this most probably the key

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Speaker 2: They're are very as far as their attack is very much,

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Speaker 2: other side. Very clever. They've gone back that way and

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Speaker 2: we're seeing that more and more rut with Cooper.

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Speaker 2: Something is so good. It's like an old fashioned softening

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's almost like I don't know who's going

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Speaker 2: To do it? Yeah? That intimidation either side.

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Speaker 1: So I would kick to him or Lioda and just

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Speaker 2: Let's have a little play here. What I think it's

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Speaker 2: a snapshot of how Penrith goalbent work in big games

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Speaker 2: just alleviating the pressure off the forwards, and then Nathan

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Speaker 2: and we're going to chase really hard, looking for the

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Speaker 1: So this is exactly why I think James Fisher Haarris

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Speaker 1: emotion of being a home ground, yeah, there just might

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Speaker 2: They've got to punch his change, you know, if they

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Speaker 2: can dictate the terms of the contest, mate, who knows,

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Speaker 2: and becomes that sort of match and it.

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Speaker 1: Has to be their best performance by a country mile

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Speaker 2: Saturday Night Sharks and Rusters. I find this one really

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Speaker 2: really difficult to pick. Nico's coming through big one, big

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Speaker 2: big one. To make of that, yeah, I thought it

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Speaker 2: was the right decision. Was downgrade, to be honest. You know,

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Speaker 2: when I heard they were going to fight it, I

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Speaker 1: I thought that too. It was right on the edge

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Speaker 1: he can come through this. Get it right first, don't

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Speaker 2: Back three got to dominate yardis when the Sharks play great.

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Speaker 2: You see that back three they fire in YARDI so

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Speaker 2: they dominate the yardists. So you have to do that here,

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Speaker 2: particularly because the Sharks Ford's They're going to have their

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Speaker 2: hands full with Tedesco and the guy's just drilling through

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Speaker 1: If you'd have asked me the Shark's chances before the

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Speaker 1: But that was a very good performance.

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Speaker 2: Timing is everything.

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Speaker 1: It was suddenly very very good. And I think the

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Speaker 1: key player in this game is for neuwel Blake. I

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Speaker 1: feel like Niko Heines is decision maker and now that

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Speaker 1: he's available, he'll be the guy that comes up with

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Speaker 1: the players right. If he can deliver on that alpha

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Speaker 1: male and smash the Rooster's pack and give his halves

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Speaker 2: I think the is what they're boarding for big time.

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Speaker 2: And you know it's just he's by his very like

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Speaker 2: he's own. If you ask someone I do I reckon

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Speaker 2: Faniel Blake's sees me and you go, oh, yeah, you

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Speaker 2: know he's been good. Really, if you didn't know who

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Speaker 2: he was, you go, this bloke is outstanding.

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Speaker 1: And the other part to it too. If the Roosters

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Speaker 1: can't control him, it gives Brayley first chance to run,

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Speaker 1: and then we've seen when Brayley runs, Nico gets up

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Speaker 2: I mean Tedesco's impact, you know it speaks for itself.

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Speaker 2: Big final series for Semi Walker.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. Tedesco's just been brilliant. I'll win

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Speaker 1: the Dally M. But Sam Walker, I think the Roosters

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Speaker 1: have a couple of things to get right. Their completion rate.

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Speaker 1: They just cannot give the opposition too many opportunities, and

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Speaker 1: Sam Walker needs to get that perfect balance a bit

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Speaker 1: like Reeswash, Like if Sam gets the option to make

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he could wins.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say, Roosters, I'm going to wait the

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Speaker 1: on the field, I think the Sharks can win. If

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Speaker 1: he's not, I think the Roosters win.

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Speaker 2: On lining towards the Sharks at home. I like what

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Speaker 2: they're doing at the moment. They've had inconsistency through the year,

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Speaker 2: but timing is good. Brawley's you said last week, when

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Speaker 2: he scoops and goes, that's the bear of the Sharks.

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Speaker 2: We've seen that more and more bring out the best

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Speaker 2: to Nicos. So interesting game.

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Speaker 1: It's a tight one, there's no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Sure. Now massive one on Sunday Raiders and the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Historically the Broncos Brisbane struggling camera.

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Speaker 1: Because it's forty degrees in Queensland. Now it's minor six

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Speaker 1: and camera.

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Speaker 2: Well that's it, Coops, even those great great Broncos sides

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Speaker 2: because totally different conditions night football and cameras really you know, slippery,

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Speaker 2: it's quite wet, it's freezing cold, but Sunday afternoon football

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Speaker 2: and camera is fantastic. So that goes back towards them

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Speaker 1: And you talk about the matchups, they're pretty even across

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Speaker 1: the board. Michael maguire vers Ricky Stuart pretty similar, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Payne Huss, Patrick Carrigan, Tarpney, PAPAALII exciting, young, energetic outside

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Speaker 1: I think the matchup for this is the forward packs

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Speaker 1: will deliver because of their experience. The hars will probably deliver,

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Speaker 1: But which one of the outside backs for both teams

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Speaker 1: gets up and about is it Weeks, is it, is

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Speaker 1: it Walsh? Is it typical or stags Like I feel

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Speaker 1: like whichever young energetic outside backs gets a moment like

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 1: I think it feeds confidence.

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Speaker 2: Great great clash with the middle forwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think they're going to just match each other, right.

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Speaker 1: I don't think one of them are going to turn

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Speaker 1: Is there a poor miss read defensively that allows someone

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Speaker 1: But Canbra should be super confident at home on a

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Speaker 2: Jez Jess Walsh has been good the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: that good. You know, he played, he played one, he

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Speaker 2: played little to seven, played little bit six. I mean

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Speaker 2: the best example just after halftime is the big double play.

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Speaker 2: This one here, the ball knocks it down, gets a

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Speaker 2: beautiful little bounds, gets forty twenty and you know thirty

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Speaker 1: If you show that forty twenty again, I think a

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Speaker 1: that's a very clever play. That's not just made up

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Speaker 2: Went down, who wins Coops? Who wins this?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Raiders? I think Raiders at home they need to Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: like I feel if they lose this, the Raiders, it

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Speaker 1: just need to capitalize on this. They need this moment

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Speaker 2: Let's all the eliminated teams just quickly give them a

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Speaker 2: rating out of ten. Who you thought their best player

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Speaker 1: We do rating out of ten? If you get a

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Speaker 1: pass mark, it's got to be five above, right, So

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Speaker 1: there's not too many of these teams haven't passed the mark.

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Speaker 1: But I will I will do this. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give the Dolphins at six. I thought, you know, through

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Speaker 1: all their injuries, through everything they went through, and then

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Speaker 1: Isaiah car told their best play, they're attack the best

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Speaker 1: in the competition. I thought they deserve to play finals,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to give him a six. Very good

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Speaker 2: I'm a soft touch. I've actually gone seven and a half.

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Speaker 2: Just the fact that they were smashed by injuries. The

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Speaker 2: pack was decimated. Herbie is one of the most important players.

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Speaker 2: They lost him, and you know it was a lot

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Speaker 2: of young guys who blooded along a lot of young guys.

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Speaker 2: I was saying on out Sunday and I show last night,

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Speaker 2: Carto was twelve months twelve months on old, the same

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Speaker 2: with Donahue and some of those other young players. I said,

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Speaker 2: don't we're playing finals football next year. They could easily

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Speaker 2: be a contender. They can improve that much.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: of ten. You look at the talent and the side

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Speaker 2: and what they did very it was. You know, that

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Speaker 2: side should be playing finals. They've got a great home ground,

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Speaker 2: were hard to all those things.

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Speaker 1: Are you even them before? I thought ol Kawatu when

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Speaker 2: And I thought their best player was Cola, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think just highlighted what a fantastic season he had.

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Speaker 1: I could mount a case for the Eels down the

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Speaker 1: bottom ladder for the start of the year, jumped up

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Speaker 1: into eleven. You know, they've almost had a six out

437
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Speaker 1: of ten year too, But I'm going to give him

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Speaker 1: five just because of their poor start. But Moses makes

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Speaker 1: them a twelve, fourteen to fifteen point better team. He's

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Speaker 1: that important tool.

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Speaker 2: I've give him a seven half out of ten. I

442
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Speaker 2: know they finish, you are I have massively self touched.

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Speaker 2: I'm just really excited for next year. Every individual in

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Speaker 2: that side improved, even the veteran players. Josh had a

445
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Speaker 2: car Juba and and as far as improvements can get,

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Speaker 2: you give them a ten out of ten. But they've

447
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Speaker 2: earned an emerging superstar.

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Speaker 1: Man what a football go didn't it was the best

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Speaker 1: player for the Cowboys, which is twelfth. That's straight up

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Speaker 1: with that roster and what they have done before. Their

451
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Speaker 1: heights are borderline top four and their worst is so.

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Speaker 2: Much talent so little Greek.

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Speaker 1: Give them two out of ten. It was it was

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Speaker 1: a bad year for the Cowboys. Like they showed signs

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Speaker 1: that they could do it, then they showed signs that

456
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Speaker 1: they're just a few years away. But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Jackson Purdue was probably young.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of good things about the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like just so frustrating. We got to Tigers,

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Speaker 2: who was the thirteenth. I've given them. I've got them

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Speaker 2: a six out of ten, and that's that's based on

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Speaker 2: the fact they dealt with a lot of stuff at

463
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Speaker 2: the start of the year and then I thought their

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00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 2: mid season was outstanding. But I thought they're back. I

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Speaker 2: thought there last month was really disappointing. I thought that

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Speaker 2: that lost to the Cowboys just really pricked the balloon and.

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Speaker 1: Even even on the weekend up by twenty odd or

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Speaker 1: something and run down like the Tigers are improved under Benji.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give them boardline five.

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Speaker 2: A number of players, usual suspects, appy chorus sound was

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Speaker 2: trivic dream Buller, I'm going to roll mate. I thought

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Speaker 2: I thought he was. He's proven to be really a

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Speaker 2: great buy and his brother arrive late Taylor May Wow.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give Buller their best player at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I just really like he is the point of difference

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Speaker 1: when he gets going. He's the guy that can score

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Speaker 1: points for him.

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Speaker 2: South fourteenth I'll give him five out of ten based

479
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Speaker 2: on the fact no team have been smashed. I don't

480
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Speaker 2: think in the last decade like Souths have been smashed.

481
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Speaker 2: There were some weeks that the team was just unrecognizable.

482
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Speaker 2: But the silver lining is the fact they blooded a

483
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Speaker 2: lot of young guys who showed a bit. So next

484
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 2: year if they can have a decent run of injuries,

485
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Speaker 2: they've got a lot of depth.

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Speaker 1: A bit like elm was South so fooththrd but just

487
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: didn't have the class in the field at the time.

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Speaker 2: I thought Joe Grave was.

489
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Speaker 1: It needs to be in their team. Joe Gray, like,

490
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Speaker 1: if you're going to win a finals match in September

491
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Speaker 1: of South, I think the Trolls your fullback. But I'll

492
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Speaker 1: tell you what. You cannot leave Joe.

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Speaker 2: Gray out now you can Dragons fifteenth, I've given him.

494
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Speaker 2: I've given him a five. Really thought, look, coops, I

495
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Speaker 2: reckon they've improved from last year. I thought the last month,

496
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Speaker 2: the couple of the games in this last month, we're terrible.

497
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Speaker 2: They let themselves down. Start of the year. They gave

498
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 2: a lot of cheek. They lost a lot of narrow games.

499
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Speaker 2: I thought their mid season you saw and pick up

500
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Speaker 2: the end was disappointing.

501
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Speaker 1: But I agree. They had a couple of one point

502
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Speaker 1: losses in the first half of the year and Gutherson

503
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Speaker 1: was their best player a country mile. But then something

504
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Speaker 1: happened at the back end. They struggle to score points.

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Speaker 1: If Gutson didn't do something, they were sort of down

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Speaker 1: and out a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Titans. Look Saturday night, they showed what they're capable of

508
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Speaker 2: when they apply themselves in their second half. There's no

509
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Speaker 2: excuses for their poor season. I gave them three out

510
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Speaker 2: of ten. You just expect, you expect more. It's a

511
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Speaker 2: really big season next year for a lot of individuals

512
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Speaker 2: on that side. I think, I think Hannay, I think

513
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Speaker 2: you'll see the Titans move up into the mid table

514
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Speaker 2: under Josh Hannay, but some bakes them to really pull

515
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Speaker 2: their socks up.

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Speaker 1: I put them in the cowboys category. They've just got

517
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Speaker 1: origin type players in todayational players. And if you can't

518
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Speaker 1: defend well for long periods of time and just rely

519
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: on your attack to win every week, you're going to

520
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 1: lose more games than you win.

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Speaker 2: And the Knights apologies another Wooden spurn. Really I feel

522
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Speaker 2: for the supporters and the community up there because they

523
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Speaker 2: this year, they just kept turning up and turned it

524
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Speaker 2: up and turning up, and the last six weeks really disappointing.

525
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Speaker 2: They had a bad run of injuries. They lost their

526
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Speaker 2: attacking sparks in Kaylon Poer, Fletcher Sharp and Dylan Lucas.

527
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Speaker 2: We haven't spoken a lot about Dylan Lucas. He was

528
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Speaker 2: huge loss and he was in my opinion, I think

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Speaker 2: I had Dylan Lucas is our best player.

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Speaker 1: Gag Guy was for me the most consistent player for

531
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Speaker 1: the Knights a bad year, and O'Brien Whatt four finals

532
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Speaker 1: in six seasons like he's a good coach who when

533
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Speaker 1: given a job, can do it as an assistant and

534
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Speaker 1: obviously the limelight got a bit to at different stages

535
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Speaker 1: they this is a really important decision that it's for

536
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Speaker 1: the next coach. There's some holes in that program that

537
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: we've spoken about, but on field performance in terms of

538
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: the list and where it goes to the next coach

539
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Speaker 1: appointment is a big.

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Speaker 2: One excellent coops job. With that shirt, you're going to

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Speaker 2: seal it, not

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Speaker 1: H