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Speaker 1: The easter opener takes shape as Brisbane juggles its stocks

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Speaker 1: and Collingwood searches for replacements for it's injured captain.

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Speaker 2: The Crows lose key defender Jordan Butts to concussion as

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Speaker 2: Matthew Nick sweats on some reinforcements to face Fremantle and.

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Speaker 3: Footing it with a greater cause.

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Speaker 1: Carlton and North Melbourne joined forces with the Royal Children's

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Speaker 1: Hospital ahead of Good Fridays SuperClash.

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Speaker 4: I see the ad flies today. Can you help me

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Speaker 4: on on three sixty one?

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Speaker 3: Are aware of that conversation? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I don't live under it rock.

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Speaker 6: The reality is now, the gloves are off course fair

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Speaker 6: and love.

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Speaker 7: More at night.

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Speaker 3: Job is pretty clear, like Hawthorne when it would be very.

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Speaker 4: Good at Hide and Seek.

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Speaker 3: Me sure, I think, okaylo follow, I.

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Speaker 4: Can't have that. I what do you want us to play? Worse?

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Speaker 4: When you caught my eye.

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Speaker 2: And mustang that all right?

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Speaker 8: It's just that's the Corteous Prize.

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Speaker 7: First look at it, she said, there's a dent in

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Speaker 7: that car, look it, sure enough there is.

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Speaker 3: Have you got all the booking sorted for Adelaide?

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Speaker 8: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Indeed, our favorite restaurant over there Jured is just being

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Speaker 2: awarded the sixteenth best steakhouse in Australia.

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Speaker 1: In the world, in the world the Michelin Stars.

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Speaker 4: And let get into our goodness. We will now that

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Speaker 4: we mentioned.

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Speaker 3: Them, all right, Adelaide is very much on our minds.

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Speaker 3: A week away.

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Speaker 1: We have Andrew Brayshaw joining our team tonight, Harry Schuesel

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Speaker 1: here at the Best. There's a long list for rach Hamberlain.

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Speaker 1: Have given all that's going on with the rules and

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Speaker 1: then we hand over to midweek tackle with Lauren Wood.

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Speaker 1: But this night next week we will have gathered will

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Speaker 1: be in Adelaide with plenty of you at the Oval.

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Speaker 1: It'll be the last year of the four year deal

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Speaker 1: that was put in place to fully established gather round

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Speaker 1: and today the AFL and the South Australian Government meant

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Speaker 1: to thrash out what the future might look like.

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Speaker 8: I'd really like to get done as soon as possible

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Speaker 8: because I think there's so much interest in it. But

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Speaker 8: is a it's a complicated negotiation. There's lots of people

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Speaker 8: that we need to consult with, particularly our clubs in

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Speaker 8: our players. But we're having really constructive discussions with the government.

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Speaker 9: You know, he's got a responsibility to footy. In the AFL,

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Speaker 9: I've got a responsibility to the state government. But we

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Speaker 9: have been able to find a lot of alignment between

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Speaker 9: the two, which means everybody wins and I think we can.

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Speaker 3: Do that again.

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Speaker 9: But we put on the table officially a number of

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Speaker 9: other ideas that we've got around gather around to make

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Speaker 9: sure it's a concept that continues to grow and remains fresh,

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Speaker 9: and that's what we're working through.

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Speaker 1: The premier wants a five year deal so have the

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Speaker 1: certainty of being able to invest in various regions and

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Speaker 1: areas to bring facilities up to AFL standard and get

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Speaker 1: fifty one weeks of benefit for the rest of the community.

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Speaker 1: The AFL hedges along commercial lines. South Australia wants exclusivity

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Speaker 1: around it's like it does with Live. The AFL is

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Speaker 1: just heading a little bit for the time being.

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Speaker 2: It's a hard negotiation when they both know they need

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Speaker 2: each other. The AFL need South Australia have done an

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Speaker 2: to continue. So they're going to find that common ground

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Speaker 2: at some stage.

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Speaker 4: It's just a bit of a you know, stand off.

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Speaker 2: And who can hold the line for a bit longer,

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Speaker 2: But they were I mean, you're a massive fan.

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Speaker 4: You can't be anywhere else, can it.

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Speaker 1: So I think trying to get certainty around it by

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Speaker 1: is a challenging yeut. There'll be a lot of families

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Speaker 1: like my extended family at the moment who are just

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Speaker 1: second guessing, right are we driving? Are we taking the

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Speaker 1: one of the planks that needs certainty as well, and

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Speaker 1: it is it's so ideally suited to South Australia. It

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Speaker 1: the test the best of the cricket summer and they've

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't be the same in any other states.

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Speaker 1: So I do think once you've come up with the

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Speaker 4: I have no argument against me.

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Speaker 2: It is a fantastic five days of footy and it

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Speaker 4: But it is they are great venues.

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Speaker 2: Tasmania coming in in twenty twenty eight. Yeah, they might say, hey,

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Speaker 1: It in the manner that we have, certainly not until

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Speaker 1: So the footy itself, the East around which is before

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Speaker 1: us Adelaide, is in the grip of injury and that's

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Speaker 10: In the moment, Jordan felt okay. In the moment, he

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Speaker 10: we thought it needed to be, and so you know,

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Speaker 10: we're not going to put a pirate risk. Unfortunately, for Jordan,

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Speaker 10: it was you know, a few days later as he

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Speaker 3: This is worthy of discussion and debate.

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Speaker 1: And this is your passion project that you've led for

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Speaker 1: more than a year now around brain injury.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Matthew went on to say that there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of commentary methodis around of non experts, of

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Speaker 2: know I'm not second desk guessing doctors. I think doctors

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Speaker 2: seen this historically, they're the last blokes you listen to.

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Speaker 2: I just thought, you know, seeing the doctors out there,

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Speaker 2: doctors thought that they didn't want to go just get

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Speaker 2: I got a little bit of Nick and macalf. They

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Speaker 2: three weeks.

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Speaker 4: This is my whole issue, Jared. But when it comes

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Speaker 2: We somehow go okay, we'll stay out there for a while,

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Speaker 2: watch the vision, then we get you off. Then we

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Speaker 2: do a test on the bench, which we'll see here.

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Speaker 2: And then he doesn't go downstairs to do the full

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Speaker 2: all intents and purposes, got cleaned up by Shannonneel.

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Speaker 4: And then he spends the last six minutes on the bench.

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Speaker 2: We live in a rotat were you living footy, We're

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Speaker 2: getting these guys off to check whether they've got a

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Speaker 2: brain injury. Who cares if he goes off for two

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Speaker 2: you know, and then they go, no, you're good. Well

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Speaker 2: that's the greatest result. Instead, he did have a brain injury.

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Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. I'm not blaming the doctors for

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Speaker 2: I'm sick of the players who just try to be

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Speaker 2: that does is make life really hard for the doctors.

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Speaker 2: It makes life hard for the coaches because they don't

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Speaker 4: So players take the lead in this.

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Speaker 2: We're living through an era where we're reading about Andrew

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Speaker 2: Collingwood who have gone through this horrific situation. Yet we

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Speaker 2: there be sustained a brain injury. It just doesn't make

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Speaker 2: which flies in the face of what I'm saying, but

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Speaker 2: I always get back to it. If Scott Pinery the

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Speaker 2: other night just pulled up a bit sore and just

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Speaker 2: his tracksuit not playing again, because god, hell, we can't

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Speaker 2: have an achilles but a brain injury, let's see. And

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Speaker 2: I know they're not as flippant as that, so that's disrespectful.

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Speaker 2: I know the the Adelaide doctors are doing the absolute

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Speaker 4: Then alle lujah. That's a great result.

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Speaker 1: We're halfway between what has been and what will be

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Speaker 1: at the moment what yours that will be our future,

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Speaker 1: and it will be so prescriptive, but there's there are

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Speaker 1: I think the level of scrutiny around not having the

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Speaker 1: full HIA in retrospect.

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Speaker 3: Is that should cause everybody.

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Speaker 2: Paul, of course it should. And I know the AFL

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Speaker 2: have kicked it off. Well okay, I would be interested

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Speaker 2: to know on the basis of that.

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Speaker 4: So we just got to you know.

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Speaker 2: And again, if you're a player sitting there there and

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Speaker 2: you get ahead, knock and you're feeling a bit, we

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Speaker 2: just come off the ground. It's not that big a deal.

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Speaker 2: It's your brain you're talking about it.

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Speaker 1: Collingwood's traveling party will head to Brisbane tomorrow for the

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Speaker 1: Holy Thursday Night clash with the Lines. They will go

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Speaker 1: without Scott Pendlebury and Darcy Moore.

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Speaker 4: They're off.

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Speaker 2: That's what experience tells us. And the fact that he

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Speaker 4: Looked at him and that's the end of the night.

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Speaker 4: This year, he said, nah, that's it.

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Speaker 2: So then we think of Darcy's done in the hammy

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Speaker 4: It is bizarre, Jo. It's on all evidence is they

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Speaker 2: We Collingwood, Darcy, whoever put him back out there got

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Speaker 4: We just assumed he was fine. I assumed he was.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll preview this game tomorrow night once the

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Speaker 1: Fagan is living through this phase where there's no continuity whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: That's been true through the preseason and it's true at

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Speaker 7: I think we've played eighty one games in three seasons,

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Speaker 7: You just got to deal with the cars that you're

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Speaker 1: It's the great unanswerable. It's why we should guard against

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Speaker 1: the greatest teams of all time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be honest, it's the greatest problem to have.

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Speaker 4: All the teams that pack up in the end of August.

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Speaker 2: It is a challenge, and it's why, you know, I

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Speaker 2: And we saw that in Fagues admitted as much that

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Speaker 4: We're up there. The game is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: But they've subjected themselves to some injury now and that's

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Speaker 2: the interesting part in all this is that they can

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Speaker 2: course they're going to go deep again.

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Speaker 4: But it's a great problem to have.

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Speaker 2: But it's a genuine challenge, and it's a long long

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Speaker 2: you know what it is, The games are longer, the

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Speaker 1: So let's wait to see how their team lands tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night the furnace. Carlton seemed to live the entirety of

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Speaker 3: As the dawns is a reality for you?

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Speaker 1: Are you coaching for your life as you enter this season?

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Speaker 11: I feel like that's quite dramatic to sort of explain

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Speaker 3: Weeks, twelve weeks or eighteen weeks time.

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Speaker 11: I think they're making these decisions for the long haul

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Speaker 11: come around twenty So that's the way we'll approach it.

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Speaker 11: But the last thing this will be about twenty twenty

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Speaker 11: six is my contract.

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Speaker 4: That's the challenge for Bossy.

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Speaker 2: Can he gets some excitement and fresh messaging to his

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I think it's a real challenge for it.

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Speaker 12: There's a few things that we can focus on with

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Speaker 7: How do we stop that?

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Speaker 5: I watched that and I think, yes, it shows a

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Speaker 5: of drop marks like that's not coaching, but that's players

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Speaker 3: If you're a Carton player and you go, oh no,

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Speaker 8: Coaches in this situation, there's always the game, and to

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm not in the habit of death writing coaches, but

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Speaker 4: He's got a massive job ahead of him.

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Speaker 12: We were all riding behind BOSSI and the biggest thing

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Speaker 6: Good Night, Charcter.

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Speaker 1: Character a bit of real awe overreaction, and not just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's real, and it's probably real every week from

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Speaker 2: maybe whether it gets to coach against Adelaide and Collingwood

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Speaker 2: So now this is a team, this is a the

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Speaker 4: So that's real. I don't suspect he's going to.

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Speaker 2: Get sacked, but they need to show up and turn

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Speaker 2: you what if they're headed a half time by five

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Speaker 4: Five, that's going to be interesting. Let's go to use Geraldo.

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Speaker 4: These are the darkest of times for the Bombers.

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Speaker 1: So that's an overreaction because the darkest of times are

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Speaker 1: So the club record losing streak is sixteen.

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Speaker 3: So they're in the grip of grim times. It's looked

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Speaker 1: The Bulldogs were merciless on them twice last year, so

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Speaker 1: that's their foe. That probably tips them to seventeen losses

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Speaker 1: It's going to be hard to find the winds. It's

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Speaker 1: How do they navigate that path? If they could get

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Speaker 2: Shriek us heading into unshirted territory though, Yeah, and even

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Speaker 3: It is it is Port Adelaide is just entering the

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that's real. The world of pain is

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Speaker 2: It's bold to a point, Josh Carr without going to

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Speaker 4: That, Jared. When you when you're moving on from a

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Speaker 2: Coach with a huge imprint on a footy club who's

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Speaker 2: you're run the risk of not getting It's not a

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I suspect when you look at the list

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Speaker 2: Intrigue around Zach Matter's and what he does as the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're in for a little bit of pain.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the list is super strong at Port Adelaude,

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Speaker 4: A bit of pain.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, real or overreaction. Let's bring our players in.

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Speaker 1: Harry Sheesel, we've got to know so well over a

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Speaker 1: couple of years, going to rejoin us at.

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Speaker 3: The desk ahead of his commitments.

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Speaker 1: On Good Friday, and Andrew Brayshaw takes up with us

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Speaker 1: in the West.

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Speaker 3: One of the great young players of the compet till Alleys.

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Speaker 1: He's probably out of the younger day now, isn't He's immature.

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Speaker 3: Andrew Brayshaw joins us next