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Speaker 1: You are on the air with Jase and Lauren today

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Speaker 1: tops of twenty four we are going for it is

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Speaker 1: eighteen at the moment, and some shocking news came through.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, Yes, some very sad news out of the AFL

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Speaker 2: with the passing of Troy Sellward. He was a great

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Speaker 2: football player. More importantly, he was a twin brother to Adam,

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Speaker 2: brother to Scott, and brother to Joel Selward, and the

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Speaker 2: son of Marie and Bryce Solwood. The Sewards are a

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Speaker 2: magnificent family. They're lovely, kind, beautiful people and our hearts

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Speaker 2: are very much with them this morning. Our hearts with

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Speaker 2: the Geelong community and Bendigo where he grew up and

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Speaker 2: everyone affected by this, including his great mate Jonathan Brown,

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Speaker 2: who joins us this morning. Morning. Brownie, Hey, guys.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on the Betters circumstance. But yeah, very

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Speaker 3: sad day, of course.

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Speaker 2: It's a sad day for the AFL and it's a

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Speaker 2: sad day for his family and friends. You guys were

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Speaker 2: great mates.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, we had many great times.

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Speaker 4: Memory also to Collie last night.

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Speaker 3: It tells you you get reflective day when close ones

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Speaker 3: passed away, and you know he came to our wedding,

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Speaker 3: and unfortunately the footy world when we all step right

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Speaker 3: and we you know, we don't play with each other,

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Speaker 3: we don't get to spend as much time as we

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Speaker 3: lock together. But he's just such a wonderful, wonderful human.

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Speaker 3: He had a beautiful soul about him, and including the wedding,

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Speaker 3: I think he might have nearly got kicked out of

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Speaker 3: our wedding along with it was a great bite because

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Speaker 3: the boys are getting to be carried away on the

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Speaker 3: dance floor. They thought they'd put a trial of Crown

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Speaker 3: lagers on the dance floor to make a slipping slot,

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Speaker 3: which the venue Yeah, the venue operator wasn't too keen

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Speaker 3: on he can't kick some of me best mates out

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Speaker 3: of my own wedding. But yeah, you know, he just

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Speaker 3: he's just we loved life. He had a great small

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Speaker 3: and it was a very empathetic bloke as well.

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Speaker 4: So that's what I tell you.

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Speaker 3: Much loved him, and well everyone in the footy cub

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Speaker 3: loved him, and everyone involved that he met loved him

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Speaker 3: so really tough.

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Speaker 4: I knew he'd been going through some struggles unfortunately, but.

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Speaker 3: It never quite prepares you for the shock of announcement

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Speaker 3: like that.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Brownie.

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Speaker 5: The heart hurts this morning and our thoughts go out

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Speaker 5: to the entire AFL community as well as a Cellward family.

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Speaker 5: He was a guy who I get the impression from

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Speaker 5: the outside looking in any way, he loved to help.

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Speaker 5: He loved to mentor, especially young footballers. He played that

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Speaker 5: role at Geelong. Was he like that at Brisbane?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely did? He was well end up. He finished his

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Speaker 3: career as the captain of the Geelong VFL team when

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Speaker 3: he was really starting off his post footy career as

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Speaker 3: an administrator down there. He started learning, yeah, cutting his

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Speaker 3: teeth under Stephen Hocking and Neil Balm there, two of

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Speaker 3: the great football administrators. And he was still playing there

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Speaker 3: because they wanted to mentor of the younger Gelong players

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Speaker 3: coming through. And he was able to win a premiership

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Speaker 3: back in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, I think so.

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Speaker 3: And you know, you don't just put anyone in those

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Speaker 3: men as it was. And he did that and he

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Speaker 3: did a fantastic job helping Stephen Wells and that recruiting

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Speaker 3: that we saw in twenty twenty two for the Mighty Cats.

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Speaker 3: And he was continuing on that good work at Geelong

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Speaker 3: Grammar recently up until he's passing yesterday, so you know,

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Speaker 3: so you know, those jobs don't get handed out lightly

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Speaker 3: unless you've shown in the path that you're very good

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Speaker 1: He Brandie, You guys are good mates. How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: You would have been not for six?

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Speaker 3: I think it's sort of you go through the reflections

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Speaker 3: isn't it when you appreciate the ones classes to you.

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Speaker 4: But you also.

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Speaker 3: You can't take for granted the friendships and how people

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Speaker 1: So sometimes you also don't know what people are going

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Speaker 1: for it Sometimes.

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Speaker 3: You don't do it, you know, and that's a really

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Speaker 3: I remember when he first come to the footy Cup

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Speaker 3: and yeah, the people asking you what his nickname is?

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Speaker 3: You know, the four Cellard Boys, a famous family.

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Speaker 4: I think you got Scoter. I'm not sure Joel's probably

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Speaker 4: going the greatest of all time. I'm sure.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what Adam was West Coast, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: Troy's was Bonner and uh and yeah, people ask me

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Speaker 3: a great thing about footy cubs, they'll give you nicknames.

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Speaker 3: Craig McCray one of the funniest characters I'll play with there, Collingwood,

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Speaker 3: couch table, Troy Talwood. He needs he needs a nickname

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Speaker 3: sal Wood. Where do you where do you sell Wood? Bunnings.

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Speaker 3: So that's how we got Bunner.

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Speaker 4: The rest.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what he was. It as hard as

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Speaker 3: way he played. And I think Michael Voss spoke about

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Speaker 3: the herold Son this morning, about his courage and his

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Speaker 3: ability to put his body on the line over and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's it is times like this where you

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Speaker 2: reflect on great stories about your great friend JB. We're

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Speaker 2: very sorry for your loss and we appreciate you joining

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Speaker 2: us this morning.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on and sharing our memories. Thanks.

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Speaker 5: And look, I think Brownie just touched on it like

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Speaker 5: that vulnerability and with blokes, tough blokes. Football's right that

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Speaker 5: there is nothing wrong with being vulnerable. Please reach out

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Speaker 5: to your mate.

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Speaker 1: When that brought you say, it was just like I said,

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Speaker 1: you don't know what you're made are going through.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a lot of friends deeply affected by

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Speaker 2: the passing of Troy Seward and my thoughts and I

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Speaker 2: know that the whole team that we're thinking of you

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Speaker 2: this morning. Joel Seward's friend of the show, his brother

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Speaker 2: Adam and Scott, and his beautiful parents Marie Bryce, who

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Speaker 2: are just wonderful people. They are a magnificent family. The

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