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Speaker 1: Our next guest is one of the most legendary cricket

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Speaker 1: players to ever come out of Victoria.

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Speaker 2: That is a Greek.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps the only thing grander than his cricketing career is

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Speaker 1: perhaps his legendary handlebar mustache.

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Speaker 3: Please welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: I love that you're still rocking that mode.

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Speaker 2: Well it used to be black and bristling. Now it's gray, but.

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Speaker 5: It's locking in a Turkey hair job next year if

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Speaker 5: you if you need to come over and join the club.

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Speaker 3: I'm having second thoughts. What do you mean.

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Speaker 6: Anyway? It's not about you two in your oilment may.

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Speaker 3: It's fine. Yeah, that's not bad. I don't mind it.

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Speaker 6: How much maintenance does that moment take? Is it? Is

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Speaker 6: it daily grooming?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 6: Keep it neat and perfect? No, it's yeah, it's immaculate.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just a I get a trim maybe once

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Speaker 7: every two months.

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Speaker 6: That's it. It just knows what to do. It's been

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Speaker 6: there for so long.

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Speaker 5: Exactly, Hey, merv Under, We're going to get to why

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Speaker 5: you hear and you hear fronting a VB campaign, But

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Speaker 5: just quickly we're just listening in Clinch News, there the

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Speaker 5: tragic story about this young seventeen year old boy fern

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Speaker 5: try Gully. He's lost his life a cricket training was

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Speaker 5: hit in the in the normal Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Well, my understanding is it was very similar to what

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Speaker 7: Phil Hughes went through. So hid in the in the

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Speaker 7: side of the neck on an artery there and it

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Speaker 7: just crushes the archery. So it just shows that even

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Speaker 7: if you're wearing helmets and whatever, it's still a very

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Speaker 7: dangerous game. And like Ozzie Rules football, like any cater football,

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Speaker 7: really it's a contact sport.

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Speaker 2: There's going to be injuries.

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Speaker 7: You don't expect them to happened, but when they happened,

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Speaker 7: they're just tragic.

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Speaker 4: I remember when that happened to Phil Hughes, and my

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Speaker 4: stepfather is involved in cricket as well, and it rocked

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Speaker 4: the cricket community so desperately, and I remember thinking, wow,

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Speaker 4: it is such a community though the cricket world, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: And I'm sure there will be so many people with

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Speaker 4: heavy hearts today hearing this.

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Speaker 2: Story, without doubt.

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Speaker 7: So I heard the news last night that he'd been

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Speaker 7: hit and he's in intensive care, but to hear that

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Speaker 7: he's passed away, it's just shocking.

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Speaker 1: Sent a lot of love to the cricket family, this

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Speaker 1: Morning Club, Infirtry Gully as well.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely Now on a much nighter note, can I ask

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Speaker 5: what's the beef you've got with merve.

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Speaker 4: So merv Hughes. Now, I'm going to take you back

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Speaker 4: in time. I think I was nineteen, so I reckon.

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Speaker 3: We've gone back a long way.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 3: The year was two years.

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Speaker 4: It was two thousand and six. My parents were away.

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Speaker 4: I still lived at home. I had the house to myself.

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Speaker 4: And I was walking through my living room and I

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Speaker 4: heard you want to be here, mate, And I was like,

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Speaker 4: there's no one else in the house, right And I

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Speaker 4: was like, someone's talking to meet intruder.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 4: And I was like someone's in the house. And I

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Speaker 4: was like, no, I must have must have been on

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Speaker 4: the TV. Anyway, I walked back in. I walked back

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Speaker 4: into the living room later and I this, you want

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Speaker 4: to call one doll? And I was like, what's going on?

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Speaker 6: I call my mom. I'm like, Mum, there is someone

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Speaker 4: She's like, I'm telling you right now, there's no one

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Speaker 6: And I was like, I'm going to call the police.

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Speaker 6: You're not here. There is someone in my house. My

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Speaker 6: brother came home and he's.

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Speaker 4: Like, oh, no, it's an automated merv Hughes doll that

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Speaker 4: when you walk past.

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Speaker 6: It was a VB doll with you on it, and

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Speaker 6: it wouldn't talk.

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Speaker 2: That was boonie No.

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Speaker 6: And then there was one with you on it, and

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Speaker 6: we did. We had one with you.

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Speaker 4: We must have had this set because you were in it.

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Speaker 7: Yes, so I was looking after Actually when I heard

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Speaker 7: you speaking out there, I was out there before, and yeah,

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Speaker 7: I've been to your place. I'm thinking I'm just going

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Speaker 7: to get in there and just say it was dipper.

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Speaker 7: But now I can cut that.

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Speaker 6: That was my I nearly called the police, but it

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Speaker 6: was a VB doll.

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Speaker 4: I remember.

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Speaker 6: It still work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so what have you brought out?

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Speaker 5: These are great vb's laws of cricket cans guys.

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Speaker 7: To be honest, last time the Ashes went around England

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Speaker 7: forgot some.

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Speaker 2: Of the rules of the game. The laws of the game,

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Speaker 2: and the big one was.

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Speaker 3: Staying your carry. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that wasn't Alex carry.

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Speaker 3: That was John Best well but yeah ye, but Martin.

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Speaker 2: Sharky in where the Underforterings taught me one lesson stay.

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Speaker 3: In your Yeah. So if you're in h what Martin

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Speaker 3: going to do? You got still friends, you still.

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Speaker 2: Catch and where underwater?

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Speaker 7: But yeah, just laws of laws of the game, to

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Speaker 7: separate the spirit of cricket with the laws.

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Speaker 2: Of the game.

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Speaker 5: So their collector cans, you know, if you've got them,

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Speaker 5: you're talking beer bottles and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: Fans will love these.

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Speaker 5: They're available in Liquorland stores across Australia from November five.

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Speaker 3: Do you have you still got all your old merchant

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Speaker 3: playing from.

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Speaker 7: The A lot of it's been sort of given away

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Speaker 7: for charity and stuff like that, but the main ones

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Speaker 7: you keep. So eighty nine ashes, jumpers and shirts and

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Speaker 7: three yeah I did that.

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Speaker 2: I look more probably akin to a cyclist than a creek,

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Speaker 2: just a little bit tight.

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Speaker 1: So the ashes is upon us. It's always fantastic and move.

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Speaker 1: You're a proud Victorian. Now it's time to get more

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Speaker 1: Victorians into this Australian side. And it starts with Scottie Bowlin.

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Speaker 1: Surely you'd think so.

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Speaker 7: With Pat Cummins injury, Pat came out and said there's

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Speaker 7: only going to be three three fast bawls because they're

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Speaker 7: going to play Nathan Lyon.

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Speaker 2: With the injury to him.

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Speaker 7: It's good to see him back bowling, but he's going

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Speaker 7: to miss maybe the first Test, possibly the second Test,

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Speaker 7: and even more so it's just a wait and see

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Speaker 7: with him. But I like England jumping up and down

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Speaker 7: saying Pat Cummins is out.

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Speaker 2: We've got a real chance. Now, who's going to come

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Speaker 2: into the site, scott Bowling.

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Speaker 7: There's an idea, it's pretty and what they're saying two

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Speaker 7: years ago Scottie Bowland doesn't worry us.

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Speaker 2: What he did two years ago in England, he didn't

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Speaker 2: do much. What did he do four years ago.

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Speaker 6: In Australia at the I've got a idea. What you're

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Speaker 6: talking lost me.

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Speaker 3: I just know. All I know is Pat comments is

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Speaker 3: a very good Have you seen him?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Obviously? Have you know what I'm is because I

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Speaker 4: grew up watching cricket.

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Speaker 6: I loved cricket as a kid.

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Speaker 4: But I feel like the characters are gone, like they're

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Speaker 4: all a bit vanilla these days. Where are the MERV

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Speaker 4: hugheses and are they all a bit softly?

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Speaker 2: No, listen, it's only a rumor.

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Speaker 7: They said fifty two I was on that flight and

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Speaker 7: that that is not even close to the truth. It

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Speaker 7: was fifty three, So if people are going to tell

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Speaker 7: the story story. But the big thing about modern modern

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Speaker 7: day sport in all codes is with the media, with

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Speaker 7: social media, the players have got to be so careful.

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Speaker 2: They're they're earning a heap of money.

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Speaker 7: If they show any personality whatsoever, they get written off

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Speaker 7: as two bobb lairs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't it.

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Speaker 7: So basically you ask five different players the same question,

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Speaker 7: you'll get the same answer because they've got this media training.

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Speaker 7: Let the players be themselves.

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Speaker 3: Socials were around back in your day. You were last

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Speaker 3: one game?

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Speaker 6: How was the celebration after games changed?

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Speaker 4: Because I imagine you guys would have been down in

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Speaker 4: the sheds smashing some.

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Speaker 3: Cans fingers and now I knew.

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Speaker 7: I knew it was time to give cricket away when

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Speaker 7: we started training. So I reckon we may at Arden Street,

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Speaker 7: the old North Melbourne footy ground.

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Speaker 2: There came off after a Sunday morning session. Okay, normally there's.

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Speaker 7: Party, pie, sausage, they had energy drinks, they had soup

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Speaker 7: and they had.

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Speaker 3: Fishermen here that big arrow fishermen as well.

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Speaker 1: You could maybe you should go fishing in your tinny.

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Speaker 3: You want to come on the boat murve.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Jason never caught one in yours is bigger.

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Speaker 3: You'd have a bigger boat than me.

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Speaker 2: Mr, you don't go out small tiny's chasing.

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Speaker 3: Barrow Yeah, I mean I'm chasing anything. Puffer fishing. You

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Speaker 3: can't catch one at a track.

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Speaker 4: He's never caught a fish and he's got a fishing boat.

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Speaker 4: I've never in all these years. You know how blokes

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Speaker 4: love showing off their catch to day. Never once has

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Speaker 4: he turned up with a photo of the fish.

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Speaker 7: Well, you should come on our fishing ship, somurf who's

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Speaker 7: fishing fishing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it goes right.

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Speaker 7: You watch it for half an hour, people will actually

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Speaker 7: expect us to catch a fish.

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Speaker 5: I'll come on and a Coonda fishing shirt perfect hereing

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Speaker 5: the boat vbs A llures of cricket cans are coming out.

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Speaker 5: They drop in liquorands stores right across Australia.

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Speaker 3: From November five. The Great murf us John's on the

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Speaker 3: thank you, Thank you guys, cheers for coming in jeers.

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Speaker 3: It is just gone nine to nine.

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Speaker 5: This is Alex Lauren great looking at her head, blue

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Speaker 5: skies sunshine top to twenty four.

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Speaker 3: We are going for This is Nomber one hundred.

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Speaker 4: Jason Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good following them on

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Speaker 4: the socials