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Speaker 2: Sam Mitchell does the mopping up at Hawthorne after a

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Speaker 1: The field, and Melbourne waits on Cousey Picketts.

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Speaker 1: Priority for the Demon's best player ahead of the new

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Speaker 3: Can you help me on on three sixty one? Are

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Speaker 3: you aware of that conversation?

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

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Speaker 6: And the reality is now that the gloves are off

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Speaker 7: More fine, job is pretty clear, like Hawthorne when it

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Speaker 3: Worse? When it caught my eye.

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Speaker 5: And mustang, all right, it's just the Crakes Prize.

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Speaker 3: First look at it. She said, there's a dant in

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Speaker 3: that car, look it, sure enough, there is Gary line.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready for the full nine games?

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Speaker 2: Ready tuned to the minute, ready to roll, Jared can't wait.

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Speaker 1: So we lean into sort of theater and soap opera early,

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Speaker 1: Super Super Saturday. Yet just a little refresher here on

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Speaker 1: what's coming. So the Bulldogs and the Giants are bitter rivals,

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Speaker 1: recent times. The Dogs have beaten the Giants nine of

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Speaker 2: The two impressive winners from around opening round, which is great.

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Speaker 1: Got to be taking it personally by now. The Dockers'

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Speaker 2: Coming off one of their worst performances.

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Speaker 1: So the Swans are being fitted up as contenders and

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Speaker 3: Who are They're running lowland, stop hearing down, a zero

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Speaker 5: That is?

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Speaker 2: That is fox footage. Just get yourself sorted early and don't.

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Speaker 1: the Sinning premire pointings in Big Recruit.

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Speaker 1: And it was set when Gary told us first thing

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Speaker 5: And this was a no brainer for us.

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Speaker 2: We don't know the intimacies of what's going on and

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Speaker 1: And the bigger picture for Melbourne. So they've pitched the

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Speaker 2: So Langford and Windsor and Lindsay Cully might play Latrell

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Speaker 7: They have done every single thing that you would expect

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Speaker 5: But to their credit, every moment.

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Speaker 7: Before and every moment since they've they've actored in a

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Speaker 7: Really good young lads and they are The decisions.

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Speaker 7: And this is a little hard patch for their lives

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Speaker 1: It is a low end indiscretion, particularly once the drug

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Speaker 3: So it's trespass.

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Speaker 1: It involves a what a scissor lift. So but it

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Speaker 3: Everyone's going to.

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Speaker 2: Move past this, but it's not what Sam would want

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Speaker 2: But I think that's the the disappointment for Sam Mitchell

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Speaker 3: But he'll recover that.

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Speaker 1: they hadn't well, they'd chosen not to do. Is Hawthorne said,

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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot to focus on them.

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Speaker 1: unsuccessful pursuer of Zach Merritz.

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Speaker 7: mean that that's been well documented. And he plays for

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Speaker 3: He plays with them right now. I don't think he

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Speaker 3: I don't know what's going to happen. The dynamics of

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Speaker 3: this are amazing.

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Speaker 1: Sam Mitchell is the scoundrel, I presume, and Zach Merrit

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Speaker 1: is the runaway bride. Essendon's the jilted party, but still

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Speaker 1: the incumbent, and there's going to be ninety thousand people

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Speaker 3: That will be?

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Speaker 2: And don't forget you know, Sammy had that moment with

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Speaker 2: if there wasn't enough animosity to join the two, throw

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Speaker 3: Jared, it's just a thick.

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Speaker 2: The script's being written magnificently.

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Speaker 3: You couldn't dream up anything better than this.

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Speaker 2: And then they go off and throw a ten year

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Speaker 2: it all comes to a head on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Night and the foot of itself.

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Speaker 1: We know from what weill d said last night that

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Speaker 1: And then there's Essendon who are a little bit of

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Speaker 1: picks of last season are going to play first up

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Speaker 2: Early wouldn't want to be harder than last year. Jared, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean last year was just beyond anyone reckoning that.

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Speaker 2: I think they've sold it reasonably well to their faithful

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Speaker 2: It might belatedly, but we're here and we're in the

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Speaker 2: rebuild phase and they've got some real talent at their list.

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Speaker 3: But that might.

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Speaker 2: I think there's other measurements and markers that they'll be

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Speaker 2: they just have been nowhere as a footy club, So

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Speaker 2: maybe use that as a starting point. But the odds

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Speaker 2: there not the odds, but it's a lot more lopsided

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Speaker 5: All Right.

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Speaker 1: The starting off point for the round is Richmond's and Carlton.

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Speaker 3: This has been the traditional season opener. It is still the.

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Speaker 1: Stepping off point for Round one for Richmond. It's the

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Speaker 1: third year under Adam Use. They've gone two wins five wins.

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Speaker 1: Is this the season for a vault?

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Speaker 6: We expect to play a brand of footy that is

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Speaker 6: going to be sustainable and play finals footy, whether it's

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Speaker 6: that way. There'll be games that we might not be

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Speaker 6: to be the same speck to play certain my every

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Speaker 6: can do that for long enough and hopefully obviously come

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Speaker 3: So the teams are in.

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Speaker 1: Carlton have made three changes, two of them chosen when

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Speaker 1: you Sad was going to miss through injury.

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Speaker 3: More and Reedy have been dropped.

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Speaker 1: So first game in and out for Radio, o'keef comes

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Speaker 1: back to take his place.

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Speaker 3: Cowen and Carol come.

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Speaker 1: In and then Richmond. So Floston is not ready and

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Speaker 1: Presty is injured, and we know Macintosh retired and Hotton's

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Speaker 1: not ready. So they've taken twelve draft picks in the

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Speaker 3: But only four of them are playing.

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Speaker 1: One of those is Sam Grill, who curiously has been

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Speaker 1: named at cent half back the pick eight from last

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Speaker 2: Then you've got Campbell Gray on three games, you've got

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Speaker 2: Harry Alshong and eight. They've got a whole host of

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Speaker 2: fourteen's eleven sixteen, So I mean they are young, they

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Speaker 2: are still very very young, but they'll we give themselves

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Speaker 2: every chance every single chance.

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Speaker 1: All right on a Wednesday night with Macka's ninety nine

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Speaker 1: cents McDelivery, you've got ninety nine seconds to set us

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Speaker 1: up and deliver us to Thursday night footy.

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Speaker 2: Well, Richmond fans go along there and say, we're going

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Speaker 2: to serve it right up you in the manner that

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Speaker 2: we did last year. We gave you a forty one

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Speaker 2: point head start last season and we reeled it in

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Speaker 2: if you don't mind, halfway through the second quarter and

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Speaker 2: they won by thirteen. They kicked twelve goals to two,

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Speaker 2: and that's all of.

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Speaker 3: The pressure is on the cart and footy club.

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Speaker 1: It's still unfathomable when you look at that game flow.

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Speaker 2: For this it is so from a carbon point of

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Speaker 2: you run to the fire, take the Brisbane mantra and

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Speaker 2: the fact that you go back and get a chance

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Speaker 2: to eradicate the misery that that was this time last year.

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Speaker 2: And I'm looking at a few of the players, I

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Speaker 2: think Richmond are going to be a really exciting team

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Speaker 2: in years to come. Sam Lauwl has got worth going

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Speaker 2: to watch. I really think give gets back with some

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Speaker 2: Harry Armstrong. This is key position forward stuff, and then

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Speaker 2: they're the excitement for Richmond fans. And then on the

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Speaker 2: know he would have been disappointed with his performance last

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Speaker 2: so he's got to play like a big man. He

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Speaker 2: opportunity to try to make a statement. So I think

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Speaker 2: this has got all sorts of ramifications, of course if

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Speaker 2: Carlton don't win, but the excitement is his way that

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Speaker 2: Michael Voss should be.

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Speaker 3: Selling this to his team.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Crips gets back out on the deck and the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to play against You're not playing against Heene, You're

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Speaker 2: not playing against Warner and Golden and all those sorts

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Speaker 2: take him where they don't want to go. Open up

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Speaker 2: forty one points.

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Speaker 1: And don't give nice nice is they've shown us in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. The changes that they were trying to make.

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Speaker 1: We saw a little bit of it. It didn't last

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Speaker 1: under assault from Sydney. Just get back to that, restore

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Speaker 1: some of the faith shaken in the Carlton faithful. That

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Speaker 3: The football it is that is a damn straight.

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Speaker 1: It deserves a big crowd and a big game, so

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Speaker 1: you will see it all here on Fox Footy. It

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Speaker 1: bring sin over and horse in the week at Carlton's

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Speaker 1: Michael Boss. It's way too early in the season to

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Speaker 1: be in this situation, but that's the reality.

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Speaker 3: How do you manage your way through it? And then

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Speaker 3: the gap.

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Speaker 1: We're going to pick up Gary's idea of the gap

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Speaker 1: and tell you who are the gap?

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Speaker 3: Hate Its