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Speaker 1: Blog on to L three sixty rug League from every anger.

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Speaker 1: What's you by Tel Fast joining me again?

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Speaker 2: The great Gordon Dallas has been a journator straight in

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Speaker 2: James Hooper and Dean Richie and what a season it

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Speaker 2: has been on Fox League. Record breaking let's have a

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Speaker 2: look at it. Record breaking season for the Foxtel Group.

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Speaker 2: Foxtel Group's most watched NFL season of all time, Seventh

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Speaker 2: consecutive year of viewership growth, Las Vegas openers both the

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Speaker 2: highest rating games ever.

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Speaker 1: For the Foxtel Group.

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Speaker 2: Gordy, what a year it has been for us here

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Speaker 2: at Fox League.

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Speaker 3: It's just a game that keeps on giving.

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Speaker 4: I've always known and believed that our product is the

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Speaker 4: best in the world, and I always said, if you

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Speaker 4: landed here from Mars and you put a game of

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Speaker 4: rugby league up there with every other sport, I know

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Speaker 4: that we would compete with all of them. And it's

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Speaker 4: great to see that the world's in it. The kickoff

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Speaker 4: in Vegas, I thought it was fantastic. Our product is

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Speaker 4: so good to go to the entertainment capital of the

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Speaker 4: world and it's just kicked on from there.

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Speaker 5: The numbers don't lie, they Gordy absolutely off the charts

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Speaker 5: in terms of Foxtel and KO ratings, and then you

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Speaker 5: look at the crowds up and absolutely flying. We had

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Speaker 5: three or four sellouts last weekend. It's the same story

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Speaker 5: again this weekend. And the product and the quality of

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Speaker 5: the talent from Tommy Turbo back for the finals to

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Speaker 5: Nathan Cleary, the Cowboys are flying with Tommy did It's

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Speaker 5: an exciting time.

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Speaker 1: It's been a big year Bulldog.

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Speaker 6: It certainly has broth.

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Speaker 7: I think we've now officially gone past the AFL, which

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Speaker 7: means we can clay claim to be the most watch

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Speaker 7: sport in Australia, which might keep some of the Mexicans

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Speaker 7: down south.

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Speaker 6: They'll bit quiet.

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Speaker 1: Hoops. All right, let's have a look at week one

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Speaker 1: of the finals.

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Speaker 2: We looked at him last night, but let's remind everyone

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Speaker 2: Panthers and the Roosters, Storm Sharks, Cowboys and Knights, Bulldogs

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Speaker 2: up against the seagulls. He gets bigger, he gets better,

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Speaker 2: and all of us can't wait for this weekend to come. Well,

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't say all of us, definitely three of us

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Speaker 2: spoiled old. But you were writing or reporting that it's

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Speaker 2: the weakest final series ever, did you say or.

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Speaker 7: Break, you're going to get into trouble because I did

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Speaker 7: write last week that I think this is the weakest

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Speaker 7: finals I've seen in terms of the standard of teams.

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Speaker 6: It doesn't mean I'm not excited.

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Speaker 7: It doesn't mean there won't be some great games, and

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Speaker 7: it doesn't mean that there won't be upsets.

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Speaker 6: But if you look at all.

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Speaker 8: The sides, you look you've done a backflip with a.

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Speaker 1: Hoops.

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Speaker 6: I'm saying what I said last week.

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Speaker 7: I think the top three sides are weaker than what

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Speaker 7: they have been in recent years, but that doesn't preclude them.

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Speaker 3: When you expanded, that doesn't make it.

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Speaker 6: Penrith have gone back to the field, the Roosters have injuries.

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Speaker 4: And the side that's snuck into the eight last week

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Speaker 4: in front of a sale crowd's got Kleon Ponger, who

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Speaker 4: won the Dalian medal and his statue that he's better

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Speaker 4: than now.

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Speaker 6: A great side Newcastle I know.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 4: It's a great foot he plays and they've got the

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Speaker 4: best player in the game and he got his side

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Speaker 4: into the finals again and I think they've got enough

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Speaker 2: But just because some of the top teams aren't playing

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Speaker 2: as they were. Doesn't make the final series weaker. He

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Speaker 2: makes it more entertaining.

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Speaker 1: It's tighter.

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Speaker 3: Who do you support? Dog? In order to me? Are

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Speaker 3: you as a kid?

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Speaker 6: I was a mad Easton Suburbs fan.

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Speaker 9: I was a mad Rooster. Kevin Hastings Royce a crusher. Clear,

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Speaker 9: They're all my hero about right now. Right now, I

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Speaker 9: don't really care.

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Speaker 6: I just support you.

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Speaker 1: You're a in the game supporter.

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Speaker 7: The game he likes to the former players like you

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Speaker 7: and you and the job that you're.

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Speaker 1: Bringing us down.

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Speaker 6: I'm not bringing it down at all. I'm looking forward.

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Speaker 6: Look at the games. They're brilliant. Cannot wait.

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Speaker 2: We got him before the Roosters hop on the bus

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Speaker 2: the PREDI. They faced a few tough questions this morning.

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Speaker 8: What's the gay with the nine times thing?

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Speaker 3: And does that mean you you? What's that you've been

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Speaker 3: beaten nine Oh really no, someone asked me the other day.

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Speaker 3: There's they're a pretty good footy team.

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Speaker 2: There's been better than us the last nine times, so hopefully,

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Speaker 2: hopefully we can be better.

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Speaker 3: On the weekend against him.

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Speaker 9: It's not just this year one twenty against those two teams, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: been better than us.

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Speaker 3: Do your best and see if you're better than them.

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Speaker 3: They've been better than us.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you're gonna go after you dat.

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Speaker 3: I know, no more than I usually would.

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Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, we've had some good battles in the past.

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Speaker 10: It'll be my job to try and lay that line

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Speaker 10: in between him and Marto, and like I said.

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Speaker 1: We won't be changing that game.

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Speaker 11: But yeah, a bit of mixed emotions, to be honest,

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Speaker 11: but obviously one of them, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, being really excited.

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Speaker 11: We're obviously going to go back down in our West

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Speaker 11: and perform, perform in front of my old crowd, and I.

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Speaker 6: Love those boys, but you.

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Speaker 11: Know, when it comes to game time, it's going to

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Speaker 11: be a war.

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Speaker 12: They're excited going up against sort of Nathan Cleary that

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Speaker 12: seven v. Seven. I've been pinching myself. You know, it's

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Speaker 12: really good opportunity and I'm excited to.

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Speaker 6: Get out of there.

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Speaker 12: We've had a good week of training and we've still

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Speaker 12: got a few more days and we'll be at our

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Speaker 12: best and we need to be and we can do

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Speaker 12: it too. You know. We have that total belief in

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Speaker 12: from the from the coach down to all the players.

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Speaker 12: So now we're excited to see what.

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Speaker 2: We can do with the injury to see and Walker

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Speaker 2: sand and Smith has the biggest challenge of his.

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Speaker 1: Short enerial career, Bulldog. He spoke to him today.

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Speaker 3: What's he like?

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Speaker 9: Yes, I wouldn't say cocky, but he's very confident. Braith,

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Speaker 9: he came to the Kincumber cults.

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Speaker 7: He's got a bit of that Central Coast niggering him,

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Speaker 7: which is quite open to discussing. But one of the

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Speaker 7: great quotes he gave me today was that because of

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Speaker 7: where I came from, I'm not afraid to take anybody

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Speaker 7: with a Nathan Cleary.

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Speaker 6: So he's even name dropped Nathan in the interview today.

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Speaker 7: And good on him. It's nice to see a confident

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Speaker 7: kid coming out and saying you know what, I'm ready

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Speaker 7: for you bring it on.

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Speaker 5: It's a tough competition up there on the Central Coast.

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Speaker 5: But there's going to be a very different story Penrith Park.

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Speaker 5: This will be the Panthers' farewell game at that stadium

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Speaker 5: where they've enjoyed so much success. The bloke who I'm

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Speaker 5: excited about was in the interviews there as well, in

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Speaker 5: Spencer Lanu. Spencer starting the game with jwh up against

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Speaker 5: his couple old teammates in James Fisher Harris and Moses

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Speaker 5: Leada Gordy, that that's gonna be one.

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Speaker 4: Hell of Well, it's a great balant think, you know,

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Speaker 4: like when you talk there is oh crazy eyes, but

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Speaker 4: you see, you know we're talking about all the playmakers.

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Speaker 4: You've got to lay the platform. I'm a massive believer

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Speaker 4: that Ford win big games, but backs determined by how

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Speaker 4: much you win them by. And it's going to be

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Speaker 4: no different out here. So I know there's no j

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Speaker 4: w H. But this guy, he's trained against them. What

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Speaker 4: he said for the last five years, he said it's

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Speaker 4: going to be a war. Well, he's got to win

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Speaker 4: the battle.

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Speaker 1: What he is.

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Speaker 2: We saw it in Vegas, we saw it in Origin,

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Speaker 2: and he knows how to get it done at this

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Speaker 2: time of the year as well.

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Speaker 1: And he's playing his old team.

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Speaker 2: So I do expect fireworks and I expect Spencer to

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Speaker 2: stand up. Just watching those interviews, every player, they didn't

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Speaker 2: have a steely focus. You mentioned a little bit of arrogance,

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Speaker 2: confidence they were. They look ready and they look like

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Speaker 2: they've really got together. He to start this week and

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Speaker 2: they're going to take on the Panthers, and one of

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Speaker 2: the players that was interviewed Hoops was Kery. Didn't like

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Speaker 2: the line of questioning because of this. The reporter asked

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Speaker 2: him about that poor record, and he goes, oh, do

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Speaker 2: we know?

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Speaker 6: He knows?

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Speaker 2: We all know that, but you can't escape or hide

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Speaker 2: from it.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting, wasn't it.

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Speaker 5: I really like Luke Carey, great feller and has achieved

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Speaker 5: everything that there is to in the game, from winning

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Speaker 5: Grand Finals to Clive Churchill medals.

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Speaker 8: But to me, break from an outside point of.

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Speaker 5: View, I thought it looked as though it was in

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Speaker 5: their heads a little bit, and that there might have

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Speaker 5: even been a little bit of Bradley Charles Stubbs fingerprints

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Speaker 5: on the way they were trying to deflect and flat

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Speaker 5: baton what's on?

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Speaker 3: Sorry?

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Speaker 5: When aware of that, which is a concern leading into

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Speaker 5: a game of this, what are.

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Speaker 1: You wanting to say that the way? Why would you

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Speaker 1: lock him this?

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Speaker 8: Records are made to be broken.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 7: After that Raiders game, I thought, like most of us here,

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Speaker 7: with those three key injuries, that their season was done.

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Speaker 6: But after walking away from there today and I was.

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Speaker 7: In the middle of all the players so he fell

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Speaker 7: to it. I could feel what you said, broke. There

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Speaker 7: was a real stealiness about that side. They've been in

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Speaker 7: the big games before. You've got the big name players there. Yes,

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Speaker 7: said down on troops. Marginally, there's no denying that.

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Speaker 6: But I walked away to day.

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Speaker 9: Thinking, you know what they're in up to their necks

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Speaker 9: and that fear factor I had three weeks ago two

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Speaker 9: weeks ago evaporated very.

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Speaker 3: Plain into their hands. Right.

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Speaker 4: So they've got three players out, they've got no chance.

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Speaker 4: Nathan Cleary's coming back. They're going to the foot of

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Speaker 4: the mountains. They haven't won in twenty odd games.

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Speaker 5: Or Cross said it the other work. This is a

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Speaker 5: great opportunity for Trent Robinson. He's been there and done

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Speaker 5: it as a head coach, won three Premierships. But to

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Speaker 5: go to Penrith but the Triple Premiers on their home turf,

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Speaker 5: down on troops, through your biggest names and your most

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Speaker 5: important players in no sim walkerjwh no victor. That would

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Speaker 5: be an awesome coaching achievement. Then they get a week

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Speaker 5: off and all of a sudden that tips the final

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Speaker 5: series absolutely on its head. I don't think I don't

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Speaker 5: share the same confidence board I expect that it will

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Speaker 5: be a close guy, but I think Penrith with Nathan

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Speaker 5: back into that side. All the hype about how Angus

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Speaker 5: Crichton is going to try and take Nathan out of

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Speaker 8: It is a great rock.

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Speaker 6: He is a roster that you die for. All beat

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Speaker 2: Panthers coach Ivan Cleary has no doubt. It's about his

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Speaker 5: First question, Nathan is good to go?

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Speaker 13: Yes, he is with him coming back in I think

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Speaker 13: This week the stakes had moved up. He always want

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Speaker 1: This week.

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Speaker 13: Rehabs gone really well. It's feeling really confident. So it

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: A lot of experts and like yourself Bulldog, are saying

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Speaker 1: Did you not say that at the start?

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Speaker 6: Nice to hear you supporting me. Nice to hear you

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Speaker 5: Mike, wouldn't go I appreciate, wouldn't go that far.

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Speaker 1: I'm just happy to see a smile on your face

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Speaker 6: I'm here to enjoy myself.

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Speaker 1: I'm having a good time with your bulldog.

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Speaker 2: But you know, he's confident that Nathan will be fit,

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Speaker 2: because you're right, they haven't been at their best and

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Speaker 5: A lot of people have highlighted the fact that over

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Speaker 5: the course of the last month. Yes, they have looked

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Speaker 5: September and this time of the year. For the past month,

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Speaker 5: I think they've been tuned to the minute the last

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Speaker 5: four final series breath, I think we see it again.

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Speaker 2: No, I agree and Nathan was injured during the year,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was in back to back,

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Speaker 2: Will go against his single headedly won and two games,

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Speaker 2: which shows that this significant impact he has on this team.

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Speaker 3: Gordy, Yeah, I think it's just his game management.

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Speaker 4: And then I know that you know what everybody thinks,

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Speaker 4: Nathan's got to be at his best, but I don't

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Speaker 4: While he lost style of player, so he's kicking game, passing, game,

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Speaker 4: Leam Martin standing right beside it.

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Speaker 1: And Cleary is better than nearly every other half of

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Speaker 8: Probably the only exception is Jerome Hugh, But I.

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Speaker 3: Just said nearly then not playing the store.

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Speaker 7: You know, the key question I think is Nathan's courage.

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Speaker 7: And I'm not doubting Nathan's courage, but will he have

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Speaker 6: Yes, with a bun shoulder. Will he show and go?

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Speaker 6: Will he link with his edge four?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 6: They will be actor ragged doubt.

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Speaker 3: Do you doubt that?

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Speaker 6: I'm not doubting it, breath. I'm just saying that.

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Speaker 1: You ask him the question, I'm asking the question. I

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Speaker 5: Asking the question it is a fair question, bald. I

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Speaker 5: think he's done it before, He's shown it previously. He

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Speaker 5: played all of he played all of was the twenty

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Speaker 5: just steered them. And so he's got those runs on

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Speaker 5: the board. When it comes to dancing in the Valley

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Speaker 5: of Deaths, it's not his style.

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Speaker 7: There's only two games left, potentially three, but he won't

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Speaker 6: That's just not how Nathan Clearing plays. But they'll run

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Speaker 6: a lot of numbers that he'm in defense. He's in

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Speaker 6: for a torred night, Nathan.

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Speaker 3: Do you know whether he's going to have surgery at

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Speaker 3: the end of the year.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: All I do know though, is that they're claiming that

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Speaker 1: Beautiful alright, who's still in Edwards? Is he all good?

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Speaker 5: I think he is breath but just watching his games closely.

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Speaker 5: Over the last couple of weeks, he's had one of

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Speaker 5: heavily strapped against South's and normally he is just a

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Speaker 5: that doesn't mean he won't go out. That is a

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Speaker 5: fantastic battle him up against James.

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Speaker 1: He just don't think he's near one hundred percent either.

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Speaker 5: Everyone at this stage of the year, if you get

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Speaker 6: It's been a bit down.

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Speaker 7: I think since State of Origin hoops, since Origin finished,

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Speaker 7: It's still a high elite standard, but he just doesn't

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's because he has had this strapping.

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Speaker 8: He's carrying a little bit of a niggle.

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Speaker 2: You've been a bit down to just cheer up Storm

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Speaker 2: Star camera Monster was sending all the praise your own

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Speaker 3: How much Driver is there?

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Speaker 9: Win apprentiereship with this spine and you know you're the

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Speaker 10: Now, Drive is a mad man. Now I'm just the

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Speaker 10: old man getting through and through a wheelchair. But he's

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Speaker 10: just probably a different developed half. You know, he's got

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Speaker 10: a good kicking game. You don't see a whole heap

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Speaker 10: of other half backs probably run the ball as much

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Speaker 1: Know something's going to happen.

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Speaker 10: So I haven't had the opportunity to scord with so

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Speaker 2: I'm an old man getting through a wheelchair. Can someone

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Speaker 2: please getting interpreted?

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Speaker 3: Just straight down sponsorship.

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Speaker 1: It's embarrassing name.

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Speaker 2: I love him, I love you Cameron now, but Jerome

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Speaker 2: Who's is the main man. Cameron has had to take

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Speaker 4: It's an unbelievable position to be in where Melbourne Papinez

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Speaker 4: and it's been Hughes's team and he has owned it.

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Speaker 4: He's probably going to win the dally M. He's been

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Speaker 3: In, so it'll be his and they'll play their role.

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Speaker 2: Broo's imagine, Yeah for sure, And I think they're dangerous

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Speaker 2: because of that. Cameron hasn't He's been getting better every week.

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Speaker 2: But if he finds his best and combines with Jerome,

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Speaker 2: they're going to be lethal. Now, Jerome Hughes's running game

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Speaker 2: has been superb. The numbers don't lie up here, who

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Speaker 5: I was watching the Mattie John's podcast last night break

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Speaker 5: Jerome Hughes might be the greatest running halfback possibly of

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Speaker 5: it's always dangerous whenever you led us too close to

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Speaker 5: Jerome Hughes has run over the course of the last

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Speaker 5: five seasons. Since he's been playing halfback every year, he's

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Speaker 5: It's more than two thousand meters more than the next

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Speaker 8: But those numbers.

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Speaker 2: Think to tell a good lesson for halves. Everyone tells

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Speaker 4: But then so that means that all the number ones

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Speaker 8: Well, you're right, Gordon.

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Speaker 5: He began his career as a fullback and was let

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Speaker 5: Even in twenty nineteen, he played every game starting at

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Speaker 8: His evolution, it's been dynamic.

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Speaker 2: Well the numb one rule for half is to think

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Speaker 7: I did a little digging round breath more off the

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Speaker 6: And just the culture that they have down.

447
00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,280
Speaker 7: There, how they teach their players basic stuff like manners,

448
00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,240
Speaker 7: looking corporates in the eye. No one is above anybody else,

449
00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,520
Speaker 7: They're all equal. The cleaner has the same status as

450
00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:27,320
Speaker 7: Cameron Munster.

451
00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,960
Speaker 6: We pick up our bags. We don't leave it to

452
00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,360
Speaker 6: the gear steward. The dress room is spotless.

453
00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,359
Speaker 7: They don't put tape on the ground they put it

454
00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,280
Speaker 7: in the bin. It might sound small, but I think

455
00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,600
Speaker 7: that snowballs that culture in the dressing room onto the.

456
00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:42,679
Speaker 1: Field spot on.

457
00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,119
Speaker 2: And I don't know why other clubs don't do the

458
00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,200
Speaker 2: same or underestimate that. Like it's big and Melbourne have

459
00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,159
Speaker 2: always been that way and that's why the players and

460
00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,800
Speaker 2: their wives love going down there. And there's that big

461
00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,000
Speaker 2: respect and there's treating everyone the same as you treat

462
00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,000
Speaker 2: the guy at the front door.

463
00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:01,800
Speaker 1: It is what it is and it.

464
00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,840
Speaker 2: Breeds success, it breeds discipline and you know, it makes

465
00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,400
Speaker 2: the group stronger as a whole.

466
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:08,960
Speaker 6: I mean, if you don't do.

467
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,919
Speaker 9: The task, you deem to be the odd man out.

468
00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,760
Speaker 9: Maybe it's a culture that the Brisbane Broncos could look at.

469
00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,080
Speaker 2: It's good to see how your bought all back cowboys

470
00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,960
Speaker 2: couch Tod Peyton has encouraged their fans to make Queensland

471
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 2: Country Bank Stadium a hostile environment for the night's Saturday

472
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:24,800
Speaker 2: do what I match.

473
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:25,880
Speaker 3: Look.

474
00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 14: I love playing here at home, really do, and I

475
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,159
Speaker 14: think our crowd get behind our boys, but probably like

476
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,240
Speaker 14: our footy team, we're too nice. I'd like to make

477
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,600
Speaker 14: it a cauldron, like to make it a hostile environment

478
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 14: for the opposition. All better off this week, and we've

479
00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,840
Speaker 14: been at some stadiums this year where it can be

480
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,280
Speaker 14: quite uncomfortable with how the crowd interact with our team.

481
00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:50,560
Speaker 3: I'd like to return the.

482
00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,960
Speaker 2: Favorite Cowboys fans get excited now. I have a look

483
00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,439
Speaker 2: at these stats wins against top eight teams, and the

484
00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,359
Speaker 2: Cowboys lead the seven from ten at seventy percent have

485
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 2: the best record against top eight teams, which to me

486
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 2: is a little bit surprising, but great news for not only.

487
00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,080
Speaker 1: Todd Payton the players.

488
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 2: But if you follow the Cowboys, you've got a good

489
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 2: chance this year.

490
00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,960
Speaker 5: Well, they made a statement last Saturday, didn't they against

491
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,560
Speaker 5: the Bulldogs where they just came out and from Reuben

492
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,440
Speaker 5: Codder to heel and LOOKI to that electric back line.

493
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 5: When you've got Scott Drinkwater Tom did in those style

494
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,639
Speaker 5: of attacking dynamic players in your back line, you know

495
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 5: you're gonna be able to create points. They've also got

496
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,120
Speaker 5: a hard working and relatively unsung forward pack. I think

497
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 5: Newcastle a right up against it this weegon.

498
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,920
Speaker 7: I think the Knights will have a crack hoops. They'll

499
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 7: play for each other, but I think they'll be fodder

500
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 7: up there. I think if they get in the mood

501
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 7: the Cowboys, We've seen it a few times, they will

502
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 7: run rough shot Luki Nanai Cotta Talmalola.

503
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,880
Speaker 6: I think the Knights won't.

504
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 1: Be I'm worried about the Knights this week.

505
00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 3: I really am.

506
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 6: It was a big game for then.

507
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,639
Speaker 2: It was a big game and if you really break

508
00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 2: it down, that first half was they weren't great. You know,

509
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 2: Kiln had some big plays and he was sensational on

510
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,919
Speaker 2: the day. He made some errors too, but if it

511
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 2: wasn't for him, I think they are in big trouble.

512
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:09,880
Speaker 1: Well, not in big trouble.

513
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 2: They certainly don't win, but they're playing a lot better

514
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 2: team away from home or in form. If they don't

515
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 2: start well, I'm concerned.

516
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 5: Well, they can only manufacture fourteen points against the Dolphins,

517
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 5: and in all seriousness, with respect of the Dolphins, they

518
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,879
Speaker 5: were nowhere near at their best last Sunday, going up

519
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,199
Speaker 5: there on the big stage, sudden death elimination, and the

520
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 5: Cowboys have got so many points in them.

521
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 3: Gordon, Look, they had to get through Origin.

522
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 4: I think that's six Origin players from like memory decide

523
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 4: that has the most Origin players normally wins the competition

524
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,600
Speaker 4: with the best defensive. I think they're the dark r

525
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,120
Speaker 4: sort of competition. They've got through there. All those players arise.

526
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 4: They've been sitting there. They haven't been consistent, right, They've

527
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 4: leaked points, they've done all that. But I think their

528
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 4: best game and approved their best game beats the top eight.

529
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 4: They've won the most against the top eight. I reckon

530
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 4: this is the challenge that they want and it starts

531
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 4: on Saturday.

532
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 2: In this game here, it was their attack was great

533
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 2: as it attack's been really good on e but it

534
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 2: was that's right and it was there. But it was

535
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 2: their defense that was on the improve, which they've had

536
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 2: to for the finals if they are to be any chance.

537
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 2: And it was their middle forwards. Their middle forwards were big,

538
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 2: powerful and really dominated. So it seems like they've got

539
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 2: it right right in time.

540
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,479
Speaker 5: Well you raise something there that I found interesting, Gordian

541
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 5: that Jake Clifford right, who has come in as a

542
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 5: half back for the last three games now, Todd Payton,

543
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 5: that's a brave decision to act as senior playmaker in

544
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 5: Chad Townsend who had been there for so long. Jake

545
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,880
Speaker 5: Clifford went and Newcastle and had a couple of unhappy

546
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 5: seasons there. Ultimately it ended his NRL career for a

547
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 5: couple of years. Had to go over our whole car.

548
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 5: Now he's back and he has really found the keys

549
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 5: to lighting up this side. So as much as all

550
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 5: spent about Ponger going back up to Townsville to ruin

551
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,959
Speaker 5: once upon a time his club's finals aspirations, I think

552
00:22:59,000 --> 00:22:59,959
Speaker 5: Clifford can have a big say.

553
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 2: I do want to give Newcastle some hope though, because

554
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 2: they have been inconsistent this year, the Cowboys, and if

555
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 2: they're off and Pongers on Newcastle, they definitely have a chance. Now, Hoops,

556
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 2: you're looking forward to the ding Dong battle and the

557
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 2: Dogs up against the mainly Seagals.

558
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 1: Who is that ding Dong battle?

559
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 5: Well, they locked horns a couple of weeks ago. Hamoli

560
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 5: Olokuado and Big Billy Kickout. They are two of the

561
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 5: most destructive, hard running and dangerous back rowers in the competition.

562
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 5: Hamoli got the points a couple of weeks ago, so

563
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 5: Big Billy he'll be a little bit scarred. But Gordy,

564
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 5: I know you're a huge fan of Kickout and especially

565
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 5: at this time of the year, I feel like you

566
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 5: can find a big performance.

567
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 4: Both of them. They both got so much X factor.

568
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 4: If I'm them, I'd put I'd put the kill in

569
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 4: the rack with the workload because I think that they

570
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 4: can be explosive. I think they can break the game open.

571
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 4: I think they go in there with the mindset they

572
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 4: do what the team needs me to do. But they've

573
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 4: got to be there for the moment. And they are

574
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 4: both so damaging. Oli Kawat is so big on the

575
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 4: edge and you're watching, I think they use him a

576
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 4: little bit too much and kick out.

577
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 3: Well, he's got everything.

578
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 6: Is a brutal mouly.

579
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 3: There's a weapon.

580
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 6: Well, they're both on the wood can two weeks ago.

581
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: He can be one of the best forwards in the

582
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 2: in the game. He was as great against the Dog

583
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 2: three he does. That's what I mean, the potential he's got.

584
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,120
Speaker 2: And when he's at his best, which was the Bulldogs game,

585
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 2: he was phenomenal. He wasn't so good a half back.

586
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 2: Wiped all the dirt off your face. That's how much

587
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: he liked you. Kick you know what they left it on.

588
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 2: I think it's still there, dog like yours.

589
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 1: I've got to ask you another question that you're worried.

590
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: You're worried again about something.

591
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 6: Bring it on.

592
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 2: I'll pre warn you before I asked you. Now, the

593
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 2: fans are coming, man fans are coming. So you pumped

594
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:44,959
Speaker 2: about that.

595
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 6: I'm pumped.

596
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 1: But you're worried about it or not.

597
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 6: I'm not worried about it. I'm just concerned.

598
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: Starting it.

599
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 6: It's a dual response.

600
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 7: I'm not worried about mainly in terms of how many

601
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 7: fans will show up. Yes, they say it's about thirty

602
00:24:58,600 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 7: percent of all members.

603
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 6: Tickets have gone to manly fans. Amazing, it could be

604
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 6: around ten to twelve thousand.

605
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 7: Clearly they'll be outnumbered that that beautifully written story right there.

606
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 4: Well that's true because many fans know and like you've

607
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 4: got a great point. Because they don't travel, will they

608
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 4: get But I saw more in Vegas last year than

609
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 4: I see it.

610
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 6: Are the team in Vegas? I'll ask you, though.

611
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 4: Intimidated beaching God's country that put this on me?

612
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 9: No, as a Cannabury player, former Candy player, I was

613
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 9: going to ask you some of my mates and many fans.

614
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 6: And they do.

615
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 7: They get a bit intimidated going out there at the

616
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 7: call because we all know the bulldogs boisterous fans.

617
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 6: So what I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm

618
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 6: just saying, though.

619
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 3: Oh my god, passion.

620
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: It's called passion.

621
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 8: It is what they get intimidated by the drums or what.

622
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 6: We you know what it's like hoops out there?

623
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:51,479
Speaker 5: If all of the bulldogs feeds a been awesome?

624
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 6: What demographics are well?

625
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 3: Ones on the norm in the middle of them, And yeah,

626
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 3: I played against them.

627
00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 1: That's them.

628
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 6: No, I'll be.

629
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go and sit next to him.

630
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 9: Now, don't get forty, bro, they could even with a

631
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 9: late push that you get to fifty, which would be like.

632
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 3: They should get fifty dogs. Fans should fill the joint. Mate.

633
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 5: They're passionate, They're out, They're loud, they're proud, they have

634
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 5: they have loved this run. The Bulldog supporters, they have

635
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 5: loved this run.

636
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 8: And I reckon you just.

637
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 3: Mainly, you know what, I'm covering that game.

638
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: I wish camera all right for us.

639
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 5: On the Tigers, well, I read Brent Reid, mister Peabody's

640
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 5: piece in the Sunday Telegraph on Sunday right and not

641
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 5: being over with a feather, I thought the Tigers are

642
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 5: just collected three wooden spoons. Here we've got a fatal

643
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 5: rich out with a premiership trophy right, which looks like

644
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 5: it's from two thousand and three when Penrith won the competition. Uh,

645
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 5: that is up there with all the best Goldie locks

646
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 5: in the Seven Dwarfs fairy Tales that I've ever read.

647
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 3: That Q and A.

648
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 5: So in all seriousness, just be honest with the members

649
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 5: and the supporters. It's been another awful season. Yes there's

650
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 5: some good recruits coming for next year, but don't bullshit

651
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 5: people like don't try and hop on and sugarcate it

652
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 5: and make it out like it's been a great season

653
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 5: even though we collect.

654
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 6: But that's what that's my point.

655
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 9: One one more game, it's hardly let's bring out the

656
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 9: champagne and start popping the cooks.

657
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 3: He wants to go to England with him one and

658
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 3: the next.

659
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: He wants a free just a free meal, and you

660
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: know where they may be able to get a free meal.

661
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: All the fans are pretty excited.

662
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 6: Me, Oh yeah, I heard about this, the new West

663
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 6: Tigers Leeds club.

664
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 8: Yes, just open up.

665
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: That's ruth.

666
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: That's not new, that's been you.

667
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 6: But it just seems to be quite apt.

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Speaker 1: Even avoid the dogs and avoid the tigers.

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Speaker 3: Jesus bet you Hoops. You can't leave the Northern Beach.

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Speaker 6: You know what, It's been great having your support, Lie Broce,

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Speaker 6: I love you, I love that.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Journals.

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Speaker 2: Up next, it's time for our legends and gentlemen, Mark

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