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Speaker 1: Boy band five are coming back to Melbourne. They're going

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Speaker 1: to join us on the air in minutes here at Nova.

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Speaker 1: First though, the winner of the twenty twenty five AFLP

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Speaker 1: A Most Valuable Player is Nick Daikos.

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Speaker 2: I'm calling back, and that there was Lethally Matthews presenting

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Speaker 2: his trophy to our mate Nick Dakos, who joins us.

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Speaker 3: Now, Nick, congratulations, Thank you guys, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 4: Now, this is the award the players want to win, right,

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Speaker 4: It's voted by your peers. So does it come with

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Speaker 4: an enormous amount of pride?

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Speaker 5: Nick? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, It's very humbling for me. I think, as you said,

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Speaker 3: to be voted by the players as the most oval player,

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Speaker 3: I mean a lot to me and as a number

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Speaker 3: of players that could have won it. So I'm just

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Speaker 3: very fortunate that I'm the one that, yeah, ends up

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Speaker 3: with the trophy.

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Speaker 4: Now you get to vote to did you vote for yourself?

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Speaker 4: Are you allowed to vote for yourself? How did you

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Speaker 4: vote for your brother?

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Speaker 3: You're not allowed to vote for yourself. So you've got

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Speaker 3: to vote for players from the opposition from other teams.

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Speaker 2: Now you can't exactly go out and get on the

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Speaker 2: beers because you've got a September campaign to tackle.

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Speaker 5: So was it just a quiet night? Nick? What did

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Speaker 5: you do post to celebrate little drive through on the

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Speaker 5: way Na?

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Speaker 3: Very quiet night. I had my partner I let with

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Speaker 3: me the entire night. It was great that she was

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Speaker 3: able to come and we had the All Australian at

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Speaker 3: the end of the night, obviously, which is a huge honor.

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Speaker 3: And we're just sort of driving home back to her

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Speaker 3: house and just saying how lucky we are and how

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Speaker 3: fortunate we are to be in this position so early

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Speaker 3: on in our career. We feel like this was our

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Speaker 3: this was our fourth night, fourth time going to the night,

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Speaker 3: and we're super grateful every year that we get to go.

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Speaker 4: You've always have been raised so well.

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Speaker 5: We'll speaking of which, there was a great clip. I

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Speaker 5: know you're in it. You've probably seen it.

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Speaker 1: It was floating around on Socials during the week, Nick,

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Speaker 1: and it was when you were a kid, and I

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Speaker 1: think it was filmed down at like your dad's training session.

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Speaker 5: You were like, yeah, you don't want to play footy

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Speaker 5: like my dad.

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Speaker 1: It was just a really cool moment to see that

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Speaker 1: key to have that dream and you just look like

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Speaker 1: you're living your best life at the moment.

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Speaker 5: Mate.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely, I haven't actually seen that clip, so I'll

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Speaker 3: have to try and dig it up. But no, I

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Speaker 3: always hold on to that little kid in me and

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Speaker 3: how grateful I am to now be living out that

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Speaker 3: dream that I've always dreamed of doing. So Yeah, every

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Speaker 3: time I play on the weekend or I come into

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Speaker 3: the club today for training and I'm around players like

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Speaker 3: Scott Penderbury or still By Bottom, it's quite surreal for

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Speaker 3: me still and I and I pinched myself and I

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Speaker 3: know how grateful I am to be in this position.

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Speaker 2: Well, there is another clip that has gone viral, and

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Speaker 2: that is you in the Adelaide Crows dressing Love presenting

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Speaker 2: one of the player's.

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Speaker 5: Sons with opposition players. Text it's getting it getting a photo.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, exactly, little Louis Walker Texas. So I met

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Speaker 3: them last year in FIGI will both holiday and at

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Speaker 3: the end of the season. Now seasons are both finishing

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Speaker 3: and in the finals, which is fortunate. We're in there

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Speaker 3: this year and he Louis and I go along really well,

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Speaker 3: as did Hugo and I Text's other son. But haven't

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Speaker 3: been able to convince you got to come for the

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Speaker 3: Pie Louis at the moment, and we're hoping to get

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Speaker 3: him a little Collingwood jersey for next Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: Nick.

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Speaker 4: When you were that age, who was the player you

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Speaker 4: looked up up to and wanted to be like? Who

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Speaker 4: is your hero? Oh?

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Speaker 3: There were so many? I mean I'm teammates now its

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Speaker 3: Scott Pendlebury and growing up being a Collingwood fan, he

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Speaker 3: was one that obviously a Brown loves still real. He

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Speaker 3: was another Buddy Franklin. The list goes on. I was

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Speaker 3: a real footy fanatic growing up and not just a

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Speaker 3: Collingwood fan, just love footy in general.

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Speaker 5: So that's well.

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Speaker 3: I keep coming back to this sense of gratitude that

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Speaker 3: I'm now an AFL player.

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Speaker 1: Mate, We're so wrapped for you. Hey, I'm just quickly

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Speaker 1: I'm a Pie's boy. Nice win against the D's, big game,

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Speaker 1: needed that one, We didn't need that one. We're back

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Speaker 1: on track next Thursday, big game against the Crows. How

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Speaker 1: are the boys feeling heading into the finals?

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Speaker 3: Oh, we're so excited. I think we're really embracing the

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Speaker 3: challenge to go over there and play the latt of Leaders.

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Speaker 3: It's been really big all year that you just have

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Speaker 3: to qualify for finals. It doesn't matter where you finish,

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Speaker 3: you just need to qualify for finals. And we've done

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Speaker 3: that now and everyone's sort of using the term that

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Speaker 3: it's the new season. We're three wins away from winning

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Speaker 3: it all, but we're just focused on next Thursday at

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Speaker 3: the moment. So I can't wait to get over to Adelaide.

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Speaker 3: No doubt that Magplay Army will travel really well, whether

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Speaker 3: they're driving or flying over. And yeah, we're just excited

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Speaker 3: to play next Thursday, featuring in the final.

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Speaker 5: In the zone. You've locked in.

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Speaker 4: Good luck for the month. It's going to be a

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Speaker 4: huge March month for the Pies and the Pie supporters.

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Speaker 1: He congrats again on last night, mate, well done, No

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Speaker 1: thanks having Nick da cost joining us on the air. There,

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Speaker 1: that's what the cool kids say. What's that lock in?

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Speaker 5: Lock in? In normal? It's when they're playing roadblocks and

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Speaker 5: stuff very similar. En Wake how feeling good?

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Speaker 4: Follow them on the socials se