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Speaker 1: Through the history of rugby league, there is a type

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Speaker 1: of player that separates himself from the herd, takes that

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Speaker 1: and then declares, I am the one.

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Speaker 2: Be aware and be ready, because I am coming for

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Speaker 2: all of you. These men are the gunslingers, the old

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Speaker 2: time side armed cowboys that walk the line.

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Speaker 3: Very few dare.

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Speaker 2: They are fearless, and they are feared.

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Speaker 3: Jared worry A Hargreaves is that man.

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Speaker 2: In over three hundred games, he has played with the

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Speaker 2: same mentality and willingness to accept his role in the teams.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 5: He is a.

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Speaker 2: Throwback, the one opposition players look over their shoulder for,

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Speaker 2: the one if they can help it, they avoid the

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Speaker 2: player that affords his teammate's confidence, the man they line

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Speaker 2: up behind and know they are protected.

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Speaker 3: Jared Warria Hargreaves.

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Speaker 2: Has never asked a teammate to do something he has

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Speaker 2: not done or not willing to do himself. The gunslingers

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Speaker 2: will their attributes through action. They are from bloody, emotional,

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Speaker 2: and they are always in the fight. History tells us

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Speaker 2: the teams that go on to greatness, that win titles

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Speaker 2: need a gunslinger.

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Speaker 3: Jared Warria Hargreaves.

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Speaker 2: Gunsling.

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Speaker 5: That's the way to fire us up.

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Speaker 6: Welcome to an old three to sixty rup league from

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Speaker 6: every angle, brought to you by tell Fast joining me

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Speaker 6: again the great going tell Us, Let's bring the journal

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Speaker 6: Australian Poor and Dave Rickier. What a piece that was

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Speaker 6: from Maddy Nabel.

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Speaker 5: About j W. H. The gun slinger.

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Speaker 6: He loves going to war for his mighty Roosters and

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Speaker 6: we expect the same in Melbourne against Melbourne.

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Speaker 5: What a player he's been.

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Speaker 7: Oh, he's made a great player, like all those years.

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Speaker 7: And he takes the first run it's the hardest run

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Speaker 7: and every single run he takes on the field is

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Speaker 7: as hard as the last. He's just he's an absolute

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Speaker 7: modern day warrant.

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Speaker 4: That's a standard.

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Speaker 8: It doesn't he like no matter what game he plays,

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Speaker 8: he puts his body on the line.

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Speaker 4: He'd just be so hard to beat.

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Speaker 8: He always takes on the bully, always wants to put

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Speaker 3: Brak Gordi.

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Speaker 9: If we think back about premiership winning sites, the overwhelming

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Speaker 9: consistency is that there's a front row leader and you

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Speaker 9: need one. You need one to win a camp. And

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Speaker 9: he is the guy that can do it for the Roosters.

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Speaker 4: He lists his team.

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Speaker 6: There's no doubt about that, the big j w H.

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Speaker 6: That's cross Live to Roosters five. Luke Kerey, Luke, you're

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Speaker 6: spiritual leader j w H. And last week, how good

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it was awesome mate. Obviously he came back at

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Speaker 10: the start of the week. He was jumping out of

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Speaker 10: his skin. It was awesome. Like he gives us so

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Speaker 10: much energy at training and then on the field. You've

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Speaker 10: seen what his presence did for us.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Luke, I played with the cheeky little halfback for me.

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Speaker 8: Ipswich Ali Langa. Do you tease your front rowers before

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Speaker 8: big games and stay away from him?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 10: I don't, Gordy, No, I don't. I stay way away

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Speaker 10: from Jared, especially Jared at training. Jared and Spencer and

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Speaker 10: those boys do their own thing. I just me Semi

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Speaker 10: and sand and kind of just stared off to the side.

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Speaker 10: But no, you can feel it with him. You can

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Speaker 10: feel when they're on. You'd know, Gordy when the pack

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Speaker 10: has that mentality and we missed that against Penrith and

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Speaker 6: You mentioned that against Penrith and you said the difference

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Speaker 5: Now, it was a tough loss.

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Speaker 6: They did blow you guys off the park to start

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Speaker 6: the game, but it was a significant improvement last week

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Braith, we're really disappointed week one went down to Penrith.

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Speaker 10: We had a lot of confidence. We lost lost Sammi,

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Speaker 10: in what we've done all year and we just didn't

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Speaker 10: and they taught us a lesson down there and we're disappointed,

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Speaker 10: but we thought we got back to back to our

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Speaker 10: us and scored some points. So we're confident going down

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Speaker 7: Luke Paul Crawley here, mate, I know you love talking

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Speaker 7: about your rooster's record down in Melbourne, but how do

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Speaker 7: you end that?

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Speaker 3: How do you shut that out of your mind.

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Speaker 10: I'm not sure cause you've got no ideas. You tell us.

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Speaker 5: No, mate.

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Speaker 10: Honestly, I've been asked a fair bit and it is

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Speaker 10: made its reality. We haven't beaten Penrith in a long time.

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Speaker 10: I think we've beaten Melbourne once. We went down there

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Speaker 10: last year in the Semis and we're very very close.

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Speaker 10: Was disappointing, but I think I said it yesterday in

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Speaker 10: the media. We have to be at our very best.

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Speaker 10: We're not disillusioned here. We have to be at our best,

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Speaker 10: the best we've played all year to go down there

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Speaker 10: and beat Melbourne in a preliminary final. It's going to

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Speaker 10: be a steep challenge, but we're up for it.

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Speaker 5: We're ready.

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Speaker 10: We feel like we've been. This is what we've We

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Speaker 10: games like this and this group has been building for

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Speaker 10: a couple of years now and here it is. We're

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Speaker 9: Luke Dave Ricky, you spoke about this group right then,

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Speaker 9: you spoke about this group. What is happening is that

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Speaker 9: this group will never play again, potentially for the last time,

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Speaker 9: hopefully not in your case.

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Speaker 3: So has there been a discussion.

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Speaker 9: Has there been a definite motivation and can you use

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Speaker 9: that you won't be able to achieve again, given the

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Speaker 9: departure of so many quality plays.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Mate.

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Speaker 10: To be honest, we actually haven't sat there as a

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Speaker 10: and Luke and Joe and that. We haven't spoken about that.

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Speaker 10: But we've spoken about in the locker room a fair

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Speaker 10: been brought up once and I know for myself and Jared,

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Speaker 10: we don't really want it to be brought up. It's

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Speaker 10: we don't need that extra motivation. Like you said, we've

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Speaker 10: had this group now for three or four years, going

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Speaker 10: had some really disappointing seasons. We felt like we're built

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Speaker 10: are very hungry and this is what we've been waiting

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Speaker 6: This, Cas you said earlier the big improvement was not

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Speaker 6: only the forward packing your defense, but it was the

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Speaker 6: ability to score points against Manly and it was Sandon

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Speaker 5: What advice have you given Sandon and what do you want.

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Speaker 6: Out of both of you heading into this week's game.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I was super impressed with him. Breath obviously probably

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Speaker 10: didn't have the game he wanted against Pendrith. Was his

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Speaker 10: There was a lot of us that didn't play well

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Speaker 10: that night. Sandon probably copped a little bit more being

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Speaker 10: back up on Monday. He was disappointed, took his lessons,

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Speaker 10: you could see straight away. His attitude was just right,

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Speaker 10: let's get let's get straight back to this. I'm going

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Speaker 10: to compete, I'm going to get my defense back on.

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Speaker 10: And he was awesome on the weekend for us, so

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Speaker 10: it's really happy for him. But we had a chat

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Speaker 10: he's going to have to be at his best on Friday.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Luke, how do he beating the storm? Is it?

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Speaker 8: Is it hard nosed defense or is it troiling the

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Speaker 8: ball around and score on more points?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: I don't think. I don't think it's the second option good.

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Speaker 10: I think you have to get in the grind with Melbourne,

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Speaker 10: like they are a tough footy side, those Craig Bellamy

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Speaker 10: especially in these semi finals. We're going to match it

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Speaker 10: You give Penrith, you give Melbourne these opportunities in your

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Speaker 10: own they're going to hurt you. I think the points

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Speaker 6: What about have you had any one on one sessions

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Speaker 6: with Trent Robinson about your French?

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Speaker 5: Have you learned any friendship and prepared.

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Speaker 6: For heading overseas over a glass of shabbalis or anything

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Speaker 6: like that cares or I've.

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Speaker 10: Had absolutely zero with you, Bady. He's offered me, he said,

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Speaker 10: you'll give me a couple of lessons before I gave it.

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Speaker 5: You see, he's the right man to talk to.

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Speaker 6: Congratulations mate on not only your career with the Roosters,

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Speaker 6: your performance last week, good luck this week and go

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Speaker 6: and get the Melbourne storm.

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Speaker 10: Thanks Bray, thanks boys, thanks for having.

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Speaker 6: Me's been any time Lukeiri there.

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Speaker 3: He is.

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Speaker 6: What a player he has been for a long period

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Speaker 6: of time in the NRL, and he stepped up last

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Speaker 6: week when he had to be spoke about set and Smith,

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Speaker 6: which is he's a selfless player, Luke.

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Speaker 5: He always has been. But he gave him this week.

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Speaker 9: Massive and you know me personally, I've always had concerns

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Speaker 9: about the leadership void that was left in the post

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Speaker 9: Cooper chrome board, Cordner, Mitch Aubison.

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Speaker 3: Ear of the Roosters, but it's Luke Keary.

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Speaker 9: It's been a constant and obviously we saw the influence

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Speaker 9: of the great James Tedesco last weekend as well, but

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Speaker 9: Kiriy has been a mainstay and without you know, pushing

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Speaker 9: too far beyond this weekend, he'll be a massive loss,

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Speaker 9: Like it's a real changing of the guard at the

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Speaker 9: Tucks next year.

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Speaker 7: Luke Kerey has proven that he's a big game player,

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Speaker 7: Like he's a three time premiership winner, he won a

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Speaker 7: Clive Churchill Medals. He's done it all and he knows

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Speaker 7: how to stand up in these big games. You know,

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Speaker 7: the Roosters go down there. Everyone by rights, Melbourne deserve

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Speaker 7: to be the favorites. But the Roosters are better than

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Speaker 7: a puncher's chance because they've got these big names like

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Speaker 7: the hard Graves and Radley and Luke Kerey and James

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Speaker 6: Too, and their aggression is really picked up to last

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Speaker 5: That's how they need to approach it.

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Speaker 6: They've got probably a little bit of an advantage if anything,

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Speaker 5: And that's where they've got to gain that advantage and take.

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Speaker 6: Kaylen Ponger has made himself unavailable for the Kangaroos. Breaking

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Speaker 5: This one's a little bit.

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Speaker 6: Of a strange one. I haven't got my head around it.

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Speaker 6: Can you, guys, explain how it took place?

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Speaker 9: It certainly came as a surprise, not only in the

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Speaker 9: relation to Ponga wanting out of Test selection or Klein

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Speaker 9: will himself now one you find that a surprising process. Secondly,

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Speaker 9: jurisdiction and expectation of a professional rugby league player. Within

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Speaker 9: the NRL rules, you aren't allowed to deem yourself ineligible

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Speaker 9: process didn't issue. And so the NRL now are looking

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Speaker 9: Green and Gold is an understatement.

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Speaker 5: So the nd ALL didn't know was malaware Malmninger.

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Speaker 9: My understanding is he didn't know. Now Mao's yet to

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Speaker 3: So which which one?

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Speaker 9: Which won't go down well?

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Speaker 5: You mentioned amongst the journalists.

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Speaker 6: Does that mean that you guys get the impression that

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Speaker 9: Absolutely and nor shitty be Like again, what Mailmninger has

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Speaker 8: Newcastle Knights being questions say, well, he's only played sixteen

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Speaker 4: We need him fully fit for next year. What do

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Speaker 8: Again, Australia comes first, un as you're injured unless you

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Speaker 8: haven't surgery, absolutely, what do you think of it? I

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Speaker 8: think I think unless you're injured, you've got to go play.

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Speaker 8: But last year I recalled did he do it at

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Speaker 4: He did? He did.

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Speaker 8: He's pulled out and he come back and there was

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Speaker 8: a bit of talk between him and he might have

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Speaker 4: Well he's done it again.

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Speaker 9: The major sticking point here, guys, is the process, or

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Speaker 4: So a phone called a mal phone called to the NRB.

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Speaker 9: Phone called a mail to say listen, this is what

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Speaker 9: I'm thinking and would you be okay with this? And

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Speaker 9: this would be a far different story. But the fact

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Speaker 9: to the NRL, to Melvin Inger is what's going to

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Speaker 9: create a biggest story here. Well, it's unprofessional going forward,

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Speaker 9: it's professional.

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Speaker 7: Well, there's ways to do things brave, Like when I

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Speaker 7: initially heard that Ponger had pulled out, and I looked

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Speaker 3: Kind of go, well, that's fair enough.

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Speaker 7: But when you start pulling apart the parts to this

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Speaker 7: process that have been neglected. And if it turns out

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Speaker 7: I understand it, the Knights and Caylen had been informed

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Speaker 7: that he would be.

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Speaker 3: In the squad.

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Speaker 7: So if it turns out that he didn't put in

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Speaker 7: a call, especially to malmon Inger, that's just an absolute

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Speaker 7: the NRL have to take a stand on this because

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Speaker 7: in the past, in eras gone by, it was always

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Speaker 7: you know, disappeared in years where clubs have taken on

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Speaker 7: more professionalism than that.

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Speaker 3: He hasn't said no, there's no talk of injury.

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Speaker 7: But but I think there is an opportunity for other

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Speaker 7: clubs if this is left without you know, the NRL

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Speaker 7: New Zealand and the season tests. Potentially that could infiltrate

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Speaker 7: into state of Origin. I think the NRL, I know

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Speaker 7: you disagree, we spoke about this out the back, but

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Speaker 7: I almost think it's almost like it's.

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Speaker 3: A show of disrespect to the NRL.

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Speaker 7: You'd almost slap him with a fine or suspension, like

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Speaker 7: for bringing the game into distribute and you wouldn't let

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Speaker 7: him play Origin next year, Like if you don't want

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Speaker 7: to play this, well, Origin is a selection troll for

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Speaker 7: for the Australian team, so next.

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Speaker 3: Year you wouldn't let him.

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Speaker 5: Is it severe though?

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Speaker 3: Is it because you have to do something strong.

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Speaker 4: Point?

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Speaker 6: I think it's this whole process what Kaalen's and his dad.

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Speaker 6: It's just don't necessary right, Like there's a way to

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was commendable when I heard.

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Speaker 6: He wasn't going to play and he was going to

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Speaker 6: I said he was the best player in.

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Speaker 5: The world after the semi final.

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Speaker 6: You know, but there is due process for everything in

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Speaker 5: So it could if you're.

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Speaker 6: Handled it like this, and it's happened a few times,

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Speaker 6: right with Kaylen's camp. If you just handle things the

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Speaker 6: right way, it gets you a long way. People understand,

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Speaker 5: We don't know, right it could be anything. We don't

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Speaker 6: But if you ring the coach, you ring the NRL,

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Speaker 6: and you tell them those reasons, they will say, okay,

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Speaker 6: Mal will go no worries and.

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Speaker 4: They could have overlooked him.

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Speaker 8: And then we went, oh that's a bit strange, but

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Speaker 7: Jamie Lyon didn't want to play red football, and more

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Speaker 9: The mean fact that the Newcastle Knights football department were

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Speaker 9: where Cross was coming from. As far as standing down

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Speaker 9: on the basis that in the NRL contract system, if

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Speaker 9: rep football, you are then asked to stand down from

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Speaker 5: Just on that so all everything aside.

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Speaker 6: Malmanning has worked really hard to put pride in this

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Speaker 6: You've played a lot of tests for Australia. Gordy, what

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Speaker 8: Is it, Well, that's what you dreamt of doing. I mean,

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Speaker 8: I believe you go and you represent your country. I

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Speaker 8: guys that have done it before you and that shot

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Speaker 8: You know, there's a Kangaroo reunion on Monday, the day

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Speaker 8: great day. Like you sit there and they go around

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Speaker 8: up to watch the Kangaroo tours and that's the jersey

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Speaker 5: Again.

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Speaker 6: We don't know the reasoning for all we've been told

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Speaker 6: to focus on Newcastle. We don't know where there's no

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Speaker 6: mention of injury, no mension of anything going on in

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Speaker 7: Wants to win a premiership, which you can get. You know,

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Speaker 9: Will pick him again after this, I think I think

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Speaker 9: he'd be questioning, absolutely questioning it. The priorities again, what

445
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:21,320
Speaker 9: melman Ninger has done to create an incredible belief and

446
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,679
Speaker 9: desire and culture for players to want to pull on

447
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:26,360
Speaker 9: the greend and goals.

448
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,680
Speaker 4: Astray got beaten by thirty points in their last game.

449
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Speaker 9: That's right, right, and so he wants a response, doesn't

450
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,679
Speaker 9: he wants He wants players to want to wear that

451
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 9: greend and goal to have a response.

452
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,200
Speaker 7: And there will be Dylan Edwards if he's fit, James Tedesco.

453
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 7: They're pretty too heady options.

454
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 5: Who plays out of them?

455
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 4: Two?

456
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Speaker 3: Look, I think.

457
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Speaker 7: Prior to this I would have said Ponger was the guy.

458
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Speaker 7: Dylan Edwards was outstanding for New south Wales this year.

459
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Speaker 7: He's got two more games potentially to prove himself. Teddy

460
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 7: was wonderful last weekend. I think because Dylan Edwards stood

461
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Speaker 7: out for New South Wales in a winning series this year,

462
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 7: he's in the box seat.

463
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I would agree. He does have some injury concerns Dylan.

464
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,240
Speaker 9: We know that he just hasn't been one hundred percent

465
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Speaker 9: through this final series and if he decides due to

466
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Speaker 9: injury to withdraw from selection and we'll see I think Tedesco.

467
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Speaker 4: Hope the Grand Final. Yeah, everyone's jf Well.

468
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,879
Speaker 5: Just went to going there too, Yeah, maybe just went in.

469
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Speaker 8: If the rus is going to run and yeah plays,

470
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Speaker 8: it'd be hard to leave him, man, all.

471
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Speaker 6: Right, Craig Belly, He's put the pressure on his playing

472
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Speaker 6: group to create their own legacy while they still can.

473
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Speaker 11: As this group, we're probably not going to be together

474
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Speaker 11: a whole hit. Maybe I'm beyond this year. Some guys

475
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 11: are leave and some guys aren't. Some guys is probably

476
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,439
Speaker 11: still resigned. But Bella kind of just mentioned it to us.

477
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Speaker 11: I know he's been very fortunate to be in finals

478
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,080
Speaker 11: every year he's coached, but as a group, this could

479
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Speaker 11: be our last opportunity to give this competition right out cracking.

480
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Speaker 11: You don't want to be having what IF's at the

481
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Speaker 11: back end of the of the year and a bit

482
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Speaker 11: like that with twenty twenty one, like I feel like

483
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,400
Speaker 11: years still hauns me best I had of a year

484
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 11: fell over the last hurdle and prelm against the Panthers.

485
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Speaker 11: So I'm sure a lot of the boys took a

486
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Speaker 11: lot of learnings out of last year's prelim against Panthers

487
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Speaker 11: as well. So it's exciting times and I'm pretty confident

488
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,640
Speaker 11: with this group of boys that we can have something special.

489
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Speaker 6: At the end of the year, the Melbourne Storm with

490
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Speaker 6: a big opportunity to create their own legacy crawls.

491
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Speaker 5: They haven't made the GF since the big three left?

492
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Speaker 5: Is that right?

493
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Speaker 3: Since Cameron Smith twenty twenty?

494
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Speaker 4: Was it? So?

495
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Speaker 3: Cameron's won?

496
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Speaker 7: Cameron Munster has won two Premierships, But to do it

497
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Speaker 7: without all Melbourne's success When you look back, it was Slater,

498
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Speaker 7: Kronk and Smith that led the charge for all those years.

499
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Speaker 3: Now we've got the new.

500
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Speaker 7: Big three, all the Big four if you put Pappenhausen

501
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Speaker 7: in there too. But they haven't they haven't done what

502
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Speaker 7: they need to do in the big end of season games.

503
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Speaker 7: You know, Munster just spoke last year how they fell

504
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Speaker 7: over in the finals.

505
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Speaker 3: They really did.

506
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Speaker 7: I thought he had a disappointing final series last year,

507
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Speaker 7: and so there's a chance there for these guys to

508
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Speaker 7: create their own destiny.

509
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Speaker 4: I think.

510
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Speaker 8: I think if Cameron wins, and if he's ten years

511
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 8: down the track and be his favorite Grand Final because

512
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 8: he had the reins, he's the senior player, he's the

513
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 8: one guiding them around you and you feel like you've

514
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 8: won more of the parmentership. I know when Alfree tired,

515
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,239
Speaker 8: I felt like that Premiership was more ours than it

516
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 8: was because I was on the cat tails.

517
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Speaker 5: Of all Langer and Kevy Walders.

518
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 8: But when they both left, you know, you feel like

519
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 8: as a senior player that it's your Grand Final. So

520
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 8: that's the pressure on the Melbourne Storm and this current

521
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 8: group of senior players.

522
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Speaker 9: This game is close to a sellout guys, I can

523
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 9: tell you which is extraordinary. Amy Park Friday night, theg

524
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,959
Speaker 9: correct Well on the eve of the AFL Grand Final,

525
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 9: this will be sold out.

526
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 4: Guys.

527
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 9: I'm getting male from the NRL, so huge, huge occasion.

528
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 5: But you're spot on.

529
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 9: This is their opportunity to create their own slice of history. Crawls,

530
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 9: as you said, they've been together for so long but

531
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 9: never been able to reach the pinnacle and this is

532
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 9: this is their opportunity. I mean that was extremely dominant

533
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 9: against Cronulla. I just think they'll get a bit tougher opposition.

534
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 4: This you talk him, is the pressure. Does Cameron feel

535
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 4: the pressure to win a camp?

536
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 9: No?

537
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 5: I don't think so.

538
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 6: He's pretty he's pretty kill calm and collected, to be honest, like,

539
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 6: I don't think he thinks of it that way.

540
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 5: He's the most competitive blog I know.

541
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 6: So he wants to win every game, you know, Like

542
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 6: that's just the way he wants to win training, and

543
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 6: he wants to win anything this, playing cards, playing golf.

544
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 6: He's so competitive. So, you know, I'm sure in the

545
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 6: back of his own mind, you know, he'd want to

546
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 6: create his own legacy there, you know everything. We just

547
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 6: spoke about it spot on, and this is a great

548
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 6: opportunity for them.

549
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 5: Really.

550
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Speaker 7: It's one of those guys too, though Cameron Munster has

551
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 7: been in the past in the biggest matches he was

552
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 7: often the best player. Like how many origins do you

553
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 7: look back and you think, well, Munster owned that he

554
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 7: was the difference between the teams and the fact that

555
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 7: he then conceded he wasn't up to scratch in that

556
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,360
Speaker 7: in that game last year.

557
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 3: He'll be up for this one.

558
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,959
Speaker 7: And at the back end of the season, all their

559
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 7: big name players have really been playing out of his game.

560
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:07,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

561
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Speaker 9: What's more extraordinary is he's halfway through the season. We

562
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 9: thought his season was over with the groin injury.

563
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Speaker 6: I thought it was over he was struggling for the

564
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 6: whole year, Like I thought he was gone, and he

565
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 6: did as well, and at one point looked like he

566
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 6: wasn't even going to play a game for the rest.

567
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Speaker 5: Of the year.

568
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 6: So the fact that he's back playing the way that

569
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,360
Speaker 6: he is, but his body's actually responded.

570
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 5: He's worked hard on it.

571
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Speaker 7: You said a few weeks ago, you thought at his

572
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 7: best he would only get to eighty percent.

573
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 3: Has he gone beyond beyond that?

574
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 5: He's gone beyond that. I think he's even surprised himself.

575
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 5: He's gone past eighty So that's dangerous, right.

576
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 4: That's good.

577
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 6: He's in good form and looking forward to this weekend.

578
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 6: Now the Sharks, FITZI, you think he's achieved a pretty

579
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 6: special thing considering the circumstances.

580
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 9: Break for I think given. So let's have a look

581
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 9: at the Shark's roster. They have two Origin players, of

582
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 9: which have played a combine three Origins, which was Nico

583
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 9: Hines off the bench and playing at center, Cameron mckinness

584
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 9: off the bench and playing around thirty minutes. And history

585
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 9: shows you need origin players to win comps. At the

586
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 9: start of this season, he lost Dale Fanukin. He's influential

587
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 9: captain and dressing room leader, absolute spiritual leader within that camp.

588
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 9: Only in the preseason prior he lost Wade Graham the

589
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 9: club captain. He has continually had to reset this football

590
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,719
Speaker 9: team at the leadership level, then appointing camer Mcinness at

591
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 9: the start of this year without a star started roster

592
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 9: that we've seen, the injuries to Nico Hines, we've seen

593
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 9: a rotation in the half. We've seen break Blake Brayley

594
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 9: play five eighth at times, and to be standing in

595
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 9: a prelim final, I believe with a with a hard

596
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 9: working roster that that isn't massively.

597
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Speaker 6: Loaded with rep players, he gets the best.

598
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Speaker 5: I don't think any this year.

599
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 6: A few points we think and you know they're not

600
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 6: really traveling that well, but they just they're just there

601
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 6: every week and he gets them to the finals of

602
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 6: these every year top four, the top four, top four.

603
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have thought that at times this year.

604
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 7: Know that you can't say their roster's not good though,

605
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 7: like they've got an outstanding back line. But what he's done,

606
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 7: even with Nicko's injury, to bring young Atkinson in and

607
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 7: then you know Trindle through the dramas he's had throughout

608
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 7: the season to get them playing as well as they

609
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 7: were before Nicko came back. And yeah, he's done a

610
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 7: fantastic job. But what happened last week against the Cowboys

611
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 7: and taking on the Panthers, that's next level.

612
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, absolutely minutes, don't they And I know they

613
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 8: have origin players, but they've got a lot of rep players.

614
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 8: You know, you'd say there'd be a lot of other

615
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 8: internationals there. Like their back three are as good as any.

616
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 8: Like when they're on, they're powerful. But yeah, I think

617
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 8: the Sharks when they get it right, they played patches

618
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 8: and they played great forty minutes. They played fifteen minutes,

619
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 8: but if they don't put in eighty They.

620
00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 3: Did that last week.

621
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Speaker 7: It was at twenty four niel Any stup twenty six eighteen,

622
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 7: you know, and the Cowboys were way off their game

623
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 7: and they still got reasonably close.

624
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Speaker 9: They've got to be prepared to go for ninety minutes.

625
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Speaker 9: That has to be the mindset.

626
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 5: Cruels Trindle's value. You think skyrockets, Oh certainly.

627
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 3: I heard Ready say last night.

628
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 7: He's on three hundred at the moment, potentially a six

629
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 7: hundred thousand dollars play. No way if he goes out

630
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 7: and plays anywhere near what he did on the weekend.

631
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 7: He wasn't a six hundred thousand dollars football on the weekend.

632
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 7: He was a nine hundred thousand.

633
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 5: Dollars after one game.

634
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 3: No, no, it's not after one game.

635
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 5: Dave.

636
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 7: In Nicko's absence, Trindle has been holding the rains most

637
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 7: of the back end of the season and he's proven

638
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 7: himself he's a class act. And there's going to be

639
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 7: a death of Blake's leaving the game within the next

640
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 7: twelve months, because we're not talking about the twenty five season.

641
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 7: We're talking about twenty six and you'll have the likes

642
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 7: of Cherry Evans at the end of his career, Ben Hunt,

643
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 7: Adam Reynolds, Townsend's gone. There's a lot of clubs that

644
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 7: need a good half back and if the Sharks can't

645
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 7: pain that, I'm sure he'll get it Earse Square. You

646
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 7: look at a club like the Dragons tossing up whether

647
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 7: Ben Hunt stays their Newcastle. You know they've spoken about

648
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 7: the fact they need someone up there to take the

649
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 7: pressure of Poonda. The Broncos will be without an experienced

650
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 7: half back, the Titans, the Bulldogs.

651
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 4: The key is though Cruls.

652
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 9: You said it, he has to back it up and

653
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 9: Brandon Trindle is he's on a trajectory. But he that's

654
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 9: his that's that's his game, right, that's his moment. We

655
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 9: want you need to see consistent moments.

656
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 4: Half.

657
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Speaker 7: I think he's shown that he's a very gifted footballer,

658
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 7: no doubt, and he's learning to play consistent. The guy

659
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 7: that really has to lift their game there, Dave is

660
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 7: nic Ohinz like he sat there in yesterday's show and

661
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 7: he spoke about the fact that he's been happy to

662
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 7: step back and let Trindle take the reins.

663
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 3: Well, I'll use this analogy.

664
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Speaker 7: When when Nathan Cleary came back and Jerome Luuo was

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Speaker 7: absolutely killing it in Cleary's absence, did Nathan step back

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Speaker 7: in and just take a back seat and let Jerome

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Speaker 7: take the reins or did he step up and help

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Speaker 7: take that team to the next level, which is what

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Speaker 7: he did in his first game back against the Dolphins.

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Speaker 7: He led him to that golden point victory, and week

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Speaker 7: after week he went to another level.

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Speaker 3: And that's where Nico has to be. It's no use saying, mate,

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Speaker 3: you've just had ball foot four games of bills.

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Speaker 9: You've just compared two halves that have played over one

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Speaker 9: hundred and seventy first grade games compared to two halves

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Speaker 9: that have played about forty fifty first grade games. Second

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Speaker 9: of that is that there's no doubt and Matthew Johns

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Speaker 9: declared it the other day that Nico Heines should move

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Speaker 9: to a one or six position.

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Speaker 5: It's happening.

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Speaker 9: It's happening, and it's happening because Braden Trindles are half back,

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Speaker 9: always has been. Under twenties, won the New South Wales

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Speaker 9: Quite Grand Final with Newtown half back. He won the

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Speaker 9: Dali m Nico Heines because he was playing with a

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Speaker 9: five eighth Matt Moylan. He would have kicked it. You

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Speaker 9: could count on your hand how many times he kicked

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Speaker 9: the ball.

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Speaker 4: Matt Moylon.

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Speaker 3: He had to play half back.

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Speaker 5: So you're telling me half back anymore.

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Speaker 9: Well, with Bradon trindle his position playing.

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Speaker 6: Second, obviously are thinking that too, right, So he's a

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Speaker 6: six or one.

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Speaker 9: Well that's why the coach sees it. Well, is it

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Speaker 9: not working that it's sitting.

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Speaker 4: In a final?

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Speaker 6: I'm not I'm just getting getting the facts out of them.

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Speaker 9: Are they still sitting in a prelim final?

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Speaker 5: Yeahs.

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Speaker 9: I'm just it must be very ordinary.

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Speaker 3: What do you think I think that you know when

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Speaker 3: you when you look at it.

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Speaker 7: I'll keep going back to the fact. It's it's not

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Speaker 7: picking on Niko. It's it's that he's a professional footballer.

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Speaker 7: And when he spoke about it last night, Dave, he

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Speaker 7: spoke about the fact that football doesn't define him, but

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Speaker 7: but it pays the bills.

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Speaker 3: Mate.

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Speaker 7: It's like if you get a tradesman around your home

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Speaker 7: and you pay top dollar for a good tradesman because

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Speaker 7: you want a good job. But then you go out

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Speaker 7: and have a look at the tiles and you think

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Speaker 7: there a big dodgy, there's a bit missing here, a

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Speaker 7: bit missing here.

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Speaker 3: There's a gap here.

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Speaker 7: And he says, well, you know what, tiling doesn't define

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Speaker 7: me at the moment, So I'm sorry, mate, it defines

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Speaker 7: the job you do.

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Speaker 4: It.

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Speaker 9: So when when you when you snap your ankle and

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Speaker 9: you tear your sindusmosis and they tell you you're going

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Speaker 9: to be back in eight weeks, Nikohines gets back in six.

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Speaker 9: He wanted to come back in five, but the Phusias

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Speaker 9: wouldn't let him.

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Speaker 7: That's a cop out, Dave. He was struggling before he

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Speaker 7: breaks his ankle, he was.

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Speaker 9: Well, I'm saying this is a bloke that's invested in

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Speaker 9: rugby league and committed to the NRL and the Sharks

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Speaker 9: and his contract. He's doing everything possible to get back

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Speaker 9: on the footy field.

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Speaker 3: I think he needs to step up.

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Speaker 5: I think we all agree with that.

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Speaker 9: But yeah, I've got just there's no doubt he can

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Speaker 9: have more influence on the team, but he's playing a difference.

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Speaker 6: Took a lot from what you said then, So because

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Speaker 6: we're all thinking that this weekend Niko is going to

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Speaker 6: go in there and step it up and he needs

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Speaker 6: to be the dominant half And how is.

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Speaker 9: That, brath You're the heart US champion, how is that?

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Speaker 9: How is that going to happen?

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Speaker 4: When you've got well, then that means that they've ever

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Speaker 4: paid for him there.

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Speaker 8: If he's going to play the second fiddle and you've

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Speaker 8: got to get a good half back, right, that means

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Speaker 8: that they've paid too much.

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Speaker 9: What was that They're still sitting in a prem.

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Speaker 3: Hundred green going forward? David like.

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Speaker 9: The spoke about the Melbourne Storm halves the highest paid

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Speaker 9: spine in the game.

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Speaker 4: And have you watched both of them?

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Speaker 9: Playing, Yeah, exactly again. But they've played two hundred first

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Speaker 9: grade game.

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Speaker 4: Have you watched both of them in big moments? They've

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Speaker 4: played a lot more games.

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Speaker 6: All right, great, right, boys. I enjoyed that going a

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Speaker 6: bit feisty there at the end. Thing you came up

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Speaker 6: next to the players respecting with Aaron Woods and James Graham,

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Speaker 6: and the countdowns of the President's Cup has begun. Ozzie's

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Speaker 6: Adam Scott and Minwu Lee lead the international team against

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Speaker 6: the Mighty Americans. The first round kicks off Friday morning

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Speaker 6: on Channel five O three