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Speaker 1: Cooper extraordinary final series.

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Speaker 2: Before we start, if you're doing something.

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Speaker 1: What's that.

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Speaker 2: View of the final? View of the viewers have spoken?

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Speaker 1: Mate for the final, for the final, sh there we go.

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Speaker 1: It always happened.

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Speaker 3: Your headline and every other show like Ray Hadley's face

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Speaker 3: to face here on this you got your own show.

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Speaker 3: I just thought a little bit of love him double Duty.

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Speaker 3: John's the Grand Final?

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Speaker 1: Yeah mate, what a what a final series.

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Speaker 3: But it has been Actually, I think about some of

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Speaker 3: the moments that we just play. Its like it comes

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Speaker 3: down to Grand Final week and the moment, and you

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Speaker 3: can slice it and dice as much as you want.

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Speaker 3: There's only one way you want to finish Grand Final Week.

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Speaker 3: There is only one way you want to win it,

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Speaker 3: and you want to have the party of your life.

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Speaker 1: The game, Coop.

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Speaker 4: And we had Hutch and Young on the show last

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Speaker 4: night and I spoke to him about this half after

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Speaker 4: the show.

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Speaker 1: I said, the.

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Speaker 4: Game at the moment, Coop, I've never seen better. I've

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Speaker 4: never the players are remarked what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we always look previous eras through rose

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Speaker 1: colored glasses, the romanticism.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there is any era in the game

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Speaker 4: that even comes close to what is happening right now.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's just so imperative for the game

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Speaker 4: because the game's going that way. That Perth and P

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Speaker 4: and G are successful, it's a really big moment. If

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Speaker 4: we can nail those two expansion ventures, then the game

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Speaker 4: will continue to grab exponentially.

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Speaker 3: I think one thing that is consistent in the game

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Speaker 3: right now is it's in a good spot, but our

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Speaker 3: best players are playing well. I think that magnifies our game.

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Speaker 3: When the best players are fit and healthy and dominating.

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Speaker 3: Like the game yesterday it was basically Cleary Verse Wall

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Speaker 3: incredible and the other night was monster, it was Harry

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Speaker 3: Grant played well. Our best players are living up to

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Speaker 3: the expectation of the moment.

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Speaker 4: But just a great time of the year. Isn't like

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Speaker 4: Grand Final week. You get there and the weather's warmer

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Speaker 4: birds are nesting.

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Speaker 1: As a play cook this week?

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Speaker 4: Is there anything like what's the memory that comes back

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Speaker 4: to you in your leading up to your numerous Grand Finals?

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Speaker 3: I think the one thing you can never let go

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Speaker 3: of and want to relive every time it's Grand Final

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Speaker 3: week is the moment you leave from the hotel you

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Speaker 3: have a team meeting, and normally because you're into state

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Speaker 3: team and you stay at a hotel somewhere so it's

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Speaker 3: close by the amount of fans that flock the foyer

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Speaker 3: of your hotel with all the colors. They have to

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Speaker 3: the bus and it's almost like rockstar reception. There is

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Speaker 2: It's epic.

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Speaker 3: I've never relived it any other way, but I think

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Speaker 3: the fans make that experience and the build up, the

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Speaker 1: Beat to make the Grand Final.

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Speaker 4: We beat in North Sydney on the on the Saturday,

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Speaker 4: the Monday. Five thousand people turned up and we went

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Speaker 4: okay for something some special. Billy and I remember our

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Speaker 4: coach malcolmbe really got us in and he said, right,

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Speaker 4: he said, this is what's going to happen all week.

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Speaker 4: He said, we can do this one or two ways.

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Speaker 4: We can actually try to escape from it or embrace

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Speaker 4: it and enjoy it. He goes, I'm not telling you

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Speaker 4: and I think the first one will drain us more.

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Speaker 3: So I agree with that because my first one I

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Speaker 3: didn't enjoy. I think the dally amzare on, you had

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be here.

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Speaker 3: I don't really want to be yeah, and then you

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Speaker 2: My attitude for the next ones.

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Speaker 3: The ones I won, it was definitely they were enjoyable

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Speaker 3: thing I could bottle about Grand finals is the adrenaline

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Speaker 1: What are your Grand Finals?

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Speaker 4: So was there was there anything that happened in the

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Speaker 3: I think the dogs twenty twelve Grand Final. Billy scored

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Speaker 3: a try that was a set play where he competed

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Speaker 3: And we've been practicing all week because we knew that

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Speaker 3: trying to call that play from the first minute and

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Speaker 3: I was going no, no, let's wait, let's wait. We

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Speaker 3: got the penalty and I said no, and Ryan Hoffman said, mate,

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Speaker 3: do it. He's been smashing me all afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, he said to do it.

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Speaker 3: That gave me the confidence that he was going to

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Speaker 3: I've been a pretty big player moments.

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Speaker 4: Seeing at the sixty out of me is a little

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Speaker 4: bit of a jeers if only the week the week

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Speaker 4: before the beat North Sydney, Joey went off with the

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Speaker 4: field goal to get us through. It was a wonderful kicking.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure it was amazing.

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Speaker 1: I watched it most nights. Oh not this again, it's

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 4: It is absolutely But what happened Coop? Leaning into the

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Speaker 4: next week? Yeah, we did all the media stuff and

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Speaker 1: Channel nine. You know, I kind of strained television.

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Speaker 4: He interviewed me and he said, right, let's let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this week.

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Speaker 4: Let's imagine same score sixteen or same field position. Do

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Speaker 4: you call the ball and do you make it? And

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Speaker 4: I say, yeah I do and yes I do. Well,

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Speaker 4: you wouldn't believe it, Coop sixteen. All in the Grand Final,

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Speaker 4: similar field position happened again.

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Speaker 1: And I hit it and I can hit the post now.

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Speaker 4: I don't like to This is a kid's pre like

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Speaker 4: to use the word coops.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Our Final Show Awards, our Player of the Year guld

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Speaker 4: Sylvan Bronze.

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Speaker 2: In third place for me Yep Tarpani.

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Speaker 3: I think he'd been a clossest through the middle, outstanding

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Speaker 3: for Canberra number two Isaiah Carteer. I think he just

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Speaker 3: might dominate the competition for the next ten years.

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Speaker 1: I think you exactly.

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Speaker 3: And I think James Tedesco is a lock for the Dalim.

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Speaker 3: You cannot go past what he did for the Roosters

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Speaker 3: this year. He was the most consistent player, he was

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Speaker 3: came from. What a couple of years ago, under pressure,

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Speaker 2: He is back to his best.

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Speaker 4: I've gone I've gone Bronze, I've gone James Tedesco, Silver,

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Speaker 4: Harry Grant and gold. I've gone paying has has has

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Speaker 4: had an incredible season. Battle he's had a back injury,

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Speaker 4: but he's just keeps turning up, turning up, and he

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Speaker 4: was incredible yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Talk about Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 1: I've gone. Look at I've gone Madge. You know, we've

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Speaker 4: Had to deal with a lot, and like Ricky, my

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Speaker 4: temptation is say Ricky's going to win it. But I

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Speaker 4: just look at Madge and he's had to deal with

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Speaker 3: I say, Ricky does. I think they were the best

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Speaker 3: going to Ivan Cleary if he had have got to

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Speaker 3: the Grand Final, was after twelve rounds last and didn't

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Speaker 3: that leadership group did to get back to seventh spot,

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, jeez, it was all class after

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Speaker 4: the game. I thought yesterday he was and I mean

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Speaker 4: there's one four in a row.

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Speaker 1: I understand it, but very classical.

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Speaker 3: they're going to be back, no doubt, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: My rookie the years, like Ahalla Seema, I thought.

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Speaker 3: He mark no longer there to ask it for me.

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Speaker 3: tryscorer machine and some of you could put probably two

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Speaker 4: And I think there's talk that we won't select him

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Speaker 1: You select him. He deserves to go.

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Speaker 3: And I see what you just spoke about the best

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Speaker 2: Get your best players available, and you.

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Speaker 4: Know he's a beacon for other union players to look

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Speaker 4: and go, jeez, look, god, it's done for this Blake's profile.

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Speaker 1: He's been a success story. I might just give this credit.

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Speaker 3: Because you pick him now because he deserves to be.

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Speaker 3: If he wants to go play for the Wallabies, go on,

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Speaker 3: but he will come back because of the.

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Speaker 1: Experience, a lot of water, past st If you don't pick.

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Speaker 2: Him now and those things, he will go. Well.

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Speaker 4: You know what what a game yesterday?

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Speaker 1: What a game?

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Speaker 4: Fourteen mil down? Did you see the Broncos coming back?

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Speaker 3: I didn't see them coming back. I saw them winning

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Speaker 3: before the game. But then the Penrith machine so lean

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Speaker 2: I thought it was all.

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Speaker 3: About can the Penrith defense stop the edge attack of

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Speaker 3: edge attack of Penrith just dismantled Brisbane mate. They were

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Speaker 3: ala modi two tries and it was pretty straightforward attack.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a special play.

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Speaker 2: So atteen I thought this is they get to the front.

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Speaker 2: I think Penrith go.

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Speaker 4: On funny and they had numerous opportunities there toist the

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Speaker 4: I think that breaks the spirit of Broncos and they go.

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Speaker 3: And the Broncos did a tremendous job. Playing on the

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Speaker 2: But I'm worried about that.

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Speaker 3: This weekend for them, like they didn't like Reese. Walsh

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Speaker 4: Great game, just speed and intensity of the second half.

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Speaker 1: And then he went, now it's fatigue.

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Speaker 4: He was just he could barely move and he was

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Speaker 1: He got up, he could barely get to his feet.

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Speaker 1: He played the ball and he actually turned to the.

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Speaker 4: Sideline as if to say, match, get me off mate.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was really good. Well, it's true. What about.

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Speaker 3: Paying Hass's second half? His second stint was out of

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Speaker 3: And then there was a couple of moments he dived

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Speaker 4: What about that? What about the drama that with Nathan

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Speaker 5: Yes, a bit lair in him, yes, tough, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 3: Was a reason Scott Sorenson didn't come back, not because

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Speaker 2: Ran and broke through Sorence's tackle.

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Speaker 4: Basically rating like that that you know that great test

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Speaker 4: Scottie Sirenson, there's a fair chance if you don't get

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Speaker 3: If you run harder than I'm willing to tackle you,

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Speaker 2: The other side.

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Speaker 3: And like you talk about getting through tackles in between defenders,

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Speaker 3: Reese Walsh just shot out of a gun, just says,

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Speaker 3: try and stop me. All the Panther's defenders sort of

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Speaker 4: Like Karapani and Mariner, they're unsung heroes. They barely get

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Speaker 3: They're all about taking control and not hesitating. Mariner had

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Speaker 3: finesse this with a couple of foot, right footstep, beat

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Speaker 2: He went nut, putting the hammer down.

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Speaker 1: I thought, I thought both those boys were tremendous.

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Speaker 2: I want to give Adam Reynolds a big rap up.

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Speaker 1: Oh so he didn't take the kick because obviously.

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Speaker 4: The hamstring preserving the hamstring when that ball gets put

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Speaker 4: my opinion, his legacy at the.

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Speaker 1: That was incredible kick. My guts was rumbling for you.

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Speaker 3: You talk about you in ninety seven, right, Adam Reynolds.

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Speaker 3: So in the COVID year, had the opportunity from the

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Speaker 3: kicking in that time. And Reese Walsh missed that conversion

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Speaker 1: From Reynolds to Walsh.

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Speaker 3: Did Walsh go, mate, please do it? Or did Reynolds

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Speaker 1: I got a film the ladder give me the ball?

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Speaker 3: And he did not like I was trying to as

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Speaker 3: I watched him walk in. He wasn't blinking, he wasn't

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Speaker 4: And isn't that like so good to see that he

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Speaker 4: was hard at wearing the seven jersey and watching him

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Speaker 4: yesterday like he was rusty. You could say that he

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Speaker 4: was rusty, but we're in that seven means that you

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Speaker 4: the ones you're going to know.

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Speaker 1: Well it ends.

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Speaker 3: And to explain a little bit of why Penrith lost

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Speaker 3: has been trying to get back to Everest since round

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Speaker 3: twelve and did it kick in at the sixty fifth

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Speaker 4: There was a moment they they're ahead and they cut

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Speaker 4: I've seen Ivan. Ivan you could see was sensing Wesley.

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Speaker 2: Push his hair back. Yeah, was agitated.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And every time they were trying to get out

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Speaker 3: just not the dynamic movements that they needed to and

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Speaker 3: I feel like it was just it all crept up

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Speaker 3: when they didn't need it.

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Speaker 1: There's season out of ten.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to gauge because it's such an unprecedented season.

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Speaker 3: I so want to give them like a nine, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: eight because of the way they started the.

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Speaker 1: First half of the year. One.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: After the year ten, h.

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Speaker 1: Sharks Storm look.

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Speaker 4: For mine in a nutshell, Storm won it on the

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Speaker 1: Spot I thought that.

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Speaker 4: I thought, I just thought the Sharks they gave away

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Speaker 4: so many soft off side penalties.

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Speaker 1: There was one early in the game.

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Speaker 4: It was about four minutes in and they've got Melbourne

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Speaker 4: trapped in the corner pocket and mate, it was just

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Speaker 1: Soft offside penalty. And then the Storm gate down the

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Speaker 3: I thought, I thought the Storm spine have been waiting

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Speaker 3: a long time for this moment. They just It's almost like,

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Speaker 3: yes they had a game plan, yes they wanted to

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Speaker 2: Was second in their mindset.

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Speaker 3: Mindset one was going to run the ball and be

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Speaker 3: Munster ran, and then the bravery and the strength of

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Speaker 1: Not enough has been made of it, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Telling you, Like I thought there was a moment there

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Speaker 3: He needed to isolate Hughes to see if he was

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Speaker 2: But then Hughes got that ball, that right foot that

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Speaker 3: Hughes try and he doesn't often layer up Hughes, but

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a strong performance from the spine.

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Speaker 4: Like in two thousand Shane Wegg he went down in folklore.

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Speaker 4: He played with the broken oar in the Grand Final

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Speaker 4: off five weeks.

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Speaker 1: Jerome twenty two.

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Speaker 4: Days from a broken arm and back playing and it

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Speaker 4: was the star of the game.

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Speaker 1: Monster.

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Speaker 4: In my opinion, he was the best player in the field.

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Speaker 4: Just his running game so strong.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talk about the game plan and we've said

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Speaker 3: Like he touches the ball, let's call it thirty five times,

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Speaker 4: He is one of the greatest ever big game plays.

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Speaker 3: I think the Broncos need to stop that, Like if

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Speaker 3: he's running the ball, they're no chance. But the one

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Speaker 3: were quite. They weren't bad, but in a prelim final

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Speaker 3: you need to be better than quite.

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Speaker 2: Like I thought for Noil Blake was quiet.

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Speaker 3: You know they're back three that had been good all

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Speaker 2: And Nico Hines and Trindle Brayley, he was quiet.

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Speaker 4: He was he was a Stefana I thought two coming

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Speaker 4: Commo off the bench was mighty. I thought it was

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Speaker 3: He smashed Billy Burns in a carry and I thought, Wow,

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Speaker 3: that's the type of impact you want from your front row.

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Speaker 3: And then he provided the off load for Hughes. But

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Speaker 3: Jeseu's gonna have to double down on that this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Well, he came out fig and today what do you say?

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Speaker 4: He said he doesn't like a lot of some of

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a good thing. There's going

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Speaker 3: to be more barbs coming out of the way, like

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Speaker 3: res Wells has a man. I don't think they can

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Speaker 3: hold back. But that's not something that Craig Belly would want.

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Speaker 4: His play Storm Broncos two thousand and six Grand Final.

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Speaker 1: Keep you to the memories of that game.

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Speaker 4: Let's say, sorry, mate, but you won't enough of them.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, But like.

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Speaker 4: We just touched on both games, there is no comparison

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Speaker 4: the speed and the intensity in the heat of the

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Speaker 4: Broncos Panthers versus the stop start nature of the Storm

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Speaker 4: and the Sharks. Look, Madges came out today and said

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Speaker 4: it's rubbish. Don't worry about the extra two days. But

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Speaker 4: the bottom line is mate, it is a monumental advantage

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Speaker 4: two days of extra cover on top of the nature

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Speaker 4: of the two contests. It is advantage Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: Firstly, it is exactly the right thing for Michael McGuire

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Speaker 3: to say that you cannot get into a press conference

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Speaker 3: after that Prism Finals that yes, it's a disadvantage of advantage.

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Speaker 3: You can't say that, So he's saying everything he needs

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Speaker 3: to to put belief into his team. On the flip side,

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Speaker 3: it is an advantage like to have two days prior

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Speaker 3: the Friday night game penalty stop start on a Friday

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Speaker 3: night in Melbourne, up against ball in play, long time

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Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon, fast paced, distinct advantage at at the back

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Speaker 3: end of the year.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely storm spine, Bronco spine does maam start No.

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Speaker 3: Look, he was good, he was good, but I don't

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Speaker 3: think he should. He went after Nathan Cleary and that

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Speaker 3: probably should have been a penalty. But that was a

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Speaker 3: bit of a lightning rod moment for the Broncos. Like

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Speaker 3: you took on the best player, smash him. Up a

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Speaker 3: little bit and the Broncos went on to win.

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Speaker 5: That.

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Speaker 1: I loved Lily's response.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I said as well.

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Speaker 3: In a weekend right every time in rounds one to

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Speaker 3: twenty seven, what Ezram did to clear it is a

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Speaker 3: penalty and then there was a scuffle and things like that.

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Speaker 2: Whatever.

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I think Ezra

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Speaker 3: Maam starts off the bench. I like what Ben Hunt

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Speaker 3: and Adam Reynolds does early on. Corey Pakes is okay

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Speaker 3: at number nine. Then ben Hunt goes to nine and

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Speaker 3: he's got confidence. He went for that forty twenty. They

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Speaker 3: went within a whisker. He threw the big dummy that

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Speaker 3: got Willison that try. So I think you got to

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Speaker 3: keep Ezra man fresh, bring his running game on, and

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Speaker 3: I like Ben Hunt's confidence in the nine jersey.

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Speaker 4: One thing about Melbourne Storm the left side defense is

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Speaker 4: a bit bit of a concern that the first try

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Speaker 4: that the Sharks scored uniformly, they all just rushed sort

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Speaker 4: of blindly and a little tunnel ball through to Katoa,

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Speaker 4: and then the second try was the reverse.

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Speaker 1: It was a bit of a lack of.

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Speaker 4: Communication and you'd see Monster backing off a little bit

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Speaker 4: shortball and Billy Burns went through.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So last year's Grand Final it was Leam Martin that

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Speaker 3: scored a try just on the stroke of halftime, caught

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Speaker 3: Jack Howarth outer position and Jack Cawth got spotted up

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Speaker 3: again against the Cronella Sharks. So forward looking, that's exactly

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Speaker 3: where the Brisbane Broncos will look to get to. That

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Speaker 3: Munster and Howth combination on that left edge on the

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Speaker 3: flip side, well, the Brisbane Broncos left edge for the

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Speaker 3: first forty minutes didn't even look like stopping a try.

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Speaker 3: Nathan Edwards were going down there. Alamodi scored a couple

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Speaker 3: of tries. So I think the key to in Melbourne Storm

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Speaker 3: is two things. I think Elie Cartower potentially could have

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Speaker 3: a Clive Churchill medal.

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Speaker 2: I think he could be the.

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Speaker 3: Best player on the great season because he's an aerial

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Speaker 3: threat on the kicks. His combination with Jerome Hughes is

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Speaker 3: senting me to perfect and if Jerome can get that

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Speaker 3: combination going on the left edge, I think that's a

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Speaker 3: good spot.

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Speaker 1: Well, lets Stuart who wins. Who's clob Churchill medalist?

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Speaker 2: Melbourne Storm win? For me, I think it's a dominant

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Speaker 2: victory for Melbourne. I think win.

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Speaker 3: Let's call it twenty eight ten or something. I think

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Speaker 3: Elie Cartel.

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Speaker 4: For me, I've gone Storm, I've gone Storm by four

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Speaker 4: and I've gone Clive Churchill me, I've gone Ryan Pappenhausen.

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Speaker 1: Second game back from a spell.

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Speaker 3: Well, why haven't we chosen the superstars of that game?

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Speaker 3: Why haven't we chosen Ris Walsh, Adam Reild's Munster, Harry

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Speaker 3: Grant for Clive Churchill.

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Speaker 4: For me, just got feel he's one one before papping out.

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Speaker 4: There was a few things in that game with perhaps

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Speaker 4: that I went Okay, Like you see, he's about to explode.

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Speaker 4: He hasn't played a lot of football this year. It

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Speaker 4: was his first game back from a stint on the sidelines,

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Speaker 4: and I thought he showed up. I think this is

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Speaker 4: going to be a big game for him, I think,

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Speaker 4: and another one too. Coops is playing against the middle

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Speaker 4: a Broncos middle defense who will fatigue yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I think the advantage for Melbourne Storm is through the

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Speaker 3: kicking game. I think Mariner and Cara Pinni look vulnerable

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Speaker 3: under the high ball, and I think William Warbrick and

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Speaker 3: Xavier Coats have a point of difference.

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Speaker 1: There, real coops. Well, hey guys, that's our final show

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Speaker 1: for the is listen. We really appreciate by the way,

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Speaker 1: there you go. Yes, that's right. Well we'll adjust that

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Speaker 1: for next year. Don't worry. I know the letters that

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Speaker 1: complain are going to come in, but I am able.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for viewership through the years and supporting the show,

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Speaker 4: and you might suit us out and out and about

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Speaker 4: around Christmas time.

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Speaker 1: Feel free to come up and shout next year, John,

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Speaker 1: you guys.

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