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Speaker 1: From the newsroom and news still come to me. Gooday there,

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Speaker 1: I'm Andrew Bucklow and today we are joined by one

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Speaker 1: of the AFL's biggest stars, Isaac Heeney. Now, listen, footy

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Speaker 1: players are usually media trained within an inch of their

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Speaker 1: life right, so it can be hard to get decent

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Speaker 1: answers out of them. Let me tell you that was

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Speaker 1: not the case with Isaac Heeney. He opened up about

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Speaker 1: player pranks, what really goes on in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: He told me about the time Sydney Sweeney dropped into

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Speaker 1: the club. He even details some of the shocking requests

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Speaker 1: he's had in his dms.

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Speaker 2: Can I post them my jocks after a game with

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Speaker 2: before washing them?

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Speaker 1: This is such a wild chat and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: play it for you right now. He is an AFL

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Speaker 1: superstar at Telstra Ambassador and a man whose hair somehow

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Speaker 1: stays perfect even after four quarters of footy from the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Swans. Is that keen mate?

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Speaker 2: How you going?

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Speaker 1: I'm very good? Thanks. So we've had a lot of

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Speaker 1: people sending questions that they've always wanted to ask an

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Speaker 1: AFL play. You are the guinea pig. How are you

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Speaker 1: feeling excited? A bit nervous, but we'll see, we'll see

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Speaker 1: we come with okay, all right, the first question, what

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Speaker 1: does a typical week look like during the season for you?

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Speaker 1: Like how many days do you actually have to work?

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Speaker 2: A hard hitting question straight up, I was expecting some

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Speaker 2: quirky ones in season. Yeah, obviously different to preseason, but

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Speaker 2: I guess assuming we play on a Saturday, I'll start

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Speaker 2: with with the Monday. So if we're playing a Saturday,

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Speaker 2: Monday's our first day, and generally it's a sort of

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Speaker 2: bit of a recovery run around, a few skills, get

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Speaker 2: the body moving, we say, sort of movement is medicine,

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Speaker 2: so get the body moving, into a review of that

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Speaker 2: previous week, and then you're doing weights, plarates, massage, sort

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Speaker 2: of you physio. Getting your body right into Tuesday is

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Speaker 2: one of our main sessions. We'll do a bit of

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Speaker 2: a preview of the weak ahead the team we're playing,

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Speaker 2: into more skills based a bit longer, sort of pre

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Speaker 2: sick to seven kilometers. Wednesday's technically our day off. A

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Speaker 2: lot of the boys will come in and do extras,

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Speaker 2: whether it's yeah, extra recovery, sort of vision skills and

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Speaker 2: making sure your body right as well, speaking of the coach,

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Speaker 2: if you need to pop in there and say I'm

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Speaker 2: good to go for that week, and then Thursday you're

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Speaker 2: prepping yourself for the week. You're getting stuck into the

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Speaker 2: opposition at an individual level, at a line level, so forwards, mids, backs,

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Speaker 2: and then as a team as well. And then that's

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Speaker 2: in the morning before we go out to train, and

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Speaker 2: we then we train as if we're playing. This team

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Speaker 2: is relentless. It's a lot more than just bloody going

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Speaker 2: out there and running around chasing a footy, which was

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Speaker 2: just kind of what we do. We've got a few

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Speaker 2: simpletons in the team.

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Speaker 1: That Thursday, you're still going on Thursday about Friday.

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Speaker 2: And then Friday's captains run. It's pretty easy. So once

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Speaker 2: again we'll do the last little sort of final touches

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Speaker 2: on the opposition analysis and then go there, have a

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Speaker 2: kick around, muck around that one's really low key, kick

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Speaker 2: a goal and then you massage and extra weights if

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Speaker 2: you need to do them into Yeah, playing on the

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Speaker 2: Saturday and then generally Sundays off, so.

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Speaker 1: That is mental. I had no idea. So it's a

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Speaker 1: six day a week job pretty much.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much. Yeah, you kind of don't really. We say

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Speaker 2: we try and stay at a professional level for seven days,

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Speaker 2: so you're kind of representing the club. Yeah, seven days

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Speaker 2: a week throughout throughout in season and obviously still about

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Speaker 2: get your body right. So it's a pretty selfish thing.

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Speaker 2: I know, my partner's been incredible. She looks after me

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Speaker 2: and understands that I guess what I need to do

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Speaker 2: it up each week.

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Speaker 1: Right, So you've got your game that you obviously watch

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Speaker 1: back during the week, But how many other games of

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Speaker 1: AFL footy do you watch each week during the season.

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Speaker 2: I watch more NRL than I do AFL, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: I never used to. I'm not a massive say I'd

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Speaker 2: I'm not massive and watching other teams play as much

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Speaker 2: until we're about to play them. So I'd rather go

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Speaker 2: and watch watch the Roosters play the rabbit O's or

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Speaker 2: them sort of dominate and that more than And I

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Speaker 2: grew up with with nurlbing from Newcastle, so that was

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Speaker 1: We've got this question sent in a lot of people

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Speaker 1: have noticed your Instagram photos, a lot of shirtless ones,

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Speaker 1: and you're in great knit. Do you have to follow

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Speaker 1: a strict diet, They've asked, or are you exercising so

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Speaker 1: much that you can literally eat whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: We do have a twenty four seven dietitian, so she's awesome.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I'm the strictest with my diet. I do.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 2: I'm a massive sweet tooth, so I love my chocolate.

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Speaker 2: That's my that's my guilty little pleasure, and one bite

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Speaker 2: I can't help myself. But I'm pretty strict these days.

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Speaker 2: I think the last few years especially, I've realized how

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Speaker 2: you're not going to perform. You feel sluggish year Like

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Speaker 2: I said, you're not hitting the numbers you normally do,

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Speaker 2: and then you're not backing it up week in week out.

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Speaker 1: What about after a match, do you get to have

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Speaker 2: love my Dirty Cave Sea chicken. It's incredibly greasy chicken.

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Speaker 2: But I'm also I feel crook as it sits mere

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Speaker 2: what do you go to order?

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Speaker 2: The zinger box is good, nice, but I love my

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Speaker 2: Wicked wings. If I can get I could eat chicken

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Speaker 1: Are you allowed to drink alcohol during the season? What

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Speaker 2: Yeah, normally, and that's probably changed from my younger years

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Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of boys do until you

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Speaker 2: But throughout the season, you really only have a few

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Speaker 2: So if you're seven to seven, like say say Saturday

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Speaker 2: It's a Saturday to a Sunday game, you can you

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Speaker 2: the off season. Haven't it fun?

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Speaker 1: Do you have any superstitions someone wants to know any

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Speaker 1: lucky jocks or socks or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: I do these jocks, they're sports jocks and there I

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Speaker 2: wear one pair all seasons and this the last one

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Speaker 2: that hung on the last two games. I was playing

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Speaker 1: But they get washed, right, they get washed, washed, washed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a game day playlist like that you

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Speaker 2: Not a playlist? I've got one song that I got

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Speaker 2: one of the boys for Robbie Fox and I we

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Speaker 2: by Chase Beckham. I love my country music. So he's

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Speaker 2: a what's it called twenty three to twenty three by

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Speaker 2: Chase Beckham?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty three rebo like me, now me twenty.

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Speaker 2: He's not a massive artist, but he's he's I think

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Speaker 2: he's getting bigger of it. It's just that one song,

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Speaker 2: and it was a It was kind of like a

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Speaker 2: ritual we had to listen into a pre like on

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Speaker 2: on the bus. Was sitting next to each other and blasted.

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Speaker 1: So now this one's have a few very famous supporters.

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Speaker 1: I believe Sydney Sweeney dropped into the club. Tell me

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Speaker 2: Pretty crazy. She's obviously an amazing actor, and yeah, not

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Speaker 2: too bad in the eye too. She's a very good

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Speaker 2: looking lady. But it was funny. She came into the

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Speaker 2: We had a good win, and I can't remember who

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Speaker 2: we played. I was a bit starstruck at the end

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Speaker 2: other players, and I came off and I've never had

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Speaker 2: it before, but I had this lump on my head

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Speaker 2: and an egg it was, but it wasn't just an egg.

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Speaker 2: It was like a second head. It was enormous, and

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Speaker 2: I was so embarrassed that, like all the boys going

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Speaker 2: go and get a fighter with that, like Sidney Sweny

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Speaker 2: and anyway. I just couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to

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Speaker 2: on my head. It was there'd be a photo. It

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Speaker 2: was disgusting.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't just whack a cap on.

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Speaker 2: I should have Wow, so begunity legit. Yeah it's half made.

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Speaker 1: But all the other boys lost their minds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, feel them? Did I think there was a few.

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Speaker 2: There's a few stories going around. I think it was

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Speaker 2: like fifty percent of the club hitter up in the

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Speaker 2: DMS on Insta.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got someone who wants to know when

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Speaker 1: you have an interstate match, do you have to share

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Speaker 1: a hotel room with a teammate these days or do

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Speaker 1: you get your own?

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Speaker 2: No, you get your own. They look after you, which

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Speaker 2: is good. Yeah wow, yeah, so you'd oh.

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Speaker 1: There you go out the next three questions. I was

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Speaker 1: going to ask, all right, let's step inside the locker

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Speaker 1: room for a minute. Someone wants to know door players

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Speaker 1: get their gear off after a game or to somewhere

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Speaker 1: budget is in the shower.

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Speaker 2: Some get it off bloody they could, they'd get it

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Speaker 2: off during the game if they ca some other fellas.

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Speaker 2: Now most of the boys do. Before we have the

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Speaker 2: new socilities, we had eight showers all in just one room,

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Speaker 2: so no no dividers, whereas now we've got I think

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Speaker 2: there's still eight, but there's dividers.

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Speaker 1: So oh interesting.

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Speaker 2: Majority still get there. Like I'd say, eighty percent of

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Speaker 2: us get our get our gear out. It wasn't what

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Speaker 2: you're going to say. Yeah, and then the rest are

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Speaker 2: mainly the younger fellas till they get a bit of

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Speaker 2: confidence and then go it's just normal, understandable.

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Speaker 1: This is a question I have always wanted answered. How

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Speaker 1: often does an AFL player get paid? Do you get

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Speaker 1: paid weekly, monthly, monthly?

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Speaker 2: N I think it changes you. Some boys are on

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Speaker 1: Wow. Or this is a real note to anyone wanting

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Speaker 2: Isaac, you are an absolute stuff.

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Speaker 1: He is the man. Not much he cannot do. That's

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Speaker 2: But it's hard when you I think we've built sort

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Speaker 2: It's only fresh. I's actual. He was running with Will

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Speaker 1: Puts the pressure on Charlie too, doesn't it. Mate, You'd

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Speaker 1: Every club has a prankster. What is the best footy

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Speaker 2: It was hot throughout summer. Crank the air con and

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Speaker 1: But little things like that hopefully not in your lucky jobs, Isaac.

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Speaker 1: I bet you receive hundreds of random dms from people

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Speaker 2: I've got a message saying can I post them my

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know the guy that said that, what is

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Speaker 1: dot you You're a legend. And good luck in twenty

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Bring it on. I've got to say, Isaac Keeney probably

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