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Speaker 1: three month stretch Street. It's Vegas two point zero continues

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Speaker 1: right here on Fox League. I'm're on a little earlier

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Speaker 1: today because the NRL fan fest. He's on the saffoon.

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Speaker 1: Actually can see they are piling in and joining me.

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Speaker 2: The Great Jordan Kallis.

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Speaker 1: That's between the journal Australian Michael carry Arnas and Dave Riccio.

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Speaker 1: I need to take a double look here because I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure I saw this suit jacket last night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so let what's down? This break on the floor

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Speaker 3: of Circus Circus Casino.

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Speaker 1: Really the great Prenon Reid, He's left it on the floor.

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Speaker 1: That's a sea. I picked it up. You looking good?

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Speaker 1: You look better than breeding put it that way better.

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Speaker 1: How has Vegas been, Mick? If you have you enjoyed

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Speaker 1: it since you've been here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been awesome. I'm going to look at the

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Speaker 4: people behind us and the anticipation building into this weekend game.

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Speaker 1: It builds. How about you?

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Speaker 5: God, did you enjoyed last Yeah? I survived another twenty

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Speaker 5: four hours in Vegas. But it's it's starting build in

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Speaker 5: it like you've since that the occasions just around the corner.

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Speaker 1: So very excited. Well, let's get to some footy and

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Speaker 1: we've got some breaking news. Actually, I want to get

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Speaker 1: to the journals straight away. Dylan Brown some speculation around

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Speaker 1: his contracts. Will he stay, paramatter, will he go? What's

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Speaker 1: the latest information?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Brath Look, this is certainly a significant story as

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Speaker 6: far as being one of the stories of the preseason

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Speaker 6: and in.

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Speaker 3: His relation to Dylan Brown's future.

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Speaker 6: We know that he has those clauses in his contract

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Speaker 6: at Paramatter that have this situation where he can get

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Speaker 6: out at the end of this season, and it's the

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Speaker 6: Newcastle Knights coming in with a ten year offer, ten

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Speaker 6: year offer of thirteen million dollars bro thirteen million dollars.

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Speaker 3: One point three a season for Dylan Brown.

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Speaker 6: Now, I can tell you for the first time of

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Speaker 6: this entire process, the Eels are getting nervous.

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Speaker 1: Well they have to be. Let's let's just get back

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Speaker 1: to that guild. Ten years, one point three million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year, yep, to go to the Newcastle Knights. I've

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Speaker 1: already got Kleon pomer who's the highest paid player in

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Speaker 1: the game in the game. How are they going, how

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Speaker 1: are they going to be able to afford it? And

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Speaker 1: is it worth it?

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Speaker 4: Well, they can afford it, Brath because if you look

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Speaker 4: at their cap, they get a bit of free space

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Speaker 4: next year. So they've been hamstrung a little bit of

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Speaker 4: the Newcastle Knights by an inability to move players on

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Speaker 4: or get rid of some players that are on significant money.

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Speaker 4: We saw Daniel Safeedi leave at the end of last year.

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Speaker 4: They've got Jackson Hastings off contract this year. He won't

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Speaker 4: be reassigned. Jaden Brayley won't be resigned. Adam Elliott's on

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Speaker 4: a significant deal as well.

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Speaker 1: He's also off.

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Speaker 4: Contract, as is jack Edington. So you add that up

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Speaker 4: and it's significant money.

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to PARAMOUNTA. Why are they nervous? Can

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Speaker 1: they match the offer? Can they get anywhere near it?

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Speaker 1: Do they want to keep him? What's the situation with them?

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Speaker 6: They're sitting at around a million dollars a season the

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Speaker 6: Eels and now you feel as though that's a fair

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Speaker 6: enough offer. And I've got to say I agree, I

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Speaker 6: agree totally. As far as we're Dylan Brown has got

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Speaker 3: I think that's fair enough.

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Speaker 6: But when you start to expand on that contract over

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Speaker 6: a ten year period, it's a significant difference a million

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Speaker 6: They know Dylan wants to stay at the Heels. They

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Speaker 6: know that, but do they Well, he believe that, you

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Speaker 6: believe it. I believe he wants so he was.

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Speaker 5: So you think he's worth of breath, right, he's he's

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Speaker 5: a five A players in your position. Yeah, he's twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Now, the reality is you've got to play overs for halves, yes,

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Speaker 1: today's game, because there's a few and far between quality ones.

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Speaker 1: I think for the age that he's at right now,

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Speaker 1: if I'm Newcastle. I'm looking at Kaylen Pommer, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at how good he is and at the moment he's playing,

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Speaker 1: Now add one of the best halves in the game

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Speaker 1: most of your CAP's gone on two key players. But

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Speaker 1: he's well worth it. But then put its paramounter in

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Speaker 1: a tough situation about the.

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Speaker 5: Ten years though, like we see fifty percent of them

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Speaker 3: Long, Lordy Braith me, this is a risk beyond all means.

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Speaker 6: As far as I see it as a desperate play

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Speaker 6: by a desperate footy club that's trying to get a

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Speaker 6: good players around him right now. The Knights are losing

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Speaker 6: more than their signing.

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Speaker 4: They need good players around him right because otherwise they're

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Speaker 4: going to waste Kaylen Ponger's best years. He's a Premiership

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Speaker 4: you know, he's an elite player. He's a number one player,

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Speaker 4: pop paid player in the game, and if you don't

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Speaker 4: surround him with good talent then you've just wasted his

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Speaker 4: best years. So ideally, I'm sure the Newcastle Knights wouldn't

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Speaker 4: want to give him ten years, but as Braith said,

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Speaker 4: that's what they need to do to get him out

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Speaker 1: From this point of view, right, if they're trying to

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Speaker 1: sign Dylan for ten years, Kaylen's there's already speculation whether

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Speaker 1: he'll stay or go, So if they're going to sign

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Speaker 1: him on ten, they'd have to try and upgrade and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but they can't do that on the provisor that

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Speaker 4: Kallen might leave, right, But Adam Dylan Brown helps their

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Speaker 4: case to keep Kalen. Right, that they need Kaalen to

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Speaker 4: co how how they're going to win a comp They're

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Speaker 1: This break right to get that money means you've got

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Speaker 1: to run the team. Definitely, that's right. He's got it,

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt.

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Speaker 6: About But both have you seen anything in Dylan Brown

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Speaker 6: that suggests he's a half back, and not only a

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Speaker 6: a rookie five eighteen Fletcher sharp that's going to be

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Speaker 1: It is you said it before, David. You know it's

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Speaker 1: a desperate play from a desperate club. But I like

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Speaker 1: I like Dylan. I think I think he's got I

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Speaker 1: think he's a great player as well.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's not worth one point three million dollars.

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Speaker 6: Everyone knows that if Nathan Cleary's for't get him, who

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Speaker 3: That's the issue.

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Speaker 4: They're just they'll be treading water to night. So they've

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Speaker 4: got to go all in make a play and they

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Speaker 4: need a circuit breaker.

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Speaker 6: There, Mick, you just rattled off all the players that

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Speaker 6: they need to let go and have to let go

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Speaker 6: because they've paid over for they find themselves in this

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Speaker 3: Yet they're about to make a play for ten years

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Speaker 3: on a player that has shown no.

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Speaker 6: Significant elite quality as a half back, of which they're

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt, Dave that in the last two years

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Speaker 4: he hasn't kicked as much as we all thought he would.

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Speaker 4: I'd suggest right he was the best twenty two year

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Speaker 4: old in the game at one stage. He's twenty four. Now,

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Speaker 4: he's played one hundred plus games. He's about to hit

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Speaker 4: his sweet spot. And if I'm the Newcastle Knights and

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Speaker 4: the way that roster is at the moment, I'm doing that.

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Speaker 4: If you said to Newcastle would you like to not

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Speaker 1: To do that.

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Speaker 6: The other key thing is, guys, is it's the kiss

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Speaker 6: of death to all those young rookies coming through. There's

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Speaker 6: no half back in the lower grades of the Knights

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Speaker 6: that's going to stick around given it you've just signed

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Speaker 6: Brown on a ten year deal. Yeah, but it's a

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Speaker 6: sharp through twenty eight. There's an opportunity to play outside.

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Speaker 6: Dylan Brown felt as Shaps still got his l plates on, right,

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Speaker 6: We're not sure if he's going to.

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Speaker 1: Be the long term answer? Is this just a smart

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Speaker 1: plan from the management of Dylan Brown though, you know,

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Speaker 1: like they're put him out there early that the email

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Speaker 1: was sent out. His price tag's gone up. If he

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Speaker 1: wants to stay at Paramatta, he could just end up

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Speaker 1: landing there and landing there in the end and getting

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot more money, which is a good,

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Speaker 1: good work by his management.

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Speaker 4: Is that going to happen because Paramatt, as Dave said,

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Speaker 4: they're not going to give you more money. They're not

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Speaker 4: putting any extra years on that contract. Right, It's a

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Speaker 4: smart plan in the sense that he's got that offer there.

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Speaker 1: It's just going over seven years now.

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Speaker 5: I'm with you, Gordy, and I don't like any long

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Speaker 5: term deals and all these, especially if you haven't won

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Speaker 5: a comp Yeah, I think it's the time the game

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Speaker 5: stands up to the manager's ten years. For that, there's

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Speaker 5: way too much and clubs and clubs shouldn't be bullied

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Speaker 3: Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 6: It's the same management company that looks after Jason Talmalolo, who,

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Speaker 6: as we know, Will So secured a ten year deal

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Speaker 6: at the Cowboy.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got some breaking news that has just

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Speaker 1: come in actually with one of our penelists. Let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at this. The great part getting kissed by

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Speaker 1: Nick politis a break? Is that a Greek tradition? Is

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Speaker 1: that for a Greek it actually is? It's the kiss

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Speaker 1: of death? Or so it? Douz might not be around

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Speaker 1: too much longer. Anyway. Let's get to the footy. We

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Speaker 1: love you Bus all right and Nick as well. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to the foot Let's get to the footy. Brandon Smith,

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Speaker 1: what's going on with him? The Roosters they're in an

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Speaker 1: estrange position at the moment with their trials and the

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Speaker 1: players injured. But Brandon Smith, what is the actual situations

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Speaker 1: that stands right now?

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Speaker 4: He's won't be the Rooster's beyond this year.

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Speaker 1: I think we're all come pretty go this year.

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Speaker 4: Well if something immediately, if someone came for Brandon Smith,

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Speaker 4: the Rusters will say thank you. Right, he's on eight

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Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars. He's not going to play to the

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Speaker 4: mid point of the season though, break that's the issue

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Speaker 4: coming off the back of us. True that acl So

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Speaker 4: if you're a rival club, you're not going to touch

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Speaker 4: him this year. Well, he's not going to play. He's

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Speaker 4: going to take some time to find his feet again.

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Speaker 4: So that's the issue for the Roosters. They're going to

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Speaker 4: have to wear that eight hundred thousand dollars this year

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Speaker 4: on their cap.

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Speaker 3: This is designing the Rooster's, no doubt.

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Speaker 6: I'll probably say they don't, but it's pretty clear that

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Speaker 1: And I don't agree with you, Dave. Like everyone knows,

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Speaker 1: You know. I think he's a great kid, and I

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Speaker 3: It look no, not at these stage.

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Speaker 6: But remembering he's coming off at ycl Bright, so no

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Speaker 1: Could he go back home to the Cowboys where he started.

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Speaker 4: His career, Well, he came out and said he doesn't

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Speaker 5: Tell Wayne that he was going to go to Redcliffe.

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Speaker 6: Paramatta were also connected to Brandon, but I made inquiries

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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on at the roofs of Spencer Menu.

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Speaker 1: Now the rumors just won't go away. I'm hearing that

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Speaker 4: It's it has done the rounds to the point where

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Speaker 4: So there has been this snowball of in your windows

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Speaker 3: You know, clubs would sign him.

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Speaker 3: I agree, Gordy the Dragon.

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Speaker 1: You look at the board, that's a third am ah, Well,

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Speaker 3: He's a middle fencer.

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Speaker 4: Spencer had played there, You've got you know, he's close

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Speaker 1: You know what, he actually really good for the trade.

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Speaker 1: He'd be perfect moving.

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Speaker 6: Look, as far as I'm aware, and I think we'll

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Speaker 6: Nick Politis, we'll see Buzz conduct an interview with Nick

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Speaker 3: But that is wrong with the Roosters, right, Nick May

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Speaker 1: They don't normally lose their talent like this. The Roosters.

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Speaker 5: They have been, you know, the mby of every club

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Speaker 1: They don't see me panicking now. They must have something

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Speaker 6: Absolutely there is and you know it that this has

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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, journals that you meet. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Dave loved the jacket. All right, let's get down to

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're Backbrape, and I am so impressed what an

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Have we got any.

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Speaker 7: Panthers fans here? Panthers fans? Yeah, well, there were plenty

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Speaker 7: they were lining up out the street just to get

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Speaker 7: believe me, he's zeroing in on defending another title. Nathan,

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Speaker 7: this is crazy, a huge turnout of support for your premieres.

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Speaker 7: What do you think of all this?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's mental, honestly, It's like, never would of gender this.

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Speaker 7: You've had fan base before, you've won grand finals and

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Speaker 8: No, not really, to be honest, Like I knew there

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Speaker 7: Now. I guess you had an idea of what you

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Speaker 1: What's it been like?

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Speaker 7: Has anything surprised you since you guys have settled in.

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Speaker 8: Not really, It's just unbelievable, Like what a place to

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Speaker 7: Someone told me it's Dad's ivans first trip to Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Have you shown him around?

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Speaker 7: What's he been up to?

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Speaker 8: I think yeah, he had fun the first few nights

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can celebrate after hopefully.

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Speaker 7: Now the players have a Chocolate block schedule, but I've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just trying to take it all in.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's obviously a business trip for us, but

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Speaker 7: Now it is two competition points and the title defense

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think just not thinking too much about going

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Speaker 8: Everyone starts on zero points and you've got to build

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Speaker 7: There are more faces lost this season and that's what

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Speaker 8: I think just drawing on the new energy that comes

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Speaker 1: And I think you know successive bipokes of that.

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Speaker 7: Every step of the way of your success, you've had

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it is a big change and obviously going to

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Speaker 7: Jack Colly, is where you've gone this weekend? You've got

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Speaker 7: And what about the experienced heads with you out there,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just really excited.

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Speaker 8: I think, you know, I think it's a great opportune

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Speaker 3: And play their best.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's exciting for us and.

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Speaker 7: The band beest tonight. That is what is the centerpiece

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know I'm trying to have too many expectations.

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Speaker 8: on the weekend. Even just seeing like our advertisement up

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Speaker 8: what it's going to be like tonight.

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Speaker 7: Lastly, before we let you go, it was, I guess

440
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Speaker 7: a big relief for rugby league fans, not just Panthers fans,

441
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Speaker 7: to read in the paper that you're not going anywhere

442
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Speaker 7: that rugby union, no matter how much throw at you.

443
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Speaker 7: You love your league. When we're looking at your goals

444
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Speaker 7: and your standards, what does that look.

445
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Speaker 1: Like for this year?

446
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Speaker 7: What do you want to achieve with so much already

447
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Speaker 7: ticked off the box?

448
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I'm not a massive goal set to

449
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Speaker 8: be honest. I try and just tick off little goals

450
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Speaker 8: each day and trying to get better each day. And

451
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Speaker 8: I still feel like there's a lot of growth for

452
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Speaker 8: me and I find that really excited and motivating. And yeah,

453
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Speaker 8: rugby leg has always been my passion, So yeah, I

454
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Speaker 8: just want to get better and hopefully have a relatively

455
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Speaker 8: injury free season would be nice. But yeah, I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful, thanks so much.

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Speaker 7: I can will let you back to the fans.

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Speaker 3: Cheers, thank you, thank you.

459
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Speaker 1: What a class act. Nathan clearly looking very relaxed. He's

460
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Speaker 1: so classic, you know that the way that he plays,

461
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Speaker 1: for the way he handles himself off field. He's Rubbie

462
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Speaker 1: strumers that he's going to go to rugby Union and

463
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Speaker 1: he's looking for a five peet, which is huge, joining

464
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Speaker 1: me beginners.

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Speaker 9: Nice to be here, brek A.

466
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Speaker 1: You're enjoying it, Yeah, enjoying Vegas.

467
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Speaker 2: Fantastic and beautiful second year. Yeah, great to see Nathan

468
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Speaker 2: just in that Spirit's great that he's going to obviously

469
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Speaker 2: get on the field on Saturday here. Obviously some concern

470
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Speaker 2: with that shoulder over the summer, but great news for

471
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Speaker 2: the game that Nathan Cleary was playing. He's had a

472
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Speaker 2: little spell to today.

473
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Speaker 1: He did talk us through this apparently he left Vegas.

474
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just great. To Mary Fowler, oh wow. Yeah,

475
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Speaker 2: a little bit of downtime, Yeah, a little bit of

476
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Speaker 2: a break before the game.

477
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Speaker 1: You like that preparation for the game.

478
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Speaker 9: He can do what everyone he wants to go and

479
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Speaker 9: see Mary in San Diego.

480
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Speaker 1: I'll forgo now.

481
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Speaker 9: Is this going to be he's front of the AI

482
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Speaker 9: Blake like he's one of those players. Well, is the

483
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Speaker 9: ten year contract man? Absolutely, you wouldn't even think twice

484
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Speaker 9: about signing for ten years. You know what, whatever's good

485
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Speaker 9: for your preparation that if you say it's good, we're

486
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Speaker 9: going to believe that.

487
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Speaker 1: I agree, he can do what ever he wants the

488
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Speaker 1: way he's performed over the past few seasons. Now, is

489
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Speaker 1: this going to be his legacy year? No, Jerome Lewis.

490
00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,480
Speaker 1: Jerome Lewis obviously has moved on. They've lost some key players,

491
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Speaker 1: which they have done for the past few seasons. What

492
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Speaker 1: do we expect from him?

493
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Speaker 9: I think you'll continue to see Nathan improve as a

494
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Speaker 9: football player.

495
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Speaker 1: And that's what he's about.

496
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Speaker 9: Nathan Is, I think more than any other player I've

497
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Speaker 9: ever come across. He is the process driven rugby league player.

498
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Speaker 9: He will work on his own game and we've seen

499
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Speaker 9: that when he's been out of and mister fairban footy

500
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Speaker 9: through injury, Nathan will be working on the computer thinking

501
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Speaker 9: of ways how to break down teams defenses, and then

502
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Speaker 9: you'll put that in practice and then you'll put it

503
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Speaker 9: into a game. Nathan is that short step baby step player.

504
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Speaker 9: That improves constantly. That's what drives this team. That's what

505
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Speaker 9: drives Nathan.

506
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Speaker 1: Brandy, That's what drives Nathan.

507
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Speaker 5: But no one said that you could do two in

508
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Speaker 5: a row or even three in a row, just in

509
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Speaker 5: the current climate, right, How do they stay motivated?

510
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Speaker 9: That is one of the great mysteries, Gordy, because no

511
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Speaker 9: one's been able to do it. And we've had some

512
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Speaker 9: great players, We've had some great teams over the over

513
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Speaker 9: the decades that just haven't been able to do it.

514
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Speaker 9: This is such a special group of players that no

515
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Speaker 9: one's ever come across them, really, But I think it's

516
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Speaker 9: led by the senior players. It is Nathan Cleary, Isaiah

517
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Speaker 9: Dylan Edwards, and then the support stuff like Brian Liam,

518
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 9: Liam Martin, those players that have been part of it.

519
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 9: But it is the senior players that drive the narrative.

520
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Speaker 1: Just quickly before we get to me, is he the

521
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Speaker 1: best seven that Penrifth have ever produced?

522
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Speaker 2: Of course he is.

523
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Speaker 9: There's no argument, So thank you for that question.

524
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Speaker 1: We're coming from former great one of the best I've

525
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Speaker 1: ever had. That is number six. All right, Mick plays

526
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Speaker 1: to Lungey. There's a lot of questions around why he

527
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Speaker 1: isn't playing five eight. I think it was Gus Good

528
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Speaker 1: who was pretty outspoken about it. What's your thoughts on this?

529
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Speaker 2: I just think how can we how can we question

530
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Speaker 2: iv and Cleary's decision making is taking them to four

531
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Speaker 2: straight Grand Final wins. They've beurned in four of the

532
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Speaker 2: last five Grand Finals. And he's nurtured some of the

533
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Speaker 2: best talent in our game at the moment, from out

534
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: of those junior rep systems all the way through the

535
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Speaker 2: production line at Penrith. Now we understand that he's had

536
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Speaker 2: shoulder surger out of the summer. Let's not forget Blaize Telang.

537
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Speaker 2: He started two games at five to eight last year.

538
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Speaker 2: He lost both of those. Like he's still so young,

539
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Speaker 2: we don't need to rush him. We know he's such

540
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Speaker 2: a talent and they showed last year that they're willing

541
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Speaker 2: to use Jack Cole in big games played. The World

542
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Speaker 2: Club Challenge year was more than solid. I saw him

543
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Speaker 2: play at Cronulla last year with no Nathan Cleary in

544
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Speaker 2: the side. Players out of that side forty two NILK

545
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Speaker 2: they won. Jack Cole is a player that's so reliable

546
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Speaker 2: and under the bright lights of Vegas, we can't forget

547
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Speaker 2: it's round one, like as much of the hype that's

548
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Speaker 2: around him, and it's great. It comes September, round one.

549
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Speaker 2: It's nice to win. It's not the be all and

550
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Speaker 2: end all of your season. He's nineteen.

551
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Speaker 9: He's had shoulder shoulder reconstruction which picked up an injury

552
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Speaker 9: playing for Samoa in the over there in England, so

553
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Speaker 9: he's had a very disrupted preseason and you want him

554
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Speaker 9: to be able to work with Nathan and Isaiah oh

555
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Speaker 9: and Dylan Edwards and have a great combination. He said,

556
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Speaker 9: very little time to do that because those both those

557
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Speaker 9: boys have come back from shoulder surgeries, Nathan and Dylan,

558
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Speaker 9: so there's been very little time for Blaze to work

559
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Speaker 9: with the key men. This is round one and Jack

560
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Speaker 9: Cole certainly has been part of this side, and Nathan's

561
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Speaker 9: got a big opinion of him. He's a very good player.

562
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Speaker 9: But Blas Talang, he's at the club for a reason.

563
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Speaker 1: Brandy.

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Speaker 5: Every player that Penrith lou seems to go to another

565
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,159
Speaker 5: club and they're great leaders, but you've been able to

566
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Speaker 5: fill their spot. Fisher Harris is one of those guys

567
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Speaker 5: and I've heard you talk about him. There's a presence

568
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Speaker 5: about him, there's this calmness's presence. He's like the leader.

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Speaker 5: Have you noticed that. That's a big hold of film.

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Speaker 9: Well, there's personalities that are missing too, and Jerome was

571
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Speaker 9: a great personality, yes, but James Fisher Harris was that

572
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Speaker 9: personality that it didn't rely on him doing his talking.

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Speaker 1: It was just his presence.

574
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Speaker 9: It's just way looks, the way he trains, the way

575
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:07,679
Speaker 9: he plays, the way he treats his teammates. And it's

576
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Speaker 9: impossible to replace that.

577
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Speaker 1: It's impossible.

578
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Speaker 9: And we've seen from the Warriors now, and you listen

579
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Speaker 9: to the Warriors players talk through the preseason challenge what

580
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 9: an impact Jake Fisher Harris has made on them already

581
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Speaker 9: his presence. They speak about his presence and you can't

582
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 9: replace that, Gordy, but the team has to evolve and

583
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 9: it'll be different to what it was last year.

584
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you whether they'll miss him where they'll miss him.

585
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Speaker 2: Go to your former captain Breath. You obviously captain clubs too.

586
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Speaker 2: You cannot be the best leader every single day for

587
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Speaker 2: twenty seven weeks. You can't do it. It's so mentally draining.

588
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 2: And that's why when you look at the leaders at

589
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 2: Penrith Isao takes the slack at times when Nathan's out

590
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 2: of the footy side, Dylan Edward steps up and has moments.

591
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 2: We've seen Leam Martin grow as a leader. But the

592
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Speaker 2: luxury of having New Zealand front rowers mid season when

593
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Speaker 2: so many of your players are playing origin football where

594
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Speaker 2: James Fisher Harris took some great ownership and leadership of

595
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Speaker 2: Penrith through that mid part of the season.

596
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Speaker 5: Heymik, what about your role club the Shafts. Can they

597
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 5: take it? Can they take the next step? They've always

598
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 5: been around there, They're super consistent, like they defend well,

599
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 5: they always get to the business end of the season. Yes,

600
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Speaker 5: but they've never just been able to take that next step.

601
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Speaker 1: Aiden Vanilla Blake.

602
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Speaker 2: He adds another layer, doesn't he to what's already a

603
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 2: quality footy side. Look, Adam Fanuwell, Blake for me is

604
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Speaker 2: the closest thing that we've seen since Andrew for Feeder,

605
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Speaker 2: and I speak so highly of Andrew. I absolutely loved

606
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 2: what he brought. He was unpredictable, he was big, he

607
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 2: was powerful. He could lead the way for run meters

608
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 2: if we needed him to. He could also drift wide

609
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 2: and be creative on an edge for Newall, Blake's footwork

610
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 2: and the way that he can move for a big

611
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 2: man he's offloaded. His ball playing ability adds a whole

612
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 2: nother layer and I think it will bring out the

613
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Speaker 2: best in Blake Brayley, who I think is vital for them.

614
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Speaker 1: Now.

615
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Speaker 2: If you look at where Cronuller at times have fallen short,

616
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 2: it's because they want to push the ball lateral all

617
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 2: the time when Brailey's out and direct Pronulla or Robetti

618
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 2: footy side, and I think Fanwall Blake brings that for them.

619
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Speaker 2: The challenge for Adam Fanuell Blake is to be able

620
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Speaker 2: to maintain the defensive standards that Craig fits given and

621
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Speaker 2: Steve Price set. That's the challenge with the footy absolutely

622
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 2: takes them to another level. Can he maintain their defensive

623
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Speaker 2: standards through the middle. Let's hope so you look terrific

624
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Speaker 2: in the trials you meet. Thank you Brandy.

625
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Speaker 1: Where to get to break We'll be back after it.

626
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Speaker 1: After it will have Nicko Hines, and Andrew Abdah and

627
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Speaker 1: Blake Brayley as well coming up. Stick Around