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Speaker 2: Charged lap, the high point of Big Freeze eleven as

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Speaker 3: Then a thriller to mark the occasion, Collingwood prevailing by

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Speaker 1: And a too much ban.

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Speaker 2: For bomber Sam Durham for the dangerous bump the game

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Speaker 4: We've talked about is this step into it, debrace.

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Speaker 2: All of it in the room and reason it's unedifying

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Speaker 4: They're on the side of courtia with the brain, take.

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Speaker 1: The man on it. They played the best footy.

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Speaker 2: I've ever seen at the start of the season, and

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Speaker 1: Oder said, of course they do. This is the stuff

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Speaker 4: What is holding the ball?

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Speaker 3: You've been sitting in the other just like a normal

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Speaker 2: So there's plenty to unpack and a lot of it

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Speaker 3: Hawthorn had to win. They've been in a hole and

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Speaker 3: And four points that Adelaide got are the same as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as true as when they were spoken.

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Speaker 2: All right, this is how our week lines up. We

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Speaker 2: Fox Footy will bring you the Hall of Fame induction

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Speaker 2: starts with the awarding of the GVPS, the most valuable

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Speaker 3: There's not too often you walk away ben Keys hasn't contributed, so.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: So here's the way things are right now. Patrick Dangerfield

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the tinder box moment at the end

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and this will be a great, big talking point

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Speaker 3: Rare mistakes and then Stephen May, in his competitiveness, has

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Speaker 2: All right, let's head downstairs. Max Gorn did speak, John

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Speaker 4: What Stephen May said to him.

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Speaker 5: I think if you're any kind of lip reader, you'd

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Speaker 1: Back to Stephen May.

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Speaker 5: And so hopefully the club is feeling that by putting

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Speaker 1: Some way to explaining Ralphie thank you.

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Speaker 2: So do you think it goes?

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Speaker 3: I'd imagine it'll be had within an hour if it

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Speaker 3: And probably until we hear from Stephen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really only exists whether there's any tension between

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Speaker 2: He didn't mean it to go wrong like that, and

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Speaker 2: This is so brilliantly stage now and it's not just

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Speaker 2: There Alyssa Healley went Shaza, Kath and Kim. That's just

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Speaker 2: And then scenes that will last in football history, just

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Speaker 2: As the football world got to show.

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Speaker 3: These are iconic pictures that we're seeing right here and

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Speaker 2: So right from the outsets and it was on as

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Speaker 4: There was a little bit of magic and there was

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Speaker 2: Bit both sides, yes, as Collinwood's poise was just a

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Speaker 3: That and your ability to your opportunities year and I

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Speaker 2: It looked grim at twenty points down, like it was

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Speaker 4: We'll talk to you when we talked to Goodie when

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Speaker 2: And Ice is injured on Ansac Day back for the

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Speaker 1: And then we squabbled over a point from there on.

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Speaker 3: The Vailey Fritch had had the mark, almost had a

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Speaker 4: And they just ran out time from that point on.

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Speaker 2: So where it leaves Colin Wood, they've got the nice

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Speaker 1: Some of good women will join us shortly and we'll.

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Speaker 2: Revisit that the cushion at the top of the table,

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Speaker 3: No, and they've got players that they can file back

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Speaker 4: Jordan to go.

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Speaker 3: He is the one that we sit here and look

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Speaker 3: Craig McCrae would be over the moon. Have I got

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Speaker 3: And Melbourne got to go to take on Port Adelaide

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Speaker 2: There's shredness and close finishes and it works both ways,

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Speaker 3: One percent and then yeah, you can go back and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure the boys on the couch will isolate moments

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Speaker 4: So that's where Melbourne needs to get to.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: This is the beauty of.

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Speaker 3: This Collingwood side is that they've got these experienced players

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Speaker 1: Nearly and.

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Speaker 3: Not plenty, but there have been teams at this stage

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Speaker 4: But they're reliable. Jared, I sat in amongst you.

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Speaker 3: There were plenty of them out there and they're pretty

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Speaker 2: The Melbourne side of the coin is I'd love to

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Speaker 1: This is it.

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Speaker 2: The Collingwood players inevitably do the right thing in the

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Speaker 2: and the opportunity arises, this was it wasn't if he

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's one and there's another. I know how

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Speaker 3: So all of these little learnings are frustrating, but in

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Speaker 2: So a bit worked in the planning. They were able

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Speaker 2: I thought after halftime, as if perhaps video had been

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Speaker 4: Yes, twenty Melbourne fans wanted me to make that.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't tend not to pick up on those

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Speaker 3: great job, kept in the ninety and touches, force go

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Speaker 3: involved and still had moments Nicky the fifty mante apparently,

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Speaker 3: and the goal from Cosey didn't help let Ed Langdon's

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Speaker 3: cause I bet you that Ed only had the four touches.

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Speaker 4: It was good old fashioned lot good old fashion.

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Speaker 2: Including knocking him over while he's trying to do his

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Speaker 2: bootlaces up.

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Speaker 3: I don't know whether it's all that physical, but he

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Speaker 3: was seventy seven thousand, like I didn't quite hit eighty,

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Speaker 3: so maybe the weather had a bit to do with that.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I enjoyed the day.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be great to talk to both coaches

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Speaker 3: and they come in here and get their take on

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Speaker 3: right