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Speaker 2: And during the dark times, a new essident captain Zach Merritt,

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Speaker 1: And Jeremy Howe's excellent season interrupted by injury will find

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Speaker 2: We talked about his step into it, embrace all.

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Speaker 1: Of it in the room and reason it's unedifying for

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Speaker 1: of Courtia with the brain kape, the man on They

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Speaker 1: played the best footy I've ever seen at the start

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Speaker 3: What is holding the ball?

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Speaker 2: I don't think I could answer it clearly right now

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Speaker 1: Something wrong, you know, And I need to get and

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Speaker 2: Actually the fans lover and with no fans, no through

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Speaker 1: It's coming at us from all angles this Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: chef it's a day show host or some little ardin's

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Speaker 1: big day. That's right. Penalty shootouts, yes, I've done them

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 3: It was early.

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Speaker 2: This was not my finest. I'm not sure why we're

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Speaker 3: And the pony pony bone him.

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Speaker 1: Trick that Scotty Bowler. What about that? The Victorian give

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Speaker 2: It's just disgraceful. That's first I've seen that, Jared.

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Speaker 1: That was very very early, good morning. The cricket was crazy.

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Speaker 2: I left the desk to get into the studio and

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Speaker 1: I work up exactly the right time, Turn on the telly,

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Speaker 1: turn on the ramble, and I got the whole lot

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Speaker 1: that We're going to spend our summons together as well

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Speaker 1: here's all we have lined up for you tonight. Our

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Speaker 1: run his eye over what's Simo and Horse laid out

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Speaker 1: last Wednesday night. We're you at the tribunal in a

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Speaker 1: moment's time. The Midweek tackles all the news angles that

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Speaker 1: are running ahead of Round nineteen. Lauren Woodle guide the

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Speaker 2: The desk would be great.

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Speaker 1: Will and mon Conti will be here as well as

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Speaker 1: the AFLW tickets are about to go on sale. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: the tribunal, i'd've been totally distracted.

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Speaker 2: You have been very fired up about this, so I'm interested.

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Speaker 1: So the agenda for a good few hours is going

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Speaker 3: Why good look nasty?

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Speaker 1: He's cold and that is not good news.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes accidents like that are going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Whe interaction was excellent.

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Speaker 4: When someone gets knocked and then forced to that floor,

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Speaker 4: I just wondered where the metriview panel, even the tribunal be.

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Speaker 4: Sir no, I'll tell the naughtyfy's Nordal three and trees

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Speaker 4: too much, and I reckon threes too much.

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Speaker 1: So that case Shortley Adam Chaer are the first to

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Speaker 1: who will shortly build for about thirty grand Shall we

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Speaker 3: Hello, Jared Alok? Are you surely what?

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Speaker 1: Want?

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Speaker 3: I still do this? Jared oh On?

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Speaker 5: All right, So we spent just over an hour debating

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Speaker 5: Cherer and his fine for his latest careless umpire contact charge.

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Speaker 3: He pled guilty to that charge.

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Speaker 5: The standard fine for this offense a third or higher

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Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty dollars. Carlton wanted the five thousand

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Speaker 5: in this instance. They spoke about umpire contact, how many

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Speaker 3: We ultimately went to.

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Speaker 5: Deliberate, came back about forty minutes later and got a

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Speaker 5: there is, after all that debate over the twelve hundred

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Speaker 5: the players who report repeatedly commit the offense of careless

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Speaker 5: contact with an umpire will not necessarily benefit from just

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Speaker 5: an incrementally increased fine, or indeed that a fine will

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Speaker 5: always be the most appropriate sanction. So that's where it

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Speaker 1: Move on, all right, So just wait there one tick.

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Speaker 1: So I don't dismiss the broader principle, which is important.

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Speaker 1: It has gone too far and the AFL is duty

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Speaker 1: The only way to do that is to confront players,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Gleeson, who's one of the country's most esteemed, the

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to say the AFL absorbs a bit

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Speaker 1: of cost to quibble over twelve hundred and fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: to set this principle. I don't think they have quite

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Speaker 2: You've left that skeeter Zita's massive soundarady to keep him

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Speaker 2: on either reporter, Come.

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Speaker 1: On, if you wanted to make a stand and the

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Speaker 1: of suspension on the table at least for a little while.

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Speaker 1: But that was withdrawn immediately. And this is just wasting

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Speaker 1: up is Harley Red got a ten thousand dollar fine yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but we couldn't see our way clear to deal with

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Speaker 2: You and David can get together after the show.

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Speaker 1: I think you've got more in you. I think you've

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get into this is important for Friday night,

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Speaker 1: whether he's there for the Lions against the Dogs. David.

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Speaker 5: The Lions are trying to downgrade impact from medium to low.

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Speaker 5: This is a lot more stock standard than the case

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Speaker 5: that we just saw with Adam Cherra, so low would

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Speaker 3: Ban Ivy free to face the Bulldogs this week.

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Speaker 5: So they are going through their submissions at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Just working through it currently.

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Speaker 5: Zach Bailey the AFL, saying that this was a bumper,

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Speaker 5: significant bump that had significant impact and potential to cause

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Speaker 5: So that's where it's It's currently Zach Bailey can't attend

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Speaker 2: Gutfield Gazz he'll get off this. I think if he

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Speaker 2: But I could see a case, I can see suation

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Speaker 2: where he gets off. This one just goes for players

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Speaker 2: to be The message out of all that is that

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Speaker 1: All right. What do you expect from the Tristan Sherry case,

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Speaker 1: which is it's the most talked about of the cases tonight, David.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I think it's either three or nothing, just

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Speaker 5: fact that Christian Salem there's a push for joysim Pin.

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Speaker 5: Then pushes Tom Sparrow into potentially creating more velocity that

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Speaker 5: Tristan Cherry hits Tom Sparrow with it, then knocks him out,

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Speaker 5: So that could be their angle there to try and

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Speaker 3: As you mentioned.

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Speaker 5: Earlier, Drey, they've already had two fouled attempts at the tribunal,

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Speaker 5: this one the third, So ten thousand dollars out of

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Speaker 5: the soft cap each time for failed bids. They're going

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Speaker 5: to try and avoid it being thirty thousand. Tristan Cherry

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Speaker 5: facing a three match ban.

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Speaker 1: All right, check back when with you at the end

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Speaker 1: of the show. David Zita on duty and this is

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Speaker 1: What has happened about the tribe of the Already tonight

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Speaker 1: you had one more. There are clubs who are afflicted

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Speaker 1: by injury in the middle of July, and Essendon has

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Speaker 1: not too far behind with an ever growing injury list.

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Speaker 1: In the final days of the ken Hinckley Rain, They've

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Speaker 1: final time for Ken the lead port into Battle.

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Speaker 6: In the coming two weeks, there's some games coming up

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Speaker 6: that everyone's going to have some sort of story around

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Speaker 6: different bits, and particularly for me, I'm only got six

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Speaker 6: They are stories, But ultimately, I just want us to

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Speaker 1: The whole year has been this peculiar holding pattern, which

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Speaker 2: But it's kind of too late now to even get

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Speaker 1: He's carried himself with a norm and dignity in a

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Speaker 1: And that injury list now is you're desperately searching for

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Speaker 2: I take exception with one thing he said that in

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Speaker 2: there's a grudge to be had, don't You'll find a

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Speaker 2: way to get into about eight scraps against Hawthorn, irrespective

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Speaker 1: All right, last night's Spirit on a Couch was just

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Speaker 1: excellent to see Lee, Matthews and Mike setting back together.

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Speaker 1: So we dedicate tonight's furnace to them.

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Speaker 3: Let's switch channels. This show is dull.

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Speaker 1: You bet, how have you enjoyed being back on the couch?

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Speaker 7: I didn't know i'd left.

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Speaker 3: What is that?

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Speaker 4: It looks like two ancient old guys sitting in a

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Speaker 7: I can't believe the decline in the Carbon Football club.

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Speaker 7: In the thirty years since ninety ninety five the last premiership,

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Speaker 1: View is I got to be official in a sec.

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Speaker 7: Calvien didn't care in the old days if that had problem,

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Speaker 4: You mean you can't buy premierships in this century?

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Speaker 1: That is the bottom line of it all.

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Speaker 4: Like the is the bottom of the ladder and they've

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Speaker 1: So Graham Wright comes into this football.

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Speaker 7: Coright, it must be pair of the musicians.

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Speaker 2: What's what's the first thing on his list to do that?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 3: They followed grand right.

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Speaker 7: I'd ring Ned Kelly and say can I come back

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Speaker 4: What I wouldn't be saying to the umpires coaches? You

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Speaker 1: Not what you want them to do.

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Speaker 7: It's a different game. I mean you played it the

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Speaker 7: boy near background. It was just people who love football,

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Speaker 7: clever enough, we're lucky enough to have locket and done

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Speaker 4: He's a big strong man, but most of the strength

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Speaker 1: False Bavado who abuse.

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Speaker 4: He sort of getting involved in verbal stuff.

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Speaker 7: We've gone basically from Essendon to Collingwood over.

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Speaker 1: I'd take that la spirit of course. Oh, michae Will

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Speaker 1: not a problem at all. Didn't go for perrym and

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Speaker 2: I think he dated a lovely turn of phrase.

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Speaker 3: He has all right, bit a.

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Speaker 1: Real overreaction from that. Carlton don't know how to be

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going with overreaction given that they played finals

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Speaker 1: Yes, I really like this from Lee Matthews. I have

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Speaker 1: So it isn't for the umpiring Department to decide to

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Speaker 1: and absolutely dictate this is what we expect. And then

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Speaker 1: I think we'll talk about this with Ray. I love

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Speaker 1: the points similar and horse made. There has to be

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Speaker 1: a project undertaken to simplify the rules.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, streamline.

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Speaker 1: It just has to happen, and that's the AFL's responsibility.

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Speaker 1: The big boys can reignite origin. Yeah, that is real.

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Speaker 2: I mean the players need to take control of this

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Speaker 2: but they said yes, and that's all you needed. So

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Speaker 2: it's Pendlebury.

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Speaker 1: Pendlebury would play.

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Speaker 2: For Victoria if this was yeah, you'd just pick him

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Speaker 2: Get all those big names involved, and we've talked to

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Speaker 2: all of them. We had Tobe Green last week, was

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Speaker 2: that this week? Last week he said absolutely.

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Speaker 1: He's in too.

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Speaker 2: Miller said he could wait. So everyone we talked to

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Speaker 1: His use of abominable decision was outstanding.

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Speaker 2: The last one to you, Harley is all false, bravado.

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Speaker 3: I think this is right.

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Speaker 1: I think this is real. So I was the first

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Speaker 1: from what Andrew macquantas said. I wonder if Harley should

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Speaker 1: I didn't actually mean to say that, is but a nut.

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Speaker 1: Stop trying to unpiling it now, stop getting in the

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Speaker 2: I know exactly the game. You can get the Melbourne

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Speaker 1: It was a goal of the year and then it

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Speaker 2: The other thing is, you know the players around him.

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Speaker 2: for whatever reason, it's not there at the moment. I

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Speaker 2: could you know, we talk about I pook Am at

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Speaker 2: his ears. So it can be changed. Have a big

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Speaker 2: six weeks, finish strong and win some fans back.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's bring out players him who are in

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Speaker 1: the news this week. Zach Merritt has been much discussed.

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Speaker 1: Here is the Essendon captain in some pretty bleak times

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Speaker 1: for the Bombers, and Jeremy how is trying to have

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Speaker 1: his stellar season interrupted by groin injury. We'll find out

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Speaker 1: a bit more next

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