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Speaker 1: Sits in with.

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Speaker 2: The NRL. They want to get this season up and

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Speaker 2: started again, and they are now talking. God well, these

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Speaker 2: resorts all around Australia, the tangalooma Island resort which I've

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Speaker 2: actually seen pictures of it looks amazing there. Could they

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Speaker 2: move all the players there. They're are also thinking of

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Speaker 2: building four other bubble communities, one up in Brisbane on

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Speaker 2: the Sunshine Coast. We've got new Southwest, Central Coast Canberra.

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Speaker 2: There's proposed locations. Can these guys self isolate and then

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Speaker 2: go out and play every week? Mick Ennis Shartz Ledgend

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Speaker 2: joins us on the line.

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Speaker 1: Now, come morning, Macgee color.

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Speaker 3: Met Thank god in these isolated times, you've got such

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Speaker 3: an extraordinary palace to live in with your barbecue area

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Speaker 3: and your cub sponsored bar out the back. You've got

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Speaker 3: all the luxuries. Mate, you're in luck.

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Speaker 2: Oh Mickey, you're there. He's cut out.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, my question didn't go for that.

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Speaker 1: He's got.

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Speaker 2: Can you ring him back?

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Speaker 1: Last?

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Speaker 2: We need to get him back. This is a bar

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Speaker 2: that he's got with.

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Speaker 3: I believe he's at a bar that's sponsored by one

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Speaker 3: of the beer company's mate, so it's just kegs he's

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Speaker 3: got it on tap.

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Speaker 2: Do you think I mean the thing Mickey, you're back

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Speaker 2: on the line. We got you now became sorry.

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Speaker 1: I just had to change the gas on the bar.

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Speaker 2: Just quickly before we go into this topic, How is

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Speaker 2: the nnis family going? Because you've got You've got some

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Speaker 2: kids that are ready, They've got a lot of energy

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Speaker 2: ready to burn.

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Speaker 1: Their going on. There's a lot going on. I mean

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Speaker 1: I wake up with the sweat town next to the

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Speaker 1: bit ready to go. Day after day. We're as self

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Speaker 1: isolating as best as possible. But and then cross for TikTok?

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Speaker 2: How's and how's homeschooling going? I know that you've been

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Speaker 2: really struggling with it. Met to do you two hours

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Speaker 2: every day but earning much.

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Speaker 1: I'm teaching my wife as well. I mean I've had

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Speaker 1: to go back and start to retrain her. He started

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Speaker 1: to sit down in the first couple of days and

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Speaker 1: got nowhere with the children. So I've had to take

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Speaker 1: over the whole household.

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Speaker 3: What topics you've been taking off with the school homework?

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Speaker 3: What are they doing?

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Speaker 1: Matts? Is my forte? Yeah right, I'm not great with

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Speaker 1: the comprehension. I'm not great with anything that they need

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Speaker 1: to concentrate longer than three minutes.

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Speaker 3: It's not worth it.

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Speaker 1: Little athletics program for five or ten minutes, and then

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Speaker 1: we're off and.

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Speaker 2: Were well, see dad's still been working and we can

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Speaker 2: still see Mick on Fox Sports. You have been working.

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Speaker 2: This is a massive topic, Mickey, and I know the

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Speaker 2: NRL are bleeding at the moment and they need money

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Speaker 2: for this year. A lot of people are saying just

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Speaker 2: to ride off twenty twenty, but if they can get

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to play, they've got to do it to survive. You,

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Speaker 2: I mean the question, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The challenge for us, and yeah, you're absolutely right is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the public perception is the game's biggest challenge,

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Speaker 1: in the sense that if we're all still in isolation

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Speaker 1: and we can only go outside for essentials and we

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Speaker 1: can only be you one other person, then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we're seeing

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Speaker 1: guys play rugby league exactly. People start to go, well,

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Speaker 1: how's that fair. But the players in that period, I

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Speaker 1: think it was round two, the rate the virus was

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Speaker 1: going up. The contractions was at about twenty five twenty

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Speaker 1: six percent at the moment, we're down to single figures.

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Speaker 1: I think yesterday or the day before it was potentially

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Speaker 1: down to two or three percent. So it is actually

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Speaker 1: much safer now. And when the players get tested before

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Speaker 1: they go into to this place, everyone there is tested,

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Speaker 1: from the staff at the hotel to the blog that whipping,

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Speaker 1: those running the buffet, everyone in the joint is tested.

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Speaker 3: The players prepared to do that though, Mick, right, But

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Speaker 3: you're asking a player to be removed from his entire

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Speaker 1: And we're you know, I really do understand, and I

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Speaker 1: have to go there as commentation, it'll be extremely difficult.

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Speaker 4: We're lucky that these days we have the ability to

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Speaker 4: have things like FaceTime and Zoom that you're able to

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Speaker 4: stay in contact. But it's just such a unique situation.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is not something that's going to have

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Speaker 4: to hope, hopefully ever happen ever again. And let's hope

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Speaker 4: players that it may only be you know, a four, six,

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Speaker 4: maybe eight week period that they have to be away

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Speaker 4: from their family. And Dale Fanukan from the Melbourne Storm,

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Speaker 4: who's just had a baby, spoke on our show last night,

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Speaker 4: just saying it's what he has to do to be

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Speaker 4: able to provide for his family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've also got to remember that. And I

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Speaker 1: know it's completely different. We've got guys, you know. I

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Speaker 1: a guy text me last night who's you know, he

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Speaker 1: does extremely well in business in Australia selling for outdoor furniture,

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Speaker 1: who said, there's guys that are fighting for our country

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Speaker 1: that are away from their family for long periods of time,

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Speaker 1: you know, And it's just what you have to do sometimes.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, as I said, I totally understand where

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Speaker 1: the players are coming from. I get that. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, it is so important for the game

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Speaker 1: to get back up and running at some stage that

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Speaker 1: if they can do it safely, and that's what peuter

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Speaker 1: Landis has been so strong about. If we can do

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Speaker 1: it safely and not put anyone's health at risk, then

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Speaker 1: we need to find a way to do it.

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Speaker 2: So what what when are we talking here? We're talking

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Speaker 2: at the start of journe Is that wheremen they're thinking

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Speaker 2: of trying to do it? Mick?

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Speaker 1: My understanding is that it may. I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: If it's here. I think they're looking at it to

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Speaker 1: start to do potentially even that last week of May.

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Speaker 1: Being back up and running and you know, watching some

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Speaker 1: of the news outlets this morning, we're understanding that Tasmania

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Speaker 1: looking to get up and as well done all codes.

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Speaker 3: The talk with the AFL would be they could have

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Speaker 3: the standard seventeen games everyone plays once seventeen rounds, but

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Speaker 3: then you would start it if you if you squeeze

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Speaker 3: one in before the end of July, you can have

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Speaker 3: a Grand Final and the last or sorry, the first

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Speaker 3: week of December, so you'd still be able to run

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Speaker 3: a decent competition. Failing that for your mates at Fox Footy, right,

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Speaker 3: wouldn't it be great if you had the top one

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Speaker 3: hundred games for both codes voted by the public. Could

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Speaker 3: you imagine the countdown and the top ten promoted through

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Speaker 3: the clubs. That would be amazing. That's just an idea

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Speaker 3: throwing them out.

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Speaker 1: There, mate, there's no silly idea at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: you know, thing out of that Mays you're actually thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know, five years or years we're riding on the

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Speaker 1: coattail of some of the greats in there at Nover.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well, we were saying before. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you saw it, but that little that l

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Speaker 2: played she got busted sixteen and fifty two dollars just

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Speaker 2: for being in the car with mum because she didn't

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Speaker 2: have a reason to be outside of the house. And

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Speaker 2: we were just saying, God, if that young girl, that

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Speaker 2: poor young girl gets a sixteen hundred dollar fine, Whippers

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Speaker 2: should have been fine for having a kip in his

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Speaker 2: car out the front of the gym.

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Speaker 5: Okay, we'll keep in contact with you, keep us updated, mate,

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Speaker 5: what you do you know, like you said, these are

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Speaker 5: livelihoods for these men, and if we can get it

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Speaker 5: up and running, and if they do it right, people

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Speaker 5: would love to see sport on their screens again.

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Speaker 2: So thanks for coming on me.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know what, guys, in a time where everyone's

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Speaker 1: pretty stressed and it's pretty unusual. Boy. Yeah, it's nice

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Speaker 1: to have a laugh with you guys. Appreciate it, guys,

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Speaker 1: and good on

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Speaker 2: Everybody sits in with