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Speaker 1: Welcome to L three sixty ro League from Every Angle,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by a telfast. With just six teams

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Speaker 1: remaining after a blockbuster weekend on Fox League, the Panthers

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Speaker 1: and Storm are now just one game away from the

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Speaker 1: Grand Final, as the other four clubs fight for survival.

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Speaker 1: The finals are here.

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Speaker 2: It's the Penrith Panthers looking for four straight premierships.

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Speaker 1: Yoda Cleary on the angle.

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Speaker 3: Edwards shuffles across Churn for top.

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Speaker 1: Yit spits on the angle.

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Speaker 3: Hesco Yo want to get to disco himself, but he's over.

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Speaker 1: They're coming back. The Roosters lovely touched the disco twenty.

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Speaker 1: He gets it on two bow wide up to do.

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Speaker 4: That's tough.

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Speaker 5: I think anybody thought it was four except for the rep.

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Speaker 5: That's a big call in that moment and you can't

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Speaker 5: get that wrong.

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Speaker 3: The Storm and the Sharks, let's get it off. Oh,

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Speaker 3: let's straight for the tick off. What to get the

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Speaker 3: bust dummy? Harry gret paerf A key.

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Speaker 1: Right up ride He's.

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Speaker 3: Right, Hammy, Melbourne Storm telling the first week of the finals,

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Speaker 3: the number one team on the table.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna put the details back into our game. And

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Speaker 1: under pressure when team's controlling that.

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Speaker 4: That's what that's what we're going to better right there,

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys.

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Speaker 3: Nownsville is a line tonight.

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Speaker 1: Dig Cowboys have earned the right to most of the

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Speaker 1: night's on it.

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Speaker 3: Put a step on another, the US get a second.

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Speaker 3: He felt with the big at the back of Pum

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Speaker 3: takes them on, lets them as the cloba of the inside.

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Speaker 3: Brilliance from Taylor plung out, he taking on top descars.

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Speaker 5: The Cowboys on till one two.

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Speaker 3: They've ended the ninth season. It is all or nothing today.

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Speaker 3: Heard a flat on the left, kickout is poving He

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Speaker 3: beat one that was tabio bitch Philly Vy kickout turndable

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Speaker 3: the top quite getting four quite tap. Jerry Ubbans goes

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Speaker 3: the left, Brooks to the line. Brooks pass has found

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Speaker 3: Jerry Evans Cola on his outside. He's got till out there.

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Speaker 3: Cala Dubby Calavates another color. Tyler Color has level on

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Speaker 3: the scores. Garret has checktor badly through the way two

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Speaker 3: of the finals. That twenty to twenty four finals race is.

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Speaker 1: Down to six for a weekend of Footy on Fox

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Speaker 1: League joining me the Great Gordon Tallas. What's been the

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Speaker 1: journal is in buzz Rodfield and Brent Reid. Here is

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Speaker 1: the road to the Grand Final, and this is how

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Speaker 1: it looks. The Kanala Sharks now take on the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: and the Sydney Roosters up against the Manly Seagulls, and

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Speaker 1: whoever wins those two games, they meet the big guns,

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Speaker 1: the Melbourne Storm and the Penrith Panthers into the pre

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Speaker 1: limb Final. Gordy, the Storm and the Panthers. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with them. They flex their muscles. They are definitely the

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Speaker 1: team to be, don't they? Yees?

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Speaker 6: Started Friday night obviously, the Panthers were so dominant, they

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Speaker 6: were absolutely outstanding, and the Storm just returned so to

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Speaker 6: world class sides. So so dominant. Do we play the

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Speaker 6: Grand Final now? Between them?

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Speaker 4: Who?

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Speaker 1: Maybe?

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Speaker 2: Buzz Well the got them both at two dollars forty

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Speaker 2: and what we saw on the weekend you'd suggest they

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Speaker 2: were certainty. But rugby league's a funny old game and

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Speaker 2: these teams below them have more in them and if

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Speaker 2: you can catch some slightly off, it might be a

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Speaker 2: ball game that we're not expecting.

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Speaker 4: Well, Panthers opening forty was as good as I've seen

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Speaker 4: this year until the next night. The Storms second half

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Speaker 4: was as good as I've seen this year. So you

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Speaker 4: put those two together, the Pens first first half, Melbourn

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Speaker 4: second half.

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Speaker 1: Perfect game of football. I think all of us thought

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Speaker 1: that they were the two teams to beat throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: And Nathan Cleary coming back into the team. Did you

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Speaker 1: just get handed something there? Buzz?

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Speaker 5: Look, I might as well get down of the way now.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of people around town who are

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Speaker 2: very concerned for you when the Bulldogs, your favorite team,

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Speaker 2: got beaten. So Nick Politis rang me last night and

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Speaker 2: can we please get Braith back on board? There it

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Speaker 2: is flip flop and.

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Speaker 1: All the dogs are gone. So I'm back on Storm answers. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: let's get back to business here. That was good buzz,

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Speaker 1: very crazy from you. The Panthers. A lot of question

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Speaker 1: marks though. Did remain over Cleary? I don't know why,

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Speaker 1: and I mean bulldog Richie said it last week. He

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Speaker 1: had some questions over his shoulder, was his defense going

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Speaker 1: to be okay? Is he going to go into the line?

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Speaker 1: What about his kick and go? And I didn't have

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Speaker 1: any doubt over it, right, and he definitely proved me right.

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Speaker 1: He proved everyone right. Didn't he buzz.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, He's just a sensational play And I think what

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Speaker 2: appealed as much as he's kicking, his passing, his pace,

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Speaker 2: his skill, was his toughness to come back from that shoulder,

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Speaker 2: to work so hard on his own for six weeks

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Speaker 2: and to cop some collisions. And you know, I was

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Speaker 2: talking to Maddie John just saying he said, yes, sometimes

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Speaker 2: cringe when he got it, hoping it wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: pop back out or whatever.

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Speaker 5: He is one great player.

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Speaker 4: He went looking for contact early in that game, because

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Speaker 4: said from the very start of that game he went

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Speaker 4: looking to put a hit on somewhere just to erase

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Speaker 4: any doubt, and he did that. I mean, he's a

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Speaker 4: freak obviously, and we knew that before the other night,

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Speaker 4: but it.

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Speaker 1: Just reinforced it.

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Speaker 6: How Nathan kIPS On ad until his game when he

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Speaker 6: first come and he was a great kicker and a

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Speaker 6: great passer. Then he become a great runner, and then

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Speaker 6: he become like a great man manager. But now I

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Speaker 6: think he's resilience in the mind where if he can

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Speaker 6: make a mistake and he backs it up. And he

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Speaker 6: showed out in the Grand Finland to play with injury.

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Speaker 6: It's it's it's a badge of honor in our game.

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Speaker 6: But to have that, and like I thought that the

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Speaker 6: Roosters were going to get at him, but he just

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Speaker 6: he just went at them. He goes, well, here I am.

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Speaker 6: It's it's just a class a look at that.

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Speaker 1: It's his ship down. It was a great chase down.

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Speaker 1: But you talk about the best players that have ever

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Speaker 1: played our game, and it's not only just so much

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Speaker 1: their individual performances and their consistency, and you know the

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Speaker 1: level that they can get to, but it's the level

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Speaker 1: they and the best that they get out of the

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Speaker 1: that team. They had been nothing like that the past

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Speaker 1: why there was a question mark over them. But as

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Speaker 1: soon as he just enters that club, that team, those facilities,

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Speaker 1: they're just different team.

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Speaker 6: And had a lot of help too, because Isaiah Yo

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Speaker 6: was absolutely outstanding on it. To see the way that

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Speaker 6: they just combined and Isaiah plays first and he hits

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Speaker 6: Nathan and Nathan hits Lewis on one side, and they

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Speaker 4: As that's just Dylan Edwards had looked a bit scratched

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Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks, yes.

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Speaker 1: Right back to the Melbourne Storm and the Melbourne Storm,

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Speaker 1: well they did the same. Jerome Hughes has been the

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Speaker 1: best player in the competition arguably and may win the

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Speaker 1: Dalm Medal. He's the favorite, but he had some help

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Speaker 1: on the weekend from his Spine members. Harry Grant was

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Speaker 1: great and Cameron Munster stood up like we expected for

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Speaker 1: the big game. Seventeen carries I think he had. It

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Speaker 1: was they're finally starting to click throughout the year, even

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Speaker 1: though they've had a lot of success. The Spine hadn't

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Speaker 1: been a little disjointed, but not on the weekend, not

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Speaker 4: I think Harry's been probably his last month's been his

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Speaker 4: best football this year. And you mentioned Monthster. I mean

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Speaker 4: I was a sidelined for this game and you can

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Speaker 4: just see he was just an intent on running the ball.

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Speaker 4: The other night. I think it was as you said,

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Speaker 4: seventy eighteen runs and you know he's dangerous every time

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Speaker 4: he runs the ball. Camp months and that's when he's

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Speaker 4: probably at his best. But him and Harry were outstanding.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember the last time a football team in

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Speaker 2: a big final where there's so much pressure on did

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Speaker 2: forty four completions out of forty six and.

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Speaker 5: On top of winning the penalty count in.

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Speaker 1: The Grand Final last year. Yeah, well there you go.

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Speaker 2: And that's what's required in these sort of forty games.

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Speaker 2: And they it was a starvation job on the Sharks.

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Speaker 2: We'll hit the Yeah. But apart from the big players,

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Speaker 2: the Pappenhausen's, the Grants, the Monthster's, the years, I cannot stop.

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Speaker 1: Raving about that.

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Speaker 2: Jack Howard from the Sanders, he'll play Origin the next

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Speaker 2: couple of years. They've got strength all over the park.

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Speaker 2: The two wingers was as good as any in the competition.

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Speaker 2: And they can't even get Anderson into the side. They

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Speaker 2: can't get Wishart into the starting thirdeen. They have so

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Speaker 2: much depth, so much class.

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Speaker 1: And Jack Howard's a real story actually, because he's been

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Speaker 1: heralded as one of the young up and coming superstars

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Speaker 1: of our game for a long time. He lost his

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Speaker 1: way a little bit there and he played the Brisbane

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Speaker 1: Cup and he's comeback and he's been superb. Now. The

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Speaker 1: referees we have been critical of at times this year

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Speaker 1: and especially over the last couple of months. But on

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Speaker 1: the weekend they were great. The referees and the bunker

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Speaker 1: did a really good job buzz well.

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Speaker 2: As I said this morning, there was three point two

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Speaker 2: five set restarts per game that magnificent game of football

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Speaker 2: at the Corps yesterday there was one set restart. There

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Speaker 2: were eight penalties per game. The NRL will still deny

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Speaker 2: there was a crackdown last five or six weeks of

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Speaker 2: the competition, but I don't know what happened. They put

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Speaker 2: their whistle away. The bunker did a terrific job too.

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Speaker 2: There were three mistakes that Smith made up Todd Smith

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Speaker 2: up in Townsville. He penalized Newcastle three times. The Bunker

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Speaker 2: intervened on Captain's challenges and corrected them all so there

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Speaker 2: was no drama. A couple of issues over the Tedesco

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Speaker 2: forward pass, and there's a couple of mine.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was fantastic.

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Speaker 6: I think the players sorted it out, but they're better

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Speaker 6: quality teams and you can't afford to give away penalties

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Speaker 6: in I think there was les high tackles, there was

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Speaker 6: less everything, so I think the players and the coaches

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Speaker 6: help the referees by cleaning it up as well well.

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Speaker 1: Said Gordy Now. Yesterday on Finals Footy on Fox, Brandy

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Speaker 1: said that the Sharks Greg Alexander might have to drop

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Speaker 1: Nico Hines for next week. He's not alone, Brandy. Some

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Speaker 1: may disagree, but he's not alone with this. Nico has

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Speaker 1: been out of four. He didn't play great on the

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Speaker 1: weekend against Melbourne. You thought he was going to your

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Speaker 1: I did.

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Speaker 2: Look, Nicko is lacking confidence and I thought his third

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Speaker 2: game back from injury he would open up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But he made a couple of bad errors, including that

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Speaker 2: one where he didn't find touch with the keck he

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Speaker 2: got caught on a sixth tackle. The Sharks have got

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Speaker 2: a problem and I can understand there is a debate

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Speaker 2: there about his position.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, you're a fan and you know the club,

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Speaker 1: and you've spoken to the club. Is there a chance

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Speaker 2: It's just no, they won't. They're going to stick with him.

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Speaker 2: They're going to stick with him. Having said that, I

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Speaker 6: I reckon they are a better side when Atkinson was there, well,

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Speaker 4: You can't. You cannot drop Nico now, it's too late

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Speaker 6: So you look at something like Wayne Bennett right yep,

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Speaker 4: We shovel things around, But you're not talking about a

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Speaker 6: Take the money away and what's the best money. You

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Speaker 4: Well, what's best of the team? Is Nico Heines playing

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Speaker 2: Because he's already these statistics here absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Telling six games, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 5: They've got a sixty cents win records. The Sharks had

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure you'll find out with a combination when

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Speaker 2: I will say is this, Nico is under contract for

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Speaker 1: Packer.

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Speaker 4: He just did that deal, so a year after he's

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Speaker 5: I didn't say that. You said that.

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Speaker 5: If you don't think you can contribute.

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Speaker 2: If you don't you're not happy here, you can look

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Speaker 1: Okay, this weekend I take on the Cowboys. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: A million dollar player.

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Speaker 4: I understand that from origin last year and why to

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Speaker 1: You can read that Dallims are through the regular season, right,

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Speaker 4: It would be a different story, right, be a different

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Speaker 4: that team come finals time has been ordinary. For what

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Speaker 6: Everybody said Ben Hump was overraded, Klum Pong was overrated

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Speaker 1: And I don't think. I don't think he's produced.

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Speaker 6: If he's a million dollar player, you play like one.

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Speaker 2: I think he was let down by his forward pack.

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Speaker 2: On the weekend, I published the stats in the column today,

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Speaker 5: I think there's tab with fifty four majors now.

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Speaker 2: It was, as I said, they were starved at football,

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Speaker 6: No, that's a really good no, no no, and that's

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Speaker 6: a really good point. But the great half backs turn

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Speaker 6: daily Cherry Evans. So that's a really good point, daily

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Speaker 6: Cherry Evans. His side was getting beaten for seventy five minutes.

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Speaker 6: He played off the back foot. They weren't getting any meters.

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Speaker 1: I think the reality is, and I feel so much

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Speaker 1: he's struggling with life, with his game. It's like on

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Speaker 1: win this week. We're gonna win the semi final. I

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Speaker 5: And how did you fight your way out of that?

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Speaker 1: It takes time. And you know what it's it's performing

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Speaker 1: It's that matters. It's it's you.

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Speaker 4: Know, he needs to playbreak then, because if you take

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Speaker 1: But it's also a risk.

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Speaker 4: Also that far into the season. It's a risk you've

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Speaker 1: I think he's close to producing though well, and it

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Speaker 4: I mean, he takes one magic moment, the whole thing

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Speaker 6: Back in the old days, you get dropped back the

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Speaker 6: He put him back in reserve grade. Sometimes you've got

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Speaker 5: To get So what do you want to sack him to?

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Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just saying that.

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Speaker 1: If I'm a Sharks fan, I just want to win.

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Speaker 4: I actually want to the best chance of winning his nick.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about what about and I said it earlier quickly?

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Speaker 1: Could he come off the bench? Could you play him

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Speaker 2: You could do everything you suggest, but I'm only telling

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Speaker 5: That's and it's it's brave, but it's loyal.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we know we can produce it. It's just we

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Speaker 1: We're going to need that here. With that loss on

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I didn't start. Like he's playing

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Speaker 1: He's been paid big dollars to go there. Jared is

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Speaker 1: The other I think everyone's underestmate, And I said it

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Speaker 1: He sparks their attack. You know, Brendan Smith has had

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Speaker 1: his best year. I would say, you know in the

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Speaker 1: number nine and Victor Radley, who is there enforcer. They

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Speaker 1: had no Jared, But I really didn't think they were

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Speaker 1: going to win on the weekend beforehand, so I wasn't shocked,

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Speaker 1: But now it gets even harder. I don't know. We

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Speaker 1: can't underestimate the players they've lost.

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Speaker 4: I think you're spot on buzz about Joey Martin, and

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Speaker 4: I think the best way to get the best Joey

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Speaker 4: is stick him at six because San and Smith had

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Speaker 4: a tough night right in this game. Put him back

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Speaker 4: on the bench. Stick Joey Marner with six and get

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Speaker 4: his hands on the ball and get him involved there.

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Speaker 1: Now there's a kind of searching, right, So you're right,

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Speaker 1: you'd probably going to throw courts.

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Speaker 4: There's got to be some break because it's not working.

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Speaker 4: And I'm like you I said last week I thought

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Speaker 4: they were gone anyway, but you know, the way they're playing,

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Speaker 4: they're not going to win, and he's your best hope,

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Speaker 4: like he can win a game for it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it might get him back in the form buzz.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's an odd one because he started the year as

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Speaker 2: the best center in the world, but Crichton's gone past him,

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Speaker 2: Herbie farm Worth and probably a couple of others have

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Speaker 2: and it seems to coincide with a decision to go

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Speaker 2: to Japanese rugby next year. But he is the ultimate

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Speaker 2: professional and it's just so unusual.

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Speaker 1: The only thing.

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Speaker 5: If he was a normal center, we wouldn't even be

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Speaker 5: discussing it. But he's so not normal.

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Speaker 1: He's a great, great player. And look, I agree with Rody.

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Speaker 5: I think they've got to look at five eight permano And.

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Speaker 1: I won't mention your suggestion to descator five last year,

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Speaker 1: so we'll move on. Do the Cows have momentum to

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Speaker 1: go all the way? The Cowboys? I mean it was

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Speaker 1: a really good performance, you know, Newcastle and Iights definitely

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Speaker 1: turned up. Calen pomer was well out of this world.

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Speaker 1: But still the Cowboys got the job done. This was

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Speaker 1: a big turning, but Cole felt was exceptional. This was

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Speaker 1: a big moment in the game. But Ken the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at if you look at

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Speaker 1: the competitions, that stands and we know that Storm and

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Speaker 1: Pender are standing above everyone right now, I personally see

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys as the team that could most likely spoil

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Speaker 1: the party the way they're going. Do you guys agree

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Speaker 1: or disagree?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, it's probably fair commentsidering that. You know, the

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Speaker 2: manner in which they won that game of folly because

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Speaker 2: the Knights were great, Pong was sensational, and you know

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Speaker 2: they've got a lot of experience there we did and

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Speaker 2: homes and drink water and felt and big strong forwards.

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Speaker 5: You know, they've got to be a.

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Speaker 4: I don't think so. Look, I think there will be

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Speaker 4: a chance of winning this week, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: they get beyond the prelimb. I think the other two

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Speaker 4: just to well because I just think they'll face Penrith. Right,

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Speaker 4: they can't be penal. They can see too many points

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Speaker 4: for me.

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Speaker 6: What if they turn that around, so they missed thirty

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Speaker 6: three tackles that halftime, right, They've got they've got six

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Speaker 6: s out of origin players. They've got the best record

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Speaker 6: against top eight, So do you think that they might

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Speaker 6: if they win this week and they get some momentum

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Speaker 6: and they get some confidence.

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Speaker 5: They got more Origin players than any.

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Speaker 4: I understand that they're a really good team. But they're

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Speaker 4: up against Penrith. Right, they're going to face Penrith eventually

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Speaker 4: if they get through this week.

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Speaker 1: And what about were lucky to be.

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Speaker 4: In Newcastle?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: If Caitlin hits a guy, they probably score win the game.

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Speaker 4: If Dylan Lucas sudden throw, then they lose that game.

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Speaker 1: And the Cowboys were at their best, well.

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Speaker 4: Probably not, but they're gonna have They would have to

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Speaker 4: be perfect to be Penrith, and I don't think they've

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Speaker 4: got perfect in them. I think they're a good team,

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Speaker 4: a really good team.

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Speaker 1: Peyton's on the.

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Speaker 8: Offing realistic to be realistic, you've become very negative as

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Speaker 8: soon as.

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Speaker 4: I'm being positive about Penrith a little bit about North

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Speaker 4: Queens and look.

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Speaker 1: But do you know what you need?

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Speaker 6: Like, you need momentum, you need confidence, and you need

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Speaker 6: great players, and they've got six and they've got all three.

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Speaker 1: You know you have your opinion, you stick so over

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Speaker 1: there ready making a call and we'll see he's got

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Speaker 1: egg on his face in a few weeks. Calen Ponger

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Speaker 1: I mentioned before watching the game, I just I was

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Speaker 1: just I just marveled the way that he played. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was one of the best individual performances in

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Speaker 1: the semi final I've ever seen. Definitely the best from

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Speaker 1: a player in a losing team. It was a nine

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Speaker 1: point nine out of ten. I had him as if

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Speaker 1: you just went off this one game, he's the best

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Speaker 1: player in the world. You know it was. It was sublime.

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Speaker 1: But he needs help, doesn't he. I mean, he couldn't

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Speaker 1: have played any better and still they lost. Well, where

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Speaker 1: does they need help? In key positions in the halfs

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Speaker 1: in positions seven six? I mean, Braley had a pretty

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Speaker 1: good game on the weekend, you know, and we mentioned

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Speaker 1: it if you will see a game because Buzz you

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Speaker 1: were saying why they getting rid of the feeding and

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Speaker 1: why they's because you know, the likes of cia Fheedi

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Speaker 1: on eight undred a year and Jackson Hastings under the

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Speaker 1: year that they need to free some money up in

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Speaker 1: certain positions to strengthen they take pressure off him.

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Speaker 2: They're four halves of Phoenix Croslin Coiga Hastings and Gamble

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Speaker 2: and they're all just handy players and they need some

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Speaker 2: class and.

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Speaker 4: Some quality striker. They need a half who can threaten people,

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Speaker 4: put the fear of God into someone because they're all

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Speaker 4: good organizers. Those guys for.

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Speaker 1: That, can I get to a point where they can

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Speaker 1: offer the.

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Speaker 4: King because Thefiti's gone or will go soon.

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Speaker 5: They should not get rid of Jayden Browley. I'll tellt

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Speaker 5: he was.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know what made it so special too,

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Speaker 1: is that everyone knew on that field that he was

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Speaker 1: going to get the ball. Everyone knew that he is

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Speaker 1: really their only option, and still he just created it. Still,

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Speaker 1: he created opportunities talent on so much money? Is that

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Speaker 1: a hindrance an.

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Speaker 4: Issue for them? Gordy, I don't think it's money because

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Speaker 4: once Saffiti goes trying to get rid of pay but

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Speaker 4: once he goes, all have money to spend on someone.

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Speaker 4: The issues finding someone who can fill that role. That's

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Speaker 4: the challenge. Even if they had the money, who are

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Speaker 4: you going to go and get There's no one out

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Speaker 4: there at the moment you can go and get, So

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Speaker 4: it might be they've got a way twelve months. The

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Speaker 4: issue is how much patience Kalin's going to have that's

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Speaker 4: going to be their problem. He's under contract for three

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Speaker 4: more years, correct, But at some point, you know, if

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Speaker 4: they don't put some decent platworms players that can help

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Speaker 4: him win a camp, I'm sure his patients will run out.

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Speaker 4: As much as he loves Newcastle and loves that clock, I.

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Speaker 1: Think it's going to help me out. Like if you

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Speaker 1: got Halves watching this thinking, I love to play this bloke. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, really, it's going to

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Speaker 1: track quality players.

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Speaker 5: The other thing you got to wrap him for.

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Speaker 2: His career was in doubt with all those concussions there

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Speaker 2: for a while. And he's so brave just the way

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Speaker 2: he's putting his body on the line. He's got no

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Speaker 2: fear whatsoever. And he was out of the game for

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Speaker 2: a long time, and he was getting knocked out with

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Speaker 2: light shots like the one that liked any feely do

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Speaker 2: is lately might play some golf.

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Speaker 1: How we go, beautiful, it's a love affair, all right.

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Speaker 1: Stick around Jonas and following in there all three sixty

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Speaker 1: j Juke catches up with Luke Kerey as his roosters

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Speaker 1: try to overcome their injury blows to win a Premiership