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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.

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Speaker 2: Four clubs fight for survival.

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Speaker 3: The Finals are here.

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Speaker 4: It's the Penrith Panthers looking for four straight premierships.

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Speaker 2: Yoda Cleary on the angle.

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Speaker 5: Edwards shuffles across Churn for top.

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Speaker 2: Yes, spits on the angle.

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Speaker 5: He disco Yo want to get to disco himself, but

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Speaker 5: he's over.

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Speaker 2: They're coming back.

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Speaker 3: The Roosters lovely.

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Speaker 2: Touched the disco twenty. He gets it on teopo wide

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Speaker 2: up to the.

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Speaker 3: That's tough. I think anybody thought it was four except

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Speaker 3: for the rep. That's a big call in that moment

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Speaker 3: and you can't get that wrong.

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Speaker 5: The Storm and the Sharks, let's get it off. Oh,

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Speaker 5: let's straight for the tick off up to get out

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Speaker 5: of the bust dummy, Harry gret Perfa ky road up ride.

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Speaker 2: Right, Hammy.

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Speaker 5: Melbourne Storm telling the first week of the finals, the

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Speaker 5: number one team on the table.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna put the details back into our game and

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Speaker 6: under pressure, when team's controlling that.

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Speaker 2: That's what that's what We're going to get the better

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Speaker 2: right there, Thanks guys.

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Speaker 5: Downsville is a line tonight.

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Speaker 6: Dig Cowboys have earned the right to most of the

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Speaker 6: night's on it.

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Speaker 5: Put a step on another, the locus hit a second

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Speaker 5: he felt with the big at the back of Pum

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Speaker 5: takes them on. So lets them as the club on

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Speaker 5: the inside. Brilliance from Taylor flung out. He taking up

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Speaker 5: tops gus.

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Speaker 3: The Cowboys on till one two.

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Speaker 5: They've ended the ninth season. It is all or nothing today.

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Speaker 5: Heard a flat on the left, kickout is pooping. He

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Speaker 5: picked one that was Japiah Bitch Philly Vey kickout furndable

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Speaker 5: the top quite getting four quite Tad Jerry Hubbans goes

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Speaker 5: the left, Brooks of the line. Brooks pass has found

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Speaker 5: Terry Evans Cola on his outside. He's got to low there,

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Speaker 5: Cala Dubby Caler Bates an Color, Tyler Color has leve

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Speaker 5: on the scores. Gray Hares checked badly through the way

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Speaker 5: two of the finals. That twenty twenty four finals race

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Speaker 5: is down to six.

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Speaker 1: For a weekend of footy on Fox League joining me

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Speaker 1: the Great Gordon Tallas what's been the journals in buzz

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Speaker 1: Rodfield and Brent Reid.

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Speaker 2: Here is the road to the Grand Final, and this

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Speaker 2: is how it looks.

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Speaker 1: The Kanala Sharks now take on the Cowboys and the

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

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

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Speaker 1: Storm and the Penrith Panthers into the pre Limb Final. Gordy,

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Speaker 1: the Storm and the Panthers, let's start with them. They

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Speaker 1: flex their muscles. They are definitely the team to be,

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Speaker 1: don't they?

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Speaker 2: Yees?

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Speaker 7: Started Friday night obviously the Panthers were so dominant, they

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Speaker 7: were absolutely outstanding, and the Storm just returned so to

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Speaker 7: world class sides, so so dominant.

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Speaker 2: Do we play the Grand Final now? Between them? Who? Maybe?

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Speaker 2: Buzz Well the got.

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Speaker 4: Them both at two dollars forty and what we saw

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Speaker 4: on the weekend you'd suggest they were certainty. But rugby

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Speaker 4: league's a funny old game and these teams below them

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Speaker 4: have more in them and if you can catch some

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Speaker 4: slightly off, it might be a ball game that we're

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Speaker 4: not expecting.

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Speaker 6: Well, Panthers opening forty was as good as I've seen

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Speaker 6: this year until the next night. The Storms second half

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Speaker 6: was as good as I've seen this year. So you

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Speaker 6: put those two together, the Pens first first half, Melbourn

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Speaker 6: second half, perfect game of football.

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Speaker 1: I think all of us thought that they were the

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Speaker 1: two teams to beat throughout the season. And Nathan Cleary

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Speaker 1: coming back into the team. Did you just get handed

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Speaker 1: something there?

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Speaker 2: Buzz?

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Speaker 3: Look, I might as well get down of the way now.

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Speaker 4: There are a lot of people around town who are

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Speaker 4: very concerned for you when the Bulldogs, your favorite team,

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Speaker 4: got beaten. So Nick Politis rang me last night and

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Speaker 4: can we please get Braith back on board?

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Speaker 8: There it is flip flop and all the dogs are gone.

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Speaker 8: So I'm back on.

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Speaker 1: Storm answers. Obviously, let's get back to business here. That

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Speaker 1: was good, buzz, very crazy from you.

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Speaker 2: The Panthers.

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Speaker 1: A lot of question marks though, did remain over Cleary?

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, and I mean bulldog Richie said

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Speaker 1: it last week. He had some questions over his shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Was his defense going to be okay? Is he going

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Speaker 1: to go into the line, what about his kick and go?

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Speaker 1: And I didn't have any doubt over it, right, and

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Speaker 1: he definitely proved me right. He proved everyone right, didn't

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Speaker 1: he buzz?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, He's just a sensational play.

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Speaker 4: And I think what appealed as much as he's kicking,

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Speaker 4: his passing, his pace, his skill, was his toughness to

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Speaker 4: come back from that shoulder, to work so hard on

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Speaker 4: his own for six weeks and to cop some collisions.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I was talking to Maddie John just

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Speaker 4: saying he said, yes, sometimes cringe when he got it,

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Speaker 4: hoping it wasn't going to pop back out or whatever.

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Speaker 3: He is one great player.

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Speaker 6: He went looking for contact early in that game, because

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Speaker 6: from the very start of that game he went looking

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Speaker 6: to put a hit on somewhere just to erase any doubt,

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Speaker 6: and he did that. I mean, he's a freak obviously,

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Speaker 6: and we knew that before the other night, but it

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Speaker 7: How Nathan kIPS On ad until his game when he

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Speaker 7: first come and he was a great kicker and a

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Speaker 7: great passer. Then he become a great runner, and then

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Speaker 7: he become like a great man manager. But now I

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Speaker 7: think he's resilience in the mind where if he can

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Speaker 7: make a mistake and he backs it up. And he

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Speaker 7: showed out in the Grand Finland to play with injury.

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Speaker 7: It's it's it's a badge of honor in our game.

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Speaker 7: But to have that, and like I thought that the

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Speaker 7: Roosters were going to get at him, but he just

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Speaker 7: he just went at them. He goes, well, here I am.

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Speaker 7: It's it's just a class a.

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Speaker 2: Look at that. It's his ship down. It was a

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Speaker 2: 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 2: It's the confidence that he brings to that team.

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Speaker 1: They had been nothing like that the past couple of

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Speaker 1: months or four to six weeks, which is why there

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

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Speaker 1: he just enters that club, that team, those facilities, they're

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Speaker 7: And had a lot of help too, because Isaiah Yo

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Speaker 7: was absolutely outstanding on it. To see the way that

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Speaker 7: they just combined and Isaiah plays first and he hits

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Speaker 7: Nathan and Nathan hits Lewis on one side, and they

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Speaker 6: As that's just Dylan Edwards had looked a bit scratched

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Speaker 6: the last couple of weeks, yes, right.

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Speaker 2: Back to the Melbourne Storm and the Melbourne Storm well

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Speaker 2: they did the same.

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Speaker 1: Jerome Hughes has been the best player in the competition

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Speaker 1: arguably and may win the Dalm Medal. He's the favorite.

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Speaker 1: But he had some help on the weekend from his

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Speaker 1: Spine members. Harry Grant was great and Cameron Munster stood

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Speaker 1: up like we expected for the big game.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen carries I think he had.

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

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Speaker 1: even though they've had a lot of success. The Spine

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

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Speaker 1: not against the Sharks.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 6: I think Harry's been probably his last month's been his

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Speaker 6: best football this year. And you mentioned Monthster. I mean

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Speaker 6: I was a sidelined for this game and you can

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Speaker 6: just see he was just an intent on running the ball.

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Speaker 2: The other night.

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Speaker 6: I think it was as you said, seventy eighteen runs

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Speaker 6: and you know he's dangerous every time he runs the ball.

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Speaker 6: Camp months and that's when he's probably at his best.

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Speaker 6: But him and Harry were outstanding.

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Speaker 4: I can't remember the last time a football team in

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Speaker 4: a big final where there's so much pressure on did

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Speaker 4: forty four completions out of forty six and on.

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Speaker 3: Top of winning the penalty count in the Grand Final

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Speaker 3: last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well there you go.

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Speaker 4: And that's what's required in these sort of forty games.

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Speaker 4: And they it was a starvation job on the Sharks.

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Speaker 3: We'll hit the Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But apart from the big players, the Pappenhausen's, the Grants,

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Speaker 4: the Monthster's, the years, I cannot stop raving about that.

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Speaker 4: Jack Howard and the Sanders, he'll play Origin the next

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Speaker 4: couple of years. They've got strength all over the park.

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Speaker 4: The two wingers was as good as any in the competition.

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Speaker 4: And they can't even get Anderson into the side. They

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Speaker 4: can't get Wishart into the starting thirde. They have so

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: bunker did a really good job buzz well.

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Speaker 4: As I said this morning, there was three point two

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Speaker 4: five set restarts per game that magnificent game of football

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Speaker 4: at the Corps yesterday there was one set restart. There

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Speaker 4: were eight penalties per game. The NRL will still deny

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Speaker 4: there was a crackdown last five or six weeks of

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Speaker 4: the competition, but I don't know what happened. They put

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Speaker 4: their whistle away. The bunker did a terrific job too.

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Speaker 4: There were three mistakes that Smith made up Todd Smith

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Speaker 4: up in Townsville. He penalized Newcastle three times. The bunker

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Speaker 4: intervened on Captain's challenges and corrected them all so there

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Speaker 4: was no drama.

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Speaker 3: A couple of.

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Speaker 4: Issues over the Tedesco forward pass, and there's a couple

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Speaker 4: of mine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was fantastic.

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Speaker 7: I think the players sorted it out, but they're better

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Speaker 7: quality teams and you can't afford to give away penalties

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Speaker 7: in I think there was les high tackles, there was

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Speaker 7: less everything, So I think the players and the coaches

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Speaker 7: help the referees by cleaning it up as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, said Gordy Now.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday on Finals Footy on Fox, Brandy said that the

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Speaker 1: Sharks Greg Alexander might have to drop Nico Hines for

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Speaker 1: next week. He's not alone, Brandy. Some may disagree, but

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Speaker 1: he's not alone with this. Nico has been out of four.

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Speaker 4: Look, Nicko is lacking confidence and I thought his third

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

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Speaker 3: There's absolutely no chance they will drop him.

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Speaker 4: It's just no, they won't. They're going to stick with him.

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Speaker 4: They're going to stick with him. Having said that, I

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Speaker 4: played anywhere near to justify his million dollar a year

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Speaker 3: You can I look statistics before the I.

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Speaker 7: I reckon they are a better side when Atkinson was there, well,

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Speaker 6: Well, it's a small sample size around it, But why

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Speaker 2: You can't.

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Speaker 6: You cannot drop Nico now, it's too late in the

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Speaker 6: want to win. He's still well, I think he's still

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Speaker 7: So you look at something like Wayne Bennett right yep,

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Speaker 6: We shovel things around, But you're not talking about a

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Speaker 6: player like Nico Heines.

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Speaker 2: Take the money away and what's the best money. You

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Speaker 6: Well, what's best of the team? Is Nico Heines playing

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Speaker 4: These statistics here absolutely telling six games, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: They've got a sixty cents win records. The Sharks had

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure you'll find out with a combination when

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Speaker 6: And think at this point in the season, No, I'm

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying, with those statistics to back it up,

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Speaker 4: I will say is this, Nico is under contract for

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Speaker 4: and I'm not suggesting for a minute, they're going to

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Speaker 3: Packer.

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Speaker 6: He just did that deal, so a year after he's

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Speaker 3: I didn't say that. You said that.

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Speaker 4: I said they're going to just sit down and have

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Speaker 3: If you don't think you can contribute.

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Speaker 4: If you don't you're not happy here, you can look

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Speaker 4: Elsewe I've got one for you.

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

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Speaker 1: play well, ye they get beat. What are your thoughts then.

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Speaker 6: Well, are you going to spend the off season trying

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Speaker 6: Gibbons a really good coach.

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Speaker 2: You rebuild his confer a million dollar player.

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Speaker 6: I understand that from origin last year and why to.

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Speaker 3: Why to get the because he won the Daly m Award,

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Speaker 6: Further straight exactly, So there's a good player in there

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Speaker 2: You can read that.

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Speaker 1: Dallims are through the regular season, right, So the question

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Speaker 1: every players win a premiership dallly Ms is great.

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Speaker 2: You know that's a regular season.

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Speaker 1: But if there was a Dallians for finals and origins,

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Speaker 1: it would be a different story, right, be.

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Speaker 6: A different story for every player in that team, because

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Speaker 6: every player that team come finals time has been ordinary.

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Speaker 6: For what seven finals in the road they've lost now,

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Speaker 7: Everybody said Ben Hump was overraded, that klum Pong was

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Speaker 7: are you saying that it was a waste of money.

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Speaker 7: Then you get Nico and everybody dances around the only thing.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think. I don't think he's produced. If

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Speaker 2: he's a million dollar player, you play like one.

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Speaker 3: I think he was let down by his forward pack.

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Speaker 4: On the weekend, I published the stats in the column today,

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Speaker 3: I think there's tab with fifty four majors now.

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Speaker 4: It was, as I said, they were starved at football,

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Speaker 4: so the forwards were basically random, useless. They could make

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Speaker 7: No, that's a really good no, no no, and that's

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Speaker 7: a really good point. But the great half backs turn

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Speaker 7: daily Cherry Evans. So that's a really good point, daily

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Speaker 7: Cherry Evans. His side was getting beaten for seventy five minutes.

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Speaker 7: He played off the back foot. They weren't getting any meters.

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Speaker 7: I'm making twenty meters percent and he kicked them out

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

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Speaker 2: Right now. He looks defeated. He looks in trouble. He

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Speaker 2: looks like he's struggling with life, with his game.

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Speaker 1: It's like on the field, he's not a player that

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Speaker 1: you look at that you go, Okay, he's just about

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Speaker 1: We're going to jump off the back of him and

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Speaker 1: we're going to win this week. We're gonna win the

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Speaker 3: And how did you fight your way out of that?

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Speaker 2: It takes time.

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Speaker 1: And you know what it's it's performing at that level

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Speaker 2: It's that matters. It's it's you know, he.

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Speaker 6: Needs to playbreak then, because if you take him out,

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Speaker 6: he won't get that opportunity. But it's also a risk

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Speaker 6: also that far into the season. It's a risk you've

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Speaker 1: You can't put that think he's close to producing though well,

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Speaker 1: and it takes my moment break you know what it's like.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he takes one magic moment, the whole thing

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Speaker 7: Then back in the old days, you get dropped back

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Speaker 2: Put Glenn Laz Karen Lauders. When I was at the club,

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Speaker 7: I think Glenn lads is arguably the greatest front role ever.

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Speaker 7: He put him back in reserve grade. Sometimes you've got

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Speaker 7: So what do you want to sack him to?

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Speaker 2: No, No, I'm just saying that. No. If I'm a

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Speaker 6: 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 1: of Kennedy on the weekend, could you move him to fall.

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Speaker 2: Back and bring Akinson into the hearts. He played full

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Speaker 4: You could do everything you suggest, but I'm only telling

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Speaker 4: and that's to keep him at five.

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Speaker 1: That's and it's it's brave, but it's loyal, and I

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Speaker 1: to back him, then Niko needs to repay him with results.

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Speaker 1: So it's a big game, big game on the weekend. Now.

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Speaker 1: The Roosters remain confident of finding their way to the

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Speaker 1: Grand Final despite a comprehensive loss to the Panthers on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we know we can produce it. It's just we

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Speaker 9: So when we're doing in patches I've did at the

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Speaker 9: what brings that brutality that we definitely missed on the weekend.

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Speaker 9: It's I mean, they came out and had more intent,

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Speaker 2: We're going to need that here.

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Speaker 1: With that loss on the weekend have made it even harder.

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Speaker 1: Now they've got to win this weekend. And if they

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Speaker 2: Jeez, They've got an uphill battle from here. Now.

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Speaker 4: They did win the second half, didn't they which was

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Speaker 4: something positive. But like we're talking Nico Hohenz, they've got

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Speaker 4: debate whether he should have come off the bench or

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

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Speaker 1: playing against his old club. He's been paid quite a

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Speaker 1: lot of money. Got to come to you, Gordy on this.

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

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Speaker 1: out for the game. He's as I said, he's coming

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Speaker 2: Why would you not start him? I didn't get that.

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Speaker 7: Well, there's two ways, because he's been so effective coming

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Speaker 7: So that's a tough one. But it's the first time

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Speaker 7: thought they just looked lost out there at times.

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Speaker 1: The other I think everyone's understated. And I said it

444
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Speaker 1: straight away, and I want them to win. And you

445
00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,520
Speaker 1: just gave me the jersey that you went to Rebel today.

446
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,639
Speaker 1: Even I was courtesy the club. You're not paying for anything,

447
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,280
Speaker 1: So that's true. But you know I said it, and

448
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Speaker 1: as much as I want them to do well and win,

449
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,359
Speaker 1: of course I was the first to say I think

450
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Speaker 1: they're gone, and I hate saying it, but like the

451
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Speaker 1: players they've lost, like seeing Walker creates most of their opportunities.

452
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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

454
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Speaker 1: number nine and Victor Radley, who is there enforcer. They

455
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Speaker 1: had no Jared, But I really didn't think they were

456
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Speaker 1: going to win on the weekend beforehand, so I wasn't shocked,

457
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Speaker 1: But now it gets even harder.

458
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Speaker 2: I don't know. We can't underestimate the players they've lost.

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Speaker 6: I think you're spot on buzz about Joey Martin, and

460
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Speaker 6: I think the best way to get the best Joey

461
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Speaker 6: is stick him at six because San and Smith had

462
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Speaker 6: a tough night right in this game. Put him back

463
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Speaker 6: on the bench. Stick Joey Marner with six and get

464
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Speaker 6: his hands on the ball and get him involved there.

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Speaker 2: Now there's a kind of searching, right, So you're right,

466
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Speaker 2: you'd probably going to throw courts.

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Speaker 6: There's got to be some break because it's not working,

468
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Speaker 6: and I'm like you I said last week, I thought

469
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Speaker 6: they were gone anyway, but you know, the way they're playing,

470
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Speaker 6: they're not going to win, and he's your best hope,

471
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Speaker 6: like he can win a game for it.

472
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Speaker 2: Maybe it might get him back in the form. Buzz.

473
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Speaker 2: I don't know.

474
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Speaker 4: It's an odd one because he started the year as

475
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Speaker 4: the best center in the world, but Crichton's gone past him,

476
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Speaker 4: Herbie farm Worth and probably a couple of others have

477
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Speaker 4: and it seems to coincide with a decision to go

478
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Speaker 4: to Japanese rugby next year.

479
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 3: But he is the ultimate professional and it's just so unusual.

480
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Speaker 2: The only thing.

481
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Speaker 3: If he was a normal center, we wouldn't even be

482
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Speaker 3: discussing it.

483
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,719
Speaker 2: But he's so not normal.

484
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 4: He's a great player. And look, I agree with Rody.

485
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Speaker 4: I think they've got to look at five eight permano.

486
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Speaker 1: And I won't mention your suggestion of to descator five

487
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: last year, so we'll move on. Do the Cows have

488
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Speaker 1: momentum to go all the way? The Cowboys? I mean

489
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Speaker 1: it was a really good performance. You know, Newcastle and

490
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Speaker 1: Ies definitely turned up. Calen pomer was well out of

491
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Speaker 1: this world, but still the Cowboys got the job done.

492
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Speaker 1: This was a big turning. But Cole felt was exceptional.

493
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 1: This was a big moment in the game. But Ken

494
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I mean, if you look at if you

495
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Speaker 1: look at the competitions at stands, and we know that

496
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Speaker 1: Storm and Pender are standing above everyone right now, I

497
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Speaker 1: personally see the Cowboys as the team that could most

498
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Speaker 1: likely spoil the party the way they're going.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys agree or disagree?

500
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, it's probably fair commentnsidering that, you know, the

501
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 4: manner in which they won that game of folly, because

502
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Speaker 4: the Knights were great, Pong was sensational, and you know

503
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 4: they've got a lot of experience there we did and

504
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 4: homes and drink water and felt and big strong forwards.

505
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Speaker 3: You know, they've got to be a.

506
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Speaker 6: I don't think so. Look, I think there will be

507
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Speaker 6: a chance of winning this week, but I don't think

508
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Speaker 6: they get beyond the prelimb. I think the other two

509
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 6: are just to well because I just think they'll face Penrith, right,

510
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 6: they can't be Pennant. They can see too many points

511
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 6: for me, what if they.

512
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Speaker 2: Turn that around?

513
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Speaker 7: So they missed thirty three tackles that halftime, right, They've

514
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 7: got They've got six s out of Origin players. They've

515
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 7: got the best record against top eight. So do you

516
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Speaker 7: think that they might if they win this week and

517
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Speaker 7: they get some momentum and they get some confidence.

518
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Speaker 3: They got more Origin players than any.

519
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Speaker 6: I understand that they're a really good team. But they're

520
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 6: up against Penrith. Right, they're going to face Penrith eventually

521
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Speaker 6: if they get through this week.

522
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Speaker 2: And what about were lucky to be.

523
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Speaker 6: In Newcastle? Right, if Caitlin hits a guy, they probably score.

524
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Speaker 2: Win the game.

525
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 6: If Dylan Lucas sudden throw, then they.

526
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Speaker 2: Lose that game and the Cowboys were at their best, well.

527
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 6: Probably not, but they're gonna have to. They would have

528
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 6: to be perfect to be Penrith. And I don't think

529
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Speaker 6: they've got perfect in them. I think they're a good team,

530
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 6: a really good team.

531
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Speaker 2: Peyton's on the off the.

532
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 6: Realistic to be realistic.

533
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Speaker 4: You've become very negatives that I'm being positive about Penrith

534
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 4: a little bit about North Queens and look.

535
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Speaker 7: But you know what you need, like, you need momentum,

536
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 7: you need confidence, and you need great players. And they've

537
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Speaker 7: got six and they've got all three.

538
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Speaker 1: You know you have your opinion, you stick so over

539
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Speaker 1: there ready, thank making a call and we'll see if

540
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: he's got egg on his face in a few weeks.

541
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Speaker 1: Calen Ponger I mentioned before watching the game, I just

542
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Speaker 1: I was just I just marveled the way that he played.

543
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Speaker 1: I thought it was one of the best individual performances

544
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: in the semi final I've ever seen.

545
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 2: Definitely the best from.

546
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Speaker 1: A player in a losing team. It was a nine

547
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Speaker 1: point nine out of ten. I had him as if

548
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: you just went off this one game, he's the best

549
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Speaker 1: player in the world.

550
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Speaker 2: You know it was.

551
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Speaker 1: It was sublime. But he needs help, doesn't he. I mean,

552
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: he couldn't have played any better and still they lost.

553
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 2: Well, where does they need help? In key positions in

554
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: the halfs in positions seven six?

555
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 1: I mean, Braley had a pretty good game on the weekend,

556
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Speaker 1: you know, and we mentioned it if you will see

557
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: a game because Buzz you were saying why they getting

558
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: rid of the feeding and why they that's because you know,

559
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,719
Speaker 1: the likes of cia Fheedi on eight undred a year

560
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: and Jackson Hastings under the year that they need to

561
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Speaker 1: free some money up in certain positions to strengthen.

562
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Speaker 2: They take pressure off him.

563
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Speaker 4: They're four halves of Phoenix, Croslin, Coiga, Hastings and Gamble

564
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 4: and they're all just handy players and they need some

565
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 4: class and some quality striker.

566
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Speaker 6: They need a half who can threaten people, put the

567
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 6: fear of God into someone because they're all good organizers.

568
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 2: Those guys for that, can I get to a point

569
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 2: where they can offer the king.

570
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 6: Because Thefiti's gone or will go soon.

571
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 3: They should not get rid of Jayden Browley.

572
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Speaker 2: I thought he was.

573
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, But you know what made it so special too,

574
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: is that everyone knew on that field that he was

575
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: going to get the ball. Everyone knew that he is

576
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: really their only option, and still he.

577
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Speaker 2: Just created it. Still, he created opportunities talent on so

578
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 2: much money? Is that a hindrance an issue for them?

579
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Speaker 6: Gordy, I don't think it's money because once Saffiti.

580
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 2: Goes trying to get rid of pay but once he goes, all.

581
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 6: Have money to spend on someone. The issues finding someone

582
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 6: who can fill that role.

583
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 3: That's the challenge.

584
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 6: Even if they had the money, who are going to

585
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 6: go and get There's no one out there at the

586
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 6: moment you can go and get, So it might be

587
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 6: they've got a way twelve months. The issue is how

588
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 6: much patients Kalin's going to have. That's going to be

589
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 6: their problem.

590
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,399
Speaker 3: He's under contract for three more years, correct, But at.

591
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Speaker 6: Some point, you know, if they don't put some decent

592
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 6: platworms players that can help him win a camp, I'm

593
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 6: sure his patients will run out. As much as he

594
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 6: loves Newcastle and loves that clock, I think.

595
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 2: It's going to help me out.

596
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: Like if you got Halves watching this thinking I love

597
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: to play this bloke, Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, really,

598
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: it's going to track quality players.

599
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 4: The other thing you got to wrap him for. His

600
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 4: career was in doubt with all those concussions there for

601
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 4: a while. And he's so brave just the way he's

602
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 4: putting his body on the line. He's got no fear whatsoever.

603
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 4: And he was out of the game for a long

604
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 4: time and he was getting knocked out with light shots

605
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 4: like the one that liked.

606
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 6: But any fly is lately might play some golf.

607
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: How we go, beautiful, It's a love affair, all right.

608
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: Stick around Jonas and following in there all three sixty

609
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: j Juke catches up with Luke Kerey as his roosters

610
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: try to overcome their injury blows.

611
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 2: To win a premiership