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Speaker 2: Big League Podcast podcast by News Talks HEB.

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Speaker 3: This week on The Big League Podcast, winger Dulan Wattenis

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Speaker 3: Alesniak reflects on the outstanding performance of Roger tooy Varsa

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Speaker 3: Sheck and fullback in the Vital Wind over the Wests

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Speaker 3: Tigers at Mount Smart, and also gives his thoughts on

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Speaker 3: Mowla Graham Tolfer's showing at Center. New Zealand's Herald writer

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Speaker 3: Alex Powell is back to get on his knees and

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Speaker 3: beg Andrew webs to leave arts at fullback, and his

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Speaker 3: former All Black Nanni lal Marpi coming back to the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: My name is Nathan Limb. Let's go god b l B.

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Speaker 3: He's not going to play fullback. It's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: Shosh shosh, the voices.

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Speaker 3: Roger tooy Vasa Sheck is superman once again, stepping up

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Speaker 3: at fullback and once again dominating from the back two

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Speaker 3: hundred and ninety three run meters. He saved two tries

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Speaker 3: with outstanding scrambling defense and beat Tigers attackers to their

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Speaker 3: kicks on the Warriors line. Look, I can't deny the

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Speaker 3: Warriors look fantastic when he is there, but Chance Nickel,

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Speaker 3: Cookstar and tained To Opeki have never let the side

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Speaker 3: down and they will remain the first and second choice

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Speaker 3: number ones. We have long since passed the point where

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Speaker 3: Warriors coach Andrew Webster cringes and laughs when asked about

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Speaker 3: whether Tui Vasishek should play fullback. Honestly, I'm sick of

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Speaker 3: the topic, but the reality is it won't go away.

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Speaker 3: New Zealand Herald writer Alex Powell last week, you're adamant

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Speaker 3: that he should play fullback. I imagine you've now changed yourself

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Speaker 3: to that opinion. I'm sure you can tell. I'm conflicted.

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Speaker 5: Good a mate, Thanks for having me. Look, I've said

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Speaker 5: it for two weeks now. I'm a very late member

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Speaker 5: on board the trained But the Warriors just look a

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Speaker 5: bitter team when Roger too Aschek is there because they're

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Speaker 5: getting the best out of one of their best players.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this whole idea of Roger's not a fullback,

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Speaker 5: he's a center now appears to just be so we

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Speaker 5: don't upset or so Andrew Webster sorry does an upset

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Speaker 5: Chance on two o'clock's ad, which I get. You know,

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Speaker 5: Chances has had to work very hard to be the

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Speaker 5: warriors number one fullback, all right. He started out at

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Speaker 5: the Warriors as a center in the juniors. Then he

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Speaker 5: made his first grade debut as a winger. Couldn't get

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Speaker 5: with Kenamalo and David Fastur on the wings, went to Canberra,

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Speaker 5: did really well, went to a Grand Final, came back.

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Speaker 5: You know, let's not forget when the Warriors lost Reese Walt,

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Speaker 5: they got Chance back, and I don't think enough is

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Speaker 5: made of that. If you asked Warriors fans now who

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Speaker 5: they'd rather have out of Chance or Reese Walt, I

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Speaker 5: think most of them would say change.

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Speaker 4: I'd say Chance as a character.

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Speaker 5: Thing, never mind just doing his player.

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Speaker 3: For the culture and his effort on defeat. I think

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Speaker 3: he matches the Warriors game plan better than Reese Wall,

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Speaker 3: who's obviously just He is an outstanding individual, but overall

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Speaker 3: Chance is better for their team makerup.

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Speaker 5: Admittedly, we didn't see Reese walh under Andrew Webster. I

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Speaker 5: would like to see how that went, but we have

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Speaker 5: to live in the reality we have, not the one

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Speaker 5: we want. Chancellcloxad's a great guy. I honestly love him

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Speaker 5: being part of this team. He lives down the road

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Speaker 5: from me. The number if I had a dollar for

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Speaker 5: every time I saw him at St. Luke's Moore getting

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Speaker 5: a curry, I'd have about three dollars.

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Speaker 4: Great. I'm sure he knows he lives up the road

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Speaker 4: from you too.

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Speaker 5: He won't have a clue who I am. But no,

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Speaker 5: I think if we ultimately come down to it, the

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Speaker 5: Chancell Cloxad has played in a Rugby League World Cup

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Speaker 5: as a center. Right. If it's a straight swap between

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Speaker 5: are now freeing Roger to do what he wants to do.

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Speaker 5: See you're calling for a straight swap, Just a straight swap. Admittedly,

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Speaker 5: you know. I don't think they will. I think Webster

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Speaker 5: late now, it's too late now. That's not me saying

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Speaker 5: Roger will never make it as a center, because he

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Speaker 3: So I'll put this to you then, because the Warriors

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Speaker 3: talk about Ali laud Taa and Wila Graam Tulfa, who

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Speaker 5: If I was tained to a picky, I would really

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Speaker 5: consider my future at the Warriors. You can't be a

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Speaker 5: first grader knowing that your job is to be a backup.

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Speaker 5: That's not fair on a professional rugby league footballer. And

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Speaker 5: We are yet to see Roger playing at fullback and

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Speaker 5: a team with Chance. You know, Roger's best performances at

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Speaker 5: Chance's absence, we are yet to see them do that together,

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Speaker 5: and that's I think what what needs to come next.

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Speaker 4: It's a really interesting point.

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Speaker 3: Here is Warrior's coach Andrew Webster talking about Roger after

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Speaker 3: the game. It wasn't perfect from Roger in terms of

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Speaker 6: He's still like learning the defensive numbers, Roger like he

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Speaker 6: through effort and he's finding a way to come up

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Speaker 5: He hasn't even done it for a while. If he's

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, we're gonna hear from Dulan wattis a

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Speaker 3: lisnik in just a moment. But first, here are the

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Speaker 3: highlights Warriors twenty eight Tigers sixteen. Shout out to gold

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Speaker 3: Sports Abeve and there are for his outstanding commentary.

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Speaker 7: We're underway, Harris Tabita, move quickly, take out tight well

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Speaker 7: tight dusks coming across the Harris Tobata, Fuck the t

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Speaker 7: I stopped man like Tolsa starts at the tone.

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Speaker 4: Na coming across Chapaul Warriors t head skull.

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Speaker 7: Only a tach kotos how he's a dane job. There's

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Speaker 7: a try right Papa Laggi fight holds the post to

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Speaker 4: Here's a trolley by the corner. Stein skulls four meters

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Speaker 7: They come a right headside Harris know a bike.

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Speaker 4: Hay starts under the sticks.

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Speaker 7: You Stephen grubber cut glorious head position. Here's toy Nasa

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Speaker 7: shick staffing away Rice hit Awai. Here's Roger toys a

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Speaker 4: He returns the vote of the hard way.

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Speaker 7: That's what happens when he plays at moo back. Why

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Speaker 7: Tennis a lazy it tumming across field, jogging to the fence.

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Speaker 7: Pays coming in Tellton crying in telphon turn us in

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Speaker 7: the line. There's why Tenny's a head drink. Pay starts

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Speaker 7: a massive mountain.

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Speaker 3: Audio courtesy of sky Sport The Big League Podcast Now

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Speaker 3: in the absence of Michael Burgess. New Zealand Herald writer

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Speaker 3: Christopher Reeve was at the game and managed to get

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Speaker 3: a quick chat with dulan Wa Tini Zealisniak, who had

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Speaker 3: a try and a game high eight tackle breaks.

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Speaker 8: Just how did it feel out there tonight, John, some

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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, Mahala, he played an awesome games helped me

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I really enjoyed playing alongside.

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Speaker 8: And you're getting probably getting a few guys back in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we got the confidence.

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Speaker 4: And there's stages.

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Speaker 9: Tonight where we showed some really good resilience and some

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Speaker 9: some good lessons out of so it's good to come

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Speaker 9: with the win with lessons still learn.

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Speaker 8: In terms of tonight, you got a lot more space

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Speaker 8: And I guess how nice was it that the forwards

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Speaker 4: Were having to kick. Yeah, it's always nice to be

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Speaker 8: It's nice Roger had a good game at the back.

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Speaker 9: I think he's got a next round up mentality and.

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Speaker 4: Roger's been there before and Roger's good, He's.

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Speaker 9: they played, they both played differently and they both suit

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Speaker 8: All the work I guess was Lastly, how nice after

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Speaker 9: I think that's why I touched on the resilience side.

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Speaker 9: There's there's somewhere we had a lot of resilience and

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Speaker 9: we become away of two points with lessons to learn,

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Speaker 2: This is the Big League Podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is our yeah, the big League podcast on the

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Speaker 1: Warriors bad Wagons since day one, Right.

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Speaker 3: Alex Powell, Let's go through this game in a little

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Speaker 3: bit more detail. First of all, the players standouts for me?

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Speaker 3: How good We talked about Roger Twivasis Sheik obviously he

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Speaker 3: was a but how good is Ari l'ataua. I want

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Speaker 3: to talk about him because every time he has been

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Speaker 5: He is Ali La Tao is probably the player I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I suppose Dylan wy Tennis a Leslie had

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Speaker 5: I think the way the whole back line played just

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Speaker 4: You'd probably be right actually one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Both Well, it's really easy for us to sit here

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Speaker 3: This is we know that the Warriors are should be

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Speaker 5: I'd argue he wasn't under pressure. We heard in the

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Speaker 5: But you're right, you know, Chanelle's a bit of a character.

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Speaker 3: And he is here is Andrew webs on that moment

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Speaker 10: Sometimes footy he can just be too serious. Can we

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Speaker 4: Last week?

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Speaker 10: I thought he struck the first one from the sign

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Speaker 10: I think he's on there, And then when he got

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Speaker 3: Now, Waite Egan, we'll just touch on him really quickly.

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Speaker 4: Did he go off for that?

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Speaker 5: He came off after that head knock and Freddie Losk

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Speaker 5: There's not been that many comms out about it.

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Speaker 4: No, no, we haven't had.

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Speaker 3: There was a Warriors and media session today at one

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Speaker 2: The big League pod.

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Speaker 1: The Warriors bad day one.

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Speaker 4: Right, Narni Lao Marpi, do you remember him?

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Speaker 8: He's going to run out him blades and day come

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Speaker 4: I just stuck him. Of course you do.

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Speaker 3: He debuted in twenty thirteen before switching to union ahead

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Speaker 3: He's gone overseas. He's been playing in Japan, which caused

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Speaker 3: we'll never know what will happen. Hopefully my agent can

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Speaker 3: get some stuff sorted. I'd like to come back, Alex Powell.

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Speaker 3: Am I dreaming.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what to make of this, to be honest,

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Speaker 5: I mean like I'd like to go and play for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're not an All Black in a formal What, yeah,

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Speaker 3: are you going to bust through four tackles forty meters

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Speaker 4: Make the line?

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Speaker 5: I mean probably not.

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Speaker 8: No, You're not.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you right now, you're not.

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Speaker 8: No.

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Speaker 5: I mean my big question here is salary cap. Like

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Speaker 5: look at Jilley Marnin, who's leaving the Roosters because he's

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Speaker 5: I don't know the value of Narni's contract, but I

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Speaker 5: The proced been quite similar to Latawa and what he does,

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Speaker 3: I think I think, I think if he wants to

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Speaker 3: He's a human wrecking ball.

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Speaker 4: And you're right.

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Speaker 3: When he played for the Warriors in his very early career,

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Speaker 3: You think you throw him in at center given a

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Speaker 3: it so many times? Or would you put him on

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Speaker 5: I knowed I'd move him into the centers. Obviously you

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Speaker 5: But you're right, it would It would be amazing to see,

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Speaker 3: Salary cap You're right, would be an issue because they're

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Speaker 3: goodbye to someone? If they're bringing nine in, I might

437
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Speaker 3: be back at least one.

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Speaker 5: And you do also have to remember that they've also

439
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Speaker 5: re signed Wade Eggan and Mitch Barnett this year, and

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Speaker 5: you'd think they would be on bigger money than what

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Speaker 5: they're originally on. But I mean, this is just the

442
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Speaker 5: life of an NFL club. It is a balancing act.

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00:20:22,093 --> 00:20:23,733
Speaker 5: You know, you do have to try and get the

444
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Speaker 5: reports out of James Fisher Harris's that he's on considerably

445
00:20:26,933 --> 00:20:29,453
Speaker 5: less than what Afanel Blake was getting, which has freed

446
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Speaker 5: them up to spend that money elsewhere. So like these

447
00:20:31,893 --> 00:20:33,053
Speaker 5: things are always moving.

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Speaker 3: So, like I said before, we do have the Warriors

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Speaker 3: met decision today, So things are going to come out

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Speaker 3: over the week about this and we'll find out a

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Speaker 3: little bit more information that maybe we can talk about

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Speaker 3: next week.

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Speaker 4: As well Big League Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Right on Friday, to keep their top eight hopes in

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Speaker 3: their hands, the Warriors host the Eels at Mount Smart.

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Speaker 3: It is their second to last home game of the season.

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Speaker 3: And let me make no mistake when I tell you this,

458
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Speaker 3: the Eels are rubbish. They sit second to last on

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Speaker 3: the ladder, four wins, fourteen losses. They've lost six in

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00:21:07,533 --> 00:21:11,253
Speaker 3: a row. He'd coach a Brad Arthur midway through the season.

461
00:21:11,333 --> 00:21:14,693
Speaker 3: They are without half back Mitchell Moses who's undergone surgery

462
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Speaker 3: on a bicep rupture. He is out for the season.

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Speaker 3: They have a harvest combination which is familiar names to

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Speaker 3: New Zealand this day, John Rci former Warrior and Dylan Brown,

465
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Speaker 3: who was obviously a key we Alex Powell. Can we

466
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Speaker 3: say okay, we're going to get this one and there

467
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Speaker 3: still still in the top a conversation.

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Speaker 4: The Eels are the Warriors. The Warriors.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, Els definitely are. Oh look, I mean,

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Speaker 5: you don't want to throw anything out there this season

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Speaker 5: because there's just been one of those seasons. But you're

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Speaker 5: right one to thirteen they should have too much for

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Speaker 5: the Els. The Eels are a very good like they

474
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Speaker 5: do have a very good squad. You look at some

475
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Speaker 5: of those.

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Speaker 4: Guys, you know, Clint Gatherson at fullback.

477
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Speaker 5: Clint Gutherson, Dylan Brown, Blaze to Lungey looks like it

478
00:21:52,413 --> 00:21:53,853
Speaker 5: looks like he's going to be a great play. They're

479
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Speaker 5: talking about sacking Clint Gunson to play him at fallback

480
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Speaker 5: next year. But those losses of not having Mitchell Moses,

481
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Speaker 5: who is a State of Origin winning half back now,

482
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Speaker 5: but Jermaine Hopgood as well, who's one of the best

483
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Speaker 5: up and coming lockforwards in the comp those are two

484
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Speaker 5: big losses you talk about Dayjohn, I see there's a

485
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Speaker 5: lot on him now, but you're you're right, the Warriors

486
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Speaker 5: should have too much.

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Speaker 4: They should and you.

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Speaker 3: Think, I guess with like sacking a coach midway through

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Speaker 3: the season. We see it sometimes when we see a

490
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Speaker 3: bounce back and performance from teams when they get a

491
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Speaker 3: coach out of there that maybe I don't know if

492
00:22:23,653 --> 00:22:25,853
Speaker 3: something was going on with the culture, but there's obviously

493
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Speaker 3: so much turmoil going on off the pitch for this club,

494
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Speaker 3: and I get the feeling the officials kind of sorry

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Speaker 3: the club. The heads of the club sort of wrote

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Speaker 3: the season off midway through when they sacked Brad Arthur

497
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Speaker 3: and things were starting to go downhill because they started

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Speaker 3: off the season so strongly.

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Speaker 5: Will they have a point at Jason Ryles as head

500
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Speaker 5: coach for next year? And it looks like a lot

501
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Speaker 5: of the work is already going on. So, like you say,

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Speaker 5: if they've written off this season, that's this is a

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Speaker 5: free pass for the Warriors. They have to come out

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Speaker 5: and just you know, put a big, big, you know,

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Speaker 5: thirty point winner. Has Mount Smart sold out, it would

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Speaker 5: be close. I don't think it's sold out yet, but

507
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Speaker 5: these last two home.

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Speaker 3: Games surely surely sell it out because the Warriors a

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Speaker 3: odds on here to sell every seat this season, which

510
00:23:11,893 --> 00:23:15,173
Speaker 3: would be unheard of the occasion of spectacular when you

511
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Speaker 3: go there on your weekend evening.

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Speaker 4: So let's see if we can sell it out again.

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Speaker 2: The Big League Podcast for the biggest league fans, Big Hits,

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Speaker 3: Okay, Alex Palces quickfire predictions ahead of a bumper Round

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Speaker 3: twenty two, crucial Game four the Warriors. But we start

517
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Speaker 3: off with the Tigers and the Cowboys. Tigers obviously coming

518
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Speaker 3: off the loss of the Warriors. The Cowboys still sitting

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Speaker 3: in that top eight there in sixth position at the

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Speaker 3: moment Tiger's at home.

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Speaker 4: How you're feeling Cowboys?

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Speaker 5: Surely you look at that top eight and you think,

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Speaker 5: how are the Cowboys there? Like they haven't done much

524
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Speaker 5: where you've think they're definitely top bit side, but they've

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Speaker 5: got the results on the board.

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Speaker 3: They're sort of they've flown under the radar they this season,

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00:24:03,213 --> 00:24:05,973
Speaker 3: they really have, and we've never talked about them.

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Speaker 5: No, but you look at them and they were I mean,

529
00:24:08,693 --> 00:24:11,533
Speaker 5: the table doesn't lie and they're comfortably in there. Yeah,

530
00:24:11,893 --> 00:24:12,813
Speaker 5: not comfortably, but they're in there.

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Speaker 3: There's setting sixth on the latter eleven wins, eight losses

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Speaker 3: there on twenty six points, just heat of Manly on

533
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Speaker 3: twenty five and then there's a backlog of teams on

534
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Speaker 3: twenty four to twenty two to twenty one, just outside

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Speaker 3: the eight. But I'm going to agree with you there

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Speaker 3: and go for the Cowboys. Pretty straightforward.

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Speaker 4: Warriors Eels. It mounts, Matt.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not thinking I'm allowed back on this

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Speaker 5: podcast if I don't say Warriors.

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Speaker 4: I agree Warriors to beat the Eels. Dolphins versus the Roosters.

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Speaker 3: Dolphins unexpectedly losing on the wee Ken to the Titans

542
00:24:43,333 --> 00:24:46,573
Speaker 3: have coused a fair few upsets this season. The rooster

543
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Speaker 3: is getting it done unconvincingly, thirty four to thirty over Manly.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go to the Dolphins. I don't think

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Speaker 5: the Roosters look very good against Manley, even in the.

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Speaker 4: Victory, really, but the Dolphins don't look great either.

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Speaker 5: No I know, but they're they're at home and they

548
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Speaker 5: hope that they get some sort of advantage from that.

549
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Speaker 3: Going to back the Brewsters here, Titans Broncos, Titans at

550
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Speaker 3: home on the Gold Coast Titans, I'm going to have

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Speaker 3: I agree with you as well there. Actually, Broncos have

552
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Speaker 3: been so up and down the seat, I don't think

553
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Speaker 3: they're going to make the eight Storm versus the Dragons Storm.

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Speaker 5: I think Melbourne will probably win the comp this year.

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Speaker 5: To be honest, they just look a little bit better

556
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Speaker 5: than everyone else.

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Speaker 3: They cool, but hard to argue with you on the

558
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Speaker 3: Dragons game. Sharks, Bunnies, Bunnies. They lost on the weekend

559
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Speaker 3: as well. A little bit of an upset there, the

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Speaker 3: Raiders getting it done by twenty points thirty two to twelve.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I mean I think the Sharks will get

562
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Speaker 5: up surely the Bunnies don't. Red then basically out of

563
00:25:38,013 --> 00:25:38,613
Speaker 5: it now, aren't they.

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Speaker 3: Well, we talked about the Cowboys and how they haven't

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Speaker 3: you know, we haven't really talked about them at all

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Speaker 3: this season, but they beat the Sharks thirty to twenty two.

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Speaker 3: The Sharks just haven't looked so good in the second

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Speaker 3: half of the season. They were coming off the bye,

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Speaker 3: but just I don't know, they seemed to be a

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Speaker 3: bit up and down having been so dominant in the

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Speaker 3: first half of the season.

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Speaker 4: Who'd you go with the Sharks?

573
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Speaker 5: I went with the Sharks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you there and pick them

575
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Speaker 3: to get it done over the Bunnies and Panthers versus.

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Speaker 5: The Knights Panthers. Nathan Clary's back. He ripped up last

577
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Speaker 5: week and I like to think he's peaking at the

578
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Speaker 5: right time of the season.

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Speaker 3: And Bulldogs versus the Raiders, which weirdly is quite a

580
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Speaker 3: big game because the Bulldogs are in the top eight

581
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Speaker 3: in the Raiders vying for that spot. They're in a

582
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Speaker 3: ninth at the moment. But even on points with the

583
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Speaker 3: Dolphins on twenty four, who are eighth, can the Bulldogs

584
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Speaker 3: go fourth or the win here they are on twenty

585
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Speaker 3: six points, they go level with the Sharks. It would

586
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Speaker 3: depend on the points differential.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think the Bulldogs will do it,

588
00:26:37,453 --> 00:26:39,293
Speaker 5: which I mean just another step and what's been a

589
00:26:39,333 --> 00:26:40,573
Speaker 5: pretty incredible season for them.

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Speaker 4: I will agree with you to finish there.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Alex Powell for your time, your wisdom, you're

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Speaker 3: insight on the Big League Podcast this week. My name

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Speaker 3: is Nathan Limb. Please follow and rate the podcast. We

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Speaker 3: will be back next Monday. Can the Warriors keep this

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Speaker 3: run going and make your charge for the eight?

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Speaker 4: It is not over. Have a great week.

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