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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: The Tactics and their place in the final with victory

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Speaker 2: over the Pulse last weekend.

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Speaker 3: They have been undefeated here in twenty twenty five and

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Speaker 3: it will stay that way. The Tactics are going back

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Speaker 3: to the AINSID Premiership trand Final, an incredible comeback and

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Speaker 3: ton of their home.

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Speaker 2: Fans tactic shooter Ali Birds with us. Let's start there.

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Speaker 2: How do you evaluate the win over the Pulse in

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Speaker 2: the elimination final last weekend, Elie, Well, it just.

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Speaker 4: Felt very good, you know, really exciting, really happy with

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Speaker 4: the performance that we put out. Kind of a game

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Speaker 4: of two halves, but it just showed what we can do.

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Speaker 4: So very very happy about that.

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Speaker 2: It certainly seemed to change after halftime. Third and fourth

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Speaker 2: quarter were certainly in your favor. Were there any specific

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Speaker 2: conversations at halftime that turned the tide in the second half?

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Speaker 4: Oh, it was just a bit of like this could

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Speaker 4: be our last game, so what you know, how are

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Speaker 4: we going to go out and play our last half

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Speaker 4: of netball? We can go out and play half a

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Speaker 4: game of netble that leads to another game so that's

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Speaker 4: what we did.

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Speaker 2: You did. Indeed, it also meant, of course you went

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Speaker 2: through the entire home season unbeaten. So how proud of

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Speaker 2: you or how proud are you of that as a team?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, that's awesome. I mean, our crowd a great.

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Speaker 4: I mean, personally, that's my absolute favorite place to play.

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Speaker 4: It's played a massive role in my career. I suppose

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Speaker 4: you could say, and yeah, awesome crowd, and just you're

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Speaker 4: very proud of the girls that we can go out

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Speaker 4: there and you know, do Kennerbury proud.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're into the final now, of course this is

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Speaker 2: undoubtedly a difficult question to answer, but what is the

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Speaker 2: key to beating the double defending Chainmian mystics?

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Speaker 4: If we just stick to our processes, then we can

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Speaker 4: definitely do it. It's definitely a mindset thing. As long

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Speaker 4: as we just kind of believe in ourselves, I think,

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Speaker 4: and back each other up, you know, do everything that

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Speaker 4: we can. I actually empty the tank, then we can

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Speaker 4: beat them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you already have once this season, albeit at home.

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Speaker 2: You beat them back in round four. Now, in that game, Ellie,

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Speaker 2: you shot fifty from fifty? Is that your highest score?

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Speaker 2: With one hundred percent shooting.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what went so well for you in that game?

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Speaker 4: Well? I did actually miss a few, but they were

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Speaker 4: just called obstructions or contacts, you know, So I actually

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Speaker 4: didn't know because I still remember that I missed some

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Speaker 4: even though they weren't counted. I didn't even know until

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Speaker 4: after the game that I had got one hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know, it just happens. I don't know

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Speaker 4: what to put it down to, just focusing on the

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Speaker 4: current moment. Probably, Yeah, Well.

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Speaker 2: I hope you can do a similar thing in the final.

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Speaker 2: It did lead to a win, of course. Is there

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Speaker 2: anything from that game that went over the Mystics that

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Speaker 2: will be useful in trying to beat them again in

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Speaker 2: the final?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we kind of went into that game whether we've

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Speaker 4: got nothing to lose attitude, which is the same thing

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Speaker 4: that we've got here right now. That well in the

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Speaker 4: position that we're currently in. So yeah, taking that, I suppose.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just looking at the stats and CC you've taken

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Speaker 2: just the one two point shot this season. Was it

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Speaker 2: just sort of a Hei l Mary late in the

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Speaker 2: game or something?

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Speaker 4: Oh? No, No, I was against the Magic and we

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Speaker 4: were by about ten. I was the magic I can't remember,

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Speaker 4: but I had said to Donna. I was like, I

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Speaker 4: just want to put one up and she's like, well,

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Speaker 4: don't do it at a stupid time, and I was like, okay,

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Speaker 4: I won't. We was forty six to go and there's

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Speaker 4: no chance of them catching us. We're getting a bonus

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Speaker 4: point in that forty second, so I just had to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, fair enough to It didn't go in unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: so so no success from it. But in wider terms,

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Speaker 2: what is the tactics team strategy with this new innovation

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Speaker 2: of the two point shot?

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I can give that away. No, Well,

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Speaker 4: obviously it comes down to whether you're as a shooter.

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Speaker 4: You're confident because you know you can put pressure on

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Speaker 4: yourselves to shoot twos and if you're off, you're off

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Speaker 4: kind of thing. But if we want to score one

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Speaker 4: off all of our center passes, so if we're taking twos,

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Speaker 4: it will be offer once we've gained all off their center.

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Speaker 2: Pass gotcha, gotcha? And obviously you're doing all your work

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Speaker 2: down at the attacking end, But can ask you about

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Speaker 2: a couple of your teammates at the other end of

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Speaker 2: the defensive circle. Jane Watson and Karen Berger who's played

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Speaker 2: a bit of wing defense but also goal defense for you.

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Speaker 2: How key have they been to your success this season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Obviously they're you know, very experienced players and they obviously

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Speaker 4: know their jobs very well. So yeah, they're just a

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Speaker 4: massive part of the la guess backbone of our team. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and I'd love to playing with them. Over the past,

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Speaker 4: however many years it's been quite fee Now just yeah,

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Speaker 4: you just know that they're all it's going to do

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Speaker 4: their job.

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Speaker 2: So Tactics beaten finalists in twenty twenty and again in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. How desperate are you to win one

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Speaker 2: of these things?

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Speaker 4: Oh? I would love to just for me, I think, well,

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Speaker 4: our whole team obviously we would love to. You know,

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Speaker 4: this is my eighth season with the Tactics and we

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Speaker 4: raised massive strides over that time. It would be good

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Speaker 4: to just get that you know, final gold medal.

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Speaker 2: And we all thought, I think that you'd retired, but

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Speaker 2: of course you came back last year to cover for

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Speaker 2: injury and ended up staying for the whole season. You've

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Speaker 2: played this entire season, So what are we just sort

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Speaker 2: of carrying on now? O? No, so is this definitely it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is it. Well I say never, say neither,

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Speaker 4: but for now this is it.

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Speaker 2: All right. Well, let's see what happens after the Grand Final.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully if it is the end, you can go out

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Speaker 2: on a high. Ellie, all the best to you and

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Speaker 2: to the Tactics for the final against the Mystics. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for the chat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, Ellie, Ali Bird there out of the Tactics,

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Speaker 2: Tactics Mystics four o'clock this afternoon, Live commentary over on

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