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Speaker 1: Spray and Bridge.

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Speaker 2: The Las Vegas trip couldn't have gone worse for the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: They got thumped we know this thirty eight by the Raiders.

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Speaker 2: But an assistant coach is now facing serious allegations. Richard

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Speaker 2: Aego alleged to have grabbed a journalist by the throat

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Speaker 2: during the game. The NERLS investigating the Warrior's boss, has

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Speaker 2: spoken with the leagu's integrity units. A little bit of

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Speaker 2: a mess Wayne Goldsmith, the international sports coaching expert who's

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Speaker 2: with us Wayne good evening.

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Speaker 1: Good evening, Ryan, And without wanting to make it a

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Speaker 1: flippancy about that current situation, I'm very lucky. I live

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Speaker 1: in the bush in Australia, not that far from Lismore

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Speaker 1: where the rains about the hit, and we've got some

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Speaker 1: pets that might be of interest. The other day, down

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Speaker 1: at my home office, I was about the end of

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Speaker 1: the door and we had a koala on the ground

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Speaker 1: and he walked past. I won't tell you that he

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Speaker 1: said a low, but he walked past and he just

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Speaker 1: dashed up the tree right behind my office. So I'm

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Speaker 1: one of those sixty percent of people that believe pets

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Speaker 1: are wonderful at the time.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to feed and pay for the food.

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Speaker 2: So that's great. Hey, this is quite a serious situation.

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Speaker 2: What's happened in Las Vegas if it's alleged at this point,

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Speaker 2: obviously we don't know exactly what happened, but it's not

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Speaker 2: a great look. What do you do about something like that?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's funny, having worked with a lot of pro

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Speaker 1: football teams, generally, what you've got a structure within the

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Speaker 1: team is what we call a crisis management group or

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Speaker 1: a management team. You've always got a group of people

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Speaker 1: when something happens to make sure that first of all,

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Speaker 1: the matter is researched, investigated properly, correctly, legally, and that

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Speaker 1: of course there's as much support for the mental health

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Speaker 1: and as much support as possible to the staff member.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sure they're a very professional organization and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that they're doing all those things really well. And

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Speaker 1: the important thing Ryan is to make sure the thing

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Speaker 1: is played out correctly, properly in time. It's so easy

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Speaker 1: to hang people in the court of public opinion, but

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Speaker 1: it's got to be done fairly ethically and of course legally,

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Speaker 1: and give every possible support to the coaching question.

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Speaker 2: And the players as well. That's the other side of this.

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Speaker 2: I guess the players are normally you look to your

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Speaker 2: coaches for a bit of guidance on how to behave

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Speaker 2: that's obviously going to be something that you have to address.

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Speaker 1: You do, and the players will be aware. Some of

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Speaker 1: them may be aware of what actually happened, some will

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Speaker 1: be hearing second, third, fourth, and some of them will

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Speaker 1: be getting social media posts or text from home and

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Speaker 1: they'll be completely unaware of what happened because they were

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Speaker 1: focused on playing or recovering or warming up a warming down,

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Speaker 1: depending on where and where it's alleged to have happened. So,

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Speaker 1: of course, in any of these crisis situations, we make

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Speaker 1: sure that the players are given every possible support system

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Speaker 1: around mental health and wellbeing and supporting them as a term.

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Speaker 1: I've got no doubt those things are happening.

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Speaker 2: Wayne. Thanks for your time. Wayne Goldsmith, international sports coaching

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Speaker 2: expert on the Warriors disastrous adventure over in Las Vegas.

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