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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB gay.

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Speaker 2: Ed at Mount Smart, Go Media, Mount Smart. This evening,

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Speaker 2: six o'clock Warriors Raiders. The Warriors can go joint top

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Speaker 2: of the table with a win tonight, which would be

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Speaker 2: their sixth on the trot. The first thing you'll notice

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Speaker 2: when the Warriors run out tonight is their playing strip.

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Speaker 2: They're going to wear these specially designed Deer Warrior jersey.

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Speaker 2: It's a tribute to the paths taken by players, staff

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Speaker 2: members and fans who find their way into the Warriors funo,

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Speaker 2: acknowledging the fact that everybody's journey to the jersey is

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Speaker 2: different now. The jersey sold out in just nine minutes

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Speaker 2: at last week's launch and was designed by former Warrior

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Speaker 2: Number one five to one turned fashion entrepreneur Louis Brown

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Speaker 2: and Mandery looks at the Tiline Manuate.

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Speaker 3: With the super from the Law Body His Hell played

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Speaker 3: Back to Last Long Girls Running Back, and then gets

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Speaker 3: the past to Johnson Johnson's still Going dubs.

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Speaker 2: The score Warriors with a final Sean Johnson take a

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Speaker 2: Great Memories from twenty eleven. Louis Brown is in studio

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Speaker 2: with us. Great to see Eloie congrants on the jersey. Mate,

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Speaker 2: it looks absolutely superb. How did you come up with

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Speaker 2: a design?

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me Jason, and and thank you for

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Speaker 4: the kind words.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it sort of goes back to when I was

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Speaker 5: an eight year old Jason received a received the letter

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Speaker 5: in the mail and from the from the Warriors called

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Speaker 5: Dear Warrior. This was a ninety four obviously before the

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Speaker 5: team had actually entered the competition. So you know, at

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Speaker 5: the age I wanted to become a professional rugby league player.

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Speaker 5: So to be able to get letter that day and

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Speaker 5: maybe Phily made me feel real.

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Speaker 4: Connected to the club.

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Speaker 5: And and and then that's where the dream sort of became,

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Speaker 5: you know, sort of become from there become to become

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Speaker 5: a Warrior. And obviously in two thousand and nine I

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Speaker 5: got to represent the club and and you know go

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Speaker 5: on to play eighty four games. But to be able

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Speaker 5: to come back to the club in a different way

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Speaker 5: and to be able to do this Warrior, this this jersey,

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Speaker 5: this special jursey called Deer Warrior, and and kind of

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Speaker 5: you know, kind of tell the story of a young

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Speaker 5: boy wanting to become become a Warrior and going on

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Speaker 5: a path from from the grassroots rugby league, you know, Arena.

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Speaker 4: It's an amazing story.

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Speaker 5: So I'm really really thankful for the club and to

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Speaker 5: get reconnected to the game but also reconnected to the club.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait for the boys to run out tonight.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant. So when you're designing a jersey, man, that seems

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Speaker 2: like a big job to me. You know, you talked

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Speaker 2: the jersey, but what is the process in physically designing it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 5: It was basically I met up with the club and

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Speaker 5: obviously Dynasty, Tyler from Dynasty they'd be massive as well

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Speaker 5: for help for me, and we got together and well,

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Speaker 5: first of all, it was going to be a Vegas jersey,

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Speaker 5: looked like it was going to be a Cristis jumper.

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Speaker 5: Then basically Tyler and the Warriors said to me, listen,

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Speaker 5: just to basically do your own jersey. So I wanted

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Speaker 5: So the process was really exciting to be honest with

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Speaker 5: also make it black because of you know, my heritage

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Speaker 5: So the black represents obviously the adversity and and you know,

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Speaker 5: What represents the pathways of not just only grassroots rugby

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Speaker 5: parents that have been on the journey with the young

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Speaker 5: I'm really excited about the jersey. We're looking for a

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Speaker 2: Jayson outstanding, Louis as you as you're designing it, you know,

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Speaker 2: have people you show your early designs too, even some

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Speaker 5: This time, I had a small crew of just me

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Speaker 5: and my colleague from Earl's collection that's my clothing and

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Speaker 5: I based that off my one of my favorite jerseys

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Speaker 5: So you know, to be able to do that and

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Speaker 5: But I think to be able to get it sold

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Speaker 4: Kind of the cherry on top.

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Speaker 5: And then you know they have the hopefully the boys

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Speaker 5: a super super special and an event for not just

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Speaker 5: Is the first time that that ex player has come

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Speaker 2: How did the move into fashion after your playing days

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always been into fashion, into shoes, and I

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Speaker 5: So really enjoying it, really enjoying growing as a human

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Speaker 2: You played eighty four games for the Warriors twenty and

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Speaker 2: rugby league player. How fondly do you remember your days

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Speaker 2: on a Warrior's jersey?

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Speaker 5: Oh, mate, that was that's home for me. That will

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Speaker 5: like you know, obviously go meet his damn mount Smart.

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Speaker 5: It'll always be home for me. Made and you know,

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Speaker 5: And you know, even to see Stace, Stacy Jones, who

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Speaker 4: It was such a special club.

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Speaker 5: To me, and I'm so thankful for them to be

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Speaker 5: it's a truly special moment.

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Speaker 2: Of course, your time there, well, during your time there,

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Speaker 2: Grand Final, can I ask you about the Grand Final

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Speaker 2: one which did count Sean Johnson's dazzling footwork setting it up.

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Speaker 2: How special a try and a day was that for you?

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Speaker 4: So special?

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Speaker 5: Like you know, anytime you can get, you go into

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Speaker 5: We were basically beat. It was really going to be

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Speaker 5: was special, mate, Like you know, to play in a

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Speaker 5: But you know, I always thank Sean because you know,

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 5: You see that that try is always popping up, so

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Speaker 5: I always always remind them thanks, thanks for keeping my

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Speaker 2: I love it. And you mentioned before, I mean you

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Speaker 2: had time at the Panthers and Manly as well. But

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Speaker 2: does the Warriors feel like your home, your natural home,

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Speaker 2: your spiritual home.

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Speaker 5: Oh, spiritually natural home. I think you know the universe.

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Speaker 5: I'm a big believer in the universe, Jason. You know,

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Speaker 4: And there's a reason.

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Speaker 5: Why my mum kept that that letter from nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 5: And you know, it's all part of this full circle

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Speaker 2: And just on the Warriors of twenty twenty five eight wins,

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Speaker 5: Just, there's a lot of things that are making me

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Speaker 5: Obviously they've really got a tough underbelly their defense. They're

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Speaker 5: just also seeing the young the young boys buying in

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Speaker 5: so respectful, hard working, the humble. You know, anytime you

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Speaker 5: grounding time you sell that out made as a recipe

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Speaker 4: So hopefully this year can be a year for sure.

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Speaker 2: And you played, I think with a young Luke Metcalf

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Speaker 5: also seeing Luki really mature as a player. He's such

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Speaker 5: want that from him in number seven.

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Speaker 4: He's got X factor.

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Speaker 5: He's got the speed, and you know, he's like, I

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Speaker 5: think he's slowly finding that balance of how to how

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Speaker 5: So I really feel like he's finding that balance quite

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Speaker 2: Dear Warrior the jersey, Louis, it's an absolute cracker, mate,

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on it. I can't wait to see the boys

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Speaker 2: wearing it with pride tonight against the Raiders. Thanks for

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Speaker 5: Mate, Thank you so much. Jason just quick shout out

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Speaker 5: to a moment. It's a birthday today too, so happy

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Speaker 2: Oh, happy birthday missus Brown. Good on you mate, Thanks

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Speaker 2: for coming in mini happy returns to your month. What

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Speaker 2: a top man. Louis Brown, former Warrior fashion designer. I'll

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Speaker 2: be wearing the Dear Warrior strip tonight, which is you've

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Speaker 2: probably seen photos of it. It's, as Louis outlined, a

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Speaker 2: dark strip and you can do more reading about it

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Speaker 2: on The Warrior's website.

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