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Speaker 1: The Warriors are in Vegas for the first game and

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Speaker 1: season against the Ravers. In terms of the lineup charms,

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Speaker 1: Nicol Klockstadt has retained his hold on the number one jersey,

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Speaker 1: Roger to Ivasaschek has shifted from the centers to the wing.

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Speaker 1: He seems very happy about that. Cameron George is the

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Warriors and he joins me now in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. How the Cameron, Good morning, eight twenty two

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Speaker 1: in the morning. You've just come straight from the buffet.

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Speaker 1: How was the food?

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Speaker 2: No, I haven't actually look, it's it's crazy over here,

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Speaker 2: and I'm very excited about the week we've had so far,

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Speaker 2: and you know, and what's left of it. So getting

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Speaker 2: closer to game day, which is really important for us.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So Andrew Webster has said that the Warriors have

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Speaker 1: done well not to be distracted by the glits of

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. And from what you can tell, is he right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, boys have prepared really well. They know we've

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Speaker 2: come here for you know, with a purpose, and we've

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Speaker 2: i think collectively managed to work really well. Both players,

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Speaker 2: staff and everyone's enjoyed the moment but also kept very

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Speaker 2: focused on what's important to us, and that's preparing well

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Speaker 2: for the for the game on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: What are the facilities like that you're you're training it

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Speaker 1: and what's the ground like? Is it all good?

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Speaker 2: Look where we're training is there's soccer fields. There's no

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Speaker 2: goalpost or anything. They've got line marking for rugby league fields,

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Speaker 2: but there are about four or five soccer fields adjacent

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Speaker 2: to each other. That's where we train. We are Jim

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Speaker 2: Wise boys are at the UFC, which is a great

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Speaker 2: experience for them. And look, everything else is pretty similar

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Speaker 2: to what we get at home, but the fields are

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Speaker 2: certainly very different given they're not rugby league fields.

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Speaker 1: What's what's the sales like? I mean, how many? How

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Speaker 1: many Americans are turning up? And do they have any

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Speaker 1: comprehension about what's about to hit them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look they've made every billboard you see here is

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Speaker 2: talking about rugby league and I understand there's just over

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Speaker 2: forty eight thousand tickets sold and fifteen thousand of those

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Speaker 2: have been purchased by Americans pretty well from every state.

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Speaker 2: So that's a really good sign for the game. I

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Speaker 2: think that certainly passes what they did last year. So

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Speaker 2: it's a great sign that the game's being accepted over here.

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Speaker 1: It's also a great sign that, to course the Australians

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Speaker 1: and New Zealand is thirty thousand of them have decided

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Speaker 1: to travel. We saw that the year New Zealand Warrior's

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Speaker 1: flight sold out in seventeen minutes, so obviously the games

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Speaker 1: and goods stayed in Australasia and that's quite good. I'm

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Speaker 1: so sorry that President Trump's not coming, but I appear

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Speaker 1: he's quite busy.

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Speaker 2: I can imagine he's got a bit on. But at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, mate, there'll be plenty of

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Speaker 2: plenty of funder had on game day. And yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: The Siday Morning Herald yesterday reckons it's not the Warrior's year.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they reckon that you're going to come sick

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Speaker 1: in to last. So we say every year it is

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Speaker 1: your year. So how is this year any different to

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Speaker 1: than all the others?

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Speaker 2: Who was that? Sorry the Sydney Morning Morning, they still existed. Look,

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Speaker 2: we've got a very good young and blended in with

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Speaker 2: experience what we've noticed this year, particularly training and if

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Speaker 2: you if you saw our second trial very fast, you know,

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Speaker 2: if they execute well, you know they're a team that

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Speaker 2: can score a lot of points and defendwell. So look,

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's going to be

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Speaker 2: a very tight competition. You know, our tension is to

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Speaker 2: win it, and we've got a very good squad, very

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Speaker 2: happy with it. Like everyone, you need luck with no injuries,

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Speaker 2: but little injuries, but we're ready to go. So there's

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Speaker 2: no excuse from us.

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Speaker 1: We're right behind you. Cavin, all the very best, give

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Speaker 1: our regards to the boys, Cameron. George Worrying is CEO.

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