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Speaker 2: This week on The Big League Podcast, Warriors head of

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Speaker 2: marketing Glenn Harris joins to dish details on the trip

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Speaker 2: to Las Vegas next year. How did it come about?

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Speaker 2: What do the Warriors get out of it? What is

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Speaker 2: the best way to sort your trip to Sin City

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Speaker 2: and year's worth of regret? New Zealand Herald writer Alex

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Speaker 2: Powell is back to analyze the fallout of an ego

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Speaker 2: crushing loss to the Raiders. Is the season over? My

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Speaker 2: name is Nathan Limb. Let's go b LB. All right,

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Speaker 2: it's time. We're all well rehearsed, calculators at the ready.

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Speaker 2: Not yet, hold your fire. The Warriors need to win

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Speaker 2: all six remaining games in order to keep their destiny

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Speaker 2: in their own hands. Otherwise they're relying on other results

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Speaker 2: to go their way. Yes, we're into the mathematicals. Oh

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Speaker 2: dear twenty to eighteen against the Raiders in Canberra, three

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Speaker 2: missed conversions. We all saw it. Chanelle Harris DaVita, It's okay,

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Speaker 2: It's okay. Every person in the world has had a

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Speaker 2: bad day at work and made stupid mistakes. Chanell's copping

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Speaker 2: a lot of cramp. He's more pissed off than anyone.

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Speaker 2: If he was the regular kicker and had been consistently

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Speaker 2: doing that for weeks, it's a different story. But the

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Speaker 2: reality is he wasn't even supposed to be kicking off

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Speaker 2: the team. No Johnson, no two Opeaky, no Pompey. Chanelle

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Speaker 2: and he will remain there, just as he will, in

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Speaker 2: all likelihood continue kicking if Pompey's out there is no

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Speaker 2: one else. Alex Powell, New Zealand Herald writer, am I

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Speaker 2: being too soft? Yes?

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Speaker 3: And no?

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me nith. I don't think there's

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Speaker 4: too many games in the NRAL where the team that

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Speaker 4: scores more tries will lose, But that is what happened.

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Speaker 4: We all saw Shanell Harris to bea in the sheds afterwards.

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Speaker 4: He'll be feeling this more than anyone, like you said,

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Speaker 4: But the response from Andrew Webster was that they'll get

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Speaker 4: know that's just how they operate as a club. Like

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Speaker 4: you say, he'll continue at five eighth. He'll likely kick

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Speaker 4: this week against the Tigers, and I would back him

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, at the end of the day, there

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Speaker 2: the Warriors definitely would have won if he had got it.

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Speaker 2: But you could see in the way he approached that

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Speaker 4: I think you would have seen with that the way

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Speaker 4: To a pick, he would have been the second. Remember

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Speaker 4: You know, gold kicking's not just something you turn up

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Speaker 4: You know, we've seen Sean Johnson do it, We've seen

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Speaker 4: he has to Chanell Harris Tavita went in cold and

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Speaker 2: I mean you could say, would most club kickers in

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Speaker 4: You know, we say most club kickers, most club kickers

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Speaker 2: Tavita's goalkicking.

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Speaker 5: but there's plenty of other things to put it down

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was so much in that game to I guess,

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Speaker 2: story of the Warriors season really and we're going to

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Speaker 2: go through all of that. We're going to hear from

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Speaker 2: Warriors head of marketing Glenn Harris in just a few moments.

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Speaker 2: But first here are the low lights. Were Raiders twenty

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Speaker 2: Warriors eighteen. There we go in Friday night footy in

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Speaker 6: Here for Hudson Young, such a good triscorer and camera

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Speaker 6: capital shee ball playing this top fogony f Hudson Young.

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Speaker 6: Ha's a double and welcome back to Jamon Fogony.

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Speaker 2: That was dazzling. They headed that way Brian Martin.

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Speaker 6: Roger with deck two of us a ship and the

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Speaker 6: Warriors have points before the freight to marry Market and

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Speaker 6: the back of the house combined ka Well backing out

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Speaker 6: after Orison disappointment with Queensland as the Warriors right back

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Speaker 6: in the bulga roaching the outline finance short side.

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Speaker 2: What a train work it has been.

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Speaker 6: Mitch Bonnets at the warious level, great kick, oh Savage,

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Speaker 6: we speed gets there.

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Speaker 2: In time, walk up for Norm Blake. He's through, Paul bubbled.

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Speaker 6: Around, but I think he's done it and we should.

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Speaker 2: Be level again here.

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Speaker 6: Oh he's missed its and it remains a two point.

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Speaker 2: Lead for the Raiders. A much needed win for the

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Speaker 1: Big League Podcast.

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Speaker 2: It was my pleasure to Welcome on to the Big

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Speaker 2: League Podcast. Warriors General manager of marketing Glenn Harris. Glenn,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time. How are you good, mate?

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Speaker 3: Thank you well? How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well, thank you And I punted this obviously

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Speaker 2: massive news that has come out or been confirmed rather

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Speaker 2: in the last couple of weeks, the Las Vegas the

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Speaker 2: Warriors are going to open the NRL. First of all,

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Speaker 2: I suppose you would have been pretty well involved in

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Speaker 2: this initiative. How did this all come about? How did

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Speaker 7: Look, a lot of hard work from a lot of people,

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Speaker 7: but we were pretty impressed with the inaugural event this

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Speaker 3: Put up their hand for twenty twenty four cons.

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Speaker 7: Up and we did, and we're very fortunate to secure

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Speaker 3: So yes, it's pretty exciting stuff.

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Speaker 2: What does this actually do for you guys as a club, Like,

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Speaker 2: what are you getting out of this? What is the

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Speaker 3: Well, the first party is to win the game.

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Speaker 7: It is a competition around fixture round one for us,

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Speaker 7: so you know that's the first and most important priority

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Speaker 7: is to come home with two points and get our

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Speaker 7: being the only New Zealand team, it's a chance for

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Speaker 3: A little bit of New Zealand to the world.

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Speaker 7: And it's a big size the world that we're going into,

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Speaker 7: we've had a great couple of seasons and we're excited

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Speaker 3: American market on probably the biggest stage there is in

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Speaker 7: Terms of gowing awareness for the game, which is probably

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Speaker 7: but also to showcase our brand and country to the world.

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Speaker 2: I want to dive into. I guess what this experience

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Speaker 2: is going to be like from a fans perspective, For example,

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Speaker 2: do you guys have any anything specific going on in

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Speaker 2: the days leading up when Kiwi fans go over, is

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Speaker 2: I guess create that sort of festival atmosphere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I mean there's a lot more information to come as

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Speaker 7: and that's supposed to be supercharged again for the twenty

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Speaker 7: you know, we're very keen to lean into those and

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Speaker 7: to it. Ki We fans are great for traveling and

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Speaker 7: out in huge numbers and support us. So this is

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Speaker 7: an opportunity for them to also go and see their

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Speaker 2: Obviously, the fixtures are being played at the home of

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Speaker 2: How does that work? What can we expect from that?

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Speaker 7: I haven't seen the mechanics of how they will work

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Speaker 7: if it's anything like other fixtures of this magnitude, I

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Speaker 3: Most is Magic Round. There is a supporter's bay for

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Speaker 7: Teams, and fans have the opp chair when they buy

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Speaker 2: How many keywis do you expect to go over.

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Speaker 3: All of them? Idearly know that have been incredible.

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Speaker 7: We travel in great numbers when we support our team,

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Speaker 3: Us and support us on this incredible opportunity.

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Speaker 2: What was the process. I'm not sure if you'd be

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Speaker 2: aware in terms of determining who plays who. Obviously, the

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Speaker 2: of curtain raiser for the NRL, and the Sharks playing

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Speaker 2: the Panthers. But obviously there could have been a storyline

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Speaker 2: it determined in terms of who plays who?

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Speaker 7: No idea, mate, those conversations happen in the NRL. All

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Speaker 7: we're worried about is doesn't matter who we're facing. We're

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Speaker 2: Obviously, you and the NRL have talked about growing the

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Speaker 2: a bit of an alien sport, really, isn't it, Like,

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Speaker 7: I mean, certainly our campaign is very much time to

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Speaker 3: On the people in the environment. When we're there.

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Speaker 7: So for us, it's a case of going up there,

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Speaker 3: So no, we haven't even looked at that yet. As

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Speaker 2: And just finally glean run me through it. I'm a

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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Glenn Harris, a general manager of marketing at the Warriors,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your.

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Speaker 1: This is the Big League Podcast. This is the Big

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Speaker 2: Okay, Alex Powell, Let's go through this game in a

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Speaker 5: He can give us all as a chance early obviously

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Speaker 2: Look like we're coming out at the top of them, and.

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Speaker 5: Then we make a mistake and give them an opportunity

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Speaker 3: They just yeah, we can't start of that.

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Speaker 2: It's a pattern, yeah, and I suppose it is extra frustrating.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely like the number of plans that they have that

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Speaker 4: Andrew Webster all season has just seemed frustrated, like you say,

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Speaker 2: Having said that, when even when they were down fourteen mil,

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Speaker 8: Right, you do.

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Speaker 4: At no point was I think you know that was

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Speaker 4: Do we have an issue with on field leadership as it?

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Speaker 2: But there's no one else. How else are they going

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Speaker 4: That's exactly right. You know, the injuries this year have

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Speaker 2: Having said that, I think that all the players that

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Speaker 4: I mean, the annoying thing is that they're so used

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Speaker 4: If you said one, you know turndro so you get

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Speaker 4: There's a saying in sport you don't weaken your strength

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Speaker 2: But Charsick Cooksett isn't the problem. No, he's not the problem.

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Speaker 2: But so why are we still having this conversation.

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Speaker 4: Because it's how do we get the best out of

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Speaker 2: I fully disagree with you, however, with two Opeakey suffering

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And in saying that, I do hope Chance pulls

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Speaker 4: I said to you yesterday, just to have a peck

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Speaker 4: to be unnoticed.

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Speaker 2: Well that's his first try. Yeah, I can't believe that

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Speaker 2: they were both Obviously they both scored tries and they

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Speaker 2: were both instrumental in that comeback cape while playing out

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Speaker 2: of position. Mitch Barnett obviously shouldering a lot of the

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Speaker 2: workload through the middle with that injury hampered team, but

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Speaker 2: a great character I suppose to fight back. If we're

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Speaker 2: taking anything positive out of that game, it would be

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Speaker 2: the performance of those performances of those two players and

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Speaker 2: just the again the mental resilience to stay in it

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Speaker 2: down fourteen Narl after eighteen minutes.

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Speaker 4: You remember all that talk, you know, it's been going

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Speaker 4: for a while, like the Warriors need more Australian players.

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Speaker 4: They need more of these hard nose Australians. We've got

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Speaker 4: two of them now, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: And two really good ones too.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, and you know we're also not you know,

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Speaker 4: guys like Dylan Walker and Wade Egan those they are

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Speaker 4: also Australian. They doesn't back it up for it, but

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Speaker 4: the recruitment here needs to have a huge amount of

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Speaker 4: praise heaped on it because the Warriors have absolutely nailed

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Speaker 4: it by getting these guys.

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Speaker 2: Big League Podcast. The Warriors play the Tigers on Friday

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Speaker 2: at a sold out Mount Smart It's sold out again.

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Speaker 2: Just two games to go, and they could. They could

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Speaker 2: be what we think is the first NURL team ever

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Speaker 2: to sell out every home game. Unbelievable. The Tigers I

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Speaker 2: did last on the ladder with four wins fourteen losses.

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Speaker 2: They've lost their last four in a row. Ironically, the

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Speaker 2: last team they beat was the Raiders. Alex Powell. This,

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Speaker 2: there's no way they can lose this. Surely, there is

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Speaker 2: no way we're going to be standing in next week

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Speaker 2: talking about another Warriors lost to a Tiger's team.

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Speaker 4: They've lost twice to the Titans, they were last. I mean, no,

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Speaker 4: you're absolutely right. They should not lose to the Tigers.

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Speaker 4: The Tigers look and dessiray they've got some great players,

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Speaker 4: but they just cannot get it all together. A lot

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Speaker 4: of pressure on well, not pressure, but there is a

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Speaker 4: lot of emphasis on the job that Benji Marshall is

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Speaker 4: doing as head coach. But you'd think, and you'd hope,

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Speaker 4: for their own sake, the Warriors have too much here.

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Speaker 2: The team This week is going to be really interesting

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Speaker 2: because if two O Peaky's out, Chans is out, Roger

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Speaker 2: has to go to fullback. But he was covering on

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Speaker 2: the wing from Montoya and we don't have a timeline

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Speaker 2: on him. If Pompey's out, then there's only Latawa at center.

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Speaker 2: How are they going to do this? How do you start?

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Speaker 2: Because I I'd rather see Maila Graham Tulfer come into

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Speaker 2: center alongside Ali Latah instead of sticking Kirk Capewell out there.

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Speaker 2: But then who do you put on the wing? How

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Speaker 2: are they going to deal with this?

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Speaker 4: You'd think Ed Coursey would also come in. He's been

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Speaker 4: there in the past. That's done for he hasn't looked

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Speaker 4: great this season. His contract is also up in twenty five,

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Speaker 4: so he is free to start talking to other clubs

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Speaker 4: in November. So could actually use this run of games

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Speaker 4: as a sort of shop window to say if the

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Speaker 4: Warriors don't want me, this is what I can do

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Speaker 4: to anyone else who wants to sign him.

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Speaker 2: Do you think he is in danger of getting booted?

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Speaker 4: Potentially?

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Speaker 2: Is his contract up this year twenty five twenty five, right,

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Speaker 2: so he can start talking to clubs at the end

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Speaker 2: of this year in November.

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Speaker 4: He can say to every he once come and get me,

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Speaker 4: should he stay? Do we think he gets in the

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Speaker 4: team when everyone's fit and firing? Does he get in

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Speaker 4: the team ahead of what Tanezleznika Montoya. No, then he

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Speaker 4: should leave. You know, you cannot at this point in

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Speaker 4: your career.

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Speaker 2: Although actually there are a lot of people saying that

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Speaker 2: he should be in there head of Montoya. To be honest,

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's shown enough at least this year

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Speaker 2: to prove that he should be there ahead of Montoya. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: at this point in his career.

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Speaker 4: At this point in his career, he needs to be

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Speaker 4: playing every week. The thing we also don't take into

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Speaker 4: account with Montoya is the off field value he brings

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Speaker 4: to the Warriors. We've seen him captain the club. He's

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Speaker 4: a senior player in that dressing room. Here is a

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Speaker 4: leader and that, like I was just saying before, the

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Speaker 4: leadership issue on the field, you need as many guys

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Speaker 4: like Monto as you can get.

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Speaker 1: The Big League Podcast on the Warriors Bad Wagons since

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Speaker 1: day one, The Big League Podcast for the biggest league fans.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Alex Pale Quick fire Predictions. The first one again

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Speaker 2: is the Warriors and it's the Tigers at a sold

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Speaker 2: out mount Smart. Tell me you're picking the Warriors.

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Speaker 4: I'm picking the Warriors, mate, don't worry.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think the Warriors is going to win.

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Speaker 4: I think they'll have too much for the Tigers. I

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Speaker 4: think class will ultimately tell. I think the Tigers are

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Speaker 4: in a bit of trouble.

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Speaker 2: I agree, I think that. I mean, the Warriors have

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Speaker 2: just got to They've got to pull it together, and

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Speaker 2: I think they will. They've got enough leadership in this

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Speaker 2: team to do it. They're going to be at home,

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Speaker 2: they're going to be a bit against opposition that's really struggling.

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Speaker 2: Get this one done and then you know, you need

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Speaker 2: to do five from five to keep your destiny in

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Speaker 2: your own hands. Storm Storm, It's not even really a question.

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Speaker 2: Eel was second to last on the ladder, Storm dominating.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to go with the Storm. Broncos. Bulldogs

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Speaker 2: Broncos back in the winner's circle. The Bulldog's still up

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Speaker 2: there at the top of the near the top of

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Speaker 2: the ladder.

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Speaker 4: Bulldogs, I mean, I've been really I think I said

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Speaker 4: this last time. They've been so good this year under Camperencereldo.

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Speaker 4: I don't see them dropping away anytime soon.

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Speaker 2: So the Bulldogs went down to the Cowboys in the

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Speaker 2: round just gone. They're still up there in sixth on

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Speaker 2: the ladder. But the Broncos with those players back. They're

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Speaker 2: down in the eleventh. They're coming off a victory over

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Speaker 2: the Night thirty to fourteen in Newcastle, which is a

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Speaker 2: tough place to win. Did you say the Bulldogs?

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Speaker 4: I said the Bulldogs, although I've just remembered Adam Reynolds's

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Speaker 4: back now.

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Speaker 2: Actually no, you can't.

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Speaker 9: I'm not going to, but it could be a lot closer.

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Speaker 9: I'm going for the Broncos. In Brisbane, Cowboys, Sharks, Sharks.

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Speaker 9: The Sharks had a bit of a dip in form,

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Speaker 9: didn't they. They're coming off the buy and a before

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Speaker 9: that had a fifty eight six pumping of the Tigers.

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Speaker 9: I'm going to stick with the Sharks here. Rooster Seagulls.

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Speaker 4: I think the Rusters will bounce back after what they

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Speaker 4: how or when they went down to the Storm last week.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to agree with you there, Roosters to bounce back. Dragons, Panthers,

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Speaker 2: you go.

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Speaker 8: Panthers, Dolphins, Titans, Titans, Titans. Why the Dolphins just only

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Speaker 8: just lost to the Panthers twenty six, twenty eight. They've

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Speaker 8: been a middling team this year, but they're still in

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Speaker 8: the top eight. I'm going to go for the Dolphins

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Speaker 8: one a Red Cliff Raiders rabbit O's to round out

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Speaker 8: the round.

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Speaker 4: Rabbit O's why I look, even though they won, I

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Speaker 4: wasn't actually that impressed with the Raiders, and you look

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Speaker 4: at the rabbit o's form since changing coach. Basically they

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Speaker 4: are two different teams and the one that just got

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Speaker 4: absolutely pummeled earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, forty two still dropped twenty eight points to the

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Speaker 2: Tigers in the round just gone. But I will agree

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Speaker 2: with you and back the Bunnies to win to finish

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Speaker 2: the round. Thank you, Alex Power for your time your wisdom.

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