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Speaker 2: Poet Bay News talks EDB.

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Speaker 3: This week on The Big League Podcast, a somber chance

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Speaker 3: Nickel krook Star explains another frustrating loss, this time to

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Speaker 3: the Paramatta Eels at Mount Smart. Their top eight playoff

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Speaker 3: hopes are now into the mathematicals. Alex Powell is back

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Speaker 3: to answer the tough questions. How much blame lies with

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Speaker 3: coach Andrew Webster, How has a season so heavily anticipated

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Speaker 3: gone so terribly wrong? Of course it's not over. My

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Speaker 3: name is Nathan Limb. Let's go good b LB. I

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Speaker 3: genuinely don't know what to say. It's happening again again.

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Speaker 3: I thought this was the Warriors new era. This team

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Speaker 3: was tipped by some as the minor premiers. This is

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Speaker 3: the same group of players that finished top four last year,

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Speaker 3: the same group of players that went to the preliminary final.

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Speaker 3: No wait, it's a better group of players. They've also

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Speaker 3: got Roger Tui Vasaschek, Kurt Capewell and Chanelle Harris Tavita.

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Speaker 3: So how the hell do you explain this every time

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Speaker 3: they've come up against a bottom side, a team that's

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Speaker 3: failed to pull it together at the best of times.

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Speaker 3: The Warriors have face planted Titans at Mount Smart, Titans

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Speaker 3: at the Gold Coast. The Eels hadn't won any games

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Speaker 3: away from home the entire season. Am I being disrespectful

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Speaker 3: to the Warrior's opposition?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I am. They lost six in a row. So where

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Speaker 3: does the blame lie? How much of this falls on

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Speaker 3: the shoulders of coach Andrew Webster. We've hardly ever criticized

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Speaker 3: Webster on this podcast, usually talking about specific players in

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Speaker 3: one off situations, but if a team is consistently failing

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Speaker 3: to show up on occasions in which they are clear favorites,

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Speaker 3: part of that must be down to the culture set

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Speaker 3: by the coach. I love Andrew Webster. I think he's brilliant,

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Speaker 3: but things have not gone to plan this year and

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Speaker 3: there is only so much we can put down to

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Speaker 3: player injuries. Alex Powell, New Zealand Heralds right up, where

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Speaker 3: do you stand on all this?

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Speaker 5: I mean, when you put it like that, I do

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Speaker 5: almost agree with you, like there does need to be

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Speaker 5: accountability from all areas of this club, including the coach.

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Speaker 5: You know, everything Andrew Webster has touched last year turned

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Speaker 5: to gold. But this year they look like they're doing

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Speaker 5: you know, they're not doing things too dissimilar, but as

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Speaker 5: the results just aren't there.

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Speaker 3: Is that the problem? Are they too similar to last year?

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Speaker 3: We haven't evolved since last year and everyone's gone, Actually,

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Speaker 3: you know, I've seen that short ball from Johnson before

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Speaker 3: and now we'll tackle the player and this time not

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Speaker 5: That's a really great point, YEP, that would absolutely be.

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Speaker 3: It is the season done?

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Speaker 5: I mean I came on this podcast what two weeks

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Speaker 5: go now and we looked at the Raiders, Tigers, Eels

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Speaker 5: run and said if they don't win all three, that's

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Speaker 5: going to be trouble. And they've won one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so look they can make the act the season

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Speaker 3: is not over. If they win every game from here,

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Speaker 3: they will put themselves in contention. If you go through

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Speaker 3: there's like an NRL you know, results predictor thing and

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Speaker 5: So with the results you want to happen happen. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So if the Warriors, if you go through and do

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Speaker 3: The Warriors will finish one point outside the eight. Chris

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Speaker 3: Reeve did this yesterday when were sitting in the news room.

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Speaker 5: I did this a couple of weeks ago and had

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Speaker 5: the Warriors six. So that shows how close these margins are.

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Speaker 3: the Warriors way. This is unfortunately familiar territory. But let's

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Speaker 3: get into the somewhat depressing highlights. Eels thirty, Warriors twenty.

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Speaker 4: ARSI Brown quick Hands again, Parameta charts on.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm gonna throw Congo scores Well, still thought to come.

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Speaker 4: Here's Joey Lussack Heaven to Go story, Johnson for Kids,

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Speaker 4: Harris to be the Knights, quick Heads parents Tooey baser

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Speaker 4: Here's a chance for paramedter up the park to Lundy

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Speaker 4: get Stone, he'll score Johnson. Here's a part of Nilney

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Speaker 4: Scots catching the crossfield. What's Eddy's Elizabeth gets the bouts

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Speaker 4: Hell get the try. The Warriors will have the final

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Speaker 4: side full time thirty voice. That's we eat Parametta win

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Speaker 4: this one here at Orford.

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Speaker 6: The Big League Podcast podcast.

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Speaker 3: You' seld Herald writer and friend of The Big League

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Speaker 3: Podcast Christopher Reef have a chat to Charles Nickel cookstart

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Speaker 3: in the sheds after the game. Let's take a listen.

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Speaker 7: Sean's first came back in a few weeks, Segas Versta

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Speaker 7: well Man, how'd you feel out there?

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Speaker 8: How's the body going You body's feeling pretty good, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: May It's it's a little bit hard. The feelings it's

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Speaker 2: just a little bit disappointing.

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Speaker 8: The results, saying, apart from the result, bodies bodies find thanks.

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Speaker 7: I guess looking at tonight, you know, eras were really

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Speaker 7: in and they took advantage. I guess looking back over

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Speaker 7: the last few weeks, how frustrating has that been to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 8: You know, I feel like we've been our worst enemy

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Speaker 8: this year and that game was, you know, perfect, a

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Speaker 8: clear picture of that. We need to be a lot

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Speaker 8: and you know, I think it would have helped us

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Speaker 8: collectively as a team. So yeah, bad pool, but to swallow,

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Speaker 8: but something that needs to be had, and we're going

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Speaker 7: We got a few big games coming up. I guess

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Speaker 7: the mood and the team. What does tonight's result mean

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Speaker 2: Gotta win, gotta win. We need to win.

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Speaker 8: We know that we are capable of being there, and

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Speaker 8: you know, we just need to finish. I think we've

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Speaker 2: And it is there. It is there.

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Speaker 8: We just need to cut out those areas and that'll.

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Speaker 2: Go a long way to helping us get the win.

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Speaker 7: I guess on the other side of that, those four

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Speaker 7: guess there's four point games. You know, you take a

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Speaker 2: On the table. Yeah, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 8: Those are things that you know, we're now in control of.

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Speaker 2: What it's always been in our control.

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Speaker 8: Really, if I'm being honest, we've had a lot of

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Speaker 2: The forefront of that.

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Speaker 8: So I'm we're going to fix up, you know, things individually.

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Speaker 8: I know that it'll come together collectively.

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Speaker 7: I guess what do you want to see the boys

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a hard one tonight.

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Speaker 8: I think for me, what I'd love the voice to

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Speaker 8: It's it's a good opportunity to to really look at

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Speaker 8: and when we come into training next it'll be that'll

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Speaker 8: be the opportunity to look at ourselves, give ourselves a

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Speaker 8: hard word and build.

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Speaker 2: Build. We need to build.

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Speaker 8: We need to look to to improve and we need

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Speaker 7: We need to I guess, just lastly, where where was

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Speaker 7: it that the Eels were able to exploit you guys tonight?

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Speaker 8: we collectively we were good enough. So I think we've

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Speaker 8: that's the beautifulaying the team spoil of someone in Max

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it wasn't our best camp tone.

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Speaker 6: day one.

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Speaker 3: Now we like to hold ourselves accountable on the Big

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Speaker 3: League Podcast, and unfortunately this week it's my turn to

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Speaker 3: eat some humble pie after I previewed the Eels game

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Speaker 3: like this. Let me make no mistake when I tell

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Speaker 3: you this. The Eels are rubbish. They sit seconds to

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Speaker 3: last on the ladder. Four wins, fourteen losses. They've lost

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Speaker 3: six in a row. They sacked he'd coach Brad Arthur

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Speaker 3: midway through the season. They are without half back Mitchell Moses,

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Speaker 3: who's undergone surgery on a bicep rupture. He is out

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Speaker 5: You don't want to throw anything out there this season

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Speaker 5: because it's just been one of those seasons. But you're

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Speaker 5: right one to thirteen they should have too much for yours.

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Speaker 3: I love how you are like the voice of reason.

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Speaker 3: They're just to Let's not write them off. Let's not

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Speaker 3: one of these Why did I have to sound so

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Speaker 5: Oh? Look, this is between arrogance and confidence. You're confident

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Speaker 5: in the Warriors as they should have won that game

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Speaker 5: and we all know that.

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Speaker 3: Let's go through this game in a little bit more detail. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: I thought they started okay. I thought the attack looked

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Speaker 3: pretty organized, It looked pretty dynamic. They just weren't punching

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Speaker 5: We said this last week, didn't we They start well

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Speaker 5: but don't score and that will kill you at this level.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Seann Johnson Obviously coming into halfback after

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Speaker 5: What it comes up all the time when the restarts. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: What do they need to fix?

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Speaker 5: A lot of these Warriors fans had to suffer, you know,

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: It's not like you you know, if you you know

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Speaker 6: Now Big League.

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Speaker 3: Podcast, all right to our rumor desk Alex Powell. We've

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Speaker 3: seen some murmurings on social media that Dylan Walker after obviously,

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Speaker 5: So, like you say, this came out on the same

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Speaker 3: That is not true. So he's not leaving the club.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look that he's contract until the end of

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Speaker 3: That's what we do on the Big League Podcast. Thank you,

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Speaker 3: Alex Powell. Right. The Warriors face the Dolphins on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: They sit ninth overall with nine wins ten losses, one

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think first off, they're going to want

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Speaker 5: So they'll want to go out there and prove that

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Speaker 5: They'll want to get up, can get mathematically into the

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Speaker 3: And the Warriors away from home as well. That's we've

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Speaker 5: No, but let's not also forget the Warriors are very

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Speaker 3: No, a very very good point. Now, last week we

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Speaker 3: Alex Powell, how will I guess? Do you expect Luke

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Speaker 5: Just because it was only forty minutes? I'd probably say not.

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Speaker 5: I might think, oh, really well, I mean, look, you

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Speaker 5: The thing I will give Luke Metcalff in his favor though,

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Speaker 5: as I do think all up here is Sean Johnson's

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Speaker 5: best out of all four Warriors halves. You know. Johnson

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Speaker 5: wants to sit back and manage Metcalff wants to get

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Speaker 5: the born hand, take it on, run at it, you know.

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Speaker 5: So I think if that's what they think they need,

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Speaker 3: I feel bad for Tomainie Martin too, because he's effectively

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Speaker 3: been dropped there, which is obviously given up on the

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Speaker 3: Johnson Martin combination, which I think is the right move

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Speaker 3: it working. So I'd love to see Luke Metcalf back

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Speaker 3: into starting side. But you do make a very good

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Speaker 3: point about probably needing a full game of New South

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Speaker 3: Wales Cup before he's ready for the NRL as well.

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Speaker 3: So of course the alternative is he starts this weekend

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Speaker 3: and we have Chanelle on the interchange and Chanell plays

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Speaker 3: the sort of dummy five eighth interchangeable role, so that

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Speaker 3: could be a possibility as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I absolutely think that's you know, that's a very

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Speaker 5: good option to have. You know, Schanell's probably the most

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Speaker 3: Okay, Alex Pout Quick Fire Predictions, Round twenty three. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to come at you with eight games. You're going

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Speaker 3: to tell me who's your winner and why. First up,

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Speaker 3: Rabbit O Storm Storm.

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna get into we do this every week.

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Speaker 5: I think the Storm a better team.

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Speaker 3: Just we'll pick the Storm, Titans, Sharks.

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Speaker 5: I'd really liked the look at the Titans the last

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Speaker 5: few weeks. I think at home, I think they'll do it.

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Speaker 3: Titans absolutely demolished the Broncos forty six eighteen. They've really

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Speaker 3: come alive in the second half of the season. The Sharks, well,

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Speaker 3: they beat the Barons twenty points to six. The Titans

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Speaker 3: are at home, you game with the Titans.

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Speaker 5: I'm going Titans.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the Titans. I can't believe

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Speaker 3: I'm saying this, but Titans to beat the Sharks on

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Speaker 3: the Gold Coast Eels Panthers.

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Speaker 5: Out of the West. Let's go Panthers.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to agree with you there, Panthers getting the

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Speaker 3: job done over Newcastle on Sunday evening. Don't think the

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Speaker 3: Earls will have enough for them. They think Cleary scoring

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Speaker 3: the winning try. Raiders Seagulls.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go Raiders.

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Speaker 3: See the Raiders had a close lost to the Bulldogs.

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Speaker 3: The Seagulls coming off the bye again. Two teams in

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Speaker 3: and around that top eight, I'm gonna disagree with you

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Speaker 3: here and go for the Seagulls to win this one.

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Speaker 3: Seventh spot on the lader, Dragon's Bulldogs, Bulldogs, Bulldogs, they're

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Speaker 3: having a season. Man Camera s Eraldo Coach of the

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Speaker 3: Year Swan.

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Speaker 5: He has to be. I mean, I don't think anyone

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Speaker 5: else gets close to him, and you look at where

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Speaker 5: he's you know, Andrew Webster came in straight away from

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Speaker 5: that Panthers system and you know took the words the

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Speaker 5: top four one coach of the year. Cameras are. They

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Speaker 5: had a really tough year last year. They had players

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Speaker 5: that they probably shouldn't have signed on money they shouldn't

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Speaker 5: have spent, and he's really just managed to turn it around.

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Speaker 3: Bulldogs fifth on the ladder and the Dragons are eighth.

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Speaker 3: Also in that fight, I'm going to go with the

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Speaker 3: Bulldogs as well, and Dolphins versus the Warriors, Alex Powell,

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Speaker 3: They've still got all the players back.

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Speaker 5: Look, I'm I don't want to just be deluded and

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Speaker 5: say Warriors, but I think that's what I'm.

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Speaker 2: Going to do.

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Speaker 3: You're going to go for the Warriors.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go for the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to pick the Dolphins. It pains me to

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Speaker 3: say it, but given the circumstances, given that they're at home.

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Speaker 3: Although actually it would be like the Warriors to completely

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Speaker 3: mess up the game, They're expected to win, head into

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Speaker 3: the tough one and produce an absolute master class. So really,

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Speaker 3: who knows? Knights Tigers?

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Speaker 5: Probably the Knights, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the Knights as well to

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Speaker 3: win that one. Also in the fight for the top eight,

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Speaker 3: well a competition. Thank you so much Alex Pale for

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Speaker 3: your time, you're wisdom, your insight on the Big League

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Speaker 3: Podcast this week. Please follow and rate the podcast. We

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Speaker 3: will be back next Monday. My name is Nathan Limb.

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