Speaker 1: Yes, hello and welcome to another episode of Freddy and
Speaker 1: the Eighth. Great to have your company, of course, we
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Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 4: Don, How we are.
Speaker 2: Feeling midway through the weekend? Midway through the season?
Speaker 3: What do they call mid sorry?
Speaker 5: Home way through the season. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: What a great year, fantastic and you get the feeling
Speaker 1: that it's gonna get more exciting.
Speaker 5: What do you think about the latter? Do you think
Speaker 5: the team?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 5: What do you you got Canterbury Worm, Canbra Worries Melbourne?
Speaker 5: Do you think they will change?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I think that will be There'll be top four. Well,
Speaker 6: Raiders have still got three buyers. Raiders are locking. I
Speaker 6: think Melbourne are locking the other two? Well, who's coming fifth?
Speaker 6: The Sharks are two wins out. I think the top
Speaker 6: four stays.
Speaker 1: The Raiders are interesting with the buyers they're locked in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, good job to Ricky's men.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we've got a huge show coming up
Speaker 1: here today on Freddy in the Eighth.
Speaker 2: We cannot wait for this one.
Speaker 1: One of our best and biggest guests so far, the
Speaker 1: new South Wales premier Chris Mins joins us on the couch.
Speaker 1: We also cross into Blues camp with state of origin
Speaker 1: teams name we'll run our eyes over them. Plus we're
Speaker 1: going to be previewing a huge weekend of footy two,
Speaker 1: so so much look forward to. And we do have
Speaker 1: some breaking news as well on the great eighth Immortal
Speaker 1: Andrew John's so.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you very shortly.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it and talk about things
Speaker 1: that have been happen. I think that's a shorter list
Speaker 1: around the grounds. What about this Monday we had the
Speaker 1: Bulldogs with another fantastic win the fans.
Speaker 2: This is just such a good showing.
Speaker 1: We've seen game after game where they've had so many
Speaker 1: people out and.
Speaker 5: About oh and Air on Monday to watch the game.
Speaker 5: Took a couple of schoolmates. Actually one of them is
Speaker 5: a mad Bulldogs fan. And not only the teams obviously
Speaker 5: performing will be you just tell the whole club he's
Speaker 5: doing a fantastic job. The entertainment on the day. You
Speaker 5: know the way the team runs down, they obviously walk
Speaker 5: across from the hotel. You know the way they enter
Speaker 5: the field. There's a light show going on the whole
Speaker 5: thing is just entertaining, and you know the team's just
Speaker 5: actually just capping it off. And I was up the
Speaker 5: Chris Mins was actually a couple of boxes up from
Speaker 5: where I was sitting and just watching them react to
Speaker 5: what was going on. As well as.
Speaker 3: Awesome a team response they lift because.
Speaker 1: Of it, is it also a smart move as well?
Speaker 1: You're doing this in the season so that maybe potentially
Speaker 1: if they do make it to.
Speaker 2: The Grand Final, it's not as they're used to exactly.
Speaker 5: It's not as overwhelming an event they used to be occasions.
Speaker 5: What they said about the first time they walked over,
Speaker 5: that was Easter weekend when they played South and that
Speaker 5: was I think sixty five thousand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good Friday.
Speaker 5: So they walked over basically just getting people used to
Speaker 5: get them used to lift in their heart rate.
Speaker 1: And the film with there that surrounds it all. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: good job to all the Bulldogs fans as well. And
Speaker 1: we've also got probably one of the best rugby league
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Speaker 2: Have look at this. I don't get it.
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Speaker 3: Say to is like nah, to say it.
Speaker 1: Well, he certainly enjoyed his time at the footy two.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a bit of a.
Speaker 2: State of origin. I don't think he didn't see kickoff,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Origin selections, there has been a lot of change for
Speaker 1: Queensland's obviously the big one. A week ago we sat
Speaker 1: here on the lounge and we spoke about Billy Slater
Speaker 1: whether he would choose Tom Didon or Dally Cherry Evans
Speaker 1: for the number seven jersey. You were very strong on
Speaker 1: the fact that you thought that he should have chosen
Speaker 1: didn't But I remember asking you, do you think that
Speaker 1: he'll make that tug put and you didn't think he
Speaker 1: didn't think?
Speaker 2: What did you make of it?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 2: When Bill did pull the trigger.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a brave move.
Speaker 6: It's one of the bravest moves we've seen for Queensland
Speaker 6: in Origin to drop their captain.
Speaker 3: I just think it's Dieddon's time.
Speaker 6: He's played four Origin maybe five is twenty four to
Speaker 6: twenty five, but we know dcu's thirty six. Something had
Speaker 6: to change. They scored one try in two games and
Speaker 6: that was off an Era, a big tackle from jeremih
Speaker 6: then a So something isn't working. So I had to
Speaker 6: pull the trigger, just had to. But it's a big call,
Speaker 6: very brave call.
Speaker 5: If you look at Tommy Didn's last two games. They
Speaker 5: played Manly and we're in the game and got boot
Speaker 5: and as they played Melbourne where they were in the
Speaker 5: game for about thirty minutes thirty five minutes or so
Speaker 5: and got boot as well. So you know, it's a
Speaker 5: big difference coming onto the field as a utility to
Speaker 5: being the starting number seven as well. So it's a
Speaker 5: massive job. But I feel like Billy doesn't learn in
Speaker 5: eagle Queensland don't if they don't pull the trigger, well,
Speaker 5: this is the game.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: Put it under pressure and just see how they go.
Speaker 5: You know, obviously he's asking his team to play on
Speaker 5: effort because that's what Tom Didn's all about, his effort.
Speaker 5: So it's not going to be about structure and tactics,
Speaker 5: is going to be about effort and getting the result
Speaker 5: through that way.
Speaker 1: And this is the thing as well. The series is
Speaker 1: on the line. This is the time that you are
Speaker 1: going to have to make that big call.
Speaker 6: Well, you can look at it another way. Everyone's saying
Speaker 6: New South Far is going to win. People are saying
Speaker 6: New Southwar is going to clean sweet. So you can say, well,
Speaker 6: there's probably less pressure on Tommy or you're looking the
Speaker 6: other way.
Speaker 3: The series is on the line. I just think it
Speaker 3: is his time now.
Speaker 6: Now if you say in three or four years time
Speaker 6: he's going to be the halfback for Queensland, you're saying
Speaker 6: Tom did or in the halves whether it's him and
Speaker 6: Sammy Walker or him or whatever, but he's going to
Speaker 6: be in the halves for the next probably twenty games.
Speaker 3: Now's the time to get him in there.
Speaker 1: Another big decision that Queensland had to make this week
Speaker 1: the Captaincy Camra Munster named as captain. What did you
Speaker 1: make of this call?
Speaker 2: With this? A no brainer?
Speaker 3: It's a smart move.
Speaker 6: That mean on screen would have went close Tuna. I
Speaker 6: think also Harry Grant, but I just think we all
Speaker 6: know Munster's monster. He's a alarican and a lunatic, but
Speaker 6: sometimes at this stage of his career, you just need
Speaker 6: a bit of extra motivation and he's played that nut
Speaker 6: painting that. The most famous rugby blue jersey the number
Speaker 6: six Queensland jersey, played by Wally Lewis, Jonathan Thurston, Darren Lockyer.
Speaker 6: It's a very famous jersey in all those players with
Speaker 6: captain maybe not Jonathan's Thurston, but it's their time number
Speaker 6: six Queensland.
Speaker 3: But to see next to his name, watching with.
Speaker 5: And emoture, he needs it. I don't think his form
Speaker 5: has been outstanding. I think his reaction was when he
Speaker 5: got the call from Billy was that he thought he
Speaker 5: might have been getting dropped. So it does in gist,
Speaker 5: but I think emotionally needs a little something in the moment,
Speaker 5: and their team definitely does. If you give it a Tina,
Speaker 5: Tino's on the field for half the game, so you
Speaker 5: miss out on the leadership you're looking for for the
Speaker 5: other half. So I think it's a really it's a
Speaker 5: good move and it's up to him now.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing as well with Munster. He's such
Speaker 2: a competitor.
Speaker 1: I think that obviously he's got quite alarican personality off
Speaker 1: the field and people see that, but he is just yeah,
Speaker 1: he cares so much about the result, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: Of it's smoking, not a lot of it, Some of
Speaker 3: its smoke and mirrors. Also he plays up to it.
Speaker 5: He's been made, he's made big changes this year. You
Speaker 5: can see looks different, you know's obviously his whole life's change.
Speaker 5: He's got three kids now married. It's all you know.
Speaker 5: Two is it?
Speaker 3: You've got to scoop for us?
Speaker 5: Is only too right. I think I was talking to
Speaker 5: rebout it this morning. I think she told me three.
Speaker 5: So I'm going to blame around there. But yeah, now's
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 3: Good luck to we.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there you go. It's going to be an
Speaker 2: interesting one, an interesting.
Speaker 1: Showdown at ufter Stating in Perth that is now just
Speaker 1: a week away as well, and don't forget as well,
Speaker 1: all the action exclusive at live and free right here
Speaker 1: on Nine's Wide World of Sports. We can wait for
Speaker 1: that and we will be chatting all things at New
Speaker 1: South Wales as well. Coming out very shortly, but stick
Speaker 1: around because we are joined by a very special guest,
Speaker 1: stub Naxt.
Speaker 4: Sorry about the weather yesterday.
Speaker 8: We hope it comes good today and I'm sorry about
Speaker 8: the performance of the.
Speaker 3: Cowboy running it straight at Chris Mims.
Speaker 2: Can we tee that up?
Speaker 6: Freddy's Mandy's going to tee it up?
Speaker 3: He's tackling techniques of origin.
Speaker 6: One you think, let's tee it up origin New South
Speaker 6: Wales b Queensland for the premiere has got to love it.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go.
Speaker 1: We are very close to teeing it up because I'm
Speaker 1: pleased to say the New South Wales premier Chrismins joins
Speaker 1: us here on the couch. Great to see you, Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us as well. Have you heard anything from
Speaker 1: the Queensland premiere?
Speaker 7: He didn't mention that. No, he was a bit quiet
Speaker 7: on the run Straight challenge. But we're not close at
Speaker 7: all to that happening and there's no way I'm going
Speaker 7: to do that.
Speaker 3: But he's good value, he's a good fellow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's good fun and we text a lot about
Speaker 7: natural disasters or things that need to happen on the
Speaker 7: border and he's very helpful. He sent a ton of
Speaker 7: sees volunteers from Queensland down to the mid North Coast
Speaker 7: during the recent flight, which was genuinely what we needed.
Speaker 4: It was fantastic.
Speaker 5: Is that always a way premier is always working together?
Speaker 7: I think in the past there's been bluing between, you know,
Speaker 7: different different premiers, sometimes in the same party he's in
Speaker 7: he's in the other party from me, but mostly mostly
Speaker 7: across Australia, people will put down, you know, their spears
Speaker 7: if there's something that needs to be done, which is
Speaker 7: what I think everyone would expect anyway, right.
Speaker 1: Do you have a going for Game two or the
Speaker 1: Origin series as a whole with him?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were searching around for one and eventually we
Speaker 7: came across the idea. We only struck the deal after
Speaker 7: Origin one was completed. Actually, so the loser of Origin
Speaker 7: has to strike or has to record a tourism ad
Speaker 7: for the winner's state, So he'll have to put on
Speaker 7: a budget smugglers and they're down the Bond Eye and
Speaker 7: do a vineyard tour of the Hunter Valley.
Speaker 5: That be perfect white politics. It looks like such a
Speaker 5: brutal sport politics boy. And then what's the process? You know,
Speaker 5: there's councils, state politics, federal. How have you come about
Speaker 5: being the premier?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was probably it was a long road.
Speaker 7: I always liked it. I was interested in it when
Speaker 7: I was a kid. My old man was not so
Speaker 7: much interested in politics, but a big labor guy, and
Speaker 7: really he sort of talked about it a lot. We
Speaker 7: my brother and my sister got into it that way.
Speaker 7: I was the only one that joined, and he joined
Speaker 7: the party very briefly, but went to a branch meeting
Speaker 7: and thought it was just a racket.
Speaker 4: I ever thought I'm not getting.
Speaker 7: Involved, but I kept at it, and you know, ever
Speaker 7: since I've been seventeen, i've been a member.
Speaker 4: I've largely enjoyed it.
Speaker 7: I mean, it can be stressful and difficult at times,
Speaker 7: but most of the.
Speaker 4: Time it's good fun.
Speaker 3: And you're a dogs fan, massive dogs must be pumped.
Speaker 3: That's how they're going.
Speaker 7: They played so well. I was just saying the Duneker
Speaker 7: that I don't really want to put the mocker on them.
Speaker 7: It's just such a great season. And I was surprised
Speaker 7: that they made such a big move on lockey Galvin,
Speaker 7: but you know, seemingly on the basis of Monday's game.
Speaker 7: That was the right call and I reckon. I mean,
Speaker 7: we were talking about it in the office. There's heaps
Speaker 7: of Bulldogs fans in the office, Sarah and James and
Speaker 7: everybody's ad a mad Dogs fan, and we were talking
Speaker 7: about the move and how he was going to move
Speaker 7: into the halves potentially, and what a big call it
Speaker 7: was given the team was coming first and the fact
Speaker 7: that it went off without a hitch.
Speaker 4: I reckon.
Speaker 7: A lot of the credit should go to Sexton actually,
Speaker 7: because there's no social media post, there's no leaking to
Speaker 7: the media.
Speaker 4: This is just straight. He just gets on with it.
Speaker 4: So they seem to have.
Speaker 7: A good culture, and culture is probably what wins premierships.
Speaker 3: Well, you would have been involved with some good operators.
Speaker 3: Phil Goirld.
Speaker 6: The way he's turned that club around, what he did
Speaker 6: at Penrith now at the Bulldogs, Yeah, must be a
Speaker 6: great operator.
Speaker 3: He must admire what he's done.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's seemingly ruthless, but that's what you need to
Speaker 7: win a competition, and you know, as a Bulldogs fan,
Speaker 7: you know it's fantastic to see. Also also the Warriors
Speaker 7: as well, he was involved over there as well, so
Speaker 7: he's obviously knows what he's doing. But yeah, look, I
Speaker 7: think they've got what it takes. But they're obviously a
Speaker 7: young team and they seem to have that grit.
Speaker 5: Their back roll was incredible, the whole teams on that.
Speaker 5: I may mention after the game and it's like every
Speaker 5: Bulldogs game to go to pick a met of the match,
Speaker 5: you're like, really, yeah, they all seem to chip in
Speaker 5: so well, work so hard for each they do.
Speaker 2: It's such a team effort there.
Speaker 1: I want to know for you in your current job
Speaker 1: at the moment, it does seem like, you know, such
Speaker 1: a high pressure in the position.
Speaker 2: What does a day in the life of in New
Speaker 2: South Wales premieer entail.
Speaker 4: Well, it's sort of different. Every day. You spend a
Speaker 4: lot of time in the car.
Speaker 7: I get up really early. I think Sydney's an early
Speaker 7: morning town. Like if you go down to the beach
Speaker 7: a Cronulla or Bondi, it's full of people. Centennial Park.
Speaker 7: Everybody do an exercise. So I get up early and
Speaker 7: you train early. Yeah, I do a bit of training.
Speaker 7: I do a little bit of something every day, so
Speaker 7: it might be just twenty minutes or forty minutes, but
Speaker 7: that's enough. It's more for my mental health, I think,
Speaker 7: than my physical health. And then you're into the day.
Speaker 7: Sometimes I got things on at night, but usually just
Speaker 7: in the car. One of the good things about politics,
Speaker 7: and one of the reasons I'm involved in it, is
Speaker 7: that no two days are the same. So if you
Speaker 7: like variety, it's a good job because it might be
Speaker 7: a disaster, but it's something different. Monday can be different
Speaker 7: to Tuesday, and often if you've had a bad Monday
Speaker 7: Tuesday Wednesday, you luck and turn around by the weekend.
Speaker 4: The reverse is true as well. But you.
Speaker 5: Seen no luck with rose Hill. Now that was something
Speaker 5: everyone was listening to and everyone was watching. I think
Speaker 5: everyone who knows the area. I could see the benefit.
Speaker 5: I couldn't really understand the other side of it. But
Speaker 5: what was it like obviously working with are Peter and
Speaker 5: then the other side is not getting the result, and yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, there's no point in lying about it.
Speaker 7: I was disappointed, and I think probably the temptation is
Speaker 7: to say I know a big deal. I would have
Speaker 7: loved it. I reckon it would have been great for Sydney.
Speaker 7: I'm disappointed it didn't go through, but our housing crisis
Speaker 7: is so great. We've got reports into the government that
Speaker 7: show we lose twice as many young people as we
Speaker 7: gain every year in Sydney. And this week Sydney was
Speaker 7: named the most expensive city on Earth. So we've got
Speaker 7: all these commissions and reports that come back and say,
Speaker 7: if you don't have young people, then you don't have
Speaker 7: a future. And so rather than sort of crawling up
Speaker 7: in a ball, I think we need to take more chances,
Speaker 7: more opportunities for housing, more apartments, more units so that
Speaker 7: people can live near their mum and dad, live near
Speaker 7: their grandparents. Because at the moment, a lot of people
Speaker 7: I grew up with and the generation below mere saying
Speaker 7: I'm packing it in, I'm going to Brisbane, or I'm
Speaker 7: heading going to Melbourne, and that's at a.
Speaker 4: Big loss for us.
Speaker 3: I got a solution for you.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 3: Off the rest of the.
Speaker 6: Shark Park, which isn't too much, but the big one
Speaker 6: is you sell that whole block at Cogra Oval and
Speaker 6: then you build a boutique stadium at Brighton the Sands,
Speaker 6: or maybe down at Waterfall or in the Shire or somewhere.
Speaker 1: Well you have you'd have apartment blocks where Cogra and.
Speaker 2: Where Hue.
Speaker 3: And then your self the rest of the Shark Park.
Speaker 6: Then you have a little boutique stadium which is sort
Speaker 6: of towards Wollongong Waterfall there you know the National Park,
Speaker 6: and then people from the Shire don't have to travel
Speaker 6: too far. You're what it's like from the Shire. They
Speaker 6: close the gates. But if it's there, we've got the
Speaker 6: train line there at water.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 3: What do you reckon?
Speaker 5: I like it? Thank you, hello, Brian. I think bridon.
Speaker 5: Imagine the stadium at broad would.
Speaker 2: Be fair out on the water.
Speaker 4: You sell Belmore too, Yeah, we're selling a lot of landed.
Speaker 5: Developer go on a bell more so that who Eastern side?
Speaker 4: I did the Dogs do play a couple of games?
Speaker 5: Yeah, one the first train out of there, don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need to have a base to the.
Speaker 5: Neral W and they also have every they pretty much
Speaker 5: have every grade covered, so they've got a couple of
Speaker 5: grounds out of the bag. I was out of there
Speaker 5: the other day actually with the annerl W two they're
Speaker 5: doing a really good job.
Speaker 4: Well, we would look at it.
Speaker 7: Probably the big problem with the plan is the Dragons
Speaker 7: fans and the Sharks fans don't don't tend to want
Speaker 7: to share a stadium.
Speaker 5: The Boss.
Speaker 6: The Boss, I don't get either of Apparently the Roosters
Speaker 6: and Souse sharing the.
Speaker 5: Stadium for it, So what's to go there? Like, what
Speaker 5: will happened there anything between the Roosters as.
Speaker 4: In the South's going back to more Park.
Speaker 7: Look, it's a tough one for us because obviously there's
Speaker 7: a contract in place at Home Bush. But we're talking
Speaker 7: to all parties and yeah, look, these are difficult things
Speaker 7: to manage. The good news is everybody's been sort of
Speaker 7: putting the boot into a call for a long time.
Speaker 7: Sixty thousand people on Monday, the biggest crowds we've seen
Speaker 7: in the NRL for suburban week by week games in years,
Speaker 7: and that wouldn't happen if we didn't have a giant
Speaker 7: stadium out there. So I think we can get the
Speaker 7: balance right, But I don't know. We haven't got a
Speaker 7: solution at the moment.
Speaker 5: But we're both out there. A saw down a couple
Speaker 5: of boxes all spying on you.
Speaker 2: Actually, he actually took a photo of you and said
Speaker 2: it to us, these.
Speaker 5: Two it was around you the other day. A roof
Speaker 5: on a stadium. Well that ever happened in Sydney.
Speaker 4: It could.
Speaker 7: I mean again super expensive. My issue at the moment
Speaker 7: is we've got to get our finances under control.
Speaker 5: How long does that take? You say, you've got to
Speaker 5: get your finance under control? So do you hear that
Speaker 5: across the world at the moment? Yeah, how long does
Speaker 5: it take to actually turn your finances around?
Speaker 7: We work in four year cycles, so we do the
Speaker 7: budget for this year and then we effectively do the
Speaker 7: budget for the next four years as well. So generally speaking,
Speaker 7: you have in your mind's eye, I hope this problem
Speaker 7: will be solved over it three or four year cycle,
Speaker 7: not generally beyond that. But my problem for it is,
Speaker 7: I can't jack taxes up on anybody anymore. You know,
Speaker 7: people are paying more than they've ever paid for rent,
Speaker 7: for mortgages, for going to the supermarkets, and I cannot.
Speaker 7: I cannot jack up anyone's taxes even a cent, because understandably,
Speaker 7: when you live in the most expensive city on Earth,
Speaker 7: there's no room to move.
Speaker 4: Everybody's back pocket is completely bare.
Speaker 3: What about junior sport?
Speaker 6: How to keep more kids playing sports generally around that
Speaker 6: age of fourteen fifteen, which it sort of drops off.
Speaker 6: How do we keep more kids in sport, but also
Speaker 6: on the women's side of things, the women's rugby league
Speaker 6: has gone through the roof, So how do we keep
Speaker 6: more kids playing sport but also encourage young girls to
Speaker 6: continue to play sport.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we've worked with Peter, the NRL, Peter Blandis and
Speaker 7: the NRL about state government support for the women's for
Speaker 7: the women's competition, which is just massive and growing every
Speaker 7: single year. The competition's just so healthy At the moment,
Speaker 7: I think this is probably the keys. As a parent,
Speaker 7: I reckon this is the key issue because it's so
Speaker 7: difficult to get kids.
Speaker 4: Off electronic devices.
Speaker 7: They're designed, they're designed to keep you hooked, and I
Speaker 7: find it difficult to rip myself away from a mobile
Speaker 7: phone or an iPad.
Speaker 4: And obviously I'm an adult.
Speaker 7: I don't know why we would expect a kid to
Speaker 7: have the self control and the discipline to put down
Speaker 7: an addictive.
Speaker 5: Technology.
Speaker 7: The best thing we did since we got elected was
Speaker 7: to ban mobile phones in schools in public schools in
Speaker 7: New South Wales. And if you speak to Principles, they'll say, yeah, look,
Speaker 7: it's been pretty good in the classroom. A bit more
Speaker 7: interaction with the teacher. But the big benefit has been
Speaker 7: a recess on lunchtime. Previously, you look at a schooyard,
Speaker 7: everyone would be not talking with one another, but almost
Speaker 7: texting each other, even if they were six feet from
Speaker 7: each other. And now you've got to talk. They're playing sports.
Speaker 7: Basketball is huge, football and soccer is picking up, and
Speaker 7: I reckon it's as a result of that that change.
Speaker 7: South Australia did it first, We did it second, the
Speaker 7: private schools followed us, and now every other state's pretty
Speaker 7: much in the cart for it.
Speaker 2: Would you ever go harder?
Speaker 1: Because I know that, especially with kids, they're always going
Speaker 1: to try and find a loopholand. You know, kids text
Speaker 1: each other from watches and everything. Now there's always some
Speaker 1: new technology. Yeah, from smart watches they can call each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you mean? You can call people from
Speaker 2: your watch and text people from your watch.
Speaker 3: And so there's nowhere you can hide where that you
Speaker 3: can hide. You can leave your mobile phone at home.
Speaker 5: With the glasses. Wear the glass have cameras.
Speaker 2: On, yeah, the rayvens.
Speaker 6: Yeah what about origin you're going over to person?
Speaker 3: No, No, not going. How do you think we'll go?
Speaker 4: I mean I think we'll win.
Speaker 7: But you know, the Queenslander seemed to rally off the
Speaker 7: back of feeling Umbridge a New South Well slides, so
Speaker 7: I'm a bit worried about that. But they just seem
Speaker 7: to have him all over the park. And I mean
Speaker 7: they're in rare form, the New South Wales, so they've
Speaker 7: got a lot of depth as well.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I really want him to do well.
Speaker 7: I think that they're I think that they could go
Speaker 7: the whole way and have a sweet But probably more
Speaker 7: important than that, the team that's going through looks like
Speaker 7: they could dominate for years, and I guess that's the
Speaker 7: best thing from New South Wales' perspective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good Sons to New South Wales.
Speaker 1: And before we let you go, if the Dogs win
Speaker 1: the Grand Final, how would you celebrate.
Speaker 4: I don't drink. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean I probably my middle boy, Nicholas is not
Speaker 7: for the for the Bulldogs. He absolutely loves them, so yeah,
Speaker 7: I'll probably celebrate with him.
Speaker 3: If you don't drink in the labor party with Bob Hawks.
Speaker 4: Well he didn't. He gave it up too. He gave
Speaker 4: it up too.
Speaker 3: I had a few sessions I couldn't keep up with.
Speaker 1: I couldn't keep up with him. Well, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining us here on fred In the Eighth.
Speaker 2: Great to have you on.
Speaker 1: You're probably our most famous and respectable guest we've ever had,
Speaker 1: so I love hearing that you love Tuney in as
Speaker 1: well and go the Blues.
Speaker 4: Yeah, love joenning In. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All right, Well see ground plenty more coming up here
Speaker 1: on fredd In the Eighth. Up next, we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking all things footy across the weekend. It kicks
Speaker 1: off with an absolute cracker between the Sharks and the Dragons.
Speaker 5: My inspiring teammate moment wouldn't have to be trade fits
Speaker 5: given here's an amazing athlete fits in such a tough,
Speaker 5: tough player. It'd be hard to highlight so many different
Speaker 5: instances in games where he went above and beyond what
Speaker 5: normal people would do. I do remember one try he
Speaker 5: scored in a semi final against Newcastle, played back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I wor he must have round ninety moons fetch dead
Speaker 5: running over that way he's running out of I just
Speaker 5: remember that try for a back rower who just played
Speaker 5: eighty minutes every week, and he took Matthew Gidley over
Speaker 5: the trial underscore in the corner sort of. I thought
Speaker 5: it typified what he was capable of.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: From one great News Wales back rower two another and
Speaker 1: please to say Angus Christen joins us at Live now
Speaker 1: from Blues Camp. Good to see you, Angus. How has
Speaker 1: camp been so far? You've only been in for a
Speaker 1: few days, still in New South Wales at the moment.
Speaker 3: How are you guys? Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 9: It's nicely back with the boys and a few new
Speaker 9: faces in here too, so also building on those combinations
Speaker 9: that we started the Ford to last camp.
Speaker 10: It's been fun.
Speaker 5: Just had a highlight of Craig fitsgiving you you're the
Speaker 5: Roosters with Fitz would you learn from him?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Actually after one of the Grand Finals I think it was.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 9: I'm not going to try remember what year it was,
Speaker 9: but I was back at the Leeds club and they
Speaker 9: wouldn't let me in because I was too young. But
Speaker 9: I got a Craigfits given autograph from my godfather on
Speaker 9: a coaster, So that was pretty cool to be able
Speaker 9: to be coached by him, and obviously being around him
Speaker 9: in origin camp when you were at Freddie and at
Speaker 9: the Roosters for a long period of time, too, and
Speaker 9: it's just the kind of coach that you never want
Speaker 9: to let down. Like I feel like he just gets
Speaker 9: disappointed in you if you do something. I think it's
Speaker 9: just like I've done on an upset fits you.
Speaker 6: It's talked that there could be some complacency in New
Speaker 6: South Wales. Is there been a difference in feeling from
Speaker 6: going on to this one?
Speaker 9: If anything, there's less complacency. I feel like there's more
Speaker 9: of an onus on. We haven't done anything yet, to
Speaker 9: be honest, Yeah, if we if we don't perform, we
Speaker 9: nothing pretty much. So yeah, we're going to be work
Speaker 9: making sure we're working for everything that we're going to get.
Speaker 1: Obviously, the Blues had that change due to Mitch Barnett
Speaker 1: with Max King then promoted to the starting side. To
Speaker 1: find out, joking man who coming in on the bench
Speaker 1: at Queensland. They've made a fair bit of changes. Well
Speaker 1: what did you make of them dropping Daly Trey Evans
Speaker 1: their skipper.
Speaker 10: We're freezing on me here, Danny go.
Speaker 9: I'm assuming you asked about Barney, But yeah, Max King's
Speaker 9: going to do a great job coming in and Steph's
Speaker 9: been fantastic two he was around all of the last
Speaker 9: camp and he was ready to go with pain wasn't
Speaker 9: going to be right.
Speaker 10: So Steph's been around and knows all the plays.
Speaker 9: He's trained alongside our halves and have run in the
Speaker 9: full pack as well.
Speaker 10: So those guys were really.
Speaker 9: Confident in them coming in to step up and make
Speaker 9: sure they do a job, which is it's a big
Speaker 9: hold of Phil. Barney was such a big part of
Speaker 9: our team and our thoughts are with him and we
Speaker 9: love him and Missai.
Speaker 5: Danigol Silgan also about the changes that Queensland have made
Speaker 5: you feel like they're going to be a different proposition.
Speaker 5: Obviously they're going to have the motivation of losing game one,
Speaker 5: but what about from a point of view of the footy.
Speaker 5: Obviously did and it's a really big one. So some
Speaker 5: changes in the back row as well. What difference do
Speaker 5: you think they'll be.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's obviously a lot of changes and we knew
Speaker 9: they're going to be making sure they're going to be
Speaker 9: up for this game is obviously do or die for
Speaker 9: them and we're expecting them to come at their full
Speaker 9: powers and yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 10: I don't know if what they've named that'll be the
Speaker 10: team that plays.
Speaker 9: But I guess we'll find out on the night who's
Speaker 9: actually going to be our surprise because I thought Jeremiah
Speaker 9: was one of their best. So yeah, I guess we'll
Speaker 9: find out in the night. But to be honest, Fred,
Speaker 9: we're pretty focused on ourselves. Hey, I think that's the
Speaker 9: thing about these big games. You've got to make sure
Speaker 9: that we're the tightest group that we can be. And
Speaker 9: got so much trust, so much faith in this side
Speaker 9: that I've been gone putting a really strong performance against
Speaker 9: whoever's in front of us, doesn't matter who it is.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about ourselves. Paying hass the machine that is
Speaker 3: paying Hals. When you're out there watching him play, what
Speaker 3: are you.
Speaker 9: Thinking, Yeah, you just jump on the back of him
Speaker 9: and go with him. I think he's such a force
Speaker 9: and he's such a powerful guy. And yeah, obviously in
Speaker 9: the pack we've got great players all across the board
Speaker 9: and the team, weve got leaders from one to seventeen.
Speaker 9: And a guy like Paine, he just says, follow me
Speaker 9: and come come with me, and yeah, he's a fruit.
Speaker 5: The other one is the bloke that defends next to you,
Speaker 5: Stephen crot Well, what about him at the moment he
Speaker 5: must be a joy just to be playing with out there.
Speaker 10: Yeah he's on the other side. I got troubles on.
Speaker 9: The other side, but yeah, he shows how much footy
Speaker 9: you watch these days from.
Speaker 10: But he's honestly, You're right, he's the best defensive center
Speaker 10: in the camp. I think just the reassurance that he
Speaker 10: gives the whole edge.
Speaker 9: I think it's not through the amount of tackles that
Speaker 9: he does, but it's movements in between. The players just
Speaker 9: shaws up their edge so hard. I think the biggest
Speaker 9: one like when we were I think we were down
Speaker 9: a man and they throw out and Credit picks him
Speaker 9: up and takes him over the Sideline's such a big
Speaker 9: play for our team.
Speaker 5: What about Trollie. Has he come into camp?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know the troll made. He's a freak and
Speaker 10: troll just does what troll does.
Speaker 9: I think similar to pain. You just watch him go
Speaker 9: and chase him and hope I'll get a little lot
Speaker 9: of floating across the white stripe. But yeah, I love
Speaker 9: playing with troll I've obviously been a lot of big
Speaker 9: games with him.
Speaker 10: One Premiership with him and is back to the.
Speaker 9: Fitters, so I think I've seen him so even origin
Speaker 9: last year Game two mcg he has come in and
Speaker 9: so much confidence and just says.
Speaker 2: Follow me, Hey, we're disappointed you're wearing a beanie.
Speaker 1: You've obviously got a barbershop ac flow, but you're not exactly.
Speaker 3: That's all right.
Speaker 10: I don't have the best head of hair myself, so
Speaker 10: I don't wear a beanie. But I haven't had a
Speaker 10: haircut for a while because we've been in camps and that.
Speaker 10: So I'm just still my own home jobs in the
Speaker 10: mirror at the minute. But I forget a haircut when
Speaker 10: we're in Perth.
Speaker 6: Obviously obviously cut their head. Do you also do men's Brazilians.
Speaker 2: For a friend?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think we can make an exception for you, Joe,
Speaker 10: or you need that big QUI second some big watxing.
Speaker 5: Strips for a couple of different combs and it's going
Speaker 5: to block. Good chance is going to block. Hey, you
Speaker 5: guys are man.
Speaker 10: I don't know what you guys are geting up to.
Speaker 2: You don't want to know as.
Speaker 3: Ye, Well, there's this timing room to get.
Speaker 5: Keep going. Kick is your roommate? Do you get a
Speaker 5: roommate or you're on your own?
Speaker 10: We've all got our rooms these days.
Speaker 9: It's it's a bit different from having my my debuty
Speaker 9: with you from the peach. It was pretty funny room
Speaker 9: with him.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I think I think it's I think it's
Speaker 10: a thing of the past now the room is it's
Speaker 10: I think there's a canterters so long and that they
Speaker 10: give every on their own room.
Speaker 3: It's defining.
Speaker 1: I think some people do better on their own. All right,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Angus, Well done. We can't wait to
Speaker 1: see you in action on Wednesday. Enjoy the rest you
Speaker 1: can too.
Speaker 10: No worries, guys. Thanks having me on.
Speaker 2: So you want to elaborate on any of those stories.
Speaker 3: What time is?
Speaker 2: It has been great, he's recently married to recently married.
Speaker 3: Seems in a good place. It seems really heavy, great fella.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: Another big topic at the moment the Kangaroos and any
Speaker 1: potential coaches, any newss.
Speaker 6: Well, both our work colleagues would be perfect. It's funny
Speaker 6: here Freddie, but also Cameron Smith. I'd love to see
Speaker 6: the dream team come together.
Speaker 2: Do you have some news for us?
Speaker 3: I have been asked to be a selector.
Speaker 6: That was under mail. I don't know how i'd go
Speaker 6: under the meeting and self and Boyd Cordiner. I think
Speaker 6: it's lucky in Cameron.
Speaker 3: Just cheat chat.
Speaker 6: You know the team pretty much pieces itself, but toss
Speaker 6: up some ideas, especially young guys. You want to see
Speaker 6: blooded take away on tour.
Speaker 1: Does it change the way that when you're commentating now,
Speaker 1: do you have that now in the back of your mind?
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 6: When I'm watching watching the games or watching some of
Speaker 6: the younger players, how they're.
Speaker 5: Going thinking about the future.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you know what on tour for.
Speaker 6: A young player to come into camp, whether it be
Speaker 6: Origin or Australia, it's incredibly difficult.
Speaker 3: Look for a nineteen twenty year old.
Speaker 6: Because three four, five years ago your heroes and you're
Speaker 6: playing with them. So to get them in even before
Speaker 6: they're ready to start, but get them in to get
Speaker 6: used to you know how it is. And the intensity,
Speaker 6: the intensity at training in those camps is it's like playing.
Speaker 3: So you get them in early and get them used
Speaker 3: to it and go from there.
Speaker 5: Pretty good opportunity this year since two thousand and three thousand,
Speaker 5: any game and the only thing that's different is you're
Speaker 5: playing Great Britain, so you're playing everyone from up there
Speaker 5: in England, Ireland, Scotland kangaroo tools. They're a really huge
Speaker 5: part of rugby league history, going back to all the
Speaker 5: way in the early hundreds when Australia wasn't the dominant country.
Speaker 5: But it's an awesome opportunity to get over there. Nigga's
Speaker 5: done incredible job getting it back on the calendar and
Speaker 5: whoever whoever does get the job, if it's me or
Speaker 5: someone else, I think it's there will be incredible experience
Speaker 5: evidence sold out. Leads are sold out and they reckon
Speaker 5: seventy eighty thousand and Wembley doesn't get any better than that.
Speaker 1: And it's such a it's sort of a bucket list
Speaker 1: thing as well, to go watch a game of rugby
Speaker 1: league at Wembley.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally different.
Speaker 6: They appreciate the singing, but they clapped the opposition. You
Speaker 6: score a good try'll standing clap.
Speaker 1: Go on, lad, I'm going to try and come over.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and he'll be over there, you go.
Speaker 5: What are you doing over there? They're taking selectors over there.
Speaker 3: I'll take you to a tour around London.
Speaker 2: Have you got anything planned on the agenda?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Not really taking the family. So no handcuffs this one,
Speaker 3: No train roads, No train road.
Speaker 5: About that train cabs?
Speaker 2: All right, well okay, well we'll leave it at that
Speaker 2: one plenty. We're coming your way here on Freddy in
Speaker 2: the updecks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be looking at Freddy's Tries of the Week
Speaker 1: and the f A Metal votes to stick around.
Speaker 5: First Dibsy today.
Speaker 7: I'll come back to that in angec heads away get
Speaker 7: the Excelivation Summit.
Speaker 5: Dennis was Rudlow. Now it's away swings Sir has Dad.
Speaker 3: Day a black clock, black clock, and then back again
Speaker 3: up ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Ten taken a funny to something.
Speaker 10: Half dog man. It was exhilarating. It's the Dragons at
Speaker 10: their best.
Speaker 1: It's right you league, It's thick rugby league at its
Speaker 1: absolute best since thrilling tries there. Oh it is time
Speaker 1: for Freddy's tries of the week. Who are you adding
Speaker 1: to your list of flyers?
Speaker 5: We'll see it's a pretty good list. So just because
Speaker 5: you get admitted into the trial the week doesn't mean
Speaker 5: you get on the board. I'd like to say hi
Speaker 5: to Jamie Aysko too. We grew up in the same area.
Speaker 5: What a legend he was. KP the match Winter first
Speaker 5: tried the year doesn't make the board though, sorry mate,
Speaker 5: but great to see Newcastle get a result though down
Speaker 5: sixteen l at halftimeture Hunt, the two fletchers, Hunt and sharp.
Speaker 3: They were brilliant, so dirty haircut.
Speaker 2: I actually am a pre game.
Speaker 1: I actually asked KP about the fact that he hadn't
Speaker 1: scored a try all year, because you've got a little.
Speaker 4: Scro to him.
Speaker 2: At the end of the game. He came straight over
Speaker 2: and just pointed straight up the next one.
Speaker 5: He's our big man, puppy. What a day, What a day.
Speaker 5: Have a look at the trial. They're so subtly's movement
Speaker 5: for a big man getting at the back end of
Speaker 5: his career, you know, just subtle movements. Have look at
Speaker 5: this off the left foot, spin, turns his body the
Speaker 5: other way, forces himself through his three players. Mate, what
Speaker 5: a player then kicks the goal. The coach is crying
Speaker 5: on the sideline, that is and you get a start
Speaker 5: with that one. Pabby Mitch, you're gone, sorry, bro, that
Speaker 5: was special.
Speaker 2: Seeing the emotion on Rickey's face he was in the.
Speaker 5: Movies was fantastic. Good on your mate, And of course
Speaker 5: Monday I was out there.
Speaker 3: I watched it.
Speaker 5: Locky Galvin, you've ever seen a player nineteen years old
Speaker 5: deal with so much and do it so well. Was
Speaker 5: Locky Galvin? Very hard not to watch everything he was
Speaker 5: doing as he got on and he's just busy. Just
Speaker 5: watch him. He wants to be around the ball. And
Speaker 5: when this happened, the whole crowd just went mad. And
Speaker 5: I took a fat up with my phone of him
Speaker 5: and his team in the back and he's face on
Speaker 5: the screen scoring the try. It was hard not to
Speaker 5: get involved and be a Dog's fan for that moment
Speaker 5: right there, Locky Galvin, you don't make.
Speaker 6: The board, but it was awesome out off floats.
Speaker 3: He was fantastic, extravagant running style.
Speaker 5: Montoya is the same wingers.
Speaker 1: Yeah their wingers go had some honorable mentions, but no
Speaker 1: one really apart from Big Puppy can.
Speaker 2: Crack the top.
Speaker 6: Look his goal kicker was sweet. Someone said he's a
Speaker 6: scratch he plays off five or real goalf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's one of those.
Speaker 5: You see though he's balance when he look he kicked
Speaker 5: the goal. But scoring those tries for bloke that big
Speaker 5: just move his body.
Speaker 1: And what about our round of fourteen Freddy in the
Speaker 1: eighth votes.
Speaker 6: Katoni he was unbelievable, was wild both of us. It's
Speaker 6: strange what a player is. Oh surprise, surprise, I've gone with.
Speaker 5: It's still leaving mylone, police knocking on your door.
Speaker 6: It was a ten out of ten the other day,
Speaker 6: took the line on title control of the game, kicked
Speaker 6: an amazing forty twenty. They won by fifty six to six.
Speaker 6: It was on the back of this foot. He's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: You rate him at the moment.
Speaker 5: I don't questions.
Speaker 6: Current for I mean, you scrap everything, pass performances, and
Speaker 6: I think him and Nathan right at the top. This
Speaker 6: Blake is and I've been crying him for a last
Speaker 6: year and especially the start of this year.
Speaker 3: He is as good as it gets.
Speaker 6: He has no weaknesses and when you're watch him, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: at the moment, the way you play shut up, Freddie,
Speaker 6: Sorry Cody. You know Cody is my favorite. But Isaiah's
Speaker 6: getting creeping up there. I just sit and watch him
Speaker 6: play defensively half back. He hits him, There's no weakness.
Speaker 5: Something get better defenses go on the weekend. He's had
Speaker 5: a couple of strong hits. Tough tough boy made the
Speaker 5: Black co chose Jerome Hughes Delian medalists killed it. He
Speaker 5: was brilliant. Talk about half back. He's got some good
Speaker 5: half backs at the moment we.
Speaker 1: Go, or let's have a look at where it all
Speaker 1: stands at the omens and easy it's twelve points or he.
Speaker 3: Was at the top.
Speaker 4: Is he in?
Speaker 3: Nathan?
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe they won't let him on the boat. You
Speaker 5: know what saw on Monday, stew lording as his head
Speaker 5: and that crap made his buckle, he made he broke
Speaker 5: his rib shoulder, something to do with his legs.
Speaker 3: Lucky you landed on his head.
Speaker 1: Well, because he's going to help us put together the
Speaker 1: end of year competition.
Speaker 5: Lunch, he said, you still come for a cruise? I said, yep.
Speaker 3: So's dream. Who's had dream to take?
Speaker 5: You couldn't take easy, We wouldn't allow it now, can't
Speaker 5: corrupt him. Nathan's too. We need monster to keep playing on.
Speaker 2: If you're tuning in drink Rudolf the other day, he'd
Speaker 2: be keen.
Speaker 5: He's on the extended the extended bench of the Sharks.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, he says he's recovering. Well, it's either this
Speaker 1: week or next week. So yeah, so s gin that
Speaker 1: QR code as well. And you could be joining us
Speaker 1: on now. I think we decided it's going to be
Speaker 1: a boat, didn't It's safer out and see there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, well yeah, there's plenty to look forward to,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: Now, spots Bett having a crack.
Speaker 1: We also love Aussies who have a crack and get
Speaker 1: out and play each week. So we're going to be
Speaker 1: playing tribute to someone who did exactly. That doesn't matter
Speaker 1: the result, but this one they certainly got the result,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 6: Watch the timing. He hits this about fifty of his power,
Speaker 6: which is lucky. The ball will have exploded if you
Speaker 6: give it everything. Watch the timing and watch the balance.
Speaker 6: Watch it explode off his bit.
Speaker 3: It was gone fifty.
Speaker 2: Look at Ricky as well.
Speaker 3: That's that was a special That was cool.
Speaker 4: And this one too.
Speaker 2: Sorenson, he's got his Sorenson just.
Speaker 5: During buller every day. Look at him. He's scoring from Freddy.
Speaker 5: You know what, they're getting them better extraded help.
Speaker 3: That's a special effort you need to win comps. They
Speaker 3: might look back at that tackle and go that got
Speaker 3: us in the top eight, got us somewhere.
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: let's dive into a big preview of the footy coming
Speaker 1: up on Nine's wide A world of sports this weekend
Speaker 1: afe cracking matches as well. I'm looking forward to this
Speaker 1: one Thursday night.
Speaker 2: Sharks and Dragons, the local derby, this one from Shark Park.
Speaker 2: Who are we backing in this one?
Speaker 5: I think the Sharks for me. Ronaldo's back.
Speaker 3: Tipping rains.
Speaker 5: I just feel like tipping rain tomorrow night, aren't they?
Speaker 5: I just feel like they haven't been great the last
Speaker 5: couple of weeks. Eighty six points in two weeks. You
Speaker 5: hate that. And they've had no origin plays, no origin players, yeah,
Speaker 5: no one.
Speaker 6: And Sharks coming off a walloping from the Dolphins. I'll
Speaker 6: go Sharks by about ten, but no real confidence.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: What about Friday night footy Titans and Seagulls, and you
Speaker 1: can imagine this one's going to be an interesting one.
Speaker 1: Daily Tree evans he'll he'll certainly have a point to prove.
Speaker 5: Back Jake back and sub manly wing for me. Manly
Speaker 5: they lose Tino and lose Moe. Sam Beryls' is back
Speaker 5: for the Toddens, who's a good in but I think
Speaker 5: they'll be too good.
Speaker 1: Mainly manly all right. And then Sunday afternoon footy at
Speaker 1: a Core Stadium. These will be a cracking showdown. Bulldogs
Speaker 1: up against the Bunnies.
Speaker 6: No Latrell no Cody. Cody's heard of growing, which is
Speaker 6: unfortunate for the bunnies. Joe great back to fall back.
Speaker 3: I think the dogs.
Speaker 2: No burden for the dogs, which is interesting. Eighteenth man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well kurk men was he played that role for
Speaker 5: Queensland in the first Yeah, I think I think totally.
Speaker 2: Should play club foot.
Speaker 5: So they lose four players, but Jacob Preston's back, so
Speaker 5: he's been out for five weeks.
Speaker 3: When what do you get suspended for crusher christ carry out?
Speaker 1: Yea, and they fought it, didn't they And so they
Speaker 1: got an extra So there you go. So bulldogssing Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: All right, a few great games coming up on nine
Speaker 1: this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Last time we're in Perth, can I tell the viewers? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we ended up at a what was it like a
Speaker 1: line dancing bar? Yeah, and we had Andrew John's with
Speaker 1: some of the older say client tell in perse just
Speaker 1: taking them all through a bit of a ballroom dancing lesson.
Speaker 3: About what.
Speaker 2: I would say. Close to closing, Ye had to get.
Speaker 3: Up the next day and did it today show. That
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Speaker 1: the Eighth this week. We hope you enjoy the footy
Speaker 1: and we will tune it will catch you rather from
Speaker 1: Perth next week ahead of State of Origin.
Speaker 5: By for now, this has been another presentation from nine's
Speaker 5: wide world of sports