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Speaker 3: Good? Good? Okay, yep, wrap it up here.

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Speaker 1: It's putting on a few to have a few of

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Speaker 4: How much progress you feel your men? This week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, tomorrow's a smart player. Yeah it's it's not a

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Speaker 4: Technique lasting on a fieldble lockers when uh, water sort

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Speaker 4: You want do you want them to put their hands

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Speaker 4: We're we're celebrating a legend this weekend at Sarika. If

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Dante, you know, d'antana.

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Speaker 1: Go back to you know, when I was here in

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Speaker 2: Isn't much different probably not different at all.

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Speaker 1: It's we're required to list certain guys in certain areas

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Speaker 4: Players praise James Ferns from these leadership skills.

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