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Speaker 1: Welcome to the RAP, a weekly podcast covering women's sports news.

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Speaker 2: My name is Chloe Dalton.

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Speaker 1: I'm an Olympic gold medalist and I play AFLW for

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Speaker 1: the GWS Giants.

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Speaker 2: I'm joined every week by my.

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Speaker 1: Co host Bez Key, researcher, merch Queen women's sport and

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Speaker 1: rugby and things she hates the introduction Bez, how are

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Speaker 3: Friend? How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm great?

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Speaker 4: Taking a look around the grounds? Does all the Grand Finals?

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Speaker 4: Ground Final? Grand Final?

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Speaker 3: Grand Finals? So good?

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Speaker 4: Plus the Matillas get past New Zealand in the final

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Speaker 1: in the show notes so you don't miss out. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a look around the grounds in AFLW, which was

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Speaker 1: the first of the three Grand Finals that happened over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. The Adelaide Crows hosted the Melbourne Demons in

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Speaker 1: the AFLW decider. The Crows were once again the victors,

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Speaker 1: registering a four goals five twenty nine to two goals

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Speaker 1: for sixteen win and in the process stamp their name

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Speaker 1: on the trophy for a third time. They've now won

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Speaker 1: three of the five Grand finals since the AFLW started,

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Speaker 1: adding the twenty twenty two flag to their twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: and twenty nineteen triumphs. It was a pretty interesting game.

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Speaker 1: The D's looked really nervous. They were quite fumbly throughout

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Speaker 1: and it took them until about halfway through the third

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Speaker 1: quarter to actually look like they were involved in the game.

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Speaker 1: They started to bring a lot of pressure and made

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Speaker 1: a bit of a comeback a couple of good goals

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Speaker 1: but Adelaide, but just on top. I think thought for

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Speaker 1: a while that Adelaide's inconsistency in front of goal might

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Speaker 1: be their downfall and maybe Melbourne could come away with

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Speaker 1: something magical and kick another couple of goals, because if

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Speaker 1: you look at the school line, the fact that Adelaide

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Speaker 1: have only kicked four goals in a Grand final it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a huge school line, so I was hoping that

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Speaker 1: maybe the D's would have come back with something, but

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Speaker 1: it didn't happen. We saw Tay Harris competed really well

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Speaker 1: in the air to bring the ball to ground, but

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Speaker 1: she was being double teamed by the Crow's incredible defenders

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Speaker 1: and Chelsea Randall and Chelsea Beddell, who's been outstanding for

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Speaker 1: the Crows this year. Overall, the D's just couldn't get

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Speaker 1: the job done. Adelaide have proved that they're the team

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Speaker 1: to beat for sure.

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Speaker 4: So leading into the match, there was a lot of

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Speaker 4: chat around I guess the future of two of aflw's pioneers,

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Speaker 4: Lazy Pierce and Aaron Phillips. The thoughts on the future

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Speaker 4: of those too close.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to call that Phillips is going to go

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Speaker 1: to Port Adelaide, so for those that don't know the

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Speaker 1: history of that. And so her dad won what was

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Speaker 1: it eight premiationships with the Sandful team for Port Adelaide.

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Speaker 1: She actually unofficially signed with Port before they for a

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Speaker 1: W competition and then Port didn't actually get a license,

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Speaker 1: so she's gone and played with the rival club, the

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Speaker 1: Adelaide Crows. For six years now and now has the

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Speaker 1: opportunity once they expend, so I can't see her.

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Speaker 3: Not going if she continues to play.

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Speaker 1: If she continues to play, and then the Daisy one,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about is Daisy going to

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Speaker 1: retire she's hot property in terms of moving into the

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Speaker 1: coaching ranks in the men's side of the game.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think she keeps going.

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Speaker 4: So we were talking earlier about the fact that the

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Speaker 4: AFLW season is looking more and more likely to start

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Speaker 4: in all the next AFLW season in August this year.

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Speaker 4: Obviously they're trying to afl is trying to find a

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Speaker 4: more permanent traditional footy space on the calendar for your competition.

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Speaker 4: I think it's probably a good point that that start

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Speaker 4: may tempt Daisy to stay around for another season.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a really good point.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought about it, because if you've only

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Speaker 1: got it, like we've only got about six weeks off

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Speaker 1: before we start another preseason, you don't have to keep

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Speaker 1: yourself fit for a lot longer. And she's gone so

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Speaker 1: close to winning a flag, I reckon she goes around again.

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Speaker 4: By the time they finished partying it'll be time for

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Speaker 4: pre season again, should we sweet as a that? In

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Speaker 4: more AFLW news, the beston Ferris was held last week.

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Speaker 4: The Brisbane lines at midfielder Emily Bates took home top honors,

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Speaker 4: polling twenty votes, which included six BOG performances.

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Speaker 2: Huge best on Ground for those who don't know Bog.

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Speaker 4: Adelaide's An Hatchard finished a very close second on twenty votes,

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Speaker 4: with Kangaro Ashradel and cro Ebude Marinoff finished equal third

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Speaker 4: on eighteen voats. Carlton's Mimi Hill was named twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: two Rising Star, Adelaide's Ashley Woodland was named leading goalkicker

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Speaker 4: with twenty one goals and rounding out the awards, at

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Speaker 4: North Melbourne's Talia Randall received the Marker of the Year

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Speaker 4: award and Frios Antonio kicked the Goal of the Year.

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Speaker 4: One of the highlights you were there, had had a

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Speaker 4: good night, Clovid. Definitely one of the highlights for me

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Speaker 4: watching at home on the telly was watching it. The

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Speaker 4: Brisbane lines coach Praistatovich take his shoe off when Emily

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Speaker 4: Blates is on stage, fill it up with shampers and

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Speaker 4: do a showy.

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Speaker 1: I chatted to her yesterday on Sports Sunday and she

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Speaker 1: was of the poll, and she turned to him.

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Speaker 2: She's like, I'm no hope. He's like, I reckon, you're

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Speaker 2: on here. If you win, I'll do.

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Speaker 1: A showey And then she went up on stage and

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Speaker 3: It was so good, wonderful.

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Speaker 1: In basketball news, the best of three Grand Final series

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Speaker 1: for the WNBL may have started under a bit of

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Speaker 1: a cloud of controversy, as we discussed on the Rap.

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Speaker 1: I think it was last week when we chatted to

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Speaker 1: camera Capitals play at Kelsey Griffin, whose team was forced

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Speaker 1: to withdraw from their semi final after some COVID complications.

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Speaker 1: But it ended with an exciting series that saw the

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Speaker 1: Melbourne Boomer triumph in Game three eighty four to sixty

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Speaker 1: six to take home the trophy. It was just their

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Speaker 1: second WNBL championship in thirty eight years, and their first

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Speaker 1: since the twenty ten twenty eleventh season. They started fast

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Speaker 1: and the Perth Links weren't really ever able to peg

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Speaker 1: them back, with the Boomers leading at every break. Boomers

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Speaker 1: star import Lindsay Allen was awarded the Rachel Spawn Medal

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Speaker 1: for the Grand Finals Most Valuable Player. She was instrumental

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Speaker 1: across all three matches, scoring thirteen in Game one, dominating

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Speaker 1: Game two with twenty nine points to help force a decider,

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Speaker 1: and finished with fourteen points, seven assists and four rebounds

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Speaker 1: in Game three. The Boomers made a little bit of

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Speaker 1: opening game of.

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Speaker 2: A WNBL Grand Final series.

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Speaker 1: Then win its next two fixtures since the format was

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Speaker 1: introduced in twenty fifteen to sixteen.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 4: To come back that game two, which I guess happened

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Speaker 4: last week. Amazing to do the end of that over

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Speaker 4: in person, packed out the free throw, packed out Perth Stadium.

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Speaker 4: You've got three to tiight up, three from the strip

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Speaker 4: to tied up, and she just missed that last one.

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Speaker 2: Oh. It's a lot of pressure though, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: But that's what your practice as a kid in the backyard, right.

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Speaker 1: That's very true. That's very true. The Boomers almost had

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Speaker 1: to make do with a substitute trophy when the WNBL

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Speaker 1: announced via Twitter during the match the trophy had gone

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Speaker 1: missing on the flight from Perth to Melbourne and that

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Speaker 1: the women winners would receive something a little different instead

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Speaker 1: of the actual trophy. Luckily, it arrived at the Melbourne

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Speaker 1: Sports Center in Parkville just in time for the presentation,

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Speaker 1: so we never know what the standing would have been.

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Speaker 3: I want to know same. I'd want to know what

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Speaker 3: they were going to present them.

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Speaker 2: Something a little different they called it. I want to

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Speaker 2: know what it is.

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Speaker 3: Tell me anyone knows, Please tell us, all right.

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Speaker 4: N RLW so second Grand Final for the weekend saw

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Speaker 4: the Sydney Roosters, who started the NROLW Grand Final as

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Speaker 4: considerable underdogs, shock this Georgie Laura Dragons when they produced

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Speaker 4: a second half blitz to win sixteen to four. The

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Speaker 4: Dragons started the match perfectly when Madison Butlet finished a

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Speaker 4: slick move started by Emma Tonegado a set piece which

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Speaker 4: you don't see a lot in rugby league off the

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Speaker 4: back of a scrum. Et jumped out of the back

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Speaker 4: of the scrum. It was beautiful to watch. So that

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Speaker 4: was the first two minutes all going to script for

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Speaker 4: the Dragons, but that's really where it stopped. Russ scored

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Speaker 4: three times in the second half with Yasmin Meeks Isabelle

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Speaker 4: Kelly and Olivia Higgins all getting over the line. Rus's

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Speaker 4: prop Sarah Togatuk was a wrecking ball in the middle

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Speaker 4: and was awarded the Karen Murphy Medal for Best on

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Speaker 4: Ground after really showing the way in the second half.

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Speaker 4: The match, which was played in Redcliffe in front of

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Speaker 4: eight hundred and fifty five supporters, was super tense throughout

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Speaker 4: and it really wasn't until the late that last try

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Speaker 4: from Higgins that the russ could start to celebrate. When

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Speaker 4: the siren sound of Russ's players were ecstatic. It was

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Speaker 4: a first premiership after Grand Final losses in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 4: and twenty twenty, and the.

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Speaker 3: First time the trophy would be lifted by team other.

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Speaker 4: Than the Brisbane Broncos, who the Races had dumped out

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Speaker 4: of the finals the week before.

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Speaker 3: Well done, Chucks.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say, I know we talked about the

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Speaker 1: location of this last week on the route. I hope

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Speaker 1: that the NRL learns from this for next season, and

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's really tricky in terms of

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Speaker 1: hope for next year they actually wait to allow it

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Speaker 1: to be a home ground Final for whichever teams are

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Interesting you say that.

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Speaker 4: We're obviously coming into finals time for the Super W

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Speaker 4: at the moment, and we'll be announced Monday that the

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Speaker 4: Super W Grand Final will actually be in Melbourne. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it is interesting. That will be a part of the

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Speaker 4: Super Rugby Super Round, which is pretty cool. But again

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Speaker 4: for all of the fans and friends and family, it's

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Speaker 4: traveling to Melbourne, which at the end of school holidays

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Speaker 4: on a long weekend.

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Speaker 3: It's the ends. It's a long weekend, not a cheap

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Speaker 3: not a cheap excursion. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just think with the growth of women's sport, you

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Speaker 1: have to give people every opportunity make it as easy

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Speaker 1: as possible for them to get to watch live sport.

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Speaker 3: Maybe the lady from Barcelona FC might have some advice

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Speaker 3: for us. Later in the program, we'll get to the

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Speaker 3: ha did I just call it a program?

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Speaker 2: Program?

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Speaker 1: We on the ABC's still in Rugby League news. The

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Speaker 1: NLW Awards Night was held on Thursday last week and

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Speaker 1: history was made when Emma Tonegado and Millie Boyle became

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Speaker 1: the first joint winners of the dally M Female Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year Award Boil the Brisbane Broncos forward How's

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Speaker 1: the alliteration and Tonegado, the Dragons fullback, would both stand

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Speaker 1: out throughout the season and very much deserving winners on

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Speaker 1: the night. It was another tight count, with Paramatta Eels

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Speaker 1: forward Sami Ma Taalfa leading heading into the final round,

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Speaker 4: Everyone told me that I was getting close to my

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Speaker 4: Two weeks ago, the Barcelona women's football team played a

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Speaker 4: The ninety one thousand people crammed into Camp New, Barcelona's

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Speaker 3: I was late for breakfast with you because I couldn't

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Speaker 1: So fifty thousand of the potential ninety one thousand tickets

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Speaker 3: That's just mind blowing, bloody excellent.

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Speaker 4: There is no doubting that Barcelona play exquisite football. They're

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Speaker 4: They've given them the same respect that they give the

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Speaker 3: Results are there like the people are coming to watch.

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Speaker 4: So in making that game accessible to everyone, Barcelona are

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Speaker 1: Lucy Mills is a program manager at the FC Barcelona Foundation,

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Speaker 1: The women's team provided another outlet of pride for fans.

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Speaker 1: Number two the match was advertised everywhere Billboard's TV news.

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Speaker 1: Number three. Match tickets were priced between nine euro and

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Speaker 1: broad range of people. Experiencing Camp New is a once

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Speaker 1: towards equality in football and greater support of women's football

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Speaker 1: chimes well with Barcelona citizens. It's a progressive and open

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Speaker 1: Mills believes that it's no surprise that its citizens come

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Speaker 1: In other words, I'm moving to Barcelona.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it is.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing work from the club and I think something

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Speaker 4: We just they just need again match. The match was

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Speaker 4: The people need to know what's on. I think Alexia

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Speaker 4: Puteez summed it up after the quarterfinal when she said

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Speaker 4: this has been utterly magical. When the match finished, the

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Speaker 4: fans simply didn't want to go home. There was such

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Speaker 4: it was superb. That's where the Champions League final is

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Speaker 4: to be held. So again more footage online of the players,

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Speaker 3: It was yeah, pretty epic.

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Speaker 2: Very cool. Let's take a look at what to watch.

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Speaker 4: The Matilda's go again against the Kiwi tonight in Canberra

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Speaker 4: at JOEO Stadium. Match two of the two match series

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Speaker 4: will kick off at seven forty five pm and will

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Speaker 1: In Netball, Super Netball enters Round four tonight and the

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Speaker 1: two undefeated teams go head to head in Melbourne, the

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Speaker 1: Vixens will host the West Coast Fever and only one

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Speaker 1: of those teams will remain undefeated. The match starts at

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Speaker 1: six pm tonight Tuesday night and is live on KO Sports,

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Speaker 4: In Rugby Union Super w tewond V third Semifinal between

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Speaker 4: held on Thursday night. The match will pickoff at six

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Speaker 4: pm at Eric Tweedles Stadium in Granville and you can

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Speaker 4: watch live on STAN. Then we will take on Fiji

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Speaker 4: and Drewer in the Grand Final.

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Speaker 1: In surfing, the Rip Curl Pro at Bell's Beach is underway.

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Speaker 1: They're in a waiting period, waiting for a bit more swell,

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Speaker 1: but you can check it out as it unfolds on Foxtel,

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Speaker 2: And that's the rat. That was a good one. I

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Speaker 2: had fun.

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Speaker 3: Glad you did, a friend, it was. It's always a pleasure,

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Speaker 3: never at youre.

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Speaker 1: Always thanks for the hot cross buns, fresh and delicious.

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Speaker 2: Don't even need to toast them this morning.

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Speaker 3: Pretty sure.

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Speaker 4: I'm only on the rap before the baked goods and coffees.

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Speaker 3: I bring no comfee.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to subscribe to this and sign up to

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Speaker 1: we'll see you next Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Goodbye,