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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning, Sam.

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Speaker 2: Well last week and we spoke to eron Molan. They

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Speaker 2: were on certain times, but we still had an NRL

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Speaker 2: competition is now being suspended indefinitely. Good morning, Eron.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, Amanda Jones. How are you guys right?

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Speaker 2: So what does it mean suspended indefinitely? We may still

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Speaker 2: have a season later in the year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they've essentially released a couple of kind of options

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Speaker 1: that could occur. So I think best case scenario would

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Speaker 1: be coming back in June and worst case scenario, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean worst case to play is coming back in

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Speaker 1: September and having a shortened season. But look, there's a

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Speaker 1: fair few experts that say that, you know, we've got

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Speaker 1: a snowflakes chance in hell of there being any league

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Speaker 1: this year. Some people say no, we do. So look

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Speaker 1: like everyone else in the world at the moment, like

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Speaker 1: you know, like every pun Turi's lined up outside centerlink

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Speaker 1: right now. These are really tough time. We've got no

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Speaker 1: idea what's going on or what's going to happen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you listen, I watched Donald Trump's press conference in

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Speaker 1: full yesterday, and I'll tell you what he says we're

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Speaker 1: all back by easter. That's that's great.

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Speaker 2: That would let's tell the virus to take a break

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Speaker 2: over easter. We're busy, man, Come on, errand do the

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Speaker 2: players do the players train? What what do they do?

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Speaker 1: Because this is they do absolutely but at the moment,

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Speaker 1: they do it at home. They do everything that they

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Speaker 1: can do at home. So look, if the competition does

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Speaker 1: come back, they're going to need to do another preseason,

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Speaker 1: you know, to play at the level that's required and

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Speaker 1: just to say the kind of hits that are required

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Speaker 1: that I'll have to do a four week preseason. So

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Speaker 1: this is why during just feels really unrealistic to me,

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Speaker 1: because you've got a factory in that they're going to

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Speaker 1: be able to train alongside each other and do hit

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Speaker 1: ups and tackle and that kind of thing four weeks

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Speaker 1: prior to that during start. So I think it's a

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Speaker 1: little bit optimistic. But look, we're going to continue kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, doing coverage somewhat on Channel nine in terms

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Speaker 1: of what players are doing when it comes to keeping

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Speaker 1: you know fit at home and how they're keeping sane

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Speaker 1: and that kind of thing, and trying to keep you know,

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Speaker 1: up with game plans and that kind of thing. But

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Speaker 1: you know, rugby league is it's such a small part

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Speaker 1: of what is going on everywhere else in this country

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Speaker 1: and in the world, and it's you know, I'm really

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Speaker 1: sad it's not here anymore because it's not just players

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Speaker 1: whose livelihoods are going to be effected. You know. I

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Speaker 1: know that people think, oh, players, they are millions of

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Speaker 1: bucks their fine, Well they really don't. You know. It

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Speaker 1: is the uperrational on that do and they're talking about

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Speaker 1: significant takeups to them. And you know, the players, a

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Speaker 1: lot of them just earn i mean good money compared

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Speaker 1: to probably an average wage, but not millionaires by any

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Speaker 1: spect of the imagination. And they're not even the main

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Speaker 1: bulk of people that earn their money from rugby league.

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Speaker 1: There are so many people now without jobs as there

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Speaker 1: are you know, an airline industry's hospitality, the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: So it feels almost self indulgent to talk about how

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Speaker 1: strategy is without rugby league, because there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: people a lot worse off.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it could be you guys commentating on the guys

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Speaker 2: just playing PlayStation at home.

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Speaker 1: You know what I was searching because my other job,

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Speaker 1: of course is the sports news on TAN online. On

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Speaker 1: the weekends, and I'm kind of thinking, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: still a little bit to talk about now as people

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Speaker 1: kind of wrap up competitions and you know, basically the

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Speaker 1: fallout of everything being canceled. But in a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of going, well, what's a sports break going

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Speaker 1: to because yourself, there's not How will there be sports break?

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Speaker 1: There's no sport and I have been looking. I think

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Speaker 1: I found botswani and ping pong might still be going ahead,

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Speaker 1: so I will become an expert. And if you guys

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Speaker 1: do need a correspondent weekly on that competition, I am

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Speaker 1: all yours well.

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Speaker 2: Erin until we meet again. Take care of yourself and

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Speaker 2: love to your.

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Speaker 1: Family absolutely and right back at you. And if everyone

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Speaker 1: can just without you know, without trying to tell people

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Speaker 1: what to do, please take it seriously because whilst we

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Speaker 1: still want to have a laugh and you know, life

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Speaker 1: is not over. This is really serious. Stay home when

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Speaker 1: you can socially distance yourself, wash your hands, and just

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Speaker 1: take care of each other and love each other because

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Speaker 1: we will come through the other side, but we'll come

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Speaker 1: through quicker if we follow to a tee everything we're

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Speaker 1: being told to do to come through the other side,

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Speaker 1: where life is a billion times better and more people

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Speaker 1: go to the football, more people go out, and we

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Speaker 1: appreciate how lucky to be able to live in this country.

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Speaker 1: Very good erin thank you, take care, look after yourself,

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Speaker 1: join the and Amanda in the morning. But at one

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Speaker 1: point seven tell you