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

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Speaker 1: what have we got around the grounds this week?

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Speaker 2: Lsu are the world chefs?

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Speaker 1: It's such an American thing.

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Speaker 2: You're going to say it that way?

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Speaker 1: You have to.

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Speaker 2: I could have thrown a yawl in as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Sydney FC claim their third consecutive premiership in at the

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Speaker 2: A League Women's and a sixteen year old has piped

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Speaker 2: Annie's four hundred meter freestyle world record.

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Speaker 1: I was a little bit sad about that one. So

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Speaker 1: was I. I'm like, good on you, but I want

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Speaker 1: to protect Darnie it of course.

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Speaker 2: And she's a Canadian. I bet she's super polite.

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Speaker 1: For the key story, we'll discuss the Ukrainian athletes who

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Speaker 1: will not be allowed to take part in qualifying events

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Speaker 1: for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games if they have

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Speaker 1: to compete against Russians. That one's a it's pretty complex

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Speaker 1: and pretty disappointing for those Ukrainian athletes. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: that one soon. Bearz.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you want to just skip straight to the key

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Speaker 2: story today and we're done.

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Speaker 1: And thanks for listening. This podcast drops every Tuesday morning

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Speaker 1: at six am and hey, guess what in a couple

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Speaker 2: Time d Then that's a bit menacing. It should be

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Speaker 2: more of a drum roll, shouldn't it. Yeah, sorry, we don't.

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Speaker 2: We had to fire our sound as a sound effect person,

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Speaker 1: Actually, let's take a look around the grounds. In basketball,

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Speaker 1: March Madness has been insane, a real treat, a real treat.

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Speaker 1: All of the intelligent companies that have partnered with the

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Speaker 1: tournament and it's exceptional.

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Speaker 2: Athletes have had a really good time.

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Speaker 1: They've had a great time. The final four matches were outstanding.

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Speaker 1: First up, we had number three seed LSU registering a

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Speaker 1: seventy nine to seventy two comeback win over number one

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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech in the LSU Tiger's first final four appearance

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Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight, spoiling the Virginia Tech Hoki's

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Speaker 1: Final four debut in the process. We were cheering loud

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Speaker 1: for Virginia Tech, who boasts two Aussie's on their rostar

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Speaker 1: Charlie's Done and gun point guard Georgia Amore. Amoor created

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Speaker 1: some history during the tournament by setting the all time

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Speaker 1: with a staggering twenty three that calls out from an Aussie.

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Speaker 2: She didn't hold it for long though, but we'll get

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Speaker 2: to that.

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Speaker 1: I know. But she broke it. She broke it. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't good enough, unfortunately, to get Virginia Tech over the

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Speaker 1: line against a strong LSU team. LSU have also had

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Speaker 1: an Aussie in their squad, with last tip Poa getting

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Speaker 1: some minutes late in the match. Poa has cook. Island's

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Speaker 1: heritage is from Melbourne and transferred to LSU after a

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Speaker 1: so Duco Junior College, as they call it, jukeirl Well.

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Speaker 1: In the other semifinals, South Carolina suffered their first defeat

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Speaker 1: in forty two games. When Iowa was Kaitlyn Clark went

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Speaker 1: to town. She did, She absolutely did. Clarke scored forty

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Speaker 1: in the seventy seven to seventy three victory. Iowa controlled

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Speaker 1: South Carolina were looking to go back to back, but

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Speaker 1: instead the final featured two first timers in the title match.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty cool, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: It was cool and it was this morning, so we're

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Speaker 2: recording this on Monday, the championship match, and it did

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Speaker 2: not disappoint in the end. It was the third quarter.

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Speaker 2: We Iowa made a run at them, but LSU were

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Speaker 2: just too good across were too good across the court.

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Speaker 2: LSU ended up securing a one hundred and two to

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Speaker 2: eighty five point victory over the Iowa Hawk Eyes. Iowa

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Speaker 2: superstar Caitlin Clark broke that newly set record of most

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Speaker 2: She also broke Cheryl Swoops's record for the most points

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Speaker 2: I mean, she' obviously still finished with thirty points, but

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Speaker 2: American Angel Reese set an nc double A record for

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Speaker 2: we're out here breaking records these guys. The one hundred

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Speaker 1: So good. Continuing on the record breaking front, BEZ, we've

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Speaker 1: shared some of the incredible ticket sale news on our

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Speaker 1: social channels, and once the amazing height from the tournament

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Speaker 1: share some amazing numbers with you. But this stage, it

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Speaker 1: has been confirmed that viewership for the Elite eight round

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Speaker 1: of this year's women's March Madness has increased by forty

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Speaker 1: three percent year on year on ESPN, and the iour

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Speaker 1: Hawkeyes win over Louisville was watched by an average of

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Speaker 1: two point five million viewers, with a peak of two

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Speaker 1: point seven million. This is so cool. This is a

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Speaker 1: larger audience than any of this season's National Basketball Association

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Speaker 1: for the New York Nick's win over the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 2: But they won't finished there.

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Speaker 1: You can do this part.

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Speaker 2: The final four matches blew those numbers out of the park,

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Speaker 2: with the LSU Virginia Tech match attracting an average of

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Speaker 1: It's so huge, isn't it massive.

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Speaker 2: So combined the four point five million average was up

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Speaker 1: Huge.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait, Like we said, once it all kind

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Speaker 2: for this March madness. Absolutely awesome and just again, like

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Speaker 2: we said at the beginning, an amazing return on investment

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Speaker 2: for those people that are intelligent enough to get behind it.

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Speaker 1: That's so true. You've never said a truer word.

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Speaker 2: Quick question for you, Klow. So we were chatting this

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Speaker 2: morning by text whilst watching the game celebrations. How do

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Speaker 2: we feel about American athletes? And this is I'm not

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Speaker 2: Word when it comes to Americans and Australians. I just

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Speaker 2: watching it myself, watching LSU celebrate, absolutely stote for them,

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Speaker 1: There's a fair bit of carry on and I think

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Speaker 2: And you're right. And when I say over the top

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Speaker 2: that way, I think it's great and let's be honest,

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Speaker 2: it attracts eyes to the sport.

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Speaker 1: You're exactly right, they're getting numbers and it obviously works

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Speaker 2: Right absolutely, So we're going football this year, like I

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Speaker 2: Three premierships equals the best defense and attack and that's hard.

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Speaker 2: It's tough because everyone wants to beat us. So interestingly,

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Speaker 2: the league now moves into that final stage and the

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Speaker 2: a streak of failures when it gets to knockout stage.

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Speaker 1: See, this is where there's obviously some European influence influence

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Speaker 2: No, because we've all grown up in an environment where

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Speaker 2: I hate that, but I said it out loud. So

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Speaker 2: Then you could also obviously then market that to investors

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Speaker 2: Absolutely in a Netpal the New Stuff a Swift secured

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Speaker 1: Did you see the one Maddie does? Go right? But

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Speaker 2: Proud spoke about her in her post match comments, saying,

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Speaker 2: We said that she's a swift for life now so good.

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm devastated. Just one though, I know, still

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Speaker 2: West Gus Fever battered the Magpies and she shot a

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Speaker 1: In more soccer news, In the Women's Champions League, Sam

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Speaker 1: Kez Chelsea knocked Ellie Carpenter's Leon out of the competition

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Speaker 2: Joe Chelsea.

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Speaker 1: Chelsea will now face Barcelona in the semi finals and

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Speaker 1: we'll be looking for revenge after Basa whacked them for

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Speaker 2: That would be all time. Chelsea played at Stanford Bridge

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Speaker 2: there sending me photos. I told them that they were

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Speaker 2: bad luck and that they should leave now. Wow yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: big shout out to Bella in cricket, Cricket Australia and

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Speaker 2: the Players Union. I actually had a new pay deal

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Speaker 2: with a memorandum of understanding likely to be announced in

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Speaker 2: the coming weeks. The dealer set to make cricket the

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Speaker 2: first female sport in Australia to crack the six figure

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Speaker 2: wage barrier for the majority of its domestic players.

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Speaker 1: That is huge News.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible. The minimum women's at Big Bash League contracts

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Speaker 2: will be eighty thousand dollars and that state squad sizes

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Speaker 2: will increase from fourteen to sixteen across each of the

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Speaker 2: seven WNCL sides. Players will earn match fees for WNCL

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Speaker 2: matches on top of their salary meeting. A significant portion

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Speaker 2: of those on a minimum salary will earn more than

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Speaker 2: one hundred k in twenty twenty three twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that so cool? So we've seen if we look

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Speaker 1: across the board at different sports in Australia. We know

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Speaker 1: with AFLW, I think there's forty players at a minimum

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Speaker 1: that are over one hundred k. We know in NROLW

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Speaker 1: there was a couple of players that sat outside the

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Speaker 1: salary cap last season.

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Speaker 2: Super Club.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so Millie Boyle and Tamika Upton, we're kind of

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Speaker 1: big talks of the town on their one hundred k

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Speaker 1: deals and we've seen this push for the top tier

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Speaker 1: athletes getting having the capacity to earn over one hundred k.

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Speaker 1: But this is a huge move, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: If you fund the minimum, if you increase the minimum salary,

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Speaker 2: then you're just going to increase the standard across the.

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Speaker 1: Board and all the absolutely.

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Speaker 2: And I understand that you want to attract the best

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Speaker 2: players and that those marquee signings and that big big

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Speaker 2: coin is for that that star, so to speak. But

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Speaker 2: if you actually want the product to get better, then

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Speaker 2: every player needs to be full time working on their

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Speaker 2: craft and being paid accordingly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a big, big advocate for lifting the minimum.

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Speaker 2: Because of rising tide lifts all boats. You can play

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Speaker 2: a bit of like Bess's favorite saying bingo today. So

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Speaker 2: when all contracts and match payments are taken into account,

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Speaker 2: the estimated average yearly sally will increase to one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty three thousand dollars and then one hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty one thousand after match fees. Love that in comparison,

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Speaker 2: players of the minimum WNCL and WBBL contract last year

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Speaker 2: who received full match payments were paid seventy grand.

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Speaker 1: It's a big jump, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's a good jump. The new deal puts cricket well

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Speaker 2: ahead of their nearest competition, with supernetwill being the next

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Speaker 2: best paid sport where the minimum salary is forty three

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Speaker 2: thousand with no additional match payments.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think that super Netball was the next best paid.

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Speaker 1: Is it because of the minimum?

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Speaker 2: The minimum? Yeah, so the next best minimum got your salary.

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Speaker 2: It's also believed that the WBBL will be increasing their

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Speaker 2: contract office for overseas players and Australia's contracted stars in

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Speaker 2: a bid to keep the lead competitive against England's hundred

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Speaker 2: and India's WPL. All these new kind of tournaments popping up,

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Speaker 2: you could imagine someone like saying Elise Perry being like,

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Speaker 2: I'm already adding pretty good coin. I need a break,

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Speaker 2: so WBL have to make it, you know, worth their while.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine it'll end up in a similar position

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Speaker 1: to a league in football, as as places like India

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Speaker 1: with the WPL can offer such huge money. Domestic cricket

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Speaker 1: in Australia is really going to have to step up

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Speaker 1: their game if they don't want to lose. Obviously, with

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Speaker 1: the timings of seasons at the moment, players can play

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Speaker 1: across multiple but I think if it continues to grow

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Speaker 1: at this rate, they're really going to have to keep up,

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Speaker 1: keep up.

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Speaker 2: They're doing good job so far. I agree, well done cricket,

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Speaker 2: keep it going.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the key story in some

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Speaker 1: less exciting new about the upcoming Olympics. Ola Nemchinov, secretary

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Speaker 1: of Ukraine's Cabinet Ministers, declared that Ukrainian athletes will not

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Speaker 1: be allowed to take part in qualifying events for the

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Speaker 1: Paris Games if they have to compete against Russians. Russian

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Speaker 1: and Belarusian athletes have been banned from the most elite

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Speaker 1: international sporting competitions since last March after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Individual athletes from those two countries that wish to compete

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics awaiting on discussions being had at the

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Speaker 1: IOC around the gradual return to the international competition as Neutrals.

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Speaker 1: The IOC is yet to make a final decision on

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Speaker 1: the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in Paris, but

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Speaker 1: Ukraine has threatened to boycott the game should they be

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Speaker 1: permitted to compete. Ukraine's sports ministry has spoken out about

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Speaker 1: the IOC's current stance, saying it was unacceptable, and Nemchinov stated,

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Speaker 1: I want to tell our fellow athletes who are worried

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Speaker 1: that due to the IOC measures, the admission of Russians

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Speaker 1: and Belle Russians to competitions and accordingly Ukrainians will not

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Speaker 1: be able to participate, that their careers will be broken,

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Speaker 1: but your life and that of your children will remain.

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Speaker 1: It's a big statement, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Heavy heavy chat though, ICEE is hesitant to make a

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Speaker 2: ruling at this stage and has said that it's up

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Speaker 2: to each individual sports governing body to make the final

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Speaker 2: decision on whether Russian and Belarusian athletes can take part

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Speaker 2: in Olympic qualifiers. They're doing a bit of buck passing there,

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Speaker 2: I reckon. They did say that Russia and Belarus should

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Speaker 2: remain barred from team sports such as soccer and basketball,

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Speaker 2: with IC president Thomas Batch saying they cannot be considered

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Speaker 2: for a return to team sports at this time. I

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Speaker 2: don't quite understand that about Russia. No about absolutely flat

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Speaker 2: noted team sports. But individual athletes can compete if they

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Speaker 2: get approval from the governing body.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little bit complicated, isn't it, Because what

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Speaker 1: if the team sport registered as a neutral exactly?

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it. Try to do some more research

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Speaker 2: on her and no good, no good. The reaction to

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Speaker 2: the guidance document released by the IC that stated it

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Speaker 2: would like Russians and Belaruians to be known as individual

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Speaker 2: neutral athletes with the French acronym an that we're uniforms

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Speaker 2: that are either entirely white or a single color and

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Speaker 2: can't have a team logo has been swift. Many Europeans

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Speaker 2: sporting leaders condemn the news, and including those were Germany

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Speaker 2: Sports Minister Nancy Faser, who said that IC shift from

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Speaker 2: its position one year ago to exclude all athletes and

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Speaker 2: teams from Russia and Belarus was a slap in the

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Speaker 2: face of Ukrainian athletes. She also said those who let

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Speaker 2: the warmonger Russia use international competitions for its propaganda are

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Speaker 2: damaging the Olympic idea of peace and international understanding. She

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Speaker 2: didn't miss.

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Speaker 1: She did not miss the question that's now in front

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Speaker 1: of mine for many countries is will the threat of

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Speaker 1: a boycott work to force the IOC's hands. Boycotts have

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Speaker 1: had little impact in the past, and in fact, the

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Speaker 1: biggest impact is most likely felt by the athletes that

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Speaker 1: miss out on what might be their only shot at

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Speaker 1: competing at an Olympics. Bears. You and I were talking

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Speaker 1: about this before. It's pretty tricky to think that people

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Speaker 1: who may have been training, their entire lives could miss

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Speaker 1: out on an opportunity like.

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Speaker 2: That, and it's unfortunately, and it's horrible to think that

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Speaker 2: it has to get to this. Are you literally weighing

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Speaker 2: up taking a stance against a war or playing sport?

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Speaker 2: And when you put it in those terms, of course,

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Speaker 2: you're actually you're standing by that country that's been invaded.

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Speaker 2: But gosh, the reality is that you wanted a lot

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Speaker 2: of people on to get one shot in Olympic Games.

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Speaker 2: And I think if boycotts in the past had have worked,

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Speaker 2: maybe it's a different story, but they have generally not

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Speaker 2: had much of an impact.

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Speaker 1: Sadly, yeah, that I often purposely separate themselves from political movements.

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian officials are stressing the point that Russian athletes are

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Speaker 1: closely tied to the Russian state and the Russian Army.

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Speaker 1: Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dimitro Kuleba tweeted a lot

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Speaker 1: inside a photo of Russian gymnast marching and a military parade. Sports, state, propaganda,

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Speaker 1: and the army are indivisible in Russia. And now Putin

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Speaker 1: has already introduced not only politics, but also war crimes

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Speaker 1: into sports. There is no way for Russian or Belarusian

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Speaker 1: athletes to compete in the Paris Olympics or any other

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Speaker 1: major sporting event. Some big statements being thrown around.

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Speaker 2: Massive So besides the UK and countries including Lithuania, Latvia,

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Speaker 2: Poland and Denmark have already said that they will boycott

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four Games if the IC doesn't ban

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Speaker 2: Russia and Belarus, and then maybe many more that choose

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Speaker 2: to join them. With the US, Germany, the UK and

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Speaker 2: Australia all having spoken strongly about the.

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Speaker 1: Issue, it'll be really interesting to see how this one

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Speaker 1: plays out, and we'll keep you updated as it progresses.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be interesting. And do you remember, and

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Speaker 2: just back on that whole boycott, the idea of a

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Speaker 2: boycott not really being as effective as they might hope

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Speaker 2: it be. Do you remember we actually boycott the Beijing

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Speaker 2: to Olympics to a certain extent by not sending any

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Speaker 2: official party. We let the athletes compete, but then we

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Speaker 2: don't send any add ons kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's ways that you can boycott which doesn't have

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Speaker 1: as much of an impact, but it still allows athletes

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Speaker 1: to compete.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, it will be I think a very much developing story.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look what to watch.

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Speaker 2: In rugby. Do not miss this one. Don't miss it.

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Speaker 2: I'm pumped. CBW Grand Final rematch will be this weekend

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Speaker 2: and your soals Wartars will host Fijiana Drewer at Concord

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Speaker 2: Oval on Saturday, with kickoff at three pm. If you're

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Speaker 2: not going anywhere for Easter, or if you're coming to

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Speaker 2: Sydney for Ester, great, there is no better place to be.

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Speaker 2: I've looked at the forecast. It's going to be twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Oh we love that.

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Speaker 2: Entry is free. Great and just put some tarblue on

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Speaker 2: and get there.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you there.

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Speaker 2: If you can't get there, I guess you can watch

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Speaker 2: live on Standsport, but I'd really like to hear you there.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: In football, the Materidas continue their World Cup build up

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Speaker 1: this week and next. First up is a match against

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Speaker 1: Scotland Friday night. Friday night, our time kickoff at the

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Speaker 1: Cherry Red Records Stadium in Wimbledon, London will be ten

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Speaker 1: fifteen pm ae ST.

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Speaker 2: We're back to st Eastern time.

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Speaker 1: Five days later, on Wednesday, twelfth of April, they will

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Speaker 1: go up against euro Champs England at g Tech Community

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Speaker 1: Stadium in Brentford, London. Kickoff for that Much Much is

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Speaker 1: four forty five am Eastern Time and you can watch

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Speaker 1: both matches live and free on the ten Network.

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Speaker 2: There are the Tillies and our sun Corps Subernetple match.

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Speaker 2: The round is on Saturday John Can Arena in Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: when the Vixen's host of Sunshine Coast Lightning. Both teams

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Speaker 2: are two from three to start the season. It will

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Speaker 2: be keen to add another W to the winning column.

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Speaker 2: The match starts at seven pm and you can watch

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Speaker 2: live on Fox stealing ko.

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Speaker 1: And that's the wrap. Nice bye