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Speaker 1: Hayden Young, welcome, thanks for having me, Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: So you are a Docker for the AFL season. You

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Speaker 1: come Mendy at Mendy Mondy recommended.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I spoke to Dave. I said what are your thoughts

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Speaker 3: and he said, yep, I couldn't recommend it highly holy enough.

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Speaker 3: So I'm very happy to be here.

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Speaker 4: Oh he's recommending us. Eddie recommended you to us.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, we were searching with you. It's

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Speaker 5: going to be to start. It's got to be a

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Speaker 5: staff from the back line. So you've got the gig. Mate.

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Speaker 5: Well that's very good, very good about things pre season mate,

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Speaker 5: how I thinks going for yourself? And how's the vibe

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Speaker 5: at the club?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really good.

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Speaker 3: It's been a long and hot pre season and yeah,

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Speaker 3: well and truly ready to get into the real stuff.

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Speaker 3: So looking forward to this weekend. The vibe around the

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Speaker 3: club is really good at the moment. Everyone's really excited.

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Speaker 3: We've got a very healthy list at the moment, which

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Speaker 3: is a good good thing to have going into the

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Speaker 3: start of the season, so there's a lot of competition

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Speaker 3: for spots and yeah, I think everyone's really excited, so

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Speaker 3: there's no.

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Speaker 1: Other thing than a hot preseason because of Australia, then

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Speaker 1: it's a winter sport, so you're playing the cold and

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Speaker 1: the rain. I often wonder is that transition, you know,

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Speaker 1: is there a lot to that transition or is it just.

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Speaker 4: Go you know, you just ease into it.

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Speaker 3: It's actually a really good transition, to be honest. Training

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Speaker 3: in the heat is quite difficult, and when you're sometimes

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Speaker 3: in pre season, when you play in warm games, it's

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Speaker 3: actually quite hard and easily so if you get an

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Speaker 3: opportunity to play in it a game in Melbourne or

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Speaker 3: in other states who it's a bit cooler, we said,

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Speaker 3: it is a little bit of an advantage and okay

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Speaker 3: it's a little bit easier to run out of the game, so.

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Speaker 4: All right, get the heart paying out first.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's yeah, sort of an advantage in a way.

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Speaker 5: And being playing in Perth, I mean, apart from last

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Speaker 5: season we got quite a bit of rain, but generally

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Speaker 5: it's it's like spring all the time in Perth, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's beautiful over here. We usually usually get great

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Speaker 3: weather and we're very fortunate. And the thing that I

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Speaker 3: love about playing over here is I love to go

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Speaker 3: to the beach and on game day you can go

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Speaker 3: to the beach all year round. Then when we travel

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Speaker 3: to Melbourne, I try to go to the beach over

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Speaker 3: there in the middle of winter and it's it is.

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Speaker 5: They call it.

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Speaker 4: Up and wanted to put their arms in. It's horrible.

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Speaker 3: It's too cold for you guys, but it just looks like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's tough, it's really tough.

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Speaker 1: Now there's officially a new captain at the Doctors, Alex Pearce.

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Speaker 1: What's his leadership style like? Is it different to what

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Speaker 1: Nat Fife's was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little bit different, different person, Yeah, very

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Speaker 3: different people, but yeah, Alex is a really really passionate

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Speaker 3: Frio supporter and a Faro man and he's really good

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Speaker 3: at engaging with his teammates and bringing the group together.

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Speaker 4: That's everything you want in a captain, which.

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Speaker 3: Is why he got the vote from all these players.

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Speaker 3: He's very well respected and yeah, he's doing a great

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Speaker 3: job so far and it's going to be good to

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Speaker 3: see him develop and.

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Speaker 2: Grow throughout the year and.

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Speaker 3: With the support of as with Fifey, I'm still on

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Speaker 5: Him and speaking of leadership group, you're in it now.

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Speaker 5: That's pretty pretty cool, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's super exciting. Yeah, Leadership something that I've

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Speaker 3: always aspired to learn and develop in my game, and

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Speaker 3: I suppose with the departure of Dave and stepping down

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Speaker 2: So I'm very fortunate to.

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Speaker 3: Be part of the youngest in the leadership group Caleb

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Speaker 3: as well. But we are actually quite a young young

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Speaker 3: team in terms of in our leadershiproup, in terms of

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Speaker 3: experience because we've got me, Sam Sulkowski who's joining the

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Speaker 3: leadership group, and Jaeger, who's obviously an experienced player.

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Speaker 2: In terms of to our group is quite.

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Speaker 4: New, So I like it. Fresh set of leadership eyes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bit of freshness around the group. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now Game one Sint Kilda in Melbourne on Sunday. They're

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Speaker 1: having some injury woes currently players not great for them,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's probably the ideal heading into the year.

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Speaker 3: But the one thing we've learned from experience is it's

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Speaker 3: always hard to win on the road against any opposition.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter who's out on the park. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're certainly still focusing on bringing our best footy and

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Speaker 3: yeah hopefully getting the result. And yeah, we don't expect

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Speaker 3: it to be easy by any means, and it still

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Speaker 4: Would be a foolish person who expects it to be easy.

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Speaker 5: It must be sometimes had when you're hear when I

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Speaker 5: heard the memory wasn't playing, and it can be a

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Speaker 5: dangerous guy down forward, especially in the defensive courters. It

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Speaker 5: must be a cosure. You go, oh okay, well that

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, certainly as a defender, if you know you've.

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Speaker 3: You've got to match up and yeah they miss, there's

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Speaker 3: a sense of relief. But then AFL lists I've got

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Speaker 3: so much death these days that whoever comes in is

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Speaker 3: can't think too far ahead. But yeah, certainly as a defender,

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Speaker 3: I know some the keys would be a bit relieved.

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Speaker 1: Michael Walters maybe the only one with a significant injury.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not far off. He'll train tomorrow, yeah, to

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Speaker 3: see how he progresses. But he's been going really well

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Speaker 2: Far away, okay?

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Speaker 1: And will we see the debut of Luke Jackson and

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Speaker 1: is it Jaeger or Jager Jacob o' mirror.

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Speaker 2: I think one, yeah, I think we will.

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Speaker 3: Teams haven't been announced yet, but from all reports I

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Speaker 3: think they'll play. And they've had really strong summers. They've

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Speaker 3: been great additions to the to the list and they're

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Speaker 3: going to bring their strengths and hopefully help us win

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Speaker 3: some games of footy.

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Speaker 5: What about the Cutler's man in footy? Seawan Darcy and

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Speaker 5: Luke Jackson? Are they inseparable those two at the moment?

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Speaker 2: They are?

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Speaker 3: Actually yeah, they're really funny. They're both sort of interesting

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Speaker 2: It's sort of a rockman thing.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, big, but yeah, they're spending a lot of

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Speaker 2: So they looking really good.

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Speaker 5: What a one two punch in the Rackers?

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Speaker 1: Very good And expectations are pretty high for Fremantle this season.

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Speaker 4: How do you deal with the pressure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's something that we've spoken about at the club

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Speaker 3: and if we're able to tick those things off each week,

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Speaker 3: hopefully those expectations that have been set on us externally

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Speaker 3: largely their outcome based.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably towards the end of the year. But if

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Speaker 2: we can take these things.

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Speaker 3: Off weekly, we feel like we're being in a good

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Speaker 3: we're in a position where we're playing finals, foot and whatever.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we're not looking too far ahead, but certainly

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Speaker 3: to deal with those external pressures, we're just focusing on

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Speaker 3: a few simple things each week individually and as a

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Speaker 3: we'll take care of the outcomes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we know where critics or journos are trying to

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Speaker 5: write columns at this time of year, they want to

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Speaker 5: talk about footag and Michael Barlow, for my favorite son

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Speaker 5: of the club, has come out and said, oh, I

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Speaker 5: don't think the boys are going to make finals. He goes, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I think that's a bit of a weird thing for

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Speaker 5: him to say. How do you feel about someone saying

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Speaker 2: Oh, it doesn't really bother me too much.

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Speaker 3: Everyone has an opinion, and at this time of the year,

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Speaker 3: the opinions can vary.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 3: I suppose as the year goes on, hopefully we can

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Speaker 3: change a few opinions and everyone's on board and everyone

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Speaker 3: thinks we can achieve a lot of things. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't bother us too much. They haven't played yet.

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Speaker 5: And hardly anyway, even the experts can't pick at the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, everyone's going to play finals this right.

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Speaker 1: We are thrilled that you've joined us for the season.

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Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about yourself growing up.

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Speaker 1: Are you barracked for You were saying barracks for Collingwood?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, funny, everyone's a Collingwood supporter.

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Speaker 3: So it was actually quite interesting last year when we

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Speaker 3: played him in that semi final. I have my whole

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Speaker 3: a little bit flat for me, but I was also

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Speaker 3: looking forward to watching the Pies the following week, So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's just an interesting dynamic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 5: What do you love listening to you got favorite music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got an interesting mix. I probably don't have

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Speaker 3: one genre that I like the most. I like a

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Speaker 3: some new staff, some rap. It sort of just depends

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Speaker 3: on what mood I'm in and feeling at the time.

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Speaker 1: Same.

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Speaker 4: Outside of football, hobbies, other sports and things.

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Speaker 2: I've been getting into my golf actually of late.

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Speaker 3: It's probably something that I didn't play a lot, but

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Speaker 3: since I've arrived in Perth there's a lot of golfers

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Speaker 3: at the club and I'm finding it's a great way to,

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Speaker 3: you know, get my head out of footy for a

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Speaker 3: on the golf course and it's good fun playing with

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Speaker 3: your mates and having a bit of bantern.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I've been doing that a little bit lately

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Speaker 2: and it's it's been enjoyable.

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Speaker 5: Hey, it would you rather here for you? Would you

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Speaker 5: rather kick for goal to win the Grand Final on

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Speaker 5: your non preferred right foot? Or would you rather a

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Speaker 5: cage fight to the death with Luke Ryan.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go with the first up.

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Speaker 5: Just yeah. He's a tough little bager, isn't he. Medalists

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Speaker 5: for twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: He is, and I'm so grateful that I'm on his

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Speaker 3: team and in the back line with him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I know if anyone anyone comes at me or one

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Speaker 2: And help us out.

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Speaker 5: He even does it with the ruckman.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's like that with everyone. Yeah, he's a

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Speaker 2: great teammate. Well.

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Speaker 1: The Frio Docors placed in Kilda at Marvel Stadium in

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Speaker 1: Melbourne on Sunday, bounced down as one forty R time.

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Speaker 4: Good luck and we'll see you next week next week.

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Speaker 5: Thanks and young part of the team, officially now at

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Speaker 5: ninety six FM.