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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say time flies, but it does

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Speaker 2: feel like just yesterday that Elliott Last walked into the studio.

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Speaker 3: Hello, good morning, good to be back.

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Speaker 4: How are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm well, yeah, very well compared to here, well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: compared to previous years. It's an exciting time to start.

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Speaker 1: How pre season has been, well, yes.

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Speaker 4: That's so far.

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Speaker 3: So I just got to get through this week and

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Speaker 3: tick that box and yeah, hopefully play around one, which

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Speaker 3: would be the first one for a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: This is how well it's going.

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Speaker 2: Football writer Marke Duffield wrote a few weeks ago that

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Speaker 2: you are in fact the key to the Eagles getting

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Speaker 2: back up the AFL Ladder.

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Speaker 3: I don't yeah, I don't think you can put it

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Speaker 1: No, but it's high praise.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but look, I just want to go out there

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Speaker 3: and try and play my role as best as possible. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: trying to set the world on fire, but I'm just

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Speaker 3: going to try and do the right thing for the

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It's funny there because Cane Corn's wrote You're the key

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Speaker 5: to get the Eagles back up the AFOL Ladder.

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Speaker 4: As well, oh what next? It's a roller coaster. Mae,

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Speaker 4: we know you're in good Nick. That's great.

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Speaker 5: Is that your first full pre season for two or

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Speaker 5: three years, the pre season where you've gotten all the

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Speaker 4: Wow, you had a couple.

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Speaker 3: It still hasn't made a full pre season those things

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Speaker 3: that you know, I've sort of built up during December

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Speaker 3: so touch would get through get through this week. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's an exciting time. This is where you want to

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This is the first pre season for a couple of

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Speaker 2: years where COVID, the word COVID hasn't featured in a

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Speaker 1: Bit freeing it is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of weirdness, like COVID just got put

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Speaker 4: More will there's no sanitiz that one's going on. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Now everyone's shouting out COVID ye, but yeah, it's it's definitely,

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that you know, if players are feeling

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Speaker 1: Reckon everything we've taken away from it.

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Speaker 3: It is well previously would have to rat test during

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Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything yet, but they might bring it back.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, frustrating, nothing wrong with that, mate.

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Speaker 4: Who's the Killer? And do you have a love hate

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 3: Killer is our new strength and conditioning coach, and he

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Speaker 1: The one that makes you drop and give me tweeting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just about just about all the stuff that I reckon.

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Speaker 3: Doing all that stuff. It's seriously hard and people look

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Speaker 4: It's not big on sas Australia a bit just about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a mini boot camp for twenty twenty five minutes.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Nick Natinui, there are a couple of injury

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Speaker 3: He's building, so you know he's been trying to get

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Speaker 3: We've got training today and Thursday, so we'll see if

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Speaker 1: And Darling and McGovern and Barras.

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Speaker 3: They're the same. JD ran around yesterday and I'm sure

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Speaker 3: Jad he's looking good at the moment. It's just whether

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Speaker 4: You always got an injection of new talent. How the

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Speaker 3: Exciting, very exciting. Yeah, it's good to have I guess

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Speaker 1: What's interesting because Liam Dugan said he reminds him of you.

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Speaker 2: North Melbourne is the You're opening round match this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Is it too soon to have any feel on any

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Speaker 2: mean a fresh season, fresh everything, fresh coach, fresh coach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So there's going to be there will

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Speaker 3: we're going to be studying them today, see what they

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Speaker 1: So he's a good coach.

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Speaker 4: He's a very good coach, very good coach.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we're excited by it. We'll do our due

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Speaker 4: One to me a favor mate that goes off on

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Speaker 1: Fair enough?

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Speaker 4: Okay? Why are both teams away in the first round

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Speaker 3: You can blame ed sheeron is it?

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Speaker 4: I was going to say.

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Speaker 3: That's it's fault because the ground is not going to

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Speaker 1: It would be a quick turnaround.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, yeap.

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Speaker 3: So they gotta they're gonna have enough time to get

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Speaker 4: It's not just a stage he was on with the crowd.

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Speaker 5: There was the plastic saw.

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Speaker 4: That he didn't in protest or get off my ground.

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Speaker 3: His music, Yeah, I want his music I just yeah,

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Speaker 2: Is it weird to go to like your ground?

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Speaker 3: And I don't think I have, but I've been to

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Speaker 3: when they have the state of origin, and that just

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Speaker 4: Especially that little rectangle down there. That's yeah, but.

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Speaker 3: Back, but that was you know, back couple years ago now,

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Speaker 3: but I was sitting on the sidelines for a few years,

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Speaker 3: so it's kind of you rocked up up just watching

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Speaker 3: forty and it was Yeah, it was a different feel.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Now you mentioned second last last season, but history, now,

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Speaker 3: We've always gone into every season trying to qualify as

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Speaker 3: it's that simple. So there's no point in rocking up

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Speaker 5: Weird to start It must be weird to start a

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Speaker 3: but it's also kind of You've got to have a

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Speaker 2: It sounds like he's really got on with it. Love

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's still bored from part like from time to

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Speaker 3: time because he rolls in the club track the other

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Speaker 3: day and heckling the bloke from.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, he still pops.

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Speaker 5: In considering how he was, like what you just said

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Speaker 5: there some of the extraordinary feats he was still pulling

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And a lot of people know a

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Speaker 3: lot of players I like that they get through what

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Speaker 3: don't see how much pain they're going through in order

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Speaker 3: to play. But it's where it comes down the love

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Speaker 2: Yeah, are we a chance to see any debuts this

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Speaker 2: first week?

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm excited, I reckon. Look, I'm hopeful that there

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Speaker 3: will be a few, but that's not up to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but it'll be exciting to see a few of them in. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 3: but I'm sure they'll be in the coming weeks. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure there'll be a few of them that will tick through.

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Speaker 5: And almost like a new recruit, that golden haired wonder

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Speaker 5: boy in the forward line, Oscar Ellenan back back on the.

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Speaker 3: Park almost really in that. Yeah it's been a while.

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Speaker 3: He's a bit like myself. But yeah, absolute gun of

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Speaker 3: a player. And you know we need to get some

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Speaker 3: we can.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, the Eagles play North Melbourne at Marvel

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Speaker 2: Stadium in Melbourne on Saturday. Bounced down is at ten

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Speaker 2: forty five our time, good luck, thank you next week jeez,