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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 2: Well, some of the best school age NRL players from

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Speaker 2: across the Northern Territory have gone into State for the

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Speaker 2: Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League Tournament. It's happening in Port

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Speaker 2: mcquarie as I understand it. Their first games are on

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Speaker 2: the weekend and they're there.

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Speaker 1: All throughout this week now.

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Speaker 2: The NT Titans under fifteen school boys they're away, as

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Speaker 2: are the under sixteen school girls who've been training for

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Speaker 2: months in the lead up to the competition, and the

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Speaker 2: girls head coach Bianchor Scrimjaw joins me on the line.

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Speaker 1: Good morning bi Anchor, Hi, good morning Katie. How are

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Speaker 1: you having me? How are the kids going? They're going

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Speaker 1: really well.

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Speaker 3: We started at Day one for the girls was on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: you know, and they started off strong against Victoria. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: whoever scores for first gets five points and in a

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Speaker 3: normal game it would have been a try each to them.

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Speaker 3: So we went down by one point against Vick. Tough

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Speaker 3: against Queensland, but Queensland's always been in the benchmark and

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Speaker 3: the standards, you know, in both in all aspects of

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Speaker 3: the grades. And then with Act we went down seventeen meal.

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Speaker 3: But they're doing great, they're having a ball having you know,

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Speaker 3: getting opportunities to play against these young girls. But you know,

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Speaker 3: just their their fight and their competitive ness has just

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Speaker 3: being something really you know, proud for me to watch

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Speaker 1: I love it. I love kids sport. I say it

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Speaker 1: nearly every day.

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Speaker 2: I love seeing kids getting out there, whether it's on

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Speaker 2: the footy field, swimming pool, wherever they are.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a wonderful thing for them to do.

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Speaker 2: But also even though, as you said, obviously I haven't

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Speaker 2: won all their games, but you know, that's all about

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Speaker 2: teaching them that resilience as well, and how you come

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Speaker 2: back from those losses.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it's just about those little steps. And you

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Speaker 3: know we've we've been focusing on the little wins and

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Speaker 3: setting goals each game and as long as we we

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Speaker 3: you know, reach those goals or you know, complete them,

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Speaker 3: and they're they're happy and they're they've been really you know,

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Speaker 3: they're they were a bit bummed. Not gonna lie, nobody likes,

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Speaker 3: you know, to lose, but you know, when reflecting and

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Speaker 3: going back to what we actually wanted to achieve that

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Speaker 3: day and being like, oh, yeah, we did achieve those

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Speaker 3: little things. So that's all that really matters. And they're

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Speaker 3: they're still got smiles on their face and they're ready

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Speaker 3: for doubt, they're ready for day to today.

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Speaker 1: So who are they taking on today, b Anchor?

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Speaker 3: So today we've got a c T first up, and

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Speaker 3: then we'll have the Queensland school Girls again and then

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Speaker 3: we've finished the day with Victoria so that they're there.

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Speaker 3: They're the other teams that are in our pool, so

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Speaker 3: we basically play them for again today but just the

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Speaker 3: other way around. And but they're they're they're really keen

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Speaker 3: and wanting to get get that win against them. A

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Speaker 3: c T ll come a little bit closer better than

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Speaker 3: you know day one, and like I said, they're just

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Speaker 3: they're still having a boss. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.

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Speaker 2: I think it's wonderful and I do hope they get

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Speaker 2: a win though I know that you know, everybody, let's

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Speaker 2: not beat around the bush. We all love winning, there

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Speaker 2: is no doubt about that. Tell me how much prep

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so these girls have been training for the last

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Speaker 3: six months, but because we've been having our normal competition

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Speaker 1: Where are all the players from? Where all the girls from?

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Speaker 2: Are they just from Darwin or have you got some

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we've got we've got majority from Darwin, and

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Speaker 3: but two from Catherine, which is fantastic for Catherine rugby

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Speaker 3: league and you need to represent put them on the map.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, absolutely, like I've been saying, I think it's

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Speaker 2: a wonderful thing.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me.

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Speaker 2: I know that coaches never really want to single out,

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So we've got Melea who's our captain and you've

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Speaker 3: guessed she's she's been really strong for us. They're my

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Speaker 2: And this is the thing that sometimes I think if

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Speaker 1: Throughout your life, like the Nationals is a.

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Speaker 2: Huge opportunity for these kids, particularly, you know, to get

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Speaker 2: for NRL clubs and that kind of thing. It's a

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, it's fantastic And you know, all I asked

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Speaker 3: they're doing right now. And I think it just comes

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Speaker 3: with our territory. Like territory, tough is our is our brand,

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Speaker 3: and that's they're definitely showing it.

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Speaker 1: Oh I love that.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Tell me a few of the girls also involved in

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Speaker 1: Is that correct? How did they go there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we had a player, Latanya Norris. She went

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Speaker 3: so that was fantastic as well and just a really

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Speaker 3: So I'm really proud of them both and I really hope,

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Speaker 3: these next generations, which are fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I agree. We caught up with Shari last week.

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Speaker 2: She was so wonderful to have a chat too, and

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Speaker 2: you know, just hearing the passion that she had getting

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Speaker 2: I reckon it's phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it's great. It makes you really really proud,

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Speaker 3: and again its you know, Northern Territory has been sort

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Speaker 1: All, yeah, good on you guys, and be good on you.

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Speaker 2: I know, mentoring a young group of of well of

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Speaker 2: my goodness, that seems like such a hard job, but

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Speaker 2: jeezus will be rewarding. So good on you taking the

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Speaker 2: girls away and they so what they're doing fantastically.

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Speaker 3: They're doing great. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Bianka. Tell them that we're the territories behind them.

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Speaker 2: We really hope that they do well. And the boys

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Speaker 2: as well. I hope that they're both doing incredibly well.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, give them a big shout out from us.

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Speaker 3: We'll do definitely. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for Anker