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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Wrap, a weekly podcast covering women's sports

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Speaker 1: news bears. What have we got around the grounds? This week?

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Speaker 2: Grace Harris has become the first Ozzie cricketer to take

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Speaker 2: a hat trick in at the WPL, American skier Mikayla

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Speaker 2: Schiffrin has won her hundredth World Cup race, and the

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Speaker 2: WNBL finals are heating up.

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Speaker 1: For the key story, we'll discuss the stats which reveal

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Speaker 1: a dramatic growth in participation for women and girls in

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Speaker 1: football in Australia since the twenty twenty three feef UP

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Speaker 1: Women's World Cup. My name is Chloe Dalton. I'm joined

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Speaker 1: every week on the show by my co host Bez.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot. We've got a lot going on. This

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Speaker 1: week we're hosting their first ever TEVAP summit on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Very exciting. I cannot wait for the summit.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Exclusive twenty athletes are going to be

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Speaker 1: there for the first time, interactive workshops. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: Event organizing somewhat stressful, but we're going to get there.

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Speaker 3: We are always learning. Every day we learn love it.

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Speaker 1: Cannot wait to see those athletes and we'll have all

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Speaker 1: the content across socials, so you guys can check out

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Speaker 1: what the day is like Thursday. Also, new episode with

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Speaker 1: Molly Taylor is dropping.

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Speaker 3: I thought you're about to tell everyone that we're going

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Speaker 3: to see Billy well as I like to call her

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Speaker 3: Willy my Lash on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Thursday night, we're going to be busy.

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Speaker 1: I actually also the w the Flames are playing in

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Speaker 1: the WNBL finals at the same location, so we need

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Speaker 1: to check time. Can we double that up because Flames

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Speaker 1: into Billie Eilish, I almost called it Billie Eilish would

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Speaker 1: be epic. Yeah, that's happening on Thursday. But Thursday morning,

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Speaker 1: six am, there's a new episode with Molly Taylor dropping.

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Speaker 1: She's a car race driver. She goes, she goes really

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Speaker 1: really fast. She is. Yeah, she's an incredible busy driver.

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Speaker 1: She competes in the Extreme E Championships, which is a

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Speaker 1: really unique competition which we chat about on the RAP

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Speaker 1: a lot of the time, where they are very conscious

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Speaker 1: about the impacts of climate change. They compete in areas

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Speaker 1: that have been infected by climate change. The cars get

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Speaker 1: shipped on boats, which sounds like a funny thing to say. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Molly's epic, So make sure you listen out for that

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Speaker 1: one Thursday morning. We are recording on Category Land. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a look around the.

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Speaker 2: Grounds WNBL Finals time. As we already said so. In

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Speaker 2: the basketball semi finals are off to a red hot start,

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Speaker 2: with the Towns Will Fire beating the Perth Links ninety

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Speaker 2: two to eighty seven in Game one of their final series.

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Speaker 2: The third successive semi final series between the two teams.

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Speaker 2: Saw the Fire up twenty seven to sixteen at quarter time.

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Speaker 2: Towns Will maintain that lead heading into the break seven

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Speaker 2: points ahead, and it's seen the domination was going to

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Speaker 2: continue in the third, with the Fire ahead by fourteen

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Speaker 2: points midway through the third quarter, but that's when the

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Speaker 2: Links begin began to make their move outscoring Towns Will

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Speaker 2: eighteen to four, which saw them all just backsquare just

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Speaker 3: That's a big run, eighteen to four, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Big run? Why do you? Why was there a timeout

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Speaker 2: Downsalls near Coffee hit a three on three quarter time

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Speaker 2: and the Fire went back into lead. Early in the fourth,

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Speaker 2: Billings responded with three bombs to Ali Wilson and Anie

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Speaker 2: with two minutes left, Perth were in front for the

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Speaker 2: first time since the opening stages.

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Speaker 3: That is clutch, but like a good game of ping pong.

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Speaker 2: It was the Fire who took back control from their

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Speaker 2: closing the game with an eight to two run.

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Speaker 2: Of the ninety two points, thirty six of those came

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Speaker 2: from near Coffee, who proved the decisive factor in giving

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Speaker 1: It's a nice thirty six in finals time is a

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Speaker 1: word a nice number. Meanwhile, in the second finals series,

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Speaker 1: the Benego Spirit have beaten the Sydney Flames seventy six

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Speaker 1: to sixty seven in Game one, notching up their first

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Speaker 1: finals win in a that's ten years. Bendigo were down

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Speaker 1: by seven early in the contest, but went on a

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Speaker 1: solid run to lead by twelve a quarter time. The

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Speaker 1: Sydney's task got even tougher when Cherie Swain went down

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Speaker 1: with a knee injury. Oh that's not good, because she's

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Speaker 3: She sure is.

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Speaker 1: I hope she's all right. It wasn't held by the

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Speaker 1: Flames never quite brought the heat during Game one. Talia

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Speaker 1: going down by nine points at the final buzzer Thursday

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Speaker 1: night Game two. Come on, let's get your job done.

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Speaker 3: Surely they'll get get it done at home.

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Speaker 2: In some hockey Ruz news, it's been a tough start

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Speaker 2: for Locky Roos in the fih Pro League campaign in Europe,

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Speaker 2: suffering narrow losses to both Belgium and Argentina. In the

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Speaker 2: first game, host Argentina snuck out to an early two

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Speaker 2: goal from Jade Smith. Ultimately that was all that would

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Speaker 2: as the Ossies found themselves desperately hunting for an equalizer

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Speaker 2: in the final minutes of the match that never came.

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Speaker 2: The world number three side showcased their world class ranking,

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Speaker 2: holding possession and dominating circle entries before finally making it

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Speaker 2: the first of two goals that would ultimately seal the win.

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Speaker 2: Baling Hein would bag her second towards the end of

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Speaker 2: the third, before the hockey crews were awarded for their

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Speaker 2: added pressure in the fourth with a sublime goal to

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Speaker 1: In a bit of cricket news staying overseas, Ozzie Grace

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Speaker 1: Harris has become the first Australian to take a hat

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Speaker 1: trick in the Women's Premier League Cricket in India and

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Speaker 1: only the third in the history of the competition.

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Speaker 3: That's excellent.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised that there hasn't been more hat

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Speaker 1: are there right absolutely. The feat came in the Up

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Speaker 1: Warriors women's thirty three run win over the Delhi Capital's

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Speaker 1: In cricket, a hat trick occurs when a bowler takes

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Speaker 3: Taught me through? Walking in as that third batter ready

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Speaker 3: That don't be the third You'd just be like, where's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, overthinking city right. The match was effectively over when

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Speaker 1: Harris came on to bowl her third over and the

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Speaker 1: so Harris was pretty relaxed. I reckon going into that over.

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Speaker 1: The Aussie made sure the Capitals weren't going to score

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Speaker 1: who held the catch after juggling the ball but managed

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Speaker 3: Bold and court. Would we say caught and bold?

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Speaker 1: Ah, I don't really know the.

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Speaker 3: Correct terminal is court in bold? But oh it's bold

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Speaker 3: and then court. You're right, and it shouldn't be going

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Speaker 3: and you're right, but it's bold and then court it's

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Speaker 1: But that's what she did. We're just having an argument

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Speaker 1: mid podcast anyway. After the game, Harristole Media, I think

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Speaker 1: I manifested this. I was joking when I was asked

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Speaker 1: what my plans would be in the bowlers meeting, and

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Speaker 1: I said I would do this and that and would

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Speaker 1: get a hat trick. We have these casual meetings. But

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Speaker 2: Love that manifest it in some more manifesting Cricket News

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Speaker 2: the Women's National Cricket League. New South Wales have claimed

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Speaker 2: a vital win over the Act Metiors thanks to the

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Speaker 2: batting heroics of Tali Wilson, who is in fine form.

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Speaker 2: Wilson's one hundred and forty two runs from one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty nine balls helped the Breakers put on eight

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Speaker 2: for two hundred and seventy one, a score which the

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Speaker 2: Meteors couldn't reach in the second innings, crashing to the

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Speaker 2: earth all out for two twenty.

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Speaker 1: Nine, crashing to the earth of medials. That's good in

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Tarlie Wilson though for a moment. Firstly,

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Speaker 3: she's we could keep it better.

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Speaker 2: Her innings of one hundred and forty two against the

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Speaker 2: Act was her fifth WNCL century and her highest score.

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Speaker 2: The twenty five year old is now third on the

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Speaker 2: list of New Sothhal's century makers in the WNCL, behind

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Speaker 3: Perry on a three.

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Speaker 2: She's moved past the Lesperit into ninth place on the

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Speaker 2: list of Newsophile's all time run scorers.

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Speaker 3: In the competition, d reckon wood Pears.

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Speaker 1: I want to know the stats. Wood Pears still be

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say yes.

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Speaker 2: But also, those top dogs don't play a lot of

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Speaker 2: not to take anything away from she obviously can find

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Speaker 2: passed two thousand WNCL runs and surpassed Belinda Clark's previous

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Speaker 2: record of six hundred and eleven for the highest season

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Speaker 2: aggregate for nusophiles in the WNCL.

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Speaker 1: Not bad to overtake Belinda Clark.

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Speaker 3: She's killing it.

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Speaker 2: The only record Tayler I missed. Oh, even better if

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Speaker 2: Talia was Alisa Hilly's Newsophar's record score of one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty nine that she posted in the twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen season.

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Speaker 3: Not bad, not bad at all, pretty bloody excellent.

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Speaker 1: In a bit of football news, it's been a tough

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Speaker 1: start for the Tillies at the she leaves Cup going

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Speaker 1: down two to one to the USA after a four

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Speaker 1: nil loss to Japan. What day would we say? That was?

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Speaker 1: Friday morning? Right? Yeah? In game one against Japan. Japan's

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Speaker 1: Mina Tanaka opened the scoring in the sixth minute, before

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Speaker 1: That one her didn't rough. Australia's closest chance to scoring

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what are Japan? Japan ranked eighth at the moment.

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Speaker 1: That's very concerning. The US had fourteen though, and as

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything, which I think he's probably concerning

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Speaker 2: I just from my personal experience, and I've kind of

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Speaker 2: There's no two ways about it. The fact that there's

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Speaker 1: And I know there's been so much discussion around I

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Speaker 3: I totally agree. I think it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: I think I think it's definitely time for Football Australia

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Speaker 1: Glab we're agreeing, not arguing anymore.

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Speaker 3: It's not arguing, it's just debate.

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Speaker 1: A healthy debate, a healthy debate. We mostly agree sometimes debate.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it wasn't very healthy this morning, unfortunately all thess

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Speaker 2: The Aussie women's sevens team will battle against Japan for

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Speaker 1: She's so hard to tackle.

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Speaker 3: Wrong.

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Speaker 2: She got the opener for the Kiwis after a nice

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Speaker 3: Speak from experience on that.

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Speaker 2: Mikaela Brake got New Zealand's lead back to seven points

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Speaker 2: before Miller extendedly further at halftime. Baith Nathan gave the

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Speaker 1: That's where that stuff comes back to bite you, because

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Speaker 1: I love that for Japan, like that. They are just

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Speaker 1: they just won bronze.

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Speaker 1: Australia have secured a bronze medal with a twenty six

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Speaker 1: Did I get this story? Because you hate that word?

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Speaker 1: Is that what's going on here?

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Speaker 1: Imagine you're trying to say slalom ski, Mikayla Schiffrin, go no,

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Speaker 3: American slalem ski slalem? Is it slalom or slalom?

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Speaker 2: This is where I I just for some reason in

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Speaker 1: American slalom skier Mikayla Schiffrin has claimed the hundredth one

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Speaker 1: Skinning is dangerous, it's so brutal. Her and her husband

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Speaker 3: It just like when your cold. Things hurt more too.

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Speaker 1: When Chiffrin crossed the finish line of the sut.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I think at least this is a

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Speaker 3: Lowlight.

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Speaker 1: When Chiffrin crossed the finish line of the slalom Ancestria, Italy,

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Speaker 1: she fell to the snow. Overwhelmed by the moment and

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Speaker 1: have to tell you later. Let's take a look at

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Speaker 1: the key story.

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Speaker 2: Football Australia has this week unveiled record breaking growth in

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Speaker 2: participation numbers across at grassroots and community women's football. The

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Speaker 2: most popular and fastest growing sport, with over one point

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Speaker 2: nine million participants nationwide. Particularly, participation among women and girls

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Speaker 2: in football rose by sixteen percent bare to the previous year,

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Speaker 2: resulting in two hundred and twenty one four hundred and

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Speaker 3: Huge massive. Why do we think that is, Clare.

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Speaker 1: I'd say probably because they hosted a World Cup and

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Speaker 1: these young people saw maybe I could try sail? Why

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Speaker 1: you who knew?

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Speaker 2: James Johnson, CEO of Football Australia, attributes a lot of

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Speaker 2: the success to a home Sooil World Cup.

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Speaker 3: Oh, James agrees with you, great pleasure the feed. But

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Speaker 3: Women's World Cup in twenty twenty three inspired a generation

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Speaker 3: and we are determined to harness that momentum to unite

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Speaker 1: Before we jump into a quick little chat about the

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Speaker 1: World Cups, because I'm so here for that giant slalom

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Speaker 1: that what you're thinking?

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 1: How you read that? Yeah, crack its not as tight turning,

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Speaker 1: not as tight turning you are heading. I've put it

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Speaker 1: on the calendar over there, put your little stickers on

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Speaker 1: your heading to the Women's Rugby World Cup over in

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Speaker 1: England later this year. What do you think? What kind

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Speaker 1: of do you think that will have? Because the Red

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Speaker 1: Roses have done an incredible job for women's rugby over

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Speaker 1: in the UK already.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and they've already spoken to us that we've

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Speaker 2: been on a few calls about the legacy piece of

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Speaker 2: this tournament, which is so important that the tournament, whilst

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Speaker 2: it will obviously attract millions of vias, we make sure

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Speaker 2: that we convert a good percentage of that into participants.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's what Football Astralia is talking about here,

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Speaker 2: is when you've got the attention of the public, you

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Speaker 2: have to make sure that you convert it and that

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Speaker 2: there's competitions available for people to either rejoin the sport

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Speaker 2: or learn the sport, or you know, the whole gamut

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Speaker 2: of opportunity for people to actually participate because it's so important.

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Speaker 1: And I'll get back to some of the positive data

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Speaker 1: that's come out of this, but I think probably what's

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Speaker 1: made me a little bit sad with the A League

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Speaker 1: Women's we know how huge these leagues are overseas. I

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Speaker 1: think that's been a really big missed opportunity that so

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Speaker 1: many of these home own heroes, rather than being in

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Speaker 1: the A League Women's competition. I just think that would

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Speaker 1: have been a completely different story if you'd had these

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Speaker 1: players here for the long term, playing for their local clubs.

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Speaker 3: YEP.

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Speaker 1: So that's I think that's tough comparing it to the

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Speaker 1: PWR over in the UK. That's right, isn't it. You

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Speaker 1: know when you say an acronymy Like, that's what it's called,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. I know alone of Mars, not British, but

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Speaker 1: she's playing for the Bristol Bears. Like what you can

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Speaker 1: do for the domestic leagues is very different when you've

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Speaker 1: got top end talent. Absolutely, Football Australia believes an increased

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Speaker 1: focus on diversity and inclusion has been a cornerstone of

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Speaker 1: its grassroots efforts. The National Volunteer Focus Group brought together

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Speaker 1: twenty eight clubs to address challenges in volunteer recruitment and retention,

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Speaker 1: with a particular emphasis on engaging women and girls. The

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Speaker 1: resulting action plans aim for forty percent women, forty percent men,

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Speaker 1: and twenty percent flexible roles structure, ensuring gender balance and

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Speaker 1: inclusivity cross all levels of the game. Interestingly, registered coaches

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Speaker 1: and volunteers also increase by nineteen and twenty six percent, respectively,

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Speaker 1: reflecting a growing workforce to support the game, while social

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Speaker 1: football engagement grew by thirteen percent up to almost one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five thousand Social players However, it's interesting

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Speaker 1: to note that women and girls still only make up

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Speaker 1: eleven percent of the total football playing community in Australia. Wow,

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Speaker 1: because it's weird right when you hear these big increases,

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Speaker 1: but then when you see it as part of the

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Speaker 1: whole picture, it's eleven percent is really small.

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Speaker 2: It is small, but it's obviously increased, so it's on

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Speaker 2: the right path, it's got the right trajectory. I think

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Speaker 2: there's definitely barriers that still remain in that space in

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Speaker 2: regards to access to facilities. It's definitely one of the

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Speaker 2: biggest ones. Feeling welcomed and accepted in and around some

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Speaker 2: of these male dominated spaces is a challenge for some

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Speaker 2: women and girls, There's no doubt about that. I like

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Speaker 2: to think though, that you know, whilst it's only eleven percent,

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Speaker 2: as we said, it is growing, and on the flip

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Speaker 2: side of that you say only eleven percent, it also

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Speaker 2: means that if again, when we talk about investment, that's

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Speaker 2: there's a massive, massive opportunity to make that eleven percent

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Speaker 2: into forty percent with the right investment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. Let's take a look out what

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Speaker 1: to watch in.

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Speaker 3: The fih Pro League.

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Speaker 2: The heroes will be out for revenge after narrowly losing

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Speaker 2: it to one to Belgium just a few days ago.

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Speaker 2: The match starts on Tuesday at eleven thirty ae DT,

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Speaker 2: So after you've listened to this on the way to

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Speaker 2: work in the morning, turn on the teller. You can

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Speaker 2: watch live and free on seven Plus.

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Speaker 1: The Townsville Fire hosts The Perth Links this Wednesday at

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Speaker 1: seven thirty pm ae d T, while the Sydney Flames

516
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Speaker 1: hosts The Bendigo Spirit the next night at seven pm

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Speaker 1: ae DT. You can catch the semi finals series live

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Speaker 1: and free across the nine network.

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Speaker 2: Until is we looking to right the wrongs of the

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00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 2: Sheva Leagues Cup so far when they play their first

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Speaker 2: ever senior match against Columbia. The match kicks off Thursday

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Speaker 2: at eleven thirty AMADT, and you can watch a live

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Speaker 2: on Paramount Plus.

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Speaker 1: In golf, the HSBC Women's World Golf Championship returns to

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Speaker 1: Singapore this week, where you can watch the world's best

526
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Speaker 1: go face to face. The action. Te's off this Thursday,

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Speaker 1: February twenty seventh. You can follow along on Ko Sports.

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Speaker 2: And May Rugby is back, Yeah, it is Super Rugby

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Speaker 2: Women's is back. For twenty twenty five. We've played some trials.

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Speaker 2: We're ready to get going. So Round one kicks off

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Speaker 2: this Friday when the Nis war Tars hosts the Fiji

532
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Speaker 2: and Drewer in Sydney in a Grand Final rematch. The

533
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Speaker 2: match kicks off at five oh five PMADT. You can

534
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Speaker 2: watch Everything super w on stan Sport.

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Speaker 1: And your role bears for quick refresher for people who

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Speaker 1: don't know or maybe they're new to the podcast.

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Speaker 3: I am the manager of the women's wr Tars team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you are up the Tars atatas.

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Speaker 3: I am lethal with a clipboard.

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Speaker 1: Can clipboard in a bit of rugby league? What to

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Speaker 1: watch Vegas? How good? For the first time in history,

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Speaker 1: women's rugby league is heading to Vegas when the Jewel

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Speaker 1: Roues take on the old enemy England this weekend. The

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Speaker 1: match kicks off on Sunday the second at one fifteen

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Speaker 1: pm ADT. Yeah, we can watch it live across the

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Speaker 1: nine network in Foxtel.

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Speaker 3: How good.

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Speaker 1: It's so good.

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Speaker 3: I'll be interesting how that goes.

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Speaker 2: It's a smaller field over there. Those NFL fields are.

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Speaker 3: Tight, toy. There might be a little lot more contact

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Speaker 3: with crash and bash.

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Speaker 1: That's the wrap, See you next week.

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Speaker 3: Survived it, Bye bye,