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Speaker 1: It is twenty minutes after ten o'clock and in some

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Speaker 1: great news we know that AFL in the territory. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be back, well, bigger and better in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two with three massive matches, including two to be

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Speaker 1: played in Darwin and that third which is destined for

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Speaker 1: Alice Springs. And joining us on the line to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more about it, AFL ANDTCEO Sam

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Speaker 1: Gibson get a Sam.

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Speaker 2: Good Katy, thanks erving, Yeah, good to have.

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Speaker 1: You on the show. Sam. Tell us what can we

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Speaker 1: expect in twenty twenty two when it comes to the footy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's great news this morning to be able

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Speaker 2: to confirm an extra game in Darwin. I guess he's

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Speaker 2: one way to look at it. With Gold Coast playing

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Speaker 2: what will be back to back week here in Darwin,

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Speaker 2: and then obviously down in our Springs we've got the

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Speaker 2: reigning premiers coming back to Alice Springs. So it's that's

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Speaker 2: a good it's a good news morning for a footy

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Speaker 2: fans across the territory.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly we've never had a double header light that before,

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Speaker 1: have we?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, we're talking about this morning. We don't think

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Speaker 2: we have, and certainly Mark Evans, the CEO of the

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast, was up here this morning and talking about

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Speaker 2: all the initiatives that they're looking to do in the

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Speaker 2: week in between. Hopefully they'll stay for that week and

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Speaker 2: get amongst the community. So there's a lot of upside

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Speaker 2: to back to back rather than having two weeks spread

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Speaker 2: across the year.

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Speaker 1: And Sam, do we know yet? As I understand it's

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Speaker 1: round eleven and twelve, do we know yet who is

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Speaker 1: going to be playing against the Gold Coast?

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Speaker 2: If we know the first opponents, the Hawthorne will be

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Speaker 2: the first opponent in round eleven, and that's great. They

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Speaker 2: were due to come up last year Hawthorne. Obviously COVID

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Speaker 2: interrupted that, but they've got a pretty big following up here,

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Speaker 2: so that's great for Hawks fans. And later in the

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Speaker 2: week we'll understand who the second opponent will be and

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Speaker 2: and also Melbourne's opayment in how it springs.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it'll be great, no doubt. They're going to

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Speaker 1: be well sellout games at TiO and we're back to

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Speaker 1: being able to have it like at full capacity and everything,

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Speaker 1: aren't we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, at this point, there's nothing stopping us from

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Speaker 2: you're getting to full capacity and you know you've been

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Speaker 2: to the footy before. It's a great sight to see

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Speaker 2: high quality football out on the field and all the

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Speaker 2: people enjoying the football from the stand. So hopefully it's

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Speaker 2: smooth sailing from now and to then and we're able

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Speaker 2: to execute that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean last year was such a difficult one.

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Speaker 1: I know the year before was as well, and you

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Speaker 1: know for all sports, but particularly when you looked at

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Speaker 1: the AFL and trying to bring those games to the territory,

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Speaker 1: it was a tough year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look it was. It's been interesting because certainly from

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Speaker 2: a local forty point of view, things are going great

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Speaker 2: and people are coming out and watching local footy. But

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Speaker 2: to really round out the footy experience, we want to

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Speaker 2: bring this high quality content and the last year was difficult.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of stops start. There was at one

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Speaker 2: point I think there was two games planned on one

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Speaker 2: weekend and that that got canceled due to something in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully, as I said before, we've got a bit

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Speaker 2: of clear air now and we can plan for these

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Speaker 2: matches and deliver them and people can get out and

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Speaker 2: enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Same of those tickets on sale yet, are they still

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Speaker 1: a little way away?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not on sale yet, and that will the detail around,

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Speaker 2: you know, what time the matches are and all those

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Speaker 2: silly bits that will be worked through. So keep an

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Speaker 2: websites for the details. This is essentially just an early

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Speaker 2: heads up that footy's coming back. Now.

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Speaker 1: It's wonderful. I think so many people will be really

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Speaker 1: pleased to hear this, and I know that you know

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Speaker 1: that's so often with those different clubs that do travel

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Speaker 1: to the territory to play that there is a lot

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Speaker 1: that goes on, you know, in terms of being out

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Is that made a little bit

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Speaker 1: easier than when you've got the likes of the Gold

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Speaker 1: Coast Sons here for two weekends in a row.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look it is and Gold Coasts and both Gold

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Speaker 2: Coasts and Melbourne are really committed to that across there

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Speaker 2: their homes away from home, if you want to call that.

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Speaker 2: So they're very much I think we if they do

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Speaker 2: decide to stay in between the matches, which we'll hopeful

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Speaker 2: they do, they'll be here for ten days, and that

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Speaker 2: that just opens up a lot of opportunity, to know,

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Speaker 2: for them and their players to connect with schools and

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Speaker 2: communities not just across the top end, but also venturing

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Speaker 2: out into the remote communities in the other regional areas.

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Speaker 2: So you know, that's that's the real benefit of this

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Speaker 2: fact back speaks to which we've announced this morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, our wonderful stuff. Well, Sam Gibson, the a f

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Speaker 1: l n T CEO, good to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you