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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy and Manda.

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Speaker 2: It's round twenty five of the NRL. Our last Mystery

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Speaker 2: Footy Tipper was Kate Sobrano. She got four out of eight.

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Speaker 3: Which is pretty good. Today's Mystery Footy Tipper, I'm kind

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Speaker 3: of a big deal. Our Mystery Footy Tipper is described

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Speaker 3: as being accurate and reliable. That's my mantle as well,

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Speaker 3: isn't it.

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Speaker 4: You don't carry that mantle very well.

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Speaker 3: When he comes to the game. He must remain neutral.

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Speaker 4: He must remain neutral.

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Speaker 3: He has taken over from one of NRL's most famous names.

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Speaker 3: He is the new voice of rugby league. We give

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Speaker 3: you Matt Thompson.

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Speaker 1: The pass of one side to the end stepping.

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Speaker 4: He's funny too, the post of a beautiful way.

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Speaker 1: The crop.

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Speaker 2: Specs on forty five tames and I must say he

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Speaker 2: had a big set of Julius Marlow's to fill and

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Speaker 2: hasn't he done well?

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Speaker 3: Matthew Thompson ask you how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm humbled by the introduction. I hope you

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Speaker 1: don't ask me to sing. After following up from Caate

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Speaker 1: Sabrano last week, No.

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Speaker 5: Her singing is better than a footy tip, So maybe

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Speaker 5: your tips might be better than your singing.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope.

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Speaker 4: So you're doing it are You're doing a fantastic job.

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Speaker 5: How did it feel that first game you had to

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Speaker 5: call when it was you?

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Speaker 1: Ah, well that was origin one. Look to be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, guys, I wasn't that nervous. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: it could of just do what you do, I suppose.

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Speaker 1: I mean I was conscious there was a big occasion

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Speaker 1: and everyone was talking about it. But I can only

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Speaker 1: do doing my job, which I've been doing for a

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Speaker 1: long time now. So everything seems so worked out pretty well.

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Speaker 1: And look, the footy has been really really good, and

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Speaker 1: the finals in particular, I think are going to be

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Speaker 1: another level this week. The games we've got in week

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Speaker 1: one of the finals, it's the best first week of

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Speaker 1: finals footy I can ever remember. I think any team

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Speaker 1: can win. So I think the footy is just going

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Speaker 1: to be fabulous. It will be a pleasure be there

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Speaker 1: across the weekend.

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Speaker 2: And Rabs was famously neutral, although he did lean towards paramatter.

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Speaker 2: But what about you do you take some sort of

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Speaker 2: oath when you do this.

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Speaker 3: You can't you can't portray who you actually go for.

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Speaker 1: Well you do. And occasionally I get a bit of

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Speaker 1: social media feedback in facturing origin, I've got a couple

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Speaker 1: of messages, one saying so obvious here at Coinsland and

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Speaker 1: the other one said so obvious here in New South Bors.

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Speaker 1: So I figure I must have got the balance pretty right.

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Speaker 3: So we don't We will not ask you do you

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Speaker 3: support a side, but do you support a particular site?

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Speaker 1: My my family or my youngest son is a football

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Speaker 1: in tragic and he's a panther. So that's as close

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Speaker 1: as we get.

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Speaker 3: We'll accept that.

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Speaker 5: Well, let's have a look at Friday night, of course,

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Speaker 5: the living room, the show that I host Matthews on

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Speaker 5: Friday Night.

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Speaker 4: So I'm assuming everyone's going to record these.

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Speaker 3: Football You'll be running that in the commentary.

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Speaker 1: That's ills please do.

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Speaker 4: I'd appreciate Amanda.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say Amanda as well. I used to watch

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Speaker 1: you on Beyond two thousand. I can't believe I'm on

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Speaker 1: the radio with you.

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Speaker 4: Aren't you kind? Were you? How old were you when

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Speaker 4: you were watching Beyond two thousand?

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Speaker 3: School boy?

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Speaker 4: That's the drop zone.

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Speaker 5: That is the drop zone for people who come up

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Speaker 5: to me about Beyond two thousand boys, who watched it when.

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Speaker 3: You didn't have in pure thoughts? Did you excuse me?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: Thank you Brendan.

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Speaker 5: The shoulder pads we got rid of all of that

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Speaker 5: well the very first qualifying final Friday night. We've got

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Speaker 5: the Panthers and we've got the Eels. What are people saying,

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Speaker 5: we won't make you pick what you'd like to see.

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Speaker 3: What are people.

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Speaker 1: Saying, well, I'll give you a tip at the end.

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Speaker 1: But people are saying that it's going to be another

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Speaker 1: cracking game. Paramatta have beaten the Panthers twice this year already,

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Speaker 1: including in round nine out there at Penrith where the

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Speaker 1: Panthers won twenty one straight, so they broke their run

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Speaker 1: of home game victories and then they beat them again

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Speaker 1: only a few weeks back when Nathan Cleary got sent off.

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Speaker 1: But this is very different now. Pentereth rested all their

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Speaker 1: gun players last week because they were so far in

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Speaker 1: front of the minor premiership and power in great form.

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Speaker 1: So and it's a bitter battle, the Battle of the West.

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Speaker 1: I think Peneth will win because Nathan Cleary comes back

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Speaker 1: from suspension, he's had always time to think about it

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Speaker 1: and he'll just be chomping at the bit to play,

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Speaker 1: and the Panthers are nice and fresh, and it's packed,

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Speaker 1: it's sold out. Any minutes out there, I just think

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Speaker 1: Petereth will win. But I'll preface that by saying the

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Speaker 1: pair has actually lost this finals game last year to

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Speaker 1: South Sydney and they went through the back door and

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Speaker 1: played them again in the Grand Final and beat them.

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Speaker 1: So the loser here all is not lost.

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Speaker 3: Melbourne Storm versus Canberra.

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Speaker 2: This is an elimination Melbourne Stormer an elimination final.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they us missed out on the top four.

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Speaker 1: Look they've got do you know what? For them to

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Speaker 1: even be in the finals is a massive effort. They've

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Speaker 1: got so many injuries, but and this season looked like

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Speaker 1: it was doom six weeks ago. But he's a great coach,

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Speaker 1: Craig Bell. I mean he's been able to get the

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Speaker 1: team back somewhere near their best. And they're at home

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Speaker 1: against Camera. The Raiders have won their last four games

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Speaker 1: in a row in Melbourne and they're coming in Camera

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Speaker 1: that is in some red hot form. The bookies have

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Speaker 1: got them outsiders. I reckon Camera can win. I think

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be really close. But I'm

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Speaker 1: just letting the wards camera.

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Speaker 5: All right, it's not often you get to see raiders

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Speaker 5: and the storm. I'd just like to say.

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Speaker 1: That, yes the song, the song right, Yes, so I've got.

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Speaker 4: You've got it.

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Speaker 3: Matthew is heavy in pure thoughts. No, you met you

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Speaker 3: in your laptop.

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Speaker 4: You stop it.

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Speaker 2: Cronella. Sharks versus North Queensland Cowboys. You know the Sharks as.

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Speaker 3: I'm I am. The Shark's tragic, but I haven't seen

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Speaker 3: the Sharks play as good as have they been playing

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Speaker 3: lately that.

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Speaker 4: Year and they both get a second crack.

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Speaker 3: And no one's rating them. No one's sitting there saying

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Speaker 3: the Sharks are going to do this, which is good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are under the radar, aren't they, which is

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Speaker 1: strange given they finished second on the ladder. But a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are saying they've had a soft draw.

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Speaker 1: Cronella and the last month said I haven't played.

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Speaker 4: I said that every week ago.

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Speaker 3: Come he's been winging to anyone in care to listen?

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Speaker 3: Are your team has at the softest drawer? Soft draws?

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Speaker 1: You should listen to Amanda more.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Matthew.

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Speaker 1: But they're at home, as you know, Jameer. Look Coronella

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Speaker 1: playing at home is so hard to beat down there,

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Speaker 1: and they've won their past eight games against the Cowboys overall,

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Speaker 1: and they've won all five finals matches at home the

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Speaker 1: Sharks that they've played there, So I think they'll win.

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Speaker 1: But again, that's a really close game. That they're excellent

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Speaker 1: team North Queens and they go for almost the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the ladder to finished third this year has been

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Speaker 1: a massive effort from them. All.

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Speaker 5: Right, Then we have the second elimination final, my team,

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Speaker 5: the Roosters versus the rabbit Os.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, played last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't it the same again?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but you know what, it's such a great

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Speaker 1: occasion when they play and the Rooster's beat South's pretty

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Speaker 1: comprehensively last week. But Cameron Murray's back to South and

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Speaker 1: Damien Cooks back in and soas Campbell Graham and the

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Speaker 1: Roosters lose Joseph Marnho And it's an elimination final at

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Speaker 1: Alian's the new stadium, which is just fabulous. If you

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Speaker 1: haven't been there, you really should go. Look, the most

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Speaker 1: bitter club rivalry in the game could go either way.

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Speaker 1: I've just got a nagging feeling maybe South can win.

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Speaker 1: That is just a toss of the coin and you

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Speaker 1: know they'll just rip into each other as they did

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Speaker 1: last week. It's going to be great and we've got

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Speaker 1: all these rivalries this weekend. Yeah, it's just a fabulous

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Speaker 1: weekend of footing.

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Speaker 3: Did you know what if the Roosters do when there

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Speaker 3: is an inevitability that it could be a Sharks Rooster's

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Speaker 3: Grand Final.

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Speaker 4: I thinks between this and that, that.

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Speaker 3: Will be the greatest matchup.

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Speaker 5: If some butts with candies and nuts, we'd all have

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Speaker 5: a merry Christmas.

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Speaker 4: It's not a song, Matthew, it's just the same.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, yes, can you weave that into the rabs used

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Speaker 2: to have and have these God, try try try Maybe

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Speaker 2: if if some butts were candies and nuts, we'd all

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Speaker 2: have a merry christ Get it.

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Speaker 4: In there, Matthew, come on.

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Speaker 3: Come on.

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Speaker 1: I'd love that to be my I'd love that to

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Speaker 1: be my.

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Speaker 2: Matt you're doing such a great job. We love watching

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Speaker 2: you call the footy. Channel nine and nine now is

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Speaker 2: the only place you can watch every NRL Finals game

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Speaker 2: and it's all live and free.

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Speaker 3: Matthew Thompson, good calling on the weekend. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, it's a pleasure.

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Speaker 4: To chat, thank you,