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Speaker 1: Over the weekend we learned a forty year old man

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Speaker 1: lost his life following a buggy crash in Girrawayne. We've

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Speaker 1: since learned that that man was a much love member

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Speaker 1: of the footy community and a loving family man. His

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Speaker 1: name was Ryan Christopher's. Now joining me on the line

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Speaker 1: is the president of the Southern District's Football club, Kevin Mulvale.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Kevin, Katie. How are you not bad? Bye? Kevin?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us more about Ryan or Chris so

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Speaker 1: as he was affectionately known.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he came up here before Impex and it's been

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Speaker 2: around the club now for quite a few years. And

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Speaker 2: just a white achiever. We're saying that working bees won't

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Speaker 2: be the same animal because he's a fella were always

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Speaker 2: just getting there to get the job done quietly and

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Speaker 2: without making too much trust and move on and just

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Speaker 2: support everyone I'm in the club. Like example, I've got

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Speaker 2: one of our players, one of his teammates in Rossy

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Speaker 2: Johnson races the youth. You know, Christo was always seeming

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Speaker 2: messages of support before each race, now after each race.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, just a nice guy that just went about

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Speaker 2: the humbles of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just a good blog by the sounds of it, mate,

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Speaker 1: how long was he the captain one of the captains

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Speaker 1: at the club.

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Speaker 2: He was captains of the Divvy co captain Divvy two

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Speaker 2: I think for three years and was the co captain

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Speaker 2: for the premiership two years ago.

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Speaker 1: You said in a statement that he was always willing

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Speaker 1: to lend a hand and his presence was deeply valued.

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Speaker 1: He sounds like he was a really strong member of

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Speaker 1: the CrOx footy club.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the whole family have been great asset for the

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Speaker 2: club and the reason why of the reasons why we

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Speaker 2: are a strong club. His wife was always helping around.

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Speaker 2: She was heavily involved in the junior cohorts where all

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Speaker 2: three of the kids play, and then Chris I was

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Speaker 2: there pretty much every home game doing something.

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Speaker 1: I imagine that the club is now doing everything that

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Speaker 1: you can to really wrap your arms around his wife

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Speaker 1: and his kids.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I mean his tragic He was doing

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Speaker 2: what the father should be doing, spending time with his kids,

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Speaker 2: having the fun. So it's quite tragic that someone so

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Speaker 2: invested in his family has an accident like this. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: definitely there's a lot of a lot of love going

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Speaker 2: out to their family from all over the club and

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Speaker 2: his employer MA.

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Speaker 1: It's heartbreaking. Honestly. When I saw this pressure leies come

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Speaker 1: through from the Northern Territory Police and I saw that

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Speaker 1: it was a forty year old man and that there

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Speaker 1: was you know, that there was youths in that buggy

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Speaker 1: as well. My instant thought is, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: potentially a dad with these kids. And then when I

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Speaker 1: saw that statement from you know, from you guys from

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Speaker 1: the Crocs footy club, I felt really heartbroken. I just think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just think of his wife, I think

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Speaker 1: of his children, I think of the whole footy club

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Speaker 1: and how you guys must be feeling at this point

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Speaker 1: in time. It is it's tragic.

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Speaker 2: It is, yeah, tragic, devastating for everyone. I have a

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Speaker 2: few drinks for the Calling your Caven tomorrow thurs idiot

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Speaker 2: tomorrow night, just to celebrate his life a bit and

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Speaker 2: a binding those people. It was very close to a

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Speaker 2: lot of people in the club and that it has

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Speaker 2: a huge impact of Crops all of us made.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything that the community can do at this

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Speaker 1: point in time. I know it's very early days, but

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Speaker 1: is there anything that the community can do at this

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Speaker 1: point in time? You know to help his wife and

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Speaker 1: kids in any way. Like I said, I know it's

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Speaker 1: early days, but I know a lot of people listening

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Speaker 1: will be keen to help if they can.

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, I think it is early days at the moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: still grief to go through with the funerals took her

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Speaker 2: in near future, and just everyone sort of getting their

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Speaker 2: heads different on what's happened. You know, just the family,

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Speaker 2: where the kids, Chris I would be kicking the fully

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Speaker 2: halftime three quill the time of every game with his kids.

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Speaker 2: His kids were always around the clubs as white eyed,

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Speaker 2: just enjoying being amongst the the players and just I

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Speaker 2: love being at the footy club.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, Kevin, my heart goes out to the whole

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Speaker 1: football club and particularly Chris's wife and kids. I know

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Speaker 1: it's difficult to come and speak at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: but it's I think it's so important to honor a

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Speaker 1: man who sounds like he was a really good her.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, now look, he's appropriate, you know, we should

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Speaker 2: get the message out. But he was a role model

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Speaker 2: as far as father as go, like you work a

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Speaker 2: double shift, come play footy, take his kids to the

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Speaker 2: footy and go off and keep on working for the

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Speaker 2: family is what a father should be and very involved

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Speaker 2: in in with his children.

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Speaker 1: Kevin, thank you for speaking to us this morning. And

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Speaker 1: as I say, my heart goes out to all of you.

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Speaker 1: I know that you have got you know you you

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Speaker 1: are planning to certainly honor Chriss So this weekend or tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: I believe to anybody that is part of the club

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Speaker 1: that maybe wants to know a little bit more about that,

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Speaker 1: what can you tell us tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: Just it's Crockett fool fool and you can. We'll have

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Speaker 2: a table there and whoever wants to turn up, most

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Speaker 2: of them and welcome to come along. That includes from

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Speaker 2: East arm Silver whereas employed. You know, it's just good

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Speaker 2: gears meet people as are turning around each other and

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Speaker 2: make sure everyone's okay.

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Speaker 1: Kevin, thank you, mate, Thank you very much for speaking

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Speaker 1: to us this morning. My thoughts and prayers are with

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Speaker 1: all of you guys.

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Speaker 2: Now, look, thanks for the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Thanks thanks mate, Thank you,