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Speaker 1: Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: So footy is back kind of with an asterisk, a.

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Speaker 1: Very tepid start to the football season.

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Speaker 2: Can anyone makes sense this? The reason why I'm asking

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Speaker 2: us especially today is we've had some of our oldest

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Speaker 2: friends staying with us from they've never been to Australia before.

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Speaker 2: They're over from the UK. And I said, now, oh,

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Speaker 2: there's a there's a footage game on this afternoon, and

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Speaker 2: it was the Giants Pies game. I said, this should

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Speaker 2: be a good game. We can watch the first half

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Speaker 2: of it, so I said, just watch it and all

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Speaker 2: sort of makes sense of it as we go along.

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Speaker 2: And of course I remember when I moved it seven

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Speaker 2: years ago. When you come in cold, there are so

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Speaker 2: many questions, valid questions that don't have very clear concise answers.

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Speaker 2: Within a couple of minutes, there was like two minutes

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Speaker 2: of silence, and I kept looking at him and who

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Speaker 2: he enjoys it, you know, And it was a really

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Speaker 2: busy game, and he goes, what the bloody end is

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Speaker 2: going on here? I mean it is because it's really physical,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. And he went, oh, that guy is going

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Speaker 2: to get some sent off. No, no, no, no, they don't

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Speaker 2: have any of that. What do they have any guess? No,

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Speaker 2: but they have a tribunal. What do you mean a

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Speaker 2: tribune They have to go to a tribunal, but most

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Speaker 2: of the time just appeal it. They go, don't worry

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Speaker 2: about it. Especially we played for the catch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no sinbin, no getting set off in the game.

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Speaker 1: You essentially go to court during the week.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. He was like, he just punched that guy.

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Speaker 2: Not not a problem during this game. Ever, during the game,

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Speaker 2: something will happen. They're going to have to put a

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Speaker 2: suit on during the week, and normally they just appeal

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Speaker 2: it and they just half the originally said, and the

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Speaker 2: tribunals can go on for six hours.

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Speaker 1: It's not until you explain Australian rules football to somebody

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Speaker 1: that you were like, yeah, it is a kind of

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Speaker 1: a strange game. We've all especially growing up with it.

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Speaker 1: You go like, we just always known that that's how

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Speaker 1: it was, but having to explain it to you doesn't

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Speaker 1: ye very straight.

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Speaker 2: And you know, like it with a lot of sports,

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Speaker 2: like say like cricket, you know that hasn't really adapted

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Speaker 2: that much. You know they've done some new versions like

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Speaker 2: T twenty, but the actual rules the thing he couldn't.

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Speaker 2: He went, so are they playing on a training pitch? Went? No, No,

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Speaker 2: this is an actual study. I go white. He goes,

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Speaker 2: what are those two other sort of training posts by

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Speaker 2: the main post? No? And I went, oh, by the

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Speaker 2: way for a game that predominantly kicking, most of them

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Speaker 2: are ship at it right, he goes. So he's going like,

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Speaker 2: do try and get it in there? You get most ways,

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Speaker 2: but try and get my massive wife. You don't have

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Speaker 2: that in any other sport. You know, there's a golf

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Speaker 2: hole and then there's another bigger hole. Any of these

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Speaker 2: that one ideally, but there's still it.

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Speaker 1: Won't many points, but you can't go for that one.

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Speaker 2: And then one of the umpires obviously throw the ball

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Speaker 2: facing away, and he went, what the hell is this? Now?

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Speaker 2: What's he doing? He goes, how can he do that?

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Speaker 2: It's impressible? Why is he throwing it like that? I went, actually,

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you that. I got no idea. Why

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Speaker 2: did he throw it that that way?

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Speaker 1: Another thing I've never.

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Speaker 2: TH's just the way it is?

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Speaker 1: Is it so that it's impartial? Rugby?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess so yeah, so it's just so he

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Speaker 2: does it, but that is so ludicrously far as well.

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Speaker 1: And you just hope that your umpires unbiased anyway, why looking.

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Speaker 2: Hide and seek? There's just so many grayeres. And then

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Speaker 2: afterwards I was watching this sort of a catch up

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Speaker 2: with it all and they were talking about now because

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Speaker 2: obviously this round zero does obviously count, but they were

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Speaker 2: meant to be two more EXA games. Now the Essendon

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Speaker 2: your team Essendon game just got postponed obviously because the

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Speaker 2: advice because of the weather, they can't do it. But now

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Speaker 2: they're saying and weightly fox Rey was apolectic about this

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Speaker 2: and kind of phrase I've never heard before. Foot is back,

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Speaker 2: the man is support in the world is back. Ladder fail.

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Speaker 2: He was almost in tears. The ladder is never going

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Speaker 2: to make sense. But the restless season, we're like, it's back.

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Speaker 2: How can you screw up your own ladder? And it's

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Speaker 2: it's always going to be. It's always gonna have an

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Speaker 2: asterisk spite, Yes, always gonna have an asterisk bite because

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Speaker 2: you guys have to play each other some point later.

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Speaker 1: Well, now, in the last round of the season, which

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Speaker 1: so Brisbane and Geelong was the other game that was

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Speaker 1: postponed because of the bad weather in Queens, so that got.

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Speaker 2: Moved to around three.

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Speaker 1: They're like, oh, well that's an important game. You guys

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Speaker 1: can play in three ways time Gold Coast, well, anyone

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Speaker 1: know that they didn't play, So now the idea is

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Speaker 1: to play our final game of the season, which is

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Speaker 1: against Carlton, on the weekend and then sometime midweek.

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