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

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Speaker 1: Bears usually I ask what's coming up around the grounds,

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Speaker 1: but we've decided to change up our format a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Nothing crazy, but from feedback and just from life working

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Speaker 1: out that everyone has really short attention spans these days,

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Speaker 1: we thought we're going to make are around the grounds

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Speaker 1: a little bit more punchy, just kind of give you

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Speaker 1: the top level of the stories, and then in our

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Speaker 1: newsletter we're going to do the same thing with links

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Speaker 1: dive in to learn more about your favorite sports and

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Speaker 1: stories of the week.

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Speaker 2: Short and concise.

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Speaker 3: I like it, Priqui story.

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Speaker 1: This week we're going to chat all about the Wallaroos

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Speaker 1: and the big announcement of rugby Australia's increased investment in

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Speaker 1: the women's game.

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Speaker 3: My name is College Dalton. I'm joined every week on the.

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Speaker 1: Show with my co hosts Bez. We're recording on gadagle Land.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 4: In some cricket, the Aussies wrapped up the series win

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Speaker 4: against South Africa with a dominant performance in the one

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Speaker 4: off Test match at the Whacker, led by truly amazing

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Speaker 4: innings from Annabel Sutherland. The host defeated South Africa in

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Speaker 4: three days by an innings and two hundred and eighty

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Speaker 4: four runs. Southerland was unstoppable with the bat, scoring it

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Speaker 4: two hundred and ten from two hundred and fifty six deliveries.

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Speaker 4: That mammoth total was just three runs short of Elie

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Speaker 4: Perry's Australian record of two hundred and thirteen not out

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Speaker 4: and just to prove her all round chops, she finished

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Speaker 4: the match with bowling figures of five for thirty, becoming

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Speaker 4: the first woman to take five wickets and score two

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Speaker 4: hundred runs in a Test.

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Speaker 1: It's impressive the fath that she added that on just

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Speaker 1: did it all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In diving, Rhiannon and Iffland is the undisputed queen of

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Speaker 1: diving from a great height in the water. Last week,

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Speaker 1: Ifln won her fourth consecutive high diving gold medal at

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Speaker 1: the World Aquatics Championships in Doha. The high diving platform

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Speaker 1: of the World champs is twenty meters in the air,

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Speaker 1: and Ifflyn left until her final dive to secure the win,

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Speaker 1: nailing bez.

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Speaker 4: An inward triple summersault with a half twist in the

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Speaker 4: pike position. Yes, while drinking a coffee. Not really, that's.

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Speaker 3: What you would do.

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Speaker 1: The fourth gold medal will find a place in her very,

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Speaker 1: very busy, busy cabinet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Man, she's already got seven Red Bull cliff diving titles.

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Speaker 1: She also did an Instagram post. It was a little

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Speaker 1: bit deceptive. I was like, is this a retirement post?

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Speaker 1: I couldn't decide.

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Speaker 2: I just think they should have the high diving in

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Speaker 2: the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be epic, wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: I understand why they don't.

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Speaker 4: In some rugby league news on Friday, the Indigenous Women's

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Speaker 4: a twenty six to four victory. Jamie Chapman scored two

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Speaker 4: long long range tries for the Indigenous team, but it

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Speaker 4: was playmaker Kira dib who took home the Trisha Heena

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Speaker 4: steering her team around the park.

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Speaker 1: How good in a bit of we all watch women's

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Speaker 1: sport news, how good are the together T shirts? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody watches women's sport.

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Speaker 3: They're awesome.

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Speaker 1: There were new records set everywhere. On the weekend, Arsenal

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Speaker 1: hosted Manchester United at a sold out Emirates Stadium. Sixty thousand,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty fans turned up and set a

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Speaker 1: new record for the WSL while watching the Gunners get

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Speaker 1: points three goals to one in the PWHL. Nineteen, two

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five fans packed into Scotiabank Arena to

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Speaker 4: Breaking records everywhere in basketball. Speaking about records, there were

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Speaker 4: a lot of huge moments at Kytos Bank Arena on

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Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon. Eight hundred and thirty four fans jammed into

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Speaker 4: the venue to see Lauren Jackson potentially play her last

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Speaker 3: I think so it's the vibe I was feeling.

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Speaker 2: Unless the Flames do something amazing get a home final.

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Speaker 1: I really hope they do. They've had a strong like

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Speaker 4: It was the largest crowd for a standalone Sydney Flames

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Speaker 4: match ever, but fell just short of the record crowd.

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Speaker 2: For WNBL match.

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Speaker 4: Kayla George sadly didn't get to celebrate her three hundred

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Speaker 4: LJ basking in the limelight after the Flies nabbed a

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Speaker 4: close one eighty one to seventy eight. An emotional Jackson

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Speaker 4: young boys by her side. They were kind of by

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Speaker 4: her side, slash running around the court, slash by her side.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot going on, wasn't there.

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Speaker 4: She shared some truth with all the lucky people in attendance, saying,

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Speaker 4: if you invest in women's basketball, you invest in a

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Speaker 3: I loved that. It was one of those moments. I

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Speaker 3: was like, why was I not filming when she said that.

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Speaker 2: I looked straight to you and thought she's put the

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Speaker 2: phone away.

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Speaker 1: I did, And every time I tried to get a

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Speaker 1: video of her scoring a great bucket, you and I

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Speaker 1: both were just watching and not filming. And then when

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Speaker 1: we did film, she would miss. Oh gosh, she can

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Speaker 1: never win. It was our fault. In a bit more

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Speaker 1: basketball news, the three point shootout at All Star Weekend

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Speaker 1: between Sabrini and Escue and Steph Curry did not disappoint,

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Speaker 1: so prior to the contest, bez you Neescu announced.

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Speaker 3: That she would be shooting from the NBA three point line.

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Speaker 3: Even though we.

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Speaker 1: Discussed she obviously didn't listen to us on the rap

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Speaker 1: last week where we said you.

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Speaker 2: Should happy with her decision, weren't he I was.

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Speaker 1: Unhappy with her decision. I have an immense amount of

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Speaker 1: respect for the fact that she stepped up and did

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Speaker 1: it because I think I think deep down she knew

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Speaker 1: if she didn't do it from that line.

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Speaker 3: From the men haters.

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Speaker 4: Right, there would have always been that asterix. Yes, she won,

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Speaker 4: but she didn't exactly right.

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Speaker 1: If she'd won from the WNBA three point line, they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have accepted it. But I think what was quite amazing.

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Speaker 1: So she went down twenty nine to twenty six against

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Speaker 1: Steph shooting from the NBA line where he always shoots,

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Speaker 3: A game since October, just putting that out there.

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Speaker 2: And he's in the middle of his season, exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Any other things you want to throw him, I could.

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Speaker 1: Throw plenty in. So Damian Lillard won the actual three points.

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Speaker 1: So obviously Steph VI Sabrina was a bit of a showcase,

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Speaker 1: the actual men's competition, Damian Lillard won from the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Speaker 3: You know what he's scored?

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Speaker 2: What did he score?

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Speaker 1: Klo?

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Speaker 2: What did Sabrana scoore?

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Speaker 3: Colenty six?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Wow? Would you believe that.

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Speaker 2: It's some strong starkasm.

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Speaker 3: I we probably need to stop with the starcasm. Oh

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Speaker 1: But I loved what Yunescu said after the contest. She said,

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Speaker 1: if you can shoot, you can shoot, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if you're a boy or a girl.

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Speaker 3: Likes more facts.

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Speaker 4: Also loved that Nike was just red hot on that

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Speaker 4: straightaway that just said if you can shoot, you can shoot?

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Speaker 3: How good?

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Speaker 4: And she can shoot you can shoot? In more more basketball,

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Speaker 4: more more. Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark broke Kelsey Plum's record

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Speaker 4: to become the all time NCAA women's basketball leading scorer.

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Speaker 2: Fittingly, she did.

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Speaker 4: It draining as three from the logo and finished the

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Speaker 4: night with a career high forty nine points. She now

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Speaker 4: has three five hundred and sixty nine career points, and

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Speaker 4: he's just ninety nine points shy of passing Hall of

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Speaker 4: Famer Pete Maravich's eight, So he's at three thousand, six

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Speaker 2: Huge from the logo again.

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Speaker 1: I know she just like pulled up so quick, didn't

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Speaker 1: She just wanted to get it done.

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Speaker 4: I saw an interview with her and Supert and she

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Speaker 4: I think, why am I shooting from there? Oh my god,

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Speaker 4: I don't realize how far out of am I just

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Speaker 1: And amazing take it so hard to defend. Let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at the key story.

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Speaker 2: So a bit of a rugby union update. In August

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Speaker 4: Wallaroos players supporters tefapp shared a social media post that

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Speaker 4: was really calling on Rugby Australia to prioritize the women's

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Speaker 4: It was in that post there was reference to five

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Speaker 4: million dollars spent on rugby league player player, not players,

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Speaker 4: I digress, like justifyed MA. Five million dollars spent on

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Speaker 4: Cup campaign that Eddie Jones butchered for one of.

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Speaker 4: So I think that was really the catalyst for that

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Speaker 4: enough is enough, that were definitely calling for some transparency

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Speaker 4: and as we say, just greater support in the long run.

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Speaker 4: For six months, RA have confirmed they will increase the

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Speaker 4: investment in the fifteens women's program for a second year running.

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Speaker 4: The announcement confirmed that more than three million dollars additional

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Speaker 4: funding will be injected into the women's game, and that'll

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Speaker 4: sit across the Walleries program, the Super Rugby Williams and

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Speaker 4: the high performance systems.

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Speaker 3: Did you say Williams or Women's Williams Williams.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry. I've been watching Sirena william stuff this morning.

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Speaker 3: That's fair enough the goat.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into some of the key points, Bez,

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Speaker 1: I think I'd really like to just say massive well

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Speaker 1: done to the players, because I think we discussed around

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Speaker 1: the time of them releasing that letter the fear that

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Speaker 1: you have as an athlete when you feel like you're

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Speaker 1: really stepping outside your box and your safe space and

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Speaker 1: going against in a way your own organization. There was

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Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of positive support from the wider public

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Speaker 1: and they obviously. I think the timing of the letter

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Speaker 1: was perfect off the back of the FIFA Women's World Cup,

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Speaker 1: demonstrating what investment from Football Australia did with the Matildas,

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Speaker 1: and I think the timing from the Wallarus but also

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Speaker 1: their courage to do it has not only increased the

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Speaker 1: engagement that we've seen with Wallarus and superw content on

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Speaker 1: our channels at TIFAT because people see Wallaroos and they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I back them, Like I back these women who are

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Speaker 1: like taking a stand. But Rugby Australia had to act,

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Speaker 1: they had to follow through there. So they've now got

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Speaker 1: the high performance manager, a full time head coach and

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Speaker 1: now this additional injection of funding.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's really important.

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Speaker 3: Love that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sorry, there's some interesting comments from Phil War.

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Speaker 2: It's a pleasing step forward.

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Speaker 4: They weren't aware of what was coming, they weren't aware

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Speaker 4: He wanted to experience different football codes, whether it be

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Speaker 3: Let's take a look at what to watch.

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Speaker 1: The Tilly is back in action and looking to qualify

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Speaker 1: for the Paris Olympics. They'll face Uzbekistan in the two

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Speaker 1: match home and away series. Game one is in tash

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Speaker 1: Kent in Zbekistan. This Saturday night. Kickoff is eight pm

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Speaker 4: Ten sevens team are back in action, this time in Vancouver, Canada.

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Speaker 4: The games kickoff on Saturday morning at six twenty am,

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Speaker 4: Keep an eye on socials for those times. Tune in

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Speaker 2: Go the girls.

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Speaker 1: In cricket, the WNCL final will be a fierce contest

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