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Speaker 1: Powered by the arm Radio WAB from ninety six AIRFM

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Speaker 1: to where but you're listening today?

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Speaker 2: This is Clearsy and Leases podcast. Before we get to Sydney,

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Speaker 2: let's look back at last week. A good game beat

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast by twenty points. That was a much needed

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Speaker 2: win too, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was, and it was really pleasing after our

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Speaker 3: recent loss to the Dogies, and we felt like we

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Speaker 3: had a really good review during the week and had

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Speaker 3: to face some hard truth about our game that it

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Speaker 3: wasn't where we wanted to be, and we just felt

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Speaker 3: like we didn't value the right things. And we got

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Speaker 3: back to that on the weekend and that was valuing

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Speaker 3: team d and contests and our pressure was through the

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Speaker 3: roof and we had over one hundred of tackle attempts,

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Speaker 3: which is always a good sign of a team that's

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Speaker 3: got the right mindset. So yeah, yeah, no, it's a

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Speaker 3: great learning was.

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Speaker 2: From the door to a bit. Didn't it just stabilized thing?

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Speaker 1: It did? Yeah? It did. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, a pleasing result and yeah, one that we

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Speaker 2: Because unlike probably a little while ago, you know, the

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast there they're on the rise, aren't they? So

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Speaker 2: they're a very very competitive team.

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Speaker 2: I think once upon a time people would have gone, yeah,

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Speaker 2: not the case anymore.

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Speaker 3: So well, yeah, not with any team these days. We

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Speaker 3: saw even like North Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're making a comeback challenging teams. They're challenging.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no easy games and we're well aware of that.

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Speaker 3: We knew that we were going to have to be

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Speaker 2: And they showed some signs early on in the game too,

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Speaker 2: because they burst out pretty quick. Did that surprise you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And we actually felt like we started the game

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Speaker 3: The ball doesn't bounce your way or they get on

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Speaker 3: the end of a few and yeah, they got off

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Speaker 3: to a reasonably good start on the scoreboard. But we

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Speaker 3: felt like as long as your game is looking good

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Speaker 3: from an intensity, pressure and that sort of standpoint, you

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Speaker 3: know you'd be able to claw it back. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: early in the game, you you can't get stuck into

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Speaker 3: the scoreboard too much, but you're just got to make

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Speaker 3: sure you're playing with the right intensity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the defense kicked in as well, so

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Speaker 2: that you know that kind of kept things, kept the

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Speaker 2: course also you know that spot in the top eight

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Speaker 2: was up for grabs in this so important really.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, at the moment, the ladders just so tight,

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Speaker 2: Like so many teams on the same number of wins.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think someone was saying that we went from fifth,

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Speaker 2: I know, you don't want to blow your own trumpet.

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Speaker 2: But you were pretty pretty good on the day. You

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's nice to hear. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, I was obviously happy to contribute, and it's I

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Speaker 2: Three of them. And I didn't actually get to see

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Speaker 2: Which one that's the kind because it was in a

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Speaker 3: No, I've I've been working a little bit on my

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Speaker 2: Actually, Susie, our producer, has been doing a bit of

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Speaker 2: and as you said, you know you're more historically from defense.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, once a quarter I would spend five minutes

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Speaker 2: justin he I want to try you in different parts

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it was an idea from Jay Alder get

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Speaker 3: And I think he's happy that when we do go

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Speaker 2: So that's how it works.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my game's always evolving and I'm I'm always trying

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Speaker 2: In some unfortunate news though, Alex Pierce the captain, so

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Speaker 3: So he's he's he wants to just he said he

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, if the player welfare is always in

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we're looking forward to whoever steps into his

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Speaker 2: But it'd be nice to have him out there because

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Speaker 2: at the moment, you know, they've only dropped one game.

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Speaker 2: Sydney is a very unique ground which they which they

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Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't say daunting. We actually won there last year,

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Speaker 3: We felt like we played the ground really well and

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Speaker 2: Another stat here that we've said, they've led at three

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Speaker 3: One thing we've sayen with Sydney is that they can

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Speaker 1: Kick five goals.

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Speaker 3: we felt like we were really competitive. We won a

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, as you said, you beat them last year, you

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Speaker 2: came back into form last weekend, so as good a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I sure about that. I've been pretty good. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Hopefully. Yeah, I've been enjoying it.

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Speaker 3: If I can kick more goals, I love to stay

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Speaker 3: team aids, and we'll see what the plan is.

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Speaker 2: Well, hopefully we will see you on the TV obviously

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Speaker 2: over here, because the game is at the SCG at

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Speaker 2: eleven forty five on Saturday morning for us travel. Well,

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Speaker 2: and let's hope we see you maybe up forward and

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Speaker 2: sneak another couple of that'd be nice, very nice, all right,

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Speaker 2: and we'll see you next week.

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Speaker 1: See you next week.

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Speaker 2: Crazy in Lisa