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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam.

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Speaker 2: Nation at the time of my life.

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Speaker 3: It's been a hell of a ride. It's not over.

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Speaker 4: They are going to play again on Saturday the third.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but the fields are different. So proud of

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Speaker 2: the girls, but the fields are different. We've gained so

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Speaker 2: much more though than just a game of soccer. It's

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Speaker 2: the country has fully embraced the Matilda's women's sport is

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Speaker 2: changed for.

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Speaker 3: Have you seen the sign up rates gone through the roof? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: To talk us through all our fields and lack of fields.

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Speaker 2: As Channel seven commentator x Asy soccer player herself Grace Gill, Hello, Grace.

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Speaker 1: Good morning. How are you roting?

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Speaker 2: How are you feels today? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think probably like everyone, just quite flat and feel

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Speaker 1: a little bit deflated, but yeah, a real real sense

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Speaker 1: of pride as well. It's not it's not sadness, it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just a little dejected, but very very proud of this,

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Speaker 1: this Matilda's team.

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Speaker 2: I read it might have been John Aluisi this morning

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Speaker 2: saying that that Sam at the end, there you know,

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Speaker 2: was some setups that normal Sam would have gotten, but

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Speaker 2: she was fatigued Sam because she hadn't played a full

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Speaker 2: game the whole tournament, and I mean.

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Speaker 1: That's always tricky when you're balancing the return from an

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Speaker 1: injury in tournament mode, because tournament mode isn't you know,

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Speaker 1: like playing week in week out. It's turning around in

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Speaker 1: such tight time frames. And we saw that their game

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night against France. They had sort of three

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Speaker 1: and a half days to turn things around and be

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Speaker 1: fresh and ready to go. And yeah, she had some

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Speaker 1: great opportunities that maybe on another day she would have

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Speaker 1: put away, but also put did put away a world

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Speaker 1: class strike as well, which was pretty special.

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Speaker 3: That was amazing to watch. It was extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Maybe she should have got more points because it was

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Speaker 2: so like Bastard was so far she could have got

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Speaker 2: more points for it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's Sam at her best. Absolutely a brilliant,

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Speaker 1: brilliant strike. And I'm so pleased for her because obviously

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Speaker 1: it's been a really difficult tournament for her emotionally to

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Speaker 1: find the way back, but also just for everyone to

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Speaker 1: be able to witness that. The noise in the stadium

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Speaker 1: when that went in the back of the minute was unreal.

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Speaker 3: Well, it lived up to the hype as well.

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Speaker 4: There's been a lot of talk about Sam Kerr how

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Speaker 4: great she is and she's dominated front and back pages

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Speaker 4: of newspapers around the country, and to see her actually

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Speaker 4: in full flight, I was like, whoa, I get it.

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Speaker 1: Yes exactly, and I think everyone went on that journey

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Speaker 1: because that was the goal that equalized the game, so

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Speaker 1: that had us at one one. Then it sort of

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Speaker 1: gave real life to the game and everyone lifted. The

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Speaker 1: energy in the stadium lifted, the team lifted, but it

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Speaker 1: didn't last too long because England, and you know, all

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Speaker 1: credit to them turn around agreement for their second they

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Speaker 1: were very good there, very good team. Last night I.

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Speaker 2: Saw that Caitlin Ford tweeted, this one hurts, but we regroup,

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Speaker 2: we stick together, we go again on Saturday, Australia. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for your support. We still need you. So we

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Speaker 2: still want to get behind the Matildas for the game

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Speaker 2: on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right. And in the way that after the great

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Speaker 1: one and gets France on Saturday night they had to

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Speaker 1: turn around and get themselves ready again, the same applies

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Speaker 1: for this one. It's a different feeling, of course it is,

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Speaker 1: but they're still so much on the line in this

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Speaker 1: tournament and when Matildas now have the opportunity to still

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Speaker 1: Meddle still get a bronze medal in the three and

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Speaker 1: four playoffs and that's huge. And Sweden is a really

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Speaker 1: tough opposition but does everything to play for on this one,

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Speaker 1: and of course they want to go.

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Speaker 3: Home with that of course, and can they beat Sweden,

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Speaker 3: Sure they can.

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Speaker 1: They've done so in recent time as well. Late last

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Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty two they had a really convincing

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Speaker 1: win over Sweden. Four mills. It was. But Sweden are

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Speaker 1: a good team and they've had an excellent tournament and

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Speaker 1: they're very strong, very physical. So it's like none of

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Speaker 1: these games are going to be easy, but it is

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Speaker 1: going to be a tough one on Saturday night against Sweden.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Grace, Well, we really appreciate what you've done for

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Speaker 4: us and we've loved having you on the show.

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Speaker 3: Please come back any time.

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Speaker 1: Oh thanks for being a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate that, Thanks Grace. The Matilda's versus Sweden

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Speaker 2: is Saturday, five pm, and of course the final between

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Speaker 2: Spain and England seven pm Sunday on seven and seven.

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Speaker 4: And at least, Grace, it wasn't a late night last night,

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Speaker 4: that's one thing out of it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think anyone was emotionally ready, I mean

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Speaker 1: us for another extra time and penalty shootout.

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Speaker 3: I didn't have the nerves. I was in bed by

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Speaker 3: nine thirty. I thought, Okay, that's that's something.

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Speaker 2: Branda the Maida to be happy for you, that's something.

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Speaker 3: Can you feed that back