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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: But the North Sydney Bears are coming back into the

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Speaker 2: competition in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 3: How long have they been out?

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Speaker 2: They've been out for twenty seven years. I remember when

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Speaker 2: they left.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was sad.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I used to be a frequent is that the

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Speaker 1: word of the North Sydney Leagues Club and had that

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Speaker 1: big bear in the foyer. I think I dated him

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Speaker 1: for a while. But I think that may have been

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Speaker 1: where the announcement was made.

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Speaker 2: That's where the announcement and didn't everyone go crazy?

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Speaker 3: We can announce that.

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Speaker 2: The Perth Bears kind of buried the lead there with

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Speaker 2: the Perth Bears.

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Speaker 1: So this is the North Sydney Bears are back in

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Speaker 1: the camp.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but now they're a Perth team.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but Perth is north of Sydney.

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Speaker 1: No it's not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is north. Perth is north if geographically I

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Speaker 2: don't think it is. Perth is further north than Sydney,

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Speaker 2: is it? Yea yeah, so it's northwest.

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Speaker 3: It's a little bit west.

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Speaker 2: But when you look, you look at what we're doing now,

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Speaker 2: North Sydney is north of Sydney.

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Speaker 1: But tell me this as the die hard fans, are

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Speaker 1: they excited that North Sydney's back and that doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: whether the team is based in Western Australia.

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Speaker 2: This is what they said. You've waited since the fifteenth

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Speaker 2: of October nineteen ninety nine for this, over nine thousand days.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy. I know, I know it's only football,

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Speaker 1: but this is part of our culture, part of our spirit.

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Speaker 2: And that's what the game is about. When you think

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Speaker 2: about it, when we're in COVID that crazy pandemic and

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Speaker 2: all our sides had to go out and play up

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Speaker 2: in Brisbane and.

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Speaker 3: Stuff with fake, fake cheering and fake crowds.

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Speaker 2: It didn't as long as your team's still in there.

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Speaker 2: I think the game has become global.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's no longer that you go down to your

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Speaker 3: local oval and what's your team?

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Speaker 2: Is that? And I know it's fair enough to say,

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Speaker 2: you know, my team, the Sharks are still playing at

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Speaker 2: Shark Park. But I would rather than playing in Perth

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Speaker 2: than not at all. And I get it, I get

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Speaker 2: what those people.

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Speaker 3: West Australian players.

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Speaker 2: No, no, well there's grassroots. You got Western Australias AFL Central.

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Speaker 2: It's there's a place where kids could play.

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Speaker 1: And so at the moment, remember when there were sixteen teams.

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Speaker 1: That's when South got back in sixteen. Then they've added

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Now they've added the Bears, and I think

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Speaker 1: the year after Guineas in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that'll be an interesting sight as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be a good team.

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Speaker 2: Because guess what the population of pap New Guinea is.

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Speaker 3: Well, now you get a guess eight million?

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 3: Are you joking?

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Speaker 2: Are you joking?

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Speaker 3: What would you think? I was going to say, it's

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Speaker 3: only two million.

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Speaker 2: Eyeballs on TV.

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Speaker 1: Also not just that for all the betting and all

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. But this is diplomacy at work. If

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Speaker 1: you want to keep the piece in this region, put

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Speaker 1: an NRL team in. This is absolute diplomacy at work.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring back the New Town Jets, mate, the Blue Bags,

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Speaker 2: Come on, it's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: Where would we put them? Adelaide from space with Katie Perry?

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Speaker 2: Remember the Adelaide Rams.

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Speaker 3: What was that in our old team back in.

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Speaker 2: The days of Super League not very long.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is exciting news. It is