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

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Speaker 1: what have we got around the grounds? This week?

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Speaker 2: A League women become the most attendant season of any

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Speaker 2: women's sport in Australia ever ever. Super Netball is back

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Speaker 2: plus run the Seedy Surf with us to support the

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Speaker 2: Rays Foundation.

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Speaker 1: For the key story, we'll chat about the campaign that's

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Speaker 1: looking to save Canberra United, which is one of the

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Speaker 1: teams in the A League Women's that is in a

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Speaker 1: bit of need of help. Great sentence. My name's Coloe Dalton.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined every week on the show by my co

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Speaker 1: host Bez. We're recording on Gadagault Land. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: look around the grounds.

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Speaker 2: In football, it's finals time in the A League and

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Speaker 2: the Newcastle Jets finally won a final. Jets hadn't had

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Speaker 2: any success in finals in the sixteen years they've been

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Speaker 2: in the camp.

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Speaker 1: That's a long time.

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Speaker 2: That is a long time. But that all change in

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Speaker 2: a four to two extra time win over we C

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Speaker 2: United on Saturday. It was all locked up at two

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Speaker 2: to two after an entertaining ninety minutes and it's safe

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Speaker 2: to say extra time belonged to Newcastle. Melina Ayres scored

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Speaker 2: her thirty sixth career goal in extra time after coming

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Speaker 2: off the bench. Nine of those career goals have come

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Speaker 2: in finals because she's clutch. She is lutch and they

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Speaker 2: were with her previous clubs Melbourne City and the victory.

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Speaker 2: She definitely loves a bit of pressure. In the second

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Speaker 2: elimination final, nothing could separate the Central Coast Mariners and

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Speaker 2: Melbourne victory over long one hundred and twenty minutes that

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Speaker 2: finished at Neil Neil for a long time two hours.

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Speaker 2: But upstep Mariners keeper and penalty shootout expert Casey Dumont.

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Speaker 2: Dumont was a victory legend before leaving to try Hanne

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Speaker 1: She did have a crack.

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Speaker 2: She then joined the Mariners this year and has not

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Speaker 2: looked back. She saved two victory penalties and I love

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Speaker 2: this stepped up to convert one of her own in

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Speaker 2: the four to two shootout win.

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Speaker 1: Here for it and in some more epic Tilley's legacy

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Speaker 1: news a Ley confirmed after the weekends matches that this

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Speaker 1: sea and became the most attended season of any women's

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Speaker 1: sport in Australia ever.

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Speaker 2: So good.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Bit sad because it took over AFOW

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Speaker 1: We'll take it. We'll just have to try and fight

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Speaker 2: Part of it is they do now play an amazing

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Speaker 2: twenty two round competition. Yep, here for it wa to trait.

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Speaker 1: Still plenty of weeks, three weeks of finals to come,

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Speaker 1: so they will keep upping that number for sure.

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Speaker 2: In tennis, the Aussie Billy Jean King Cup team, led

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Speaker 2: by captain Sam Stoza, became the first of eight nations

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Speaker 2: from the qualifiers to book their place at November's Billy

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Speaker 2: Jean King Cup Finals in Seville. They dominated Mexico in

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Speaker 2: who sealed the deal when she defeated Marcella Zacharias six one,

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Speaker 2: Rodanova and Darius Saville also won at their ties, and

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Speaker 2: Savile teamed up with Ellen Perez to take out the double.

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Speaker 2: There was some pretty devastating news to the team on

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Speaker 2: the eve of the event, with Storm Hunter rupturing her

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Speaker 1: Just devastating on the Thursday. It's devastating.

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Speaker 1: In some more football news. The Tilly's had a solid

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Speaker 1: win last week against Mexico in Texas. Hailey Razo opened

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Speaker 1: Coach Tony gustavz And told media after the game the

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Speaker 1: challenge was just what they were looking for, their commitment, pressing,

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Speaker 1: test out limits. The next step towards Olympic gold will

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Speaker 1: be back on home soil with two friendlies against China

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Speaker 2: I love that they picked an opponent that's going to

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Speaker 2: In netball some of the Corps super netball is back.

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Speaker 2: How good, so good and the Melbourn Vixens nabbed the

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Speaker 2: first derby bragging rights when they beat the newcomers the

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Speaker 2: Mavericks sixty eight sixty one. There were multiple momentum swings,

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Speaker 2: but the experience of the Vixens that won through in

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Speaker 2: the end. Sophie Garbin was excellent for the Vixens and

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Speaker 2: it's the same dominant performance on the court. The fever

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Speaker 1: That's so impressive. In athletics, the Australian Athletics Championship saw

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Speaker 1: It was my fingers were tingling on the pianos, apparently

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Speaker 1: teenage sensation. Claudia Hollingsworth ran a lightning fast one minute

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Speaker 1: Hollingsworth beat World Championship semi finalists Abby Caldwell, Olympian Bendiri,

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Speaker 1: the Olympic silver medalists.

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Speaker 2: the Melbourne Rebels secured only their second win in their

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Speaker 2: On Friday night, the Nussophos Wrotars survived a scare from

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'd like to have played for another couple

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Speaker 2: Force in fig and it's win and you're in. When

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Speaker 2: But if you're in Sydney, get along to Alliances on

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Speaker 1: Get there, we'll see there. In basketball, Ezi Magnagall has

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Speaker 1: It's going to be like right before we start our season,

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Speaker 1: Rais and tefapp to raise some good funds for a

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Speaker 2: It is an amazing all jector site. It's a really

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Speaker 1: so can we.

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Speaker 2: Unit A Football club have been a part of the

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Speaker 2: National League for sixteen years and have helped produce players

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Speaker 2: and matildas such as Michelle Hayman, Halie Razzo, Ellie Carpenter,

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Speaker 2: might just have been their last. The team is run

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Speaker 2: by Capitol Football, who are responsible for grassroots football and

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Speaker 2: the A League women's team, and they're the only standalone

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Speaker 2: A League have a men and women's program that runs

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Speaker 1: So Capitol Football the owners. They have said they've invested

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Speaker 1: A Save Canberra United online fundraiser has been launched and

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Speaker 1: is being led by former Matilda su Reed. Reid says

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Speaker 2: Interestingly, the group is highlighted that there's a massive difference

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Speaker 2: included two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the recent

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Speaker 2: I guess to help guarantee the survival of the club.

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Speaker 2: In contrast, though it's been reported that the a SD

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Speaker 2: government currently spends around two point eight five million dollars

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Speaker 1: I don't know that club.

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Speaker 2: No, never heard of them. Sue Reid has spoken to

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Speaker 2: this disparity, telling Channel seven our players run, they play,

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Speaker 2: They go to schools, they run coaching clinics, all for

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Speaker 2: free to give to the community. So when we invest

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Speaker 2: in women's sport, you're not just investing in sport. I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, we talk about the you know, comparison a lot,

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Speaker 2: and it's not necessarily always the greatest thing to discuss.

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Speaker 2: But in this case, I think when we look at

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Speaker 2: invest in a GWS Giants, it's really important. And we're

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Speaker 2: not saying that the GEDUS Giants shouldn't. Beginning the two

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Speaker 2: point eight five million dollars. As you said, they sold

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Speaker 2: we're saying is we've just said it time and time again,

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Speaker 2: there's enough pie for everyone, Like make a bigger pie.

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Speaker 2: You know, the two point eight five million dollars for

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Speaker 2: the Giants is great, But two hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars for a local club that is providing a pathway

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Speaker 2: time and time again and playing a twenty two season competition,

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Speaker 2: it's not enough. You need to find more pie.

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Speaker 1: Buy more pie. And I think the fact that this

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Speaker 2: The most attended season and I think you know it

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Speaker 2: a massive we talked about the New South Wales increase

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Speaker 2: Sue Reedy's doing an amazing job with this fundraising piece.

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Speaker 2: We'll definitely put a link in there if you want

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at what to watch. The w

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Speaker 1: NBA draft is here. We said that last week, bez

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Speaker 2: Ban's out.

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Speaker 1: We were right. There is not been as much buzz

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Speaker 1: I kind of was thinking about that this morning, Like

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Speaker 1: I imagine if Indiana Fever.

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Speaker 2: Were like Najos, I'm going to have cavon brink thanks.

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Speaker 1: After like selling tickets for eight hundred dollars a pop.

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Speaker 2: Another stat clark Onomics, I think Indiana Fever had one

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Speaker 2: primetime game last season. We've got twenty three scheduled for

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Speaker 1: So good, so good to see broadcasts making decisions that

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Speaker 2: The top?

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Speaker 1: But The picks after that are kind of anyone's guests.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of predictions around, but there's some serious,

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Speaker 1: serious talent our very own Aussi Nardio Poch is predicted

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Speaker 2: So cool.

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Speaker 1: You can watch live on ESPN via Fox Sports from

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Speaker 1: nine to thirty am Tuesday, Today.

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Speaker 2: Today, how good. The Super Rugby w semi finals are

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Speaker 2: both on Friday. The Fijian Drew will host the Western

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Speaker 2: thirty five pm. Another long trip for the Force, the

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Speaker 2: poor Buggers and the mighty News of US Wrotars will

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Speaker 2: be home alone on Friday. We let the home alone

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Speaker 1: That's good. We need to make that happen.

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Speaker 2: Okay home alone on Friday against the Act Brumba is

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Speaker 2: the Tars will be looking to get as many fans

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Speaker 2: As we said, first down alone fixture at that venue.

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Speaker 2: Big shout out to the News of US Mortars organization.

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Speaker 2: Investing in our program and getting us on that field

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Speaker 2: it's fantastic that. So get your tablue on and come

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Speaker 2: and cheer loudly for the girls.

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Speaker 1: It's an Olympic year and we're getting excited. This week

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Speaker 2: And in the A League, we moved to the semifinals,

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Speaker 2: Jets will host premiers Melbourne City on Sunday at three pm,

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Speaker 2: with the return leg in Melbourne on Sunday to twenty eighth.

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Speaker 2: following weekend. On Saturday, the April twenty seventh, at Leichhart Oval,

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Speaker 2: the make shuw. As you said, broken records, keep breaking

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Speaker 2: you can't ten play in paramout blots. Will have all

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Speaker 1: My hamstrings are too tight to have your legs and

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Speaker 1: home grounds. That's the wrap.

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Speaker 2: They are very long though. Goodbye.

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Speaker 1: Excited to watch the w NBA draft. Good see you

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