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Speaker 1: Jump mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: What's that time of year again? Origin Game one is

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Speaker 2: on tonight and the Blues have a huge lineup with

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Speaker 2: six standout Panthers players on their side. Do we have

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Speaker 2: enough to push it over the line. We've stolen the

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Speaker 2: assistant coach before the big game? Great, Brandy Alexander.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Okay, Amanda, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well. Thank you. Tell me the role of

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Speaker 2: the assistant coach. I know you're doing more than just

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Speaker 2: cutting up the oranges at halftime. What are your duties?

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Speaker 1: You know what. I'm not the assistant coach. My title

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Speaker 1: is Blues Advisor, so I'm sort of I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: Freddie's right hand men. I help him. I help him

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Speaker 1: pick the side. We've got Danny Badiris and Craig Fitzgibbon

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Speaker 1: up here as the assistants, so my role can vary.

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Speaker 1: I can do lots of things, but generally my role

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Speaker 1: is to help Freddie pick the side and make sure

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Speaker 1: he stays on track. I keep him on track, You

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Speaker 1: keep Freddie focused.

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Speaker 3: So you don't get a cap that says assistant coach

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Speaker 3: or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't get that Jonesy, Well, I.

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Speaker 3: Was thinking because they would be abbreviated. No one wants

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Speaker 3: to ask coach on that cat.

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Speaker 1: No, that's true, and that's true.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that the over the time, this watering

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Speaker 3: down of the hostilities between Queensland and New South Wales

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Speaker 3: has gone away, But now with the pandemic there seems

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Speaker 3: to have been like there's more hostility, and particularly now

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Speaker 3: that we're up in Townsville, it's going to be a

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Speaker 3: hostile crowd.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how they've swung it, but origin

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Speaker 1: it's all about Queensland and somehow they've been able to

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Speaker 1: wrangle two home games, even though they're saying this one's neutral.

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Speaker 1: I have to keep reminding people that we are in Queensland,

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Speaker 1: even though you know we haven't played in towns Well before,

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Speaker 1: that this is their home ground. So the hostilities are

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Speaker 1: as they have always been, Jonesy. We must win, of course.

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Speaker 2: And how much harder is it to play in a

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Speaker 2: hostile crowd. We can't harness that energy to make it

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Speaker 2: work for us.

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Speaker 1: We can absolutely now we were We were prepared for

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Speaker 1: Townsville once once it was floated, we knew that that's

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Speaker 1: where we're playing and I think all of the boys,

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Speaker 1: I think they're happy to be in towns Or rather

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Speaker 1: than going to Melbourne. So you know, all we did

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Speaker 1: was fly north instead of flies out on Monday, and

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Speaker 1: we're in Townsville. It's a much better place to play

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Speaker 1: rugby league. It's twenty five degrees today that we know

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Speaker 1: dew on the ground, so it'll be a dry track

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Speaker 1: and much better conditions to play footing. So we're happy

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Speaker 1: to be here.

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Speaker 3: And how are you being How you been received?

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Speaker 1: Meat them twice?

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Speaker 3: So this is good? This is good talking. Are you

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Speaker 3: being received well in Townsville? Are people? Are they embracing you?

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Speaker 1: They have been. I don't know how we'll go today.

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Speaker 1: We've gone from a little walk today. There was a

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Speaker 1: couple of mean faces that sort of just stared at

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Speaker 1: us as we walk past. But they've been pretty good

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Speaker 1: at Queenslanders, they've been good. I think tonight might be

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Speaker 1: a little bit different, but I think it'll be I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be a crazy place. Towns will tonight with

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Speaker 1: I think they're expecting ten or fifteen thousand outside the stadium.

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Speaker 1: There's some live sites with big screens, and yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that'd be back to rabid Queenslanders tonight.

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Speaker 2: It's an exciting game. We're all excited about it and

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Speaker 2: a whole batch of new players is Penrith energy. It's

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Speaker 2: going to be exciting to see.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they've been great, haven't they. The Panthers and all

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Speaker 1: those that have been picked to play for New South

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Speaker 1: Wales have've certainly deserved their positions. We've got a couple

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Speaker 1: that have been here before, but there's three Underboo tonight,

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Speaker 1: Brian Too who will play on the wing, and Jerome

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Speaker 1: lewy So. And yeah, they're ready to go. They've had

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Speaker 1: a great season so far, so their club form has

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Speaker 1: been terrific. They're coming confident hopefully. You know that that

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Speaker 1: can get us across the line.

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Speaker 3: And what about this gentleman's agreement about not milking penalties?

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Speaker 3: Is that true or not?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think there's a gentleman's agreement,

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Speaker 1: but we've told our players that you don't milk penalties

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Speaker 1: if you know you can get up, get up. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've watched the last couple of rounds in the NRL

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Speaker 1: and I'm not impressed with what's going going on. You know,

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Speaker 1: we we've had a not a real change. But we've

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Speaker 1: had an interpretation change of players making contact with head.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the players need to milk it and

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Speaker 1: trying to help me by staying down with it. Hit

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Speaker 1: in the head, that's what happened. I don't like the look,

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Speaker 1: and I know our players, our players won't be doing it. Well.

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Speaker 3: There back in your day, your head had fall off,

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Speaker 3: and you get it. You put it back on your

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Speaker 3: shoulders and you go there you go, mate, sometimes backwards,

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Speaker 3: bring out some tape.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, if you didn't get hit in the head,

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Speaker 1: you was you've won the lottery.

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Speaker 3: Quite true. And uh and and you're enjoying Townsville. It's

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Speaker 3: what sites have you seen around towns for What have

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Speaker 3: you enjoyed?

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Speaker 1: There? No sites, there's it's not a side thing too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the coaches we've we've come down for a walk along

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Speaker 1: the screen this morning, but the players have. We saw

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Speaker 1: the stadium for the first time yesterday, so the place

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Speaker 1: trained it yet, but there's not much sight saying around Townsville.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting you say that, Greg, because Jonesy went on

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Speaker 2: the record last week saying that Townsville's are poo hot,

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Speaker 2: So I think that's probably fair and people.

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Speaker 3: Have been giving me grief about it. And this guy

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Speaker 3: came and said, how dare you say this stuff about Townsville?

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Speaker 3: And I said, well, where do you live now, mate?

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Speaker 3: And he is, why I live in Sydney. And I said, well,

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Speaker 3: if you love it so much, why don't you go

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Speaker 3: back there. It's been a delight. I'm just saying, well, Greg,

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Speaker 3: it's always great to talk to you. Say hello to

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Speaker 3: Freddie for us. Pass on our regards.

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Speaker 1: I will, and thanks guys, and go the blues tonight.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all right.

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Speaker 2: Game one on tonight eight ten on Channel nine.

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Speaker 3: YEP, check it out.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Greg, Jonesy and Amanda's