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Speaker 1: The Big Spark on Channel seven. That was Wine Daniels made.

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Speaker 1: How are you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good. I'm good, guys, really good. What's it

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Speaker 2: Friday today?

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Speaker 3: Right again? And already you may feel seventy two. Sometimes

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Speaker 3: you're in the middle of school holidays at your place.

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Speaker 2: They go back Tuesdays. That's it all right?

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Speaker 4: Well, can let's start with the new Eagle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a really fun name to say. I

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Speaker 2: like it when the names difficult and they're fun. This guy,

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Speaker 2: Luke Stranatica. Yeah, it's really when you look at it,

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Speaker 2: it looks like it would be really hard to so

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Speaker 2: it's actually quite easy. Stranatia. This guy's he's a massive unit.

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Speaker 2: He's a ruck. When he's twenty four years old, he's

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Speaker 2: done it sort of semi the hard way. He had

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Speaker 2: to go on to He was on the Dockers list

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Speaker 2: for a few years, never really got a look in,

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Speaker 2: had a few injuries. Then basically when did his own

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Speaker 2: thing in the Waffle with a really good player for

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Speaker 2: East Fromanta last year, probably the best rugman in the Waffle.

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Speaker 2: Eagles gave him a chance during the preseason and he

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Speaker 2: got a this spot. And now because of all the

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Speaker 2: carnage and injuries there he gets to go, so it's

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Speaker 2: really exciting for him. Otherwise a guy like Lex Streannarika

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Speaker 2: would get a chance. So Christis is creating opportunity and

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Speaker 2: it's it's fun, you know for the fans to see

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Speaker 2: these new guys. I think if you're an Eagles fan

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Speaker 2: right now, what you want is hope and you want

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Speaker 2: to see some new faces and that's you know, Lex

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Speaker 2: Strenarika is all of those things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, nicknad out. Does this mean that Hugh Dixon

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Speaker 3: another form of doctor? He misses that because he was

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Speaker 3: sort of helping out in the ruck, wasn't he.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's out. He's got a calf injury. I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's too serious. I think it's maybe a two

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Speaker 2: or three weeks. So he was playing fantastic footy as well.

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Speaker 2: He was like a real fine So it'd be Bailey

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Speaker 2: Williams and Stranataka in the ruck without Nick Nap and

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Speaker 2: Dition will have a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 4: Rest are enjoying that name, aren't you. Just you have

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Speaker 4: to put it in conjunction with an injury is.

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Speaker 1: Going to be.

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Speaker 2: That is? That is?

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Speaker 4: Yes, be careful what you wish for right Dad. Now

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Speaker 4: a few other changes that no, McGovern he's still mc no.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so he missed last week with the health

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Speaker 2: and safety protocols. He actually had COVID, he was he

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Speaker 2: got diagnosed that I think on the Wednesday, which is

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Speaker 2: now over a week ago. But I think they've realized

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Speaker 2: West Coast. They did this with a couple of guys,

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Speaker 2: Tommy Barreslee Schewey that when you come out of COVID,

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Speaker 2: you're not really ready to run fifteen to twenty k's

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Speaker 2: and play a game of footy. Yeah, so they've started

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Speaker 2: to give guys a second week off, which I think

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Speaker 2: is a really good idea. And I'm sure, you know,

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Speaker 2: partly the players would be desperate to get out there,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, you've got to take these things seriously. When

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Speaker 2: when Nick Nad had it, we talked about how they

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Speaker 2: send a treadmill round. This is standard for all the

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Speaker 2: play they're trying to stay fit for a game once

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Speaker 2: they get out of IO two days later. It's just

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Speaker 2: not sensible. So double miss another week. Savior O'Neil, Connor

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Speaker 2: West and Jakie Waterman come in. A handful of guys

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Speaker 2: have been dropped Jones, Langdon and Rothams. So it's good

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Speaker 2: news to get a couple of guys back, but I'm

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Speaker 2: glad that they're taking a cautious approach for the government.

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Speaker 3: Seems fairly clear that them and the the people to

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Speaker 3: picking the team are going to stick with Jack Darling.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon he's right on the edge or do

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Speaker 1: you reckon?

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Speaker 2: They're just going to yeah, Look, it's a hard one

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Speaker 2: and when a guy has yeah, he's got that many

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Speaker 2: premiership player. Clearly he's out of form. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's you know, he doesn't take blind thready. You've got

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Speaker 2: to look at that game and he's dropping marks and

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Speaker 2: he's missing easy shots on goal. And we've seen Jack

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Speaker 2: Darling go through patches like this in the past, and

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Speaker 2: then we've seen other patches where he's looked like Wayne

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Speaker 2: Kerry two point zero. So you know, I think they're

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Speaker 2: going to try to ride this one out. You know,

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Speaker 2: obviously this has a lot to do with the fact

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Speaker 2: that he missed pretty much the entire preseason dealing with

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Speaker 2: you know, his stance on the vaccines and all that stuff,

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Speaker 2: So he really put a lot of pressure on himself

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Speaker 2: with that approach, which is, you know, it was his

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Speaker 2: translate now to footy and it's difficult. I think Simpson

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Speaker 2: irning and deserving of that spot in the side in

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Speaker 4: Okay, now, what about Frio's COVID problem? Is that settled?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked like it was going to be an

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Speaker 2: absolute storm leaf that seven gazes within the club. By Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: they had five players, including a couple of really good

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Speaker 2: young players who were playing really well with Chapman and

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Speaker 2: Hayden Young, and then a couple of assistant coaches in

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Speaker 2: Matthew Boyd and Josh Carr. And typically with what happens

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Speaker 2: with COVID is seven turns into twelve turns into the nineteen.

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Speaker 2: But so far touchwood for the Dockers. It stayed at

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Speaker 2: those seven cases and they've been really smart at keeping

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Speaker 2: their players separate. Basically, all this occurred kind of Blakely

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Speaker 2: tested positive. He then trained with the Waffle guys on

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Speaker 2: the Monday. A bunch of those waffle guys lived with

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Speaker 2: the Dockers guys. So it just it's spread through.

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Speaker 4: Pretty like six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

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Speaker 2: It is exactly, and somehow Kevin Bacon is going to

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Speaker 2: play for the Dockers this weekend. Cover around. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: got fast feet, we know that. So yeah, we know

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Speaker 2: a few other things about Kevin Bacon too.

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Speaker 3: Right, I want to take a bit of a breakmay

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Speaker 3: But before we do, the Claremont footy club wiped out

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Speaker 3: like even worse than the Eagles were.

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Speaker 1: What's eighteen changes this week we've passed.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's running through the waffle. It is absolutely running

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Speaker 2: through the waffle that was sub had twenty guys missing

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Speaker 2: last week. Also, I know it's a bit silly, eighteen

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Speaker 2: It is moving very quickly through the waffle and they're

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Speaker 2: doing their best to keep the games going, but it's

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Speaker 2: it's becoming quite overwhelming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Clement coach Ash Prescott is standing againside the all

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Speaker 3: showgrounds looking for people walking down the streets.

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Speaker 2: That's right. If you can run, you know, just a

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Speaker 2: slow jog, we'll get you a game of footage this

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Speaker 2: weekend for the Tike.

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Speaker 3: Okay, right, we talked about the AFL and the WFL.

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Speaker 3: COVID effected, what about the Western Force. It's another level again,

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's yeah. This game has actually had to be

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Speaker 2: postponed because there's a couple of dozen players and staff

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Speaker 2: being ruled out for the Western Force. They were going

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Speaker 2: to go play this team which sounds like a sequel

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Speaker 2: to a Disney movie Moana Pacifica. So that game has

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Speaker 2: been called off. That'll be postponed and they'll played at

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Speaker 2: a later date. But it's it's running rampant through our

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Speaker 2: sporting teams. And if you think about it, that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: These guys are training together, they're showering, you know, near

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Speaker 2: each other, They're walking around the club using gym equipment.

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Speaker 2: It's just a breeding ground the town football kinds of exactly.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully they using sanit times towers.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and he is tiring, he is, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And he's been a big part of what the Glory

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Speaker 2: has done. And look, Gloria, they have not gone well

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Speaker 2: know that. And they've had a horror run this year.

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Speaker 2: It's been ugly. Eddie Ko has been there a really

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Speaker 2: long time. He hasn't been without controversy in his career,

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Speaker 2: but he's also been a fantastic player and a loyal

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Speaker 2: got nothing left in the tank, which you know, like

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Speaker 2: it's good when they get to make their own decisions.

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Speaker 2: That he's professional athletes so well under Andy Keo on

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Speaker 2: a really career.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I been a favorite sign of WA cricket. We've

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Speaker 3: been watching closely helping Ryan Campbell's okay. And he's only

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Speaker 3: just home to see his mum recently too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really horrible stuff. You know. I'm sure you guys

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Speaker 2: have seen the video. He came home in two weeks.

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Speaker 2: You haven't seen his parents, his family in two years.

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Speaker 2: He's come back, He's you know, reunited with them. This

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Speaker 2: beautiful moment where his mum was just a complete shock.

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Speaker 2: And I'm giving him a big hug. Cambos. Everyone who

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Speaker 2: works in sporting Wa who's met Cambo loves him. He's

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Speaker 2: a really great fella, really passionate about cricket. He'll chat

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Speaker 2: to anybody. So this was a really hard news to

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Speaker 2: take for a lot of people. The latest on him

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Speaker 2: is he's he's still in the hospital in Stoke in

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Speaker 2: the UK, a series of cardiac arrests over the weekend

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Speaker 2: and he's heavily sedated. That he came out of the coma,

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Speaker 2: but he is heavily sedated. Still hopeful that things will

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Speaker 2: work out. Okay, he's avoided any brain damage or anything

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Speaker 2: like that, but still early days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, he's getting the best possible care he can

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Speaker 4: thought his family. Good luck, Ryan, the Wildcats big injury.

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Speaker 2: Hit, big injury hit. Yeah. Vic Moore, who has been

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Speaker 2: fantastic this season. He's been the you know, the Robin

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Speaker 2: to Bryce Cotton's batman and play that role really well.

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Speaker 2: Bryce is just batman now because Vick is out for

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Speaker 2: the rest of the season. Yeah, I know it's done.

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Speaker 2: Night against Ilara on the ladder. Look, fingers cross Bryce

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Speaker 2: is going to have to go into hero mode. They're

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Speaker 2: going to need someone else to step up because Vick

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Speaker 2: was doing a great job. So fingers crossed they can

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Speaker 2: find a new Robin very very quickly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bryce might have.

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Speaker 3: He might have to be bobbing both So Vix out

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Speaker 3: for the season, even playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Ryan, he's done.

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Speaker 2: He's done yet. Bad ecle injury so yeah, that's a

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Speaker 2: shame