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Speaker 1: Last week. We did indeed catch up with the Nightcliff

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Speaker 1: Dragons about the issues that they've got there at Sanderson

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Speaker 1: Middle School and have been ripped up by Whoon's the

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Speaker 1: oval out there. It had sparked those calls for bollards

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Speaker 1: to be installed to stop the cars from accessing the grounds.

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Speaker 1: Now the Nightcliff Dragons junior coordinator Lloyd Robinson joins me

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Speaker 1: on the line.

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Speaker 2: Get a Lloyd, Katie, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Really good mate? Hey, before I talk about these bollards,

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Speaker 1: how did the kids end up going when they're away

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Speaker 1: into State? I got your email and read it out

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Speaker 1: about them beating WA. That sounded awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's been a pretty good carnival for them.

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Speaker 2: It's been a bit disruptive by the weather down here.

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Speaker 2: You'll find the cancels down here a little bit softer

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Speaker 2: than ours, and they call things off when it rained.

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Speaker 2: But they did manage to get them back on the

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Speaker 2: paddy yesterday and the girls narrowly went down to Victoria

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Speaker 2: and a game they should have won. It was an

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Speaker 2: absolute heartbreaker, but the boys, the boys were beaten a

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Speaker 2: bit comfortably in the end. Boy Victoria today for their

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Speaker 2: last match of the tournament. But they're extremely competitive and

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Speaker 2: it was a pretty big carnival forum, mate, and it

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Speaker 2: was we're pretty proud of this see him all go around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good on them, you know, and I suppose

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Speaker 1: it's hard. There's going to be those wins and those losses.

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Speaker 1: So the poor girls went down by one point, did

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Speaker 2: I think it was two and down they can seated

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Speaker 2: a try right on the full time fire and just

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Speaker 2: in heartbreak moments for them, so their heads are back up.

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Speaker 2: And to be fair, I think it's probably the strongest

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Speaker 2: we've been across the paddick in several years. And the

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Speaker 2: performance that both sides put in as was really really impressive.

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Speaker 2: So how good it looks? Really? The futures looking pretty

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Speaker 2: strong for rugby league for young Territorians, mate.

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Speaker 1: And wouldn't it be even stronger if you had better

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Speaker 1: grounds to train on? We caught up with with Well,

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Speaker 1: we got an email or a response from Kate Warden's

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Speaker 1: office saying that they're going to put those ballards in.

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Speaker 1: What have you guys heard?

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Speaker 2: He's similar to Katie, not much more than that. There's

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Speaker 2: not heaps to report from last week, but yeah, Kate

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Speaker 2: Warden did respond to a bit of a message thread

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Speaker 2: on a Facebook post that went up last week to

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Speaker 2: say that she has pulled the trigger on the ballards.

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Speaker 2: So that's a positive note. The details of when and

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Speaker 2: how who's going to be doing that, we're not really

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Speaker 2: sure of yet. But it was only last week to

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Speaker 2: be fair yep, so we'll see how that goes. Where

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Speaker 2: we pushed into the weekend now, so hopefully we can

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Speaker 2: get a bit of detail on that early next week.

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Speaker 2: And I did hear from her via email as well

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Speaker 2: to say that she's put the matter forward to the

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Speaker 2: general manager of Sport and Wreck who I've found out

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Speaker 2: who that was, and I've been working on trying to

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Speaker 2: get hold of him. So it'd be nice to try

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Speaker 2: and set up a meeting of some sort with all

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Speaker 2: stakeholders in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good, well, I hope so. And look we've just

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Speaker 1: spoken to the Northern Sharks as well. I know that

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Speaker 1: they've got some issues with there. You know, they're training

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Speaker 1: and playing field too at at Molden. It's been dry

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Speaker 1: let often they've ended up, you know, the fields unusable.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's disappointing by the sounds of it for

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Speaker 1: a few of our footy clubs that you know that

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Speaker 1: you're not actually at this point in time that you

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Speaker 1: don't have those home grounds.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, Katie, And this is to be fair. These

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Speaker 2: are two clubs, you know, Nightcliff Dragons and Northern Sharks

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Speaker 2: are very strong clubs. They got a strong member base,

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Speaker 2: they're successful on end off the field, and what they're

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Speaker 2: they're doing for young people is extraordinary. They they deserve,

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Speaker 2: these two clubs deserve to be looked after and they're

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Speaker 2: certainly worth investing in. And that's just where they need

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Speaker 2: moment to raise their own revenue through a home ground.

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Speaker 2: We have to have our home games at TRL Stadium,

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Speaker 2: which is a great venue, but your opportunities to raise

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Speaker 2: through that adversity for this long. So that's that's how

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Speaker 2: strong we are and we're worth investing in. Katie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I agree with you and I've said it before,

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Speaker 1: even just speaking to you about the kids being away

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Speaker 2: Up in the medium term. I think we need to

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Speaker 2: that's that's your biggest foot traffic of the day is

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Speaker 2: You know. So at the moment that just doesn't exist there.

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Speaker 2: We've got a couple of shipping containers. So that's that's

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Speaker 2: the direction we need to head in its exactly what

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Speaker 2: that looks like in the detail of it is something

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I'm certainly not and I mentioned this as

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Speaker 2: No, certainly so, certainly so you know, even if your

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Speaker 2: else to go, Katie, there's not many other options and

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Speaker 2: many other places to go. Every everywhere is full. And

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Speaker 2: what better way to raise them? You know, I agree

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Speaker 2: it's you cannot you cannot waste money on sport.

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Speaker 1: And my book, no, well, especially if you you know,

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Speaker 1: the afternoons. You know, when they're at their sport, they're

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's it A.

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Speaker 1: Keeps them bloody busy, that is for sure, particularly if

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Speaker 1: they're training all the time. But no, I've been really like,

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Speaker 1: I've been really interested in this discussion over the last

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Speaker 1: But when I'd spoken to Jackie Edwards and she'd, you know,

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Speaker 1: not only the impact, as you and I had discussed,

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Speaker 1: that can't use those grounds. But you know, these ovals

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Speaker 1: don't know about you, but when I was at school,

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Speaker 1: all you're doing at lunchtime is out there playing and

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Speaker 1: pe was my favorite subject.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's that's how it is. I've got a sun

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Speaker 2: that I think the only reason he goes is still day.

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Speaker 2: But a lot of us, a lot of us were

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Speaker 2: but yeah, but it's the clubs out there that don't

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Speaker 2: there it does over time, really really create some some

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of committee hard work and committee members

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Speaker 2: thinking how much longer can we keep doing this for?

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Speaker 2: You know? And but the reason we do it is

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Speaker 2: because we love the sports and we love the kids

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Speaker 2: and we want to get them on the paddic and

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Speaker 2: we seem to manage to deal with with sever thrown

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Speaker 2: at us. But I think we're in a place now

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Speaker 2: where a little bit of good fortune is well deserved

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Speaker 2: to come our way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully, well mate, I thank you again for having

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Speaker 1: a chat with me this morning. Hopefully next time we talk,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a bit a bit more movement and

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Speaker 1: and you've got those ballards in and at some point

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Speaker 1: the iflescott to get to the you know, to the

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Speaker 1: point where you are able to have you know, toilet's

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Speaker 1: here or a chained room and and able to actually

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Speaker 1: host those games.

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Speaker 2: Too, Katie. And what do I know more you'll know

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Speaker 2: about it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good on your lord. Thanks mate, I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: having a chat with me. Thank you, thank you,