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Speaker 1: We are set for a massive weekend of footy with

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Speaker 1: the With the footy finals set to take place this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We know Saint Mary's aiming for back to back premierships

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Speaker 1: in the Grand Final on the weekend against the Southern

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Speaker 1: District's Crocs, who have had a dominant season. Now joining

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Speaker 1: me in the studio right now is the coach of

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Speaker 1: Saint Mary's, Anthony Evila. Joe. Good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Good morning, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you in the studio, mate. How are

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Speaker 1: you feeling ahead of Saturday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good. Yeah, it's been a big, big week already,

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Speaker 2: you know, some media commitments yesterday and today, training this

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Speaker 2: afternoon and we'll get into it now.

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Speaker 1: Mate. Are you like, is it a nervous kind of

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Speaker 1: week for you or is it sort of an exciting

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Speaker 1: week for you?

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Speaker 2: More exciting, you know, it's more reward for effort for

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Speaker 2: the boys. We had a big pre season, you know,

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Speaker 2: a pretty tough season, finished fifth and you still playing

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Speaker 2: and managed to playing in the Grand Final. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's more reward for effort. It's a big exciting week

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Speaker 2: for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean as you touched on fifth obviously

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Speaker 1: at the end of the home and away season. But

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Speaker 1: then with every elimination final that you've faced up to,

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Speaker 1: whoever it's been, the boys have stepped up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: have you always been confident that they're going to be

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Speaker 1: able to do that in those bigger games. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: When we sat down at the beginning of the year

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Speaker 2: and looked at our side, you know, we're pretty confident.

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Speaker 2: You know, we could finish in the top three and

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Speaker 2: then hopefully give us a best chance to playing in

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Speaker 2: a Grand Final. Injuries, logistics, you know, just getting boys

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Speaker 2: up here, our budget, there's lots of little things that

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Speaker 2: you got to take into account. So we didn't finish

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Speaker 2: in the top three. We had a really good pre

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Speaker 2: Christmas season. After Christmas, yeah, we had a few key injuries,

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Speaker 2: to say Dylan Lant, Yeah, for a few Friday night games,

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Speaker 2: so we couldn't get a few fly ins up for

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Speaker 2: those sort of games. So finishing fifth, we're happy with that.

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Speaker 2: We're pretty confident once we got our full site together,

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Speaker 2: which we have in the finals, yeah, we'ld give it

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Speaker 2: a bit of a shake.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how has this week then gone in terms

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Speaker 1: of preparation. Have you got any injuries or anything that

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Speaker 1: you're trying to juggle at this point.

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Speaker 2: No, we've got a fully fit side, so we'll go

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Speaker 2: in unchanged from last week. So that's pretty good, you know,

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Speaker 2: touching wood. Nothing happens today at footy training, but yeah, unchanged. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the full strength now.

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Speaker 1: Jackson Calder named of course, as the leading goal scorer

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Speaker 1: at the Nichols Medal on Sunday night. He's had a

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Speaker 1: big year for you guys, hasn't he.

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Speaker 2: Champs had a big five years. I think since he's

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Speaker 2: moved up here, he's relocated up full time. He's working

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Speaker 2: for the Klontar Foundation. You know, he's found a partner.

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Speaker 2: I think he's happy he's partner in crime up there.

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Speaker 2: Jack Lance also doing really well for us this year

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Speaker 2: will come final. So yeah, both of those two are

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Speaker 2: key keys to us having a win this week.

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Speaker 1: And I mean there's been plenty of talk about Crooks

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Speaker 1: being quite dominant in the ruck. They've got Matthew Dennis

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Speaker 1: and whyite Ryan along with one of the competition's top

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Speaker 1: midfielders in Jed Anderson. You guys are very strong though

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Speaker 1: in the meads as well, aren't you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Dylan Lant, two time Nichols medalist you

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Speaker 2: know Connor West who's been at Sensation for us moving

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Speaker 2: up this year. You know Joel Garner, Chad Harris. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've got a few players that we can rotate through there.

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Speaker 2: I think it's no secret it's going to be one

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Speaker 2: in the midfield. Big job for Will Robinson also, you

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Speaker 2: know flies in from go he's our ruckman, so he's

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Speaker 2: got a big job this week. But yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's a secret it's going to be one in

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Speaker 2: the midfield. Does he working Go for He's relocated and

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Speaker 2: working another one that works for the Contar Foundation over there,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, he'll fly in tomorrow afternoon and yeah, all

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Speaker 2: ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh mate, it is going to be a fantastic game.

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Speaker 1: I mean you just said then you reckon it's going

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping so like last year's Grand Final was a wet,

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Speaker 2: dour sort of affair. It looks pretty good out through

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Speaker 2: the window today, hopefully, So yeah, hopefully it's a nice

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Speaker 2: dried Degg. There's a big crowd out there watching and

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Speaker 2: two really good clubs big clubs with a lot of tradition,

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Speaker 2: you know, have a good game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah mate, this is your fifth Grand Final that you've

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Speaker 1: coached in six years, is that correct, that's correct.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've had a pretty good run with the boys there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you've had a you know, it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: a big exciting time. Have you got any superstitions or

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Speaker 1: anything they can do before each final?

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Speaker 2: I like a coffee, so be a bit lane way

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Speaker 2: for a coffee in the morning. We had some media

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Speaker 2: commitments yesterday. Don't touch the cup pre game pre finals. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're probably only two Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, I love it. I think it's really like

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Speaker 1: I love footy, I love sport more generally, and and

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Speaker 1: you know, I always like catching up with the coaches

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Speaker 1: because I think it's a really interesting job for you

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Speaker 1: guys in the sense that you're you know, you're mentoring

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Speaker 1: this team. You can have in your brain everything that

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Speaker 1: you want to happen, but then you've got to make

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Speaker 1: sure the you know, you don't know what's going to

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Speaker 2: That's sport. Yeah, So it's really good. You know, we

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Speaker 2: can have our team plans and what we think is

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Speaker 2: going to happen. But come game day, anything can happen.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we've got plan A, B and C in play,

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Speaker 2: so let's see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, I often see you and your and your

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Speaker 1: lovely wife out walking around Marara. I'm usually up for

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Speaker 1: a run. You guys are out for a walk. I

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Speaker 1: was there watching a game then a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, hang on a second, is that

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Speaker 1: your wife running water as well for the team. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So my wife, Trace has been our water carrier, water

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Speaker 2: person for about the whole time I've been coached. My

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Speaker 2: brother he's the runner, so he's been the runner the

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Speaker 2: whole time we've coached. My son's lucky enough to get

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Speaker 2: a game this week, so he was playing. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: it's a family affair. My sister's a team manager. Oh yes,

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Speaker 2: I've taken everyone along for the ride.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, I love that sounds like the wolves. At

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins in in Redcliffe, people were asking whether my

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Speaker 1: after they found out my brother was the assistant for

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Speaker 1: my other brother. Yep.

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Speaker 2: They do it for free, but they're all volunteers, so

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Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's fantastic, you know, then come on the

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Speaker 2: journey with us.

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Speaker 1: I think it's so great. And I love that about

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Speaker 1: foot Eat As, particularly here in the Northern Territory, is

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Speaker 1: that it is a real you know, like it's a

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Speaker 1: real family, real community. And you see that a lot

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Speaker 1: at Saint Mary's.

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Speaker 2: It seems yep, like you said, at every club really,

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Speaker 2: you know, you look through the club's names and there's

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Speaker 2: the great family names up here in Sport and Tertrey

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Speaker 2: and TfL Footge and it continues on, you know, so

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Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's a bit of a tradition up here.

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Speaker 2: I hope it goes on for a long long time.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's it's it's a great part of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, all the best on the weekend. We are

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Speaker 1: going to be catching up with Shannon Raska in a

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Speaker 1: couple of moments. Really appreciate you coming into the studio.

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Speaker 1: Hope you have a cranking game. Thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much.