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Speaker 1: I believe. Joining me on the line right now is

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Speaker 1: Palmerston Magpies Football Club Premier League head coach Joshua Heath.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Joshua. Are you going oh mate, good?

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Speaker 1: Probably not as good as you after the coup that

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Speaker 1: you guys have just sort of managed over the last

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Speaker 1: few days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, pretty exciting stuff for the NTFL and Parmason Magpies. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: to get Gary's signature and get him across the clubs. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: really exciting.

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Speaker 1: So mate, Gary Ablett Junr he's going to be playing

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Speaker 1: for the Palmerston Magpies. Are we just talking one game

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Speaker 1: or do you reckon you'll be able to get a

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Speaker 1: few more out of him?

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Speaker 2: Oh, this stage is just one game. Yeah, so that's

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Speaker 2: sort of what we what we came to and yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're really happy just to just have him, have him

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Speaker 2: up in part of the club.

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Speaker 1: Any idea at this point exactly you know what round

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Speaker 1: that game is going to be or exactly when it's

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Speaker 1: going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be a Friday night game on the eighteenth

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Speaker 2: of November, So we sort of had to really work

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Speaker 2: around his schedule and make sure that we could make

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Speaker 2: it work for both parties and we landed on that game,

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Speaker 2: and so hopefully Friday night gives the opportunity for as

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Speaker 2: many people to get down and watch.

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Speaker 1: I reckon, You're going to get a bucket load of

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Speaker 1: people down there. And is it just a game that

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Speaker 1: he's going to be doing or playing while he's here,

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Speaker 1: or is there going to be more more happening with

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Speaker 1: the club.

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Speaker 2: We'll hold an event on the Saturday night with him,

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Speaker 2: so details and that will come out soon on our

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Speaker 2: social media and yeah, but we're working towards an event

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Speaker 2: with him.

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Speaker 1: Mate. How are the player signings going for the season,

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Speaker 1: And you know what kind of impact does having somebody

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Speaker 1: like Gary Ablett Junior come and play a game with

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Speaker 1: the team have?

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Speaker 2: Oh look, it's yeah, really a morale booster. You know,

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Speaker 2: the committee of the club's been working tirelessly behind the scenes,

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Speaker 2: probably since the end of last season, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we've actually recruited really well local base and you know,

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Speaker 2: we've got some quality of players across, which you know,

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Speaker 2: we really need that experience. But to have Gary to

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Speaker 2: top it off, you know, it just helps drive that

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Speaker 2: message that we're we're trying to really improve our community

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Speaker 2: and our club.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's great to hear and you know,

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Speaker 1: anything that can sort of you know, that can help

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Speaker 1: the sport as well and draw more people to taking

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Speaker 1: part in AFL and being part of a club is

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Speaker 1: obviously a wonderful thing. You've also got Eddie Betts. So

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Speaker 1: is he playing the whole season or how long is

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Speaker 1: he going for?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're working with Eddie on his availability as well,

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Speaker 2: and fantastics a resign him and we were really excited,

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Speaker 2: Like he came up last year and was massive for us,

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Speaker 2: and you know, his injection you know, really bolted the

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Speaker 2: group and I think it really got the community, the

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Speaker 2: AFL community excited up here as well. So you know,

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Speaker 2: really happy to have him back and his input into

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Speaker 2: the coaching side of things as well as the playing

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Speaker 2: side of things. And he's just really trying to engage

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Speaker 2: with the communities and get out to digitus communities up

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Speaker 2: here as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a wonderful thing, you know when they are

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Speaker 1: able to get out and be part of the community

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Speaker 1: too and and engage with some of the youngsters that

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Speaker 1: are keen to play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's exciting for them. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: we get limited AFL games up here and you know,

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Speaker 2: we obviously have some some draftees that go through and

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Speaker 2: come back back home, but to be able to give

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Speaker 2: exposure to more people in the territory with these types

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Speaker 2: of players is just fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Now, what's been the reaction from you know, from the

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Speaker 1: boys and girls in the club that they are going

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Speaker 1: to obviously have Gary Ablett junior there playing a game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, everyone's very excited. There's a few people that

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Speaker 2: just a little bit disbelief, I think, but you know,

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Speaker 2: it sort of all comes comes with the attraction of him,

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Speaker 2: so it would just be added value. As I said,

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Speaker 2: the fact that we potentially will have Eddie and Gary

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Speaker 2: running around and obviously made so who really helped get

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Speaker 2: this this done? You know he's past past junior, past

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Speaker 2: the Magpie and and a premiership player at the AFL level.

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Speaker 2: So we're stoked to have all of them on board.

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Speaker 1: So talk us through how exactly did you make this happen?

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Speaker 1: Were you all having a couple of beers and thought,

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Speaker 1: do you know what we should see whether we can

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Speaker 1: get applet to come and play a game.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, it wasn't wasn't probably engaged by us initially.

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Speaker 2: It was definitely something that was I think on the

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Speaker 2: conversation with Stokes and Gary down down to Victoria and

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Speaker 2: I think it just sort of grew from there, maybe

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Speaker 2: a conversation and then you know they sort of approached

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Speaker 2: us with the idea and yeah, we've eventually got got

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Speaker 2: it done.

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Speaker 1: Good on you. It sounds like it's going to be

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Speaker 1: you know, it's going to be awesome and a wonderful

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Speaker 1: thing obviously for the footy club. And mate, how things

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Speaker 1: progressing or how are your prep? How's your prep going

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Speaker 1: as you know, as we edge closer to the season

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Speaker 1: getting underway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pre seas have been really good. As I said,

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Speaker 2: we sort of recruited pretty well in the off season,

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Speaker 2: so we've had pretty good numbers at training which is

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Speaker 2: really exciting. And I think, yeah, we're just sort of

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Speaker 2: getting things in place nicely and we're hopefully prepping up

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Speaker 2: for a really strong Round one one performance.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff. Well, Palmerston Magpies Football Club, Premier League

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Speaker 1: head coach Joshua Heath, thank you so much for your time. Mate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you