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Speaker 1: Signs It's all four with Adrian Barrage. Barah is on

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Speaker 1: the line with us.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Barra, thank you for getting up so early after

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Speaker 2: such a busy day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, full on day for you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it turned out to be a very big day

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Speaker 4: morning guys. Yeah, and yeah it was weird because on

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Speaker 4: your show last week and actually the press conferences that

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Speaker 4: were going on, I had said to the players on

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Speaker 4: your show, actually said, boys, as you're driving to the

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Speaker 4: this is on Friday with Russell. If you're driving to

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Speaker 4: your training at the moment and you're about to get

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Speaker 4: on the bus to Melbourne for the go to the

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Speaker 4: MCG to play the Demons, be aware that you must

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Speaker 4: there must be a response. You can after that Hawthorne

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Speaker 4: loss in the Barkway and Perth. You need something. You

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Speaker 4: need to show something for the coach because otherwise they'll

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Speaker 4: take it as well. He's lost the players, he's lost

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Speaker 4: the locker room. And even at the press conference, I

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Speaker 4: said to the captain Oscar Allen, I said, it'll be

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Speaker 4: deaf Con four if you come back and if you lose,

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Speaker 4: and it'll be deaf Con four here next week and

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Speaker 4: he actually said it was pretty funny moment he said,

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Speaker 4: what's deaf Cone for you? I don't watch those war

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Speaker 4: movie lessons in Star Wars. I didn't know it turned

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Speaker 4: out it was Deaf Gone five because they end up

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Speaker 4: it panned out was I interviewed him about I remember

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Speaker 4: we're joking with you on Monday about I didn't even

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Speaker 4: him that night. I was reading I didn't really.

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Speaker 1: Want to do it.

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Speaker 4: You enjoyed?

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Speaker 5: Which one to know?

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Speaker 4: Are you? And you guys helped me and said, look,

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Speaker 4: why don't you ask him if he wants some clarity

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Speaker 4: from the from the club, And boy did he get

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Speaker 4: talking to Piking getting some clarity, and then the board

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Speaker 4: and the board was meeting. The board was meeting the

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Speaker 4: because they have been leaking, and so they thought, bang,

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Speaker 4: let's do the board meeting, and straight away they canceled.

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Speaker 4: Tim Kelly was supposed to speak at ten am yesterday.

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Speaker 4: They canceled that. They just came out and said, oh,

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Speaker 4: Kelly's not speaking. And then it was like, well it's

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Speaker 4: on like Donkey Kong now and you know what. And

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Speaker 4: last yesterday I heard Elliott Yeo said how much he

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Speaker 4: loved Adam Simpson and then like hours later he was sacked.

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Speaker 4: That was so weird.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they can love him and still lose him.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, it's pretty unfair.

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Speaker 2: The front page of the paper today that shows the

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Speaker 2: recent If you're going to have a retrospect of the

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Speaker 2: the official line is that it's was a mutual decision.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it was a mutual decision.

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Speaker 4: Well, it was mutual in the sense of they asked

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Speaker 4: but I mean, I mean it was mutual one way.

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Speaker 4: I mean he might he would, He wouldn't have wanted

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Speaker 4: to be sacked the Eagles have never sacked to coach

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Speaker 4: mid season, so you know, he would have liked to

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Speaker 4: And ironically, then at the press conference, which is a

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Speaker 4: Don Pike, Don Pike said to Simmo, you know, we'd

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Speaker 4: Awkward's work good word, And I think what Don was

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Speaker 4: of But Simo didn't just say that. Look, I'll get

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Speaker 3: Yes, been worked out.

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Speaker 2: I think if they really wanted him to coach for

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Speaker 1: But that's just you know, and beart of the problem

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Speaker 4: I don't think he wanted sim out to coach, because

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Speaker 4: if he does, he equals mixed number of games. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the West Coast, not the Mick that what would want

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Speaker 4: him to leave. But if you're leaving, please stay under

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Speaker 4: my record. So there was a there was a couple

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Speaker 4: and also a bit of a backhander that Simo gave

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Speaker 4: Pikey about well you could be CEO and coach. If

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Speaker 4: it too, like he talked about, you know now that

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Hungary Jackson at the restaurants, people would have.

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Speaker 2: Been unimpressed through that. Actually those comments. The highlight, of course,

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Speaker 2: was his back and against the West Australian journal that

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Speaker 2: has made it his mission to write about him every

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's gone viral. I suppose you'd say, there

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Speaker 4: it looked like it was the pressure of the job

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Speaker 4: Mick went gray overnight? Always he did yeah, and everybody

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Speaker 4: thought it was pressure, and it was really his wife going, Mick,

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Speaker 4: you look silly. He's going in your head, give up

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Speaker 4: Really exactly Now, I shouldn't we shouldn't be laughing too

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Speaker 4: much made because it was a sad day, my opinion,

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Speaker 4: a sad day. The great legacy for Simpson, only three

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Speaker 4: twenty Who would ever forget the twenty eighteen Grand Final.

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Speaker 4: Dom Seve's goal, You know he got us to the

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Speaker 4: and there were a lot of excuses in the first two.

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Speaker 4: But this year probably, you know what, we might need

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Speaker 4: a new voice, we need the players, might need something else.

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Speaker 4: And because he can't sack all the players, it wins.

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Speaker 2: From sixty five games. Let's face it, that's not a

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Speaker 1: Sort of who's the interim coach?

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Speaker 4: So the interim coach is Jared Schofield. Consistant coaches, no

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Speaker 4: doubt he'll he'll be a contender, along with another asistant coach,

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Speaker 4: Matthew Knights who used to coach Essendon and it was

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Speaker 4: big at you long But the absolute prime target is

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Speaker 4: Dean Cox. They want to get back. He's a legend

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Speaker 4: John Longmeyer, who're probably coaching a Grand Final this year

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Speaker 4: when Sydney gets there. And my dream team would be

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Speaker 4: Dean Cox, Ashley Hanson remember played in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 3: Year, plenty of experience now.

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Speaker 4: And then, and probably Ben Cousins as an assistant as well.

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Speaker 4: I've been serious coach. He's coaching at that were be

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Speaker 4: the dream team. Jamie Graham down at Freemanner will be

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Speaker 4: looked at once that's over because he's an eagle as well,

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Speaker 4: the the experienced coaches. If they go for the experienced coaches,

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Speaker 4: Nathan Buckley and Chris Scott, who's that you're along at

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Speaker 1: Mean, that's what I don't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I can't imagine why I would have thought

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Speaker 3: Money speaks, I know, and I'll get a job for

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Speaker 3: his new girlfriend and who knows.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. I had to sell all his memorabilia. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's right. Yeah, yeah, I'll give you one from Lester Yields.

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Speaker 4: And you don't do to me, and and under your breath,

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Speaker 1: I know, you know you're good for it.

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Speaker 4: You're right. Yeah. Daisy, Daisy Pierce, who was the coach

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Speaker 4: I mean, it might be premature. It probably doesn't look

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Speaker 4: what that would be something, But it's probably it's probably

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Speaker 4: Might be exactly And yeah, so jan Cox is the

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Speaker 4: is it going to be a curability agreement at Sydney

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Speaker 4: there could be you know, those sort of things in

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Speaker 4: the wings and we bring him back. Chanson's very good too,

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Speaker 4: as is Jamie Graham.

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Speaker 3: And as we know, the coach brings in all his

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Speaker 3: he's or her own people. So there's a probably a

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Speaker 3: few never folks at the Eagles right now, so we

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Speaker 3: feel for them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it is a tough time. And it was

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Speaker 4: a big even even though I said it wasn't a shock,

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Speaker 4: the timing was a shock. And and let's be honest,

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Speaker 4: going in against Brisbane at Optics Stadium without mcgovernor, and

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Speaker 4: they got those two big forwards who got Locking nearly

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Speaker 4: want to win a third Brownlow medal. It's going to

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Speaker 4: change his name by depold two three times Brownlow Medal.

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Speaker 1: I love lock Neil Champion.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's a massive chance and if he has

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Speaker 4: forty possessions on Sunday, it was just about winning, so

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Speaker 4: all right, Yeah, it's a tough game.

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Speaker 1: Tough we'll see what happens now. I noticed you didn't.

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Speaker 1: You didn't say anything about Josh Kennedy.

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Speaker 5: He's not a he's mellow mellow anyone.

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Speaker 1: I think he's enjoying his life. It is too much.

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Speaker 4: Actually, let me guess he's your favorite players.

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Speaker 1: I like Josh Kennedy. Yeah, he's great, he's awesome.

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Speaker 4: I love him. He's not coaching, he's he's living on

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Speaker 4: the sime up and I think.

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Speaker 1: He's loving every minute of it.

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Speaker 5: All right, I didn't mention simmer In mate, Oh my

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Speaker 5: god stop.

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Speaker 1: Well you'd love to be a I know we would.

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Speaker 2: Barah, We'll see you on Friday's gone quiet.

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Speaker 4: No, thanks talking very much. That was great.

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Speaker 3: Thanks man be