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Speaker 1: The footy finals are well and truly upon us. They

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Speaker 1: are kicking off on the weekend, and I'm very pleased

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Speaker 1: to say that. Joining me on the line right now

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Speaker 1: is the Pint women's coach Ricky Nole Earn. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you. Let's try that again. For some reason, that

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Speaker 1: phone line is not kicking in. Rick Nolan, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: good Katie. How are you mate? Pretty good? How are

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Speaker 1: you feeling before the big, big weekend of footy?

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Speaker 2: A bit nervous that I actually enjoyed being nervous before

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Speaker 2: a football games.

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Speaker 1: That's good how I feel before a big interview, mate,

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure it's on a much greater scale for

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Speaker 1: you for tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And I we're looking forward to We've trained for eight months.

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Speaker 2: The girls take the pretty really really serious, so now

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Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to it, and I know the

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Speaker 2: girls can't wait as well.

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Speaker 1: What's gone into preparation this week? Have you tried to

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Speaker 1: sort of keep it as normal as possible?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. Actually we're probably a little bit

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Speaker 2: lighter last night. See just have one injuries at this

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Speaker 2: time time of the year. We train pretty hard on

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Speaker 2: Saturday morning because we're the week off, So yeah, I

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Speaker 2: just tried to keep a noise hard to say key

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Speaker 2: things normal because as I've done quite a lot of media,

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Speaker 2: it's a big week. It's one of the biggest weeks

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Speaker 2: of these girls' lives. I've trained so hard for it

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Speaker 2: means so much to them, So yeah, it's not normal

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Speaker 2: when when it's means so much to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's exactly right, and footy means so much

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Speaker 1: to so many people, but particularly to the pipe team

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Speaker 1: this weekend. How like, how is the team looking, if

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Speaker 1: you got any injuries or anything that you that you're

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Speaker 1: concerned about her? Are you all looking pretty fit and fresh?

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Speaker 2: Fully, we're fully fit. There's no excuses. If we've trained hard.

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Speaker 2: We hope to win. But I'm sure Saint Marys are

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Speaker 2: in the same same position as well. You know, we

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Speaker 2: think we deserve the win because we've done we've done

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Speaker 2: the work. But yeah, the opposition like that as well.

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Speaker 2: But that ware fully fit, no excuses, Ricky.

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Speaker 1: Any players that you're keeping an eye out for or

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Speaker 1: that you know that need to be contained from Saint

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Speaker 1: Mary's over the game tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I think Danny upon and everybody knows that she's one

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Speaker 2: of the best players in Australia and to be playing

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Speaker 2: inner competition, our local competition, and I encourage everyone to

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Speaker 2: come down just to look at her. She's yeah, I said,

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Speaker 2: she's one of the best players in the ASLW and

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Speaker 2: she's one of we's certainly going to contain.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have got Jasmine Hewitt. She obviously

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Speaker 1: won the Best and Fairest at the Nichols Metal presentation

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Speaker 1: on Sunday night. You've got a fantastically strong team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she wins everything jazz. She's phenomenal. So yeah, she's

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Speaker 2: an unbelievable athlete. Trains as hard as I coach Cameron.

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Speaker 2: I had a long time a long time ago, and

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Speaker 2: I always said he was the hardest trainer I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: But Jess is just as equal to Cameron. She trains

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Speaker 2: exceptionally harder, diet, the way she goes about she's exceptionally professional,

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Speaker 2: and everything that she wins she thoroughly deserves.

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Speaker 1: I love it, mate. What Point has done with that

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Speaker 1: women's team over the recent years is phenomenal. What's it

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Speaker 1: been like for you working with these with these wonderful

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Speaker 1: women over the last few years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a phenomenal story. Really, so before I

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Speaker 2: took over, I think they come six and you used

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Speaker 2: to tick if you wanted a game of footy. They

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Speaker 2: used to do a Facebook group and you tick a

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Speaker 2: box and if you tick the box, you've got a game.

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Speaker 2: So now we get one hundred girls within two years,

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Speaker 2: we're getting a hundred girls of training. We've got three

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Speaker 2: sides with about twenty girls missing out. And then we

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Speaker 2: tried to create this culture of hard work where if

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Speaker 2: you play well, you go up. Now if you're in

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Speaker 2: the lower grades you go up and if you play

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Speaker 2: paul you go down. So a performer house environment. We

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Speaker 2: had to go from a social kick and a giggle

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Speaker 2: to a perform or house environment. And now that's the

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Speaker 2: girls that's driven out. They're the ones that wanted, you know,

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Speaker 2: they wanted that environment. They wanted to take their footy

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Speaker 2: to the next level. And without their buying, they've been

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Speaker 2: they trained their unbelievable groups. Yeah, but within we going

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Speaker 2: into this will be our third Grand final and fourth

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Speaker 2: year and hopefully it's our third premiership in four year.

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Speaker 2: So to go from where we were four years ago

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Speaker 2: to just being this powerhouse of a women's club, we're

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Speaker 2: probably the biggest women's Sporting Club of the Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: at the moment, it's in four years has been. It's ridiculous, really,

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Speaker 2: yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. And then when you look at you know,

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Speaker 1: the uptick of young girls playing footy as well and

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Speaker 1: coming up through the ranks in the Northern Territory, like

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Speaker 1: female football is just on fire at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And I say that the girls that

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Speaker 2: we're on the four fifteen time slot, which is probably

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Speaker 2: the number one time slot. You know, I played in

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Speaker 2: a lot of Grand finals as a player and also

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Speaker 2: coached a lot in the men's space as well, so

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Speaker 2: we're in the prime spot and the standard has improved,

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Speaker 2: is quite well watchable standard. We're one of the better

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Speaker 2: competitions in Australia. And yeah, it's I think for young

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Speaker 2: girls now the thing to do is to play off

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Speaker 2: the real football, which is good. That's we want the

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Speaker 2: young people doing and we want them off the streets,

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Speaker 2: we want them play in support. It's good. It makes

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Speaker 2: the territory a better place.

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Speaker 1: It truly does. Well. Rick Nolan, all the best on

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Speaker 1: the weekend, mate, It is going to be a massive game.

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Speaker 1: All the best of the Pint team. I know all

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Speaker 1: the best to Saint Mary's as well, but mate, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us this morning and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you again very soon.

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Speaker 2: Katie appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks mate,