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Is proud to present. Billie.

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On fresh off the A they ran, it is

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a pleasure to be back here. Tokens and forty

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with you and Jay How eyes A. Fantastic.

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My main great to be back and read it So

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you have ice and what around of what do we

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do sore and a zoc read men. Would just

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go. As too busy or they will

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do a hug you know, load of or

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moss Point Zero? well that's usually I'm pretty

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good. The. Issue Who

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had corrupt Mark as by guy

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they go get that block mad

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up. Now the big story as

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we wiped it I. Is.

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The news that Jason a Major has

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baines by you've given the As by

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the bunnies. The decision was made at

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a board meeting last night. In fact,

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here is the bunny C E O

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Bleich solely on the decision. To

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is considered second child. He didn't.

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Do you play one young against

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no? No one will be the

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performance. Yeah, but it was. One

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guy was changed so dramatically I'll

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fall sick Every was that the

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one guy was indicative of it,

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probably an inability to turn around

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and that we needed to make

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a quick decision on forcing. We

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didn't think that Jason's coaching stall

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would be able to. Get.

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The change related or the improvement united and

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given that we sit at seven days of

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the table and am forming ancestry she points

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worse than six Data Think now's the time

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to make to child and unfortunately the the

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change out to be just in have you.

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We just felt that the stall apply and

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probably Jason's management of of the players need

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to change and that's no criticism of his

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heart, his work ethic or how hard you

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know how much effort he's putting, but we

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just felt that we needed a change in

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management. Results over the last twelve months haven't

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been good enough. for a clump of our

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stature and whilst it's no criticism Jason, how

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hard he works, the last 20 games sort

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of speak for themselves and for his agent

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to say that he's been treated shabbily in

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the context of a year's worth of patience

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and support I think is unfair. Yeah

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I agree with everything he's had to say.

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I just don't agree with the last part

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of that where the agent and that's Chris

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Orr or Gavin or one of the Orr

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brothers who managed the Metrio

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has come out today and said it was quite cruel in

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the way it's been done and I kind of agree. I

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can't remember a coach in modern time who's been sacked

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who has gone through two board meetings in the one

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day then faced the

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waiting media throng on his coming out. It was

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just kind of, I thought he

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deserved a little bit better than that. We did know

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a month ago that he was gone. We said it

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here. He faced in coaching terms

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of dead man walking and I think if

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they made the clean cut then, we

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wouldn't see the aftermath of probably

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I think a lot of people thinking that Jason Demetri

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has been sorely done but as

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Solly said then, you look

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at their performances and it's not the South Sydney

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that we've grown to love

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and know. They're sitting last on the

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competition after leading the

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competition after last year's magic round.

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They were first. So in

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the space of that amount of time and almost about

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11 months they've gone to stay motherless last and so

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I suppose questions have to be asked for him. I

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like what Blake Solly said in

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the way he delivered it to

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a point. I like

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that he was strong about the expectations of the club.

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I don't like

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this idea of coaches coaching

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for their career and job over a weekend

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and the idea that that

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was the straw that broke the camel's back. No,

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you'd made your mind up and that's okay. That's

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okay. This is a business and it's South Sydney

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like all the clubs in the team is about

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winning. To that point as well,

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what you're saying there MG is that it's

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also when you look at the talent that

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is on this South Sydney team. type team.

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For what they're delivering when you consider that

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Cody Walker and you know

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Damien Cook and while he might not be

4:08

the Damien Cook of old he's still a

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quality representative player and obviously Latrell and Jack

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White is there now the quality on

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this team isn't isn't

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represented in their position on the ladder and if they've

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decided Jason Ametro isn't the man who can get the

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best out of it so be it

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we move on. I've

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got a probably the feeling that they

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were treating water until they can confirm

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Wayne Bennett's arrival. This

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is where what this would suggest the way they've handled

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it would suggest that they were trying to get their

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ducks in a row behind the scenes. So do you

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buy into this Wayne Bennett theory? I do yeah I

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do I think that Ben Hornby

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will be the caretaker they bought in

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David Ferna as an assistant coach a

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couple of weeks ago in hindsight they

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should have probably bought him in a month ago once they

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lost the caliber of Sam Burgess and

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John Morris as assistant coaches so it's

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a team effort these days and you need more than

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just the coach to coach these rugby league teams they're

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a full-time job and you need you know

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guys going over video you need guys going over different

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stuff so you can you can employ your weakness so

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to speak but he's been

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on his own and they bought Ferna in a couple of weeks ago.

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Look I don't buy the

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storm game I

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think yeah who's going down to Melbourne when

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they're full-strength when your team's struggling and taking away the points

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I mean they're never going to get the

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fact that 50 points put on I probably look at

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and go where you know that

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means that the effort quite wasn't there

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in defense but look at yeah

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I think Wayne Bennett will be their coach I think it's I

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think it's a fait accompli you know

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Ben Hornby he might go good

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for the rest of the season but I don't

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think that'll worry because all that will matter because

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after this Penrith game tomorrow night their

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draw becomes relatively easier and

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Latrell will be back and

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you probably can say as well in you

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can hypothesize that maybe they're thinking, well, we've

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made the right decision because look, we just won

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through a four in a row. And that's not

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fair on Jason DiMetrio. That's right. I

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hope any South fans that are listening to this

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don't look at the record from this point forward

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and go, see Jason DiMetrio was crap. Because

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that's not fair. And look,

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it didn't work out, it didn't work out. But

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to players, I mean, MG, you've been at clubs

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when there's been a change at the top and

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there's a lightness to you. Suddenly you're playing with

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house money to a degree. Yeah. That's

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why it worries me about tomorrow night's game

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against the Panthers. I think, you know, there's

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the record. I don't know what the record

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is, but tone producer might find it while

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I was chatting about first time coaches having a win

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in their first performance because you're right,

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Liam, you're exactly right. The

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players feel the stress that no matter whether

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you like love or hate Jason DiMetrio

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as a rubber those player, there's

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once this decision has been made that you see

6:56

coming for like the last four to five weeks,

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there's a big, ah, that's

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exhaling now. That's exhaling, that's exhaling, that's what we

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know how to do and that's play for you.

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You know, they find themselves up at a course

7:08

stadium tomorrow night and a pretty good benchmark against

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the Panthers. And yeah,

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look at that. Pretty good benchmark. Would

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you have said, look, this is the unbelievable thing, but

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I think I had rubber those and I'm not sure where

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I had them. I think I had them at my top

7:22

four maybe at the start of the season. I know

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I had the Panthers playing the Roosters,

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I think in the grand final, um,

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but I didn't have them. I didn't

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want my bingo card wasn't Jackson, the mid-tier being

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the first coach sacked. That's

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what I do not believe. I do not see

7:37

that coming. I had a look back over the

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sort of the mid-season sackings of years gone by.

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This is probably the most surprising one since Seabowl

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was, uh, result out of the Broncos, um,

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in the fashion that he was because the

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talent that they had, the, the Manner

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in which Wayne Bennett had left them, he

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hadn't left it like Newcastle. This is a

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team that was expected to contend and now

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Jason Demetrios. probably taking a day to compose

8:01

himself and cigarette next steps just quickly before

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we move on from this because we don't

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wanna spend old old ice. To

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other points I wanted to address, I. The.

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Fact that Basra field. Learned about

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this why Grime pointed the saddle mineral

8:14

Three sixty last night's what that buzzed

8:17

Rothys. Got the tix that

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this had been done. While

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the board meeting was happening, blows

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my mind. And probably

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space suit. You. Know what a

8:28

great journalists possible field is in the connections

8:30

he got Bill also space suits were that

8:32

club might be at more broadly men. Secondly,

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the fact that. I've. Already

8:36

been sent and I don't know how is this

8:38

is my that's why de mayo how these made

8:40

it's way out of the groups. Of.

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A allegedly. A

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message the Jason demetrius it of the Pinder. After.

8:48

I mean yeah, that's where that was in the for

8:50

those in the City paper this morning. And

8:52

the fact that we were also hearing that.

8:55

Russell. Crowe sent a message the Joseph Dumitru

8:57

before the second board meeting yesterday saying that

8:59

of what you birth. So.

9:02

At the moment the were confused. This

9:04

has to be pliers confused. Or.

9:06

I think what's if you look at the i

9:08

saw it and it's like. I

9:11

think this the of getting hi. I'm Kevin

9:13

the the booty who's boot papa of non

9:15

canon broke Syria other by the don't have

9:17

the club of these are things a little

9:20

clever people think of them. Army's got someone

9:22

one of his people on the board. Rotten.

9:24

To boil accounts, she's a mad revelers

9:27

fan, but she loves. Them.

9:29

And she's gotten I would issues a

9:31

fan of Not that. Russell. Is

9:33

to say or miss that My fingers in

9:35

and get it done. But. He

9:38

seems have lost that ability to have the

9:40

power that he once wielded annoy. I.

9:42

Think says a poor for it because. When.

9:45

He was in charge wouldn't say the time. Languishing

9:47

more his. Voice

9:49

so they've gotten as as always. If.

9:52

Gonna sic you gotta fix the top end

9:54

up have any organization been wouldn't want of

9:56

into that sauce the to realize what's going

9:58

on So voices inside. No. Blood.

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Or do now? is it South Sydney

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of my that decision n y bet

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it all out that my. Oh.

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That more a granny flat not my house

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my granny flat on who on him being

10:12

that is all I know gratify like sale

10:14

type that met with me of what we

10:16

all right leg was so that you are

10:18

busy signal here this I have to see

10:21

as a heel or I think you'll be

10:23

the rugged as. From.

10:25

As cousin she official disease has worked with

10:27

been whom Be before. It was was

10:29

a dozen Demetrios Wilford Brimley is it says but

10:31

he has worked with the been whom he as

10:34

well so. The. Association is there

10:36

these up on contract he seventy

10:38

four use of I disobeyed last.

10:40

Contract. You would imagine. So

10:43

will be true for you on track and fish

10:45

and Sydney I had said so M M one

10:47

thing you can guarantee that when he gets asked

10:49

about it for the first time he'll south had

10:51

of at night contact with the club the any

10:53

Betty White be lying because minimum will have spoken

10:55

to the club on his boss So you get

10:57

us. Ah I let's

10:59

move on I thought you guys and major we

11:01

never liked as he catches get the Us air

11:03

it's and on say business buddies. The reality of

11:06

the business of Rugby league's the conversation over the

11:08

weekend. M G of see we saw the most

11:10

a silly incident on Anzac Day, knocked out from.

11:12

The kickoff return was this

11:14

notion? This theory about potentially

11:16

banning the kick off thoughts.

11:20

On I I. I.

11:22

Lived in Brave Boy. The shoulder charge from applied

11:24

or got plenty put on mean or papa, plenty

11:27

on people in games and. On. Or

11:29

off a law firm year with a weed city and of it

11:31

we were. Poor. Afford also thought

11:33

were going to before for when we got really shows

11:35

how we're not. We. Haven't missed it. Showed

11:37

us has happened but every. Two.

11:40

Or three tackles every said a six. A

11:43

T A kickoff happens maybe on his own. average

11:45

four times the photons are going. We.

11:47

Say hit like silly maybe twice a year.

11:50

Wanting to be a things of my driver

11:52

reaction. I. Think one of the

11:54

rule showed Shadwell showcases of our game is the

11:56

kick off and off the back faces. I say

11:58

it. Look

12:00

at techniques of the dragonfly as you try to

12:02

take on where he a. Job. Where

12:04

I grew I saw all around the book. Not.

12:07

One person when for the the why still

12:09

the legs erm. And. We would as

12:11

a result, not. There's no way we'll ever see them

12:13

get rid of the long the long kick off or

12:16

not, I hadn't already Why? Because I think it's one

12:18

of the reasons I love. The. First five years

12:20

of state of origin or things from Iran says on the

12:22

edge of the say is that of origin. And

12:24

I think Iran says on the edge of a sudden the first

12:26

column is of again to say. Something. Like

12:29

we saw, obviously not injured. A silly because we

12:31

don't We don't ever wanna say that. But.

12:33

That confrontation. That's what sets the standard of the

12:35

game. That's what sets the tone of the game

12:38

when. You. Get the big base from your

12:40

side running in seconds. They big base and. That.

12:42

Sets the tone and unfortunately them as a suing

12:44

the technique was alive the shop mom in fact

12:46

that a d watch it closely. And. Look

12:48

like giant. Je suis my be. Catapulted,

12:51

Him into yeah the the what? the

12:53

awaiting January hug rises for. I'm size.

12:56

Knife. Or that he was to say what I

12:58

want to say about that says the Shore Drive at Ces

13:00

Me enough. We. Talked about this on

13:02

the shy ah earlier this week and chip

13:04

lunch rush hour later. John Layman Double N.

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I. I. Argued that.

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And. I'll give you my top three mg. I

13:12

argue that the first hit up of Game

13:14

one a state of Origin every year is

13:16

one of the top three moments in all

13:18

the sport. A cheap and outs it's it's

13:20

own noted that the top three ah, the

13:23

first hit up instead of origin time one.

13:26

The moment salience before as a tie

13:28

between calling will listen at the Mcg.

13:30

Yep! And the first bowl of the Book

13:32

and I test. Certainly. We are

13:34

that die and and not decided. The

13:36

best overall sporting fixes but those individual

13:39

moments or the boot the he can't

13:41

take your eyes off them sorry if

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seat. I don't know what origin would

13:45

still be amazing without the kick off

13:47

that it wouldn't be the sign. some

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with the a sexually sees Nz Rugby

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