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Her Huddle - Episode 1 · TDUK

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Heat. Hey, Heat.
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Welcome to Har Huddle episode one. My
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name is Liv and I'm here with my co-host
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>> Jess. And we are here with
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>> Oh, Lucy
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>> and Jess
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>> from the Rosendale Raptors.
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>> How are you guys? How are you guys
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doing? How are you feeling?
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>> I'm not too bad. Still recovering from
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training yesterday, but otherwise all
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good.
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>> Yeah, same. Very good.
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>> It's good to hear. I'm glad to have you
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on the episode one. feels very very
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fitting. You know, brand new team in the
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league, brand new um brand new kind of
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like women's only podcast. It's goes
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hand in hand, I would have to say.
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>> A lot of firsts.
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>> Yeah, definitely.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Now, you guys have got to set the
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standard quite high, so everyone else
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has got to catch up to you lot. Um so,
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>> no pressure.
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>> So, first off, do you want to introduce
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yourself, who you support, um how you
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got into football?
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Um, yeah, I'll go first. Um, I'm Lucy.
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I'm the head of women's at Rosundale
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Raptors.
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Um, got into the sport, I think it was
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three years ago, maybe four years ago
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now. Um,
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started playing for a local team. Hadn't
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played sport in ages. Um, and just
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thought, why not? Um, I support Patriots
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as much as everyone can hate on me.
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That's who I support. I'm not changing
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it. I haven't changed it since I was 18.
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>> Yeah. My name's Jess. I'm team manager
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for Rosundell Raptors. Um, and I also
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play uh Dline and O line. Um, funny
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enough, I got into the sport because of
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Lucy. So, she absolutely admired me to
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come down for a rocky session for a
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local team. Um, and I was very hesitant.
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I was like, never played it. Don't even
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know anything about American football.
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um went down and absolutely fell in love
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with it. Um yeah, and now I'm team
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manager of Rosnale Raptors, which I
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absolutely love. Um and I support Miami
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Dolphins.
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So, in terms of like previous
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experience, I know you said you've
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played for other teams. Kind of what
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other teams have you guys come from um
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to like how you guys um how you guys
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made your beginning, I suppose, is what
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I'm kind of trying to say.
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>> Yeah. Um so, we both started at
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Manchester Titans. Um I was in my second
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year I became a team manager there and
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then my third year I was head of
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women's. Um, and then Jess was my team
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manager in my final year as well. Um,
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and we just thought
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we had a dream of what we wanted for a
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women's team and the women's league and
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everybody has their own ideas and that's
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absolutely fine. That's that's that's
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cool. Um,
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and we wanted to create something a
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little bit different. So,
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Rosendell Raptors was born.
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Yeah.
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>> So, what are your guys' sort of plans
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for this season, this year as a whole?
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Um, I know there's a few tournaments
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coming up um in the few months, but what
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are the sort of aims of the Raptors over
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the next few sort of months and this
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season?
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>> Yeah. Um, we're definitely in a building
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stage. I think
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>> Jess, you could attest for that. Um,
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our key goal at the minute is to grow
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the team. um but also get I suppose a
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bit more knowledge around Rosenddale
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about American football and that women
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can actually play. Um because it's a
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common misconception that there is no
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American football in in Britain if
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you're not already in the community. Um,
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I think this season for us the main
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thing is growing. Um,
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and obviously passing our associate to
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getting sevens next year, but if it
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takes a little bit longer, we're we're
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not here to rush a process. We're here
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to get it right from the start, get
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those foundations right. Um, and then
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obviously you mentioned the tournament,
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so we've sort sorted on our own Super
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Bowl. Um, but it's wrapped. Um
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the goal behind that that I had was
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there's a lot of associate teams. It can
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be hard to get those games in that you
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need to then pass your associate. Um
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so my thoughts were let's bring as many
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of them together as possible so we can
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get our home game that we need ticked
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off. They can get their away game ticked
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off but they get more games within that
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and we pull in some international teams.
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we just make it basically a good day out
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for everybody. Um, and then
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we'll have a little international tour
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at the end of the year, which will be
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fun. Um,
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yeah. I don't know, Jess, if I've missed
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anything there. Uh, no, no. I think for
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me being team manager, um, I think me
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and Lucy have like sort of the same core
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values that for me, I want to build a
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team that is going to women are going to
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come to it and feel included and feel
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that, you know, the they're wanted there
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and for everyone just to feel
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comfortable and just to really build
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like a family for me really. That's what
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I really want for our team.
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>> 100%. Um, so I've got a question. What
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is Raptor Juice?
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>> Well, um, it's funny. So, one of our our
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newest sponsors, um, Shaw Short Brewery
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and Tap Room, um, we wanted to do a bit
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of a fundraiser. Let's face it, Kit's
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expensive. We're a brand new team as
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much as, um, the other team within our
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club. So, Rosundelle Big Books, big up
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the boys. Um, they've like massively
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supported us. Um, but we want to invest
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in more kit that's specific to the team
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that we have and that we're growing. Um,
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so you know, helmet's growing up cost.
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Um, so yeah, so we wanted to do a
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fundraiser. Um, spoke to George at
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Shawshot and we're doing like it's I
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mean it's going to be a bit like Bono's
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bingo but the Raptors version. um and
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loads of different stuff in that kind of
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process of creating that event. Um
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George said, "Do you want to brew a
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beer?" I was like, "Yeah, okay, cool."
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So, Raptor Juice is um is our very own
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beer that we're brewing. Um and that
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will be on sale on the 14th of March at
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Shore Shop. Um it'll have our little
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logo on it. I've done a few tests um and
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tasters of the beer. Sorry, it's
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actually all right. I do say on myself.
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Um and you'll no doubt if you follow our
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socials, you'll see in the coming weeks
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um a few pictures and videos of a few
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few of the team um
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brewing the actual beer, which is very
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manual labor. Um so, hats off to all the
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brewers out there because it's hard
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work.
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And do you guys reckon that you know the
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people here at Touchdown UK can get
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their hands on the rap juice for you
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know
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>> if they come down on the 14th of March
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they can have some.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Sharing is curing and all that.
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>> So what is sorry
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>> do you want to go live?
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>> You can go. It's all right.
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>> Yeah. Um, so with you guys being a brand
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new team to the scene, what are kind of
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some of the issues that you guys have
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faced that people like might not be
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aware of or might not be like
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knowledgeable towards and things like
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that?
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>> Uh, yeah. Jess, do you want to take that
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one?
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>> No, you can take that one on.
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>> Okay.
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I thought so. But um, so I think it's
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the
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setting up a brand new team, finding a
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home for that team. I think if you
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didn't have an existing club set up
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would be really really hard. Um we we've
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been quite lucky that we've got the
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books. Um you know we already have a
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home ground. Um we we already have a
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lockup and stuff like that. So it's it's
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those basic things that obviously you
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think of but coming into practice it's
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right okay actually getting that set up.
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Um it's the getting people to practice.
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it's getting rookies, finding rookies,
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um, and really promoting yourself and
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pushing yourself out there when you're
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brand new. Um, you don't have a huge
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following on social media or anything
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like that. Um, obviously there's certain
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requirements with Baffer. Um, you know,
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there's getting yourself on the portal
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and then people who are transferring
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from other teams, getting that sorted.
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um
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which can sometimes be a bit of a pain
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but it's fine. Um
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admin
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a lot of people don't think about it's
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all you you can have these grand ideas
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and you can have this these are our core
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values. This is what we're really
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passionate about and me and Jess are
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both really similar um but also
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different. Um so we have in our mind
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what we want it to look like. we're on
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the same page, but it's then how do you
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translate that to other people who
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are brand new to the sport, don't have a
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clue, and they're they're not confident,
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and it's building that confidence up.
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Um, and honestly, we're really lucky
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that we've got a solid coaching staff as
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well. um
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they all believe in
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the what's the right word but the the
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approach that we want to take to
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coaching and training and having a very
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femaleled
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>> I'd say like coaching a women's team
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they're very passionate about it
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>> yeah they want the women to succeed they
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want the women's league in general to
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succeed um it's not about I I I
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players and building them up and
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building their confidence up. Um, which
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we have been really fortunate there. Um,
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but yeah, biggest biggest struggles is
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is the admin, getting stuff actually
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done.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Okay. And what do you think what would
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you say is the best thing about playing
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for the Raptors, being involved with the
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Raptors, and how can people sort of get
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involved?
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>> Yeah, Jess, I'll let you take that one.
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Um the best thing for me again is the
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team. Um
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you know we've already become such a
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unit already and which I absolutely
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love. Um and just seeing how passionate
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everybody
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is about Raptor is already has just been
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absolutely fantastic. Um, so I think
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that's for me is the best thing. And
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again, I think yeah, shout out shout out
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to the coaches again because we've got
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some fantastic coaches that again are so
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passionate about it that give it their
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all and are there every single week. Um,
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to help us out, to, you know, coach us
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and to get us to the best that we can we
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can be to play. Um, so I think that's
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definitely my favorite part about being
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part of the Raptors. Um, do you say how
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can you get get involved?
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>> Yeah. So, if people are listening and
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want to, you know, find out more, get
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involved, how
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>> Yeah. So, um, I say at the moment, uh,
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our Instagram is a big one. So, social
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media, you can, um,
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contact us through there. Uh, give us a
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message. There's also on the the bio
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just to um, register uh, with us. Uh,
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the the best ways or even just come to
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uh, MS Pits uh, on
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>> just rock up to a session. just Yeah.
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rock up. Come join us. We're really not
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scary. We're, you know, we're really
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it's a honestly I'm not just saying it
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is a fantastic team.
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>> Yeah. I think that's the big thing.
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We've got a a good balance of experience
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and brand new people. And it's
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I think that's the biggest thing that
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I'm proud of of what we've done so far
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in such a short space of time is that
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every single person motivates the other
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person and genuinely wants the other
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person to do really well. Um, we're all
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our each other's biggest cheerleaders,
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which is a huge thing.
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>> So, if say if someone wants to join the
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sport for the first time and they're
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coming down to the session, what is kind
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of kit that you would recommend that
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they bring already or like kind of
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attire to wear and that kind of vibe,
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especially if they're brand new to the
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sport and have never tried it before.
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>> Yeah. Um, first ever session, I'd just
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say something you're comfortable running
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around in, some trainers. If you've got
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boots, brilliant. Um, just make sure
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they're not metal studs. Um,
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and some water. It's all you need for
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the first session. Obviously, once you
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get a couple of like you've got your
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first session in, you think it's for
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you, that's where we'll start to slowly
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ease in. Right, okay, get a gum shield.
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Um, then we'll show you a couple of of
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sessions in right up here. These are the
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lowers you need. So, you know, are you
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going to get a five piece or a seven
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piece? So, that's your your padding on
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your lower on your lower half, your
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pants. Um, and then yeah, I mean, your
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shoulder pads and your helmet that you
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see people wearing in like all of the
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games and stuff, we provide that for
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you. You get it once you sell your your
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subs and all the all the boring stuff.
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Um, that's when you then get your kit
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and then you you're let loose ultimately
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on on the training side of it.
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>> And how has sort of the recruitment
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process been? Like I know you said
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there's a mix of brand new people and
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experienced people, but how have you
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sort of found getting rookies to stay
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and do this day?
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>> Yeah. Um, I think we've actually got one
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of the best retention rates I've ever
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seen. Um, if anybody has come to a
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session, they've stayed. They're part of
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the team. Um, so it's for us, for both
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me and Jess, it's just a case of getting
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people to go to a session. We know
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they're going to stay. Yeah. Um, and
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that's where it does
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>> does lend into the fact that we do have
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a team of people that genuinely want
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each other to succeed and cheer each
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other on because why wouldn't you want
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to carry on? Um, in terms of
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recruitment, I think we've been really
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lucky with a steady growth rather than
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about like 20 rookies at one session and
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then they all fizzle out. We've had what
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the first few sessions like it's like
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what two or three rookies and each week
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>> we have a consistent
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um consistent turnout rate with rookies
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of like two or three rookies a session
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and obviously we've been doing training
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sessions since the end of last year. So
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it's been a consistent buildup which I
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think is a good way to grow rather than
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all at once.
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>> Yeah, I would agree. Um, so coming back
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to you kind of you guys and your
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experience and everything, what has been
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like one of the highlights or one of the
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biggest moments of your career? It can
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either be like something funny,
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something like, "Oh my god, I got to
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play for this team." Like, what is been
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one of your career highlights so far?
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>> Jess, I'll let you go first.
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>> Um,
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I'm trying to think. Um, I've got
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something that's just come to mind,
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which is just, um,
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at my last team that I was with, the
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last game that we played, I got to the
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QB. And I know that sounds like it was
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just like the biggest thing for me. And
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it was literally as we were about to
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there was only like a couple of minutes
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to go. Um, and I got the sack. So, um,
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playing for Dline for me was that I
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think that was for me was a a big Yeah.
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big big thing for me. Big up Dan. Yeah,
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boy.
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Um,
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mine's mine's going to sound
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probably a bit cheesy, but um,
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my highlight was
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probably the other week at training and
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it was just seeing everybody laughing
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and joking and having such a good time.
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people who they never would have met in
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like I say real life but you know what I
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mean outside of football like on a
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day-to-day basis they never would have
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met and here they are all chatting away
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all getting along with each other and
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having a good laugh um I mean yeah my
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first my first season of playing um
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we got second um so we we came second in
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the country um with sevens
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um year after that we went to nines and
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that was huge. Um but I can't say I've
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ever felt as proud as like just looking
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at what even though we're still in the
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beginning stages but what me, Jess, and
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the team have built already. I'm so
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proud of it.
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>> Yeah.
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>> So yeah, cheese.
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So, I know you mentioned about uh the
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brewery and the event that's going on on
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the 14th of March. Is there anything
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else that you can say you've got
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planned? Um anything sort of fun that
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maybe people who don't want to get in
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the team but want to support the
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Raptors, is there anything else sort of
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events that they can go to?
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>> Yeah, I mean what I would say is keep an
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eye on our Instagram and our Facebook.
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We announce everything on there.
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Obviously, we've got the fundraiser on
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the 14th of March. Um
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we've got obviously our weekly sessions.
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We've got Raptor Bowl. Um the big first
19:10
kickoff. We've moved a couple of dates
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around um just so then our team is ready
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for their first game. So the first
19:18
tournament will be the 4th of July now,
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which I feel is a bit more fitting. Um
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you know, um and then we'll have August
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and September. We'll have tournaments
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running then. Um and then October. Um,
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we'll be we'll be off to the Netherlands
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to play our international tournament.
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Um, but yeah, we we will have loads of
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different fundraisers and probably
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different like sponsored walks and
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stuff. We love we love to do loads of
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random stuff as well. Um, but it will
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all be it will all be on our Instagram,
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so you have to follow us
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>> if you're not already.
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>> Yeah. So, speaking kind of like about
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the Raptor Bowl, um is that going to be
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like live stream for people or is it
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just a come down and watch event? Like
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have you guys kind of thought about the
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logistics of that so far or is it
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already set in stone like it is getting
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live streamed by so and so?
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>> Um so looking into live streaming it
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because I appreciate obviously we we do
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have international teams coming to it.
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Um, and a lot of the, you know, initial
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fan base, not necessarily all of them
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will be able to come and watch, but
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they'll want to stream it on, they
20:29
obviously want to watch it online. Um,
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so we'll look into that. Um, so if
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anybody has a streaming platform and
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they want to get involved, let me know.
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Otherwise, we'll look at ultimately
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doing it ourselves. Um, probably through
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YouTube or something. I'm not sure, but
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we're looking at it at the minute. Um,
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yeah. So stay tuned.
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>> Uh so just a bit quick on less on the
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wrap is now a bit NFL bit more fun. I
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know we got Patriots fan.
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Sorry to I would say
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>> not necessarily fun right now but
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>> I would say I'm sorry about the Super
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Bowl but
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>> we didn't deserve it. We didn't play
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well enough.
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>> But how do you think your teams are
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going to do next season? Are we gonna
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see Patriots back up at the Super Bowl
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again?
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>> Yeah, of course. We'll get in the ring
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next season.
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>> It's easy.
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>> You're laughing, but I'm dead serious.
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>> All right. What about the dolphins? How
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How do we think they're going to do?
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>> I hope we do better. I mean, yeah, I
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hope I pray that we do better. We, you
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know,
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>> you need a new QB
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>> just a little bit. Yeah, we do. I can't
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really say much because Yeah, I don't
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know, but I hope we do.
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>> Are you hoping that there's going to be
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a playoff push?
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>> Yeah.
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>> So, what about the other Jess? What
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about you? Like your team, you know, we
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we've not we've not said our teams. I
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mean, I think you can tell by my my my
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jersey, which just a little bit, but my
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team, but Jess, what about you? What do
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you think about um your team?
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>> Uh I'm a Giants fan. Um sadly to say uh
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managed to pick the wrong years to be a
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Giants fan, unfortunately. Um but I've
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got full hope. I think, you know, I
22:26
think we'll make it to the playoffs next
22:28
season as long as Sky remains fit,
22:31
Jackson Dart remains fit, and Neighbors
22:33
comes back. All right. I do think that
22:35
there is a playoff hope for us next
22:38
season, which is crazy. And I won't be
22:39
saying that after week four when we're 0
22:41
and four, but
22:44
We're gonna have belief.
22:46
>> What about you, Liv? What are you
22:48
thinking for the Chiefs?
22:49
>> Um, I think the start of the season is
22:51
probably going to be rocky with Mahomes
22:53
doing his ACL. Um, I think that's the
22:56
first couple weeks definitely are going
22:58
to be this rocky patch. Um, going off
23:01
the season, I mean, it has been we
23:03
played with injuries, player
23:05
suspensions, things like that. So, I
23:07
think it it's going to be a hard to tell
23:09
season until I think until we know what
23:11
Kelsey's doing. I think it's going to be
23:13
very very mellow. I at the moment I
23:17
can't see playoff contention until
23:20
everything's set in stone like Mahones
23:21
will be making this return. We are
23:23
signing Kelsey again. Like it it just
23:25
depends on some of their key players and
23:27
where they're going to end up in the
23:28
next kind of like few weeks at start of
23:30
the season. So fingers crossed.
23:34
>> Good luck to you all.
23:42
sort of last thing I think sort of to
23:44
finish on. What do you think needs to be
23:46
improved in football to make the sort of
23:48
sport bigger especially sort of in the
23:50
women's game as you said there's a lot
23:52
of people who don't know even that it's
23:55
an option. So what do you think sort of
23:56
needs to be improved
23:59
>> within the UK?
24:00
>> Yeah, I think for me like just more
24:03
awareness that women can play this
24:05
sport. I just don't think a lot of women
24:08
know. We've had someone recently join
24:10
who's loved American football for so
24:13
long and she did not have a clue that
24:17
she could play in the UK which is so
24:19
shocking that she's wasted so much time
24:22
loving the sport but could never have
24:24
played it cuz she didn't know. So I
24:26
think definitely more you know
24:29
advertisement whatever that may be for
24:31
women to know that you can play this
24:34
sport in the UK.
24:35
Yeah, I think
24:38
infrastructure wise, everyone can always
24:40
have their opinions of what would work
24:43
and what would be amazing. Um, but
24:45
ultimately without
24:47
funding going in the right places,
24:50
nothing's going to happen. um you know
24:53
ultimately longer seasons being able to
24:55
play more games, more teams across the
24:57
UK, um more people shouting about it,
25:01
more people shouting about the women's
25:02
game, more games streamed. Like you
25:05
could go on and and on um but you know
25:08
ultimately
25:10
you need younger younger girls and women
25:13
coming into the sport because they're
25:14
the next generation of it. So it's how
25:16
do we get it to them? um you know and I
25:20
see it as not just a a league
25:22
responsibility but a team club different
25:25
club's responsibilities to be going into
25:27
schools and to be offering different
25:29
sessions and taster sessions to get
25:32
girls more involved because if you look
25:34
at women's rugby in the UK there's loads
25:37
more teams I mean even more could be
25:39
done um and it takes time it takes years
25:44
and it takes the right opportunities
25:46
Um,
25:48
but you know, we could see it. I would
25:51
say the next two years will be pivotable
25:54
pivotal for the women's game. It will
25:56
either, and this is me just being
25:58
honest, it will either crash and burn or
26:00
it will start to make progress, but
26:02
change needs to happen for that.
26:04
>> Yeah. Yeah, I fully agree. I think, you
26:08
know, I've been I've been playing at
26:10
Uniball for the past two and a half
26:11
seasons and even and then seeing the
26:14
growth of girls in the uni scene, both
26:16
coaching and playing, it's definitely
26:19
grown over the last month. So, I hope
26:20
like
26:21
>> yeah,
26:21
>> with your point, last point that you've
26:23
said over the next couple years. I do
26:24
think we are going to see the kind of
26:26
build. I know the GB program had a lot
26:28
of um
26:30
>> yeah,
26:30
>> kind of the initial um trial in January
26:34
there, they had a lot of interest. So,
26:36
it's it's good to kind of see that the
26:38
game is growing and I do hope you are
26:40
right and I do hope it kind of gets
26:42
bigger and bigger and we start to see
26:44
more teams and we don't see the crash
26:45
and burn that we have unfortunately to
26:47
see in the past kind of couple of
26:48
seasons.
26:49
>> So, yeah,
26:50
>> I think more collaborations with
26:52
different different clubs as well
26:54
outside of the league. It just builds
26:56
those relationships up and just drums
26:58
more more interest up. I think it just
27:01
goes to show as well watching women play
27:03
rugby at the moment and how big that's
27:05
grown for women. I think you know women
27:09
need to be watched in sports because
27:10
they're incredible.
27:11
>> Yeah, 100%.
27:14
>> Yeah.
27:16
>> Well, it's been lovely chatting to you
27:17
both. Um you've definitely set the
27:20
standard very high going forward. Um
27:23
it's going to be hard to match. Um yeah,
27:27
sort of we'll wrap this up now. We wish
27:29
you all the luck going forward. Go
27:32
Raptors.
27:32
>> Thank you very much.
27:34
>> Um,
27:35
yeah, I look forward to seeing how the
27:38
Raptors fly.
27:40
>> Thank you.
27:41
>> Good luck with the podcast. Hopefully,
27:43
it really takes We definitely needed
27:45
something like this for the women's
27:46
game. I know we've got a few different
27:48
ones, but the more the more that we can
27:50
get, the more exposure, it's only going
27:52
to be a good thing.
27:53
>> Yeah, we do.
27:56
>> Yeah. Thank you very much.
27:57
>> Thank you guys. All right. Cheers.