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😚 Wee Whistling, Injury Heartache & a VERY Dorky Mascot · No Dribble

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a DM podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We'll try to keep it as nice as we can,
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  Speaker 2: but you might hear the occasional swear word in No Dribble.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell them.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to No Dribble Podcast. I'm Carolyn Spindel,
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  Speaker 2: writer and comedian. I'm joined as always by two women
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  Speaker 2: who've talked quite a bit of nonsense in their time,
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  Speaker 2: but still make more sense than the Mavericks mascot being
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  Speaker 2: a six foot blue unicorn. Those women are, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Catherine co and Liz Allas.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a few six foot blue unicorns with Catherine
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  Speaker 1: at sort of three am.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's about when you were talking a bit of nonsense, right, Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Good happens at three am.
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  Speaker 3: Him in the flesh, him hurt?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't have quite inspection.
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  Speaker 2: I've done a bit of investigation and it's Goose the unicorn.
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  Speaker 2: So they're referencing Maverick obviously, so I would have and
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  Speaker 2: that means that Goose is male or non binary.
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  Speaker 1: Well I was going to say, like DoD mascots have genders,
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  Speaker 1: and wouldn't it be appropriate for women's sport to have
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  Speaker 1: female gendered mascots?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, remember our Swift way back had decent sized
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  Speaker 4: boobs and lipstick, that's right, remember, Yeah, And it was
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  Speaker 4: actually it was a Birdy Swift is a bird.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I would really like to unpack
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  Speaker 2: is Sporty Swift. I think it is time for her
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  Speaker 2: to be retired. I have some views on all of
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  Speaker 2: the mascots that I would like to discuss, but we
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  Speaker 2: don't have to come to that immediately, obviously, do you.
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  Speaker 4: Know what we need to do? We need to do
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  Speaker 4: it because I think they did it at the Mavericks game.
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  Speaker 4: Actually on the weekend they had a mascot race.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I reckon there's got to be some sort of competition
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  Speaker 4: with only the strongest survive. So if you're not equipped
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  Speaker 4: to run and do handstands and you know, be athletic,
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  Speaker 4: then you're gone.
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  Speaker 2: I would have thought the unicorn's horn is problematic for handstands.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're also apparently. I remember with the old Swift,
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  Speaker 1: that bird. It was always Julie his Gerald's kids who
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  Speaker 1: had to be in it, and they hated it because
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  Speaker 1: it was one hundred degrees who was small enough to
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  Speaker 1: be in it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The funniest thing was I was dating one of the
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  Speaker 4: Sydney Kings way back in the day, and their mascot
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  Speaker 4: is the Lion. I don't know if you've ever been
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  Speaker 4: to a basketball game, but it's the best. He does flips,
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  Speaker 4: he's in the crowd. He's really good. But this guy
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  Speaker 4: was an accountant so by day, very serious and professional,
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  Speaker 4: and that was his chance to just go and let
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  Speaker 4: Louis and nobody knew who it was.
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  Speaker 3: How good's that?
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  Speaker 2: I do want no dribble to look at the issue
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  Speaker 2: of the mascots and the appropriateness of it, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: prepared to be challenged on my views on it. But
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  Speaker 2: first of all, we should probably do a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a catch up. Anyone had anything notable happened this week?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Elizabeth, I know we typically do our little shout
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  Speaker 4: outs at the end, but you will love this one.
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  Speaker 4: I have been contacted on socials by your Little Lady's
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  Speaker 4: bathroom line friend. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 4: you'll have to listen to last week. But in a nutshell,
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  Speaker 4: Liz was waiting in the queue outside the women's toilets
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  Speaker 4: and you got a costed and we got hit up
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  Speaker 4: or whatever you like.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just a chat, just a chat.
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  Speaker 2: We have a good conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of good chats happened in the lady's toilet line
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  Speaker 1: they do.
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  Speaker 3: And this was at a netball carnival though.
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  Speaker 4: But she was saying that she was unhappy with the
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  Speaker 4: swearing because she was in the car listening.
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  Speaker 2: To it, right, I think that's overstating it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she would just mentioned that she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like she could listen to it with her
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  Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen year old daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm pleased to announce that Carla Nightingale has gotten
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  Speaker 4: in touch with me. She's out of herself, she said, haha,
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  Speaker 4: listening this morning, Liz, that was me in the toilet. Omg, loll.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry but then she's gone. Ps I continue to listen
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  Speaker 4: without the twelve year old.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, excellent work, Carlo. Thank you so much, and
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  Speaker 1: you know we always accept your feedback. And I spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time at carnivals. I was at the
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  Speaker 1: Whoopee Carnival on the weekend. Now here's a little story. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Google in northern New South Wales, just north north of
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  Speaker 1: Coffs Harbor has a large seak population and so the
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  Speaker 1: Indian Fiting War Google who is outstanding And we have
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  Speaker 1: voted the wool Googa Netball Association Cardinals having the best
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  Speaker 1: carnival food of any association. And I will not take
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  Speaker 1: any arguments on that. Outstanding. But a chicken all day fantastic, right?
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  Speaker 3: Don't know that you want to eat that if you're
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  Speaker 3: playing though, do you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Well, I don't know. My daughter seemed to do
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I didn't repeat well, but.
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  Speaker 1: I might have. But I wasn't playing against us side
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  Speaker 1: a secret weapon. It could be a secret weapon. So yeah, outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: And I did get lots of feedback from people who
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  Speaker 1: are loving the podcast, but you maybe don't listen to
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  Speaker 1: it with a twelve year old.
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  Speaker 2: It's more for the Carlas of the world than Carla's
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  Speaker 2: twelve year old daughters of the world.
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  Speaker 1: We are.
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  Speaker 4: That is true exactly, which brings me to the next story.
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  Speaker 4: So I had a couple of games on the weekend
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  Speaker 4: on the road. I was in the Sunny Coast on
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  Speaker 4: Saturday and then Brisbane on Sunday, and I tootled off
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  Speaker 4: to the toilet to do my pregame Wii because there's
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  Speaker 4: nothing worse than being on air for two two and
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  Speaker 4: a half hours and then realizing you have to go
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  Speaker 4: to the toilet because you can't, you cannot go anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: It's my biggest fear that I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 4: go to the toilet at something age. So always tootle
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: off and go and do the Wii. If you're ever
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  Speaker 4: at a stadium and you see me disappear just before
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  Speaker 4: the game starts, that's where I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: No mystery.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, As I'm walking in, this woman's like, oh, cath.
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  Speaker 2: Cox, how are you going?
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  Speaker 4: Just a Nettie fan that was there to watch the game.
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  Speaker 4: She goes, oh my god, I'm loving no dribble so good.
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  Speaker 4: Blah blah blah, goes carries on. But this conversation is
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  Speaker 4: on the entire time that she's in the cubicle and
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  Speaker 4: I'm in the vessel. She does not stop talking to me,
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  Speaker 4: to the point that I thought I should probably ask
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  Speaker 4: her name because I feel like this is going to
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  Speaker 4: be a good story.
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  Speaker 3: To tell next week. So I said, oh, thank you,
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  Speaker 3: what's your name?
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  Speaker 4: And she said, my name's Caroline, and we're big fans
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  Speaker 4: and we listened to the.
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  Speaker 3: To the show all the time.
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  Speaker 4: But I actually thought about all the years we've been
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  Speaker 4: drug tested, because I thought, this is one of those
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  Speaker 4: performance and anxiety moments where I could not get my
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  Speaker 4: WII out because this woman is talking to me and
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  Speaker 4: she might be judging my stream or something.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, the years of drug testing.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone else doing their pelvic floor muscle exercises right now?
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  Speaker 4: I am someone inspired you, But I thought the years
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  Speaker 4: of drug testing, I have no shame.
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  Speaker 3: Can we on queue? It was helpful?
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  Speaker 1: Did you know? Like a few years ago, I went
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  Speaker 1: to the trouts at Bathists with my husband because that's
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  Speaker 1: what you do at Bathist and we do like going
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  Speaker 1: to the trouts.
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  Speaker 2: To be clear, this isn't a toilet story. This is
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  Speaker 2: a story.
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  Speaker 1: So trots us in the horse trots and we walked
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  Speaker 1: around the back of the stables and I could hear
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  Speaker 1: whistling and I was like, what's that? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: And my husband informed me that they teach race horses
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  Speaker 1: to piss when you whistle, so that when they come
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  Speaker 1: in and they've got to do drug testing as well,
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  Speaker 1: they teach them somehow that when they hear the whistle,
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  Speaker 1: they have to wei, and that's how they collect their samples.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a dangerous job collecting a year and
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  Speaker 1: sample from a horse also, isn't that funny? And I
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  Speaker 1: thought we should actually learn to do that, that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if the drug test and whistles, you can just let
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  Speaker 1: it all go, because we've all been sitting around waiting
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  Speaker 1: for hours.
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  Speaker 2: For I thought you meant that because Catherine gets so
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  Speaker 2: nervous and has to do a nervous wee, that you
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  Speaker 2: and I should teach her that when we whistle, she
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  Speaker 2: does and then often just throw it in and see
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  Speaker 2: what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Were you were you okay at drug testing?
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  Speaker 1: I was great, but I used to always I used
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  Speaker 1: to hydrate all the way through the game. But I know,
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  Speaker 1: like you Eloise Southby, she used to struggle with drug
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  Speaker 1: testing because she didn't want to drink a lot during
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  Speaker 1: a game. Was I always drunk a heam when I
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  Speaker 1: was fine? But you know, like I'm a newdist I
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  Speaker 1: don't care. It was a bit. It was a bit
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  Speaker 1: off putting the first time, first few times, and it
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  Speaker 1: was fine because the drug tester just stood in the
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  Speaker 1: room with me. And then I got drug tested once
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  Speaker 1: and as I went to put the beaker down, you know,
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  Speaker 1: near my vadge, the lady squatted down to make sure
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  Speaker 1: she could see it coming out, And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Wait, I've got to see it exit.
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  Speaker 1: I have to see it exit your body so that
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  Speaker 1: you're not you don't have like someone else's sample up
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  Speaker 1: in a little balloon or something. And because apparently that's
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  Speaker 1: been done. And if you have sharp fingernails, you can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, prick the balloon and someone else's urine comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you have sharp fingernails if you've been on
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  Speaker 2: ant ball court? Excuse me? What are the umpires checking?
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  Speaker 1: It's a giveaway, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's that's generally how they do it now. So
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  Speaker 4: towards the end of my career, every time you have
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  Speaker 4: to tuck your shirt right up, you've got to pull
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  Speaker 4: your pants right down, and they are in They're right
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  Speaker 4: in there to make.
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  Speaker 2: Sure that got a great job.
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  Speaker 4: Hey know, who signs up for this. But the worst
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: time for a lot of people were after a big win.
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  Speaker 4: So if we run a Common Games or a World Cup,
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  Speaker 4: we'd all be celebrating and they would be so dehydrated
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  Speaker 4: from the game. Still what they have to stay there
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  Speaker 4: with the drug tester until they can go till they
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  Speaker 4: can produce it.
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  Speaker 2: So they just randomly pull a couple of people out
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  Speaker 2: from the team and say you're coming with me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And they would pinpoint them before the game, don't they.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not on results or form or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: No, So before the game they might say, we're going
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: to take both goalkeepers whoever was playing goalkeeper in the
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: third quarter and the goal shooter in the first quarter. Right,
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: So they got they do that, and then they turn
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  Speaker 1: up to the game and they pull you aside and
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: then off you go. The most inopportunity drug tests I
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  Speaker 1: ever had was after the ninety nine Cup and lots
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  Speaker 1: of people will remember that as the one where Sharrell
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  Speaker 1: McMartin scored the winning goal against New Zealand and the
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  Speaker 1: literally the last millisecond of the game and we were
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  Speaker 1: all so excited and so cocker hoop, and I was
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  Speaker 1: able to go really quickly. But we all got brought
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  Speaker 1: into the same room to do all the admin and
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  Speaker 1: like I was in there with Benice Meni, who was
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  Speaker 1: the captain of the New Zealand team who had just
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: seen the greatest moment of his sporting career ruined by
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: Sharil mcmahtin. She was so upset. She was almost inconsolably upset,
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  Speaker 1: and so you have to sort of temper yourself and
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  Speaker 1: you walk in You're like, who we weren't They're like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: there's the other side. Let's us get the admin done
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  Speaker 1: and get going.
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  Speaker 4: So so that was just very nice of you, just quietly,
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  Speaker 4: don't you just have one more digg?
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  Speaker 1: No? I love Benice. Yeah, well she really was struggling.
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  Speaker 1: I was fine. I just pissed the good out of there.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, really, I do like Benice, and I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sad that we won, but I just I could
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  Speaker 1: really feel brute.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say, so brutal beakers need to be bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so yesterday, because you've answered my question, I
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  Speaker 2: was a bit worried about this when I watched the
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  Speaker 2: MAVs do their song yesterday and they're all jumping up
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  Speaker 2: and down for the whole song, and I'm just clenching,
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  Speaker 2: like nobody's business because I see people jumping up and
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  Speaker 2: down and I feel urine.
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  Speaker 1: But so they'd.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously taken people off to do the drug testing, and
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  Speaker 2: they missed the team song they do.
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  Speaker 4: That's it sucks to be those people. That's why it
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  Speaker 4: is good if you can we on Q. So, yes,
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  Speaker 4: the lady in the toilet how to chat with me
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  Speaker 4: the whole time?
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  Speaker 3: Not a problem?
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  Speaker 4: Hi?
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  Speaker 2: So was she Caroline or Caroline?
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  Speaker 3: She was a Caroline.
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  Speaker 2: Caroline's and Carolines. We understand each other because I've been
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  Speaker 2: called Caroline my whole life. Carolines get called Caroline's. It's like,
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: get it right, people, it's not that hard.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get Carol?
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: Rarely get Carol.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: I do love when Catherine gets Cassie.
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  Speaker 4: You know. Oh, gives me conditions?
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  Speaker 2: Hang on? Should I whistle and see what happens?
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  Speaker 4: So on the weekend, as I mentioned before, I had
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  Speaker 4: two games, and what was really obvious was all the big.
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  Speaker 3: Guns that were missing this weekend, so many of them. So, Georgie,
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  Speaker 3: you Hodge just didn't play?
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  Speaker 1: Was that your fault? She's freaked out out with the
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  Speaker 1: last Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe she heard I was doing the game.
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  Speaker 2: She's got a bit of agrophabia.
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  Speaker 3: She was in the stadium. I will say she was
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  Speaker 3: in the stadium, but yeah, that was sad.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: Actually, tell me, do I owe Georgie Horges an apology?
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: I referred to her as Georgia Horgis last week and
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  Speaker 2: as a Caroline Caroline that I've already explained my pain there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get that wrong, but I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Is she a Georgie?
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: Is a Georgie?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I apologize, Georgie. I will not call you Georgia
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  Speaker 2: again and you can apologize to me. No, Kathy.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, there was a lot of big guns across the
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  Speaker 4: board missing, so it wasn't just Georgie Horges.
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  Speaker 3: But we will chat about Neddie obviously a little bit later.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get back to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to talk about this mascot thing though,
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  Speaker 2: So I've done a little bit of research and I
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  Speaker 2: think it's time for a bit of a refresh on
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: the mascots. And I agree with you. We are primarily
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  Speaker 2: a women's sports so it's good to have the female mascots. However,
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: I think some of them are looking a little bit dated.
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: So Sporty Swift has been around since twenty eleven. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the first I Pad released in twenty ten. There have
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: been thirty seven versions since then, so it might be
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: time to have a new version of Sporties with It's
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  Speaker 2: when Wills and Kate got married. Come on, we can
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  Speaker 2: move on from there. So the other ones that are
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  Speaker 2: represented like a girl shaped are Lucy Lightning, West Coast
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  Speaker 2: Fever has Marley a girl. They've had her since twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. Marley is a Nunga word for black swan,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is fabulous. That's not the issue I have.
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  Speaker 2: The issue that I have is the shape of these
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  Speaker 2: kind of creepy looking mascots. If you ask me thunderbirds,
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  Speaker 2: I think you've got the best one that is representative
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  Speaker 2: of a girl shape that is a Tory Teapert But
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  Speaker 2: I think they've had her since twenty eleven. But my
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  Speaker 2: favorites are Foxy the Vixen, Phoenix the Firebird, and possibly
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  Speaker 2: possibly Goose the Unicorn, even though I don't understand it
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  Speaker 2: and it makes no sense, but I like it right
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  Speaker 2: deep die.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like the name goose makes sense, but why
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  Speaker 1: have they chosen a unicorn? They're a mythical creature.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't under Well, isn't that what's a maverick?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that a mythical something?
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  Speaker 1: Rather? Now, maverick is someone who doesn't do things like
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  Speaker 1: he's a bit outside the rules.
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  Speaker 2: You're a maverick. I'm the opposite of a Maverick, So
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: I can tell you the unicorn came from Mavericks. Had
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: a new sponsor come on at the beginning of this year,
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  Speaker 2: Henley Holmes, thank you for supporting netball, and they had
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  Speaker 2: a campaign they invited fans to participate in choosing the
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  Speaker 2: MAVs first ever mascot. Fans were encouraged to share their
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  Speaker 2: preferences and ideas for the mascot's characteristics, providing valuable input
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  Speaker 2: to influence the final decision. So that I guess that
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  Speaker 2: came from the fans then, which is why you know
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  Speaker 2: unicorns does make sense in that sense.
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  Speaker 3: But from the sixth to the ten year old bracket
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  Speaker 3: of girls.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly, and look probably better that than some
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  Speaker 2: kind of dopey Tom Cruise wandering round costume, right.
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  Speaker 3: I take it. Don't be Tom Cruise any day. He
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  Speaker 3: got a Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd like to see Sporty Swift updated. And also
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: the size.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: Why don't you like Sporty Swift.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: They're just a bit girly, aren't they.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: They are a bit girly, but they're also I think
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: that the largeness of them makes them look a bit
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: kind of like a Hodoor of the netball court, and
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: I just know, what, are you guys not Game of
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Thrones fan?
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: No, all the time for that.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: There's a large proportion of our audience who understand exactly
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: what I talk about when I say hod Or Anyway,
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: he was a big dum dumb in Game of Thrones,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: but he was a hero.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I think Catherine called me a hod All one to
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: three Am.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: Harper does have a photo with Sporty Swift when she
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: was a baby. She was just a few months old,
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: so but how was Halpen now? Yeah, eight, so she
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: has been around a long time.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: We should put a photo of Sporty Swift up on
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the GRAM. I think you're right. I think she's but
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: you know I'm going to pull you too up. I
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: don't know if there's anything wrong with being girly, like
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: we're a girl's sport or a women's sport, or do
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: you want more womanly mascots?
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: I just I just don't think it's very stylish. I
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: don't have an issue with I certainly don't have an
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: issue with the femininity, but it's like I just sort
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: of look at it and go, it's just really dorky.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: You look at Phoenix the Firebird. That is a cool
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: mascot costume, so it's possible. And even even Gea and
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: from the Giants and Tory, I think they are better.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: And Lucy Lightning, they're better than Sporty s if it's
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: time for a new costume for an update.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: So I want to get them all in a room
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: together and go the rumble and just see who wins.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Because listen to those names.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah feedings, Yeah all, it's like Gladiators all over again.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Liz, Oh, there you go.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Hope Gladiators isn't having a season two.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: So oh but can I tell you something amazing about
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: one of your Gladiators, Aleithia Boone. Last week the CrossFit
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Game Semifinals y Oceania Semifinals. This woman is forty years old.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: She had a baby eighteen months ago. She's represented New
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Zealand in artistic gymnastics and weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games. Anyway,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: she finished fourteenth in the Oceana semifinals, came fourth in
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: one of the events. Most of the other thirty nine
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: competitors are in the early twenties, like this is wow.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Well Elektra was that her was she Electra?
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: She was amazing and she's so wepanic. Yeah, she's awesome.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: She was. Yeah, we had lots of long chats about
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: sort of you know, combining motherhood and all this sort
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: of other stuff, and she's so inspirations. She's amazing. That
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, I'm a bit bummed of Gladiators
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: isn't getting a second season, and I blame all the
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: people who didn't watch it.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, well that's not me. Then that I watched it,
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: I am stop asking.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: But it was amazing to meet people like you know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Elektra probom Is. I met all these people and started
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: following them on Instagram and ruined my algorithm.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: You know, it improved your algorithm. Now you get CrossFit.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Now I get all this CrossFit fitness, how to be fit,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: how to train protein and you know, all the supplements,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I just want my white and cheese
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: algorithm caravan.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Well, so you would have then also seen on the
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Algram on the weekend that the most successful CrossFit athlete
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: ever tear Clare to me and Australian has also just
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: won her semi final to go through to her I
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: think ninth CrossFit Games. She is, Yes, I follow her
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: on the thirteen months ago she had a baby. She
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: is incredible.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I was watching own the lead up training with this
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: baby in them, you know, whilst pregnant.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: She was amazing.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: You should have seen the training I did when I
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: was pregnant. I was eating a whole bag of chips
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: all by myself. I was leaving the wine untouched, all
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: by myself. Don't tell me women can't do amazing things.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: No. When I was pregnant with Evely and we were
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: living in Surrey Hills and I used to eat every
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: single day a sausage roll from the Burk Street Bakery
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: and I had a high chaser nice.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Oh nice.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: One does evelon like pies and sausage rolls off that?
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I love them. We are a family who is very
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: big on our pastry. When we traveled in twenty twenty two,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: our whole southern part of Australia for the last three
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: months of the trip was a brewery and bakery tour
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and we went out of the bakery. So yeah. But
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: then when I was pregnant with Austin, I played heaps
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: of tennis, loved it and it was actually really good
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: for my tennis game. The big belly because it made
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: me a bit more balanced.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: So do you now wear one of those fake pregnancy
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: bellies when you play tennis?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I noticed don't play tennis.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: There you go. That helped.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: If you had to do a pastory from a bakery,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: choose one, what would it be?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I do love a pie. I had a great pie
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the other day from a bakery in southern Queensland and
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: it was a seafood chowder pie. It was the best
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: thing I've ever eaten, had dial and lemon and seafood
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and potato and oh so good.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: That could so easily have gone wrong, though, couldn't it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Like you know, I do love a bit of seafood
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: chowder and I do love a pie, but I would
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: approach very carefully.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But that's part of the beauty of it, right, is
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that you're really walking on the wild side and you
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: come out the other end.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, Jesus, you did to get a live have been
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: on this board for far too long, Elizabeth ellis.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, clearly we live in a democracy and
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: we need to have more voices in this great debate,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: and so, dribblers, we have found the platform for that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: We've invented something called Facebook. No actually it was already there.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: But we do have a Facebook page, which is very exciting.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the address is. I think it's
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: got no Dribble podcast in it. Mandy's showing me something
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: across the room. She doesn't know that. I don't have
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: my glasses eyes have not no Dribble podcast. Thank you
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: very much. Yes, so jump on that, join our Facebook
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: group share.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: What we still haven't seen is any photos of kath
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Cox's perms. But I think if we flood the Facebook
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: page with photos of Dribbler's perms, she cannot resist the
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: pressure that we will put her under. So jump on.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Let's get to know each other a bit.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I would like to know what people think the Swift's
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: mascot should become.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Whatever you've got an opinion on, we've got a place
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: for Let's keep it nice though. This is netball. We
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: are you know, we're a positive community. We like each other.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Shall we talk about some netball?
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Well we probably sho.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I think we should too. So, Kath you made a
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: really interesting observation about the weekend that has just passed.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Well, aside from the face so I did the game
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: in the sunny case as I said, there was no
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Courtney Bruce in that game. Then I went to Brisbane
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: and did the Brisbane Firebirds and the Thunderbirds game, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: there was no Kim Rebellion, the captain of the Firebirds.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: There was no Georgie Horges, as I mentioned. And then
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I was listening to all the chats around all the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: other games on socials and whatever else, and I heard
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: there was no Wallace Joseph for the Swifts on top
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: of Nomady Proud again, no Joe Harton or Jamie Lee
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Price for the Giants this weekend. And then there was
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: no Zara Walters again for the Vixen's. What the hell
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: is going on?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: So everyone got to halfway and like, nah, I'm done.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: So is this sort of what you were referring to
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago when I said, is the
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: game getting more physical? And you've said our athletes are
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: getting big? Are they are getting stronger? The court science
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: is staying the same. Is it just that this is
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: now the product of the sport.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I don't think so, because you don't often see that
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: many big guns out at once, steels and for a
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: long period of time.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: So I don't know if.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: It's the stresses of a more professional training schedule and
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: that they're on court more often and their bodies are
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: just breaking down or whatever it is this group of
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: athletes are.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: They're not old, they're like.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Sort of in their mid twelve, enough in their teens
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: I feel like there's got to be Now we talked
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: about this a bit, the extended number of contracted players.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Is that going to alleviate some of the workload maybe
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: of some of these athletes.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know is that the answer, but it's it's
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: really interesting to see that many out in one week.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I think we have to extract Whilst Joseph from this
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: discussion because it's unclear why she was absent. But someone
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: on Netball Talk on Facebook was saying that they saw
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Briani Akle say it's not an injury, and certainly Helen
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Howsby's post match interview it seemed dodge and it was
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: just sort of, you know, do you want to talk
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: about that? And she said that was a club decision.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: We had nothing and that was clearly what they'd told
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: her to say. If that question came.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Up, so is she at the venue? Then we don't know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if she was, And that's hard. That's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: interesting because you don't want to go speculating on somebody,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: on a player. It might be something really simple, and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: sometimes people want to keep their health information not out
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: in the public domain, which it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Might just be something entirely personal. But I just if
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: we're going to have a conversation about injured athletes, I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: think we do need to extract that and say that
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: might be a difference, a different circumstance, or.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe not like a typical netball injury. It could be
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: something completely different. But it is interesting, and I also
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: wonder if there's a bit of a conservative approach to
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: injury management for older athletes. So back in the day,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't tell the coach if I was injured because
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't want to not play.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: But this has been the issue for concussion for many years.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: But all the sports, isn't it that the athletes just
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: go no, I'm good, put me back on. Wally Lewis
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: played a state of origin with a broken arm, for
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: God's sake, and that's why they've had to bring the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: concussion laws in so strictly and say you don't get
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to make a decision on this athlete that this is
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: actually there is a protocol that needs to be applied now.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And I do you know what when I did my knee,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I tried, I made the physio strap me up, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I tried to tell Plumb that I could go back on,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and I sat next to her and I was like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good to go. Because it was also
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: so mental. I didn't want to accept that I had
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: done my knee five months out from the Melbourne Coming
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Love Games. So I tried to talk Norman into letting
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: me go on. Thank god she saw right through me,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: because if I had have gone on, I would have
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: gone on and done a heat more damage. And as
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: it was, it was just a nice clean snap. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: hadn't damaged anything else around it. And thank goodness for
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Norma just going looking at me like I was an idiot,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and correctly so, and she just ignored me, and I
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: didn't go on and didn't do it any more damage.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: The wisdom of the elders and listening to us young folks.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: So the worst thing about Liza's injury was that I
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: went with her to get her scan.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: So we left, we left training.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: We both went straight to the hospital or wherever we
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: were to get the scan. So I'm in the scanning
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: room with the doctors and our team visio while Liz
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: is still lying on the bed having the scan done
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: so we can see, and they're talking about the fact
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: that she's done in me. So I knew before she did,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: and then she looked at me when she walked into
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: the room afterwards, and straight away I think you saw
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: on my face, didn't you, that it was all over? Right? Yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: there was more depressing that she was going to miss
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: our trip because we had a great big trip after
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: a Jamaican tourl coming up.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: So we were playing in New Zealand where I did
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: my knee, and then we had a tour to Jamaica
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and then we're going to go to Chicago, and we
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: had tickets and the Bulls and all that sort of stuff.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But I remember walking into that room, Catherine, and you
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: were crying.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: There's a dead giveaway.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I've done my knee, haven't I knew started crying and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I was like, hugging you, It's okay, and I'm like,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: hang on, it's my knee. So do you know what?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: After that? After I got diagnosed. I went back and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I had to get my stuff and I had my scans,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I packed my bag and I had to go back
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to Auckland Airport to fly home to Sydney and the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: rest of the team were going on and it was awful.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: It was so depressing. Yeah, And so I left and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I got to Auckland Airport and literally as I went
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: up the escalators into the airport, Rebecca Bully who'd been
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: called in to replace me, and she was like mid twenties,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: this awesome young defender. She was coming down.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: It was now the Firebirds coach.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a crazy day on the weekend.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I was going up the escalators with my
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: scans and my busts and knee and you know, feeling
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: sorry for myself. And she kept coming down the escalators
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: at the same time, and we had these really awkward conversation.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: She was like, oh, Liz, I'm so sorry, and I'm
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: thinking to myself, you're sorry you're going on tour. And
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, thanks for having a really good tour.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And she said okay, And I've told her this, that's
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: okay that I can say this. After she went she
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: turned away, and I just gave her a bird as
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: she went down the.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: And then didn't you cry when you got on the phone.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And I was balling my eyes out so hard, and
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the man goes, oh, what happened? I was like, I
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: was trying. He goes, best you sit up here, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I thought he was giving me an upgrade because he
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: recognized me. But I think he was giving me an upgrade.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: So I didn't scare the passengers in economy. But getting
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: back to the athletes, now, I suspect this probably they're
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: like now they're feeling diaries and how they're feeling, and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: they're monitored far more closely for fatigue, and there's knowledge
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of how fatigue levels can lead to major injuries like
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: doing your achilles or doing your knee or something. So
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I suspect there's a lot of that Catherine involved when
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: athletes are kept out for around and.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Particularly in light of the way this season is playing out,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: because no one knows who's going to be in the
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: final four at this point, so it's almost like you've
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: just got to keep them as you know, if it's
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: going to put them back one little tiny step, it's
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: not worth it. You've got to keep them for the
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: big games coming up and hopefully have them ready for finals,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: because the ladder at the moment is crazy.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: It's tired. Must be tough for these training partners, these
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: young women who have to stay at the top of
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: their game in the hope that an opportunity comes up
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: for them. And sometimes that opportunity will come up, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: they I guess they just can't plan anything for the
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: whole season.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: No, I know, and this is a big topic of
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: discussion a lot. But then I also think it's tough
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: at the top.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I don't think it should be any different, but I
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: just I feel for them that it's like any day
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: could be your day or not your day ever, so
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: got to be.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Prepared, got to be ready, and their parents, right, if
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you get the opportunity, you've got to go and watch
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: your kid. What if you've made plans for Friday night
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and got to dinner reservation, you know, but.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Now you have to pay put your credit card down
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: for a lot of dinner reservation. You could play your
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: cash too. That is so true, which I object to,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: but that's another day too.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: And also the two hour sitting that really pisses me off.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I think, I know hospitality is still doing it tough,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: but I think there's some stuff that came in around
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: COVID and it's like, okay, guys, you're taking the piss now,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Like you can't get a dinner reservation for seven thirty,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: you have to go at six or eight thirty, and
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: it's I don't want to eat at six, and by
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: thirty I'm just about ready for bed, So I said,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I don't want to eat that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Dribbler's time for some shout outs to some of the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: awesome folks who have been getting in touch for have
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you two got well?
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Jared Crouch actually crouchy.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: He played for the Swans for a thousand years, won
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: a couple of premierships with them, and when the Swans
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: and the Swifts had a really close relationship, we'd.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: See him all the time.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: And he said he listened to the podcast on his
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: walk the other day, very entertaining and loves our work.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: So thank's Crouchy.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: He's got seventy three children, so it needs a piece
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and quiet that are dribble.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I've had a really interesting message this week from Michelle Hill,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and she has a daughter who is a training partner
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: for one of the clubs, and she doesn't tell us
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: which club it is, but talking about how difficult it
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: is for those players. Obviously they're on the cusp of
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: a really exciting opportunity and what they've worked for for
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: their whole lives, but they have to stay at peak
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: physical form and they may get called up at any
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: minute or they may not. Perhaps, Kat, you might like
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  Speaker 2: to explain to everyone what a training partner is.
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  Speaker 4: A training partner is a player that is an extension
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: of the squads.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: So the New South Wales Swifts would have their contracted
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: ten and then they would have training partners that train
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: with them, do all their sessions, and then they would
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: be pulled in if there's an injury.
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  Speaker 1: And you love that.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess of course the families too, who are like, well,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: if my daughter does get called up, I want to
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: be there for it. So they've all got to be
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: on tander hooks for the whole season. So I think
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: we just need to acknowledge the training partners and their
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: families and their social support networks and say thanks for
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: doing such a wonderful job for sun Corps supernetble for
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: us too.
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  Speaker 1: This is true, the training partner thing, isn't We used
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to have a larger squad for the Swifts in the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: old days. And then Julie would name the twelve and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the three players who went in the twelve were expected
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to still come to home games and help with hospitality
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and talk to sponsors and go to functions and that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: sort of thing. And a couple of the girls who
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: are in the twelve decided one time to tell the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: coach that they were sick and didn't come. But the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: problem was they went to a rugby league game and oops,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they were seen because one of them, her brother played
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: for the team that they went to see, so they
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: panted the families and she was there. So we had
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: to have a long discussion with them.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: About I remember those two people.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: One of those people is still playing at a very
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: high level. And it was pretty funny, like and you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: like it opened up all sorts of discussions that we
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: have with them, but it was, yeah, it was funny.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: So these these things aren't new. But my advice to
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: training partners is don't go along to another sport that's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: televised if you're trying to get away with it. Do
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the training partners get paid.
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  Speaker 3: They get a small men, yes, I think, but not
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: like in our date.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: But probably we played more than the Netball Australia board
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: members do. All right. We've had another message from a
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: fellow named Dan Love, a bald guy too. By the way,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: my husband's ball. I'm bloody loving these podcasts dot dot dot.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I've been laughing out loud on the train on the
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: way to the office and people stare at me. Keep
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: up the good work. You keep up the good work too, Dan,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Dan Is.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: His name is Daniel Summer. He actually played netball and
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: we played against him quite often. He's part of the
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: new South Wales men's netball team.
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  Speaker 2: So Hi Da Hi Dan.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I've actually been thrilled with the number of blokes listening
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: to the podcast and enjoying it. Thank you very much.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited because we actually have an audio nomination
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: for Wind Beneath Our Wings, and you'll remember that we
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: have been pumping this for weeks. Please send us a
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: little recording. I did a wonderful video on how to
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: do it on Instagram. If you haven't seen that, you
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: don't want to miss it. This year's Oscars are probably
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: going to feature that video or at least a LOGI. Yeah,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: it's from Nigel Brown. Let's listen to that.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, tem, I've got a wing beneath your wings termination
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: for you. ID like to nominate my daughter Lily. She
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: started at PCNA when she was at school. She umpired
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: for most of her time there and now even though
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: she graduated five years ago, she goes back every year
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: to assist with grading doing the umpiring. Has also coached
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: a couple of teams over the years. She's now at
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: UWA Netball, has been there for five years and has
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: umpired every year that she's been there and is now
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: the umpiring coordinator for the club. So really proud of
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: all the efforts she's put in all the club.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: She's been exciting. We love to hear from our friends
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: in Western Australia too, So thank you Nigel. You get
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: so many gold stars for that nomination, but we love
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: hearing from you and Lily. Your daughter is the wind
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: beneath our wings this week, So thank you Lily very
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: much for everything you're doing to keep the game alive
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: at the community level.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Heay Lily.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: While we're talking about WA very sad news over there
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: in the last week. Liz Booth who was a big,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: big member of the netball community in Perth and with
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: the West Australian Netball Association, sadly lost a battle with
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: care answer. You know, she touched so many people and
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: was being involved in the game for such a long
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: time and they're all really feeling it. And I've known
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Liz too, and she was the most incredible person. So
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: big shout out to all of her family and the
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: friends and everybody over in w at the moment.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I remember watching Liz play. She played center for WA
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and I went to Nationals years ago as a kid
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and because I wanted to watch Ansergent play, so we
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: went to watch New South Bales and Wo play and
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: she was amazing. I was mesmerized by her. And she
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: was running, she was full tilt and she tripped and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: we were all like and she tucked herself over and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: did a somersault and got up and kept running, And
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: that picture of her in my head is clear as days.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: So when Sue Gordion from Western Australia, she posted a
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: photo of Liz playing and I was like, oh, yes,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I remember watching her play and watching her do that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: So it's such a nice memory to have of her
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: as a kid. She was just this amazing, amazing athletic woman.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: So yeah, my condolence is too. It's really sad.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, and watch this space because everybody that's been nominated
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: is going to get.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: A little something special.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: We're going to be working on next week. Actually it's fair,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: it's going to be I don't want to give too
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: much now. We don't give anything away Anippet. We would
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: have all touched it. Does that make it less valuable
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: or all?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: It won't be bruised.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like I need to wash my hands.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: We're also going to have something for the people who
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: take the time to nominate someone within the Netbour community too.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: So things just get more and more exciting here in
• 33:30
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• 33:33
  Speaker 2: time together. Once again, we've covered extraordinary ground this week.
• 33:37
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• 33:39
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• 33:42
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• 33:46
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• 33:49
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• 33:51
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• 33:54
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• 33:56
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• 33:58
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• 34:20
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