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Matt Hepworth spoke with NTFL Umpire Mark Noonan who was also our Territorian of the Week · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: It's Umpiring Round in the NTFL this weekend. The round
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  Speaker 1: is all about highlighting and celebrating the contribution that umpires
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  Speaker 1: make to the game. Around two hundred and fifty umpires
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  Speaker 1: and needed across the league each week to talk more
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  Speaker 1: about it is an NTFL umpiring legend. Mark noonan get
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  Speaker 1: a Noons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, get a Maddie, are going good mate?
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  Speaker 1: Hey umpires they look they cop a bit of flak.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, Without you blokes and women
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  Speaker 1: as well, I should say, the game wouldn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Yes, you need you need umpires officials
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  Speaker 2: in It doesn't matter which sport it is to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that all the games are umpired and officiated correctly
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  Speaker 2: and interfere and technical manner.
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  Speaker 1: Noons, tell us a little bit about your umpiring career
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  Speaker 1: here in the NTFL.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, sir, I actually started back in the late nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Actually a couple of seasons. I come up as a
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  Speaker 2: in a state field umpire and on contract with selling Tea.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the late nineties. We come up from Brisbane
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  Speaker 2: when I was umpiring state league footy down there and
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed it and then eventually in back to Brisbane for
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  Speaker 2: five odd years and returned when they created the new
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  Speaker 2: umpiring manager position back in two thousand and five. So
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  Speaker 2: I was in that role for twelve and a half
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  Speaker 2: years and now moved on to CFS gear and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: having good fun there and a new challenge, a near role,
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  Speaker 2: but still out there blowing the whistle on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Is it right that you recently overtook the record for
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  Speaker 1: the most senior NTFL games umpired?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a field umpire. Yeah. Last season I
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  Speaker 2: broke the TERFL Premier League field umpiring record, passing Gary
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  Speaker 2: Turvill on two hundred and sixty league games. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: now trying to keep the body in tact so I
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  Speaker 2: can try and reach that magic three hundred next year.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, do you still enjoy it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I love the challenge. I love the challenge and
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  Speaker 2: the great being out there in the middle of the
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  Speaker 2: ground and given back to the game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the official stats, but I mean your
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  Speaker 1: blokes and I shouldn't keep saying both ladies obviously umpire
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty of ladies, plenty of ladies involved. Now we've we've
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  Speaker 2: got over three hundred in our group. We've probably got
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  Speaker 2: about seventy five ladies from age twelve through to sixty
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  Speaker 2: plus still getting out there and the field boundary and goals.
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  Speaker 1: Which is really great to see because I know that
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  Speaker 1: the women's competition in the NTFL has just been growing
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  Speaker 1: exponentially for the last couple of years now, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: with that comes the need for more umpires, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: women are actively engaged in umpiring as well as playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly, ah, yes, you've seen the expansion of women's
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  Speaker 2: footy in the end too, with a division two ladies
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  Speaker 2: come from a Wednesday night and the under fifteen underrating
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  Speaker 2: girls growing a competition all the time, and it won't
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  Speaker 2: be too long in the years to come that they
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  Speaker 2: will probably end up aligning the same as the guys
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  Speaker 2: in terms of eighteen, sixteens and fourteens. I reckon in
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  Speaker 2: the near future with the growth and participation, and like
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  Speaker 2: you said, that means that we need a lot more
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  Speaker 2: umpires to get out there and more people that pick
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  Speaker 2: up the whistle and give it a go to help
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  Speaker 2: fill these extra new games that come on board with
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  Speaker 2: the new team the new divisions.
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  Speaker 1: I guess a fear for people that might be looking
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  Speaker 1: at umpiring has something to do is you know, umpires
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  Speaker 1: often cough a bit of flack on the field. What's
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  Speaker 1: it like for you? Do you think it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: is it getting better as the years go on?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I mean compared to when I started back
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  Speaker 2: in the mid nineties to now, it's dramatically changed and
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  Speaker 2: there's a bit more of a more mutual respect out
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  Speaker 2: there amongst especially the players. You don't see the abuse
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  Speaker 2: reports what we used to back in the nineties, And
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  Speaker 2: I think the players certainly understand that we're out there
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  Speaker 2: trying to do our best, just while they're out there
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  Speaker 2: trying to do their best, and they're not going to
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  Speaker 2: always hit a target by foot every time, And obviously
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  Speaker 2: for us, we're out there to make sure we get
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  Speaker 2: as many of the infringements as possible that the cur
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  Speaker 2: and protect the players safety and well being as the
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  Speaker 2: main priority.
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  Speaker 1: See it's a really good point.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no player goes out and plays a game,
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  Speaker 1: you know at one hundred percent, you know at some
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  Speaker 1: point they're going to make a mistake, and that's obviously
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  Speaker 1: the same with umpires. But I just think you guys
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  Speaker 1: cop it a bit more when you make mistakes as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to players.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, yeah, that's a part of any sport
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  Speaker 2: and any officiating, but obviously I think there's a better
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  Speaker 2: understanding there that, especially on the players side of things,
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  Speaker 2: and the coaches and managers certainly understand it. And we've
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  Speaker 2: had a fair few come down to train recently as
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  Speaker 2: well part of the CFS gear umpiring round to experience,
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  Speaker 2: and this week we've got a lot of senior coaches
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  Speaker 2: and some well named players are in the territory that
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  Speaker 2: are going to pick up the whistle and umpires some
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  Speaker 2: junior games on Sunday, which is fantastic. They're giving back
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  Speaker 2: to the game.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Noons, How are umpires umpire numbers looking this season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's Alwayne Lie. It was a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a slow start because a lot of our existing umpires
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  Speaker 2: play your dry season sports and because they had delayed
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  Speaker 2: seasons and delayed Grand Final. There's a bit slow some
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  Speaker 2: of the numbers on the track that they're certainly starting
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  Speaker 2: to pick up now, but we're always in need of
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  Speaker 2: a lot more people to get out there and give
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  Speaker 2: back to the.
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  Speaker 1: Game and Noons, what would you say to anyone thinking
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  Speaker 1: about umpiring this season?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely Yeah, definitely come down the Too Stadium on
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  Speaker 2: a Monday or Thursday and come down and have a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a jog around, and even if you're not
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  Speaker 2: that fit, you can always jump in the goals. You're
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  Speaker 2: only going to run between the post to post, so
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  Speaker 2: it's not as far as the field and boundaries, and
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  Speaker 2: you'll be surprised on how much banda and fun we
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  Speaker 2: have there on the training track like any other footy club.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you guys do look like you really enjoyed out there.
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  Speaker 1: I think the yeah being the goal umpire, that might be.
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  Speaker 1: They might have my name of it if I ever
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  Speaker 1: venture out of the commentary box. I think the in
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  Speaker 1: the goal square could be for me.
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  Speaker 2: Be good to good to see out there when you
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  Speaker 2: haven't got the mic commentating the league games.
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  Speaker 1: Mate, No, it's just finally, what game you up for
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  Speaker 1: this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So this week as part of the CFS giar
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  Speaker 2: on pied Around, I'm on the first one tomorrow two thirty,
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  Speaker 2: so Saint Mary's two week Bombers. It'll be be warm
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  Speaker 2: and both teams are obviously looking to get their first
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  Speaker 2: winner of the season on board. So yeah, looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to the challenge and the speed of the game tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: afternoon at two Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Noon's, I've got one more thing for you before we go. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you listen to the program regularly,
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  Speaker 1: but we have a little segment called Territorian of the
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  Speaker 1: Week where we like to acknowledge someone in the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory of the community. That is, you know, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: good things in the community, sometimes underrecognized. And well, look
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  Speaker 1: this week we want to give it to you and
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  Speaker 1: the umpires, the ntfl Umpires. So we've got a gourmet
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  Speaker 1: meat tray thanks to Glenn from lz H Butcher's, the
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  Speaker 1: brand new butcher at the Perhaps shopping village there. We
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  Speaker 1: thought you could pick that up and perhaps fire it
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  Speaker 1: up and put it on the barbie at training this
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  Speaker 1: week because it's timely. It's ntfl umpiring round and you
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  Speaker 1: guys sometimes go unrecognized. So for your work on the field,
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  Speaker 1: for you and all the umpires, we want to award
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  Speaker 1: you and the umpires our Territorian of the Week.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. Thank you very much for that, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that the group will hold me to cooking the barbie
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  Speaker 2: next Thursday night training, now.
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  Speaker 1: I bet they will. Hey, Noon's just hold the line
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  Speaker 1: at the end there, I'll put you back through to
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  Speaker 1: Veronica and is Sheabetta? Let you know all the details
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  Speaker 1: of that. All the best this weekend, Matan, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: chatting to us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: No dramas, Saints Muddy Choose.
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  Speaker 1: That's ntfl umpire there, Mark Noonan, So yeah, congratulations to him.
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  Speaker 1: We's our territory of the week as well.