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Barra's Bits - Sydney Swans Scandal - This Is A Story That No-One Ever Wants To Report On · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: When you hit off with your mates and you'll just
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  Speaker 1: crack gags.
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  Speaker 2: If I added a lot of color here time he
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  Speaker 2: went to boss level for Barre's fears.
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  Speaker 1: Have some of this bangs.
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable is probably the best way to describe the news
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  Speaker 3: that broke yesterday in the AFL surrounding the Sydney Swans
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  Speaker 3: and the alleged goings on that happens on the trip
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  Speaker 3: to Melbourne. Adrian Barrett joins us. Now, good morning, Barrow, Morning, Barrow.
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, this is a story that no one ever wants
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  Speaker 4: to report on.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, well, said Lisa. That's exactly how I'm feelingked So
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  Speaker 1: I thought it just at the start, I'd say two things.
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  Speaker 1: One is I'd make the distinction that if a sexual
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  Speaker 1: assault has been committed, this is much more than a
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  Speaker 1: sports story, isn't. It's huge. It's a huge footy story,
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  Speaker 1: but even talking about how it affect the Swan's premiership
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  Speaker 1: chances is probably missing the point of it. Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: having said that, I am a sports supporter, so at
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  Speaker 1: this stage we'll have to discuss the implications for the
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Swans. But it's bigger than that. At the moment.
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  Speaker 1: What we do know is that it's been confirmed four
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  Speaker 1: Swans players have spoken to police about an incident in
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  Speaker 1: the early hours of yesterday morning at the Pullman Hotel
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  Speaker 1: in Melbourne. It's a place where all the AFL's teams stay.
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  Speaker 1: It's near the mcg and we know that for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: the Swan's players were given some sort of license to
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  Speaker 1: go out after the Essendon game, given license.
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  Speaker 4: Or took license to go out. I mean one week
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  Speaker 4: out from finals.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the coaches got home at midnight, so I said,
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  Speaker 1: maybe their curfew was midnight and some players broke it.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, we'll get to the bottom of that. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them got home as late as four am, which
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  Speaker 1: sounds absolutely crazy, least as you're saying. They had beaten
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  Speaker 1: Essendon on Sunday night and they couldn't fly home to
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  Speaker 1: Sydney because of that Sydney Airport curfew, so you can't
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  Speaker 1: fly into Sydney at that time, which they must be
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  Speaker 1: just thinking we should have got a bus. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: allegations have now been made that there was a sexual assault.
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  Speaker 1: Three women were in the floor of the hotel around
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  Speaker 1: seven thirty am, confronting Swan staff wanting to get back
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  Speaker 1: into the room and including Dean Cox who'd come down
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  Speaker 1: probably for breakfast. Four Swans players have been interviewed by police.
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  Speaker 1: Some of their very best players too, Chad Warner, Isaac Keeney,
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  Speaker 1: then James Jordan and Riley Brice. Nick Blakey's manager says
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't been interviewed, but he's the other player that's
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  Speaker 1: been named as the fifth person, so several of the
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  Speaker 1: Swan's absolute superstars. The players didn't fly home with the team.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like they drove back to Sydney last night, probably
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  Speaker 1: to avoid the meetia.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they said.
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  Speaker 4: It was to avoid the media. I mean, that's a
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  Speaker 4: big sort of move to avoid the media.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be waiting for him the airport.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. Poor old Caleb Sarong's brother got home later
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and he got swamped in the nothing about anything,
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  Speaker 1: so he had to no comment, no comment. I'll leave
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  Speaker 1: it to whatever. But there's also I got to say,
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  Speaker 1: there's also some unhelpful stuff going around on social media.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever you're seeing on social media, including photos and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: don't you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: I believe that photo that you are you referring to
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  Speaker 4: that a lot of peoples around yesterday it was and
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  Speaker 4: it was reported that photo of a girl with you know,
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  Speaker 4: her teeth ship shed blood in her mouth. That photo
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  Speaker 4: was sort of taken from a UK chat room published
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  Speaker 4: months ago. So you've got to be very careful these
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  Speaker 4: days what you take on board from the internet, especially
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  Speaker 4: within hours of an incident happening. The swansa a premiership
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  Speaker 4: contender this year. If you were a teammate and you've
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  Speaker 4: been going along, you know, playing football, doing everything wrong,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think you'd ever forgive them, would you? If
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  Speaker 4: this costs you know that, if this just disrupts the season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it sounds crazy because there's lot more at stake,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, that's yeah, you would never. You would never
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  Speaker 1: forgive them, you just because you play your whole career
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  Speaker 1: just to be in second place, to be in second
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  Speaker 1: place first of all, and then also to perhaps play
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  Speaker 1: in a Grand final and win a premiership. So I
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  Speaker 1: think we'll get a more complete statement from Sydney today.
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  Speaker 1: It's unlike I reckon, it's unlikely any of the players
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  Speaker 1: will play this weekend. They'll effectively be stood down until
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  Speaker 1: there's a resolution. Yeah, unless they unless a few of
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  Speaker 1: them are cleared earlier or or not clear, if you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. If charges are laid, of course
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  Speaker 1: the court takes over, but then least there's that innocent
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  Speaker 1: until proven guilty thing. So previously they've stood players down
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  Speaker 1: and then perhaps later on they've been sound innocent and
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  Speaker 1: it's really affected their life. So it's a really hard
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  Speaker 1: position to be in. It's really hard to the girls
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  Speaker 1: as well, you know. So I'm not saying that I'm
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  Speaker 1: sticking up for the players, and I'm just saying that
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what i'd do if I was
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  Speaker 1: pad put it that way, I'd have got no idea
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  Speaker 1: or the Swans what I would actually do in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's very complicated. Do they sit out the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the season? Certainly? If so, anyone's found is going to
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  Speaker 1: get charged, they have to, I think, But of course
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  Speaker 1: the rest of them, Yeah, I've got no. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big day in footy too, because they're going to announce
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  Speaker 1: the new Carlton coach Josh Frazer. Yeah, and I think
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  Speaker 1: they've delayed the All Australian squad announcement because of what's
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  Speaker 1: going on so far.
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  Speaker 4: It's a very ugly situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we've got some have we got
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a they're doing his best. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it got rolled out, but then he basically couldn't say anything,
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  Speaker 1: and then he I better go back inside of you.
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  Speaker 1: This is getting out of control.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: You did front for an approximately a forty second press conference.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what Pav had to say.
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  Speaker 5: We can confirm that several players were involved in an
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  Speaker 5: alleged incident last night in Melbourne. We've identified this to
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  Speaker 5: the AFL. We are working with them and also the
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  Speaker 5: relevant authorities on this matter. We're still peking together exactly
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  Speaker 5: what's transpired here and have our own set of internal
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  Speaker 5: inquiries ongoing. It's safe to say that we're extremely shocked
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  Speaker 5: and disappointed whether this has taken place, and that the
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  Speaker 5: players have found themselves in this situation.
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  Speaker 2: Not much more he can say, naturally.
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  Speaker 1: No, and I think being Cox this morning somewhere has
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  Speaker 1: said exactly the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I can say.
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  Speaker 1: So people we know very very well. So we'll just
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  Speaker 1: keep on top of it. And yeah, I think I'll
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  Speaker 1: get back to sport and talking about goals and kicks
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  Speaker 1: and premiership.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that would be good, all right you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks thanks for digging a little deeper into that for us, Mate,
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  Speaker 3: we're really appre sh added