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Gordy Makes A Big Move · 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,
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: but you might hear the occasional swear word in No Dribble.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Don't tell them. Hello, and welcome to this week's episode
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: of No Dribble. It's a bit of an Easter episode
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  Speaker 1: this week, so Cox is having a little bit of
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: a well earned rest. Carolyn. Look, I'm a little bit
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  Speaker 1: concerned about Carolyn because it's Easter, which is you know,
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  Speaker 1: it means the Easter Bunny is busy. And it also
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  Speaker 1: means that given that as chocolate and Easter, and Carolyn's
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  Speaker 1: in Switzerland, and I think that means it's the home
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  Speaker 1: of Swiss chocolates. I don't know if she's drowned in
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  Speaker 1: an avalanche of chocolate. I don't know if the Easter
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  Speaker 1: Bunny is kidnapped her. But that laugh you can hear
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  Speaker 1: happily means that I am not by myself. That love
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  Speaker 1: is a very good friend of the podcast Guardian in
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  Speaker 1: the wind Yay. It's a podcast you didn't know you
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  Speaker 1: needed it, Susan and Elizabeth. Can you imagine I was
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  Speaker 1: just thinking imagine though, like if there was I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here Cox, He's not here. Carolyn's drowning in chocolate, Swiss chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: This is just the Lizzalis podcast. I mean, actually, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's face it. I've muted Carolyn and I've muted Catherine,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's just all about me, which is what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted. It's two thirty in the morning, where Carolyn
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  Speaker 1: is and actually I can see her, she's logged in,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think we can hear her. So Carolyn, nah,
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  Speaker 1: I know you face nah. And so this is good.
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  Speaker 1: This is proof of life ladies and gentlemen. I know
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  Speaker 1: you guys can't see it because you're listening and this
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  Speaker 1: is this is an audio and haven't we started Well?
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  Speaker 1: So I know that Carolyn, she can hear us, she
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  Speaker 1: can see us, but we cannot hear her. So Carolyn,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say to you, go back to bed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think so, you poor thing. Yeah, so she's shrugging.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, this is what I've always wanted. Season. We've
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  Speaker 1: got all of the dribblers to ourselves. It's just you
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  Speaker 1: and me having internet. You've had a bit of big
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  Speaker 1: news recently, what's going on in your life? I have
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  Speaker 1: had a big, big, big, big big bit of news
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  Speaker 1: news that was probably well news for the public, but
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  Speaker 1: not for me. So finishing up in my g well,
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  Speaker 1: one of my roles here at West Coast Fever is
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  Speaker 1: general manager, so that will finish at the end of
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  Speaker 1: this season. I'll see the SSN season out, which is good,
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  Speaker 1: and then I don't know what I'll do, Elizabeth. But yeah, look,
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  Speaker 1: I've known about it for ages. I to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, even go back last season. I was sort
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  Speaker 1: of umming and a ring about it, but I hung
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  Speaker 1: in there. And then I spoke with the club the
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  Speaker 1: end of last season and said, wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they had enough notice that you know, they could.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not like running out the door because
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  Speaker 1: these roles are really hard to find, to get the
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  Speaker 1: right person at the club, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: So I wanted to make sure they were given enough time.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully that's the case and hopefully we'll land on
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  Speaker 1: someone really exciting to take the club forward. But energy no,
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say, you've been given this thought
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  Speaker 1: for a while, and you and I, frankly had had
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  Speaker 1: a conversation about it a little while ago. So for
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  Speaker 1: those of us class to you, it wasn't a surprise
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  Speaker 1: to us either. But talk us through when you say
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  Speaker 1: you don't have enough energy, talk us through what it
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  Speaker 1: has doing the three roles commentary. You're a specialist coach,
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  Speaker 1: you're the general manager of Fever. Talk us through the
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  Speaker 1: pressures inherent in those roles, and he's part of the
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  Speaker 1: sapping of the energy about just managing the conflicts or
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  Speaker 1: the perceived conflicts in those roles as well. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think the zapping of the energy is the
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  Speaker 1: person that I am. I don't know that it's the
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  Speaker 1: roles or the three roles. It's just the sort of
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  Speaker 1: character that I am, which is I do everything flatchat
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent, you know, fully invested hard on my sleeve.
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  Speaker 1: Most people know I bleed green. I love the club,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that that takes its toll before you
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  Speaker 1: even step into any of the roles. So the GM
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  Speaker 1: role is in, to be honest with you, I could
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  Speaker 1: go on in this role, but I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: way in which I've described it to the board and
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  Speaker 1: the CEO here and then to the playing group and
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  Speaker 1: the staff was that I think the club's in a
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  Speaker 1: really good position. We've worked really hard over the last
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  Speaker 1: four or five years and we've evolved.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really proud of where the club's at.
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  Speaker 1: But I've also got vision about where I think it
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  Speaker 1: needs to go, and I'm excited about that. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: not convinced that my energy matches that vision, and therefore
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  Speaker 1: that's an injustice.
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  Speaker 3: To the club.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else needs to come in and with their own vision,
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  Speaker 1: but hopefully certainly in the handover what I sort of
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  Speaker 1: will leave behind and then you know, potentially have that
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  Speaker 1: sort of energy to drive the club to that next level.
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  Speaker 1: And that's great, and I'm excited, and I think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we can get the right person, then
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  Speaker 1: the club takes another big step over the next four
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  Speaker 1: or five years. So that's mostly the reason behind it.
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  Speaker 1: As I said to you, I think last time we spoke,
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  Speaker 1: commentary for me is a blessings.
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  Speaker 3: Actually like enjoy it. It's like a bit of fun.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't find that at.
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  Speaker 1: All stres stressful the perceived conflict. Like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: commentate a game, I don't even really think about fever
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  Speaker 1: when I'm commentating them. I'm just commentating the game because
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  Speaker 1: of you know, the passion I have behind that role
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  Speaker 1: and the coaching the coaching is different.
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  Speaker 3: That's my bread and butter. That's sort of who I
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  Speaker 3: am as a person.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll go back to doing that with Fever next
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  Speaker 1: season in a bit more of a role than I
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  Speaker 1: am currently at the moment, and that'll be fun too.
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  Speaker 1: So and then the rest is whatever happens happens. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm excited. It'll be a bit exciting. The
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful Rose must be happy. She's going to get you
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  Speaker 1: at home a bit more now. The Beautiful Rose is frightened.
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  Speaker 1: The beautiful the beautiful Rose, I think is shitting herself
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  Speaker 1: at what Sue Gordion being in the house twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to seven potentially looks like. Because I think the Beautiful Rose,
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  Speaker 1: it's got a great lifestyle. She does. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: want to sit in the box at Fever games and
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  Speaker 1: I want to have a great holiday lifestyle. Look, she's
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  Speaker 1: a ripper and she she has been very much on
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  Speaker 1: this journey of decision making with me. She can see
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  Speaker 1: the stresses and I think she thinks I need a
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  Speaker 1: bit of breathing space before and her words exactly where
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  Speaker 1: it won't last long, like it'll be you know, you
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  Speaker 1: hit your head will clear and then you'll get bored
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, you'll create the centurions too, or
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: something like that, which was the last sort of midlife
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  Speaker 1: crisis I had when I was thirty, if that's one
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  Speaker 1: of a better word, when we did the show Lizzie.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, the brain's the brain's creative, but at the
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  Speaker 1: moment it's a little clog, so it just needs some
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  Speaker 1: breathing space. We might need to tell Rose though, that
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: if she posts something on Facebook and she blinks once,
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  Speaker 1: she's safe, and if she blinks twice, we've got to
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  Speaker 1: come and get her out of the house. I'll get
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  Speaker 1: you out of the house, all right, She'll be fine. Oh, Carolyn,
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  Speaker 1: good Switzerland, Hello Switzerland, coming. I feel like I need
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  Speaker 1: to make the study study.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am, I'm so sorry. I don't know what's happened,
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  Speaker 2: but I pressed some buttons and suddenly my voice is
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  Speaker 2: healed from all of the yodlings. So and here I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm late.
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  Speaker 1: Look, did you see the easter bunny. We feel like
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  Speaker 1: Switzerland might be the home of chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the easter bunny came and came to this house
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  Speaker 2: several times, and the Easter bunny has left some people
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  Speaker 2: in his stead who need to go on a severe
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  Speaker 2: chocolate cold Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what's Switzerland like?
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's exactly what you would expect. It's mountains
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  Speaker 2: and lakes and it seems very efficient. We've had a
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  Speaker 2: really nice few days here, and yesterday climbed a mountain.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of days before that were rainy, but that
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  Speaker 2: was that's sort of nice in the middle of a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: It feels a bit less chaotic here than I like,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been a really nice break. Just beautiful. But
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, I wateringly expensive, so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to We're off to Italy next which hopefully will
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit more affordable. But man, just so
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  Speaker 2: ridiculously beautiful, postcard beautiful. But yeah, I saw your big
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  Speaker 2: news during the week. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny because everyone kept coming up to me
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  Speaker 1: and saying, do you say congratulations for someone's job. I'm like, oh, well,
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: I'll take it, but yeah, no, no, it is. It
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: is nice. It's nice to have it out public, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting. But life's the same business as usual, like
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I came in showered in the drug
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  Speaker 1: shower this morning. No I didn't, But you go to that,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you? What will you miss the most about your
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  Speaker 1: time as general manager at West Coast Fever My solo
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  Speaker 1: showers in the drug testing room. Hey, just quickly, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of chocolate, have either a view either A heard or
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: B tried the Dubai chop. I've heard of it.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen this.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: Do you know what seen?
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, maybe here I've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so Rribbler's out there. If anyone has
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: heard or tried to this Dubai chocolate, jump on it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll just quickly tell you it's insane. I need
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: you all to go and look it up. It is
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  Speaker 1: now consumed on my TikTok algorithms, so I am literally
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: every second feed is making Dubai chocolate eating Dubai chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, to the point that to last week I
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: looked up as to whether or not it had hit
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: the West Australian shops anywhere. I found one singular shop
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: in Perth which was in the middle of nowhere. So
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: I drove my car there to a shopping center which
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: theoretically I thought should be knocked down. That's how bad
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  Speaker 1: it was. And walked into a little Arabic pastry place
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  Speaker 1: with a que a mile long. Everyone buying Dubai chocolate
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  Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a bar, twenty five dollars a bar.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the taste, the way it's made, it's just
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  Speaker 1: the new like when you see it. It's made with
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  Speaker 1: this sort of khalifi khalifi or something. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: called like a patie, which is used in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Arabic sort of sweet. And then it's got pistachio
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  Speaker 1: cream and at the moment there's a shortage of pistachios
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: in Australia because everybody's trying to buy this cream and
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  Speaker 1: make it anyhow. And then it's just this chocolate and
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: when you bite it, it crunches the sand. It's just
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  Speaker 1: like honestly insane, insane. So do yourself as a favor
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  Speaker 1: Dubai Chocolate. I don't take any percentage cuts for this,
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: but it is This isn't a paid sponsorship, but it
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  Speaker 1: is bloody. So I was listening to I was actually
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: watching the Swifts Thunderbirds game on Sunday, and Coxy within
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: about three minutes of the broadcast starting, I mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: fruit shots, so I'm concerning Coxy. She's now pushing the
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  Speaker 1: fruit shops. Gordy, you're pushing the You've gone very upmarket,
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  Speaker 1: well at twenty five dollars a bar I have, I've
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  Speaker 1: always seen.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: My dream is to have a Gin sponsor for this podcast.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: So please, could we stay focused on the objectives, like,
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  Speaker 2: let's not get distracted.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you could count with a recipe using Gin and
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  Speaker 1: Dubai chocolate. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Cat did ask me to thank Cassie who brought her
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: something that I'm not one hundred percent sold on. I've
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: got to say fruit chok hot cross buns. So Cassie
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: is one of the dribblers dropped over a packet to
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  Speaker 2: caf fruit choc hot cross bunds. Now, I'm very much
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: a traditionalist on hot cross buns. I don't like chocolate
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  Speaker 2: in my hot cross funds. I think I would even
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: less like fruit chocs in my hot cross bun. But
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: what a generous gesture. And I'm not saying that Coxy
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: has food poisoning Cassie, because all she did was ask
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: me to thank you for the hot cross bunds. No
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Coxy is fune. She's having a day off, but Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's very generous, lovely, lovely gesture, very seasonal on time.
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  Speaker 2: So thanks, Cassie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. No chocolate in hot cross buns, No,
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  Speaker 1: but I've also seen hot cross buns with no fruit
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  Speaker 1: in them. We like, is that just not a bread roll? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: With the cross with a cross?
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: My children pick the cross off the hot cross bun.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: Wow what that's hot?
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  Speaker 2: And there's something a little bit distasteful about It's like
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: an old band aid. It's like, forgot's sake, just eat
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: it or throw it in the Yeah. Actually, I saw
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: something very funny on Instagram the other day. It's like
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: and rang very true for me. Vacations are expensive, but
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: who can put a price on your children being ungrateful
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: in other countries?
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  Speaker 1: And then my mate Ben said me, one soon, take
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  Speaker 1: your kids.
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: On holidays, eat nuggets and chips in different places.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Years ago we went to Vietnam, and I had
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  Speaker 1: these visions of with my sister and her kids, of
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: taking the children out to the ice field. You can
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: go on these like food tours and on bikes and
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: you go out to the paddies and you taste different things.
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  Speaker 1: And we did that and then Matthew got really really sick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And then I thought we'll just eat lots
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  Speaker 1: of beautiful Vietnamese food. But I had a three year
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: old in Austin who was not interested in that, and
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: we just ate pizza and chips at all the places
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  Speaker 1: around Hanoi and you know Ho Chi Minh, And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know where all the all the pizza joints are
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: in Vietnam, don't you reckon? Hot chips are a universal
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: language everywhere you go for children, well even adults at
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: some stage, hot chips and pizza. So yeah, I know
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  Speaker 1: children they wreck everything, don't they Lucky? We love them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm off to Naples today, which is the birthplace.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Of all So yeah, I was just going to say,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: how fatty you going to get over the next few days?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's well, this is we are making. We're
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: walking about fifteen k's a day, so the kids think
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: this is like the Kakoda track just in Europe that
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: we're just inside. Is this Solida?
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  Speaker 1: Please?
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Can we sit there and have a chocolate?
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I've got a challenge for you in Italy.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: How many days are you there for?
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Only?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? It's an easy challenge.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Then every day you must have gelato every day. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I think that Italy's a sacrilegious hold the tape if
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: you don't have a gelato every day.
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  Speaker 2: I accept this challenge. I believe I can rise to
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: the challenge. I may even exceed your expectations.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: And I will throw in a double yeah.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: But could be interesting in Rome this week. So we're
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: just sort of like, look, who knows what's going to happen.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: We're fully expecting everything to get canceled on us and
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: we have to come up with a plan B.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: But do you think you'll get to put a vote
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: in for the new pope if you thought about who
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: you'd want.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: I've got my red on, I've got part of my
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: cardinal read. Although that's a little bit more about about this,
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: because Liz, you might be Swiftzerland, but I am all
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: about the Swifts. How good was that game?
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  Speaker 1: Amazing? So in the first quarter I thought, wow, I
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: didn't see Thunderbirds winning this by forty, but that's what
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: it looked like. And just the swings of the swings
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  Speaker 1: of them mean term. The way that the Thunderbirds opened
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. But then the way that the Swifts just
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  Speaker 1: pegged them back. Just an extraordinary game. It was just
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I say extraordinary because I'm so used to commentating with
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Susan who loves the word extraordinary, extraordinary just like it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was such a great game to watch. But I
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: walked away going, I don't quite know how I would
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: analyze that game. You know what I reckon was most interesting?
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  Speaker 1: You would have loved it, so I actually, I mean
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: and it was. She was the MVP, but O'shannessy's courage
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: when she came on the court, and I would say
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: that courage was led by direction from Dylan next A,
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  Speaker 1: the assistant coach.
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  Speaker 3: Without a doubt that that was the game change.
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  Speaker 1: And because if you looked at the first half, the
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  Speaker 1: way that the Thunderbirds were confident to release ball off
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: circle edge into Ramelda right was the difference. Swifts couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get a look at it. O'shannessy came on and hunted
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: any ball that was off circle edge, which completely will
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, she got six intercepts doing it, but beyond
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  Speaker 1: that just completely shut down the way the Thunderbirds were
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  Speaker 1: attacking the circle. That had to throw more ball around,
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  Speaker 1: and that just played into the Swift's hands. So it
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  Speaker 1: was just such a tactical mastery that game of two halves.
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  Speaker 1: But the Swift's the better for it because the way
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  Speaker 1: in which they defensively attack the game. And you're right,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: it is such a risk. So you know, when you're
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: growing up as a goalkeeper, you continually get told to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: watch the post. You've got to watch the post, You've
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: got to make sure you take care of the shooter.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you know what
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: ramelder Aken's going to do, and that is she's going
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: to absolutely toast you. If the ball gets to the
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: edge of the circle, you can't do anything about that.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So you have to take the risks to try and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: get the ball when it's outside the circle. If you
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: sit back and wait, you just end up as the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: bunny on the highlights through or right. There's not much
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: you can do about it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I just I was astonished by this stat. So Swift's
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: goals from gains one hundred percent, Thunderbirds goals from gains
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: forty percent. It was just it was just just such
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: an interesting game for like you, Liz, I was like,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know, if you know, if I want to
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: watch the rest.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Of this three.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: This looks a little bit sad, but integrity made me
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: do it. But then to just see them be able
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: to turn this stuff around and go what happened? What
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: did Briany say to them, like, it's just you know,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I thought that was a master stroke of mental control
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: from the players and the coaches that it's like, don't panic,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: We've got plenty of game time left and swing it around.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they they found a way. They're the first Well,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: when I say the first team, we shouldn't take anything
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: away from the Lightning. The Lightning have been the team
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: to break the Thunderbirds historically in the way that Carra
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Conen and Steph Fretwell have sort of managed the circle.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: But this is the first team in some time outside
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: of the Lightning that's found way to break down the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Thunderbird's defense. So little one what OSHANNESSU is doing it
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: at home? So I think, you know, Sterling Humphrey looked quiet.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: She played behind for a good portion of the game,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: which is not really kind of her bread and butter.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I reckon there's news coming out of that camp soon.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: She just didn't look right, So.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Did you think that, Yeah, she looked only in moments invested.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. And then yeah, I just thought that
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Wecky was an interesting one. I thought she looked seriously
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: under pressure in the first part of the game, which
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: we're all waiting to see, what does Wecky look like
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: under pressure? But then she she went from under pressure
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to looking just confident and elite, didn't she like? Not
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: long after that. So both teams showing though that you know,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: if you can hold pressure on them, they are beatable.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But you know, there's still two sides for me that
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: can be at.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: The pointy end of this season without a doubt.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah you think that, wouldn't you? And not? The other
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: game was so before we get to the other game
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on the weekend, Worth pointing out that Ramelda Aiken George
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: played a new record of two hundred and thirty three
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: games and makes her the most cap player for ain
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: ZED Champs and super Netball. But I've got a little
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: note here from Coxy who said that that doesn't include
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: any National League games prior to that. So Ramelda's been
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: here from the start of the ayin ZED Champs, hasn't she.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: So that's when she started to sort of clock up
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: her games, and Ramelda beat Jeeva Mentor's record, but Jeeva
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: started playing National League seven years before Romelda in the UK,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and actually Jeeva's still playing there, so and there's probably,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: you know, things a little bit from Coxy. My record
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: across National Netball League is still greater than Ramelda's because
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I played CBT so the old Commonwealth Bank Trophy. If
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you take Catherine's into that, then, like I say, we've
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: probably got to do a bit more work on standardizing
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: all of these records. But having said that, Ramelda has
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: been bloody amazing to start at the started the A
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and Z chance, which was what two thousand and eight,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and she's still here and still creating headaches seventeen years later. Phenomenal. Yeah, insane,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And her emotion at the end of the game I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: think was just indicative of how much it meant to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: her and probably how much it's taken out of her
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I thought she looked fairly tired at the end of
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: that game.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I think she's potentially managing an injury that that's a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: little worse than what we're maybe giving her credit for,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: or that we're supposed to know about, because then just
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: looked at she tweeked it early in the game, and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it looked ginger there.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: After, So I don't know how she's going on that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I just want to come back to that though. It's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: really interesting. I think as a sport we've got to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get really clear around these milestones because we're modern day game.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I mean with CBT, the modern era potentially, yes, but
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I think we're talking about the salary cap era, which
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is the A and Z Championship and then sort of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the SSN. I think that's kind of where this milestone
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: comes from. But you know, I guess as commentators of
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the sport when you live Cath myself like, we've got
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to kind of really be clear as a sport. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: think the sport's got to be because otherwise we end
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: up with really confused messages. And I think it's great.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I think she's nailed it, but I find at times
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in commentary when we're talking about milestones, it's one hundred
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: for the club, it's one hundred for the league, it's
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: one hundred in National League games, it's one hundred of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: this like we have. We're not like the AFL where
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it was sort of vfl AFL. You know, like it's
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: kind of been CBT, it was the Mobile League CBT
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a n Z now SSN. So what does our history
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: books need to look like and read and how are
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: we making sure that our fandoms understand this and our
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: players as well and our players. So it's absolutely and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: then if per chance more Silver Fans players or or
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Kiwi players come into the league, we've got to understand
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: that their system is what they count. Like, you want
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to make sure that someone might Jeeva Mental, you're able
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to sort of take into account everything that she's done
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: over her incredible career and the fact that she's still
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: playing is just mind blowing. So you want to make
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: sure that you can recognize players and you also need
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to make sure that you protect the integrity of the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: players who have gone before in terms of their numbers.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it is interesting though it does make for
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a good discussion though, like over you know, who's the greatest?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: You know. The other thing that was interesting on the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: weekend was that Page Hadley became the second most capped
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Swift and she's done that for one club.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I was wondering whether you were going to challenge this.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I'm well beaten in the third place on that one
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and she's coming for Coxy, So yeah, I think it's
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that we can talk. You can
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: talk cross clubs. I would love for us to be
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: able to talk cross leagues in terms of the numbers
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that we talk about, because we have some phenomenal players
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and we want to make sure that we absolutely celebrate
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and make a massive deal out of achievements like this.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I think the most important thing, Liz is at least
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the sport now is in a vastly better place, employing
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: people with real nous to get the number of games
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: correctors to those that used to do it for the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: likes of Vicki Wilson historically and got the numbers wrong.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: That was me sent Vicky out on ninety nine and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: she had one hundred and what four? I know, but
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't know. So can I just in defense of this,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: can I just say I was working for I worked
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: for Netball Australia. This is back in like nineteen ninety
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: three or nineteen ninety two, like the summer of ninety two.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I was at UNI and Killye Devrey, who was in
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the Diamonds. She was also the head of communications for
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Netbaustralia and there was only about a staff of maybe
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: eight people or ten people, right, and they're in this
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: little office in Paramatta, which I go to now because
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: it's a cafe, right of course it is. That's amazing, right,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: so I laugh. I said, oh, oh my god, this
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: meet Netball Australia's officers. Anyway, Keily gave me all this paperwork,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: piles and piles of paperwork, and said can you go
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: through and count up everyone's test numbers? And I hadn't
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: made my debut there, so Susan I had no investment
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in what the numbers were. And I went through and
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I made a spreadsheet and I started to acountering on
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the numbers. But the problem was you're relying on coaches
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and managers bringing back score sheets from tours from the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: fifties and the sixties. So I would try and marry
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: up like what the official records were with the test matches,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: but then I would have to go chasing what like
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the actual score sheets, which is phenomenal. You're hoping that
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you know, Wilma Shakespeare, gay Tea, Joyce Brown, these women
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: who had coached Australia had somehow kept the school sheets,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and to their immense credit, most of them had, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: there must have. There would have been a couple of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: games that I couldn't find the school sheets, and so
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I just did it, and then about I think must have. Well,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it was nineteen ninety nine. Vicky played her last Test match,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: so seven or eight years later, and I was in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the team by that. It was at the World Cup,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and we knew that if she were We knew at
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the time, if she played every game with the World Cup,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: she'd hit one hundred in that final, and unfortunately she
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: hit ninety ninety in that final. She didn't play every
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: game of that World Cup, and so she retired thinking
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: she was And I like, because Vicky is a great
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: friend of mine and I'm bloody a or her. But
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: then a few years later some more school sheets found
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: their way. Turned out the Big was the first player
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to play one hundred Test matches and she'd retired on
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: one hundred and four. So then from everyone, it's always
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: been my fault. Everything was his fault.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Isn't this a classic example of corporate promoting incompetence though
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: It's like, look, she's got potential, but we just just
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: keep kicking her up the line, So she's someone else's problem.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Ah, dear, it is one of the all time great stories,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: isn't it like this? You take it, but you take
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: for granted right now that things are so efficient and
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: there's a website where things are updated and someone knows.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: But back in the day you were, You'll beholden to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: someone being a efficient enough to collect the school sheets
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and b have enough hoarding instincts to keep them until
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: somebody needed them. It is just phenomenal, right, So I mean,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: now Netball Australia has a History and Traditions committee that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: these things and there's processes in place. Back in this
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it was me and I was never good at maths.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Love it well.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Coxy wants to assure everyone that Todd Miller, who's the
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: stats guy, must be is he.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: The Australia fall everywhere, is a guru.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And trying to get some type of clarity around the numbers.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: There one thing I did particularly love. I love the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: whole thing with Romelda, although we clearly need to get
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: greater clarity on this. Like I couldn't believe this two
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: thousand and eight. I had a baby in two thousand
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and eight who is now has a driver's license. It's
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: how is that possible that you're still playing netball and
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: all of that. You know, it's like that is an
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: incredible passage of time. But you know that. I'm upset
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: about the end of the player huddle, but it was
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: very nice to see the player archway for Ramelda there
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: with the two teams coming to get that to walk
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: her off and hashtag bring back the huddle. Come on.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I did what I was meant to do that on
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: every post until the end of time, but I haven't
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the arch we have got.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I thought it was nice, and I thought the fact
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that way was nice to Remelder break the record in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a game where to her current club and her former
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: club were playing against each other and that could be recognized.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: It was really nice. So well done to whoever did
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the draw. Yeah, and who had the crystal ball to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: make sure that Ramelda was playing in every game and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that it landed that way exactly because you can't pretend
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you want to make sure that you take all the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: credit for it. Hey, quick one, not a quick one.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: We should segue into the other game this weekend, giants maps.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I was about That's what I was going to segue.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Switzerland genius. We never get to talk about, Oh, we've
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: still got games this round, and one of the big
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: ones is going to be an exciting one coming out
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: of the West with certain Janelle fallon embar taking the
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: court again.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I believe, Oh, how do you know that?
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I think Carolyn just went fishing and caught a big one.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: No in all, and I can say, as this podcast
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: is what day is it? We're on? What day? Is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it Tuesday? Because today? Yes, so I feel we are
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: recording this on a Tuesday. I can honestly say, with
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: hand on heart at this point in time, that decision
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: has not been made.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, but it's it's still it's a technical possibility.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Well I think it's a technical We're a day closer
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: every day, so she's not far away, but we.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: We will make that decision later in the week.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: And that is hand on heart. So it's and I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: think as a club fever being really clear that like
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in any athlete coming back, like you wish you had
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a crystal ball to go, she'll be ready this date.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: You just don't. So even when you're returning from injury,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: there's always that sort of you know, it's a four
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to six week injury, and then it's really relative to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: each individual. So for Janiel, it's about load management. We've
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: got to make sure that she's loaded and ready to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: play at an SSM level, and so we've sort of
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: got our targets on that, but she's got to marry
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: up to those targets. So we'll give her as much
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: time as we can and if that means that she
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: can get up for this weekend, so be it. If
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: not next weekend or the one after, so it'll be
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: in the next few weeks definitely.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Well, there's my scoop, gone, are you playing? Sorry?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I should know we play the Vixens this weekend, and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: probably we might just say like, and you guys while
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: we're actually recording this. News has just come out from
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: fever on Socials this morning that very sadly Ruth Ariang
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: ruptured her achilles on Saturday at Yeah, devastating news, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: for anyone that's followed Ruth's story, it's even more devastating
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: knowing that she had an ACL injury a couple of
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: years ago that had an extended recovery time and you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: know a couple of hurdles along the way.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, she's out for the season, and let's link.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: That to the fact that she was also eligible for
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: World Youth Cups, so.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: And I imagine she would have been in in seat
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: one A.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: So unfortunately that goes and yeah, she's a fairly distraught
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: young lady at the moment, which is really sad. Off
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to the surgeon today and then potentially for a surgery
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: tomorrow or Thursday. So it was a bit of a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: it was a bit of a yeah, like you know
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you have and again you have moments in sport. They
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: are the highs and lows of the game. But I'll
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: tell you that that moment. I've had two moments in
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: this game at Fever. One was when young Ingod Collier
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: did her acl over in COVID when we were playing
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in Brisbane, and that shook me to the core. And
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I can tell you on Saturday's injury shook me to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the core as well. It was just it was just
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: a moment anyhow, not great news. So so she snapped
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: her achilles Is it the same leg as her knee
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: was on. I don't know why I'm asked this, I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: just I just no, no, it was the first No,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it's not the first question I asked as well, because
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you just wonder what the linkage is. But like all
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: great Achilles ruptures, Liz, and you're talking to someone that's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: done it three times, so I am potentially an expert
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: on the topic, very very good at it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure it's something I want to be good at.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: But anyhow, it was just an atypical Achilles pushed off
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: in the goal circle to chase no one in any proximity.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: You just see her knee collapse to the ground as
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: if her ankle's given way. Her head turns around to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: kind of see who the hell might have kicked, pushed
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and then just the you know, the pain
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that follows and the screen and the noise was bloody awful.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But she initially thought it was her knee, and I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: think that was a bit of a traumatic response for
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the kid, because you know, historically when you've had a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: bad injury and something happens in the leg, I potentially
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: think And it wasn't until we got sort of into
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the first aid or our medical room and she kind
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: of mentioned that, you know, she was starting to feel
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: a bit of pain in the back of her leg.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Well from someone that hasn't done a knee and done
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: her achilles. The pain in your leg is bloody prominent,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I can tell you, so the fact that it took
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: her a little while for it to go from I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: think it's my knee to pain in the back of
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: my leg.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: That's the shock kicking in and the trauma response.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, but anyhow, it's such a typical thing, isn't
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it Like when you see I was commentating the game
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: when Cheron McMann did her achilles before the twenty eleven
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: World Cup. Yeah, and she went down and we played
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the replay and straight away my heart sank because you
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: can see she looks around. Something goes and she looks
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: around to see who kicked her, And when you speak
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: to her, she was like, I was certain that someone.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So she had a cranky face on because she thought
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: something kicked her and she was all by herself, and
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you know that was that was like a moment because
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: had she not done her knee, she would have gone
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: to the World Cup. She would have broken my record
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: for the most Test matches played. I have no doubt
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: about that. And you know, when you hold a record,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: you're desperate that when it's broken, it's someone who you
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: really respect. And admire, so I was really pumped that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Chas was going to break my record and that just
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: changed the course of her career. Of course, she was
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: at the end of her career Ruths at the beginning.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: So obviously she will miss the World Cup now that's
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: it's scheduled for September this year in Gibraltar, So the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: recovery time doesn't quite work here and going May June
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: July or is that five months? It doesn't quite work.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: But like I really do hope that she can make
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: her way back and onto the court for next season.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Then it's just horrible.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she'll she'll be all right, but it'll be all
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to be a long journey. And like anyone that's sort
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of doing a major injury for the second or third time,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it's the there's there's the unknown is now known as
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: in what recovery is. But the challenge I think becomes
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: twice as hard because you know, you like and then
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you know, I guess the fear of it. What else
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: is going to happen? So there's some there's some certainly
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: some work for her to do and for the club
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: to do. And I have a black I think from
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the lightning also did hers in the preseason. So two
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: young athletes with an achilles, which is really rare for
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: our sports. So yeah, you don't really hear much about it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: She was having such as having such a blind she's
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: just looking like she was coming into her own. Yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: that's for saying, Liz, I just need to ask the
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: hard hitting question though. Does Charrell need Todd Miller to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: look into those numbers?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Listen. I had nothing to do with
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: her stats, all my stats. Actually I've been sacked by then.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: By the time we started playing, I had been but
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and I want to put it on record
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: that I had nothing to do with her. I mean
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I was in the stadium, but I had nothing to
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: do with her injury, right, I did, Boddy. I didn't
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: request it from anyone. No, but let me say, don't
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: cross me. That's a great call, Carolyn, that's a great call.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: We might give shirazzle or call after this. She's got
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Toddy's number, but she she doesn't want to talk about it.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: She says, she's.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Look the other lord that we still haven't talked. We're talking.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: How good am I going? Now? You two have got
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: me on the raps You've got me nervous. We still
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: haven't talked about MAV's giants. We have not ill not
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the rip a game right, Like, I'm well done to
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Shimona Jock who not only got an m VP but
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: played half the game with one eye. I don't know
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: if you notice that she got she got a knock
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: in the eye, and her eye literally you would as
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: for every goal she scored after that moment her eye
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: closed Rocky clo until I think she shot it. Yeah,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: like Rocky, she her last ten or so goals with
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: one eye. That wasn't it. It was one hundred games.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: So she hit a milestone, got hit in the eye,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and still hit the She got hit in the eye
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: with the milestone. Yes, so yes, she had a riper game.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And I thought unique PILARVI because Sasha Glasgow is out
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and so of course big questions on can she run
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the full sixty minutes out the front of the course,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And there was no Naya Allen who would have been
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the backup, so they pulled in Sasha McDonald from the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: V and L. So Sasha McDonald nearly fell off the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: chair when she got a phone call from Nicole Richardson
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: saying come in, and so I was a bit like,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: oh God, can giants get over the line here? But
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I just thought the MAVs. The MAVs played really well,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and I thought unique Polarvi. She's a clever player. And
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: while she may not potentially be I think at SSN
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: fitness levels for a goal attack to really have a
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: true impact. Maybe against the Swift saw a thunderbird. She
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: played a clever, clever netball and allowed Shimona to just
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: shine and they got the win.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: So they got a big win, so it wasn't a
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: small win.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I loved watching last year when she did that time
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: with the Swifts. I thought she was really really fabulous
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: to watch.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: M She's an exciting place. She's, you know, a bit
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: cat toart, you know.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I don't like though junior netballers are now bouncing the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: bloody ball off the post when they're throwing it in
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: from the baseline. It's like, come on, that's a unique Pilarvi.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I ban my girls from doing that. So what are
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: you going to do? You're missing? You just throw the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: ball straight out.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: So oh look I don't I haven't banned my kids
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: from doing anything in that. Actually, it was surprising nobody
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: that my team is a really excellent defensive team, but
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I can't attack us.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Who knows what happens in the in the attacking circle.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: But when we get the ball, I'm like, sort yourself out.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I'll meet you at the other end I can do.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: You know what, I think it'd be fascinating to watch
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: you at a netball clinic teaching shootings technique. Fascinating. What
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: were fascinating about it? I know the theory? Do you
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: know the theory? Yeah? Look, Jane Orschwager and Coxy I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: used to watch them do it at clinics and they
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: just reckon you. Pretend it's a little troll on the
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: front of the ring and it's you know, smack talking you.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: So you just make sure that's what you're aimed for.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: You don't aim for the front of the ring. You
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: aim for the little troll sitting on the top of
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the ring. I don't know. You line your feed up,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: you flick your wrists, you check your lip. Class all
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the dribblers out there that are about to go into
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: their training, their local Saturday netball and start telling their kids,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: look out for the bloody what was it? The grem
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: what was it? The roll anyhow, I'd take you in
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: my team any day, coaching defense, but I'd probably run
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a mile if you were coaching shooting, I think. And
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: then the other game in this round is clean lightning minutes.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I reckon, that's a ripper game. It's going to be
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a tough goes to the game of the round. I
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: reckon it could be the Battle of the Bruce. I
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: know it. Thunderbirds and Swifts was massive, but now we
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: have hindsight and it wasn't. Well it was for the Swiss,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: but it was a bit of a blowout. I reckon
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: this lightning five Birds game, and it is a lightning
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: home game, and historically five Birds do quite well on
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: lightning home soil, so I think this could be a
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: This would be a beauty of a game.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Well it's not. You know, you play in Brisbane. You're
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: used to going to NISA on the weekends, aren't you,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: So it's not really an away games.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: True, that's true.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I say this all the time. Fever and Thunderbirds have
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: this same banter for competitive balance. All right, move on,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: who am I tipping? I chip the home team as usual,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: because that's what I do. Susan, who are you tipping
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: home team is lightning. I've gone five birds. I've gone
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: five birds. I think this will be Mary's greatest challenge
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: to date in her since playing SSN. I'm still not
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: sure whether at with Courtney Bruce, where Bruce is, whether
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: she's up to sixty minutes or not. But last week
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Reynolds was kind of wrote for last week before Reynolds
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: was rotating her and Irvin and not convinced they got
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that right.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: But then we're not in the inner sanctum to understand.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Maybe minutes allowed to.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Play, but if Bruce gets a sixty minute run on Sholock,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I reckon sure whether or down, and that could be
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the difference for me.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: But at the moment I'm back in fives.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Carolyn, Well, look, it doesn't matter who I tip, honestly.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Well I did tip the Swifts though, and I don't
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: knowh with my heart. I try to tip with my head,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: but clearly there's something wrong in my head because I'm
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: not very good at my tipping. I will say though,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: looking at the numbers from SO, We've got a little
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: group within the tipping comp which is what I call
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the Sexy Girl. So Susan Elizabeth Catherines and Carolyn's and
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: there's twenty nine people in that. Off the top ten,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: four of them are from Carolyn's. I'll say there's only
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: one from Elizabeth. Susan follow Carolyn's and Strengths and then
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Catherines and then Elizabeth. So clearly I'm bringing the average
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: down because I'm nowhere near the top ten of that
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: twenty nine. I think I'm twenty nine. But I think
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: that's very interesting that the Carolins are doing exceptionally well.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: There you still have an answer the question.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I still haven't answer the question. I reckon I'm going
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: to tip the five. It's I've not tipped them this
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: season and they keep surprising me, so they are looking good.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Based on that, I'll now go in and change my
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: tip to line.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that's a foolish man.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be a good game. Looking forward to it.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Liz, You've got to get off this shortly because you're
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: going somewhere. What's going on?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Bruce, I'm actually going to head up
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: to Brisbane Entertainment Center, which is at the start of
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the Bruce, and an opposition announcement today as part of
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the election sort of announcements that they will pledge should
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: they win government three hundred thousand dollars for Netbork Queensland
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to buy a portable wooden floor, which is fantastic. It
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: allows it would then allow games to be played at
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: the Brisbane Entertainment Center, so it would allow the five
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Verse to play in front of nine thousand people. It
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: then allows Netball Australia to take Diamonds games to Brisbane.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: But it also because it's portable, it allows super network games.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: We've played around the States, so canns townsmall and into
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: regional centers. So yeah, a bit of exciting news. I'm
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: going to head up and we'll do the announcement really
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: so by the time this podcast comes out, the announcement's done.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: We'll take three hundred thousand. We'd also take three hundred
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: million if anyone wanted to throw our sports.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: That's true, but it's taking three hundred thousand to start with,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: so I think that's yeah, that's really exciting. Is that
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: what a netball call? It costs h Yeah, a portable one.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I was trying to explain it to my son and
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: he goes, what do you mean because he's coming with
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: me at school holiday, so a little road trip for us.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's like a big jigsaw puzzle and you
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: put it all together and the players can play in it.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: You could see him going, wow, put on put on
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the MCG Yeah, that's.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: But that is exciting that you could see sunt Super
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Netball games heading up to Cairns or towns Fall or
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: you know, out of the out of the usual the
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: route we're.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Going and they've been there. Yeah, the test matches have
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: been there in the past, but the flooring has been
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: the thing that's sort of you need to make sure
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: you've got right. So hopefully fingers crossed one way or another,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: there'll be a portable floor sitting with Netball Queensland sooner
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: rather than later.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Well you see, while you're up there, Liz, see if
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: we can squeeze in one more no dribble extra because
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: we've had some great chats and we've spoken to the
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Minister for Sport, but we have not yet managed to
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: coordinate our diary with the opposition spokesperson for Sport to
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: talk about talk about Neddie. So but if you haven't
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: been listening to those, we've only released one so far
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: with Sawie Daniel, which was great. We've got another couple
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: coming up, No Dribble Extra, which will be released before
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: the election on May the third, where we talk about
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: what have you got for us? People? What do you
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: got for us?
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: It's been good, all right? Do we have a wind
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: beneath our wings?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: We do not have a win beneath our wings this week?
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe we do, but it's three o'clock and down over here, dearly,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I reckon. I'm the one I
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: was gonna say, you should be thank you. I managed.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: I don't want any of those shitty scrunches. I've seen
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: how poorly they're made. But I've managed to go into
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: humor alert the back end of my computer and work
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: out what was going on with my microphone so I
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: could actually join you for this conversation, which to me
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: is above and beyond that is the game.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Most certainly it most certainly isn't and the game. Thanks
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: you for it, well, thank you, thanks Sue for once again.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was able to just deves drop on your
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: gowns for a little bit at the againning. We're all
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: able to eavesdrop on YouTube for at the beginning, which
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: was very nice. But yeah, we always love having hearing.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Congratulations on your big news, and obviously that gives you
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: heaps more time to do unpaid work charming in on
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: this podcast.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: I love a bit of unpaid work. Oh we all
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: do love it.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: But that's I think that has been a cracking conversation.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: We are halfway through around We've got two games to go.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: You know, it's great to have this where we can
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: talk in the middle of the round, but I personally
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: prefer four games of netball on a weekend. But this
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: is this is fun, so I've got a lot of
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: funny but Sue, thank you for joining us. From the
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: wild West. I'm Carolyn Swindel and I'm in Lugano, Switzerland, and.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm Zealous and I'm in northern New South Wales.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: We're about to head to Queensland and to get all
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: very exciting. Yeah, gordest, I'm going to go to training
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to say to you Carolyn Shall Black
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: with younuayd enjoy shall touch out grabs here all right.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: See you guys had a wink tie mm hmm.