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Salties women’s coach Rod Tremlett and American import Erin Bollman join Katie to explain how pre-season preparations are travelling · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now we know that the Darwin Salties, well they're set
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  Speaker 1: to get into their second year and it is in
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  Speaker 1: the semi professional NBL one basketball competition, so it all
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  Speaker 1: kicks off for I think, would you say bounce off
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  Speaker 1: is maybe the more appropriate way of saying things on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty fifth, which is going to be awesome, and
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  Speaker 1: we know that twenty twenty two was indeed a massive success.
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  Speaker 1: The Salties had the biggest crowds of any of the
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  Speaker 1: NBL one clubs and were one of the most watched online.
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  Speaker 1: Now joining me in the studio to tell us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about what we can expect for the season.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Salties women's coach rod Tremlin. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: And Katie, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 1: And we've also got one of the star players I
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  Speaker 1: think you'd have to say in American import, Aaron Bohlman,
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  Speaker 1: good morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Erin, good morning, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to have you both in the studio. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: we're just well we're not too far out. Are you pumped?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're ready to go. It's been an interrupted preseason
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  Speaker 2: probably we would say we're waiting on our couple of
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  Speaker 2: WNBL players to join us. Chelsea Brooks now joined us
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  Speaker 2: she's a returning player from last year, and Ruby Porter
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  Speaker 2: her eyes from the Benigo Spirit tomorrow. So yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: then that completes our roster. Everyone's on deck, so we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to having them all year. Yeah, and ready go.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a bit harder when you don't have the
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  Speaker 1: whole team here yet?
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  Speaker 3: Eron?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you just kind of do what you gotta do?
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  Speaker 3: The only problem is we're trying to go up and
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  Speaker 3: down and play some basketball with each other, and we've
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  Speaker 3: got about seven or eight healthy bodies at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: So getting those WNBL players to come in and like
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  Speaker 3: getting us scrimmaging and playing some basketball would be really helpful.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Now, speaking of healthy bodies, how's your wrist because it
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  Speaker 1: was a concern, wasn't it sort of earlier last year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I tore a ligament in my wrist about six
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  Speaker 3: game in and yeah, it's been a long, long recovery,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel really really happy about it. I think
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  Speaker 3: we're ready. I think being in the point our position
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  Speaker 3: and being able to use my hand again is going
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  Speaker 3: to be really good for our team. So it's feeling good,
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  Speaker 3: and I have to say that in front of my coach.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to say, rock, Are you happy at that risk?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good to go. And certainly we've got a
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  Speaker 2: real glimpse last year about what Aaron can do and
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  Speaker 2: she was a crowd favorite excuse me, and she won
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  Speaker 2: our player of the Year in terms of her dedication
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  Speaker 2: to community. So we're really really proud of that and
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  Speaker 2: what Erin's brought to the table and what was a
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  Speaker 2: really tough time for her, only getting six games of
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  Speaker 2: the season in, but Aaron's chosen to stay on and
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  Speaker 2: work in the community and being a great role model
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  Speaker 2: for the young basketballers. So it's been great.
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  Speaker 1: Now it taught me through that a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: because I think when the SALTI is sort of launched,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that Territorians had really any idea how
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  Speaker 1: big an impact it would actually have on the community
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  Speaker 1: and how hugely the teams would be embraced in both
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  Speaker 1: the men's and women's competitions. Aaron, what's that been like
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  Speaker 1: for you coming from the US and into a place
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  Speaker 1: like Darwin and seeing the way that the community has
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  Speaker 1: really embraced you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's one of the things I love about Australia
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  Speaker 3: is just the people showing up for them. When I
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  Speaker 3: was in Southeast Missouri where I'm from, you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: a couple of people at are games, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: that much of a hype within the area. And then
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  Speaker 3: I come here and it's one of the biggest crowds
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  Speaker 3: I've ever played in front of. First game, right, it's
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  Speaker 3: not a finals game, it's the first game. And to
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  Speaker 3: see people show up for especially the women's it's something
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  Speaker 3: that I think men's are hypes. I love the men's
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  Speaker 3: team there, you know, mcquatch gets that dunk in the
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  Speaker 3: first game, but we also have something to give to
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  Speaker 3: the community as well as the females, and it's something
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  Speaker 3: for young females to look forward to as well that
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  Speaker 3: they could potentially play for such a high level team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's Yeah, it's really good the experience and
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  Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think when we kind of joined the league CAWD,
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  Speaker 2: To be honest with you, none of us knew that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've been involved as a coach for twenty five
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  Speaker 2: years here in the territory, and to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't for the vision of the don boswel Association
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  Speaker 2: and Bosbel worldn Territory coming together. It's been a big
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  Speaker 2: risk for both organizations to take this step. It's a
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  Speaker 2: costly exercise, but you know they have vision has been
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  Speaker 2: fantastic for us and it was really a huge unknown.
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  Speaker 2: But to get the results and the support we've got
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  Speaker 2: and having lines of fifty to one hundred young girls
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  Speaker 2: after games wanting autographs from players, we just never really
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  Speaker 2: expected that. So to get that done and then get
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  Speaker 2: the great support by our corporate partners and that's built
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  Speaker 2: this year which is great to see, and just having
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  Speaker 2: the community come out and support the soldies was an
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  Speaker 2: amazing first year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is incredible, And like you said, you've been
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  Speaker 1: involved in the sport for such a long period of time.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're a territory and there's no doubt about that,
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  Speaker 1: so you must feel really proud then when you do
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  Speaker 1: see those young juniors like wanting to you know, wanting
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  Speaker 1: to be part of it all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. I mean it's fantastic, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've been really lucky to add a couple of those
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  Speaker 2: local juniors to our squad of fifteen this year and
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  Speaker 2: Amy List who's come in as a development player last
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  Speaker 2: year and now had a great league season and made
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  Speaker 2: the fifteen this year is a terrific story. Young Sophie
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  Speaker 2: Palmer is another great story. She had to go away
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  Speaker 2: to Victoria play at the higher level in the under
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  Speaker 2: eighteen's competition to you know, extend her capabilities down there
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  Speaker 2: and did that and has now come back and she's
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  Speaker 2: in our fifteen as well. So and then some of
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  Speaker 2: the like we won't call them aging veterans, but we've
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  Speaker 2: got some twenty seven to thirty year olds who were
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  Speaker 2: seventeen juniors, yes, but they were local juniors. Kylie dug
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  Speaker 2: and Clara O'Brien, they're all Territorians, Yeah, who not for
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  Speaker 2: the Soldies, would have had to move into state to
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  Speaker 2: be able to play at this level.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we're really proud of all our players. But the
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  Speaker 2: story around, the inspirational story for our young ones to
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  Speaker 2: be able to see those players now coming in at
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  Speaker 2: the next level and create that pathway for them is
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  Speaker 2: really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron, you do some work with those with those
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  Speaker 1: younger kids. Do you have even coaching in the off season?
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  Speaker 4: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: I have? I hope Brad's okay with that, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's just such a big pool for especially young women
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  Speaker 3: who want to be individually trained, who want some extra
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  Speaker 3: workouts on the side, and that's something that I want
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  Speaker 3: to at least pass on well, especially in the off season,
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  Speaker 3: what I can do to help this community in the
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  Speaker 3: basketball realm, because I mean that there is these pathways,
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  Speaker 3: so like NBL one for right now, maybe WNBL in
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  Speaker 3: the future, but if there are these pathways that I
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  Speaker 3: would love to start at a young age with this
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  Speaker 3: community and just help as much as they can.
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  Speaker 4: I love that, Like I love.
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  Speaker 1: Sport, and I love what it can do for a
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  Speaker 1: community and for a place like Darwin, but I love
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  Speaker 1: what it does for young girls as well in terms
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  Speaker 1: of really boosting that confidence. You know you're part of
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  Speaker 1: something and you're feeling like you're part of something and
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  Speaker 1: having people to look up to, I think is a
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  Speaker 1: really really important part of that and something that I
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  Speaker 1: did you anticipate that the Salties were going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do that, right.
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  Speaker 2: We just really have been overwhelmed, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: by the support. We couldn't be more thankful, particularly in
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  Speaker 2: non territory government have been a huge supporter for us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we wouldn't been able to get this thing
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  Speaker 2: off the ground without their support. But also then our
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  Speaker 2: corporate partners that have come on have really helped. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the other thing we kind of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people don't see, but the army of volunteers behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes that help get the stadium ready, get all
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  Speaker 2: the corporate boxes sworded, get all that prepared. We've created
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  Speaker 2: our pathways for score bench officials, for young referees, for coaches.
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  Speaker 2: So we've had the last two years, so we had
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  Speaker 2: Francis Fatnauna as our development coach last year. This year
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  Speaker 2: we have Jayleen Boundary, both young women who now are
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  Speaker 2: getting opportunity to be involved at the next level. So
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  Speaker 2: it's been like, you know, the players get the spotlight
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  Speaker 2: and rightly so, but that army of volunteers and people
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes that are also all getting up skilled
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  Speaker 2: because of the existence of the Soldies now is huge
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  Speaker 2: and it's great for the community.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is really wonderful. Now tickets are on sale
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  Speaker 1: to Round one. Who are we taking on.
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  Speaker 2: I've got some District Spartans in the first game. They're
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  Speaker 2: a really successful team. We're involved in national finals last year,
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  Speaker 2: so they're going to be a really good test for
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  Speaker 2: us in our first first game. So early on in
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  Speaker 2: the season, it's always tough. Lots of clubs are still
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  Speaker 2: bringing in imports and waiting on athletes that are playing
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  Speaker 2: in the US college system to come back, and so
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  Speaker 2: probably takes the first three or four rounds for everyone
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  Speaker 2: to have their rosters sorded and finalized and whatever else.
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  Speaker 2: So you're not really sure what you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: in the first two or three rounds. Well, that sorts
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  Speaker 2: itself out, but yeah, we're expecting a really tough competition
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  Speaker 2: from them, and there they were at the in the
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  Speaker 2: the top end of the ladder last year, So how
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  Speaker 2: are you feeling erin?
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  Speaker 3: It's a tough team. But how Right has done a
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  Speaker 3: really good job at stacking our team this year with
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  Speaker 3: some really good shooting guards. We have Subaso who's coming
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  Speaker 3: in as a post, really good hands, really aggressive, something
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  Speaker 3: that we were missing a little bit last year. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm just within practice, we're seeing some really good things
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  Speaker 3: and I think we're gonna come out in this first
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  Speaker 3: game and show them what we got. Like last year,
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  Speaker 3: we came out and won by I think it was
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  Speaker 3: by twenty, and it was a full stacked house, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what we want to do, is just make it
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  Speaker 3: something entertaining, something for people to see. Yeah, I'm really excited.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, well, I reckon, we'll get plenty of people there,
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  Speaker 1: and if you are keen to purchase some tickets, you
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  Speaker 1: can do so now at in ticks now. Also, Aeron,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that we are still looking for a player
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  Speaker 1: sponsor for you, Is that right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Anybody a shout out.
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  Speaker 1: In the studio high fiving, and so if anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Is, we will get a photo with this so that
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  Speaker 4: the listeners know what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they were a little more a vicious here
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  Speaker 3: and going with the crocodiles.
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  Speaker 1: Not this one. This one can be inappropriate.
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  Speaker 4: So look at.
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  Speaker 1: Just on that.
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  Speaker 4: So you are still looking, we are still looking for
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  Speaker 4: a player sponsor for you.
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  Speaker 1: So if there is anyone that's keen, they can contact
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  Speaker 1: us here at the station and we can get in
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  Speaker 1: contact with you.
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  Speaker 2: Look for player sponsors for Aaron, but for all our
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  Speaker 2: individual players, I think we've all got half the team available.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome to get Gay Night recognition, their recognition on the
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  Speaker 2: socials and all that kind of stuff. So if anyone,
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  Speaker 2: let's get behind are these ladies and their individual sponsorship,
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  Speaker 2: we'd love that.
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  Speaker 1: Mom, Dan, I'm just going to association Mix one O
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  Speaker 1: four nine's on boarders and sponsor this year, and clearly
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  Speaker 1: the Crocodile is excited about that. Now.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you both so very.
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  Speaker 1: Much for coming into the studio this morning. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to coming and watching a game. It's wonderful and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really good to have you on the studio today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.