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Cameron George: Warriors CEO ahead of their season opener against the Raiders in Las Vegas · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Warriors are in Vegas for the first game and
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  Speaker 1: season against the Ravers. In terms of the lineup charms,
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  Speaker 1: Nicol Klockstadt has retained his hold on the number one jersey,
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  Speaker 1: Roger to Ivasaschek has shifted from the centers to the wing.
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  Speaker 1: He seems very happy about that. Cameron George is the
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  Speaker 1: CEO of the Warriors and he joins me now in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. How the Cameron, Good morning, eight twenty two
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. You've just come straight from the buffet.
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  Speaker 1: How was the food?
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't actually look, it's it's crazy over here,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very excited about the week we've had so far,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and what's left of it. So getting
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  Speaker 2: closer to game day, which is really important for us.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So Andrew Webster has said that the Warriors have
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  Speaker 1: done well not to be distracted by the glits of
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. And from what you can tell, is he right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, boys have prepared really well. They know we've
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  Speaker 2: come here for you know, with a purpose, and we've
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  Speaker 2: i think collectively managed to work really well. Both players,
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  Speaker 2: staff and everyone's enjoyed the moment but also kept very
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  Speaker 2: focused on what's important to us, and that's preparing well
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  Speaker 2: for the for the game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: What are the facilities like that you're you're training it
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  Speaker 1: and what's the ground like? Is it all good?
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  Speaker 2: Look where we're training is there's soccer fields. There's no
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  Speaker 2: goalpost or anything. They've got line marking for rugby league fields,
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  Speaker 2: but there are about four or five soccer fields adjacent
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  Speaker 2: to each other. That's where we train. We are Jim
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  Speaker 2: Wise boys are at the UFC, which is a great
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  Speaker 2: experience for them. And look, everything else is pretty similar
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  Speaker 2: to what we get at home, but the fields are
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  Speaker 2: certainly very different given they're not rugby league fields.
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  Speaker 1: What's what's the sales like? I mean, how many? How
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  Speaker 1: many Americans are turning up? And do they have any
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  Speaker 1: comprehension about what's about to hit them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Look they've made every billboard you see here is
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  Speaker 2: talking about rugby league and I understand there's just over
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  Speaker 2: forty eight thousand tickets sold and fifteen thousand of those
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  Speaker 2: have been purchased by Americans pretty well from every state.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a really good sign for the game. I
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  Speaker 2: think that certainly passes what they did last year. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a great sign that the game's being accepted over here.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a great sign that, to course the Australians
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  Speaker 1: and New Zealand is thirty thousand of them have decided
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  Speaker 1: to travel. We saw that the year New Zealand Warrior's
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  Speaker 1: flight sold out in seventeen minutes, so obviously the games
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  Speaker 1: and goods stayed in Australasia and that's quite good. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so sorry that President Trump's not coming, but I appear
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  Speaker 1: he's quite busy.
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine he's got a bit on. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, mate, there'll be plenty of
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  Speaker 2: plenty of funder had on game day. And yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: The Siday Morning Herald yesterday reckons it's not the Warrior's year.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they reckon that you're going to come sick
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  Speaker 1: in to last. So we say every year it is
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  Speaker 1: your year. So how is this year any different to
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  Speaker 1: than all the others?
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  Speaker 2: Who was that? Sorry the Sydney Morning Morning, they still existed. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a very good young and blended in with
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  Speaker 2: experience what we've noticed this year, particularly training and if
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  Speaker 2: you if you saw our second trial very fast, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if they execute well, you know they're a team that
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  Speaker 2: can score a lot of points and defendwell. So look,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a very tight competition. You know, our tension is to
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  Speaker 2: win it, and we've got a very good squad, very
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  Speaker 2: happy with it. Like everyone, you need luck with no injuries,
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  Speaker 2: but little injuries, but we're ready to go. So there's
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  Speaker 2: no excuse from us.
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  Speaker 1: We're right behind you. Cavin, all the very best, give
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  Speaker 1: our regards to the boys, Cameron. George Worrying is CEO.
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