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Monday Night HUDL Episode 1! · TDUK

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  Heat
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  up here.
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  So, there it is. Let's uh let's mute the
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  laptop. There we go. Monday Night
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  Huddle. First episode is a go. Um so,
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  I've got with me today for the first
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  episode, not live stream, um
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  pre-recorded episode, I've got Lee. How
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  you doing, Lee? You okay? I'm living the
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  dream, mate. How are you?
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  >> Why are you robbing me says, bro? Why
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  are you robbing me saying the dream?
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  >> I'm good, mate. When you say that,
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  you're not living a dream, are you?
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  >> It's somebody's dream, is it? It's
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  someone's dream.
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  >> That's it. And we've got Perry. Perry,
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  give us a bit of info about where you
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  from, mate.
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  >> How are we? You all right?
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  >> Living a dream.
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  >> Good. Good. I'm Perry. Um, I play for
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  the Blats. I'm a cornerback. Uh, that's
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  pretty much the most amount of football
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  not information I need to give you, I
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  guess. Really? Well, obviously we'd love
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  to know if you have a team. Do do you
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  follow a team?
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  >> I do. I do. So, I'm I'm a bit of a nerd,
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  so you can you can like hammer me
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  questions if you need to, but I'm a
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  massive Eagles fan, but I'm just
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  generally a massive
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  >> I was going to hope like I was hoping
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  one of you were a Cowboys fan.
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  >> Oh, no. I wouldn't allow it on this
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  show, my friend.
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  >> Two of them. Two of them.
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  >> Go.
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  >> Go birds. Well, um, well, listen, um, so
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  for anyone, uh, this is our first
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  episode of Monday Night Huddle. We'll be
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  talking all things Brit Ball with a bit
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  of NFL. Um, it is getting to that part
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  of the season. Um, what I mean, this
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  episode will be airing, um, on a Monday,
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  uh, a week today, so we're already
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  pre-recording it. That's how that's how
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  far in advance. Might even just put on
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  site. We don't know yet. Um, but it's
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  February. It's nearly March. That's the
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  time of the year when your regulars
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  start turning up for training. I said
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  what I said. Um, how are Bournemouth
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  looking? Like like give give I mean tell
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  us what you how you did last season. Um,
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  >> you know I think
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  >> Yeah, I'll give you I'll give you a run.
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  I can with regards to preseason etc.
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  Obviously I can only go through so much.
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  I don't want to give stuff away.
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  >> Yeah, last year last year was a a bit of
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  a typical down not a typical down year
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  but a bit of a down year for us.
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  Typically we usually do better than we
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  did. It was new head coach, new scheme,
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  new everything. So, we kind of just we
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  were muddying through it. Um, but this
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  year, you know, there seems to be just a
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  different way we've structured things
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  and it's working. That's all I can
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  really say about it. But off season is
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  well underway like as it should be.
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  We're nearly at March and it has been
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  really great and the changes we've made
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  and how we structure it like I can see
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  how it's going to benefit us in the long
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  run.
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  >> Good. Good. Good. Well, um it's an
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  interesting one because you guys are in
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  um let me just get this up right. Let's
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  let let's let's get to the nitty-gritty.
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  Let's talk about this season. Okay.
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  Let's um
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> let's get your um fixtures up. Hang on.
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  Wait there. I've done this completely
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  wrong, haven't I? Let's have a look.
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  >> I can recite the things for you if you
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  want.
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  >> No, we we're going to go one better,
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  mate. Boom. Right. Let's change this so
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  it's like that. Look at that.
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  >> That's lovely.
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  >> Look at that. Getting professional or
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  what? Right. So, um you guys have got
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  Bristol Apache.
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  >> Yep.
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  >> Herford Stampede who got promoted.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Um Solen Thrashers and South Wales
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  Warriors. Now, last year from from what
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  I remember from doing um the other
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  Monday night show I used to do.
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  >> Um
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  >> South Wales Warriors were doing really
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  well and then they kind of like dipped.
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  >> Well, I wouldn't say they I wouldn't say
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  they dipped. They they they won the
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  division at seven and one. So, they had
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  a really really strong season. Um, I
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  can't remember too much about the
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  postseason. We weren't there, so I
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  didn't pay a lot of attention to it. Um,
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  >> apologies.
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  Mipped comment meant um postseason. Um
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  >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Then then yeah,
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  obviously like they they they didn't
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  make it. They made it to the dance, but
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  they didn't make it all the way. But,
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  you know, if I was them, I'd be really
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  really encouraged by what was there last
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  season. It's going to be a it's it's
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  going to be a hell of a division like it
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  was last season. So,
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  >> okay. Lee, you got any questions on this
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  division? Yeah, I mean it's more more of
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  a case of, you know, who who do you
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  think obviously you know this division
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  better than anyone else. Who do you
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  think your your biggest competitor is in
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  that league? Um, and who do you think's
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  not necessarily going to be a walkover,
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  one you're looking forward to because
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  you know it's probably going to be an
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  easy win.
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  >> Um, I mean
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  >> that's a brutal question that can
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  >> I'll have my own way of answering it as
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  well. Um, like I'm going to give for the
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  first question, I'm going to give
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  twopronged. Um,
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  our main our main opponent as ourselves
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  essentially. We're going to we're going
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  to get out of this season as much as we
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  put into it. So, first and foremost, our
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  f our main opponent is ourselves and
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  making sure we're better than ourselves
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  each and every day. Uh, obviously
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  geography based like Solent is a key
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  fixture for us because we're both South
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  Coast, we're very close to each other.
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  Uh it's a game I look forward to. It's
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  good. It's it, you know, it it it pushes
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  me to my limits uh that game. So yeah,
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  I'm looking forward to games against all
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  of them to be fair. They're all quality
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  sides. Like we played Heraford a couple
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  of seasons ago before they went down.
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  They're a hard-hitting team like and
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  their ground is beautiful as well. Like
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  there is four good teams in this four
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  good teams we have to go up against and
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  yeah, I'm looking forward to it. We also
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  have a Saturday night game against
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  Heraford which I'm looking forward to.
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  So
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  >> is that are you streaming that?
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  >> Uh I'm not sure if we're going to stream
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  it. We we logistically we have a bit of
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  difficulty because we're next to an
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  airport. So they they they don't like a
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  lot of things which is you know I get
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  it. So um but maybe there's also an
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  issue with Signal down there as well uh
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  that pre uh other streaming uh platforms
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  have tried to do it and struggled. So
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  fingers crossed we'll get some streaming
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  but might not be. I I I played um a what
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  we call a soccer game um on on a on a
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  pitch next to an airport
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  >> and where I live that you obviously see
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  planes but you don't see them as low as
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  that and I remember the balls being hit
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  by someone from the halfway line
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  >> plane going over and the goalkeeper like
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  that ball's gone in the net the coaches
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  pulled them off quicker than you can say
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  crash landing honestly. So yeah, no, get
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  that completely. Get that completely.
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  >> The wor the worst thing is when you're
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  try when your when your coach is trying
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  to give you some feedback on a on on a
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  passage of play and then you just have
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  to wait cuz it's this massive plane
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  that's taken 5 minutes to take off. But
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  um but yeah, but with regards like like
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  I'm buzzing for this season. I don't
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  know what I I'm I'm excited for it. I'm
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  I'm coming back from quite a traumatic
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  injury as well, so I've got something to
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  prove to myself. But it's quite a big
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  year for us. It's it's it's our 40th
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  anniversary this year. So, it's quite a
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  special year for us. So, we're doing a
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  lo we're trying to do a load of things.
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  Nothing's kind of like set in stone yet,
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  but we've got loads of things in the
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  pipeline. We want plan we want to do
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  plans to do an armed forces day game.
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  So, in in conjunction with the armed
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  forces day, um we uh one of our games,
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  as I said, will be Saturday night
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  against Heraford, which will be our 40th
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  anniversary game. We're going to get
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  loads of alumni out and and stuff like
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  that. It's going to be awesome. Uh, and
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  additionally, and last but not least, we
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  are having one additional themed game,
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  which is to honor our late Bobcat family
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  member and friend Chris Coupe, uh, who
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  also photographed for our club and many
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  other clubs as well. Um, and he lost his
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  battle with M&D late last year. We'll be
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  doing an NMD uh, specific game where
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  we'll hopefully raise loads of money for
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  it and stuff. So, yeah, that's going to
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  be good. And additionally, as well,
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  we've got youth programs. Paul Dolphins
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  are going through preseason, too. The
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  Under 19 start the defense of their
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  championship this Saturday in a
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  preseason tournament. And um and also we
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  we are affiliated with the Bournemouth
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  University Bobcats as well. We train in
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  the same place as them. Um and obviously
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  they're preparing they are preparing for
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  the playoffs as we speak. Or I say we
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  should we are playing preparing for the
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  playoffs as we speak.
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  >> That's um yeah. So I do I do help with
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  the artwork with the Uniball stuff we
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  did when it was too boring. If Bob
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  Carter was like, "Yeah, there's
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  definitely going to be an affiliation."
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  >> It's an affiliation. Yeah. So that Yeah.
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  So that that is a big fan.
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  >> How can um Lee, if you got any
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  questions, mate, just throw them in by
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  any means, mate. Don't
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  um how can people register interest to
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  join whether that be youth, junior or
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  adults? How can they contact Bournemouth
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  Popcats?
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  >> Well, obviously we have all our social
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  media pages. We're very present on all
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  of them. We do advertise quite a lot in
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  terms of uh in in in terms in terms of
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  just posts and stuff like that. We try
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  to get things out to the local community
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  as well. Um we try and hit people up in
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  gyms if we see someone doing an
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  impressive lift. I did that two weeks
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  ago. Um so yeah, like that it's just
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  recruiting any way which way we can. Um
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  obviously more recruitment means more
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  growth for the sport. A bigger squad
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  means more healthy squad. So yeah, we we
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  it's continuous even through the season
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  for the for the season after we never
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  stop recruiting like I suppose like
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  every team. So
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  >> yeah, you you mentioned growth in the
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  sport and for me we
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  >> we've got a bit of an issue at the
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  moment when the brick balls aspect and
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  and the the two co killed it off for me.
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  >> Yeah. But also, and it's something that
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  not many people have spoken about, but
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  there's also a cost of living crisis as
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  well. We're currently in what do you
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  think that we could do to to improve
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  this beautiful game? Because for me,
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  this game is the best thing that's
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  >> most
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  wigging, it's the best thing that ever
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  happened to me.
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  >> But yeah, like I I'm I'm with you on
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  that. Like it's my passion. It's my
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  love. Like it it's it no other sport
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  comes close to it for me. Um, but I I
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  don't know. It's like I almost kind of
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  want to plead the fifth on it a little
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  bit and just kind of
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  >> No, what I'm asking is is
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  >> what would you do to improve the sport?
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  So, for me,
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  >> for me, I would um I would run NFL camp,
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  you know, like brick ball camps.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Up and down the UK. make them easy
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  accessible, you know, because a lot of
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  them,
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  >> you know, again, we're assuming people
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  to get to them, they've got to drive or
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  they've got to use public transport. Can
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  can we do stuff where two or three clubs
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  although they might not want to, we
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  encourage them to work together to host
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  something in a neutral venue to
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  encourage people just things like that,
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  you know.
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  >> I do think I do think I think two
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  things. I think geography is always an
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  issue in in Britull. Um, obviously is
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  cost of living. we have to pay either we
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  all have to car share or or you know for
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  us to go to South Wales is is not cheap.
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  Um
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  >> yeah drive is that?
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  >> Uh last year I think we left at around
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  6:00 and we got back at about 10 give or
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  take. Um we we we stopped though. We
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  don't we don't like to rush. We we like
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  to stop and chill out and stuff. But
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  like I I like there there could there's
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  potential and at the end of the day I
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  I'll say this first before I go into the
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  next thing. The way stuff is going is
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  positive. I'm looking at stuff like
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  Aztec's offering away teams things like
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  no one's done that before. That's that's
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  >> right. And I'll be completely honest at
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  the start I was a little bit I didn't
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  like it because obviously we're playing
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  Apache and Apache don't get the same
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  benefits as Aztecs. But I came from it
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  from a really moronic viewpoint and but
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  the more and more I look at it I think
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  it's it's awesome what they're doing.
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  The London EFA team in 2027 that's
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  growth. like all these things are
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  happening. So, you know, as much as it's
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  not looking good at the moment, like
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  there's things that are coming into that
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  aren't necessarily affiliated with Brick
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  Bull, but you know, EFA, Bucks, um, and
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  and yeah, the Aztecs as well, everything
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  is growing in conjuncture. And I do
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  think eventually if everyone just kind
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  of relaxes a little bit. These aren't
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  all specifically to do with baffle or
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  the governing body, but like at least
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  the lights being shone on football over
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  here. And we've just got to when that
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  opportunity comes, all of us, all the
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  chairmans, all the GMs, they've just got
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  to make the most of it. That's what I
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  think. Obviously,
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  you know, being from a from the Cats,
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  Cambridge Cats, um you know, we are, you
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  know, we're going to utilize that that
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  uh that opportunity that Bristol have
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  have given us. You know, everyone comes
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  everyone comes dressed up as in the
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  right stuff and we're going to get our
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  >> our transport paid for us. You know,
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  that's that's a massive part of the club
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  fees. You know, we we pay a lot of money
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  into
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  >> getting those coaches to go from
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  Cambridge all the way down to Bristol. I
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  mean, likewise with you, it's it's a
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  long way. Um, and you know, obviously
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  they're doing something right. You know,
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  they've got sponsorship. Uh,
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  they've got they've got so many
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  investments. I mean, you know, on the
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  game days, they have commentators who
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  who shout out all their sponsors, and
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  I'm just sitting there going, how have
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  you managed to get that? I' I've been on
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  the committee and I've been trying to
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  get these um these these these local
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  businesses to invest. Um,
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  >> the great the great thing is hopefully a
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  lot of if if other teams can look at
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  Aztec success, bearing in mind, let's
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  let's let's let's assume it's going to
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  continue on a good trajectory. But then
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  there's evidence for other GMs and other
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  chairmans to be like, look, as a
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  business model, this can work. So for
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  local businesses like look I can show
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  you proof of concept that this business
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  model works and hopefully more prem
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  teams hopefully going it siphons down to
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  div one as well maybe if we're lucky div
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  2 might be a bit of a stretch to get
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  investment but do you know what I mean
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  like the more and more that's going to
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  come in the more and more the light
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  that's going to get shone on us not
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  necessarily us in brick but just
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  football in in England
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  >> I I I've played under some really good
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  GMs and I've I've played under some
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  really poor GMs um when I talk about
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  really good GMs I talk about like uh you
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  know the books the laner Buccaneers are
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  a decent club now um Halton Spartans we
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  used to play in in Witness Rugby Stadium
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  which holds 14,000 people
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  >> you know we and we were a div two team
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  >> a div 2 team and we got sponsors from
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  all sorts of places to because it was a
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  fortune to play in that stadium
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  >> um and because obviously those investors
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  and sponsors could put their stuff
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  around the stadium whilst you're playing
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  right
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  >> yeah yeah but It was other things. It
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  was like players coming to socials. So,
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  Halton Spartans were really big on the
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  socials.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> And you know, it was like three or four
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  socials a year, but I'm old school. So,
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  I when I went to play for a normal
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  soccer team, it was like, right, look,
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  you come to the away games, you come to
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  the home games. And every after every
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  game, we go for a bite to eat at the
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  sponsor or this or that. Yep. Yep. Yep.
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  So, this is just normal bread and butter
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  for me. But, I think
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  >> we've got a a generation of youth that
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  like, oh, I'm too busy for that. I'm too
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  cool for that. I don't want to do that.
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  But that's how you get your sponsors.
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  You keep your sponsors active. That's
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  very you get your coach your coaches for
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  your away trips and that that we all
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  want because there is no better sesh
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  because we don't swear. We can't say
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  swear words on here but there's no
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  better drink sesh or whatever than an
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  away trip and you've got four lads, six
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  lads doing initiation and you know it's
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  making memories
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  >> like even on the coach home it's a vibe.
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  You know what I mean? Like even if you
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  don't go to a pub like coach home beers
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  are a vibe or coach home drinks are a
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  vibe like so. Yeah. Like yeah. So I I do
• 16:04
  think like that it will come and and we
• 16:08
  just I I do think we have to be patient.
• 16:10
  I look down here in Bournemouth, we
• 16:12
  literally have the Vitality Stadium. So
• 16:13
  it's not like we're going to end up
• 16:14
  playing in a stadium cuz the Premier
• 16:16
  League team are just going to give us
• 16:17
  their stadium. But you know there may be
• 16:19
  opportunities like we have a beautiful
• 16:20
  place right now. And also so we're as I
• 16:23
  said we're next to the airport. We also
• 16:25
  have a seated and standing dugout as
• 16:28
  well. No stand for for people to for
• 16:30
  people to stand in if it's raining. We
• 16:31
  also now have dugouts for the away team
• 16:33
  on the other side. Like we have good
• 16:35
  facilities, but what I want to see I
• 16:39
  want to see everyone get facilities like
• 16:41
  that. Like if I'm completely honest, we
• 16:43
  play in white lowers and our first game
• 16:45
  is away to South Wales and they're just
• 16:47
  going to get trashed. So I want everyone
• 16:50
  I want everyone to play on 4G so they
• 16:52
  don't trash my lowers. Do
• 16:53
  >> you know what? Um
• 16:55
  >> for one that's one reason as as much as
• 16:57
  that the smallest reason as much as any.
• 16:59
  Fair.
• 17:00
  >> So, this brings me to my next question
• 17:01
  then. The worst pitch for everyone to
• 17:03
  ask. Uh, answer. Uh, the worst pitch
• 17:06
  you've ever played on. I'll go first.
• 17:07
  And I know they change pitches, so I'm
• 17:09
  not trying to dig an argument. I invite
• 17:10
  you on to the show. Um, Birmingham
• 17:13
  Bulls, their old pitch. There wasn't a
• 17:14
  piece of grass on there. And they're
• 17:16
  changing rooms. Could have survived co a
• 17:18
  nuclear bomb, a lightsaber. It was the
• 17:21
  worst thing I have ever ever played on.
• 17:23
  It was a mud bath. Um, Lee, I'm going to
• 17:26
  go to you. What was the worst pitch you
• 17:27
  ever played on?
• 17:28
  Well, talking about talking about
• 17:30
  nuclear bombs, uh this this uh this this
• 17:33
  stadium is built on top of a uh a Blitz
• 17:37
  uh bunker. Can you guess where it is?
• 17:39
  Yes, it is the London Blitz. It is a
• 17:42
  athletics track that is built on top of
• 17:44
  a concrete bunker. So, the soaway is
• 17:47
  absolutely terrible. Uh when we go to
• 17:49
  play there, it's normally post sort of
• 17:51
  an athletics meet. So, there's hammer
• 17:53
  throw divots everywhere, shot divots.
• 17:56
  you end up running down there and you
• 17:58
  sprain your ankles. You just dug in dug
• 18:00
  your heel into a into a hole. It is it
• 18:03
  is a death trap. Um and I don't think
• 18:06
  anyone in the in the uh prem will
• 18:09
  disagree me on that one.
• 18:10
  >> Okay, Perry, you're up me.
• 18:12
  >> Uh it is same same but different. It's
• 18:15
  London Blitz B, which I assume is the
• 18:17
  same place.
• 18:20
  >> It's a toss up and for two different
• 18:22
  reasons. So that that for all of the
• 18:24
  reasons you just said about that pitch,
• 18:25
  it's uneven and stuff like that. Um I
• 18:28
  believe at one point our QB got his foot
• 18:31
  stuck in the ground when he was trying
• 18:32
  to go into a drop back and like just
• 18:34
  fell. Um but that that I would probably
• 18:37
  say that but also when it's really
• 18:39
  sunny. Oh, I hate the cheetah's ground
• 18:42
  so much when it's sunny. I just get so
• 18:45
  cut up like that. It's so dry. I don't
• 18:48
  know why it's drier than normal pl other
• 18:49
  places. I'm I'm sure of it. Um, but at
• 18:52
  the same time they do make their end
• 18:54
  zones and their halfway line look cool.
• 18:56
  So, you know, swings and roundabouts.
• 18:58
  >> They do. They do
• 18:58
  >> swings and roundabouts for them. So,
• 19:00
  I'll probably say Blitz I'll probably
• 19:01
  say that that one game I played Blitz
• 19:04
  against because there was a playoff.
• 19:06
  >> Okay. Going back to your group.
• 19:08
  Obviously, we know who your opponents
• 19:09
  are.
• 19:10
  >> Yeah.
• 19:10
  >> And I'm going to come out with a very
• 19:11
  very blunt question
• 19:13
  this year.
• 19:16
  >> Oh, straight into it. Oh,
• 19:19
  >> didn't even have to think about
• 19:22
  all of it.
• 19:23
  >> I would expect other people from other
• 19:26
  teams to say exactly the same thing.
• 19:28
  That's what I would expect. I believe I
• 19:31
  >> I have a lot of belief in us this year
• 19:33
  as as as as I should otherwise, you
• 19:36
  know, that everyone needs to have this
• 19:38
  set of beliefs. So, you know, I I I'm
• 19:40
  looking forward to it. I'm looking
• 19:41
  forward to the challenge. Obviously
• 19:43
  without without obviously disclosing too
• 19:45
  much, have you had a good sort of
• 19:47
  pre-season with recruitment um getting
• 19:50
  people through the door? Obviously
• 19:51
  you've got the link in with the
• 19:52
  university.
• 19:54
  >> Um have you got a lot of guys coming in
• 19:55
  from them? I know you know from the cats
• 19:57
  we obviously have three fairly big
• 19:59
  universities that we sort of pull from
• 20:02
  when it comes to this time of year when
• 20:03
  their season starts.
• 20:05
  >> Say the word poach.
• 20:07
  >> Poach. Poach. Well, I don't like poach.
• 20:09
  I just like, you know, forceful in
• 20:11
  >> I love it.
• 20:16
  >> So, what was it what was the question
• 20:17
  again?
• 20:19
  >> How how have you recruited? Well,
• 20:21
  >> I think we have. Yeah, there there has
• 20:22
  been we're in the double digits with
• 20:24
  recruitment quite easily. So, that's
• 20:27
  good. Obviously, you expect some natural
• 20:29
  uh tail off with that roughly 30%. So,
• 20:32
  you know, hopefully we'll be able to
• 20:33
  keep double digits. We've had a couple
• 20:36
  of players come up from Paul. Obviously,
• 20:37
  they've aged out of there now. Um, one
• 20:40
  of them is looking spectacular. Um, and
• 20:43
  then obviously once the uniball season's
• 20:45
  over, potentially we'll get more come
• 20:48
  across. Obviously, some people would
• 20:49
  like to go home to their families and
• 20:50
  stuff, which you totally understand, but
• 20:52
  hopefully, yeah, we'll get more coming
• 20:54
  over from there. So, hopefully we should
• 20:55
  have a really nice healthy squad come
• 20:57
  week one.
• 20:58
  >> Perfect. Um, I want to know you got into
• 21:00
  football. So,
• 21:02
  >> American football. Oh, what else is it?
• 21:04
  Uh, watching or playing? watching or
• 21:06
  playing?
• 21:07
  >> Watching or playing?
• 21:09
  >> Um, both. Give us give us Yes. Both.
• 21:12
  Both.
• 21:13
  >> All right. So, I became an Eagles fan. I
• 21:15
  can tell you date. I'm pretty sure I
• 21:17
  know the date. January 20th, 2004. Uh,
• 21:19
  so I was 13. Um, I was watching on
• 21:22
  channel 5. It was Packers Eagles in the
• 21:24
  playoffs. It was fourth and 24. Um, and
• 21:28
  McNab just rifled one into Freddy
• 21:31
  Mitchell who got the first down and we
• 21:32
  won that game. and that turned me into
• 21:34
  an Eagles fan.
• 21:36
  So that's how I started watching
• 21:38
  football. Uh it was obviously until the
• 21:40
  teens 20 until the 2010s, we didn't
• 21:43
  really have it proper mainstream, did
• 21:44
  we? It was when we had Ceil and Kevin
• 21:47
  Kadel back on Sky Sports like and then
• 21:50
  obviously it's it's grown into Red Zone,
• 21:51
  etc. So that's how I've that's how I got
• 21:53
  into watching it. How I got into playing
• 21:54
  it was uh our old GM um he had tried to
• 21:59
  tap me up a few times at the gym through
• 22:01
  my brother and stuff like that just like
• 22:03
  try and get people on. But it was
• 22:04
  actually a friend of mine that I have in
• 22:06
  my NFL WhatsApp chat who we just we're
• 22:09
  just fans of NFL. They don't play it.
• 22:11
  I'm the only one that plays it. But he
• 22:12
  was just like one day he was like, "Hey,
• 22:14
  do you want to come down and try out for
• 22:15
  the Bobcats?" And I was like, "I've
• 22:17
  always been too scared to. So yes, if
• 22:19
  you're going down, I will go down." Um
• 22:21
  and that's how I started out. And it was
• 22:23
  it was great. It was happen stance as it
• 22:24
  were, but I just fell in love with it
• 22:26
  immediately. Every I wanted to be a
• 22:28
  running back as everyone did the first
• 22:30
  session and by the end of the session I
• 22:32
  was a corner. So there we go.
• 22:35
  >> That's brilliant. You got any questions
• 22:36
  before I go on to the next one?
• 22:38
  >> Yeah, I was just about to say how did
• 22:39
  you end up as
• 22:40
  >> Yeah, I mean most people most people
• 22:44
  come to to the cats and say I want to be
• 22:46
  a wide receiver and then realize that
• 22:48
  they can't catch and end up as a corner.
• 22:49
  So I'm just wondering if it was the same
• 22:50
  scenario.
• 22:51
  >> Not at all. uh weaken you you you you
• 22:53
  can ask many former Bobcat players that
• 22:56
  I made an incredible pick at the end of
• 22:58
  training yesterday. So that's not the
• 22:59
  case for me. Um I I just I I I it just
• 23:04
  works for me better. I don't know why.
• 23:06
  Like I the So I I used to do gymnastics
• 23:09
  and trampolining when I was a kid. So I
• 23:11
  have all of this mobility and I have a
• 23:12
  lot of this good positive body
• 23:14
  propriception that I can throw my body
• 23:16
  in any way direction and it knows what
• 23:18
  it's doing. So backpedaling to me isn't
• 23:21
  an issue and it never has been. And I
• 23:24
  just I love the position because I'm
• 23:26
  either the hero or the villain and I
• 23:28
  love that pressure.
• 23:30
  >> So
• 23:31
  >> awesome.
• 23:32
  >> And usually the hero.
• 23:34
  >> Awesome.
• 23:34
  >> Yeah.
• 23:35
  >> You mentioned it was the club's 40th
• 23:37
  anniversary. Um
• 23:39
  >> you've got a Saturday night game. Will
• 23:41
  any old players be turning up? What
• 23:42
  what's the plan for that?
• 23:43
  >> For sure. Yeah. So, we've got So, we do
• 23:46
  plan to have a number of alumni, ex
• 23:49
  Bobcat players come down. Um, hopefully
• 23:52
  all players all the way back from the '
• 23:54
  90s and ' 80s. But, you know, we'll see
• 23:55
  what what happens. But, it's uh yeah,
• 23:57
  we're calling our homecoming game. So,
• 24:00
  uh we we tried to do it last year, but
• 24:01
  it rained really badly, so it didn't go
• 24:03
  as as we planned to. But this year,
• 24:05
  hopefully, it'll be really really good.
• 24:07
  And uh yeah, at Halime, I I think at
• 24:09
  halftime, we're going to have like a a
• 24:10
  presentation for the alumni and stuff
• 24:12
  like that. Um there may there may be
• 24:15
  more stuff, but that's still in the
• 24:16
  planning stage at the moment. So yeah,
• 24:18
  looking forward to that. It's going to
• 24:19
  be cool. Just I I wish I just kind of
• 24:22
  wish it was going to be a Saturday night
• 24:24
  game because it's going to be in June
• 24:26
  and it it's not going to be dark, is it?
• 24:28
  It's going to be like dusk, so it's not
• 24:30
  quite a Saturday night game.
• 24:32
  >> You um you mentioned that you're also
• 24:34
  doing an armed forces day as well. No,
• 24:35
  I'm I'm exmilitary myself. Um my last
• 24:38
  posting was was down on the south coast
• 24:40
  just outside Portsmouth. Um, have you
• 24:44
  got any sort of have you got some
• 24:45
  affiliations with some local garrisons,
• 24:47
  regiments and inviting them down to
• 24:49
  come?
• 24:49
  >> Well, we a fair few of our team members
• 24:52
  also play for the army team. Um,
• 24:55
  and and RAF as well. We have some RAF
• 24:58
  members in there as well. Like we we're
• 25:00
  we're well verssed in the forces in our
• 25:01
  team. It's just good. Uh, what else was
• 25:04
  I going to serve? Lost my trail of
• 25:05
  thought. Um,
• 25:07
  >> what was your question again? Sorry, I
• 25:08
  do this sometimes.
• 25:10
  Have you got any regiments going down
• 25:11
  any?
• 25:12
  >> So, um, so we again planning sessions,
• 25:14
  but our GM is, uh, our GM has a high
• 25:17
  position at the tank museum down in
• 25:19
  Bobington. So,
• 25:21
  >> Oh, yeah.
• 25:21
  >> I I don't know if that means a tank will
• 25:24
  come down. I assume it's not, but like
• 25:26
  um, yeah,
• 25:28
  >> you never know. You never know.
• 25:30
  >> I think I think we do have plans to have
• 25:33
  marching band at Halime as well. Um, so
• 25:36
  we we're we're trying to make it as
• 25:38
  armed forces inclusive as we can.
• 25:40
  Hopefully bring down some vehicles.
• 25:42
  Maybe that's that's the that would be
• 25:44
  great if we can do that. But yeah, a lot
• 25:46
  of it's in planning. So anything I'm
• 25:47
  saying is a is a maybe as it were for
• 25:50
  happening because obviously there's a
• 25:51
  lot of planning going on.
• 25:52
  >> Reach for the stars, man. I think the
• 25:54
  better you aim, the better it'll be.
• 25:56
  >> Yeah, absolutely.
• 25:57
  >> That's why I said top. If I don't say
• 25:58
  it, I can't manifest it.
• 26:00
  >> No, no. And if you don't say it, it's
• 26:02
  div mentality.
• 26:03
  >> You know what I mean?
• 26:04
  I say that all the time. Um well,
• 26:07
  obviously we're coming up to the end of
• 26:08
  the program. Um thank you very much for
• 26:11
  coming on. Um when's your first game of
• 26:13
  the season?
• 26:15
  >> Now you're asking me. I think it's
• 26:16
  April.
• 26:18
  You're asking me. The thing is I'm
• 26:19
  looking at this.
• 26:20
  >> Yeah. Well, we we posted our schedule
• 26:22
  earlier, so you could have a look if you
• 26:24
  could have a look. I'm on my phone so I
• 26:25
  can have a look, but we posted our
• 26:26
  schedule a couple of hours.
• 26:27
  >> One minute, mate. I'll do that for you.
• 26:29
  Two seconds. Have a look.
• 26:31
  >> Okay. So 3rd of April away to
• 26:35
  >> South
• 26:37
  I thought it's the 19th. So I'm glad
• 26:39
  it's not like I was not going to be
• 26:40
  there. So yeah,
• 26:41
  >> South Wales Warriors and but you've got
• 26:44
  you've got two games in a row against
• 26:45
  South Wales Warriors. Then you've got
• 26:46
  two weeks off and then you're against
• 26:48
  Bournemouth Bobcats where you got then
• 26:51
  you've got three games in a row. Oh,
• 26:55
  >> they're always the tough ones when you
• 26:56
  got three.
• 26:57
  >> My team's got four.
• 26:59
  four games on the bounce.
• 27:01
  >> I think we I think we had we had three
• 27:02
  away games on the bounce last year, I'm
• 27:04
  pretty sure. And then we had like a mass
• 27:06
  and then we had like a month break
• 27:08
  before our next game. So, we couldn't
• 27:10
  really like keep in like the game. So,
• 27:12
  maybe that contributed to the to the
• 27:13
  record, but I don't know. But, you know,
• 27:15
  you play the you play the schedule
• 27:17
  that's in front of you at the end of the
• 27:18
  day. So, can't complain about it.
• 27:20
  >> Absolutely.
• 27:23
  >> Absolutely. Uh, not too sure where uh
• 27:27
  >> I got kicked off.
• 27:31
  Right. Um, Perry, will you come on again
• 27:34
  when we've got the when we do the the
• 27:35
  the live broadcast? Um, obviously in it
• 27:38
  from games mode uh game week onwards,
• 27:39
  we'll be live on a Monday. Would you
• 27:41
  come back on again?
• 27:42
  >> I' I' I'd love to. Yeah, I'd love to.
• 27:45
  >> Awesome. Um, obviously, um, folks, we're
• 27:49
  going to be putting up, uh, recorded
• 27:51
  streams, uh, every Monday to talk about,
• 27:53
  uh, Monday Night Holder. We want people
• 27:55
  to know about, uh, other teams in Brit.
• 27:57
  So, if you want to come on and tell us
• 27:58
  about your team, what's going on, please
• 28:00
  do. Just remember, it is a PJ PG
• 28:02
  program. We don't want to swear. We
• 28:04
  don't want to, we're not like that. Um,
• 28:06
  we just want every, you know, this to
• 28:07
  be, uh, acceptable for everyone. Um, so,
• 28:11
  right, let's do this. Uh, thank you very
• 28:13
  much for joining us. Uh, it's been the
• 28:14
  first episode of Monday Night Huddle.
• 28:17
  I'd be Matteo.
• 28:19
  >> Oh, you're muted. You're muted. I can't
• 28:22
  even hear you.
• 28:23
  >> I can hear him.
• 28:25
  >> He's been Lee and he's been
• 28:27
  >> I've been Perry.
• 28:28
  >> Thank you very much. Uh, folks, we will
• 28:30
  see you next week. Lee, as usual, you're
• 28:33
  speechless. Cheers, folks. Take care.