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A couple of LOUD pant suits, one tired and emotional comedian and a fairytale ending for Super Netball. · No Dribble

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to No Dribble. The red eyes, the headaches,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: the exhaustion of the weekend. That was. What an extraordinary
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: weekend for our sport, and what an extraordinary weekend for
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  Speaker 1: those of us who support it. My name's Carolyn Swandell.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Welcome to No Dribble, the podcast where we talk about netball.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: We talk about so much more, but I got to
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: tell you this episode, we're going to be talking a
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  Speaker 1: lot about netball. And I am joined in studio.
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  Speaker 2: By kath Cox, who actually doesn't have red eyes today.
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  Speaker 2: I had a good twelve hour NAPP last night, Fresh
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  Speaker 2: Good yesterday, different story however, and also joined by and.
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  Speaker 3: Liz Ellis, and I am still under the bus that
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: hit me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not surprised. You must be well, actually both
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  Speaker 1: of you must be absolutely wrecked.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big weekend, but I didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: deal with just you had a big day on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and that luncheon is I mean, we spoke about it
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: last year, didn't we. Trying to do your job, but
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  Speaker 2: you're also trying to be a netball legend, and it's
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  Speaker 2: tough in a room with nine hundred people, there's nowhere
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  Speaker 2: to do so you know.
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  Speaker 3: What, like it beats the hell out of no one
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  Speaker 3: caring about you, so I can't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to win. Like it's lovely to be loved,
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  Speaker 4: so I'll take that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a big weekend and I got to
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  Speaker 3: say the stuff that goes on behind the scenes that
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: you don't see. So I left the venue after the
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  Speaker 3: Grand Final on Saturday night at eleven thirty, and there
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  Speaker 3: was still a whole team from Netball Australia who you know,
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  Speaker 3: don't regularly work in events, like people who work in
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  Speaker 3: finance and pr and like everyone like you know, coaching
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  Speaker 3: are all there pulling their weight, packing up, cleaning up,
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  Speaker 3: moving things. Like there is a whole team of people
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  Speaker 3: who go above and beyond on the day and it's
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  Speaker 3: just an amazing thing that our little sport, Like we've
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  Speaker 3: only got eighty full time employees at Netball Australia and
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  Speaker 3: I'm just so proud of them. Stacy West and her
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  Speaker 3: team are just amazing, like to deliver something like that, Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there was a Grand Final lunch of you know,
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred people. Every corporate suite was sold out. There
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  Speaker 3: was the Mixed Netball Social Club, which was another event
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  Speaker 3: before the Grand Fire.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's where I went and had too many party pies.
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  Speaker 3: No, you know there was there was like the inner sanctums,
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  Speaker 3: so there was like an amazing amount of work goes
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  Speaker 3: into an event like that and just to sit back
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  Speaker 3: over the last sevy six hours and go, wow, it's
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  Speaker 3: extraordinary and it really has proved.
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  Speaker 4: Like you could just have a flip through the papers today.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's some really good sort of game analysis,
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  Speaker 3: but there's also a bit of business analysis and some
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  Speaker 3: recognition that the sport is telling a good story and
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  Speaker 3: we've got big ambitions, so it certainly is worth it.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, anyway, you feel like you.
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  Speaker 3: Got smake by bus on Monday and I've had to
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  Speaker 3: come home yesterday and I've been out doing my grocery
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  Speaker 3: shoping this morning, so you know, the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: world doesn't, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 1: My god, good work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Monday mornings. I've just done mine as well.
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  Speaker 3: And then Matthew and I've just had a meeting about
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  Speaker 3: like logistics for kids, and he's got like he's we laugh.
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  Speaker 4: He's on the committee of.
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  Speaker 3: The local rugby club, so he's got a committee meeting tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's got rugby selections like you get home and it's
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  Speaker 3: like right, there's no rest, It's just like, oh, we
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  Speaker 3: go one. Are the logistics with this week? And where
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  Speaker 3: am I driving someone for the rest of the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't have it any other way.
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  Speaker 2: Are you home for a minute now?
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  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm home for like a week, oh lord, maybe
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  Speaker 4: even two.
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  Speaker 3: But I bought myself a new carry on bag, like
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: a new like a light fancies fancy carry on bag,
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  Speaker 3: because I have been using for the last five years
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  Speaker 3: a bag that I bought it Kmart and it served
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  Speaker 3: me well, but the handle died. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a big weekend this weekend, I'll buy it.
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  Speaker 3: And I bought it with about ten days. Spam was waiting,
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  Speaker 3: and I was waiting.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway. I got home on Sunday night and it just
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  Speaker 4: turned up, So go me. I've got nothing to take
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  Speaker 4: it now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, we'll not for two weeks. Anyway, It'll keep well.
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  Speaker 1: I travel with carry on everywhere. We did a month
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  Speaker 1: in Europe this year, I did carry We all did
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  Speaker 1: carry on. We did three weeks in Korea a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. All did carry on. I haven't checked
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  Speaker 1: a bag in years.
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  Speaker 2: They're warm climates. How would you go if you had
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  Speaker 2: to go to a cold.
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  Speaker 1: Climate Europe in April? Have you been to London on
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: the third of April this summer summer is June for
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  Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes. Yeah, yeah, so it's addumn. It's cool.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't freezing though it obviously wasn't Europe in winter.
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  Speaker 1: But I checked bags down to Melbourne for the first
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  Speaker 1: time because I had to take a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: stuff down for our bin on Friday night. God, it's
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: a luxury when you know you're checking a bag. It's
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  Speaker 1: like you just don't have to think so much about
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  Speaker 1: what you're packing. It's like, yep, chuck it in, chuck
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  Speaker 1: it in, yep, I can bring that. Yep, I can
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  Speaker 1: bring that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: But it also is a luxury to not have to
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  Speaker 2: rush onto the plane to make sure that you get
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  Speaker 2: an overhead locker. I got on the last person on
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  Speaker 2: the plane on Sunday because I had a checked bag.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to fight people. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: get on last and then not breathe air aeroplane air
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  Speaker 2: for too long.
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  Speaker 1: And minimize the amount of time that people can rest
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  Speaker 1: their penis on your shoulder. Correct. I think that's good.
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  Speaker 2: I had a very lovely air hosty though. I got
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  Speaker 2: on the flight and she goes, oh, you look very nice.
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  Speaker 2: You look like you're off to a business meeting. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I'm actually a little hungover. And she leaned
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  Speaker 2: behind herself and pulled out a bottle of water and
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  Speaker 2: gave it.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because as well as the Grand Final, we had
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic night on Friday night at the No Dribble
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  Speaker 1: Grand Final Eve Get Excited party. What a vibe?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so fun, wasn't it. It was so fun and
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  Speaker 2: everybody came rearing to go Friday night. And I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people, as you discovered when you asked
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  Speaker 2: who was in the room, mostly Swifts people. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: had already booked their tickets, but I think they were there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just to enjoy the weekend that obviously traveled
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  Speaker 2: got down there, thought we're going to make the most
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everybody was buzzing as soon as they walked
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  Speaker 2: in the door.
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was fantastic and Freyer warmed everybody up so well.
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  Speaker 4: She was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, for those of you who weren't there. We had
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  Speaker 1: a comedian I've worked with before. Her name's Friar Morton
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  Speaker 1: and she did a fantastic job for us on the
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: night we had Gordy there, which was terrific. Gave away
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of prizes and I just want to thank
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: the support of our friends at valor at Fruit Chocks,
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: at Fruler Beauty, Nicole from Cola Pop Collers, who is
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  Speaker 1: a dribbler and get on the Facebook page because she's
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: got a discount for us on those great little wine
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: charms that we have had, and the Patrick the Motman
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  Speaker 1: Magnet which you can get at the moment. And to
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  Speaker 1: Jenny Sinclair who gave us copies of Shine to give away.
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  Speaker 4: It was and.
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  Speaker 2: Bushes, yeah, so good.
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  Speaker 1: So two pairs of neck burners there. So it was
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  Speaker 1: just it was so fun. But what was hilarious was
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: at the end of our events. Our event was from
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  Speaker 1: five to seven at a pub in Richmond called the
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  Speaker 1: Sporting Globe, which is well to all TVs. People go
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  Speaker 1: there to watch sport, don't they, And we had the
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  Speaker 1: whole upstairs area until a bit after seven, and then
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  Speaker 1: they start to switch the TVs back over to football
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  Speaker 1: and all of these men and young men started to arrive,
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  Speaker 1: and they walked up and went, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: What is there's so much estrogen up here? Because everyone
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: stayed around to have a good time. But I think
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: they are a little bit ware. It's what am I
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  Speaker 1: walking into with all of these middle aged.
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  Speaker 2: Women who have been on it, yeah and so on
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  Speaker 2: that I've got a request next time we do one,
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  Speaker 2: can we not be working either immediately afterwards like we
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: did with the Constellation Cup last year, or the Grand
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  Speaker 2: Final the next day, because I would like to get
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  Speaker 2: on it. Yes, I had one or two.
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  Speaker 4: I got to admit.
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  Speaker 3: When those young men walked up the stairs, I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 3: Carolyn's organized some extra entertainment for us.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: The Jip and Dales arrived.
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  Speaker 3: Can I give you one of my little highlights from
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  Speaker 3: the night was I loved the fact I met a
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  Speaker 3: table full of women and they didn't know each other
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  Speaker 3: before they turned up, and a couple of them would
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  Speaker 3: come by themselves and didn't know a soul, and within
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: minutes on the line whither they waiting to come in
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  Speaker 3: the door, they'd made friends.
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  Speaker 4: And they just sat in a bag the whole night,
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  Speaker 4: And I thought.
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  Speaker 3: The no Dribble community, like you're guaranteed to find a
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: friend when you turn up to one of our functions.
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  Speaker 4: It was so great.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, we're all gasbagging about it was half of us
• 8:16
  Speaker 5: bagging about how good it was to embrace your gray
• 8:19
  Speaker 5: and you know, scouting about the fact that we no
• 8:21
  Speaker 5: longer spend half a day in three hundred bucks a
• 8:23
  Speaker 5: month with the hairdresser.
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  Speaker 3: But it was just so lovely to meet these women
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  Speaker 3: who'd all just met each other and we're having a
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  Speaker 3: great time.
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about the did you see the four ladies
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  Speaker 2: that all had the beige coats on?
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Were the other ones you gave your hats?
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: And so true to form, they had them on the
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: next day at the game taking photos and I think
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: you did you see them? No, Liz did. They're still
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: chatting to them what you at one point in the game.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: Very so we should tell everyone what we're talking about,
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: so cast remind back dribblers. Last year I went to
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: a game in Perth. It was a Giants Fever game
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: and it was my first ever game over there, and
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: if you have been to a game in the West,
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: highly recommend it. And I was going to support the
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: Giants because I like to support the away team. I
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: think if you're a visitor, you should support the visitors.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: That's what I did on the weekend, which meant that
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: I was supporting Fever not Vixen's, but ultimately didn't care
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: because it was just the best game ever. But Catherine
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: suggested that so people would recognize me in the stadium,
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: that I should wear something distinctive, and I said, well,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: surely the Giants T shirt will be enough. There won't
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: be a lot of us over there. And she gave
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: me a lovely multi colored propeller hat that I had
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: to wear for the entire game. And so I got
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: four of those and we all wore them on the
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: panel on Friday night, and then couldn't find them when
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: I was doing the pack up afterwards, and I thought,
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that Liz and Kath and Sue have
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: thought going to take this one home to wear it again.
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  Speaker 1: And lo and behold, Catherine Cox had re homed the
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: hats for me.
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  Speaker 4: She's good like that.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all right. I've got an endless supply.
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  Speaker 2: But they look great and well done, ladies, because they
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: did wear them did so the provide So is that
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: you wear these. If you're going to wear matching beige
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: jackets to our event, you should wear the matching hats. Yeah.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think they wore them through the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: I did say that was the sacred rule of the
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: stupid hat, and they told me they were defenders and
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't want to block anyone's view behind them. But anyway,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: well done. We do have photographic evidence of them having
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: worn them.
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: Can I tell you another way to be distinguished throughout
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: the contest and through the game and in the stadium
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: where a monocle wear a bright orange suit.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Liza, if only i'd known, I didn't get that memo.
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  Speaker 2: It was a pisser. Every time I went to look
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: for you, it was so easy to find you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then I thought, my god, that must be the
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: same for me, that we would rock up wearing the
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: same outfit. I mean, it was slightly different, but exactly
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: the same. And last year I had to interview Liz
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: in the pre game for Fox, so thank god that did.
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  Speaker 4: Someone said to me, don't you two talk to each other?
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, we had dinner last night, we had
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: breakfast this morning, we had lunch on Thursday, but you know,
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: not about I'm not fistay anymore. We just you just
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: know you're going to turn up fully clothed. I wasn't
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: going to run my water past you, but I did
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: kill myself laughing.
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  Speaker 2: It was so great, though, because I literally I could
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: see you everywhere, standing out like a sore thumb.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 4: There was no where to hide, so much to say that.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to take a photo of My sister
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  Speaker 3: was there with me, and I got it to take
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: a phuto of me standing behind you while you're doing
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: your final sort of summary of the match, and I
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: snuck up the stairs. I thought I'd snuck up the
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: stairs to stand behind you. I've got a photo of
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  Speaker 3: me pointing at you while you're wearing your orange suit
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: and I'm wearing my orange suit. But one of our
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: dribblers caught me, like the cameras caught me. I just
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: forgot that if you're in a bright orange suit, it's.
• 11:41
  Speaker 4: Hard to hide. You can't speak.
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: I thought, oh my god, I'm still such a nong
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: like I've worked on broadcast for twenty five years.
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: Like the cameras are on, you can't really sneak high.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but that was funny dinner Friday night too, so
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: we had the event. You guys, we all sort of
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: went our separate ways. I took Pete and the girls.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I had my daughter and her friend with me, went
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: back to my friend's apartment where we were staying, and
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: then Pete and I said, we just got a gout
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: for dinner because I don't know. Apparently the cannapays were
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: very good, but I didn't get one.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: I didn't get a nice single piece of fat either.
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's poor positional play by you too.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: I got some.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: Good week. I got the liquid refreshments, which was nice.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: But we thought we won't go far because the girls
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: were just up in the apartment. Strange city. We just
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: wandered out, went into this restaurant this looks lovely, sat
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: there having dinner, going this nice. Got to the end
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: of the meal and I looked up and I see Catherine, what.
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: Are you doing?
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: And then you two are in the back of the
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: same restaurant. All the restaurants in Melbourne.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: And there's that particular place where we were, so Flinder's Lane,
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: and all the streets around it all restaurants. Yes, So
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: the chances that we did end up in the same
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: as nuts.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, just ridiculous. And we thought even I
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: saw you, what a good week. Because we were sitting
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: at the front of the restaurant. There's this frosted glass
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: wall in between us, and I didn't have my glasses,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: and I thought, can't be Catherine, can it classic? I
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: do have to couple of things. I was told off
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: on Friday night by Susan. So Susan and Allison told
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: me a great story. They are Swifts fans and they
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: were at the Swifts game the week before, had some
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: great banter with some Vixen's fans, and at the end
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: of the game and those Vixen's fans graciously said, here
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: are the scarves if you're coming down. So they wore
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: the scars. But then Susan reminded me that I have
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: not given the final update on the Sexy Gals group
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: in the Vala Dribblers tipping comp and she wants me
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: to be very clear that she, Susan, is the winner
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: of the Sexy Gals tipping comp, followed by you, followed
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: by cant Now. I did say the top ten. We
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: were going to be surveying the strength of name versus
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: tipping prowess of the top ten, two were Susan's, two
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: were Elizabeth's, two were Carolyn's. Let's be honest, though there's
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Katherine Kate. But anyway, it is your name that is
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: the strongest in tipping, which is I mean with the
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: performance within our actual group.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of knew that was going to be
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: the case, didn't we before we even did that?
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, anyway, whatever happens, I'm still buying lunch. But Susan, congratulations,
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: and congratulations also to Lisa Bass, who was the winner
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: of our Valor Dribbler's tipping comp who was there with
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: her daughter Lauren. Yes, they tip the fever, so I
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: don't know what the hell she knows about tipping.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: Well because there's no pressure on them. Well, that's already
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: won the big bucks.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: And something I discovered that, of all the things, she
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: lives about three hundred meters from here. Yeah, crazy, isn't it.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: There you go, such a good event though, thank you
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: everybody for coming and came to hang out with us.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: We had lots and lots of laughs and we will
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: do another one very shortly because it was good.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: But I want to talk Liz about the venue for
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: the Grand Final. Now, I thought rod Laver Arena was sensational.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Thought it was a fantastic event. I obviously went along,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't supporting either team. I actually sort of just picked
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: a team because it makes it a little bit nicer
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: when you're supporting one as just a vanilla punter. I
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: thought it was sensational. Obviously, people have opinions about whether
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: the team that is the top of the ladder should
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: have a home final, and some of those opinions are
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: being expressed not so much in our Facebook group, but
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: in other Netbak Facebook groups that there seems to a
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: sense that this is unfair or suboptimal.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: This is the fourth year. People are still complaining about that. Yeah,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: you've met people, right, fascinating. Yeah, but the AFL can
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: do it for years.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: It Yeah, the NFL the grid Iron in the US,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: they change cities every year. The AFL and the NRAL
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: have it in the same place every year, but the
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: NFL changes cities and they have it you know, you
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: know advance, so you go for the event, not just
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: for you, whether your team's.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: In it, and the Grand Final there's no way in
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the world would be as good as it has been
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: the last four years unless it was predetermined, because you
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: need time to do that.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: You do, and particularly when you're doing things like the lunch,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: you can't just sell eight hundred texts in two weeks.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: You've got to be ready for that.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: It also allows you to get the event into the
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: diaries of politicians. So we had a number of politicians
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: at the game on Saturday. You know, I sat next
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: to the Victorian Premier and I said to her, Oh,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I just think that you need to get this back
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: here again next year. And I think she might have
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: been green. So you know, it allows you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: To get you need your bag of cash, but it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Also allows you to get it into the diary of
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: your sponsors and your partners and so that you can
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: get their senior representatives along. So we had really good
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: representatives from representation from some called HCF or worse.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Nissan just to think of all of our big partners.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: And so it allows you to turn it into an event.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: And I mean the game was decided by a goal,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: and I don't know that a home venue would have
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: made an enormous amount of difference. You sort of get
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: the feeling that the Vixens were pretty determined. They were
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: going to win that game. But I just think it
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: just allows you to have a far more professional, corporate event,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: and I think that it will expand in the coming years.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I think we'll start to do some more in the
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: days prior to the Grand Finals so that it can
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: be a really big celebration of our sport. And the
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: thing that I took out of the weekend was that
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: because we were able to make it such a massive celebration,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: the sport.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Is really proud of itself.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: And that's what I want for our whole community, not
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: just you know Netball Australia or the Vixens or the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Fever or the Sea said, I want everyone who plays
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: netball in this country to be really proud of our sport.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: And it feels like that at.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: The moment because we were able to generate excitement, were
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: able to generate you know, great attendance from from the
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: netball community but also from government and from partners and
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: from corporates, and you know, there's a great sort of
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: thing in the CBD column of the Age and the
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Sydney Morning Herald today talking about you know who was there,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the big names that were there, and that generates the
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: momentum for us, and I just don't know that you
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: can do that. And you know, one of the things
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: that gets talked about a bit is do we go
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: to a best of three Grand Final series?
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: And we'll probably have a look.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: At it, but that'd be so look at how tired.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I as you get hit by a bus, the bus
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: reverse over you and then come back at you and
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: doing it again. I'm going to balance that up between
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: do you have like what's your big showcase game and
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: this is for us as a big showcased game. Now
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: you should always be looking at how you can make
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: the presentation of the sport bigger and better and keep evolving.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I think you know, someone said to me on Saturday
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: night after the game, Oh, you know, well, when net
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Bord Australia pays off its debt and does all this,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: surely you'll go back to the Grand Final going to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: the team that wins at that major preliminary semi.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I was really honest.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I just said, no, I don't think that will happen,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: because this is turning into a massive event. And just
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: like the AFL and the NRL, and if you're in
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the States, as Carolyn mentioned, you know the NFL or
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: wherever you are, you just know that this is going
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: to be It's more than a game. So once you
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: know the Grand Finals on, that's when you start thinking
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: about No, I do a book tickets because even if
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: your team doesn't make it, you're still part of the event.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Like I spoke to heaps.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Of people who are from Sydney whought the Swifts are
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: going to make it, and they booked and even though
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: they were disappointed, the Swifts went there.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: They'd had an absolute blast of a weekend.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, there were people in it some way where you
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: have a better time because you don't have the stress
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: like the week before. I did not enjoy myself at
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that Swift's game, even for the part of the game
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: then it was looking good and on that just the Vixens.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You know, the Vixens didn't win that because of a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: home crowd, because the Vixen's got there the week before
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: in Sydney without a home crowd. They gqualified the week before,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: They're all sudden death in Adelaide without a home crowd.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So it just it doesn't it doesn't make sense to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: say that that was the deciding factor.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: You know what was awesome the two days. Three days
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: we were there, there were people netball people everywhere. Everywhere
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I went, someone pulled me up to have a chat
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: about the Grand Fall I'm talking about, gone to breakfast
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and then we're out having drinks, and at the airport
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: it was like everywhere because people had all taken the
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: time to travel down and have a great weekend. So absolutely,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: But I can't wait to do that as a fan
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: as well. No, but I mean we're sitting in the
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: corridor in our greenway before the game, and you just
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: know there's all this awesome stuff happening that you can't
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: go to. So I really want to experience it one
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: day because it sounds amazing.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Kathan, do you think the first Grand Final you and
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I go to was just fans? When we're not working,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Should we wear the same thing?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, we'll. We'll wear an orange suit and a propeller
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: hat and sit together and just you'll be able to see.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I can't wait.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I reckon, We've got ten years before that happens. But
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: and Carolyn, you can come with us too, and you
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: can be like the minime version of us in your
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: own orange pad suit.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Look, I can't tell you how great I'd look in
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: an orange suit.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Here we are got her own little Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: No, I thought it was terrific. I loved I loved
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: knowing well in advance where it was. I do know
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: from chat on Facebook that a lot of people who
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: were trying to buy tickets to get to Melbourne in
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the past week that it was priced out of their
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: out of their range, and that's the risk you take
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: if you're waiting to see if your team is in.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I was able to get I was able to get
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: frequent fire seats for my daughter and her friend because
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I've decided months ago that I would go because I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: knew when it was on and where it was on,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and that that was really helpful for me. And like
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you can't, like, we would not have had that crowd
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: crossing to Perth if we found out sort of two
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: weeks in advance. Okay, it's in Perth in two weeks.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: There's only so many flights and they're bloody expensive, even
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: if you can get a discount one, So you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I think that fever travelers were traveling anyway.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I also heard from a lot of the dribblers at
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the event that there was a spiking ticket sales at
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: about the three quarter time mark of the Swift scheme.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Really okay?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Yes? Can I just like at the game actually buying
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: tickets to go to the Grand Final thinking they were thanking.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: They dated fifteen minutes. But I tell you, I saw
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of Vixen's people, obviously, and I've got my
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: scarf because Luise gave me one and said I could
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: get on the bandwagon. This was at the end of
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the game. I saw a lot of people in Vixen's gear.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I saw a lot of people in Fever gear, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I saw a lot of people in swift S gear.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I saw a few people in Thunderbirds gear, but I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: didn't see anyone. I didn't see much in the way
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of the other the other teams. But it's it's quite interesting.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Can I ask a question?
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Though?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: So we all thought it was a record Grand Final
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: crowd of fourteen thousand, right, because that's a sellout at
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the event. Next minute the numbers come out, it's fifteen thousand.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Where did they squeeze in a thousand.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Extra in all the corporate sweets? Right? So the corporate
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: sweets got full full capacity.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: So if you look up, if you're standing at the
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: bottom of rod Labor and you look up there's a
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: whole row of corporate suites and they.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Just were at capacity.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Wow. Awesome.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Also, I smuggled a few people and no I didn't.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: I promise I did not.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: That would be appropriate, just nine hundred and ninety nine
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: of my face.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: The downside of the orange suit, isn't it. It's hard
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to get away with smuggling.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Like having a flashing light on your head.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I've got to say though, that Fever supporters group were phenomenal.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: They were so loud and they were so green. They
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: are amazing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: So I love that they traveled across and really got
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: behind their team. They were just added to the atmosphere
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: of the event, right. And you know it's such a
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: good natured crowd, like there's no there's no anks, there's
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: no like.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I just think that four crowds are
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: so great. It was just the whole thing felt really well.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: It was also nice to go to Melbourne to see
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: some sunshine. I've had a couple of this rain, like
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: what have we had a week of just torrential ray
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: in here in Sydney.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: So the Melbourn where they was stunning until it got
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: to nighttime, was freezing. I had to wear socks with
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: my heels. We were doing the outside broadcast bit because
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I remember last year I literally struggled to walk back
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: in the venue because my feet were frozen. So not
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: making that mistake again. Sadly, somebody took a photo and
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: it ended up on social.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Media, I know, which I thought was terrific.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: That's okay.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: A couple of things we have done. The Hottest the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Dribbler's Hottest not quite one hundred, and that has been
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: released on Facebook and there is a playlist on Spotify now.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: So get it out.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So we're not that far from what the standard ABC
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Hottest one hundred is. This shows a more refined taste.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Nicki Webster didn't make the cut.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Nikki Webster did not make the cut. Flame Trees was
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: number one, pay sand was number three, You're the Voice
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: was number two, and I think scar By Missy Higgins
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: was number four.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a cracking playlist though. It's really good, so
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: jump on Spotify. I put the link to that in
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the Facebook group. But thank you to everybody who shared
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: their top ten, and also maybe keep a little bit
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of an eye out on Facebook group this week we
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: might have a little bit of an interesting merch offering
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: for you. We're going to try to do that, so ok,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: but that'll be a quick one in the market.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: So what's it under No Dribble?
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: What I found it on Spotify?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Here it is you see No Dribble Hottest not quite
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: one hundred.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: So after the game, the Fox fan decided they were
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: kind of dispersing. Everyone was going different ways. I was like, right, well,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go and meet the Ellis and have
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: a wine. So we met up back basically where we'd
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: had dinner the night before, and then by that stage
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: it was one oh midnight. What time is it? Anyway
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: it was, and we're at the point where the decision
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: was being made to leave, and I was like, we
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: should go and see Gordy. We should go and come on,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: let's just go and find Gordy and have one drink
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: and then we'll go. And we walked in and someone
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: said to me, God, that would have been a really
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: depressed room, was, wouldn't it. I'm like, yeah, I'm sure
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it was. At the start when we got there, it
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: was pumping, not it was bumping. Dan Ryan was the
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: first person we read into it. He had some choice words,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: which is very funny. But they were all on their
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: way to just celebrating a great season. Great so we
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: saw Gordy had a drink. I think we left about two,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: but given we'd only left the venue at eleven is,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like a massive nine anyway. I spoke to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Gordy the next day and she said the girls had fun.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: There was a few that got home when the sun
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: was well and truly up. They Yeah, great, that's what
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: it's all about. It only happens one, really, one night
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: a year, doesn't it after you finish a massive season.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And gut wrenching, But man, what a season they have had,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: just absolutely sensational. And my seats were right behind their bench.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: It was great, great seats. But when you're that close,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you see the emotions that the devastation afterwards, and it's
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: just so hard it hurts. It hurts the fans like
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it's really takes it takes time to process it and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it is just such a you know, you have the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: adrenaline and the emotion and then it doesn't translate to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: what you hoped it would. And I was thrilled. I
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: thought it was a wonderful Grand Final. It was so
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: great to see Vixen celebrate after but unfortunately, in order
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: for someone to win, someone has to lose, and it's
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: it's hard. I really felt for them.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really hard, and you know, thinking back to
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: when we were playing Coxy, losing a grand final, it's awful,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: but it's the time when you actually learn the most
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: about yourself and about your team. So you know, we
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: lost a couple I think before we won one. And
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: like I played super netble or not super Netble, it
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: was used to be in the national league for ten
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: years before before I played in the team that won
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: a grand final.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: And you know, last year, if you cast.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Your mind back, you look at the Vixens and they
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: were devastated because they got pumped by the Underbirds in
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: the preliminary final and then they were so close in
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: the grand final. And obviously they've gone away and they've
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: learned and they've grown, and they brought that this weekend.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: You look at that Fever team and Janel's the oldest
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: by a long shot. They've got a lot of young
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: players in that lineup and I think they'll all go
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: away and they'll it will make them work harder than
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: they think they possibly can, and they will be a
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: better team next year, which is a scary thought. You know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: those younger players will learn so much out of this loss.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: It's just devastating. In the time afterwards, and when it's
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: like a one goal you go back and play everything
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: over and over and over again in your mind, don't you,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: And you think like it's really easy for one player
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: to blame themselves. But the fact of the matter is
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: that it's a team of seven or eight or nine
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: or haven't any plays, and there's plenty of times where
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: you can do things better, and they'll go and find
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: those better moments. I just think for Fever it was devastating,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: but I also think it's going to be a huge
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: learning experience out next year.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I reckon it's the first time I noticed that they
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: lack a really strong goal attack, because normally it's not
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: an issue genial fowl and Ema does the job regardless,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: but because she was taken out of the contest, there
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: was no one else to fill the gap. That's where
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I think they got quite exposed in that game. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: my god, I was so frustrated with the Vixens. And
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people work because they've always
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: they've texted me, but they should have won that game
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: by a lot more because of the passing in and
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: out in instead of shooting goals, passing the ball out
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and losing possession. I reckon it happened five times. They
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: should have won that game by more.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have been as exciting then.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, they won
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: the game, so you can't criticize, but it was driving
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: me batty and I just thought at the end far
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: out well, good on them. They probably could have won
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: that by ten.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Tell you what, though, jess Anstas and Kate Maloney, what
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: extraordinary ambassadors for the game. They are in great role morals,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and it's like just it's Kate Maloney. She's very happy
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to share her personality too with that speech and and
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to you know, give a sort of, I guess, a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: little bit of a shot under the ribs to people
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: who had doubts about them.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Pissed myself loving no good. It's unreal.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I got to say, Catherine, you're talking before about the
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: fever being exposed with lack of a gold attack. Can
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: we just talk about how good Joe Weston was. That's
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: the best I have possessed. She was possessed, Wasn't she
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: just phenomenal.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I have never seen her play like that. I've seen
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: her play good games, but she was on another level,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: like mentally, on another level. Do you agree with that?
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, it was like her eyes had rolled back
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: into a skull.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: She was just too She got put on report and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: but then was still able to play and play at
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that level. You know, because I think in commentary you
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: were talking about she's going to have to change your
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: style of play now because she's under the runner in
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: their sights and whatever. But she was able to adjust
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that and still be as if arguably if not more
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: effective for the rest of the game. And I thought
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: that was amazing.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, phenomenal.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: And so just to be clear, because someone asked me
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: about this yesterday the Fox commentary team, Catherine.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: You guys gave Joe your player of the match? Is
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: that correct?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: See? I didn't typically that's what happens. I thought it
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: was Kira, of course she did. But then I saw
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: the super I saw that same thing posted. At that stage,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: I disappeared to go and concentrate on the post games.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know entirely what had happened there. I think
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the league picked Kira as the player of the Grand Final,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and that it may have been Joe was the player
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: of our player of the match. Which happens, doesn't it
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: most of the time. It's different. It's always been different.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: They normally take a few of the experts from the crowd,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: don't they, and they head them up before the game
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: and say, could you give us a three two one?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And then that's how they do. They might have asked
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: a normal plumber. They could have asked Alzellos.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Well, they didn't ask me, to be clear.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, well was on everybody. But that's how they would
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: normally do. The other one, isn't it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a panel and so they have a
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: panel that they use during the year. So I've been
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: invited to be on that panel before I was on
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: the board, and I couldn't do it because I was traveling.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: So they have a panel and it's often level three coaches,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: or it's not level three coaches anymore, it's high performance
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: coaches or someone who's played for the Diamonds or something
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: like that. And they'll do it through the year at
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: different games, and you give you three two one and
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: it's all quite official. You get given criteria that you
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: have to meet and whenever I've done it before when
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: I was commentating, we used to have to do it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: We're commentating.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I would do a three two one at the end
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: of every quarter, because sometimes you'll get sort of really
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: caught up at the end of a match if someone's
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: had a great last quarter. But I would always make
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: sure that I picked someone who was consistently good across
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: the Gamessume there would have been a number of people
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: who would have been tasked with doing a three two one,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: and then who were in the crowd, and then they
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: would have sent it through to you know, whoever was
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: collating it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: So it ended up being Kira.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: And you know, it was really hard to draw a
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: line between Kira and Joe Weston, So you know, if
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: it was Catherine and me, we both would have had
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: to have punch on in the car park because they
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: were both so good. And I thought Rudy Ellis was
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: outstanding as well, and Kate Maloney. Yeah, like you know,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: you could have convinced me that any of the seven
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: on court were good enough to get it. They were
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: just all phenomenal and they all had moments that had
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: a massive impact on the game.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: It was great actually watching the net points as the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: game was going, because it was clearly Kira, and then
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: it was Kate and it was Joe, so it was
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: like the three leaders in each of the area. It
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: was unreal just to watch these guys are all standing
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: up and owning this game. It was unreal.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Quite a fairy tale for the sport. Hey, yeah, it's
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: just such such a great story.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: You know, the and Liz, you were sitting with the
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: lim Pick guy, so that would have helped, did you say,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Steven Bradbury.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: You know, I sat between the premier and Christy McLoughlin,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: who's the chairman of Sun Corpse, So that was terrific
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: to have sit next to those two women. But one
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: of our other board members, I sat near Brendan Keane,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: so he was at the game and I was just
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: wrapped that we were able to showcase just how good
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: our sporties. And we really wanted to use that game
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: as a bit of a you know, starting to sort
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: of pull together our database and our message for Olympic inclusion.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: And you know this, this has been going on behind
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the scenes now for months to sort of work to
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: understand and work with the Brisbane Olympic Games Organizing Committee
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: on what the big process is going to be, what
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: criteria we need to meet. So it was great to
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: have someone there from the organizing committee, so someone who
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: works for that committee and just to be able to
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: showcase it. And you know, I went into the game
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: and you want a great game for so many reasons,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: but really too, I really wanted to showcase to him
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: just what a phenomenal no or event we can put on.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: And that's just a domestic event. So when you're adding international,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: it's that step up, so you know, and we started
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: we're being really clear in our narrative. We feel like
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: this is the start of a Golden, Green and Gold
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: decade for the sport, you know, with the Comworth Games
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: in a year, we've got a World Cup and celebrating
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: the centenary of our sport in two years, and then
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: we'd love to be looking forward to an Olympic berth
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: in Brisbane in twenty thirty two. So you have to
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: take every opportunity you can right to get the right
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: people in the room and to show what you can do.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: So that was it was terrific and the players obviously
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: did their job. The other person we haven't touched on
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: is Simone McKinnes, and so Catherine. I mean, you've been
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: coached by her. There's lots of things that I read
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: in the lad up, like I played in teams with her,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: and she was always so relentless about everything that she
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: did as a coach. Just tell us what she's like.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: You know, you can be a hard ass as a
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: coach and your players can resent you, but the players
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: love her.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: And she's been there thirteen years. That's quite extraordinary.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: One of the things that she does the best, in
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: my eyes, is the pregame speeches in the change rooms
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: prior she's got the whole room listening, and they are unreal.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I could listen to them all day long. I just
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: love it so much and it's real passion. So that
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: was actually the first thing I asked her in the
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: interview when she came on to the postgame show with us,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I just said to her, given that was your last
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: sixty minutes as the head coach, and you're so good
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: at those speeches. Anyway, what did you say in the
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: chain room today? And she said, to be quite honest,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I didn't prep and normally I would have a think
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: about what I was going to say, but I wanted
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: to just go in there and go with the energy
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: at the time. She's I can't even tell you, I
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: can't remember, oh wow, what I said, But I did
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: want them to go out and enjoy themselves and enjoy
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: the occasion. And you know, you could see that in
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: that three quarter time speech last week against the New
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: South Wales Swifts. She can get the best out of
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: the players, I think by sometimes taking the pressure off
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the occasion and just saying to them, just go out
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: and have a crack. And she's she's simon list like.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: She's no different personality wise to the way we've seen
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: her when she's out and about. She's fun, she's relaxed.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Can most certainly get cranky, and trainings can be tough,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: but you know, she's still a goof and I think
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: that's what the players do love in her, is that
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: they see that side of her as well and they respect,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: you know, the other side of it. So yeah, I'm
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: not surprised at all by the way they responded to
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: her at the end of the game. She was one
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: of the first people that they be lined for at
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the end, which was so good to see and what
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: a fairytale, just the best, so that we've both now
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: got a fairytale finished at the Vixens, which is pretty cool.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: That's unblueable.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Actually, I was watching Simonon in the last ten seconds
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: and she actually looked really emotional, so I just burst
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: in the tees. And as Catherine, you know, I cry
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: at the end of every Grand File. I can't help it,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: no matter who wins. I cried last year in the
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Thunderbird's one. It's just that moment, right, it's the only time,
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: the only time I missed playing.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: At that level.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Is it when the final whistle goes and the players
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: look at each other, right, it's really you just know
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: that you've done something so extraordinary that so few people
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: get to experience. And it's just that it's fleeting, but
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: it's so powerful. If you could bottle that moment and
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: sell it, you'd be in Melionnaire. You bottle that feeling.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: And that's what Kira Austin said sorry at the end
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: of the game too, because she said, this is my
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: first one that I've won, Wow, And I would love
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: to bottle this feeling, And because I mean, we were
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: lucky in that we did win a few. It was
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: a bit of a golden period. But sometimes people don't
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: ever win one.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Well, that's right, Really extraordinary athletes can go an entire
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: career without winning a premiership and it's just amazing, isn't it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Well, we won a premiership in two thousand and four
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: and it was your first, Coxy, it was my second.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: When we want our first one in two thousand and one,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I was twenty seven. So when I won my second one,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I was thirty one. Right to head in towards the
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: end of my career and Kim Green and Vanessa aware
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: we're in our team and either they were still at
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: school or they were just out of school. They were
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: like seventeen or eighteen, and they just I just looked
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: at the Not every netball season is like this, right,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: I reckon they might have still been in school, which
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: just speaks to how extraordinary they were. Like they used
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: to turn for training in their school uniforms, and I
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: was thirty one.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: I was like Jesus way too.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: It's not until year older that you've really appreciated. So
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: someone like Kira has had to work so.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Hard for this.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: She's changed clubs, she's really chased it, so it will
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: mean so much to her.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: And they lost the Grand Final last year, like just yeah, yeah, amazing.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: So Simono's indicated that she said, I'm a coach, That's
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: what I do. So I guess you know she's not
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: she's leaving that job. She's not leaving the sport she'll take.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I assume she's going to take a season off, like
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Well, you don't know. There's a Giants job there that
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: needs a coach. But so today's the starting of that.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: It'll be a free for all. The next three weeks
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: will be hectic, and I think we'll start to see
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: a stack of announcements come. Like if you're on your socials,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: stuff will be happening, because there still hasn't been a
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: whole heap of like your own players and your own
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: team announcements, so that would have been happening prior. I'd
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: imagine a lot of those are locked and loaded, but
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: those announcements haven't happened either. I think people just waiting
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: for the Grand Final to be done. So I reckon
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a flood of them.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So fun the Thunderbed's going to look very different next year,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: aren't they. You know, Sarah meldis gone, Hannah Petty's gone.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: That'll be really interesting to see what happens there.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Will Shimira will be back, so that's a big bonus
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: for them. She was signed. Yeah, yep, yep, Yes, it's exciting.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: And I reckon there's going to be a few Kiwi's,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: there'll be a few silver Ferns. It'll make their way
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: over here. Where they end up, I don't know, but yeah,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see all that unfold.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: But before that, we have the Diamonds and strong Vixen
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Strong Diamonds. That's I mean, that's my unexpert view, but
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: it looks to be. You know, it's like, if the
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Vixa's looking that good, it's looking good for the Diamonds too.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Well, I think you're right, you know.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: So the Yeah, so the Vixens won that Grand Final
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: with no overseas player, correct, Yeah.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: The only team that doesn't have an import right and
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: the only team that's used their contracted ten and no
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: extras this year? Well, they they had before the semi,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: the prelim.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I guess that's a good fortune as much as anything, though,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: isn't it. They haven't had any massive injuries and the like,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: so but yeah, how amazing. And obviously I have a
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Vixen scarf now that proves that I've been on the
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Vixens train since the beginning. So I no correspondence will
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the end into but yeah, this is an exciting three weeks.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: The beginning of this week, since.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: The beginning of the celebrations after the game. But thanks
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Luise for my scarf, and thanks Vixen's for welcoming us
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: all into your city.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: It was it was found so good this weekend.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, so what happens this week for you? Catherine? Do
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: you get to have a little rest? I do.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I have got a big rest and I'm looking forward
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: to it. I've got to coach my netball team tonight.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: I'd rather set my hair on fire it And then yes,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to just get stuck into my girls. We've
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: got finals coming up. I think we've got two more
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: weeks of rounds and then they're into the finals and
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: hopefully we'll play the finals. We've had that many games
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: rained out this year, but we'll see how we go.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: So that's exciting a little bit of downtime, and then
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: October's our big stuff when the Internationals are on.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think the Diamonds tickets go on sale
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: this week, Liz, Is that right?
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I think so.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: They were supposed to be on sale in a couple
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: of weeks time, but I think our team's working to
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: bring that forward.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. So everyone get around that buy tickets. And I
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: cannot tell you if you ever get an opportunity to
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: go to a Super Netball Grand Final, grab that opportunity
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: with both hands. It was just it was such an
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: extraordinary night.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: From several kilometers away, as you say, the whole city
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: was full of people in their merch there for a
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: good time. Netball crowds are just really nice. There's none
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: of the niggle that you get in some of the
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: other sports if you see someone who's wearing the opposition
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: colors or whatever. It was just I just thought it
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: was a fabulous weekend and I wish I could do
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: it again after a few days.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Rest agreed.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: So Liz, you're at home for a couple of weeks. Kath,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: you've got some time off. Now I'm what the hell
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: am I doing? Apparently I'm coaching again tonight. We've got
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: one more game left. We've got to buy this weekend
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: so we can't lose this weekend my under twelves, which
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: is good.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: And then finals.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I know that's where Mad Monday girls. Yeah, were are fun.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Actually, I should think about that. I might do that
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: with my team to do a little something.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not inviting my team to Mad Monday. That's something
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: I'm just planning to do with yourself. You can come,
• 43:46
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• 43:49
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• 43:52
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• 43:56
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• 43:59
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• 44:28
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• 44:30
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• 44:33
  Speaker 1: that's the end of that little infomercial there. So yeah,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go and find another cup of coffee
• 44:39
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• 44:41
  Speaker 2: I'm Cathcops. I might do that too that.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: I'm definitely doing that.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, let's get our big thanks to Gordy. Have a
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: good week off, Gordy. We've really enjoyed having you on
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: here the last couple of weeks, and I hope that
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the hangover is not too bad.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Gordy has got a hectic week. They've got their the
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Stacey Marinkovich Medal, which which is their big gala night.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: They've got obviously a mad Monday or a trashy Tuesday
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: or whatever they're going to be doing this week. They
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: had a government visit, all happening in the space of
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: this this week, and then she's off, and then Gordy
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: travels safely.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: You deserve it, yeah, absolutely, But you know there's no
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: reason you can't dial into the podcast every now and
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: then from Europe. I did it. You just have to
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: set your alarm for three am. All right, everyone, have
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a great week. Bye bye bye,