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Speaker 1: Now it's time for tensions that We're running high at

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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to Tensions Running High, a Penrith

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do it best on the agenda. Today, the Panthers are

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back in action. We give our Las Vegas thoughts that

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roof on Penrith Stadium and which player will be the

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big breakout Penrith In twenty twenty six, So let's kick

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things off because the Panthers are back in action Friday night,

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Round one against the Brisbane Broncos. I think it's one

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hundred and fifty nine days since that preliminary final loss

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at sun Corp Stadium and we returned to the scene,

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which is pretty fortuitous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Troy. It's hard to believe it's been

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been that long between, you know, between Penwouth Panthers games,

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and it's been such a long time since peneoth have

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actually won a game too. We obviously missed them in

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the trials that he can get to sneak home or win.

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So hopefully after one hundred and fifty nine odd days,

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we finally get some revenge, Troy. I know the Panthers

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aren't really talking revenge, but for fans, we want to

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beat those Broncos. Is Friday, well I have.

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Speaker 2: And Cleary, Yeah, he was dismissing the revenge talk in

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his press are on Monday, which you would expect him

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to do. He's not going to talk up, he's not

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going to Raynau or anything like that. But I'm sure

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it would still be stinging and burning the other Panthers players.

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So I have no doubt that that may not the

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word revenge, but certainly some well at least some retribution maybe, yeah,

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for sure for what happened back there. But as I

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haven't said, well, they don't hand back the rings of

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the trophy if you win. But we'll see what happens.

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Now we're recording this late Tuesday afternoon. The team lists

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have just dropped.

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Speaker 1: They have.

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Speaker 2: Now, is there any significant surprises in the Panthers list.

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We've already got the word that Liam Martin wouldn't play

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in Round one, both he and Liam Henry still battling injuries.

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Sorenson and Luke Garner. So obviously Luke Garner will take

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the role of Liam Martin, who is out with a

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calf injury. It was confirmed yesterday a calf strain. I

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don't think it's going to keep him up for too long.

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some of these guys and just turns out they've just

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got cuff strains. It's crazy. I think the bench is

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the one that we are most interested in because obviously

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it's now going to be a six man bench, right Troy,

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instead of the usual four. So any of these six

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players on Friday will get the call up, so I'll

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run through them. So at fourteen you have Jack Cogger,

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fifteen Lun Pattaya, sixteen Isaiah Papale, seventeen Kilani Going, eighteen,

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Tom Jenkins, and nineteen Freddie Lassek. So at this stage

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that's your that's your six that I ever can choose from.

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Cioni Fanua floating around in jumpers twenty twenty one and

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twenty two, which i'd imagine by kickoff he can sort

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it can still bring those And I don't

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know if we're still at that the new rule now

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of ninety minutes. They say they we're going to change that.

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Papalee Kala going to bench. But let's say Paul Ala

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played i think, one of the first great game with

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Speaker 2: They're obviously pretty impressed with him. So I'm not sure

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what number we're up to in the in the list

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I'm declaring it. Can we have this list on the

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actual Panthers website.

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Speaker 1: It's not there?

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photos of it club and at the club, so club

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but if a panther dies, I have to look it

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up and I find you find it on your phone

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on my phone list. But yeah, if we could fix

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debut on Friday night. Just interested in that Brisbane team

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you expecting hooker, did you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, so the plan, I mean, he'll

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Speaker 1: Of They went with Corey Paiks in the in the

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Speaker 2: So you'll played plenty of half back this year because

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without without having some some issues through sure, as expected

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in what is his last season. Now I can confirm

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the NRL website. Ivan Cleary looks like he's out this week.

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Michael maguire is coaching the Broncos and no coach for

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Speaker 1: Sounds like I was Cup team as well, Troy, So

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Speaker 2: That in the moment. So i'mn't clearly not making the

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trip to Brisbane. According to the NRL. No coach for

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the Panthers this week, but very buggy this website.

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Speaker 1: And we still need the headshots for Freddie Lussk and

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Billy Phillips as well. They're just still a wets at

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Speaker 2: For the Broncos. Ben Tolty No. Number sixteen.

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Speaker 1: It must never have been in on photos.

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bottom of the school photos. But you know these. I'm

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decent overhaul in some time. Might beig time probably.

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on the NRL site. How do you see this game?

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the first time the Broncos back in front of their

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home fans winning the title.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I think it's going to be you'd expected

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huge rivalry, so it's going to be a huge crowd.

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which they should be their premiers. They're playing at home,

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there's no reason they shouldn't be. But yeah, I think

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to expect it's round one. They'll be desperate to get

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terms of the losses. So I think Penrith will be

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right up for this one. But we yet to speak

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twenty players this week, Troy, so hopefully we can do

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that tomorrow, which is on Wednesday, and get the lowdown

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on how they're feeling heading into Friday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look this one interesting too. You know, the

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broncost pant has been scheduled for round one. I'm a

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believer that you want to play the Premiers pretty early

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in the season because they as we've seen with Penrith,

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world club challenge, obviously players who played all the way

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Speaker 1: Yeah, have been pretty successful in their first round up game.

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won most of them. Was the last year in Vegas

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they won, remember that one. Some good memories from that game.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, it's an eight o'clock kickoff Broncos Panthers

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on Friday night sun Corpse Stadium, seven o'clock local time,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be great. And obviously Thursday night it

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all kicks off with Power versus the Storm. We've seen

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it in the courtroom this week with all the Zach

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Lomax stuff and now they get to fight their way

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on the field. So that's going to be a really

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Speaker 1: Who's who's referee our game.

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Speaker 1: He memory roles don't announce that anymore on they put

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Speaker 2: Yeah they did, so they stopped doing nothing. Buzz blew

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Speaker 1: People are going to find out the news anyway somehow,

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Speaker 2: Of course, and you can see it. It's not up

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Speaker 1: But at this stage, we don't have any rest for

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Speaker 2: No referee for our game at the moment, so I'm

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Speaker 1: From where they're still in Vegas or they're coming back

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she won't be available, so she.

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Speaker 2: Won't be available. So yeah, so I don't know, we'll

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see what comes of that, but look looking forward to

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a Panthers Broncos. Great way to kick off the new season.

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It's going to be a while before we see Penrith

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in Sydney, at least Bathurst next week. As for our

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home games, I think it's round four or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Against the end of end of March.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're getting in some away travel before before

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kicking things off. But yet looking forward to that one

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on Friday night. I am tipping the Panthers to get

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this one. I think they'll win by four points in

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a close one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think it'll be close as well.

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I'm going to go Penrith by.

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Speaker 2: Eight, okay, all right, Well I'd be more comfortable with

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that by eight all right. Now. Of course, this is

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round one continuing because we've had the Vegas games on

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the weekend Newcastle twenty eight, North Queensland eighteen. Look, I

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was really happy for Newcastle to win that one new

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coach of course, justin Holbrook and you know they're fans

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probably long suffering at the moment, and I had a

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good win there. The Cowboys. All that did was heat

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pressure on Todd Payton.

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Speaker 1: I think you tip the night, so tell me what

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you'll seek. It was like, what made you go for them?

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Because most people went Cowboys?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look I just had this. I just had this

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sneaking suspicion. You know teams that again we talked about

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these teams that don't perform well in the trials, like

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they get written off and everything else like that. But

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I was thinking that, look you got Dylan Brown there.

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I think Kaylen Ponger with a new coach, hopefully be

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a bit more inspired. And I just there's something about

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the Cowboys that didn't click despite having that pretty much

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that same squad last year. So worries me about.

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Speaker 1: They torched Penrith a few weeks ago. Was a real

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Penrith team, but they put on some points of that side.

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Speaker 2: So so yeah, no, no, I'm like, I'm stop the

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comp now you're on top and a lot of them

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and then the Bulldogs fifteen fourteen. Too many people focusing

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on that grand Acans call lat in gold.

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Speaker 1: W I missed this game because I was I was

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doing an assignment. I was on assignment for work, so

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I saw that the outrage online about the referees are useless.

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They haven't changed.

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Speaker 2: You know in the off season, call a stripping call

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that obviously, what did that lead to? Well, it gave

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the Dogs the field position to keep the winning field goal.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this happened in extra time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but can we just declare that both sides

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had ample opportunities to win the game in Golden Point.

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I think those calls, like, I can live with those,

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cause I know you probably say that if it's happen

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the Penichy, you wouldn't You'll blow. I can live with

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that stuff when it happens in the run of play

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and you burnt your challenges, you know, a bunker blunder

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is or I can't live with you because I'm like,

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it's right there in front of you. How are we

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getting this wrong? Calls on the run are going to

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go your way and not go your way. The only

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argument I will say is that maybe in Golden Point.

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Should you get your challenges?

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Speaker 1: I reckon you should. I'm just about to suggest that

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should we activate another challenge for each team?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, I think that's got some merit because you

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don't expect. Yeah, that's right to only play eighty minutes,

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that's right. Yeah. Now, look, the NRL is touting that

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it's the biggest sport on the planet basically because Las

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Vegas has been such a hit. I think we saw

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a slight increase in crowd some record TV ratings apparently for.

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Speaker 1: We know, we know, these TV companies or the NRL

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will skew results and things to make out they're never

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going to go Crowds are down this year, folks. They're

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going to find a way too. And we will never

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know how many people were actually at Allegiance Stadium last week.

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Speaker 2: But look, here's some of the stats. They're saying a

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crowd of forty five, seven hundred and nineteen the most

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attended NRL Las Vegas event so far, two point one

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million fans tuned in from Australia. They're saying that's up

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seven percent year on year. It was the number one

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watched English Super League match of all time on Foxtel. Now, well,

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that's going to happen because normally in the morning, exactly,

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it was the number one watched Fox exclusive fixture featuring

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either Newcastle or the Cowboys of all time, and it

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was the most fixture between the Bulldogs and the Dragons

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of all time. So look some good stats. This is

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still great. I still, you know, and I was a naysayer,

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and you know, we're not not a naysayer, more of

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a I don't think that they could actually do this.

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You know, we've heard about this before, you're going to Vegas,

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So I'm not a naysayer in the concept, but I

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didn't think it had happened. I can't believe there are

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still naysayers like Peter fitz Simon's run another column on

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the weekend blowing.

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Speaker 1: Up or think I thought he was help. I thought

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he was all for it. Now I think he was.

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Speaker 2: No, No, he's not all four. He just thinks, oh yeah,

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I guess they're doing a good job of it, but

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he still thinks it's I still find it's all song

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and dance and not yeah luck obviously, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, maybe because I never went and I never got

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to experience it live. But I just still I still

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find it odd that we're doing this like for no,

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at the moment, we haven't seen any American gain from it.

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Like then, we weren't even showing it on the main channel.

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Remember it was all this, Oh, they're showing on the

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main Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: Channel last year, Yeah, but they didn't.

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Speaker 1: Now this year was just on like the secondary channel

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because apparently they wanted to show all three games and

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didn't want people to change channels. But before that they

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were quite happy to make people switch channels. I just

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find it. I still find the whole thing a bit strange.

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I like it. I think it's cool if they want

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to parade it around to other places. It's just it's

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so weird that they that they're doing it, and it's

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what are they getting out of it?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think now what we're getting out of it

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is different than what we wanted to get out of

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it initially. Now that what we're getting out of it

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is a spectacular launch to a regular season. Now, let

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me give you an example. The AFL season launches this weekend. Yeah,

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have you heard much about the AFL apart from just

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the usual AA the AFL is on and whatever else where?

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Last week?

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Speaker 1: You know, but we're in Sydney. We're not going to

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hear much about the AFL here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I reckon that they would have heard plenty

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about RUGUL League in Vegas in Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: But are we tired of Vegas?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: We're three years in?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: The first year I was I couldn't wait. Let's see

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how this is going to look? They barely watched too

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much of those games on the weekend because I'm used

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to it.

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Is there something else I.

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Speaker 2: Think we go next year? I think, Look, I know

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that the talk of Global Round and whatever. I still

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think Vegas has to happen next year. I don't think

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it's outstated, it's welcome just yet. I think it's getting there,

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and I think year four will do it. But I

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think you've got fan bases that went, while you've got

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fan bases that haven't gone. I still think we can

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go there. It's when you would have, like if Penrith

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go a second time or something like that. I think

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it's probably reached. Next You're not going to have like

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if fifteen thousand, you know, NRL fans went there, Panthers

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fans went there, They're not going to you know, fifteen

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thousand are going to go back. For a lot of people,

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that's once in a lifetime thing.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. But for next year, what we've got four more teams,

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there's going to be two teams that haven't gone. Yeah,

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so Perth and that will be if it's the Titans

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or someone will mess.

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Speaker 2: Out unfortunately, but they'll be part of Global Round probably.

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Speaker 1: But then would you know how long the deal is?

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Was it a four year or five years?

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Speaker 2: Well I think it was a five year deal, but

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I've been told that that's a pretty loose deal think

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of the NRL.

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Speaker 1: But Vegas love it. Of course, people are going into

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the filling up, like forty five thousand people so to speak,

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are filling up those hotel rooms. They're gonna want NROL

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there as as long as possible, of.

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Speaker 2: Course, And look it's a little bit like I've been

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to Magic Round as well. You know, I expected when

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I went last year, I I kind of didn't expect

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that you'd walk out on the strip and you'd see

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Rugby League people everywhere, because I was thinking, like Vegas

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is massive, and you know, like I feel like we're

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just going to be a little blip on the radar.

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But it did. It felt like a magic round style feel,

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and it's awesome. I do get what you're saying now,

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like we go to a lot of expense and a

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lot of effort to launch a regular Australian season in

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another country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's just I don't know.

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It's weird. Now we've got to wait another week before

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you get the rest of the games. It's it's an

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interesting one.

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Speaker 2: And of course now I think Quantus is flying to

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Vegas directs now from next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, a few times a week.

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Speaker 2: So maybe that's you know, that's proving then, is bumping

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the interest in them.

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Speaker 1: But you're never going to hear too much criticism from

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the media because a lot of these media organizations get

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invited to go through the NRL or their organizations will

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pay these people to go, so they're going to love

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going every year. Yeah, you're not going to get much criticism.

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Speaker 2: And look, you know that I'm a fox man, but

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I will say that I think the one disappointment here

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is that that we don't have the whole day in

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a free to wear environment, because I think that it

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is a pretty great rugby league spectacular. I almost feel

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the same something as about Magic Round, I'm like, like,

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you know, the whole point of Magic Round is its

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eight games. And yet if you're only watching Rergul League

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on Free to Wear, well you can't watch eight of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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And I feel kind of the same about Vegas. But

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Fox are pretty much from day one kind of owned Vegas.

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They've declared they're the ones.

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Speaker 1: Do we know what the what Nine got on Sunday

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for their showing of.

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Speaker 2: I'm yeah, I'm not sure what Nine pulled off. I

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will say I reckon, you know whatever, I reckon. This

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is a theory. I don't know if it's true. Nine

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would benefit I reckon more than they ever had before

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of people going to their broadcast after another because so

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many people are streaming now before if you had your

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normal traditional Foxtel, why would you go away from Fox.

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But because she's streaming, like you go to nine, you

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can get you know, pretty uninterrupted, there's no bufferying, there's

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no thirty second delay. So Nine probably is picking up

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a few streamers. Like my mum, for example, out there listening.

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She has Ko, but she will watch Nine if after

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a like even on a double on Friday night, she'll

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watch the Rooster's Warriors on KO. That's what I did.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I do. Except yeah, I've got the

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Foxtel Foxtel now and straight onto the Channel nine.

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Speaker 2: All right, now, let's say that Global Round does happen. Okay,

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the question today, where in the world do you want

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Penrith to play? Like Penrith could play anywhere in the planet?

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Speaker 1: Cheeky question, this one.

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Speaker 2: You're going to go, where are we going?

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Speaker 1: Well, first off, I'd love to see them playing Penrith. Okay,

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love the Panthers to be back in Penrith. It's been

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it's been a while, but I don't know. I was

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trying to think outside the box here, you know, if

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it's alling specifically Penrith, I'd love to see them maybe

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somewhere where there's a stadium in some sort of like

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00:21:23,279 --> 00:21:26,720
South America or somewhere in Asia where panthers are prominent

472
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,759
in that environment, you know, where they're in the trees

473
00:21:29,839 --> 00:21:32,759
or in the jungles in these particular areas. So you've

474
00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:34,640
got the panthers on the field, but there's also could

475
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:39,079
be panthers prowling around, you know, in the jungles of

476
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,400
wherever the panthers are native to that's cool. Or somewhere in.

477
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:43,920
Speaker 2: The Middle East.

478
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: I think Troy, not because of what's happening over there,

479
00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:49,599
but I think Dubai is one of the great, the great,

480
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,359
the great places to visit, and it'd be cool to

481
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,200
have Rugby League somewhere in a futuristic city like Dubai

482
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,240
in the middle of the desert. Like, that's pretty cool.

483
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 2: Look, I'm actually going to go with Japan. You want

484
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,480
to go to Japan, I'd like to jump on the

485
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,359
plane to Japan and watch the Panthers go around in

486
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:09,400
Japan with all that.

487
00:22:09,519 --> 00:22:11,519
Speaker 1: Well, I guess they like their rugby over there, so

488
00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:14,000
they could probably find some sort of interest in it.

489
00:22:14,079 --> 00:22:15,400
The Japanese, Yeah, they do it.

490
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 2: I just think it'd be like a cool week to

491
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,440
go and see the boys as they you know, traps

492
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,720
around being tourists in Japan. Yeah, and then heading to because.

493
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,559
Speaker 1: I guess they've done the UK thing. They've gone to

494
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,599
England a couple of times for the World Club Challenge

495
00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:30,400
and obviously in Las Vegas now, so you're trying to

496
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,319
find somewhere different.

497
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,759
Speaker 2: Yes, how good.

498
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,079
Speaker 1: About Panthers outside of the stadium. They could maybe you know,

499
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,640
you bring one in you know, on a leash or something.

500
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Speaker 2: Now, Nathan, you've obviously driven past Pena.

515
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: Every day to works every day.

516
00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:31,880
Speaker 2: You've seen the roof as it merged from the eastern

517
00:23:32,079 --> 00:23:36,160
grand stand. Your thoughts on the roof and the stand.

518
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it was it was interesting to see. Of

519
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,160
the last week, we've had a lot of rain in

520
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,359
the Penrith area, and you could actually see that that

521
00:23:43,559 --> 00:23:46,720
roof going to use, you know, seeing what it was doing.

522
00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:50,440
And it wasn't doing much, Troy. It was there was

523
00:23:50,599 --> 00:23:54,279
at least half of that that grandstand was wet and

524
00:23:54,319 --> 00:23:56,720
the other half was dry. I mean, give will take

525
00:23:56,759 --> 00:24:00,000
a few rows. It wasn't a good look. You would expect,

526
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,599
you know, you would have hoped they could have had

527
00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:05,599
the budget to extend that roof a little bit further

528
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,119
and just capture some more some more rows there. But look,

529
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,200
it's it's causing a lot of controversy out there. A

530
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,359
lot of people are very skeptical when they drive past,

531
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,559
and I'm sure they've mentioned to you, Troy that they're like,

532
00:24:16,599 --> 00:24:19,400
how is this roof going to work in a modern

533
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,440
stadium in twenty twenty seven when it opens. You know,

534
00:24:22,519 --> 00:24:24,680
it's it's doesn't look good enough, and you think they

535
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,119
would have found a bit more in the budget to

536
00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:28,240
make a roof that would at least try and fit

537
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,240
the entire stadium.

538
00:24:29,319 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 2: Well, Look, as we have said for some time, often

539
00:24:31,279 --> 00:24:34,480
as the lone voices, you know, there were concerns over

540
00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:38,359
this stadium from day one in terms of what we

541
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,920
are what we are going to get and whether it

542
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,920
was worth going through everything that we've gone through in

543
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,240
terms of replacement. I put out a post on x

544
00:24:49,599 --> 00:24:53,240
last week which managed to cause some drama because I

545
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,160
I threw in there. When I put up it wasn't

546
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,440
raining at that point. This was a sun a sun post,

547
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,279
and it showed, you know, how much of the roof

548
00:24:59,319 --> 00:25:02,960
actually covers people in the sun. And I said at

549
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,599
the end of the post, look, this is the stadium

550
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:12,039
that Labor is building and that we're going to have

551
00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:14,400
regrets over this. And I was having a little bit

552
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,519
because people were saying I was politicizing the situation and

553
00:25:18,519 --> 00:25:20,559
people were saying, well, hang on, the coalition announced this,

554
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,240
for example. So I've written a piece that by the

555
00:25:23,279 --> 00:25:25,920
time people are listening to this, it's probably already gone

556
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,839
up on our website and is in the paper this week.

557
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,440
But I've written I guess I'm not calling it the

558
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:35,559
definitive sort of summation, but the big long form piece

559
00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:40,119
on this stadium and the problems that I think we've

560
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,400
got and as part of it, and I wanted to

561
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,960
do this today. I wanted to go back to the

562
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,200
history politically and the money involved in this stadium and

563
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,200
why and I don't say this flippantly, why I think

564
00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:55,920
labor have accidentally built this stadium. And here, So here's

565
00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:58,960
let's go back. So in December of twenty twenty one,

566
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,599
you were at this announcement Dominic Perites then the premiere

567
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,200
he comes out to Penrith Park and announces there will

568
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,640
be a redevelopment of the stadium and he's throwing the

569
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,079
footy around with Yeah.

570
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: I remember it was COVID times too, so we went

571
00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:14,880
up to get too close to Dominiques in case the.

572
00:26:14,799 --> 00:26:17,319
Speaker 2: Big announcements made. Now what is important at this point,

573
00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:20,200
because I think this is forgotten. At that announcement, there

574
00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:22,240
is no talk of three hundred and nine million dollars.

575
00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:25,599
There's just there will be a redevelopment. Now, that's because

576
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,799
you'd be pretty foolish to say at that point when

577
00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:30,680
you haven't even scoped the project or figured out what

578
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,720
you're going to do, that it's going to cost X.

579
00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:37,920
So it's just there will be a redevelopment. Now in

580
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,799
twenty twenty two, three hundred and nine million dollars, And

581
00:26:41,839 --> 00:26:43,839
this is where it all starts. Three hundred nine million

582
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,880
dollars is put in the budget for Penrith Stadium. Now,

583
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,680
I've spoken to people in the last few days who

584
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,200
said to me, look, the reason, to be honest, that

585
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,240
was put in the budget was number one. If it

586
00:26:56,319 --> 00:26:58,559
wasn't in the budget, it was going to look bad

587
00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:00,920
on the NMP Stewart airs, who there was a feeling

588
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,359
was going to be in a real fight for the

589
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,039
seat because you've an ounce something in twenty twenty one,

590
00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:07,559
it's not in the next budget. You know, are you

591
00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:10,759
actually telling the truth here? Also there was a feeling

592
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,480
that they wanted to protect that investment should they not

593
00:27:15,519 --> 00:27:18,440
win the election. So there it was four hundred nine

594
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:23,200
million dollars, but that was never actually intended to be

595
00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:25,519
the final budget for the project. It was just look,

596
00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:28,039
this is where we're at, four hundred and nine million dollars,

597
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,839
and we see where it gets to. Then we fast

598
00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:35,960
forward to the twenty twenty three election. Labor win the

599
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,880
election and Labor say, well, we are only on stadiums.

600
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,359
We are only spending what is budgeted and that is

601
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,759
three hundred and nine million dollars. Now, the problem is

602
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:50,920
that by this point in the process, the Liberal Party

603
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,960
had walked away from the redevelopment of Penris Stadium on

604
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,160
the current site. So the early scoping, in the early

605
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,960
suggestions had basically told them you're not going to get

606
00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:04,079
value for money on the current site, like what you know,

607
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:09,759
you're very restricted in space and essentially you're just going

608
00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:11,599
to kind of rebuild a better version of what you've

609
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,359
already got, which happens to be what we're doing now.

610
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:20,400
So with Cabinet approval Infrastructure, New South Wales began negotiations

611
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,279
with the Penish Showground and so emerged this this theory

612
00:28:25,319 --> 00:28:29,160
of a fully enclosed stadium on the site of Penish

613
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,839
Showground that would probably be a thirty five thousand capacity

614
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,279
or something like that, and that the Perish Showground and

615
00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:41,559
Paceway would be compulsorily acquired and the Paceway would be relocated.

616
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,000
Now I'm not going to get into get it to

617
00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:47,759
the argument about the paceway and funding and whether that's

618
00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:50,119
the right thing or not. What the key element out

619
00:28:50,119 --> 00:28:54,000
of that is the Liberals had walked away from the redevelopment.

620
00:28:54,039 --> 00:28:56,200
They would never I guarantee you, I've had it confirmed

621
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,599
from people within the Liberal Party. They were never going

622
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,720
to redevelop the current site. The time you got to

623
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:05,160
twenty twenty three, they had realized that can't happen now.

624
00:29:05,279 --> 00:29:07,119
At the same time and I've gone back and checked,

625
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,119
Brian Fletcher, the CEO of the Panthers, tells the weekend

626
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,240
they're in twenty twenty three. Hey, if they're going to

627
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,720
redevelop the current site, it's four hundred and fifty million,

628
00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:19,799
like that's where it needs to be. So in other words,

629
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,079
the government, the party in the government that announced the

630
00:29:24,119 --> 00:29:27,519
project in the first place, had realized, geez, this isn't

631
00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:29,319
going to work with three hundred and nine million dollars

632
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,279
and with the space and whatever. The redevelopment's not going

633
00:29:33,319 --> 00:29:35,680
to work. We need another option, and they were very

634
00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:39,160
far down the road in exploring that option. Panthers, the

635
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,480
other interested party, had realized the same thing, and it

636
00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:43,759
basically said, well, we backed the other project, but yes,

637
00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:46,720
if we're redeveloping the existing side, it's probably four hundred

638
00:29:46,759 --> 00:29:51,799
and fifty thousand to make it smick. Somehow labor became

639
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,920
stuck on the three hundred and nine million and the

640
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,480
current site, and it was at that point that they

641
00:29:58,519 --> 00:30:00,680
should have but we're never going to because it would

642
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,400
have been seen as a broken election commitment or whatever

643
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,920
else it was. At that point they should have said, well,

644
00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:10,119
we can't deliver for three hundred nine million dollars a

645
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,599
stadium that is next level, is world class as they

646
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,480
keep calling it now. And that's why I say, I

647
00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:20,640
feel like Labor accidentally built this stadium because they just

648
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,599
kind of went, well, this is the budget, what can

649
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,279
we get for this? And the other thing that I

650
00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:28,680
want to want to say, And I know this will

651
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,880
be controversial amongst some Pena fans. I think Labor got

652
00:30:33,119 --> 00:30:37,960
very lost in the whole keep both hills thing. I

653
00:30:38,039 --> 00:30:40,440
know that Penra fans say they wanted to keep the hills,

654
00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:43,240
and then Labor celebrated we're keeping the hills and all

655
00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:46,000
this sort of stuff. But I actually think the desire

656
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,400
to keep the hills is somewhat overstated and was given

657
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,759
too much credence. And so when they decided, well, oh,

658
00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:54,920
people want to keep the hills, they just became locked

659
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,839
in on okay, well we need to redevelop the two

660
00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:03,759
grand stands. Now, there was a stadium sitting there as

661
00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:05,759
the perfect example of what Penis should have, and that

662
00:31:05,839 --> 00:31:08,359
is the new North Queensland Stadium, Because you would have

663
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,920
had a horseshoe situation a bowl still in terms of

664
00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:14,160
grandstand at one end, and yeah, you could have kept

665
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,839
a hill at the other end, which was the apparent

666
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,279
desire of fans. But it's interesting that I sit here

667
00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:24,160
and I think about every time I think about it,

668
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,319
and I think of another thing. So labor is redeveloping

669
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:33,640
grandstands to improve apparently the experience of people who sit

670
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,799
in the grandstands and improving the people who watch it.

671
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,160
Yet is accepting that some people want to sit on

672
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,119
a muddy hill with no comfort with people standing in

673
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,599
front of them and whatever else. And they're celebrating that fact.

674
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,559
They're celebrating that we're keeping the hills. But then we're saying, yes,

675
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,359
but we need to redevelop these grandstands. They're not good enough.

676
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,319
But they're not good enough, but these hills, they're they're great.

677
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,920
I'm just confused. I think they're confused. And I think

678
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,960
where we're actually going to going to end up at

679
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,240
the end of the day is with a stadium that

680
00:32:04,039 --> 00:32:06,079
is nowhere near as good as it should have been.

681
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,799
And and we're seeing it now. You're seeing it now.

682
00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:10,960
Look at the roof, for at that grandstand that Eastern

683
00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:14,079
grand stand just looks cheap and nasty.

684
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's going to be there's going to be

685
00:32:16,039 --> 00:32:18,319
more as a construction keeps going this year, we're going

686
00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:19,799
to see more and more things that we're going to

687
00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:23,440
get weired out by, I'm sure as it slowly comes together.

688
00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:26,799
Speaker 2: Well, someone said to me today, like, hey, like these

689
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,279
hills they're gonna look weird now, Like this is these

690
00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:34,920
grandstands are double the size, yeah, the previous grandstand. And

691
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,680
it's like unless you actually do full re landscaping of

692
00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:40,079
these hills, which as we understand it, they're not really

693
00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:43,319
doing unless you change grading and so you do all

694
00:32:43,319 --> 00:32:45,680
this stuff, it's just gonna look weird and we'll see

695
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:45,960
you all.

696
00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:48,319
Speaker 1: They've kept all there, the existing signage up for where

697
00:32:48,319 --> 00:32:50,519
responsib boards are, like they're they're all there. They're all

698
00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:53,400
still staying. So you know they might they might landscape

699
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,839
the path or something, who knows, but you know, it's

700
00:32:56,119 --> 00:32:58,440
it's pretty not very accessible because remember when sometimes it's

701
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,279
a really busy game and it's very hard to get through.

702
00:33:01,319 --> 00:33:03,400
If you're parked at the Penn Square or something and

703
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,640
you want to walk to your seat in the west,

704
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,000
then you've got to do that that walk through the

705
00:33:08,079 --> 00:33:09,960
hill area like it's just it's a it's a mess,

706
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,759
and that that can't come back, and well they're gonna

707
00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:13,640
have those little tin seats at the front of the

708
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,400
little silver seats. Are they going to return?

709
00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:19,759
Speaker 2: Like I mean, look, it's just I just I guess

710
00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:22,079
where I'm at is as well, Like as I said,

711
00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:24,359
it's it's not a world class upgrade. This is it's

712
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,799
not a stop trying to sell it to us like

713
00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:29,279
it is. It's it's it's an upgrade on the cheap

714
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,200
And and I actually think it's it's almost embarrassing for

715
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:36,960
Labor that they will continue as they have to do.

716
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,160
They're going to continue celebrating these milestones at a venue

717
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,960
that the community is looking at going we don't like this.

718
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think a lot of like not Penrith fans,

719
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,880
but just casual people in Penrith or residents in Penrith,

720
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,759
they don't really follow Rugby League or don't go to

721
00:33:51,759 --> 00:33:55,240
too many Penrith games or have followed this saga. Like

722
00:33:55,359 --> 00:33:58,000
even they they're saying like it's the same, like they

723
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,960
don't know intricacies, but they're like it's the same state

724
00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:03,799
that they're rebuilding. Essentially, they see that one stand going

725
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,480
up and they're like, that stand was already there. Yeah,

726
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,639
and that is there's nothing new about it to the

727
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,800
to the normal, normal resident of Penrith, they're not really

728
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:12,800
seeing much of a difference.

729
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,559
Speaker 2: No, And don't get me wrong, right, there is going

730
00:34:14,599 --> 00:34:17,159
to be that Western Stand probably will be a state

731
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:19,719
of the art situation because the corporate facility is there,

732
00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:23,000
the media facility is there. Awesome, right that. I think

733
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,960
the Western Stand will be great. But it then does

734
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,400
pose the question did they did they really even need

735
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,239
to touch the Eastern Stand apart from maybe refurbing that

736
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,000
corporate area, although I will say they didn't have much

737
00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:38,280
trouble selling those corporate boxes as they were right and

738
00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:41,119
in fact, you had the right as a local business there,

739
00:34:41,119 --> 00:34:44,239
you had the right to design the box up there

740
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:44,639
as much.

741
00:34:44,519 --> 00:34:46,679
Speaker 1: As you want to signage on the outside of Yeah.

742
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 2: So we had some cool designs in some of those

743
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:53,880
boxes which are now gone. And yeah, look that's that.

744
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,440
The steepness of that Eastern Grand Stand now the government

745
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,360
celebrates that, right, It says the steeper the better, basically

746
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,119
because you're viewing experience is better. You're close you feel

747
00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:09,559
like you're closer to the action, and there's all this

748
00:35:09,679 --> 00:35:12,960
weird research and status right that. Okay, if it's an

749
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,360
average person in front of you, like their chances of

750
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,079
blocking you now are almost zero because you know this

751
00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:22,320
is great? But you know what interests me? Like two things.

752
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,159
Number one, did anyone really complain about their viewing? If

753
00:35:26,199 --> 00:35:28,480
you sat in the grand stand before either the East

754
00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:30,880
or the West, did you ever complain about your your

755
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:31,760
viewing experience?

756
00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: That's all we knew, didn't we like?

757
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,559
Speaker 2: But I don't think I never looked at that and went, well, yeah,

758
00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:40,000
this is this is a disappointing, like this guy's in

759
00:35:40,039 --> 00:35:41,960
front of me or whatever else, Like it was pretty

760
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,320
good for grandstands that were built a long time ago.

761
00:35:44,599 --> 00:35:47,480
Pretty good, good enough I think to keep is I

762
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,599
guess what I'm saying. You're not bad enough to say

763
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,880
can you please knock this down and rebuild it steeper?

764
00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:55,480
And the second part is that we've been going to

765
00:35:55,559 --> 00:35:57,480
combat stadium in recent times.

766
00:35:57,519 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: I sit higher up and you are one of the ones.

767
00:36:00,519 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, the amount of people that walk up and complain,

768
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,079
Like I'm not talking three or four people, I am

769
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:10,280
talking countless people who walk up and say this is ridiculous.

770
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,480
This is ridiculous. You almost don't want to go back

771
00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:15,000
down and grab a beer or a pie because.

772
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: That's a trick.

773
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I don't know, I don't know fair, I

774
00:36:19,199 --> 00:36:21,119
don't know what the governments and builders think, but I

775
00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:24,440
don't think fans actually are all that thrilled with that concept.

776
00:36:24,559 --> 00:36:28,039
So look, at the end of the day, will it

777
00:36:28,079 --> 00:36:30,000
be better? Of course it will. We hope it will

778
00:36:30,039 --> 00:36:32,800
be better. Bloody should be better. It's cost three hundred

779
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,800
nine million dollars. But is it the stadium that should

780
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:36,280
have got built?

781
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: No way, No, And like you're stuck with it. Now,

782
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,800
what these stadiums, what thirty years? You've probably got a

783
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,880
lifespan on something like this. So that's been a stadium

784
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,440
mouth probably for our lifetime. I'm sure we'll not get

785
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,159
another one. I don't think we'll see another one in

786
00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:50,760
our lifetime.

787
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 2: No. I mean I spoke to someone today who is

788
00:36:53,559 --> 00:36:57,480
pretty well entrenched in this saga, and he said to me,

789
00:36:57,519 --> 00:36:59,440
he said, well, two things he said, because I said

790
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,480
to him, I said, well, the end of the day,

791
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,400
exactly what I said. Then I said, it'll be better.

792
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,599
You know. He's like, you know, what. I don't know

793
00:37:04,599 --> 00:37:06,840
if it will be he said, look, of course for

794
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,559
summit will be. But he was like, if someone for

795
00:37:10,599 --> 00:37:14,880
someone to match their experience from before to in twenty

796
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,559
twenty seven, an experience they're now paying probably a lot

797
00:37:18,599 --> 00:37:22,400
more for they're playing through the nose for food, I

798
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,239
don't know if it will be a better experience. So

799
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,039
that was interesting and he made the point he said,

800
00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:29,320
like in a few years time, let's say Pereth aren't

801
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:33,400
doing well, Like that's an expensive exercise to go through

802
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,480
for a team that's not doing well, and once players,

803
00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:38,199
once fans start to drop off. You know, that's that's

804
00:37:38,199 --> 00:37:43,239
a concern. And the other thing that that he was

805
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,719
sort of concerned about is that he's like I don't

806
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,840
think that when you build a stadium like that on

807
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,920
the cheap hills whatever else the concert thing and the

808
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:58,840
attracting other sports, like what's the what's the attraction? You know?

809
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:01,159
And when you think about, like what what is the

810
00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:04,840
attraction for for for an artist to come out to

811
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:11,360
Penrith where only half of your seated options are covered.

812
00:38:12,679 --> 00:38:14,320
There's what a hill? There's a hill at one ending

813
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,280
and stand on ber hill and watch the show or

814
00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:18,199
the other hill. I don't know where they're planning to

815
00:38:18,199 --> 00:38:23,760
put the stage, but it doesn't feel very attractive. And

816
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:29,800
then for other sports like okay, like the stadium, like

817
00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:31,960
what was stopping the sports that are going to go

818
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,159
there go there before? Like what was stopping them? Because

819
00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:38,079
the improvement is only got two and a half thousand

820
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:43,039
extra people, and the great like there's still two grandstands

821
00:38:43,039 --> 00:38:45,039
and there's still two hills. It's the same thing.

822
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. You're right, so good deep dive there, Troy.

823
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:54,480
I know that's something you've you've obviously thought about for

824
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,519
for many many months, and it's good that we finally

825
00:38:57,559 --> 00:39:00,119
get to be put it all on the into and

826
00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:01,119
to action this week.

827
00:39:01,519 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I just think it's it's what a lot

828
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:09,280
of people thinking about. And I think unfortunately no one

829
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,519
is actually standing up and saying this from a public

830
00:39:11,559 --> 00:39:13,599
point of view. There's no one from the Liberal Party.

831
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,960
There's no one coming out and saying, hey, we think

832
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,480
labor stuff this up. Panthers aren't coming out and saying hey,

833
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,519
we actually think we're not getting the best results here. Like,

834
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:23,920
no one is saying anything.

835
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: And then when you go out and you ask the

836
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,800
government questions, whether it's you know, this week, you asked

837
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,000
them you know VI via email or you asked them

838
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,519
in person. It's it's hard to get a good response

839
00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:37,000
from them as well in terms of you know, you know,

840
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,519
when we're going out there last year and asking about

841
00:39:39,679 --> 00:39:40,760
how panther fight is it.

842
00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 2: Going to be?

843
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: Remember that was the big thing we were talking about,

844
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:43,840
and I just laughed it off.

845
00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:48,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, Look it's look. All I can say

846
00:39:48,599 --> 00:39:52,239
is told you so, told you so. If you are

847
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848
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849
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850
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858
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reliable service, great products and expert advice. Well, Nathan, back

859
00:40:32,199 --> 00:40:36,239
to the on field action and of course Panthers kicking

860
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,639
off on Friday night. Is there a player this year

861
00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:43,679
that you expect to have an absolute breakout season that

862
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,320
will be the star of the show in twenty twenty.

863
00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: Star of the show. We've had a bit of a

864
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:48,199
think about this, Troy.

865
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 2: Look.

866
00:40:48,679 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: You could say the usual characters like yourn Ace or Dylan's,

867
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,400
but I think that those guys are always going to

868
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,360
be consistently good. You know, Brian to you know what

869
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,000
you're going to get from him. So I was trying

870
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,239
to think who's in for who's in for a big

871
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,440
year that we you know that's just due to really

872
00:41:05,519 --> 00:41:07,480
take off. And I've got a couple of players that

873
00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:11,039
I've got my eye on. Of course, there's there's obviously

874
00:41:11,039 --> 00:41:14,199
Casey MacLean, which we know, you know, he's nineteen years old.

875
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,000
We know we had to get a great, you know,

876
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:18,199
second season in the nrole last year. He's coming into

877
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,519
his third year now I'm expecting big things from from

878
00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:24,039
Casey this year. He's got named on the wing for

879
00:41:24,159 --> 00:41:27,280
Penrith this week, and I just feel that, you know,

880
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,639
he's starting to really blossom and really emerges one of

881
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:33,119
the best centers in the game. It's it's obviously still

882
00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:34,760
very early in his career, but we've seen what he's

883
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,199
been doing for New Zealand and you know, he's obviously

884
00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:39,000
got his eye on a Blues jumper this year too,

885
00:41:39,119 --> 00:41:42,079
so I think he could really take off. But I

886
00:41:42,119 --> 00:41:46,079
also think base Ta Langey. Last year was obviously a

887
00:41:46,119 --> 00:41:47,840
bit of a different year for him. He was in

888
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,440
a very new position, playing in five eighth after playing

889
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,000
in the centers at the Eels, and I just think

890
00:41:53,039 --> 00:41:55,320
his combination with Nathan Cleary is going to get better.

891
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,639
He's going to get more confident. We saw glimpses of

892
00:41:58,679 --> 00:42:01,800
his brilliance last year and I just feel like I

893
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,079
think he's ready to really take Jerome Lewis jumper once

894
00:42:05,119 --> 00:42:07,440
and for all this year. So yeah, I go with

895
00:42:07,519 --> 00:42:10,880
Casey McLean and Blaze to Lungey for for huge years

896
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:11,400
for Penrith.

897
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,559
Speaker 2: All right, well, yeah, I am going to go Casey

898
00:42:13,639 --> 00:42:16,800
McLean as well in the sense that look a few

899
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,679
years ago, when we got rid of we can get

900
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,280
rid of, but when we allowed Stephen Crichton to walk

901
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,559
away in some tricky circumstances around. It probably got a

902
00:42:24,599 --> 00:42:27,280
bit messy there in terms of offers and whatever else.

903
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,079
But we let him go partly because in you know,

904
00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:34,000
the back of the heads of Ivan Cleary and Matt

905
00:42:34,039 --> 00:42:39,119
Cameron was we think we've got one better and the

906
00:42:39,159 --> 00:42:41,880
ceiling on Casey McLean is huge and I think this

907
00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:45,679
is probably the big year for him, without without question.

908
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,280
I also think it's it's funny to say this, he's

909
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:53,079
played for Australia, but Lindsay Smith just re signed you know,

910
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,679
local product. I actually think, you know, he could be

911
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,440
in for a really big year this year. I think that,

912
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,760
you know, James Fisher Harris obviously leaving wasn't expected, so

913
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,360
it was kind of thrust into that a little bit

914
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,840
more earlier than we would have thought. This is the

915
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,960
right time for me, Yes, this is his time.

916
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: He's twenty six. Yeah, he's had a couple of games

917
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,760
for Australia. Now he really should be being that lead

918
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,559
forward alongside Moses Leota this year.

919
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:19,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And there will be of course, I'm sure

920
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:22,639
there'll be a surprise. There'll be a surprise here. It

921
00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:25,000
comes out of the out of the work, all right,

922
00:43:25,039 --> 00:43:28,679
Nathan time of the price is right, a budget increase

923
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,079
on the price is right. What so if you get

924
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,400
it right, which means I buy it for you of course,

925
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,639
and the price is right is where we jump onto

926
00:43:36,639 --> 00:43:40,440
the Panthers shop and I go to Nathan with an

927
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,280
item and he has to get it right within fifty

928
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,159
cents yep. And if he does, then I will buy

929
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,960
him the item. And if he doesn't, early doesn't get

930
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,760
it so he gets it wrong. That's what you're going

931
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:52,119
to hear.

932
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,760
Speaker 1: Oh, that's our budget increase.

933
00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the budget we got. And if you get

934
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,199
it right, which you ay yet to hear yet, you'll

935
00:44:00,199 --> 00:44:03,880
be hearing this all right, Okay, okay, we go all right,

936
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,599
So two items is always Nathan and we are kicking

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00:44:06,679 --> 00:44:11,280
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942
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,400
six thirty three. It's pretty big, yep. Got the logo

943
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,360
on the plastic base does require three triple A batteries,

944
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,440
which aren't included, right, they're not included.

945
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,679
Speaker 1: It's not a plastic base something you stick on your wall.

946
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not not something you'd stick on your wall.

947
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,440
It's it's something you'd probably put on your bedside table,

948
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:43,840
I guess.

949
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: And it's a a neon light, like like the old

950
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:47,199
school neon.

951
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 2: Yep, here you go there it is, oh.

952
00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:53,199
Speaker 1: One of those Oh okay, no, I I was thinking

953
00:44:53,199 --> 00:44:53,960
it was something else.

954
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,199
Speaker 2: So you can get that now at the Panther shop.

955
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,800
What do you think, I'm going to say.

956
00:44:58,599 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: That's probably around the fifty five dollar mark.

957
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 2: Troy fifty five, let's let's find out thirty. So that's

958
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:10,800
a bargain.

959
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 1: That's pretty cheap.

960
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 2: Yes, that's an absolute bargain. You should.

961
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:18,519
Speaker 1: I've actually got a neon light at home. It's a

962
00:45:18,559 --> 00:45:20,280
little bit smaller than that. Well, it's a Panthers one,

963
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,920
and I think they sell them at the shopping centers

964
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,639
around Christmas time. That's they change colors and all that

965
00:45:26,679 --> 00:45:31,000
sort of thing. But that's that's a pretty good deal, all.

966
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,199
Speaker 2: Right, well, Nason. Next up on the prices right today

967
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,760
is a Panthers hard cover notebook it's a great place

968
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,920
to keep notes or ideas for any Panther span. The

969
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,480
notebook features the current Panthers logo and the heritage logo

970
00:45:43,599 --> 00:45:47,360
on the front cover. It's an A five hard cover notebook,

971
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,920
all right, six pages, okay, and it's got seven millimeters

972
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:58,360
ruled lines. It's double y bound, double y bound. It's great.

973
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: It's just a note no patchessentially glorified notepad.

974
00:46:01,679 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 2: Yep.

975
00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: There's no no diary, no dates or anything, just.

976
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 2: Your notes for the day, just notes.

977
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 1: But it's quite large. I was a four. A five

978
00:46:10,039 --> 00:46:11,559
that's a little bit smaller than a four.

979
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 2: What do you think you can you get this within

980
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:17,199
fifty cents?

981
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: I reckon? That could be twenty five dollars, Troy.

982
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 2: Okay, let's find out you're overstating things this week. It's

983
00:46:26,039 --> 00:46:28,800
ten dollars ninety nine? Oh really, you can get that?

984
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:29,760
But ten I got the.

985
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: Double spiral and you know the hard color.

986
00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:35,519
Speaker 2: Would have show you members? Can it for nine?

987
00:46:35,639 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: Can I have a look at it? Can you keep

988
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,599
that screen around other than you?

989
00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 2: It was that?

990
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,079
Speaker 1: That's just something. Yeah, that's yeah, that's probably worth what

991
00:46:43,079 --> 00:46:46,800
it says. It's very hard, folks, because what people to

992
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,159
understand is I'm not seeing what these images look like.

993
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,159
I'm just going based on his description because he's got

994
00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:54,320
the price on the screen, so I can't actually see

995
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,800
let's see what they look like. That makes it a

996
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:57,360
lot trickier.

997
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 2: You might still you might get there for the end

998
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:01,039
of the season.

999
00:47:01,199 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: I did get a good Panthers item overnight.

1000
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 2: Actually, would you get well?

1001
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,639
Speaker 1: Because my birthday yesterday, my uncle Peter, he always gets

1002
00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:10,320
me a Panthers gift because he knows I like basketball

1003
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,360
as well. He got me a fusion present, so Panthers

1004
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,559
and the Panther shop is selling Panthers basketball jerseys. Really, yes,

1005
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,800
so I picked up one of those and he had

1006
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,840
the price on it still, So if you said that,

1007
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,800
I would have known what it was, but I was, yeah,

1008
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,440
that's that was a really cool gift. Actually, so combines

1009
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,199
my two passions in one fusion.

1010
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: Very good. Well. Actually, last night I also got a

1011
00:47:35,559 --> 00:47:42,119
Panthers gift because we had the Panthers Player Partner night. Yes,

1012
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,760
I didn't attend, but there was a little gift for

1013
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,840
me and it's the sixtieth anniversary pin I saw that.

1014
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,559
Speaker 1: Yes, I actually did get a sneak peek of that

1015
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,559
before you came in today, Troy, and I was like, oh.

1016
00:47:53,639 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 2: Like those pins, Yeah, very good. And we've also got

1017
00:47:56,079 --> 00:47:58,280
signed jersey which is actually going to one of our

1018
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:04,519
very proud clients, signed twenty twenty six hopefully Premiers jersey

1019
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,159
I'm in there, and very nice little bits of other pieces.

1020
00:48:07,159 --> 00:48:09,360
But yeah, all the player partners were sorted out last night,

1021
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,559
so I think everyone hopefully happy with their results. They

1022
00:48:12,559 --> 00:48:14,000
go all the way to nineteen this year.

1023
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,639
Speaker 1: Wow, so that you get a few extras on there.

1024
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:18,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So I don't know if you how that

1025
00:48:18,639 --> 00:48:20,760
works really, because if you've ended up with nineteen, they

1026
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,039
might not even run on the field.

1027
00:48:23,039 --> 00:48:25,519
Speaker 1: Well yeah, no, they might not get mentioned at all. Anyway,

1028
00:48:25,559 --> 00:48:28,320
I'm sure you mentioned any new new news on the

1029
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,679
new South Wales Cup coach Troy.

1030
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 2: Of course, yes, we didn't go through that so yes,

1031
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,280
so we all heard that there was going to be

1032
00:48:35,679 --> 00:48:39,960
you know, Matt eisenh Now there's a bit of confusion

1033
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,000
over this because Matt Eisenheath of course is still in

1034
00:48:42,039 --> 00:48:42,920
the Panthers top.

1035
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,679
Speaker 1: Thirty sward at the moment.

1036
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there was some talk that he may actually

1037
00:48:47,639 --> 00:48:50,599
end up retiring and that he was going to coach

1038
00:48:50,639 --> 00:48:54,119
the new South Wales Cup team. Now, weirdly, we have

1039
00:48:54,199 --> 00:48:59,320
not seen any announcement about the new South Wales Cup coach.

1040
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,239
In fact, you asked the club the other week and

1041
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,519
they were kind of like, well, we don't have an

1042
00:49:03,559 --> 00:49:04,480
announcement to make.

1043
00:49:04,559 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: This was a week before the trial started and they

1044
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,480
said we don't have a new South Walest Cup coach.

1045
00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, now I believe Nathan, we've announced a team.

1046
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,159
Have we announced a coach? Here's a question, you tell me, Well,

1047
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:18,840
let me tell you we have not.

1048
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: Okay.

1049
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:24,039
Speaker 2: So on Panthers Twitter today they put up the Jersey

1050
00:49:24,079 --> 00:49:27,239
Flag team and it says Scott Thompson has named his squad.

1051
00:49:27,519 --> 00:49:30,079
Then we put up the NRL team Ivan Cleary names

1052
00:49:30,159 --> 00:49:32,760
his first squad six. Then we put up the new

1053
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,280
South Wales Cup team and it says the new South

1054
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,480
Walest Cup squad has been named. So we do not

1055
00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:40,199
have a coach.

1056
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,079
Speaker 1: This is the first time in Roagby League history that

1057
00:49:43,119 --> 00:49:44,559
a team is going to be running out in a

1058
00:49:44,599 --> 00:49:46,239
professional competition without a coach.

1059
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 2: Well it could be. I mean, so isn't Matt either

1060
00:49:48,599 --> 00:49:48,960
the coach?

1061
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: Is is he named in the Cup team at all?

1062
00:49:52,079 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 2: To play yes, no, certainly not.

1063
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:58,639
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, no, Look I.

1064
00:49:58,639 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 2: Don't know what's going on there, but I don't surely

1065
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,440
you can't go into a season without a coach.

1066
00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:08,119
Speaker 1: I know, like this is that is fastic honkers.

1067
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully we get some clarification from that when you

1068
00:50:11,519 --> 00:50:15,400
when you see the team down there tomorrow and we

1069
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,719
try and find out exactly what's happening. But yeah, there

1070
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:22,119
is no new South Wales Cup coach named so wow,

1071
00:50:22,559 --> 00:50:27,239
good luck to them, haven't We don't have to get

1072
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,440
a spray from any one a half time. Bring someone

1073
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,280
in from the crowd. It's Mary's leagues.

1074
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: Maybe Ivan's is going to do both teams.

1075
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 2: He's probably cold. Maybe that's why he's not listed on

1076
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,880
our website. Yeah, yeah, all right, wellok that is it

1077
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:41,639
foratent to junn High. This week we no the footy

1078
00:50:41,679 --> 00:50:46,159
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1079
00:50:46,199 --> 00:50:47,599
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1080
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1081
00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:52,719
every Thursday, including the return of Extra Time this week

1082
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,039
with some nifty new little features in there as well,

1083
00:50:55,039 --> 00:50:57,280
So make sure you check that out. I'm sure it.

1084
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,519
Odd's Nathan thanks very much for joining me, Thanks True,

1085
00:50:59,559 --> 00:51:01,840
and of course thank you to our sponsor, Penris City

1086
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Automotive for joining us as well. We'll see you next week.

1087
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On tensions running high, go to the Panthers,