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This is Sean's fort In podcast

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for Hey, good to have David Williams in here

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from the Perth Glory And it was a tough weekend. I

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was saying to David, a tough to front up in these circumstances

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round one of the A League season. Pre season,

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You've done k's and k's and k's waiting

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for the opportunity to.

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Play and lots

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of hope.

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The more it's just didn't get it done.

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No, like I

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have thought about, it's just probably

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a good time to get it out of the way with very

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humbling for us as a club. Were a new

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era, a few new things going

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on, but you know, it really gives

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a good picture of where we are. But

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you know, for me as an experience,

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older player, I've seen a lot

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and it can change.

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Very very quickly.

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So you know space,

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Yeah, well the next team I have to fly all the way over here,

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and it's very difficult to come

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to Perth with the time zone and this

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type of weather and and get a

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result.

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So we're looking forward to round

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two.

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Hey, obviously new coach in town this

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season, David Zlich.

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Was he going off his head? I mean, because you'd have

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a good relationship with him, no doubt.

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Yeah, so I actually made my debut against

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him in two thousand and six, so wow.

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Yeah, it's been a long time I've known Drilla,

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not that I've had a conversation with him

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all those years ago, but no, he

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was very calm. He's a

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very calm coach, and he's got his methods

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and his way of doing things, and we

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won't change too much tactically.

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I think it more comes

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from within, you know, desperation

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of players and effort and things like that.

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So yeah, very disappointing

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to start off like that, but you

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know he'll keep the ship steady.

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And yeah, as a good

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leader he is, we've got to follow.

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You must have had a few coaches in your career, because

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that's a long, long career. Have

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you had screamers? Have you had ones that really go

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off their nut?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, I quite a few. Is

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it a bit awkward at the time, Yeah,

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it is.

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Awkward as you're a young

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kid, you're very scared. I actually had

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Chpostacoglu, oh yeah, yeah, as

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under seventeens and twenties national team

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coach, and they were, yeah,

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very scary. I remember one time

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there was a free kick at training and some

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boys laughed because it went in and he just

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went off there because he's like, you can't be laughing

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doing during training and things

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like that, and then that got brought into team

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meetings and stuff that we were terrified.

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And then I had another coach who busted

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a ten thousand dollars watch on a

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whiteboard and things like that.

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So now as an older player,

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if a coach goes off, I.

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Quite enjoy watching else, yeah,

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because I'm generally not on the brunt of it. So yeah,

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I've had a lot of calm ones, ones that don't speak

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English that well as well, so it's hard to also

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understand everything. Yeah, but sometimes

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it's quite entertaining, but sometimes it's

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also quite frightening.

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David had a lot of a long career in the I but

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also internationally. One of the things that I was interested

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to hear about is when you're playing in India because

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their super league is growing and

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I think with a billion people there, they're really

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starting to embrace football

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soccer and yeah,

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what was it like playing over there and

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could just see that the money starting

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to come that way.

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Yeah, it's a huge

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landscape over there and they love

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sport. Yeah, you know, cricket

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being number one, but they still

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love anything that's entertaining,

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and the Indian Super League offered

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entertainment. There was a lot of good games

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and I enjoyed my time over there. I was the

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first year it was normal, but the second

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two years was during COVID, so

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so it was a bit different. But you know, we had

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a Derby games in

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in COVID and the feeling obviously

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isn't isn't there because there's no crowd, but

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when people are watching the games, there's crowd noise,

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so they do that, you know. But

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in certain other games, semi finals were

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playing at our home stadium. You know, we get fifty two

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thousand people there, but at one hundred

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thousand seed a stadium, so yeah,

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it's still loud, but the atmosphere

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and the feeling you get from you know, certain

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aspects in the game.

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Is still quite electric. And

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there's another team there. I won't mention their

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name because I.

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Don't want to really give them any you know, yeah,

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yeah, I don't really like them that much, but the

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feeling that I've had at that stadium

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is and it's not even my team.

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It was amazing. And the followers that they get

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is huge, So.

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You know, I'd love to see one day

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an Indian team come out here because

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there's a lot of Indians here.

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Yeah, it's a big.

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Market for it. But look that's more of an exhibition.

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To mate Ros Griffiths, who

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was Yeah he played, he won, they

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won the flag there.

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Yeah yes, yeah, so I played at the

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rival team too.

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So that was the team you didn't want to mention. No,

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they struggle.

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To really feel too much of

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a stadium. So, you know, lot

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of money but can't always buy.

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Fans, hey, Dave, take it out of the A League

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for an austraining soccer at the moment. But let's go into

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national. Everyone has a boyhood

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team that they follow. Who's yours?

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Yeah, I get asked this quite a bit when I do some

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clinics and talk to kids. I never

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really followed a team specifically,

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but I'm also followed players.

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So I followed Harry Cule and Mark Faduka.

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Yeah of course it Leeds United they

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teamed up. Yeah exactly.

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But then when Harry went from

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Leeds to Liverpool, I more

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soo became a Liverpool

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fan. I wouldn't say I have posters on the wall

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or things like that, but when I was seventeen,

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Oh no, at yeah, I was seventeen. I went and trialed

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at Liverpool actually, so that gave

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me more of a sense to follow them. So yeah,

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so I would follow them and watch their

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games. But yeah, so a

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long answer. Then I would say, yeah.

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Liverpool, I know we're going to play this game. And thing, I'm just

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got a quick one about the Liverpool thing. When you go

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into anfield and you've got the sciences,

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they never walk alone and all that stuff.

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Did you feel as a youngster? Well, I never

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was in the tunnel.

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I was just in the like at the

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training ground, training center, but I felt

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something different driving in the training center. It's

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a different way of life

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as a football or over there. You have big

6:14

gates, you have security there. You're driving

6:16

in the you know, the black Mercedes

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minivan getting dropped off and things

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like that, and you know, rubbing shoulders with some

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of the world's best and yeah, they're

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different feelings

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you can't replicate in Australia.

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So yeah, it was very lucky as a

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youngster.

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And how do we feel about Ted Lasso?

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I love.

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I love it.

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I love the assistant as well, but everything

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about it they've created it really well

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and it's very entertaining, and of course

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it doesn't depict exactly what happens in the.

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Football team, you know.

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And you know there's a few things I look in there

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to see the training ground, but exactly

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the same dressing room as the

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stadium, a

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little bit like that.

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Yeah know that.

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Yeah, you know it's.

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It's a great show and yeah, I enjoyed, enjoyed

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it.

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Sean's foot in podcast Farm.

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The cricket is on at the moment and Australia

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I've got a big summer ahead of them because we're playing India

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in the Test series. The first Test is going to be

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played here at up the Stadium. It's in November for us,

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not too far away.

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You know.

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I wasn't going to mention this. I

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was going to talk about players, but just before I do, I

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don't like the fact.

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That we have the first Test and it's just

7:29

been announced that we've got the first Test of next summer,

7:31

which is an Ashes summer as well,

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in November, and everybody's like, oh, nobody goes, why

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do they get it at Nobody goes. It's because it's November.

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Everybody's still at work and still at school.

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You're not going to get a boxing day test crowd.

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Yeah, of course you're not.

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And the other thing with that is then it reflects

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poorly on us and they're likely to take it away from

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you in the years to come because there's no one going yeah.

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Yeah, because it's November and we

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all have jobs.

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Yeah.

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And the way the sun comes in at up the stadium too,

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like you can't sit out in that outer.

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I mean they really why aren't we

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doing a day night test here? It makes more sense

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than people could come after work to the

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evening session.

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I think mainly on Adelaide

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because Adelaide have put their hand up, so we want to

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do that and we will be the standalone.

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Yeah, why can't you do it in two places? Yeah?

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Yeah, take that tummy rumbles anyway,

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all the Australian guys are out there having to go at

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the moment, they're playing shield cricket for the various states

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and they're performing absolutely terribly.

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So Marcus

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Marcus.

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Harris to race to the bottom.

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Camerin Bancroft for fighting it out to get

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the opening position and the young guy from New

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South Wales. All of them failed yesterday, so Bancroft

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made eight and Marcus Harris

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made sixteen and they both

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failed in their previous game as well. But not

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only that, Steve Smith made three.

8:46

Yesterday Gorsman Kawhaja in

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his game for the Queensland

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he was out for a quacker, an absolute duck.

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Marlus Lavashane playing for Queensland, he made

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twenty two.

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So who's a high.

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Scorer where our Test bowler's bowling

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them out is?

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Mitchel Marsh was out for nine. The

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whole list of players who you know,

9:04

one through to seven of our batting lineup

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didn't make more. As I said Marnas Slavishain,

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this is across the country. He was a high

9:11

score he made twenty two and

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this is one of their only go well, this doesn't.

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Bode wells to hit some form ahead

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of the Test summer.

9:18

And India got some got a ripping lineup

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with fast bowlers too, so it will be interesting

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to see how we can find some form quickly.

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We did play a one day series against Pakistan

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coming up. So Steve Smith,

9:31

for instance, he said that's where he'll find

9:34

his form.

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He's decided, has he What if

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you don't, Steve, I mean, that's has

9:38

made you a lot of assumptions, you know what I mean?

9:40

Yeah? Absolutely?

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Wow.

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So they're not faring too well

9:44

at the minute.

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Or do you think are they just foxing?

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Yeah, never foxing because it hurts you. It

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just hurts you too much.

9:51

You're playe's state cricket and you'll get someone's

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bowling you for three or and

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they are given it to you.

9:56

But who were the bowlers getting all these wickets? Were they

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the good ones or where they start?

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Took a couple yeah, okayty good, but most of them.

10:02

We've got pretty good bowling attack across

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Australia.

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So no, what I mean was, you know, from the

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batsman's point of view, where they up against Test

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bowlers and therefore failing because

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our bowlers are.

10:13

Really good effectively, not collectively.

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That's a bummer tooo.

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No.

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Absolutely.

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And the other thing that's still in the rounds at the moment it's on the

10:18

back page of the West is that an Indigenous

10:21

All Stars team looks like will

10:23

be announced to play the Freemantal Dockers

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in a preseason game next year.

10:26

Two would you I mean, do

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other teams want their stars playing

10:33

in a game that where they're

10:35

not with their other teammates and

10:38

they're risking getting injured pre season

10:40

when pre seasons all about you know, working

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out your systems and you know how

10:45

you're actually going to play and how your

10:47

team fits together for the coming season. Is

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that the best time to do that sort of thing.

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Well, I'm not sure.

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Yeah, I agree with what you're saying there, and

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as a coach, I'm not sure if i'd be completely

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over the moon with it. But I know the Freemantal

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doctors will be supporting it naha in.

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It, yeah, because their players aren't being taken out

11:02

of it to play, are they.

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Well, they will have players playing

11:06

it. So Shaye Bolton, who they've just his

11:09

new team, he's likely to play against Freemantle,

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you know, Michael Walters and a

11:14

number of other players could be doing exactly the same

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thing.

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So that's not that's even weirder. But it

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is weird.

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But I know from past

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experience the Indigenous guys who get the opportunity

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to play in a team together, they love that.

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It's an amazing opportunity. I'm talking about the timing of

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it.

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Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure if it could be.

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Best well served at the end of the season or maybe

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during a bye weekend. If there's any other team he wants

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to keep going, but

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it is an opportunity to see the greatest players that

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we've got.

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That's a curial talents, you know,

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unbelievable, unbelievable.

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So we'll say how that plays out. It should be announced the next couple

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of days.

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