Tension's Running High E68 - Luke Garner joins us

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Now it's time the tensions that We're running high at
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Penrith Panthers Podcast presented by The Western Weekender thanks to
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Hello everyone and welcome to Tensions Running High at Penrith
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Panthers Podcast presented by The Western Weekend. This is episode
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sixty eight. I'm Troy Odds. I'm joined by Nathan Taylor Hallo,
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Nathan Helly Troy. We are the voice of regular League
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in Penrith. We love talking all things Penrith Panthers. For
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Get yourself a new or used car. In might have
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some EV's over there in the petrol rpe he does
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to grab on the agenda. Today we have a chat
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with Luke Garner who has re signed with the club.
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We preview the Battle of the West, the drama are
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cheerleaders and buses. Matt Eisenhuth retires Thomas Jenkins in an
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origin jersey. Maybe not as far fetched as you think.
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But look, let's get underway and have another big win.
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Last Friday night the Panthers hammering the Roosters. I know
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we are only three rounds in, but is it too
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early to go off and say Penrith are probably going
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to win this comp?
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Well, probably not too early.
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I mean, it's only three games, but I mean, and
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what we've seen so far, Troy, it's it's looking pretty good.
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It's as I haven't said in the in the press conference.
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I think on Monday he did a coach's presser just
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to say that, hey, we're having a good time at
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the moment, but just just you know, cool it down
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a little bit, because there is a long way to go,
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only three games in, but it's the almost the perfect start, Troy.
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Three from three. You've conceded two tries across.
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Three games as well, Like it's compared to what happened
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this time last year, you'd be loving life as a
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pair of this fan right now.
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Do you think you'd be worried about that? Elements you
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know that it is only three games. They're probably playing
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their best football this early in the season.
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Yeah, look, they I've spoken to a couple of players
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today and they argue that they're not playing their best football.
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Yet they still believe what well, you know, to us
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the untrained eye, we think.
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They're just about perfect.
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They're putting on plenty of points and they're they're holding
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teams to zero almost most weeks.
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We think they're at the top of their game.
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But internally they believe that they've got to I still
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have a bit of a way to go, which I
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think is probably good and probably scary for the league
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to think that, Wow, if Peneth already putting forty points
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on the Roosters in round three, you know, what are
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they going to be like come later in the year.
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Obviously later in the year injuries can make an impact
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and whatnot, and players get a bit more tired and
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things like that.
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But so far, so.
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Good, certainly, isn't I guess. Look, there you could mount
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an argument to say, well, yeah, there's you know, Brisbane
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certainly off their game in Week one and really didn't
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find until the second half of Round three, didn't find
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their rhythm. The Sharks, who we thought would be a
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top four. So I get towed up by the Dolphins
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on the weekend and the Roosters. I actually still have
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faith in the Roosters.
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I told you preseason that I don't believe all they.
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I just feel like the roosters they need that spine
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just needs to work itself out. It's a it's a
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brand new spine and it'll work itself out.
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I just feel like they threw nothing at Penrith last week,
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and that good that they just prevented everything.
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But some of their players just were passengers out there.
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It wasn't good. It wasn't good roosters perform.
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You were there like in real life.
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Well, the Roosters were pretty happy early on the fans,
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they got off to a good start and then it
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was very flat, very fat. There were some Panthers fans.
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There was a decent crowd. Was it decent crowd for
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a Friday.
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Sece Panthers fans?
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It was, yeah, obviously more Roosters fan. In fact, there
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was a lot of people just in playing clothes. You know,
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as I suggested last week, maybe it's popping in from
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work to watch the other mighty Panthers go around. Yeah, Look,
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it was a great all round performance and I don't
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think that you would be taken away in a white
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coat if you said Penrith are going to win the
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comp which they are the best team by far i've seen.
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So there's been twenty four games, I guess yep, I
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think I've watched twenty two of them over the first
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three rounds of the competition. Penrith are far and away
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in the competition.
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Are they still premiership favorites on the beating? Have they
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because they weren't coming into the year, But have they
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moved up to?
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In fact, I think Peneth were installed as premiership favorites
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after the Broncos. Oh really now, yeah, they'd be almost unbackable.
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So there you go. And of course it all continues
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this Saturday, the other Panthers up against the Eels at
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Combank Stadium. It is a Penrith home game. Yep. There's
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still bizarrely people asking on Panthers groups. You know, there's
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my tickets work for this weekend and whatever else? And
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I know that last year they actually had security checking
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passes and whatnot because Eels fans thought they might be
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able to go to their seats really and things like that,
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so I don't know if they're doing the same thing,
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but look, it should be a great game. The Eels. Look,
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I haven't been very impressed with them, but they have
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one two from three well, but of course they were
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beaten by fifty in the first week, so very up
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and down. But look, you know, I know you're a
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little bit worried because the Eels have had Penrith measure
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at least in the regular season.
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In recent years they have I was saying to some
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friends the other day that the dinner in the Panthers
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dynasty and I don't have the stats on me at
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the moment, but I can at least remember at least
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three or four occasions where the Eels actually beat Penrith
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during that During that time. Last year, Penrith were too
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good for them, obvious, the Eels change a coach and
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Penwrith got up twice. But in previous years it's been
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mostly Paramatta, right.
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Yeah, yeah. In fact, I think there in the premiership year,
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I think the Eels might have beaten Penrith twice in
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the regular season and then lost twice in the finals.
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We have some games at Penrith Stadium. It happened to
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as well, so they're not. It's one of those games
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where anytime as a Battle of the West, you often
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throw the form book out out the window because both
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teams are just so desperate to beat each other. And
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I think Saturday will be no different. I think the
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Eels have been pretty impressive. I know, you know they haven't.
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You know, obviously not one of the top teams, but
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their fans would be happy with a two from three start.
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I'm saying that they didn't even deserve to sing the
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team song on Sunday because the Dragon should have won
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that game.
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You just you tip the Dragon.
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You were thinking, well, I was pretty happy there at once.
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You would have been on top of the Western weekend
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the tipping comp if you tip the Eels.
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I did tip the Broncos.
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That was a good get.
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Yep. So I'm still going all right in the in
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the tipping all right now? The Eels, of course, sucher
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main hop good out a cl Now Isaiah the former Panther,
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We thought that he was out, but now he's not out?
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Is that the story?
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Like he was?
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So?
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Yes? Obviously. The NRL put out a press release yesterday
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saying that.
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There was some some images that came out during you know,
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a few months ago or whatever of you know him
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him with some some some interesting things in the images
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that caught the tension of the the NRL, and they've
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they've you know, run their magnifying glass over and over
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the past month or so and determine that he has breached,
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had had a breach. But the Eels basically have five
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days to respond to that breach.
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But as far as we've seen, the breach is a
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one game suspension suspended.
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Which that's what a journalist think.
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Brett Reed put that on Twitter yesterday that that's what
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they were thinking was going to happen. But remember the
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Mitch Kenny scandal a couple of years ago. Troy he
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put a photo out on Boxing Day, silly photos. Still
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not sure what it meant personally, but he got done
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two games for that.
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He missed the start of the season. So what's the
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difference here?
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And that was that was like, there wasn't even anything
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dodgy in that photo apart.
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From some text.
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Yeah, that is that is very interesting photo.
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There's two photos I think of young out there.
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I don't know what has changed in that regard. But
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the weird thing is I think these days. So as you,
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the reason we kind of don't know the actual answer
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is because you the media doesn't get told what the
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breach notice actually is. They get told that there's been
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a breach notice. Now, this must have been something to
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do with the RLPA that's come up with this, because
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what is the point What is the point of letting
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us know that we've given him a breach notice. We're
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just not going to tell you what it is. That's
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like saying the police have charged someone. It's not going
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to tell you what we charged them with, Like that's
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just silly.
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Well, that's right.
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And then the naming, so we kind of know what
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the breach notice is because he's going to get names.
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So very bizarre.
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But there's obviously a slim chance that all the information
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is wrong and that the er old could pull Yongie
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out of the team last minute. I doubt that's going
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to happen. It sounds like there is some sort of
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suspended sentence which you'll probably never you'll probably never even
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cop at all, Like as if that's good, if we're
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going to do that.
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Again, But how does this work? So let's say this
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was a grand final week. Yeah, right, and the NALA
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put this out on the Monday. And let's say the
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suspension was two weeks. Yep, but the Eels have five
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days to fight the breech. Notice, so if on day
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five the Eels say no, we're actually gonna you know, protest,
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that does that mean he can play until the protesters
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sort it out? Or like, how long does it take
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for that just sort out?
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Look how long it's taken the error to come out?
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This this photo came.
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Out a while ago, this was in the in the preseason,
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and now it's finally you know, the n was finally
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judicating on I meanbe look happened to Taylor May a
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few years ago where they suspended him.
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That was ridiculous, But then they let.
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Him play for the fight in which he got injured.
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But he got injured and it was out for a while.
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Anyway, thought we shouldn't be robbed of seeing him Taylor May.
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Yeah, that's right.
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So if you do dispute the breech, notice, who do
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you dispute it to? The NRL the people who breech? Yeah?
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Very bizarre, very bizarre.
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And Carle Sanderling situation.
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I agree with the timing situation, Like if I'm in
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the NRL to sort that out today. What other workplace
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would it like? We're going to do a three month
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investigation into.
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This photos photo alleged photo.
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Yeah please. Now, it's a five thirty kickoff on Saturday.
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It is so of course part of Super Saturday, so
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exclusive to Fox and KO. This should be a big
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crowd though, because I see all the Panthers members, but
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we should have Evils fans of course filling up the
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rest of the seats.
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Oh.
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Absolutely, you can expect upwards of twenty thousand, I think
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for this one great time slot for for lots.
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Of people to get to. It's a Saturday.
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I don't think there's any real major sport happening like
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kids sport or anything like that happening at the moment
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that doesn't start for a few more weeks, so it's
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sort of the perfect time slight apart from it, maybe
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a Sunday afternoon to get a big crowd there.
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I'll say that, actually it's a sold outsign doesn't go
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up at Combank Stadium. That's disappointing.
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Really, what's that thirty thousand?
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That's thirty thousand. You've got Penrith flying right three from three.
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I understand you've got to make the trek from Penrith
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to Combat, but it's a Saturday at five thirty, so
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it's all over by seven thirty, you know, and you've
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got Para fans who.
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Are home and that'd be happy too with how their seasons.
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Absolutely this was If this was a situation where we
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were playing as at Penrith as the away team, we'd
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be buying tickets.
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I don't think it will be sold out. I could
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be wrong.
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I know Panthers are pushing hard to sell tickets. They're
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actually going to have another media op that had one today,
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They have another media op in a couple of days
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and put up another big name on that media rop.
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They're looking at Nathan Cleary because admittedly they need to
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sell more tickets.
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Okay, that's interesting. Do you think that that works that?
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So this is what clubs sometimes have, This theory that
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you put in Nathan Cleary out he gets his snippets
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in the papers and the six pm news. I'd argue
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that it really doesn't work unless you're putting Nathan up
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to say something controversial, you know, to really spice up
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the match. If you're putting Nathan up to say, it
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should be a good contest looking forward to it, you know,
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I can't wait. Hopefully everyone gets out there.
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And that's probably and that's probably what he's going to say.
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I guess they put him up because they know that
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you're going to get airtime on seven, nine, ten, all
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these networks, they're gonna they're gonna at least put something
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up and mention the game, and they would just hope
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that just that reminder would I would encourage people to
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go down.
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I don't think it's the fact that Nathan's gonna call
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for blood.
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And he's going to be like, right, Mitch Moses, it's
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it's it's you and me on Saturday.
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I think it's more that you. As we saw today.
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I was out there today.
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They put Isaiao was one of the four players up,
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and it was a really good, strong contingent there. Of
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print journo's only one TV journal was there, but the
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rest there was some good a good, good contingent.
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And that's what happens. You put up big players.
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The media want to come out and I guess, yeah,
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they're doing another one, which they very rarely do too.
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As you know, they don't do two player offfs.
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A week they have to do.
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They do whatever they have to do.
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And yeah, you'll see some more stuff coming out this
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week because they really want to pump up this game.
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Yeah, and if there are still tickets available, obviously. And
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I'm just having a look here because I thought i'd
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get a family pass one hundred bucks. That he is
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behind the posts, one hundred bucks.
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That's okay. It's a good stadia.
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Look, that's a good stadium. Yeah, and you've got Yeah,
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that's a family of four for one hundred bucks.
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So yeah, you go, that's decent.
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You won't be there, of course, I won't know yet
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another game yet's another game? Yeah, well you didn't. You
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didn't watch the Pair Sharks, Gus, You're.
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No.
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Look, I won't be at the game, but there might
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be a chance I will be able to watch it somewhere.
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I've got an old colleagues wedding happening. She's happen to
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having your wedding up the coast on Saturday. I think
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she gets married at.
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Two thirty, right, Yeah, so two.
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Thirty ceremony, I think it's about and then I think
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the reception is going to be after that, so we
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could have a reception slash footy drama. I've never really
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been to a wedding and had a footy game all
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at the same time.
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Unfortunately, I've had a couple.
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But what do you do? Do you get the phone?
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Ow?
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Are you You got to sit in there?
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Like?
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Absolutely, I reckon nothing wrong with that. If you're going
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to get married during the footy season and you're inviting me,
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that's what you have to expect. All right, Well, Panthers,
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it was five thirty Saturday. Get out there. We'll make
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the call. Get out there.
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Yeah, get out there.
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This is the first time, you know, apart from me,
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if you were lucky enough to go to Bathurst, this
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is this is the first true home game for the
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Panthers this year.
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It is I got to say. However, and I'm not
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discouraging people from going, but as we enter this second
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year of making the trip in paramatter, I'm feeling it's
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a bit more of a drag than last year. Yeah,
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I'm just feeling I'm feeling, you know, it's almost like
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I don't want to say this. It's almost like, oh, yeah,
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I got to go to the footy on Saturday. I'll
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look forward to it when I'm there.
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I think if you're there, you'll be fine, but the.
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Mission of getting there and all of that fun not
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so much. Hey, I could of course catch the bus
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at least for now. It's worth noting some interesting decisions
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by Panthers in the last couple of weeks. And we
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aren't on the you know, we're not on the payroll,
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so we don't know the inner workings of these decisions
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and why they're made, but a couple of curious ones.
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So these supporter buses, now these have been running for
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thirty or forty years because I used to catch these
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when I was a kid to away games. The supporter
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buses are done at the end of this year. They're
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already finished for away games, so Panthers aren't running those
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buses anymore. So there's a lot of fans who for
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years have got on these buses, have gone down to
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Canberra support of the teams and really relied on them,
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and for a lot of people it is their only
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way to get to these away games. They're continuing them
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for the rest of the games at Combanks Stadium. I
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think there'd be a riot if they didn't, because you know,
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we've even argued those buses should be free but anyway,
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but yeah, no more supporter buses after this year. And
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in addition to that, a weird sort of situation. Anita Adams,
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who is a passionate Panthers fan. She's kind of been
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the volunteer bus manager for Panthers for a few years now.
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She was told before the season, you know, no longer required,
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which I thought was interesting given that they're cutting the
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buses anyway, why not just let it finish the season.
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She's pretty upset by it.
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Yeah, and I don't blame her. I know, Anita, Well,
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I've caught those buses many times over the years, where
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it's been to Combat Stadium last year, or even just
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finals games. My uncle, my wife and I would often
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just go to catch the bus if it's going out
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to Alians or to a core for a big game.
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You don't want to have to get the train or
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find parking. We would catch those buses, Anita. Anita was
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almost the face of those buses. Should be there to
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greet you as you'd come on, should check that you
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mark your name off or whatever, and then if Penrith
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had won or lost at the end of the game,
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should also be there as almost a shoulder to cry on,
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you know, just a comforting person that is with you
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all the way. She's at Panthers the and probably one
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of the biggest Panthers fans out there. Everyone knows Anita
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and you know, she's just a friendly face whether you
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won or lost. And I mean, I had no idea
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the thinkings of the decision behind the behind the scenes,
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but on the surface, I mean a lot of fans
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really appreciated her being there and doing that job as
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a volunteer as well.
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And it's a pretty simple job.
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You're basically marking off the names or whatever as people
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gone off the bus. You jump on the bus and
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explain what's happening, this is where the bus is going
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to drop you off at, and you know where you're
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going to meet the bus on the way home. And
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it was just a simple job that she did very
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well and had done for many many seasons. Stray I think,
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So to say that they don't want her there this year.
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Is a little puzzling.
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I mean, they've obviously got their reasons, yep. But I guess,
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you know, I guess it's just a bit bizarre to
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people like us who aren't really sure of what those
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reasons are.
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And the end of an era with the buses ending
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in general, So.
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So that that means if there's a game at you know,
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Newcastle next year or as you said, Canberra or somewhere else,
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they're not even just going to run nothing.
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No supporter buses as far as I'm aware.
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And do you know why is it a costing?
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Well, well, from all I've heard is a costing, which
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is interesting because I presume that you could put the
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price up and see if fans are willing to pay it.
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I'm not sure, but you know what, I actually start
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to do some research find out how much a coach
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is for a day, but I could start my own.
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So yeah, I actually saw a coach on Marketplace of
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five thousand dollars yesterday.
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We could buy a panther, make a Panther coach.
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I'm not ruling it out. I'm not ruling it out.
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You know, it's a look. But yeah, I'm guessing it
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is an expensive exercise. But even if it was a
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lost leader for the club, I think it's worth it
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to put those services on.
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Well.
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Yeah, like the players, opposition fans need to be out
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opposition games. Like you said, there's a lot of people families,
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older people, peoples don't drive or don't want to drive
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all the way to Newcastle that rely on these buses.
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Like every club has them.
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So now the the other thing that sort of the
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mass Panther of course our colleague and that extra time.
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And in the weekend he set the fuse alight last
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week by revealing us some big changes at the pantherrets.
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Now Panarets cost the official squad of the Panthers, And
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what's happened is Pana's used West Side Performing Arts for
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as long as I can remember, so they went sort
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of the managers of the cheer squad. They're a locally
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based company and they ran the Kiddi Cats all those
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years ago, over twenty years, and this year Panthers, as
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far as i'm a were put out to tender the
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cheerleader contract and awarded it to a Gold Coast based
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company and actually, yes, yep, Gold Coast based company. Now
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they look after the Titans as far as I'm aware.
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Very professional company, entourage and no doubt about that, very
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professional and whatnot. But it's a little bit curious because
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then the auditions happened, and as the mass Panther revealed
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last week, a number of what they call veterans in
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the in the cheer world were dumped. And dump's probably
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not the word because you do have to audition every year.
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But when you're a veteran in a cheer squad, now
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I'm not previously an expert, but I've done some research
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in the last week, you're pretty much unless you've been
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you know, causing drama, you know, you know in the
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group chat or something, you know, throwing from pom people, Yeah,
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you're pretty much just you're gonna get in. Yeah, you're
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going to get back in. Well, a whole host, up
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to a dozen didn't get back in, including Chloe Carter
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who won the Panther Out of the Year last year,
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and Abby who is the Veteran of the Year last year.
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So two of the award winners within the group didn't
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get back in, plus a whole bunch of other veterans.
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So yeah, it's created this whole drama about why that
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happened and all these sorts of things. The curious part
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of all this for me is why Panthers are using
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a non penrith company in an area with so many
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dance schools to run the cheer squad. I mean, you've
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done stories on cheer companies in Penrith, winning massive awards
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in America and all of this.
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Yeah, absolutely, I think mass Panther he did a great
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job last week because that story ended up everywhere. Even
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I even saw the Daily Mail did a story on it. Yesterday.
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It popped up on my Facebook feed about the scandal,
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which obviously mass PA they didn't put out there initially.
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I don't think many people would have realized what was
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going on. And look, it's I say scandal, it's it's obviously,
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you know, a first ball problem that that a che
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some cheer cheerleaders aren't, you know, cheering at Penrith Games
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this year. But obviously these girls took their job very
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seriously and they were very well liked and very well
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00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:20.440
loved by the club and by you know, their old
490
00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.079
bosses at west Side Performing Arts, and you know, they've
491
00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:25.200
done the right thing too. They don't, you know, presume
492
00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:27.279
they have to get back in every time without auditioning.
493
00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:30.240
So they've gone to audition and and have missed out.
494
00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:31.960
But I think the curious thing for me that.
495
00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:34.319
I couldn't quite understand what was the whole gold gold coasting,
496
00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:37.000
you know, as I said, even if you didn't pick
497
00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:39.799
one of the Penrith many Penrith dance schools to run
498
00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:43.440
your your cheerleader program, there would be a whole host
499
00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:45.920
of others in Western Sydney, or even Sydney for that matter,
500
00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:50.079
they would love to have that that that gig. So
501
00:21:50.119 --> 00:21:52.200
the Gold Coast one, what they're going.
502
00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:54.920
To provide remains to be seen. I guess we'll see
503
00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:55.519
on Saturday.
504
00:21:55.559 --> 00:22:00.359
If this, this spectacular cheerleader performance is any different to before.
505
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.160
I'm sure it will be. I'm sure they're great dances
506
00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:04.160
and as I said, a very professional company apparently. But
507
00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.519
it's just is it. It's weird because I feel like
508
00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.440
at the moment Penrith does not have a mandate at
509
00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:14.759
all to support local first. And what I mean by
510
00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:16.680
that is I've mentioned a few times and in recent
511
00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:19.519
weeks for different issues they're using Glenn Hawk as the
512
00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:22.480
ground announcer, up very professional groun announcer, but certainly not
513
00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:24.599
a Penrith local and it does you know, half a
514
00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:27.640
dozen other teams as well. Now we're using a Gold
515
00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:31.440
Coast based company for the cheerleaders, like this just seems
516
00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:34.440
like a regular occurrence that's starting to emerge, and I
517
00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:37.680
feel like Panthers should be, you know, at every turn,
518
00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.559
should be prioritizing.
519
00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:43.519
Locals absolutely, and you know that's what everyone should be doing.
520
00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:45.160
You should, you know, you want to employ people in
521
00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:48.960
your community, especially a big community club like Penrith, And
522
00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:51.880
they talk about how much they are a community club
523
00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:54.799
and how much they love the fans and everyone, but
524
00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:57.920
they seem to be going external for a lot of
525
00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:01.400
these important roles and this doesn't make sense to me.
526
00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:02.680
Troy curious.
527
00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:06.079
Well, and also we don't know who's making these decisions either.
528
00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:07.799
Yeah, you know, I'm not sure.
529
00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:09.440
It could be a number of people that have made
530
00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:11.880
each decision differently, or one person's just come in and
531
00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:12.960
decided to right.
532
00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:14.839
This is changing, This is changing, This is changing.
533
00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.279
Yeah, because I'm not sure who's purview the Panther eats
534
00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:21.480
would sit under, Like it's obviously game day manager, there's Mtcameron,
535
00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:25.079
there's the board, Like, surely they're not making that you
536
00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:27.680
would have think so. But anyway, look at it is
537
00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:29.640
what it is, like, it's not the biggest drama in
538
00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:32.440
the world. It's just a curious one from the last week,
539
00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:36.759
particularly when there's really passionate people who are legitimate supporters
540
00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:38.759
as well, and things like that. The other thing that
541
00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:40.880
came out in all of this as I was speaking
542
00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:42.880
to some people during the week, is that the cheersquad
543
00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:47.160
has often felt a little bit ignored by the club,
544
00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:49.640
almost like, oh, you can't talk about the cheerleaders. And
545
00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:52.160
I think they're referring to things like when it's women
546
00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:55.240
in league round, you know, the panthers off, they scramble
547
00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:58.000
to try and find some sort of you know, the
548
00:23:58.039 --> 00:24:00.400
group of their female employees or whatever. But here they
549
00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:05.319
are with you know, these these dancers, professional dancers, paid employees,
550
00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:07.200
you know, through they're.
551
00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:09.720
Not they're not acknowledged as they they probably have in
552
00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:11.759
the past, though I think in the past.
553
00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:13.720
Maybe they're well way back. But to be.
554
00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:16.680
Promoted heavily a lot, and we even did we even
555
00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:18.319
did things on the cheerleaders back in the day we
556
00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:21.599
ran chilead com. We had our own Chileader of the
557
00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:23.480
Year competition a few times here.
558
00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:28.519
But intriguing because I think you like, you know, and look,
559
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.039
I remember I created all the drama when when the
560
00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:34.480
Bulldogs dump their cheerleaders, and there was I wrote some
561
00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:37.759
columns on that at the time, because you know, this
562
00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.359
this archaic view that ah, they're just there to look
563
00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:42.480
at and they're their their girls in skippy class. That's
564
00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:45.720
just ridiculous because they're there. If they don't want to
565
00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:48.880
play rugby league, you know that they have an opportunity
566
00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:51.839
to do what they love doing, which is dancing with
567
00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:55.400
within the sport that they love. Yeah, that's it.
568
00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.720
Yeah, And a lot of those girls grow up wanting
569
00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:00.240
to be a pair of this cheerleader. They go to
570
00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.359
the games with their families and that they see them,
571
00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:03.640
they see the girls.
572
00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:05.079
There and that's what they aspire to.
573
00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:09.960
And you know, it's it's great that we still have Chileaders.
574
00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:12.079
We could be doing a story today saying Panthers have
575
00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:15.680
dumpee Chileaders all together, which obviously would be a massive
576
00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:17.880
story because you know, they're so well known the Panther reats.
577
00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:20.920
But yeah, I'm not sure.
578
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:24.319
What's to say about that, but mass panther great scoop.
579
00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:27.640
Great scoop last week. Now, listen, fuel prices just keep climbing.
580
00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:29.759
For many drivers, it's starting to hit hard at the pump.
581
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:32.119
So the question is is now the time for seriously
582
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583
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585
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587
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588
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593
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594
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596
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597
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step towards driving smarter. I think we have one ev driver.
598
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We do, and she's still complaining the petrol prices a
599
00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:28.359
high what oh who? Obviously she's got her husband.
600
00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:31.039
Her husband doesn't have a he's got a diesel vehicle, chy,
601
00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:33.079
so it's hit them hard even though she's got her own.
602
00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:36.720
She just charges her car in the garage.
603
00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:42.799
Yes, okay, all right now now origin and origin already
604
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:46.279
and much Thomas Jenkins has been talked about as a
605
00:26:46.279 --> 00:26:48.400
potential origin bald to have a listen to MG and
606
00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:50.880
Paul Gallon on the weekend and the continuous call team.
607
00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:53.880
Yeah, Pedna, it's the coach Ivan Clearic speaking last night.
608
00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:58.680
Just quickly, MG, you and gallup former Newshouth Welshman. As
609
00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.839
far as wearing that sky blue no Zach Lomax, Yeah
610
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:04.160
for New South Wales this year is milky a little
611
00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:04.759
smoky for you?
612
00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:07.920
Oh definitely, yeah, most definitely. Brian obviously is the other
613
00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:11.519
winger and now that no Lomax happens an opportunity for
614
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.000
someone like the Tom Jenkins. He's scoring tries for fun
615
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.079
at the moment. You know, he tries this season for
616
00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:20.039
last night. He just he just knows where the trail
617
00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:22.039
on is and he gives one hundred percent. I love
618
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.319
the way he plays and exactly what I haven't said.
619
00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.079
He he was started last year. He was playing for
620
00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:30.920
some Mary's in the in the ron Massy Cup, training
621
00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.039
with them, and all of a sudden opportunities arise and
622
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:35.720
I thought he was unlucky last year, but proved to be.
623
00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:39.680
You know, I think that the centers they have in there,
624
00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:41.759
we're the right ones at the time, because ala Modi,
625
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:43.799
you've got to have the finest place for him. But
626
00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.240
who would have thought that in this off season Isaac
627
00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:49.480
Taga wouldn't be in the team. So what he is doing,
628
00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:51.920
Thomas Jenkins is making the most of every opportunity. And
629
00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:54.119
that's what you do when you're a player who's hungry.
630
00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:55.359
You're a Milkie Jenkins fan.
631
00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:56.920
Oh, I'm a fan of him here. Look as far
632
00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:59.000
as been an origin winger, I think smoke is probably
633
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:01.079
the right way to put it, like to not like
634
00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:02.480
to think, but I think there'd be a couple of
635
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:04.559
guys probably there in front of him. But I think
636
00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:06.720
MG summed out really well. Then he's doing everything he
637
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:09.319
can to put his foot forward to be there, and
638
00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:11.079
he's just doing the right things for Pendanth at the
639
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:12.240
mom which at the end of day is we're going
640
00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:14.079
to do play good for your club side, and if
641
00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:15.759
you go on good enough for your club side, things
642
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.599
can turn out the right way for you in the
643
00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:20.359
sky Blue Jersey. But yeah, I think I think smoke
644
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.480
is a fair way to put it at.
645
00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:25.319
The month, all right, where you go MG and Gal there.
646
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:27.079
So they think he's a smoker. Do you think he's
647
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:28.599
a chance He's he going to play Origin?
648
00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:31.920
He's milky Tom Jenkins going to play Origin.
649
00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.960
Look, I wouldn't have thought of it at all, even
650
00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:37.519
coming into this season. He would have been one of
651
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.599
the few people that I probably thought that there's no chance.
652
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:43.640
But look after the start he's had, and look again,
653
00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:47.640
we have to tape our expectations. Been three games, but
654
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:50.359
he's proven, he's proven a lot of the doubt is wrong.
655
00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:54.279
Eight tries in three games. That's thirty two points he's scored.
656
00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:55.160
On his own already this year.
657
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:59.319
He tries, he's just having a phenomenal start to the year.
658
00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:01.480
And you know, some of those tries have been right place,
659
00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:03.359
right time stuff, But there's some of them that have
660
00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.559
been all individual efforts that he's he's put him been
661
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:09.400
an intercept that he's he's pulled off for He's done
662
00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:12.319
some great things and he's really taking his game to
663
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:13.279
another level.
664
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:16.079
And I'm really probably showing to the world that he
665
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:17.400
probably deserved to play.
666
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:20.119
In the finals last year. And I haven't ripped him
667
00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:22.000
out of that side. He played pretty much the whole
668
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:24.680
year in first grade, got to the finals the biggest
669
00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:26.480
games of the year and and dumped him.
670
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.759
So yet, but he's definitely in the mix.
671
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.400
I think Brian to is definitely your first winger picks
672
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:36.519
because he's just outstanding. He's he's at the top of
673
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:38.559
his game as well. But I certainly think he's in
674
00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:38.920
the mix.
675
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.440
And then probably Campbell Graham.
676
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.240
Campbell Graham, you've got the mark and winnow was he's
677
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:44.839
obviously like.
678
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:47.200
He had a terrible game the other day, but he's
679
00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:49.119
going to be in the mix as well as he's
680
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:51.880
an Australian representative, so you've got to look at him.
681
00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:55.440
But Thomas Jenkins, I think he's he's certainly one of
682
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.200
the prospects.
683
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:58.079
If he's not there, I think, you know, I reckon
684
00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:00.480
he'll be in that you know that extent sort of
685
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:02.640
players they bring in this for a bit, Yeah, sure,
686
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:04.000
or at least have a look around. It's going to
687
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.200
be really interesting with Origin and whether they fix the
688
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:08.200
rules around this or not, because you're obviously you're going
689
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:11.480
to name six bench players. Yeah, and those bench players
690
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:13.559
essentially can't play for their clubs and that will be
691
00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:15.559
the rule because you don't know you know.
692
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:16.720
If you've got to get onto the field.
693
00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:21.319
Surely now we can move on from anyone else other than.
694
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:24.319
Those six, like any sort of replace and players.
695
00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:27.160
I mean, surely they can go back to their class.
696
00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:28.119
It sounds like it.
697
00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.880
But yeah, as for Milky, what do you think like
698
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:32.960
he's he's been pretty impressive.
699
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:35.720
Believe look, he has been very impressive. He does have
700
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:39.359
a few errors in his game. I wouldn't I wouldn't
701
00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:41.480
be putting him in my new South Wales team. However,
702
00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:46.160
the Blues needs some spark and they need something exciting.
703
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.640
And then obviously, you know you could argue, people would argue, oh,
704
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:53.400
you know, he's just finishing tries that Nathan clearly creates. Well,
705
00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:56.000
guess who your new South Wales half back here? So
706
00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:58.759
you know, maybe you know, do you do you? I
707
00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:01.240
know that this hasn't worked sometimes when New South Wales
708
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.720
in the past, But do you just load up with
709
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:05.119
Penrith players and hope that the Resistant get your home?
710
00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:08.319
Like maybe, yeah, but Daily's your coach, Loriy Daisy your
711
00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:11.359
coach obviously again this year, and you know he might
712
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:14.240
have other ideas. But if he's got twenty tries by
713
00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:18.359
May when the team's announced twenty in May, almost pushing
714
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.400
breaking records here.
715
00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:22.559
You almost got to You've always got.
716
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:24.880
To pick him. It's coming for you, aj, He's coming
717
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:27.759
for you. The other news this week, just in the
718
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:30.359
last little while, Luke Garner has signed a two year
719
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:32.720
extension with Penrith. Now you caught up with him. I
720
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:36.160
did have a chat about the new deal. So he's
721
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.079
Nathan with Luke Garner.
722
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:42.880
The congratulations obviously, and when he came through, I was
723
00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:46.039
very very happy that you're going to stay here because
724
00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:48.480
I guess I was, you know, talk that the coups
725
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:50.240
I would have been interested in your services. I'm sure
726
00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:52.799
they were. But you're stuck with Penrith. Happy to get
727
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:53.480
that done.
728
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.359
Yeah, stoke to get it done. It's exactly where I
729
00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:01.799
wanted to be. And yeah, luckily enough during the club. Yeah,
730
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:04.039
come to grandmen that I both get to stay. I
731
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:05.680
get to stay.
732
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.079
What if you loved about being at this club for
733
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.279
so long? The premierships is one thing, but obviously formed
734
00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:13.599
order of friendships and relationships and you love the fans,
735
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:15.440
but of course is that part part of the big
736
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.519
reason why you want to be here.
737
00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:18.839
Yeah, that's that's all part of the reason why And
738
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:21.359
I just genuinely love coming to training every day. Yeah,
739
00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:24.680
you know that the coaching staff and everyone at the
740
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:26.799
club make it so be easy for us to roll
741
00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:30.279
in here and enjoy enjoy our Daisy in every aspect.
742
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:33.119
So it's yeah, it's just a great place to be great.
743
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:36.759
And for them and everyone that comes here you know,
744
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:39.759
says the same thing, and so yeah, it's just.
745
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:41.559
It's just a very special place of it. I'm grateful
746
00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:42.640
that I'm here at this point.
747
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:43.079
Yeah.
748
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.680
And when you're weighing up your future, how much goes
749
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:46.000
into it?
750
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:49.400
I mean, obviously your partner involved and things like that, But.
751
00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:49.920
Is it is it?
752
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.000
Is it a tough to decide what you want to
753
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:52.480
do next?
754
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:54.519
It is? It is.
755
00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:58.440
But it would have been harder if penwe that would
756
00:32:58.480 --> 00:32:59.680
have been That would have been the harder thing. So
757
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:03.759
that yeah, so that makes my decisions, you know. There
758
00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:08.480
was always option to stay. Yeah, yeah, that's that was
759
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:09.039
the main thing.
760
00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:11.440
And yeah, like I said, we've got an agreement done
761
00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:14.720
and so I get to stay for another three more years,
762
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:18.599
two off this, but yeah that's pretty special and yeah.
763
00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:23.319
Excellent, good stuff. Obviously this weekend huge game. Obviously it
764
00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:25.200
was it was a flag at the moment. But you
765
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:28.200
guys are equally probably better, going even better at the
766
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:31.440
moment than you know, if you probably have expected, right,
767
00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:33.680
three games in undefeated, letting in.
768
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.319
Two tries like pretty good starts.
769
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:39.440
Yeah right, it's been good.
770
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:40.440
Yeah, it's been good.
771
00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:43.200
But then yeah, we haven't played the perfect game, so
772
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:44.720
you know, there's nothing to be happy about.
773
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:46.400
And you know we haven't won a grand final.
774
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:49.480
So yeah, but as a compector last year, this is
775
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:53.279
obviously a complete one turn around in terms of the
776
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:54.079
start to the year.
777
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.920
Yeah, no, it's pleasing, it's definitely pleasing. The results we've
778
00:33:57.839 --> 00:33:59.799
we've tilled up I guess the past couple of weeks,
779
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:03.160
but there's still periods in the game we need to improve,
780
00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:07.240
and you know that's probably where we you know, last
781
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.400
last year is maybe getting Yeah we might have been
782
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:13.400
were too high on the solve maybe maybe maybe last year,
783
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:17.880
so and that's where sort of the bomb. So yeah, yeah,
784
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:19.880
trying not to get too high. Yeah we haven't we
785
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.840
haven't done anything yet.
786
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:21.719
Yeah.
787
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:24.599
Yeah, we've won three games against a couple of teams,
788
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.239
but realistically we haven't done anything yet.
789
00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:28.400
Yeah, we'll see how we got the end the year. Yes,
790
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:30.280
that's the that's the big goal for sure.
791
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:31.960
For a long way to go, but obviously back at
792
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.480
home as well, you know, your real home, but at Parramatta.
793
00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:36.880
Hopefully a lot of pend the fans are going to
794
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.000
be there for that one.
795
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:40.360
I'm looking forward to just getting back there and sort
796
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:42.519
of getting real acquainted with that stadium again, because it
797
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:44.039
was a sort of tough start to the year last
798
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:46.400
year over there finding your feet, but I thought towards
799
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:48.119
the end of the year you're sort of stracked up
800
00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:48.840
a lot of wins there.
801
00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:50.440
But yeah, it's looking forward to get back to combat
802
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:51.800
as we play there.
803
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:55.199
But good Bettle of the West, so it'd be fun.
804
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:58.840
That's always pal always always know they're playing well now,
805
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:04.079
but they've always well again, I'd be exciting hopefully, you know,
806
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.039
plenty of pans and get out of the game.
807
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:11.960
He had a good turn out of you know, saying yeah.
808
00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:14.960
I think it will be five thirty Saturday, I think
809
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:15.239
you'll do.
810
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:17.719
Well done again.
811
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:22.480
So yes, one hundred and thirty games that Garner's played
812
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.519
now he's then a pretty reliable member of that Penrith
813
00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:28.519
team and now gets a rewarded with a two year deal.
814
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:30.159
Yeah, like I said to him, I thought he was
815
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:31.679
I thought he was gone. I thought there was gonna
816
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:33.480
be that A few clubs that were after him that
817
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:35.199
wanted he just but he said Penrith.
818
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:37.880
Penrith wanted me, and that was a big reason in
819
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.400
my decision to stick with.
820
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.440
Penrithe good, all right. And the other news, of course
821
00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:43.400
last week, if anyone missed it, the retirement of Matt
822
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:46.719
isasen Hooth, who was a mister reliable for for a
823
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.039
few of those premiership years. They never got to play
824
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:53.159
in the grand final. Unfortunately for Matt, so despite being
825
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:57.880
around that premiership winning group, never got one himself. I
826
00:35:57.920 --> 00:35:58.840
presume he's got a ring.
827
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.960
Something he would because he got close in the last
828
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:05.159
premiership twenty twenty four. He was eighteenth man. Remember he
829
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:08.880
was in that entire final series. But Scott Sorenson made
830
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:11.719
himself available for the Grand Final and it was probably
831
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:13.760
one of the toughest calls Ivan clear out to make.
832
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:18.000
Was was dumping Isoh who had on the customer winning
833
00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:21.199
his first premiership and bringing Scott Sorenson back. So, but
834
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:24.840
the club's definitely looking after him, Troy. He's certainly still
835
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:27.000
working there. He's still in the mix. He's part of
836
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:31.280
the coaching staff, so expect to expect to see Matt
837
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:33.760
Eisenhoth's next chapter of his career at the Panthers.
838
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:35.800
He'll be around. All right. Now, it is time, Nathan
839
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:37.599
for the prices right now. This is going to be
840
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:41.119
our finale. Next week. I will of course have the
841
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:44.559
presentation because last week, what did you win? You want
842
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:45.159
a scaff?
843
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:46.159
We want to scaff?
844
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:48.320
Yeah, yeah, that was a that was you know, he
845
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:51.760
finally won something, So that was that was a very
846
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.360
good performance to do that. But yeah, so we've got
847
00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:58.039
two now. For those of you who haven't heard this before,
848
00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:01.760
this is Nathan tries to guess within fifty cents the
849
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:04.440
price of something on the Panthers shop. So you know,
850
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.880
we think everyone should should know exactly what the thing's
851
00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:11.599
cost because you should be looking to buy your Panthers
852
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:16.079
merch and whatnot. But all right, Nathan, you're ready for
853
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:20.199
two more to finish this off. Let's do it all right,
854
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.880
here we go. Well, we are going to the Panthers
855
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:25.920
Black Diamond hoodie.
856
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:28.440
Oh nice, A refined.
857
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.400
Tribute to sixty seasons. This is pretty new. I believe.
858
00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:35.079
The black Diamond hoodie features a clean nineteen sixty seven
859
00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:38.840
to twenty twenty six chest mark, honoring the club's foundation
860
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.880
in six decades of progress. Minimal in design and finished
861
00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:44.880
in classic black, it delivers a timeless look with an
862
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:48.400
understated impact. Cut in a relaxed fit with a premium
863
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:53.000
hand feel. It's built for comfort without compromising on presents,
864
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.559
easy to layer, easy to wear on game day or
865
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:02.159
any day. They're improving over there, shop, they're improving. I reckon,
866
00:38:02.199 --> 00:38:04.679
they've dumped the chat GPT and they've got Darren Mick
867
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:05.599
left to right those.
868
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:07.000
Can I have a look at this?
869
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:07.639
Try?
870
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:12.000
Is there any way that you can the screen with
871
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:13.079
the price being on there?
872
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:17.039
No, there's not hang on there. There will be because
873
00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:18.000
I'll be able to do this.
874
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:22.280
It does sound quite nice, actually, I must admit it
875
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.559
sounds like something I would wear.
876
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.639
Yeah, well, there's the front of it there, so's the hoodie.
877
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:28.840
Okay, do we know what brand it is at all?
878
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:37.000
Troy Panthers brand. Yeah, it's got no.
879
00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:40.559
No specific brand anything like that. Okay, just says Panthers,
880
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:44.119
very like, very subtle on the front, but it's big
881
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:44.559
on the back.
882
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:48.079
Panthers, right, Okay, does it looks like it's pretty good quality.
883
00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:50.719
It does as I said, it's cutting a relaxed fit,
884
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.280
the premium hand feel, built for comfort.
885
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:55.880
Right, all right, I'm going to lock in ninety dollars.
886
00:38:56.159 --> 00:39:00.639
Ninety dollars, so you've got ninety dollars. You think you
887
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:05.880
got it right? Last week? One hundred and twenty nine
888
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:06.679
to ninety.
889
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:08.639
Nine for the Actually I was going to say one
890
00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:10.920
hundred and twenty, but I thought that's quite expensive for
891
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:11.360
a hoodie.
892
00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:14.079
One hundred and thirty is even more expensive.
893
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:15.920
Very expensive. But that's just out now, so you can go.
894
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:18.519
Let go check that out, all right there at the
895
00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:21.039
Panther shop. If you what do you get?
896
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:21.159
You?
897
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:22.719
Would you would you buy a who do you? Would
898
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:24.199
you buy a jersey for that price?
899
00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:28.599
Because yeah, the same price. You're right, it's that's a
900
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.079
tough one, isn't it. That's a tough one. All right? Nathan?
901
00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:35.119
What have I got here for you? And the last one?
902
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:37.880
This is our last one, Okay, I've got a Dylan
903
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:38.920
Edwards badge for you.
904
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:41.239
Dylan Edwards Badge.
905
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.360
Rep your favorite Panthers player with this limited edition badge.
906
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:47.880
Dylan Edwards playing through the twenty twenty twenty one final
907
00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:50.400
series with a broken foot was a key cog in
908
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:53.719
the club's premiership tryout. He was outstanding throughout the twenty
909
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.559
twenty two season, winning the Nerve Cartwright Medal as the
910
00:39:56.599 --> 00:39:59.519
Panthers Best and Fairest and Clive Churchill Medal as the
911
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.599
Grand Player of the Match. He made his Kangaroo's debut
912
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:05.320
at the end of the twenty twenty three season. This
913
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:09.599
badge is fifty eight millimeters in diameter and it's part
914
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:12.920
of a collection that also includes Brian to Dylan Edwards.
915
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.880
We know that Isaiah Yo, Jerome Luai and Nathan Cleary.
916
00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:19.360
So beautiful and it's available now.
917
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:21.840
Is it a colored badge?
918
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.480
So it's like the badge is mainly Dylan's head.
919
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:28.800
Is it like a It's like a circle, like as
920
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:33.079
old school circle badges get in certainly eased to.
921
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:35.480
Show there it is there, Nathan, there's the badge.
922
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:35.840
Yep.
923
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:37.960
One other way to bewareing that you know when you
924
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:40.679
go interview Dyl, if you win this, that's what I expect.
925
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:42.719
That's in fact is the thing. If you win this
926
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.480
next time, you really right away the badge and see
927
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:47.119
if he knows.
928
00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:48.679
What can you get me? Can you can I get
929
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:51.039
even closer like further away than fifty cents.
930
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:54.280
All right, Because you're going to do that, I'll give
931
00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:57.880
you a dollar within a dollar, all right?
932
00:40:58.360 --> 00:40:59.679
Would a Badge be worth a Dylan?
933
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:02.360
And I'd presume all the players are worth the same amounts,
934
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:03.320
whether it's a Nathan Clear.
935
00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:06.599
I don't think Jerome Lite is available anymore on the
936
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.599
Panther's website, even though it says that he's part.
937
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:15.960
Of the collection. I'm going to lock you in seven dollars, Troy,
938
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:22.599
Really seven dollars with the membership discount? What about with
939
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:23.519
the corporate discount?
940
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:27.760
All right? Well have to say you finished this with
941
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.559
a pig scaff you finish they I'm happy with that.
942
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:33.119
At least I got something out of this this competition.
943
00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:36.320
Yeah, we'll come up with something else next next week
944
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:38.639
to start as we continue on with that.
945
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:41.679
Is there any negotiations around the SCAF because I noticed
946
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:43.519
that there was a there was a men's version, like
947
00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:45.480
a right a gray version.
948
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:49.000
Oh no, no, we'll be getting in. You have a
949
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:53.519
photo on the week Instagram page for everyone to see.
950
00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:57.000
All right, So pantas Eels should be a beauty got
951
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.280
extra time coming out this week. Mass Panther has nose
952
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:03.559
to the ground again, Peter lang We've got lang on
953
00:42:03.639 --> 00:42:05.800
leag got the celebrity tipsters. Make sure you look who's
954
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:09.199
who's close to the top. Yeah, you know that's right,
955
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:11.480
the scoreboarding and be the face of the crawd. There's
956
00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:12.159
all sorts of stuff.
957
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:16.079
I think it's when places say that things are back,
958
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:18.440
bigger and better than ever. I think this is true
959
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:21.119
because we actually have three player features every week now.
960
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:23.159
And so the usual too, and we've got they set it,
961
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.079
We've got that they set it, Quotes of the week
962
00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:26.719
and things like that.
963
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:28.760
Now we know that the Daily Mail, Yeah, who they're
964
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.719
all reading the mass Panther as well. Who knows what
965
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:31.679
he's going to come out with.
966
00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:34.880
There viewed mass Panther in two years on hold really
967
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.000
so certainly got people talking on the weekends, no doubt
968
00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:42.119
about that. But yeah, make sure you grab extra time
969
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:44.280
in the print edition of the Weekend every Thursday. But
970
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:45.719
you just go to the Western Weekend that will comm
971
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:47.679
dot A U slash get a paper and you can
972
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:51.679
subscribe to get the digital version as well. And Melinda Sanders,
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our photographer, is going to be at Comming Stadium on Saturday,
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so she'll be taking lots of face in the crowd photo,
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so if you see it, make sure you put your
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hand up and you can win a about Harber Cruz.
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Yep, I have them sitting at my desk, Troy.
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So if if you're one of those lucky people that
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are featured in our paper every week, come in and
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ask for me and I'll hook you up with a
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double pass to a Captain Cook Cruise.
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Yep. You're pretty strict on your verification.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Often I have to get the paper out and
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match the face with the person in front of me.
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But no one's no one's come in and tried to
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do the dodgy yet.
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No, okay, all right, well it's not encouragement. All right,
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Well they said I enjoy the wedding.
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Yes, thank you on your well wishes.
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Hopefully you'll watch the game and be able to provide
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some insight this week as we head towards what will
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be an Easter weekend.
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Yeah, good Friday against Melbourne.
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It's been a long time since Penis played on Good Friday.
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I think there was a game against the Warriors a
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few years ago. Yeah, but but yeah, that'll be good.
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So you do his head to the Easter show during
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the day and then on the way home.
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Pop in, pop in and see get a Panther show bag.
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Get a pan of show back that is available this year.
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Thirty bucks for the Panther Showbag. All right, that is
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it for Tensions Running High. New episodes out every Wednesday
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I'm Troy Odds Nathan. Thanks for joining me. Thanks and
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and check out the evs in the middle of the
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I think I need one myself.
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Yes, we'll see you next time on Tensions Running High,
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Go the Panthers.