Matildas Squad Update, Pot 2 for Socceroos, and Silverware for Aussies Abroad

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Hello and welcome to the Aussie football passport. Your one stop

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pod for updates on your favourite Aussie men and women who are playing their club

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cruises abroad. I'm your host Alex and this week there is plenty to

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cover. The Socceroos took on Colombia. We've got news on both

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the Junior Matildas and Junior Socceroos. A change in

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the Matilda squad for their upcoming friendlies against New Zealand. A Socceroo

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wins Silverware and plenty, plenty more.

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Let's wait no longer and get straight into the headlines.

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Well, let's kick it off this week for the headlines with Kevin

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Musket who's won the Chinese League title for a second year

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in a row. Well done Muskie. His side Shanghai

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Port won the title with a 1 nil win over Dalian Yingbo.

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Anything less than victory in that final game would have meant his side would

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have fallen short. However, that was not to be the case and back to back

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titles have gorn Muskie's way. So the question

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is, is Europe calling for Muskie? He has unfinished business

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there with a failed spell at Sint srudan back in

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2020. So time will tell. Of course he

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pulled out of the race to be the new Rangers manager as well.

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So no doubt there'll be another opportunity for Muskie coming

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up in a matter of time. Speaking of Aussie coaches

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based abroad, Graham Arnold. He guided Iraq to vict UAE

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21 in the second leg or 32 on aggregate,

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taking them a step closer to the World cup next year.

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Iraq will now face the winner of Bolivia and Suriname in the

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intercontinental playoffs to be held in the next international window

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in March. And we wish Graham Arnold and Iraq all the

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best. Now to women's coaches. Tanya Oxtby.

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She was announced as the new Newcastle United Women's

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coach, leaving her role as the Northern Ireland women's coach. Newcastle United

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are in the second division in English

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Women's football so no doubt Tanya will be aiming for

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promotion with Newcastle and all the best to them for the rest of

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their season. Now to Junior Matilda's news.

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They will play against Thailand in an

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under 16s women's national team friendly match on

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28th November at Gosford.

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So it will be the curtain raiser for the Matilda's game against New Zealand.

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So it's fantastic news to see our Junior Matildas

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get a bit of exposure before the senior Matilda squad play against

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New Zealand. The match will also be broadcast live on Paramount Plus.

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For those who have a Paramount plus subscription, the fixture

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will follow on from a earlier clash

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between the two sides which will be held on the 25th of November at Wanderers

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Football park in Sydney and it will form part of a broader initiative

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to strengthen regional ties and promote youth development in women's

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football. So great news as I said earlier there for our junior Matildas.

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All right now the PFA have announced that Matilda's

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and London City Lioness is player Alana Kennedy

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has joined the PFA Executive Committee. Kennedy joins

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fellow Matilda's Clay Hunt, Tamika Yallup and Dylan Holmes on the committee and we

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congratulate Alana for that new

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role off the field. Now in terms of that

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Matilda's squad change that we mentioned at the start of

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the pod, Brighton and Hove Albion player Charlie's Rule has been

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called up as a replacement for Charlie Grant. The call up marks rules

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first time with the squad since her senior debut in December 2023

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and Charlize has been playing quite well for Brighton of late

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and will be a like for for like replacement for Charlie Grant.

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Charlie's Rule predominantly, predominantly plays as a

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right back of course Charlie Grant plays left and right back. Charlie's Rule

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if you remember from last week's pod she actually filled in at center

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back so she will bring her own utility value

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to the Matilda's squad and we do hope to see her get some minutes

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in these upcoming games against New Zealand.

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All right back to the men's game and the Joeys,

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the under 17 men's side kicked off their Asian cup qualification campaign

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with a hard fought one nil victory over host nation Jordan.

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The goal itself was based on a quick exchange

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of passes which saw the ball land nicely at the feet of Max

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Court who of course is part of the West Apia Leichardt side

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of course they did go down in a penalty shootout lost to

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Marconi Stallions. For those that have been watching the Australian championship which I hope you

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have been because it has been fantastic. Anyway, back to Max Court.

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The Ford unleashed a well placed shot from outside the box which

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was beyond the reach of the Jordanian goalkeeper and

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led to that 1 nil scoreline. The Joey's next game is against Bhutan

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on Thursday morning Australian time. Just for

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context, Jordan beats Bhutan 5 nil in the first game so

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good luck to the Joeys in that one. It is looking likely

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that Socceroos will be in pot two for the World cup next

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year. FIFA are yet to confirm it but the hints are there in

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that all the teams playing off for their spots in the final expanded 48

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team tournament will be put into Pot 4 by the looks of it so in

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theory, that should give Australia a better opportunity for

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a better draw, which is something they just don't get at

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FIFA World Cups, as we well know. If you look down history

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lane, however, that's being the case

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with Pot 4. There are the potential for some really dangerous

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sides qualifying, depending on if you see Italy is

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still a threat and I mean they still have to get past Northern Ireland.

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Anyway, the draw will take place in the early hours

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of Saturday, 6th December Australian time. And we will bring you

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that draw in the podcast that follows 6

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December. Now, Football Australia has announced

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that the FIFA Series 2026, which will

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act as a critical preparation for the Socceroos FIFA

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World cup campaign, will be hosted down under in the March

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window. The two game four team series will act as

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that final kid out on home soil before the Socceroos depart for

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Northern America. And it of course is the last chance for

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the home crowd to get behind Australia. So we will

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keep you updated on that one. It sounds quite interesting. I think there will be

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a few of these FIFA series going on around the world. From what it

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looks like for teams that have already qualified for the World

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cup, hopefully we are able to attract some quality opposition to

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see what the Socceroos can do. Obviously it

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has been a bit of a lean run as we're about to get into because

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now the Socceroos lost again, which makes it three straight losses

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for Tony Popovich's side. This time it was a three nil loss

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to Colombia. The goals for Colombia came from James Rodriguez,

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Luis Diaz and Jefferson Lema. The Colombians just

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overran Australia towards the end of the game.

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And the first goal came in the 76th minute via a controversial

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penalty that had Popper, Jackson, Irvine and Milos Degenerek

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all livered at the at the time of the penalty award. And in their post

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match interviews, Diaz and Lerma's goals came right at the end

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as our lads, well, I think it's fair to say they capitulated. It's a

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harsh lesson for them. And the scoreline really

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didn't reflect the resilient defense that was on show before

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the penalty went in. And the second goal was a bit of a goalkeeping

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error from Paul Ito, it's probably fair to say.

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I think the key concern from the November friendlies and

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you know, maybe since Popper has taken over, is that

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genuine lack of creativity and the lack of a plan B.

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When the Socceros go behind, there's a real concern because there's

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just no creativity whatsoever and it just looks

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like the there's no switch to be flicked with their attacking

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aspect of their game, which is just a real worry,

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particularly when we have to chase a game which, let's be

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honest, going into a World cup, there is going to be a point where the

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boys are going to have to chase a game and at the moment it's falling

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squarely on the shoulders of Riley McGree, who's only just back from injury.

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And to pin all of our hopes on Riley would be

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a bit of a mistake, I feel, because he is very injury prone at the

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moment and you know, Popper is going to have to limit his minutes,

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you would imagine. Of course, there's plenty of time between now and next June

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when the World cup kicks off. So let's see if Popper does

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start to alter his plans. Of course he's only got two more friendlies in that

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March window to have a look at some players with that creative profile that

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rounds out our socceroos analysis. And let's round out

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the headlines with some injury news. Of course we mentioned this earlier.

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Charlia Grant is out for this FIFA women's

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international window. The defender was medically withdrawn from

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the Matilda squad. She suffered a knee injury at

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training for Tottenham Hotspur. So she will stay back at her club and

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continue her rehab and hopefully that means she

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will be back soon. Just a quick reminder that that first Matilda's

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game is on Friday night with the second game of the series being played on

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Tuesday night. Now a quick update on Denny Uric.

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He was on the bench for his side of Whistler plok in their 10

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draw with Gornick Zabrze in the Polish League. So that's

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good news for Denny in what should have been a much better week for him.

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However, injury took its toll on him.

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All right, that is it for the headlines. Let's move on to the weekly wrap

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in just a second.

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All right, weekly wrap time. And you will notice it is

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a bit of a shorter part to this segment with our ladies.

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Of course a lot of the domestic seasons have finished in

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North America and the Northern Hemisphere, namely in Scandinavia.

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However, we still got plenty of news to bring you from Europe.

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Let's start in England where Arsenal came from behind to Defeat Real

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Madrid 2 1. Steph Cutley and Kyra Cooney Cross

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started for Arsenal with Steph playing the full game and Kyra playing 89 minutes whilst

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Caitlin Ford was a second half substitute playing 28 minutes.

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Claire Wheeler started and played the full game for Everton in their

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31 win over Newcastle in League Cup Action. The win meant Everton

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to top their group and progress to the quarterfinals. Now of

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course the League cup in women's football was

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divided into pools and the top teams progressed to the next

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stage with some other teams joining them later on, which we will

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mention who they are later on. Now let's move

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on to the London City Lionesses who overcame Ipswich

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2 nil. Alana Kennedy started for the Lionesses and played the full

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game in midfield. Now speaking of midfielders, Emily Van Egmond,

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she started for Leicester City before being withdrawn in the second half of

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their 30 loss to Crystal palace, which means they do not progress

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to the quarterfinals. Claire Hunt started and played

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the full match for Tottenham in their 10 win over Bristol City.

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They will progress to the quarterfinals. Arsenal and Chelsea will enter the

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competition in the quarters. All right, now let's head to France where

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Tegan Micah, she didn't play in the Champions League but she did play on the

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weekend. She started in goal, played the full game and kept another clean sheet

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which I think makes it two from two in league matches for

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Tegan for her club side Lyon in their five nil

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thrashing of Strasbourg. Now to round out the women's

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club action in Italy as roma defeated Como

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1 nil in a top of the table clash that sees Roma

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go five points clear at the top heading into this current international break.

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Winona Heatley was not in the match. They scored for Roma whilst Alex

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Chidiac played 15 minutes as a second half substitute for

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Como. Jessica Nash and Jacinta Galabadarachi both started and played

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the full game for Sussuolo in their two all draw with Milan.

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Jacinta had three shots and provided an assist in

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a promising performance for her and hopefully the sign

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of more things to come and more minutes for Jacinta.

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Now let's head over to men's action and let's start in England

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and Wales in the championship where Lewis Miller scored his first

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goal, Blackburn Rovers as they edged past Preston

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North End in the Northern Derby 2 1.

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He started and played the full game. Well done to Lewis considering

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a big week where he jetted all over North America and then back to

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Northern England for that one destre. Ian Kundal was subbed

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on after 35 minutes for Watford in their 32 win over Derby County.

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Callumelda played a full game for Derby.

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Riley McGree came on after 62 minutes in Middlesbrough's one all

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draw with Oxford United. Sam Sivoro came on at

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halftime for the team and they have just announced a new manager.

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So hopefully that means a bit of an increase in minutes on the field for

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both Riley and Sam from Hillsborough. Cameron Burgess played a full

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game for Swansea City as they lost three nil to Bristol City.

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And keeping the theme going, Swansea City also just

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announced a new manager so let's hope that does not make

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any changes to Cameron Burgess's playing time. Now to

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Portsmouth where Hayden Matthews made the bench but did not get on the

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field in their 31 victory over Millwall. However,

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in positive news, Adrian Sega started and played 61 minutes

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in that game. So good to see Sega back and of course he just did

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a nice little interview with Simon Hill which you can catch

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on YouTube or football's 360s website

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and well worth checking out. He does talk about his

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ambitions to play for the Socceroos, so I hope Tony Popovich was watching that

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one. Now to League one action where Joe Gatchi was in goal for Port

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Vale with his side going down 1 nil to Plymouth Argyle.

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He played the full game. Surprise, surprise. Of course being a goalkeeper

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they rarely get substituted. Alex Robertson was subbed on

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in the 58th minute for Cardiff City in their 31 win

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against Northampton Town, Rafael Borges

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Rodriguez played all of Wigan Athletics 21 win against

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Wimbledon and Tyrese Francois played 75 minutes for

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Wigan in midfield. So good to see Tyrese back on the pitch. He has

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missed quite a bit of football so far this season.

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Now let's head north to Scotland where Martin Boyle played 71

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minutes for Hibernian as they beat Dundee FC

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2 nil. Jack Idaho was a rock at the back in his full game

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for Hibbs, making six tackles and helped contribute to that

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clean sheet by playing the full game. Now to their crosstown

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rivals Hearts where Cameron Devlin played a full game and wore the captain's

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armband. However, they went down 1 nil to Aberdeen.

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Nicholas Milanovic was subbed on in the 84th minute for Aberdeen

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whilst Nicholas Suman was on the bench and Kasuni Yangi was

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not in the squad. Apostolos Damatilopoulos made an instant

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impact off the bench from otherworld, scoring five minutes after coming on in

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their game against Kilmarnock. He played 28 minutes in his

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side's 31 win. Meanwhile, Johnny Katrumbas played the full game at right

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back and Oscar Priestman was a late substitute getting a couple of minutes

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to close out the win for Motherwell. Ryan Strain

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returned to the Dundee United team coming on at

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halftime in their 30 loss to Falkirk. Fellow Aussie Zach Sapsford

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played 63 minutes for Dundee United. Ryan McGowan

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returned to the pitch for Livingston, his first minute since September when

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he got that nasty infection. He played from the hour mark of Livingston's

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controversial 21 loss to Rangers. Teti Yangi scored the goal for Libby and

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had a genuine penalty shout waved away by both the on field

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referee and Var Yengi's shot struck the arm

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of o' Rangers defender but due to the proximity of that defender it was not

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given as a penalty. Does anyone know the handball rule anymore?

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Please feel free to get in contact because I would absolutely love to know.

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Anyway, rounding out the action in Scotland, Keanu Bacchus was

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taken off in stoppage time of St. Mirren's 10 loss

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to Celtic. Now let's head to Germany where Jackson Irvine

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made his first start of the season for St. Pauli, playing 64 minutes of

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their 1 nil loss to Union Berlin. Conor Metcalfe came on

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after 73 minutes for his side to Spain where Matty

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Ryan was the goalkeeper for levante in their 10 loss to Valencia.

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He started and played the full game. Omabile played

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all of Castellon's 31 win over Andorra.

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Yes, Andorra do play in the Spanish second division even though they are

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technically a country. Anyway, Fran Karasic was on the Hajic

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Split's bench for their heavy five nil loss to Rajeca.

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His teammate Anthony Kallick was a late substitute getting seven minutes in

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that one. Now to the Netherlands where Arun Horstic added another assist

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to his Heracles account for the season, playing a full game

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as his side beat Go Ahead Eagles. Yes, that is an

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actual team name. I am not pulling your leg. You're more than

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welcome to google it. Yes, so Heracles beat go ahead Eagles

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4 2. He now has six assists for the season which is equal second in

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the league. He's keeping good company with PSV Jurn, Ivan Perisic

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and Joey Wiman and also on the same number of assists. It is also

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rumored that Adelaide United's technical director Ernest Faber

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is about to take over as the coach for the rest of the

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season. Krustic's form has coincided with interim coach Hendrik

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taking over, so it will be interesting to see if it continues with

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the potential new appointment of the head coach. Now rounding

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out the action in the Netherlands, Max Ballard played 80 minutes for NAC

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Breda as they lost 1 nil to PSV Eindhoven.

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Now to Austria where Marco Tillio came on at halftime for

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Rapid Wien as they lost 21 to Grazer AK who of

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course did not have Jacob Italiano on the pitch.

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He remained sidelined with that calf injury. Noel Bottic was a

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late substitute getting seven minutes for his side Austria Wien in their 32

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win over Blau Weiss Linz. Now to Denmark, where Randers

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drew nil with a dense in match 16 of the

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league. Our trio of Aussies all started this one. Pulitzer kept another clean

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sheet in goal playing the full game. Motore also played the full game

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whilst his Brother Moussa played 64 minutes. Now heading north to

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Norway where Gianni Stenzness came on in the 88th minute as Viking

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edged out Frederik Stud one nil. Nicolas D' Agostino

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is currently out injured as we mentioned in last week's podcast. Still no

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timeline on his return from injury. In more positive news

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for Viking though, they are one point clear at the top of the Norwegian

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League heading into the final match day, which is this weekend

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coming. So we will let you know if Viking wrap up the title or not.

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Now to round out the men's club action this week in Czechia

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or Czech Republic, garan Qual played 76 minutes in his first

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start for Sparta Prague in a 21 win against Malada Blosslav.

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So congratulations to Garon. All right, that is it

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for the weekly wrap. Next we have our Players of the week

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and we'll wrap up this week's episode.

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All right, it is players of the week time and let's start with our

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Women's Player of the Week. It is Ellie Carpenter who scored

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in Chelsea's one all draw with Barcelona. Well worth

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checking this goal out because it's an absolute beauty. It was a stunning

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solo strike from Carpenter as we've come to see in green and gold marauding

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down that right flank, coming inside into the box and firing

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a powerful right footed shot across the goalkeeper who had

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no chance of saving that one. So good to see Ellie taking

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some of that goal scoring form into clubland, but let's hope she also brings it

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with her on this current international break. She started and

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played the full game. Sam Kerr was unavailable for Chelsea as she continues

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to have her minutes managed as her coach Sonia Bonpastor has

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mentioned in her press conference. Post game.

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Now to our men's Player of the Week. Look, there were a couple

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of goal scorers we could have given it to, but considering his contribution and the

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fact that this man has won Silverware, his side's

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first bit of silverware in Japan. It's Mitch Duke. He picked up an assist

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in his 65 minutes on the pitch for Makaida

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Zelvia in their 31 cup win over Vissel Kobe.

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They claimed the Emperor's cup, the first in the club's existence.

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Of course Maida zelvia were founded

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36 years ago so congratulations to Mitchell Duke and his teammates

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at Makaida. They're fantastic stuff to round out

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the show with. All right, well that is it for another week of the Aussie

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football passport. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Thanks again for interacting with

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the show, the likes, the comments, the ratings really

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appreciate it. Couldn't ask for a more brilliant

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fan base. Thank you so much. I'm hoping to have a few

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updates for you over the next couple of weeks on the show with some bits

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on the side. And don't worry, I haven't forgot about doing some bonus episodes that

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will also come up in due course. But for now thanks for listening and I'll

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catch you in the next episode. Goodbye for now.