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Do you know what? I'm thinking about the connection in different countries, seeing that young kid.

Oh, Archie Wilson.

Didn't everybody's heart go out to him? What is he? 18, a long way from home over in Nebraska.

Preseason boy starts his career as a, he's a ponder, isn't he?

He is, yeah, Nebraska. Yeah, and the whole state have got their arms around him. It's a press conference. He's 18. He's from here. He's a long way from home. Have you listen to this. Archie Wilson is this hero's name. So what's it like being the first time you're away from them yeah that part's hard i mean i'm sorry

yeah i love i love them a lot yeah i've got two little brothers and my mom and dad and i

yeah that's the tough part about being here i love them a lot and i miss them but it's I mean, they know this is what's best for me and it's good. I can still talk to them plenty over the phone and they're coming here to see the first few games. What an emotionally articulate 18 year old. To feel his emotions, you know, be present for them and then talk about what it is and what an amazing family they must all have.

And I think it's a lovely, lovely heart-women moment.

That is such a, what brave thing for him and his family to be separate like that?

It is a long way from here in Australia.

But then get this right.

Alex, as a sports guy, you'll get this.

I overheard won the team Tina go, you know, my worry now is that some of those Americans

are going to pick on him. I'm like, hopefully we're not in that world now. No. He's in too many 80s American movies, you know? In the locker room, the lad, and where's our weepy archie and stuff like that? We're northern that world. Now, what I've seen on the internet is the internet's got its arms around him.

But he's also from Frankston.

They're tough in Franks. stuff like that. We're northern that world. Now, what I've seen on the internet is the internet's got his arms around him.

But he's also from Frankston. They're tough in Frankston.

Yeah, you're right.

I'm not around in Frankston.

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