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Paul Francis

Paul Francis

Actor

Aug 31, 2026

50:24
These tennis courts are famous.
50:27
Mate, they've been here a long time.
50:30
A lot of people have been through here and...
50:33
Yeah, look, it's just a tough time at the moment.
50:36
I mean, a lot of misinformation early on and it's just spiralled and now we're in this absolutely ridiculous situation.
50:45
So are you going to leave? I might be chained to an umpire stand the way it's going at the moment.
50:52
But I think, you know, talking to you this morning, we had a great article in the Herald yesterday.
51:16
There's lots of groups of older men and older women who rely on your tennis centre for their weekly catch-up with their friends.
0:59
These tennis courts are famous.
1:02
Mate, they've been here a long time.
1:06
A lot of people have been through here and...
1:09
Yeah, look, it's just a tough time at the moment.
1:11
I mean, a lot of misinformation early on and it's just spiralled and now we're in this absolutely ridiculous situation.
1:20
So are you going to leave? I might be chained to an umpire stand the way it's going at the moment.
1:27
But I think, you know, talking to you this morning, we had a great article in the Herald yesterday.
1:51
There's lots of groups of older men and older women who rely on your tennis centre for their weekly catch up with their friends.
34:35
Oh, no, yeah.
34:36
So then everyone's very weary with the weight of a concrete truck on a ferry and so on.
34:41
So then the big job here was getting the concrete up onto the site.
34:45
And that was really very challenging with the weather.
34:51
the tide the day you know the day and the night when they could leave when the concrete only one concrete atlas i think would make the concrete and do the journey the other um company wouldn't do it because they were involved in the down the line down the line yeah so you fully understand that but this was sort of unfolding as we'd made these decisions and so um yeah bringing the concrete over here with concrete pumps and everything was was was really tricky and you know the weather the Most of it was reasonable.
35:18
I realized halfway through, I think, oh, we've got this, we have to sort of look at it.
35:21
So we looked at the helicopter coming over, you know, dumping it from the side, bringing it over here.
39:48
Yeah, this is cool, eh? Yeah.

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