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It’s one of the great weeks in the Bulldogs’ history, but club chief executive Aaron Warburton is sitting in a quiet corner of a Las Vegas bar wiping tears from his eyes.

We have been talking for less than 10 minutes and the emotion is overwhelming about what he saw, heard and felt on December 14 at Bondi Beach when two gunmen opened fire and killed 15 people in an antisemitic terror attack now the subject of a royal commission.

It’s not well known that the Dogs boss is a Bondi resident. He and his wife Britt had a front-row view of what unfolded that tragic day.

“A minute after putting our groceries down that day after our grocery shopping Britt and I heard a bang,” Aaron said.

“I looked outside and I could see what looked like old men wrestling. I said f— there is a guy with a gun, and then I said there is two of them.

“My place to the bridge where the two men shot from … I could throw a cricket ball there.“

Read Danny Weidler’s full column here.