Hammers - Matt Winter

Hammers Head Coach Matt Winter was back to share thoughts on the hard-fought battle v Poverty Bay, and how the pressure is still on into the final regular season game this weekend despite already locking in top seed and a home semi-final... 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, there was a Green takeover of Gisbon in round
seven of the Heartland Championship on the weekend. Head coach
Matt Winter.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Morning morning, lokew you mate?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah good? What a crazy game. Thirteen tries and baited
breath from the beginning, I guess, a real testament to
the tenacity of the side. We were nineteen down after
fifteen minutes and then managed to rise up and respond,
essentially leveling things at the half, and then a bit
of tussle on the in the second half as well.
Is that something that you train for, you know, because
momentum is a big thing in the sport when it's

(00:33):
against you. Is that something you trained for to go, okay, right,
we're still in this, there's still time on the clock.
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah. It's hard to train for a such with the
limited time we had together, but it certainly something we
talk a lot a lot about with our leaders, and
we're really really fortunate the quality of our leaders. You know,
it's probably one of those one of our streaks that
they always feel like, regardless of what the game's like
all the situations, that are pretty confident in what we
do and how we do it. So by all accounts.

(01:02):
As we were under the tumble little in that first
fifteen minutes to call the heads for vailed them. They
were pretty confident that if we stuck to our stuff
then we'd be coming right, which ended up obviously coming true,
which is good.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hey, congreat to on Nathan McCloy bringing up his fiftieth
for the Hammers. What nice stuff do you have to
say about him?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I could go on for a while, to be honest,
but I don't know if you've got enough time. Native
bloody goodfella. I've had a lot to do with them
over the years, and yeah, excellent foody player, but yeah
even better bloke. So yeah, well deserved. And it was
awesome that we could get the fire forts for them
away because it was yeah, very cool.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, we only needed two to lock in a home
semi final, so that is done. Although I can't imagine
for a second that you're letting your foot off the
pedal into this coming weekend, which is the final round
of the regular season. We welcome north o'tager that means
that hen and shield goes on the line.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yep, absolutely, yeah, So we've got the handy shield up.
We've got to win that back and then also meningitis
week to was Yeah, charity game so on the line.
And there's also Tom Ricky Sustia from this week. Yeah,
she's all going yeaps. It's one of those years they

(02:13):
just just keep popping up. So pretty cool to be
a part of.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Actually, what is the fiftieth anniversary? That is golden, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
So?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I wonder if it would be fitting if we got
him some golden boots.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Wow? Mate, oh golden boots? RICHI it doesn't it's not
rolls off the tongue to Actually he's been playing like
it too this season, so yeah, we probably should. Actually
somebody should look at some gold plated ones.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, it has it go. I'm pretty sure it's the
gold anniversary of the fifty is.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not there yet.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Annis you'll you'll love not having to travel far. I
hear that he caused a bit of a fuss on
the way home from Guze.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah. In New Zealand in general, and all the other
passengers on the flight from Auckland to christ Hich that
were supposed to leave at seven o'clock, oh on Saturday
night went over the moon. When we were born in
at seven thirty. So, yeah, what happened. Our flight from
Gismond got delayed. We had so the flight from Gismond

(03:11):
to Auctland got delayed. So we rushed from the terminal
and we had to get through security and they only
had one lane open, and it was just a bit
of a cluster really, but yeah, we.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
All got there and then excuse me, excuse me, as
you're all shuffling to to find your seats. Well, at
least it wasn't directly your fault. I thought you were
going to say something like Fridge was in the line
for coffee and he was saying, just give me five minutes, guys,
five more minutes. Rom was there.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
A couple of the fellows did take the liberty and
get some dunkin Donuts on the way in between, but
that didn't actually impact it. It was probably awk for the airport.
Potentially might have been able to help ours see ada
and open up another lane at security, but they decided
that one's enough. So yeah, we had a bit of
a squeaky bumps on there, but thankfully everyone got on.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, and we're back in one piece, and those doughnuts
well earned. Mate. Here's to a big week of North Otago.
Looking forward to getting down to the showgrounds this coming
weekend and we've locked in that home semi final. How
good one step closer to the Meads carp