October 19, 2025 • 6 mins
Commentator Jason Rickard was back in to celebrate a perfect Hammers season, clinching the Meads Cup on Saturday!!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hammer Time. Jason Rickard, How good.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Morning, Luke, Yes, Hammer Time, how good?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, Well you've got some voice. Just you were
quite in the moment listening back to their live stream
from set today. Can't blame you. And how about their crowd?
Is it like anything you've experienced?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I Louck. That was magndicent, isn't it. And we talked,
We've talked for the last couple of weeks about the
crowd and this and just what that does the twenty
fourth player and you know, lot, you cash your mind
back that last two minutes. The crowd were cheering, hoping.
It was outstanding. The ground was absolutely packed the whole
way around. So good to see Mid Canary supporters Scott
(00:39):
riding behind our hammers and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was good to see a lot of Swamp Fox fans.
I must have met there too. But of course the
Mid Canburary signs. Do we know who the fellers and
the body paint were?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It surely have found out too, Luke. But I've been
told not to disclose some good young fellows. There are
local fellows that have gone away to university and that's God,
isn't that? Yeah? Actually, you're right the swampings. They brought
about two hundred and fifty people down I did. They
had supporters' buses coming out of crash.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They had the corporate box their trailer at the end
that had the sign up.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That was great to see, wasn't They were in good
spirits and Billy Bush he was driving on one of
the buses.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's brilliant. So the occasion we had the ants, them,
TV cameras all over the place. Quiet, a bit of
confidence leading into the break, but then that massive crowd
got pretty quiet and pretty tense, particularly through that final fifteen.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's right, like g Yeah, turning into halftime. You know,
I was thinking Maddy Winter and the coaching team would
have been relative be peace heading into the wind, turning
around with the wind behind their backs, and then you're
right there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's almost like the wind behind each team served as
a disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
What does and actually we talked about that. You know,
when you've got the wind and you're actually plugging back
the corners, but what you do there is actually giving
the opposition the ball back right, and so Thames Valley
started to create phases and so they were getting into
the double digit phases and then it's very difficult to
keep defending for long tracks of timeline, there isn't it.
(02:10):
And as we saw, they got momentum. Momentum scored one
try and then pretty quickly scored another one, and that,
you know, that's when we.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Really got yeah pretty much. And then there was that card.
It was quite neat to note that our Zimbabwe and
Reserve shepherd Mimberry brought it fifty What an occasion to
do it. But he also took a big knock he
did in order for that card.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
To be hit. Yeah, Yeah, he saw it coming, didn't he.
You could sort of you could feel it up the
top and it was a massive fit. But unfortunately the
open side for yeah, the swampiece didn't used too many
arms in that tackle. And then poor old tom Recki
missed one for a change. And there's been a bit
on social media about whether he actually did miss it
(02:55):
or not, but I won't go into that. So anyway,
that had allowed swamp That's to come down in that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, and then for some reason they decided not to
go for sticks. They went for the went for the
for the line, and then the hero, the savior of
the day was all over the place like the best
kind of ramship CoA skipper Dicklar McCormick.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
He was, He was immense for me a looking you know,
he trenched that last line out, but he had actually
also done it in the first half two He had
pinched two early ones off the off the Swampies as well,
and you know, big cool. They closed it out two
minutes running clock to go and they just pissed them
that real close and you know, quite often you can
make mistakes there, so the composure to do that was
(03:34):
outstanding and you had just to close that game down.
Just fantastic to watch and just shows you the class
of the side and what they what they can do
and have done over the whole season.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Everyone outstanding. How neat to be able to do it
for somebody who's been grinning gold for a decade and
now absolute still would of the game. Other coach Skipper
dam Williamson. Yeah, big Fredgie, he played the four eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He did the Freds. He was immense. He was out
on his feet of those big shanks of his big
calf muscles were getting but yeah, those those cars have
given him grieful over all of those years. But Krocky,
he he was immense. The scrum was good, he was
great defensively he was you know, he's an inspirational co
(04:17):
captain too, Like you say, like if you you follow
both Decklan and Fridge into battle and you know what
better skippers could you have and what they've added on
and off the field too, and a capacity around town's
been huge and immense and uh, you know, without getting
ahead of ourselves, Luke, there's a new n Hartland team
picked this week and got to be some names featured
(04:38):
in there from Midchennerary big time.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I was going to ask about that, so so
good on you. Have you heard about the celebrations over
the weekend. Correspondence from you to the players has been
very quiet, which probably goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Look, they're just good humans, aren't they. So they would
have celebrated a big time. They went up the road
to mef and so they would have taken the Meads
Cup on a bit of a tour round. So it's
good to see. And we talked off a year about
connection back to the community and that's been one great
thing about our local Mid Canary community getting on board
(05:14):
with Formid Canary team and then for them to be
able to go and do that back and take it
around and won't it won't sit in the cupboard for long, Luke,
I reckon, it'll be out and about and showcased around
the town.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, big time. Oh look, it's just so good. It's
been so long in the making. Perfect season. We couldn't
be prouder of the leads. Final question for you, Jason Richard,
do you know what spin the wheelers? Apparently that's part
of the celebrations too. They're all charging at the end
spurn their wheel.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I did see that, and I think there is actually
like a Raffel wheel sitting in the chaining rooms, and
I suspect these different things are sitting in the numbers
that might have to say it might be some sort
of antics, because I think the boys have you know,
they've grouped together after their wins this season and done
it in a clo the environment, which is great, and
I suspect that's where that's come from.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You keep on spinning our mighty hammers. How good to
celebrate with you, and thank you so much for all
your comment over the season. Jason Rickett, it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It has been that's awesome. Well, you know, you sort
of get dragged into the you know, the excitement of
the whole whole competition and what it's mean, and you know,
you reflect back now and you go, it's a pretty
pretty short campaign, isn't it, But to go perfect when
semi final, home final at home immense and I'm just
so proud of what our mc kenny boys have done.
(06:32):
And thank you very much for the community too, for
getting in behind them.
Hammer Time. Jason Rickard, How good.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Morning, Luke, Yes, Hammer Time, how good?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, Well you've got some voice. Just you were
quite in the moment listening back to their live stream
from set today. Can't blame you. And how about their crowd?
Is it like anything you've experienced?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I Louck. That was magndicent, isn't it. And we talked,
We've talked for the last couple of weeks about the
crowd and this and just what that does the twenty
fourth player and you know, lot, you cash your mind
back that last two minutes. The crowd were cheering, hoping.
It was outstanding. The ground was absolutely packed the whole
way around. So good to see Mid Canary supporters Scott
(00:39):
riding behind our hammers and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was good to see a lot of Swamp Fox fans.
I must have met there too. But of course the
Mid Canburary signs. Do we know who the fellers and
the body paint were?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It surely have found out too, Luke. But I've been
told not to disclose some good young fellows. There are
local fellows that have gone away to university and that's God,
isn't that? Yeah? Actually, you're right the swampings. They brought
about two hundred and fifty people down I did. They
had supporters' buses coming out of crash.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They had the corporate box their trailer at the end
that had the sign up.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That was great to see, wasn't They were in good
spirits and Billy Bush he was driving on one of
the buses.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's brilliant. So the occasion we had the ants, them,
TV cameras all over the place. Quiet, a bit of
confidence leading into the break, but then that massive crowd
got pretty quiet and pretty tense, particularly through that final fifteen.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's right, like g Yeah, turning into halftime. You know,
I was thinking Maddy Winter and the coaching team would
have been relative be peace heading into the wind, turning
around with the wind behind their backs, and then you're
right there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's almost like the wind behind each team served as
a disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
What does and actually we talked about that. You know,
when you've got the wind and you're actually plugging back
the corners, but what you do there is actually giving
the opposition the ball back right, and so Thames Valley
started to create phases and so they were getting into
the double digit phases and then it's very difficult to
keep defending for long tracks of timeline, there isn't it.
(02:10):
And as we saw, they got momentum. Momentum scored one
try and then pretty quickly scored another one, and that,
you know, that's when we.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Really got yeah pretty much. And then there was that card.
It was quite neat to note that our Zimbabwe and
Reserve shepherd Mimberry brought it fifty What an occasion to
do it. But he also took a big knock he
did in order for that card.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
To be hit. Yeah, Yeah, he saw it coming, didn't he.
You could sort of you could feel it up the
top and it was a massive fit. But unfortunately the
open side for yeah, the swampiece didn't used too many
arms in that tackle. And then poor old tom Recki
missed one for a change. And there's been a bit
on social media about whether he actually did miss it
(02:55):
or not, but I won't go into that. So anyway,
that had allowed swamp That's to come down in that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, and then for some reason they decided not to
go for sticks. They went for the went for the
for the line, and then the hero, the savior of
the day was all over the place like the best
kind of ramship CoA skipper Dicklar McCormick.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
He was, He was immense for me a looking you know,
he trenched that last line out, but he had actually
also done it in the first half two He had
pinched two early ones off the off the Swampies as well,
and you know, big cool. They closed it out two
minutes running clock to go and they just pissed them
that real close and you know, quite often you can
make mistakes there, so the composure to do that was
(03:34):
outstanding and you had just to close that game down.
Just fantastic to watch and just shows you the class
of the side and what they what they can do
and have done over the whole season.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Everyone outstanding. How neat to be able to do it
for somebody who's been grinning gold for a decade and
now absolute still would of the game. Other coach Skipper
dam Williamson. Yeah, big Fredgie, he played the four eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He did the Freds. He was immense. He was out
on his feet of those big shanks of his big
calf muscles were getting but yeah, those those cars have
given him grieful over all of those years. But Krocky,
he he was immense. The scrum was good, he was
great defensively he was you know, he's an inspirational co
(04:17):
captain too, Like you say, like if you you follow
both Decklan and Fridge into battle and you know what
better skippers could you have and what they've added on
and off the field too, and a capacity around town's
been huge and immense and uh, you know, without getting
ahead of ourselves, Luke, there's a new n Hartland team
picked this week and got to be some names featured
(04:38):
in there from Midchennerary big time.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I was going to ask about that, so so
good on you. Have you heard about the celebrations over
the weekend. Correspondence from you to the players has been
very quiet, which probably goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Look, they're just good humans, aren't they. So they would
have celebrated a big time. They went up the road
to mef and so they would have taken the Meads
Cup on a bit of a tour round. So it's
good to see. And we talked off a year about
connection back to the community and that's been one great
thing about our local Mid Canary community getting on board
(05:14):
with Formid Canary team and then for them to be
able to go and do that back and take it
around and won't it won't sit in the cupboard for long, Luke,
I reckon, it'll be out and about and showcased around
the town.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, big time. Oh look, it's just so good. It's
been so long in the making. Perfect season. We couldn't
be prouder of the leads. Final question for you, Jason Richard,
do you know what spin the wheelers? Apparently that's part
of the celebrations too. They're all charging at the end
spurn their wheel.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I did see that, and I think there is actually
like a Raffel wheel sitting in the chaining rooms, and
I suspect these different things are sitting in the numbers
that might have to say it might be some sort
of antics, because I think the boys have you know,
they've grouped together after their wins this season and done
it in a clo the environment, which is great, and
I suspect that's where that's come from.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You keep on spinning our mighty hammers. How good to
celebrate with you, and thank you so much for all
your comment over the season. Jason Rickett, it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It has been that's awesome. Well, you know, you sort
of get dragged into the you know, the excitement of
the whole whole competition and what it's mean, and you know,
you reflect back now and you go, it's a pretty
pretty short campaign, isn't it, But to go perfect when
semi final, home final at home immense and I'm just
so proud of what our mc kenny boys have done.
(06:32):
And thank you very much for the community too, for
getting in behind them.
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