Nick Beweley - Weekend Sport

Nick Beweley was in for Grant Nisbett to look over some of the highlights from a stacked weekend of sport 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Invanis Bonik the early morning.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning to you, Luke.

Speaker 1 (00:02):
When was the last time we had a man of
the match in rugby union who played less than half
the game?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Certainly rare, isn't it. I don't have that stand off
the top of my head, unfortunately, but such was the
impact of Damien McKenzie that it's hard to make an
argument for anyone else getting Man of the match honors.
Comes on very cool head to kick that critical fifty
twenty two at that point of the game when it
was seventeen all, and then somehow contorted his body, defied

(00:31):
all the laws of physics to stay in the field
to play dot the ball down in the left wing
corner what ended up proving to be the match winning try,
and then for good measure, kicks a forty odd meter
penalty on an angle to ice the game too. So
I thought it was a tremendous performance from McKenzie. Still
some frustrations from the All Blacks. I mean, they led
seventeen n'l at half time. We've been waiting for a

(00:52):
complete eighty minute performance, but it's still lacking. And the
three yellow cards probably top of mind in terms of
the most frustrating. Certainly, the Leroy carter foot trip and
the Wallast to CD intercept attempt just just a little
brain frad brain fade moments that the All Blacks need
to eliminate out of their game.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Can't afford to be doing that against England.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
No. No, England, certainly at Twickenham, have shown they're going
to be a very tricky proposition. When I looked at
the schedule for this Grand Slam in the form of
the Four Nations, yeah, England was front of mine in
terms of been the trickiest proposition. They had a pretty
comfortable went over Fiji yesterday morning, pretty easy, went over
over the Wallabies, who just quietly lost to Italy over

(01:35):
the weekend. Yes, crazy, that was their pay Yeah yeah,
well I know the Wallaby's rested a few, but but yeah,
I thought, that's only the second time that's ever happened
in Italy Breaky's history that they've been in Australia. So yeah,
look on England, I think they're the tough one of
the of the four. Wales have just lost this morning

(01:56):
to Argentina, so and the All Blacks will likely be
without Caleb Clark. We're reporting this morning with the concussion
he suffered against Scotland. So a little bit of a
reshuffle required in the back line too for the All Blacks.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
What else do we pack from a stacked weekend. Maybe
yesterday afternoon I was smoking some meat on the traeger,
which was perfect because conditions were ideal, and then I
was able to also pack up and catch this T
twenty out of Saxon Oval and again it came down
to the final over. This has been a thrilling series
against the Windies.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, quite bizarre really in terms of all the
three teams that have battered. First of all, defended their totals.
The margins have been seven runs, three runs and nine
runs yesterday and Nelson and for the second time in
the row, the West Indies, when the game looked completely
dead and buried their tail enders, have just whacked away
and got them very very close. So New Zealand will

(02:50):
be a little bit frustrated. I would have thought as
to how they've allowed the West Indies back into the game,
but they have been able to ice it late. So
they lead that series to one and there's the fourth
T twenty this afternoon, and I agree, I didn't really
know what the westendis we're going to provide. They're a
little bit Jekyll and Hyde across the three cricket formats,
but they've been entertaining in this T twenty series so

(03:11):
far