Paul Allison - Weekend Sport

Sporting Commentator Paul Allison was back to preview another stacked weekend of action

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Paul Allison, morning morning, what do you got planned for
the weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Parking up and watching a whole bunch of rugby. Hopefully
they've got a stream running from Gisbon for Poverty Bay
to get things underway tomorrow and then hot off the
heels of that. At the earlier time, I thought this
was influenced by you know, Ozzie a Fowl or Nral
or something like that. But no, Nisbe seems to think
it's just for the kids, to make more family friendly.
The first plitterslow at Eden Park. It's been in our

(00:25):
trophy cabinet since two thousand and three. Don't know if
we're quite as confident about holding on to the thing
as we would have been a few weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, you all Blacks have had a little bit of
a slip last time, didn't they against South Africa? And
we talk about slip. We talk about slippers because James Slipper,
playing one hundred and fifty matches in test matches for Australia.
When he runs out at Eden Park at five past
five tomorrow, he joins Allen Wynn Jones and Sam Whitelock
are the only two world rugby players to have achieved
that feat any of injuries in the Australian side though

(00:55):
Tom Right and Andrew Callaway and Nick White retired, Rob
Valentina and Will Scout and all unavailable, and we know
that Scott Barrett's not in the All Black lineup. But
I would expect that the All Blacks will bounce back
from that disappointing last twenty minutes against South Africa. They
tend to get back on the horse. But this is
a really interesting competition. Teams don't seem to be able

(01:16):
to put two wins together in this competition. I just
wonder whether or not it's about depth of squad or
whether or not you know the fact that players struggle
to put performances together in consecutive weeks. Have had that
one additional week break this time, so I think the
All Blacks will get back on track. Interestingly, that five
past five kickoff time that you talked about, I think

(01:38):
a few people might get caught out with that because normally,
you know, you're thinking at seven o'clock. And as both said,
it's to get the kids in there world. When I
was in Argentina, there was about a third of the
audience that were kids, and maybe it is a kid
friendly time, but I bet you it's not kid friendly
prices at Eden Park, so.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's still a full house house.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
My comment though, is how many of those are actually
going to be kids that come, because you know, we
know that financially driven motives are a real part of
professional sport now, so we'll wait and see. But yeah,
it is a nice time for families to go if
they can afford it, and let's hope they've been able
to attract them by a good pricing structure. MPC action

(02:23):
plenty of that as well. Auckland getting beaten by Hawk's
Bay last night means that they're completely out of running
for the top eight this year. Oh dear, how sad.
Never mind Otago against North Harbor though I passed one
tomorrow ran fairly shield on the line. Otago haven't banked
that and had it in their trophy cabinet over the
summer for a few years now, because.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
This thing has changed hands more than I change und these.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It went from Taranaki to Waitkado to South and to
Canterbury to Otago, very similar to nineteen fifty when it
was in five different places at North Harbor. Win it
that will make number six, and here's a team that
haven't won a game this year and already on the
social media their fans are saying all will be forgiven
if you bring the shield back on Saturday. Don't know

(03:09):
if that will happen because O Tiger are traveling well
as Canterbury even though they had that little hack up
last week against a very resurgent Otago team. Canterbury away
to Northland, who are going well. That's on Sunday four
thirty five Farah Palmer Cup semifinals. Canoby take on one
or two tomorrow afternoon Rugby Park one thirty five and

(03:31):
then Whitecatto against Auckland two five. But it all starts
tonight at eleven thirty pm, half an hour before midnight.
The Black Ferns against France and the Women's Rugby World Cup,
which is the preview or the curtain razor to the
Canada versus England World Cup final. I don't know either
team really wants to play in the third and fourth

(03:52):
playoff and can the Black Ferns salvage some sort of
pride after getting absolutely spanked by Canada next week. I
think this a realy close game. I think the final
will be too. I would expect England to be too
good and they go in as pretty warm favorites. But
this Canadian side, I think they've got the darlings of
the crowd favorites really because they've had the crowd race

(04:12):
to get there and they're not the same level of
professionalism or payment with professional players that the English side have.
So we'll wait and see how that goes. Pulimery Finals
NRL Raiders against the Sharks tonight at nine fifty, and
then the Broncos against the seventh place Panthers who are
the defending champions on Sunday at seven five. So that's

(04:35):
got some a couple of intriguing matchups there. The tiny
Jamison Trophy, well, it's all wrapped away already. This is
the third Test match in New Zealand versus South Africa
and Netball in the Cagle first Pass at seven forty
on Sunday evening. Right A Cup Golf starts in Farmingdale
and New York later on this evening, twelve players and

(04:55):
each of course, I think the States will be too
strong for the rest of the for their opposition for
the rest of Europe and or Europe and the rest
of the World and AFL Grand Final Geelong versus Brisbane
if you can understand AFL, have you ever got grips
with what that actually is all about? Four point thirty
tomorrow at Geelong in West Sydney. But yeah, it's again

(05:17):
that I haven't quite figured out how it all works.
Plenty of bouncing, plenty of passing, plenty of aerial work.
So yeah, that's spoiling action if I missed anything. What
have I missed?

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Not that I can think of, mate. That is a
very stax men you bring on the weekend.