Paul Allison - Weekend Sport

As he does so well, Paul Allison was back to run a ruler over the sporting action to come this weekend 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Paul Ellison, good morning. How you getting on to the
end of the week. We've gone from one extreme to another.
It's going to take a lot of willpower to stay
up until ten pm tomorrow night to catch the All Blacks.
You're going to have to not only stay up, you're
gonna have to stay up longer than it because the
game kicks off ten forty five tomorrow and ten five.
Yeah for I understand, well, you got daylight saving on

(00:25):
you on your side and how to haven't you it does? Now? Yeah,
I think this is a banana skin test for the
All Blacks. I picked the All Blacks last week by twelve.
They didn't quite make that, but they got the win
and kept that unbeaten run at Eden Park going. I
just feel that Australia will be better this week. I
thought they got a few calls that didn't quite go

(00:46):
their way and the fact that they've been bolstered with
some of their key players back Valentini and Skelton and
the All Blacks having lost a few a couple of
their front rowers and also Bowden, Barrett, Caleb Clark and
the like. So I just feel this is one for
the taking for Australia. We know that they've bounced back
well in that Lion series when they won that third
Test and unlucky not to win the second Test, and

(01:09):
we've played them twice in Perth in the past. We've
got absolutely spanked before the World Cup in two nineteen
by forty seven to twenty six. Then we turn the
tables in twenty twenty one, so we've only played two
Test matches in our entire history in Perth and I
just sort of feel this one might go the Australian's way.
I think they are a dangerous side and if they
can get some momentum going, they might be too good.

(01:30):
But let's not be too much of a doubting Thomas
at the stage and let's hope that the All Blacks
can because they need to win to keep their Rugby
Championship hopes alive. We know they didn't win the Rugby
Championship last year. That was won by South Africa who
are looking good again this year. They play Argentina in
an away match for them and Argentinian home match at Twickenham.

(01:52):
That's two o'clock, so you're talking ten forty five. Get
up watching the All Blacks stay up till what is
that one about twelve forty five, the kettle on and
then carry on through for an all night. They're starting
at two o'clock on Sunday morning, South Africa Argentina. If
you want a bit of a warm up before then, well,
MPC gets underway tonight for around ten the last of

(02:13):
the round robin, and that will conclude on Sunday afternoon
when Canterbury are at home to Tallanaki. Canterbury will probably
need to win that to retain their spot at the
top of the table, which means that they get hometown
advantage throughout the playoffs if they keep winning. That's four
thirty five Sunday afternoon. Otago is the team that they'll

(02:35):
be keeping an eye on because they just one point
behind them on the ladder and Otago play Auckland two
o five tomorrow, not at Eden Park but at Auckland
Grammar school grounds. There we go. I don't know, maybe
that ain't get big enough crowds at Eden Park, so
they're going They're going to Auckland Grammar to play that.
Also tomorrow afternoon it's the Faro Farmer Cup Final. Wellington

(02:57):
workout I should say against Canterbury to the FMG Stadium.
One fifteen is the kickoff, of course, the defending champions
of White Kaddow, but Canterbury won five times in the
last decade, so they I wouldn't put it past and
they had that sort of stranglehold between two seventeen and
two twenty and then one of the game and two
twenty two twenty twenty two, I should say, And so
that'll be a close match. That's one fifteen that basically

(03:19):
plays as a curtain raiser for the MPC and the
Bunnings when Waycado take on Northland on Sunday evening. If
you've woken up again after that big night out, you've
got on Saturday night, Sunday night nine thirty another late
one for your Grand Final NRL coming to you from Sydney.
Brisbane Broncos they haven't won since two thousand and six

(03:41):
up against the Melbourne Storm. You who haven't won that
toilet water Reese Walsh. Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.
He is an absolute superstar, isn't he against the Melbourne
Storm two seventeen was allowed twenty seveneen was the last
time that they had won. So because Penrith has had
a basically a mortgage on that trophy. It'll be someone
else engraved in this time. I wouldn't be surprised to

(04:05):
Brisbane get up and break that nineteen year old drought.
We'll wait and see Women's ICC will Cup the White
Ferns in action for their second match, and that after
getting spanked by Australia. This is from indoor. That's not
an indoor match, but from indoor in India. Ten to
thirty Monday night for that one. But before then, of course,
tonight seven to fifteen New Zealand against Australia Chapel Hadley

(04:26):
second match in the three match series coming to you
from Mount Monganui. Third match tomorrow seven fifteen on Saturday night,
and then Formula One from Singapore to night racing over there.
So it means the early hours of the morning one
am New Zealand time on Monday. We'll see Liam Lawson
in action once more and let's hope he has another
outstanding performance to back up that top six place that

(04:49):
he had in the last outing. So yeah, plenty of
sporting action, but get some sleep when you can. Over
the weekend ahead