February 17, 2025 • 16 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Tuesday 18th February 2025, the annual sporting gong-fest is on again tonight. The Halberg Awards take centre stage as we celebrate Kiwi sporting excellence and NZ Herald scribe Michael Burgess believes the event needs freshening to take into account the global nature of NZ sports people’s success.
Streakers appeared again over the weekend, letting it all hang out (well in some cases) at Eden Park for the Blues v Chiefs Super Rugby Pacific clash. Still? Really? Why? D’Arcy gives us his punishment solution, and it’s not about money, imprisonment or banishment from the ground.
Alex Powell, NZ Herald's digital editor, spins some yarns in the Chamber. He shares his thoughts and opinions around the day’s major sporting stories, including who has appeared at the Force after months in the coaching wilderness, the looming Champions Trophy ODI tournament and the glory that is the 62nd Halberg Awards.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
It'd be greetain's greetings. Welcome into this edition of The
Sports Fixer. It's a tunesday. It is the eighteenth February
twenty twenty five. My name is Darcy Walter Grave and
coming up in this podcast, we're going to talk about
tonight's Halberg celebrations, tonight's Halberg fundraiser. Tonight when the athletes
(00:42):
forget about what they do to make themselves famous, they
just clip on a fancy pair of pants and get
up there themselves a good time. Michael Burgess has written
in The New Zealand Herald about how this event, the
ceremony can be tweaked. It joins us to talk about
that shortly. I've got some opinion about the vagaries of streaking.
(01:02):
I mean, why would you you know of the chamber.
Alex Powell joins us digital Sport editor for the New
Zealand Herald as we throw around some of the bigger
topics of sport today. That is a plan get amongst
looking forward to presenting this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Is the fix in other news.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And in some sports box pops for you all today, Ossie.
Rugby League Commission Chair Peter, where is New Zealand again?
The landis has gone full grovel to try and persuade
President Trump to dark in the door of the NRL
experience in Las Vegas. He wants the poters to have
a gander at the Wars versus the Sharks game. Here's
(01:44):
his pre recorded message on Trump's favorite show, Fox and Friends.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Mister President, we want to introduce you to the toughest
game on Earth, rugby league. There's no sport more brutal
than rugby league. Our players don't wear pads or helmets.
Hope to see you at the Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Novak Djokovic has spoken on the Senate affair. They're telling
world Number one has had a telling off for his
positive drug reading, exempted the naughty corner for a couple
of months. He'll still be back though for the French Open.
Novak chose his words carefully. The majority of the players
doesn't feel that it's fair.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Majority of the players feel like.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
There is favorism happening.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
It appears that you can.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Almost affect the outcome if you're a top player, if
you have access to the top lawyers and whatnot. So
there and the conversation between Hiroki Sakai and the table
typing Auckland FC has resulted in a year long extension
for the Stipper. Just the news the team needs. Heading
into this week, Ken's Derby Flash versus the Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Have we had a negotiation, negotiation or discussion from since
after the past of derby?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And there are sports vox pops of the.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Day, news and opinion. It's Force Fix with Dancie Valdreve.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Ands wll Welcome into the Fixed podcast to writer for
n Z heraldy multi sport talented writer mister Michael Burgess.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Hi, Michael, how good a Darcy, I'm good mate, shining
got to be good.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's it And it's a massive day or a massive
night coming up for New Zealand sport. You've written a
piece in the Herald around this talking about a new
category to recognized excellent and big leagues feel that is
lacking and the Halbergs maybe needs to be tweaked. So
(03:43):
first up, talk us through what needs to happen. Do
you think to bring it kicking and screaming into twenty
five and beyond.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, that's kind of the summary, Dars. I mean, you know,
I love the Halbergs. There's such an important part of
the sporting landscape. We've grown up watching them, look forward
to them every year. But it just needs to become
a bit more relevant and for me, I'll be thinking
about this for quite a few years. But the penny
dropped when I was having a look at Chris Wood.
We all know what he's done this past year in
(04:11):
the Premier League has been incredible. Is the talk of England,
let alone New Zealand for everything he's done. But it's
not you And he's been doing amazing things for seven
or eight years and this is the first time he's
been a finalist. So it's just occurred to me, you know,
how can how is there not a way to recognize
what this guy's doing in terms of a global achievement?
(04:34):
So yeah, I just think there needs to be a
category and what you call it. My initial idea was
you call it, you know, best global achievement or best
achievement in a global sport. I don't know, something that
might be a bit clunky, but something that just recognizes
people that do amazing things in the biggest sports. They
might not win a trophy or a medal or a championship,
(04:55):
but they do things that make all of us so proud,
that get everyone talking and get people around the world talking.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's global the nature of New Zealand sports people, because
it has to be. How many young sports be will
disappear overseas two minor leagues or smaller competition to build
themselves up to a position where they can compete on
that stage and then to be I suppose ignored a
preference of of an Olympic sport that that's kind of gutting.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, it's hard, isn't it? Because you don't want to
criticize other achievements because everyone who does what they do
in their chosen sport is absolutely incredible, and especially those
who achieve at the Olympics or win world championships. So
I'm really reluctant to criticize anyone and what they've done.
It's just the judges in an awkward position. You know,
(05:45):
the judges, what is it now the sixty second year,
the judges are still stuck with this model of sportsman
of the Year, sportswoman of the Year and Supreme Award.
And it's very hard, I guess, to compare someone playing
in the NBA or someone riding in the Tour de France,
which by the way, is incredible to get to get
a place on a Tour de France team, compared to
(06:08):
someone winning a World championship shot put. You know, it's
just so hard to really analyze, Okay, what's better, what's not.
But I think when you're looking at the likes of
Stephen Adams and Chris Wood, to me are great examples.
Stephen Adams, we all know what he's done in the NBA.
How long has he been there? By a decade? Does
(06:30):
He was amazing for Oklahoma for a few seasons sort
of in twenty sixteen, seventeen eighteen, absolutely incredible what he
was doing. He's been a finalist once in twenty fourteen
in his rookie season, so it's like he's sort of
been airbrush from history of it. You know, if you
just wanted to Jose's gellin sport by the Helberger Wards,
you wouldn't have heard of him, which just doesn't seem right,
(06:51):
does it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There's a big focus on the fact that it's a fundraiser.
We know this, This is the most important part of
that that you cannot walk away from. At the end
of the night, people celebrate the winners, the Supreme Award winners,
the means, the woman's son and so forth, and the
charity moves to one side. So it kind of has
to be addressed because essentially it's still about winning.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
And losing exactly exactly. The charity does incredible things. Sir
Mary Holberg did amazing things. He was an incredible New Zealander.
Will never forget him, and I love the fact that
these awards will always honor him and what he did.
And yeah, you can't forget the foundation and what they
do the other three hundred and sixty four days of
(07:33):
the year, but on this night it's all about judging
elite sports people and what they've done to make us,
you know, so so proud as a nation. So, you know,
can we really forget you know, one more example Dars
this year lu Lusan Luluisan. She's obviously not in any
of the categories, but you know, she sort of stopped
(07:55):
the nation when she reached the quarterfinals at Wimwood and
became the first woman to do that in the Open era,
first qu female to do that in First New Zealander,
you know, since eighty three. Amazing stuff, and there's no
there's no category for that. It's an Olympic years so
there's a lot of other great female sportswoman achievements. But
(08:15):
it doesn't seem right, does it. But also Lulu is
not in the history.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Boox dissecting the sporting agenda. It's sportsfex with Darcy Waltergrave.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Put them in a glass box and hang them from
a crane for the duration. What am I talking about?
Punishment for streakers. Yeah, we all get a bit of
a laugh, have a weak giggle when some predominantly young
man decides to remove all of us clothes and go
running across a rugby, picture, cricket ground, whatever you'll choose that.
(08:47):
I've never seen it in squash. Maybe that's another challenge.
I don't know why people do this. I'm not quite
sure what the thrillers. I'm presuming it is purely alcohol driven.
But what it really is for everyone concerned is a
pain in the backside. No one wants to see it,
No one cares. People are interested and excited by the game,
(09:08):
not by some fool who wants to get his Johnson
out and show the world. What happened over the weekend
at Eden Park proves to me that there is no
place in this day and age for people to behave
like that. What greats even more is the fact a
couple of the so called streakers didn't even streak. They
didn't take their pants off. Like I don't want to
(09:30):
see bear naked backsides as much as the next guy,
But if you're going to streak, at least streak take
your pants off. That is half fast and that is
a shame. Although one of the streakers staid to have
quite a step and quite a turn of acceleration on them.
Got to be impressed by that. But if they get caught,
I don't think banning them from the ground. I don't
(09:52):
think fighting them makes one smidgeon of difference to their behaviors.
You've got to embarrass them, grab them, stick them in
a small pursepex box, keep them mood, and then suspend
them from a crane for all to see. That's what
they need to do. Embarrass this behavior out of them
(10:12):
and whatever happened to the stroll By the way, wouldn't
it be much cooler if someone got naked and just
casually wandered across the field, strolling in all their glory.
Now that is a statement, streaking. It's being done.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Get a new joke.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Into the Chamber, we go back from a couple of
weeks off. Welcome back into the digital minds Alex Powell.
He is the digital editor of a New Zealand Herald.
Please to be back, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Oh, I'm loving it, loving being back in the chamber.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's good. I'm glad you're here. Big sports story today
in the form of one Leon McDonald's got himself a
new job bro Well.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yet to be confirmed, but it appears that it is
all but done. Yeah, he's gone to the Western Force
and a director of rugby role berg loss for New Zealand,
that sort of rugby ip going up to Australia. Great
gap for them and potentially for the Wallabies as well,
with Joe Schmidt leaving at the end of the Try
and at the Rugwitch Hampionship.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Rather so, this makes perfect sense as far as the
succession plan. In order to get that top job, you've
got to be within the comfortable embrace of the Australians.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Well, men, I don't know if you do. Joe Schmidt
wasn't exactly in the Australian system, but this is helpful,
right it is. It gives him a bit of a
closer look at Australian rug about the players he might
be working with. I think we might be the only
ones insinuating that he's gone for the Wallabies job as well,
but it is a very natural progression for them. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I wonder though about the strength and the intelligence behind
yet another KEI we coaching the Wallaboos. We know Joe
Schmidt did very well, but historically it's not really worked.
I get a feeling that in order to progress Australian
rugby ford you need to look at the youth. You
need to look at Australians. You need to get that
pride back in the g what the Aussies alike?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I do? But do we are we rarely thinking in
twenty twenty five that the national team has to be
coached by someone from that nation. You look at what
Eddie Jones did with an England. You look at what
someone like Robert.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Arren Gatland did with Wales, bad bad, bad comparison. Yeah,
initially yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
So, I mean if they might not want to go
down that route Rugby, so they might want to look
at someone like a Dan mckella, someone like Stephen Larkham.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm just interested in getting the Australians back behind their
team again, and I know the tumult that it caused
when Robbie Deans was there and so on and so forth.
I think the Aussies like having their own out there,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I mean they probably do, don't they. Dave Renny didn't
go to well. I mean he did do great, but
they got rid of the first chance they got so
they could get Eddie Jones back. I mean, who knows
whether Rugby Australia. That's sort of all we can say
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
There's not confirmed year, but you've had Liam on it
and we all know that if Liam's on it, there's
a very good chance it's absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I am absolutely reading it that way.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Fantastic New Zealand. He will read the story, read all
about it in jidhell dot co dot in Z Champions
Trophy gets underway tomorrow. She's been a while some relevant cricket,
but finally it's a it's a breast it's here.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Do you care about the Champions Trophy?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I just want to watch competitive cricket because I've been
watching all these warm up games and enjoying it, but
still going. I must have been watching Warriors preseason because
it doesn't mean anything even though it's any champions trophy, right,
at least it's a relevant international cricketing event.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Right, I'm kind of torn. I'm sure once it starts,
I'll be into it, but like I mean, you look back,
this is the only white ball trophy. New Zealand's one
back watch two thousand. Yeah, so who knows? And we
New Zealand will open the tournament against Pakistan on Wednesday night.
We've already played Pakistan twice and beaten them twice. That
(13:50):
I don't read that as good side.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So we've got quite a nice stagger tournament though, right
because we're playing against Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, so India
and Pakistan booking and we've got Bugla Dish kind of
in the middle, so I think the timing is quite advantageous.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It's the kind of tournament though that one bad result
can throw you out. You only play that's good.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Look, you play each other once the best two teams
go to the Semis. The best two teams go to
the final. This is simple, and I think we're sick
to death of structured competitions where it takes so long
to work it out.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I mean, if we're going to look cynically at it,
it's just another one of these ICC tournaments that they
can shoehorn and so India can play Pakistan because they
don't get them anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Else, ha ha, because that's all the money. And Halberg's tonight.
Don't know about you, but twenty four years more broadcasting,
I've still yet to be invited. It's because I'm not
the biggest fan. What's the word fit for purpose? I
don't think it is.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Now, how do we compare sporting achievements against teacher don't
you can't know?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And saying that who are you picking to take out
the top?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Gone?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
It could be anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They've got a favoritism towards something about these Hallburg people
that love the Olympic Games. Maybe because Sir Murray, you know,
had an adventure in Olympic Games. So based on that,
Dame Lisa.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Carrington, do you think I think it'll be a two
horse race for whoever wins that Sportswoman of the Year
will also win the whole thing. So either Dame Lisa
or Dame Lydia Co both had fantastic years. Lisa Carington
won three Olympic Golds. You look at Lydia Kozier Olympic Gold,
a major two more wins, our youngest ever player to
go into the Hall of Fame, and then becomes a
(15:25):
dame at the end of it, like you're splitting hairs dry.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Maybe it's that the variety of that rundown there might
give the nose if you will. But like we'll find
out later on tonight, if that tickles your fancy, whatever
your fancy is, and however you tickle it. Alex Powell,
sports news editor from NZ to here. Thanks for your
time and welcome back.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Thanks mate, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
It'd be greetain's greetings. Welcome into this edition of The
Sports Fixer. It's a tunesday. It is the eighteenth February
twenty twenty five. My name is Darcy Walter Grave and
coming up in this podcast, we're going to talk about
tonight's Halberg celebrations, tonight's Halberg fundraiser. Tonight when the athletes
(00:42):
forget about what they do to make themselves famous, they
just clip on a fancy pair of pants and get
up there themselves a good time. Michael Burgess has written
in The New Zealand Herald about how this event, the
ceremony can be tweaked. It joins us to talk about
that shortly. I've got some opinion about the vagaries of streaking.
(01:02):
I mean, why would you you know of the chamber.
Alex Powell joins us digital Sport editor for the New
Zealand Herald as we throw around some of the bigger
topics of sport today. That is a plan get amongst
looking forward to presenting this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Is the fix in other news.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And in some sports box pops for you all today, Ossie.
Rugby League Commission Chair Peter, where is New Zealand again?
The landis has gone full grovel to try and persuade
President Trump to dark in the door of the NRL
experience in Las Vegas. He wants the poters to have
a gander at the Wars versus the Sharks game. Here's
(01:44):
his pre recorded message on Trump's favorite show, Fox and Friends.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Mister President, we want to introduce you to the toughest
game on Earth, rugby league. There's no sport more brutal
than rugby league. Our players don't wear pads or helmets.
Hope to see you at the Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Novak Djokovic has spoken on the Senate affair. They're telling
world Number one has had a telling off for his
positive drug reading, exempted the naughty corner for a couple
of months. He'll still be back though for the French Open.
Novak chose his words carefully. The majority of the players
doesn't feel that it's fair.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Majority of the players feel like.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
There is favorism happening.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
It appears that you can.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Almost affect the outcome if you're a top player, if
you have access to the top lawyers and whatnot. So
there and the conversation between Hiroki Sakai and the table
typing Auckland FC has resulted in a year long extension
for the Stipper. Just the news the team needs. Heading
into this week, Ken's Derby Flash versus the Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Have we had a negotiation, negotiation or discussion from since
after the past of derby?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And there are sports vox pops of the.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Day, news and opinion. It's Force Fix with Dancie Valdreve.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Ands wll Welcome into the Fixed podcast to writer for
n Z heraldy multi sport talented writer mister Michael Burgess.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Hi, Michael, how good a Darcy, I'm good mate, shining
got to be good.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's it And it's a massive day or a massive
night coming up for New Zealand sport. You've written a
piece in the Herald around this talking about a new
category to recognized excellent and big leagues feel that is
lacking and the Halbergs maybe needs to be tweaked. So
(03:43):
first up, talk us through what needs to happen. Do
you think to bring it kicking and screaming into twenty
five and beyond.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, that's kind of the summary, Dars. I mean, you know,
I love the Halbergs. There's such an important part of
the sporting landscape. We've grown up watching them, look forward
to them every year. But it just needs to become
a bit more relevant and for me, I'll be thinking
about this for quite a few years. But the penny
dropped when I was having a look at Chris Wood.
We all know what he's done this past year in
(04:11):
the Premier League has been incredible. Is the talk of England,
let alone New Zealand for everything he's done. But it's
not you And he's been doing amazing things for seven
or eight years and this is the first time he's
been a finalist. So it's just occurred to me, you know,
how can how is there not a way to recognize
what this guy's doing in terms of a global achievement?
(04:34):
So yeah, I just think there needs to be a
category and what you call it. My initial idea was
you call it, you know, best global achievement or best
achievement in a global sport. I don't know, something that
might be a bit clunky, but something that just recognizes
people that do amazing things in the biggest sports. They
might not win a trophy or a medal or a championship,
(04:55):
but they do things that make all of us so proud,
that get everyone talking and get people around the world talking.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's global the nature of New Zealand sports people, because
it has to be. How many young sports be will
disappear overseas two minor leagues or smaller competition to build
themselves up to a position where they can compete on
that stage and then to be I suppose ignored a
preference of of an Olympic sport that that's kind of gutting.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, it's hard, isn't it? Because you don't want to
criticize other achievements because everyone who does what they do
in their chosen sport is absolutely incredible, and especially those
who achieve at the Olympics or win world championships. So
I'm really reluctant to criticize anyone and what they've done.
It's just the judges in an awkward position. You know,
(05:45):
the judges, what is it now the sixty second year,
the judges are still stuck with this model of sportsman
of the Year, sportswoman of the Year and Supreme Award.
And it's very hard, I guess, to compare someone playing
in the NBA or someone riding in the Tour de France,
which by the way, is incredible to get to get
a place on a Tour de France team, compared to
(06:08):
someone winning a World championship shot put. You know, it's
just so hard to really analyze, Okay, what's better, what's not.
But I think when you're looking at the likes of
Stephen Adams and Chris Wood, to me are great examples.
Stephen Adams, we all know what he's done in the NBA.
How long has he been there? By a decade? Does
(06:30):
He was amazing for Oklahoma for a few seasons sort
of in twenty sixteen, seventeen eighteen, absolutely incredible what he
was doing. He's been a finalist once in twenty fourteen
in his rookie season, so it's like he's sort of
been airbrush from history of it. You know, if you
just wanted to Jose's gellin sport by the Helberger Wards,
you wouldn't have heard of him, which just doesn't seem right,
(06:51):
does it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There's a big focus on the fact that it's a fundraiser.
We know this, This is the most important part of
that that you cannot walk away from. At the end
of the night, people celebrate the winners, the Supreme Award winners,
the means, the woman's son and so forth, and the
charity moves to one side. So it kind of has
to be addressed because essentially it's still about winning.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
And losing exactly exactly. The charity does incredible things. Sir
Mary Holberg did amazing things. He was an incredible New Zealander.
Will never forget him, and I love the fact that
these awards will always honor him and what he did.
And yeah, you can't forget the foundation and what they
do the other three hundred and sixty four days of
(07:33):
the year, but on this night it's all about judging
elite sports people and what they've done to make us,
you know, so so proud as a nation. So, you know,
can we really forget you know, one more example Dars
this year lu Lusan Luluisan. She's obviously not in any
of the categories, but you know, she sort of stopped
(07:55):
the nation when she reached the quarterfinals at Wimwood and
became the first woman to do that in the Open era,
first qu female to do that in First New Zealander,
you know, since eighty three. Amazing stuff, and there's no
there's no category for that. It's an Olympic years so
there's a lot of other great female sportswoman achievements. But
(08:15):
it doesn't seem right, does it. But also Lulu is
not in the history.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Boox dissecting the sporting agenda. It's sportsfex with Darcy Waltergrave.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Put them in a glass box and hang them from
a crane for the duration. What am I talking about?
Punishment for streakers. Yeah, we all get a bit of
a laugh, have a weak giggle when some predominantly young
man decides to remove all of us clothes and go
running across a rugby, picture, cricket ground, whatever you'll choose that.
(08:47):
I've never seen it in squash. Maybe that's another challenge.
I don't know why people do this. I'm not quite
sure what the thrillers. I'm presuming it is purely alcohol driven.
But what it really is for everyone concerned is a
pain in the backside. No one wants to see it,
No one cares. People are interested and excited by the game,
(09:08):
not by some fool who wants to get his Johnson
out and show the world. What happened over the weekend
at Eden Park proves to me that there is no
place in this day and age for people to behave
like that. What greats even more is the fact a
couple of the so called streakers didn't even streak. They
didn't take their pants off. Like I don't want to
(09:30):
see bear naked backsides as much as the next guy,
But if you're going to streak, at least streak take
your pants off. That is half fast and that is
a shame. Although one of the streakers staid to have
quite a step and quite a turn of acceleration on them.
Got to be impressed by that. But if they get caught,
I don't think banning them from the ground. I don't
(09:52):
think fighting them makes one smidgeon of difference to their behaviors.
You've got to embarrass them, grab them, stick them in
a small pursepex box, keep them mood, and then suspend
them from a crane for all to see. That's what
they need to do. Embarrass this behavior out of them
(10:12):
and whatever happened to the stroll By the way, wouldn't
it be much cooler if someone got naked and just
casually wandered across the field, strolling in all their glory.
Now that is a statement, streaking. It's being done.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Get a new joke.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Into the Chamber, we go back from a couple of
weeks off. Welcome back into the digital minds Alex Powell.
He is the digital editor of a New Zealand Herald.
Please to be back, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Oh, I'm loving it, loving being back in the chamber.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's good. I'm glad you're here. Big sports story today
in the form of one Leon McDonald's got himself a
new job bro Well.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yet to be confirmed, but it appears that it is
all but done. Yeah, he's gone to the Western Force
and a director of rugby role berg loss for New Zealand,
that sort of rugby ip going up to Australia. Great
gap for them and potentially for the Wallabies as well,
with Joe Schmidt leaving at the end of the Try
and at the Rugwitch Hampionship.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Rather so, this makes perfect sense as far as the
succession plan. In order to get that top job, you've
got to be within the comfortable embrace of the Australians.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Well, men, I don't know if you do. Joe Schmidt
wasn't exactly in the Australian system, but this is helpful,
right it is. It gives him a bit of a
closer look at Australian rug about the players he might
be working with. I think we might be the only
ones insinuating that he's gone for the Wallabies job as well,
but it is a very natural progression for them. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I wonder though about the strength and the intelligence behind
yet another KEI we coaching the Wallaboos. We know Joe
Schmidt did very well, but historically it's not really worked.
I get a feeling that in order to progress Australian
rugby ford you need to look at the youth. You
need to look at Australians. You need to get that
pride back in the g what the Aussies alike?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I do? But do we are we rarely thinking in
twenty twenty five that the national team has to be
coached by someone from that nation. You look at what
Eddie Jones did with an England. You look at what
someone like Robert.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Arren Gatland did with Wales, bad bad, bad comparison. Yeah,
initially yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
So, I mean if they might not want to go
down that route Rugby, so they might want to look
at someone like a Dan mckella, someone like Stephen Larkham.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm just interested in getting the Australians back behind their
team again, and I know the tumult that it caused
when Robbie Deans was there and so on and so forth.
I think the Aussies like having their own out there,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I mean they probably do, don't they. Dave Renny didn't
go to well. I mean he did do great, but
they got rid of the first chance they got so
they could get Eddie Jones back. I mean, who knows
whether Rugby Australia. That's sort of all we can say
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
There's not confirmed year, but you've had Liam on it
and we all know that if Liam's on it, there's
a very good chance it's absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I am absolutely reading it that way.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Fantastic New Zealand. He will read the story, read all
about it in jidhell dot co dot in Z Champions
Trophy gets underway tomorrow. She's been a while some relevant cricket,
but finally it's a it's a breast it's here.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Do you care about the Champions Trophy?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I just want to watch competitive cricket because I've been
watching all these warm up games and enjoying it, but
still going. I must have been watching Warriors preseason because
it doesn't mean anything even though it's any champions trophy, right,
at least it's a relevant international cricketing event.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Right, I'm kind of torn. I'm sure once it starts,
I'll be into it, but like I mean, you look back,
this is the only white ball trophy. New Zealand's one
back watch two thousand. Yeah, so who knows? And we
New Zealand will open the tournament against Pakistan on Wednesday night.
We've already played Pakistan twice and beaten them twice. That
(13:50):
I don't read that as good side.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So we've got quite a nice stagger tournament though, right
because we're playing against Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, so India
and Pakistan booking and we've got Bugla Dish kind of
in the middle, so I think the timing is quite advantageous.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It's the kind of tournament though that one bad result
can throw you out. You only play that's good.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Look, you play each other once the best two teams
go to the Semis. The best two teams go to
the final. This is simple, and I think we're sick
to death of structured competitions where it takes so long
to work it out.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I mean, if we're going to look cynically at it,
it's just another one of these ICC tournaments that they
can shoehorn and so India can play Pakistan because they
don't get them anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Else, ha ha, because that's all the money. And Halberg's tonight.
Don't know about you, but twenty four years more broadcasting,
I've still yet to be invited. It's because I'm not
the biggest fan. What's the word fit for purpose? I
don't think it is.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Now, how do we compare sporting achievements against teacher don't
you can't know?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And saying that who are you picking to take out
the top?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Gone?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
It could be anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They've got a favoritism towards something about these Hallburg people
that love the Olympic Games. Maybe because Sir Murray, you know,
had an adventure in Olympic Games. So based on that,
Dame Lisa.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Carrington, do you think I think it'll be a two
horse race for whoever wins that Sportswoman of the Year
will also win the whole thing. So either Dame Lisa
or Dame Lydia Co both had fantastic years. Lisa Carington
won three Olympic Golds. You look at Lydia Kozier Olympic Gold,
a major two more wins, our youngest ever player to
go into the Hall of Fame, and then becomes a
(15:25):
dame at the end of it, like you're splitting hairs dry.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Maybe it's that the variety of that rundown there might
give the nose if you will. But like we'll find
out later on tonight, if that tickles your fancy, whatever
your fancy is, and however you tickle it. Alex Powell,
sports news editor from NZ to here. Thanks for your
time and welcome back.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Thanks mate, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
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