On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave and Jason Pine for 13th March 2026, the Super League netball tournament gets underway in Australia this weekend.
There will be nine current or former Silver Ferns plying their trade in the competition, one of those players is Gina Crampton, a former captain of the Silver Ferns. She joined D'Arcy to discuss her return to the competition.
Piney shares his thoughts on the possibility of Tana Umaga becoming an All Blacks assistant coach
And, D'Arcy and Piney discuss the Warriors match tonight against the Raiders and the second F1 grand prix held in China and what it means for Liam Lawson after what happened last year.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is Sportsfix.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Be hello there, Welcome to the back end of the week.
For those who believe in these things, Welcome to Black Friday.
It is Friday, March thirteenth. This is the Sportsbooks podcast
and association with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted home builder.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'm Jason Pint and Myriam's Darcy Walter Grave and always
got a dull story, So I'm going to tell you
right now the thirteenth, Friday the thirteenth. I was hat
on my motorcycle on Friday the thirteenth, thirty nine years ago,
and I was wearing all black, so I probably asked
for it. So I still don't buy into the superstition,
but there it is.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, it's a story that I did not expect to
hear when we started recording our podcast. Today, I'm glad
you're still with us thirty nine years later and counting
on this Black Friday, head of a big sporting weekend.
I want to ask you about Liam Lawson and well
it speaking of Bad Lucky, but last week didn't there
we can perhaps talk a little bit about that and
the Warriors can they go two from two when they
(01:13):
meet the Raiders tonight. Always interested in hearing a different
voice on the podcast because we've got today.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Geena Crampton and Jenna Crampton, former co captain of the
Silver Fern, says he's won a World Cup shot off
over to this ditch. She's playing super netball over there,
had a baby and baby's eight months old now and
she's come back as an emergency replacement for the new
South Wales Swift because that super Netbral competition starts this
(01:40):
Weekend's chat to her.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Looking forward to hearing from Jenna Crampton. The latter said,
sports news coming too, so let's get into it. In
other news, underwear is always worth a look at some
of the big sports stories around today. New scenery, a
new position and a new leadership role at the Western
Force have revitalized George Bridge ahead of a homecoming of
sorts playing the Hurricanes and Napier tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I've got lost cousins here in all Spain and my
family Gisbon, so my whole He's got a.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Whole gen booked out which is great.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's got a lot of school mats and Awal stays
two as well, so pretty social week for me which
is good. But obviously've got to focus in on the
foot as well.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
An upset on the opening match and in r ROLL
Rugby League's second round last night.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
What are when It's full time at Suncorp and the
Eels forty have defeated Brisbane thirty two.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, the defending premieers, the Broncos gave I paid twenty
points to six lead. They have now lost their first
two matches and departing New Zealand Cricket Plazers Association boss
Heath Mills is adamant establishing the NZ twenty short format
tournament is vital for the game here.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
We hope that New Zealand Cricket will find a way
to support ZI Twitter. From a personal point of view,
I can't see any reason why someone will question that
if they understood the global cricket environment and the changes
that are having announced.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Sport Use and Ovinion. It's Sportsfix with Jason Hine and
Dussie Walter Grave.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
We're join now on Sports Fix podcast by Gnat Crampton,
Tina An ex silver Fern, who played a lot of
netball here in Tierroa, has shot off over the ditch
of recent times and is playing for the Swifts this
year in sun Corp Super Netball. She joins us now Genea, Hi,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'm very very good, probably not as good as you.
You'd be shining right now. You're a fresh mum and
new mum and who finally decided that you've had enough
of nappies and you're coming back to playing the Super Netble.
So how are you feeling about a reintroduction to professional
netball again.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I'm very excited, but very nervous as well. Before
game one we've a lot of Thunderbirds, so you know
they're looking hot off preseason. But yeah, it's been great.
It was tough for the start, to be honest, but yeah,
it's been really nice to have something else, to be honest, like,
it's obviously silver great being a mum, but it's very
full on and so having the opportunity to go back
(04:03):
into netball has been really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The preseason must have added a bit of extra flavor,
like I, how are your legs? How's your aerobic fitness
and the rest.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah goodness me. Yeah, definitely had to relearn how to
train and things like that. Definitely, my body is not
the same as it used to be, so that was
also a learning curve for not just me, but probably
the support stuff as well. That's yeah, it's good to
be there. When I'm doing you know, those running sets.
I just remember that I've given birth to a baby,
so it can't be that bad.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I'm interested because it's never going to happen to me
plainly I'm a male. And how it does actually change
you as far as training goes, because it's not unusual
now for women to become mothers and then come back
and play either cricket or get back into sevens or netball. Again,
how much do you have to really change what you
do to reintroduce yourself. Is there much of a difference?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
GENA, Yeah, I think you know, you just have to
you have to be nice to your body to start
off with. Basically, I didn't do anything for about twelve
weeks and then you know, this opportunity came up. So
then I had to get myself into the gym, which
is probably an important star I think is building that
streep back up first and then you know there's all
the questions around can you actually run and you know,
how's your pallvot for and sort of those sorts of
(05:18):
things that you need to make sure you're looking after
before you try and you know, get into nebal training
so it's a very high impact sport. You know, lots
of jumping and landing and change the directions, so yeah,
you've got to make sure you're in a good spot
before you get going and you try and train like
a professional athletic.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Goodness me and with the team the Swifts, they how
they help you out with baby as well? What eight
months old? Is there a lot of help in that space.
You've got a crash? Can you work that out? You
separated too.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Much or yeah, well Maddie Proud actually who's been in
the Swist for a long time. She's got Lily who's
about ten months. So luckily we're doing the cigarette and
we have joked about having starting up a crafe because
Page Hadley's also just had a baby about two weeks ago,
so it's not happening. I think it's been you know,
good for the support stuff as well that they've you
(06:07):
know had had a couple at the same time that
they can really try and make sure we've got all
the right support and doing things step by step rather
than sort of rushing back into it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Right, you've come and as a replacement for Page Handy
because you've become a mum as well as that. How
did this conversation start off? Did you get a phone
call when you're playing for the Giants? Did you approach them?
What was the story there about you reintroducing yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah. We luckily Julie Fitzgerald, who previously has been head
coach of the Giants, actually told Briani, who's a Swiss coach,
that they should look at me as an option, So
very thankful for her to pass on my name. And yeah,
just had a meeting with Briani and the assistant coach Dylan,
and away we went. So I'm very exciting. You know,
(06:51):
watched this league from Afar for a long time and
Swifts have always been so successful, so it's actually quite
hard to believe them here as well.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And interestingly there are a number of New Zealanders now
because they basically just released the hounds off your run,
come and play over in Australia, everybody disappeared, so a
lot of familiar faces you'd be playing against playing with
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, for sure, I think it's awesome to see all
the Kiwi girls coming over. You know, one of my
best friends is at the five US to pass, Sabi Rickett,
so I can't wait to come up against her as well.
But I just think it's great. Like you know, there's
no hiding the fact that Super netball is the best
competition in the world, and it's only right that there's
some Kiwis in there as well.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Makes sense. They've got one player who probably started this
exodus in the form of Grace Wicki, and of course
she's playing with the Swift turned up last year and
had a bit of a fire of a season as well.
It must be good playing with someone like that, that the.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
New young gun.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I suppose you'd say netball in New Zealand because that
she is a spectacular athlete.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh she's amazing. She's well on her way to being,
you know, best in the world for sure. So she's
so I didn't even want to stay handy because that's
such a low word for what she is. But it's
great having her at the back. She's a mass of
target and she's a huge threat, and it's nice actually
to have a little piece of home as well. It's
been a few years since we shared the court together,
(08:15):
so yeah, really cool. Actually she's been super great. She
loves Redgie as well, so it's always nice.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
So you played with her back in the Stars day,
is that right? Because she started off what in the
Deep South, didn't you? So when she first started playing,
you were around.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ah, yeah, she was at mis six, but we played
a couple of firms together. We did calm games together
and a twenty three three World Cup as well. Unfortunately
she got injured in that one. But yeah, so she
had the court a few times before, but this is
the first time, I guess for a club or a franchise.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
And you said, it's great having a target storming around
the mid court. That must be lovely. You can shoot high, right,
you know she's going to be there.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, Yeah, she's awesome. She's just undernoably available all the
time and she's even shooting up twos now, so she's
developing a game and always wanting to be better. And yeah,
she's quite a leader in this group as well, which
has been cool.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
To see dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason
Vine and Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
All the talk this week around the All Blacks coaching
staff has been the imminent appointment of tana Umanga as
one of Dave Rennie's assistant coaches moving forward with the
All Blacks. This rumor started to swirl around on sort
of Tuesday Wednesday. It gained some weight in those twenty
four to forty eight hours and then when tana Umanga
(09:36):
himself did his normal more Onna pacifica media yesterday, it
was basically put to him, are you in the running?
Are you in conversations to be and All Black's assistant coach. Now,
tana Umanga would be a terrible poker player. He couldn't.
He couldn't, you know, just flat battered. He could have
easily said look, I'm not going to comment on that,
but in true authentic Tanna style, he said, well, you know,
(09:59):
nothing's you know, nothing certain until conversations are had, basically
admitting that conversations were being had and saying that if
the opportunity arose, he would have to have a look
at it. Of course he would a proud former All
Blacks captain himself. When the opportunity arose, perhaps for him
to join the coaching staff with a guy he knows
very well and respects hugely, and Dave Rennie, then of
(10:20):
course you're going to have a look at it. I
found it really refreshing that tana Umager didn't try to
play it down, didn't try to play dumb, didn't try
and turn it back on those who were asking the questions.
He just told the truth. And in many ways, that
is one of tana Umang's superpowers, his authenticity. As a player,
(10:41):
he had enormous respect among those who played with and
against him, and certainly those who he led, whether it
was in a Hurricane's jersey or an All Blacks jersey,
and that has translated beyond his playing career. Yes, he
may not yet have had the success as a coach
that he enjoyed as a player, but he has been
(11:01):
developing those skills over the last well decade or so
rarely since he retired and got into coaching, and with
Dave Rennie as a head coach, it just feels like
a perfect fit for tana to come in as a
former player, a former hugely respected player, and add a
little bit of Tana's mana to this whole thing. It
(11:24):
feels as though it's going to happen. It would be
an inspired choice. And if Tana Umaga is to become
an All Blacks assistant coach, then I think you would
find pretty much universal approval for that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Let us assemble in the chamber. Can you assemble with
only two people? I think so, we're both here. I
think we can chat some sport between these four walls,
recording it for everybody to listen to the Warriors tonight?
Do us? They had to win last week against the Roosters.
If they were to win tonight, that would be the
first time they've won both of their opening two matches
in around since twenty eighteen. How are you feeling about
(12:01):
the Raiders Warriors tonight?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I feel like I should be on an RL three
to sixty. Have been such a moaning, miserable swine about
it this week. I really appreciate the result, love the numbers,
love the way they managed to score heaps of points.
They still terrified me with about fifteen twenty minutes to go,
oh no, no, no, not again, because this is what
the Warriors did last year, right, got off to orgadies
and start looking good and then just fell apart, defecated
(12:24):
the douve in the last twenty minutes. But they didn't.
But there were still holes up the middle, which worried me.
So yeah, overly critical, But you can't underestimate the power
Piney of going to and oh at the start of
the season. How many times did the Warriors started the
season zero to five and they're just playing catch up
ever since. So for all my misery, it does all
(12:45):
go well and looking forward to this one. But they
didn't come down in the last shower, did they?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The Raiders no good team? Good team. But of course,
if you flipped that, if the Warriors were to win tonight,
which is a you know, one of the one of
the possibilities, if they start their season beating the Roosters,
always a good team. The Raiders always a good team.
What a base to build from, considering the fact they're
still waiting for a couple of their big guys Mitch
(13:11):
Barnett and Luke Metcalfe to return to the side.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
And what I like about that is you've got Tanner Boyd,
who had an outstanding game last week. He really did
after being so so last year, He's going Metcalff, sch Metcalff.
You can't have my j Zy Powell. Same with the
pack too. I love that energy because I'm sure not
that I know them that well. Webe hasn't said you're
coming straight back into the side. He's gonna make them
(13:35):
fight their way back again. And the players that have
got the Jesus are going, I'm going to fight to
stay here. That gives me energy.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Roger Toyvaskischek will players one hundred and fiftieth game, won't
he tonight? Do you reckon? These are the sorts of
milestones that are used internally as motivation or are they
more for us than for the fans?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Good question. I'd say probably more for us than the
fans most times. And you'd know that you talked to
players and they look at statistics and they look at milestones.
By and large they go, look, I don't play for that.
I don't care. I will look to that when I retire.
Then I'll look back and go, hey I did this,
Hey I did that. So in that space, I think
(14:12):
it's more for us than anyone else. And I tell
you what, if a team needs to be motivated by
a milestone. The team needs to get in the sea.
They should be motivated by wearing their jersey and playing
the game.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Right, absolutely right, note, totally agree, could not agree more.
I'm sure they want to mark the occasion though with
a special performance. Nothing worse than having some sort of
special presentation from milestone like this after the game when
you just lost that game. It's there must be the
worst feelings. So let's hope that they can market in style.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Also, this weekend, the Formula one Circus rolls into China
off the back of the season opening Melbourne Grand Prix.
I was talking here before we entered the chamber about
Liam Lawson's China experience in twenty twenty five. He won't
have fond memories of this tracked us.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It was awful because that race saw that series of
races because there was a sprint race as well and
the main race. So that was that signaled goodbye to you,
red Bull, and that was an amazing start getting packed
for Red Bull. We're all so excited and then Hu
and it was all over. But if he carries those
memories Jason back into this not a good idea. Don't
(15:22):
go right, I've got a car. I know how to
drive it, besides the engine issues from last week, which
now I killed him. It's let's not be backward in
saying that, because that was terrifying and colopinto avoiding the
back of Liam Lawson was it was a miracle. It
really was amazing. I don't think you'll take that memory
for it. I think you'll look ahead and go, hey,
(15:44):
I've got a respectable car. I've got a competitive car,
and I I'm not going to dwell on that.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That'd be right, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
When you play sport, do you look back at previous
upsets and go on, no, here we go again.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Well, it's not very very productive, is it you if
you return to the scene of the crime, if we
can call it that, and and you are somehow dented
by that, I guess it's similar to you. So what
you talked about with the Warriors, if they need that
sort of motivation, then you know they're probably in the
wrong game. Look, I don't know Liam Lawson at all,
but I would be hugely surprised if there are any
(16:19):
demons or ghosts hanging around him in China this weekend.
He's in a different car. He's a year more experienced.
He's a year you know more sort of in tune
with what the F one landscape's all about. I would
be astonished if when you know, just before the lights
go out, and he goes that there are any voices
(16:40):
in his head, you know, sort of reminding him of
twenty twenty five. I can't. I can't imagine that, can
you know?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
If he wants to look back and be concerned about it,
and I think, just go back a week and never
look at his junior teammate, the rookie Lindblad, because he
drove very very well, so clear and present danger as
opposed to haunted by the ghosts of the past. It's
going to be, and it's you know what, It's at
eight o'clock on Sunday night, and then they're in Japan
(17:07):
next time out, which is another very digestible time for
Formula one fans, and you sell them to get amongst it.
So we're lucky on that and I'm hoping you'll be
there loving it as well. You watched it last week, right,
I've got.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
A big smile on my face. You're talking about watching
a Formula One at a digestible time. You watch it
at any time. If it's on at two thirty in
the morning, you watch it. If it's on at eleven
o'clock at night, you watch to digestible time everybody else.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And when it comes to surprise to you that last
night I watched a replay of the race at Albert
parkner of course.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It will no no, no surprise. Help me, help not
knock me over with a feather. I simply cannot believe it.
Let's get out of the chamber.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Eating a vix.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We've got just the ticket.
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(18:34):
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Speaker 3 (18:43):
It's still there tomorrow and on Sunday, but by a
Rostering you absolute blinder by the Rostering team Darcy Scott.
Weekend Sport tomorrow midday to three and on Sunday midday
to three. Depending how it goes, it might be a
full time gig, but I hope, I hope to be
back next weekend.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to exchanging the baton and running
backward again. That should be good. Good on your Pineyer,
have a cracking weekend, my friend.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
See you next week.
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is Sportsfix.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Howard by News Talk said.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Be hello there, Welcome to the back end of the week.
For those who believe in these things, Welcome to Black Friday.
It is Friday, March thirteenth. This is the Sportsbooks podcast
and association with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted home builder.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'm Jason Pint and Myriam's Darcy Walter Grave and always
got a dull story, So I'm going to tell you
right now the thirteenth, Friday the thirteenth. I was hat
on my motorcycle on Friday the thirteenth, thirty nine years ago,
and I was wearing all black, so I probably asked
for it. So I still don't buy into the superstition,
but there it is.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, it's a story that I did not expect to
hear when we started recording our podcast. Today, I'm glad
you're still with us thirty nine years later and counting
on this Black Friday, head of a big sporting weekend.
I want to ask you about Liam Lawson and well
it speaking of Bad Lucky, but last week didn't there
we can perhaps talk a little bit about that and
the Warriors can they go two from two when they
(01:13):
meet the Raiders tonight. Always interested in hearing a different
voice on the podcast because we've got today.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Geena Crampton and Jenna Crampton, former co captain of the
Silver Fern, says he's won a World Cup shot off
over to this ditch. She's playing super netball over there,
had a baby and baby's eight months old now and
she's come back as an emergency replacement for the new
South Wales Swift because that super Netbral competition starts this
(01:40):
Weekend's chat to her.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Looking forward to hearing from Jenna Crampton. The latter said,
sports news coming too, so let's get into it. In
other news, underwear is always worth a look at some
of the big sports stories around today. New scenery, a
new position and a new leadership role at the Western
Force have revitalized George Bridge ahead of a homecoming of
sorts playing the Hurricanes and Napier tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I've got lost cousins here in all Spain and my
family Gisbon, so my whole He's got a.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Whole gen booked out which is great.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's got a lot of school mats and Awal stays
two as well, so pretty social week for me which
is good. But obviously've got to focus in on the
foot as well.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
An upset on the opening match and in r ROLL
Rugby League's second round last night.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
What are when It's full time at Suncorp and the
Eels forty have defeated Brisbane thirty two.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, the defending premieers, the Broncos gave I paid twenty
points to six lead. They have now lost their first
two matches and departing New Zealand Cricket Plazers Association boss
Heath Mills is adamant establishing the NZ twenty short format
tournament is vital for the game here.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
We hope that New Zealand Cricket will find a way
to support ZI Twitter. From a personal point of view,
I can't see any reason why someone will question that
if they understood the global cricket environment and the changes
that are having announced.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Sport Use and Ovinion. It's Sportsfix with Jason Hine and
Dussie Walter Grave.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
We're join now on Sports Fix podcast by Gnat Crampton,
Tina An ex silver Fern, who played a lot of
netball here in Tierroa, has shot off over the ditch
of recent times and is playing for the Swifts this
year in sun Corp Super Netball. She joins us now Genea, Hi,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'm very very good, probably not as good as you.
You'd be shining right now. You're a fresh mum and
new mum and who finally decided that you've had enough
of nappies and you're coming back to playing the Super Netble.
So how are you feeling about a reintroduction to professional
netball again.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I'm very excited, but very nervous as well. Before
game one we've a lot of Thunderbirds, so you know
they're looking hot off preseason. But yeah, it's been great.
It was tough for the start, to be honest, but yeah,
it's been really nice to have something else, to be honest, like,
it's obviously silver great being a mum, but it's very
full on and so having the opportunity to go back
(04:03):
into netball has been really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The preseason must have added a bit of extra flavor,
like I, how are your legs? How's your aerobic fitness
and the rest.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah goodness me. Yeah, definitely had to relearn how to
train and things like that. Definitely, my body is not
the same as it used to be, so that was
also a learning curve for not just me, but probably
the support stuff as well. That's yeah, it's good to
be there. When I'm doing you know, those running sets.
I just remember that I've given birth to a baby,
so it can't be that bad.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I'm interested because it's never going to happen to me
plainly I'm a male. And how it does actually change
you as far as training goes, because it's not unusual
now for women to become mothers and then come back
and play either cricket or get back into sevens or netball. Again,
how much do you have to really change what you
do to reintroduce yourself. Is there much of a difference?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
GENA, Yeah, I think you know, you just have to
you have to be nice to your body to start
off with. Basically, I didn't do anything for about twelve
weeks and then you know, this opportunity came up. So
then I had to get myself into the gym, which
is probably an important star I think is building that
streep back up first and then you know there's all
the questions around can you actually run and you know,
how's your pallvot for and sort of those sorts of
(05:18):
things that you need to make sure you're looking after
before you try and you know, get into nebal training
so it's a very high impact sport. You know, lots
of jumping and landing and change the directions, so yeah,
you've got to make sure you're in a good spot
before you get going and you try and train like
a professional athletic.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Goodness me and with the team the Swifts, they how
they help you out with baby as well? What eight
months old? Is there a lot of help in that space.
You've got a crash? Can you work that out? You
separated too.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Much or yeah, well Maddie Proud actually who's been in
the Swist for a long time. She's got Lily who's
about ten months. So luckily we're doing the cigarette and
we have joked about having starting up a crafe because
Page Hadley's also just had a baby about two weeks ago,
so it's not happening. I think it's been you know,
good for the support stuff as well that they've you
(06:07):
know had had a couple at the same time that
they can really try and make sure we've got all
the right support and doing things step by step rather
than sort of rushing back into it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Right, you've come and as a replacement for Page Handy
because you've become a mum as well as that. How
did this conversation start off? Did you get a phone
call when you're playing for the Giants? Did you approach them?
What was the story there about you reintroducing yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah. We luckily Julie Fitzgerald, who previously has been head
coach of the Giants, actually told Briani, who's a Swiss coach,
that they should look at me as an option, So
very thankful for her to pass on my name. And yeah,
just had a meeting with Briani and the assistant coach Dylan,
and away we went. So I'm very exciting. You know,
(06:51):
watched this league from Afar for a long time and
Swifts have always been so successful, so it's actually quite
hard to believe them here as well.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And interestingly there are a number of New Zealanders now
because they basically just released the hounds off your run,
come and play over in Australia, everybody disappeared, so a
lot of familiar faces you'd be playing against playing with
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, for sure, I think it's awesome to see all
the Kiwi girls coming over. You know, one of my
best friends is at the five US to pass, Sabi Rickett,
so I can't wait to come up against her as well.
But I just think it's great. Like you know, there's
no hiding the fact that Super netball is the best
competition in the world, and it's only right that there's
some Kiwis in there as well.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Makes sense. They've got one player who probably started this
exodus in the form of Grace Wicki, and of course
she's playing with the Swift turned up last year and
had a bit of a fire of a season as well.
It must be good playing with someone like that, that the.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
New young gun.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I suppose you'd say netball in New Zealand because that
she is a spectacular athlete.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh she's amazing. She's well on her way to being,
you know, best in the world for sure. So she's
so I didn't even want to stay handy because that's
such a low word for what she is. But it's
great having her at the back. She's a mass of
target and she's a huge threat, and it's nice actually
to have a little piece of home as well. It's
been a few years since we shared the court together,
(08:15):
so yeah, really cool. Actually she's been super great. She
loves Redgie as well, so it's always nice.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
So you played with her back in the Stars day,
is that right? Because she started off what in the
Deep South, didn't you? So when she first started playing,
you were around.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ah, yeah, she was at mis six, but we played
a couple of firms together. We did calm games together
and a twenty three three World Cup as well. Unfortunately
she got injured in that one. But yeah, so she
had the court a few times before, but this is
the first time, I guess for a club or a franchise.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
And you said, it's great having a target storming around
the mid court. That must be lovely. You can shoot high, right,
you know she's going to be there.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, Yeah, she's awesome. She's just undernoably available all the
time and she's even shooting up twos now, so she's
developing a game and always wanting to be better. And yeah,
she's quite a leader in this group as well, which
has been cool.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
To see dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason
Vine and Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
All the talk this week around the All Blacks coaching
staff has been the imminent appointment of tana Umanga as
one of Dave Rennie's assistant coaches moving forward with the
All Blacks. This rumor started to swirl around on sort
of Tuesday Wednesday. It gained some weight in those twenty
four to forty eight hours and then when tana Umanga
(09:36):
himself did his normal more Onna pacifica media yesterday, it
was basically put to him, are you in the running?
Are you in conversations to be and All Black's assistant coach. Now,
tana Umanga would be a terrible poker player. He couldn't.
He couldn't, you know, just flat battered. He could have
easily said look, I'm not going to comment on that,
but in true authentic Tanna style, he said, well, you know,
(09:59):
nothing's you know, nothing certain until conversations are had, basically
admitting that conversations were being had and saying that if
the opportunity arose, he would have to have a look
at it. Of course he would a proud former All
Blacks captain himself. When the opportunity arose, perhaps for him
to join the coaching staff with a guy he knows
very well and respects hugely, and Dave Rennie, then of
(10:20):
course you're going to have a look at it. I
found it really refreshing that tana Umager didn't try to
play it down, didn't try to play dumb, didn't try
and turn it back on those who were asking the questions.
He just told the truth. And in many ways, that
is one of tana Umang's superpowers, his authenticity. As a player,
(10:41):
he had enormous respect among those who played with and
against him, and certainly those who he led, whether it
was in a Hurricane's jersey or an All Blacks jersey,
and that has translated beyond his playing career. Yes, he
may not yet have had the success as a coach
that he enjoyed as a player, but he has been
(11:01):
developing those skills over the last well decade or so
rarely since he retired and got into coaching, and with
Dave Rennie as a head coach, it just feels like
a perfect fit for tana to come in as a
former player, a former hugely respected player, and add a
little bit of Tana's mana to this whole thing. It
(11:24):
feels as though it's going to happen. It would be
an inspired choice. And if Tana Umaga is to become
an All Blacks assistant coach, then I think you would
find pretty much universal approval for that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Let us assemble in the chamber. Can you assemble with
only two people? I think so, we're both here. I
think we can chat some sport between these four walls,
recording it for everybody to listen to the Warriors tonight?
Do us? They had to win last week against the Roosters.
If they were to win tonight, that would be the
first time they've won both of their opening two matches
in around since twenty eighteen. How are you feeling about
(12:01):
the Raiders Warriors tonight?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I feel like I should be on an RL three
to sixty. Have been such a moaning, miserable swine about
it this week. I really appreciate the result, love the numbers,
love the way they managed to score heaps of points.
They still terrified me with about fifteen twenty minutes to go,
oh no, no, no, not again, because this is what
the Warriors did last year, right, got off to orgadies
and start looking good and then just fell apart, defecated
(12:24):
the douve in the last twenty minutes. But they didn't.
But there were still holes up the middle, which worried me.
So yeah, overly critical, But you can't underestimate the power
Piney of going to and oh at the start of
the season. How many times did the Warriors started the
season zero to five and they're just playing catch up
ever since. So for all my misery, it does all
(12:45):
go well and looking forward to this one. But they
didn't come down in the last shower, did they?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The Raiders no good team? Good team. But of course,
if you flipped that, if the Warriors were to win tonight,
which is a you know, one of the one of
the possibilities, if they start their season beating the Roosters,
always a good team. The Raiders always a good team.
What a base to build from, considering the fact they're
still waiting for a couple of their big guys Mitch
(13:11):
Barnett and Luke Metcalfe to return to the side.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
And what I like about that is you've got Tanner Boyd,
who had an outstanding game last week. He really did
after being so so last year, He's going Metcalff, sch Metcalff.
You can't have my j Zy Powell. Same with the
pack too. I love that energy because I'm sure not
that I know them that well. Webe hasn't said you're
coming straight back into the side. He's gonna make them
(13:35):
fight their way back again. And the players that have
got the Jesus are going, I'm going to fight to
stay here. That gives me energy.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Roger Toyvaskischek will players one hundred and fiftieth game, won't
he tonight? Do you reckon? These are the sorts of
milestones that are used internally as motivation or are they
more for us than for the fans?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Good question. I'd say probably more for us than the
fans most times. And you'd know that you talked to
players and they look at statistics and they look at milestones.
By and large they go, look, I don't play for that.
I don't care. I will look to that when I retire.
Then I'll look back and go, hey I did this,
Hey I did that. So in that space, I think
(14:12):
it's more for us than anyone else. And I tell
you what, if a team needs to be motivated by
a milestone. The team needs to get in the sea.
They should be motivated by wearing their jersey and playing
the game.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Right, absolutely right, note, totally agree, could not agree more.
I'm sure they want to mark the occasion though with
a special performance. Nothing worse than having some sort of
special presentation from milestone like this after the game when
you just lost that game. It's there must be the
worst feelings. So let's hope that they can market in style.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Also, this weekend, the Formula one Circus rolls into China
off the back of the season opening Melbourne Grand Prix.
I was talking here before we entered the chamber about
Liam Lawson's China experience in twenty twenty five. He won't
have fond memories of this tracked us.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It was awful because that race saw that series of
races because there was a sprint race as well and
the main race. So that was that signaled goodbye to you,
red Bull, and that was an amazing start getting packed
for Red Bull. We're all so excited and then Hu
and it was all over. But if he carries those
memories Jason back into this not a good idea. Don't
(15:22):
go right, I've got a car. I know how to
drive it, besides the engine issues from last week, which
now I killed him. It's let's not be backward in
saying that, because that was terrifying and colopinto avoiding the
back of Liam Lawson was it was a miracle. It
really was amazing. I don't think you'll take that memory
for it. I think you'll look ahead and go, hey,
(15:44):
I've got a respectable car. I've got a competitive car,
and I I'm not going to dwell on that.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That'd be right, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
When you play sport, do you look back at previous
upsets and go on, no, here we go again.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Well, it's not very very productive, is it you if
you return to the scene of the crime, if we
can call it that, and and you are somehow dented
by that, I guess it's similar to you. So what
you talked about with the Warriors, if they need that
sort of motivation, then you know they're probably in the
wrong game. Look, I don't know Liam Lawson at all,
but I would be hugely surprised if there are any
(16:19):
demons or ghosts hanging around him in China this weekend.
He's in a different car. He's a year more experienced.
He's a year you know more sort of in tune
with what the F one landscape's all about. I would
be astonished if when you know, just before the lights
go out, and he goes that there are any voices
(16:40):
in his head, you know, sort of reminding him of
twenty twenty five. I can't. I can't imagine that, can
you know?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
If he wants to look back and be concerned about it,
and I think, just go back a week and never
look at his junior teammate, the rookie Lindblad, because he
drove very very well, so clear and present danger as
opposed to haunted by the ghosts of the past. It's
going to be, and it's you know what, It's at
eight o'clock on Sunday night, and then they're in Japan
(17:07):
next time out, which is another very digestible time for
Formula one fans, and you sell them to get amongst it.
So we're lucky on that and I'm hoping you'll be
there loving it as well. You watched it last week, right,
I've got.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
A big smile on my face. You're talking about watching
a Formula One at a digestible time. You watch it
at any time. If it's on at two thirty in
the morning, you watch it. If it's on at eleven
o'clock at night, you watch to digestible time everybody else.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And when it comes to surprise to you that last
night I watched a replay of the race at Albert
parkner of course.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It will no no, no surprise. Help me, help not
knock me over with a feather. I simply cannot believe it.
Let's get out of the chamber.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Eating a vix.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We've got just the ticket.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's Sports Fix, News Talks IVY and then.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I'll do us on sports Fix for today. I always
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Speaker 4 (18:11):
And tell everybody that you know and love that they
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And if you prefer to dance with the devil at
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a weekly basis. Piney's got the Monday show Sports Talk
(18:34):
between at seven and eight pm. I cover it Tuesday
through Friday and then normally in the weekend it's weekend Sport.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
It's still there tomorrow and on Sunday, but by a
Rostering you absolute blinder by the Rostering team Darcy Scott.
Weekend Sport tomorrow midday to three and on Sunday midday
to three. Depending how it goes, it might be a
full time gig, but I hope, I hope to be
back next weekend.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to exchanging the baton and running
backward again. That should be good. Good on your Pineyer,
have a cracking weekend, my friend.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
See you next week.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
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