September 19, 2025 • 18 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 19th September 2025, The Black Ferns hope to continue their World Cup defense as they play Canada in the semifinals. Former Black Fern Eloise Blackwell joins the podcast to discuss what it takes to beat the Canadians
Piney offers his praise on all the movement of the Ranfurly Shield this year
And D'Arcy and Piney are in the chamber to discuss the new Breakers season tipping off
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Here we go again, Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast
and association with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted home builder, Friday September nineteen, with another needless to say,
big sporting weekend to come. I'm Jason Fine, my name
is Darcy Watergrave.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Jason's the most trusted sports broadcast New Zealand. I'm just
sitting here with them.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't see that in the script anywhere. I've had
a look at the notes. I don't see that written
down anywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Seen that through how dare you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm glad you could read my writing. Hey lots to
talk about, including the black Ferns in a Rugby World
Cup semi final tomorrow morning, the start of a Breakers
season tonight. Who are you hearing from on the podcast today?
Guest wise Alois Blackwell.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hugely experienced former Blackburn Auckland player in both open and
of course the national game the FPC as well, and
she'll give us her thoughts on what's going to happen
first thing tomorrow morning for the Black Ferns.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Looking forward to her analysis. I've got some thoughts on
the ran Fairly Shield and the latest in sports news too.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We'll pack it all in, let's get into it in
other news.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's get things going as always withhe a look at
some of the big sports stories around today. The Black
Ferns are embracing the pressure of their Rugby World Cup
semi final against Canada and Bristol tomorrow morning. You still
haven't beaten Canada in their last two meetings, including a
drawer in this year's Pack four series in christ Church.
Here's Blackburn's half back Recye poly Lane.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
For me, it's transferring that kind of perspective around what
the occasion next. They is we all know how to
play rugby where we're good rugby players and so can
kind of just tunnel in on one moment at a time.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Kyle Preston is reflecting on arguably the most significant month
in his rugby career. They're welling to half back called
into the All Blacks to cover an injury crisis and
day boot off the bench against South Africa at Eden Park.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The boys and the management make you pretty comfortable and
I'll do everything they can to help you be as
ready as you can be to play on the weekend.
Tyfinitely been in nerves, but I felt reasonably ready waiting
on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And a night to remember for Barcelona and England striker
Marcus Rashford, the Manchester United lonee has scored the first
goals of his new club career in their two to
one Champions League win at Newcastle.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
On sort to conceived possession in that sort of area
to a man like Rushford in the.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Four that is in.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's absolutely said safel Rushford. That is brilliant beast. As
Marcus Rushford doubles Barcelona's league US and a vinion.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussy Walter Grave.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's a warm welcome now to the Sports Fix podcast
to former black fern Alloise Black Well. Good ay, Aloes,
who are you?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I'm good? Thank you? How are you?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'm very excited looking forward to this weekend. Actually tomorrow
morning's entertainment. She's a bit of an early one, but
it's better than the middle of the night. Eloise. You
would have been looking at your former teammates and how
things are progressing. What's your current summation of where the
Black Ferns are at. Now they've come down to you lose,
you are out? How are they going? Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I think they've They've been progressing really nicely and tomorrow
will be that true test match that they'll be expecting.
But I know, you know, the girls will be up
for it. They'll be excited about this challenge and the
team that they've picked. It's pretty outstanding.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
When you look toward the Canadians and what they've achieved
of recent times. How much of that carries weight? I
draw and a loss. Is that taken into account much
do you think by the team?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Oh, you know, it'll probably be in the back of
your mind. But to be completely honest, like in a
World Cup, nothing really matters what's happened prior to leading
up to So it's you know, you take each game
as it comes, and you know, regardless of what has
happened in the last couple of years, I think the
girls will be ready to go to war.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm interested in the amount of attention around the lack
of Georgia Miller. Now we know what a good player
she is, we know how well she's performed, but I
almost get the feeling people are thinking without her, we're toast.
That's not the case. She's not relying on one out
of twenty three surely, Alowise.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, not at all. I mean, if you look at
who comes into fill in that number seven position, it's
Kennedy Toukuafu, who's the co captain, and you know she's
a World Cup winner herself. She's played in big moments
and she's made for big moments. She's a big time player,
and you know you're you're certainly not missing out on
much with the absence of Georgia Millow and you've got
(04:50):
the likes of Kennedy to step into that role.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It almost suggests that during training that extra pressure for
to gain a position from Georgia, it's probably worked to
treat with some of the more senior players, so we go, hey,
you're taking my jersey step down.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean, that's what you want in any team environment.
You want friendly competition between players because that only lives
the intensity and lifts the want from players to want
to be named in that twenty three to go and
represent your country. So it only it's all healthy and
it will definitely build a real strong team culture and
(05:29):
almost a stronger working environment and willing and want to
perform well.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Looking at the Canadians, what are we expecting from them?
How will they react to the pressure of playing in
such a big match, a semi final with their experience
and what do you think they're going to bring to
the park. Have you noticed anything particularly about the way
they're playing out wise?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I haven't really seen too much about the Canadians, But
if we talk about what we know from the past,
you know they like to play expensive rugby, and you
know they have featured in a few knockout footy matches
in the last couple of years, so they'll be expecting
to put out a performance. But I think you can't
take away from the fact that the Black Ferns have
been in every single knockout match bar the one in
(06:14):
twenty fourteen. We don't talk about pretty much since the
inception of the World Cup. So the Black Ferns and
the players in this team are made for these big
moments and you know they're going to step up and
take it to a whole other level.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You're in that twenty fourteen squad, won't you, Eloise?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, I sure was I was just a are we
we're young and then.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Just the learning. Let's look at the progress of the
Ferns and Alan Bunting worked pretty well that he played
every player in the first couple of games and then
started to sharpen that axe toward the end and of
last week. That was a very bizarre game the first
forty minutes and the ability to switch on a dime
and actually play the game that the Black Ferns wanted
(06:56):
to play last week. Tell us how you felt about
that game, about what they were doing in that first
half and how they managed to turn on the dime
for that second It was quite bizarre.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, I mean South Africa were pretty impressive, weren't they,
with that full team lineout and mauling from a scrum
like that's the sort of thing you see in the
men's game, and it was exciting to watch. But I know,
I know, especially in a World Cup, you know you're
always you prepare for many different situations and you know
(07:27):
the girls would have had planned abc D all the
way through to whatever, so it just would have taken them,
you know, just needed to recognize what was happening and
then apply the particular style of rugby to what the
South Africans were giving there, which we saw in that
back half. They just they just turned it on and
run away with it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They'll carry on with that, right, They're very good. There's
a lot of talk about you know, Route one. I
think that's what England are pretty much up to and
about the strength there. But the strength in this New
Zealand side is quick transfer or ball and pace over
the ground. So that shouldn't change. They should stick to that, surely.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Oh they sure will. And you just look at look
at those outside backs. If you can get in their
hand early, it's going to be a pretty tough dat.
The office for the Canadians sort of sex.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
If there was any doubt, and I'm not sure there was,
but if there was any doubt about the authenticity and
the value and the attraction and the allure of the
Ranfurly Shield, then it was well and truly put to
bed this year because the travels of the shield have
shown again just how deeply ingrained it is in the
(08:36):
hearts and minds of provincial rugby fans. Of course, Taranlucky
started the year with the shield and got out of
the way the obligatory early season matches against Heartland championship
sides swatting Aside, King Country and Thames Valley, and then
their first proper challenge I guess should call it against Northland,
where they were comfortable winners. That's when it started to
(08:57):
get interesting. Waitcuttle went to New Plymouth at the back
end of August, a twenty three to twenty two win
with a ball falling off the kicking tea at the
end before Lemosopuwanga picked it up, put it back on
there and kicked the winning penalty for White Cuttle to
take the shield. They celebrated perhaps a bit too hard
(09:17):
because a week later Southland came to Hamilton and took
it back down South for the first time and from
memory a decade and a half so White Cuta with
a very short tenure, but not as short as Southland's
who five days later, just five days later gave it
up to a rampant Canterbury who came to in Vicago
(09:38):
and made no race of at fifty four fourteen. But
then last weekend I thought it was going to change
hands again. Tasman went to christ Church and Canterbury only
just saved by the bell as they say, with George
Bell scoring a try in added time. To keep the
logger Wood in christ Church, you'd have to go back
(10:00):
a long way to find the ran Furley Shield changing
hands so many times in a single year, and it
might yet have another new home or two before it's
locked away for the summer. Tomorrow Otago, who in case
you hadn't noticed, are traveling pretty well, go to christ
Church to try and win the log. If they were
to win it, then they have to have to put
(10:21):
it up against North Harbor in the following weekend's action.
If Canterbury hold on to it, then who knows it
might end up where it started because Taranaki come to
christ Church to try and prize it away from the
Red and Blacks at the back end of the regular season.
Towing and throwing is the best possible thing for the
ran Furley Shield. When it's finding new homes on a
(10:43):
regular basis, we really get the magic of this log
of wood. So long may it continue to have domestic
travel this season and for many years to come.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And to the Chamber we go interesting listening to the
thoughts of Aloi's Blackwell. There with regards to the Black
Ferns test against Canada tomorrow morning, not just any test
to Rugby World Cup semi final. Of course, do you
feel reassured by her words?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I didn't need reassurance from her. I was reassured in myself.
The wayst thing gets me is that the constant chat
around the loss of Georgia Miller. I can't We've talked
about this. Yes, it's a blow. But does the success
of our team rely on one player? No? I don't
think so. If it does, we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Be there, right, and a player who really doesn't have
a heck of a lot of fifteen's experience. I know
she's explosive, she's got that X factor, and she seems
to have taken to the game of fifteen and exactly
the same fashion she took to the game of sevens.
But you're right, Dus. If we're relying on one player
to carry our hopes in any sport, really, then you
know we probably are looking at the wrong places. This
(11:56):
is a really good New Zealand team, as you and
I spoke about yesterday on Sports Fix. There are some
experienced heads, there are some exciting youngsters. Even without Georgia
Miller there, I was like you, I didn't need reassure
it's either I do, though, as I said to you yesterday,
have a degree of trepidation about how good Canada are
because they have been good.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
They have been and there's been a draw and there's
been a last bird. As Alois said that nothing matters
beyond the World Cup. You look back at there that
was then this is a entirely different thing. It's a
different beast. It's a huge world tournament and the pressures
on that who is best armed to deal with those pressures?
(12:37):
And you'd suggest that with half of this team competing
in the last final land winning, they'll be in a
much better position to deal with the unique stresses of
a knockout World Cup game.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Absolutely, and I guess tomorrow morning, our time, we'll be
looking to the likes of Auldo he DeMont and Georgia
Ponsonby and Alana Bremner and others who do have that experience.
But also, again, at the risk of repetting what I
said yesterday, I'm just so excited by the likes of
Braxton Sorenson McGee. I mean, what a player she could
be and I get the feeling she might have quite
a bit to say and do in this game tomorrow
(13:10):
morning as well.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, the ghost Runner, it's never going to catch on,
is it. But I'll keep trying anyway to see what
she did. What are the odds wholl pull another hat trick?
You know, it tries so far it's astonishing.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Absolutely prolific.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Just love it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And you know there's not much to her really, you know,
she's a bit of a whippet. She'd be what sixty
kilos tripping widow would say, But man, elusive.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Ghost Runner, she's not there, and you see you're right
in front of you. Suddenly she's just disappeared. Run straight
through your range, like what on earth happened? And she's
off half the park. It's and I think that we
talk about the effect of one player, but i'd expect
that not living rent free in the minds of the Canadians.
But they'll all know exactly where she is, and that
(13:57):
might be a distraction because with one eye they're looking
at her, and the other eye they're looking at the goat.
Where do we concentrate and who's going to tear us apart?
Where we're looking the other way? There are threats everywhere
and that Canadian headspace, about that defensive defensive case capabilities
could be key.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yep, really excited about this one Rugby World Cup semi
final tomorrow morning, six o'clock news. Yell in time our
Black fans against Canada. Hayden out tonight. This has snuck
up a little bit, but I do love my basketball.
The Breakers are back. The National Basketball League for twenty
twenty five into twenty twenty six is here. Now. I'd
forgotten this dark but I checked before I came into
the chamber with you. The Breakers were seven and three
(14:35):
after ten games last year. That seven wins, three losses.
Then for the last nineteen games of the season they
won precisely three and lost sixteen. I'd forgotten how poor
they were last year.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Memory, and I'm working on this one, which is dicey
now a butt a Swiss cheese. That they had a
terrible injury tool. It was really really hard for them
to do anything from where they're at, and they had
players that just didn't carry the load. Got again, you've
got to forget that. What we're liking will be interesting
your thoughts on this as well. What I'm liking about
(15:10):
this team this time around. They did really well the Blitz.
Obviously they've got some great, older, experienced players, but the
whole Breakers organization has gone back to what the Breakers
organization used to be before on a new direction under
Matt Walsh. It appears like they're trying to instill some
of those those family values, those club values. And they've
(15:31):
got a lot of the old school back there in
key positions, including our old colleague and mate Andrew Dhurst,
who's back there running the whole media circus, barring Dylan,
Boucher and Jard And there's so many great people back
in that organization and that warms me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, it does me too. And you know that's that
is that is pleasing to see. I guess whether Rubber
hits the road. To use the wrong analogy is when
the when the Sneakers hit the court, and you know
Parker Jackson cart right, we know what a big player
he is. A couple of new names in there, Isaiah Brockington,
looking forward to seeing how he goes, Robert Baker. The
(16:08):
second is also there are all these guys I don't
know anything about them, but looking forward to seeing how
they go. And but Terry Copenan, he strikes me as
a fairly astute coach, quite different from Modi Mayor in
terms of he doesn't have the outward exuberance and the
history ontics on the on the side of the court
that Modi Mayor did. But you talk to people about
but Terry Copenan and they talk about a very intelligent
(16:30):
basketball brain.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, and they've got basketball brains all over the buck.
I mean, look at the constantly retired Rob Low, who
of the show last night. He's back and he has
got huge IQ of the game, and that's center role,
like Ruben Tarangi, having him back in the fold again
is immense. I don't think he can underestimate what he
can do. And we're talking to Rob Low last night.
(16:53):
He's mentioning Sam man Inger, who's also in that center role,
and what he can bring to the floor too. So
a lot to look at. And I asked Rob about
defending against Parker Jackson Cartwright because of course he's playing
against the breakers, and he didn't really want to talk
about that. The first step is gone and that's the nature.
(17:14):
You know. You know how small I am, right, you
stood next to me and looked down on me because
you're quite tall, right, Yep, I'm basically the same size
as Packer Jackson Cartwright.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, love it, but that just shows this is a
game for all shapes and sizes and a wait to
see how the Breakers go Brisbane Bullets tonight in their
first up game. So let's hope that they can get
off with a win on their on their home boards tonight.
That is us in the chamber for today.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Here we go again, Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast
and association with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted home builder, Friday September nineteen, with another needless to say,
big sporting weekend to come. I'm Jason Fine, my name
is Darcy Watergrave.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Jason's the most trusted sports broadcast New Zealand. I'm just
sitting here with them.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't see that in the script anywhere. I've had
a look at the notes. I don't see that written
down anywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Seen that through how dare you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm glad you could read my writing. Hey lots to
talk about, including the black Ferns in a Rugby World
Cup semi final tomorrow morning, the start of a Breakers
season tonight. Who are you hearing from on the podcast today?
Guest wise Alois Blackwell.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hugely experienced former Blackburn Auckland player in both open and
of course the national game the FPC as well, and
she'll give us her thoughts on what's going to happen
first thing tomorrow morning for the Black Ferns.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Looking forward to her analysis. I've got some thoughts on
the ran Fairly Shield and the latest in sports news too.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We'll pack it all in, let's get into it in
other news.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's get things going as always withhe a look at
some of the big sports stories around today. The Black
Ferns are embracing the pressure of their Rugby World Cup
semi final against Canada and Bristol tomorrow morning. You still
haven't beaten Canada in their last two meetings, including a
drawer in this year's Pack four series in christ Church.
Here's Blackburn's half back Recye poly Lane.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
For me, it's transferring that kind of perspective around what
the occasion next. They is we all know how to
play rugby where we're good rugby players and so can
kind of just tunnel in on one moment at a time.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Kyle Preston is reflecting on arguably the most significant month
in his rugby career. They're welling to half back called
into the All Blacks to cover an injury crisis and
day boot off the bench against South Africa at Eden Park.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The boys and the management make you pretty comfortable and
I'll do everything they can to help you be as
ready as you can be to play on the weekend.
Tyfinitely been in nerves, but I felt reasonably ready waiting
on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And a night to remember for Barcelona and England striker
Marcus Rashford, the Manchester United lonee has scored the first
goals of his new club career in their two to
one Champions League win at Newcastle.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
On sort to conceived possession in that sort of area
to a man like Rushford in the.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Four that is in.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's absolutely said safel Rushford. That is brilliant beast. As
Marcus Rushford doubles Barcelona's league US and a vinion.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussy Walter Grave.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's a warm welcome now to the Sports Fix podcast
to former black fern Alloise Black Well. Good ay, Aloes,
who are you?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I'm good? Thank you? How are you?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'm very excited looking forward to this weekend. Actually tomorrow
morning's entertainment. She's a bit of an early one, but
it's better than the middle of the night. Eloise. You
would have been looking at your former teammates and how
things are progressing. What's your current summation of where the
Black Ferns are at. Now they've come down to you lose,
you are out? How are they going? Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I think they've They've been progressing really nicely and tomorrow
will be that true test match that they'll be expecting.
But I know, you know, the girls will be up
for it. They'll be excited about this challenge and the
team that they've picked. It's pretty outstanding.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
When you look toward the Canadians and what they've achieved
of recent times. How much of that carries weight? I
draw and a loss. Is that taken into account much
do you think by the team?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Oh, you know, it'll probably be in the back of
your mind. But to be completely honest, like in a
World Cup, nothing really matters what's happened prior to leading
up to So it's you know, you take each game
as it comes, and you know, regardless of what has
happened in the last couple of years, I think the
girls will be ready to go to war.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm interested in the amount of attention around the lack
of Georgia Miller. Now we know what a good player
she is, we know how well she's performed, but I
almost get the feeling people are thinking without her, we're toast.
That's not the case. She's not relying on one out
of twenty three surely, Alowise.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, not at all. I mean, if you look at
who comes into fill in that number seven position, it's
Kennedy Toukuafu, who's the co captain, and you know she's
a World Cup winner herself. She's played in big moments
and she's made for big moments. She's a big time player,
and you know you're you're certainly not missing out on
much with the absence of Georgia Millow and you've got
(04:50):
the likes of Kennedy to step into that role.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It almost suggests that during training that extra pressure for
to gain a position from Georgia, it's probably worked to
treat with some of the more senior players, so we go, hey,
you're taking my jersey step down.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean, that's what you want in any team environment.
You want friendly competition between players because that only lives
the intensity and lifts the want from players to want
to be named in that twenty three to go and
represent your country. So it only it's all healthy and
it will definitely build a real strong team culture and
(05:29):
almost a stronger working environment and willing and want to
perform well.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Looking at the Canadians, what are we expecting from them?
How will they react to the pressure of playing in
such a big match, a semi final with their experience
and what do you think they're going to bring to
the park. Have you noticed anything particularly about the way
they're playing out wise?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I haven't really seen too much about the Canadians, But
if we talk about what we know from the past,
you know they like to play expensive rugby, and you
know they have featured in a few knockout footy matches
in the last couple of years, so they'll be expecting
to put out a performance. But I think you can't
take away from the fact that the Black Ferns have
been in every single knockout match bar the one in
(06:14):
twenty fourteen. We don't talk about pretty much since the
inception of the World Cup. So the Black Ferns and
the players in this team are made for these big
moments and you know they're going to step up and
take it to a whole other level.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You're in that twenty fourteen squad, won't you, Eloise?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, I sure was I was just a are we
we're young and then.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Just the learning. Let's look at the progress of the
Ferns and Alan Bunting worked pretty well that he played
every player in the first couple of games and then
started to sharpen that axe toward the end and of
last week. That was a very bizarre game the first
forty minutes and the ability to switch on a dime
and actually play the game that the Black Ferns wanted
(06:56):
to play last week. Tell us how you felt about
that game, about what they were doing in that first
half and how they managed to turn on the dime
for that second It was quite bizarre.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, I mean South Africa were pretty impressive, weren't they,
with that full team lineout and mauling from a scrum
like that's the sort of thing you see in the
men's game, and it was exciting to watch. But I know,
I know, especially in a World Cup, you know you're
always you prepare for many different situations and you know
(07:27):
the girls would have had planned abc D all the
way through to whatever, so it just would have taken them,
you know, just needed to recognize what was happening and
then apply the particular style of rugby to what the
South Africans were giving there, which we saw in that
back half. They just they just turned it on and
run away with it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They'll carry on with that, right, They're very good. There's
a lot of talk about you know, Route one. I
think that's what England are pretty much up to and
about the strength there. But the strength in this New
Zealand side is quick transfer or ball and pace over
the ground. So that shouldn't change. They should stick to that, surely.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Oh they sure will. And you just look at look
at those outside backs. If you can get in their
hand early, it's going to be a pretty tough dat.
The office for the Canadians sort of sex.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
If there was any doubt, and I'm not sure there was,
but if there was any doubt about the authenticity and
the value and the attraction and the allure of the
Ranfurly Shield, then it was well and truly put to
bed this year because the travels of the shield have
shown again just how deeply ingrained it is in the
(08:36):
hearts and minds of provincial rugby fans. Of course, Taranlucky
started the year with the shield and got out of
the way the obligatory early season matches against Heartland championship
sides swatting Aside, King Country and Thames Valley, and then
their first proper challenge I guess should call it against Northland,
where they were comfortable winners. That's when it started to
(08:57):
get interesting. Waitcuttle went to New Plymouth at the back
end of August, a twenty three to twenty two win
with a ball falling off the kicking tea at the
end before Lemosopuwanga picked it up, put it back on
there and kicked the winning penalty for White Cuttle to
take the shield. They celebrated perhaps a bit too hard
(09:17):
because a week later Southland came to Hamilton and took
it back down South for the first time and from
memory a decade and a half so White Cuta with
a very short tenure, but not as short as Southland's
who five days later, just five days later gave it
up to a rampant Canterbury who came to in Vicago
(09:38):
and made no race of at fifty four fourteen. But
then last weekend I thought it was going to change
hands again. Tasman went to christ Church and Canterbury only
just saved by the bell as they say, with George
Bell scoring a try in added time. To keep the
logger Wood in christ Church, you'd have to go back
(10:00):
a long way to find the ran Furley Shield changing
hands so many times in a single year, and it
might yet have another new home or two before it's
locked away for the summer. Tomorrow Otago, who in case
you hadn't noticed, are traveling pretty well, go to christ
Church to try and win the log. If they were
to win it, then they have to have to put
(10:21):
it up against North Harbor in the following weekend's action.
If Canterbury hold on to it, then who knows it
might end up where it started because Taranaki come to
christ Church to try and prize it away from the
Red and Blacks at the back end of the regular season.
Towing and throwing is the best possible thing for the
ran Furley Shield. When it's finding new homes on a
(10:43):
regular basis, we really get the magic of this log
of wood. So long may it continue to have domestic
travel this season and for many years to come.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And to the Chamber we go interesting listening to the
thoughts of Aloi's Blackwell. There with regards to the Black
Ferns test against Canada tomorrow morning, not just any test
to Rugby World Cup semi final. Of course, do you
feel reassured by her words?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I didn't need reassurance from her. I was reassured in myself.
The wayst thing gets me is that the constant chat
around the loss of Georgia Miller. I can't We've talked
about this. Yes, it's a blow. But does the success
of our team rely on one player? No? I don't
think so. If it does, we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Be there, right, and a player who really doesn't have
a heck of a lot of fifteen's experience. I know
she's explosive, she's got that X factor, and she seems
to have taken to the game of fifteen and exactly
the same fashion she took to the game of sevens.
But you're right, Dus. If we're relying on one player
to carry our hopes in any sport, really, then you
know we probably are looking at the wrong places. This
(11:56):
is a really good New Zealand team, as you and
I spoke about yesterday on Sports Fix. There are some
experienced heads, there are some exciting youngsters. Even without Georgia
Miller there, I was like you, I didn't need reassure
it's either I do, though, as I said to you yesterday,
have a degree of trepidation about how good Canada are
because they have been good.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
They have been and there's been a draw and there's
been a last bird. As Alois said that nothing matters
beyond the World Cup. You look back at there that
was then this is a entirely different thing. It's a
different beast. It's a huge world tournament and the pressures
on that who is best armed to deal with those pressures?
(12:37):
And you'd suggest that with half of this team competing
in the last final land winning, they'll be in a
much better position to deal with the unique stresses of
a knockout World Cup game.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Absolutely, and I guess tomorrow morning, our time, we'll be
looking to the likes of Auldo he DeMont and Georgia
Ponsonby and Alana Bremner and others who do have that experience.
But also, again, at the risk of repetting what I
said yesterday, I'm just so excited by the likes of
Braxton Sorenson McGee. I mean, what a player she could
be and I get the feeling she might have quite
a bit to say and do in this game tomorrow
(13:10):
morning as well.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, the ghost Runner, it's never going to catch on,
is it. But I'll keep trying anyway to see what
she did. What are the odds wholl pull another hat trick?
You know, it tries so far it's astonishing.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Absolutely prolific.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Just love it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And you know there's not much to her really, you know,
she's a bit of a whippet. She'd be what sixty
kilos tripping widow would say, But man, elusive.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Ghost Runner, she's not there, and you see you're right
in front of you. Suddenly she's just disappeared. Run straight
through your range, like what on earth happened? And she's
off half the park. It's and I think that we
talk about the effect of one player, but i'd expect
that not living rent free in the minds of the Canadians.
But they'll all know exactly where she is, and that
(13:57):
might be a distraction because with one eye they're looking
at her, and the other eye they're looking at the goat.
Where do we concentrate and who's going to tear us apart?
Where we're looking the other way? There are threats everywhere
and that Canadian headspace, about that defensive defensive case capabilities
could be key.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yep, really excited about this one Rugby World Cup semi
final tomorrow morning, six o'clock news. Yell in time our
Black fans against Canada. Hayden out tonight. This has snuck
up a little bit, but I do love my basketball.
The Breakers are back. The National Basketball League for twenty
twenty five into twenty twenty six is here. Now. I'd
forgotten this dark but I checked before I came into
the chamber with you. The Breakers were seven and three
(14:35):
after ten games last year. That seven wins, three losses.
Then for the last nineteen games of the season they
won precisely three and lost sixteen. I'd forgotten how poor
they were last year.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Memory, and I'm working on this one, which is dicey
now a butt a Swiss cheese. That they had a
terrible injury tool. It was really really hard for them
to do anything from where they're at, and they had
players that just didn't carry the load. Got again, you've
got to forget that. What we're liking will be interesting
your thoughts on this as well. What I'm liking about
(15:10):
this team this time around. They did really well the Blitz.
Obviously they've got some great, older, experienced players, but the
whole Breakers organization has gone back to what the Breakers
organization used to be before on a new direction under
Matt Walsh. It appears like they're trying to instill some
of those those family values, those club values. And they've
(15:31):
got a lot of the old school back there in
key positions, including our old colleague and mate Andrew Dhurst,
who's back there running the whole media circus, barring Dylan,
Boucher and Jard And there's so many great people back
in that organization and that warms me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, it does me too. And you know that's that
is that is pleasing to see. I guess whether Rubber
hits the road. To use the wrong analogy is when
the when the Sneakers hit the court, and you know
Parker Jackson cart right, we know what a big player
he is. A couple of new names in there, Isaiah Brockington,
looking forward to seeing how he goes, Robert Baker. The
(16:08):
second is also there are all these guys I don't
know anything about them, but looking forward to seeing how
they go. And but Terry Copenan, he strikes me as
a fairly astute coach, quite different from Modi Mayor in
terms of he doesn't have the outward exuberance and the
history ontics on the on the side of the court
that Modi Mayor did. But you talk to people about
but Terry Copenan and they talk about a very intelligent
(16:30):
basketball brain.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, and they've got basketball brains all over the buck.
I mean, look at the constantly retired Rob Low, who
of the show last night. He's back and he has
got huge IQ of the game, and that's center role,
like Ruben Tarangi, having him back in the fold again
is immense. I don't think he can underestimate what he
can do. And we're talking to Rob Low last night.
(16:53):
He's mentioning Sam man Inger, who's also in that center role,
and what he can bring to the floor too. So
a lot to look at. And I asked Rob about
defending against Parker Jackson Cartwright because of course he's playing
against the breakers, and he didn't really want to talk
about that. The first step is gone and that's the nature.
(17:14):
You know. You know how small I am, right, you
stood next to me and looked down on me because
you're quite tall, right, Yep, I'm basically the same size
as Packer Jackson Cartwright.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, love it, but that just shows this is a
game for all shapes and sizes and a wait to
see how the Breakers go Brisbane Bullets tonight in their
first up game. So let's hope that they can get
off with a win on their on their home boards tonight.
That is us in the chamber for today.
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