September 5, 2025 • 17 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 5th September 2025, The All Blacks are putting their 50-match unbeaten run at Eden Park on the line as they face the Springboks. Samisoni Taukieaho joined the podcast ahead of the huge match
Piney offer his thoughts on what will happen on Saturday night
And D'Arcy and Piney are in the chamber to discuss how important the Warriors final regular season game is now they've missed the NRLs top 4
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks ed B.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello there and welcome into the Sports Fix podcast. At
the back end of a Monday to Friday week and
at the front end of a magnificently huge sporting weekend,
this Friday, September, the fifth Sports Fix is brought to
an association with GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted
home builder. I'm Jason Pine.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm Darcy water Grave. Why do you always get to
do the introduction?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, I have no sort of film view one while
or the other. We can always delete this one and
never to be heard again.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I love having you in here. Piney. Welcome up from Wellington.
You've got a massive day to morow the Aire as
the understatement, ice to spend way too much time at
the kings are getting slaughtered wat to traffic. You won't
be doing that, but you'll be there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, I'll be at the Kingslander. I'll watch a bit
of traffic, I'll have a lemonade and we'll start building
to watch this game. Look, I yeah, I think we
can all accept it's a massive night at even Park
tomorrow night in coming and there'll be lots on the
radio over the next little while on that. But yeah, look,
I yeah, I really can't wait. I can't remember looking
as much for to a rugby game as I am
(01:22):
this one.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I mean, it's not a World Cup final, but it's
as good as done, isn't it. It's the next best
thing in grand And we're going to talk about that
with hooker sammsony tak Yahu. I caught up with him
at Meny Day on Thursday, the heavy Yarn. It's always
terrifying standing in front of all blacks. They don't look
that big on the TV. Tell you when you're standing
in front of him, you're like, okay, I've got you,
(01:45):
and then telling me that he loves the collision. I
just backed off a couple of speak.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I think that's because they're all the same size, aren't they.
When you see them together, that's when you get next
to them and you're not yeah, you're dead right. I
also want to talk before you even get to the
rugby about the leak Tonight Warriors, Manly and the football
with the soccer rashes going on the line, plus the
latest and sports news. Let's get into it. In other news,
let's get things going with a look at some of
(02:10):
the big sports stories around today. Spring Box rugby coach
Russi Rasmus is outlined how similar he thinks his side
is to the All Blacks ahead of tomorrow night's big
test at Eden Park.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
There's no six to splits.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I think the team res Elected's got a lot of
guys that's fighting the eider, the breakdown, quacha, coming off
the events, coming off the Benz, we'll be biting art.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
We've got a lock on the vents.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
They've got a lock on the Bens.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Domestic lee counties Manico have not their first one of
the NPC season, betting North Harbor twenty two to nineteen
in Pocacoey second five. Gibson Popular Lee kicking a forty
one meter game winning penalty in the seventy eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Kenny Ice this moment strikes it with the left blue
kick goes up.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
How is it lock?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's going to be long enough.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's over and the Warriors chances of making the NRL
League's top four are over for the season. The Broncos
have wrapped their regular season with a thirty to fourteen
win over the Storm.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Pine and Walter Grave.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, welcome to you, Summersony Takyaho. He was on the
bench as a hooker for the All Blacks. Talk about
big games doesn't come much bigger than this. You would
have been involved in bigger games, but surely this is
right up there.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah, I'm obviously playing the Springboks is always a pinnacle
of being an Orblick and last time I played them
was the walk up final, so a bit of unfinished business,
i'd say, so I'm looking forward to to being out
there and and getting into it and hopefully.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Get the win.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You're not operating on a revenge basis, are you.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, No, there's no revenge. I just enjoyed blaying them there.
They've been number one in the world for a very
long time and obviously one back to back World Cup,
so their quality side and we've got so much respect
for them, but we also know what we can do
when we're when we're playing good footy, when we're executing
what our game plan then and what sorts were very
(04:26):
difficult team to deal with as well, So really really confident.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, very few changes in the team, Sammy, And I'm
presuming it's because you want to keep the combinations going.
You want to carry on with what you've been doing
and just hope it really clicks. It can't be too
far away.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, like you touch on the obviously continuity is massive,
and the players we pick, it's obviously up to the
coaches who they pick.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
But we get up there and we put our.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Best foot forward and we compete at training and I'm
just fortunate there's a lot of good hookers with me,
Broughton and Cody, so anyone could do the job. So
if you get given the opportunity to take it with
both hands in like, it's touch on. Yeah, we're not
We're not far from from clicking. And obviously our coach
(05:15):
group has done an amazing job getting the homework and
what sort of putting up in the right place to
make plays. And yeah, I just can't wait to get
into the game on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
There are a lot of good hookers fighting around Santa
SONI So why you Why why did they peck you?
Why you on the bench? Do you do you want
to talk yourself up?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I think I.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Think obviously we've got the the caudal or the old dog.
I got it, old older centurion. Now Cody, he's been
leading the way and he's a professional. He's someone that
I look up to him and Cozy when I came
in and they looked after me, take me under their
wing and taught me how to be an or block
not just on the field, but off the field preparation
(05:59):
and how you can put yourself in a in a
good sport to compete come come Saturday.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
So and he's never changed.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
He's always we've been working out with each other, but
we make each other better as well. So looking forward
to to playing with him again. I think with the
thirty six games, I must have played with him for
thirty two of those, so we.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Know each other's game pretty well.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And we're going to go out there and compete and
put our best foot forward and put our.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Team in a good support to come with the win.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Expectations from Jason Ryan and raisor Robertson what are they?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Yeah, Obviously coming onto the game is a bit different
from starting and you can come in in a different situation.
You could be winning or you could be chasing the
game down. So it's being able, Like you touch on
being accurate executing core roles. It's very important, especially if
you're if you're chasing the game and test footy, you
(06:55):
get a few opportunities to get points or execute your
core role. So just making sure you do that and
obviously the heart of the team, which is like a
team like the Springboks. You might get one or two
opportunity as a team and you've got to nail it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Doesn't matter if it's in minute one or minute seventy nine.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
So when the times call, you step up to the
market and deliver.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm sure we don't want to pick up with the
bones too much of what happened in Argentina, but you
would have looked into that surely.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Obviously you do your your learnings, your review. We've been
honest with each other in the in the forward peck
and also as a team obviously, which is knew that
it wasn't good enough, it wasn't o black standard, so
we're tided it up. But once the review was finished,
(07:49):
we move on, take our learnings and look forward to
the Springboks. And and that's what we've done in big
training coming up this afternoon and then tomorrow sharping up
the sword and we're into it and it's just a
lot of excitement. I think playing an Edin Park, the fortress,
the holmemorphnis and rugby. It nothing better And for rugby player,
(08:12):
this is the game, so you want to play and
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sportsfax. Ever since the twenty twenty five All Blacks tear
schedules announced at the back end of last year, Tomorrow
Night has been circled in the calendar of rugby fans.
Seldom has there been as much anticipation for a test
match outside of rugby World Cups. The top two sides
in the world meeting on a patch of grass which
has become an absolute fortress for the home side. Smack
(08:38):
bang in the middle of a World Cup cycle, the
double defending world champion spring Box against their oldest and
fiercest foes, the All Blacks. The one hundred and ninth
test between the two sixty two wins for New Zealand
forty two for South Africa. Four tests drawn, but the
Springboks have won the last four. However, of the last
fourteen it is seven wins a piece. There really is
(09:03):
very little to separate them. Eden Park. The Fortress has
been spoken about con instantly in the lead up to
this match. The All Blacks unbeaten there, of course, in
fifty Test matches stretching back thirty one years. The last
team to emerge triumphant at the Garden of Eden, France,
with that famous try from the End of the Earth,
giving Le Blu a twenty three to twenty victory on
(09:25):
the third of July nineteen ninety four. Since then, there
have been forty eight All Blacks wins and two draws.
It's also an extra special occasion for Ardie Savilla. He
becomes the fifteenth man and the tenth forward to bring
up one hundred Test matches for the All Blacks. Ever
since he started turning heads at Longitai College in Wellington's
eastern suburbs, it's been obvious we were watching a very
(09:49):
special rugby player, and through his rise through the ranks
at Wellington, then the Hurricanes, then the All Blacks and
most recently more Wana Pacifica, it has proven to be
the case. He's carried himself with dignity and humility and
pride and a huge amount of ability and passion and
commitment to every jersey He's worn and every team he's
(10:10):
been a part of. No one deserves the honor of
all Blacks Tests Centurion more than Ardie Savier does, and
here's hoping his side can mark his special occasion with
a performance fitting of that milestone.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Endo the Chamber we go. We've covered the rugby off
quite considerably. Great to hear from Summersaunee my thoughts on
it as well. Let's talk a couple of other sports
which are happening. Tonight. The Warriors have their final regular
season game of the NRL season. We know a couple
of things. They are mathematically almost assured of not being fourth.
They would have to win by one hundred and fifty
(10:48):
points tonight. Ain't happening. S's great maths Pliny, Thanks so
so I'm bringing what do you mean, mathematical change?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
If you lost your.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Min are one hundred and fifty ain't happening. If the
Warriors beat Manly they have a chance of finishing fifth.
If they lose to Manly they could still finish fifth,
but more likely they will be sixth. What it all
comes down to us who they play next week in
what will be an elimination game. I just reckon, you
want to avoid the Panthers.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And they're playing at home, so there is one advantage.
But they of course they haven't got a game in hand.
If they had to finished fourth, it would have been
a different story. No one wants to play the Panthers ever,
even at the start of the season when they want
one to three, four, five, in the bounce of the loss,
they still want to play the Panthers then, And I'm
with you on that one. No one wants to play
the Panthers. This is a team that know how to win,
and they got a punch in the face last year.
(11:37):
And I'll be going hold on, hold on, that's not Panthers' style.
So they're going to come with Avengers. Do you reckon
we should run jet Cleary.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Against the Panthers. Yeah, just to throw the younger son
among the pigeons as it were. Look, if the Warriors
beat Manly tonight, they would at least go in with
a little bit of momentum. If that is indeed a thing.
Is that indeed a thing? Momentum?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I don't know, it's momentum. I think with the Warriors
they're going to prove to themselves that they're capable of winning.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They blew this top four chance, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, and they've blown it with against the Titans, and
they're blown in another other game as well. They had
prime opportunity. They were positioned to qualify from themself from
the top four.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Sure they had injuries, I understand that, and rather over
judicial's refereeing stuff. I get that too, But the essen
is in their hands and they drop the ball. They
knocked it on. I know that. So what they need
to do in the game tonight is go we're a
good league team. We can play good league. We're not
going to leave stupid, great big gaps up the middle
like they did last week. We're actually going to show
(12:44):
the NRL and ourselves that we are capable of progressing further.
So momentum whatever, self confidence, that's the key, isn't.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It That I absolutely strike confidently into knockout football rather than
sort of stumbling into knockout football off the back of
back to back losses. So that's worry. Is Manly tonight
at eight o'clock. It's also Daily Cherr Evans final game
for Manly most likely unless they win an the results
go their way, they won't be playing knockout for.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They've got it, like the best neck in the game,
one of the greats. Yeah, one of the great necks,
right up there with Brent Tate.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And there's a lot to be said for a good neck,
a good tough neck. So we've got that. And then
almost as soon as the full time whistleblows, we can
head to Canberra to watch the All Whites take on
the soccer Roos and a very rare international between the
two in recent times, the soccer ashes on the line
across two games. I'm quite looking forward to this one.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And it's proper rashes too, isn't It's not just a
burned cigar ashes. Cigar ashes. After one hundred years they
found it again.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Isn't it any true that they just make that up
that no one could remember?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, I mean, they could have made it up, and
if they have, it's a fantastically fabricated lie. But it
has at least given a bit of context of these
games and people going, oh, what do you mean the ashes?
That's a cricket thing. This is very different. As you've said,
cigar ashes smoked smoked by the captains of the two
sides the first time they met all the way back
in the nineteen twenties in a silver casket, which is
on the line across these two games. Chris Wood leads
(14:10):
the line for the All Whites tonight. He's closing in
on being our all time greatest appearance maker, already our
top goal scorer. I feel like when you got Chris
Wood in your side, you're a chance to win a
game of football.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Absolutely, But it's not necessarily the asses, although that is
very important. Everyone's looking to America, to the eight hundred
team World Cup, and this is really what this is about,
is that it's slowly, bit surely sharpening your blade ahead
of the World Cup because qualified Australia have qualified too,
and all they want to win. I still say that
(14:43):
the most important part of this is just getting themselves focused,
understanding who they are as a team. Now you're nodding,
and I'm laughing because I've said something sensible about football.
You know, back me up? What else do you want
to see? No?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No, But you're dead right, And I think that goes
across a lot of sports, doesn't it. You know? And
maybe if we look to tomorrow night, if the All
Blacks were to lose to South Africa tomorrow night, but
when the World Cup in two years, the Eden Park
record wouldn't be quite as important to us. I want
to a couple of a couple of new guys, and
one is an old guy coming back, Ryan Thomas. What
a story this has done. Six years out of the
(15:16):
national side, the most horrendous run of injuries. Thought he
might never play football again, let alone play for the
All Whites again. Here he is back in the side.
I get the feeling he'll start tonight in his return
and gee, I'm looking forward to seeing that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And didn't they soar his league in half?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
He was asleep.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Under anesthetic, But yeah, a horrendous operation and no guarantee
of success. When you're sawing big bones in half shin bones,
there's no guarantee you come out the other side and
you can still play football. So yeah, I just hope
Ryan Thomas has a clear run now through to the
World Cup and plays his part there. Sar Prex Sing's
another guy I always enjoy watching, you know, the one
New Zealander I think who's got the creativity to unlock
(15:55):
opposition defenses. Australia a favorite, but I think we're a chance.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Of course, Costa barbarusis after he's deserted Wellington over there
in Australia, and he's the unusual position of backing Chris
Ward ups probably not something is used to doing. But
there's an injection of pace. There's there's your spark plug.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, absolutely, and something different as well, very different platform
Chris Wood. You know, Chris Wood's the big traditional number nine.
Cost as your spark off the bench, you know, can
get into wide positions, create things along with the likes
of Sarp Pretz sing and others. So yeah, game one
tonight in camera nine to forty five and then back
at go medium Mount Smart on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Are you to Auckland to call that one? A?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What's that on Tuesday? Well, I mean I might as
well just stay just stay in the sphere city of
yours too, Yeah, I mean, what a weekend coming. We
haven't e mentioned the Ranfurly shield. There's other bits and
pieces going on, probably some race cars as well.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Monza there you go. How could you forget?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, how are we going to get any Sleep's all
I want to know. Let's get out of the chamber.
That's us for today.
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Hello there and welcome into the Sports Fix podcast. At
the back end of a Monday to Friday week and
at the front end of a magnificently huge sporting weekend,
this Friday, September, the fifth Sports Fix is brought to
an association with GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted
home builder. I'm Jason Pine.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm Darcy water Grave. Why do you always get to
do the introduction?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, I have no sort of film view one while
or the other. We can always delete this one and
never to be heard again.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I love having you in here. Piney. Welcome up from Wellington.
You've got a massive day to morow the Aire as
the understatement, ice to spend way too much time at
the kings are getting slaughtered wat to traffic. You won't
be doing that, but you'll be there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, I'll be at the Kingslander. I'll watch a bit
of traffic, I'll have a lemonade and we'll start building
to watch this game. Look, I yeah, I think we
can all accept it's a massive night at even Park
tomorrow night in coming and there'll be lots on the
radio over the next little while on that. But yeah, look,
I yeah, I really can't wait. I can't remember looking
as much for to a rugby game as I am
(01:22):
this one.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I mean, it's not a World Cup final, but it's
as good as done, isn't it. It's the next best
thing in grand And we're going to talk about that
with hooker sammsony tak Yahu. I caught up with him
at Meny Day on Thursday, the heavy Yarn. It's always
terrifying standing in front of all blacks. They don't look
that big on the TV. Tell you when you're standing
in front of him, you're like, okay, I've got you,
(01:45):
and then telling me that he loves the collision. I
just backed off a couple of speak.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I think that's because they're all the same size, aren't they.
When you see them together, that's when you get next
to them and you're not yeah, you're dead right. I
also want to talk before you even get to the
rugby about the leak Tonight Warriors, Manly and the football
with the soccer rashes going on the line, plus the
latest and sports news. Let's get into it. In other news,
let's get things going with a look at some of
(02:10):
the big sports stories around today. Spring Box rugby coach
Russi Rasmus is outlined how similar he thinks his side
is to the All Blacks ahead of tomorrow night's big
test at Eden Park.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
There's no six to splits.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I think the team res Elected's got a lot of
guys that's fighting the eider, the breakdown, quacha, coming off
the events, coming off the Benz, we'll be biting art.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
We've got a lock on the vents.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
They've got a lock on the Bens.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Domestic lee counties Manico have not their first one of
the NPC season, betting North Harbor twenty two to nineteen
in Pocacoey second five. Gibson Popular Lee kicking a forty
one meter game winning penalty in the seventy eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Kenny Ice this moment strikes it with the left blue
kick goes up.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
How is it lock?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's going to be long enough.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's over and the Warriors chances of making the NRL
League's top four are over for the season. The Broncos
have wrapped their regular season with a thirty to fourteen
win over the Storm.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Pine and Walter Grave.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, welcome to you, Summersony Takyaho. He was on the
bench as a hooker for the All Blacks. Talk about
big games doesn't come much bigger than this. You would
have been involved in bigger games, but surely this is
right up there.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah, I'm obviously playing the Springboks is always a pinnacle
of being an Orblick and last time I played them
was the walk up final, so a bit of unfinished business,
i'd say, so I'm looking forward to to being out
there and and getting into it and hopefully.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Get the win.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You're not operating on a revenge basis, are you.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, No, there's no revenge. I just enjoyed blaying them there.
They've been number one in the world for a very
long time and obviously one back to back World Cup,
so their quality side and we've got so much respect
for them, but we also know what we can do
when we're when we're playing good footy, when we're executing
what our game plan then and what sorts were very
(04:26):
difficult team to deal with as well, So really really confident.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, very few changes in the team, Sammy, And I'm
presuming it's because you want to keep the combinations going.
You want to carry on with what you've been doing
and just hope it really clicks. It can't be too
far away.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, like you touch on the obviously continuity is massive,
and the players we pick, it's obviously up to the
coaches who they pick.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
But we get up there and we put our.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Best foot forward and we compete at training and I'm
just fortunate there's a lot of good hookers with me,
Broughton and Cody, so anyone could do the job. So
if you get given the opportunity to take it with
both hands in like, it's touch on. Yeah, we're not
We're not far from from clicking. And obviously our coach
(05:15):
group has done an amazing job getting the homework and
what sort of putting up in the right place to
make plays. And yeah, I just can't wait to get
into the game on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
There are a lot of good hookers fighting around Santa
SONI So why you Why why did they peck you?
Why you on the bench? Do you do you want
to talk yourself up?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I think I.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Think obviously we've got the the caudal or the old dog.
I got it, old older centurion. Now Cody, he's been
leading the way and he's a professional. He's someone that
I look up to him and Cozy when I came
in and they looked after me, take me under their
wing and taught me how to be an or block
not just on the field, but off the field preparation
(05:59):
and how you can put yourself in a in a
good sport to compete come come Saturday.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
So and he's never changed.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
He's always we've been working out with each other, but
we make each other better as well. So looking forward
to to playing with him again. I think with the
thirty six games, I must have played with him for
thirty two of those, so we.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Know each other's game pretty well.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And we're going to go out there and compete and
put our best foot forward and put our.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Team in a good support to come with the win.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Expectations from Jason Ryan and raisor Robertson what are they?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Yeah, Obviously coming onto the game is a bit different
from starting and you can come in in a different situation.
You could be winning or you could be chasing the
game down. So it's being able, Like you touch on
being accurate executing core roles. It's very important, especially if
you're if you're chasing the game and test footy, you
(06:55):
get a few opportunities to get points or execute your
core role. So just making sure you do that and
obviously the heart of the team, which is like a
team like the Springboks. You might get one or two
opportunity as a team and you've got to nail it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Doesn't matter if it's in minute one or minute seventy nine.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
So when the times call, you step up to the
market and deliver.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm sure we don't want to pick up with the
bones too much of what happened in Argentina, but you
would have looked into that surely.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Obviously you do your your learnings, your review. We've been
honest with each other in the in the forward peck
and also as a team obviously, which is knew that
it wasn't good enough, it wasn't o black standard, so
we're tided it up. But once the review was finished,
(07:49):
we move on, take our learnings and look forward to
the Springboks. And and that's what we've done in big
training coming up this afternoon and then tomorrow sharping up
the sword and we're into it and it's just a
lot of excitement. I think playing an Edin Park, the fortress,
the holmemorphnis and rugby. It nothing better And for rugby player,
(08:12):
this is the game, so you want to play and
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sportsfax. Ever since the twenty twenty five All Blacks tear
schedules announced at the back end of last year, Tomorrow
Night has been circled in the calendar of rugby fans.
Seldom has there been as much anticipation for a test
match outside of rugby World Cups. The top two sides
in the world meeting on a patch of grass which
has become an absolute fortress for the home side. Smack
(08:38):
bang in the middle of a World Cup cycle, the
double defending world champion spring Box against their oldest and
fiercest foes, the All Blacks. The one hundred and ninth
test between the two sixty two wins for New Zealand
forty two for South Africa. Four tests drawn, but the
Springboks have won the last four. However, of the last
fourteen it is seven wins a piece. There really is
(09:03):
very little to separate them. Eden Park. The Fortress has
been spoken about con instantly in the lead up to
this match. The All Blacks unbeaten there, of course, in
fifty Test matches stretching back thirty one years. The last
team to emerge triumphant at the Garden of Eden, France,
with that famous try from the End of the Earth,
giving Le Blu a twenty three to twenty victory on
(09:25):
the third of July nineteen ninety four. Since then, there
have been forty eight All Blacks wins and two draws.
It's also an extra special occasion for Ardie Savilla. He
becomes the fifteenth man and the tenth forward to bring
up one hundred Test matches for the All Blacks. Ever
since he started turning heads at Longitai College in Wellington's
eastern suburbs, it's been obvious we were watching a very
(09:49):
special rugby player, and through his rise through the ranks
at Wellington, then the Hurricanes, then the All Blacks and
most recently more Wana Pacifica, it has proven to be
the case. He's carried himself with dignity and humility and
pride and a huge amount of ability and passion and
commitment to every jersey He's worn and every team he's
(10:10):
been a part of. No one deserves the honor of
all Blacks Tests Centurion more than Ardie Savier does, and
here's hoping his side can mark his special occasion with
a performance fitting of that milestone.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Endo the Chamber we go. We've covered the rugby off
quite considerably. Great to hear from Summersaunee my thoughts on
it as well. Let's talk a couple of other sports
which are happening. Tonight. The Warriors have their final regular
season game of the NRL season. We know a couple
of things. They are mathematically almost assured of not being fourth.
They would have to win by one hundred and fifty
(10:48):
points tonight. Ain't happening. S's great maths Pliny, Thanks so
so I'm bringing what do you mean, mathematical change?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
If you lost your.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Min are one hundred and fifty ain't happening. If the
Warriors beat Manly they have a chance of finishing fifth.
If they lose to Manly they could still finish fifth,
but more likely they will be sixth. What it all
comes down to us who they play next week in
what will be an elimination game. I just reckon, you
want to avoid the Panthers.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And they're playing at home, so there is one advantage.
But they of course they haven't got a game in hand.
If they had to finished fourth, it would have been
a different story. No one wants to play the Panthers ever,
even at the start of the season when they want
one to three, four, five, in the bounce of the loss,
they still want to play the Panthers then, And I'm
with you on that one. No one wants to play
the Panthers. This is a team that know how to win,
and they got a punch in the face last year.
(11:37):
And I'll be going hold on, hold on, that's not Panthers' style.
So they're going to come with Avengers. Do you reckon
we should run jet Cleary.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Against the Panthers. Yeah, just to throw the younger son
among the pigeons as it were. Look, if the Warriors
beat Manly tonight, they would at least go in with
a little bit of momentum. If that is indeed a thing.
Is that indeed a thing? Momentum?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I don't know, it's momentum. I think with the Warriors
they're going to prove to themselves that they're capable of winning.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They blew this top four chance, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, and they've blown it with against the Titans, and
they're blown in another other game as well. They had
prime opportunity. They were positioned to qualify from themself from
the top four.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Sure they had injuries, I understand that, and rather over
judicial's refereeing stuff. I get that too, But the essen
is in their hands and they drop the ball. They
knocked it on. I know that. So what they need
to do in the game tonight is go we're a
good league team. We can play good league. We're not
going to leave stupid, great big gaps up the middle
like they did last week. We're actually going to show
(12:44):
the NRL and ourselves that we are capable of progressing further.
So momentum whatever, self confidence, that's the key, isn't.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It That I absolutely strike confidently into knockout football rather than
sort of stumbling into knockout football off the back of
back to back losses. So that's worry. Is Manly tonight
at eight o'clock. It's also Daily Cherr Evans final game
for Manly most likely unless they win an the results
go their way, they won't be playing knockout for.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They've got it, like the best neck in the game,
one of the greats. Yeah, one of the great necks,
right up there with Brent Tate.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And there's a lot to be said for a good neck,
a good tough neck. So we've got that. And then
almost as soon as the full time whistleblows, we can
head to Canberra to watch the All Whites take on
the soccer Roos and a very rare international between the
two in recent times, the soccer ashes on the line
across two games. I'm quite looking forward to this one.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And it's proper rashes too, isn't It's not just a
burned cigar ashes. Cigar ashes. After one hundred years they
found it again.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Isn't it any true that they just make that up
that no one could remember?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, I mean, they could have made it up, and
if they have, it's a fantastically fabricated lie. But it
has at least given a bit of context of these
games and people going, oh, what do you mean the ashes?
That's a cricket thing. This is very different. As you've said,
cigar ashes smoked smoked by the captains of the two
sides the first time they met all the way back
in the nineteen twenties in a silver casket, which is
on the line across these two games. Chris Wood leads
(14:10):
the line for the All Whites tonight. He's closing in
on being our all time greatest appearance maker, already our
top goal scorer. I feel like when you got Chris
Wood in your side, you're a chance to win a
game of football.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Absolutely, But it's not necessarily the asses, although that is
very important. Everyone's looking to America, to the eight hundred
team World Cup, and this is really what this is about,
is that it's slowly, bit surely sharpening your blade ahead
of the World Cup because qualified Australia have qualified too,
and all they want to win. I still say that
(14:43):
the most important part of this is just getting themselves focused,
understanding who they are as a team. Now you're nodding,
and I'm laughing because I've said something sensible about football.
You know, back me up? What else do you want
to see? No?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No, But you're dead right, And I think that goes
across a lot of sports, doesn't it. You know? And
maybe if we look to tomorrow night, if the All
Blacks were to lose to South Africa tomorrow night, but
when the World Cup in two years, the Eden Park
record wouldn't be quite as important to us. I want
to a couple of a couple of new guys, and
one is an old guy coming back, Ryan Thomas. What
a story this has done. Six years out of the
(15:16):
national side, the most horrendous run of injuries. Thought he
might never play football again, let alone play for the
All Whites again. Here he is back in the side.
I get the feeling he'll start tonight in his return
and gee, I'm looking forward to seeing that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And didn't they soar his league in half?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
He was asleep.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Under anesthetic, But yeah, a horrendous operation and no guarantee
of success. When you're sawing big bones in half shin bones,
there's no guarantee you come out the other side and
you can still play football. So yeah, I just hope
Ryan Thomas has a clear run now through to the
World Cup and plays his part there. Sar Prex Sing's
another guy I always enjoy watching, you know, the one
New Zealander I think who's got the creativity to unlock
(15:55):
opposition defenses. Australia a favorite, but I think we're a chance.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Of course, Costa barbarusis after he's deserted Wellington over there
in Australia, and he's the unusual position of backing Chris
Ward ups probably not something is used to doing. But
there's an injection of pace. There's there's your spark plug.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, absolutely, and something different as well, very different platform
Chris Wood. You know, Chris Wood's the big traditional number nine.
Cost as your spark off the bench, you know, can
get into wide positions, create things along with the likes
of Sarp Pretz sing and others. So yeah, game one
tonight in camera nine to forty five and then back
at go medium Mount Smart on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Are you to Auckland to call that one? A?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What's that on Tuesday? Well, I mean I might as
well just stay just stay in the sphere city of
yours too, Yeah, I mean, what a weekend coming. We
haven't e mentioned the Ranfurly shield. There's other bits and
pieces going on, probably some race cars as well.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Monza there you go. How could you forget?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, how are we going to get any Sleep's all
I want to know. Let's get out of the chamber.
That's us for today.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
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Speaker 3 (17:09):
And you get to fully host that introduced that as well.
I don't believe you didn't even let me do the outro.
I mean, you're a cruel man, You're a harsh task master.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
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