July 21, 2025 • 20 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine for 21st July 2025, the Warriors snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against the Knights, with Leka Halasima scoring the unlikeliest of tries after time expired. Warriors coach Andrew Webster joined the podcast to talk through his emotions as it happened.
Piney offers his thoughts on the All Blacks series sweep over France.
Plus, Elijah Fa'afiu joins the peoples chamber to recap the big weekend of sport.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks EDB. Follow
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This is Sportsfix Howard by News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello there and welcome into a new week and a
fresh episode of the Sports Fixed podcast and association with G. J.
Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted homebuilder. I'm Jason Pine.
Thanks for listening. In a big weekend, a sport just gone.
Will rap a bit of it with Elijah a few
in the chamber. How do we rate the All Blacks
three match series against France? And what about those Warriors,
(00:44):
Speaking of which Andrew Webster, head coach of the team,
is with us on the Sports Fix podcast. What about
the range of emotions he would have gone through as
he watched his side stumble towards the finish line. Mister
penalty and a couple of field goals and then Leka
hallis Seema with one of the most remarkable tries you
will ever see to get the Warrior's two points against
(01:06):
the Knights and solidify their place in the top four.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The Lattist and sports News as well. So let's get
into it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
In other news, let's get going with I'll look at
some of the biggest sports stories around today. We start
at Golf's Open Championship at Royal Port Rush.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The champion golf Scottish ship he felt in his tit and.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
His secular thirt today it was.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All in much of the team Scottishcheffler winning a made
and Open Championship title his fourth major victory. He carded
a three hundred past sixty eight in the final round
to finish seventeen under overall and win by four strokes.
A slice of history meantime on cycling's Tour de France,
the Belgian champion waves to the crowds as he approaches
(01:52):
the finish line.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Here in historic Carcassan, fabulous Tim.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
WANs win Stage fifteen, a stage winner in all three grantors.
Here Wellens says won by one minute twenty eight seconds
on the hilly one hundred and sixty nine kilometer leg.
Darl Pagacha still wears the yellow jersey with a four
minute thirteen second lead in general classification and the Black
(02:16):
Foils have gone to the top of the sole GP
season leader board. After winning the latest event regatta in Portsmouth,
skipper Peter Berling says it was one of their best.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Pretty challenging condissions of the groups to PLoP. Today dr.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's SPORTSFX with Jason Pyne.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
This is the SPORTSFX Podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Warriors have snatched a twenty to fifteen win over
the Nights in Newcastle to solidify fourth spot on the
NROL Ladder. Leka Hallis Seima scored the game winning try
in the final seconds after collecting the ball from a
deflected field goal attempt and running forty meters for one
of the most remarkable Warriors finishers in recent memory. Warriors
(03:00):
head coach Andrew Webster is with us. Andrew, thanks for
your time. Can we start at the end? Can you
talk us through the range of emotions you went through
from Tanner Boyd missing the late penalty, the field goal
charged down and then Leka Hella Seema sprinting away to
score the match winning try.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Oh yeah, mixed the motions obviously celebrating such a special play,
but I still wasn't sure if everyone was on side.
I didn't know from my angle whether he got it
down straight away, so it just wasn't a clear part
yet to be over celebrated, but I was quietly confident
that he'd come up with an amazing play, and then yeah,
I was a part of me was I wish we
(03:39):
had our earlier because I've actually felt like we put
ourselves in a position and win the game when we
probably weren't playing our best footy. But I thought the
boys really started putting pressure on the Nights and winning
field position and give ourselves some good looks at field goals.
So yeah, it was a little bit frustrating, but yeah,
I'm pretty exciting at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I want to come back to Lecca in a moment.
But just on Tanner Boyd, you mentioned there he had
a couple of opportunities to win the game with drop
goals or that penalty near the end. He looked creastfallen
when that penalty didn't go over and he thought the
game was gone. What sort of conversations did you have
with Tanner Boyd after the game.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, I just likely said made just keep going for it.
I mean, like, I think there's an old saying. It's
quite corny. But Michael Jordan missed more winning shots more,
he missed more winning shots, and he didn't than he made.
But everyone remembers the one they made and to see
him Pama Jordan. He kept winning the ball and kept
winning throwing in the game for his team. So I
was just impressed how Tanner kept going after the moment,
(04:39):
but I wasn't going his way, and I reckon, you'll
learn a lot from it. So I just said, down
on to define him and it's got to move on
quick and keep chasing the next moment.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Laka Hellisima then not even twenty years old yet, but
capturing headlines all over the place, and this tribe I'm
sure you've seen, is everywhere. How do you keep such
a potentially brilliant young player grounded and focused?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Just feedback, really, just honest feedback. Just celebrate what he
does well and when he needs to work on. He's
pretty good at that. I haven't seen any someone's even
getting ahead of himself, but I think that we'll even
look at the rest of his game and not be satisfied.
But I think he can certainly, because look, he's a
(05:25):
brilliant player. I haven't pulled him that. None of our
coaches taught him how to score trol of that. He
just naturally knows how to do that because he's so
athletic and he's such a talent, but yeah, he's got
so much to work on and if he nails that,
going to see a world class player.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, he came out of some pretty big defensive plays
as well, didn't he. We're all going to remember the
try at the end, of course, but his defensive workers
is improving by the looks of it. Is that something
you're encouraging him to work on as well?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah? He just consistently, mate, like he's working at it
and got to improve. I mean, he came up with
a big tackle on his trial line, but he also
probably makes about thirty tackles. So if you score the
thirty tackles he makes, he's not where he wants to be.
We're the standard of say Fisher Harris or someone like
that is but he's nineteen years old and he's learning.
(06:16):
But yeah, he's still definitely come up with some good plays.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I know, in typical Warriors fashion.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And is your nature that the wind won't mask some
of the work ons that are required in the weak
ahead and for the rest of the season. What will
the main elements of your review be.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
We had a review already this morning in the hotel. Yeah,
we missed. We completely let them out of their end
we are defensively or through penalties or through discipline. And
then we had too many fundamental errors coming out of
urr and which just put us on too much pressure
and we weren't defending well on the edges and they
were stripping us for numbers quite easily. And I thought
(06:54):
they made some great adjustments in the second half, and
you saw how much pressure we started putting on the nights.
They started forcing things, having errors and then we started
winning the field, dish and battle and hence why we
give ourselves a real chance to win the game like
they and they scored appenalty do on the second half,
so they didn't cross our line for a try, which
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Just on the tris you did concede though in the
first half a couple of them came down your right
hand side there. Left is that a concern will we
be and what should Delan? What Tennis Lesniak do in
a situation like that? Should he stay out so that
the overlap isn't created?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, he stayed out on one and they had a
line break. So you know that you're den if you
do you den if you don't I think it's probably
the biggest thing for the armchair fan to understand when
a player should be in when a player should be out.
But I would just let everyone know we definitely need
to be better there, and it's just not Dal and
it's everyone. And then I couldn't believe how many times
(07:55):
everyone was creating an overlap defensively for our right edge.
They constantly had four v three or five E four
situations or three v two situations, and then if you
stay out on your wing of the Senate just goes through.
And that happened to us once. But yeah, I'm going
to give away a secrets. We've got a plan to
fix that and fix it in the second half, which
(08:15):
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Did you think Wade Egans just allowed try in the
first half was a try?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, definitely. It was a bad decision, really bad decision.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I guess the context of it as well, was the
try the Knights were awarded when Greg Marjou looked as
though he had passed it off the ground to Dane Gagy.
So did you think they got that one wrong as well?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, I thought I was watching the All Blacks there. Yeah,
I mean the context of it is like Yeah, elbows,
elbow hits the ground, you held his elbow didn't hit
the ground, but he was clearly tackled and held like
forever in a day. This is common sense, Like you've
got to look at it and go, well, he's tackled,
(09:01):
and then he and then he comes up with the
See if I keep my arm off the ground. Am
I allowed to just throw it off the ground every
time I get tackled? Of course not. So it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I saw Luke Metcalf on the coverage last night. He's
obviously not playing at the moment with that season ending injury,
but you're clearly still involving him. What is his involvement
in the team even though we can't actually play at
the moment now.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Luke just went home for a week to Sydney just
to see family because he's going to have a long recovery.
It's his operations, wept. I've been trying to strengthen, strengthen
the muscles around the knee, so he has a really
good recovery before his surgery. So to send him home
and just wanted him to be around the team. Come
up to newcast and he's flying home, flying back to
(09:46):
New Zealand this morning to studies, have his operations start
his rehab. So yeah, we just he's going to offer
his plenty ship through leadership and every single team member
has to have an impact, whether you're injured or you're playing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Always appreciate your time, Andrew, thanks for joining us. Andrew Webster,
head coach of the New Zealand Warriors.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Supports dex sense nex sense.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So three up, three down for the All Blacks against France.
Not always pretty, not entirely convincing, but three Nils, three nil,
and this was only ever going to be the entree
to the rugby year for the All Blacks. The next
six test matches are the Big ones, Argentina twice, South
Africa twice and Australia twice, although on the evidence of
(10:29):
the first Test against the British and Irish lines in Brisbane,
the Wallabies still look a yard or two off the pace.
Even so, the Rugby Championship will unquestionably be a step
up and one the All Blacks have to make quickly.
While South Africa's two tests here in September are looming
as massive challenges, two tests and two weeks in Argentina
is certainly not a walk in the park. In a
very challenging five week period. The All Blacks play Argentina
(10:52):
twice and South Africa twice, plus the travel to and
from South America. That is a big assignment and you
can't do it with just fifteen or twenty three players.
You need the entire squad. You'd expect up to thirty
players even more good feature in those four test matches.
And while he'd expects certain players to feature prominently in
(11:13):
all four, there'll always be injuries and load management factors
to consider.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
The same.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Fifteen just can't start all four games. In a couple
of key positions, though the gap between first choice and
second choice has become glaringly obvious. One of those is
hooker Cody Taylor is playing at a level of consistency.
It's set peace in his core roles and his player
around the field, which is on another level to the
(11:40):
other hookers inside and outside the squad. It's always great
to see a debut and to see that debutante score
a try, but Brody McCallister admitted after Saturday night his
line out throwing wasn't good enough, and as a work
on as it is for Summersauny Tokiyaho and at halfback,
Cam Roygard is operating at an entirely different competency from
(12:01):
the other number nines going around. It's him then a
big gap, and then Cortez l Artima and Noah Hotham,
both of who are good players but nowhere close to
Cam Roygard.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
White are out.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Will Jordan unbelievable player, an absolute weapon when it comes
to try scoring.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What's he got forty two in forty four games. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm not sure anyone who's played on the wing this
year has nailed down this spot. It was a shame
that Caleb Clark couldn't play Saturday. So I just wonder
whether you leave Will Jordan on the wing, you know,
and give Reuben Love another crack in the fifteen jersey.
He's raw, yes, but he's talented, courageous, committed, good under
the high ball, kicks well and you can always move
Will Jordan to fall back in game if need be.
(12:42):
There's certainly some thinking to do. Was the All Blacks
prepare for the real meat in their season over the
next two and a half months.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The Chamber is now in session on sports Fix.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
On the Sports Fix podcast let's pop inside the chamber.
Monday's chamber is the People's chamber, with Elijah joining us. Elijah,
three up, three down for the All Blacks. A three
nil series win. Not always pretty, not always convincing. How
should we feel about the All Blacks first three tests
of the year.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I think you can take some confidence out of that series. Yes,
it wasn't France's top team, but I think it was
an opportunity for Scott Robertson to blood in some of
the younger players who haven't been or experienced that level
of test rugby just yet. So guys like Fabian Holland
and Duplessy Carefe I think thoughts stood out during that series.
(13:32):
And then you had guys like Jordi Barrett, who proved
that his Irish sabbatical was very useful when he came
back to our Shaws, and obviously the way he had
to deal with Scott Robinson had to deal with the
number of injuries throughout that three test series. I think
all in all, everyone got some minutes out of it,
and I think we can take some confidence. Yes, there
(13:53):
were some tests where it probably wasn't the most convincing performance,
but they got the results they got the job done
and now we move on and look ahead to the
Rugby Championship.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, a building block I think towards that. It was
always sort of gonna be that, wasn't it. And look,
I think the French actually punched above the weight that
we expected them to. There were a lot of chat
before the tour, wasn't there about how it was a
disrespectful squad that was being sent down here, and whether
the French themselves used that as motivation. I don't know,
but it seemed to me, Elijah that a lot of
(14:23):
those guys, you know, relatively unheralded, actually grew into that
French jersey. I kind of feel it would be the
same if an All Blacks team was sent overseas with
very little experience. Once you put that jersey on, I
think something happens for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
And I think some of the disrespect was probably more
so from our end towards towards the French. And yeah
that the French probably felt. That's and we know what
the talent pool like is like over in France as well.
I think it was a great building block series for
the French as well, in terms of you know, you
don't have your top guys out there, like a Antoine
du Pont and as such, so these younger players coming
(15:00):
in getting some test rugby experience, and I mean no
better team to go up against against like the All Blacks.
So I think that a great opportunity for those players
and a great way for them to you know, I
guess for them the French now take a little bit
of a break before they get back into action at
the end of the year. But yeah, I think that
was a great all in all experience despite losing the
(15:21):
series three nil.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Just a couple of positional questions around the All Blacks.
Do you think they will persist with at six? Do
you think they saw enough of the first two tests
to say, yep, that's our blindside flanker for the Rugby Championship.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I think you have to keep going with that experiment.
I think the first two tests definitely showed two vide
is capable of playing at the number six position, and
I think it helps having someone that versatile who can
go between the locks and that blind flanker position. So
I would definitely carry on. I do think right now
to provide is the number six for the All Blacks.
(15:56):
I haven't seen anything from anyone else to think otherwise.
So I will definitely keep moving forward with to Provi.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And Billy Proctor in the thirteen Jersey he played there
in Dunedin again and Wellington. He wasn't part of the
match day squad in Hamilton. Is number thirteen for the
All Blacks still a live discussion for you.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I think. So I don't think there's a standout thirteen
or anyone that compare with Jordi Barrett. I think right
now it's still between you know, you got Billy Proctor there,
you've got Quinsypaya, you got Tava, Tavannahwai and another name
I want to just throw in there, Leicestifying and Nuku
and I'm not sure where he fits in in the
mind of Scott Robertson when it comes to the Rugby Championship.
(16:38):
So there is still a long jam at that censer position,
that midfield spot. So yeah, right now, I don't think
there's an out and out front runner for that thirteen.
So it's wide open from my view.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, and it's going to remain. So I think through
the Rugby Championship, let's go to the Warriors, who you know,
for all intents and purposes were down and out with
the siren approaching. At McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle yesterday,
Tanner Boyd had had two maybe three field goal attempts.
(17:09):
He missed a penalty from a fairly handy position. He
looked absolutely crestfallen after he missed the penalty and then
lecqua Hallaesima, this nineteen year old provided I reckon one
of the more remarkable finishes and Warriors history.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What did you make of it all?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah, Usually you see the Warriors on the other end
of those such sort of situations, there's some sort of
moment of brilliance that gets the Warriors at the end
and they sort of fall short and you know, heart's
broken as such. And this time around, Yeah, Hallaesiema freakish
is probably the word that comes to mind. We've seen
(17:45):
moments of brilliance from him in his young career, but
I think what he did against the Knights, which is
absolutely outstanding. The speed for a young second rower, like
reminded that he is a second rower and here's a
ford and he has that speed and the ability to
beat the fallback and carry defenders over the line, Like
that's a special skill set and I think the one
(18:07):
area that Andrew Troops said post game that he was
actually impressed with was his defense. And you know, we
talk about the moments of brilliance, but I think those
effort areas on the defensive end. He had a huge
Trysaver in that first half that was definitely a key
play for him. So if he can develop on the
defensive side of the ball, he's going to be an
amazing all round player. And he's stuck with the Warriors
until the end of twenty twenty nine. So all joy
(18:30):
for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Mans exciting times and it solidifies them in the top four.
The Warriors level one points with the Storm now fall
back to the Broncos who are charging. They are sort
of on the charge, as are the Panthers who are
one point further back. With what six seven seven games,
I think to go for the Warriors, can you see
them holding that spot in the top four?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I think so. I think the schedule definitely favors the Warriors.
I think four of their last seven are at home.
I think there's only about a couple of top eight
teams that they come up against, So the schedule definitely
favors the Warriors. But it's the back end of the season,
so we can see some random results come out of
the blue, like we could see a result like last
(19:13):
night with the Nights almost slipped over the Warriors. So
those type of situations could come up at the back
end of the season, which isn't what the Warriors want.
But I think with the way the schedule is, yeah,
I can see the Warriors holding on to that top
four spot, which would be a huge season given what
they've gone through this year.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Indeed, you know you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The Bulldogs in three weeks time will be a really
good gauge of where they are. The Sea Eagles away
to finish, but as you say, they've got the Titans
twice home and away, the Dolphins, the Dragons, and the Eels,
so it's one of the more friendly runnings going around.
But as you say, you just can't predict anything when
it comes to the NRL. But to tell you what,
(19:50):
I'd rather be fourth than fourteenth. It sounds silly and
is silly, but I'd rather be where the Warriors are.
They sort of front loader, didn't they And they've had
a couple of blips here and there, but they've the
front loaded their season. With some good results and have
set themselves up for a run at the top four, which,
as you say, Elija, given the trials and tribulations they've had,
would be a very very good result.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That is the People's Chamber for today. Thanks for joining
us as always, Mate.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
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Hello there and welcome into a new week and a
fresh episode of the Sports Fixed podcast and association with G. J.
Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted homebuilder. I'm Jason Pine.
Thanks for listening. In a big weekend, a sport just gone.
Will rap a bit of it with Elijah a few
in the chamber. How do we rate the All Blacks
three match series against France? And what about those Warriors,
(00:44):
Speaking of which Andrew Webster, head coach of the team,
is with us on the Sports Fix podcast. What about
the range of emotions he would have gone through as
he watched his side stumble towards the finish line. Mister
penalty and a couple of field goals and then Leka
hallis Seema with one of the most remarkable tries you
will ever see to get the Warrior's two points against
(01:06):
the Knights and solidify their place in the top four.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The Lattist and sports News as well. So let's get
into it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
In other news, let's get going with I'll look at
some of the biggest sports stories around today. We start
at Golf's Open Championship at Royal Port Rush.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The champion golf Scottish ship he felt in his tit and.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
His secular thirt today it was.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All in much of the team Scottishcheffler winning a made
and Open Championship title his fourth major victory. He carded
a three hundred past sixty eight in the final round
to finish seventeen under overall and win by four strokes.
A slice of history meantime on cycling's Tour de France,
the Belgian champion waves to the crowds as he approaches
(01:52):
the finish line.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Here in historic Carcassan, fabulous Tim.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
WANs win Stage fifteen, a stage winner in all three grantors.
Here Wellens says won by one minute twenty eight seconds
on the hilly one hundred and sixty nine kilometer leg.
Darl Pagacha still wears the yellow jersey with a four
minute thirteen second lead in general classification and the Black
(02:16):
Foils have gone to the top of the sole GP
season leader board. After winning the latest event regatta in Portsmouth,
skipper Peter Berling says it was one of their best.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Pretty challenging condissions of the groups to PLoP. Today dr.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's SPORTSFX with Jason Pyne.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
This is the SPORTSFX Podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Warriors have snatched a twenty to fifteen win over
the Nights in Newcastle to solidify fourth spot on the
NROL Ladder. Leka Hallis Seima scored the game winning try
in the final seconds after collecting the ball from a
deflected field goal attempt and running forty meters for one
of the most remarkable Warriors finishers in recent memory. Warriors
(03:00):
head coach Andrew Webster is with us. Andrew, thanks for
your time. Can we start at the end? Can you
talk us through the range of emotions you went through
from Tanner Boyd missing the late penalty, the field goal
charged down and then Leka Hella Seema sprinting away to
score the match winning try.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Oh yeah, mixed the motions obviously celebrating such a special play,
but I still wasn't sure if everyone was on side.
I didn't know from my angle whether he got it
down straight away, so it just wasn't a clear part
yet to be over celebrated, but I was quietly confident
that he'd come up with an amazing play, and then yeah,
I was a part of me was I wish we
(03:39):
had our earlier because I've actually felt like we put
ourselves in a position and win the game when we
probably weren't playing our best footy. But I thought the
boys really started putting pressure on the Nights and winning
field position and give ourselves some good looks at field goals.
So yeah, it was a little bit frustrating, but yeah,
I'm pretty exciting at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I want to come back to Lecca in a moment.
But just on Tanner Boyd, you mentioned there he had
a couple of opportunities to win the game with drop
goals or that penalty near the end. He looked creastfallen
when that penalty didn't go over and he thought the
game was gone. What sort of conversations did you have
with Tanner Boyd after the game.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, I just likely said made just keep going for it.
I mean, like, I think there's an old saying. It's
quite corny. But Michael Jordan missed more winning shots more,
he missed more winning shots, and he didn't than he made.
But everyone remembers the one they made and to see
him Pama Jordan. He kept winning the ball and kept
winning throwing in the game for his team. So I
was just impressed how Tanner kept going after the moment,
(04:39):
but I wasn't going his way, and I reckon, you'll
learn a lot from it. So I just said, down
on to define him and it's got to move on
quick and keep chasing the next moment.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Laka Hellisima then not even twenty years old yet, but
capturing headlines all over the place, and this tribe I'm
sure you've seen, is everywhere. How do you keep such
a potentially brilliant young player grounded and focused?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Just feedback, really, just honest feedback. Just celebrate what he
does well and when he needs to work on. He's
pretty good at that. I haven't seen any someone's even
getting ahead of himself, but I think that we'll even
look at the rest of his game and not be satisfied.
But I think he can certainly, because look, he's a
(05:25):
brilliant player. I haven't pulled him that. None of our
coaches taught him how to score trol of that. He
just naturally knows how to do that because he's so
athletic and he's such a talent, but yeah, he's got
so much to work on and if he nails that,
going to see a world class player.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, he came out of some pretty big defensive plays
as well, didn't he. We're all going to remember the
try at the end, of course, but his defensive workers
is improving by the looks of it. Is that something
you're encouraging him to work on as well?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah? He just consistently, mate, like he's working at it
and got to improve. I mean, he came up with
a big tackle on his trial line, but he also
probably makes about thirty tackles. So if you score the
thirty tackles he makes, he's not where he wants to be.
We're the standard of say Fisher Harris or someone like
that is but he's nineteen years old and he's learning.
(06:16):
But yeah, he's still definitely come up with some good plays.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I know, in typical Warriors fashion.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And is your nature that the wind won't mask some
of the work ons that are required in the weak
ahead and for the rest of the season. What will
the main elements of your review be.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
We had a review already this morning in the hotel. Yeah,
we missed. We completely let them out of their end
we are defensively or through penalties or through discipline. And
then we had too many fundamental errors coming out of
urr and which just put us on too much pressure
and we weren't defending well on the edges and they
were stripping us for numbers quite easily. And I thought
(06:54):
they made some great adjustments in the second half, and
you saw how much pressure we started putting on the nights.
They started forcing things, having errors and then we started
winning the field, dish and battle and hence why we
give ourselves a real chance to win the game like
they and they scored appenalty do on the second half,
so they didn't cross our line for a try, which
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Just on the tris you did concede though in the
first half a couple of them came down your right
hand side there. Left is that a concern will we
be and what should Delan? What Tennis Lesniak do in
a situation like that? Should he stay out so that
the overlap isn't created?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, he stayed out on one and they had a
line break. So you know that you're den if you
do you den if you don't I think it's probably
the biggest thing for the armchair fan to understand when
a player should be in when a player should be out.
But I would just let everyone know we definitely need
to be better there, and it's just not Dal and
it's everyone. And then I couldn't believe how many times
(07:55):
everyone was creating an overlap defensively for our right edge.
They constantly had four v three or five E four
situations or three v two situations, and then if you
stay out on your wing of the Senate just goes through.
And that happened to us once. But yeah, I'm going
to give away a secrets. We've got a plan to
fix that and fix it in the second half, which
(08:15):
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Did you think Wade Egans just allowed try in the
first half was a try?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, definitely. It was a bad decision, really bad decision.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I guess the context of it as well, was the
try the Knights were awarded when Greg Marjou looked as
though he had passed it off the ground to Dane Gagy.
So did you think they got that one wrong as well?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, I thought I was watching the All Blacks there. Yeah,
I mean the context of it is like Yeah, elbows,
elbow hits the ground, you held his elbow didn't hit
the ground, but he was clearly tackled and held like
forever in a day. This is common sense, Like you've
got to look at it and go, well, he's tackled,
(09:01):
and then he and then he comes up with the
See if I keep my arm off the ground. Am
I allowed to just throw it off the ground every
time I get tackled? Of course not. So it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I saw Luke Metcalf on the coverage last night. He's
obviously not playing at the moment with that season ending injury,
but you're clearly still involving him. What is his involvement
in the team even though we can't actually play at
the moment now.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Luke just went home for a week to Sydney just
to see family because he's going to have a long recovery.
It's his operations, wept. I've been trying to strengthen, strengthen
the muscles around the knee, so he has a really
good recovery before his surgery. So to send him home
and just wanted him to be around the team. Come
up to newcast and he's flying home, flying back to
(09:46):
New Zealand this morning to studies, have his operations start
his rehab. So yeah, we just he's going to offer
his plenty ship through leadership and every single team member
has to have an impact, whether you're injured or you're playing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Always appreciate your time, Andrew, thanks for joining us. Andrew Webster,
head coach of the New Zealand Warriors.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Supports dex sense nex sense.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So three up, three down for the All Blacks against France.
Not always pretty, not entirely convincing, but three Nils, three nil,
and this was only ever going to be the entree
to the rugby year for the All Blacks. The next
six test matches are the Big ones, Argentina twice, South
Africa twice and Australia twice, although on the evidence of
(10:29):
the first Test against the British and Irish lines in Brisbane,
the Wallabies still look a yard or two off the pace.
Even so, the Rugby Championship will unquestionably be a step
up and one the All Blacks have to make quickly.
While South Africa's two tests here in September are looming
as massive challenges, two tests and two weeks in Argentina
is certainly not a walk in the park. In a
very challenging five week period. The All Blacks play Argentina
(10:52):
twice and South Africa twice, plus the travel to and
from South America. That is a big assignment and you
can't do it with just fifteen or twenty three players.
You need the entire squad. You'd expect up to thirty
players even more good feature in those four test matches.
And while he'd expects certain players to feature prominently in
(11:13):
all four, there'll always be injuries and load management factors
to consider.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
The same.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Fifteen just can't start all four games. In a couple
of key positions, though the gap between first choice and
second choice has become glaringly obvious. One of those is
hooker Cody Taylor is playing at a level of consistency.
It's set peace in his core roles and his player
around the field, which is on another level to the
(11:40):
other hookers inside and outside the squad. It's always great
to see a debut and to see that debutante score
a try, but Brody McCallister admitted after Saturday night his
line out throwing wasn't good enough, and as a work
on as it is for Summersauny Tokiyaho and at halfback,
Cam Roygard is operating at an entirely different competency from
(12:01):
the other number nines going around. It's him then a
big gap, and then Cortez l Artima and Noah Hotham,
both of who are good players but nowhere close to
Cam Roygard.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
White are out.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Will Jordan unbelievable player, an absolute weapon when it comes
to try scoring.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What's he got forty two in forty four games. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm not sure anyone who's played on the wing this
year has nailed down this spot. It was a shame
that Caleb Clark couldn't play Saturday. So I just wonder
whether you leave Will Jordan on the wing, you know,
and give Reuben Love another crack in the fifteen jersey.
He's raw, yes, but he's talented, courageous, committed, good under
the high ball, kicks well and you can always move
Will Jordan to fall back in game if need be.
(12:42):
There's certainly some thinking to do. Was the All Blacks
prepare for the real meat in their season over the
next two and a half months.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The Chamber is now in session on sports Fix.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
On the Sports Fix podcast let's pop inside the chamber.
Monday's chamber is the People's chamber, with Elijah joining us. Elijah,
three up, three down for the All Blacks. A three
nil series win. Not always pretty, not always convincing. How
should we feel about the All Blacks first three tests
of the year.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I think you can take some confidence out of that series. Yes,
it wasn't France's top team, but I think it was
an opportunity for Scott Robertson to blood in some of
the younger players who haven't been or experienced that level
of test rugby just yet. So guys like Fabian Holland
and Duplessy Carefe I think thoughts stood out during that series.
(13:32):
And then you had guys like Jordi Barrett, who proved
that his Irish sabbatical was very useful when he came
back to our Shaws, and obviously the way he had
to deal with Scott Robinson had to deal with the
number of injuries throughout that three test series. I think
all in all, everyone got some minutes out of it,
and I think we can take some confidence. Yes, there
(13:53):
were some tests where it probably wasn't the most convincing performance,
but they got the results they got the job done
and now we move on and look ahead to the
Rugby Championship.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, a building block I think towards that. It was
always sort of gonna be that, wasn't it. And look,
I think the French actually punched above the weight that
we expected them to. There were a lot of chat
before the tour, wasn't there about how it was a
disrespectful squad that was being sent down here, and whether
the French themselves used that as motivation. I don't know,
but it seemed to me, Elijah that a lot of
(14:23):
those guys, you know, relatively unheralded, actually grew into that
French jersey. I kind of feel it would be the
same if an All Blacks team was sent overseas with
very little experience. Once you put that jersey on, I
think something happens for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
And I think some of the disrespect was probably more
so from our end towards towards the French. And yeah
that the French probably felt. That's and we know what
the talent pool like is like over in France as well.
I think it was a great building block series for
the French as well, in terms of you know, you
don't have your top guys out there, like a Antoine
du Pont and as such, so these younger players coming
(15:00):
in getting some test rugby experience, and I mean no
better team to go up against against like the All Blacks.
So I think that a great opportunity for those players
and a great way for them to you know, I
guess for them the French now take a little bit
of a break before they get back into action at
the end of the year. But yeah, I think that
was a great all in all experience despite losing the
(15:21):
series three nil.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Just a couple of positional questions around the All Blacks.
Do you think they will persist with at six? Do
you think they saw enough of the first two tests
to say, yep, that's our blindside flanker for the Rugby Championship.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I think you have to keep going with that experiment.
I think the first two tests definitely showed two vide
is capable of playing at the number six position, and
I think it helps having someone that versatile who can
go between the locks and that blind flanker position. So
I would definitely carry on. I do think right now
to provide is the number six for the All Blacks.
(15:56):
I haven't seen anything from anyone else to think otherwise.
So I will definitely keep moving forward with to Provi.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And Billy Proctor in the thirteen Jersey he played there
in Dunedin again and Wellington. He wasn't part of the
match day squad in Hamilton. Is number thirteen for the
All Blacks still a live discussion for you.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I think. So I don't think there's a standout thirteen
or anyone that compare with Jordi Barrett. I think right
now it's still between you know, you got Billy Proctor there,
you've got Quinsypaya, you got Tava, Tavannahwai and another name
I want to just throw in there, Leicestifying and Nuku
and I'm not sure where he fits in in the
mind of Scott Robertson when it comes to the Rugby Championship.
(16:38):
So there is still a long jam at that censer position,
that midfield spot. So yeah, right now, I don't think
there's an out and out front runner for that thirteen.
So it's wide open from my view.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, and it's going to remain. So I think through
the Rugby Championship, let's go to the Warriors, who you know,
for all intents and purposes were down and out with
the siren approaching. At McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle yesterday,
Tanner Boyd had had two maybe three field goal attempts.
(17:09):
He missed a penalty from a fairly handy position. He
looked absolutely crestfallen after he missed the penalty and then
lecqua Hallaesima, this nineteen year old provided I reckon one
of the more remarkable finishes and Warriors history.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What did you make of it all?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah, Usually you see the Warriors on the other end
of those such sort of situations, there's some sort of
moment of brilliance that gets the Warriors at the end
and they sort of fall short and you know, heart's
broken as such. And this time around, Yeah, Hallaesiema freakish
is probably the word that comes to mind. We've seen
(17:45):
moments of brilliance from him in his young career, but
I think what he did against the Knights, which is
absolutely outstanding. The speed for a young second rower, like
reminded that he is a second rower and here's a
ford and he has that speed and the ability to
beat the fallback and carry defenders over the line, Like
that's a special skill set and I think the one
(18:07):
area that Andrew Troops said post game that he was
actually impressed with was his defense. And you know, we
talk about the moments of brilliance, but I think those
effort areas on the defensive end. He had a huge
Trysaver in that first half that was definitely a key
play for him. So if he can develop on the
defensive side of the ball, he's going to be an
amazing all round player. And he's stuck with the Warriors
until the end of twenty twenty nine. So all joy
(18:30):
for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Mans exciting times and it solidifies them in the top four.
The Warriors level one points with the Storm now fall
back to the Broncos who are charging. They are sort
of on the charge, as are the Panthers who are
one point further back. With what six seven seven games,
I think to go for the Warriors, can you see
them holding that spot in the top four?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I think so. I think the schedule definitely favors the Warriors.
I think four of their last seven are at home.
I think there's only about a couple of top eight
teams that they come up against, So the schedule definitely
favors the Warriors. But it's the back end of the season,
so we can see some random results come out of
the blue, like we could see a result like last
(19:13):
night with the Nights almost slipped over the Warriors. So
those type of situations could come up at the back
end of the season, which isn't what the Warriors want.
But I think with the way the schedule is, yeah,
I can see the Warriors holding on to that top
four spot, which would be a huge season given what
they've gone through this year.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Indeed, you know you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The Bulldogs in three weeks time will be a really
good gauge of where they are. The Sea Eagles away
to finish, but as you say, they've got the Titans
twice home and away, the Dolphins, the Dragons, and the Eels,
so it's one of the more friendly runnings going around.
But as you say, you just can't predict anything when
it comes to the NRL. But to tell you what,
(19:50):
I'd rather be fourth than fourteenth. It sounds silly and
is silly, but I'd rather be where the Warriors are.
They sort of front loader, didn't they And they've had
a couple of blips here and there, but they've the
front loaded their season. With some good results and have
set themselves up for a run at the top four, which,
as you say, Elija, given the trials and tribulations they've had,
would be a very very good result.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That is the People's Chamber for today. Thanks for joining
us as always, Mate.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
No worries tis pony needing a fix.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
We've got just the ticket.
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