May 23, 2025 • 18 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 23rd May 2025, Supercars have announced today that Christchurch has been added to 2026 Supercars calendar. It's the first-time supercars will be held in the South Island. Canterbury Car Club president Lewis Low joined the podcast to react to the news.
Piney offers his thoughts on how Auckland FC should look to play in their 2nd leg of the A-League Semi Finals.
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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 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome into the Sports Fix podcast for Friday,
May twenty three. We're here in association with GJ. Gardner Homes,
New Zealand's most trusted home build up. My name's Jason Pine.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm Darcy Audergrave. Asking that question that always kids asked
around a bit this time of year. Where have the
months gone? Piney?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Where have they gone? I don't know. It's nearly June.
I cannot believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But while we've got a few little shreds of May remaining,
there is quite a bit of sport to talk great
news about Luapooner. I know you've had the chance to
chat to a few people about this today. Any chance
we hear somebody on the podcast talking about it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Lewis Lowe is the president of the Canterbury Car Club.
They don't own it a Pooner. They own the improvements,
but the council actually owns the dirts they're looking at. Well.
They're the ones that got on the funding sorted out
and have dealt with Nby and everybody else to get
it through. So we'll go to the top across and.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
T's and dots and eyes look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I've got some thoughts on Auckland FC. I want your thoughts,
Darce on Super Rugby, on the Warriors, and a bit
of other sporting news around today.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
In other news, let's get underway with some of the
big sports stories around today.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Ruben Love is hoping versatility enhances his chances of regaining
an All Blacks jersey this year, having played at both
ten and fifteen for the Hurricanes in Super Rugby this year.
A lot of it just goes down to how the
coaches for the Allbacks want their tend to look like.
And you know, all I control is how I play
the game, how I manage our team. The Dolphins have
(01:56):
dampened the Bulldog's roaring start to the NRL Rugby League season.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The Dolphins have done it very handsome fashion here forty
four points to eight.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, bit of a height, and Canterbury remain top, though
the Warriors could join them on twenty points if they
beat the Raiders at home on Sunday night and Michael
Main's been rewarded with the full time for all Fern's
head coaching job after holding the interim role since Jitka
Klumkova quit in September. Maine will guide the team to
the twenty twenty seven World Cup, starting with games against
(02:27):
Venezuela in Spain next month.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
It was putting that tour together, game through a selection process,
having those conversations at the same time three and a
half week interview process. It's been intense. When I got
the call, there was definitely a lot of weight off
the shoulders use.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And a villion It's Sportsfix with Jason Pine and Dussy Waldegrave.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Huge Day four Canterbury Motorsport confirmed that Ruapuna is going
to host a round of the supercars. To dig deeper
into that, we're joined by the club president of the
Canterbury Car Club who look after Puna. His name is
Lewis Lowe.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Hi, Lewis, how are you going and thanks for having
me on.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, I'm so excited, as I'm sure most people are
who love their motor sport and most people who live
in the Canterbury region who love it as well. This
has been a long time coming. Lewis what finally pushed
it over the line.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Look, it's been over two years I think since I
started this inquiry with supercars, and we as a club
got all our things together and Crossti City Council came
on board along with Christen z and it was really
just MB the government organization for the final bit of
(03:46):
funding for the transport and that's how we got there.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What did it rely on? Primarily money? I mean that's
it isn't it?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Really? Absolutely? The money was critical in many ways for
the club itself. We were already on a ten year
journey of major upgrades, but we just moved forward the
track safety upgrades that they supercars required. It's about a
(04:13):
million dollars worth and it's great work to get done
because it just makes a safer environment for everybody that
goes out in the race car.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So this is a done deal. I'm presuming it's based
on the fact you're going to get that work done,
but you're confident that it will be achieved.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yes, we're absolutely confident. In fact, we started two months
ago in the anticipation that we would get supercars and
in terms of the funding, we'veched all that together well
and truly it's.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
An interesting place, isn't it, in the fact that Council
I've owned the land, but the Canterbury Car Club owned
basically the channels, the buildings on it, so hard to
take over, hard to buy and it's all I suppose
up to you guys to pump that money in it.
How much help are you're getting from from MBA, How
much helping you're getting from christ Church City Council? What
(05:04):
about private funding? Where are you going to go for
their money over the next few years.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, well say that's a really interesting question. So we
don't get anything out of the mb pot cross At
City Council have just given us a grant towards the
track improvements, but we're really looking to some of the
individuals and wealthier businessmen around town to help out with
(05:31):
our projects. We've got quite a bit going on and
there's quite a group, one group called the Friends of
a Rapoona. They've underwritten us to make sure that there's
no shortfall. So yeah, I think Canoby people, as you know,
they just get together and they love to help out.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You look at the three year deal and you're looking
at safety first up progression, what do you need to
do next. What alterations are you required to make or
you need to make well, you've got to get grandstands
in before next year as well. Are you adjusting the
track layout at all? What about the pit lane? How
(06:10):
does that all operate? So your requirements from Supercars and
what you'd like to achieve over the next one the
duration of the contract.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yeah, so this fair question. The safety is the critical
point for them. There's a little bit of change to
the pit lane, entry for the track, a bit of
ash felting and whatnot, but it's mainly to do with safety,
tie barriers and gravel traps and a whole lot of
(06:38):
minor sort of things curbs and channels and whatnot. And
from then on really it's down to us to see
if we can, on the back of the Supercars recognition,
get people to get get themselves involved and help us
out with some new pit lane garages. Our control of
(06:59):
tower could do with an upgrade. We'd like to put
some storage out there for some people, and we have
a supporters Lounes which is a building we would convert
into a prime viewing spot.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What about the grandstands, how does that work? Because playing
there's going to be a lot of warm props. Well,
going to be a big crowd there, so we're going
to plant them all. You don't have to rebuild, you're
going to bring in some temporary how does it actually work.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Loss So the council have been really great about that
and they're going to bring grandstands I believe from a
polo stadium and put them all around the place hopefully
along with some toilet facilities and corporate boxes. And it's
all been planned out so that we'll have a capacity
(07:52):
of around fifty to sixty thousand over that weekend that
the supercars are here.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Sports vaccesse xcess, massive weekend coming up a go medium
Mount Smart Stadium with Auckland FC against Melbourne Victory tomorrow
night and then the Warrior is against the Raiders on
Sunday evening.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Just wanted to, I guess kick.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Around with you some possibilities of the way that Auckland
f C might approach this game tomorrow night. As you
probably know, it is a two legged semi final. They
won the first leg one nil, which means all they
have to do is avoid defeat in the second leg,
the home leg tomorrow night, and they will progress to
the Grand Final. So if you're looking to avoid defeat,
(08:33):
the first thing you look to do is to avoid
conceding goals. And Auckland f C have been very good
at not conceding goals this season thirteen clean sheets, more
than any other team in the competition, and crucially, three
of those have come against tomorrow night's opposition, Melbourne Victory.
Melbourne Victory have not scored a goal against Auckland FC
(08:55):
in two hundred and seventy minutes of football. So if
you're Auckland f C, you've got two options. I guess
you can continue to play the way you have up
until now against Melbourne Victory, which is proved fruitful in
the non concession of goals. Or you could slightly change
things and be ever so slightly more conservative, take the
(09:17):
opposition out of it and say, right, whoever we're playing,
how do we best not concede? And I guess that
might lead to having a slightly more defensive approach, not
being quite so cavalier on attack, maybe even playing with
an extra defender. However, all of these things seem to
fall outside the DNA of Auckland FC, and in particular
(09:39):
their coach and the man who makes these decisions, Steve Coricker.
I have not seen Steve Coricker go out this year
in a football game and play with anything other than
the intent of winning the football match. And I get
the feeling that is exactly what he will do tomorrow
night at go Media, even though as I say, he
knows he just has to not lose. He will be
(10:01):
going out there to win the game. And at the
end of the day, if they can do that, then
they are in the Grand Final. They draw, they're in
the Grand Final. If Melbourne Victory do get that elusive goal,
then it is all on for young and old and
absolutely spectacular night which could be written into football folklore.
Tomorrow night at go Media Stadium. Just cannot wait to
(10:24):
be there.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
End of the Chamber we go as Super Rugby reaches
its penultimate round and the jockeying for the top six
positions continues. This won't have any bearing on it to
night's game between your Crusaders and the Highlanders, which leads
us off at Apollo Project Stadium in christ Church. Heightened
has have been, but poor haven't they this year? Crusaders
to win this one comfortably.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
They should do the Beauty of the Highlands. They actually
picked them to roll last week and actually get it done.
Of course, the Hurricanes snapped them right at the end,
but because as we talked about the thing about the Heartlands,
no they haven't got the results, but they've been tantalizingly
close to rolling some big teams. Jamie Jason be furious
around this, but when you've got a derby like this
(11:13):
in the South Island at Ponamu, there's just a bit
of extra aggression in that. And I'm sure that the
Highlands are going, you know what, we may be out,
but we're going to drag some people down with us
and wreck what's.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Going on then season two.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So playing the spoiler, look, I expect the Crusaders will
roll over top of them. But let's not underestimate the
power of the Highland this because.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's been done before, right and indeed it has. They've
got the Chiefs next week as well. So tough finish
to the season for the Highlands of Possession. Say, if
you're gonna go down, you might as well go down swinging.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
The Hurricanes red tonight. I can't possibly be impartial about
this because I know how important this game is for
the Hurricanes, my team's top six chances. In fact, if
they win tonight, they guarantee themselves our top six spot
with a round to spare, because the Blues will be
too far back to overtake them. It will then be
more in a pacificat and the Blues battling for the
(12:06):
sixth spot. What chance do you give my Hurricanes stars
of going to Brisbane and beating the Reds.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I won't say remote, but when it comes to teams
that can win in Australia, they've proven they can do
it before, so let's not underestimate. Mike. My question to you,
being fan, what actually happened last weekend?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I know we only have limited time in the chamber.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
We're have one of those egg timers, and I'm looking
at the sands and the egg time and saying I
ain't got at the time for this.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Look.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I look, the Highlanders should have won that game. I
think by many metrics Highlanders should have won that game,
and but for cam Roy Guard being kept on for
the entire eighty plus minutes, they probably would have. Look
was it a wake up call? Was it a kick
in the backside for the Hurricanes.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They got the win and that was probably all they
can take from it. They've got two big games reads
tonight as are saying what a Pacific and next week
with Ardie's return to Wellington, which is a brilliant storyline.
I kind of feel to arkeless. So they got to
win this game tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
By hook or by crook, mate, and I think the
Reds are going to roll them. I didn't say that
because I'm not a fanboyder that you are of the Hurricanes,
but maybe you've got me talking about the Crusaders before
and trying to be balanced. I mean, what are you mad?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I think we can both be balanced? Then, okay, we
can both be balanced. Then about if anyone's mad in
this chamber, I think we all know who it is.
But if we can be balanced about any game, it's
Chief's Mowana Pacifica tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Most logic would suggest that the Chiefs will beat Mowana Pacifica.
But when it comes to Majana Pacifica, everything's just on
the table or off the table, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I believe this meant the last six days cloning Ardi
Savia and if they can do that. They left no
worries at all. They'll beat five teams at the same time.
That Look, you talk about momentum and energy in sports teams.
If it's not with Mawan, I don't know where it
is right now. They are clear and present danger to
anybody playing them because they don't look at the form book, right,
(13:59):
They don't care who it is. They just play this exuberant, expansive, aggressive,
pulsating brand of rugby. Who cares is on the other
They're going to do it anyway. That's what makes them so.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Lovable, absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
So a big weekend for a lot of teams in
Super Rugby before we hit the final weekend next weekend
of round robin and find our top six. Hey Warriors
Raiders Sunday night. I heard Andrew Webster this week saying
we're not thinking about Vegas. What happened in Vegas when
the Raiders, you know, gave the Warriors a fairly fairly
unsatisfactory there. I was going to say, an unsatisfactory start
(14:35):
of the season. I like your definition better.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They did.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They thumped them right on the snoles, he said, revenges
and on our minds. That was a long time ago.
So if we go to the present day to this weekend,
how do you feel about the warriors chances against the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I think all Warriors fans are waiting for them to
have a skid because they do. It happens right, and
it's the same we've always talked about the NRL. You're
slightly off, you're going to get rolled. But the Warriors
now and where they're sitting in without two of their
most influential players, the two captains week but I think
being at home, they're just going to explode. I don't
(15:11):
know if Raiders have got much hope with the way
they've been playing, and they'll get that if they start
thinking about revenge though, they're cooked.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Indeed, just a word of Michael Mayne before we go.
He has been today confirmed as head coach of the
Football Ferns, a job he's held on an interim basis
ever since Yetka klem Kova quit back in September. I
think this is the right move. I think Michael Mayne
has proven during his time as interim head coach that
he is the right man for this job, so now
he can actually get on with the job of being
(15:40):
the head coach rather than wondering if there's another job
interview coming his way.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's been a fairy drawn out process.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And what it took them so long?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Piny me, how hard was that the man was right
there all the time, He was there under their noses.
It's rather comical when you think about it. Look, I
can only imagine that they had other irons in the fire.
Whether those irons were hotter than Michael Mayne, I don't know.
But I think they've arrived at the right decision and
Michael may now can, over the next couple of years
(16:10):
prepare this team for the next Football World Cup. And look,
I just wanted to offer congratulations to him. He's he's
been in and around the football fraternity for a while
and I think deserves this opportunity.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And though sorry, but Parney, you'd know though, as far
as the relationship with the players and the Ferns themselves,
I'm presuming there's a great synergy there. I mean, you
talk to these players that they respect, I love this guy.
This is going to be a popular choice to put
in the place.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
They like him.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, they like him, And while that's not always the
most important thing, I think it is an important thing.
So to answer the question. Yes, I think this will
be popular among the players. They too have had to
live with uncertainty. You know, who's that coach going to be?
Is it going to be Michael or is it going
to be someone else? And we have to readjust all
over again this way the you know, they've been playing
a certain way under this coach for a few months now.
(16:59):
We just carry on, We just carry on. Now it's official.
That is us in the chamber for today.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And let me talk about NDY five hundred or Monaco.
What kind of crawl into the July you Okay, all right, fine,
I'll catch you next week.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Bye, leading a VIX. We've got just the ticket.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
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Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yes, I'm terribly sorry that we ran out of time
in the chamber for your specialty. But you've got a
radio show on the weekend you can use for the
NY of you like, and I no doubt we'll begining.
We'll be messaging each other back and forth on our
on our specific sporting wheelhouses.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, I'm not going to message you the Monaco Grand
Prix first thing Monday morning and Indy Car the five
hundreds at like five am on Monday morning. Do you
want me to ring you or not?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I will be on do not disturb at those times
now that I know what time they are on.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Thank you Darcy for the heads up.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome into the Sports Fix podcast for Friday,
May twenty three. We're here in association with GJ. Gardner Homes,
New Zealand's most trusted home build up. My name's Jason Pine.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm Darcy Audergrave. Asking that question that always kids asked
around a bit this time of year. Where have the
months gone? Piney?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Where have they gone? I don't know. It's nearly June.
I cannot believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But while we've got a few little shreds of May remaining,
there is quite a bit of sport to talk great
news about Luapooner. I know you've had the chance to
chat to a few people about this today. Any chance
we hear somebody on the podcast talking about it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Lewis Lowe is the president of the Canterbury Car Club.
They don't own it a Pooner. They own the improvements,
but the council actually owns the dirts they're looking at. Well.
They're the ones that got on the funding sorted out
and have dealt with Nby and everybody else to get
it through. So we'll go to the top across and.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
T's and dots and eyes look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I've got some thoughts on Auckland FC. I want your thoughts,
Darce on Super Rugby, on the Warriors, and a bit
of other sporting news around today.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
In other news, let's get underway with some of the
big sports stories around today.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Ruben Love is hoping versatility enhances his chances of regaining
an All Blacks jersey this year, having played at both
ten and fifteen for the Hurricanes in Super Rugby this year.
A lot of it just goes down to how the
coaches for the Allbacks want their tend to look like.
And you know, all I control is how I play
the game, how I manage our team. The Dolphins have
(01:56):
dampened the Bulldog's roaring start to the NRL Rugby League season.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The Dolphins have done it very handsome fashion here forty
four points to eight.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, bit of a height, and Canterbury remain top, though
the Warriors could join them on twenty points if they
beat the Raiders at home on Sunday night and Michael
Main's been rewarded with the full time for all Fern's
head coaching job after holding the interim role since Jitka
Klumkova quit in September. Maine will guide the team to
the twenty twenty seven World Cup, starting with games against
(02:27):
Venezuela in Spain next month.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
It was putting that tour together, game through a selection process,
having those conversations at the same time three and a
half week interview process. It's been intense. When I got
the call, there was definitely a lot of weight off
the shoulders use.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And a villion It's Sportsfix with Jason Pine and Dussy Waldegrave.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Huge Day four Canterbury Motorsport confirmed that Ruapuna is going
to host a round of the supercars. To dig deeper
into that, we're joined by the club president of the
Canterbury Car Club who look after Puna. His name is
Lewis Lowe.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Hi, Lewis, how are you going and thanks for having
me on.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, I'm so excited, as I'm sure most people are
who love their motor sport and most people who live
in the Canterbury region who love it as well. This
has been a long time coming. Lewis what finally pushed
it over the line.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Look, it's been over two years I think since I
started this inquiry with supercars, and we as a club
got all our things together and Crossti City Council came
on board along with Christen z and it was really
just MB the government organization for the final bit of
(03:46):
funding for the transport and that's how we got there.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What did it rely on? Primarily money? I mean that's
it isn't it?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Really? Absolutely? The money was critical in many ways for
the club itself. We were already on a ten year
journey of major upgrades, but we just moved forward the
track safety upgrades that they supercars required. It's about a
(04:13):
million dollars worth and it's great work to get done
because it just makes a safer environment for everybody that
goes out in the race car.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So this is a done deal. I'm presuming it's based
on the fact you're going to get that work done,
but you're confident that it will be achieved.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yes, we're absolutely confident. In fact, we started two months
ago in the anticipation that we would get supercars and
in terms of the funding, we'veched all that together well
and truly it's.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
An interesting place, isn't it, in the fact that Council
I've owned the land, but the Canterbury Car Club owned
basically the channels, the buildings on it, so hard to
take over, hard to buy and it's all I suppose
up to you guys to pump that money in it.
How much help are you're getting from from MBA, How
much helping you're getting from christ Church City Council? What
(05:04):
about private funding? Where are you going to go for
their money over the next few years.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, well say that's a really interesting question. So we
don't get anything out of the mb pot cross At
City Council have just given us a grant towards the
track improvements, but we're really looking to some of the
individuals and wealthier businessmen around town to help out with
(05:31):
our projects. We've got quite a bit going on and
there's quite a group, one group called the Friends of
a Rapoona. They've underwritten us to make sure that there's
no shortfall. So yeah, I think Canoby people, as you know,
they just get together and they love to help out.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You look at the three year deal and you're looking
at safety first up progression, what do you need to
do next. What alterations are you required to make or
you need to make well, you've got to get grandstands
in before next year as well. Are you adjusting the
track layout at all? What about the pit lane? How
(06:10):
does that all operate? So your requirements from Supercars and
what you'd like to achieve over the next one the
duration of the contract.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yeah, so this fair question. The safety is the critical
point for them. There's a little bit of change to
the pit lane, entry for the track, a bit of
ash felting and whatnot, but it's mainly to do with safety,
tie barriers and gravel traps and a whole lot of
(06:38):
minor sort of things curbs and channels and whatnot. And
from then on really it's down to us to see
if we can, on the back of the Supercars recognition,
get people to get get themselves involved and help us
out with some new pit lane garages. Our control of
(06:59):
tower could do with an upgrade. We'd like to put
some storage out there for some people, and we have
a supporters Lounes which is a building we would convert
into a prime viewing spot.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What about the grandstands, how does that work? Because playing
there's going to be a lot of warm props. Well,
going to be a big crowd there, so we're going
to plant them all. You don't have to rebuild, you're
going to bring in some temporary how does it actually work.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Loss So the council have been really great about that
and they're going to bring grandstands I believe from a
polo stadium and put them all around the place hopefully
along with some toilet facilities and corporate boxes. And it's
all been planned out so that we'll have a capacity
(07:52):
of around fifty to sixty thousand over that weekend that
the supercars are here.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Sports vaccesse xcess, massive weekend coming up a go medium
Mount Smart Stadium with Auckland FC against Melbourne Victory tomorrow
night and then the Warrior is against the Raiders on
Sunday evening.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Just wanted to, I guess kick.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Around with you some possibilities of the way that Auckland
f C might approach this game tomorrow night. As you
probably know, it is a two legged semi final. They
won the first leg one nil, which means all they
have to do is avoid defeat in the second leg,
the home leg tomorrow night, and they will progress to
the Grand Final. So if you're looking to avoid defeat,
(08:33):
the first thing you look to do is to avoid
conceding goals. And Auckland f C have been very good
at not conceding goals this season thirteen clean sheets, more
than any other team in the competition, and crucially, three
of those have come against tomorrow night's opposition, Melbourne Victory.
Melbourne Victory have not scored a goal against Auckland FC
(08:55):
in two hundred and seventy minutes of football. So if
you're Auckland f C, you've got two options. I guess
you can continue to play the way you have up
until now against Melbourne Victory, which is proved fruitful in
the non concession of goals. Or you could slightly change
things and be ever so slightly more conservative, take the
(09:17):
opposition out of it and say, right, whoever we're playing,
how do we best not concede? And I guess that
might lead to having a slightly more defensive approach, not
being quite so cavalier on attack, maybe even playing with
an extra defender. However, all of these things seem to
fall outside the DNA of Auckland FC, and in particular
(09:39):
their coach and the man who makes these decisions, Steve Coricker.
I have not seen Steve Coricker go out this year
in a football game and play with anything other than
the intent of winning the football match. And I get
the feeling that is exactly what he will do tomorrow
night at go Media, even though as I say, he
knows he just has to not lose. He will be
(10:01):
going out there to win the game. And at the
end of the day, if they can do that, then
they are in the Grand Final. They draw, they're in
the Grand Final. If Melbourne Victory do get that elusive goal,
then it is all on for young and old and
absolutely spectacular night which could be written into football folklore.
Tomorrow night at go Media Stadium. Just cannot wait to
(10:24):
be there.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
End of the Chamber we go as Super Rugby reaches
its penultimate round and the jockeying for the top six
positions continues. This won't have any bearing on it to
night's game between your Crusaders and the Highlanders, which leads
us off at Apollo Project Stadium in christ Church. Heightened
has have been, but poor haven't they this year? Crusaders
to win this one comfortably.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
They should do the Beauty of the Highlands. They actually
picked them to roll last week and actually get it done.
Of course, the Hurricanes snapped them right at the end,
but because as we talked about the thing about the Heartlands,
no they haven't got the results, but they've been tantalizingly
close to rolling some big teams. Jamie Jason be furious
around this, but when you've got a derby like this
(11:13):
in the South Island at Ponamu, there's just a bit
of extra aggression in that. And I'm sure that the
Highlands are going, you know what, we may be out,
but we're going to drag some people down with us
and wreck what's.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Going on then season two.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So playing the spoiler, look, I expect the Crusaders will
roll over top of them. But let's not underestimate the
power of the Highland this because.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's been done before, right and indeed it has. They've
got the Chiefs next week as well. So tough finish
to the season for the Highlands of Possession. Say, if
you're gonna go down, you might as well go down swinging.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
The Hurricanes red tonight. I can't possibly be impartial about
this because I know how important this game is for
the Hurricanes, my team's top six chances. In fact, if
they win tonight, they guarantee themselves our top six spot
with a round to spare, because the Blues will be
too far back to overtake them. It will then be
more in a pacificat and the Blues battling for the
(12:06):
sixth spot. What chance do you give my Hurricanes stars
of going to Brisbane and beating the Reds.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I won't say remote, but when it comes to teams
that can win in Australia, they've proven they can do
it before, so let's not underestimate. Mike. My question to you,
being fan, what actually happened last weekend?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I know we only have limited time in the chamber.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
We're have one of those egg timers, and I'm looking
at the sands and the egg time and saying I
ain't got at the time for this.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Look.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I look, the Highlanders should have won that game. I
think by many metrics Highlanders should have won that game,
and but for cam Roy Guard being kept on for
the entire eighty plus minutes, they probably would have. Look
was it a wake up call? Was it a kick
in the backside for the Hurricanes.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They got the win and that was probably all they
can take from it. They've got two big games reads
tonight as are saying what a Pacific and next week
with Ardie's return to Wellington, which is a brilliant storyline.
I kind of feel to arkeless. So they got to
win this game tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
By hook or by crook, mate, and I think the
Reds are going to roll them. I didn't say that
because I'm not a fanboyder that you are of the Hurricanes,
but maybe you've got me talking about the Crusaders before
and trying to be balanced. I mean, what are you mad?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I think we can both be balanced? Then, okay, we
can both be balanced. Then about if anyone's mad in
this chamber, I think we all know who it is.
But if we can be balanced about any game, it's
Chief's Mowana Pacifica tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Most logic would suggest that the Chiefs will beat Mowana Pacifica.
But when it comes to Majana Pacifica, everything's just on
the table or off the table, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I believe this meant the last six days cloning Ardi
Savia and if they can do that. They left no
worries at all. They'll beat five teams at the same time.
That Look, you talk about momentum and energy in sports teams.
If it's not with Mawan, I don't know where it
is right now. They are clear and present danger to
anybody playing them because they don't look at the form book, right,
(13:59):
They don't care who it is. They just play this exuberant, expansive, aggressive,
pulsating brand of rugby. Who cares is on the other
They're going to do it anyway. That's what makes them so.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Lovable, absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
So a big weekend for a lot of teams in
Super Rugby before we hit the final weekend next weekend
of round robin and find our top six. Hey Warriors
Raiders Sunday night. I heard Andrew Webster this week saying
we're not thinking about Vegas. What happened in Vegas when
the Raiders, you know, gave the Warriors a fairly fairly
unsatisfactory there. I was going to say, an unsatisfactory start
(14:35):
of the season. I like your definition better.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They did.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They thumped them right on the snoles, he said, revenges
and on our minds. That was a long time ago.
So if we go to the present day to this weekend,
how do you feel about the warriors chances against the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I think all Warriors fans are waiting for them to
have a skid because they do. It happens right, and
it's the same we've always talked about the NRL. You're
slightly off, you're going to get rolled. But the Warriors
now and where they're sitting in without two of their
most influential players, the two captains week but I think
being at home, they're just going to explode. I don't
(15:11):
know if Raiders have got much hope with the way
they've been playing, and they'll get that if they start
thinking about revenge though, they're cooked.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Indeed, just a word of Michael Mayne before we go.
He has been today confirmed as head coach of the
Football Ferns, a job he's held on an interim basis
ever since Yetka klem Kova quit back in September. I
think this is the right move. I think Michael Mayne
has proven during his time as interim head coach that
he is the right man for this job, so now
he can actually get on with the job of being
(15:40):
the head coach rather than wondering if there's another job
interview coming his way.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's been a fairy drawn out process.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And what it took them so long?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Piny me, how hard was that the man was right
there all the time, He was there under their noses.
It's rather comical when you think about it. Look, I
can only imagine that they had other irons in the fire.
Whether those irons were hotter than Michael Mayne, I don't know.
But I think they've arrived at the right decision and
Michael may now can, over the next couple of years
(16:10):
prepare this team for the next Football World Cup. And look,
I just wanted to offer congratulations to him. He's he's
been in and around the football fraternity for a while
and I think deserves this opportunity.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And though sorry, but Parney, you'd know though, as far
as the relationship with the players and the Ferns themselves,
I'm presuming there's a great synergy there. I mean, you
talk to these players that they respect, I love this guy.
This is going to be a popular choice to put
in the place.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
They like him.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, they like him, And while that's not always the
most important thing, I think it is an important thing.
So to answer the question. Yes, I think this will
be popular among the players. They too have had to
live with uncertainty. You know, who's that coach going to be?
Is it going to be Michael or is it going
to be someone else? And we have to readjust all
over again this way the you know, they've been playing
a certain way under this coach for a few months now.
(16:59):
We just carry on, We just carry on. Now it's official.
That is us in the chamber for today.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And let me talk about NDY five hundred or Monaco.
What kind of crawl into the July you Okay, all right, fine,
I'll catch you next week.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Bye, leading a VIX. We've got just the ticket.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
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Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yes, I'm terribly sorry that we ran out of time
in the chamber for your specialty. But you've got a
radio show on the weekend you can use for the
NY of you like, and I no doubt we'll begining.
We'll be messaging each other back and forth on our
on our specific sporting wheelhouses.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, I'm not going to message you the Monaco Grand
Prix first thing Monday morning and Indy Car the five
hundreds at like five am on Monday morning. Do you
want me to ring you or not?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I will be on do not disturb at those times
now that I know what time they are on.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Thank you Darcy for the heads up.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
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