On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 2nd April 2026, for 14 years Rugby League Park in Christchurch has served as the temporary home for Christchurch sport. That era will come to an end this weekend as the Crusaders will play their final game there and will move into the brand-new Te Kaha Stadium. Crusaders captain David Havili has spent his whole career there, and he reflects on his time playing in that venue.
D'Arcy has some thoughts on Tiger Woods.
Plus, the lads are in the Chamber, has Super Rugby given up on Easter Weekend?
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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This is Sportsfix Howard by News Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be hello there, and welcome to the start of your
Easter weekend. Welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast for Thursday,
April the second, as we look ahead to a sporting
weekend where some codes have given it a red hot crack,
others have decided, you know what, you can do other things.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm Jason Pine. By the way, my name's Arci Watergrave.
I'm indulging in Easter. I don't believe in any of
it for a second, but I'll tell you what. The
studio is full of eggs. So I actually got told
to stop eating because there are other people up here
who I et that chocolate. So okay, I've had to
wipe it off my mouth. And here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hot cross buns down here in Wellington. I can tell
you from various sources, so we're certainly not going to
go hungry. Let's talk about what's coming up on the podcast.
I do want to talk about Super Rugby, in the
fact that there are only three games of Super Rugby
across Easter weekend compared to eight games of NRL. So
what's Super Rugby's rationale? There are milli kerr? Are there
(01:14):
any more words we can use to describe her? And
in terms of a different voice on Sports Fix today,
who are hearing from.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We're gonna talk to the injured skipper of the Crusaders
when he's going to be back. What's the guts of
the support? His name is David Havini and he'll join
us to talk that, and we'll also touch on the
last match of course at the lean To and Addington
and maybe look at the one hundred and fiftieth game
for Cody Taylor. It's a pretty big of them, the
(01:43):
Crusaders tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Absolutely, it's all right, looking forward to hearing from David.
The latest of sports news coming up too, so let's
get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
In other news, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Kick things off as per usual with a look at
some of the big sports stories around today. Cody Taylor
reflecting on what shapes as another career milestone and the
Crusaders last match at Addington tomorrow night. He'll become the
ninth player in franchise history to play one hundred and
fifty games.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
To be part of a group of men like that.
So it's just a reflection of a lot of hardware,
a lot of sacrifice from other people, a lot of
love and care from other people as well. And I've
had great support the whole time, and I think that's
what's allowing going to get to this point.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
New Manly coach Kiwi Karen Forn has tackled skepticism he's
too young to coach an Nral rugby league team at
the age of thirty five?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Was I too young to captain the Kiwi's at twenty two?
Age is and under right say people make decisions based
on who you are as a person, your values, you
stand in what you can hold people to. It wouldn't
matter if you're thirty five or fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And fears that are bloated Men's Football World Cup might
struggle to captivate at the group stage. Following confirmation of
the forty eight teams for June and July's tournament, former
All White and now seasoned football pundit Fred de Jong
has offered his assessment.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Well, I don't think you've got a group of death.
I think you've probably got a group of a mild
flu would be the worst. Obviously, FIEF has expanded us
to forty eight teams and that just dilutes the group
stage of the tournament, which is a bit disappointing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Dissecting the sporting agenda, It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine and
Darcy Walter Grave.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Welcome to the Sports Flex podcast. Now to Davidvilli is
the Crusaders captain and absentia a bit of a broken foot,
but we're joined by him now to talk about the
end of an era. What is that era? It's the
lean too, It's the tin shed in Addington called the
Apollo Projects Stadium. This is the last game David's going
(03:40):
to talk about with us.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Now get a David, Pleasure to be on.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Great to have you on as well. You don't get
to see off the old stadium. I caught it a
lean too, because I still don't reckon it's a stadium.
But hey, it's work right since the earthquake, it's been
your home. Is there a tinge of sadness that Addington's
no longer or will be no longer after Friday's game?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
You just touching it. I think you know when the
when at first sort of got put together for the
Crusaders to make their home coming back after playing away
for sort of you know that whole season. It was
just a stadium with hope and opportunity, and it was
great to have that all those years are such a
great title run and there's been some awesome milestone shed
(04:24):
over over the few years with the other guys playing
hundred games here, and it's yeah, it's definitely going to
be I guess sad to leave the place, but also
moving into the new stadium is not an awesome opportunity
and great for the community as well. So yeah, hopefully
we can get a great crowd on Easter Friday and
pack it out and send it off on a great,
great occasion.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Dare I say it? It's almost a bad thing for
you guys, because I don't expect visiting that place in
the middle of winter in a howling southerly or easterly
is the most pleasant place for teams away from that district, right,
So you've got an advantage playing in those that that
that arena.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yeah, we certainly, you know, we enjoyed it. I think
the most. The best part about that was just you know,
running out to our fans, which is you know, sitting
in that stadium. It's cold, like you said, the windows
how but they always seemed to tune up each week,
and we appreciate everything they've done over the sort of
the last twelve years it's been there, and you know,
(05:21):
the community is really going to be a happy moving
to the new stadium. But it certainly served its purpose.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The new stadium has been the talk of the town
for quite some time. Even before it was planned. It
was the talk of the town's like when are we
going to get a new stadium? So, you know, I
can't quite believe it's actually going to open and there's
going to be a game of code there in just
over a week's time. It's do you pinch yourself and go,
I don't believe this is here?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, for sure. Like when at the first sort of
you know, come on the radar and once all the
sort of planning and that had got into it, it
was literally jumped up. You're you know, you're playing around
the stadium and then all of a sudden it's taking shape.
And then a couple of weeks ago we actually got
to walk through it and it's it's a world class
facilities with not knowing for the players, but I guess
(06:07):
the fans that come, but you're so close to the game.
I feel as a player been on the field, you
feel like you're going to hear everything and just the
uncovered stadium. It's going to mean for fast, quick rugby
and hopefully a brand of rugby that people like to watch.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Can't miss the place? Can you? Born and bred in Christs?
Every time I go back, it's like what earth is?
The hit thing is vast, It's a It's a staple.
It's almost like the new Cathedral, isn't it David Dare
I say it?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's pretty special to have something so
good and Christas and hopefully it's going to bring some
more I guess, more hype around our city. And yeah,
not only the stadium, but the city is starting to
take shape and it's amazing that we get the opportunity
to play in a week in, week out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, it's been quite sometime since you've had that joy,
so I'm sure the fans and the players would love it.
What are the sheds like? Are they pretty flash? Are
they like state of the art? Are they run by
gptich chat GPT?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Yeah, they'retty amazing, like it's a lot of us done
electronicity now, so on the days are putting up by
the boards and that around timings and now it's all
done electronic. And yeah, certainly the new new wave, a
new leaf the stadium. So it's been awesome to walk
through here, and I guess just get a bit of
detail around around the place, and yeah, the boys are
(07:28):
pretty pretty pretty happy with it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Not long to go now, what is it the weekend
of the twenty FIR twenty fourth? I think the first
on April, so that's then this is right now, though,
Let's look at where the Crusaders are now and how
you guys are tracking here. You can pretend Rob Penny's
not listening, Can you tell us what's going on there?
(07:53):
Going and be brutal?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Oh yeah, I think I'm certainly not happy with the
way we started with the first sort of three rounds
and then we sort of picked up a bit of
momentum sort of to the back end of the by
and we're happy with the way we to set first
for the block and getting five points up and up
in Auckland, and now it's about just being able to
carry on that sort of momentum into the draw this
(08:16):
week into the next sort of five to six weeks.
But yeah, the boys had an awesome week, really refreshed,
and they've got a few boys back online after a
few injuries. So looking forward to seeing you back out there.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And you've got a light, you're running, everyone's trumpeting how
good the weddings inside the Hurricanes are at the moment
after what four consecutive wins. But man, their run home
is a horrible isn't it. That's going to shock them.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah, I don't think like, yeah, every game these days,
and so rugby it's it's you've got to prepare for
the best, Like it's changed for the games changing and
it's everything so much quicker and more physical, so the
demand and every game is getting higher and horror. So yeah,
also start for them and hopefully we can start stringing
someone together as well.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Garden Freuder hear it, not from me anyway, but I
understand when some people do indulge in that. I'm talking
about Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer to ever walk
the fairways, apologized to Jack Nicholas, one of the guys
who is an icon of the sport, who dominated golf
(09:31):
for so many years, world famous, made an absolute fortune,
has left an extraordinary legacy to the game of golf,
but ultimately extraordinarily flawed. And when you take that into consideration,
you often wonder, how on earth does somebody who has everything,
(09:51):
who has earned everything, has committed his life to the
game of golf, go off the rails so incredibly badly.
We know what happened with his philandering not ideal. Now
there's drunk and drug driving, which has been almost a
ccidivis event for tiger Woods. Of course, long term injury
(10:13):
has also derailed his career to a degree. He won't
go away. He keeps trying to come back to relive
the glory days of years gone by, and that I understand.
Once you lose something, you try desperately to regain that.
Some people just cannot fade off into the sunset. It
is just not the way they roll. I don't think
(10:36):
plainly Tiger Woods is doing this deliberately to stay in
the limelight. Of course he isn't who would do that,
But it is Tiger Woods again, up in lights, and
he knows that whatever he does, whenever he breathes, farts,
breaks a toenail, somebody is going to be there to
report it. I really feel sorry for the guy. I
(10:57):
really do. Look, I wouldn't trade anything that I've got
for a life like Tiger Woods. The money, the fame,
not mine his, because I don't have to live my
life under the medium microscope. And for that I am
eternally grateful. I feel for Tiger Woods. And there is
no shaden freud a here. I'm taking no pleasure out
(11:18):
of the trouble that Tiger Woods has had. It just
illustrates the horrible nature of fame and what it can
eventually do to a human being. It never ever goes away.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Into the Chamber we go. I watched with a sense
of growing awe yesterday at what happened at the basein
Reserve as merely Kerr came out and struck an innings
for the ages, chasing the highest of a total in
a women's One Day International, successfully three forty six for
six South Africa three hundred and fifty for eight New Zealand,
(12:01):
merely kurting the winning runs with two balls to spare
one hundred and seventy nine not out, just extraordinary dusk.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
She went at just on one hundred and thirty strike
rate wise and she had twenty three fours and the
singular sixth week. I don't know what to say about
you touched on it before. This is a woman. I
was talking to Maddy Green recently and she said, look,
it's like when she captain and Wellington in the Blade,
everything just lifts. She absolutely loves it. She wants it,
(12:34):
she wants to be in charge, she wants to be
the captain. And the response is, well, it's it's enormous
that I don't know what. Have you got any figures
around what? She's actually a jeesus you've taken the captaincy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Well, I'm sure I can come up with some, but
I just but while I'm doing that, it's it's so interesting,
isn't it? Because the captaincy is a burden on some people,
isn't it? And it's clearly something that lifts others. Okay,
let me I can I can tell you now that
that you know she has captain New Zealand and one
Day Internationals times she averages sixty five point five as captain. Okay,
(13:14):
if you want to give that a comparison the game
she hasn't captains you know, she averages a mere forty
four and a half, so captaincy does not encumber Mealy Kerr.
Why is it that some people are encumbered by the captaincy,
restricted by it, and others like Melly are not. They're
enhanced by it.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Who knows if you did know, you'd be a champion coach.
I mean we look at Scott Barrett, not saying he
hasn't got the captains anymore, but I don't think. Look
it's at a different sports, a different gender, but that
weighed him down and some people it squashes them. Who
was one of the greatest captains we've ever had in cricket?
I tell you Jeremy Coney now his form when he
(13:55):
was the captain of the well the New Zealand first eleven.
At that stage it was something else and it really
didn't match what he did at a domestic level for Wellington,
but he just grew into the role.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He's shone and merely. I've brought up her tea twenty
figures as well as captain. Same again as captain, she
averages sixty two in T twenty internationals at a strike
rade of one hundred and fifty eight, not as captain
a mere thirty three with one hundred and nineteen strike rate.
It's almost like she just takes greater responsibility a mating
(14:30):
cricketer anyway, but says, look, come with me, here's what
we're going to do. Just follow me. It's it's the
mark of any great captain. She's twenty five years old,
dus You know, this is an incredible New Zealand sports person.
We're witnessing in real time here.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And if I had told you ten years ago that
the result of this series, the amount of runs that
was scored in the game yesterday, in a game of
women's cricket, you would have pointed and laughed and said
stop drinking beer mid afternoon. The game is accelerated. And
I think what we saw not only in that game,
but in that glass Ball Lost or Susie Bates, is
(15:11):
that the game has improved end over end. It's better
and better and better. And last night what we saw
is directly what I'm talking about. That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Indeed, a deciding third game at the basin on Saturday,
to look forward to Super Rugby across the weekend. Crusaders
drewer tomorrow night, Chiefs war retar Saturday reads for Saturday.
That's it, just the three games of Super Rugby across
the weekend. Just before we came to WEIR, you said
to me that they must have done their research on
this and worked out that it's a weekend where it's
(15:44):
better to go small and not try and change habits.
They can't have just decided, oh, we're only going to
have three games over Easter, when the NRAL have decided
to have eight starting tonight, the last game on Monday night.
They've made a bit of a festival of Easter.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So plainly Super Rugby and NRL didn't employ the same
company to look into the stats. No. True, Maybe it's
a different beast in Australia. Maybe over here it come Easter,
everybody just goes that's it. We're off to the bats.
No one's in town. So they based it on that,
which is not out of the question. Although the current
fuel crisis going on, I don't think many people going
(16:20):
anywhere over this weekend unless they're walking.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, it's it's it's I guess you're almost damned if
you do and damned if you don't. Because if they
schedule some massive games this weekend, big New Zealand Derby's.
And then, as you say, people had all gone away,
whether it be to the Batch or or just decided
to do other things over Easter weekends, and a game
like the Chiefs against the Crusaders was played in front
(16:44):
of a half empty stadium, everybody would have said, Oh,
it's stupid. It's stupid scheduling those games over Easter. Nobodies around.
So they're almost they're almost in a no win situation,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
At least the games that are on in Super Rugby
they know they're going to get eyeballs, So you'd hopefully
edited up the average viewer if you will, and the
numbers watching because it's a sparacity.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yep. Well, well look I look forward to seeing how
it happens. And what those are you becking your Crusaders
by the way, tomorrow night. They've only got the drewer,
haven't they? They should win that fairly comfortably in the last
And if PA.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Say that, if they say that they've only got the drawer,
they're in a power of pop and I don't think
they will. I think when you look at one hundred
and fifty games for Cody Taylor, are you look at
the last game at the Addington Lean to there are
too many pointers to saying this should be an overwhelming
victory for the Crusaders.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That is us in the chamber for today.
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Speaker 2 (18:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be hello there, and welcome to the start of your
Easter weekend. Welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast for Thursday,
April the second, as we look ahead to a sporting
weekend where some codes have given it a red hot crack,
others have decided, you know what, you can do other things.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm Jason Pine. By the way, my name's Arci Watergrave.
I'm indulging in Easter. I don't believe in any of
it for a second, but I'll tell you what. The
studio is full of eggs. So I actually got told
to stop eating because there are other people up here
who I et that chocolate. So okay, I've had to
wipe it off my mouth. And here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hot cross buns down here in Wellington. I can tell
you from various sources, so we're certainly not going to
go hungry. Let's talk about what's coming up on the podcast.
I do want to talk about Super Rugby, in the
fact that there are only three games of Super Rugby
across Easter weekend compared to eight games of NRL. So
what's Super Rugby's rationale? There are milli kerr? Are there
(01:14):
any more words we can use to describe her? And
in terms of a different voice on Sports Fix today,
who are hearing from.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We're gonna talk to the injured skipper of the Crusaders
when he's going to be back. What's the guts of
the support? His name is David Havini and he'll join
us to talk that, and we'll also touch on the
last match of course at the lean To and Addington
and maybe look at the one hundred and fiftieth game
for Cody Taylor. It's a pretty big of them, the
(01:43):
Crusaders tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Absolutely, it's all right, looking forward to hearing from David.
The latest of sports news coming up too, so let's
get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
In other news, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Kick things off as per usual with a look at
some of the big sports stories around today. Cody Taylor
reflecting on what shapes as another career milestone and the
Crusaders last match at Addington tomorrow night. He'll become the
ninth player in franchise history to play one hundred and
fifty games.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
To be part of a group of men like that.
So it's just a reflection of a lot of hardware,
a lot of sacrifice from other people, a lot of
love and care from other people as well. And I've
had great support the whole time, and I think that's
what's allowing going to get to this point.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
New Manly coach Kiwi Karen Forn has tackled skepticism he's
too young to coach an Nral rugby league team at
the age of thirty five?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Was I too young to captain the Kiwi's at twenty two?
Age is and under right say people make decisions based
on who you are as a person, your values, you
stand in what you can hold people to. It wouldn't
matter if you're thirty five or fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And fears that are bloated Men's Football World Cup might
struggle to captivate at the group stage. Following confirmation of
the forty eight teams for June and July's tournament, former
All White and now seasoned football pundit Fred de Jong
has offered his assessment.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Well, I don't think you've got a group of death.
I think you've probably got a group of a mild
flu would be the worst. Obviously, FIEF has expanded us
to forty eight teams and that just dilutes the group
stage of the tournament, which is a bit disappointing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Dissecting the sporting agenda, It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine and
Darcy Walter Grave.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Welcome to the Sports Flex podcast. Now to Davidvilli is
the Crusaders captain and absentia a bit of a broken foot,
but we're joined by him now to talk about the
end of an era. What is that era? It's the
lean too, It's the tin shed in Addington called the
Apollo Projects Stadium. This is the last game David's going
(03:40):
to talk about with us.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Now get a David, Pleasure to be on.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Great to have you on as well. You don't get
to see off the old stadium. I caught it a
lean too, because I still don't reckon it's a stadium.
But hey, it's work right since the earthquake, it's been
your home. Is there a tinge of sadness that Addington's
no longer or will be no longer after Friday's game?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
You just touching it. I think you know when the
when at first sort of got put together for the
Crusaders to make their home coming back after playing away
for sort of you know that whole season. It was
just a stadium with hope and opportunity, and it was
great to have that all those years are such a
great title run and there's been some awesome milestone shed
(04:24):
over over the few years with the other guys playing
hundred games here, and it's yeah, it's definitely going to
be I guess sad to leave the place, but also
moving into the new stadium is not an awesome opportunity
and great for the community as well. So yeah, hopefully
we can get a great crowd on Easter Friday and
pack it out and send it off on a great,
great occasion.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Dare I say it? It's almost a bad thing for
you guys, because I don't expect visiting that place in
the middle of winter in a howling southerly or easterly
is the most pleasant place for teams away from that district, right,
So you've got an advantage playing in those that that
that arena.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yeah, we certainly, you know, we enjoyed it. I think
the most. The best part about that was just you know,
running out to our fans, which is you know, sitting
in that stadium. It's cold, like you said, the windows
how but they always seemed to tune up each week,
and we appreciate everything they've done over the sort of
the last twelve years it's been there, and you know,
(05:21):
the community is really going to be a happy moving
to the new stadium. But it certainly served its purpose.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The new stadium has been the talk of the town
for quite some time. Even before it was planned. It
was the talk of the town's like when are we
going to get a new stadium? So, you know, I
can't quite believe it's actually going to open and there's
going to be a game of code there in just
over a week's time. It's do you pinch yourself and go,
I don't believe this is here?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, for sure. Like when at the first sort of
you know, come on the radar and once all the
sort of planning and that had got into it, it
was literally jumped up. You're you know, you're playing around
the stadium and then all of a sudden it's taking shape.
And then a couple of weeks ago we actually got
to walk through it and it's it's a world class
facilities with not knowing for the players, but I guess
(06:07):
the fans that come, but you're so close to the game.
I feel as a player been on the field, you
feel like you're going to hear everything and just the
uncovered stadium. It's going to mean for fast, quick rugby
and hopefully a brand of rugby that people like to watch.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Can't miss the place? Can you? Born and bred in Christs?
Every time I go back, it's like what earth is?
The hit thing is vast, It's a It's a staple.
It's almost like the new Cathedral, isn't it David Dare
I say it?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's pretty special to have something so
good and Christas and hopefully it's going to bring some
more I guess, more hype around our city. And yeah,
not only the stadium, but the city is starting to
take shape and it's amazing that we get the opportunity
to play in a week in, week out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, it's been quite sometime since you've had that joy,
so I'm sure the fans and the players would love it.
What are the sheds like? Are they pretty flash? Are
they like state of the art? Are they run by
gptich chat GPT?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Yeah, they'retty amazing, like it's a lot of us done
electronicity now, so on the days are putting up by
the boards and that around timings and now it's all
done electronic. And yeah, certainly the new new wave, a
new leaf the stadium. So it's been awesome to walk
through here, and I guess just get a bit of
detail around around the place, and yeah, the boys are
(07:28):
pretty pretty pretty happy with it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Not long to go now, what is it the weekend
of the twenty FIR twenty fourth? I think the first
on April, so that's then this is right now, though,
Let's look at where the Crusaders are now and how
you guys are tracking here. You can pretend Rob Penny's
not listening, Can you tell us what's going on there?
(07:53):
Going and be brutal?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Oh yeah, I think I'm certainly not happy with the
way we started with the first sort of three rounds
and then we sort of picked up a bit of
momentum sort of to the back end of the by
and we're happy with the way we to set first
for the block and getting five points up and up
in Auckland, and now it's about just being able to
carry on that sort of momentum into the draw this
(08:16):
week into the next sort of five to six weeks.
But yeah, the boys had an awesome week, really refreshed,
and they've got a few boys back online after a
few injuries. So looking forward to seeing you back out there.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And you've got a light, you're running, everyone's trumpeting how
good the weddings inside the Hurricanes are at the moment
after what four consecutive wins. But man, their run home
is a horrible isn't it. That's going to shock them.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah, I don't think like, yeah, every game these days,
and so rugby it's it's you've got to prepare for
the best, Like it's changed for the games changing and
it's everything so much quicker and more physical, so the
demand and every game is getting higher and horror. So yeah,
also start for them and hopefully we can start stringing
someone together as well.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Garden Freuder hear it, not from me anyway, but I
understand when some people do indulge in that. I'm talking
about Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer to ever walk
the fairways, apologized to Jack Nicholas, one of the guys
who is an icon of the sport, who dominated golf
(09:31):
for so many years, world famous, made an absolute fortune,
has left an extraordinary legacy to the game of golf,
but ultimately extraordinarily flawed. And when you take that into consideration,
you often wonder, how on earth does somebody who has everything,
(09:51):
who has earned everything, has committed his life to the
game of golf, go off the rails so incredibly badly.
We know what happened with his philandering not ideal. Now
there's drunk and drug driving, which has been almost a
ccidivis event for tiger Woods. Of course, long term injury
(10:13):
has also derailed his career to a degree. He won't
go away. He keeps trying to come back to relive
the glory days of years gone by, and that I understand.
Once you lose something, you try desperately to regain that.
Some people just cannot fade off into the sunset. It
is just not the way they roll. I don't think
(10:36):
plainly Tiger Woods is doing this deliberately to stay in
the limelight. Of course he isn't who would do that,
But it is Tiger Woods again, up in lights, and
he knows that whatever he does, whenever he breathes, farts,
breaks a toenail, somebody is going to be there to
report it. I really feel sorry for the guy. I
(10:57):
really do. Look, I wouldn't trade anything that I've got
for a life like Tiger Woods. The money, the fame,
not mine his, because I don't have to live my
life under the medium microscope. And for that I am
eternally grateful. I feel for Tiger Woods. And there is
no shaden freud a here. I'm taking no pleasure out
(11:18):
of the trouble that Tiger Woods has had. It just
illustrates the horrible nature of fame and what it can
eventually do to a human being. It never ever goes away.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Into the Chamber we go. I watched with a sense
of growing awe yesterday at what happened at the basein
Reserve as merely Kerr came out and struck an innings
for the ages, chasing the highest of a total in
a women's One Day International, successfully three forty six for
six South Africa three hundred and fifty for eight New Zealand,
(12:01):
merely kurting the winning runs with two balls to spare
one hundred and seventy nine not out, just extraordinary dusk.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
She went at just on one hundred and thirty strike
rate wise and she had twenty three fours and the
singular sixth week. I don't know what to say about
you touched on it before. This is a woman. I
was talking to Maddy Green recently and she said, look,
it's like when she captain and Wellington in the Blade,
everything just lifts. She absolutely loves it. She wants it,
(12:34):
she wants to be in charge, she wants to be
the captain. And the response is, well, it's it's enormous
that I don't know what. Have you got any figures
around what? She's actually a jeesus you've taken the captaincy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Well, I'm sure I can come up with some, but
I just but while I'm doing that, it's it's so interesting,
isn't it? Because the captaincy is a burden on some people,
isn't it? And it's clearly something that lifts others. Okay,
let me I can I can tell you now that
that you know she has captain New Zealand and one
Day Internationals times she averages sixty five point five as captain. Okay,
(13:14):
if you want to give that a comparison the game
she hasn't captains you know, she averages a mere forty
four and a half, so captaincy does not encumber Mealy Kerr.
Why is it that some people are encumbered by the captaincy,
restricted by it, and others like Melly are not. They're
enhanced by it.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Who knows if you did know, you'd be a champion coach.
I mean we look at Scott Barrett, not saying he
hasn't got the captains anymore, but I don't think. Look
it's at a different sports, a different gender, but that
weighed him down and some people it squashes them. Who
was one of the greatest captains we've ever had in cricket?
I tell you Jeremy Coney now his form when he
(13:55):
was the captain of the well the New Zealand first eleven.
At that stage it was something else and it really
didn't match what he did at a domestic level for Wellington,
but he just grew into the role.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He's shone and merely. I've brought up her tea twenty
figures as well as captain. Same again as captain, she
averages sixty two in T twenty internationals at a strike
rade of one hundred and fifty eight, not as captain
a mere thirty three with one hundred and nineteen strike rate.
It's almost like she just takes greater responsibility a mating
(14:30):
cricketer anyway, but says, look, come with me, here's what
we're going to do. Just follow me. It's it's the
mark of any great captain. She's twenty five years old,
dus You know, this is an incredible New Zealand sports person.
We're witnessing in real time here.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And if I had told you ten years ago that
the result of this series, the amount of runs that
was scored in the game yesterday, in a game of
women's cricket, you would have pointed and laughed and said
stop drinking beer mid afternoon. The game is accelerated. And
I think what we saw not only in that game,
but in that glass Ball Lost or Susie Bates, is
(15:11):
that the game has improved end over end. It's better
and better and better. And last night what we saw
is directly what I'm talking about. That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Indeed, a deciding third game at the basin on Saturday,
to look forward to Super Rugby across the weekend. Crusaders
drewer tomorrow night, Chiefs war retar Saturday reads for Saturday.
That's it, just the three games of Super Rugby across
the weekend. Just before we came to WEIR, you said
to me that they must have done their research on
this and worked out that it's a weekend where it's
(15:44):
better to go small and not try and change habits.
They can't have just decided, oh, we're only going to
have three games over Easter, when the NRAL have decided
to have eight starting tonight, the last game on Monday night.
They've made a bit of a festival of Easter.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So plainly Super Rugby and NRL didn't employ the same
company to look into the stats. No. True, Maybe it's
a different beast in Australia. Maybe over here it come Easter,
everybody just goes that's it. We're off to the bats.
No one's in town. So they based it on that,
which is not out of the question. Although the current
fuel crisis going on, I don't think many people going
(16:20):
anywhere over this weekend unless they're walking.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, it's it's it's I guess you're almost damned if
you do and damned if you don't. Because if they
schedule some massive games this weekend, big New Zealand Derby's.
And then, as you say, people had all gone away,
whether it be to the Batch or or just decided
to do other things over Easter weekends, and a game
like the Chiefs against the Crusaders was played in front
(16:44):
of a half empty stadium, everybody would have said, Oh,
it's stupid. It's stupid scheduling those games over Easter. Nobodies around.
So they're almost they're almost in a no win situation,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
At least the games that are on in Super Rugby
they know they're going to get eyeballs, So you'd hopefully
edited up the average viewer if you will, and the
numbers watching because it's a sparacity.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yep. Well, well look I look forward to seeing how
it happens. And what those are you becking your Crusaders
by the way, tomorrow night. They've only got the drewer,
haven't they? They should win that fairly comfortably in the last
And if PA.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Say that, if they say that they've only got the drawer,
they're in a power of pop and I don't think
they will. I think when you look at one hundred
and fifty games for Cody Taylor, are you look at
the last game at the Addington Lean to there are
too many pointers to saying this should be an overwhelming
victory for the Crusaders.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That is us in the chamber for today.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
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Speaker 2 (17:46):
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Speaker 3 (18:05):
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Speaker 2 (18:08):
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Speaker 3 (18:10):
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Chatham and Tuesday? I don't know if it was still
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Speaker 2 (18:47):
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We'll be here on Easter Sunday talking sport with you
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Speaker 3 (18:58):
Does and brilliant stuff, and make sure you clean the studio.
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