On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave and Jason Pine for 9th April 2026, this weekend, the V8 Supercars touch down for their first of two weekends of racing action at the Taupo International Motorsport Park. Ryan Wood is a Kiwi racer with V8 Supercars and he joined D'Arcy to discuss.
D'Arcy shares his thoughts on the Australian Government placing restrictions on gambling advertisements on sporting broadcasts.
And D'Arcy and Piney discuss what makes the Masters golf tournament so special, and the possibility of Don Tricker becoming the new Head of High Performance at New Zealand Rugby.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Geta there, Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast. Great to
have you listening in to our daily dose of sports,
news of sports, opinion of sports, interviews and other bits
and pieces as well. It's Thursday, Eightpril the ninth. I'm
Jason Pine.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I'm sports I'm just falling into line of what
you would say. My name is Darcy. It's great to
be here as well, distributing our thought processes around what
is something that's far too important to be taken seriously?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right, Pony, that's right, exactly right. We often say that,
but it won't stop us from producing the Sports Fix podcast.
Who was going to add some sense of sanity to
the podcast today in terms of a different thought So,
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That race car drivers are sane at all, and they
they've completely cut themselves adrift from sanity with what they do.
But we're going to talk to Ryan Wood today because
it's the first of two legs of sid cars in
New Zealands people this Weeking Christ gets the weekend after
say young Wellington Headler wellin Wood joins.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Us looking forward to that, I want to kick around
a couple of topics in the chamber with you as well,
and the latest sports news come in your way, so
let's get into it. In other news, let's kick you
off well a look at some of the big sports
stories around today. A plea from AUGUSTA National Chair Fred
Ridley to halt the advance of golf ball technology as
drives start to exceed three hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Until recent years, golf has been a game of imagination, creativity,
and variety. The game has become much more one dimensional
as players drive the ball prodigious distances and routinely hit
short irons into par fours and even some par fives.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Christall Ledger Walker believes her sister Charlie will be an
asset to any w NBA basketball team that picks her
up in Monday to being more of.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
A facilitator and having a difference the Warble role player
type of position in that team definitely gives her different
ways of seeing the game before she gets to that
next level where she will have blue play different roles.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And wins for Paris Sint Jamn and Athletico Madrid and
their Champions League Football quarter final First League ties. This morning,
Athletico have beaten Barcelona two nil and defending champions PSG
have beaten Liverpool by the same score.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Current Scalia in.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
On goals, Liverpool unpacked, Current Scalia doubles Paris Shaman's advantage
using Avinion.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussie Waltergrave.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's all welcome now to the Sportsfix podcast to via
Zupercard driver Ryan Wood competing over the weekend and Topaul
the following weekend in christ Church. Welcome to the show. Ryan,
thanks for joining us.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Good day mate, how are you?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh? Good mate? Thanks for asking. I'm not as excited
as you because I need you to drive a supercar
around Topel this weeken. I'm also quite pleased because I
don't think the weather's going to be great, is it, Ryan?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Yeah, Look, it's it's going to be interesting. It looks
like it's going to go full Keywi mode on us.
But that's all right, lucky. I've got wet feet being
at keying myself, but no looking forward to it. Excited
for a double hitter and yeah, it's great to be
back home in New Zealand join it in front of
the best crowd and probably the world.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's a home race for you, Ryan. So I'm presuming
a lot of the family are coming up from Wellington
to tick you guys out.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Yeah, yep, We've got a lot of my fan a
lot of their friends and family and yeah it's gonna
be Yeah, very exciting to have them all and a
lot of them are going to come down to christ
Church as well. So yeah, really grateful for the.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Support from what I recall Andrew, though you really enjoyed
it in the wear Well a couple of years back,
your debut season you managed to pick up a bloody
good result in the damp.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Yeah, yep, look we had a really good round here
free years ago and super stoked and yeah, I think
last year was my first ever podium, so yeah, really
excited to hopefully get a win or some more trophies
this year and yeah, bring it on.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
There's a lot of confidence being spoken of around the
traps that the super might actually get it done over
the weekend and could pick up very first place for
the very first time. Where does that confidence come from?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Do you think Yeah, look, we've we've gone you know
to obviously the tweeta super this year and it's been
a massive change and we're just learning as each time
we go. So it's been been a really good start
to the year and we're just trying to build on that.
We've got a got a new package and it's just
(05:15):
about trying to learn it and make do with what
we've got and you know, really understand it. The most
exciting part is we can see you know, the growth
and the package a lady, and we're just trying to
extract that week in week out.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The car itself, wut year, where do you think that's
got room to move? We're the biggest areas of improvement
in your mind for the right itself.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Oh, the car has just got room to move sort of,
you know, everywhere. But we're obviously been trying to knuckle
down a bit of straight line speed and and that
sort of stuff. The balance and the chassis's actually been
pretty solid the way we've rolled out. So yeah, look,
we'll see what happens this weekend. But yeah, it's just
(06:03):
all about focusing on the controllables and we'll just do
the best weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's only early days for the Twitter Supra yourself, how
have you adapted to that? Like seven races through you're
setting seventh in the championship, so you've had a bit
of time behind the wheel. Where do you think you've
left it as far as driving this vehicle.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I think it's just getting comfortable and just understanding it.
I think as a driver, you know, you always drive
as fast as you can, and I think just understanding
what changes need to be made to the chassis and
how we can move it forward and be more consistent
over the weekend and over the year is going to
(06:46):
be the most important and key key part of success
this year. So yeah, really just trying to make sure
we do that. And yeah, really excited.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You had some success in Melbourne, Ryan Wood. Why where
did that success come from?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I think it was just a combination of things. But
you know, we just worked really hard on making sure
we win the weekend, open minded and just put out
his foot forward and we had some really good speed
and just got unlucky there in a couple other races.
So I think it's exciting times for the next two
weeks here in New Zealand, and we're just trying to
(07:22):
build on that and make sure that we have a
good package over here in front of the front, in
front of my home fans.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So how much time have you spent peeling on that
track in different cars because you were competing in the
Castrol toyer to Formula Oceania Racing series goes on. You've
raced there too, and you had success here as well.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Yeah, yep, we've got you know a bit of success
here and it's just about trying to lean on that
and make sure that you know, this weekend we can
try and provide good, good car speed, but I think
it's going to be wet, so it's it doesn't really yeah,
you know, translate, but mate, honestly, it's just about going
(08:03):
out there and driving as fast as you can and
then what will be will be. So it's exciting times
and hopefully this weekends as big as it's been over
the past couple of years because Topol has been a
really great event. So looking forward to seeing so many
fans and yet getting amongst.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It, dissecting the sporting agenda.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine and Darcy Waldergrave.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The Aussie government have climbed in and put berg restrictions
around sport gambling at firms in essences of January the
first next year. There are a number of restrictions about when,
where and how these companies can climb into our space,
our mind space through TV, radio, through advertising on jerseys,
(08:53):
advertising on billboards, advertising around grounds. The Aussie government don't
like the way this is heading and they want to
be seen to be doing something about it. Well, maybe
they want to do something about it, but I'd suggest
it's more they want to be seen to be doing
something about it. I think the horse has bolted. I
think it's long gone. The acceptance of gambling in our
(09:16):
communities is at an all time high people because it's
been normalized through advertising. Granted, believe gambling is not an
issue that they have to be concerned about. The government
though they don't have to look after us. They don't
have to look after the people with personal responsibility. They've
got to look after the small percentage of people that
(09:37):
can't look after themselves. So do the government need to
legislate for the suffering minority or should they say you
deal with your own personal responsibility. That is not our
job to overreach and tell you what to do in
your spare time and how to spend your money. Like
cigarette smoking, you used to get that advertised everywhere. Imagine
(10:01):
if we had cigarette advertising now like we have sport
gambling advertising, there would be huge outrage. Go on, grab yourself,
I smoke. What could possibly go wrong? Maybe I'm reading
a wee bit too much into this bit. Cigarette smoking
and the advertising of was well accepted back in the day.
Now it's on the no No list. How long will
(10:22):
it take before sports gambling advertising follows a similar path,
not only with restrictions but the acceptance of the general public.
And that is the battle the government have to deal with,
which begs the question why would you want to? But
at the moment it's just a watching brief. Let's see
what happens to Australia and we'll make a decision based
(10:45):
on that, which quite frankly is insane. That's government for you.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And of the Chamber we go or Gusta. It's well,
it's long been a bit of a holy grail for
golf fans to get to. The green jacket is the
holy grail that the world's best golf was aspire to.
Every year it starts tonight, dars our own Ryan Fox
back there looking to claim that green piece of apparel.
(11:17):
Augusta looks like Disneyland to me whenever I look at
it on TV. Every blade of grass perfectly manicured. It's
almost almost surreal.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well it's a lie, It's what it is. It's completely artificial.
They dye the grass and they dye the water. Wouldn't
be surprised that they painted the flowls on the so
the azaleas don't exist, they're ai. I'm not trying to
be cruel or punched down, but it really is. You
see Disneyland, It's not real. It's made up. It's something
out of a fantasy.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
The golfriel though, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You know?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The hopes, Yeah, the drives and the approach shots and
the puts and the chips and the pitchers and the
birdies and the bogies and the Elba trie and anything
else that gets gets shot over the next four weekends, sorry,
the next four days this weekend, it's it's highly esteemed.
Rory mackell. We finally won one last year and look
(12:11):
for golfers who earn millions of dollars. It was obvious
what it meant to him even without the paycheck.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I think carrying the tradition and carrying the weight of
expectation on shoulders of players that have never quite gotten
it over the line. I'm looking at Justin Rose have
got beaten last year. That's probably the most difficult thing. Yeah,
the track is tough, but they will laugh at that level.
But I think carrying what the Masters is and your
(12:40):
approach to that and what you want to achieve, I
think that's problematic for the players, right.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, absolutely, It sort of has a bit of an
aura about it. And look, many very very good golfers
go through their lives and never get close to winning
a major, let alone winning the Masters. It's a cruel mistress,
this game of golf for the pros and know very.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Cruel, and what's even crueler as collectors of the official
Augusta Masters Garden nome are going to be in a
wee bit of trouble because apparently they're discontinuing it at
the end of the year. And I got retails for
forty nine to ninety five, but black market they're getting
like seventeen hundred bucks for it. So I feel for
the future of the Nomes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I didn't expect this conversation to go that way here.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But that Nomes is one side, there's so much other
about the Masters, the nature of amy and corner and
how that works too. The timing of the event for
us is absolutely superb too. It's face it's perfect for us.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Huh yeah, absolutely, yeah, although if you wanted to watch
Ryan Fox tea off in round one, that would have
you up at twelve twenty six am tomorrow morning. You're
right about the final rounds though, it's sort of breakfast
time through the lunch time for us. So yeah, Ryan Fox,
we wish them obviously all the best in the next
well two days and let's hope the next four.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I've got a question for you, and when Ryan does
win it, what kind of menu is going to put
up for the Master's dinner?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Did did you see Rory McElroy's comments though, because there's
you've alluded to Dars, if you'll win the Masters, you
choose the menu for the champions dinner, lunch whatever it
is the next year. And Rory McElroy was asked why
he didn't put more Irish food on the menu, and
he said, it's because I want to enjoy the dinner
as well. I'm not sure what this is about Irish.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Cuisine cres and pola and fish and chips that are
nice and simple.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, imagine it'd have to be something quintessentially key. We
maybe some pineapple lumps for dessert or similar. Anyway, we digress,
We digress. Hey, just before we do exit the chamber,
news today from our colleague get the Herald, Gregor Paul
that Don Tricker is being lined up as the new
head of high performance for New Zealand Rugby. That'd be
a pretty good appointment, wouldn't it huge?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And the comments being made. I think it was Steve
Hansen who said it. The fact that he has a
separation from the game of rugby to what he does
is hugely important. We know he's a high performing professional,
he's worked with baseball, his work with softball, but the
fact that he's not a rugby head that's probably quite helpful.
And you don't need to talk about what he has
(15:15):
achieved and what he's done. The guy is a quintessential
professional in this space. So I didn't need to be
a bad move at all. Jason, No, I agree with you, Darcy.
I think it would be a fantastic move. And he's
got that connection with New Zealand rugby. He's been involved
in the past in different roles. He's often brought in
as an independent onto panels of certain degrees. And look,
(15:38):
I think you know, if anybody knows high performance, it's
Don Tricker from his time in Major League Baseball and
other sport around the world as well. So look, if
they can tempt him home, then absolutely tremendous. Not quite
sure Scott Robertson will be overly keen on him because
he was part of the crew that actually got rid
of Scott Robertson too. So he understands the failings of
the sport of the last couple of years, and that
(16:00):
can't be a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, not at all, can't be a bad thing. He's
got that intimate knowledge of what hasn't worked most recently
and perhaps gives him an insight into may work in
the future. That is us in the chamber today.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Good because it's getting cold and hair. I'm out eating
a vix.
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(17:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Geta there, Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast. Great to
have you listening in to our daily dose of sports,
news of sports, opinion of sports, interviews and other bits
and pieces as well. It's Thursday, Eightpril the ninth. I'm
Jason Pine.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I'm sports I'm just falling into line of what
you would say. My name is Darcy. It's great to
be here as well, distributing our thought processes around what
is something that's far too important to be taken seriously?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right, Pony, that's right, exactly right. We often say that,
but it won't stop us from producing the Sports Fix podcast.
Who was going to add some sense of sanity to
the podcast today in terms of a different thought So,
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That race car drivers are sane at all, and they
they've completely cut themselves adrift from sanity with what they do.
But we're going to talk to Ryan Wood today because
it's the first of two legs of sid cars in
New Zealands people this Weeking Christ gets the weekend after
say young Wellington Headler wellin Wood joins.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Us looking forward to that, I want to kick around
a couple of topics in the chamber with you as well,
and the latest sports news come in your way, so
let's get into it. In other news, let's kick you
off well a look at some of the big sports
stories around today. A plea from AUGUSTA National Chair Fred
Ridley to halt the advance of golf ball technology as
drives start to exceed three hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Until recent years, golf has been a game of imagination, creativity,
and variety. The game has become much more one dimensional
as players drive the ball prodigious distances and routinely hit
short irons into par fours and even some par fives.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Christall Ledger Walker believes her sister Charlie will be an
asset to any w NBA basketball team that picks her
up in Monday to being more of.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
A facilitator and having a difference the Warble role player
type of position in that team definitely gives her different
ways of seeing the game before she gets to that
next level where she will have blue play different roles.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And wins for Paris Sint Jamn and Athletico Madrid and
their Champions League Football quarter final First League ties. This morning,
Athletico have beaten Barcelona two nil and defending champions PSG
have beaten Liverpool by the same score.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Current Scalia in.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
On goals, Liverpool unpacked, Current Scalia doubles Paris Shaman's advantage
using Avinion.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussie Waltergrave.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's all welcome now to the Sportsfix podcast to via
Zupercard driver Ryan Wood competing over the weekend and Topaul
the following weekend in christ Church. Welcome to the show. Ryan,
thanks for joining us.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Good day mate, how are you?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh? Good mate? Thanks for asking. I'm not as excited
as you because I need you to drive a supercar
around Topel this weeken. I'm also quite pleased because I
don't think the weather's going to be great, is it, Ryan?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Yeah, Look, it's it's going to be interesting. It looks
like it's going to go full Keywi mode on us.
But that's all right, lucky. I've got wet feet being
at keying myself, but no looking forward to it. Excited
for a double hitter and yeah, it's great to be
back home in New Zealand join it in front of
the best crowd and probably the world.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's a home race for you, Ryan. So I'm presuming
a lot of the family are coming up from Wellington
to tick you guys out.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Yeah, yep, We've got a lot of my fan a
lot of their friends and family and yeah it's gonna
be Yeah, very exciting to have them all and a
lot of them are going to come down to christ
Church as well. So yeah, really grateful for the.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Support from what I recall Andrew, though you really enjoyed
it in the wear Well a couple of years back,
your debut season you managed to pick up a bloody
good result in the damp.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Yeah, yep, look we had a really good round here
free years ago and super stoked and yeah, I think
last year was my first ever podium, so yeah, really
excited to hopefully get a win or some more trophies
this year and yeah, bring it on.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
There's a lot of confidence being spoken of around the
traps that the super might actually get it done over
the weekend and could pick up very first place for
the very first time. Where does that confidence come from?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Do you think Yeah, look, we've we've gone you know
to obviously the tweeta super this year and it's been
a massive change and we're just learning as each time
we go. So it's been been a really good start
to the year and we're just trying to build on that.
We've got a got a new package and it's just
(05:15):
about trying to learn it and make do with what
we've got and you know, really understand it. The most
exciting part is we can see you know, the growth
and the package a lady, and we're just trying to
extract that week in week out.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The car itself, wut year, where do you think that's
got room to move? We're the biggest areas of improvement
in your mind for the right itself.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Oh, the car has just got room to move sort of,
you know, everywhere. But we're obviously been trying to knuckle
down a bit of straight line speed and and that
sort of stuff. The balance and the chassis's actually been
pretty solid the way we've rolled out. So yeah, look,
we'll see what happens this weekend. But yeah, it's just
(06:03):
all about focusing on the controllables and we'll just do
the best weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's only early days for the Twitter Supra yourself, how
have you adapted to that? Like seven races through you're
setting seventh in the championship, so you've had a bit
of time behind the wheel. Where do you think you've
left it as far as driving this vehicle.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I think it's just getting comfortable and just understanding it.
I think as a driver, you know, you always drive
as fast as you can, and I think just understanding
what changes need to be made to the chassis and
how we can move it forward and be more consistent
over the weekend and over the year is going to
(06:46):
be the most important and key key part of success
this year. So yeah, really just trying to make sure
we do that. And yeah, really excited.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You had some success in Melbourne, Ryan Wood. Why where
did that success come from?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I think it was just a combination of things. But
you know, we just worked really hard on making sure
we win the weekend, open minded and just put out
his foot forward and we had some really good speed
and just got unlucky there in a couple other races.
So I think it's exciting times for the next two
weeks here in New Zealand, and we're just trying to
(07:22):
build on that and make sure that we have a
good package over here in front of the front, in
front of my home fans.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So how much time have you spent peeling on that
track in different cars because you were competing in the
Castrol toyer to Formula Oceania Racing series goes on. You've
raced there too, and you had success here as well.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Yeah, yep, we've got you know a bit of success
here and it's just about trying to lean on that
and make sure that you know, this weekend we can
try and provide good, good car speed, but I think
it's going to be wet, so it's it doesn't really yeah,
you know, translate, but mate, honestly, it's just about going
(08:03):
out there and driving as fast as you can and
then what will be will be. So it's exciting times
and hopefully this weekends as big as it's been over
the past couple of years because Topol has been a
really great event. So looking forward to seeing so many
fans and yet getting amongst.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It, dissecting the sporting agenda.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine and Darcy Waldergrave.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The Aussie government have climbed in and put berg restrictions
around sport gambling at firms in essences of January the
first next year. There are a number of restrictions about when,
where and how these companies can climb into our space,
our mind space through TV, radio, through advertising on jerseys,
(08:53):
advertising on billboards, advertising around grounds. The Aussie government don't
like the way this is heading and they want to
be seen to be doing something about it. Well, maybe
they want to do something about it, but I'd suggest
it's more they want to be seen to be doing
something about it. I think the horse has bolted. I
think it's long gone. The acceptance of gambling in our
(09:16):
communities is at an all time high people because it's
been normalized through advertising. Granted, believe gambling is not an
issue that they have to be concerned about. The government
though they don't have to look after us. They don't
have to look after the people with personal responsibility. They've
got to look after the small percentage of people that
(09:37):
can't look after themselves. So do the government need to
legislate for the suffering minority or should they say you
deal with your own personal responsibility. That is not our
job to overreach and tell you what to do in
your spare time and how to spend your money. Like
cigarette smoking, you used to get that advertised everywhere. Imagine
(10:01):
if we had cigarette advertising now like we have sport
gambling advertising, there would be huge outrage. Go on, grab yourself,
I smoke. What could possibly go wrong? Maybe I'm reading
a wee bit too much into this bit. Cigarette smoking
and the advertising of was well accepted back in the day.
Now it's on the no No list. How long will
(10:22):
it take before sports gambling advertising follows a similar path,
not only with restrictions but the acceptance of the general public.
And that is the battle the government have to deal with,
which begs the question why would you want to? But
at the moment it's just a watching brief. Let's see
what happens to Australia and we'll make a decision based
(10:45):
on that, which quite frankly is insane. That's government for you.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And of the Chamber we go or Gusta. It's well,
it's long been a bit of a holy grail for
golf fans to get to. The green jacket is the
holy grail that the world's best golf was aspire to.
Every year it starts tonight, dars our own Ryan Fox
back there looking to claim that green piece of apparel.
(11:17):
Augusta looks like Disneyland to me whenever I look at
it on TV. Every blade of grass perfectly manicured. It's
almost almost surreal.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well it's a lie, It's what it is. It's completely artificial.
They dye the grass and they dye the water. Wouldn't
be surprised that they painted the flowls on the so
the azaleas don't exist, they're ai. I'm not trying to
be cruel or punched down, but it really is. You
see Disneyland, It's not real. It's made up. It's something
out of a fantasy.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
The golfriel though, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You know?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The hopes, Yeah, the drives and the approach shots and
the puts and the chips and the pitchers and the
birdies and the bogies and the Elba trie and anything
else that gets gets shot over the next four weekends, sorry,
the next four days this weekend, it's it's highly esteemed.
Rory mackell. We finally won one last year and look
(12:11):
for golfers who earn millions of dollars. It was obvious
what it meant to him even without the paycheck.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I think carrying the tradition and carrying the weight of
expectation on shoulders of players that have never quite gotten
it over the line. I'm looking at Justin Rose have
got beaten last year. That's probably the most difficult thing. Yeah,
the track is tough, but they will laugh at that level.
But I think carrying what the Masters is and your
(12:40):
approach to that and what you want to achieve, I
think that's problematic for the players, right.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, absolutely, It sort of has a bit of an
aura about it. And look, many very very good golfers
go through their lives and never get close to winning
a major, let alone winning the Masters. It's a cruel mistress,
this game of golf for the pros and know very.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Cruel, and what's even crueler as collectors of the official
Augusta Masters Garden nome are going to be in a
wee bit of trouble because apparently they're discontinuing it at
the end of the year. And I got retails for
forty nine to ninety five, but black market they're getting
like seventeen hundred bucks for it. So I feel for
the future of the Nomes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I didn't expect this conversation to go that way here.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But that Nomes is one side, there's so much other
about the Masters, the nature of amy and corner and
how that works too. The timing of the event for
us is absolutely superb too. It's face it's perfect for us.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Huh yeah, absolutely, yeah, although if you wanted to watch
Ryan Fox tea off in round one, that would have
you up at twelve twenty six am tomorrow morning. You're
right about the final rounds though, it's sort of breakfast
time through the lunch time for us. So yeah, Ryan Fox,
we wish them obviously all the best in the next
well two days and let's hope the next four.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I've got a question for you, and when Ryan does
win it, what kind of menu is going to put
up for the Master's dinner?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Did did you see Rory McElroy's comments though, because there's
you've alluded to Dars, if you'll win the Masters, you
choose the menu for the champions dinner, lunch whatever it
is the next year. And Rory McElroy was asked why
he didn't put more Irish food on the menu, and
he said, it's because I want to enjoy the dinner
as well. I'm not sure what this is about Irish.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Cuisine cres and pola and fish and chips that are
nice and simple.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, imagine it'd have to be something quintessentially key. We
maybe some pineapple lumps for dessert or similar. Anyway, we digress,
We digress. Hey, just before we do exit the chamber,
news today from our colleague get the Herald, Gregor Paul
that Don Tricker is being lined up as the new
head of high performance for New Zealand Rugby. That'd be
a pretty good appointment, wouldn't it huge?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And the comments being made. I think it was Steve
Hansen who said it. The fact that he has a
separation from the game of rugby to what he does
is hugely important. We know he's a high performing professional,
he's worked with baseball, his work with softball, but the
fact that he's not a rugby head that's probably quite helpful.
And you don't need to talk about what he has
(15:15):
achieved and what he's done. The guy is a quintessential
professional in this space. So I didn't need to be
a bad move at all. Jason, No, I agree with you, Darcy.
I think it would be a fantastic move. And he's
got that connection with New Zealand rugby. He's been involved
in the past in different roles. He's often brought in
as an independent onto panels of certain degrees. And look,
(15:38):
I think you know, if anybody knows high performance, it's
Don Tricker from his time in Major League Baseball and
other sport around the world as well. So look, if
they can tempt him home, then absolutely tremendous. Not quite
sure Scott Robertson will be overly keen on him because
he was part of the crew that actually got rid
of Scott Robertson too. So he understands the failings of
the sport of the last couple of years, and that
(16:00):
can't be a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, not at all, can't be a bad thing. He's
got that intimate knowledge of what hasn't worked most recently
and perhaps gives him an insight into may work in
the future. That is us in the chamber today.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Good because it's getting cold and hair. I'm out eating
a vix.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
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Speaker 2 (16:19):
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Speaker 3 (16:27):
Done.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, not at all. Yeah, but you are a broadcaster,
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