October 14, 2025 • 21 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for 14th October 2025, earlier today, Silver Ferns selector Gail Parata shared a lengthy Facebook post stating she had resigned from her role as a Silver Ferns selector due to the Dame Noeline Taurua saga and suggested that no sporting coach in New Zealand is safe following her treatment.
In solidarity, former Silver Fern and high performance coach Margie Foster announced she would not be doing the coin toss for the upcoming Constellation Cup series. D'Arcy caught up with Margie to discuss the latest in the ongoing situation.
D'Arcy shares his thoughts on the White Ferns game against Sri Lanka tonight at the World Cup.
And D'Arcy and NZ Herald sports journalist Alex Powell discuss the latest in the Netball NZ saga and the upcoming Formula 1 weekend at Austin, Texas.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Why Hello to you. Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast.
My name is Darcy Walter Grave. This next fifteen to
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(00:43):
First up, we're going to have a chat with marg
Foster around the continuing saga of Netborn, New Zealand's what's
happened Now? I'm gonna shoot off at the mouth about
a bit of this, that and the other thing. It's
it's called an editorial piece, but it might just be
a hot take. I don't know, you decide. And then
joining us in the chamber from New Zealand Herald sports
(01:05):
writer Alex Powell as carry on picking the bones off
the corpse of new Zella nepl that's a bit over
the top. It's not dead, but I tell you what
it's not. On a good state right now, and we'll
touch on Austin Formula one in the weekend over in
the stakes. That is our master plan. That's what we're doing,
so live do it in news in sporting chat today,
(01:29):
keey least current fren is in to shape ahead of
his key he Swan sign He played his final nur
Ol game last month, but he caret that utin case
to move when both the Drome Hughes and Cody Nicoldema
broke down.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I didn't want to just be making up the numbers.
So yeah, I've maintained our high level of fitness and
physical strength, and my body actually feels in really good
shape considering I've had five weeks off and being able
to I guess let the Nickels settle that I did
carry at the back end of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wait. Fern's coach Ben Sawyer has his fingers crossed that
the Strlankan's crazy weather systems of recent time won't have
a negative bearing on tonight's Women's World Cup run. DA
international fixture both in Zed and s Our a bit
wobbly little wider scheme of qualifying semi finals. Out of
the next four games, we have to win three potentially
(02:23):
four to make it. So every game is crucial for us.
So hopefully the weather holds out and we get both
in here in Sri Lanka and then can head back
to India and know exactly where we're at. And All
Black fift Teams coach Jammie Joseph is okay with the
balance of the side, considering the potential for players to
move between the two teams Draped and Black, emotions, promotions, injury,
(02:45):
blah blah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
If we've got injuries, we've got guys on the loose
forwards to go hell.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And step up and play lock if they have We've
potentially got all Black players that may come down nicely
to players that's also on the cards. So I think
the balance of the team is okay.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We're with those features in.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Place, and that's the chat in Sport Today.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Sportsfix with Duncie Walde Greve.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Welcome to Mark Foster Now to the Sports Fix podcast.
Margas had years of experience coaching high performance NEPLE with,
among others, The Flames and the Magic. She joins us
now after saying that she's not going to toss the
coin anymore. At the start of the constellation car'p a
way of showing solidarity with the selector gau Prata, who
(03:34):
has just stood down for the role. Are you okay,
marg Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Really good. Everywhere I go around, especially in Canterbury, even
around New Zealand, everyone comes up to me and just
sort of say a lot, we're thinking of you and
Nipple and they really want to write you know, they
really want a resolution.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, we all want a resolution and I expect they
do too, but it's just not progressing. In the latest news,
of course, National Selector gaul Parrata has decided she doesn't
want to have her bar of it. She's come out
with a lot of phrases and one of them he
questions of any coach now New Zealand is actually safe
with this? I suppose the repercussions of this decision initially
(04:13):
that carrying on going, the shock waves are huge. Well
what's your take now on on Galaxy walking away?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, I just think you know that it was great
for her to make a stand in regards because you
know what it's like when you when things aren't working
or or you see that there's injustice, then why would
you want to be involved? Why would you want to
keep you know, going. I think the integrity, like you
know of netball has been is really a jeopardy here
(04:42):
at the moment. And you know that's something that we've
always priorted ourselves, inn't I guess, And it does come
we always say it comes from the top.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
She said the standing down and I quote here was
a chilling message to every coach to know New Zealand
and you've coached yourself at the highest level with the
other coaches, you know, do you think that's a fair
enough statement that it really is starting to worry people
on to coach status.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I think it does, especially when you're actually you know,
you're getting results and you know you're a career coach,
so you know you're coaching high performance athletes and there's
a big difference like you know worth, you know, coaching
elite athletes, and you know, to have that feeling that
you're not being supported by your governing body, like oh
(05:34):
my gosh, Like just imagine if Michael maguire, like who
was the Brisbane Broncos head coach and the players at
the start of this year, really you know, they were
going off about his training and you're like him, they
just won and I tell you right now, those players
were very emotional after their game, and they spoke very
(05:57):
highly of him, and I can assure you that no
athlete would have ever gone. You might have spoken a
little bit out of turn when you're when you're in
the moment, you know, like especially when you're losing, but
then you know, you just like the big picture, big
vision and Noa's is a visionary soule leader and so
(06:17):
you know, if someone like who is getting dealt this,
oh my gosh, there's no way I'd be putting out
my hands be anywhere near neat Wing Zealand. And the coaching.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Suggest the damage mark to the game as well outweighed
the initial decision and they didn't like put a torn
o quete on it quick enough And now people are
bleeding out this is devastating for the game in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
It personally is, and it definitely it should have been
resolved like way in the piece, like you know, if
we had senior players that are you know, the spine
type of players that were were like you know, within
your your team that can resolve and sort it out informally,
like it'd be like me lying down in the bed
(07:02):
one night and I've got my roommate and she goes,
oh shit, that was hard and bloody. Well, oh, you know,
I'm feeling real sore and oh we've got to get
up early in the morning or whatever. And the coach,
you know, hasn't given me any direction. I would say, oh,
be quiet, like, you know, like just you know, you'd
actually just resolve everything. You just go pull your head
(07:23):
and or whatever. You know, we're here, we elite athletes.
This is what it's meant to be, like, you know,
like you wouldn't even have this, but we didn't. We
didn't have a players association that we ran to to
go and say, oh, you know, my communication with my coach,
or I'm living in fear, you know, I don't feel safe.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, I think I think it's overcorrected. I think it's
very important for the players to have say and have
a wee bit of power. You don't want it going
one way. But I think it's been over corrected and
the power's all gone the other way. And I don't
think we're seeing great results out of that. But if
you look at the power structure and look right at
the top, this has to sit firmly with Jenny Wiley
(08:05):
and this is untenable the way it's going. Why have
any of these key figures not actually stood back and
go for the good of the game. I'm leaving. I've
got to walk away because that, in essence is what
it is with these people. They're not going any further.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Oh one hundred percent. And I think that you know,
you need to ask yourself that question, like even in business,
you go is this better for our company? Is this better?
Like is that decision I make? Is this the good
for netball? And if the answer is no, then what
are you doing there? And like some of these some
of these decisions are an absolute no, no no, So
(08:43):
why why would you put yourself in a situation where
you're not driving netball, a beautiful number one woman sport
in New Zealand to be the best that it can be.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Dissecting the sporting agenda, it's sportsfex with Dancy Waldegrave.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
White fans are hanging on to World Cup glory by
the skinner there. It is so close after a horrible
start to the tournament where they got beaten by Australia,
like no crime and that they do it to us
all the time, but they kind of fell over against
South Africa and they managed to turn things around on
(09:23):
Friday night with a complete performance over Bungler Desk. They've
got the job done, they've got the points, the run
rate has been elevated. But tonight they take on Sri Lanka,
a team that only has one point after the rain
enforced draw with the Australian So they are staggering. New
Zealand are staggering, not quite as much, but they've still
(09:45):
got their stagger on. So backs against the wall cricket.
I enjoy this cricket. I enjoy the pressure cooker that
this cricket brings to all of the players watching, the
players that understand how to move forward in these situations
and how to turn this what can be a very
(10:06):
stressful experience into a possible and winning experience. Playing me,
you've got to rely on your old school, on your superstars,
on the women that have been there and done that.
But similarly, Sri Lanka, who have also beaten us in
a series just recently, they have their backs to the
wall and because they're at home, they might come out
(10:26):
swinging in the same way. Whatever you say, it will be.
I think a great game of cricket I've really enjoyed
it so far. And if people say to you, well,
they don't hit the ball far enough, they're not big enough,
they're not strong enough, or tell you what, they're not blokes.
It's a different style of cricket. It's a different way
of playing the game and it is just as exhilarating
(10:47):
and just as engaging as the men's game. Get up, ferns,
get stuck in, do that business.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
The chamber doors swing open and my it's Alex Powell,
sports writer for the New Zealand Herald, friend of the
Chambers as well, I might add, and you're in here,
so that can only mean one thing. Formula one is
on this weekend, but we'll hold that, Alex will hold
that to later. Bigger story today. Are you well all right?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I think that's how are you?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And I'm good good. I'm looking forward to the entertainment
of the weekend after being very entertained with Bathurst last weekend.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Love rain, yeah, I hate rain any other time.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Do you remember a few years ago when Bernie Ecleston
was running Formula One, he suggested artificial rain would be
a great way to spice the event a week, but
none of the teams are interested in that because it
just costs money.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
But that came up this year. Georg Russell said after
Monaco there should be a button that every driver has
on that car and you just press it and the
sprinklers turn on, which I can. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Well, it made for so much entertainment and such daring
do from these drivers. You forget what they are actually
capable of until you're driving and basically smog fog, you
can't see.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
You couldn't see the mountain at all.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Wow, crazy stuff. Anyway, that was last week. We'll move
on a Formula one later. But he's a bigger storm.
And this storm's not just covered a mountain for a
couple of hours, covered an entire sport since January, and
the saga continues with Netball New Zealand. Yet you're shaking
your here with this grimace on your face. So girl
Parrata has walked away from being a selected now she
(12:22):
won't be.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
The last, right, Well, this is just a masterclass and
how not to handle a crisis. Isn't it like we
still do not know anything about what has happened. We
know as much as we can. We've reported as much
as we can, but the reality is we have not
been told the full story, and I mean information in
a vacuum, you take what you can get. And now,
from what gal part has said in a social media post,
(12:45):
it's just another sort of attack in the box of
this has just gone awfully.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
When you pull that post apart and look at the detail,
they've made some horrendous errors that are actually up against
what Netball New Zealand stand for. The way they've adjusted
their outlook and their view on player complaints on high
performance too. It seems to me very much like Netball
New Zealand are pivoting when it suits them. Is that
(13:11):
a fair thing to say?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Absolutely? It sounds like, and this is sort of what
we've heard the whole time from multiple different sources, is
that Dame Nolan told her is still very well supported
within netborne. Isn't Netborn New Zealand and the Silver Ferns.
So I don't understand why resolution has not been reached.
If she wants to come back, if the players want
her back, if the organization wants her back, why are
(13:34):
we still waiting to hear from from the affected parties here?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Someone in a possession of strength and power, possibly I
don't know, stands to look really stupid. And that's what's happening, right.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
That's the worry. Like sport, it's so easy to get
caught up in the hyperbole of when things go wrong,
people should just lose their jobs, you know, whether it's
bad results or something like that. Then the natural thing is, oh,
well they should just be sacked. And that's such a
horrible thing to say, right, because losing your job is bad,
you know, it doesn't matter what you do. But it
doesn't feel like we get out of this and get
any sort of resolution without someone losing their job, whether
(14:08):
that's at executive level, whether or not that stamul And
told herself, you don't want to see it, but it
just doesn't feel like there can be a clean resolution
to this.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well, if you have hours the meetings that go for
several hours and you still can't come to any resolution
when the health and the good of the game should
be in focus for everybody concerned, that means there are
heads smashing together and never the twain shall meet. It
doesn't look good. So who has got the ability the
intestinal fortitude stand up again? I want this is untenable.
(14:40):
I'm going Is it going to be winner the board chair?
Is it going to be Wiley? Is it going to
be Noline Todua? Is it going to be the entire board?
Because something has to move and who's brave enough or
who's proud enough? More'st the point of netball New Zealand
and will put that ahead of their own wants. That's
an issue.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
The worry is who's the bravest of them. It's going
to be done Nolane. She will be the one that holds.
Adam says, if I'm not going to be here, then
I'm gone, and that I feel like would be such
a backward step for the game in this country.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We'll go put Arthur's is basically warped because she doesn't
like the way he's being treated. I wonder if Grace
Wiki has been very vocal, much to the chagrin of
a number of her teammates, how long she'll last in
this They can't be There'll be blood on the dance floor.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
I feel like we need to actually give the players
credit here for actually keeping their heads down and getting
on with the job like that cannot be easy in
this environment, like we heard Carnberger come out and speak
on behalf of the team, even the ones who she
didn't agree with, so clearly the ones who have agitated
to remove Dame Nolane. We heard Grace Wecker do the same. Well, sorry,
she she basically said what she wanted to say, which
was how much she wanted her back. You've really got
(15:46):
to feel for a vet McCausland, Jerry, like, to coach
your country is such an honor, and I worry about
how well remember this, you know, will we remember the
good work that Irvette does and holding this team together
and like even the sport together.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well we're going to find out, aren't we whether she
is holding it together come Friday, because that's the first
of the Consolation Cup test matches. And I think the meaning,
the intent behind the statement made by Karen Berger and
we've got to put that to one side is very good.
They should look toward that because that's all about it.
But I don't know if that's humanly possible and such
(16:22):
an emotional game, it's such a high level that players
actually have the ability to part that to one site. Look,
they good, but it's gonna be a real test of
whether they have the ability to do that, especially some
of the younger players.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Well we've seen them do it against South Africa, you know,
on paper a.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Three nights last game.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Yeah, but that's what you want from those games. You
want to be tested, and they were and they came
through undefeated. All right, so it's doable, you know. But
taking it on against taking Australia on is just such
a step up. And now you know this time next year,
well we'll be having a different conversation because we've just
seen the season in which the Silver fand's best to
playing in Australia. But for now, it's going to take
(17:00):
everything that the sill fans have to just get a result.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And the Australian continent well known for it's by shark
filled sea and those neat ball sharks theyre smeunting by
right now on me huge on Friday night. Wait, also
on Friday night fighting games and Formula One. I had
a bit of a re I'm finding it's very strange
that they're having a week off. I mean, this used
to be part of the course, but these days they
(17:24):
just go race after race after race. So it's quite
nice having a breath.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Remember last year is and we had the sort of
what four week break between Singapore and Austin, and that's
when Danna Ricardo was sacked and Liam Lawson came in.
So to have our week off, I mean, that's all
right for mecas I have a bit of a sleep
that You're right, it's got to be back.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What are we expecting in first and foremost we want
to know about Lim Lawson. Everybody's interested to know about
Liam Lawson. The general feeling is that the public will
know by the end of what this month.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Well that's what Red Bulls senior adviser, doctor Helbert Marco
has said.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
He sees all sorts of stuff though.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
He does, but he's saying it from the right place,
you know. So he said, the team will, I guess,
at least decide if they don't announce, at the very
least they will decide the driver line ups by the
Mexican Grand Prix, which is so we get through this one,
which was Austin, and then next week is Mexico. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Don't get on Instagram and start looking this up because
every man in his dash and has got an opinion
on what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I don't know, so I had it very early in
the air that were not very early, but earlier in
the air that Liam will be fine, he will keep
his seat for next year. That was before a very
significant change at red Bull where Christian Horne was out
and Lauren Mecky's came in. Lauren Mekis is of course
more sympathetic to ukisnota having worked with him for years
at Alpha Tower and then race singles. The joker in
(18:40):
the pack is now McLaren have released junior driver Alex Dunn,
who helmet Marco likes to look of whether or not
that means he's going to be in line for an
F one seat or just takes the seat of avidland
bladd Down at F two, who is a rebull driver
who will back step into Formula one next year. There's
so much woter to go under the bridge and it
could be a case of like we saw last year,
it has decided in the last race weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
If it doesn't fall toward Liam Lawson, there's a probability
more possibility that will happen. There any other seats around.
Is there any other driver that he could climb into,
even as like you did last time, which you won't
like coming in as that reserve that test driver. Is
there any other holes?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Well, he could always stay at red Bull as a
reserve driver. He wouldn't want that. It already feels like
his time at red Bull might be up anyway if
he's not going to go back into promotion for that
second seat next to Max for Stappen. Alpina yet to
decide their second seat. Flavierbratori, their acting director, has said
they will decide that from within their own rank, so
Franko Colopinto or Paul Aaron the reserve driver will get that,
(19:38):
which is the same because I think that would actually
be a really good seat for Yukis Sonoda, who next
to Pierre Gazli, who we know they can drive together.
Mercedes are yet to sign either of their two drivers
and George Rustling community but you get the feeling that
those two are just going to be kept anyway, especially
that the Max for Stapens off the table. But other
than that, every seat is gone.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And what do we expect from Austin a racetrack you enjoy?
Is this going to be a good and do you
think except for the ridiculous sprint race which is just
basically a way to destroy your vehicle before you get
to the main race.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I'm quite hopeful. Remember what Liam Lawson did last year
where he inherited the engine penalty from Daniel Ricardo after
Singapore started at the back of the ground and made
as well up to ninth. All right, now we've seen
what he's done in a year since and when he
sorts of qualifying out, he's right up there in any
of them. So I can qualify well for the Grand Prix.
I don't understand why, given that the car is better
this year as well, he can't score points, but again
(20:28):
it's such a sort of variable sport. Hey, all the
best of his.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Drew Bags, Alex, have a good one, bro, you too.
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Why Hello to you. Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast.
My name is Darcy Walter Grave. This next fifteen to
twenty minutes is all you need to know about sport
for today, Today being fourteenth of October twenty twenty five.
Wind up in the program, accurt It cippos kind Folk
at GJ Gardener Homes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder.
(00:43):
First up, we're going to have a chat with marg
Foster around the continuing saga of Netborn, New Zealand's what's
happened Now? I'm gonna shoot off at the mouth about
a bit of this, that and the other thing. It's
it's called an editorial piece, but it might just be
a hot take. I don't know, you decide. And then
joining us in the chamber from New Zealand Herald sports
(01:05):
writer Alex Powell as carry on picking the bones off
the corpse of new Zella nepl that's a bit over
the top. It's not dead, but I tell you what
it's not. On a good state right now, and we'll
touch on Austin Formula one in the weekend over in
the stakes. That is our master plan. That's what we're doing,
so live do it in news in sporting chat today,
(01:29):
keey least current fren is in to shape ahead of
his key he Swan sign He played his final nur
Ol game last month, but he caret that utin case
to move when both the Drome Hughes and Cody Nicoldema
broke down.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I didn't want to just be making up the numbers.
So yeah, I've maintained our high level of fitness and
physical strength, and my body actually feels in really good
shape considering I've had five weeks off and being able
to I guess let the Nickels settle that I did
carry at the back end of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wait. Fern's coach Ben Sawyer has his fingers crossed that
the Strlankan's crazy weather systems of recent time won't have
a negative bearing on tonight's Women's World Cup run. DA
international fixture both in Zed and s Our a bit
wobbly little wider scheme of qualifying semi finals. Out of
the next four games, we have to win three potentially
(02:23):
four to make it. So every game is crucial for us.
So hopefully the weather holds out and we get both
in here in Sri Lanka and then can head back
to India and know exactly where we're at. And All
Black fift Teams coach Jammie Joseph is okay with the
balance of the side, considering the potential for players to
move between the two teams Draped and Black, emotions, promotions, injury,
(02:45):
blah blah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
If we've got injuries, we've got guys on the loose
forwards to go hell.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And step up and play lock if they have We've
potentially got all Black players that may come down nicely
to players that's also on the cards. So I think
the balance of the team is okay.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We're with those features in.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Place, and that's the chat in Sport Today.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Sportsfix with Duncie Walde Greve.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Welcome to Mark Foster Now to the Sports Fix podcast.
Margas had years of experience coaching high performance NEPLE with,
among others, The Flames and the Magic. She joins us
now after saying that she's not going to toss the
coin anymore. At the start of the constellation car'p a
way of showing solidarity with the selector gau Prata, who
(03:34):
has just stood down for the role. Are you okay,
marg Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Really good. Everywhere I go around, especially in Canterbury, even
around New Zealand, everyone comes up to me and just
sort of say a lot, we're thinking of you and
Nipple and they really want to write you know, they
really want a resolution.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, we all want a resolution and I expect they
do too, but it's just not progressing. In the latest news,
of course, National Selector gaul Parrata has decided she doesn't
want to have her bar of it. She's come out
with a lot of phrases and one of them he
questions of any coach now New Zealand is actually safe
with this? I suppose the repercussions of this decision initially
(04:13):
that carrying on going, the shock waves are huge. Well
what's your take now on on Galaxy walking away?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, I just think you know that it was great
for her to make a stand in regards because you
know what it's like when you when things aren't working
or or you see that there's injustice, then why would
you want to be involved? Why would you want to
keep you know, going. I think the integrity, like you
know of netball has been is really a jeopardy here
(04:42):
at the moment. And you know that's something that we've
always priorted ourselves, inn't I guess, And it does come
we always say it comes from the top.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
She said the standing down and I quote here was
a chilling message to every coach to know New Zealand
and you've coached yourself at the highest level with the
other coaches, you know, do you think that's a fair
enough statement that it really is starting to worry people
on to coach status.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I think it does, especially when you're actually you know,
you're getting results and you know you're a career coach,
so you know you're coaching high performance athletes and there's
a big difference like you know worth, you know, coaching
elite athletes, and you know, to have that feeling that
you're not being supported by your governing body, like oh
(05:34):
my gosh, Like just imagine if Michael maguire, like who
was the Brisbane Broncos head coach and the players at
the start of this year, really you know, they were
going off about his training and you're like him, they
just won and I tell you right now, those players
were very emotional after their game, and they spoke very
(05:57):
highly of him, and I can assure you that no
athlete would have ever gone. You might have spoken a
little bit out of turn when you're when you're in
the moment, you know, like especially when you're losing, but
then you know, you just like the big picture, big
vision and Noa's is a visionary soule leader and so
(06:17):
you know, if someone like who is getting dealt this,
oh my gosh, there's no way I'd be putting out
my hands be anywhere near neat Wing Zealand. And the coaching.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Suggest the damage mark to the game as well outweighed
the initial decision and they didn't like put a torn
o quete on it quick enough And now people are
bleeding out this is devastating for the game in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
It personally is, and it definitely it should have been
resolved like way in the piece, like you know, if
we had senior players that are you know, the spine
type of players that were were like you know, within
your your team that can resolve and sort it out informally,
like it'd be like me lying down in the bed
(07:02):
one night and I've got my roommate and she goes,
oh shit, that was hard and bloody. Well, oh, you know,
I'm feeling real sore and oh we've got to get
up early in the morning or whatever. And the coach,
you know, hasn't given me any direction. I would say, oh,
be quiet, like, you know, like just you know, you'd
actually just resolve everything. You just go pull your head
(07:23):
and or whatever. You know, we're here, we elite athletes.
This is what it's meant to be, like, you know,
like you wouldn't even have this, but we didn't. We
didn't have a players association that we ran to to
go and say, oh, you know, my communication with my coach,
or I'm living in fear, you know, I don't feel safe.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, I think I think it's overcorrected. I think it's
very important for the players to have say and have
a wee bit of power. You don't want it going
one way. But I think it's been over corrected and
the power's all gone the other way. And I don't
think we're seeing great results out of that. But if
you look at the power structure and look right at
the top, this has to sit firmly with Jenny Wiley
(08:05):
and this is untenable the way it's going. Why have
any of these key figures not actually stood back and
go for the good of the game. I'm leaving. I've
got to walk away because that, in essence is what
it is with these people. They're not going any further.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Oh one hundred percent. And I think that you know,
you need to ask yourself that question, like even in business,
you go is this better for our company? Is this better?
Like is that decision I make? Is this the good
for netball? And if the answer is no, then what
are you doing there? And like some of these some
of these decisions are an absolute no, no no, So
(08:43):
why why would you put yourself in a situation where
you're not driving netball, a beautiful number one woman sport
in New Zealand to be the best that it can be.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Dissecting the sporting agenda, it's sportsfex with Dancy Waldegrave.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
White fans are hanging on to World Cup glory by
the skinner there. It is so close after a horrible
start to the tournament where they got beaten by Australia,
like no crime and that they do it to us
all the time, but they kind of fell over against
South Africa and they managed to turn things around on
(09:23):
Friday night with a complete performance over Bungler Desk. They've
got the job done, they've got the points, the run
rate has been elevated. But tonight they take on Sri Lanka,
a team that only has one point after the rain
enforced draw with the Australian So they are staggering. New
Zealand are staggering, not quite as much, but they've still
(09:45):
got their stagger on. So backs against the wall cricket.
I enjoy this cricket. I enjoy the pressure cooker that
this cricket brings to all of the players watching, the
players that understand how to move forward in these situations
and how to turn this what can be a very
(10:06):
stressful experience into a possible and winning experience. Playing me,
you've got to rely on your old school, on your superstars,
on the women that have been there and done that.
But similarly, Sri Lanka, who have also beaten us in
a series just recently, they have their backs to the
wall and because they're at home, they might come out
(10:26):
swinging in the same way. Whatever you say, it will be.
I think a great game of cricket I've really enjoyed
it so far. And if people say to you, well,
they don't hit the ball far enough, they're not big enough,
they're not strong enough, or tell you what, they're not blokes.
It's a different style of cricket. It's a different way
of playing the game and it is just as exhilarating
(10:47):
and just as engaging as the men's game. Get up, ferns,
get stuck in, do that business.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
The chamber doors swing open and my it's Alex Powell,
sports writer for the New Zealand Herald, friend of the
Chambers as well, I might add, and you're in here,
so that can only mean one thing. Formula one is
on this weekend, but we'll hold that, Alex will hold
that to later. Bigger story today. Are you well all right?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I think that's how are you?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And I'm good good. I'm looking forward to the entertainment
of the weekend after being very entertained with Bathurst last weekend.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Love rain, yeah, I hate rain any other time.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Do you remember a few years ago when Bernie Ecleston
was running Formula One, he suggested artificial rain would be
a great way to spice the event a week, but
none of the teams are interested in that because it
just costs money.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
But that came up this year. Georg Russell said after
Monaco there should be a button that every driver has
on that car and you just press it and the
sprinklers turn on, which I can. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Well, it made for so much entertainment and such daring
do from these drivers. You forget what they are actually
capable of until you're driving and basically smog fog, you
can't see.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
You couldn't see the mountain at all.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Wow, crazy stuff. Anyway, that was last week. We'll move
on a Formula one later. But he's a bigger storm.
And this storm's not just covered a mountain for a
couple of hours, covered an entire sport since January, and
the saga continues with Netball New Zealand. Yet you're shaking
your here with this grimace on your face. So girl
Parrata has walked away from being a selected now she
(12:22):
won't be.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
The last, right, Well, this is just a masterclass and
how not to handle a crisis. Isn't it like we
still do not know anything about what has happened. We
know as much as we can. We've reported as much
as we can, but the reality is we have not
been told the full story, and I mean information in
a vacuum, you take what you can get. And now,
from what gal part has said in a social media post,
(12:45):
it's just another sort of attack in the box of
this has just gone awfully.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
When you pull that post apart and look at the detail,
they've made some horrendous errors that are actually up against
what Netball New Zealand stand for. The way they've adjusted
their outlook and their view on player complaints on high
performance too. It seems to me very much like Netball
New Zealand are pivoting when it suits them. Is that
(13:11):
a fair thing to say?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Absolutely? It sounds like, and this is sort of what
we've heard the whole time from multiple different sources, is
that Dame Nolan told her is still very well supported
within netborne. Isn't Netborn New Zealand and the Silver Ferns.
So I don't understand why resolution has not been reached.
If she wants to come back, if the players want
her back, if the organization wants her back, why are
(13:34):
we still waiting to hear from from the affected parties here?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Someone in a possession of strength and power, possibly I
don't know, stands to look really stupid. And that's what's happening, right.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
That's the worry. Like sport, it's so easy to get
caught up in the hyperbole of when things go wrong,
people should just lose their jobs, you know, whether it's
bad results or something like that. Then the natural thing is, oh,
well they should just be sacked. And that's such a
horrible thing to say, right, because losing your job is bad,
you know, it doesn't matter what you do. But it
doesn't feel like we get out of this and get
any sort of resolution without someone losing their job, whether
(14:08):
that's at executive level, whether or not that stamul And
told herself, you don't want to see it, but it
just doesn't feel like there can be a clean resolution
to this.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well, if you have hours the meetings that go for
several hours and you still can't come to any resolution
when the health and the good of the game should
be in focus for everybody concerned, that means there are
heads smashing together and never the twain shall meet. It
doesn't look good. So who has got the ability the
intestinal fortitude stand up again? I want this is untenable.
(14:40):
I'm going Is it going to be winner the board chair?
Is it going to be Wiley? Is it going to
be Noline Todua? Is it going to be the entire board?
Because something has to move and who's brave enough or
who's proud enough? More'st the point of netball New Zealand
and will put that ahead of their own wants. That's
an issue.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
The worry is who's the bravest of them. It's going
to be done Nolane. She will be the one that holds.
Adam says, if I'm not going to be here, then
I'm gone, and that I feel like would be such
a backward step for the game in this country.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We'll go put Arthur's is basically warped because she doesn't
like the way he's being treated. I wonder if Grace
Wiki has been very vocal, much to the chagrin of
a number of her teammates, how long she'll last in
this They can't be There'll be blood on the dance floor.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
I feel like we need to actually give the players
credit here for actually keeping their heads down and getting
on with the job like that cannot be easy in
this environment, like we heard Carnberger come out and speak
on behalf of the team, even the ones who she
didn't agree with, so clearly the ones who have agitated
to remove Dame Nolane. We heard Grace Wecker do the same. Well, sorry,
she she basically said what she wanted to say, which
was how much she wanted her back. You've really got
(15:46):
to feel for a vet McCausland, Jerry, like, to coach
your country is such an honor, and I worry about
how well remember this, you know, will we remember the
good work that Irvette does and holding this team together
and like even the sport together.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well we're going to find out, aren't we whether she
is holding it together come Friday, because that's the first
of the Consolation Cup test matches. And I think the meaning,
the intent behind the statement made by Karen Berger and
we've got to put that to one side is very good.
They should look toward that because that's all about it.
But I don't know if that's humanly possible and such
(16:22):
an emotional game, it's such a high level that players
actually have the ability to part that to one site. Look,
they good, but it's gonna be a real test of
whether they have the ability to do that, especially some
of the younger players.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Well we've seen them do it against South Africa, you know,
on paper a.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Three nights last game.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Yeah, but that's what you want from those games. You
want to be tested, and they were and they came
through undefeated. All right, so it's doable, you know. But
taking it on against taking Australia on is just such
a step up. And now you know this time next year,
well we'll be having a different conversation because we've just
seen the season in which the Silver fand's best to
playing in Australia. But for now, it's going to take
(17:00):
everything that the sill fans have to just get a result.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And the Australian continent well known for it's by shark
filled sea and those neat ball sharks theyre smeunting by
right now on me huge on Friday night. Wait, also
on Friday night fighting games and Formula One. I had
a bit of a re I'm finding it's very strange
that they're having a week off. I mean, this used
to be part of the course, but these days they
(17:24):
just go race after race after race. So it's quite
nice having a breath.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Remember last year is and we had the sort of
what four week break between Singapore and Austin, and that's
when Danna Ricardo was sacked and Liam Lawson came in.
So to have our week off, I mean, that's all
right for mecas I have a bit of a sleep
that You're right, it's got to be back.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What are we expecting in first and foremost we want
to know about Lim Lawson. Everybody's interested to know about
Liam Lawson. The general feeling is that the public will
know by the end of what this month.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Well that's what Red Bulls senior adviser, doctor Helbert Marco
has said.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
He sees all sorts of stuff though.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
He does, but he's saying it from the right place,
you know. So he said, the team will, I guess,
at least decide if they don't announce, at the very
least they will decide the driver line ups by the
Mexican Grand Prix, which is so we get through this one,
which was Austin, and then next week is Mexico. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Don't get on Instagram and start looking this up because
every man in his dash and has got an opinion
on what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I don't know, so I had it very early in
the air that were not very early, but earlier in
the air that Liam will be fine, he will keep
his seat for next year. That was before a very
significant change at red Bull where Christian Horne was out
and Lauren Mecky's came in. Lauren Mekis is of course
more sympathetic to ukisnota having worked with him for years
at Alpha Tower and then race singles. The joker in
(18:40):
the pack is now McLaren have released junior driver Alex Dunn,
who helmet Marco likes to look of whether or not
that means he's going to be in line for an
F one seat or just takes the seat of avidland
bladd Down at F two, who is a rebull driver
who will back step into Formula one next year. There's
so much woter to go under the bridge and it
could be a case of like we saw last year,
it has decided in the last race weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
If it doesn't fall toward Liam Lawson, there's a probability
more possibility that will happen. There any other seats around.
Is there any other driver that he could climb into,
even as like you did last time, which you won't
like coming in as that reserve that test driver. Is
there any other holes?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Well, he could always stay at red Bull as a
reserve driver. He wouldn't want that. It already feels like
his time at red Bull might be up anyway if
he's not going to go back into promotion for that
second seat next to Max for Stappen. Alpina yet to
decide their second seat. Flavierbratori, their acting director, has said
they will decide that from within their own rank, so
Franko Colopinto or Paul Aaron the reserve driver will get that,
(19:38):
which is the same because I think that would actually
be a really good seat for Yukis Sonoda, who next
to Pierre Gazli, who we know they can drive together.
Mercedes are yet to sign either of their two drivers
and George Rustling community but you get the feeling that
those two are just going to be kept anyway, especially
that the Max for Stapens off the table. But other
than that, every seat is gone.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And what do we expect from Austin a racetrack you enjoy?
Is this going to be a good and do you
think except for the ridiculous sprint race which is just
basically a way to destroy your vehicle before you get
to the main race.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I'm quite hopeful. Remember what Liam Lawson did last year
where he inherited the engine penalty from Daniel Ricardo after
Singapore started at the back of the ground and made
as well up to ninth. All right, now we've seen
what he's done in a year since and when he
sorts of qualifying out, he's right up there in any
of them. So I can qualify well for the Grand Prix.
I don't understand why, given that the car is better
this year as well, he can't score points, but again
(20:28):
it's such a sort of variable sport. Hey, all the
best of his.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Drew Bags, Alex, have a good one, bro, you too.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
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