May 19, 2026 • 21 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for 19 May 2026, a dominant showing at Magic Round in which the Warriors beat the Broncos 42-12 was tainted. Early in the match inform halfback Tanah Boyd went down with what has since been confirmed as ACL rupture.
This injury will see him miss the rest of the season creating a selection headache between Luke Metcalf, who has just decided to leave the club at the end of the season and Te Maire Martin who played well on his return to the side in Brisbane, who was also named in the side to take on the Dragons this weekend.
Former Warriors head coach Matthew Elliott joined D'Arcy to discuss.
D'Arcy shares his thoughts on the upcoming Indy 500 race
And D'Arcy and NZME head of sport Winston Aldworth discuss what the Warriors should do with Luke Metcalf and what's happening in the final weeks of the Premier League.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks EDB. Follow
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This is Sportsfix Howard by News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And it's with open arms and a broad smile, I
welcome you into the Sports Fixed podcast to Tuesday. It's
the nineteenth of May twenty twenty six. My name's Darcy
Walter Grave and coming up in the next fifteen twenty
odd minutes, we'll be speaking with Matthew Elliott. Matthew Elliott
a former coach of the Warriors around the sewn metcalf situation,
(00:44):
should they have picked him or not? More on that
still to come. I'll be joined in the chamber by
Winston Aldworth. Winston is the editor of Sport for the
New Zealand Herald, and I'll sheep my mouth off about something.
I don't know what it is yet, but I'll work
it out shortly. Welcome on into the chaos. Great to
have you on board. Let's go in other news in
(01:06):
the strange comings and going some sport today. Heartened his
assistant coach and All Black superstar from way back in
the day, being Smith is preparing his team for what
may well be their last Super Tango match this year
against the marauding Hurricanes. That aside, he gave us the
latest on Caleb Tungato, who had a season ending achilles
(01:27):
injury against the Chiefs. A couple of rugby in front
of him and yeah, he'll do that. We've got a
good sncy and medical team that will do a good
job around his recovery and he'll do that right so
that he can come back. Jr's grand from our sorry,
big cheese. Steve Lancaster has rejected the philosophy that their
new connection with Touch New Zealand is about recognition around
(01:51):
growing fears attached to full contact sport. Rugby registrations this
year actually tracking well up on last year, so we're
not seeing that sentiment reflected in people's actions, but we
do know that it's important to offer a non contact format.
And the president is in town now, I'm not the
cat fellon the boss of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry.
(02:13):
Why Sania National Olympic Committees General Assembly is on welcoming
twenty three member nations as well as delegates from the
Common Games and the Paralymics to Auckland for a week
of meetings to upskill sporting organizations across the Pacific ahead
of the twenty thirty two Olympics in Brisbane.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a little bit of schmorcus broad read that the
entire family has come together taking the opportunity to also
learn best practices and get better. And then also what
that looks like in a couple of years time when
we're back in the region for the Brisbane twenty thirty
two games.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
An ab legend and a couple of administrators sharing their
thoughts on some sports today you Scando.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Bean, It's Sportsfix with Dancie Valdegreve and.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It's a warm welcome now to the Sports Fix podcast
to Matthew Elliott. Matthew's a former New Zealand Warriors coach,
Bradford Bulls coach and d edis the canber Raiders and
the Penrith Panthers even played a bit as well. Matthew, welcome,
oh to chat to you. It's been a long long time,
but great, I've still got your phone number. You well know,
(03:21):
of course that Luke Metcalf found himself on on the
outer mainly because tannem Boy was playing so well. We
don't know the process and what went down there, But
it ended up with Luke saying, oh, on out and
the Warriors let him go. And then just like that,
suddenly a Tanner boy goes down and it's been confirmed
it as an ACL that got confirmed this evening. So
(03:44):
he's out. Metcalf had a journey straight back in Again,
he's not even on the team sheet the team up
against the Dragons. I mean, you don't know what's going
on in the mind of the coaching staff, but what
do you read through all of this? They talk about
him not being ready or not being quite within the
action of the team and not knowing the plans and
(04:04):
so on and so forth. But I think it was
it'd be more than their or it not. Is it
that simple?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Matt?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I really think that there's a lot of integrity and
Andrew Webster. I've got a lot of admiration for him.
But the first thing is what he wants is he's
playing the team that haven't won a game this year.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The last thing you need is a destruction going into
a game like that, because that can create real problems
for you. So I think the selections that he's made
are exactly what I would do. That's for sure, because
he needs to have every one of those players on board,
not scratching their head and wondering whether, well, he's going
(04:42):
to this team next year, what is he going to
show up, What's he going to do in this game?
So and there was a little bit of evidence, you know,
even though the loss of Townter Boyd's a massive one,
there was a little bit of evidence of that harvest
part pairing last week. It worked pretty well, didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It worked really well? I mean, Tomighty Martin's only been
playing reserve. Great, It's come back from a broken leg
at the end of preseason. This is his first proper
game in the NRL. Stoll them a new one. So
that says a lot for the functionality of the site.
Even when you lose a guy like Tann and Boyd,
someone slides in, so they're all off the same song.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Shehit absolutely, And that's what I was talking about. You know,
you can just tell that, you know, the mindset and
the standards around the Plane group are really high. You
don't have to be a rocket scientist to work that out.
And when you look at other teams you can see
that they don't actually operate at the same level. So
there's a lot of good stuff going on there by tomorrow.
Martin in particular, it wasn't just what happened collectively, it
(05:44):
was his personal attitude to performing at the highest possible level.
I thought he was amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
To one o'clock back a wee bit when Tanner Boyd
first came along, but thinking that gave deepotizing until Metcalf
comes back and he just didn't let that jersey go.
It's got better and better and better. So the thought
process is when the coach's mind looking at a guy
absolutely ruling and a superstar, it's still coming back from injury.
(06:12):
How do you work that through long term? I mean,
his hand was forced through injury to Tanner boy But
it's a complex situation for a coach.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It can be a complex situation, and there's always a
balancing act with this. But when you looked at the
performance of Tanner Boyd, as you just pointed out year,
you can't You're not going to take him out of
a site. And particularly when guys come back from we've
already seen this, right, when guys are coming back from
ACL operations, there's there's a few imbalances in their physicality,
(06:44):
but also that there are going to be a little
bit impacted about being out of the game for such
a long period of time. So you know, I just
think the decision making around it's perfect. The one thing
I'll be a little bit protective about this is that,
you know, we can look at the individual player and
the decision making they've made and questioned that. There's no
(07:05):
doubt about that. But I love the way that our
administration in NRL has certainly done so much good for
the game, but around player movement and the lack of
you know, structure around it, I'm definitely not a fan
of that. And you know, we can look at the
you know, the young guy and the decision that that
(07:28):
Medcalfs made, but you know, I don't think he should
be able to make that decision, to be honest with you,
He's under contract and those contracts can only be questioned
at a certain time frame.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
This is a wider issue and it has been for
quite some time with the NROL. I often joke about
it that lead contracts aren't worth the paper they're written
on because they can be turfed just like that. That's
hardly the best for the future of the game, is it.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
No, It's not. And you know, I'm just concerned at
some stage is going to be a consequence to it
to an individual, because what happens is that people aren't
people aren't bagging the NURL. They're bagging the kid right
at the moment. At some stage, you know, they can
wear someone down. But I look at the other contrast,
the positive side of it. Look a look at a
(08:13):
sport like the NFL that has a draft. It's one
of the most watched programs on TV the whole for
the whole year. Why not make it a you know,
a really core, core source of entertainment for the game.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No, completely rewrite the rules around contracting players. You have
fun with the managers and the agents, wouldn't you.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Well, I just punched it. I just punched the sky about.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Dancy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Coming up in the early hours of Monday morning. It's
the one hundred and tenth running of the Indy five hundred,
the greatest spectacle in racing, as they tag it. When
I say they, I mean the Americans. This is so big.
And when I say big, I mean big. The record
for a tends to the Indy five hundred came back
(09:08):
in two thousand and sixteen. It was estimated that three
one hundred and fifty thousand people attended the event. Some
estimates go as high as four hundred thousand. To been
so many beers you had before you did the count,
it is huge. It's been running since nineteen eleven. It's
only missed a handful of years. Some annoying war the
(09:31):
first and the second got in the way. Otherwise, nothing
will stop Indy five hundred. Scott Dixon. He's got a
record at the Indy five hundred as well. No, not
the two thousand and eight event that he won, but
the record for the most career lapse led. I'm sure
that he would love to replicate two thousand and eight. Unlikely,
(09:52):
not because of lack of faith in Scott Dixon, because
there is one guy worth watching this race for. His
name is Alex Palaer. He's a twenty nine year old Spaniard.
He won the IndyCar Championships in twenty twenty one, then
a twenty three, twenty four and twenty five, and he
is the reigning champion of Indy five hundred. Indeed, he
(10:15):
starts from pole position on Monday morning. This guy is
a dead set freak. I believe he'll go on to
be the winningest driver in IndyCar racing, the most championships,
the most amount of wins, you name it, He's got it.
He is on another planet. He is ahead of the
rest by the length of the strait. As much as
(10:37):
I want to see New Zealand engagement, I would like
to see Marcus Armstrong or Scott Dixon or Scott McLaughlin
do well at Indy and you never know they might.
But Alex Palour is a modern day freak of the sport.
It's real shame you didn't end up racing in Formula one.
But I'll tell you what. Since he's entered IndyCar, he
(10:59):
has pretty much made every post a winner. That is
a guy you want to watch. This is a race
you need to watch. Indianapolis five hundred the greatest spectacle
and five hundred the greatest spectacle in racing.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Tuesday is a funny old sporting day. You never quite
sure what it might turn up, or more's the point,
what might not. And it's not only a headache for
sports broadcasts, it's a headache for the New Zealand Herald.
We're joined by the boss man of n z H,
mister Winston Aldworth, good Westalkland Cat. I might add Winston
strange old day, but there are still murmurings around. I
(11:41):
suppose the big thing is the naming of the Warriors
team today. But beyond this, what do we do with Metcalf?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Yeah, Tuesday, it's not quite hump day, not quite into
the downhill slide out of the week with Metcalf. They
have to use the mate between now and the end
of the season. Get your money's worth out of the guy.
It was the right call to let him go, you know,
at least the EASA's departure. You can't hold him, hold
him there.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And if the guy doesn't want to play in your team,
doesn't play. I don't get this whole. He doesn't want
to anything. It's crazy anyways, he.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Doesn't want to not play now he's you know, it
was reasonable. He wanted to go somewhere because he wants
to be the main guy and he has a chance
to be the main guy at a title winning team
hopefully hopefully, well it could.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well have been.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So what happens if he plays right the way through
and the end up winning. The tides of what happened,
but you never know.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Pretty cool dilemma, pretty for both the warriors and for him,
you know. But like Webster made a call on Tanner
Boyd and then the gods sort of threw a thunderbolt
at that one immediately. The timing of that was just spectacular.
Of the injury, I mean, terrible, terrible injury for poor
old Tenor Boyd. And some questions there too. One of
our sources at the ground, who might have been taking
(13:00):
taking part in the local hospitality.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Saying our source was on the source.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Our sources on the source, but didn't note that the
area of the pitch we're tennable went down and he
went down without being hat He didn't know that the
area of the pitch that he went down looked a
bit roughed up, so the turf had been knocked about.
You know, I've had a few games of footy on there.
Maybe that's a downside of these super rounds and Super
Rugby rounds and super weekends, is you pack so much
(13:24):
footy onto the ground that gets cut up and suddenly
your your million dollar athlete, which is what these guys
are Oh yeah, and that's the season defining injury for
the Warriors. So if there is any suggestion that the
turf wasn't quite as good as it could.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Have been, I like this, we can blame Brisbane.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Yeah, maybe the Broncos got one over us in the
end on that one. But the other thing about it, mate,
look like there's been a it's a big injury. It's
every years there's some some some disastrous and injury for
the Warriors, and they've already had had one or two
this this term. But it just surprised me that he
walked off like his knee is gone. His knee is gone,
(14:00):
and and he's he's the big deal, He's the playmaker,
he's the guy or all the attentions on this guy
and what's he going to do to get us to
the title, to get the Warriors of the title? He
hurts his knee and he walks off the field like
where are those little golf buggy things? Like where's the
what's what's journey? A journey whatever? And part of it,
I think is NRL is such a hard man game
(14:21):
that you either walk off the field or you get
carted off in a hearse right so if you if
you're drawing breath, the assumption is that you're And even afterwards,
he was sitting there on the side with a strapping
around his leg, and it's kind of like, I don't know, mate,
Like I'm not a physio or a medical whatever, but
if it's this serious, let's get let's get him off
(14:41):
the knee straight away, Like shouldn't this be built into the.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Standard pat I reckon. Tana's a big UFC fan. He
saw what Carlos Allbeg did with his legal smashed to pieces,
he managed to win a title, and he's like, there's
no way I'm being trumped by some UFC bro.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Mate.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
If your knees keeping you out of next week's game,
I don't want to see you walking off on that
knee in this week's game.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
My knee's been like this for thirty nine years. Let's
not keep me out of the studios. Very very different.
I'm sorry about the not comparing myself to a high
class athlete. I am, but I didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I don't think you should know.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Long term though, that's he's going to be back and again.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yeah, but well, yeah, what happens now, That's the thing
I mean the horrible irony of it will be because
you know, a cl injuries, It's not quite how it
was back in the day when when Michael Jones's knee
went are put back in eighty nine and that was
and that very nearly ended his career.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Is pretty special able to come back. You know, they
do come back a lot better these days. But you
know who knows. I mean, maybe he won't be the
player who was I was watching.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I was watching video last night on actually because I'm
getting knee surgery in about three weeks, four weeks on
how they actually fex acls and what they actually have
to do. Absolutely fascinating, not good if you've got a
delicate stomach to watch it. But it's a stunning piece
of surgery and the fact that players managed to come
back and carry on performing to a level.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
It's testament and a brutal contact sport where you're getting hit,
you're getting hit down there.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He should have been carried off the park or you're
right in the hearst.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Maybe not anyway, I hope that sooner orla is carried
off the park on the shoulders of his teammates after
they win the Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I see what you did that. Winston a Worth. He's
a scribe, isn't he And he's transferred that well vocally. Right,
what's happening in the ep L. It's coming to a
head now, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Yeah, And if things are going to go wrong, you
want to see them go really wrong in a really
big way. And so tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Miserable news sound.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I could say this because I'm a neutral, I'm not
a Spurs fan. But tomorrow morning they've got Chelsea and
if they don't take if they get a draw there,
they're safe. They stay in the Premier League. After that
they've got Everton and that's another chance. One point will
keep them up. One point out of these two games,
west Ham need to beat Leeds and so with all
these balls in the are basically we've all seen west
Ham go down before, right, but we've seen that it's
(17:04):
having quite a bit, I feel like since the two thousands.
But Spur going down would be quite spectacular for neutrals,
so it'd be Yeah, I'm quite looking forward to that one.
Like the great thing about the Premier League, it's always
a bit of a you know, a parade up the
top of you know, same four or five teams and
then weirdly Leicester same four or five teams one in
(17:26):
a year and year out. Arsenal have probably got a
title this year, but the relegation bunfight with big teams
that have massive egos, massive budgets, massive stadiums, and suddenly
it goes wrong, like a Spurs go down. I've got
this billion dollar stadium I've just built there in London,
that they'll be down in the Championship that last week
Lincoln City Imps had just came up. I don't know
(17:47):
if you've been to I think sinceil Park and Lincoln
the So you'll have Spurs who should be playing in Europe,
who have just been playing in Europe, you have them
playing at these pokey little grounds. I really want to
see that. I want to see that that failure before
from Grace. Yeah the shardon freud h Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's kind of if you're a Spurts fan. Please excuse Winston.
I'm not echoing this sentiment, but I know what you
mean and this is something to me. I love league,
the league, the concept of the league, and I wish
the A League was a league. It didn't end up
being a final situation, so the best team throughout the
entire year wins the whole thing. That's what a league is, right.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Well, that's what happened last year, right, the best team
won the whole thing. I hear you, I hear you,
but I kind of like love. I love good playoff action. Hey,
they're going to win this weekndto, it's going to be
a great game. It's going to be well actually said,
take it back. Don't be a great game, be a
terrific occasion. They've been. They've been last year they were
better to watch. This year they've been a more pointy
(18:50):
team that scored goals and g nali ways and just
kind of somehow stumble through like before before the weekend
that they hadn't that had three games in a row
with draws at the end of regulation time. So they're
doing it ugly now and they couldn't do it ugly
last year. And in a Grand final anything anything counts.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You can do it stats scene and you track their
ups and downs this season, and it really is the
classic mercurial position that they've been in. Where does that
put them this week? They've gone up, they've gone down,
win lost flat, draw lost when win flat, So where
are they going. They've had a handful of draws.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
The momentum from I mean mate, the way that that
was the best performance on the weekend just gone and
that's a great that's a great thing to do in
a semi final. So onwards and upwards from them.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Man, well I'll give them one thing. I haven't watched
so much football in my life, New Zealand football anyway.
What the phoenix y Hannay and this crew as well.
It's it's hard not to get involved. And what have
we got coming up around the corner? A world cut,
the big show. It's even managed to drag me and all.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What's it going to get out of the group there?
So this is going to we'll be looking back on
this year in years to come as the year of
the football really grab the hearts of the New Zealand
sporting public.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And the boss man of the New Zealand Herald, Hot
Take Winston. We thank you very much for joining us
in the chamber.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
It's a pleasure to does.
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And it's with open arms and a broad smile, I
welcome you into the Sports Fixed podcast to Tuesday. It's
the nineteenth of May twenty twenty six. My name's Darcy
Walter Grave and coming up in the next fifteen twenty
odd minutes, we'll be speaking with Matthew Elliott. Matthew Elliott
a former coach of the Warriors around the sewn metcalf situation,
(00:44):
should they have picked him or not? More on that
still to come. I'll be joined in the chamber by
Winston Aldworth. Winston is the editor of Sport for the
New Zealand Herald, and I'll sheep my mouth off about something.
I don't know what it is yet, but I'll work
it out shortly. Welcome on into the chaos. Great to
have you on board. Let's go in other news in
(01:06):
the strange comings and going some sport today. Heartened his
assistant coach and All Black superstar from way back in
the day, being Smith is preparing his team for what
may well be their last Super Tango match this year
against the marauding Hurricanes. That aside, he gave us the
latest on Caleb Tungato, who had a season ending achilles
(01:27):
injury against the Chiefs. A couple of rugby in front
of him and yeah, he'll do that. We've got a
good sncy and medical team that will do a good
job around his recovery and he'll do that right so
that he can come back. Jr's grand from our sorry,
big cheese. Steve Lancaster has rejected the philosophy that their
new connection with Touch New Zealand is about recognition around
(01:51):
growing fears attached to full contact sport. Rugby registrations this
year actually tracking well up on last year, so we're
not seeing that sentiment reflected in people's actions, but we
do know that it's important to offer a non contact format.
And the president is in town now, I'm not the
cat fellon the boss of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry.
(02:13):
Why Sania National Olympic Committees General Assembly is on welcoming
twenty three member nations as well as delegates from the
Common Games and the Paralymics to Auckland for a week
of meetings to upskill sporting organizations across the Pacific ahead
of the twenty thirty two Olympics in Brisbane.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a little bit of schmorcus broad read that the
entire family has come together taking the opportunity to also
learn best practices and get better. And then also what
that looks like in a couple of years time when
we're back in the region for the Brisbane twenty thirty
two games.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
An ab legend and a couple of administrators sharing their
thoughts on some sports today you Scando.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Bean, It's Sportsfix with Dancie Valdegreve and.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It's a warm welcome now to the Sports Fix podcast
to Matthew Elliott. Matthew's a former New Zealand Warriors coach,
Bradford Bulls coach and d edis the canber Raiders and
the Penrith Panthers even played a bit as well. Matthew, welcome,
oh to chat to you. It's been a long long time,
but great, I've still got your phone number. You well know,
(03:21):
of course that Luke Metcalf found himself on on the
outer mainly because tannem Boy was playing so well. We
don't know the process and what went down there, But
it ended up with Luke saying, oh, on out and
the Warriors let him go. And then just like that,
suddenly a Tanner boy goes down and it's been confirmed
it as an ACL that got confirmed this evening. So
(03:44):
he's out. Metcalf had a journey straight back in Again,
he's not even on the team sheet the team up
against the Dragons. I mean, you don't know what's going
on in the mind of the coaching staff, but what
do you read through all of this? They talk about
him not being ready or not being quite within the
action of the team and not knowing the plans and
(04:04):
so on and so forth. But I think it was
it'd be more than their or it not. Is it
that simple?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Matt?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I really think that there's a lot of integrity and
Andrew Webster. I've got a lot of admiration for him.
But the first thing is what he wants is he's
playing the team that haven't won a game this year.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The last thing you need is a destruction going into
a game like that, because that can create real problems
for you. So I think the selections that he's made
are exactly what I would do. That's for sure, because
he needs to have every one of those players on board,
not scratching their head and wondering whether, well, he's going
(04:42):
to this team next year, what is he going to
show up, What's he going to do in this game?
So and there was a little bit of evidence, you know,
even though the loss of Townter Boyd's a massive one,
there was a little bit of evidence of that harvest
part pairing last week. It worked pretty well, didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It worked really well? I mean, Tomighty Martin's only been
playing reserve. Great, It's come back from a broken leg
at the end of preseason. This is his first proper
game in the NRL. Stoll them a new one. So
that says a lot for the functionality of the site.
Even when you lose a guy like Tann and Boyd,
someone slides in, so they're all off the same song.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Shehit absolutely, And that's what I was talking about. You know,
you can just tell that, you know, the mindset and
the standards around the Plane group are really high. You
don't have to be a rocket scientist to work that out.
And when you look at other teams you can see
that they don't actually operate at the same level. So
there's a lot of good stuff going on there by tomorrow.
Martin in particular, it wasn't just what happened collectively, it
(05:44):
was his personal attitude to performing at the highest possible level.
I thought he was amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
To one o'clock back a wee bit when Tanner Boyd
first came along, but thinking that gave deepotizing until Metcalf
comes back and he just didn't let that jersey go.
It's got better and better and better. So the thought
process is when the coach's mind looking at a guy
absolutely ruling and a superstar, it's still coming back from injury.
(06:12):
How do you work that through long term? I mean,
his hand was forced through injury to Tanner boy But
it's a complex situation for a coach.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It can be a complex situation, and there's always a
balancing act with this. But when you looked at the
performance of Tanner Boyd, as you just pointed out year,
you can't You're not going to take him out of
a site. And particularly when guys come back from we've
already seen this, right, when guys are coming back from
ACL operations, there's there's a few imbalances in their physicality,
(06:44):
but also that there are going to be a little
bit impacted about being out of the game for such
a long period of time. So you know, I just
think the decision making around it's perfect. The one thing
I'll be a little bit protective about this is that,
you know, we can look at the individual player and
the decision making they've made and questioned that. There's no
(07:05):
doubt about that. But I love the way that our
administration in NRL has certainly done so much good for
the game, but around player movement and the lack of
you know, structure around it, I'm definitely not a fan
of that. And you know, we can look at the
you know, the young guy and the decision that that
(07:28):
Medcalfs made, but you know, I don't think he should
be able to make that decision, to be honest with you,
He's under contract and those contracts can only be questioned
at a certain time frame.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
This is a wider issue and it has been for
quite some time with the NROL. I often joke about
it that lead contracts aren't worth the paper they're written
on because they can be turfed just like that. That's
hardly the best for the future of the game, is it.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
No, It's not. And you know, I'm just concerned at
some stage is going to be a consequence to it
to an individual, because what happens is that people aren't
people aren't bagging the NURL. They're bagging the kid right
at the moment. At some stage, you know, they can
wear someone down. But I look at the other contrast,
the positive side of it. Look a look at a
(08:13):
sport like the NFL that has a draft. It's one
of the most watched programs on TV the whole for
the whole year. Why not make it a you know,
a really core, core source of entertainment for the game.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No, completely rewrite the rules around contracting players. You have
fun with the managers and the agents, wouldn't you.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Well, I just punched it. I just punched the sky about.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Dancy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Coming up in the early hours of Monday morning. It's
the one hundred and tenth running of the Indy five hundred,
the greatest spectacle in racing, as they tag it. When
I say they, I mean the Americans. This is so big.
And when I say big, I mean big. The record
for a tends to the Indy five hundred came back
(09:08):
in two thousand and sixteen. It was estimated that three
one hundred and fifty thousand people attended the event. Some
estimates go as high as four hundred thousand. To been
so many beers you had before you did the count,
it is huge. It's been running since nineteen eleven. It's
only missed a handful of years. Some annoying war the
(09:31):
first and the second got in the way. Otherwise, nothing
will stop Indy five hundred. Scott Dixon. He's got a
record at the Indy five hundred as well. No, not
the two thousand and eight event that he won, but
the record for the most career lapse led. I'm sure
that he would love to replicate two thousand and eight. Unlikely,
(09:52):
not because of lack of faith in Scott Dixon, because
there is one guy worth watching this race for. His
name is Alex Palaer. He's a twenty nine year old Spaniard.
He won the IndyCar Championships in twenty twenty one, then
a twenty three, twenty four and twenty five, and he
is the reigning champion of Indy five hundred. Indeed, he
(10:15):
starts from pole position on Monday morning. This guy is
a dead set freak. I believe he'll go on to
be the winningest driver in IndyCar racing, the most championships,
the most amount of wins, you name it, He's got it.
He is on another planet. He is ahead of the
rest by the length of the strait. As much as
(10:37):
I want to see New Zealand engagement, I would like
to see Marcus Armstrong or Scott Dixon or Scott McLaughlin
do well at Indy and you never know they might.
But Alex Palour is a modern day freak of the sport.
It's real shame you didn't end up racing in Formula one.
But I'll tell you what. Since he's entered IndyCar, he
(10:59):
has pretty much made every post a winner. That is
a guy you want to watch. This is a race
you need to watch. Indianapolis five hundred the greatest spectacle
and five hundred the greatest spectacle in racing.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Tuesday is a funny old sporting day. You never quite
sure what it might turn up, or more's the point,
what might not. And it's not only a headache for
sports broadcasts, it's a headache for the New Zealand Herald.
We're joined by the boss man of n z H,
mister Winston Aldworth, good Westalkland Cat. I might add Winston
strange old day, but there are still murmurings around. I
(11:41):
suppose the big thing is the naming of the Warriors
team today. But beyond this, what do we do with Metcalf?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Yeah, Tuesday, it's not quite hump day, not quite into
the downhill slide out of the week with Metcalf. They
have to use the mate between now and the end
of the season. Get your money's worth out of the guy.
It was the right call to let him go, you know,
at least the EASA's departure. You can't hold him, hold
him there.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And if the guy doesn't want to play in your team,
doesn't play. I don't get this whole. He doesn't want
to anything. It's crazy anyways, he.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Doesn't want to not play now he's you know, it
was reasonable. He wanted to go somewhere because he wants
to be the main guy and he has a chance
to be the main guy at a title winning team
hopefully hopefully, well it could.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well have been.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So what happens if he plays right the way through
and the end up winning. The tides of what happened,
but you never know.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Pretty cool dilemma, pretty for both the warriors and for him,
you know. But like Webster made a call on Tanner
Boyd and then the gods sort of threw a thunderbolt
at that one immediately. The timing of that was just spectacular.
Of the injury, I mean, terrible, terrible injury for poor
old Tenor Boyd. And some questions there too. One of
our sources at the ground, who might have been taking
(13:00):
taking part in the local hospitality.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Saying our source was on the source.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Our sources on the source, but didn't note that the
area of the pitch we're tennable went down and he
went down without being hat He didn't know that the
area of the pitch that he went down looked a
bit roughed up, so the turf had been knocked about.
You know, I've had a few games of footy on there.
Maybe that's a downside of these super rounds and Super
Rugby rounds and super weekends, is you pack so much
(13:24):
footy onto the ground that gets cut up and suddenly
your your million dollar athlete, which is what these guys
are Oh yeah, and that's the season defining injury for
the Warriors. So if there is any suggestion that the
turf wasn't quite as good as it could.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Have been, I like this, we can blame Brisbane.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Yeah, maybe the Broncos got one over us in the
end on that one. But the other thing about it, mate,
look like there's been a it's a big injury. It's
every years there's some some some disastrous and injury for
the Warriors, and they've already had had one or two
this this term. But it just surprised me that he
walked off like his knee is gone. His knee is gone,
(14:00):
and and he's he's the big deal, He's the playmaker,
he's the guy or all the attentions on this guy
and what's he going to do to get us to
the title, to get the Warriors of the title? He
hurts his knee and he walks off the field like
where are those little golf buggy things? Like where's the
what's what's journey? A journey whatever? And part of it,
I think is NRL is such a hard man game
(14:21):
that you either walk off the field or you get
carted off in a hearse right so if you if
you're drawing breath, the assumption is that you're And even afterwards,
he was sitting there on the side with a strapping
around his leg, and it's kind of like, I don't know, mate,
Like I'm not a physio or a medical whatever, but
if it's this serious, let's get let's get him off
(14:41):
the knee straight away, Like shouldn't this be built into the.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Standard pat I reckon. Tana's a big UFC fan. He
saw what Carlos Allbeg did with his legal smashed to pieces,
he managed to win a title, and he's like, there's
no way I'm being trumped by some UFC bro.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Mate.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
If your knees keeping you out of next week's game,
I don't want to see you walking off on that
knee in this week's game.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
My knee's been like this for thirty nine years. Let's
not keep me out of the studios. Very very different.
I'm sorry about the not comparing myself to a high
class athlete. I am, but I didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I don't think you should know.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Long term though, that's he's going to be back and again.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yeah, but well, yeah, what happens now, That's the thing
I mean the horrible irony of it will be because
you know, a cl injuries, It's not quite how it
was back in the day when when Michael Jones's knee
went are put back in eighty nine and that was
and that very nearly ended his career.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Is pretty special able to come back. You know, they
do come back a lot better these days. But you
know who knows. I mean, maybe he won't be the
player who was I was watching.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I was watching video last night on actually because I'm
getting knee surgery in about three weeks, four weeks on
how they actually fex acls and what they actually have
to do. Absolutely fascinating, not good if you've got a
delicate stomach to watch it. But it's a stunning piece
of surgery and the fact that players managed to come
back and carry on performing to a level.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
It's testament and a brutal contact sport where you're getting hit,
you're getting hit down there.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He should have been carried off the park or you're
right in the hearst.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Maybe not anyway, I hope that sooner orla is carried
off the park on the shoulders of his teammates after
they win the Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I see what you did that. Winston a Worth. He's
a scribe, isn't he And he's transferred that well vocally. Right,
what's happening in the ep L. It's coming to a
head now, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Yeah, And if things are going to go wrong, you
want to see them go really wrong in a really
big way. And so tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Miserable news sound.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I could say this because I'm a neutral, I'm not
a Spurs fan. But tomorrow morning they've got Chelsea and
if they don't take if they get a draw there,
they're safe. They stay in the Premier League. After that
they've got Everton and that's another chance. One point will
keep them up. One point out of these two games,
west Ham need to beat Leeds and so with all
these balls in the are basically we've all seen west
Ham go down before, right, but we've seen that it's
(17:04):
having quite a bit, I feel like since the two thousands.
But Spur going down would be quite spectacular for neutrals,
so it'd be Yeah, I'm quite looking forward to that one.
Like the great thing about the Premier League, it's always
a bit of a you know, a parade up the
top of you know, same four or five teams and
then weirdly Leicester same four or five teams one in
(17:26):
a year and year out. Arsenal have probably got a
title this year, but the relegation bunfight with big teams
that have massive egos, massive budgets, massive stadiums, and suddenly
it goes wrong, like a Spurs go down. I've got
this billion dollar stadium I've just built there in London,
that they'll be down in the Championship that last week
Lincoln City Imps had just came up. I don't know
(17:47):
if you've been to I think sinceil Park and Lincoln
the So you'll have Spurs who should be playing in Europe,
who have just been playing in Europe, you have them
playing at these pokey little grounds. I really want to
see that. I want to see that that failure before
from Grace. Yeah the shardon freud h Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's kind of if you're a Spurts fan. Please excuse Winston.
I'm not echoing this sentiment, but I know what you
mean and this is something to me. I love league,
the league, the concept of the league, and I wish
the A League was a league. It didn't end up
being a final situation, so the best team throughout the
entire year wins the whole thing. That's what a league is, right.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Well, that's what happened last year, right, the best team
won the whole thing. I hear you, I hear you,
but I kind of like love. I love good playoff action. Hey,
they're going to win this weekndto, it's going to be
a great game. It's going to be well actually said,
take it back. Don't be a great game, be a
terrific occasion. They've been. They've been last year they were
better to watch. This year they've been a more pointy
(18:50):
team that scored goals and g nali ways and just
kind of somehow stumble through like before before the weekend
that they hadn't that had three games in a row
with draws at the end of regulation time. So they're
doing it ugly now and they couldn't do it ugly
last year. And in a Grand final anything anything counts.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You can do it stats scene and you track their
ups and downs this season, and it really is the
classic mercurial position that they've been in. Where does that
put them this week? They've gone up, they've gone down,
win lost flat, draw lost when win flat, So where
are they going. They've had a handful of draws.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
The momentum from I mean mate, the way that that
was the best performance on the weekend just gone and
that's a great that's a great thing to do in
a semi final. So onwards and upwards from them.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Man, well I'll give them one thing. I haven't watched
so much football in my life, New Zealand football anyway.
What the phoenix y Hannay and this crew as well.
It's it's hard not to get involved. And what have
we got coming up around the corner? A world cut,
the big show. It's even managed to drag me and all.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What's it going to get out of the group there?
So this is going to we'll be looking back on
this year in years to come as the year of
the football really grab the hearts of the New Zealand
sporting public.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And the boss man of the New Zealand Herald, Hot
Take Winston. We thank you very much for joining us
in the chamber.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
It's a pleasure to does.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
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