September 17, 2025 • 18 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for 17th September 2025, the Black Caps named their squad for the upcoming Chappell-Hadlee T20I series against Australia that gets underway on October 1st. D'Arcy spoke with the captain named for the side Michael Bracewell to talk about it.
D'Arcy shares his thoughts on Former All White Clayton Lewis's match fixing case
And D'Arcy and NZME multimedia sports journalist Nathan Limm discuss the announcement 13 All Blacks are back playing NPC rugby this weekend and the rise of athletics in New Zealand.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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(00:41):
It's the seventeenth of September twenty twenty five. Lined up
for you Michael Bracewell verbast. He's taken over the captains
of duties from an injured Mitchell Sander as for the
upcoming three T twenty I series against the Australians. Throughout
the first week of October, Gown and the Bay, we
(01:01):
talked to them about the makeup of that side. I'll
throw out some ridiculous hot takes. I'm joining us in
the chamber is multi media sports Journalists from n z ME.
That's his old held and News Talk Z b mister
Nathan Linn, that's what we're doing, so I'd suggest we
get down and do it in other news time now
(01:23):
for the sound of Sport. Olympic high jump gold medalist
mus Kerr has continued as dominance of the discipline with
his World Athletic Championship title overnight. He's identified one of
the key aspects of his winning jump technically, I was
about just trying to surely we've measure my strides and
(01:43):
make sure my room was was the main thing.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And from put down and suspected that it was probably enough.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Love that guy, full of confidence but no arrogance whatsoever.
Brilliant character, mister Kerr. Blackburn's assistant coach said, Dan Kroner
is not exactly ecstatic about his team's outrageous tackle counting
their World Cup quarter final victory over South Africa, but
he did find some points of interest to spot during mclash.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Probably would have preferred it to be one hundred and
fifty tackles, not two fifty. But absolutely of the around
adaptability made through a lot.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Of different stuff at us which we've just never seen before,
like I've never reviewed more defense hoof of.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Crumb and black Cabs coach Robert Walter has named his
side for the upcoming three twenty I games versus the
Australians in October. The pacement stocks are looking great with
the return of Carl Jameson and b Sears.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Pass definitely an attribute that is key to having in
any team of any format of cricket. I think so
TOCs he back into the squad. He has worked incredibly
higher than the last twelve weeks to be back on
the park.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And there are some rattling vocal cords on Sport Today.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfex with Dancy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
The Beast is on the podcast now aka Michael brace
Wall has taken over the captain see from an injured
which Satana. The team today was named to take on
the Australians in three T twenty eyes over the opening
week of October Spring cricket. Hey, he joins us now.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Michael, Hey, Hey, do I see how you are?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Very well? You're the captain again. How are you going?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah? Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It's an exciting time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Exciting time. It's something you have to hand back eventually
to Santana. But you don't think like that do you
in getting this role?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
No, it's obviously it's disappointing to not have him involved
in the series. Is he's a great leader and also
offers a lot on the field with his bowling and
batting and fielding. So he'll be sorely missed it around
the group and on the field. But yeah, hopefully we
can all sort of muck in and make the most
of it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What kind of experience if you had actually working with
him in a captaincy role like off the park phone calls,
what you've learned from him and he's pushing the team around?
What have you picked up?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Predominantly, first of all, we just keeps things very simple
and very calm. I think he instills a lot of
confidence in the guys to just go out and play
their natural game and particularly in twenty twenty, taking the
game on and being brave. So yeah, hopefully I can
instill that in the guys and we can continue to
play a similar brand as what we play under Mitch.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Lead from the front. So you'll be doing exactly the
same thing. Dare I say ball to the fall?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, I'll be bowling left arm orthodox this series to
try and any of that haven't there. It's yeah, as
I said, it is hard to replace his skills set.
He's a world class operator. So yeah, we're all sort
of going to have to muck in and try and
fill that void that he leaves behind.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's a crazy way to start the season. They talk
about the summer of cricket, it's the spring of cricket
now it's extraordinary. First week of October a three T
twenty I series against the Australians. Wouldn't read about it,
would you, Michael?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, no, I was done in Queenstown this weekend and
it was certainly felt a long way away from the
summer down there. It was pretty cold and a bit
of snow and sleet around. But yeah, thankfully we're up
in the North Island and the forever summer that is
Mount Mangani. So yeah, we're looking forward to getting it,
getting up there as a group and getting stuck into
(05:25):
the aussis.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's been twenty years since that first T twenty I
match versus Australians and New Zealands. You guys are going
to rock out some pretty horrible haircuts like they did
way back then.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I don't know if we can pull off the haircuts
that they had, But I don't know who can get
an AFRO in our team. But yeah, I think the
spirit that that game was played in was particularly cool
and I don't think they could have forced on how
twenty twenty cricket was going to become. But I think
that the style that they went out and played and
(05:58):
had a lot of fun and yeah it was that
was more of a sort of a festival style of
cricket game, where as the games was probably a little
bit more serious now that it's twenty years on, but yeah,
hopefully we can still enjoy ourselves like they did out there.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
In essence, though, it is about joy and releasing that
inner child, if you will, and going out there and
having a cracking time, because that's what the energy is
around T twenty cricket. Plenty of strings. Do what you
feel is right. You've got a short amount of time
out there, so I suppose embrace that joy and that
pleasure playing cricket.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Michael, Yeah, absolutely, it's you'd probably say it's a bit
of a gateway to the other formats, so you want
it to be nice and entertaining for the fans that
show up. So yeah, some of the other formats take
a little bit longer and perhaps don't have the action
that's packed into a twenty twenty, So yeah, you want to. Ultimately,
we're out there to entertain and put on a good
(06:52):
show for the fans, and I know that fans love winning,
so we're certainly trying to do that. But as you say,
it's about, yeah, making sure that we're being as entertaining
as we can as cricket is.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Michael Bracewell beast. It joins us captain for the T
twenty ice series being played in the Out in the Bay,
all three games of the space of the first week
in October. I've read a couple of reports from elsewhere
saying that you're captaining a depleted side. Now I take
umbrage with that, because the strength of New Zealand cricket
of recent times has been its ability to select a
(07:26):
number of different players and go deep. I'd hardly call
it depleted. It came Williamson's not there. But this is
a crash hot team, is it not, even without your
injured players.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yeah. I think it speaks to the volume of depth
that we have in the country that we can put
out a very quality side like we have and still
have a number of injuries as well. I think, yeah,
you look at the guys that are coming back Sears
and Jamison after an injury layoff for both of those guys,
and that, yeah, they're obviously wearing to go. And yeah,
(07:57):
whenever we put a side together, we're always going out
there and trying to put our best foot forward for
the country. So we're certainly not thinking that we're a
depleted side, and yeah, we're going out there to beat
beat whatever team we come up against.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
U S and Avidian It's Sportsfix with Dancie Valdegrave former.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
All like Clayton that Lewis gets sentenced today for his
part in a corruption scandal that engulfed the A League
last year. Himself, along with two of his teammates, got
found out, they got pinged that they got collared for
being part of a yellow card manipulation scheme. What gets
(08:36):
me about this is the seemingly insignificant amounts of money
that athletes are willing to take on board to besmirch
their entire career, to smudge their sport and to go
down in history being remembered not for what you do
on the park, but what you do off the park
(08:58):
ten thousand dollars. Clayton Lewis sold his soul for ten
thousand dollars. There may well be a bigger overarching storyline
and around the approaches by the South American gambling cartel
that approached Ulysses Devella in the first place. It may
(09:18):
have involved threats on friends, on families. I don't know,
Maybe we'll find out. But if you look at it
purely at face value, ten thousand dollars to drag your
name and the name of your sport and your team
through the mud, what on earth was he thinking? He
plainly wasn't. So if any good can come out of this,
(09:41):
just let it be a lesson. He's being made an
example of. So are the other two players in his team.
And when you made an example of, you'd like to
think that that example is an italics in bold and underlined.
So anyone going into the game who has a rough
thought that maybe ten grand for a bit of information
(10:02):
represents good bang for your buck, they're wrong. You're wrong,
you know you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
The Chamber is now in session on Sports Fix.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We're joining the Chamber now by Nathan lem He is
a multi minute sports journalist from n z IM eager
to have you in here. You know, we had Kate
Wells form a colleague of ours here in the chamber yesterday.
I know how she fantastic, So like even getting the
rock Stars a TV to join us now here on
the face, that won't be long till he out there, Nathan, thirteen,
(10:34):
all Blacks are back playing the MPC this weekend. That's
not enough, is it.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh, that's not the question I was expects me to
get on the end of that. Yeah, okay, so thirteen
So the rest of them just aren't they having a.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Week off for doing some high ball catching learning on tackle?
I don't know, but I say that, Nathan, because I
suggest that these guys need to be playing. I know
a lot of sports people, and they say their best
way to play their best code, whatever it is, is
to keep on playing. I think these guys are short
(11:10):
and they need to all be out there playing.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I don't know necessarily if that is the issue. I
think from me looking at that game that the real
issue was the leadership and the keep cohesion between the
team and the players. I don't know if just getting
a week there are certain players we're definitely getting a
bit more rugby under the belt the likes of cam
roy Guide. Going back to Counties Monaco, I think I'm
really interested to see how he's going. Counties on a
(11:33):
two game winning streak as well, just flogged South. But
in regards to the All Blacks, I think those senior
players need to get together and they need to sort
out a plan. They need to know who's in charge,
who's calling the shots, and they need to sort something
out for the Wallabies. And I think, you know, having
a week off to just digest what happens, not have
(11:54):
to go back into another team environment and reassimilate back
into their in terms of the calls and the players,
but just having you know, a few days to solidly
look at what went wrong in Wellington and come up
with a plan, because it is really not that much
of a short not that much of a turnaround when
you consider the magnitude of what we shall.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We'll say, come up with a plan. I think what
they showed over the weekend is they've got all plans
in the world, but no one can read them. I
don't know what have they written their plans on a
bit of tissue paper or something that they've not applied
the plans because their plan wouldn't have been let's completely
fall apart after having a leading.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Question, sure the plan, because why are we going to
the back of a very short line out five meters
out from our own line? We've already been having line
out issues. Why not do an overthrow to a forward's
running off? Your back line's up five meters close to
the line out, the oppositions is up ten. Why not
throw it over the top and go like a plan?
If the plan is if the plan is to do
(12:53):
that within the plans wrong, it's not the execution of
the plan. The plan's wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Such of the coaches go back to the NPC coach
a couple of teams. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I'm not suggesting that. I'm just saying, who's who's calling shots?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You'd like to think the coach staff are, but you
can call all field.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They're not the ones making the call in the line
out on the field.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
If you're not empowering your players to make the correct
decisions on the park, you but that's a responsible from
a coaching point of view. It's all supposed to be everybody.
How's the blame? Storming I hope they're not doing this.
They're all sitting around going, yeah, we've all got a
wee bit to play.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Conversation is slightly more constructive.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But I don't like the idea of what do you mean,
not constructive, rude man, Nathan lem how dare you young man?
But the idea of these guys actually getting back to
playing a game. I'm a big fan of the joy
of the confrontation and the competitiveness of sport. And to
have these guys who've basically just been training for the
thick end of I don't know how long to actually
get in there and play some code. That's got to
(13:56):
be good for their soul. Isn't that an important part
of sport?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, of course, I'm such a happy I mean, you
are a happy yes, But look, I back I back
them to. I guess do whatever each individual feels is
best for them. And you know, I wouldn't underestimate the
power of what the players feel is best for themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And they'll be furious, Let's face it, they'll be absolutely furious,
and we're all ripping on them, but there's nothing compared
to what they're doing to themselves at the moment. So
it's they leave themselves too shredded to bit. It's all
about an uplifting good news story.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
John Stewart is the ex CEO of Athletics en Z.
It's a way before your time. When I first started
in this gig and Anyways used to say to me,
the problem with athletics is that we teach them all
how to run and jump and throw, and then by
the time you get to twelve or thirteen, all the
other sports turn up and pinch them and we've got
no one left that has turned somewhat. This is rapidly
(14:52):
becoming the go to in New Zealand. It's not collision
based as an individual or if that works well or not,
but it's something that we're it's paying dividends right now.
Hamus Kerr last night ridiculous a Geordie, the day before ridiculous.
It just carries on.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, the state of athletics in New Zealand at the
moment is, you know, unprecedented. I actually just got off
the phone with Hamish Kerr and I asked him about
what does he think about the state of the sport
in New Zealand. He said, what we've got at the
moment is we've actually got role models in pretty much
every discipline because you've got throwers, you've got jumpers, you've
got runners, the likes of Santana, and then you've got
(15:31):
you know, you've therefore got a whole bunch of kids
who are coming up and as you say, parents aren't
wanting to play collisions books. We're hearing more and more
about CTE and all the stuff with rugby and other
collision sports. So athletics, you know, is a great option,
and it's coincided with a time where actually New Zealand
is successful in a wide range of disciplines. That is
(15:51):
going to encourage, it's going to show. It's showing that
there are pathways there to the very very top for
all of these kids going through school. They could go
to the Olympics, they could win a gold medal like Hamish,
or at the World Championships or whatever. So it means
that myriad kids are going to come through in a
myriad of disciplines and see that there is actually a
pathway to that very very that very top stage.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's extraordinarily important to know that because when I was
in it, the whole concept outside of you know, John
Walker and a couple of those middle distance runners. It's like,
you don't have to cheeck. There's no way we can
travel the other side of the world and out pole
vault or out throw or out jump any of these guys.
It's just a different level. Now it's been shown that actually, no,
(16:34):
we can and we can dominate. You got to you
want to be it, You've got to see it. And
this is what we're seeing right now, this inspirational stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, one hundred percent agree, and I fully believe that
it'll bring through. It's only going to bring through more success.
This is only going to build and build and build
and build.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So come summer, when I start wearing a fight tunga
and a singlet into work, can I wear just solely
black singlets to celebrate?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, I reckon you should. I want you to wear
something on your legs as well, though. We need something
other than the other than the singlet. If you're going
to show.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Up, oh I know, wear my as well.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh yeah, I thought I'm just going to show in
a black singlet nothing else.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, I think it'll be taken off to culture. Maybe
I'll lose my contract. But nice to know you're thinking
of me half clothed Nathan n z Me, multimedia sports journalist,
always a good time mate, Thanks for yours.
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Welcome on into the Sports BITK podcast. Got to have
you all on board, Monime. Is Darcy Walter Grave with
you for the next fifteen to twenty minutes as we
talk about the big sports stories of the day, what
you need to know and the wonderful wide world of sport.
DJ Gardner Holmes is Eland's most trusted home builders are
still on board. Thanks for that, guys. It is a Wednesday.
(00:41):
It's the seventeenth of September twenty twenty five. Lined up
for you Michael Bracewell verbast. He's taken over the captains
of duties from an injured Mitchell Sander as for the
upcoming three T twenty I series against the Australians. Throughout
the first week of October, Gown and the Bay, we
(01:01):
talked to them about the makeup of that side. I'll
throw out some ridiculous hot takes. I'm joining us in
the chamber is multi media sports Journalists from n z ME.
That's his old held and News Talk Z b mister
Nathan Linn, that's what we're doing, so I'd suggest we
get down and do it in other news time now
(01:23):
for the sound of Sport. Olympic high jump gold medalist
mus Kerr has continued as dominance of the discipline with
his World Athletic Championship title overnight. He's identified one of
the key aspects of his winning jump technically, I was
about just trying to surely we've measure my strides and
(01:43):
make sure my room was was the main thing.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And from put down and suspected that it was probably enough.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Love that guy, full of confidence but no arrogance whatsoever.
Brilliant character, mister Kerr. Blackburn's assistant coach said, Dan Kroner
is not exactly ecstatic about his team's outrageous tackle counting
their World Cup quarter final victory over South Africa, but
he did find some points of interest to spot during mclash.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Probably would have preferred it to be one hundred and
fifty tackles, not two fifty. But absolutely of the around
adaptability made through a lot.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Of different stuff at us which we've just never seen before,
like I've never reviewed more defense hoof of.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Crumb and black Cabs coach Robert Walter has named his
side for the upcoming three twenty I games versus the
Australians in October. The pacement stocks are looking great with
the return of Carl Jameson and b Sears.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Pass definitely an attribute that is key to having in
any team of any format of cricket. I think so
TOCs he back into the squad. He has worked incredibly
higher than the last twelve weeks to be back on
the park.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And there are some rattling vocal cords on Sport Today.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfex with Dancy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
The Beast is on the podcast now aka Michael brace
Wall has taken over the captain see from an injured
which Satana. The team today was named to take on
the Australians in three T twenty eyes over the opening
week of October Spring cricket. Hey, he joins us now.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Michael, Hey, Hey, do I see how you are?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Very well? You're the captain again. How are you going?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah? Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It's an exciting time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Exciting time. It's something you have to hand back eventually
to Santana. But you don't think like that do you
in getting this role?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
No, it's obviously it's disappointing to not have him involved
in the series. Is he's a great leader and also
offers a lot on the field with his bowling and
batting and fielding. So he'll be sorely missed it around
the group and on the field. But yeah, hopefully we
can all sort of muck in and make the most
of it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What kind of experience if you had actually working with
him in a captaincy role like off the park phone calls,
what you've learned from him and he's pushing the team around?
What have you picked up?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Predominantly, first of all, we just keeps things very simple
and very calm. I think he instills a lot of
confidence in the guys to just go out and play
their natural game and particularly in twenty twenty, taking the
game on and being brave. So yeah, hopefully I can
instill that in the guys and we can continue to
play a similar brand as what we play under Mitch.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Lead from the front. So you'll be doing exactly the
same thing. Dare I say ball to the fall?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, I'll be bowling left arm orthodox this series to
try and any of that haven't there. It's yeah, as
I said, it is hard to replace his skills set.
He's a world class operator. So yeah, we're all sort
of going to have to muck in and try and
fill that void that he leaves behind.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's a crazy way to start the season. They talk
about the summer of cricket, it's the spring of cricket
now it's extraordinary. First week of October a three T
twenty I series against the Australians. Wouldn't read about it,
would you, Michael?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, no, I was done in Queenstown this weekend and
it was certainly felt a long way away from the
summer down there. It was pretty cold and a bit
of snow and sleet around. But yeah, thankfully we're up
in the North Island and the forever summer that is
Mount Mangani. So yeah, we're looking forward to getting it,
getting up there as a group and getting stuck into
(05:25):
the aussis.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's been twenty years since that first T twenty I
match versus Australians and New Zealands. You guys are going
to rock out some pretty horrible haircuts like they did
way back then.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I don't know if we can pull off the haircuts
that they had, But I don't know who can get
an AFRO in our team. But yeah, I think the
spirit that that game was played in was particularly cool
and I don't think they could have forced on how
twenty twenty cricket was going to become. But I think
that the style that they went out and played and
(05:58):
had a lot of fun and yeah it was that
was more of a sort of a festival style of
cricket game, where as the games was probably a little
bit more serious now that it's twenty years on, but yeah,
hopefully we can still enjoy ourselves like they did out there.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
In essence, though, it is about joy and releasing that
inner child, if you will, and going out there and
having a cracking time, because that's what the energy is
around T twenty cricket. Plenty of strings. Do what you
feel is right. You've got a short amount of time
out there, so I suppose embrace that joy and that
pleasure playing cricket.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Michael, Yeah, absolutely, it's you'd probably say it's a bit
of a gateway to the other formats, so you want
it to be nice and entertaining for the fans that
show up. So yeah, some of the other formats take
a little bit longer and perhaps don't have the action
that's packed into a twenty twenty, So yeah, you want to. Ultimately,
we're out there to entertain and put on a good
(06:52):
show for the fans, and I know that fans love winning,
so we're certainly trying to do that. But as you say,
it's about, yeah, making sure that we're being as entertaining
as we can as cricket is.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Michael Bracewell beast. It joins us captain for the T
twenty ice series being played in the Out in the Bay,
all three games of the space of the first week
in October. I've read a couple of reports from elsewhere
saying that you're captaining a depleted side. Now I take
umbrage with that, because the strength of New Zealand cricket
of recent times has been its ability to select a
(07:26):
number of different players and go deep. I'd hardly call
it depleted. It came Williamson's not there. But this is
a crash hot team, is it not, even without your
injured players.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yeah. I think it speaks to the volume of depth
that we have in the country that we can put
out a very quality side like we have and still
have a number of injuries as well. I think, yeah,
you look at the guys that are coming back Sears
and Jamison after an injury layoff for both of those guys,
and that, yeah, they're obviously wearing to go. And yeah,
(07:57):
whenever we put a side together, we're always going out
there and trying to put our best foot forward for
the country. So we're certainly not thinking that we're a
depleted side, and yeah, we're going out there to beat
beat whatever team we come up against.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
U S and Avidian It's Sportsfix with Dancie Valdegrave former.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
All like Clayton that Lewis gets sentenced today for his
part in a corruption scandal that engulfed the A League
last year. Himself, along with two of his teammates, got
found out, they got pinged that they got collared for
being part of a yellow card manipulation scheme. What gets
(08:36):
me about this is the seemingly insignificant amounts of money
that athletes are willing to take on board to besmirch
their entire career, to smudge their sport and to go
down in history being remembered not for what you do
on the park, but what you do off the park
(08:58):
ten thousand dollars. Clayton Lewis sold his soul for ten
thousand dollars. There may well be a bigger overarching storyline
and around the approaches by the South American gambling cartel
that approached Ulysses Devella in the first place. It may
(09:18):
have involved threats on friends, on families. I don't know,
Maybe we'll find out. But if you look at it
purely at face value, ten thousand dollars to drag your
name and the name of your sport and your team
through the mud, what on earth was he thinking? He
plainly wasn't. So if any good can come out of this,
(09:41):
just let it be a lesson. He's being made an
example of. So are the other two players in his team.
And when you made an example of, you'd like to
think that that example is an italics in bold and underlined.
So anyone going into the game who has a rough
thought that maybe ten grand for a bit of information
(10:02):
represents good bang for your buck, they're wrong. You're wrong,
you know you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
The Chamber is now in session on Sports Fix.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We're joining the Chamber now by Nathan lem He is
a multi minute sports journalist from n z IM eager
to have you in here. You know, we had Kate
Wells form a colleague of ours here in the chamber yesterday.
I know how she fantastic, So like even getting the
rock Stars a TV to join us now here on
the face, that won't be long till he out there, Nathan, thirteen,
(10:34):
all Blacks are back playing the MPC this weekend. That's
not enough, is it.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh, that's not the question I was expects me to
get on the end of that. Yeah, okay, so thirteen
So the rest of them just aren't they having a.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Week off for doing some high ball catching learning on tackle?
I don't know, but I say that, Nathan, because I
suggest that these guys need to be playing. I know
a lot of sports people, and they say their best
way to play their best code, whatever it is, is
to keep on playing. I think these guys are short
(11:10):
and they need to all be out there playing.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I don't know necessarily if that is the issue. I
think from me looking at that game that the real
issue was the leadership and the keep cohesion between the
team and the players. I don't know if just getting
a week there are certain players we're definitely getting a
bit more rugby under the belt the likes of cam
roy Guide. Going back to Counties Monaco, I think I'm
really interested to see how he's going. Counties on a
(11:33):
two game winning streak as well, just flogged South. But
in regards to the All Blacks, I think those senior
players need to get together and they need to sort
out a plan. They need to know who's in charge,
who's calling the shots, and they need to sort something
out for the Wallabies. And I think, you know, having
a week off to just digest what happens, not have
(11:54):
to go back into another team environment and reassimilate back
into their in terms of the calls and the players,
but just having you know, a few days to solidly
look at what went wrong in Wellington and come up
with a plan, because it is really not that much
of a short not that much of a turnaround when
you consider the magnitude of what we shall.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We'll say, come up with a plan. I think what
they showed over the weekend is they've got all plans
in the world, but no one can read them. I
don't know what have they written their plans on a
bit of tissue paper or something that they've not applied
the plans because their plan wouldn't have been let's completely
fall apart after having a leading.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Question, sure the plan, because why are we going to
the back of a very short line out five meters
out from our own line? We've already been having line
out issues. Why not do an overthrow to a forward's
running off? Your back line's up five meters close to
the line out, the oppositions is up ten. Why not
throw it over the top and go like a plan?
If the plan is if the plan is to do
(12:53):
that within the plans wrong, it's not the execution of
the plan. The plan's wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Such of the coaches go back to the NPC coach
a couple of teams. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I'm not suggesting that. I'm just saying, who's who's calling shots?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You'd like to think the coach staff are, but you
can call all field.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They're not the ones making the call in the line
out on the field.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
If you're not empowering your players to make the correct
decisions on the park, you but that's a responsible from
a coaching point of view. It's all supposed to be everybody.
How's the blame? Storming I hope they're not doing this.
They're all sitting around going, yeah, we've all got a
wee bit to play.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Conversation is slightly more constructive.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But I don't like the idea of what do you mean,
not constructive, rude man, Nathan lem how dare you young man?
But the idea of these guys actually getting back to
playing a game. I'm a big fan of the joy
of the confrontation and the competitiveness of sport. And to
have these guys who've basically just been training for the
thick end of I don't know how long to actually
get in there and play some code. That's got to
(13:56):
be good for their soul. Isn't that an important part
of sport?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, of course, I'm such a happy I mean, you
are a happy yes, But look, I back I back
them to. I guess do whatever each individual feels is
best for them. And you know, I wouldn't underestimate the
power of what the players feel is best for themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And they'll be furious, Let's face it, they'll be absolutely furious,
and we're all ripping on them, but there's nothing compared
to what they're doing to themselves at the moment. So
it's they leave themselves too shredded to bit. It's all
about an uplifting good news story.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
John Stewart is the ex CEO of Athletics en Z.
It's a way before your time. When I first started
in this gig and Anyways used to say to me,
the problem with athletics is that we teach them all
how to run and jump and throw, and then by
the time you get to twelve or thirteen, all the
other sports turn up and pinch them and we've got
no one left that has turned somewhat. This is rapidly
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becoming the go to in New Zealand. It's not collision
based as an individual or if that works well or not,
but it's something that we're it's paying dividends right now.
Hamus Kerr last night ridiculous a Geordie, the day before ridiculous.
It just carries on.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, the state of athletics in New Zealand at the
moment is, you know, unprecedented. I actually just got off
the phone with Hamish Kerr and I asked him about
what does he think about the state of the sport
in New Zealand. He said, what we've got at the
moment is we've actually got role models in pretty much
every discipline because you've got throwers, you've got jumpers, you've
got runners, the likes of Santana, and then you've got
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you know, you've therefore got a whole bunch of kids
who are coming up and as you say, parents aren't
wanting to play collisions books. We're hearing more and more
about CTE and all the stuff with rugby and other
collision sports. So athletics, you know, is a great option,
and it's coincided with a time where actually New Zealand
is successful in a wide range of disciplines. That is
(15:51):
going to encourage, it's going to show. It's showing that
there are pathways there to the very very top for
all of these kids going through school. They could go
to the Olympics, they could win a gold medal like Hamish,
or at the World Championships or whatever. So it means
that myriad kids are going to come through in a
myriad of disciplines and see that there is actually a
pathway to that very very that very top stage.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's extraordinarily important to know that because when I was
in it, the whole concept outside of you know, John
Walker and a couple of those middle distance runners. It's like,
you don't have to cheeck. There's no way we can
travel the other side of the world and out pole
vault or out throw or out jump any of these guys.
It's just a different level. Now it's been shown that actually, no,
(16:34):
we can and we can dominate. You got to you
want to be it, You've got to see it. And
this is what we're seeing right now, this inspirational stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, one hundred percent agree, and I fully believe that
it'll bring through. It's only going to bring through more success.
This is only going to build and build and build
and build.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So come summer, when I start wearing a fight tunga
and a singlet into work, can I wear just solely
black singlets to celebrate?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, I reckon you should. I want you to wear
something on your legs as well, though. We need something
other than the other than the singlet. If you're going
to show.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Up, oh I know, wear my as well.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh yeah, I thought I'm just going to show in
a black singlet nothing else.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, I think it'll be taken off to culture. Maybe
I'll lose my contract. But nice to know you're thinking
of me half clothed Nathan n z Me, multimedia sports journalist,
always a good time mate, Thanks for yours.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Thanks to us leading a vix.
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