On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for 3rd December 2025, after months of speculation it was officially confirmed this morning that New Zealand Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson would be retaining his seat with Racing Bulls for the 2026 season. Motorsport expert and founder of the Toyota Racing Series Barrie Tomlinson joined D'Arcy to discuss.
D'Arcy shares his thoughts on the latest chaos at Netball New Zealand.
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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 ed B.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Why Hello there, Welcome on into the Sports Fix podcast.
My name is Darcy Waller. Grace is all you need
to know in a bright size package without the wonderful
wide world of sport banks. Of course, the GJ Gardner
Homes New Zealand's most trusted home builder for being right
by our side. It's a Wednesday, It's the third of
December twenty twenty five. You're coming up in this edition
(00:44):
of The Fixed. I'll catch up with Barry Tomlinson. He
was the man who founded the Toyat Racing series. He
knows all about Liam Lawson and where he's heading. Will
discuss that great signing. Shortly, I'll get a few thoughts
around the continuing saga of netball New Zealand. Make it stop,
Please make it stop. And joining us in the chamber
(01:06):
is Ross Carl from a Rugby cod in our works
for us out here at News Talking ZV. That is
our master plan and as per we're going to get
right into it right here, right now. This is fix
in other news. So what's being tuoed over in sport today?
Let's talk Liam Awesome Lawson has finally been confirmed as
(01:30):
Racing Balls pilot for the next F one season. He'll
lead the team with Arvin that Lindblad taking this second
drive spot. Former Williams and Ferrari executive Peter Winder on
the Mike Hosking Breakfast this morning, expressed his admiration for
what Riham has achieved this season after being unceremoniously drop
(01:51):
kicked from Red Bull earlier in the year.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The second half of this year, he's done what carlor
Side started to do. He's looked at what he can
do in a race car and he said, right, this
is about the way I'm going to drive the rest
of my life. Now I'm going to try and polish
that and make sure I make few mistakes.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Football fans that manager Michael Maine has explained why amateur
goalie Alina Santos got the nod to start against the
Ossies ahead of a league regulars and elites and Victoria Essen.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I haven't been afraid to kind of change that team
up and test them at the highest level.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That's probably we're aut in our programers this year as
a big piece of around understanding what was on in
the widest squad.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
They lost it to Zip, an improvement from the earlier
five mil for logging and a Breaker and a Tall Black.
I say Leaper got busted up against the Aussies on
Monday night. He's now out for the remainder of the
Australian NBL season, being replaced at the Breakers Bike tight Webster,
Tall Black coach and a Breaker's assistant coach Judd Blavel
(02:50):
said the injury sneaked up on them help.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I think the adrenaline was probably kicking in and there
was a little bit of a lump during the game
and the medical team were onto us and we ended
up playing I think most of the fourth quarter or
second half with.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It race cars, football, basketball. What more do you want done?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
News?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
It's Sportsfix with d.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Barry Tomlinson joins the program now. Barry Tomlinson one of
the old school will open wheel races. He was one
of the founders of the toy Had Racing series which
is now the ct FROTT. I won't even go through that. Barry,
welcome to the program, Thanks for joining us, and I
thought of you immediately when Liam Lawson got the tick
(03:35):
to carry on racing. You must be smiling from ear
to ear that one of your alumni has actually kept
on going in the Grade F one circus.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yes, I mean, it's it's a great it's a great day.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Obviously it was fantastic to have Liam initially signed and
then to be re signed for a second year. You know,
it's it's a fantastic thing for the series. And you
know he joins the long list of people, you know,
the lamp Norrises and loud Strolls and Brendan hart Lee's
and Shane vng Geesebergens and a long list of people
that have got that are around the world doing all
(04:10):
sorts of great things in motorsport.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
For New Zealand, well, Marcus Armstrong of course he's running
the Indy cars. He was part of that as well.
I mean that that they are everywhere. So if you
look at the strength of that, you can't, I spoke
take all the credit. But the training behind what it
means to race weekend after weekend after weekend after weekend,
that must have given Liam huge impetus and strength going
(04:33):
into the season.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, and you know that that was the
great thing for the terrorists or you know back in
the days, was you know that the training, you know
that the driver's got and you know, very short sharp,
the circuits in New Zealand are so challenging as well,
you know, no runoff areas like they find in Europe,
so you know, it was a it's a great training
(04:56):
ground for for drivers on their way up, you know,
in their in their careers. And of course now you
know Arvan lynn Blad joins Liam and Arvan obviously was
here last year. So yeah, unbelievable really I'll.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Say the start of this year right as opposed to
last year.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, last season? Sorry, yeah, yeah, so the last season, yeah,
which was this year of course.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
In the line, so what happens now? Liam Lawson is
the senior driver in racing ball, so he's got kind
of a mental role for a guys had one full season?
How is he going to carry that? Do you think?
From what you know of Liam?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Look, you know, in the end it's you know, he's
had this the whole season this year, which is fantastic,
and you know it's now it's just a step up.
In the end though, Liam will be you know, you know,
pushing his own barrow in the team. You know, he'll
he'll obviously provide, you know, a fair bit of experience
for Arvian to to learn off and a real gauge
(05:55):
as they go forward through the through the series. You know,
I'm sure that Liam, you know, he'll be very involved
in the development of this next year's car, you know,
simulated driving and all that sort of things. So yes,
so no, Liam will be team leader, and you know
in the end he's going to have a strong teammate.
You know, I'm sure Red Bull haven't put Arvan in there,
(06:17):
you know, you know, for any reason other than talent.
And you know Liam will be pretty focused on being
you know, the number one on the team.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He's had the experience now of racing an entire season.
Had a horrible start as Red Bull decided, and I
still can't work out why they wouldn't give him any
time pre season and the car he climbed into, this
undrivable Red Bull and we saw what happened after two races.
Different story this time around. He's going to have an
(06:45):
off season to actually learn how to drive the car.
And it's a brand new car. It's shorter, it's skinnier,
it's lighter, it hasn't got DRS. There's a lot of
changes in this car. So Liam's come through a number
of different formula like a lot of these drivers have.
That must be very helpful to come to grips or
get to grips of the brand new car.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yes, exactly. And you know Liam's proved through his junior
career as he's come up through the ranks. So I
mean he's you know, driven so many different cars and
done a very good job and all of them, you know,
So yeah, you know, experience will count. Brand new cars,
you say, Darcy, with so many changes and so many
unknown factors, and you know, and you need to watch,
(07:29):
you know, you know, one round the Formula one at
the moment and the talk about the twenty twenty six
car and you know nobody knows, you know, how they're
all gonna you're going to compete next year and yeah,
completely new, new, new new pitch if you like, and yeah,
it'll be it's going to be very interesting, Darcy, very
interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sports Fex with Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I probably shouldn't bring it up again, but I will
what am I talking about the carnage at New Zealand Netball.
I really believe that people are fed up to the
back to with the chaos at New Zealand Netball. It's
kept us sports journalis and broadcasts. It's pretty interested and
I think initially the public were really buying into the
(08:19):
internal spats at Netball New Zealand. But it's dragged on
so long. I get a sense of meh all over
the shop. But the meh changed to a degree yesterday
when Todong at Netbule Center board chair Nikola Compton decided
to hold it special General Meeting for the Wakator Bay
(08:40):
of Plenty Magic Area, saying, you know what, we've got
to get rid of the current people in charge of netball.
This is the board, this is the chair of the board,
this is the CEO. Plainly they are out of their depth.
What has to happen now, though, is out of the
five regions, two more regions also have to tick the
(09:03):
box and ask for a Netball New Zealand Special General
Meeting to try and OUs the current people who run
this show. Run it into the ground if you're being
rude about it, and move forward. From what's happened over
the last year, I'm stunned that someone's actually got their
head over the parapet and said something. One thing about
(09:24):
this entire affair that I've looked at and worried about
is the lack of people who want to have a
name attached to this. People are afraid they darn't say
anything for their futures, their kids' futures, any future whatsoever.
It's basically been close lips right across the board. Finally
(09:47):
a group has said this is damaging our game. We
can't do this anymore, and we need this to change.
The quote to initialize this special general meeting that they
want from Netball New Zealand is to express serious questions
around the strategic leadership of Netball New Zealand. I think
they've proved that they haven't got what it takes. I'm
(10:11):
sure personally they're all wonderful people. In fact, I talk
with the CEO, Jenny Wiley on a regular basis, get
on with her really well. But the proof of this
pudding is in the eating, and currently Netball New Zealand
tastes terrible.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
The tab of door flies open and who's standing there
waiting to be let in from the cold and the dark.
It's Ross Car, host of the II Rugby pod. But
more importantly, is back in the fold again and end
zid me. It's great to be working with you again,
Ross Carl and I go back twenty something years, don't we,
Ross on the old radio sport day.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I drove past the old dungeon of a building this
morning on the way here in comparison to this palatial
new set up here at ends at em twenty years
after I left. And yeah, I think the old setup
is now some sort of it's a hostel.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
THEE have at the bar underneath it. Brilliant, Yeah about
that back then? Right, if you're on the sports team,
now you're going to be I'm presumed, with that beautiful
tone reading some sports news. But at the moment you
are just starting in there, just writing copy a copy.
That's the story. We got you in the chamber. Now
you can't escape me because you're sitting right next to me,
scary Ross, Tonight is rather a big night for rugby,
(11:24):
and you being an absolute code head? What do we
need to know about this straw? What's actually happening tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I think the key thing is that this draw and
then you set up with six pools and twenty four
teams is about having less of those pools of death.
You know, if you think about the last World Cup
where New Zealand played France first up and there was
a loss there and then you go onto separate sides
of the pool and you might end up playing each
other again at the end that kind of situation. That's
what happened in twenty eleven here as well with France.
(11:52):
So you look at those kind of situations. South Africa
played Ireland and pool play you know, again they had
to you get further down the line. There was a
chance they were going to meet each other again if
New Zealand hadn't a toppled Island. So they want to
get rid of those things and I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Just designed so the big games and quarterfinals on.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
That yeah, exactly, Well, rout of sixteen onwards.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Round of sixteen on one right, okay, So bit at
jeopary early doors.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
So teams play the same amount of games as they
did before, but now that there's only four teams in
the pool, not five teams in the pool, you play
an extra game in the round of sixteen after qualifying through.
But this draw tonight is really about putting this new
process in place where if you've got the top twenty
four teams in the world qualifying for the World Cup,
you got the top six seeds, they're going to get
a pool each and then the draw goes through the
(12:38):
next band of six, and then the next band of six,
and then the next band of six, hoping that in
each pool you're going to have a top tier team,
you know, a second tier team, et cetera. Of course,
the rankings change between now and then the real dark
horse here by the end of the year, they didn't
look like too much of a dark horse as the
Wallabies because they're not a top six team, but they
(12:58):
are the home team.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So the bands, they've separated this into four bands, and
out of those four bands they build the pools up
and the fans are basically based on world ranking, so
they don't get thrown altogether. And it's two years out
from the World Cup, better than three years out. Probably
still not ideal, but they need preparation.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Time, right, Yeah, that's right. They need to figure out
their hotels, they need to figure out their backup hotel.
So talking to Darren Shann before the twenty nineteen World
Cup when it was.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Typhoon used to be, they put in a better explanation
they had in case the typhoon came a backup hotel
in a backup city to make sure that the game
could still go ahead, because if you didn't win that.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Game, then you split, you know, across the board and
you go, okay, well you've got points too, and you
don't want to put yourself in that position early on.
So I suppose depending on what when the typhoon came
through and with you or ready for it, they had
those kind of backup options. In France, they had a
hotel with bad air conditioning, you know, and they probably
won't want to do that again.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So you've got a hotel like with terrible catering. No
one will that's never.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
It's never happened.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's all coming out tonight. It is of relative importance
for the organization because this World Cup is just over
the ditch, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
That's right, and you've got the Wallabies in there. Who
is the host will be in paul A and will
be the team that creates the pool of death I
suppose because they're no longer a top six team.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Has anyone actually ever died in the pool of death?
I'm fascinated.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So very significant coming out tonight, really looking forward to
the path that Scott Robinson's Actually I'm more concerned about
what Scott Robinson's bike's going to do next year rather
than two years down the track. Do you think we'll
fly baring over there with the front road drawn on
the front of it that was off to England.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Of course that was the reason they lost their week.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, because you draw on an airplane now and last
time are over there? Didn't John Mitchell basically abandon the
media full stop when he's coaching the All Blacks. Forget
about these memories. Let's move away from that. Hey, caspar Rude,
number twelve in the world, he's coming over to play
in the ASB class, seek yet another name. What is
it about this championship that just keeps hitting its marks.
(15:15):
It's astonishing and they haven't got a roof, but that's
coming next year.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
That's true. They do have the limitations, as you know,
with their ATP section how many top players they can get,
but they seem to have a very good process in
getting someone along and rude who's what I think twelve
in the world now, but has been consistently within the
top twelve for a long long time. That's the kind
of person they're aiming for, right, and that's the kind
of person they need to hang their hat on at
a tournament of this level because you're not going to
(15:40):
get multiple routs at this tournament, so you need to
kind of find those guys who love you and will
come back, and they.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Have been here before. Yeah, it's all about look, not
what you know, It's all about the relationships. And plainly
back in the day, we used to work with Carl Budge,
the X tournament director, his brother Dale Way date Ween
so we all got free tickets, thank you very much.
But it's moved on. And Nicol Lampern's doing the same thing,
understanding the value of interpersonal relationships because that's what makes
(16:07):
these things.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's right, that handshake on the court after you win
or lose, the helicopter flight over to Wahaki Island to
spend a weekend having fun that I think Serena used
to do. You know, Venus, really she's.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
On the comeback trail, she comes back here again. How God,
why hasn't happened yet?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
This is typical Serena though, isn't it. So she has
gone and put her name on the drug testing list.
What would you do that for if you weren't going
to come back and play some tennis? And then she
comes out on social media and says, no, no, no, this
is all out of control. I'm not making a comeback.
And it's like, why did you put your name on
the drug testing list? Because if you put your name
on the drug testing list, you've got to then do
six months of testing before you're allowed to play again.
(16:47):
So what's the point of putting your name on the list?
Why be registered if you're not actually going to play.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's great to have you back in the building and
believe we're still working in the same industry.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yes, but you'll still.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Got hair, Ross Carl, You've still got hair. You're on
my chin. Welcome back to News Talk z B and
thanks for joining us here in the chamber.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Too good.
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Why Hello there, Welcome on into the Sports Fix podcast.
My name is Darcy Waller. Grace is all you need
to know in a bright size package without the wonderful
wide world of sport banks. Of course, the GJ Gardner
Homes New Zealand's most trusted home builder for being right
by our side. It's a Wednesday, It's the third of
December twenty twenty five. You're coming up in this edition
(00:44):
of The Fixed. I'll catch up with Barry Tomlinson. He
was the man who founded the Toyat Racing series. He
knows all about Liam Lawson and where he's heading. Will
discuss that great signing. Shortly, I'll get a few thoughts
around the continuing saga of netball New Zealand. Make it stop,
Please make it stop. And joining us in the chamber
(01:06):
is Ross Carl from a Rugby cod in our works
for us out here at News Talking ZV. That is
our master plan and as per we're going to get
right into it right here, right now. This is fix
in other news. So what's being tuoed over in sport today?
Let's talk Liam Awesome Lawson has finally been confirmed as
(01:30):
Racing Balls pilot for the next F one season. He'll
lead the team with Arvin that Lindblad taking this second
drive spot. Former Williams and Ferrari executive Peter Winder on
the Mike Hosking Breakfast this morning, expressed his admiration for
what Riham has achieved this season after being unceremoniously drop
(01:51):
kicked from Red Bull earlier in the year.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The second half of this year, he's done what carlor
Side started to do. He's looked at what he can
do in a race car and he said, right, this
is about the way I'm going to drive the rest
of my life. Now I'm going to try and polish
that and make sure I make few mistakes.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Football fans that manager Michael Maine has explained why amateur
goalie Alina Santos got the nod to start against the
Ossies ahead of a league regulars and elites and Victoria Essen.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I haven't been afraid to kind of change that team
up and test them at the highest level.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That's probably we're aut in our programers this year as
a big piece of around understanding what was on in
the widest squad.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
They lost it to Zip, an improvement from the earlier
five mil for logging and a Breaker and a Tall Black.
I say Leaper got busted up against the Aussies on
Monday night. He's now out for the remainder of the
Australian NBL season, being replaced at the Breakers Bike tight Webster,
Tall Black coach and a Breaker's assistant coach Judd Blavel
(02:50):
said the injury sneaked up on them help.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I think the adrenaline was probably kicking in and there
was a little bit of a lump during the game
and the medical team were onto us and we ended
up playing I think most of the fourth quarter or
second half with.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It race cars, football, basketball. What more do you want done?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
News?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
It's Sportsfix with d.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Barry Tomlinson joins the program now. Barry Tomlinson one of
the old school will open wheel races. He was one
of the founders of the toy Had Racing series which
is now the ct FROTT. I won't even go through that. Barry,
welcome to the program, Thanks for joining us, and I
thought of you immediately when Liam Lawson got the tick
(03:35):
to carry on racing. You must be smiling from ear
to ear that one of your alumni has actually kept
on going in the Grade F one circus.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yes, I mean, it's it's a great it's a great day.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Obviously it was fantastic to have Liam initially signed and
then to be re signed for a second year. You know,
it's it's a fantastic thing for the series. And you
know he joins the long list of people, you know,
the lamp Norrises and loud Strolls and Brendan hart Lee's
and Shane vng Geesebergens and a long list of people
that have got that are around the world doing all
(04:10):
sorts of great things in motorsport.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
For New Zealand, well, Marcus Armstrong of course he's running
the Indy cars. He was part of that as well.
I mean that that they are everywhere. So if you
look at the strength of that, you can't, I spoke
take all the credit. But the training behind what it
means to race weekend after weekend after weekend after weekend,
that must have given Liam huge impetus and strength going
(04:33):
into the season.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, and you know that that was the
great thing for the terrorists or you know back in
the days, was you know that the training, you know
that the driver's got and you know, very short sharp,
the circuits in New Zealand are so challenging as well,
you know, no runoff areas like they find in Europe,
so you know, it was a it's a great training
(04:56):
ground for for drivers on their way up, you know,
in their in their careers. And of course now you
know Arvan lynn Blad joins Liam and Arvan obviously was
here last year. So yeah, unbelievable really I'll.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Say the start of this year right as opposed to
last year.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, last season? Sorry, yeah, yeah, so the last season, yeah,
which was this year of course.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
In the line, so what happens now? Liam Lawson is
the senior driver in racing ball, so he's got kind
of a mental role for a guys had one full season?
How is he going to carry that? Do you think?
From what you know of Liam?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Look, you know, in the end it's you know, he's
had this the whole season this year, which is fantastic,
and you know it's now it's just a step up.
In the end though, Liam will be you know, you know,
pushing his own barrow in the team. You know, he'll
he'll obviously provide, you know, a fair bit of experience
for Arvian to to learn off and a real gauge
(05:55):
as they go forward through the through the series. You know,
I'm sure that Liam, you know, he'll be very involved
in the development of this next year's car, you know,
simulated driving and all that sort of things. So yes,
so no, Liam will be team leader, and you know
in the end he's going to have a strong teammate.
You know, I'm sure Red Bull haven't put Arvan in there,
(06:17):
you know, you know, for any reason other than talent.
And you know Liam will be pretty focused on being
you know, the number one on the team.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He's had the experience now of racing an entire season.
Had a horrible start as Red Bull decided, and I
still can't work out why they wouldn't give him any
time pre season and the car he climbed into, this
undrivable Red Bull and we saw what happened after two races.
Different story this time around. He's going to have an
(06:45):
off season to actually learn how to drive the car.
And it's a brand new car. It's shorter, it's skinnier,
it's lighter, it hasn't got DRS. There's a lot of
changes in this car. So Liam's come through a number
of different formula like a lot of these drivers have.
That must be very helpful to come to grips or
get to grips of the brand new car.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yes, exactly. And you know Liam's proved through his junior
career as he's come up through the ranks. So I
mean he's you know, driven so many different cars and
done a very good job and all of them, you know,
So yeah, you know, experience will count. Brand new cars,
you say, Darcy, with so many changes and so many
unknown factors, and you know, and you need to watch,
(07:29):
you know, you know, one round the Formula one at
the moment and the talk about the twenty twenty six
car and you know nobody knows, you know, how they're
all gonna you're going to compete next year and yeah,
completely new, new, new new pitch if you like, and yeah,
it'll be it's going to be very interesting, Darcy, very
interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sports Fex with Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I probably shouldn't bring it up again, but I will
what am I talking about the carnage at New Zealand Netball.
I really believe that people are fed up to the
back to with the chaos at New Zealand Netball. It's
kept us sports journalis and broadcasts. It's pretty interested and
I think initially the public were really buying into the
(08:19):
internal spats at Netball New Zealand. But it's dragged on
so long. I get a sense of meh all over
the shop. But the meh changed to a degree yesterday
when Todong at Netbule Center board chair Nikola Compton decided
to hold it special General Meeting for the Wakator Bay
(08:40):
of Plenty Magic Area, saying, you know what, we've got
to get rid of the current people in charge of netball.
This is the board, this is the chair of the board,
this is the CEO. Plainly they are out of their depth.
What has to happen now, though, is out of the
five regions, two more regions also have to tick the
(09:03):
box and ask for a Netball New Zealand Special General
Meeting to try and OUs the current people who run
this show. Run it into the ground if you're being
rude about it, and move forward. From what's happened over
the last year, I'm stunned that someone's actually got their
head over the parapet and said something. One thing about
(09:24):
this entire affair that I've looked at and worried about
is the lack of people who want to have a
name attached to this. People are afraid they darn't say
anything for their futures, their kids' futures, any future whatsoever.
It's basically been close lips right across the board. Finally
(09:47):
a group has said this is damaging our game. We
can't do this anymore, and we need this to change.
The quote to initialize this special general meeting that they
want from Netball New Zealand is to express serious questions
around the strategic leadership of Netball New Zealand. I think
they've proved that they haven't got what it takes. I'm
(10:11):
sure personally they're all wonderful people. In fact, I talk
with the CEO, Jenny Wiley on a regular basis, get
on with her really well. But the proof of this
pudding is in the eating, and currently Netball New Zealand
tastes terrible.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
The tab of door flies open and who's standing there
waiting to be let in from the cold and the dark.
It's Ross Car, host of the II Rugby pod. But
more importantly, is back in the fold again and end
zid me. It's great to be working with you again,
Ross Carl and I go back twenty something years, don't we,
Ross on the old radio sport day.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I drove past the old dungeon of a building this
morning on the way here in comparison to this palatial
new set up here at ends at em twenty years
after I left. And yeah, I think the old setup
is now some sort of it's a hostel.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
THEE have at the bar underneath it. Brilliant, Yeah about
that back then? Right, if you're on the sports team,
now you're going to be I'm presumed, with that beautiful
tone reading some sports news. But at the moment you
are just starting in there, just writing copy a copy.
That's the story. We got you in the chamber. Now
you can't escape me because you're sitting right next to me,
scary Ross, Tonight is rather a big night for rugby,
(11:24):
and you being an absolute code head? What do we
need to know about this straw? What's actually happening tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I think the key thing is that this draw and
then you set up with six pools and twenty four
teams is about having less of those pools of death.
You know, if you think about the last World Cup
where New Zealand played France first up and there was
a loss there and then you go onto separate sides
of the pool and you might end up playing each
other again at the end that kind of situation. That's
what happened in twenty eleven here as well with France.
(11:52):
So you look at those kind of situations. South Africa
played Ireland and pool play you know, again they had
to you get further down the line. There was a
chance they were going to meet each other again if
New Zealand hadn't a toppled Island. So they want to
get rid of those things and I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Just designed so the big games and quarterfinals on.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
That yeah, exactly, Well, rout of sixteen onwards.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Round of sixteen on one right, okay, So bit at
jeopary early doors.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
So teams play the same amount of games as they
did before, but now that there's only four teams in
the pool, not five teams in the pool, you play
an extra game in the round of sixteen after qualifying through.
But this draw tonight is really about putting this new
process in place where if you've got the top twenty
four teams in the world qualifying for the World Cup,
you got the top six seeds, they're going to get
a pool each and then the draw goes through the
(12:38):
next band of six, and then the next band of six,
and then the next band of six, hoping that in
each pool you're going to have a top tier team,
you know, a second tier team, et cetera. Of course,
the rankings change between now and then the real dark
horse here by the end of the year, they didn't
look like too much of a dark horse as the
Wallabies because they're not a top six team, but they
(12:58):
are the home team.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So the bands, they've separated this into four bands, and
out of those four bands they build the pools up
and the fans are basically based on world ranking, so
they don't get thrown altogether. And it's two years out
from the World Cup, better than three years out. Probably
still not ideal, but they need preparation.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Time, right, Yeah, that's right. They need to figure out
their hotels, they need to figure out their backup hotel.
So talking to Darren Shann before the twenty nineteen World
Cup when it was.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Typhoon used to be, they put in a better explanation
they had in case the typhoon came a backup hotel
in a backup city to make sure that the game
could still go ahead, because if you didn't win that.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Game, then you split, you know, across the board and
you go, okay, well you've got points too, and you
don't want to put yourself in that position early on.
So I suppose depending on what when the typhoon came
through and with you or ready for it, they had
those kind of backup options. In France, they had a
hotel with bad air conditioning, you know, and they probably
won't want to do that again.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So you've got a hotel like with terrible catering. No
one will that's never.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
It's never happened.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's all coming out tonight. It is of relative importance
for the organization because this World Cup is just over
the ditch, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
That's right, and you've got the Wallabies in there. Who
is the host will be in paul A and will
be the team that creates the pool of death I
suppose because they're no longer a top six team.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Has anyone actually ever died in the pool of death?
I'm fascinated.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So very significant coming out tonight, really looking forward to
the path that Scott Robinson's Actually I'm more concerned about
what Scott Robinson's bike's going to do next year rather
than two years down the track. Do you think we'll
fly baring over there with the front road drawn on
the front of it that was off to England.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Of course that was the reason they lost their week.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, because you draw on an airplane now and last
time are over there? Didn't John Mitchell basically abandon the
media full stop when he's coaching the All Blacks. Forget
about these memories. Let's move away from that. Hey, caspar Rude,
number twelve in the world, he's coming over to play
in the ASB class, seek yet another name. What is
it about this championship that just keeps hitting its marks.
(15:15):
It's astonishing and they haven't got a roof, but that's
coming next year.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
That's true. They do have the limitations, as you know,
with their ATP section how many top players they can get,
but they seem to have a very good process in
getting someone along and rude who's what I think twelve
in the world now, but has been consistently within the
top twelve for a long long time. That's the kind
of person they're aiming for, right, and that's the kind
of person they need to hang their hat on at
a tournament of this level because you're not going to
(15:40):
get multiple routs at this tournament, so you need to
kind of find those guys who love you and will
come back, and they.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Have been here before. Yeah, it's all about look, not
what you know, It's all about the relationships. And plainly
back in the day, we used to work with Carl Budge,
the X tournament director, his brother Dale Way date Ween
so we all got free tickets, thank you very much.
But it's moved on. And Nicol Lampern's doing the same thing,
understanding the value of interpersonal relationships because that's what makes
(16:07):
these things.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's right, that handshake on the court after you win
or lose, the helicopter flight over to Wahaki Island to
spend a weekend having fun that I think Serena used
to do. You know, Venus, really she's.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
On the comeback trail, she comes back here again. How God,
why hasn't happened yet?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
This is typical Serena though, isn't it. So she has
gone and put her name on the drug testing list.
What would you do that for if you weren't going
to come back and play some tennis? And then she
comes out on social media and says, no, no, no, this
is all out of control. I'm not making a comeback.
And it's like, why did you put your name on
the drug testing list? Because if you put your name
on the drug testing list, you've got to then do
six months of testing before you're allowed to play again.
(16:47):
So what's the point of putting your name on the list?
Why be registered if you're not actually going to play.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's great to have you back in the building and
believe we're still working in the same industry.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yes, but you'll still.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Got hair, Ross Carl, You've still got hair. You're on
my chin. Welcome back to News Talk z B and
thanks for joining us here in the chamber.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Too good.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
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Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's it podcast. Thanks very much for listening. My name's
Darcy Walter Grave. I'll be back again tomorrow with Jason
Pine four yet another edition. It's Wednesday, the third of
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