October 1, 2024 • 40 mins
ZB's own D'Arcy Waldegrave returns to recap a full day in the world of sport! Highlights for tonight include:
Olympian Hamish Kerr on the possibility of New Zealand hosting the World Indoor Athletics Championships for 2028.
Talkback - What events should New Zealand being chasing to come here?
All Whites head coach Darren Bazeley on the squad named to play the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign.
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to open it will be five. I'm on the program
at two nights. No rugby, no cricket, oh my lord,
what's going on? No league either? No, no, we need this.
This is good for our health, especially after the last
couple of weeks. So that was upwardly mobile conversations last
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week around the or Blecks and didn't they do well?
Got to win the Wellington and scored in the last tweet.
That's all we can expect.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Is no.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We're going to be talking football tonight. Well, I'm going
to be talking to Darren Baize, the head coach of
the All Whites. The Gaffer, if you will, named his
squad for the first two games of four games in
the space of about four weeks, most of those Oceania
football matches and the lead up to the Football World Cup,
(02:11):
and there's a friendly as well. But three of those
four fixtures are here in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
How good.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We'll talk to Darren Bezie about that and the nature
of his team towards the end of the program. First
we'll talk to Hamish Kerr. Hamoshku picked up a gold
medal in the hyja, picked up leaped his butt off
to grab a medal, a gold medal in the high
jump at the Olympic Games. Of course, a man who
has been involved and has done the hard yards at
(02:38):
the indoor championship level. And that is what we're talking
about tonight, the possibility of the World Indoor Championship in
Athletics coming to Tierro in twenty twenty eight. Talked to
Hamish about that. Shortly beyond that, we'll get your enthusiasm
for an event like this, but more so other events
(03:00):
that you'd like to see coming into New Zealand on
a sporting level, where increasingly becoming an event focused sport
watching nation. And if there's something that's unusual, if there's
something we don't see much of, if there's something that
really stands out, we'll go wellever look absolutely want to
be part of that day to day sports and events.
(03:22):
Maybe not, we'll talk you about that later. And the
piece what you'd like to see the chances of you're
engaging in something like the World Champs famous Kurgjoins is
shortly to discuss that. But before any of that, let's do.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
This today and for today, the Super Duper Pacific Rugby
drawers out last season, the perennial favorites drop their bundle
from the get go, losing their first five matches, three
of them away from home.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
At this time, they have four out of their first
six fixtures in their own backyard. Chief Executive Office of
the Crusaders, Colin Mansbridge, is hoping.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
When you're winning consistently time and time again, you do
get a a little bit less sympathy when you complain
about your draw. We've probably gone a little bit more
sympathy this time.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Really more sympathy for the Crusaders. It'll be a cold
dan hell before anyone spares a tear for the Sayers,
poor old Judd Flavel. I mean congratulations. The championship coaches
snared the role as the All Blacks head coach probably
now though, as you'll have to answer several questions around
Steven Adams and they have to do that until the
(04:32):
big unit retires, right.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
We built a little bit of a relationship before he
left to go to college with my role with the Breakers.
Since then that obviously he's gone and done some amazing
things off shore in the NBA, and you always keep
an eye on it. But I guess there's a connection
there and hopefully we can reconnect going forward.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Pick him in a wheelchair enough already, hey, demand black
Ferns Skipper is still finding rays of light to the
gloom of defeat. Island and WX the one. Good on you.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I'm really proud though, of the attitude that the team
showed in those moments to can continue to try and
win the next moment, regardless of whether that was a
tech or defense stun.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And Michael McGuire, hamm of at League at QWI coaching fame,
is explained why he deserted Origin for the joys of
the Bronco.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
I am a career coach, so I love the daily
stuff and my last campaign.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
In the Origin and it was an incredible experience.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I got to say it was an amazing experience. But
I am the person that loves the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Day to day. I've actually missed having the staff.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I've missed having players.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Around me daily.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I got bored. And that's sports today. We're doing now
on News Talk zeb by Hamish Kerr. Want a gold
medal and high jump at the Olympic Games, don't you know?
Got to like the sound of that, don't you, Hamish.
That'll never get boring, will it? And welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Thanks for having me mate, mate. No, it definitely won't
get boring, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We're going to talk about actually ask you what you're
doing later in the piece. Let's get to the let's
get to the jump right now. World Indoor Athletics Championships.
The possibility of it being held here in New Zealand's
news came out today. Michael birds the new Zealand and
he will break the story. This is epic. How big
would this be for athletics in New Zealand do you think, Amish?
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Oh, I mean it would be huge. Like I don't
think that we you know, probably since having the Con
Games in Auckland nineteen ninety's. It's you know, it's not
something that we've had locally, you know, a really really
high high performance competition like this, And I think something
like indoors actually really suits us.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Well.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
It's a slightly smaller field and often is in a
smaller venu being an indoor comp and it's in a
perfect time a year for us. You know, we could
get all those athletes down and they could have training
camps here and you know, muck around and hang out
in the local kind of summer for a couple of
weeks beforehand. So yeah, it would be it'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
As far as the timing, twenty twenty eight now it's
a few months before the Olympic Games in LA From
what you know, when the Indoors are on, how affect
do they buy the Olympic Games if they're running on
the same year, Hamish?
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Yeah, ah, look, I mean it's a great taste of
what's come right, Like you saw it this year with
me and Jordie and a few others, you know, getting
medals at that World and it was really set the scene,
and I think that's something that you know, we felt
like the nation really picked up on and definitely if
it was here, I think that that would just be
such an amazing kind of stepping stone into what will
be hopefully in amazing Olympics as well in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The quality of the field though, do people tend to
skip the indoors in the same year as as the
Olympic Games? You see what I'm saying here, Are we
likely to attract if it comes here the top field?
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Oh absolutely, I mean I mean, look like you're never
going to get everybody. That's just the nature of different
people's schedules and you know, the way that they prep
best for something like the Olympics. But I think that
you'd find that you'd get a very very high quality field.
There would definitely be you know, if you take the
top sort of fifteen in the world, you'd be looking
at well over half of the top guys being there.
(08:08):
And so I think that it is something that would
be amazing. But I think the thing is, irrespective of
how many of those absolute stars you get, the indoor
comps are actually just so much fun.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You know.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
You get to go in there and you you know,
just the noise and the varied kind of things to
watch as a spectator and being in such a sort
of a slightly smaller space than a normal field means
that you do get to experience all the events that
are happening in front of you. So it is something
that you know in Scotland, even sitting there in the
crowd once I'd finished my event and watching guys like
(08:39):
Jeordie you know when fifteen it was, it was such
a special moment, and just the noise of the crowd,
you know. I think that even if you're not an
athletics fan, going along to that, you'd get a hell
of a buzz, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Olympic gold medalist Tamish Kurd joins US homes. When you
look at New Zealand's infrastructure, now apparently you can have
an indoor outdoors in some cases, so it might well
be eaten part, but I'm thinking probably Toka and christ
Church would be magnificent. Thirty thousand people it's got a roof,
so on and so forth. But from what you know
about New Zealand, can they cope with something as important,
(09:13):
maybe not as large, but as important as the World
Indoor Champs.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
I mean, yes, yeah, I definitely, I definitely think we could.
And it'd be around selling the experience to the Europeans
for sure. You know, they they don't love traveling to
the US at the best of times, so to get
them all the way over here will definitely be a challenge.
But I think I think that we do have some
really good, some good comparative advantages. You know, obviously being
summer it means that they can come down here and
do a training block out of the cold European winter.
(09:39):
So you know, there are definitely some things and in
terms of facilities, like you know, we we have potential
to be able to put some some really good events on.
There's definitely you know a number of tracks that are
that are really well developed already, and there's definitely some
some sites, especially for the indoors sort of where the
where the actual event would be held. There's there's definitely
some really good options that don't currently have tracks, but
(10:00):
you know, to get an indoor facility and into someone
something like one of those big event centers would would
definitely be you know, pretty easy to do and definitely feasible.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Very focused. Only twenty six events, thirteen female, thirteen male.
I suppose that just adds to the intensity. From a
viewing perspective, people really get to see the best in
the go to athletics events, don't they These are the ones,
these are the blue ribbon events. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
I mean, you know, a typical major championship, so like
a World Outdoors would take about ten days. Generally a
World Indoors is only three days long, and so you
find that it's just you know, every session you go to,
it's just high quality. There's finals, there's medals, there's big storylines.
It's something that you can pretty much go along for
three days straight and just just be absolutely hummeled with
(10:47):
you know, high energy competitions. So it is a pretty
cool thing to have. And honestly, you know, from my perspective,
if there was any event that you would want to
have in athletics to host, it would be a World Indoors.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The difference between the indoors and the outdoors, Besides the
obvious when it comes to competing the advantages the disadvance
hunters of the two distinct competitions.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
I mean from a high jumperspective, the big difference would
be how much more involved the crowd can get indoors.
Being a big stadium outdoors, often it is hard to
get the whole stadium around you and really getting amongst
the performance. And that's something that as high jump as
we love to do, we love to you know, get
the crowd, get up and get them as noisy as
possible before we jump. So yeah, to do that in
(11:31):
an indoor facility is just so much easier. So often
guys will will kind of lean on that a lot more.
And so yeah, it's definitely one of those things that
if you come along and you know, if you see
an indorse you know, competition versus an outdoor one, there
there is definitely a lot more crowd interaction.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Some of the events can't be held. I believe the
two hundred meters has been canned because it's simply too tight.
They can't run. So you've got that addition I suppose with
you as well, I mean one hundred meters and sixty
meters you've got no wind isshoes. You got to like that.
So there are positives and eggers.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Oh absolutely. I mean, you know, most events you'd find
the stamp of performance is as good, if not better
than an outdoor performance generally. Obviously, like you said, there's
a couple of events that do run slightly differently. Only
been a two hundred meter track means that the four
hundred meter is actually two laps of the track rather
than one, and an eight hundred is four laps, so that, Yeah,
(12:23):
there are different different things, But ultimately what that means
is all that racing is just so much closer and
it's just so much more action, pact.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And the quality of the engagement because the athlete number
is smaller. So I'm presuming by the time we get
to the finals those three days you are actually very
much the cream of what you've got. There's not a
lot of qualifying going on the best tim not to compete.
Is that fair?
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Yeah, not a lot of qualifying at all. So I
mean for someone like me who loves a qualifying.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You'll never get over that, will you.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Yeah, So no qualifying and field events, it's just straight
finals and then for the track events that will only
be sort of one round, if not two in some
specific cases. So yeah, so very small, very very to
the point, but also because of that, it's a bloody
exciting thing to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Would certainly like to be there. New Zealand are very
events focused these days. I think you'd sell the place out,
especially when you consider yourself and a number of other
New Zealand athletes who are near the top, if not
at the top of their game. There's a lot of
quality athletes out there that I'm sure we'd love to
see in competition like this. I'm sure the athletes amosh
(13:36):
would love to perform in front of their.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Countrymen one hundred percent. You know, I think that you know,
this is this is something that we've had chats about
as a as a team and definitely, you know, I
didn't think that it was going to come to this,
this sort of even the stage of you know, the
government and Athletics is on, you know, commenting on on
the potential happening, but you know, to know that that
is you know, a potential now is something that I
(13:59):
think the whole team are just going to be absolutely
stoked about. And you know, I'm definitely not saying that
there's anyone who wouldn't be competing in all years time
from the current crop of athletes. But I think that,
you know, if anyone was sort of thinking about potentially
moving on, this is definitely going to keep them into it,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And how are you enjoying life away from the focus
of being an Olympic champion? Golf be a bad food?
Is that the.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's pretty much me at the moment. No,
it's it's it's been amazing, you know, I've I've obviously
been back in the country for a month now, and yeah,
you're definitely it's definitely a different life getting you know,
asked for photos in the supermarket when you are picking
up your your your pack of pack of lemonades for
the night, that's for sure. But yeah, it is, it
(14:45):
is definitely, it's a very cool experience. And I think that,
you know, if I can fucking use this to hopefully,
you know, hopefully inspire the next generation of athletes to
realize it as possible and and if things like you know,
potentially World end was coming to New Zealand because of
the increased exposure we have, it's it's only great for me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
We've got the breakdown on sports Talk call oh wait
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Speaker 3 (15:15):
Twenty one after seven famous Curve here gold medal Olympian
in the high jarm talking about the possibility of a
World Indoor Athletics Championships being held here in New Zealand
in twenty twenty eight. Michael Burgess busted the story out
today in the New Zealand Herald, suggesting that Athletics New Zealand,
(15:35):
writing the Athletics New Zealand and Chris Bishop have talked
and it is a distinct possibility that they will launch
might say an appeal. It sounds a bit desperate. They
want to host the Games in twenty twenty eight, providing
everything gets checked out, teas and eyes and the like.
So the question here to you is this one. I'd
(15:59):
rather have this the Comwealth Games. And I know that's
probably slapping Common Games in the face because Common Games
is a whole lot more than just athletics. But there's
something special about this that really appeals to me. And
being part of the New Zealand populace, we're getting very
events focused. Let's face it, well on these WAYMBAM, thank
you these big events. I was their CEA ladder. What's
happening next? Yeah, and had one of those for a while.
(16:21):
We need more. So is this enough to spin your wheels?
If the government was going to spend some money because
the apparently they do from time to time, and they're
going to invest in a sporting event for the populace
short term, if you will this, then he goes for
(16:42):
three days. Where would you like them to put their money?
So would you buy into this? Let's say, for example,
a takaha. The new stadium in christ Church will be
opened by then. It will be indoors. It's christ Church,
so it's got a lot of hotel rooms, it's easily
(17:02):
accessible from all over this shop. That'd be something you'd
be the door down to get to. Right, thirty thousand people,
three days of competition. I'd try and scam more in
there as being the media or something like that, but
that would be a sensational event. I'd say, a good
way to christen the new stadium because it would be
up and running. We'd hope for a year or so
by then. But this is the kind of event that
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stadia like that want to attract their city, so everybody benefits.
So would you buy into this? I'll eight hundred eighty
ten eighty. And if you don't care for athletics and
we're looking at bringing different sporting events here, one off
sporting events here, where would we hunt? You're the target,
(17:49):
you're the fan base, you're the sports fans out there.
Give us a wish list. What would you like to see?
I'll eight hundred eighty ten eighty. I'll get a list
longer than my arm, which is not that long as
I'm quite short. But I'll run that past you. I'd
run it through. I'm not holding sword, ill run that
past you shortly, but I would love your thoughts. What
(18:11):
would you like as far as a one off sporting event,
a global sporting event that would attract eyeballs and interest
to hear in New Zealand and would attract people here
in New Zealand to go and see that event. What
can we handle? What are we good at? What can
we push forward? Being New Zealand's Drummond to NACI, go
(18:32):
and give us a ring. Seven four. This is Sports
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Speaker 1 (18:44):
Forget the riffs.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
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Speaker 1 (18:48):
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Speaker 3 (19:06):
Song do you think this guy is doomed to being
a one hit wonder though? I mean, yeah, okay, this
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Teddy Swims that's his name. Teddy likes getting needles in
his arms and face as well. No, not drugs, tattoo's.
He's got quite the ink. I think he might have
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(19:27):
play it next time. We'll see if you can hit
the heights of this. What a voice lose control? Damn AnyWho?
Back to sport eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Ideally,
what would you like to see here in New Zealand
as far as a one off sporting event, one that
we get the eyes of the world on New Zealand,
that we could handle, that we could hold, that would
(19:49):
look good to present. Well, if we can manage to
crowbars some money out of the government to give us
some sport fun, where should it go? I got a list,
Doug ready, but I'd like yours first. Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty. Shay, Hi, how are you mate? I'm very well, Shade.
What about yourself? Good?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Good?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I have to met. I've got into the car, and
I caught half of your comment there about the sports
in the stadium and offering an opportunity there. So I thought,
me being an ex athlete of my own back in
the day, there's one sport that actually I feel is
sort of not getting the run around in this modern
(20:31):
modern day, and that's the esports.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Okay, do you think that'll be a big crowd drawer.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
It's a huge money gatherer for a lot of other
countries at the moment. And if you ever look at
if you ever take a moment, have a look at
some of the stadiums that they're using, they are always
jam packed, they are always filled out, and they usually
last for about three to five days.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, I don't think you're wrong there, shade as much
as it goes straight out of my head. I look
and I've seen these crowds though, and I've seen the engagement,
and I almost think, no, really, you're kidding me. But
it's got massive traction, hasn't it.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
It has. It's billion dollar industry, and you've got certain
esports or games that are now playing for million dollar
prize pools. So yeah, they've got it.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Their own Olympic games on the way haven't they, Shay.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Wasn't that I've heard something of the sorts. Yeah, but
you know, if you talk them one off sports to
bring into the country, to give them a world to see,
if that's fit one one sort of niche. I thought
New Zealand might be keen on looking at question sports.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, no, we do. I'm well aware of that. But
I think the question here is Shay. When it comes
to fan engagement, being there, well, no, no being there,
I don't think is a huge part of I might
be wrong. Gamers can bring me out, let me know,
But when you're at a sporting event, when you're actually
there and you can watch it and smell it and
(22:00):
breathe it, whereas big gaming events like that you watch
it all online anyway, don't think it matters. Weird people do.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
But I mean, I suppose that that's for me. If
I was able to go to one of these events
and actually have that in my local area, then I
might actually go to it, Whereas right now I don't
have that ability. I don't have that chance.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They sell out huge arenas.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Yeah, they do, a massive arena.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Just help me here. I'm not being dismissive of but
when you sell out a massive What do you just
watch a big screen? Is that how it rolls?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Well, No, they'll actually put the teams that are playing
on the on the playing the games on the stage
in front of you, so you will actually be able
to see their reactions and stuff like that as well
as well as the big screens and everything like that.
And then you also get the like you actually get
a lot of crowd chanting in these places.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So what do you call athletes involved in esports? Athletes?
Can we just calling that now? So you watch the
athletes on their little devices and that that is g
en up. Again, this is not my error.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
And I'm getting a bit past it myself, but yeah,
you'll find a lot of like my daughter nowadays would
quite happily go and sit in the stadium and watch
your favorite you know, esports person play their game and
be excited to do so.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Yeah, it's shay, thanks for that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I never thought that i'd have a phone call saying that,
but look, it's it's relevant, right, it's a billion dollar industry.
Just because I wouldn't want to go and see it
doesn't mean to say it wouldn't work. Say thanks for that.
Anything else outside the Box love to hear from here?
Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty Henry, how are you?
Speaker 10 (23:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Good? East Woods? Just PlayStation or you know, jeez.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
But things if people want it and people pay for
it and there's money in it, plainly it's relevant. Right,
you can't argue against that.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
But it's not the same as teeny watching Ames SCOODI
the wh jump is it?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You know, well, I'd say it isn't, but I'd say
that there'd be e sporters out there that go. You know,
actually being there and watching these people on stage is
just as thrilling as you guys watching someone jump over
a bar.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yeah, but yeah, I loved the they didn't door to
come here because I love them. So each year January
were the Cooks Cooks Classic. Yeah, yeah, And you know
hamishkur is always he was there, Tom Walsh is there.
Santana always turns up. You know that lady that was
in the Hemoth throw from New Zealand, she was there
all the top fifty hund meta womans. You know, it's
(24:38):
it's just awesome, does you know. You go down there
and it's just it's like, you know, you feel like
you're at the bloody olymicause something. You're watching all of
these New Zealand talent and it's just it's just awesome.
It'd be awesome to hear that.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
It has a wonderful history to the Cook's Classic with
what's been achieved there and has that repetitive nature. It
comes every year, it's annual, so it does so inside
a big stadium in christ Church, I think you definitely
generate a lot of the eyeballs and I think globally
you would as well. It's a matter of, as Hamish said,
(25:11):
convincing the Europeans to come to this side of the Worls.
You're a long way away, I know.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Yeah, but it would be mean to he would be mean,
he is you know, to just see something you know will'll.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Be the closest will ever get to an Olympic.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Games, Right yeah, no, yah, you're right here.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It would be I'd say so, and I'll be all
over it. And Henry, thanks very much for your court
and bringing up the Cooks Classic to a wonderful event.
It's a friend of mine who competed at Atlanta sprinting
a number of years ago and he was over and
watched the whole athletics program at the Olympic Games. Mark Cadell,
(25:47):
he said, he transfers he's the most amazing thing to
be involved and just sitting there with all of these
different sports going on in the middle. I mean plainly
he's an athletics addict, so he'd love it. But concentrate
that to as what Hamish pointed out, it's not a
great deal of qualifying, which will work for him because
he blew it all qual but in a concentrated space,
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the best athlete, the best the best athletes in the world,
the best athletes in the world right there. Don't call
me Mike Typhon, I will come Matthew in the faith.
How good? So other sports i'd like your called other
sports you would like to see here? If the government,
and I don't know how much money they would commit
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to this, I don't even know if they've got any
money left. But if they were to commit some money
to drive eyeballs and drive interest and maybe give us
something to smile about, because government's not all about just
being in business, you know, it's all about looking after
the people. What would it be, where would it be?
Do you want another rugby World? Come they got any
(26:53):
traction with you. I'd like to see the World Rally
Championship back again. Apparently that was coming back this year,
but that went pretty quite pretty fast. I'm not sure
if we'll see another one for a number of years.
A lot of eyeballs, a lot of people enjoying that,
a lot of people love skidding. That was a big one.
What about a basketball World champs What would be the
(27:16):
chances of us getting that? If we got enough Stadia
over here to make that work? All right, we're at Auclord.
We'll just build one state of origin. We've talked about that.
I still reckon. State of origin is Australia. It should
stay in Australia. It's theirs. I'm gonna go for it
turned up plainly. What about AFL the one off game
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over here of AFL, a season starter over here at ANFL.
Let me know what you'd like to see. Later on
in the piece of the program, we'll talk about a
football Darren Basis, the head coach the GAFFA of the
All Whites, released a team today for two games coming
up in mid October. We'll talk to him about that.
This is news talks there b oh eight one hundred
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and eighty ten eighty, it's twenty three minutes eight.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Its just smilessly hot.
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You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Te to eight sports Talk care on the news Talk
ZB one hundred eighty ten eighty sporting event one off,
one you'd really like to see here, One that would
gain traction, one that would bring the attention of the world,
one that we could actually handle. They just know, good, Luke,
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what do you have to make?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Hey? Good?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
How's a game?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Good?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Good?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Good?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
What do you like? What do you want to see here?
Speaker 11 (28:46):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Well, I went to the President's Cup, the golf tournament
that George was just played over the weekend in Melbourne
a couple of years ago, and man, there was fantastick
the amount of coverage you know that that event gets.
And I just yeah, I just think that's the sort
of thing that is that New Zealand can pull off
and bringing a lot of a lot of tourism.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Sorry, I just coughed. It's too my mic off. No
one wants to hear that. So we're never going to
get the Ryder Cup for obvious reasons. But the President's
come Cup it could be. I mean, logistically would it work.
Where would you play this I think the last we
had a big golf tournament here it was up at
the now defunct Golf Harbor. Although we've got plenty of
pretty fancy golf courses, but when they let the peasants
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on to watch, that's the next question you come out
of golf.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, probably somewhere in Auckland. I would think there's
loads of fancy wealth courses up there.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
So yeah, as well, I think world attention and I
hate going back to this all the time because to say,
what do we care about what the rest of the
world think. But the whole idea is an access it
as a tourist. Am arm as well, doesn't it?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, of course come here check this out.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, they're exactly it and that's what you want to do.
So I like it. I like it, Luke makes sense?
Will we get traction? How much does it cost? Who
would want to pay for it? Of anybody? Got a
number of texts I'll go through as well. Look at
the UFC fight. Would would be fantastic for people who
(30:22):
like cage violence. But if you like the new South
Wales government not need to believe paid. They basically wrote
down the US to come over and hold a series
of fights there. The crowds are big, and the crowds
are insane, and you bring a lot of tourists in
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and this is something that new selling can handle quite easily.
And of course we've got a number of exponents of
mixed martial arts that will perform there. So a lot
of good to like about that. Let's run through your texts.
IndyCar at Highlands will be great as an off season
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test session. They've got three or four Kiwi drivers and
surely tourism budget could help out too. It's well and good,
but I think that if it's a preseason fixture, which
it seems that it would be, I don't think you'd
get the interest, would you if it didn't have relevance.
There'll be a lot of petrol heads ID want to
go and see it. But could you imagine the cost
(31:24):
not bringing the Indye cars to Highland Park. It's so
far away from anywhere. But you like the way you're thinking.
Someone said we need more drugs and weapons on the
rugby field. Okay, I think you might have just taken
levir senses. But thanks for your texting your twenty cents. Anyway,
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I'm not an eesport fan myself, writes one. But when
you ask a young person why they would watch someone
else play a game, your response as well, you go
an all Blacks game, You're still watching other people play
a game, which is a fair point. Ryan got. There's
something dynamic about watching a game of rug be, like
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people moving from one side of the field to the other.
I'm not telling you what to like, and some people
really like just watching a motionless, warm prop on the
stage twiddling their thumbs. Great, it's not for me, but
there are billions in it, so it obviously is for
someone So thanks very much for that. Someone else said
(32:28):
how pathetic equating sport with money. Amateur sport is real sport, Walter,
it's twenty twenty four. You're quite welcome to live back
there in nineteen thirty. I'm sure it was wonderful, but
in this day and age it's all about the money now.
An NFL preseason game is interesting, before saying preseason with
the IndyCar. I don't know if it would work. Could
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an NFL game be held here? Would Eden Park be
volumeous enough, would the ground to be big enough? I'm
presuming it would be. I'm not quite sure what the
Gridine specifications are. But Dad might be a way of
attracting people. Again. I don't know what cost is all about,
(33:12):
but why not? I like this text, Darcy. We're really
good at hosting sailing events. Hawkland's built for it. Why
don't we try the America's thank you Moto GP. Motor
(33:38):
GP is extraordinarily exciting. I get that where it will
be again distance still fascinated as we're on Earth. The
World Rally Champs went next year on the program starts January,
finishes late November. Monte Carlo, Sweden, Kenya, Canary Islands, Portugal, Sadania, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Paraguay, Chile,
(34:04):
Central Europe, Japan, help Saudi Arabia. It was only a
matter of time, wasn't it. Well they got some quite
good really drivers over the sam really one ten eighty.
But you know what, I think we're going to listen
to me talk to a coach of football. Darren Baisley
joins us next named his team. There's Simmons, there's some outs.
(34:28):
All White's playing three games at home in the space
of a month, three of them, ifc one of them
is a friendly. But three of those four matches are
going to be here in New Zealand. That's got to
be good for the sport. Darren baisie up next here
at Newstalk's there'll be fifteen away from eight All whites.
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Football was the flavor right here, right now. Chris wood
Liberato Katucchi, No, I haven't got these guys on are
Marco Staminik are among the squad that had been named
for the home game in October. We're joined by well,
the man who picked them, the head coach, Darren Baize. Darren,
welcome to the show. You've got to like the strength
of the squad there you've picked. There are some great names,
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some great players, some consistency to you.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Yeah, this is a strong squad, an exciting squad to
bring back to this part of the world. So yeah,
we know World Cup qualifiers, it's the business end. The
players are all aware that we've got to get this
job done so that we can go back to the
World Cup. So yeah, it's a strong squad, pretty consistent
from the last group. You know, a couple of couple
of changes, but yeah, I think people will be excited
(35:33):
to see, you know, Woodsy coming back and Marc o'
libby and Garbs and Oldie and you know numerous others
that are coming back to playing these games.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I love the nicknames. What do they call you, Darren?
I'm just bes just all on with that, just like
the Felts on a snooker table bass. So three changes
from the US tour, So tell us about those. Tyler
Bend and Kem Howison and Storm Roo returning too. That's
got to work.
Speaker 10 (36:01):
Yeah, I mean, obviously Tyler. It was disappointing to lose
Tyler the last tour. You know, he he got a
concussion injury the Saturday before he was coming to America.
So he got through that, did the ten Days stand
down and has played the last two games for Readin
So he's back fully fit, which is great. You know,
he's he's a really good addition for the squad. You know,
(36:21):
we've added Storm Roots. The Storm's a player that I
know really well. We've been tracking him for a long time.
You know, We've tried to bring him in a couple
of times for for the tours, the Nations Cup and
for the Egypt Tour, but you know, he had a
couple of injuries that sort of it just wasn't the
right time for him. So Yeah, it's really pleasing to
actually finally better bring him back into the squad and
he's excited and that'll add to it. And then yeah,
(36:44):
we lost Joe Bell for this one. So Cam Howison
is a really good replacements. He did really well for
us at the Nation's Cup. He's obviously joined Auckland, so
he's now in a professional environment. You know, he's a
great lad and he'll add to the squad.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Noll too, Loma either A Cinnamon's not there. Do you
want to talk us through those two decisions.
Speaker 10 (37:05):
Yeah, so so Bill obviously he's you know, he's in
a position where he hasn't played much football for his
club for about a year now. We brought him in
as a late replacement when we were in America when
we'd got an injury, and part of that was he
was very close, you know, we were in America. He
obviously lives in America, so it was easy and quick
for him to get to us, and we know him
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and we know he's a good player, just lacking that
game fitness, so he's aware of, you know, what he's
got to do. For Finn's a little bit different, you know.
He he joined Portland in July and then he came
away to the Olympics for three weeks and then went
back to the club for three weeks and then came
to America. So we sort of feel like we've we've
taken him out of his new environment quite a lot.
(37:50):
Or he obviously did the Nation's Cup with us as well,
so he actually hasn't played. I mean, he did very
well against America a couple of weeks ago, but before
that he hadn't played since the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
So I think it's difficult.
Speaker 10 (38:03):
He's gone to a new club, big club Portland, he's
been so hasn't got on the pitch yet, and I
think part of that might be, you know, he just
hasn't spent much time at the club, you know, because
of the international commitments, so you know, he needs a
better fitness, he needs to sort of get his opportunity
at the club. So we felt like this opportunity, you know,
with the other players that we have in regards to Nando,
(38:25):
Tyler Boxell and Tommy Smith as center backs, we felt
this is a good opportunity for Finn to miss this one,
spend a lot of time at his club, do some
fitness work with the club and hopefully put himself in
a position where Phil Neville puts him on the pitch
for Portland, which would be great for us.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Darren basically head coach the All Whites joining us. Is
it fair to say that the depth, I won't say
is unparallel at the moment, but you've got great depth.
If there's any position where you think you are still lacking,
where would that be, where do you have to improve
the backup?
Speaker 10 (38:59):
Yeah, you're right, we've got good depth.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
You know.
Speaker 10 (39:01):
When we've put this squad out there, you know, and
we're missing Joe bell Sapri Seing, Callum Cower, fincerm and
Bill to I Loma, your Marco Rohas, Joey Champney's Maxi
Matter and numerous other players you know that could that
could get called up. Plus you know, plus there's a
lot of young kids that are knocking on the door
as well. So we've got a deep squad. The challenges
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tracking them all and monitoring them all, and you know,
trying to stay in contact with everybody, and you know,
and then making these tough decisions and picking the right
squad for each each tournament, each sort of window, and
then picking a start and eleven from that squad, so
good challenges.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
But there, you know.
Speaker 10 (39:38):
That's what we want, competition for places and we're definitely
starting to build that now we get.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Is there any area though you think over the next
few years you might be a little on the skinny side,
so we maybe you need to work through.
Speaker 10 (39:54):
I think we've got good young players sort of pushing
in all those positions, you know, in four positions, defensive positions,
you know, the right back positions. One where you know,
we've played a lot of different players when we look
at We've had Callan Elliott d Ningham, Nico Kerwin, you know,
Tim Payne, Tyler's played there, Bill Toulohma has played there.
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Painey's settled there and he's the number one there now,
you know, and the challenge for him is to keep
that position. But yeah, I mean that's that's probably the
only position where we've had a lot of rotation of
other players that have played in that position. Everywhere else
is a good competition, but we've been pre consistent.
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what's going on? No league either? No, no, we need this.
This is good for our health, especially after the last
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Got to win the Wellington and scored in the last tweet.
That's all we can expect.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Is no.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We're going to be talking football tonight. Well, I'm going
to be talking to Darren Baize, the head coach of
the All Whites. The Gaffer, if you will, named his
squad for the first two games of four games in
the space of about four weeks, most of those Oceania
football matches and the lead up to the Football World Cup,
(02:11):
and there's a friendly as well. But three of those
four fixtures are here in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
How good.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We'll talk to Darren Bezie about that and the nature
of his team towards the end of the program. First
we'll talk to Hamish Kerr. Hamoshku picked up a gold
medal in the hyja, picked up leaped his butt off
to grab a medal, a gold medal in the high
jump at the Olympic Games. Of course, a man who
has been involved and has done the hard yards at
(02:38):
the indoor championship level. And that is what we're talking
about tonight, the possibility of the World Indoor Championship in
Athletics coming to Tierro in twenty twenty eight. Talked to
Hamish about that. Shortly beyond that, we'll get your enthusiasm
for an event like this, but more so other events
(03:00):
that you'd like to see coming into New Zealand on
a sporting level, where increasingly becoming an event focused sport
watching nation. And if there's something that's unusual, if there's
something we don't see much of, if there's something that
really stands out, we'll go wellever look absolutely want to
be part of that day to day sports and events.
(03:22):
Maybe not, we'll talk you about that later. And the
piece what you'd like to see the chances of you're
engaging in something like the World Champs famous Kurgjoins is
shortly to discuss that. But before any of that, let's do.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
This today and for today, the Super Duper Pacific Rugby
drawers out last season, the perennial favorites drop their bundle
from the get go, losing their first five matches, three
of them away from home.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
At this time, they have four out of their first
six fixtures in their own backyard. Chief Executive Office of
the Crusaders, Colin Mansbridge, is hoping.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
When you're winning consistently time and time again, you do
get a a little bit less sympathy when you complain
about your draw. We've probably gone a little bit more
sympathy this time.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Really more sympathy for the Crusaders. It'll be a cold
dan hell before anyone spares a tear for the Sayers,
poor old Judd Flavel. I mean congratulations. The championship coaches
snared the role as the All Blacks head coach probably
now though, as you'll have to answer several questions around
Steven Adams and they have to do that until the
(04:32):
big unit retires, right.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
We built a little bit of a relationship before he
left to go to college with my role with the Breakers.
Since then that obviously he's gone and done some amazing
things off shore in the NBA, and you always keep
an eye on it. But I guess there's a connection
there and hopefully we can reconnect going forward.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Pick him in a wheelchair enough already, hey, demand black
Ferns Skipper is still finding rays of light to the
gloom of defeat. Island and WX the one. Good on you.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I'm really proud though, of the attitude that the team
showed in those moments to can continue to try and
win the next moment, regardless of whether that was a
tech or defense stun.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And Michael McGuire, hamm of at League at QWI coaching fame,
is explained why he deserted Origin for the joys of
the Bronco.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
I am a career coach, so I love the daily
stuff and my last campaign.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
In the Origin and it was an incredible experience.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I got to say it was an amazing experience. But
I am the person that loves the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Day to day. I've actually missed having the staff.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I've missed having players.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Around me daily.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I got bored. And that's sports today. We're doing now
on News Talk zeb by Hamish Kerr. Want a gold
medal and high jump at the Olympic Games, don't you know?
Got to like the sound of that, don't you, Hamish.
That'll never get boring, will it? And welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Thanks for having me mate, mate. No, it definitely won't
get boring, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We're going to talk about actually ask you what you're
doing later in the piece. Let's get to the let's
get to the jump right now. World Indoor Athletics Championships.
The possibility of it being held here in New Zealand's
news came out today. Michael birds the new Zealand and
he will break the story. This is epic. How big
would this be for athletics in New Zealand do you think, Amish?
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Oh, I mean it would be huge. Like I don't
think that we you know, probably since having the Con
Games in Auckland nineteen ninety's. It's you know, it's not
something that we've had locally, you know, a really really
high high performance competition like this, And I think something
like indoors actually really suits us.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Well.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
It's a slightly smaller field and often is in a
smaller venu being an indoor comp and it's in a
perfect time a year for us. You know, we could
get all those athletes down and they could have training
camps here and you know, muck around and hang out
in the local kind of summer for a couple of
weeks beforehand. So yeah, it would be it'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
As far as the timing, twenty twenty eight now it's
a few months before the Olympic Games in LA From
what you know, when the Indoors are on, how affect
do they buy the Olympic Games if they're running on
the same year, Hamish?
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Yeah, ah, look, I mean it's a great taste of
what's come right, Like you saw it this year with
me and Jordie and a few others, you know, getting
medals at that World and it was really set the scene,
and I think that's something that you know, we felt
like the nation really picked up on and definitely if
it was here, I think that that would just be
such an amazing kind of stepping stone into what will
be hopefully in amazing Olympics as well in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The quality of the field though, do people tend to
skip the indoors in the same year as as the
Olympic Games? You see what I'm saying here, Are we
likely to attract if it comes here the top field?
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Oh absolutely, I mean I mean, look like you're never
going to get everybody. That's just the nature of different
people's schedules and you know, the way that they prep
best for something like the Olympics. But I think that
you'd find that you'd get a very very high quality field.
There would definitely be you know, if you take the
top sort of fifteen in the world, you'd be looking
at well over half of the top guys being there.
(08:08):
And so I think that it is something that would
be amazing. But I think the thing is, irrespective of
how many of those absolute stars you get, the indoor
comps are actually just so much fun.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You know.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
You get to go in there and you you know,
just the noise and the varied kind of things to
watch as a spectator and being in such a sort
of a slightly smaller space than a normal field means
that you do get to experience all the events that
are happening in front of you. So it is something
that you know in Scotland, even sitting there in the
crowd once I'd finished my event and watching guys like
(08:39):
Jeordie you know when fifteen it was, it was such
a special moment, and just the noise of the crowd,
you know. I think that even if you're not an
athletics fan, going along to that, you'd get a hell
of a buzz, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Olympic gold medalist Tamish Kurd joins US homes. When you
look at New Zealand's infrastructure, now apparently you can have
an indoor outdoors in some cases, so it might well
be eaten part, but I'm thinking probably Toka and christ
Church would be magnificent. Thirty thousand people it's got a roof,
so on and so forth. But from what you know
about New Zealand, can they cope with something as important,
(09:13):
maybe not as large, but as important as the World
Indoor Champs.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
I mean, yes, yeah, I definitely, I definitely think we could.
And it'd be around selling the experience to the Europeans
for sure. You know, they they don't love traveling to
the US at the best of times, so to get
them all the way over here will definitely be a challenge.
But I think I think that we do have some
really good, some good comparative advantages. You know, obviously being
summer it means that they can come down here and
do a training block out of the cold European winter.
(09:39):
So you know, there are definitely some things and in
terms of facilities, like you know, we we have potential
to be able to put some some really good events on.
There's definitely you know a number of tracks that are
that are really well developed already, and there's definitely some
some sites, especially for the indoors sort of where the
where the actual event would be held. There's there's definitely
some really good options that don't currently have tracks, but
(10:00):
you know, to get an indoor facility and into someone
something like one of those big event centers would would
definitely be you know, pretty easy to do and definitely feasible.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Very focused. Only twenty six events, thirteen female, thirteen male.
I suppose that just adds to the intensity. From a
viewing perspective, people really get to see the best in
the go to athletics events, don't they These are the ones,
these are the blue ribbon events. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
I mean, you know, a typical major championship, so like
a World Outdoors would take about ten days. Generally a
World Indoors is only three days long, and so you
find that it's just you know, every session you go to,
it's just high quality. There's finals, there's medals, there's big storylines.
It's something that you can pretty much go along for
three days straight and just just be absolutely hummeled with
(10:47):
you know, high energy competitions. So it is a pretty
cool thing to have. And honestly, you know, from my perspective,
if there was any event that you would want to
have in athletics to host, it would be a World Indoors.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The difference between the indoors and the outdoors, Besides the
obvious when it comes to competing the advantages the disadvance
hunters of the two distinct competitions.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
I mean from a high jumperspective, the big difference would
be how much more involved the crowd can get indoors.
Being a big stadium outdoors, often it is hard to
get the whole stadium around you and really getting amongst
the performance. And that's something that as high jump as
we love to do, we love to you know, get
the crowd, get up and get them as noisy as
possible before we jump. So yeah, to do that in
(11:31):
an indoor facility is just so much easier. So often
guys will will kind of lean on that a lot more.
And so yeah, it's definitely one of those things that
if you come along and you know, if you see
an indorse you know, competition versus an outdoor one, there
there is definitely a lot more crowd interaction.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Some of the events can't be held. I believe the
two hundred meters has been canned because it's simply too tight.
They can't run. So you've got that addition I suppose with
you as well, I mean one hundred meters and sixty
meters you've got no wind isshoes. You got to like that.
So there are positives and eggers.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Oh absolutely. I mean, you know, most events you'd find
the stamp of performance is as good, if not better
than an outdoor performance generally. Obviously, like you said, there's
a couple of events that do run slightly differently. Only
been a two hundred meter track means that the four
hundred meter is actually two laps of the track rather
than one, and an eight hundred is four laps, so that, Yeah,
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there are different different things, But ultimately what that means
is all that racing is just so much closer and
it's just so much more action, pact.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And the quality of the engagement because the athlete number
is smaller. So I'm presuming by the time we get
to the finals those three days you are actually very
much the cream of what you've got. There's not a
lot of qualifying going on the best tim not to compete.
Is that fair?
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Yeah, not a lot of qualifying at all. So I
mean for someone like me who loves a qualifying.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You'll never get over that, will you.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Yeah, So no qualifying and field events, it's just straight
finals and then for the track events that will only
be sort of one round, if not two in some
specific cases. So yeah, so very small, very very to
the point, but also because of that, it's a bloody
exciting thing to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Would certainly like to be there. New Zealand are very
events focused these days. I think you'd sell the place out,
especially when you consider yourself and a number of other
New Zealand athletes who are near the top, if not
at the top of their game. There's a lot of
quality athletes out there that I'm sure we'd love to
see in competition like this. I'm sure the athletes amosh
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would love to perform in front of their.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Countrymen one hundred percent. You know, I think that you know,
this is this is something that we've had chats about
as a as a team and definitely, you know, I
didn't think that it was going to come to this,
this sort of even the stage of you know, the
government and Athletics is on, you know, commenting on on
the potential happening, but you know, to know that that
is you know, a potential now is something that I
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think the whole team are just going to be absolutely
stoked about. And you know, I'm definitely not saying that
there's anyone who wouldn't be competing in all years time
from the current crop of athletes. But I think that,
you know, if anyone was sort of thinking about potentially
moving on, this is definitely going to keep them into it,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And how are you enjoying life away from the focus
of being an Olympic champion? Golf be a bad food?
Is that the.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's pretty much me at the moment. No,
it's it's it's been amazing, you know, I've I've obviously
been back in the country for a month now, and yeah,
you're definitely it's definitely a different life getting you know,
asked for photos in the supermarket when you are picking
up your your your pack of pack of lemonades for
the night, that's for sure. But yeah, it is, it
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is definitely, it's a very cool experience. And I think that,
you know, if I can fucking use this to hopefully,
you know, hopefully inspire the next generation of athletes to
realize it as possible and and if things like you know,
potentially World end was coming to New Zealand because of
the increased exposure we have, it's it's only great for me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
We've got the breakdown on sports Talk call oh wait
hundred News Talk.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Twenty one after seven famous Curve here gold medal Olympian
in the high jarm talking about the possibility of a
World Indoor Athletics Championships being held here in New Zealand
in twenty twenty eight. Michael Burgess busted the story out
today in the New Zealand Herald, suggesting that Athletics New Zealand,
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writing the Athletics New Zealand and Chris Bishop have talked
and it is a distinct possibility that they will launch
might say an appeal. It sounds a bit desperate. They
want to host the Games in twenty twenty eight, providing
everything gets checked out, teas and eyes and the like.
So the question here to you is this one. I'd
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rather have this the Comwealth Games. And I know that's
probably slapping Common Games in the face because Common Games
is a whole lot more than just athletics. But there's
something special about this that really appeals to me. And
being part of the New Zealand populace, we're getting very
events focused. Let's face it, well on these WAYMBAM, thank
you these big events. I was their CEA ladder. What's
happening next? Yeah, and had one of those for a while.
(16:21):
We need more. So is this enough to spin your wheels?
If the government was going to spend some money because
the apparently they do from time to time, and they're
going to invest in a sporting event for the populace
short term, if you will this, then he goes for
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three days. Where would you like them to put their money?
So would you buy into this? Let's say, for example,
a takaha. The new stadium in christ Church will be
opened by then. It will be indoors. It's christ Church,
so it's got a lot of hotel rooms, it's easily
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accessible from all over this shop. That'd be something you'd
be the door down to get to. Right, thirty thousand people,
three days of competition. I'd try and scam more in
there as being the media or something like that, but
that would be a sensational event. I'd say, a good
way to christen the new stadium because it would be
up and running. We'd hope for a year or so
by then. But this is the kind of event that
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stadia like that want to attract their city, so everybody benefits.
So would you buy into this? I'll eight hundred eighty
ten eighty. And if you don't care for athletics and
we're looking at bringing different sporting events here, one off
sporting events here, where would we hunt? You're the target,
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you're the fan base, you're the sports fans out there.
Give us a wish list. What would you like to see?
I'll eight hundred eighty ten eighty. I'll get a list
longer than my arm, which is not that long as
I'm quite short. But I'll run that past you. I'd
run it through. I'm not holding sword, ill run that
past you shortly, but I would love your thoughts. What
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would you like as far as a one off sporting event,
a global sporting event that would attract eyeballs and interest
to hear in New Zealand and would attract people here
in New Zealand to go and see that event. What
can we handle? What are we good at? What can
we push forward? Being New Zealand's Drummond to NACI, go
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Speaker 3 (19:06):
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Back to sport eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Ideally,
what would you like to see here in New Zealand
as far as a one off sporting event, one that
we get the eyes of the world on New Zealand,
that we could handle, that we could hold, that would
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look good to present. Well, if we can manage to
crowbars some money out of the government to give us
some sport fun, where should it go? I got a list,
Doug ready, but I'd like yours first. Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty. Shay, Hi, how are you mate? I'm very well, Shade.
What about yourself? Good?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Good?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I have to met. I've got into the car, and
I caught half of your comment there about the sports
in the stadium and offering an opportunity there. So I thought,
me being an ex athlete of my own back in
the day, there's one sport that actually I feel is
sort of not getting the run around in this modern
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modern day, and that's the esports.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Okay, do you think that'll be a big crowd drawer.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
It's a huge money gatherer for a lot of other
countries at the moment. And if you ever look at
if you ever take a moment, have a look at
some of the stadiums that they're using, they are always
jam packed, they are always filled out, and they usually
last for about three to five days.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, I don't think you're wrong there, shade as much
as it goes straight out of my head. I look
and I've seen these crowds though, and I've seen the engagement,
and I almost think, no, really, you're kidding me. But
it's got massive traction, hasn't it.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
It has. It's billion dollar industry, and you've got certain
esports or games that are now playing for million dollar
prize pools. So yeah, they've got it.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Their own Olympic games on the way haven't they, Shay.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Wasn't that I've heard something of the sorts. Yeah, but
you know, if you talk them one off sports to
bring into the country, to give them a world to see,
if that's fit one one sort of niche. I thought
New Zealand might be keen on looking at question sports.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, no, we do. I'm well aware of that. But
I think the question here is Shay. When it comes
to fan engagement, being there, well, no, no being there,
I don't think is a huge part of I might
be wrong. Gamers can bring me out, let me know,
But when you're at a sporting event, when you're actually
there and you can watch it and smell it and
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breathe it, whereas big gaming events like that you watch
it all online anyway, don't think it matters. Weird people do.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
But I mean, I suppose that that's for me. If
I was able to go to one of these events
and actually have that in my local area, then I
might actually go to it, Whereas right now I don't
have that ability. I don't have that chance.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They sell out huge arenas.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Yeah, they do, a massive arena.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Just help me here. I'm not being dismissive of but
when you sell out a massive What do you just
watch a big screen? Is that how it rolls?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Well, No, they'll actually put the teams that are playing
on the on the playing the games on the stage
in front of you, so you will actually be able
to see their reactions and stuff like that as well
as well as the big screens and everything like that.
And then you also get the like you actually get
a lot of crowd chanting in these places.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So what do you call athletes involved in esports? Athletes?
Can we just calling that now? So you watch the
athletes on their little devices and that that is g
en up. Again, this is not my error.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
And I'm getting a bit past it myself, but yeah,
you'll find a lot of like my daughter nowadays would
quite happily go and sit in the stadium and watch
your favorite you know, esports person play their game and
be excited to do so.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Yeah, it's shay, thanks for that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I never thought that i'd have a phone call saying that,
but look, it's it's relevant, right, it's a billion dollar industry.
Just because I wouldn't want to go and see it
doesn't mean to say it wouldn't work. Say thanks for that.
Anything else outside the Box love to hear from here?
Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty Henry, how are you?
Speaker 10 (23:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Good? East Woods? Just PlayStation or you know, jeez.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
But things if people want it and people pay for
it and there's money in it, plainly it's relevant. Right,
you can't argue against that.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
But it's not the same as teeny watching Ames SCOODI
the wh jump is it?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You know, well, I'd say it isn't, but I'd say
that there'd be e sporters out there that go. You know,
actually being there and watching these people on stage is
just as thrilling as you guys watching someone jump over
a bar.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yeah, but yeah, I loved the they didn't door to
come here because I love them. So each year January
were the Cooks Cooks Classic. Yeah, yeah, And you know
hamishkur is always he was there, Tom Walsh is there.
Santana always turns up. You know that lady that was
in the Hemoth throw from New Zealand, she was there
all the top fifty hund meta womans. You know, it's
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it's just awesome, does you know. You go down there
and it's just it's like, you know, you feel like
you're at the bloody olymicause something. You're watching all of
these New Zealand talent and it's just it's just awesome.
It'd be awesome to hear that.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
It has a wonderful history to the Cook's Classic with
what's been achieved there and has that repetitive nature. It
comes every year, it's annual, so it does so inside
a big stadium in christ Church, I think you definitely
generate a lot of the eyeballs and I think globally
you would as well. It's a matter of, as Hamish said,
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convincing the Europeans to come to this side of the Worls.
You're a long way away, I know.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Yeah, but it would be mean to he would be mean,
he is you know, to just see something you know will'll.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Be the closest will ever get to an Olympic.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Games, Right yeah, no, yah, you're right here.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It would be I'd say so, and I'll be all
over it. And Henry, thanks very much for your court
and bringing up the Cooks Classic to a wonderful event.
It's a friend of mine who competed at Atlanta sprinting
a number of years ago and he was over and
watched the whole athletics program at the Olympic Games. Mark Cadell,
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he said, he transfers he's the most amazing thing to
be involved and just sitting there with all of these
different sports going on in the middle. I mean plainly
he's an athletics addict, so he'd love it. But concentrate
that to as what Hamish pointed out, it's not a
great deal of qualifying, which will work for him because
he blew it all qual but in a concentrated space,
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the best athlete, the best the best athletes in the world,
the best athletes in the world right there. Don't call
me Mike Typhon, I will come Matthew in the faith.
How good? So other sports i'd like your called other
sports you would like to see here? If the government,
and I don't know how much money they would commit
(26:30):
to this, I don't even know if they've got any
money left. But if they were to commit some money
to drive eyeballs and drive interest and maybe give us
something to smile about, because government's not all about just
being in business, you know, it's all about looking after
the people. What would it be, where would it be?
Do you want another rugby World? Come they got any
(26:53):
traction with you. I'd like to see the World Rally
Championship back again. Apparently that was coming back this year,
but that went pretty quite pretty fast. I'm not sure
if we'll see another one for a number of years.
A lot of eyeballs, a lot of people enjoying that,
a lot of people love skidding. That was a big one.
What about a basketball World champs What would be the
(27:16):
chances of us getting that? If we got enough Stadia
over here to make that work? All right, we're at Auclord.
We'll just build one state of origin. We've talked about that.
I still reckon. State of origin is Australia. It should
stay in Australia. It's theirs. I'm gonna go for it
turned up plainly. What about AFL the one off game
(27:39):
over here of AFL, a season starter over here at ANFL.
Let me know what you'd like to see. Later on
in the piece of the program, we'll talk about a
football Darren Basis, the head coach the GAFFA of the
All Whites, released a team today for two games coming
up in mid October. We'll talk to him about that.
This is news talks there b oh eight one hundred
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and eighty ten eighty, it's twenty three minutes eight.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Its just smilessly hot.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Te to eight sports Talk care on the news Talk
ZB one hundred eighty ten eighty sporting event one off,
one you'd really like to see here, One that would
gain traction, one that would bring the attention of the world,
one that we could actually handle. They just know, good, Luke,
(28:39):
what do you have to make?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Hey? Good?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
How's a game?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Good?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Good?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Good?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
What do you like? What do you want to see here?
Speaker 11 (28:46):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Well, I went to the President's Cup, the golf tournament
that George was just played over the weekend in Melbourne
a couple of years ago, and man, there was fantastick
the amount of coverage you know that that event gets.
And I just yeah, I just think that's the sort
of thing that is that New Zealand can pull off
and bringing a lot of a lot of tourism.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Sorry, I just coughed. It's too my mic off. No
one wants to hear that. So we're never going to
get the Ryder Cup for obvious reasons. But the President's
come Cup it could be. I mean, logistically would it work.
Where would you play this I think the last we
had a big golf tournament here it was up at
the now defunct Golf Harbor. Although we've got plenty of
pretty fancy golf courses, but when they let the peasants
(29:31):
on to watch, that's the next question you come out
of golf.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, probably somewhere in Auckland. I would think there's
loads of fancy wealth courses up there.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
So yeah, as well, I think world attention and I
hate going back to this all the time because to say,
what do we care about what the rest of the
world think. But the whole idea is an access it
as a tourist. Am arm as well, doesn't it?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, of course come here check this out.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, they're exactly it and that's what you want to do.
So I like it. I like it, Luke makes sense?
Will we get traction? How much does it cost? Who
would want to pay for it? Of anybody? Got a
number of texts I'll go through as well. Look at
the UFC fight. Would would be fantastic for people who
(30:22):
like cage violence. But if you like the new South
Wales government not need to believe paid. They basically wrote
down the US to come over and hold a series
of fights there. The crowds are big, and the crowds
are insane, and you bring a lot of tourists in
(30:42):
and this is something that new selling can handle quite easily.
And of course we've got a number of exponents of
mixed martial arts that will perform there. So a lot
of good to like about that. Let's run through your texts.
IndyCar at Highlands will be great as an off season
(31:02):
test session. They've got three or four Kiwi drivers and
surely tourism budget could help out too. It's well and good,
but I think that if it's a preseason fixture, which
it seems that it would be, I don't think you'd
get the interest, would you if it didn't have relevance.
There'll be a lot of petrol heads ID want to
go and see it. But could you imagine the cost
(31:24):
not bringing the Indye cars to Highland Park. It's so
far away from anywhere. But you like the way you're thinking.
Someone said we need more drugs and weapons on the
rugby field. Okay, I think you might have just taken
levir senses. But thanks for your texting your twenty cents. Anyway,
(31:45):
I'm not an eesport fan myself, writes one. But when
you ask a young person why they would watch someone
else play a game, your response as well, you go
an all Blacks game, You're still watching other people play
a game, which is a fair point. Ryan got. There's
something dynamic about watching a game of rug be, like
(32:07):
people moving from one side of the field to the other.
I'm not telling you what to like, and some people
really like just watching a motionless, warm prop on the
stage twiddling their thumbs. Great, it's not for me, but
there are billions in it, so it obviously is for
someone So thanks very much for that. Someone else said
(32:28):
how pathetic equating sport with money. Amateur sport is real sport, Walter,
it's twenty twenty four. You're quite welcome to live back
there in nineteen thirty. I'm sure it was wonderful, but
in this day and age it's all about the money now.
An NFL preseason game is interesting, before saying preseason with
the IndyCar. I don't know if it would work. Could
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an NFL game be held here? Would Eden Park be
volumeous enough, would the ground to be big enough? I'm
presuming it would be. I'm not quite sure what the
Gridine specifications are. But Dad might be a way of
attracting people. Again. I don't know what cost is all about,
(33:12):
but why not? I like this text, Darcy. We're really
good at hosting sailing events. Hawkland's built for it. Why
don't we try the America's thank you Moto GP. Motor
(33:38):
GP is extraordinarily exciting. I get that where it will
be again distance still fascinated as we're on Earth. The
World Rally Champs went next year on the program starts January,
finishes late November. Monte Carlo, Sweden, Kenya, Canary Islands, Portugal, Sadania, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Paraguay, Chile,
(34:04):
Central Europe, Japan, help Saudi Arabia. It was only a
matter of time, wasn't it. Well they got some quite
good really drivers over the sam really one ten eighty.
But you know what, I think we're going to listen
to me talk to a coach of football. Darren Baisley
joins us next named his team. There's Simmons, there's some outs.
(34:28):
All White's playing three games at home in the space
of a month, three of them, ifc one of them
is a friendly. But three of those four matches are
going to be here in New Zealand. That's got to
be good for the sport. Darren baisie up next here
at Newstalk's there'll be fifteen away from eight All whites.
(34:49):
Football was the flavor right here, right now. Chris wood
Liberato Katucchi, No, I haven't got these guys on are
Marco Staminik are among the squad that had been named
for the home game in October. We're joined by well,
the man who picked them, the head coach, Darren Baize. Darren,
welcome to the show. You've got to like the strength
of the squad there you've picked. There are some great names,
(35:10):
some great players, some consistency to you.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Yeah, this is a strong squad, an exciting squad to
bring back to this part of the world. So yeah,
we know World Cup qualifiers, it's the business end. The
players are all aware that we've got to get this
job done so that we can go back to the
World Cup. So yeah, it's a strong squad, pretty consistent
from the last group. You know, a couple of couple
of changes, but yeah, I think people will be excited
(35:33):
to see, you know, Woodsy coming back and Marc o'
libby and Garbs and Oldie and you know numerous others
that are coming back to playing these games.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I love the nicknames. What do they call you, Darren?
I'm just bes just all on with that, just like
the Felts on a snooker table bass. So three changes
from the US tour, So tell us about those. Tyler
Bend and Kem Howison and Storm Roo returning too. That's
got to work.
Speaker 10 (36:01):
Yeah, I mean, obviously Tyler. It was disappointing to lose
Tyler the last tour. You know, he he got a
concussion injury the Saturday before he was coming to America.
So he got through that, did the ten Days stand
down and has played the last two games for Readin
So he's back fully fit, which is great. You know,
he's he's a really good addition for the squad. You know,
(36:21):
we've added Storm Roots. The Storm's a player that I
know really well. We've been tracking him for a long time.
You know, We've tried to bring him in a couple
of times for for the tours, the Nations Cup and
for the Egypt Tour, but you know, he had a
couple of injuries that sort of it just wasn't the
right time for him. So Yeah, it's really pleasing to
actually finally better bring him back into the squad and
he's excited and that'll add to it. And then yeah,
(36:44):
we lost Joe Bell for this one. So Cam Howison
is a really good replacements. He did really well for
us at the Nation's Cup. He's obviously joined Auckland, so
he's now in a professional environment. You know, he's a
great lad and he'll add to the squad.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Noll too, Loma either A Cinnamon's not there. Do you
want to talk us through those two decisions.
Speaker 10 (37:05):
Yeah, so so Bill obviously he's you know, he's in
a position where he hasn't played much football for his
club for about a year now. We brought him in
as a late replacement when we were in America when
we'd got an injury, and part of that was he
was very close, you know, we were in America. He
obviously lives in America, so it was easy and quick
for him to get to us, and we know him
(37:27):
and we know he's a good player, just lacking that
game fitness, so he's aware of, you know, what he's
got to do. For Finn's a little bit different, you know.
He he joined Portland in July and then he came
away to the Olympics for three weeks and then went
back to the club for three weeks and then came
to America. So we sort of feel like we've we've
taken him out of his new environment quite a lot.
(37:50):
Or he obviously did the Nation's Cup with us as well,
so he actually hasn't played. I mean, he did very
well against America a couple of weeks ago, but before
that he hadn't played since the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
So I think it's difficult.
Speaker 10 (38:03):
He's gone to a new club, big club Portland, he's
been so hasn't got on the pitch yet, and I
think part of that might be, you know, he just
hasn't spent much time at the club, you know, because
of the international commitments, so you know, he needs a
better fitness, he needs to sort of get his opportunity
at the club. So we felt like this opportunity, you know,
with the other players that we have in regards to Nando,
(38:25):
Tyler Boxell and Tommy Smith as center backs, we felt
this is a good opportunity for Finn to miss this one,
spend a lot of time at his club, do some
fitness work with the club and hopefully put himself in
a position where Phil Neville puts him on the pitch
for Portland, which would be great for us.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Darren basically head coach the All Whites joining us. Is
it fair to say that the depth, I won't say
is unparallel at the moment, but you've got great depth.
If there's any position where you think you are still lacking,
where would that be, where do you have to improve
the backup?
Speaker 10 (38:59):
Yeah, you're right, we've got good depth.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
You know.
Speaker 10 (39:01):
When we've put this squad out there, you know, and
we're missing Joe bell Sapri Seing, Callum Cower, fincerm and
Bill to I Loma, your Marco Rohas, Joey Champney's Maxi
Matter and numerous other players you know that could that
could get called up. Plus you know, plus there's a
lot of young kids that are knocking on the door
as well. So we've got a deep squad. The challenges
(39:23):
tracking them all and monitoring them all, and you know,
trying to stay in contact with everybody, and you know,
and then making these tough decisions and picking the right
squad for each each tournament, each sort of window, and
then picking a start and eleven from that squad, so
good challenges.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
But there, you know.
Speaker 10 (39:38):
That's what we want, competition for places and we're definitely
starting to build that now we get.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Is there any area though you think over the next
few years you might be a little on the skinny side,
so we maybe you need to work through.
Speaker 10 (39:54):
I think we've got good young players sort of pushing
in all those positions, you know, in four positions, defensive positions,
you know, the right back positions. One where you know,
we've played a lot of different players when we look
at We've had Callan Elliott d Ningham, Nico Kerwin, you know,
Tim Payne, Tyler's played there, Bill Toulohma has played there.
(40:16):
Painey's settled there and he's the number one there now,
you know, and the challenge for him is to keep
that position. But yeah, I mean that's that's probably the
only position where we've had a lot of rotation of
other players that have played in that position. Everywhere else
is a good competition, but we've been pre consistent.
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