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Mils Muliaina - Former All Black and rugby commentator on the Blues' struggles this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Waldergrave
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Evening six after seventh Sports Talk for Monday night, March
the twenty fourth, twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five. It's
great start, isn't it? Get back on track? Ten years
to the day since Grant Elliott smacked US six into
the Eden Park grandstand. The Black Hats advanced to the
Cricket World Cup Final.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, I can hear myself talk now? The Oh, that's
just amazing. The crowd, the supports is Eland Eden Park
semi final to win it in the last over. I think,
you know, hopefully the all our supporters got what they wanted.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh, he certainly did so. Maybe not so much a
few days later, But what a night that was at
Eden Park. Lucky enough to be in the stands that
night for that encounter. Never experienced a sporting fixture like that. Won,
the noise, the tension, the relief. Well, the All Whites
chase a spot at the same ground tonight in their
Football World Cup twenty twenty six, about to get under
(01:32):
weigh against New Caledonia. Kickoff just a couple of moments away.
We'll keep across that for you this evening and update
you on any goal scoring action. We'll head to Eden
Park two around halftime for the lattice with the New
Zealand heralds Michael Burgess, who is there. We'll have the
Piney Power rankings as well, even though Piney's not here tonight,
we'll dish those out and rank the weekend that was.
(01:53):
In sports, we'll start with Super Rugby though in a
moment or two, and the woes of the Blues a
diabolical run in they're opening six games to start their
title defense that leaves them teetering as they head into
their first buy of the season. I don't think anyone
could have predicted that the Blues would be in this
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sort of predicament through six games to start this season,
but that is indeed where they find themselves. Mills Muliaina
to join the program out of Sky Sport or Black
Centurion in just a couple of moments as well. Busy
night of sporting action will keep you right across at
your calls. Your text always welcome. OH eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty or nine two nine two to connect
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with us via the text line this evening, looking forward
to your company. It is coming up nine after seven.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You hear it from the biggest names in sports man
have your say on eight hundred eighty ten eighty sports
Talk or more on your home of sports news Talks
at me.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It has hardly been a dream start for the Blues.
Another loss on the weekend and to be honest, possibly
their worst performance of the season forty two to nineteen
losing to the Crusaders. They head into the I now
with one win and five defeats to show. For a
former Blues player, All Black Centurion and Sky Sport commentator Mills,
(03:13):
Muliaina joins us now on Sports Talk. Mills, thanks so
much for your time.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
No no worries time.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, we head into the buy from a Blues perspective
with one win and five losses to start their title defense.
I don't think anyone saw this coming, did you.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I didn't think it was going to be this bad.
It's not the start they anticipated, but I think earlier
on for preseason, you know, they had a lot of
injuries coming into the season, but certainly they just haven't
quite clipped and obviously the disappointment of only want picking
up one game so far. I think that the buyer
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has come at a you know, they always say come
at a pretty good time for the Blues.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Right now, fourteen injuries. How much does that impact their campaign?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Huge? You know, that's that's always a fact that you
can't really control, right You've got to look at the
depth of the squad. But they're also injuries and key positions.
You know, the Boden Barrett a few weeks ago against
the Brumby. So you look at the locking department as well.
You know, you know, losing quite a few guys there,
Petrick through plow to pulling out, but also given people
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Fetter starting to come back, a lot of a lot
of injuries in disruptions. They certainly sort of upfront, I mean,
it's all about key positions, you know, the hooker. I mean,
they haven't sort of got someone that's there and well
established in that department at the moment, and so when
you kind of look at that, you know they're really
(04:43):
unsettled in I mean, they'll be the first one to
admit as well. I think also the rules have impacted
the way they've been wanting to play. I think they
came into the season wanting to play a similar style
to last year, but that's just not the case this year.
We've got the faster looking game, teams and wanting to
sort of explot you on the outside, these opportunities to
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issue with ball in hand, and I think you know,
they've they've picked up on that and in the last
two or three weeks, but they just seemed they hadn't
quite got the balance right or or quite connected in
the fact they do we play that game that won
us last year's their style or you know, we've got
the ability also to play an expensive game, and that's
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where they're sort of missing out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Last year they went very direct with their forwards, rolled
up the sleeve, put pressure on teams inside the twenty two.
But this year and Saturday not probably being the biggest
example of that, is that they struggled even into the
Crusader's twenty so they weren't playing in the right areas
of the park.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, exactly. And if you're think about it, the kicking
is becoming from teams that they're playing. It's you now,
the Blues down in their own half and all of
a sudden becomes a different mindset to them. You know,
they they haven't quite got their kicking game right to
put themselves back or for patients to be able to say, well, hey,
we're not going to play anything in our own hearts.
So they've almost forced the Blues into playing the game.
(06:03):
They're not sure they're comfortable with you. I think they
can play an expensive game. I just don't think the
perhaps got the confidence or the connections, all the all
the backing from everyone to say hey we can actually
do this and and have the skill set to be
over door. But you're right that they're not getting themselves
in the right area of the parking you we want
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to last year, anything around that halfway mark or into
your own half, and the Blues would just keep the
ball in hand, carry hard, and they wouldn't meet sides,
you know, they wouldn't give the ball back to aamy side.
And now all of a sudden that sort of disconnected
and their clean out. There's real opportunity to be able
to steal some right ball and slow them down there
and even frustrate them. So again, you know, I mentioned
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before the fact that this is a good time for
them to go and establish what game they want to play.
I certainly still think they're going to They can make
the six. I think they've got the talent and some
returning sort of guys coming back that are in key roles.
And this is a tough competition. It's I mean tough
in the fact that it's so so close, and so
I still think that there's there's a there's a chance
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that they'll make the six.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What do they need to fixt Is it just as
simple as tweaking that game plan, going back to what
they did last year and resetting that way.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, I mean, I think get a few key players back.
I think Bodin's not too far away once they establish
the five connection. Injuries is going to be a big
thing in healthy guys, I mean, losing areas at the
beginning of the season, his aunt Sullivans of the world.
I'd like to see sort of those guys. But again,
you can't control when those guys are going to be.
(07:38):
Really but I think the balance of the game, it's
almost to say over the weekend to reset, it has
to be you've got to forget the fact that of
they've only won one game, this is the next three
weeks is going to really define your season, and so
getting on the same page and by that whether it's
a let's just reroute back to the old way and
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carry hard and be really efficient at that or there
is ability. I mean you looked at the way they
came back inst Chiefs and Hamilton. I mean that's a
side that it can play open open the style of rugby.
I'd like to see them play there, but unfortunately at
the moment they just are lacking a little bit of
confidence and the skill seat to actually go with it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The Crusaders are obviously beating the Blues on the weekend,
look to be back to some of the form that
they've previously had they I would have dismantled the Blues.
What have you made of the Crusaders start to the season.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
They look really dangerous, and not because of the way
the dismantled the Blues. But I think there are stall
plenty to come and within the Crusaders that they weren't
parted by all ends on the weekend, but they will
give them confidence because there is still plenty left for
the Crusaders to be able to give. I think David
Harvilly has been he was an exceptional over the week
and the weekend. Many he has been leading into this
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since he's been given them a captain see role they've
got you know, they've always had plenty of depths, but
you know, now they've sort of got them. I was
on a roll that one away from home for the
first time and how many years. And that's a key thing.
And if we're the Crusaders, once they get a bit
of sort of momentum into their game and start tweaking
a few things, you know, they're definitely hard beasts to
(09:20):
sort of stop. But that dangerous and effect that they're
still pinny more in terms.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Of your game.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
But that's infects.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's as you mentioned before, it's a really tight competition
this year. The Chiefs out on top, but we've seen
you know, they've lost to the Drawer Milana. They had
a little stumble. Ultimately won that on the weekend by
fifteen points. But cheaper is this competition this year. Mills
is really tired, isn't.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It, oh man. And when you're hear you know he's
hyping up heaver of the other side of the ditch.
Ma that's when you know it's putting there sort of
twenty cents within as well. I love it and this
is I mean, it's the beauty of this is what
we've been wanting for the possibly the last four or
five years. There hasn't been this competitors for a very
long time, and hence the reason why the BREU is
(10:01):
still in it places. But you know, you talk about
the Chiefs, you know about our staff on the Perfect
Game as well, the Hurricanes in a similar boat. You
know they had to buy last weekend. And I mean
you see the teams like the Reds come come to
Toned and beat the Highlanders the way they sort of head.
So it's it's definitely wide open the rules that had
(10:25):
had a playing this and it's been outstanding. But I
mean you've been there for a very long time, these
competitions by time, and even before this, you know, round
three or four, you're starting to see the different expensiveness
we certainly haven't seen it. I mean that it's a
very fight game and then the teams are prepared to
chancey around which is which is I think it's pleasing
(10:47):
to see.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It certainly is Millis mully Aina, thank you so much
for your time with us on Used Talk, but appreciate
it's thank you very much Misma joining us on Sports
Talk this evening. You want to throw up in the
lines and have a chat around Super Rugby. Are you
prepared to draw a line through the lose and say
they cannot win Super Rugby this season? With one win
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from six outings as they enter the first buy of
the season, there are seven points outside the playoffs as
it stands. Are you prepared to say this Blues team
cannot win the title this year? And Blue Spans, where
are they going wrong? They've had fourteen injuries or have
fourteen injuries at the moment, but it can't solely be
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all down to the injury toll. So where is this
Blues team going wrong?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two for
a text message on the Blues or anything else Super Rugby?
You want to get stuck into tonight? She's been a
busy old sporting weekend. There is no score through eight
minutes in the New Caledonia All Whites game at Eden
Park as well. Will keep you up today, all again
Smith and for piety tonight, Let's go to the lines.
Eighteen after seven, Very good evening to Kevin. How's things?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm very well? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
No too bad? I've criticism is what might think of
the Blue Sofa feels very Rocky Stewart. Mute, I'll leave
it at that, you know what I mean, Yes, yes,
at the book, at the Blues performance that I'm very
to lose to the Crusaders. Oh my god, I'm I'm
I'm a Blues fan through and through. But my criticism
(12:26):
right now of the team is very rocky Stewart, like,
I'm going to keep my mouth.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Ricky does that very very well when he's interview. Doesn't
He doesn't doesn't doesn't say it because he knows that
he might get fine.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Yeah, and of course I'm good. Of course I'm not
kind of watching the New zeal't ga remember, But at
the end, I'm in the wrong football confederation. I'm in
the wrong football confederation right now. Good luck to the
good luck to the all whites. Good utter your whites.
But all I've got, all I've got to do is
wait till early wednes late Tuesday night, early Wednesday morning.
Hopefully the soft the Roofs can get past my distant relatives,
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the Chinese.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they should, on the basis of
the world rankings.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Get past the Chinese and then deal with the and
deal with the Japanese and Perth in June, and then
deal with the Saudis in Saudi Arabia in June. Good
grief otherwise, that's otherwise it's going to be a hard way.
And of course I've been loving and the AFL. Of
course I'm happy. My dogs are my bull dogs and
Kenby one and my Magpie's won on in front of
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seventy eight thousand on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That sounds like you had a great weekend of sport.
Even look at that. I can't believe the crowds they
get for the AFL. By the way, I've been lucky
enough to go a couple of years in a row
eighty eight thousand and one year, I think it was
eight ninety thousand the year after. I'm glad you enjoyed
the weekend of sport, Kevin, thank you very much for
your call this evening. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine nine A text message Super Rugby on a
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Monday night. Where are the Blues going wrong? They are
the shadow of the team that tuned out last year.
That last year they had every Super Rugby team on
the back foot at one point or another. Yet these
Blues looked nothing like that twenty twenty four season. Last
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year they were imposing. This year they're just ponderous. They
played direct last year. Now they can barely head down field.
They're completely lateral. And I know that the other teams
around the rest of the competition will be jumping for joy.
They've got better, no doubt about it. The Chiefs what
a conceited of thirty five, but they could scored fifty
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on the weekend. The Crusaders obviously two good for the Blues.
And that's the worrying thing for the Blues. I think
they've gone backwards. Everyone else's taken a big step forward
fourteen Andrew sure, but and some of those playing a
tweep a lot too. But I'm Barrett Throng. The Fassi, Ricattelli, Dowry,
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the high profile players, and they added a lot to
the team. But every team goes through periods of injury.
And the worrying thing for me with the Blues is
that the senior players that remained standing and not exactly
stepping up. Dolden Papalii really appears to have gone into
his shell. Rico Yuwani been very quiet this season and
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was handed the captaincy on Saturday night, Caleb Clark struggling
to make an impact on games. They looked rudderless on
the weekend until Finlay Christy gave them some go forward
to halfback. This was a Blues team on the verge
of a dynasty. Now they are backpeddling at a rate
of knots oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two
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nine two For a text message for the Blues fans.
Don't want to own up to what's going wrong. Give
us an idea. Is it the injuries or is there
something more wrong at this team? Jeremy says this mate,
Rico Yuani has done absolutely nothing at a long time
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at club or national level. Something is not right there, Jeremy.
He's battling to get into games this season, really struggling,
hasn't made an impact, not getting the kind of ball
he was last year. But I agree with you he
is not the player, not that he can be. We
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certainly know that Rico can be made a lot of
running meters over the weekend, but that was when the
game was buying large gone. I wouldn't just focus on him, though.
I think there's a few others that need to take
a look at themselves from that Blues team like the
ones I just mentioned. Moz says this elliott, I think
the Caleb Clark Clark incident has had an effect as well.
(16:52):
It's unseled the team possibly, although I'm not sure how
much they knew about it before it came public or not.
Whether maybe that's caused a surprise or not. I don't know.
I don't know that necessarily be down to that muzz
but probably didn't help, did it. Oh eight one hundred
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and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two for a
text message? Let's talk the Blues and Crusaders fans one
for you. Should we apologize to Rob Penny? Did everyone
get it wrong? Last year? We talked about the Blues
having injuries, where the Crusaders certainly had a long injury
list last year in Super Rugby and Rob Penny was
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basically the whipping boy for months on ends, the Crusaders
couldn't buy a win. Now the seconds on the ladder
behind only the Chiefs, who are clearly the team's the
competition's best team. Did we all get it wrong on
Rob Penny? And do we Maybe I want an apology?
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Just a thought?
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Love?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Your thoughts after this twenty four after seven on Neused
Talks MB.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Was it the right call? Called only one hundred eighty Elliott,
it's sorts talk with Elliott Smith on news Talks.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We're talking to super Rugby on sports Talk until eight
o'clock Elliott Smith. And for Jason Pine this evening still
and I scored in the football seventeen minutes gone New
Zealand and New caledone year. Get your thoughts on the weekend.
That's been your assessment of your teams. Let's go to
Graham evening.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Graham evening, Elliott, how are you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm good yourself?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yeah, good to thank you. Yeah. Apart from Cress passing, I've.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Already you would have had a bet to do with him. Graham.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Oh, I've met him a number of times because he
used to have the supporters Club quite a bosom were
a supporters Club trip out to Glenmark when Todd Blackada
was playing for them when he got dropped in. Yes,
I had a few. Yeah, it was always good. He's
someone that respected people. He was full of fan Alex
Wiley like I know when he was coaching Canterbury he
always made sure the team went under the supporters club
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and things like that. So because he was from the country,
aren't very much that grassroots. But yeah, it's real end
of an era. But I'm onto the Yeah, the Super
Rugby and Crusaders. Yeah, obviously I'm very pleased. It's it's
you know, it's it's it's not relatively early. It's sort
of getting too that third a third or lay through
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the comp Maybe I don't know, but yeah, I think
personnel has played a big role. I think they put
a lot of time and effort into the review. And
you know, obviously James O'Connor, he's pre he's come up
trumps and he got a lot of people rubbished him
like their rubbish Rob Penny last year. And you know
Kyle Preston's come in and yeah, and Will Jordan's brat
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with Braden was only there for one game so far,
but hope he's backstone. But I mean he played outstanding.
You know, he was not there last year and Easton
Blackhead has you know, he's played more, and all those
guys Scott Barrett, but Cody Taylor, I mean, you aren't.
You ain't the county's manchalk. He you know, he's been
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he's ready come through, you know, and validated his selection.
So yeah, I think there's just yeah, they put a
big reveal and I think people did get wrong about
Rob Penny. I think, I mean, I just knew how
good a coach he was with Canterbury and the sort
of two thousand and eight to three to eleven I
think it was. He got four titles and he was
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involved with Ossie McLain and Steve Hanson an earlier successful
MPC teams too. So yeah, yeah, I think they want
to get your mojo back, you know, you know you
got to keep going. Yeah, don't want to keep it
going this weekend because specific it won't be easy.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well certainly one. It's momentum. That's the big thing that
they just couldn't get last year, Graham and they kept
chopping and changing their first fives. Last year Heppera Kimberda
had a go, David have Villy was in there for
a week. There might have been someone else, I mean Rivers, Rayhana.
This year they've stuck with Ty Kimberda. Now the goal
kicking is a bit of a battle, but have Gone,
we trust you you're going to be a go. I
think it's made a big difference as well.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
It has I mean last year, but Fugus Burke didn't
come back. Yeah, that's fight. I mean, he was a
very good player. I rated him highly and his non
non playing and I remember he got injured again and
the delayed has come back and that was probably a
fatal blod and you know, so we ended up and
Rivers got injured quite a bit. I think he's due back.
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So yeah, and Tahara and James of you know that
Kima is really his general games been very good. Obviously,
I'd like to see him improve the kicking a bit,
but yeah, I know, yeah, the combinations are better and
then players go down and Tom Krusty's came and Vasi,
I mean he's been around the block and he wanted
to prove a point in the last couple of weeks.
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So yeah, but I Blues, and I do think the
injury toll has played a role, and I think the
game plan may be a bit limited compared with you know,
even the Islanders, even though they got beaten on the weekend.
You look at gavini Ze on games, they playing quite
attacking rugby. Yeah, so and the Blues a reboat is
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being caught a seat and that's probably what's needed.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, Yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it. Graham One one tactic
works one year and everyone goes that's the way to play,
and then the next year it falls apart and everyone's
playing a different way and it doesn't work. I think
maybe the shock and or thanks as always he called
Graham around the Blues last year, the way that it
played so physically, so direcked that teams couldn't stick with it.
They were so well drilled. They went away from it slightly. Obviously,
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some injuries play apart, but the door has been opened
to different styles of play, and as Mills touched on
when we chatted with him before, some of those rule
changes have made that game the game a lot faster
and perhaps just doesn't suit the way the Blues want
to play. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two
two for a text message, David says this Blues attitude
(23:01):
has got something wrong. So tudo has about attitude. Clarks
problem isn't helping but we don't really know, but just
not performing and it's petty as players lose chances to progress.
So that's the other thing. As well when your teams
aren't playing as well. Harder for those players in all
that contention to look good, especially if they're not playing
well as well and they're not getting the opportunities. So
(23:22):
its swings and roundabouts as well. But you make a
very good point. Glenn says this higher if they get
rid of Liam Lawson from Formula one due to poor form,
then surely the Blues should be relegated from Super Rugby.
Tongue in cheek, I'm sure. Thank you very much for
the text, cutthroat to wake up and see that they're
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considering sending Liam back to racing balls. You don't get
much time to muck around to you in Formula one.
It's all business. Hopefully they can stick with the key.
We nine four a text message, oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty to get in touch with us. Grant
says this. Apart from last weekend, the Landers have been
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so close at winning the cards and a couple of
silly things have just kept them out. For a team
of knicks to know all blacks that are bloody good
really a great grant. The a little bit hot and cold,
we saw that on the weekend. That was a game
they probably should have won, but they get a try
against me the side of a group yellow card. The
momentum swings back to ridz Way, a game that they
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probably should have banked something from. Appreciate the text nine
two nine two to get in touch with us or
anything other topic you want to get in touch with
us this evening on sports sort. We're here Tel eight,
So let's go the lines Aaron evening erin friend, I'm
good yourself.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
No, I can't complain.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
I can't complain no one that you ever listens.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Anyway, my my Gris Wiley.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Story and rest some pecs hell of an a hell
of a nice.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Guy, and I'll refrain from using language he actually used
with me over the time. Ninety ninety six, Right, I
was a I'd left eas yelling and I decided I
was going to do ninety five World car and two
around and have a loc No, I'll do in ninety
six because that'll be you know, we get more well
looked after, right, yep. And I was a former rock singer,
(25:16):
long hair, three earrings in the old left ear, all
that sort of carry on. Right, walked into this. So
the first test of that series was the four test series.
You remember it was Cape down Durban Pretoria JOBU And yeah,
that the Cape Town game was the Seal Rugby Championship
(25:37):
or whatever it was back then, and and then the
other three after that. But you know we were going
for a series win and that that included that. Anyway,
walked into this bar pretty sure it is called the
Green Man, which I think former Springbok own maybe Joel
Stransky or somebody like that. Anyway, Griz was propped up
at the bar having a couple of quiet ones, right,
and there a few of us and uh, you know,
(26:00):
sort of half an other of half a dozen of us.
We're touring. We did that saturv a good tour with
the Nuns.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Remember the Nuns right somewhere deep in my memory, Yeah,
a picture that's right year.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Yeah. So we're all all this big bunch of Kiwi's on.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Touring and bands and having a whale at the time.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
So walking those bard I've still got my long hair,
I've got still got three earrings in the ear and
all that sort of stuff, and you know, I trying
trying to act and look cool and prop myself up
beside Criss Kidd, mister walle you know my name Darreon.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
How are you you know? That's just looks me square.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
In the eye. I can use the words. Come on,
he looks me squeering the.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Eye and he goes, lad, you want to.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Treat this with me? Take a kissing thing out of
your ear and without a word of a lie, I
have never put them back in. So I was like, sorry,
looked them out and it was like, that's a lad. Anyway,
(27:02):
long story short. I I I went over there on
a bit of a whim from London and said of
you know, there's a load of us. And I was
one of the few that didn't organize the thousand tickets.
And to his credit, Old Grizz organized me tickets for
Cape Town, Kings Park, Pretoria and Alisart.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh my goodness, and.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Dude, I was. I was setting near management and and
the reserves on every game. You know. We got talking
over that beer of the green Man and we had
a good gin wag and he's like, you're all right, lad,
you're right good, and I spoke, I said, I'm waiting
here without any tickets. He's like, let me organize that
for you, lad. Thank you. Mister Wiley say yeah, that's
(27:46):
my great story mate. He looked me square in the
eye and I said, you want to drink.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Best with me?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And all talk was you taking the ear eggs out
and you got the tickets to the games and a
lifelong story, a.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Lifelong story about he rest in peace. He was a
he was a grumpy, humble, sincere, generous man.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's what Yeah nicely put and thank you so much.
What a lovely tal there's outstanding Grizz whiley yes, rest
in peace. And we've had a couple of texts Bob
messaging it as well, saying similar sentiments. Very very sad
news when when that broke over the course of the weekend,
LLEGI you to the game and growing up in Canterbury,
(28:27):
you know he's playing days and the shield or the
coaching was a bit before my time. But seeing him
in advertisements for Canterbury Draft and various things through the years,
even though I didn't see him play boy, you learned
about Griz pretty quickly. You learned, you learned about the man,
You learned about the mustash and he represented some great
(28:49):
things in New Zealand rugby. So very very sad news
that he has gone. A couple more texts on this, Elliott,
what is exactly wrong with the Blues? Ninety percent of
geographical New Zealand and loving the results and hope it
may long continue. Thank you very much, Paul Near with this,
Rob Penny was blamed for the Crusaders perform last year.
Vern Kodder must take some of the blame for the Blues.
(29:13):
You talked about a reset on the weekend. Vern feels
like a little bit of that edge they had last
year's gone and that obviously has to come down to
the coaching. It's gonna be interesting to see how they
come back with the buy when they do get a
lot of those players back, because the runway is rapidly
running out for them in the Super Rugby season, mackwithurs
(29:34):
the Blues have braun So what's wrong? Yeah, probably the
other part of that statement at times lacking over the
course of the season. Another one that shows you how
good a coach Jammie Joseph is. But backing a team
competitive with really a bunch of no names, brackets, no
offense given, imagine what he can do with a team
of champions. We did that in twenty fifteen, didn't he
(29:58):
backs against the wall? They had Ben Smith, They had
a couple of other players of note, but Aaron Smith obviously,
but a team of battler's and got them to the
super Ragby type that might actually be the kind of
player that he prefers coaching, the battler's getting the most
out of a player. I think it's great for New
zeal On Ragbit to having back at the helm of
(30:19):
a super rugby team. And you know he's talked about
being in the mix for all Black's job potentially down
the track, depending on what happens. This has be an
interesting test from over the next few years. And Steve
with this one nine two nine. So alligant Liam Lawson
has overrated. What's he really done? He's had good results
in the other tiers of racing around the globe. Red
(30:43):
Ball clearly see something in him. There'll be better judges
of Formula one racers than I. It was a big
call to give him the seat. Hasn't quite worked out
to this point. But the question now do they peck
and stick or do they go back to the well
and go to Yuku Sonoda And what does that do
(31:06):
for are the confidence of Liam Lawson if they do
see him as a long term project. I think it's
a fascinating a couple of weeks coming up in the
world of Formula One. It is twenty away from eights
on News Talk ZEBB. Still no score in the football
half an hour gone Neil White's and New Caledonia. When
(31:26):
do the nerves start ramping up? Third of the game
down already? You always had a couple of chances as
a gold mouth scramble before, couldn't get it in the
back of the net. New Caledonia haven't had too many
chances from what I've seen, but they're hanging in there.
No score at Eden Park, twenty away from ets on
(31:47):
News Talk ZIBB. Back with Piney's Power Rankings my version
after this our rankings, Well, let's throppens to Piney's Power
Rankings for another Monday, only this time there's no Pioney
Elligant Smith's version of the Power rankings. Everything that went
(32:10):
on in the weekend of sporting a little bit more beside.
Let's go as always like any good list we started.
Unfortunately Liam Lawson at the back of the grid in
our Power rankings. Well, Liam Lawson, that is club last.
That is bad news ouch ouch. William Lawson bad news
one way to put it, he's under the spotlight now
(32:31):
in questions over his future in that seat. Not the
greatest of starts in the Red Bull Chears shine the
Blues narrowly avoiding the ten spot. Or to go the Crusaders,
aren't they over that good? Well? Jordan Jordan gets one
and the Crusader's forty two nineteen one win five losses
(32:52):
to start the Super Rugby season. The Blue season just
getting worse, smashed by the arch rivals at home. But
at least they weren't smashed by a mascot, Reggie the Rabbit.
(33:13):
This is Reggie the Rabbit, the Rabbit O's mascot pushing
a young Cronella fan who just wanted a high five.
Settle down, Reggie.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
The Australian Super rankby teams get the seventh spot, yes, indeed,
good bye Sea and in the top six, all four
of them in the Super rankby playoff mix up they
started today. Great parody for the competition. He's illing teams
(33:45):
playing catch up apart from the Chiefs and the Crusaders six. Well,
it feels like the breaking season finished months ago. But
the Australian Basketball Leagu's finally crowned champion, the.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Best team all season lot the AL Championship now lives
in the car.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's the Ilaora Hawks formerly the Woollongong Hawks. The season
the Strouandingan Basketball League champions, their first title since two
thousand and one, enjoying the Spoils five. Maybe it's haad
Low four back victories for the Warriors, ash of feet,
easy for the home team and a real arm wrestle.
(34:27):
But they look completely different to the side that when
to Las Vegas, don't they? This is the Warriors of
twenty twenty five. Long man continue, and long may we
forget that that Raiders game ever happens. Let's move on
to number Sure, the black Caps playing Pakistan for one
up in the series, and that is that New Zealands
(34:48):
have won the match, They have won the series.
Speaker 10 (34:51):
Sody gets the last week as Takistans have been.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Hammered an odd old series given how many players are
sitting out. But a series win is a series win
is a series wine. Okay, maybe it's Haad Low for
Sam Ruth, but the little bit distance and the fact
with included from outside the weekends means that I'm putting
him to three when really he's probably actually the one.
It happened the middle of last week, Sam Ruth world
record for the fifteen year old Satana smiling.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Sever's right now, that's a sub four baby, that's a sub.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
For you, little beauty. Can't wait to see how he
continues to develop.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
We move on. Two.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Chris Wood are number two. In fact he's well, were's
a different number, but he's number two on our list to.
Speaker 10 (35:41):
Paintlets to them, But post again, you're run out of
place to describe this goal scoring for Yeah, funny hadn't
sullied the older copy book by doing the heenous act
of signing autographs for young children? What is in the
crowd signing autocrats?
Speaker 11 (36:00):
Well, how can you not love this human being? It
might be a yellow card for Chrystal. It's a yellow
car for Chris Woods for climbing into the steaks.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Quite frankly disgraceful behavior. Reggie the Rabbit could learn a
listen though from Chris one ween on a somber notes
in the power rankings tonight, Sporting giants that we have.
Speaker 12 (36:22):
Lost, we hopefully would have inspired a lot of young
gems even to this day, that hey, you can come
into Formula one. You can defy all the odds. You
can't actually grab it by the horns and say we
are going to do everything we can to be competitive.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Eddie Jordan passing away. Then Big George Foreman down.
Speaker 10 (36:40):
Goes Frasier, down, goes Frasier, down, goes Frasier.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It is over, It is over.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It is over in the second round, George Roman. It's
the heavyweight champion up the world and yesterday New Zealand's
and rankby is a whole losing. Alex Gris Wiley.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
Lays burgers can get there, slips it into a kissing
Alex Wade well account of Bree Captain.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Up there at the precise moment to check what was
air precision past. Those were Pineyers and Elliot's Power Rankings.
Andy disagree, agree well hard agree on number one. I
think you've nailed it. You've done a very good job
Elliott on your first go. Thank you very much.
Speaker 13 (37:26):
Three absolute legends deserve the honor of one last opportunity
to be a top spot on Pioneer's Elliot's Power rankings.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Well done, mate, Hey, thank you. Yeah. Absolutely look a
tough weekend for sports fans hearing the passing of those
three gentlemen, it is still no score in the football
forty minutes gone at Eden Park, Your Whites and New Caledonia.
We will head to Eden Park after this and get
an update from Michael Burgess from the New Zealand Herald
(37:54):
backworth more after this. I'm knocking on the door of
half time at Eden Park and still no scoore. Let's
take you there, Michael Burgess from the New Zealand Herald,
is there, bird, good evening to you. What's gone wrong?
Speaker 13 (38:08):
Well, I mean hasn't gone to plan. To be fair,
New Caledonia have played very well, extremely organized. They've basically
got a five four one out of possession, so they're
just sitting back defensively and they all ways are getting frustrated,
certainly starting to get frustrated. They've been a bit static
up front of the All Whites and certainly in midfield.
They're not dominating the game like they would have expected
(38:30):
to and like they need to.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
Really.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, they've had a number of opportunities from what we've seen,
but just haven't been able to convert. There's one goal
mouth scramble Chris Woods seem to miss one a moment
or two ago.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
What are you seeing Yeah, that's right, Chris Wood headed
over the bar with a cross that was just a
little bit too high. They have looked very dangerous and
set pieces and corners again, some shots and blocks on
the line and sort of lasts defense. But New Caledonia
look dangerous on the counter, you have to say. So
it's a lot, a lot closer than the many of
(39:02):
us expected. Although I always thought this was going to
be a bit of a test compared to the FG game,
and it's certainly it's certainly proving that way. I mean,
the Whites will really have to list after the break.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Well, New Caledonia's aim just to go for the old
smash and grab, try and get a one nil lead
and sit on that.
Speaker 13 (39:23):
Yeah, I mean they're sitting back on the counter. Everyone
knew that was going to be their tactic. But it's
quite effective because the All Whites are starting to get
a bit impatient in position and that does allow for
some transition, quick, quick transition. And yeah, they had no
dangerous on the break. A couple of times. We've caught
the All Whites short a few times and they're just
about to have their first corner. So you know, it's
(39:46):
all it's all happening again.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
It is all happening, Michael BURGESSI let you get back
to it at Eden Park. Thank you so much for
your time and joining us and the action. You know
how it was hoping to go from a New Zealand
perspective to this point is the corner is headed away
by the All Whites. Yes, just looking at the crowd
as well. Plenty of white jerseys in the about thirty
thousand or so, but many, I'm sure predicting and hoping
(40:10):
that this was going to be a little bit easier
against New Caledonia given the disparity in the world rankings
the Whites in the nineties, New Caledonia in the one
hundred and fifties. Last time these two sides met was
in twenty twenty two in Doha and the All Whites
won seven to one. On that occasion, that was in
(40:32):
the COVID qualification. They went on and lost to Costa Rica.
But other results have been quite tight. Twenty sixteen ny'l
all twenty sixteen again two nil, one nil, one nil.
As the White said back down field. So it hasn't
always been easy against New Caledonia, and they're putting the
squeeze on. We're into three minutes of at a time
(40:53):
in the first period and the Whites just not able
to find a way through as yet. I wonder whether
it maybe just a halftime reset might not be the
thing for this All Whites team. Get in the sheds,
flush the first half away and hope the second half
(41:14):
comes a little better, because it's certainly feeling a little
bit more tense than Friday night was. Obviously that was
only a semi final. It was feeling more bah rain
esque than perhaps many expected. That was a nervy night
fifteen years ago plus at Sky Stadium. Who will be
(41:39):
the All Whites? Rory Fallon? Who will be there? Mark Paston?
Hopefully they don't need a Mark Paston at the other
end of the ground. But as it stands nil on
the verge of halftime at eating part, things looking a
little bit nervy for the All Whites. We will keep
you up to that through our news and with Marcus
after eight o'clock as well as to the result of that.
Let's hope the All Whites are heading to a third
(41:59):
Men's Football World Cup and good fun. As always, Darcy's
back with you tomorrow night Here on Sports Talk look
forward to your company next time. My thanks, Daniel McDonald.
We'll catch you next time on Sports Talk.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Evening six after seventh Sports Talk for Monday night, March
the twenty fourth, twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five. It's
great start, isn't it? Get back on track? Ten years
to the day since Grant Elliott smacked US six into
the Eden Park grandstand. The Black Hats advanced to the
Cricket World Cup Final.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, I can hear myself talk now? The Oh, that's
just amazing. The crowd, the supports is Eland Eden Park
semi final to win it in the last over. I think,
you know, hopefully the all our supporters got what they wanted.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh, he certainly did so. Maybe not so much a
few days later, But what a night that was at
Eden Park. Lucky enough to be in the stands that
night for that encounter. Never experienced a sporting fixture like that. Won,
the noise, the tension, the relief. Well, the All Whites
chase a spot at the same ground tonight in their
Football World Cup twenty twenty six, about to get under
(01:32):
weigh against New Caledonia. Kickoff just a couple of moments away.
We'll keep across that for you this evening and update
you on any goal scoring action. We'll head to Eden
Park two around halftime for the lattice with the New
Zealand heralds Michael Burgess, who is there. We'll have the
Piney Power rankings as well, even though Piney's not here tonight,
we'll dish those out and rank the weekend that was.
(01:53):
In sports, we'll start with Super Rugby though in a
moment or two, and the woes of the Blues a
diabolical run in they're opening six games to start their
title defense that leaves them teetering as they head into
their first buy of the season. I don't think anyone
could have predicted that the Blues would be in this
(02:14):
sort of predicament through six games to start this season,
but that is indeed where they find themselves. Mills Muliaina
to join the program out of Sky Sport or Black
Centurion in just a couple of moments as well. Busy
night of sporting action will keep you right across at
your calls. Your text always welcome. OH eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty or nine two nine two to connect
(02:36):
with us via the text line this evening, looking forward
to your company. It is coming up nine after seven.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You hear it from the biggest names in sports man
have your say on eight hundred eighty ten eighty sports
Talk or more on your home of sports news Talks
at me.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It has hardly been a dream start for the Blues.
Another loss on the weekend and to be honest, possibly
their worst performance of the season forty two to nineteen
losing to the Crusaders. They head into the I now
with one win and five defeats to show. For a
former Blues player, All Black Centurion and Sky Sport commentator Mills,
(03:13):
Muliaina joins us now on Sports Talk. Mills, thanks so
much for your time.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
No no worries time.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, we head into the buy from a Blues perspective
with one win and five losses to start their title defense.
I don't think anyone saw this coming, did you.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I didn't think it was going to be this bad.
It's not the start they anticipated, but I think earlier
on for preseason, you know, they had a lot of
injuries coming into the season, but certainly they just haven't
quite clipped and obviously the disappointment of only want picking
up one game so far. I think that the buyer
(03:52):
has come at a you know, they always say come
at a pretty good time for the Blues.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Right now, fourteen injuries. How much does that impact their campaign?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Huge? You know, that's that's always a fact that you
can't really control, right You've got to look at the
depth of the squad. But they're also injuries and key positions.
You know, the Boden Barrett a few weeks ago against
the Brumby. So you look at the locking department as well.
You know, you know, losing quite a few guys there,
Petrick through plow to pulling out, but also given people
(04:23):
Fetter starting to come back, a lot of a lot
of injuries in disruptions. They certainly sort of upfront, I mean,
it's all about key positions, you know, the hooker. I mean,
they haven't sort of got someone that's there and well
established in that department at the moment, and so when
you kind of look at that, you know they're really
(04:43):
unsettled in I mean, they'll be the first one to
admit as well. I think also the rules have impacted
the way they've been wanting to play. I think they
came into the season wanting to play a similar style
to last year, but that's just not the case this year.
We've got the faster looking game, teams and wanting to
sort of explot you on the outside, these opportunities to
(05:04):
issue with ball in hand, and I think you know,
they've they've picked up on that and in the last
two or three weeks, but they just seemed they hadn't
quite got the balance right or or quite connected in
the fact they do we play that game that won
us last year's their style or you know, we've got
the ability also to play an expensive game, and that's
(05:24):
where they're sort of missing out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Last year they went very direct with their forwards, rolled
up the sleeve, put pressure on teams inside the twenty two.
But this year and Saturday not probably being the biggest
example of that, is that they struggled even into the
Crusader's twenty so they weren't playing in the right areas
of the park.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, exactly. And if you're think about it, the kicking
is becoming from teams that they're playing. It's you now,
the Blues down in their own half and all of
a sudden becomes a different mindset to them. You know,
they they haven't quite got their kicking game right to
put themselves back or for patients to be able to say, well, hey,
we're not going to play anything in our own hearts.
So they've almost forced the Blues into playing the game.
(06:03):
They're not sure they're comfortable with you. I think they
can play an expensive game. I just don't think the
perhaps got the confidence or the connections, all the all
the backing from everyone to say hey we can actually
do this and and have the skill set to be
over door. But you're right that they're not getting themselves
in the right area of the parking you we want
(06:25):
to last year, anything around that halfway mark or into
your own half, and the Blues would just keep the
ball in hand, carry hard, and they wouldn't meet sides,
you know, they wouldn't give the ball back to aamy side.
And now all of a sudden that sort of disconnected
and their clean out. There's real opportunity to be able
to steal some right ball and slow them down there
and even frustrate them. So again, you know, I mentioned
(06:47):
before the fact that this is a good time for
them to go and establish what game they want to play.
I certainly still think they're going to They can make
the six. I think they've got the talent and some
returning sort of guys coming back that are in key roles.
And this is a tough competition. It's I mean tough
in the fact that it's so so close, and so
I still think that there's there's a there's a chance
(07:09):
that they'll make the six.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What do they need to fixt Is it just as
simple as tweaking that game plan, going back to what
they did last year and resetting that way.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, I mean, I think get a few key players back.
I think Bodin's not too far away once they establish
the five connection. Injuries is going to be a big
thing in healthy guys, I mean, losing areas at the
beginning of the season, his aunt Sullivans of the world.
I'd like to see sort of those guys. But again,
you can't control when those guys are going to be.
(07:38):
Really but I think the balance of the game, it's
almost to say over the weekend to reset, it has
to be you've got to forget the fact that of
they've only won one game, this is the next three
weeks is going to really define your season, and so
getting on the same page and by that whether it's
a let's just reroute back to the old way and
(08:00):
carry hard and be really efficient at that or there
is ability. I mean you looked at the way they
came back inst Chiefs and Hamilton. I mean that's a
side that it can play open open the style of rugby.
I'd like to see them play there, but unfortunately at
the moment they just are lacking a little bit of
confidence and the skill seat to actually go with it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The Crusaders are obviously beating the Blues on the weekend,
look to be back to some of the form that
they've previously had they I would have dismantled the Blues.
What have you made of the Crusaders start to the season.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
They look really dangerous, and not because of the way
the dismantled the Blues. But I think there are stall
plenty to come and within the Crusaders that they weren't
parted by all ends on the weekend, but they will
give them confidence because there is still plenty left for
the Crusaders to be able to give. I think David
Harvilly has been he was an exceptional over the week
and the weekend. Many he has been leading into this
(08:57):
since he's been given them a captain see role they've
got you know, they've always had plenty of depths, but
you know, now they've sort of got them. I was
on a roll that one away from home for the
first time and how many years. And that's a key thing.
And if we're the Crusaders, once they get a bit
of sort of momentum into their game and start tweaking
a few things, you know, they're definitely hard beasts to
(09:20):
sort of stop. But that dangerous and effect that they're
still pinny more in terms.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Of your game.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
But that's infects.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's as you mentioned before, it's a really tight competition
this year. The Chiefs out on top, but we've seen
you know, they've lost to the Drawer Milana. They had
a little stumble. Ultimately won that on the weekend by
fifteen points. But cheaper is this competition this year. Mills
is really tired, isn't.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It, oh man. And when you're hear you know he's
hyping up heaver of the other side of the ditch.
Ma that's when you know it's putting there sort of
twenty cents within as well. I love it and this
is I mean, it's the beauty of this is what
we've been wanting for the possibly the last four or
five years. There hasn't been this competitors for a very
long time, and hence the reason why the BREU is
(10:01):
still in it places. But you know, you talk about
the Chiefs, you know about our staff on the Perfect
Game as well, the Hurricanes in a similar boat. You
know they had to buy last weekend. And I mean
you see the teams like the Reds come come to
Toned and beat the Highlanders the way they sort of head.
So it's it's definitely wide open the rules that had
(10:25):
had a playing this and it's been outstanding. But I
mean you've been there for a very long time, these
competitions by time, and even before this, you know, round
three or four, you're starting to see the different expensiveness
we certainly haven't seen it. I mean that it's a
very fight game and then the teams are prepared to
chancey around which is which is I think it's pleasing
(10:47):
to see.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It certainly is Millis mully Aina, thank you so much
for your time with us on Used Talk, but appreciate
it's thank you very much Misma joining us on Sports
Talk this evening. You want to throw up in the
lines and have a chat around Super Rugby. Are you
prepared to draw a line through the lose and say
they cannot win Super Rugby this season? With one win
(11:13):
from six outings as they enter the first buy of
the season, there are seven points outside the playoffs as
it stands. Are you prepared to say this Blues team
cannot win the title this year? And Blue Spans, where
are they going wrong? They've had fourteen injuries or have
fourteen injuries at the moment, but it can't solely be
(11:34):
all down to the injury toll. So where is this
Blues team going wrong?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two for
a text message on the Blues or anything else Super Rugby?
You want to get stuck into tonight? She's been a
busy old sporting weekend. There is no score through eight
minutes in the New Caledonia All Whites game at Eden
Park as well. Will keep you up today, all again
Smith and for piety tonight, Let's go to the lines.
Eighteen after seven, Very good evening to Kevin. How's things?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm very well? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
No too bad? I've criticism is what might think of
the Blue Sofa feels very Rocky Stewart. Mute, I'll leave
it at that, you know what I mean, Yes, yes,
at the book, at the Blues performance that I'm very
to lose to the Crusaders. Oh my god, I'm I'm
I'm a Blues fan through and through. But my criticism
(12:26):
right now of the team is very rocky Stewart, like,
I'm going to keep my mouth.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Ricky does that very very well when he's interview. Doesn't
He doesn't doesn't doesn't say it because he knows that
he might get fine.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Yeah, and of course I'm good. Of course I'm not
kind of watching the New zeal't ga remember, But at
the end, I'm in the wrong football confederation. I'm in
the wrong football confederation right now. Good luck to the
good luck to the all whites. Good utter your whites.
But all I've got, all I've got to do is
wait till early wednes late Tuesday night, early Wednesday morning.
Hopefully the soft the Roofs can get past my distant relatives,
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the Chinese.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they should, on the basis of
the world rankings.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Get past the Chinese and then deal with the and
deal with the Japanese and Perth in June, and then
deal with the Saudis in Saudi Arabia in June. Good
grief otherwise, that's otherwise it's going to be a hard way.
And of course I've been loving and the AFL. Of
course I'm happy. My dogs are my bull dogs and
Kenby one and my Magpie's won on in front of
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seventy eight thousand on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That sounds like you had a great weekend of sport.
Even look at that. I can't believe the crowds they
get for the AFL. By the way, I've been lucky
enough to go a couple of years in a row
eighty eight thousand and one year, I think it was
eight ninety thousand the year after. I'm glad you enjoyed
the weekend of sport, Kevin, thank you very much for
your call this evening. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine nine A text message Super Rugby on a
(13:59):
Monday night. Where are the Blues going wrong? They are
the shadow of the team that tuned out last year.
That last year they had every Super Rugby team on
the back foot at one point or another. Yet these
Blues looked nothing like that twenty twenty four season. Last
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year they were imposing. This year they're just ponderous. They
played direct last year. Now they can barely head down field.
They're completely lateral. And I know that the other teams
around the rest of the competition will be jumping for joy.
They've got better, no doubt about it. The Chiefs what
a conceited of thirty five, but they could scored fifty
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on the weekend. The Crusaders obviously two good for the Blues.
And that's the worrying thing for the Blues. I think
they've gone backwards. Everyone else's taken a big step forward
fourteen Andrew sure, but and some of those playing a
tweep a lot too. But I'm Barrett Throng. The Fassi, Ricattelli, Dowry,
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the high profile players, and they added a lot to
the team. But every team goes through periods of injury.
And the worrying thing for me with the Blues is
that the senior players that remained standing and not exactly
stepping up. Dolden Papalii really appears to have gone into
his shell. Rico Yuwani been very quiet this season and
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was handed the captaincy on Saturday night, Caleb Clark struggling
to make an impact on games. They looked rudderless on
the weekend until Finlay Christy gave them some go forward
to halfback. This was a Blues team on the verge
of a dynasty. Now they are backpeddling at a rate
of knots oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two
(15:48):
nine two For a text message for the Blues fans.
Don't want to own up to what's going wrong. Give
us an idea. Is it the injuries or is there
something more wrong at this team? Jeremy says this mate,
Rico Yuani has done absolutely nothing at a long time
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at club or national level. Something is not right there, Jeremy.
He's battling to get into games this season, really struggling,
hasn't made an impact, not getting the kind of ball
he was last year. But I agree with you he
is not the player, not that he can be. We
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certainly know that Rico can be made a lot of
running meters over the weekend, but that was when the
game was buying large gone. I wouldn't just focus on him, though.
I think there's a few others that need to take
a look at themselves from that Blues team like the
ones I just mentioned. Moz says this elliott, I think
the Caleb Clark Clark incident has had an effect as well.
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It's unseled the team possibly, although I'm not sure how
much they knew about it before it came public or not.
Whether maybe that's caused a surprise or not. I don't know.
I don't know that necessarily be down to that muzz
but probably didn't help, did it. Oh eight one hundred
(17:12):
and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two for a
text message? Let's talk the Blues and Crusaders fans one
for you. Should we apologize to Rob Penny? Did everyone
get it wrong? Last year? We talked about the Blues
having injuries, where the Crusaders certainly had a long injury
list last year in Super Rugby and Rob Penny was
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basically the whipping boy for months on ends, the Crusaders
couldn't buy a win. Now the seconds on the ladder
behind only the Chiefs, who are clearly the team's the
competition's best team. Did we all get it wrong on
Rob Penny? And do we Maybe I want an apology?
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Just a thought?
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Love?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Your thoughts after this twenty four after seven on Neused
Talks MB.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Was it the right call? Called only one hundred eighty Elliott,
it's sorts talk with Elliott Smith on news Talks.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We're talking to super Rugby on sports Talk until eight
o'clock Elliott Smith. And for Jason Pine this evening still
and I scored in the football seventeen minutes gone New
Zealand and New caledone year. Get your thoughts on the weekend.
That's been your assessment of your teams. Let's go to
Graham evening.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Graham evening, Elliott, how are you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm good yourself?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yeah, good to thank you. Yeah. Apart from Cress passing, I've.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Already you would have had a bet to do with him. Graham.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Oh, I've met him a number of times because he
used to have the supporters Club quite a bosom were
a supporters Club trip out to Glenmark when Todd Blackada
was playing for them when he got dropped in. Yes,
I had a few. Yeah, it was always good. He's
someone that respected people. He was full of fan Alex
Wiley like I know when he was coaching Canterbury he
always made sure the team went under the supporters club
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and things like that. So because he was from the country,
aren't very much that grassroots. But yeah, it's real end
of an era. But I'm onto the Yeah, the Super
Rugby and Crusaders. Yeah, obviously I'm very pleased. It's it's
you know, it's it's it's not relatively early. It's sort
of getting too that third a third or lay through
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the comp Maybe I don't know, but yeah, I think
personnel has played a big role. I think they put
a lot of time and effort into the review. And
you know, obviously James O'Connor, he's pre he's come up
trumps and he got a lot of people rubbished him
like their rubbish Rob Penny last year. And you know
Kyle Preston's come in and yeah, and Will Jordan's brat
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with Braden was only there for one game so far,
but hope he's backstone. But I mean he played outstanding.
You know, he was not there last year and Easton
Blackhead has you know, he's played more, and all those
guys Scott Barrett, but Cody Taylor, I mean, you aren't.
You ain't the county's manchalk. He you know, he's been
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he's ready come through, you know, and validated his selection.
So yeah, I think there's just yeah, they put a
big reveal and I think people did get wrong about
Rob Penny. I think, I mean, I just knew how
good a coach he was with Canterbury and the sort
of two thousand and eight to three to eleven I
think it was. He got four titles and he was
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involved with Ossie McLain and Steve Hanson an earlier successful
MPC teams too. So yeah, yeah, I think they want
to get your mojo back, you know, you know you
got to keep going. Yeah, don't want to keep it
going this weekend because specific it won't be easy.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well certainly one. It's momentum. That's the big thing that
they just couldn't get last year, Graham and they kept
chopping and changing their first fives. Last year Heppera Kimberda
had a go, David have Villy was in there for
a week. There might have been someone else, I mean Rivers, Rayhana.
This year they've stuck with Ty Kimberda. Now the goal
kicking is a bit of a battle, but have Gone,
we trust you you're going to be a go. I
think it's made a big difference as well.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
It has I mean last year, but Fugus Burke didn't
come back. Yeah, that's fight. I mean, he was a
very good player. I rated him highly and his non
non playing and I remember he got injured again and
the delayed has come back and that was probably a
fatal blod and you know, so we ended up and
Rivers got injured quite a bit. I think he's due back.
(21:31):
So yeah, and Tahara and James of you know that
Kima is really his general games been very good. Obviously,
I'd like to see him improve the kicking a bit,
but yeah, I know, yeah, the combinations are better and
then players go down and Tom Krusty's came and Vasi,
I mean he's been around the block and he wanted
to prove a point in the last couple of weeks.
(21:53):
So yeah, but I Blues, and I do think the
injury toll has played a role, and I think the
game plan may be a bit limited compared with you know,
even the Islanders, even though they got beaten on the weekend.
You look at gavini Ze on games, they playing quite
attacking rugby. Yeah, so and the Blues a reboat is
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being caught a seat and that's probably what's needed.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, Yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it. Graham One one tactic
works one year and everyone goes that's the way to play,
and then the next year it falls apart and everyone's
playing a different way and it doesn't work. I think
maybe the shock and or thanks as always he called
Graham around the Blues last year, the way that it
played so physically, so direcked that teams couldn't stick with it.
They were so well drilled. They went away from it slightly. Obviously,
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some injuries play apart, but the door has been opened
to different styles of play, and as Mills touched on
when we chatted with him before, some of those rule
changes have made that game the game a lot faster
and perhaps just doesn't suit the way the Blues want
to play. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two
two for a text message, David says this Blues attitude
(23:01):
has got something wrong. So tudo has about attitude. Clarks
problem isn't helping but we don't really know, but just
not performing and it's petty as players lose chances to progress.
So that's the other thing. As well when your teams
aren't playing as well. Harder for those players in all
that contention to look good, especially if they're not playing
well as well and they're not getting the opportunities. So
(23:22):
its swings and roundabouts as well. But you make a
very good point. Glenn says this higher if they get
rid of Liam Lawson from Formula one due to poor form,
then surely the Blues should be relegated from Super Rugby.
Tongue in cheek, I'm sure. Thank you very much for
the text, cutthroat to wake up and see that they're
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considering sending Liam back to racing balls. You don't get
much time to muck around to you in Formula one.
It's all business. Hopefully they can stick with the key.
We nine four a text message, oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty to get in touch with us. Grant
says this. Apart from last weekend, the Landers have been
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so close at winning the cards and a couple of
silly things have just kept them out. For a team
of knicks to know all blacks that are bloody good
really a great grant. The a little bit hot and cold,
we saw that on the weekend. That was a game
they probably should have won, but they get a try
against me the side of a group yellow card. The
momentum swings back to ridz Way, a game that they
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probably should have banked something from. Appreciate the text nine
two nine two to get in touch with us or
anything other topic you want to get in touch with
us this evening on sports sort. We're here Tel eight,
So let's go the lines Aaron evening erin friend, I'm
good yourself.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
No, I can't complain.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
I can't complain no one that you ever listens.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Anyway, my my Gris Wiley.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Story and rest some pecs hell of an a hell
of a nice.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Guy, and I'll refrain from using language he actually used
with me over the time. Ninety ninety six, Right, I
was a I'd left eas yelling and I decided I
was going to do ninety five World car and two
around and have a loc No, I'll do in ninety
six because that'll be you know, we get more well
looked after, right, yep. And I was a former rock singer,
(25:16):
long hair, three earrings in the old left ear, all
that sort of carry on. Right, walked into this. So
the first test of that series was the four test series.
You remember it was Cape down Durban Pretoria JOBU And yeah,
that the Cape Town game was the Seal Rugby Championship
(25:37):
or whatever it was back then, and and then the
other three after that. But you know we were going
for a series win and that that included that. Anyway,
walked into this bar pretty sure it is called the
Green Man, which I think former Springbok own maybe Joel
Stransky or somebody like that. Anyway, Griz was propped up
at the bar having a couple of quiet ones, right,
and there a few of us and uh, you know,
(26:00):
sort of half an other of half a dozen of us.
We're touring. We did that saturv a good tour with
the Nuns.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Remember the Nuns right somewhere deep in my memory, Yeah,
a picture that's right year.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Yeah. So we're all all this big bunch of Kiwi's on.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Touring and bands and having a whale at the time.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
So walking those bard I've still got my long hair,
I've got still got three earrings in the ear and
all that sort of stuff, and you know, I trying
trying to act and look cool and prop myself up
beside Criss Kidd, mister walle you know my name Darreon.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
How are you you know? That's just looks me square.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
In the eye. I can use the words. Come on,
he looks me squeering the.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Eye and he goes, lad, you want to.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Treat this with me? Take a kissing thing out of
your ear and without a word of a lie, I
have never put them back in. So I was like, sorry,
looked them out and it was like, that's a lad. Anyway,
(27:02):
long story short. I I I went over there on
a bit of a whim from London and said of
you know, there's a load of us. And I was
one of the few that didn't organize the thousand tickets.
And to his credit, Old Grizz organized me tickets for
Cape Town, Kings Park, Pretoria and Alisart.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh my goodness, and.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Dude, I was. I was setting near management and and
the reserves on every game. You know. We got talking
over that beer of the green Man and we had
a good gin wag and he's like, you're all right, lad,
you're right good, and I spoke, I said, I'm waiting
here without any tickets. He's like, let me organize that
for you, lad. Thank you. Mister Wiley say yeah, that's
(27:46):
my great story mate. He looked me square in the
eye and I said, you want to drink.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Best with me?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And all talk was you taking the ear eggs out
and you got the tickets to the games and a
lifelong story, a.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Lifelong story about he rest in peace. He was a
he was a grumpy, humble, sincere, generous man.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's what Yeah nicely put and thank you so much.
What a lovely tal there's outstanding Grizz whiley yes, rest
in peace. And we've had a couple of texts Bob
messaging it as well, saying similar sentiments. Very very sad
news when when that broke over the course of the weekend,
LLEGI you to the game and growing up in Canterbury,
(28:27):
you know he's playing days and the shield or the
coaching was a bit before my time. But seeing him
in advertisements for Canterbury Draft and various things through the years,
even though I didn't see him play boy, you learned
about Griz pretty quickly. You learned, you learned about the man,
You learned about the mustash and he represented some great
(28:49):
things in New Zealand rugby. So very very sad news
that he has gone. A couple more texts on this, Elliott,
what is exactly wrong with the Blues? Ninety percent of
geographical New Zealand and loving the results and hope it
may long continue. Thank you very much, Paul Near with this,
Rob Penny was blamed for the Crusaders perform last year.
Vern Kodder must take some of the blame for the Blues.
(29:13):
You talked about a reset on the weekend. Vern feels
like a little bit of that edge they had last
year's gone and that obviously has to come down to
the coaching. It's gonna be interesting to see how they
come back with the buy when they do get a
lot of those players back, because the runway is rapidly
running out for them in the Super Rugby season, mackwithurs
(29:34):
the Blues have braun So what's wrong? Yeah, probably the
other part of that statement at times lacking over the
course of the season. Another one that shows you how
good a coach Jammie Joseph is. But backing a team
competitive with really a bunch of no names, brackets, no
offense given, imagine what he can do with a team
of champions. We did that in twenty fifteen, didn't he
(29:58):
backs against the wall? They had Ben Smith, They had
a couple of other players of note, but Aaron Smith obviously,
but a team of battler's and got them to the
super Ragby type that might actually be the kind of
player that he prefers coaching, the battler's getting the most
out of a player. I think it's great for New
zeal On Ragbit to having back at the helm of
(30:19):
a super rugby team. And you know he's talked about
being in the mix for all Black's job potentially down
the track, depending on what happens. This has be an
interesting test from over the next few years. And Steve
with this one nine two nine. So alligant Liam Lawson
has overrated. What's he really done? He's had good results
in the other tiers of racing around the globe. Red
(30:43):
Ball clearly see something in him. There'll be better judges
of Formula one racers than I. It was a big
call to give him the seat. Hasn't quite worked out
to this point. But the question now do they peck
and stick or do they go back to the well
and go to Yuku Sonoda And what does that do
(31:06):
for are the confidence of Liam Lawson if they do
see him as a long term project. I think it's
a fascinating a couple of weeks coming up in the
world of Formula One. It is twenty away from eights
on News Talk ZEBB. Still no score in the football
half an hour gone Neil White's and New Caledonia. When
(31:26):
do the nerves start ramping up? Third of the game
down already? You always had a couple of chances as
a gold mouth scramble before, couldn't get it in the
back of the net. New Caledonia haven't had too many
chances from what I've seen, but they're hanging in there.
No score at Eden Park, twenty away from ets on
(31:47):
News Talk ZIBB. Back with Piney's Power Rankings my version
after this our rankings, Well, let's throppens to Piney's Power
Rankings for another Monday, only this time there's no Pioney
Elligant Smith's version of the Power rankings. Everything that went
(32:10):
on in the weekend of sporting a little bit more beside.
Let's go as always like any good list we started.
Unfortunately Liam Lawson at the back of the grid in
our Power rankings. Well, Liam Lawson, that is club last.
That is bad news ouch ouch. William Lawson bad news
one way to put it, he's under the spotlight now
(32:31):
in questions over his future in that seat. Not the
greatest of starts in the Red Bull Chears shine the
Blues narrowly avoiding the ten spot. Or to go the Crusaders,
aren't they over that good? Well? Jordan Jordan gets one
and the Crusader's forty two nineteen one win five losses
(32:52):
to start the Super Rugby season. The Blue season just
getting worse, smashed by the arch rivals at home. But
at least they weren't smashed by a mascot, Reggie the Rabbit.
(33:13):
This is Reggie the Rabbit, the Rabbit O's mascot pushing
a young Cronella fan who just wanted a high five.
Settle down, Reggie.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
The Australian Super rankby teams get the seventh spot, yes, indeed,
good bye Sea and in the top six, all four
of them in the Super rankby playoff mix up they
started today. Great parody for the competition. He's illing teams
(33:45):
playing catch up apart from the Chiefs and the Crusaders six. Well,
it feels like the breaking season finished months ago. But
the Australian Basketball Leagu's finally crowned champion, the.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Best team all season lot the AL Championship now lives
in the car.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's the Ilaora Hawks formerly the Woollongong Hawks. The season
the Strouandingan Basketball League champions, their first title since two
thousand and one, enjoying the Spoils five. Maybe it's haad
Low four back victories for the Warriors, ash of feet,
easy for the home team and a real arm wrestle.
(34:27):
But they look completely different to the side that when
to Las Vegas, don't they? This is the Warriors of
twenty twenty five. Long man continue, and long may we
forget that that Raiders game ever happens. Let's move on
to number Sure, the black Caps playing Pakistan for one
up in the series, and that is that New Zealands
(34:48):
have won the match, They have won the series.
Speaker 10 (34:51):
Sody gets the last week as Takistans have been.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Hammered an odd old series given how many players are
sitting out. But a series win is a series win
is a series wine. Okay, maybe it's Haad Low for
Sam Ruth, but the little bit distance and the fact
with included from outside the weekends means that I'm putting
him to three when really he's probably actually the one.
It happened the middle of last week, Sam Ruth world
record for the fifteen year old Satana smiling.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Sever's right now, that's a sub four baby, that's a sub.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
For you, little beauty. Can't wait to see how he
continues to develop.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
We move on. Two.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Chris Wood are number two. In fact he's well, were's
a different number, but he's number two on our list to.
Speaker 10 (35:41):
Paintlets to them, But post again, you're run out of
place to describe this goal scoring for Yeah, funny hadn't
sullied the older copy book by doing the heenous act
of signing autographs for young children? What is in the
crowd signing autocrats?
Speaker 11 (36:00):
Well, how can you not love this human being? It
might be a yellow card for Chrystal. It's a yellow
car for Chris Woods for climbing into the steaks.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Quite frankly disgraceful behavior. Reggie the Rabbit could learn a
listen though from Chris one ween on a somber notes
in the power rankings tonight, Sporting giants that we have.
Speaker 12 (36:22):
Lost, we hopefully would have inspired a lot of young
gems even to this day, that hey, you can come
into Formula one. You can defy all the odds. You
can't actually grab it by the horns and say we
are going to do everything we can to be competitive.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Eddie Jordan passing away. Then Big George Foreman down.
Speaker 10 (36:40):
Goes Frasier, down, goes Frasier, down, goes Frasier.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It is over, It is over.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It is over in the second round, George Roman. It's
the heavyweight champion up the world and yesterday New Zealand's
and rankby is a whole losing. Alex Gris Wiley.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
Lays burgers can get there, slips it into a kissing
Alex Wade well account of Bree Captain.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Up there at the precise moment to check what was
air precision past. Those were Pineyers and Elliot's Power Rankings.
Andy disagree, agree well hard agree on number one. I
think you've nailed it. You've done a very good job
Elliott on your first go. Thank you very much.
Speaker 13 (37:26):
Three absolute legends deserve the honor of one last opportunity
to be a top spot on Pioneer's Elliot's Power rankings.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Well done, mate, Hey, thank you. Yeah. Absolutely look a
tough weekend for sports fans hearing the passing of those
three gentlemen, it is still no score in the football
forty minutes gone at Eden Park, Your Whites and New Caledonia.
We will head to Eden Park after this and get
an update from Michael Burgess from the New Zealand Herald
(37:54):
backworth more after this. I'm knocking on the door of
half time at Eden Park and still no scoore. Let's
take you there, Michael Burgess from the New Zealand Herald,
is there, bird, good evening to you. What's gone wrong?
Speaker 13 (38:08):
Well, I mean hasn't gone to plan. To be fair,
New Caledonia have played very well, extremely organized. They've basically
got a five four one out of possession, so they're
just sitting back defensively and they all ways are getting frustrated,
certainly starting to get frustrated. They've been a bit static
up front of the All Whites and certainly in midfield.
They're not dominating the game like they would have expected
(38:30):
to and like they need to.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
Really.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, they've had a number of opportunities from what we've seen,
but just haven't been able to convert. There's one goal
mouth scramble Chris Woods seem to miss one a moment
or two ago.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
What are you seeing Yeah, that's right, Chris Wood headed
over the bar with a cross that was just a
little bit too high. They have looked very dangerous and
set pieces and corners again, some shots and blocks on
the line and sort of lasts defense. But New Caledonia
look dangerous on the counter, you have to say. So
it's a lot, a lot closer than the many of
(39:02):
us expected. Although I always thought this was going to
be a bit of a test compared to the FG game,
and it's certainly it's certainly proving that way. I mean,
the Whites will really have to list after the break.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Well, New Caledonia's aim just to go for the old
smash and grab, try and get a one nil lead
and sit on that.
Speaker 13 (39:23):
Yeah, I mean they're sitting back on the counter. Everyone
knew that was going to be their tactic. But it's
quite effective because the All Whites are starting to get
a bit impatient in position and that does allow for
some transition, quick, quick transition. And yeah, they had no
dangerous on the break. A couple of times. We've caught
the All Whites short a few times and they're just
about to have their first corner. So you know, it's
(39:46):
all it's all happening again.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
It is all happening, Michael BURGESSI let you get back
to it at Eden Park. Thank you so much for
your time and joining us and the action. You know
how it was hoping to go from a New Zealand
perspective to this point is the corner is headed away
by the All Whites. Yes, just looking at the crowd
as well. Plenty of white jerseys in the about thirty
thousand or so, but many, I'm sure predicting and hoping
(40:10):
that this was going to be a little bit easier
against New Caledonia given the disparity in the world rankings
the Whites in the nineties, New Caledonia in the one
hundred and fifties. Last time these two sides met was
in twenty twenty two in Doha and the All Whites
won seven to one. On that occasion, that was in
(40:32):
the COVID qualification. They went on and lost to Costa Rica.
But other results have been quite tight. Twenty sixteen ny'l
all twenty sixteen again two nil, one nil, one nil.
As the White said back down field. So it hasn't
always been easy against New Caledonia, and they're putting the
squeeze on. We're into three minutes of at a time
(40:53):
in the first period and the Whites just not able
to find a way through as yet. I wonder whether
it maybe just a halftime reset might not be the
thing for this All Whites team. Get in the sheds,
flush the first half away and hope the second half
(41:14):
comes a little better, because it's certainly feeling a little
bit more tense than Friday night was. Obviously that was
only a semi final. It was feeling more bah rain
esque than perhaps many expected. That was a nervy night
fifteen years ago plus at Sky Stadium. Who will be
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the All Whites? Rory Fallon? Who will be there? Mark Paston?
Hopefully they don't need a Mark Paston at the other
end of the ground. But as it stands nil on
the verge of halftime at eating part, things looking a
little bit nervy for the All Whites. We will keep
you up to that through our news and with Marcus
after eight o'clock as well as to the result of that.
Let's hope the All Whites are heading to a third
(41:59):
Men's Football World Cup and good fun. As always, Darcy's
back with you tomorrow night Here on Sports Talk look
forward to your company next time. My thanks, Daniel McDonald.
We'll catch you next time on Sports Talk.
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