Piney's Power Rankings: Glasgow Commonwealth Games get under way and the Warriors lose their slot

Every Monday, Jason Pine ranks the best and worst sporting moments from the week that was - and everything in between.

This week, he talked about the start of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the Warriors losing to the Bulldogs and Auckland FC losing to Tottenham.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk zedby Power Rankings.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, let's rite the weekend. Shall we pint his power rankings?
The best, worst than in between? Bits from the last
seventy two hours or so. Ten The Warriors down at ten,
dropping out of the NRL's top two after defeat to
the Bulldogs.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
That a that all do?

Speaker 4 (00:36):
The Pullots have done it again. The Blue and White
of Janterbury are making a finals run full time in
a Corps Canterbury eighteen the Warriors six.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Next up for the Warriors the Titans on Saturday night nine.
The Black Foils missing the final of the latest Sale
GP events off the coast of Portsmouth by a couple
of points after leading their group at the halfway points.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Water Life for the Canadians. That's going to put the
flag Foils out in the final right now. Magic work
from Charles Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
What can the key we do?

Speaker 5 (01:11):
They need to overtake either Canada or Space. Any mistakes
from any team is going to be really, really costly
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
She Auckland f C at eight, going down two mil
to Tottenham and their pre season football friendly at Eden
Park yesterday blows away crazy tapping.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
She had a sway down the lift squad across the
Richardson Michael out the left with no chance.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Still a wonderful occasion though in front of forty thousand fans,
a record crowd on a rather soggy Sunday afternoon in Auckland.
Seven the Warriors women of fourteen to twelve women over
Parametta has them third on the NRLW letter. Back it
comes to Nichols, she puts boot to.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Bare Beckett's under it a.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Canacio's there and the Warriors of Scott a remarkable final play.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah well, Paramedta almost won right at the end they
thought they'd scored but for a forward pass and the
Warriors held on six. Liam Lawson's at six back in
the points, finishing eighth. That the Hungarian Grand Prix this morning.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
We has a very fast garden and obviously I knew
would be good today, so focused on the start in
the first lap and we're able to move forward and
then have a good race.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Night overall in the Driver's Championship for Liam Lawson. Heading
into the summer break, five into the top half we
go Hazel our hand bronze and the fifty meter butterfly
at the Glassgow Commonwealth Games.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Perkins in Australia and the yellow hat, the green hat
it for it's a Galaha who's going to get the
touch of his Perkins were World Championship silver medics of
the experience. Really, so that sweets five thirty seventh twenty
five five is silver, its twenty first seven bronze. So
that's Perkins over galahad over our hants and all three

(02:59):
swimmers there faster than the gold medal this morning Birmingham.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Was first ever Commonwealth Games metal hazel our handsch's back
in the poll in the one hundred butterfly final tomorrow morning,
before staying in Glasgow, Lewis Clairebert silver in the men's
two hundred meter individual medley.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, look at this dunk of Scott. He's a defending
champion in this man's suit of dye and he's going.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
To win gold.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Boy thinks, charging ve Is Clairebird, who's going to get that?
Such as just dunk Scott's duncan Scott thinks the gold
with the very last stroke, My goodness, be Lewis Clairebert
ken flying back down about last fifty what's a wonderful race.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
That was he very nearly got there. Lewis Clairebert other
ten meters and he would have won gold. More medals
to chase though for him Free tardey bergatcha a fifth
Tour de France title for him.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I means it's something that ye are you new with
the new and maybe you're writing a story book.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Two.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
The Blues women are at number two, winning a third
straight Super Rugby op key crown in dramatic fashion.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Fighting forty third title the Blues.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
The David has to be star Chap the take.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
A shake and love the game. She does that, no
wonder up and it's clear he's gonna fell blue.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Listen have done a do fly all up? What have
we just fluent list Incredible from the Blues. A fantastic
final in christ Church, but the Blue is now three
in a line Erica fear Weather top of the pile tonight.
Three Commonwealth Games medals over the weekend for our freestyle flyout,

(04:45):
but the gold medal is.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Going to go to Australia's ninety pallister. Her first fun
to meet his freestyles height thilt at Tomworlf Games. A
wonderful swim.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
And look at that three fifty.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Nine sixty six and Grave swim from her. The silver's
a fair Weather of New Zealand's and the bronze has
gone to the second Australian. That's Jenner Forrester.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Super swim.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Pallista's gonna be very tose in tease. Also don't well
as fair Weather. Oh Callahan wins the Golds. Wow, right
on the last stroke. Mario Callahan mins the Golds, the
silver Sconzlani Pallister Seabet from Australia and the Rosters goons
of fair Weather of New Zealand's.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
She's got three of our five middle Sandy Erica fair Weather.
Pretty good haul, so far more to come.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
That's very good.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
From here.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Piney issue Saturday departure obviously should be high in my opinion.
But I've worked out why he's so fast.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Piney.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now I want you to spell his last name.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
I'll spell it out for you. P O G A
C A R. He has har in his surname.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
He has a faster mode of transport in his surname.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Ha ha.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
The next tour to France. Want to better be someone
called like Bob Motorbike Yeah or Thomas jetplane something Sola.
They're similar. All right. Look, I don't know what else
to say apart from the fact I missed out Pasilio Tossi.
He's also in the All Blacks. That's five Hurricanes front rowers.

(06:16):
Thanks Simon. I'm gotta find that hard to explain to
Pasilio Tossi next time I see him.

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