July 1, 2024 • 39 mins
ACC Head G Lane joins Manaia Stewart to rip through the latest sporting headlines including Corey Horsbrugh's suspension for punching Jacob Laban, giving them a taste of Kiwi at Wimbledon, and how to get a lift from the airport from Richie Mo'unga (0:00).
Then the fellas are joined by the voice of the roundball in NZ Jason Pine to break down the latest action in the Euros (13:07).
Finally, they get to your feedback in 'Yours Please' (29:09).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Export Beer Garden studio and brought to
you by Export Ultra the beer for here. This is
the Agenda Podcast for Tuesday to second of July.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting nonsense and clap Trap,
brought to you by Export Culture.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Jason Pine will be on the podcast later on to
god lend a bit of backbone to this podcast because
as well as we often say football blind spot to.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Us, I'm look, it's my goal and the end of
the year to not be our blind spot. You know,
on some wing mirrors, you know they have the little
round thing at the top of the wing mirror to
cover the blind spot.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Are you saying that, as far as this podcast is concerned,
things in the rear view mirror may be bigger than
they actually appear. Correct, You may actually know a little
bit more about the round ball.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, correct. By the end of the year, we hopefully
I love having Piney on he is the voice of
the round ball in New Zealand. But I'm hoping that
with Auckland FC coming on board in October that we
will be skilled up enough not to upset the football
fans out there, because at the moment I think they're agitated.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah. It's hard though, because, like you know, if you
follow rugby, it's quite easy to figure out who the
biggest players are. You follow basketball, they're all play in
the NBA, so that's very easy. But with football there's
so many different leagues. Yeah, you know, you get found
out very quickly when you're like, who what, I think he's.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Just an Italian league. You just have to weigh into
one team, like follow Aston Villa and then just know
all the players there, and then you don't have to
know about anyone from men City.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Or because I mean, yeah, no, I do know what
you mean. Because if you can just summon up a
bench player for Aston Villa, yeah, then it sounds like
you know a lot about the camp, but actually you
only know about one team.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So maybe we should okay, I mean we're going to
go all in on Auckland FC. That's that's the startup,
and maybe we should go all in on one team
each on the APL.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, and then we can pretend like we know. I
think the shortcut is a development player. If you can
summon up like a development players, like well, I love
where they're going and they've got this young kid.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, he's good, he's good man, he's come through.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I think he's at a out of Germany.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And he's He's one team you can't follow tonight, and
that's Rexham. Okay, that's cheating.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, that's the drive to survive.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, you can't follow Rexham. Now you got to pick
someone else. Reading was a team for me when I
was in London. Yeah, only because my parents lived in
Reading and then yeah that was my only affiliation.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's enough though, because it's like people stayed of origins
like that. We're here in New Zealand, there'll be people
who are like I bleed blue, New South Wales slide die.
I couldn't name two cities in New South Wales. I
don't think I could either Will Newcastle, Yeah, Rudy Hill,
Broken Hill, Dubble Tarr No, I think mountains, but yeah,
(02:37):
I just think yeah football quite hard to quite hard.
Fallow anyway, you don't have to listen to us talk
about it for much longer because Piney will be on
very shortly. Cory Hawesbrough, who was throwing the punches at
Jacob Laban, the Fiery Ranger, Fiery Ranger. He has had
his judicial bandhanded down to him. It's only two weeks.
So he got one week for one incident in two
(02:58):
weeks for another. And I think they're going to be
served concurrently. I'm sure I'll be corrected on that. It's
either two or three weeks that he's got for that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
So do you think they the judiciary looked at it
and meant if we ban him for more than six weeks,
we're going to be called up by all the gingers
for picking on being gingerous.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, potentially there's a bit of wocism at play here.
I just kind of think, you know, they talk so
much about bring back the Biff three weeks for throwing
multiple punches that landed on a guy's face and a
head butt and a head butt, and you only get
three weeks. Bff's back. The Biff is back. Someone wake
up Red Dragon, because the Berff is back. I doubt the.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Biff is back until a Warrior's player biffs. Yeah, well
then he's gone for six months.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's the other thing, isn't it. Because the referee that
when they were going through the footage, they played the
referees tape and he said, oh yeah, there was a
bit from both sides as well. And then you watch
the replay like extended replays, you watch it in real time.
There's nothing, there's no back and forth. There's a bit
of like smiling and laughing and pointing, which will definitely
inflame a fiery rang Corey hawsbro. Yeah, but that's not
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against the rules of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
One one I did see the replayer, did I watched it.
One warrior who got sent off came flying it did
come flying in with it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That was Tom Ally, Yeah. Yeah, and he's the third man,
and I think he went for one of those like
shirt collar push punch.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Here was an ice hockey punch, wasn't it. Yeah, Yeah,
where they grabbed the shirt and then multiple punches.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, and they're trying to make it look like that
just trying to rough them up with the collar, but
actually what they're trying to just punch them in the chin.
I've always been big on the third man, and he
gets been regardless, so that was fair enough. But I
just the biff's back. I reckon, you're you're gonna throw
it down if you're gonna be out there in the
NRL at the moment, just buger it. But that's three
weeks out for Corey Hawesbury, who's had an absolute shocker
(04:40):
of a season, can't get back onto the field. This
will not help him. Also, Wimbledon has just started. I
don't know if you knew that, well, yeah, because I do.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I only know because I heard it on the news,
on the radio, actually on Herdaki and the wireless, on
the wireless, because I don't think any there's no broadcast
the covering it in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh it's not on Sky nah and on tv Z either.
It's very early doors in the competition, so maybe they'll
get around to it. But all the big names have started.
Alcarez just smashed someone. We'll probably find out. I always
forget how young Alcarez is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, it's like nineteen.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
He's getting younger. Yeah, he's Benjamin Buttoning. I think he's
about fourteen this year. But we've got our own qualifier.
Can we qualify Lulu's Sun who's stunned Chinese eighth seed
Jing Jin Winn in the Wimbledon opening round. Now she
Lulu was born in Tiana char Now you may know
it is down there in the South Island, beautiful, beautiful
(05:37):
part of the country wit and lived in Switzerland for
a while, Yeah, but has elected to play under the
New Zealand flag.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
She's got the most sensational international accent. Yeah, her talk,
it's like, not Kiwi, it's not American, it's not Australian,
it's just this international, nondescript accent.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah. I think there's a tennis accent that started to develop.
Who's that girl, Ratliffe, She's got it as well, A
little bit right, And I think it is just because
if you want to get good at tennis, you get
identified at about eight years old, and you go to Florida,
and you go to Florida, and then you're playing tournaments
around Eastern Europe. Chances are you're of some sort of
former Yugoslav descent and then you just get chucked into
(06:18):
this hodgepodge and then you get that accent, and that
accent makes you good at tennis, but a massive upset
as well. I think as much as the tennis circuit
seems to creat psychopaths and it would be a grueling,
grueling sport to bean, I feel like it'd be quite
fun just going floating around the world, going from tournament
to tournament.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think if you could get past the like yeah,
it's psychopathic because it's individual and it is physically so
physically demanding. You look at golf, Golf is mental and individual.
You know, there is some real mental games going on there, huge,
and that is some mental struggles. Tennis you've got the
mental struggle and the physical struggle. You know, You've got
(06:58):
someone goes to a five setter and they're playing to
three in the morning, and then you got to get
out the next day and go again.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, and it's just.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You, whereas in golf, I feel, oh, yeah, it's not.
It's physical, sure, but it's not. But it's you're not like, nah,
eighteen holes, don't go for eight hours one day, no, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Right and all through the night. Yeah, and then like
forty degree with it. Yeah, that's right. Any niggle you
pick up playing golf, you can get a massage in
your suite again. Yeah. But yeah, you roll your you
roll your ankle on the grass there at Wimbledon, you're
in deep, deep shit because you get another tournament next
week and you haven't quite paid the bills from the
last tournament. So that part of it is. But I
do think it'll be fun just going around the world,
(07:36):
going to tournaments, like the setup of it. But yeah,
anytime you watch those Netflix docos.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You're like, oh, these guys, Yeah, they're on edge, they
are on edge.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And then I mean everyone would have read Old Andre
Agassi's autobiography.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I think that the weirdest had that autobiography for
me was the fact he had a picture of Stiffy
Graff on his wall as a teenager. Yeah. I had
a massive crash on Stiffy Graff and then he ended
up closing the Well, I mean to me, that's that's
the ultimate, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well, it's on the one hand, very very creepy. On
the one hand, like very very very creepy. But on
the other hand, how he didn't just completely capitulate when
he finally met her, Because you know, that's what I mean.
I had a poster of Dwayne Wade Duncan for the
Miami Heat on my wall, and if I hadn't met him,
I would have lost the plot, let alone. Piling on
(08:25):
top of that meritable intentions.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I had a picture of you know, the the tennis
player model who was fetching the ball from her the
back of her skirt and she was lifting up her
skirt you know that famous photo from behind, but get
a wee cheeky shot of the bum cheek and they're
reaching around getting the ball. It's a non description, not
even a tennis player. But I d on my ball
and I would have capitulated if I'd ever met that person.
(08:51):
I also had Samantha Fox. I had a picture of
Samantha Fox. Can you remember her? No, don't look her up.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now, Okay, I will. I will look her up in
my own time. Yeah, but I just manifestation at its best. Yeah,
that he had a thing I've heard and he ended
up married.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But yeah, I don't happily married to Hey still happily
married either?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
YEA great? I don't think. Yeah, I don't think anyone
makes it out alive with that sport. No one seems
to be too well adjusted. He might be one of
the more normal ones.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Roger Federer seems feeling normal. But I mean, is that
just the Swiss metronomic nature of his personality is he's
managed to survive without being too messed up.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
He's too nice. He's like those guys. Yeah, when you
meet someone that's just like really really nice.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And you're like he's into something bad.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, we're all running from something. You know, you just
don't talk about what your thing is. That's the only difference. Roger.
The rest of us are pretty open with our vices.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Hey, somebody's gonna announce today.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Up.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We might have re announced it yesterday around the pregame
at the Kensington and Dunedan that some else will be
joining us. And Richie Muwanga, yes, will be joining us
and driving the Export Express yep. And he's going to
be doing transfers from the Kensington to Foresight Bar all
afternoon on Saturday. On Saturday, you just had to get
to the Kensington. I think it's two for one deals
(10:14):
is live music. I've got Mitch James playing. We've got
heaps of stuff to give away. Me and you and
Heath are going to be there, give anyway a bit
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh me, you and Heath. I love me, you and Heath, Me,
you and Heath.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
So it's going to be a great afternoon. I wouldn't
go anywhere else. If you are going to Dunedin, or
you are in Dunedin, come down and join us at
the Kensington. But the day before we're thinking about on
the Friday is getting the Export Express, which is a
sixty seed a bus and heading out to the airport
in Dunedin. Now, anyone who has flown into Dunedin will know.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That they have never flown into Dunedin because Dunedan does
not have any ever.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No Momona does, which is one hundred dollars taxi ride
out of Dunedin. And so we're thinking of maybe just
rolling up with the Riches Export Express and just parking
up and piling it with punters and driving them into town.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I love the idea, but you told me this just
before we walked in here. I was like, I can't
imagine anyone would fly into Dunedin without a plan of
how they were going to get into thing, because into town,
because it's so far, it is so far. It's like, honestly,
it'll be one hundred dollars taxi probably.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, you know people in Dunedina though, so you can
make a call and go, hey, Dave, come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I think that's the part I'm missing is that I'm
only ever like, if I'm going to Dunedin, I do
know people that are there, and that anyone else who
doesn't know people there probably is going there for business. Yes,
and you get a taxi yeah, or has had this
all Blacks game circled Yeah, and so then they were
going to go get a taxi as well. So I
don't know, I could be wrong. So I just couldn't
imagine showing up to that airport without a plan.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
If you are flying on Friday afternoon from Wellington or
christ Church or Auckland and you're landing there, look out
for maybe myself or Richie Mo will be by the
barrack baggage carousel. We've got sixty seats going. We may
get our tires slash by the Dunedin taxi mafia because
that's how they run. But it's going to be a
great weekend. We're there what Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and we're
(12:06):
also going to be doing a few flat drops around there.
We've got some Leader lasagna toppers and Southern Fried chicken
toppers and a few refreshments to give away as well.
So cruising up and down Castle Streets potentially and around
there the slums.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I wonder maybe someone could let me know. I
think Thursday night, well, at least when I was there
Thursday night with student night. So are we in the
school holiday and.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
There's the holidays. Yeah, yeah, there's but there is a
few people that stay down there. Not everyone departs, but
you don't if you want a prize pack anyway, with
like Snacker Changy Sports Scholarship, for example, you don't have
to be in donedan text chip to three two three
six because I've also got the Snack Changy Sports Scholarship
to give away, which is a bunch of Snacker Changy's,
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some refreshments and where bingea, watching sport is a sport
is what we're saying. So there you go get into it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Alrighty, let's take a quick break. When we come back,
we're going to get the voice of the round Ball
in New Zealand, Jason Pine, to run us down through
the Euros. Well, it's been spoken about quite a lot
on this podcast, lame that football can sometimes be a
little bit of a blind spot for us and our
Kelly's heel and Achilles heel. Yes, So to fill in
(13:19):
that blind spot, we've brought on someone who knows all
about the round ball, Jason Pine. Good morning, Piney, how
are you mate?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah? Great, guys, thanks thanks for giving.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Us a call mate, Thank you for coming on because
you just basically rescue all of our credibility when it
comes to football. We gave it a stab last week.
We gave it a good, honest stab, and we absolutely
cocked it up by saying that Portugal got knocked out
by Georgia and that the Germany Denmark game was a
nothing game. But we did predict the score. It was
(13:47):
two nil and one seven hundred bucks. So it's been
a roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, I look like a good redemption there at the end. Yes, good.
You have to say, though, betting on football is fraught
with theficulty, especially at tournaments like this, where you're always
going to get teams raising their game. You're going to
get the likes of Georgia. It wouldn't have never even
been to a major tournament actually, you know, pulling off
results like they did against Portugal, you'll get you know,
(14:11):
supposed favorites Italy, you know, defending champions being knocked out
in the round of sixteen, So very very difficult to predict.
The cream does tend to rise to the top as
we get towards the Semis in the final, but yeah,
it wouldn't be a wouldn't be a major football tournament
without without a few upsets along the way.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, we just finished watching at the time recording this,
we just finished watching Portugal takeout Slovenia on penalties. Man,
that was a show of emotion from old Ronaldo because
I looked up from my desk and because I was
working quite hard smating ye and then I saw he
was crying in the huddle and I was like, oh,
did they lose? No, no, no, They've still got another
twenty minutes of footing to play and then they're going
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to penalties. I was like, what's going on here? It
just is he always like.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That, he's yeah, he's he's different, Old Christiana Ronaldo. I think, well,
the the backstory of it is he missed a penalty
in extra time, which would have in all likelihood have
given Portugal the win. The fact that he missed it
meant they went to a penalty shootout, during which he
actually scored his penalty, so he kind of redeemed himself.
But he knows, Cristiana Ronaldo that this is highly likely
(15:17):
to be his last major tournament for Portugal. Watching now
thirty nine, unlikely he'll be at the next Football World Cup,
so this is probably it for him, and I guess. Yeah,
the tears that were flowing fairly freely were just a
shove of that emotion that you know, I've messed this up.
And I was going to say he was thinking I've
messed this up for my team, But really, when it
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comes to Cristiano Ronaldo, all he thinks about really is himself.
So I think he's crying because he's thinking I've missed
this up for myself. Thankfully, his teammates rallied around and
gotten through the penalty shootout there and they're onto the
next round.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, it was a resounding one in the end on penalties,
but I was just thinking, like, if you're going to
go back out there onto that football pitch and he's
your leader, absolutely balling his eyes out on the sideline,
so that doesn't fill you with confidence.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
It's a great point. And if you think to yourself, Okay,
what would Leonelle Messi do? Would he do that? Would
he be, you know, blubbering away in a you know,
in a in a team huddle, having having mister penalty.
I think what he'd probably do was, even if he
was feeling internally distraught, he'd say, right, I've got to
show some leadership here and go out there and make
sure that the next chance becomes along goes in the
(16:25):
back of the net. So yeah, I mean Christiana Ronaldo.
I mean absolutely generational footballer. And there's always been the
Messi v Ronaldo debate. But yeah, if you're looking at
them as human beings, I think Messi is a lot
easier to like than Christiana Ronaldo is.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Well, absolutely, he's not. He's not has a bath of
fake tan and a suspiciously large Adam's Apple for a start.
So I'm a massive Messy fan. I've actually, I've actually
Metel Messi. Piney that I met him. I met him
in Abu Dhabi during the Football Club World Cup. He
was playing for bas Lona and he was playing in
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that rock star team that had pool in Esta and him,
and he was in the changing rooms and he was
a bit lost. I didn't know where he was going, and
I showed him where the changing room was, like he lost.
He's tiny, He's a small man, so.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
How what were you doing there?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I used to work for FIFA Pony. I used to
run the Football Club Club World Cup and the UEE
for two years.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
No, I mean hanging around the I mean hanging around
the changing room.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, I was in operations, so I basically a player
operations and stuff, so were and it was very comp
It was very complex at the time, Pony, because we
had a double hitter, so we had four teams all
in one corridor. And one of the teams was actually Auckland,
the Auckland Football Club, Auckland City and that I told
you about that and when I caught them ups afterwards
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after the games had finished, all queued up outside the
Barcelona changing room with merchandise to sign.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, just display of notes when it comes to that tournament. Yeah,
it's although we're the same as the World Cup. You know,
when Australia played Argentina, all of the Australian players afterwards
were queuing up to get messis you know, photo and signature.
You know, I've always wondered about that, you know. You
I know you're on the field, it probably goes off
to one side, But when you revere someone so much
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that you're desperate to get a selfie with them afterwards,
I'm just wondering whether your mind's fully on the job
when you're on football. I'm sure that it is.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I wasn't. I wasn't overly aware of how half the
players were to be honest at their time, So I
was probably quite useful in the back of house because
I had no idea who anyone was, so I wasn't
getting any selfies. I definitely knew who mess he was. Anyway,
back back on to the topic of the Euros. We're
getting to the quarter finals. We've got who have we
got in the quarters? We've got France? Are they? Are
(18:48):
they playing Portugal now?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah? That's right? Yeah, yeah, France. Yeah, we're starting to
get some some matchups now which we can look forward to. Yeah,
so France bi Portugal. That's seven o'clock Saturday morning, the
game before that'll be worth getting up for. I think Sain,
Germany Spain have looked for me. I've looked the best
team at the Euros. Germany are the hosts and always
do well at tournaments, regardless of where they're being played.
So yes, Spain, Germany will be good, Portugal, France, then
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England and Switzerland, and we've still got one who want
to decide after the final round of sixteen matches tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And who I mean, obviously Spain you're looking at are
they probably looking the red hot favorites for you.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They're the best team I've seen there.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
The only thing is that they're on the side of
the draw that if they get past Germany then they
have to play the winner of Portugal France, so their
road to the final is quite tough. England, I just
noted before I came on with you guys at the
tab favorite sill, which is just crazy, given the fact
that they've been so poor during their four games here
so far. They've stumbled and bumbled their way through. They
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were thirty seconds away from going out against Slovakia and
they're around the sixteen match bicycle kicked from Jude Bellingham
got them level and then Harry Kin got the winner.
But they are on a more favorable side of the draw.
Having said that, anybody who plays England at the moment
I reckondacts themselves and the Swiss will be well up
for it on Sunday morning at four o'clock out time.
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I don't think they're going to roll over.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They seem to be a fairly well supported team over there.
Seems like the English fans have really gotten them behind
their team over there. Every time they pan around the crowd,
there's English fans everywhere, shirtless, banging on their drums. Are
they Are they one of the best traveled fandoms there.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, Look, it's interesting you say that they're certainly the
most there's I think probably more of them than any
other team, but I'm not sure that they're always necessarily
behind their team.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
One.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You might have seen some footage actually of a whole
bunch of English fans actually leaving the ground in the
round of sixteen. There one nil down, as I say,
against Slovakia, there's only a couple of minutes to go,
and some fans thought, no, bugger this, I'm out, And
just as they were leaving and being filmed by a
local news crew, you heard there's raw from the stadium
(20:59):
that just exoded of Dude Bellingham's goal which got on level.
I've never been able to work out why people leave
a game early, regardless of the of the results or
whether your team's behind or whatever you just stated.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At the end, I think, yeah, I mean the beat.
Everyone wants to beat the traffic. Piney, at that point,
you are the traffic, because.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Actually none of those English fans are driving around Unich
or or whatever the hell they are. You know it's yeah,
I've never worked it out, but yeah, England well supported
their fans, are you know. I think there's there's less
and less of the of the real hardcore hooligan stuff
going on now, I think, I mean, there's a lot
of guys who have clearly seen the insides of a
(21:38):
lot of bars. But but yeah, they they turn out
and look they'll be they're in big numbers again when
they when they take on Switzerland, and whereas at Dusseldorf
on on Sunday outside this is.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
About the only point of the Euros where I get
really interested? Is that about the quarter final stage. I
was struggling through the pool play. Hence I was bumbling
my way through any updates on the g the podcast
and getting roundly abused by our faithful audience. Can you
see any any dark horses coming into those quarterfinals? Any
anyone we need to look out for? And I mean
you've got Austria, Turkey, Romania and Netherlands still to play.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, on those four. I mean, the Netherlands seem like
the one that will go through to the semi finals.
They'll get I would imagine they'll get past Romania. Okay,
i'd keep an eye on Turkey. I mean, their fans
are absolutely bonkers, completely mental, and often that flows onto
what they do on the pitch as well. So if
Turkey can get past Austria, they are pretty functional side,
(22:37):
you know, and then come up against you know, Turkey
could beat England. Put it that way, they could at
this tournament. Anyone who's played England's a chance of beating them.
So yeah, so if you're looking for a dark horse,
probably Turkey. As to say, on the other side, guys,
I mean Spain, Germany, Portugal, France. We're talking football and
superpowers there so no dark horse to be found there.
So yeah, let's see what happens in the final round
(22:58):
of sixteen matches tomorrow. But as I say it, usually
in tournament football, you know, you find that the really
top teams are the ones who are playing at the
business end.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
As a non football like a very casual football follower,
This one seems a lot bigger than the last, Like,
I don't remember people being this big into the Euros.
Is that a big part of that because last time
was during COVID or do you feel like this is
growing in popularity?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yeah, that's a really good question. It's like it's not
as big as a World Cup. You know, I think
people already wrap themselves into a World Cup because, as
the name would suggest, come through small around the world.
You know, these are teams that are all from the
same continent, and by and large a lot of them
play the same style of football, so you're not really
going to get too much in the way of the
contrast and styles. It's funny. I've like I normally and
(23:47):
I have this time as well. I normally watch every game,
but I've just found some of them to be just
a little bit shamey. And the time difference is tough.
I'm getting up at one in the morning and then
getting through to a four o'clock and then at seven o'clock.
That's not great for the sleep pattern. But look, there
are there are There are twenty four teams in the
in the tournament, which is more than they have had previously.
And what that's led to is third place teams in
(24:09):
a group going through, and so I think that's probably
kept you know, more fans more interested for longer in
the tournament. Yeah around here, I mean, like I say,
you know, if you can get up at breakfast time
and watch football at just the seven o'clock game, for example,
that's a pretty friendly time to watch a game of
high quality sports. So maybe, you know, maybe more and
more people are taking advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Speaking of popularity, Pineer the All Whites Now, I said
something yesterday on the podcast and then I thought about
it and I thought, I wonder if I've got that right.
But obviously we took out the Oceania Nations Cup over
the weekend betting. Is it Vanowa two?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Have I read this right? But in the future, are
they opening up an automatic qualification from Oceania into the
FIFA World Cup?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Absolutely? Bang on, yep. It's because the World Cup itself
is increasing in size. The next one will be normally
the World Cup, or for the last few editions has
been the two teams. It's going to be forty eight
teams from the next one, and so in order to
get more teams, you open up more spots. Obviously, and
Oceannia has never had direct entry into the World Cup.
That's why we've always had these intercontinental playoffs, the bar
(25:15):
Rain Ones, the most famous one. When we got through,
we've lost to Mexico, lost to Peru, lost to Costa
Rica last time. But now yes, so whoever wins the
Oceanian Nations Cup immediately before the World Cup will gain
direct entry into the World Cup. So really it's a
bit of a it's a bit of a lay down
these for the all whites. Really, they are far and
(25:37):
away the best team in Oceannia. All of their players
are professionals, you know. The island sides are you know,
are you know? They're really a long way below there
are very few professional players in the Islands. They're just
did this local club players? Really? So so yeah, New
Zealand's path to the World Cup the next one and
everything beyond that looks a lot clearer. So yeah, I
(25:58):
feel like the agenda needs to needs to start booking
tickets to Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Absolutely well, we're going to have to maybe scale up
on our knowledge, but so let's to bring it with us, pony,
Yeah a piney. Is there any chance that Australia can
Flippans decide to go back to Oceania and move away
from Asia.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I don't think they will now, you know, they're they're
actually I mean the move to Asia has been good
for their the quality of their football and actually ever
since they move, they've made the World Cup every time,
so there's no real reason for them to come back.
And of course with more with more teams, they're actually
more spots through Asian Hour as well. So yeah, I
don't think they will. Yeah, they they I think they'll leave.
(26:41):
They'll leave it. They'll leave it to New Zealand to
be the big fish in this pond. What it does do, though,
is it it kind of puts to bed any thoughts
that New Zealand might join the Asian Confederation, which I
think from a football sense would have been great for
our football. But why would we go somewhere now where
we know we've got direct the entry to World Cups
where we are. I think they'll probably just, you know,
just just stay put and battle away against the island
(27:01):
nations and probably make every World Cup from now until
the end of time.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I'd rather do that anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't, but I wouldn't put a past the Aussies. No,
I wouldn't put it past them. I wouldn't put a part.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Of them another to form when it comes to the
sort of.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, absolutely, and some of the news out of the
Phoenix another Phoenix player has been signed over to Europe.
Sara Hight.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, Ben Old. Yeah, this news will be confirmed
in the next couple of days. As I understand it.
He had a terrific season. It's a name to remember, guys,
he has. I think I first saw Ben Old play
when he was about about sixteen years old in the
Phoenix Academy. And you know, when you see anyone play
any sport, you think, oh, that kid's got a bit
about him, and you wonder whether they'll go on with it.
(27:43):
And I've always sort of followed Ben Old's career for
the last six or seven years. Absolutely tremendous for the
Phoenix last season and yet picked up by a French club,
Saint Etien. They'll be I've just been promoted back into
the top flight in France, so that Ben Old makes
that team, he will be playing in the top French league.
He's off to the Olympics, so I get the feeling
(28:04):
we'll just go to Paris for the Olympics and then
probably just stay put and join his new club over there.
So yeah, another one we know, Alex Paulson. Of course
we've talked about him, the goalkeeper who's off to the
Premier League. So yeah, great to see these young key
weekids coming through the Phoenix and then going on to
bigger and brighter and better things.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It sounds like the round balls and a healthy spot
here at least in New Zealand. And Yeah, as I
said before, I feel like everyone at the moment is
off to a pub at about four o'clock in the
morning to watch the Euros. At the moment, we'll have
to get you on. I think we've got what two
more weeks yet of the Euros, Pony.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We'll have to get you on throughout there to keep
us updated because as we know, we are less than
updated here on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So I tell what I have done, Thoman and Piney.
I've put one hundred bucks on twelve and a half
corners or more in the Romanian Netherlands game. I love
aw you bet on corners?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yeah yeah, well look, I mean absolutely no rationale behind it,
but I like the way.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Is that your own money or has that come out
of our pop no comment? Okay, all right, thank you
very much for your time this morning, Pony. Enjoy your
football over the next couple of weeks, mate.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah, take an easy boys.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Thanks yours please, brought to you by Leader Home of the.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Huge.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Thank you to Jason Pine for joining us on a
Tuesday morning. It is time for yours. Please let's just
rip straight into it. First call here yours please.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Good a fellas. It's Mike Hunt here. I have a
bit of a ethical Well no, it's actually just a
logistical dilemma. I've got a very close friend's thirtieth birthday
which coincides with the All Blacks game, and I'm just
wondering how the fuck do I get out of that
(29:46):
so I can just watch the footy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Help me? Please?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Wow, there's several ways you can do this, Mike Haunt. Well, Hunt,
you could still go to the thirtieth, can't you? Or
does he want to go to the actual footy? What
does he want to watch it? Because if you just
wants to watch it, you can just turn up late.
You can just say you've got something on and turn
up at nine o'clock. As opposed to.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Sex, I'd need to know a bit more about the thirtieth.
How big is this due going to be? Because my
initial thought was just invite him to the footy. But
if he's got family and it's a whole thing. Yeah,
then that's probably gonna ruin it. I don't think anyone
would be opposed to at their thirtieth putting the game on.
I presume it's going to be at a venue that
would have screens.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Or you just stick it on your skysport.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Now, yeah, on your phone. That is a little bit
anti social. Although I went out for dinner on Saturday
night and at the restaurant, three different tables were watching
the Warriors yep, on their phones.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I hope you went over and changed it to Skysport nine.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh no, they're only phones.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I mean, yeah, you can go over there and just
go hey, mate Brown, each of the my phones, go
back to the menu and then go digo.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's better. I will generally, if I'm following a game,
I'll just check the scores. I won't have the game
going if I'm in that kind of situation. But I
why you could just chuck it on the screen.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Surely the other option is we can give mister hunt
here a prize, so you can say I've won a
trip to the footy thing with the acc I got
to go to that.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Okay, all right, Well, then, without any further ado again,
I'd just like to clarify this is something we do
from time to time. This is not a real prize.
But Mike, not you, but the other one. Pause podcast.
Now go and get maybe clip this and send it
to your mates so that he can be like, oh no,
all right, all right, Lane, Well it is time to
(31:38):
give away flights and tickets to the All Blacks game
this weekend in Dunedin. And we've had millions of interest
from around the world. And the winner, without any further ado,
is Mike Hunt. Congratulations, Mike, clear your schedule, mate, whatever
(31:58):
your head on, Bennett, whatever you had planned ye for
your weekend, you're gonna have to scrap that, mate, because
we are sending you to the All Blacks game in Dneden.
Well done, Come down and say gooday to us at
the Kensington beforehand.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
There you go, that you, Mike.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I always want to say for you and a mate,
but then I feel like I'm probably stitching them up
because then whoever they send the thing to it. Oh
why don't you say me?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I just to mate anyway, it's just a single.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There you go, mister Hunt. Hey, look, we're just making
dreams happen here on the podcast. Another call here, you're spits.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Yeah, get a mary, first time call, a long time
listener on your ultimate Australian sports Events. Adlaid for the
Lions versus Commonwealth fifteen is a goodie. But get over
there for the live golf.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh yeah, it's very reasonable.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Fifteen hundred bucks or something for entury.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
It all you can drink.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Come on, I think it maybe even been there six
hundred bucks anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, great, great, I agree. I totally overlooked that live golf.
Adelaide at won the best live event globally. I can
mellon up at the Herald went and he said it was.
He said it was loose and great fun. So yeah,
you're right. I will flag that end Zach Lions game
and Code of the liv.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, I've heard Adelaide's actually quite cool.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's got a lot better. I went twenty odd years
ago and it was rough. Yeah, and then I went
during the Pinkball test and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, one point three million people.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
It's great. And you've got the Barossa Valley, you've got
McLaren Vale, you got your Whiny. The Adelaide Oval is
next level after their renovations. It's great. I really enjoyed Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
My concern with a fifteen hundred dollars entry fee and
free purse is that that fifteen hundred dollars then becomes
a target because you have to drink fifteen hundred dollars
worth of piss to feel like you've won that situation.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, I think that's is that for a corporate area,
because that's quite dangerous that all you can eat and drink,
yeah scenarios. I'd rather get access and maybe just cheap drinks,
you know, and then there's to be a transaction for me.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Right, I want to control my consumption because otherwise you
just feel like you've You've just got to go health
for leather. Otherwise you feel like you're getting ripped off.
It's like if you've ever stated a hotel.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Where you drinks her included, like an all inclusive package
or never done that. Even a flight, oh yeah, flight
where you're like other serving pass and I sit there
and I'm like, yeap, can I grab a beer? And
they ask my messas if she wants anything, She goes no, thanks,
I'm all good. I'm like, you're kidding me? You want
a beer? What are we doing? Here. But the problem
with that is they have her seat marked down. Is
she's got Celia, she can't have so they're like, oh,
(34:33):
so you you got Celia and you're gonna drink a beer,
are you? I don't think they give a ship. But
to be fair, that one kills me. But yeah, the
fifteen hundred dollars, that's a target for me. But anyway,
we should go to live as long and short of that.
Another call here you please.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Hi boys, I'm just wanting to point out that you
may well have your facts wrong. If the All Blacks
are located currently, it is in here a tonguel and
Upper Hunt, not Lower Hunt. Just come on, simple ship,
get it right?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Oh God, the Heart Valley?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Can we not?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Can we not get into a debate about the Heart
Valley and the geopolitics of Haut Valley.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
We want to steer clear of regional politics.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Especially the Heart Valley at letast just say they're training
in Eastbourne. That'll really wind them up.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's a troubled pass that they've got there in the
Heart Valley. Yeah, they're the North and South Korea of
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
They are, and they quite happily build it. The military
zone through it are.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, genetically indistinct from one another, but culturally and I've
heard widespread famine and upper hut That's what I'm hearing.
And nuclear arms anyway, another caller here, yours please?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yes, Fellows a thought on that.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
You know, instead of shitting on you for getting something wrong,
you've got the bust. But right in a class four
in a p endorsement.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
There you go in.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
This one's for you and I fuck the Wye Hadow.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Subrobert Championship you don't have.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So I mean again as a compliment, and then it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'm hoping that's going to catch on because you know
everyone's been signed off South Canterbury is it doesn't have
to be South Canterbury. Don't limit yourselves. You can go
wherever you want.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
So it'll meet the heart Valley now little not the
caller here? Oh you get a loving the Formula one redcap.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Thank you. Fellows.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Should do a little highlights episode every week, fucking quick montage.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
You've already got all the nicknames down packed just for
the motorsports.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
You know, I didn't mind the round ball blue balls
with all those over balls.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
You look Van strap On, he's obviously he's going to
take this one out. I mean, this is my goal
call her in the end of the year is to
convert and I out of the Motor Games, move him
on from motor games and into motor sport.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I need to find a driver I can let you onto.
I think.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah, Orlando Norris is good. I like him.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, Orlando Kelrazion, Yeah, I don't mind him.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's not bad. He's you know, he can't.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Go Daniel Rotardo.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
No, you can't go Retardo, especially when he's occupying the
seat that Liam Lawson needs to be in. Yeah. Big
schnozer big.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Otherwise a very good looking man. I think he's got
that thing where, you know, a good perfume has to
have that little hint of like a bad smell about it.
He's got that look to him. It's like he's a
very handsome, good looking man with just like an odd
looking nose, which I actually think makes him hotter, which
makes me hate him more.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, and you've got Charlot Claire, who's the hardest man alive.
He makes He's been responsible for a vast change in
the demographs. So who's watching the Formula one Charlotte Clerk Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's the other part of Formula one at least, is
that it's unrelatable for me. I don't know how hard
it is any of the stuff that they're doing. It's
like when we commentated the Jesse Well's Invitational last year.
It may shock you to know I actually didn't know
any of the moves that I was commentating, And it
may shock you know that you don't ski, you have seeding.
(37:45):
I cannot ski, And so I was looking at them
and I was like, I don't know, is that hard
to do? Because I've just seen five guys do like
quadruple flips in a row and the like, Yeah, no,
that is like one of the hardest things in the
world to do. You're watching the best people in the world.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Luckily we had Lee with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, who
knew exact calling the scream and semens left right and
send it.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Akaya Satan Whoppercock he was. He was I think the
two time winner of the World Guitar the Guitar Competition
under the pseudonym Satan Whoppercock.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, and he played in a giant Pallas costume and
at the top of the e guitar riff, yogurt would
fly out in a pneumatic gun out of the top
of the phelic costume into the crowd, and I think it.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Went haywire because he had no way of testing it
beforehand because it was like a one shot yeah costume,
and so he's like, I can't have a dry run
of this. We're just going to go for it on
a note. And I think it just exploded at a meltdown.
We need to get on the podcast at some point,
but yeah, I think maybe maybe a motor Game's recap.
I don't know. I feel like we're waiting into the
same territory we are with the round ball.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yeah. Look, I mean, just going back just a few
seconds to ed Lee, we should probably talk to him
about the Olympics because he commentates the skateboarding and the
skatepark stuff, which is really interesting. In the Olympics Member
last time and was it Tokyo fourteen year old kid
one gold and some of the meanest tricks, And they'll
go and they're just listening to the ear pods and
it'll be passing off every boomer known to man to
(39:13):
watch that. Yeah, and the Olympics and there's a kid
honors ear pods just completely oblivious to the world and
then just throws down in the street park So maybe
we've talked to him about that.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah. Absolutely, I'm going to introd into the break dancing
all right. That'll do us for today. That's the last years.
Please feel free to fire and more and we'll get
around to those tomorrow as well as another half baked
sports idea. We will see you then.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Jason Pine will be on the podcast later on to
god lend a bit of backbone to this podcast because
as well as we often say football blind spot to.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Us, I'm look, it's my goal and the end of
the year to not be our blind spot. You know,
on some wing mirrors, you know they have the little
round thing at the top of the wing mirror to
cover the blind spot.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Are you saying that, as far as this podcast is concerned,
things in the rear view mirror may be bigger than
they actually appear. Correct, You may actually know a little
bit more about the round ball.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, correct. By the end of the year, we hopefully
I love having Piney on he is the voice of
the round ball in New Zealand. But I'm hoping that
with Auckland FC coming on board in October that we
will be skilled up enough not to upset the football
fans out there, because at the moment I think they're agitated.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah. It's hard though, because, like you know, if you
follow rugby, it's quite easy to figure out who the
biggest players are. You follow basketball, they're all play in
the NBA, so that's very easy. But with football there's
so many different leagues. Yeah, you know, you get found
out very quickly when you're like, who what, I think he's.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Just an Italian league. You just have to weigh into
one team, like follow Aston Villa and then just know
all the players there, and then you don't have to
know about anyone from men City.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Or because I mean, yeah, no, I do know what
you mean. Because if you can just summon up a
bench player for Aston Villa, yeah, then it sounds like
you know a lot about the camp, but actually you
only know about one team.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So maybe we should okay, I mean we're going to
go all in on Auckland FC. That's that's the startup,
and maybe we should go all in on one team
each on the APL.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, and then we can pretend like we know. I
think the shortcut is a development player. If you can
summon up like a development players, like well, I love
where they're going and they've got this young kid.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, he's good, he's good man, he's come through.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I think he's at a out of Germany.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And he's He's one team you can't follow tonight, and
that's Rexham. Okay, that's cheating.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, that's the drive to survive.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, you can't follow Rexham. Now you got to pick
someone else. Reading was a team for me when I
was in London. Yeah, only because my parents lived in
Reading and then yeah that was my only affiliation.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's enough though, because it's like people stayed of origins
like that. We're here in New Zealand, there'll be people
who are like I bleed blue, New South Wales slide die.
I couldn't name two cities in New South Wales. I
don't think I could either Will Newcastle, Yeah, Rudy Hill,
Broken Hill, Dubble Tarr No, I think mountains, but yeah,
(02:37):
I just think yeah football quite hard to quite hard.
Fallow anyway, you don't have to listen to us talk
about it for much longer because Piney will be on
very shortly. Cory Hawesbrough, who was throwing the punches at
Jacob Laban, the Fiery Ranger, Fiery Ranger. He has had
his judicial bandhanded down to him. It's only two weeks.
So he got one week for one incident in two
(02:58):
weeks for another. And I think they're going to be
served concurrently. I'm sure I'll be corrected on that. It's
either two or three weeks that he's got for that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
So do you think they the judiciary looked at it
and meant if we ban him for more than six weeks,
we're going to be called up by all the gingers
for picking on being gingerous.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, potentially there's a bit of wocism at play here.
I just kind of think, you know, they talk so
much about bring back the Biff three weeks for throwing
multiple punches that landed on a guy's face and a
head butt and a head butt, and you only get
three weeks. Bff's back. The Biff is back. Someone wake
up Red Dragon, because the Berff is back. I doubt the.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Biff is back until a Warrior's player biffs. Yeah, well
then he's gone for six months.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's the other thing, isn't it. Because the referee that
when they were going through the footage, they played the
referees tape and he said, oh yeah, there was a
bit from both sides as well. And then you watch
the replay like extended replays, you watch it in real time.
There's nothing, there's no back and forth. There's a bit
of like smiling and laughing and pointing, which will definitely
inflame a fiery rang Corey hawsbro. Yeah, but that's not
(04:01):
against the rules of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
One one I did see the replayer, did I watched it.
One warrior who got sent off came flying it did
come flying in with it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That was Tom Ally, Yeah. Yeah, and he's the third man,
and I think he went for one of those like
shirt collar push punch.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Here was an ice hockey punch, wasn't it. Yeah, Yeah,
where they grabbed the shirt and then multiple punches.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, and they're trying to make it look like that
just trying to rough them up with the collar, but
actually what they're trying to just punch them in the chin.
I've always been big on the third man, and he
gets been regardless, so that was fair enough. But I
just the biff's back. I reckon, you're you're gonna throw
it down if you're gonna be out there in the
NRL at the moment, just buger it. But that's three
weeks out for Corey Hawesbury, who's had an absolute shocker
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of a season, can't get back onto the field. This
will not help him. Also, Wimbledon has just started. I
don't know if you knew that, well, yeah, because I do.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I only know because I heard it on the news,
on the radio, actually on Herdaki and the wireless, on
the wireless, because I don't think any there's no broadcast
the covering it in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh it's not on Sky nah and on tv Z either.
It's very early doors in the competition, so maybe they'll
get around to it. But all the big names have started.
Alcarez just smashed someone. We'll probably find out. I always
forget how young Alcarez is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, it's like nineteen.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
He's getting younger. Yeah, he's Benjamin Buttoning. I think he's
about fourteen this year. But we've got our own qualifier.
Can we qualify Lulu's Sun who's stunned Chinese eighth seed
Jing Jin Winn in the Wimbledon opening round. Now she
Lulu was born in Tiana char Now you may know
it is down there in the South Island, beautiful, beautiful
(05:37):
part of the country wit and lived in Switzerland for
a while, Yeah, but has elected to play under the
New Zealand flag.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
She's got the most sensational international accent. Yeah, her talk,
it's like, not Kiwi, it's not American, it's not Australian,
it's just this international, nondescript accent.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah. I think there's a tennis accent that started to develop.
Who's that girl, Ratliffe, She's got it as well, A
little bit right, And I think it is just because
if you want to get good at tennis, you get
identified at about eight years old, and you go to Florida,
and you go to Florida, and then you're playing tournaments
around Eastern Europe. Chances are you're of some sort of
former Yugoslav descent and then you just get chucked into
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this hodgepodge and then you get that accent, and that
accent makes you good at tennis, but a massive upset
as well. I think as much as the tennis circuit
seems to creat psychopaths and it would be a grueling,
grueling sport to bean, I feel like it'd be quite
fun just going floating around the world, going from tournament
to tournament.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think if you could get past the like yeah,
it's psychopathic because it's individual and it is physically so
physically demanding. You look at golf, Golf is mental and individual.
You know, there is some real mental games going on there, huge,
and that is some mental struggles. Tennis you've got the
mental struggle and the physical struggle. You know, You've got
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someone goes to a five setter and they're playing to
three in the morning, and then you got to get
out the next day and go again.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, and it's just.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You, whereas in golf, I feel, oh, yeah, it's not.
It's physical, sure, but it's not. But it's you're not like, nah,
eighteen holes, don't go for eight hours one day, no, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Right and all through the night. Yeah, and then like
forty degree with it. Yeah, that's right. Any niggle you
pick up playing golf, you can get a massage in
your suite again. Yeah. But yeah, you roll your you
roll your ankle on the grass there at Wimbledon, you're
in deep, deep shit because you get another tournament next
week and you haven't quite paid the bills from the
last tournament. So that part of it is. But I
do think it'll be fun just going around the world,
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going to tournaments, like the setup of it. But yeah,
anytime you watch those Netflix docos.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You're like, oh, these guys, Yeah, they're on edge, they
are on edge.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And then I mean everyone would have read Old Andre
Agassi's autobiography.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I think that the weirdest had that autobiography for
me was the fact he had a picture of Stiffy
Graff on his wall as a teenager. Yeah. I had
a massive crash on Stiffy Graff and then he ended
up closing the Well, I mean to me, that's that's
the ultimate, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well, it's on the one hand, very very creepy. On
the one hand, like very very very creepy. But on
the other hand, how he didn't just completely capitulate when
he finally met her, Because you know, that's what I mean.
I had a poster of Dwayne Wade Duncan for the
Miami Heat on my wall, and if I hadn't met him,
I would have lost the plot, let alone. Piling on
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top of that meritable intentions.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I had a picture of you know, the the tennis
player model who was fetching the ball from her the
back of her skirt and she was lifting up her
skirt you know that famous photo from behind, but get
a wee cheeky shot of the bum cheek and they're
reaching around getting the ball. It's a non description, not
even a tennis player. But I d on my ball
and I would have capitulated if I'd ever met that person.
(08:51):
I also had Samantha Fox. I had a picture of
Samantha Fox. Can you remember her? No, don't look her up.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now, Okay, I will. I will look her up in
my own time. Yeah, but I just manifestation at its best. Yeah,
that he had a thing I've heard and he ended
up married.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But yeah, I don't happily married to Hey still happily
married either?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
YEA great? I don't think. Yeah, I don't think anyone
makes it out alive with that sport. No one seems
to be too well adjusted. He might be one of
the more normal ones.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Roger Federer seems feeling normal. But I mean, is that
just the Swiss metronomic nature of his personality is he's
managed to survive without being too messed up.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
He's too nice. He's like those guys. Yeah, when you
meet someone that's just like really really nice.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And you're like he's into something bad.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, we're all running from something. You know, you just
don't talk about what your thing is. That's the only difference. Roger.
The rest of us are pretty open with our vices.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Hey, somebody's gonna announce today.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Up.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We might have re announced it yesterday around the pregame
at the Kensington and Dunedan that some else will be
joining us. And Richie Muwanga, yes, will be joining us
and driving the Export Express yep. And he's going to
be doing transfers from the Kensington to Foresight Bar all
afternoon on Saturday. On Saturday, you just had to get
to the Kensington. I think it's two for one deals
(10:14):
is live music. I've got Mitch James playing. We've got
heaps of stuff to give away. Me and you and
Heath are going to be there, give anyway a bit
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh me, you and Heath. I love me, you and Heath, Me,
you and Heath.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
So it's going to be a great afternoon. I wouldn't
go anywhere else. If you are going to Dunedin, or
you are in Dunedin, come down and join us at
the Kensington. But the day before we're thinking about on
the Friday is getting the Export Express, which is a
sixty seed a bus and heading out to the airport
in Dunedin. Now, anyone who has flown into Dunedin will know.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That they have never flown into Dunedin because Dunedan does
not have any ever.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No Momona does, which is one hundred dollars taxi ride
out of Dunedin. And so we're thinking of maybe just
rolling up with the Riches Export Express and just parking
up and piling it with punters and driving them into town.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I love the idea, but you told me this just
before we walked in here. I was like, I can't
imagine anyone would fly into Dunedin without a plan of
how they were going to get into thing, because into town,
because it's so far, it is so far. It's like, honestly,
it'll be one hundred dollars taxi probably.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, you know people in Dunedina though, so you can
make a call and go, hey, Dave, come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I think that's the part I'm missing is that I'm
only ever like, if I'm going to Dunedin, I do
know people that are there, and that anyone else who
doesn't know people there probably is going there for business. Yes,
and you get a taxi yeah, or has had this
all Blacks game circled Yeah, and so then they were
going to go get a taxi as well. So I
don't know, I could be wrong. So I just couldn't
imagine showing up to that airport without a plan.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
If you are flying on Friday afternoon from Wellington or
christ Church or Auckland and you're landing there, look out
for maybe myself or Richie Mo will be by the
barrack baggage carousel. We've got sixty seats going. We may
get our tires slash by the Dunedin taxi mafia because
that's how they run. But it's going to be a
great weekend. We're there what Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and we're
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also going to be doing a few flat drops around there.
We've got some Leader lasagna toppers and Southern Fried chicken
toppers and a few refreshments to give away as well.
So cruising up and down Castle Streets potentially and around
there the slums.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I wonder maybe someone could let me know. I
think Thursday night, well, at least when I was there
Thursday night with student night. So are we in the
school holiday and.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
There's the holidays. Yeah, yeah, there's but there is a
few people that stay down there. Not everyone departs, but
you don't if you want a prize pack anyway, with
like Snacker Changy Sports Scholarship, for example, you don't have
to be in donedan text chip to three two three
six because I've also got the Snack Changy Sports Scholarship
to give away, which is a bunch of Snacker Changy's,
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some refreshments and where bingea, watching sport is a sport
is what we're saying. So there you go get into it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Alrighty, let's take a quick break. When we come back,
we're going to get the voice of the round Ball
in New Zealand, Jason Pine, to run us down through
the Euros. Well, it's been spoken about quite a lot
on this podcast, lame that football can sometimes be a
little bit of a blind spot for us and our
Kelly's heel and Achilles heel. Yes, So to fill in
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that blind spot, we've brought on someone who knows all
about the round ball, Jason Pine. Good morning, Piney, how
are you mate?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah? Great, guys, thanks thanks for giving.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Us a call mate, Thank you for coming on because
you just basically rescue all of our credibility when it
comes to football. We gave it a stab last week.
We gave it a good, honest stab, and we absolutely
cocked it up by saying that Portugal got knocked out
by Georgia and that the Germany Denmark game was a
nothing game. But we did predict the score. It was
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two nil and one seven hundred bucks. So it's been
a roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, I look like a good redemption there at the end. Yes, good.
You have to say, though, betting on football is fraught
with theficulty, especially at tournaments like this, where you're always
going to get teams raising their game. You're going to
get the likes of Georgia. It wouldn't have never even
been to a major tournament actually, you know, pulling off
results like they did against Portugal, you'll get you know,
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supposed favorites Italy, you know, defending champions being knocked out
in the round of sixteen, So very very difficult to predict.
The cream does tend to rise to the top as
we get towards the Semis in the final, but yeah,
it wouldn't be a wouldn't be a major football tournament
without without a few upsets along the way.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, we just finished watching at the time recording this,
we just finished watching Portugal takeout Slovenia on penalties. Man,
that was a show of emotion from old Ronaldo because
I looked up from my desk and because I was
working quite hard smating ye and then I saw he
was crying in the huddle and I was like, oh,
did they lose? No, no, no, They've still got another
twenty minutes of footing to play and then they're going
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to penalties. I was like, what's going on here? It
just is he always like.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That, he's yeah, he's he's different, Old Christiana Ronaldo. I think, well,
the the backstory of it is he missed a penalty
in extra time, which would have in all likelihood have
given Portugal the win. The fact that he missed it
meant they went to a penalty shootout, during which he
actually scored his penalty, so he kind of redeemed himself.
But he knows, Cristiana Ronaldo that this is highly likely
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to be his last major tournament for Portugal. Watching now
thirty nine, unlikely he'll be at the next Football World Cup,
so this is probably it for him, and I guess. Yeah,
the tears that were flowing fairly freely were just a
shove of that emotion that you know, I've messed this up.
And I was going to say he was thinking I've
messed this up for my team, But really, when it
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comes to Cristiano Ronaldo, all he thinks about really is himself.
So I think he's crying because he's thinking I've missed
this up for myself. Thankfully, his teammates rallied around and
gotten through the penalty shootout there and they're onto the
next round.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, it was a resounding one in the end on penalties,
but I was just thinking, like, if you're going to
go back out there onto that football pitch and he's
your leader, absolutely balling his eyes out on the sideline,
so that doesn't fill you with confidence.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
It's a great point. And if you think to yourself, Okay,
what would Leonelle Messi do? Would he do that? Would
he be, you know, blubbering away in a you know,
in a in a team huddle, having having mister penalty.
I think what he'd probably do was, even if he
was feeling internally distraught, he'd say, right, I've got to
show some leadership here and go out there and make
sure that the next chance becomes along goes in the
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back of the net. So yeah, I mean Christiana Ronaldo.
I mean absolutely generational footballer. And there's always been the
Messi v Ronaldo debate. But yeah, if you're looking at
them as human beings, I think Messi is a lot
easier to like than Christiana Ronaldo is.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Well, absolutely, he's not. He's not has a bath of
fake tan and a suspiciously large Adam's Apple for a start.
So I'm a massive Messy fan. I've actually, I've actually
Metel Messi. Piney that I met him. I met him
in Abu Dhabi during the Football Club World Cup. He
was playing for bas Lona and he was playing in
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that rock star team that had pool in Esta and him,
and he was in the changing rooms and he was
a bit lost. I didn't know where he was going, and
I showed him where the changing room was, like he lost.
He's tiny, He's a small man, so.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
How what were you doing there?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I used to work for FIFA Pony. I used to
run the Football Club Club World Cup and the UEE
for two years.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
No, I mean hanging around the I mean hanging around
the changing room.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, I was in operations, so I basically a player
operations and stuff, so were and it was very comp
It was very complex at the time, Pony, because we
had a double hitter, so we had four teams all
in one corridor. And one of the teams was actually Auckland,
the Auckland Football Club, Auckland City and that I told
you about that and when I caught them ups afterwards
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after the games had finished, all queued up outside the
Barcelona changing room with merchandise to sign.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, just display of notes when it comes to that tournament. Yeah,
it's although we're the same as the World Cup. You know,
when Australia played Argentina, all of the Australian players afterwards
were queuing up to get messis you know, photo and signature.
You know, I've always wondered about that, you know. You
I know you're on the field, it probably goes off
to one side, But when you revere someone so much
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that you're desperate to get a selfie with them afterwards,
I'm just wondering whether your mind's fully on the job
when you're on football. I'm sure that it is.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I wasn't. I wasn't overly aware of how half the
players were to be honest at their time, So I
was probably quite useful in the back of house because
I had no idea who anyone was, so I wasn't
getting any selfies. I definitely knew who mess he was. Anyway,
back back on to the topic of the Euros. We're
getting to the quarter finals. We've got who have we
got in the quarters? We've got France? Are they? Are
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they playing Portugal now?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah? That's right? Yeah, yeah, France. Yeah, we're starting to
get some some matchups now which we can look forward to. Yeah,
so France bi Portugal. That's seven o'clock Saturday morning, the
game before that'll be worth getting up for. I think Sain,
Germany Spain have looked for me. I've looked the best
team at the Euros. Germany are the hosts and always
do well at tournaments, regardless of where they're being played.
So yes, Spain, Germany will be good, Portugal, France, then
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England and Switzerland, and we've still got one who want
to decide after the final round of sixteen matches tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And who I mean, obviously Spain you're looking at are
they probably looking the red hot favorites for you.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They're the best team I've seen there.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
The only thing is that they're on the side of
the draw that if they get past Germany then they
have to play the winner of Portugal France, so their
road to the final is quite tough. England, I just
noted before I came on with you guys at the
tab favorite sill, which is just crazy, given the fact
that they've been so poor during their four games here
so far. They've stumbled and bumbled their way through. They
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were thirty seconds away from going out against Slovakia and
they're around the sixteen match bicycle kicked from Jude Bellingham
got them level and then Harry Kin got the winner.
But they are on a more favorable side of the draw.
Having said that, anybody who plays England at the moment
I reckondacts themselves and the Swiss will be well up
for it on Sunday morning at four o'clock out time.
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I don't think they're going to roll over.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They seem to be a fairly well supported team over there.
Seems like the English fans have really gotten them behind
their team over there. Every time they pan around the crowd,
there's English fans everywhere, shirtless, banging on their drums. Are
they Are they one of the best traveled fandoms there.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, Look, it's interesting you say that they're certainly the
most there's I think probably more of them than any
other team, but I'm not sure that they're always necessarily
behind their team.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
One.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You might have seen some footage actually of a whole
bunch of English fans actually leaving the ground in the
round of sixteen. There one nil down, as I say,
against Slovakia, there's only a couple of minutes to go,
and some fans thought, no, bugger this, I'm out, And
just as they were leaving and being filmed by a
local news crew, you heard there's raw from the stadium
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that just exoded of Dude Bellingham's goal which got on level.
I've never been able to work out why people leave
a game early, regardless of the of the results or
whether your team's behind or whatever you just stated.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At the end, I think, yeah, I mean the beat.
Everyone wants to beat the traffic. Piney, at that point,
you are the traffic, because.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Actually none of those English fans are driving around Unich
or or whatever the hell they are. You know it's yeah,
I've never worked it out, but yeah, England well supported
their fans, are you know. I think there's there's less
and less of the of the real hardcore hooligan stuff
going on now, I think, I mean, there's a lot
of guys who have clearly seen the insides of a
(21:38):
lot of bars. But but yeah, they they turn out
and look they'll be they're in big numbers again when
they when they take on Switzerland, and whereas at Dusseldorf
on on Sunday outside this is.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
About the only point of the Euros where I get
really interested? Is that about the quarter final stage. I
was struggling through the pool play. Hence I was bumbling
my way through any updates on the g the podcast
and getting roundly abused by our faithful audience. Can you
see any any dark horses coming into those quarterfinals? Any
anyone we need to look out for? And I mean
you've got Austria, Turkey, Romania and Netherlands still to play.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, on those four. I mean, the Netherlands seem like
the one that will go through to the semi finals.
They'll get I would imagine they'll get past Romania. Okay,
i'd keep an eye on Turkey. I mean, their fans
are absolutely bonkers, completely mental, and often that flows onto
what they do on the pitch as well. So if
Turkey can get past Austria, they are pretty functional side,
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you know, and then come up against you know, Turkey
could beat England. Put it that way, they could at
this tournament. Anyone who's played England's a chance of beating them.
So yeah, so if you're looking for a dark horse,
probably Turkey. As to say, on the other side, guys,
I mean Spain, Germany, Portugal, France. We're talking football and
superpowers there so no dark horse to be found there.
So yeah, let's see what happens in the final round
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of sixteen matches tomorrow. But as I say it, usually
in tournament football, you know, you find that the really
top teams are the ones who are playing at the
business end.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
As a non football like a very casual football follower,
This one seems a lot bigger than the last, Like,
I don't remember people being this big into the Euros.
Is that a big part of that because last time
was during COVID or do you feel like this is
growing in popularity?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yeah, that's a really good question. It's like it's not
as big as a World Cup. You know, I think
people already wrap themselves into a World Cup because, as
the name would suggest, come through small around the world.
You know, these are teams that are all from the
same continent, and by and large a lot of them
play the same style of football, so you're not really
going to get too much in the way of the
contrast and styles. It's funny. I've like I normally and
(23:47):
I have this time as well. I normally watch every game,
but I've just found some of them to be just
a little bit shamey. And the time difference is tough.
I'm getting up at one in the morning and then
getting through to a four o'clock and then at seven o'clock.
That's not great for the sleep pattern. But look, there
are there are There are twenty four teams in the
in the tournament, which is more than they have had previously.
And what that's led to is third place teams in
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a group going through, and so I think that's probably
kept you know, more fans more interested for longer in
the tournament. Yeah around here, I mean, like I say,
you know, if you can get up at breakfast time
and watch football at just the seven o'clock game, for example,
that's a pretty friendly time to watch a game of
high quality sports. So maybe, you know, maybe more and
more people are taking advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Speaking of popularity, Pineer the All Whites Now, I said
something yesterday on the podcast and then I thought about
it and I thought, I wonder if I've got that right.
But obviously we took out the Oceania Nations Cup over
the weekend betting. Is it Vanowa two?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Have I read this right? But in the future, are
they opening up an automatic qualification from Oceania into the
FIFA World Cup?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Absolutely? Bang on, yep. It's because the World Cup itself
is increasing in size. The next one will be normally
the World Cup, or for the last few editions has
been the two teams. It's going to be forty eight
teams from the next one, and so in order to
get more teams, you open up more spots. Obviously, and
Oceannia has never had direct entry into the World Cup.
That's why we've always had these intercontinental playoffs, the bar
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Rain Ones, the most famous one. When we got through,
we've lost to Mexico, lost to Peru, lost to Costa
Rica last time. But now yes, so whoever wins the
Oceanian Nations Cup immediately before the World Cup will gain
direct entry into the World Cup. So really it's a
bit of a it's a bit of a lay down
these for the all whites. Really, they are far and
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away the best team in Oceannia. All of their players
are professionals, you know. The island sides are you know,
are you know? They're really a long way below there
are very few professional players in the Islands. They're just
did this local club players? Really? So so yeah, New
Zealand's path to the World Cup the next one and
everything beyond that looks a lot clearer. So yeah, I
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feel like the agenda needs to needs to start booking
tickets to Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Absolutely well, we're going to have to maybe scale up
on our knowledge, but so let's to bring it with us, pony,
Yeah a piney. Is there any chance that Australia can
Flippans decide to go back to Oceania and move away
from Asia.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I don't think they will now, you know, they're they're
actually I mean the move to Asia has been good
for their the quality of their football and actually ever
since they move, they've made the World Cup every time,
so there's no real reason for them to come back.
And of course with more with more teams, they're actually
more spots through Asian Hour as well. So yeah, I
don't think they will. Yeah, they they I think they'll leave.
(26:41):
They'll leave it. They'll leave it to New Zealand to
be the big fish in this pond. What it does do, though,
is it it kind of puts to bed any thoughts
that New Zealand might join the Asian Confederation, which I
think from a football sense would have been great for
our football. But why would we go somewhere now where
we know we've got direct the entry to World Cups
where we are. I think they'll probably just, you know,
just just stay put and battle away against the island
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nations and probably make every World Cup from now until
the end of time.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I'd rather do that anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't, but I wouldn't put a past the Aussies. No,
I wouldn't put it past them. I wouldn't put a part.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Of them another to form when it comes to the
sort of.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, absolutely, and some of the news out of the
Phoenix another Phoenix player has been signed over to Europe.
Sara Hight.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, Ben Old. Yeah, this news will be confirmed
in the next couple of days. As I understand it.
He had a terrific season. It's a name to remember, guys,
he has. I think I first saw Ben Old play
when he was about about sixteen years old in the
Phoenix Academy. And you know, when you see anyone play
any sport, you think, oh, that kid's got a bit
about him, and you wonder whether they'll go on with it.
(27:43):
And I've always sort of followed Ben Old's career for
the last six or seven years. Absolutely tremendous for the
Phoenix last season and yet picked up by a French club,
Saint Etien. They'll be I've just been promoted back into
the top flight in France, so that Ben Old makes
that team, he will be playing in the top French league.
He's off to the Olympics, so I get the feeling
(28:04):
we'll just go to Paris for the Olympics and then
probably just stay put and join his new club over there.
So yeah, another one we know, Alex Paulson. Of course
we've talked about him, the goalkeeper who's off to the
Premier League. So yeah, great to see these young key
weekids coming through the Phoenix and then going on to
bigger and brighter and better things.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It sounds like the round balls and a healthy spot
here at least in New Zealand. And Yeah, as I
said before, I feel like everyone at the moment is
off to a pub at about four o'clock in the
morning to watch the Euros. At the moment, we'll have
to get you on. I think we've got what two
more weeks yet of the Euros, Pony.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We'll have to get you on throughout there to keep
us updated because as we know, we are less than
updated here on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So I tell what I have done, Thoman and Piney.
I've put one hundred bucks on twelve and a half
corners or more in the Romanian Netherlands game. I love
aw you bet on corners?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yeah yeah, well look, I mean absolutely no rationale behind it,
but I like the way.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Is that your own money or has that come out
of our pop no comment? Okay, all right, thank you
very much for your time this morning, Pony. Enjoy your
football over the next couple of weeks, mate.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah, take an easy boys.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Thanks yours please, brought to you by Leader Home of the.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Huge.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Thank you to Jason Pine for joining us on a
Tuesday morning. It is time for yours. Please let's just
rip straight into it. First call here yours please.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Good a fellas. It's Mike Hunt here. I have a
bit of a ethical Well no, it's actually just a
logistical dilemma. I've got a very close friend's thirtieth birthday
which coincides with the All Blacks game, and I'm just
wondering how the fuck do I get out of that
(29:46):
so I can just watch the footy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Help me? Please?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Wow, there's several ways you can do this, Mike Haunt. Well, Hunt,
you could still go to the thirtieth, can't you? Or
does he want to go to the actual footy? What
does he want to watch it? Because if you just
wants to watch it, you can just turn up late.
You can just say you've got something on and turn
up at nine o'clock. As opposed to.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Sex, I'd need to know a bit more about the thirtieth.
How big is this due going to be? Because my
initial thought was just invite him to the footy. But
if he's got family and it's a whole thing. Yeah,
then that's probably gonna ruin it. I don't think anyone
would be opposed to at their thirtieth putting the game on.
I presume it's going to be at a venue that
would have screens.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Or you just stick it on your skysport.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Now, yeah, on your phone. That is a little bit
anti social. Although I went out for dinner on Saturday
night and at the restaurant, three different tables were watching
the Warriors yep, on their phones.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I hope you went over and changed it to Skysport nine.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh no, they're only phones.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I mean, yeah, you can go over there and just
go hey, mate Brown, each of the my phones, go
back to the menu and then go digo.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's better. I will generally, if I'm following a game,
I'll just check the scores. I won't have the game
going if I'm in that kind of situation. But I
why you could just chuck it on the screen.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Surely the other option is we can give mister hunt
here a prize, so you can say I've won a
trip to the footy thing with the acc I got
to go to that.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Okay, all right, Well, then, without any further ado again,
I'd just like to clarify this is something we do
from time to time. This is not a real prize.
But Mike, not you, but the other one. Pause podcast.
Now go and get maybe clip this and send it
to your mates so that he can be like, oh no,
all right, all right, Lane, Well it is time to
(31:38):
give away flights and tickets to the All Blacks game
this weekend in Dunedin. And we've had millions of interest
from around the world. And the winner, without any further ado,
is Mike Hunt. Congratulations, Mike, clear your schedule, mate, whatever
(31:58):
your head on, Bennett, whatever you had planned ye for
your weekend, you're gonna have to scrap that, mate, because
we are sending you to the All Blacks game in Dneden.
Well done, Come down and say gooday to us at
the Kensington beforehand.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
There you go, that you, Mike.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I always want to say for you and a mate,
but then I feel like I'm probably stitching them up
because then whoever they send the thing to it. Oh
why don't you say me?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I just to mate anyway, it's just a single.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There you go, mister Hunt. Hey, look, we're just making
dreams happen here on the podcast. Another call here, you're spits.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Yeah, get a mary, first time call, a long time
listener on your ultimate Australian sports Events. Adlaid for the
Lions versus Commonwealth fifteen is a goodie. But get over
there for the live golf.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh yeah, it's very reasonable.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Fifteen hundred bucks or something for entury.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
It all you can drink.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Come on, I think it maybe even been there six
hundred bucks anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, great, great, I agree. I totally overlooked that live golf.
Adelaide at won the best live event globally. I can
mellon up at the Herald went and he said it was.
He said it was loose and great fun. So yeah,
you're right. I will flag that end Zach Lions game
and Code of the liv.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, I've heard Adelaide's actually quite cool.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's got a lot better. I went twenty odd years
ago and it was rough. Yeah, and then I went
during the Pinkball test and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, one point three million people.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
It's great. And you've got the Barossa Valley, you've got
McLaren Vale, you got your Whiny. The Adelaide Oval is
next level after their renovations. It's great. I really enjoyed Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
My concern with a fifteen hundred dollars entry fee and
free purse is that that fifteen hundred dollars then becomes
a target because you have to drink fifteen hundred dollars
worth of piss to feel like you've won that situation.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, I think that's is that for a corporate area,
because that's quite dangerous that all you can eat and drink,
yeah scenarios. I'd rather get access and maybe just cheap drinks,
you know, and then there's to be a transaction for me.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Right, I want to control my consumption because otherwise you
just feel like you've You've just got to go health
for leather. Otherwise you feel like you're getting ripped off.
It's like if you've ever stated a hotel.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Where you drinks her included, like an all inclusive package
or never done that. Even a flight, oh yeah, flight
where you're like other serving pass and I sit there
and I'm like, yeap, can I grab a beer? And
they ask my messas if she wants anything, She goes no, thanks,
I'm all good. I'm like, you're kidding me? You want
a beer? What are we doing? Here. But the problem
with that is they have her seat marked down. Is
she's got Celia, she can't have so they're like, oh,
(34:33):
so you you got Celia and you're gonna drink a beer,
are you? I don't think they give a ship. But
to be fair, that one kills me. But yeah, the
fifteen hundred dollars, that's a target for me. But anyway,
we should go to live as long and short of that.
Another call here you please.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Hi boys, I'm just wanting to point out that you
may well have your facts wrong. If the All Blacks
are located currently, it is in here a tonguel and
Upper Hunt, not Lower Hunt. Just come on, simple ship,
get it right?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Oh God, the Heart Valley?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Can we not?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Can we not get into a debate about the Heart
Valley and the geopolitics of Haut Valley.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
We want to steer clear of regional politics.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Especially the Heart Valley at letast just say they're training
in Eastbourne. That'll really wind them up.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's a troubled pass that they've got there in the
Heart Valley. Yeah, they're the North and South Korea of
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
They are, and they quite happily build it. The military
zone through it are.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, genetically indistinct from one another, but culturally and I've
heard widespread famine and upper hut That's what I'm hearing.
And nuclear arms anyway, another caller here, yours please?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yes, Fellows a thought on that.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
You know, instead of shitting on you for getting something wrong,
you've got the bust. But right in a class four
in a p endorsement.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
There you go in.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
This one's for you and I fuck the Wye Hadow.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Subrobert Championship you don't have.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So I mean again as a compliment, and then it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'm hoping that's going to catch on because you know
everyone's been signed off South Canterbury is it doesn't have
to be South Canterbury. Don't limit yourselves. You can go
wherever you want.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
So it'll meet the heart Valley now little not the
caller here? Oh you get a loving the Formula one redcap.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Thank you. Fellows.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Should do a little highlights episode every week, fucking quick montage.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
You've already got all the nicknames down packed just for
the motorsports.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
You know, I didn't mind the round ball blue balls
with all those over balls.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
You look Van strap On, he's obviously he's going to
take this one out. I mean, this is my goal
call her in the end of the year is to
convert and I out of the Motor Games, move him
on from motor games and into motor sport.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I need to find a driver I can let you onto.
I think.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah, Orlando Norris is good. I like him.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, Orlando Kelrazion, Yeah, I don't mind him.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's not bad. He's you know, he can't.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Go Daniel Rotardo.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
No, you can't go Retardo, especially when he's occupying the
seat that Liam Lawson needs to be in. Yeah. Big
schnozer big.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Otherwise a very good looking man. I think he's got
that thing where, you know, a good perfume has to
have that little hint of like a bad smell about it.
He's got that look to him. It's like he's a
very handsome, good looking man with just like an odd
looking nose, which I actually think makes him hotter, which
makes me hate him more.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, and you've got Charlot Claire, who's the hardest man alive.
He makes He's been responsible for a vast change in
the demographs. So who's watching the Formula one Charlotte Clerk Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's the other part of Formula one at least, is
that it's unrelatable for me. I don't know how hard
it is any of the stuff that they're doing. It's
like when we commentated the Jesse Well's Invitational last year.
It may shock you to know I actually didn't know
any of the moves that I was commentating, And it
may shock you know that you don't ski, you have seeding.
(37:45):
I cannot ski, And so I was looking at them
and I was like, I don't know, is that hard
to do? Because I've just seen five guys do like
quadruple flips in a row and the like, Yeah, no,
that is like one of the hardest things in the
world to do. You're watching the best people in the world.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Luckily we had Lee with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, who
knew exact calling the scream and semens left right and
send it.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Akaya Satan Whoppercock he was. He was I think the
two time winner of the World Guitar the Guitar Competition
under the pseudonym Satan Whoppercock.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, and he played in a giant Pallas costume and
at the top of the e guitar riff, yogurt would
fly out in a pneumatic gun out of the top
of the phelic costume into the crowd, and I think it.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Went haywire because he had no way of testing it
beforehand because it was like a one shot yeah costume,
and so he's like, I can't have a dry run
of this. We're just going to go for it on
a note. And I think it just exploded at a meltdown.
We need to get on the podcast at some point,
but yeah, I think maybe maybe a motor Game's recap.
I don't know. I feel like we're waiting into the
same territory we are with the round ball.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yeah. Look, I mean, just going back just a few
seconds to ed Lee, we should probably talk to him
about the Olympics because he commentates the skateboarding and the
skatepark stuff, which is really interesting. In the Olympics Member
last time and was it Tokyo fourteen year old kid
one gold and some of the meanest tricks, And they'll
go and they're just listening to the ear pods and
it'll be passing off every boomer known to man to
(39:13):
watch that. Yeah, and the Olympics and there's a kid
honors ear pods just completely oblivious to the world and
then just throws down in the street park So maybe
we've talked to him about that.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah. Absolutely, I'm going to introd into the break dancing
all right. That'll do us for today. That's the last years.
Please feel free to fire and more and we'll get
around to those tomorrow as well as another half baked
sports idea. We will see you then.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
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