November 11, 2024 • 26 mins
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ACC Head G Lane joins Manaia Stewart to discuss Manaia's golfing trip with Jason Hoyte and an update on the Alker-Holics as Steve Alker wins $2.18 Million! Plus, the NRL rule change that could do away with players coming off the back fence (0:00)...
Then the fellas react to footage of an EPL ref slagging off Jurgen Klopp (11:46) and Liam Lawson ruffling more feathers in F1 (16:25).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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This is the Agenda Podcast. Well Tuesday, the twelfth of November.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting Nonsense and clap Trap,
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Very good morning to g Lane. Morning. How's it all gone?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good, very good. I haven't seen you since the weekend. Yeah,
since the rugby on Saturday morning. A game?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah, so good, so good to call that game scrappy game.
I mean you would have discussed it yesterday, but it
was just so good to just see them wilt like
a kind of dying four leaf clover.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
This crowd was silent for the last twenty minutes. Can
hear a pin drop?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
The first ten minutes of the second half, I was like,
oh shit, the crowd were going nuts. They scored that
try and then they just shet the bed and it
was great to watch. And it was great to see
Rikoe Yuanni's post put it in the put that in
the book with a picture of him celebrating.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I love it. I love that kind of stuff.
It's all great for rugby d I'm gonna be honest,
I said it yesterday. But despite the fact that what
do we scored one try? It was called one Yeah
we did. It was still a very entertaining game to watch.
And I have been advocating to take the posts off
the field for quite a while, but it was quite
entertaining to watch the I likened it yesterday to like
(01:16):
a rowing race where the tips of the bunts just
go back and forth, and that's how it went for
that whole game. There was enough tension in it throughout
anyone could win, anyone could lose.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It was a bit I mean it was.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The first half wasn't pretty to watch that nine to
six half time was a bit scraped like they got
I mean nick Berry. I don't know if it's a
different different rules, I don't know around internationals, but nick
Berry was very loose on the rack and then coming
around off side and kicking it all away, and pour
Cortes that our team I had a shitter of the
first half he did running backwards the whole time. So
(01:47):
that was something that potentially France will be looking at,
i'd say, and seeing it as potentially a week a
week area.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
But also maybe an opportunity for us to go at DuPont. Yeah, totally.
It just got the lidding go. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Well I suppose it depends on the referee, but yeah,
And we squandered a few chances in that first half
which I think we could have had a bigger lead
than that. And I was a bit nervous at half
time when we were on the call with Maconis, I
was like, this is exactly what the Irish want. A
little tight, little armorystole tense, kick a penalty in the
last ten minutes and just hit the crowd to get
behind them and then just just knuckle up and defend. Yeah,
(02:21):
but getting out to their ten point lead and just
watching them shit the bed, that is it. Frawley, the
replacement fly half first five came on at absolute shit
of the ginger dude.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, dropped two absolute goobers and you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Can see them just falling apart up that That's what
I liked as well.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was like, oh, we're not the all blacks of old.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The mystique, the aura, the intimidation factors gone suck on
that well fucking it was.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It was there for the last ten minutes. Yeah, and
as I said on Herdeckey breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yes, so good, foot on the throat of the zombie
and then double tap in the middle of the head
is so good.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yes. So that's Irish rugby done for it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, and just the heads up that the Super Rugby
squads being submitted to the league today, which means that
they'll put their press releases out as well.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So is this are they doing it staggered again?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes, they are right so right now at the time
recording this will coming up to ten o'clock so the
first time, which I think is the Highlanders will release
their one. I don't I'm not predicting any big changes,
although I did forget that Ardie Saviez going to one
in pacifica.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, well that's the big That's probably the biggest news
of the squad announcements, isn't it really?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And we already know Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I mean, if that's saved it up to the squad announcement,
that would have been juicy.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And a great way to own the off season as well. Yeah,
but anyway, but anyway, yeah, who knows.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
There's never any player movement in Super Rugby.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And if there is that significant all black movement, it's
known about well in advance. Yeah, like the body Barrett
move and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
There was even get nearly enough shit button Barrett for that. Yeah,
and also but.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It was never released in this one and the squad announcements.
It was a separate press conference, separate set.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Of calms anyway, So that tells you that no one
else is moving. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I don't think there's no major movements whatsoever. There's probably
just a few young players coming up up and coming
through in PA see that potentially got the call up. Yeah,
and that's really about it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah. So yeah, we'll break those down tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Set there's any big changes, I can't imagine that there
would be. Over the weekend, I played golf with Jason Hoot.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
How was that? It was? It was good?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Now did he fall apart by hole twelve? Yeah, he
did fall apart.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, his pans.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He's got such dangerously skinny legs. He hates wearing shorts. Yeah,
so he's in pans and yeah, he was in pants.
He obviously in pants because he hates getting his pans
out because they are There's not a lot there. No,
there's not a lot holding up that barrel chest in
upper body. So i'd imagine after twelve that those legs
would be ready to go.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Did you give me a cart or anything? Well, no,
we didn't give him a cup.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
With another mate as me, Chris Jase and another mate
of our Sam, who had never met Chase before, and
off the like seventh t is just like so.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Also got the pants man.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's pretty hot out here, while you were advanted because
you haven't seen my legs.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Mate, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And then on the at the turn mate Sam got
a cart. Everyone's giving him ship. But by whole ten
or eleven, Jase was just in all sorts, like as
one side of his back was sore that one of
his hips had gone. It was just his and pieces.
But he played well enough and not to toot my
own horn. But I played the round of my life
the greatest score I've ever hit, ninety four.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh shit, that's it. That's okay, I mean I.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I Anything under one hundred for me is a went
same same here.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The disheartening thing for me is that I hit I
lost two balls and I hit a tree once, so
there's three strokes I could get back. I can't see
how I could get under ninety as good as I
could possibly play even if I took those three strokes back,
I'm still running one, so I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Speaking of work, well, that's good practice for the ACC
Open that's coming up at Port Hockey end of January.
Still places available. Text golf to three two, three six
and get in there quick because there's only there is
only I think thirty teams available in that and it
sounds out pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
She's a fun afternoon, She's a great afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But yeah, my point was I was in the form
of my life and I felt what it felt like
to be in the zone and heading everything purely, which
is a feeling that I know is shared by Steve Alka,
who did the exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's a seaguet by the.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Way, I thought my segway into the promo was good,
but you, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Could have done without because I was trying to get somewhere.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
But yeah, well I didn't know you were going to Alka,
so I could have gone to the end.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's the rundown.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But Steve Alka won two point one eight million dollars
after claiming the overall season title on the PGA Champions Tour.
The fifty three year old finished second in the season
ending Charles Schwarp Cup at Phoenix Country Club and Phoenix today.
More importantly, he finished ten shots clear of South African
Ernie Els, who went into the event holding the lead
(06:45):
in the season standing, so he obliterated him. Suck on that. Yes,
it's did enough to win the title for the second
time in three years. And the alcoholics couldn't be couldn't
be happy it. We need to release the mercha. We
put a call out the other week for put someone
to draft it up. I've had to crack myself. It's
almost there, It's almost there.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I'm like, I'm a functioning alcoholic. I'm functioning alcoholic. I'm
all in. I'm all in for the next season. I
think we need to go on tour with him. If
he's got an Australian league.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Also that that course that Charles Schwab the final course
was at Phoenix Country Club. That's where the waste management.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Is, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's in Phoenix, Phoenix, so it must be the same.
They've probably got loads of great clubs, haven't they true?
But yet is the Phoenix the waste management open?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But yeah, we need to get over there. We need
to get the merch bad. So I'm working on drafting
up the thing. But if anyone out there is handy
on the tools, whip us up a logo for the alcoholics,
because we need to get over there and support them.
In fact, to be honest, Steve should be bloody, he
should be funny.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
They should be footing the bill fower. Yeah, well he's
not on social disease. He's thinking of the old Guard, isn't.
He doesn't give a shit. He'ss taking a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Is he still living in Hamilton?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He lives in I believe he lives in Phoenix. Oh,
I think he lives somewhere in the States. Oh okay,
because the guy that interviewed him afterwards said, oh, will
you'll be having a few beers tonight?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He said, yeah, we'll have a couple. We'll live a couple. Okay.
He would have got maggot him in the alcoholics. Just
quickly before we go to the break.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Rugby League is looking at trialing a new rule in
twenty twenty five by punishing teams for long kickoffs. So
following a spate of head injuries from collisions as players
return kickoffs off the back fence, the league is set
to take drastic action. The wide world of sports has
been told that any team that starts to play with
a kickoff that goes into the twenty metal line on
(08:38):
the full will concede a seven tackle set.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I see.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So if you catch it in gol or in between
the twenty and the try line, you get seven tackles
instead of six. And so the idea of being that
every kickoff will be short.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, everyone's going to aim for the pretty much the
goal line now, yeah, because if you can tackle them
within the twenty that's another six tackles.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And if they're trying to get rid of it, like
just start with the tap and go on the halfway line. Yeah,
I've just been the kickoff altogether. Yeah, this isn't really
doing anything because the next thing that's going to happen
is if they go short and everyone's contesting them, someone's
going to fall on their neck and then they're going
to ban kickoffs all together.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's just fucking little.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I'm surprised that people don't use the posts more on
kickoffs because I think it at the post. Kick it
at the post because you've got there's so much interference there.
It could hit the crossbar, it could hit the post,
it could hit the you know, could go out on
the fall. Well, nah, I think if you're a good
enough kickout and you've been doing it long enough, you
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know how to drop it just before the posts or
because it's just creates the natural hazard of the air
of a bit confusion.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
But they always kick it off to the side. Yeah,
let some prop come off the back fence.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
There are some half backs will kick it off the pads,
you know when they're about five to ten meters out,
which you're right, it's fucking chaos.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, total create more chaos.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And the kickoff Yeah, but you're right up and go
make some formal sense, because I can't see clubs going,
oh okay, I'm going to land it before the twenty Now,
they're not going to do that, nah, because they're going
to that that first tackle will potentially be closer to
the kind of forty meter line. Yeah, and then they've
got another five tackles, whereas if you've got six and
you're back in the twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Two, like, yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't really sick out.
It doesn't. It's not a big enough to turn.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Also, most teams are giving away six again anyway off
the first tackle because that like, funck, what does it
matter to us?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
If it slows the ball down and gets our boys
back into play, Yeah, it's a they're getting a bit
like rugby union. Yeah, they're bringing in rules for real sake,
and I don't know. Yeah, And they cited like one dude,
Moses Sully, who got knocked out last last year. It's like,
yeahs are going to get knocked out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's a collision sport, you know. And what so what
are they going to say?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
So when a what about when a kick, just a
normal clearance kick comes and the fullback hits it up,
that's right?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah is that? What are they gonna do there?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You're not allowed to tackle because what you don't want
it to get to is the point that the NFL's at,
which looks ridiculous at the moment when they kick off.
So they kick off and the defenders have to stay
stationary until the ball is caught, and then the runner
has to either take a knee and call the playover
or if he starts to run, then the defenders are
(11:16):
allowed to start. It's this weird like game of candlesticks.
Maybe you used to play candlesticks. Yeah, you have to
stand still and then you can tag them. That's what
it looks like, and it just ruins the game. So yeah,
keep keep an eye up for that. We'll see what's
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Has gone soft?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Game game has gone soft. There's been it's been a
ridiculous leak out of the EPL. That's footage of a
referee talking about a game. We're going to play that
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Speaker 4 (12:07):
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Speaker 3 (12:22):
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
You may never get an academic scholarship. And look, I
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Great weekend. They're all heading off to Pearl Jam on
the Friday night, so they got stuck into the chips
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Speaker 3 (12:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So the EPL, now, now you see like you've been too.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Long with Jason Hoyt of now now I've got him
on as Mike.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It just happens and ugust league referee has been suspended
after a video on social media appeared to show him
making derogatory remarks about former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klop.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
We have the audio for you will play it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Now what would you say, why would you say that
klop was to come e accuse me of lying and
then just all right, fucking pop on me.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And I've got no interest in speaking to somebody who's
fucking arrogant.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So but oh my god, assure me, come front me.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So that's David Coat, who has been suspended immediately as
you can imagine, ending investigation.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
The poor dude.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And I feel bad for him because whenever this thing happens,
you know, they asicously.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I feel like he has an official stance on these things.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, put the fucking phone away.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's a video as well.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So he's got a mate who's probably now a former mate, yes,
is videoing him. He's obviously asking me a question that
that seems to me a conversation over a beer with
no phones. He's a German, can't what are you doing
with the video?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And so that's sitting side by side David Court and
his mate and they're filming like selfie, yeah, filming themselves.
But it gets much worse because have a listen to
the second part where he talks about, hey, please don't
post us anywhere. Long story short, en clops have come
Liverpool are or fucking bllains and we hate scouts. That
(14:26):
was I don't just be clear that fucking last video
can't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Seriously, he's a.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Promar league referee.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Let's not let us not fucking ruin his career.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Like, let's face it, we're good blows, but.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We can't ruin a blow's career.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well you did, yeah, you did so obviously he set
that into a group chat, and see into a football
group chat.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's not you can't trust any chats. No, because someone
said that to another chat and goes, hey, don't spread this,
but in that chat there's some a holes they've got
no skin in the game, and I'll spread it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, because every step further removed they give less and
less of a ship.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
What of course they're going to say that, man, disheartens me.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You can't send it to someone else to be like, hey,
don't send this to people. You just fucking sent it.
Put the phone away. It was almost seemed like entrapment
as well. It was like leading the witness like hey,
what do you think? What do you think about this?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Blah blah blah, And they sounded pretty steamed and they
would wasted.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah, I justo dude, Like, I don't know how you
get out of that because obviously said it it's video,
but then your mates fuck.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, I think it's pretty tough. That's prob.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Do you think that's the end of that ref It'll
be hard to put him out there to referee, you know,
a game against someone that he's slacked off.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And also imagine if he ever played Loverpool. Yeah, refree Liverpool.
You don't often have a crowd bang for a referee,
blood and songs about the ref but he's done. Yeah,
because if it's any game actually he goes out, Yeah,
he's just going to get like I mean, there will
be some people who will probably chant an agreement to him,
(16:11):
but you can clop be in a German cump. Yeah,
and there will be chance against you, but they're on
the flip side. You don't want the referee to start
taking center state of phones away, man, the fucking phones away.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Lenhamlilsen, This actually came out yesterday, but I wanted to
talk about it with you. He has called it completely
bullshit that God Save the King was played by McLaren
at podium finishers, arguing God Defend New Zealand would better
honor Bruce McLaren.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Do you agree with him? I kind of do, you know?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
But it is a British company now though it is
one hundred percent owned by British investors. But the name McLaren,
it was founded by Bruce McLaren, the most kew of kiwi's.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Of all names, fucking Bruce.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Bruce McLaren, born in Auckland, owned Upland Motors with his
dad work there in Rimi era. Yeah, it's interesting because
I never knew. I didn't know that they played God
Save the Queen neither. But it does seem like a
bit of a dick shrinker for a team that is
named after and founded by a Kiwi.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And I would understand it if it was like an
international competition if you're racing for your country.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Done not so who gives a ship? Yeah? And do
they so? Red Bull? Is that Austrian? Is it? When
the Austrians win? I mean Red Bull ones?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Is that an Austrian company? Yeah? Oh yeah? Or is
it because Red Ball are based in Milton Keynes? Do
they play that? I don't know. A stormy it's a
is it an ownership thing?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Ferrari is Italian one of us that yeah, you could
be right, and then you've got Alpine, which is French,
which is yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You play Lemon and Cest when they were But do
you know what?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm loving that that Liam Lawson's getting the headlines for
the right reasons because I can't imagine any Kiwis that
wouldn't agree with them.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, no one, or they should play described not many
when they will. I think Bruce would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Well, I mean he'll have to sit up there and
listen to the Austrian nationally an them when Red bullwins.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, doorsche Lind Barrells go on, I love her. He's
just getting stuck in.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He's not He's not going to go down quietly because
it must be fucking intimidating going over into that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You've got twenty of the most.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Biggest egos driving the fastest cars in the world and
he's gone over and just couldn't give a ship.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's got it be.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
The only way that you could do it, you'd have
to just go on is like fuck these guys.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, otherwise my friends they're not.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Otherwise you would you get overawed. Yeah, but if you
go in there and be like you guys are so old.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
It's over for you guys. Get out of the way.
I'm going to come and win every day. Yeah, Alonso,
you're a boomer. Get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Give him the fingers to Sergio Peri's Yeah, saying to
the McLaren grow up, you're a founder by a kiwi
and then put the ships up here as well as
an older driver like this guy's in Mainy. Because they
didn't say that he's dangerous. It was like whatever, Yeah
fucking young. What he is is young.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's got no fear. Yeah, that's it used to be
like that, mate.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, there would be a great comeback in the press.
Come you used to be like that fan. You used
to be good and watch.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But now all of a sudden, the bills are all
in your name. You're worried about chresh in your car. Yeah,
it's changed everything.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The New Zealand Cup is on later on today down
there in Eddington. It is one of the later races
of the round. I've got the actually got the odds
in front of you there, lanes Wazy Patrick Swayze is
your favorite. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
The dingo, the dingo.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They're coming over to steal another one of our babies
because it's a big the biggest harness race in New
Zealand harness racing. For those you don't know, it's the
one where you have a driver sitting in a in
a kind of a cherry area. And the greatest thing
about that is, you know, because jockeys need to be small, athletic,
and they're always dangerously skinny and dehydrated and got high
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pitched voices and there's a certain but a driver of
a Trots can be pretty much anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Nicole Jokis from the NBA drives, say, and some of
the dudes that driver you're like, look like they've come
straight out of the pub jumped onto the bag and
I'm honest, it.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Looks wow, way more dangerous. Yeah, bet in those things
because I've seen some accidents where they just get flown
flipped over the top of the head of the horse
and then you get run over by the horse and
the chariot.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's right, if you yeah, if you hear about someone
getting a horrific injury, it is generally those all steeple chases.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. So but Big Day in Canterbury
is huge day off. Students have finished exams when I
was down there for my three years.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That was loose as a ghost. That was that was
targeted that day.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So if you count from November, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June,
July is nine months from now.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And we've noted on.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
This podcast before that there were four Cantabrians I believe
in the office, all born in July. I've got two
kids born in July, but the first one you went
to Canterbury University.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
The first one, though, was a Rugby World Cup baby.
When we won the Rugby World Cup in twenty eleven.
He was born nine months later in July twenty twelve.
It was a celebration. That's Richie mccaul's baby.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Should have called him Richie.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Speaking of names, there's some great ones in this manga,
which by all accounts as a very handy horse.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm in with my it's good viye punt. Yeah,
it's a fourth highest odds, the lowest odds rather still fourteen's.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, there is a horse by the name of Republican
Party coming off a massive win last week over from
the States.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
How apt is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And then American Me and Beach ball rounding out the field.
But anyway, we don't know bugger all about horses, so
we need to call in the big guns. Somebody that
does know a little bit more about horse racing and
is down there at the track is Greg O'Connor. He's
a spokesman for Eddington Race Race, so he joins us
right after this. Well, it's a great honor and privilege
(21:50):
for the Agenda Podcast to have live at the track.
Eddington spokesman and legend of the racing industry, Greeg O'Connor
joins us. Now Greek for all. How's it all going?
I imagine you're running around with your hero on fire
this morning.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yeah, a little bit like that night. But it's a
great occasion. Cup week inch and every year littlone cup
by itself, so yet always always look forward to it.
One hundred and twenty first running of our greatest race.
It's for a million dollars and obviously we've got plenty
of Australian interests this year too, so it all adds
up to a pretty important and special day.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Gregors g lane here can he talks to us through
the conditions down to christ It's the picture borders it's sunny.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What's the what are we looking at?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Yeah, beautiful fine day, bit of a cool breeze at
the moment. Well, we hope that abates a little bit.
Tracks in unbelievable condition. John Denton and his son Jeff,
they've done an incredible job. They relayed the surface about
six months ago and then about six weeks ago they
put two hundred ton of sand and chip on it.
So it's unbelievable for the horses. When you're standing out
(22:51):
on the track, you can hardly hear them even touching
the ground. And that sort of cushion just allows the
horses to bounce off it. They feel good about life. It,
joints don't get too sore, and they're able to run
up to their absolute optimum.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You mentioned the Australians coming over here, Swayze, he's.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
The favorite this week.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Did I see his trainer talking a bit of shit
earlier this week saying that they're coming over to win
the whole thing?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You totally heard that, And that's exactly what he said
last year as well, when bug of me if he
didn't front up and do the same, do the job,
and then he gets the same barrier this year and
obviously leap to fame doesn't get here, so his younger
half brother would have given him plenty to think about,
but unfortunately he had to pull out. And Swayzey's the favorite.
Mind you, We've got a couple of superstar key Weis
(23:35):
to take him on this year.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Who are some of those superstar Kewis coming into this
dress today?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Grow Merlin's the pin up boy of the North and
he's trained by master trainer Barry Purdon, who has all
won a Cup for thirty years. He's won it four times.
He trained alongside his legendary father, the late Roy Purdon.
Chokin was the name of the horse that won in
nineteen twenty three, So yeah, he's overdue to win my
and he's got Zachary Butcher doing the driver, and Zach's
(24:03):
a real talent. He's terrific on and off the track
and when you see him out there, he sits beautifully
in the cart. He's the son of David who won
the Cup in two thousand and eight and there's only
been a couple of father son combinations go on and
win a New Zealand Cup as a driver, so yeah,
it could be a special day. For him, But Merlin's
form has been exceptional. He won the Ashburt and Flying States,
a traditional key lead up race for this and he's
(24:25):
had the wood over his age group rival. Don't stop dreaming.
Who's driven by Blair? Orange. Blair is a former junior
Kiwi so he's a really talented sportsman. He's now six
time premiership winning driver. He'll make it seven at the
end of December as well. So that clash between those
two drivers alone is something that I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Oh yeah, okay, I'm going to get on. I'm getting
on Merlin. Greg. It's a beautiful day. You sit down
there in christ Church.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
It's a big occasion for all of cannab ever and
gets the day off. How how many people are you
expecting to cut loose at Addington today?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Look, we're budgeted basically around the fifteen thousand mark. That's
about all we can get here now. Since those bloody
earthquakes kicked in two and eleven, we had to take
down a public stand which used to fit about six
and a half thousand, and so that certainly curtailed the
numbers that we can have here. In saying that it
condenses the crowd and our corporates have been seld out
(25:21):
for over six weeks, so you know, Canterbury's party day.
It's a day to get the glad rags on, have
a crack at the best dress competition and enjoy the
wonderful occasion that is Cup Day at Addington.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And just boy, let you run off and get your
fascinator in place, Greg, have you got a tip a
few gun to your head?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Who do you think takes this one out today?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Look?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I think Merlin's had the perfect preparation, so I want
a key we victory, So yeah, I'll probably go for him,
but sways he's going to take all sorts of beating
and breaking guys. The best bet of the day that
was called a hooker. Connor goes round and race number four.
He's number fourteen. He's a really smart pacer. He actually
could have been in the Cup, but he likes the
mobile starting he gets there today, so six backs. That
(26:02):
will do me and I'm pretty sure it'll do you
as well.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We'll do me.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Lane's already on his placing it as you're saying it beautiful, brilliant,
Thanks very much, Greg, Will let you get on with
you day.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Thanks for joining us, Yeah, no problem, but all have
a great day. Cheers that you've been listening to.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Very good morning to g Lane. Morning. How's it all gone?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good, very good. I haven't seen you since the weekend. Yeah,
since the rugby on Saturday morning. A game?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah, so good, so good to call that game scrappy game.
I mean you would have discussed it yesterday, but it
was just so good to just see them wilt like
a kind of dying four leaf clover.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
This crowd was silent for the last twenty minutes. Can
hear a pin drop?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
The first ten minutes of the second half, I was like,
oh shit, the crowd were going nuts. They scored that
try and then they just shet the bed and it
was great to watch. And it was great to see
Rikoe Yuanni's post put it in the put that in
the book with a picture of him celebrating.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I love it. I love that kind of stuff.
It's all great for rugby d I'm gonna be honest,
I said it yesterday. But despite the fact that what
do we scored one try? It was called one Yeah
we did. It was still a very entertaining game to watch.
And I have been advocating to take the posts off
the field for quite a while, but it was quite
entertaining to watch the I likened it yesterday to like
(01:16):
a rowing race where the tips of the bunts just
go back and forth, and that's how it went for
that whole game. There was enough tension in it throughout
anyone could win, anyone could lose.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It was a bit I mean it was.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The first half wasn't pretty to watch that nine to
six half time was a bit scraped like they got
I mean nick Berry. I don't know if it's a
different different rules, I don't know around internationals, but nick
Berry was very loose on the rack and then coming
around off side and kicking it all away, and pour
Cortes that our team I had a shitter of the
first half he did running backwards the whole time. So
(01:47):
that was something that potentially France will be looking at,
i'd say, and seeing it as potentially a week a
week area.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
But also maybe an opportunity for us to go at DuPont. Yeah, totally.
It just got the lidding go. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Well I suppose it depends on the referee, but yeah,
And we squandered a few chances in that first half
which I think we could have had a bigger lead
than that. And I was a bit nervous at half
time when we were on the call with Maconis, I
was like, this is exactly what the Irish want. A
little tight, little armorystole tense, kick a penalty in the
last ten minutes and just hit the crowd to get
behind them and then just just knuckle up and defend. Yeah,
(02:21):
but getting out to their ten point lead and just
watching them shit the bed, that is it. Frawley, the
replacement fly half first five came on at absolute shit
of the ginger dude.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, dropped two absolute goobers and you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Can see them just falling apart up that That's what
I liked as well.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was like, oh, we're not the all blacks of old.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The mystique, the aura, the intimidation factors gone suck on
that well fucking it was.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It was there for the last ten minutes. Yeah, and
as I said on Herdeckey breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yes, so good, foot on the throat of the zombie
and then double tap in the middle of the head
is so good.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yes. So that's Irish rugby done for it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, and just the heads up that the Super Rugby
squads being submitted to the league today, which means that
they'll put their press releases out as well.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So is this are they doing it staggered again?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes, they are right so right now at the time
recording this will coming up to ten o'clock so the
first time, which I think is the Highlanders will release
their one. I don't I'm not predicting any big changes,
although I did forget that Ardie Saviez going to one
in pacifica.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, well that's the big That's probably the biggest news
of the squad announcements, isn't it really?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And we already know Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I mean, if that's saved it up to the squad announcement,
that would have been juicy.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And a great way to own the off season as well. Yeah,
but anyway, but anyway, yeah, who knows.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
There's never any player movement in Super Rugby.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And if there is that significant all black movement, it's
known about well in advance. Yeah, like the body Barrett
move and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
There was even get nearly enough shit button Barrett for that. Yeah,
and also but.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It was never released in this one and the squad announcements.
It was a separate press conference, separate set.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Of calms anyway, So that tells you that no one
else is moving. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I don't think there's no major movements whatsoever. There's probably
just a few young players coming up up and coming
through in PA see that potentially got the call up. Yeah,
and that's really about it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah. So yeah, we'll break those down tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Set there's any big changes, I can't imagine that there
would be. Over the weekend, I played golf with Jason Hoot.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
How was that? It was? It was good?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Now did he fall apart by hole twelve? Yeah, he
did fall apart.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, his pans.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He's got such dangerously skinny legs. He hates wearing shorts. Yeah,
so he's in pans and yeah, he was in pants.
He obviously in pants because he hates getting his pans
out because they are There's not a lot there. No,
there's not a lot holding up that barrel chest in
upper body. So i'd imagine after twelve that those legs
would be ready to go.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Did you give me a cart or anything? Well, no,
we didn't give him a cup.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
With another mate as me, Chris Jase and another mate
of our Sam, who had never met Chase before, and
off the like seventh t is just like so.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Also got the pants man.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's pretty hot out here, while you were advanted because
you haven't seen my legs.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Mate, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And then on the at the turn mate Sam got
a cart. Everyone's giving him ship. But by whole ten
or eleven, Jase was just in all sorts, like as
one side of his back was sore that one of
his hips had gone. It was just his and pieces.
But he played well enough and not to toot my
own horn. But I played the round of my life
the greatest score I've ever hit, ninety four.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh shit, that's it. That's okay, I mean I.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I Anything under one hundred for me is a went
same same here.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The disheartening thing for me is that I hit I
lost two balls and I hit a tree once, so
there's three strokes I could get back. I can't see
how I could get under ninety as good as I
could possibly play even if I took those three strokes back,
I'm still running one, so I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Speaking of work, well, that's good practice for the ACC
Open that's coming up at Port Hockey end of January.
Still places available. Text golf to three two, three six
and get in there quick because there's only there is
only I think thirty teams available in that and it
sounds out pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
She's a fun afternoon, She's a great afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But yeah, my point was I was in the form
of my life and I felt what it felt like
to be in the zone and heading everything purely, which
is a feeling that I know is shared by Steve Alka,
who did the exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's a seaguet by the.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Way, I thought my segway into the promo was good,
but you, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Could have done without because I was trying to get somewhere.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
But yeah, well I didn't know you were going to Alka,
so I could have gone to the end.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's the rundown.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But Steve Alka won two point one eight million dollars
after claiming the overall season title on the PGA Champions Tour.
The fifty three year old finished second in the season
ending Charles Schwarp Cup at Phoenix Country Club and Phoenix today.
More importantly, he finished ten shots clear of South African
Ernie Els, who went into the event holding the lead
(06:45):
in the season standing, so he obliterated him. Suck on that. Yes,
it's did enough to win the title for the second
time in three years. And the alcoholics couldn't be couldn't
be happy it. We need to release the mercha. We
put a call out the other week for put someone
to draft it up. I've had to crack myself. It's
almost there, It's almost there.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I'm like, I'm a functioning alcoholic. I'm functioning alcoholic. I'm
all in. I'm all in for the next season. I
think we need to go on tour with him. If
he's got an Australian league.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Also that that course that Charles Schwab the final course
was at Phoenix Country Club. That's where the waste management.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Is, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's in Phoenix, Phoenix, so it must be the same.
They've probably got loads of great clubs, haven't they true?
But yet is the Phoenix the waste management open?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But yeah, we need to get over there. We need
to get the merch bad. So I'm working on drafting
up the thing. But if anyone out there is handy
on the tools, whip us up a logo for the alcoholics,
because we need to get over there and support them.
In fact, to be honest, Steve should be bloody, he
should be funny.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
They should be footing the bill fower. Yeah, well he's
not on social disease. He's thinking of the old Guard, isn't.
He doesn't give a shit. He'ss taking a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Is he still living in Hamilton?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He lives in I believe he lives in Phoenix. Oh,
I think he lives somewhere in the States. Oh okay,
because the guy that interviewed him afterwards said, oh, will
you'll be having a few beers tonight?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He said, yeah, we'll have a couple. We'll live a couple. Okay.
He would have got maggot him in the alcoholics. Just
quickly before we go to the break.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Rugby League is looking at trialing a new rule in
twenty twenty five by punishing teams for long kickoffs. So
following a spate of head injuries from collisions as players
return kickoffs off the back fence, the league is set
to take drastic action. The wide world of sports has
been told that any team that starts to play with
a kickoff that goes into the twenty metal line on
(08:38):
the full will concede a seven tackle set.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I see.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So if you catch it in gol or in between
the twenty and the try line, you get seven tackles
instead of six. And so the idea of being that
every kickoff will be short.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, everyone's going to aim for the pretty much the
goal line now, yeah, because if you can tackle them
within the twenty that's another six tackles.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And if they're trying to get rid of it, like
just start with the tap and go on the halfway line. Yeah,
I've just been the kickoff altogether. Yeah, this isn't really
doing anything because the next thing that's going to happen
is if they go short and everyone's contesting them, someone's
going to fall on their neck and then they're going
to ban kickoffs all together.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's just fucking little.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I'm surprised that people don't use the posts more on
kickoffs because I think it at the post. Kick it
at the post because you've got there's so much interference there.
It could hit the crossbar, it could hit the post,
it could hit the you know, could go out on
the fall. Well, nah, I think if you're a good
enough kickout and you've been doing it long enough, you
(09:40):
know how to drop it just before the posts or
because it's just creates the natural hazard of the air
of a bit confusion.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
But they always kick it off to the side. Yeah,
let some prop come off the back fence.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
There are some half backs will kick it off the pads,
you know when they're about five to ten meters out,
which you're right, it's fucking chaos.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, total create more chaos.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And the kickoff Yeah, but you're right up and go
make some formal sense, because I can't see clubs going,
oh okay, I'm going to land it before the twenty Now,
they're not going to do that, nah, because they're going
to that that first tackle will potentially be closer to
the kind of forty meter line. Yeah, and then they've
got another five tackles, whereas if you've got six and
you're back in the twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Two, like, yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't really sick out.
It doesn't. It's not a big enough to turn.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Also, most teams are giving away six again anyway off
the first tackle because that like, funck, what does it
matter to us?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
If it slows the ball down and gets our boys
back into play, Yeah, it's a they're getting a bit
like rugby union. Yeah, they're bringing in rules for real sake,
and I don't know. Yeah, And they cited like one dude,
Moses Sully, who got knocked out last last year. It's like,
yeahs are going to get knocked out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's a collision sport, you know. And what so what
are they going to say?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
So when a what about when a kick, just a
normal clearance kick comes and the fullback hits it up,
that's right?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah is that? What are they gonna do there?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You're not allowed to tackle because what you don't want
it to get to is the point that the NFL's at,
which looks ridiculous at the moment when they kick off.
So they kick off and the defenders have to stay
stationary until the ball is caught, and then the runner
has to either take a knee and call the playover
or if he starts to run, then the defenders are
(11:16):
allowed to start. It's this weird like game of candlesticks.
Maybe you used to play candlesticks. Yeah, you have to
stand still and then you can tag them. That's what
it looks like, and it just ruins the game. So yeah,
keep keep an eye up for that. We'll see what's
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Has gone soft?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
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ridiculous leak out of the EPL. That's footage of a
referee talking about a game. We're going to play that
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Speaker 3 (12:22):
Right now, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You may never get an academic scholarship. And look, I
don't think Toby will mind me saying this. I don't
think he did get an academic scholarship. But you may
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and he did, That's exactly what he did. He hooked
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Great weekend. They're all heading off to Pearl Jam on
the Friday night, so they got stuck into the chips
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Speaker 3 (12:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So the EPL, now, now you see like you've been too.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Long with Jason Hoyt of now now I've got him
on as Mike.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It just happens and ugust league referee has been suspended
after a video on social media appeared to show him
making derogatory remarks about former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klop.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
We have the audio for you will play it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Now what would you say, why would you say that
klop was to come e accuse me of lying and
then just all right, fucking pop on me.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And I've got no interest in speaking to somebody who's
fucking arrogant.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So but oh my god, assure me, come front me.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So that's David Coat, who has been suspended immediately as
you can imagine, ending investigation.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
The poor dude.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And I feel bad for him because whenever this thing happens,
you know, they asicously.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I feel like he has an official stance on these things.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, put the fucking phone away.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's a video as well.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So he's got a mate who's probably now a former mate, yes,
is videoing him. He's obviously asking me a question that
that seems to me a conversation over a beer with
no phones. He's a German, can't what are you doing
with the video?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And so that's sitting side by side David Court and
his mate and they're filming like selfie, yeah, filming themselves.
But it gets much worse because have a listen to
the second part where he talks about, hey, please don't
post us anywhere. Long story short, en clops have come
Liverpool are or fucking bllains and we hate scouts. That
(14:26):
was I don't just be clear that fucking last video
can't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Seriously, he's a.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Promar league referee.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Let's not let us not fucking ruin his career.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Like, let's face it, we're good blows, but.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We can't ruin a blow's career.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well you did, yeah, you did so obviously he set
that into a group chat, and see into a football
group chat.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's not you can't trust any chats. No, because someone
said that to another chat and goes, hey, don't spread this,
but in that chat there's some a holes they've got
no skin in the game, and I'll spread it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, because every step further removed they give less and
less of a ship.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
What of course they're going to say that, man, disheartens me.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You can't send it to someone else to be like, hey,
don't send this to people. You just fucking sent it.
Put the phone away. It was almost seemed like entrapment
as well. It was like leading the witness like hey,
what do you think? What do you think about this?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Blah blah blah, And they sounded pretty steamed and they
would wasted.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah, I justo dude, Like, I don't know how you
get out of that because obviously said it it's video,
but then your mates fuck.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, I think it's pretty tough. That's prob.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Do you think that's the end of that ref It'll
be hard to put him out there to referee, you know,
a game against someone that he's slacked off.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And also imagine if he ever played Loverpool. Yeah, refree Liverpool.
You don't often have a crowd bang for a referee,
blood and songs about the ref but he's done. Yeah,
because if it's any game actually he goes out, Yeah,
he's just going to get like I mean, there will
be some people who will probably chant an agreement to him,
(16:11):
but you can clop be in a German cump. Yeah,
and there will be chance against you, but they're on
the flip side. You don't want the referee to start
taking center state of phones away, man, the fucking phones away.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Lenhamlilsen, This actually came out yesterday, but I wanted to
talk about it with you. He has called it completely
bullshit that God Save the King was played by McLaren
at podium finishers, arguing God Defend New Zealand would better
honor Bruce McLaren.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Do you agree with him? I kind of do, you know?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
But it is a British company now though it is
one hundred percent owned by British investors. But the name McLaren,
it was founded by Bruce McLaren, the most kew of kiwi's.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Of all names, fucking Bruce.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Bruce McLaren, born in Auckland, owned Upland Motors with his
dad work there in Rimi era. Yeah, it's interesting because
I never knew. I didn't know that they played God
Save the Queen neither. But it does seem like a
bit of a dick shrinker for a team that is
named after and founded by a Kiwi.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And I would understand it if it was like an
international competition if you're racing for your country.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Done not so who gives a ship? Yeah? And do
they so? Red Bull? Is that Austrian? Is it? When
the Austrians win? I mean Red Bull ones?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Is that an Austrian company? Yeah? Oh yeah? Or is
it because Red Ball are based in Milton Keynes? Do
they play that? I don't know. A stormy it's a
is it an ownership thing?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Ferrari is Italian one of us that yeah, you could
be right, and then you've got Alpine, which is French,
which is yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You play Lemon and Cest when they were But do
you know what?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm loving that that Liam Lawson's getting the headlines for
the right reasons because I can't imagine any Kiwis that
wouldn't agree with them.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, no one, or they should play described not many
when they will. I think Bruce would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Well, I mean he'll have to sit up there and
listen to the Austrian nationally an them when Red bullwins.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, doorsche Lind Barrells go on, I love her. He's
just getting stuck in.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He's not He's not going to go down quietly because
it must be fucking intimidating going over into that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You've got twenty of the most.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Biggest egos driving the fastest cars in the world and
he's gone over and just couldn't give a ship.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's got it be.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
The only way that you could do it, you'd have
to just go on is like fuck these guys.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, otherwise my friends they're not.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Otherwise you would you get overawed. Yeah, but if you
go in there and be like you guys are so old.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
It's over for you guys. Get out of the way.
I'm going to come and win every day. Yeah, Alonso,
you're a boomer. Get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Give him the fingers to Sergio Peri's Yeah, saying to
the McLaren grow up, you're a founder by a kiwi
and then put the ships up here as well as
an older driver like this guy's in Mainy. Because they
didn't say that he's dangerous. It was like whatever, Yeah
fucking young. What he is is young.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's got no fear. Yeah, that's it used to be
like that, mate.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, there would be a great comeback in the press.
Come you used to be like that fan. You used
to be good and watch.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But now all of a sudden, the bills are all
in your name. You're worried about chresh in your car. Yeah,
it's changed everything.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The New Zealand Cup is on later on today down
there in Eddington. It is one of the later races
of the round. I've got the actually got the odds
in front of you there, lanes Wazy Patrick Swayze is
your favorite. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
The dingo, the dingo.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They're coming over to steal another one of our babies
because it's a big the biggest harness race in New
Zealand harness racing. For those you don't know, it's the
one where you have a driver sitting in a in
a kind of a cherry area. And the greatest thing
about that is, you know, because jockeys need to be small, athletic,
and they're always dangerously skinny and dehydrated and got high
(19:44):
pitched voices and there's a certain but a driver of
a Trots can be pretty much anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Nicole Jokis from the NBA drives, say, and some of
the dudes that driver you're like, look like they've come
straight out of the pub jumped onto the bag and
I'm honest, it.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Looks wow, way more dangerous. Yeah, bet in those things
because I've seen some accidents where they just get flown
flipped over the top of the head of the horse
and then you get run over by the horse and
the chariot.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's right, if you yeah, if you hear about someone
getting a horrific injury, it is generally those all steeple chases.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. So but Big Day in Canterbury
is huge day off. Students have finished exams when I
was down there for my three years.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That was loose as a ghost. That was that was
targeted that day.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So if you count from November, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June,
July is nine months from now.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And we've noted on.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
This podcast before that there were four Cantabrians I believe
in the office, all born in July. I've got two
kids born in July, but the first one you went
to Canterbury University.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
The first one, though, was a Rugby World Cup baby.
When we won the Rugby World Cup in twenty eleven.
He was born nine months later in July twenty twelve.
It was a celebration. That's Richie mccaul's baby.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Should have called him Richie.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Speaking of names, there's some great ones in this manga,
which by all accounts as a very handy horse.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm in with my it's good viye punt. Yeah,
it's a fourth highest odds, the lowest odds rather still fourteen's.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, there is a horse by the name of Republican
Party coming off a massive win last week over from
the States.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
How apt is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And then American Me and Beach ball rounding out the field.
But anyway, we don't know bugger all about horses, so
we need to call in the big guns. Somebody that
does know a little bit more about horse racing and
is down there at the track is Greg O'Connor. He's
a spokesman for Eddington Race Race, so he joins us
right after this. Well, it's a great honor and privilege
(21:50):
for the Agenda Podcast to have live at the track.
Eddington spokesman and legend of the racing industry, Greeg O'Connor
joins us. Now Greek for all. How's it all going?
I imagine you're running around with your hero on fire
this morning.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yeah, a little bit like that night. But it's a
great occasion. Cup week inch and every year littlone cup
by itself, so yet always always look forward to it.
One hundred and twenty first running of our greatest race.
It's for a million dollars and obviously we've got plenty
of Australian interests this year too, so it all adds
up to a pretty important and special day.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Gregors g lane here can he talks to us through
the conditions down to christ It's the picture borders it's sunny.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What's the what are we looking at?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Yeah, beautiful fine day, bit of a cool breeze at
the moment. Well, we hope that abates a little bit.
Tracks in unbelievable condition. John Denton and his son Jeff,
they've done an incredible job. They relayed the surface about
six months ago and then about six weeks ago they
put two hundred ton of sand and chip on it.
So it's unbelievable for the horses. When you're standing out
(22:51):
on the track, you can hardly hear them even touching
the ground. And that sort of cushion just allows the
horses to bounce off it. They feel good about life. It,
joints don't get too sore, and they're able to run
up to their absolute optimum.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You mentioned the Australians coming over here, Swayze, he's.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
The favorite this week.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Did I see his trainer talking a bit of shit
earlier this week saying that they're coming over to win
the whole thing?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You totally heard that, And that's exactly what he said
last year as well, when bug of me if he
didn't front up and do the same, do the job,
and then he gets the same barrier this year and
obviously leap to fame doesn't get here, so his younger
half brother would have given him plenty to think about,
but unfortunately he had to pull out. And Swayzey's the favorite.
Mind you, We've got a couple of superstar key Weis
(23:35):
to take him on this year.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Who are some of those superstar Kewis coming into this
dress today?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Grow Merlin's the pin up boy of the North and
he's trained by master trainer Barry Purdon, who has all
won a Cup for thirty years. He's won it four times.
He trained alongside his legendary father, the late Roy Purdon.
Chokin was the name of the horse that won in
nineteen twenty three, So yeah, he's overdue to win my
and he's got Zachary Butcher doing the driver, and Zach's
(24:03):
a real talent. He's terrific on and off the track
and when you see him out there, he sits beautifully
in the cart. He's the son of David who won
the Cup in two thousand and eight and there's only
been a couple of father son combinations go on and
win a New Zealand Cup as a driver, so yeah,
it could be a special day. For him, But Merlin's
form has been exceptional. He won the Ashburt and Flying States,
a traditional key lead up race for this and he's
(24:25):
had the wood over his age group rival. Don't stop dreaming.
Who's driven by Blair? Orange. Blair is a former junior
Kiwi so he's a really talented sportsman. He's now six
time premiership winning driver. He'll make it seven at the
end of December as well. So that clash between those
two drivers alone is something that I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Oh yeah, okay, I'm going to get on. I'm getting
on Merlin. Greg. It's a beautiful day. You sit down
there in christ Church.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
It's a big occasion for all of cannab ever and
gets the day off. How how many people are you
expecting to cut loose at Addington today?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Look, we're budgeted basically around the fifteen thousand mark. That's
about all we can get here now. Since those bloody
earthquakes kicked in two and eleven, we had to take
down a public stand which used to fit about six
and a half thousand, and so that certainly curtailed the
numbers that we can have here. In saying that it
condenses the crowd and our corporates have been seld out
(25:21):
for over six weeks, so you know, Canterbury's party day.
It's a day to get the glad rags on, have
a crack at the best dress competition and enjoy the
wonderful occasion that is Cup Day at Addington.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And just boy, let you run off and get your
fascinator in place, Greg, have you got a tip a
few gun to your head?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Who do you think takes this one out today?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Look?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I think Merlin's had the perfect preparation, so I want
a key we victory, So yeah, I'll probably go for him,
but sways he's going to take all sorts of beating
and breaking guys. The best bet of the day that
was called a hooker. Connor goes round and race number four.
He's number fourteen. He's a really smart pacer. He actually
could have been in the Cup, but he likes the
mobile starting he gets there today, so six backs. That
(26:02):
will do me and I'm pretty sure it'll do you
as well.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We'll do me.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Lane's already on his placing it as you're saying it beautiful, brilliant,
Thanks very much, Greg, Will let you get on with
you day.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Thanks for joining us, Yeah, no problem, but all have
a great day. Cheers that you've been listening to.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
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