The Country 06/03/26: Rowland Smith talks to Jamie Mackay

Eight-time Golden Shears open final winner and world champion weighs up TAB predictions that he’s favoured for a world championship win, but not a ninth Golden Shears title.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, here's a man. Thank god he's not trying to
bend down over this. Michael six foot six of them.
Roland Smith, he's sweaty from his from his sharing of
course rolling. We watched you. You're going pretty well. Interestingly,
the ta B has you a favorite for the World
Sharing Champs, but not a favorite for the Golden Shares.
We talked to Karen macinnulty about that. He had some

(00:22):
theories on it. What's your theory? And thanks for coming
into chat to us.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Too, cheers Jamie. Maybe because I'm old and slow, Maybe
I'm not sure what his theory is there, but I'd
love to hear it. But no, no, I'm not too sure.
But no, that was a good round.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Then is it harder to get to the sorry is it?
We're just getting a rolland on Mike care. Is it
harder to get to the Golden Shares Open Final than
it is perhaps to get to the World Sharing Open Final.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, I don't believe that. I think every time you
step up on that Golden chairs finally, is a bit
of nerves that make it just as hard to be time. Look,
there's twelve guys in that semi final. Now in the
Worlds that are pretty downe and impressive shares, so it
will be certainly hard to make that world final. But
up after lunch we've got one hundred and twenty something
open shares competing to get into that top thirty, so

(01:14):
there's no doubt that's going to be tough.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now. I was just talking to Shane mcmaonaway and I
know you know Shane, and he's got iron disease, he's
got at big time. He's got machinery for Africa. You've
got a bit of iron. It's I don't know what
it is about you share is David So David Fagan's
the same. Yet you'd sooner be on a digger than
a hand piece.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah. I think we've spent our time in hell, so
you know, a bit of fun time. It's not a
bad thing. So no, I don't know what it is.
I've always loved my machinery and loved my tractors and
turning over dirt, so yeah, I was definitely not meant
to be a sharer, so I don't know I went wrong.
But now we're here now, so we'll give it a
good go.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I saw your brother Matt sharing, who's sharing for England.
I don't know what happened to the genetics there. You're
long and tall and he's sort of shorter and squatter.
What chance your brother representing England?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah? So so Matt. He lives in England now, he
married English girl and they've got three English children. But
they've got they've got the New Zealand passport as well,
so you never know what happens there. But now it's
awesome to see Matt over here, and he's in the
semi final as well. But you don't get me wrong,
we get on that sharing board. There's no love lost there.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
So well, well, Roland, I know you're busy and I'll
let you go. I really do hope, sincerely that you
can get the double here, or at least the World
Championship title if and when you do, because I'm very confident.
Will you ride off into the sunset, never to be
seen again on a woolshed? See your day's on the digger?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, Unfortunately, we've got a few sheep of our own
to share, but you won't. You won't be sending me
around too much longer.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Ye, Well, it made all the best. I really appreciate
you coming in here to do this