The Country 17/10/25: Ben Humphrey talks to Jamie Mackay

It’s time for Mackay on Sport. This week, it’s with NZME’s head of sport and rural.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
McKay on sport with farm lands, prevent parisite outbreaks and
score a wind this summer Jesus Street where Skeeter gets
slap bat as fast as stepping away from run are
wrapping the country from the Brent side one hundred and
fiftieth gisbon A and p show. What a great day
it's been being Humphrey originally a fairly boy, so I

(00:22):
was going to call you a jaffer in Auckland where
you're based now running sport and rural for end zed me.
But you must love getting back.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
To these absolutely love love the AMP show and I've
been wearing my South Canterbury Rugby jose every Friday for
the last few weeks, but unfortunately they are out of
the competition and the Heartland Rugby finals of course this
weekend Meads Cup Mid Canterbury the Hammers versus Thames Valley
and Ashburton this weekend Mid Canbury going untouched this this year,

(00:52):
so can they do the clean sweep? And then down
in Mahino, North Otago are taking on Horror Fenwalk Harpety
in the Lahure Cup final.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
How great is that? Going to Mahino for the final.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
But that's where provincial rugby should be played not necessarily
in the capital town of the province. Take it out.
It's like in South and we we'd play the occasional
game back in the day at the Gore Showgrounds or
the Winton Reck or something like that. And that suits
NPC rugby.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I totally agree, and all seventy five town folk will
turn up, which is great. And then of course Bunning's
MPC semi finals O Tago take on Bay have Plenty
tonight tonight in Dunedin and then tomorrow Canterbury versus Hawks Bay.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
What are you seeing there, Jamie.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, look I live in Dunedin, so I've got a
vested interest in Otago, believe it or not. On the
sponsor super Clean for all your commercial cleaning needs, in
the Bay of Plenty for the Steamers. So whoever wins
that game, Otago or Bay of Plenty, I want them
to go through them in the NPC. And even though
Canterbury's a great sporting province, they win too many things.

(02:00):
So yeah, by a plenty or Otago Otargo's my first
pick followed. If they can't win it by a plenty.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I think how good would a South Island final be.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Itargo Canterbury. Yeah, I guess there would be a wee
bit around that. I don't know where my man from Eastland,
Toyota's gone, Rinda Singh. He's such a splendid man. He's
a very tall, elegant Indian man and he's wearing a turban.
He looks sort of like almost Indian royalty.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
He does looks he was here and he's taken off.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
So we can talk about the greatest rivalry tour which
is coming Jamie announce this morning twenty twenty six the
All Blacks heading over to South Africa. They'll play four
tests plus they'll play the Stormers, the Sharks and the
Balls and the Lions and then in twenty thirty South
Africa come here for a god old fashioned tour.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
And that will rekindle the interest in rugby because we
all I get bored with super rugby, absolutely bored. So
having a touring side like playing a province, I think
it's absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Once again.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Get those Springboks playing in the in the provinces when
they get here in twenty thirty, it's going to be great.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah. So in PC, you want to see Otago Canterbury
Final and because you're a Canterbury boy, you're going to
go with Canterbury I think so yeah, yeah, well I
don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Thank you very much for coming down. It's a day
out of the big smoke for you. I think we've
got largely this show to air unscathed, which is fantastic
because normally technology and I don't work that well. So
thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, thank you. It's been great to be in Gisbone.