September 25, 2025 • 6 mins
McKay on Sport on the AB selection, track and field coverage going forward, six weeks till the Melbourne Cup, and the Devil’s Own golf tournament in Palmy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, from one Mackay to another, Hamish Mackay and Mackay
on Sport and Hamish. You're filling in for me from
next Tuesday for a couple of weeks. I'm off to
Perth and then Adelaide and I just want to say
it's a bit of a bittersweet experience for me going
to see the All Blacks and Perth because my old
mate Rowan Horrall, my oldest friend, we've known other since
(00:21):
we were four or five years of age, passed away
earlier this year with melanoma and a few of us
Riversdale or former Riversdale farmers got together and we thought
we would take Rowan over to Perth for his final
fling because he had a terminal diagnosis. He didn't make it,
so we're going to try and celebrate his life while
we're over there. And thank you for filling in next
(00:43):
week and letting me do it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, absolutely, please, Jamie, and you'll uphold it. I'm sure
that the memory of Ryan you'll do it well. I'm
pretty confident of that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, we're going over to stay with another of our
old primary school mates and I've known him since I
was five as well, and his name is Hideous Ross,
so you can imagine what sort of bloke he is.
I went to Lincoln with him and he's a bit
rough around the edges, but a good block.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hideous Ross that went to Lincoln is just full of
all sorts of stories, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I could tell you some, but no, they wouldn't pass
the PC test anyhow. Okay, so you're filling in. Are
you going to be filling in from Auckland or from
Parmi North where you're based now?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A mix of Auckland and Parmi North, but you know,
starting to rock and roll with the Ultramains team down
here at the Manor with two so a bit more
from Parmi but the odd day out of Auckland sort
of around rugby commentary weekends and things as well. So
you know, I have this beautiful best of both worlds life,
you know, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You're in real estate now, or you've been in real
estate for a while, are you starting to see some
I hate the word green shoots, but a bit of
a bit of a lift in the market because we're
going to get probably three more drops in the ocr
and you know, I think the housing and property markets.
It has to have a positive.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Effect it does. It has to have an effect, and
I hope it has an effect, and I think it'll
have effect in terms of numbers in turnover. I think
people are too wise to get drawn into the COVID
low interest rate, pay stupid prices, end up with negative
equity kind of scenario. Because my gut feeling is another
boom now would see the biggest fall we've ever seen.
(02:25):
So we've had a bit of a crunch back a
we thirty odd percent probably in a lot of places.
So yeah, I just think we'll see momentum coming back
to which is we buy and sell houses to live
and not to make a hell of on them. You know,
people will still do okay, i'd imagine, but yeah, that's
what I think will happen with the drop in the oci.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, you've thrown us a couple of topics from Mackay
on sport. Obviously we're going to talk about a footy
but I only know the headline here, Hamish, But I reckon,
I know where you're going to go with this track
and field coverage going forward, like you, I'm assuming like you.
I was so disappointed that he didn't have coverage on
SkyTV of the World Track and Field Championships. You know
(03:05):
hamus KERR Gjorady B missh what a great meat. It's
just so good to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, it's so good to watch. And we have had
it previous. Having Eugene Oregon a few years ago was
just incredible and wall to wall to walk coverage sort
of twenty four to seven. So why it dropped off
the radar because we must have known that the especially
the curves of this world. And to watch Zoey Hobbs
run in the Blue Ribbon one hundred meters against the
(03:31):
very best, we knew it was coming. People loved track
and field, and then I had these track and Field dios.
Oh you can watch it online. Nobody wants to go
looking online like that. I mean, look at the outcome
we had with the US Open Tennis on Disney. Nobody
knows who won that. Most people wouldn't know that the
Spaniard got up and beat Center in the finals because
we just weren't covering it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, we pay a fortune to Sky, they should be
paying a fortune and getting the rights. That's what I reckon.
What do you reckon about? What do you reckon about
Eden Park. You're not on common Judy, are you?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
No? No?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
What is that five early kickoff? You know? Jeez, the
ground looking magnificent or up against that Joe Smith. I've
got a captain thoughts here. I really want to see
Satisi be going back to being all carry, don't get
too you know, too pretty with it, you know, and
midfield needs to click. I don't know, it could be
(04:24):
you know, it could be a turning point in the
right direction. I just hope it's not another hammer blow
after what we saw last time.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The All Blacks never played two Shockers in a row.
They'll bounce back. Well that's just my take on it.
But I'm with you. I'm not totally convinced of the
selection of the team. Good to see Roy Garden and
obviously Cody taylor back, and I think cayleb Clark's long
over due for a run. We'll we'll just see what happens.
(04:50):
I would have made one or two more changes, but
I am not raisor okay, just a couple of quickly
finish on six weeks to the Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Melbourne Cup and you know, remember when we just used
to have a heap of Kiwi horses and there at
the moment we've got three or four that could be
running in the first Tuesday in November trapped the Auckland
Cup winner from trained by the Connors at Bulls Mark
Twain with Rodger James and mckais have got Wolfgang and
luck Creek has already qualified. So three of those have
still got to qualify. But how that'd be good to
(05:18):
go back to the days of Vander Humman, you know
when we had Kiwi's all over the place running of
the Melbourne Cup. So let's see what pans out in
that in the next six weeks at least we've got
a few that are trying to qualify and only sort
of one race went away from being in the big
day And the other thing I wanted to mention today
bumped into an Auckland lawyer in Palmerston, North earlier this
(05:38):
morning who tells me he's playing in a tournament that
has been going since nineteen thirty two lawyers only. But
I love it. It's the Devil's own golf tournament that
hope for the better two gold club. I'll tell you what,
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in
the clubhouse after that at the nineteenth to hear a
few of those stories that they've got to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well Hamershipard lawyers. Only can you trust them to keep
an accurate scorecard? That's my question. Hey, thanks mating, No worry, Hey,
good good luck filling in for me. I really appreciate it.
Don't go too well or I might come back. I
might have to get on the handpiece again. See you later.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're pretty good. You're better at that than me.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, see, there we go. He's far too kind.
Well, from one Mackay to another, Hamish Mackay and Mackay
on Sport and Hamish. You're filling in for me from
next Tuesday for a couple of weeks. I'm off to
Perth and then Adelaide and I just want to say
it's a bit of a bittersweet experience for me going
to see the All Blacks and Perth because my old
mate Rowan Horrall, my oldest friend, we've known other since
(00:21):
we were four or five years of age, passed away
earlier this year with melanoma and a few of us
Riversdale or former Riversdale farmers got together and we thought
we would take Rowan over to Perth for his final
fling because he had a terminal diagnosis. He didn't make it,
so we're going to try and celebrate his life while
we're over there. And thank you for filling in next
(00:43):
week and letting me do it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, absolutely, please, Jamie, and you'll uphold it. I'm sure
that the memory of Ryan you'll do it well. I'm
pretty confident of that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, we're going over to stay with another of our
old primary school mates and I've known him since I
was five as well, and his name is Hideous Ross,
so you can imagine what sort of bloke he is.
I went to Lincoln with him and he's a bit
rough around the edges, but a good block.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hideous Ross that went to Lincoln is just full of
all sorts of stories, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I could tell you some, but no, they wouldn't pass
the PC test anyhow. Okay, so you're filling in. Are
you going to be filling in from Auckland or from
Parmi North where you're based now?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A mix of Auckland and Parmi North, but you know,
starting to rock and roll with the Ultramains team down
here at the Manor with two so a bit more
from Parmi but the odd day out of Auckland sort
of around rugby commentary weekends and things as well. So
you know, I have this beautiful best of both worlds life,
you know, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You're in real estate now, or you've been in real
estate for a while, are you starting to see some
I hate the word green shoots, but a bit of
a bit of a lift in the market because we're
going to get probably three more drops in the ocr
and you know, I think the housing and property markets.
It has to have a positive.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Effect it does. It has to have an effect, and
I hope it has an effect, and I think it'll
have effect in terms of numbers in turnover. I think
people are too wise to get drawn into the COVID
low interest rate, pay stupid prices, end up with negative
equity kind of scenario. Because my gut feeling is another
boom now would see the biggest fall we've ever seen.
(02:25):
So we've had a bit of a crunch back a
we thirty odd percent probably in a lot of places.
So yeah, I just think we'll see momentum coming back
to which is we buy and sell houses to live
and not to make a hell of on them. You know,
people will still do okay, i'd imagine, but yeah, that's
what I think will happen with the drop in the oci.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, you've thrown us a couple of topics from Mackay
on sport. Obviously we're going to talk about a footy
but I only know the headline here, Hamish, But I reckon,
I know where you're going to go with this track
and field coverage going forward, like you, I'm assuming like you.
I was so disappointed that he didn't have coverage on
SkyTV of the World Track and Field Championships. You know
(03:05):
hamus KERR Gjorady B missh what a great meat. It's
just so good to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, it's so good to watch. And we have had
it previous. Having Eugene Oregon a few years ago was
just incredible and wall to wall to walk coverage sort
of twenty four to seven. So why it dropped off
the radar because we must have known that the especially
the curves of this world. And to watch Zoey Hobbs
run in the Blue Ribbon one hundred meters against the
(03:31):
very best, we knew it was coming. People loved track
and field, and then I had these track and Field dios.
Oh you can watch it online. Nobody wants to go
looking online like that. I mean, look at the outcome
we had with the US Open Tennis on Disney. Nobody
knows who won that. Most people wouldn't know that the
Spaniard got up and beat Center in the finals because
we just weren't covering it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, we pay a fortune to Sky, they should be
paying a fortune and getting the rights. That's what I reckon.
What do you reckon about? What do you reckon about
Eden Park. You're not on common Judy, are you?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
No? No?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
What is that five early kickoff? You know? Jeez, the
ground looking magnificent or up against that Joe Smith. I've
got a captain thoughts here. I really want to see
Satisi be going back to being all carry, don't get
too you know, too pretty with it, you know, and
midfield needs to click. I don't know, it could be
(04:24):
you know, it could be a turning point in the
right direction. I just hope it's not another hammer blow
after what we saw last time.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The All Blacks never played two Shockers in a row.
They'll bounce back. Well that's just my take on it.
But I'm with you. I'm not totally convinced of the
selection of the team. Good to see Roy Garden and
obviously Cody taylor back, and I think cayleb Clark's long
over due for a run. We'll we'll just see what happens.
(04:50):
I would have made one or two more changes, but
I am not raisor okay, just a couple of quickly
finish on six weeks to the Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Melbourne Cup and you know, remember when we just used
to have a heap of Kiwi horses and there at
the moment we've got three or four that could be
running in the first Tuesday in November trapped the Auckland
Cup winner from trained by the Connors at Bulls Mark
Twain with Rodger James and mckais have got Wolfgang and
luck Creek has already qualified. So three of those have
still got to qualify. But how that'd be good to
(05:18):
go back to the days of Vander Humman, you know
when we had Kiwi's all over the place running of
the Melbourne Cup. So let's see what pans out in
that in the next six weeks at least we've got
a few that are trying to qualify and only sort
of one race went away from being in the big
day And the other thing I wanted to mention today
bumped into an Auckland lawyer in Palmerston, North earlier this
(05:38):
morning who tells me he's playing in a tournament that
has been going since nineteen thirty two lawyers only. But
I love it. It's the Devil's own golf tournament that
hope for the better two gold club. I'll tell you what,
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in
the clubhouse after that at the nineteenth to hear a
few of those stories that they've got to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well Hamershipard lawyers. Only can you trust them to keep
an accurate scorecard? That's my question. Hey, thanks mating, No worry, Hey,
good good luck filling in for me. I really appreciate it.
Don't go too well or I might come back. I
might have to get on the handpiece again. See you later.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're pretty good. You're better at that than me.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, see, there we go. He's far too kind.
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