The Country 28/11/25: Hamish McKay talks to Jamie Mackay

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
McKay on sport with farmlands, prevent parris On outbreaks and
score a win this summer.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, he told me, He told me he was going
to be doing the agrarian thing live from the fielding
stock sail yards in the middle of fielding. But no,
Hamish mackay, you've let down your rural roots. You're sipping
lattes on a Parmerston North pavement. What's happened, What's happened
to the world, Hamish? Well?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know, I got dragged to a meeting with a banker,
see and he's a rugby man and he wants me
to get involved in his and my our old club,
my old club's footy committee, and you know Club Rugby
is a bit dire, so I agreed to meet him,
you know, at Moxie's Cafe on the famous George Street
strip of Parmautha, north Well.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's one of the great honor, one of the great
honors of my life, was being made last year a
life membership. I'm not quite life member of the Riversdale
Rugby cub. I'm not quite sure how I got it,
but I wasn't going to look a gift horse in
the mouth and I just think you're HARKing back to
your old club rugby days. They were, in a lot
of ways, the best and simplest years of your life.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I couldn't agree more beautiful times. And you know, look,
I know it's a changing face when you're thinking like
a manter or two. There used to be about seventeen
rugby teams at Massive is now two, I think. But
some way, if we don't give it our best shot
to keep it going, we've still got the magnificent i
rw A rugby club, the ground and the clubrooms. You know,
it's the envy of all the other clubs. So yeah,

(01:28):
I'm happy to be. I guess I'll get co opted
in some shape or form.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, you and I are both great former players. Stu Lowe,
I guess can claim it that he was okay as
a former players, did a bit better than you and I.
But he sat on the fence when I asked him
about the coaching problems within the All Blacks camp. I
think you're going to come in off the long runner,
at least I hope you do.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I just don't get it. I can't. I cannot
believe that raisor Robinson came out and said that he's
sort of the head gaff of it. The guy that
coaches the team is the guy I even struggled to
get his to think of his named Scott Hanson, who
speaks in riddles. I don't get it. I don't know
his background. We all knew the background of Leo McDonald

(02:08):
and Jason Holland, both very successful coaches and players of
the absolute top level. You know, I don't get it,
and I don't know. I hope there's more than a
couple of peas sitting under raises seven towels on the
beach this summer because it isn't good. And if he
has lost dressing room, which seems to be some of

(02:30):
the suggestion, then you know we've got enough time to
recover before the next World Cup.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
But yeah, I'm with you, Hamishuld. I just want the
coaches to speak English, and the Scott Hanson black I
don't know. I'm from BARRASSOAP but he sounds like John
Mitchell from the early two thousands.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, And I think the thing too is that,
you know, like, don't make something out of playing Wales.
For goodness sake, they're not even in the top twelve
of fifteen in the year correction or or got this
right and we did that, you know, something to build on.
Go back to the results account and they were something
by the Box, something by Argentina, something by England and

(03:11):
pretty you know, we kind of play to our we
ride our luck and we get the bounds of the
ball against the Scots and things.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
So yeah, trouble well, the he's got two years to
get it right and we're stuck with him. I mean,
I kind of think that. And we played golf with
them occasionally here in the Needin at the Otago Golf Club,
and I'm thinking the best coach in New Zealand is
actually coaching the South African Banks Tony Brown.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yes, and people forget too that that Jamie was doing
an okay job with the with the Highlanders, but a
lot of those players were a little bit resentful back
in the day before they won the title of all
the of the sort of military like regime that Jamie rant.
Tony Brown came in and he bought the poor and
didn't you know, he came in and he just calmed

(03:56):
things down, backed off. He's superb, and it's just a
crying shame that he's with the best outfit in the
world rugby, isn't it going to make them better? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Okay, your player of the year is Cam Royguard, who
is an outstanding rugby player. But I think across the
board I'd go with big Fabi and Holland.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yep, I wouldn't. And that's hard to argue again, and
I think because Holland was there a lot more of
it to Royguard obviously had you know, his time was limited,
but it's just the difference he'd made. It might have
looked a hell a lot different that he hadn't recovered.
And they don't seem to have a lot of faith
in whose next cab off the rank at half back too.
But the big boy Holland, it's one of the beautiful stories,
isn't it, you know, coming from where he did and

(04:37):
you know he's been remarkable, So yeah, you know, I'd
have a quinnell of those two.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, and he's a big piece of beef as well.
Hamous enjoy the rest of the days sipping latte on
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