The NRL season opener in Las Vegas is all anyone's talking about.
What are the Warriors chances of success looking like?
In cricket Australia played their final pool match against Afghanistan overnight … almost.
The game was abandoned due to rain in the 13th over.
Australian Correspondent Adam Peacock talks to Piney about both events, the football Socceroos making it to the final of the Asian Cup, Auckland FC's game against Adelaide United today, and the New Zealand Golf Open.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk Z'B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's get you across the Tasman to Adam Peacock, our
regular correspondent on Australian sporting matters. Seems like a lot
of people have got junkets to Las Vegas, Adam, you
didn't get one.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, No, other side of the Pacific where the focal
point is. Yeah, everyone's going off about Vegas over here,
and obviously with the Warriors over there as well.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'd say it's getting a bit of cut through in
New Zealand, and Yeah, it's an interesting concept. They basically
it's an excuse for all regular league fans to get
over to Vegas. Basically, I don't know how much cut
through they're actually getting in America. Knowing America a little
bit like I've I can say a few months ago,
I was actually there when the All Whites were playing
(00:58):
a massive game against Mexico in Pasadena, and I was
staying in Pasadena and there were ninety thousand people going
to the game. But two days before the game, I
had no idea the game was on. So that's how
hard it is to get cut through for events in
America because there is so much. But they're having a
crack and it's going to be a great occasion. There's
(01:18):
gonna be fifty thousand people there, But where are those
fifty thousand from? The majority are going to be from
here or England because they've got a couple of Super
League teams over there as well.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah indeed, yeah, Well I know that a lot of
Warriors fans have traveled. There was a special charter flight
put on, and yeah, I think those who are there
will have an absolute blast. What happens in Vegas stays
in Vegas, as they say, so there'll be some stories
that get told and don't get told. When it comes
to the season though, the twenty twenty five NRL season
about to get underway. I was looking at this this morning.
(01:48):
I forget you forget about Penrith and how good they are.
Four straight championships? Could they possibly make it five in
a row?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, they're in the mix. I mean, other teams around
them seem to have gone a little bit better, namely
Melbourne Brisbane are.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Going to be better.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But so from that, there's no real like like team
jumping out it. You're saying, oh yeah, well, they're definitely
better than Penrith this year. Peterwith are going to be
so in this especially if Nathan Cleary stays fit. Look,
I think Nathan Cleary, who is the best player in
the comp, stays fit, anything's a possibility for Penrith. But
(02:25):
if he has another season like he did last year
where he essentially missed half the year, I think they're
going to find it tough. They've just had their depth
chipped away, chipped away Jerome Luey's gone to the West Tigers,
but they're still such a good team. I mean there's
no James Fisher Harris, which they didn't get the opportunity
to really replace him, the big prop who's going to
be such an addition.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
To the world.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'm hearing people on this side of it that has
been saying that, oh, yeah, the Warriors aren't going to
be that much shop blah blah blah. No, that the
signing of James Fisher Harris is huge for them and
it's going to benefit them on and off the park.
So look, Penwith are going to be around the place,
but probably Melbourne of favorites, and yeah there's there's a
blanket of them as well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, a bunch of teams chasing those two by the
looks of it. So Vegas this weekend for the start
of the NFL season. Can we go to the Champions
Trophy cricket? Overnight Australia played their final pull match against Afghanistan,
where they would have if it didn't rain. Afghanistan all
out two seventy three off the last ball of the
fiftieth over. Australia were cruising going at eight and a
half's one hundred and nine for one in the thirteenth
(03:26):
over when rain stopped plays. So just the just the
one point each for the abandoned game. It secures Australia's
passage through to the semi finals. We know how good
they are at knockout time. You feel confident in Australia
can pick up some more silverware.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah, especially if Travis headfires like you did overnight
with the half century much better than run a ball.
So if he gives us a start where we're a
massive chance in any game. We don't have the bowling
stocks that we usually do. There's no Pad Combins, there's
no midstart, there's no Josh Hazelwood. But there's still a
(04:01):
tidy I would call it improving bowling unit around some
pretty established names about so yeah, we can go close.
It's it's a weird old tournament. As you know, Piney,
I mean, India are playing all the games in Dubai.
They'll play the semi there. Wherever you finish in New
Pool doesn't matter. If you play India, you're playing in Dubai.
(04:21):
So yeah, we'll wait and see what that one, see
our conditions play out, but they'll be in the frame.
Australia in this last four.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah absolutely well New Zealand will be there too, so yeah,
New Zealand, India, Australia and one other. So we'll look
forward to seeing how it all plays out over the
next week or so. And to football, where your young
soccer ruse. This is the men's under twenty side have
made it all the way through to the final of
the Asian Cup, the Asian Cup Under twenty Championship. This
(04:49):
was this expected? Did you think this group of players
headed in them?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Not a total shock, but I was a little taken
back about the result against Japan in the semi final
to nil, and probably played the better football as well,
which I can't say has happened to often when it
comes to playing the better football against Japan over the
years that we've been in the Asian Confederation. But yeah,
there has been a bit of talk about this group
being very, very good, and there's still five or six
(05:18):
of them not involved because they're europe they're involved with
European clubs and they've stayed there, which is fair enough.
But yeah, this is this is big for the A League,
namely because this show is that if you give young
players a chance in the A League, give them a hope,
they're going to improve and they're going to improve to
the point where they're going to make a mark on
a continental.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Stage, which they have.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I hope they get passed out of Europa in the final.
It'll be great to see them through. But the main
job was to qualify for the World Cup. They did
that by making the semis. But yeah, it's encouraging signs.
I'd say more than anything for Australian football. I love this.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, and you're right about the A League because Atland
if so, you're playing Adelaide United today. Adelaide United have
four players who started the semi final against Japan the
other day, so four you know, it's not a great
It's not a great thing for Carl Viet the coach
of Adelaide United, but in terms of the development of
young players through the league, it's great to know that
(06:13):
that actually is a pathway.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, but Carl knows that he's got the job and
he's given leeway. He didn't have a great season last year.
Maybe other clubs he gets he gets the bullet, but
he was playing young players. He's giving these kids like
the gid up front, Ivanovitch him Ago and he's improving
all the time. So it's good that Adelaide can trust
Calvert with that, and it's good that Calvert can trust
(06:36):
Adelaide with that that three losses for losses in a
row doesn't mean he's going to get the sack. He's
going to play young players and you're going to see
some players today who are going to make you feel
very old timey. So's it's the way. It's the way
that that club operates. It's not for everyone, but it's
the way that Adelaide myself, right, And you look at
the players that they've been able to sell and the
(06:58):
money they've been able to bring in, and hopefully they're
reinvesting in the club, it's it's the model.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Indeed, indeed, yeah, I'm a fan. I'm a fanity now.
I know you're big on your golf. Have you ever
played Millbrook in Queenstown, New Zealand? Have you played down there?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Have friends who have been there and they bang on
about how good it is. I've not been able to
get there, and every time, every time some time brings
it up, a rush of envy hits me. Pine.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So what are you about to say?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, the New Zealand Open is on there this weekend.
That's the reason I bring it up. And I'm sure
you've seen some of the spectacular scenery your own. Ricky
Ponting is one of the Ambassador's going to chat to
him on the show this afternoon actually, and he just
raves about the place in factic. I saw him quoted
as saying it's his favorite place in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, well, okay, I'm sure his wife would be happy
about that.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
About her own house, the.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Ash party, I know, yes, and her husband gazz he's
over there. I think I think he's caddying for Louis Dobbela.
I think I'm not sure, but yeah, they go over
there a bit as well. And they bang on about
it too, So yeah, I es it looks like a
spectacular place and definitely a bucking list plays for a
golfer like me, And it's great to see some big
(08:13):
names over there talking about because it deserves to be
talked up.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah s party. Yes, she's another ambassador over here as well.
I don't think she played over the weekend, but yeah,
I know she has enjoyed herself in queens So we'll
get you there one day, Adam. We'll maybe we need
to talk about the increasing your fee for the show
so that you can start putting some money away towards
a trip to Queenstown.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Hey, if you get me on that Saturday mornings, just
talk about Millbrog, it automatically becomes a tax riders. I
don't worry about the tree. I'll just ride off on that.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Love it always great chatting Australian Sport with you, Adam.
Will do it again nixt Saturday.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Sound good, Thanks fining now.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Thanks Edam Peacock, Australian correspondent. They're part of our Saturdays
that around about this time on news talk s edb
Speaker 1 (08:52):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks edb weekends from midday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk Z'B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's get you across the Tasman to Adam Peacock, our
regular correspondent on Australian sporting matters. Seems like a lot
of people have got junkets to Las Vegas, Adam, you
didn't get one.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, No, other side of the Pacific where the focal
point is. Yeah, everyone's going off about Vegas over here,
and obviously with the Warriors over there as well.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'd say it's getting a bit of cut through in
New Zealand, and Yeah, it's an interesting concept. They basically
it's an excuse for all regular league fans to get
over to Vegas. Basically, I don't know how much cut
through they're actually getting in America. Knowing America a little
bit like I've I can say a few months ago,
I was actually there when the All Whites were playing
(00:58):
a massive game against Mexico in Pasadena, and I was
staying in Pasadena and there were ninety thousand people going
to the game. But two days before the game, I
had no idea the game was on. So that's how
hard it is to get cut through for events in
America because there is so much. But they're having a
crack and it's going to be a great occasion. There's
(01:18):
gonna be fifty thousand people there, But where are those
fifty thousand from? The majority are going to be from
here or England because they've got a couple of Super
League teams over there as well.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah indeed, yeah, Well I know that a lot of
Warriors fans have traveled. There was a special charter flight
put on, and yeah, I think those who are there
will have an absolute blast. What happens in Vegas stays
in Vegas, as they say, so there'll be some stories
that get told and don't get told. When it comes
to the season though, the twenty twenty five NRL season
about to get underway. I was looking at this this morning.
(01:48):
I forget you forget about Penrith and how good they are.
Four straight championships? Could they possibly make it five in
a row?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, they're in the mix. I mean, other teams around
them seem to have gone a little bit better, namely
Melbourne Brisbane are.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Going to be better.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But so from that, there's no real like like team
jumping out it. You're saying, oh yeah, well, they're definitely
better than Penrith this year. Peterwith are going to be
so in this especially if Nathan Cleary stays fit. Look,
I think Nathan Cleary, who is the best player in
the comp, stays fit, anything's a possibility for Penrith. But
(02:25):
if he has another season like he did last year
where he essentially missed half the year, I think they're
going to find it tough. They've just had their depth
chipped away, chipped away Jerome Luey's gone to the West Tigers,
but they're still such a good team. I mean there's
no James Fisher Harris, which they didn't get the opportunity
to really replace him, the big prop who's going to
be such an addition.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
To the world.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'm hearing people on this side of it that has
been saying that, oh, yeah, the Warriors aren't going to
be that much shop blah blah blah. No, that the
signing of James Fisher Harris is huge for them and
it's going to benefit them on and off the park.
So look, Penwith are going to be around the place,
but probably Melbourne of favorites, and yeah there's there's a
blanket of them as well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, a bunch of teams chasing those two by the
looks of it. So Vegas this weekend for the start
of the NFL season. Can we go to the Champions
Trophy cricket? Overnight Australia played their final pull match against Afghanistan,
where they would have if it didn't rain. Afghanistan all
out two seventy three off the last ball of the
fiftieth over. Australia were cruising going at eight and a
half's one hundred and nine for one in the thirteenth
(03:26):
over when rain stopped plays. So just the just the
one point each for the abandoned game. It secures Australia's
passage through to the semi finals. We know how good
they are at knockout time. You feel confident in Australia
can pick up some more silverware.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah, especially if Travis headfires like you did overnight
with the half century much better than run a ball.
So if he gives us a start where we're a
massive chance in any game. We don't have the bowling
stocks that we usually do. There's no Pad Combins, there's
no midstart, there's no Josh Hazelwood. But there's still a
(04:01):
tidy I would call it improving bowling unit around some
pretty established names about so yeah, we can go close.
It's it's a weird old tournament. As you know, Piney,
I mean, India are playing all the games in Dubai.
They'll play the semi there. Wherever you finish in New
Pool doesn't matter. If you play India, you're playing in Dubai.
(04:21):
So yeah, we'll wait and see what that one, see
our conditions play out, but they'll be in the frame.
Australia in this last four.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah absolutely well New Zealand will be there too, so yeah,
New Zealand, India, Australia and one other. So we'll look
forward to seeing how it all plays out over the
next week or so. And to football, where your young
soccer ruse. This is the men's under twenty side have
made it all the way through to the final of
the Asian Cup, the Asian Cup Under twenty Championship. This
(04:49):
was this expected? Did you think this group of players
headed in them?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Not a total shock, but I was a little taken
back about the result against Japan in the semi final
to nil, and probably played the better football as well,
which I can't say has happened to often when it
comes to playing the better football against Japan over the
years that we've been in the Asian Confederation. But yeah,
there has been a bit of talk about this group
being very, very good, and there's still five or six
(05:18):
of them not involved because they're europe they're involved with
European clubs and they've stayed there, which is fair enough.
But yeah, this is this is big for the A League,
namely because this show is that if you give young
players a chance in the A League, give them a hope,
they're going to improve and they're going to improve to
the point where they're going to make a mark on
a continental.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Stage, which they have.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I hope they get passed out of Europa in the final.
It'll be great to see them through. But the main
job was to qualify for the World Cup. They did
that by making the semis. But yeah, it's encouraging signs.
I'd say more than anything for Australian football. I love this.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, and you're right about the A League because Atland
if so, you're playing Adelaide United today. Adelaide United have
four players who started the semi final against Japan the
other day, so four you know, it's not a great
It's not a great thing for Carl Viet the coach
of Adelaide United, but in terms of the development of
young players through the league, it's great to know that
(06:13):
that actually is a pathway.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, but Carl knows that he's got the job and
he's given leeway. He didn't have a great season last year.
Maybe other clubs he gets he gets the bullet, but
he was playing young players. He's giving these kids like
the gid up front, Ivanovitch him Ago and he's improving
all the time. So it's good that Adelaide can trust
Calvert with that, and it's good that Calvert can trust
(06:36):
Adelaide with that that three losses for losses in a
row doesn't mean he's going to get the sack. He's
going to play young players and you're going to see
some players today who are going to make you feel
very old timey. So's it's the way. It's the way
that that club operates. It's not for everyone, but it's
the way that Adelaide myself, right, And you look at
the players that they've been able to sell and the
(06:58):
money they've been able to bring in, and hopefully they're
reinvesting in the club, it's it's the model.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Indeed, indeed, yeah, I'm a fan. I'm a fanity now.
I know you're big on your golf. Have you ever
played Millbrook in Queenstown, New Zealand? Have you played down there?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Have friends who have been there and they bang on
about how good it is. I've not been able to
get there, and every time, every time some time brings
it up, a rush of envy hits me. Pine.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So what are you about to say?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, the New Zealand Open is on there this weekend.
That's the reason I bring it up. And I'm sure
you've seen some of the spectacular scenery your own. Ricky
Ponting is one of the Ambassador's going to chat to
him on the show this afternoon actually, and he just
raves about the place in factic. I saw him quoted
as saying it's his favorite place in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, well, okay, I'm sure his wife would be happy
about that.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
About her own house, the.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Ash party, I know, yes, and her husband gazz he's
over there. I think I think he's caddying for Louis Dobbela.
I think I'm not sure, but yeah, they go over
there a bit as well. And they bang on about
it too, So yeah, I es it looks like a
spectacular place and definitely a bucking list plays for a
golfer like me, And it's great to see some big
(08:13):
names over there talking about because it deserves to be
talked up.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah s party. Yes, she's another ambassador over here as well.
I don't think she played over the weekend, but yeah,
I know she has enjoyed herself in queens So we'll
get you there one day, Adam. We'll maybe we need
to talk about the increasing your fee for the show
so that you can start putting some money away towards
a trip to Queenstown.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Hey, if you get me on that Saturday mornings, just
talk about Millbrog, it automatically becomes a tax riders. I
don't worry about the tree. I'll just ride off on that.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Love it always great chatting Australian Sport with you, Adam.
Will do it again nixt Saturday.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Sound good, Thanks fining now.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Thanks Edam Peacock, Australian correspondent. They're part of our Saturdays
that around about this time on news talk s edb
Speaker 1 (08:52):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks edb weekends from midday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
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