August 1, 2025 • 6 mins
The Wallabies' Kiwi coach Joe Schmidt has faith his side can deliver a consolation win over the British and Irish Lions, despite a week of frustration.
Schmidt says it's been one of the more challenging weeks of his coaching career, trying to pick his side up off the canvas after the controversial second-test defeat at the MCG.
The fallout from the controversial finish of last week’s match is still continuing, and Piney caught up with our Australian correspondent Adam Peacock to discuss the series as a whole and the final test.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Bonded. Adam Pea Cocks with us as usual on
a Saturday. Adam, thanks for your time. Our third Test
tonight Wallaby's and British and Irish Lions in Sydney. The
series has gone obviously with the Lions winning Tests two
last weekend in Melbourne. What has the fallout been from that?
The controversy of the of the you know, the late
(00:32):
passages of play in that match in Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, it was. It was pretty robust straight away and
a lot of people saying it's taken on the phone
of how good would it be instead of blowing up
about the decision and saying Australia were ripped off. And
there are a few people who still think that, But
it's more about how good would it have been if
this was a decide. It's still going to be a
great occasion. Tonight in Sydney has packed out and I
(00:57):
live in Sydney. I see people clad and read all
week just walking the street to Sydney and enjoying themselves
even though it's been absolutely posing down all week. But yeah,
it's it feels like a bit of a missed opportunity
for something epic, even though probably looking at that decision
it was a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There was a fifty to fifty. And there's been a
lot of fallout and judgment during the week saying, look
color Tazano, he's obviously feeling the effect of the of
attack or but also feeling the effects of some online
abuse as well. He's been sort of, I guess, taken
out of the spotlight. Do you think this is the
right call?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, well, it's born out of the fact that people
and knowledgeable people about the game of rugby said he
was diving so and that was off the basis of
their own bias. It wasn't about oh, well he actually
could have been hurt, like it was a fairly full
on attack on the back of his neck, and whether
(01:53):
or not he should have been there, or whether or
not that he was there at the same time or whatever,
that's that's not the point. It was, Yeah, he got
hit and it hurt. So I don't like the whole thing,
and I think those people who have they go at
him for doing a blatant dive and trying to milk
a penalty and all of those things. Should maybe reconsider
having such a forthright opinion because that's the fall that
(02:15):
people hop on and then the guy ends up copying
abuse for what I mean rugby. Let's all calm down.
So yeah, it's unfortunate PostScript to it all, but yeah
we're we still haven't quite got over it, but maybe
tonight we will get over it if the lot of
his can find a way to win.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And let's for a memorable occasion in Sydney tonight, the
NRL reaching its business end. The Warriors losing to the
Dolphins right at the end last night, clinging on in
fourth spot, but they've lost four of their last six.
Now do you think the chasing pack is going to
swallow the Warriors up?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, Penrith are the ones have hit a bit of
rhythm and they've got Sorry, there's the cockatoos that we
have here in Australia and they're making a bit of noise.
They want to be on the radio as well. But yeah,
the Panthers have got their you know what together And
at the same time, one of these teams was potentially
going to have a bit of pressure put on them
(03:08):
and it's ended up being the Warriors through an injury
crisis and then James Fusha Harris dipping out and he's
the latest one to go down. No wag to Egan.
Of course Metcalf went down as well, and earlier in
the season Mitch Barnett. So you can't keep on coping
with those types of injuries and expect to get better.
And that's the thing that the Warriors have had to
consider and I can see Penrith making a charge for that.
(03:30):
But Pendrith do have a last month of the season,
four high intensity games, so they're not across the line yet,
but they are the ones I think that are going
to jump at them.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Youee Eagle's going to make the eight? Are they?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh? Maybe? Yeah, we're bottom eight team I called earlier
in the year, like bottom eight team as in bottom
of the eight team, Yeah, yeah, gotcha, seventh or eighth. Yeah,
just gone around in circles. It feels like I've got
absolutely tapped last week by the Bulldogs play the Roosters
later on tonight. Again they mentioned the weather. It could
(04:04):
be challenging conditions for seem like mainly he liked to
throw the ball around. It's raining and it's showing those
signs of easing up. So yeah, I think you can
guess by the tone of my voice, and I'm I'm
not booking my particular the grand files that way.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I good to see that. And just finally today World
Swim Champs and Singapore, we know how big swimming is
in Australia. Five golds so far, same number as the US,
including three to Mollio Callahan. She's now equaled Ian Thorpe's
Australian record of eleven World Championship gold medals, agonizing second
and the one hundred and three overnight but still some record.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, she felt, and reading what she said after that,
she basically said, I was a bit gassed from the
night before where I anchored the four by two hundred
meter relay for a huge win over America. So she's
so good, Molo Callahan, and she's going to go down
as one of our greatest swimmers. Good question that's kind
of been raised over here this week is will she
(05:02):
go down as our greatest full stop? And the thought
is that you're we have to go for two more
Olympic cycles, which is going to be difficult by the
time Brisbane comes around. I think she'll be twenty nine,
so that's at the outer edge of what we've seen
from swimming. Usually they retire in their mid twenties because
it is so arduous, and you know that they're not
getting these big five hundred and six hundred thousand dollars
(05:24):
contracts that footy players get to keep being professional. They
have to go off into the real world, some of them.
So yeah, I hope she can. It's going to be
the big watch out the next four or five years
about how good she ends up. But even Ian Thorpe
has said that she's got a chance to be as
right at the top of the run, and he's the
guy that at at the top of the run, So
that'll be a good watch. And she's had a great
week and our swimmers have done so well against an
(05:46):
American team again, which the Americans have so much depth
in this book because they've got the collegiate system, and
our swimmers have stood up to them. Again.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Absolutely, Maria Kell, she's got all these golds and world
championship and her Olympic feats. Of course she's only twenty one.
It's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's means and it's about the timing isn't it. So
Michael Phelps had that time just right, is like coming
and becoming great at the right time, which allowed you
to fit in three or four Olympic cycles instead of
two or three. And yeah, so Molly's definitely in that.
Malio Callahan's definitely in that space and probably helped by
the fact that the Tokyo Olympics got the later years
(06:22):
so she could start her Olympic career there and obviously
went to Paris and Ela and Brisbane's on the radar.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Indeed always great chatting Australian Sport with you, Adam. Thank
you for updating us. We'll do it again next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Sounds good, Thanks Bonnie.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
No, thank you, Adam. Adam Piccock are Australian correspondent on
all sporting matters Saturday afternoons here on Weekend Sport.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk zed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Bonded. Adam Pea Cocks with us as usual on
a Saturday. Adam, thanks for your time. Our third Test
tonight Wallaby's and British and Irish Lions in Sydney. The
series has gone obviously with the Lions winning Tests two
last weekend in Melbourne. What has the fallout been from that?
The controversy of the of the you know, the late
(00:32):
passages of play in that match in Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, it was. It was pretty robust straight away and
a lot of people saying it's taken on the phone
of how good would it be instead of blowing up
about the decision and saying Australia were ripped off. And
there are a few people who still think that, But
it's more about how good would it have been if
this was a decide. It's still going to be a
great occasion. Tonight in Sydney has packed out and I
(00:57):
live in Sydney. I see people clad and read all
week just walking the street to Sydney and enjoying themselves
even though it's been absolutely posing down all week. But yeah,
it's it feels like a bit of a missed opportunity
for something epic, even though probably looking at that decision
it was a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There was a fifty to fifty. And there's been a
lot of fallout and judgment during the week saying, look
color Tazano, he's obviously feeling the effect of the of
attack or but also feeling the effects of some online
abuse as well. He's been sort of, I guess, taken
out of the spotlight. Do you think this is the
right call?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, well, it's born out of the fact that people
and knowledgeable people about the game of rugby said he
was diving so and that was off the basis of
their own bias. It wasn't about oh, well he actually
could have been hurt, like it was a fairly full
on attack on the back of his neck, and whether
(01:53):
or not he should have been there, or whether or
not that he was there at the same time or whatever,
that's that's not the point. It was, Yeah, he got
hit and it hurt. So I don't like the whole thing,
and I think those people who have they go at
him for doing a blatant dive and trying to milk
a penalty and all of those things. Should maybe reconsider
having such a forthright opinion because that's the fall that
(02:15):
people hop on and then the guy ends up copying
abuse for what I mean rugby. Let's all calm down.
So yeah, it's unfortunate PostScript to it all, but yeah
we're we still haven't quite got over it, but maybe
tonight we will get over it if the lot of
his can find a way to win.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And let's for a memorable occasion in Sydney tonight, the
NRL reaching its business end. The Warriors losing to the
Dolphins right at the end last night, clinging on in
fourth spot, but they've lost four of their last six.
Now do you think the chasing pack is going to
swallow the Warriors up?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, Penrith are the ones have hit a bit of
rhythm and they've got Sorry, there's the cockatoos that we
have here in Australia and they're making a bit of noise.
They want to be on the radio as well. But yeah,
the Panthers have got their you know what together And
at the same time, one of these teams was potentially
going to have a bit of pressure put on them
(03:08):
and it's ended up being the Warriors through an injury
crisis and then James Fusha Harris dipping out and he's
the latest one to go down. No wag to Egan.
Of course Metcalf went down as well, and earlier in
the season Mitch Barnett. So you can't keep on coping
with those types of injuries and expect to get better.
And that's the thing that the Warriors have had to
consider and I can see Penrith making a charge for that.
(03:30):
But Pendrith do have a last month of the season,
four high intensity games, so they're not across the line yet,
but they are the ones I think that are going
to jump at them.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Youee Eagle's going to make the eight? Are they?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh? Maybe? Yeah, we're bottom eight team I called earlier
in the year, like bottom eight team as in bottom
of the eight team, Yeah, yeah, gotcha, seventh or eighth. Yeah,
just gone around in circles. It feels like I've got
absolutely tapped last week by the Bulldogs play the Roosters
later on tonight. Again they mentioned the weather. It could
(04:04):
be challenging conditions for seem like mainly he liked to
throw the ball around. It's raining and it's showing those
signs of easing up. So yeah, I think you can
guess by the tone of my voice, and I'm I'm
not booking my particular the grand files that way.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I good to see that. And just finally today World
Swim Champs and Singapore, we know how big swimming is
in Australia. Five golds so far, same number as the US,
including three to Mollio Callahan. She's now equaled Ian Thorpe's
Australian record of eleven World Championship gold medals, agonizing second
and the one hundred and three overnight but still some record.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, she felt, and reading what she said after that,
she basically said, I was a bit gassed from the
night before where I anchored the four by two hundred
meter relay for a huge win over America. So she's
so good, Molo Callahan, and she's going to go down
as one of our greatest swimmers. Good question that's kind
of been raised over here this week is will she
(05:02):
go down as our greatest full stop? And the thought
is that you're we have to go for two more
Olympic cycles, which is going to be difficult by the
time Brisbane comes around. I think she'll be twenty nine,
so that's at the outer edge of what we've seen
from swimming. Usually they retire in their mid twenties because
it is so arduous, and you know that they're not
getting these big five hundred and six hundred thousand dollars
(05:24):
contracts that footy players get to keep being professional. They
have to go off into the real world, some of them.
So yeah, I hope she can. It's going to be
the big watch out the next four or five years
about how good she ends up. But even Ian Thorpe
has said that she's got a chance to be as
right at the top of the run, and he's the
guy that at at the top of the run, So
that'll be a good watch. And she's had a great
week and our swimmers have done so well against an
(05:46):
American team again, which the Americans have so much depth
in this book because they've got the collegiate system, and
our swimmers have stood up to them. Again.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Absolutely, Maria Kell, she's got all these golds and world
championship and her Olympic feats. Of course she's only twenty one.
It's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's means and it's about the timing isn't it. So
Michael Phelps had that time just right, is like coming
and becoming great at the right time, which allowed you
to fit in three or four Olympic cycles instead of
two or three. And yeah, so Molly's definitely in that.
Malio Callahan's definitely in that space and probably helped by
the fact that the Tokyo Olympics got the later years
(06:22):
so she could start her Olympic career there and obviously
went to Paris and Ela and Brisbane's on the radar.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Indeed always great chatting Australian Sport with you, Adam. Thank
you for updating us. We'll do it again next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Sounds good, Thanks Bonnie.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
No, thank you, Adam. Adam Piccock are Australian correspondent on
all sporting matters Saturday afternoons here on Weekend Sport.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk zed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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