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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk SEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
In Test, former All Black sooker Corey Flynn, and keiw
athlete Jack Lovelock, iconic fifteen hundred meter Olympic gold medalist
in nineteen thirty six, was born on this day in
nineteen ten. Jack Lovelocke died tragically in nineteen forty nine,
far too early, when he was struck by a train.
I'm Jason Pine here talking sport with you until three

(00:35):
o'clock this afternoon, during which time we'll keep a very
close eye on what's happening at the Basin Reserve. In
the first International twenty five up against Ri Lanka, Mitchell
Santna won the toss and sent Ri Lanka and that
was a very good decision. They were three down early
and then this.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Was there.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
I felt like I heard something in the umper deep
exhale before he says no, they don't look super confident
about at that Mitch Senter's trying to get a bit
of advice. He's talking to Mitch Hay, He's talking to Smith,
do you want it?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
There was definitely a little sound I heard something.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I don't know what it was that I heard?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Slon is smiling. He shakes his head.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
He says, no, nothing there.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
It was played to director. We have a play review
for court.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
It was high above his head, not out all his
feet checked.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
It's a fair delivery and could have front tom.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Spin vision please and he slashed away. Alon got to
be great to get him out if we could got
a good bit of bounce here off the semen as this.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh, ball is very close to the bat there.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
If it's anything, it's bad because there's no pads involved.
There's no.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Just freeze up there.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Thank you, Sean.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
I've got a clear spike with the ball next to
the bat and ask.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
You to overturn your decision to out stand by.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
You're on street signal now.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Ah, there we go.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Ah, that's the end of aslega. This is good for
New Zealand. It came right off the point of the
shoulder of the bat. He looks so sure. In fact,
he's still arguing with the umpire. He doesn't think he's
hit it. The umpire say, mate, we went up and
reviewed the tape.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
We swore the audio. There you go, Curtisy of the
Alternative Commentary Collective. That's the fourth SriLankan wicket, falling Charith Selanka,
the captain, caught behind by mitche Hath the bowling of
Nathan Smith for a duck. Since then they've got through
to fifteen overs Sri Lanka and a fifty one for
four Vishka Fernando, the opener, is pretty much playing a
lone hand. He's twenty six not out of thirty two

(02:44):
balls with a couple of boundaries and a six, being
joined out there by johnnyth Leejunger who is nine not
out Sri Lanka fifty one for four after fifteen overs.
Batting first against the black Caps at the basin. Will
keep you right up to date across the afternoon. Domestic
cricket this hour as well, with Wellington Blaze and white
ferns all round a Jess Kerr on the show. First

(03:05):
up today though Finals day at the ASB Tennis Classic.
In the women's event, Naomi Osaka and Clara Towson set
to do battle from five o'clock this afternoon. We'll preview
that shortly with our Sky Sport friends and that commentator
Ricky Swinell. Other matters around today. One of the undoubted
success stories of twenty twenty four was the emergence of

(03:27):
Auckland FC Director of Football Terry mcflynn with us after
one o'clock to I guess break down some of the
reasons why it's been so good for them on and
off the field so early in their life. Seventeen year
old Luke Littler yesterday clinch the World Darts Championship title,
will wrap that with Ben Francis early January as well.

(03:47):
Is always the time for resolutions and many sports people
and particularly coaches, i'm sure looking ahead and planning how
twenty twenty five can be a good year for them,
whether it's at elite level or perhaps at grassroots coaching
guru Wayne Goldsmith joining us after two with some tips
on making and keeping your sporting resolutions for twenty twenty five.

(04:10):
And Auckland City Hospital. Doctor Inia Oromatti has achieved an
incredible feat. He completed a self supported ultramarathon on all
seven continents in twenty twenty four. He's going to join
us the jet about that and exactly why it was
that he put his body through that. James mcconi back
for twenty twenty five in his regular slot as well

(04:33):
Live Sports Keep Tabs on the one day, as I say,
between the black Caps and Sri Lanka. Obviously, also Test
cricket at the SCG Australia and India underway on day
three in the next half hour or so. This test
is tantalizingly poised India one forty one for six in
their second innings, that to lead of one hundred and
forty five. Finals date at the ASP Tennis Classic is mentioned.

(04:55):
Also qualifying for the men's tournament is underweight and the
National Bowls Championships finals and the women's singles and the
men's pair. We'd love you to join the show. I had
to do so. The lines are open all afternoon on
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to me Jason at Newstalk SEDB dot Co dot nzet

(05:17):
coming up thirteen past midday.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Don't get caught offside. Call eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Weekend Sports with Jason Paine and GJ. Gardnerholmes, New Zealand's
most trusted home builder News Talks NB.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Let's start with tennis. Naomi Osaka and Clara Towson will
meet in this afternoon's ASB Women's Tennis Classic Final in Auckland.
Both emerged from the semifinals yesterday with straight sets wins.
Fifth seed Clara Towson over American Robin Montgomery.

Speaker 6 (05:48):
Game the two matches in one day. That's the ultimate
results for Clara Towson. Cruise of the final of the
ASB Classic, the third final of her career, and she
has done it with some emphatic style, big shots, big
winners and now a big smile. Six to four or

(06:10):
six three. Clara Towson goes through to the final.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
At Auckland and then seventh seed of that Japanese plan
Naomi Osaka far too good for Alicia Parks.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
The marquee performance from the tournament's headline act. For the
first time since twenty twenty two, Naomi Osaka will play
for a title on the WTA Tour. The Young America
and Alisha Parks drew plenty at a She absorbed it
all in Naomi Osaka clinical, professional, calm and composed. She

(06:48):
goes through to the final six four six two.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Naomi Osaka and Clara Towson each last one a WTA
title in twenty twenty one, so are we while between
drinks for both of them live coverage on Skysport. The
voice you hear you heard calling those semi final wins
was of course lead com Montata Ricky Swanell, who joins
us now Ricky the first time these two have ever
played one another, which is always an intriguing prospect. Can

(07:14):
you perhaps start by comparing the two of them for
us and their relative strengths.

Speaker 7 (07:20):
Yeah, they've got some similarities and that we've seen. How
are you Piney Stokes? It's the same I hello first
of all, before we get it, and happy New Year too.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (07:28):
Look, they have got some similarities in that big game style,
big weapons, big series, big four hands, and both have
been pretty controlled with it as well. When Naomi Osaka
played Alicia Parks in the semi final yesterday, which she
won in straight sets, eventually that Parks has got a
huge game, but she was probably just a bit more

(07:49):
of a slugger, didn't have necessarily the variety in the
game or the control when she needed it.

Speaker 8 (07:54):
That somebody like Osaka has.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
What we've seen from Clara Talson is that ability to
mix her game up as well a handful of occasions,
particularly in the quarter final against Madison Keys. Key is
getting stuck behind the baseline, and Towson had some really
lovely touch, good drop shots, some variety in her game
as well. She was a former world number one junior

(08:16):
and a lot of the juniors, you know, they come
through playing a heap of doubles as well, so she's
got that nice touch. But yeah, so there's some definite
similarities in their games. We could expect some big time tennis,
some big balling, which is quite I think the crowd
here always likes. I likes to see a couple of
big hitters really going at it.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Clara Tolson had a busy day yesterday, didn't see two
matches to reach the final of this single. She had
to complete her quarter final win over Madison Keys, then
beat Robin Montgomery and she had a double semi as well.
So will fatigue play any part today?

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Yeah? I mean these players at this time of year,
they're coming off their preseason, right, They've been doing probably
double days, double training days, and spending a lot of
time on court in their preseason getting ready for it.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
She didn't show.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
Any signs of it at all. In a semi final
against Robert Montgomery. She just sort of picked up where
she left off. I guess the thing is with the
Keys match is that she was probably only on court
for about twenty minutes half an hour. It finished off
with a seven six.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Of the tiebreaker.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
They had called off the quarter final relatively early the
day before, so the players would have left the stadium
at kind of nine thirty the night before. Then she
came out. They were slightly delayed getting on court at midday,
but so yes, while she was on court a lot
and we saw a lot of her, which was great.
You know, that second match at quarterfinal was about only
twenty minutes, and then the doubles match was only an

(09:40):
hour or so as well. And I wonder if maybe
she was a little bit, probably more mentally fatigued. I
would think that day for her as opposed to the
physical fatigue. But you know, we wait and see how
she comes out today. How heavy the legs may be
when you're playing someone like Osaka, who's just got such
big ground search and as I say that ability to

(10:01):
control it really well.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
The pedigree of Naomi Osaka, we all know, you know,
two time Australian Open, a two time US Open winner.
That was a week while ago. Now, though, how do
you assess where she is now relative to when she
was rarely at her peak?

Speaker 7 (10:17):
I think the game's getting back there. She looked really
good yesterday and what there was it? I thought there
was a sort of said the control, a kind of
calmness to her. She always stays really active. You can
see your thinking, you can see your kind of keeping
her game in. Obviously, it's a big thing to come
back from having a baby. Your body has changed completely

(10:38):
when you're getting back out there and initially not doing
the things that it used to be able to do.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
It.

Speaker 7 (10:43):
So it has and will take her some time. But
I think certainly those signs are that she is back
to being able to compete at the very top again.
I know there's a piece of stuff today with a
Dave Long where she's sort of said, like in the past,
she's probably been a bit guilty of not really focusing,
putting too much focus on these smaller tournaments. She's always

(11:04):
one big events, four Grand Slam and her other events
have always been massive, and so she's come here with
it with a really fresh focus. She's looked incredibly relaxed,
I must say too very Jovi or she's quite a
quietly spoken person, but very jovi. You've been out and
about things to be enjoying her new coaching team as well,
and even in matches like they've been having a laugh

(11:25):
and a giggle over things as well. So she looks
really composed and like super chill almost then.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Like great to hear, great to hear, well, I should
serve her well. So five o'clock this afternoon that's later
than normal. Is that because the men's qualifying.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
No, they've changed that over the last couple of years
to be a twilight kind of final. I guess it
gets the punters in and suitably lubricated at around that time.
It's a nice, nice time of day to think, oh yes,
I'll pop in for a bite to eat and some
tennis and a glass of something fizzy or fizzy or
cold perhaps. So yeah, it's a good time and a

(12:00):
condition so much better. I mean, that is one factor
that the conditions at the tournament has been really, really tough,
and so the credit to Osaka and tough and how
they've handled the wind in particular. If that picks up again,
it could be effective for them as to say, those
big groundstrokes that they have and big serves, but they've
handled it well and at the moment probably conditions will

(12:21):
be as good as they've been all week. So yeah,
a nice twilight start for a Sunday late.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Afternoon, nothing wrong with it at all. I guess the
promoter's dream would have been Lulu Soun coming through and
going deep into the tournament. How disappointing was it to
see her tap out so early?

Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah, a real shame, wasn't it. I mean, they and
I'm sure all the Kiwi fans would have been hoping
to to really be able to get into behind her
and to ride that wave, not least Lulu herself. She's
obviously coming off a handful of injuries which sort of
shut her season down a little bit earlier.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
And.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
Not quite back to where she is physically and where
she'll need to be because she's going to have a
whole lot of eyes from here on her again this year.
She played the most matches last year and she ever
had it at a high level, and so it's learning
for her body to be able to handle that, I guess.
But yeah, you're really disappointing, and maybe you just you know,
as I say, that little bit of added pressure, being

(13:16):
a headline name for a first time, being the local
for the first time, and all of those things. I mean,
the good thing is that we're going to see lu
LUs on here year after year. You would imagine, you know,
it's not going to be like, oh, who are you
going to have come into the Classic. You always know
you're going to have LULUs on a headline name.

Speaker 8 (13:31):
To be able to tack that on.

Speaker 7 (13:34):
But yet, yeah, disappointing to see it go so early,
particularly because she played so early, right she played day one,
I was like, oh straight away, you know the key.

Speaker 8 (13:41):
We hope the fourth seed is gone.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
What about the overall standard. We've got the final to go.
It's a good matchup, as you've outlined, but the overall
standard across the week. If you paid your money and
turned up for the first time, would you feel like
you've got value for your money?

Speaker 10 (13:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (13:54):
I think so. I think it's been an interesting tournament
and tough losing Radikanu and Elise mertens as well, the
two of the top seeds, and then Amanda and a
Simova goes down in the first round.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
So there you go.

Speaker 7 (14:06):
You've got Son and as simovera Radakanu and Merton's gone
early on. Some of your named players, I think they'll
be the crowd would have come along, would have been
really impressed with what they've seen from some of the
newer names. Robin Montgomery certainly you get the feeling that
she'll be one that next year. If she had a
good year, people go oh. I saw her at the
Classic when she was twenty and she did really well

(14:27):
and be lost out in the semees. But she's a
real talent as well, saying with Alicia Parks, if she
can kind of control and add a little bit more
to her game, she's got a really good coach in
her corner. So it's I mean, I think people kind
of know. It's really tough for the tournament Nicholas Nico
Lamprin to be able to sneer these top fields all

(14:47):
the time, so to get the names he had to
have in Osaka, to have Madison Keys, you know, players
at the top. Radakan obviously we didn't get to see,
but she's she's a headline name. That's the way he
has to go because of the rules and restrictions around
who and where players can play. So we might see
a couple of well known names or players who have
been near the top, like a Sloan Stevens and Sophia

(15:09):
Kennan who've dropped down in the rankings a bit. But
having big deep fields is a different story.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
They just won't be able.

Speaker 7 (15:17):
To get those really deep, deep fields of players across
the board. So it's pad banking on some of these
young stars and a handful of other headliners around.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
It is the way to go, all.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Right, Naomio Osaka, Clara Tawson, five o'clock this afternoon, who's
holding the trophy? Later on the scene, you.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Again asked that I knew you again. I mean the
dream scenario for all of us. It is, with all
due respect to Clara Talson, is that Naomio Osaka adds
her name to Serena Williams, Coco Goff, Venus Williams, Anna
Ivanovitch Because you know, we have had some absolute Hall
of Fame players lift that trophy in the last few
years and absolute superstars and so yeah, but the heart

(15:56):
and actually the head would say Naomi Osaka will lift
it up this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Have absolutely loved your commentary across the week, Ricky, Thanks
for joining us this afternoon.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
Pleasure Pinny, nice to chat.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Nice to you to Ricky. Ricky spell there. You can
hear her on Sky as the lead commentator when the
final we'll get to underway at five o'clock this afternoon,
twelve twenty four. If you've been following this tournament, you
might have some thoughts on who you're favoring this afternoon.
As Ricky just said, then the dream scenario is the
big name, right Naomi Osaka, the four time major winner.

(16:28):
She's paying a dollar forty four at the tab. Clara
Towson is playing is paying two dollars sixty. Tewson is
seated higher due to her world ranking, which is currently
number fifty in the world. Naomi Osaka currently world number
fifty seven. But I think the odds probably reflect the
pedigree and also the slightly more comfortable schedule for Naomi

(16:51):
Osaka not having to play a catch up game yesterday
and also not in the doubles either. If you've been
watching this or be keen to hear, you've used oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty, and have you been to
the asp BE Classic Every year when it comes around,
it's it's very well promoted. I think they put hundreds

(17:13):
and hundreds of hours of work and to making it
a real spectator experience. We often hear about the close
proximity of the spectators to the you know, the court,
and some of the players even find that a little bit.
First of all, they find it a bit strange because
it doesn't happen really anywhere else that the spectators are

(17:34):
so close. Those who pay the extra money perhaps or
get the invite from one of their one of their
corporate mates. Along to the tables, you're right there, right alongside.
But obviously the you know, the normal seats and the
and the amphitheater at at the at the tennis is

(17:55):
very conducive to watching, you know, at a really really
good distance away. If you've been, I'd like to hear
your experiences on this I eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Just give us a yell and let us know how
you found it, even if you've been you know before
or or this week. How does it compare to other
sporting events you've been to a New Zealand or overseas

(18:17):
in terms of the experience that you get the value
for money. I had the chance to be there a
couple of I think it was a couple of years ago,
wasn't wasn't last year, might have been the year before
to broadcast the radio show from there, and the vibe
around the place was great, but I was sort of
up in the broadcast area, so it's a bit falseo
in terms of the spectator experience. But how is it
as a punter? What's it like to be there? But

(18:39):
king to know if you've been, oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine two nine two, if you'd like
to send a text through to us updating you from
the base in Reserve where Shrolankap are starting to recover
from from losing four wickets early. They're up to sixty
three for four now they were twenty three for four,
so there's to have put on forty, these two being

(19:00):
a Vishka Fernando and Jonath Leejunga sixty three for four
in the eighteenth over, so New Zealand still i'm sure
will feel as though they've got the upper hand. Matt Henry,
Jacob Duffy, Nathan Smith a wick at each and also
a sharp run out by captain Mitchell Santner in there.
Sixty three for four becomes with a shot down to

(19:20):
backward square sixty four for four Now we'll keep you
updated on that twelve twenty seven here on News Talks.
There'd be back on Weekend Sport after this.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
You be the TMO. Have your say on eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason Paine and GJ. Guvnerholmes,
New Zealand's most trusted home builder, News Talks.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
There'd be bang on twelve thirty on Weekend Sports. Some
good techs through here on the tennis, So I had
the privilege, says this one, of going to corporate boxes
for many rugby and cricket games, but the ASB Tennis
Classic was the best event by far. I guess you're
so close, aren't you the cricket and the rugby. Yes,
you can have the corporate experience, but often you're miles

(20:01):
away just the proximity. Is there any event, any elite
events where you are that close to the action? As
I say, I know some of the players who haven't
been to Walkland before find it a bit jarring to
start with, but most of them, for the most part,
actually really enjoy it. Now there's the there's obviously the

(20:23):
need to be quiet when the serving is going on,
and I guess the later in the day you get
and the longest some of the patrons have been there,
the tougher it is to get the silence. But I
get the feeling that that if you were making too
much noise, you'd either be told to pipe down a
bit by those around you, or you might be you
might be told to head out the back somewhere, because

(20:44):
there is a whole precinct there. That's the other thing
about about the Tennis Center in Auckland is that there's
you know, there's all this sort of the areas out
the back if you like, where there's big screens and
bean bags and other places to watch Tony says Jason.
The best tennis spectacle at the moment is the United
Cup at the ken Rose Wall Arena in Sydney. An

(21:07):
amazing event to watch and what a venue, thanks Tony
and Pone. I love Stanley Street. It's a unique tennis venue,
says this one. But they do need to renovate the
entire precinct and enclosed center court is now a minimum
requirement these days to be a significant tournament. It is
a hard balance to maintain its flavor and feeling, but
it is a required change for the future.

Speaker 11 (21:30):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Indeed, if you've been I'd love to hear from you,
especially if you have sat down their court side, right
up close. You must be able to just about you know,
is so close, aren't you? We need to make that
a We need to make that a weekend sport bucket
list item. To get up close. At the ASB Classic,

(21:52):
Naomi Osaka into the final. Of course, we heard from
Ricky Swinell earlier. She had to beat Alicia Parks yesterday
in her semi final, an opponent with quite a long reach,
a tall opponent. How did I was could deal with that?

Speaker 11 (22:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (22:08):
I feel like every match against every player, you kind
of have to change things here and there, and against her,
she was definitely attacking myself quite a lot, So I
just tried to, I guess, get it out of her wingspan.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
What's she more confident once the rallies got going that
she was in control of the match.

Speaker 12 (22:25):
My biggest thing was just trying to get rhythm in
the rallies. Granted, I know we didn't play that many,
but I definitely would say against most players, I feel
more confident once the rally gets going.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
What about the mental battle? Did she feel out there
as though she was winning the mental battle in this one?

Speaker 13 (22:44):
I don't really think.

Speaker 12 (22:45):
During the match, I think, I like try to concern
myself with what the other person's doing. But I do
feel like for me, I know I'm doing well once
I don't remember what the score is because I realize,
like I'm trying my best every point and I'm just
so focused that I kind of lose sight of the

(23:05):
score line. And I think that's probably when I play
my best or when like my best treats come out.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
So having not won a title since twenty twenty one,
what does it mean for nami Osaka to be into
a final early in twenty twenty five, and if the
chance to win one again?

Speaker 12 (23:24):
You know, it's really weird. I think this is a
new experience for me, especially being you know, the first
tournament of the year. I've never had that before. But
I don't know, I really appreciate it. I think the
last year has grown my character a lot, and so
you know, I don't take this for granted at all,

(23:46):
and I'm looking forward to the match tomorrow. Of course,
I hope the journey doesn't stop here. But overall, I
think this trip has been a really good one.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
This is the voice of Naomi Osaka. How does she
assesse the level of her game right now?

Speaker 12 (24:00):
Honestly, I think I'm playing really good. It's really hard
to tell here though, because there's weather differences, of course,
and I feel like that's also a testament to being
able to adjust really well. But level wise, I honestly
can say I feel like I played the best I've

(24:21):
played in a while in Beijing, and unfortunately I got
injured there. But I'm hoping like this is a carry
on of that and then when I'm in Melbourne it'll
like really shine and yeah, that's all I can really
hope for.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
And finally from Nami Osaka, with a five o'clock start
to this match, what will her pre match routine consist of?

Speaker 12 (24:44):
I mean, definitely, I think you know, all tennis players
are superstitious. I always have to eat the same thing
for breakfast, and I'm quite tired of it at this point,
So same thing for breakfast. I listened to the same
music walking on to the court. I listened to the
same music in the car time my you on and

(25:07):
then my life.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's a lie.

Speaker 12 (25:09):
It can get very exhausting.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
That is Naomi Osaka ahead of the final of the
ASP Women's Classic, which comes around five o'clock this afternoon
at the Auckland Tennis Center in Stanley Street, twenty four
to one updating you on some cricket at the Basement Reserve,
Troy Lanka seventy one for four, seventy one for four
in the twentieth over. Having been sent into bat By
New Zealand earlier on, they've recovered pretty well. They were

(25:32):
twenty odd for four. These two, Lejanga and Avishka are
doing things fairly nicely. As another ball flies away to
the cover boundary, I can report it's not the nicest
day in Wellington. They're out there playing. It's not raining
at the moment. It is heavily overcast and I think
a bit of rain was forecast for today at some stage.
Just not raining at the moment. But can I tell

(25:53):
you it's quite cold. If you've ever experienced a Wellington southerly,
then that's what we've got today. I'm just looking at
the people who have turned up and actually it's a
full house. The sold outsign is up. Whether all of
those who have bought tickets actually turn up, I guess
remains to be seen. But it's pretty full at the
moment looking at the television pictures, particularly the bank, but

(26:15):
everybody is rugged up, everybody has got the jacket on,
a few beanies, plenty of layers, and as far as
the players are consumed. We had Mitchell Santney yesterday, I
talk about what it's like playing in Wellington when it
gets a bit colder. It's those bowling into the southerly

(26:36):
that I guess we'll find it most will fight it
most problematic. So they'll be driving into the southerly breeze
from the from the scoreboard end of the Basemin Reserve.
I guess somebody has to do it, don't they. Twenty
five of the overs have to come from that end,
So it's whoever gets the shortest draw or perhaps whoever

(26:57):
pool's rank. As far as as far as that is concerned,
Jacob Duffy currently is bowling with the northerly at his back,
so he'll he'll he'll be happy with that anyway. Seventy
six for four in the twentieth over over at the
SCG India, resuming at one forty one for six in
their second innings. They've added a couple of runs this
morning for no further loss. They lead by one hundred

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and forty seven runs. The big one here was around
Uspert Boomera. Now, yesterday he left the ground and was
shown on television heading to hospital to get something done.
I'll do a little bit of background here in the
next little while and find out for you what his

(27:42):
likelihood of involvement today is. By this sounds of it.
He's come to the ground, so he's there, which means
he can bat. The bigger one though, is whether he
can bowl. If he can bowl, then I think if
India get anything over a lead of two hundred, then
they our favorite. Because Jaspert Boomra has been remarkably good
in this series, so good thirty two wickets, the most

(28:06):
by any Indian bowler in a series in Australia. If
he was able to bowl in the Australian second innings,
and as I say, they're chasing anything north of two hundred,
I think it's advantage India to square the series at
two all. If he can't bowl, then that changes the
dynamic completely. Of course, the first thing India have to

(28:26):
do is build that lead. Currently they lead by one
hundred and forty seven. That is not I don't think
going to be enough even in a low scoring test
like this one. They want to push on towards that
psychological two hundred run lead and beyond as well. Currently
one forty three for six, they lead by one hundred
and forty seven, twenty one away from one. We'll take
a break, come back and then check in with the

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Wellington Blaze and with jess Kerr Blaze all Rounder and
white films all round her who's started the super smash
in terrific fashion. She's with us right after this on
Weekend Sport.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Have have some more than just a game. Weekend Sport
with Chasing Vine and GJ. Gardnerhoves, New Zealand's most trusted
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Speaker 2 (29:07):
News Talk said be a seventeen and a half away
from one, Jessica. In just a moment, India have lost
their seventh wicket Ravendra Jadasia caught behind by Alex Carey
off the bowling of Pat Commons for thirteen. India one
forty seven for seven. They lead by one hundred and
fifty one runs. As far as jaspery Bomra is concerned,
he is padded up, so he will bat. That's the

(29:28):
first bit of good news. So he's available to take part.
He can also, the rules are how long before he
can bowl in the second innings. The the answer is
he can bowl straight away because India have batted for
longer than he was off the ground. So he's okay
to bowl. But whether he will there was talk earlier
that he he went through sort of some very very

(29:53):
gentle bowling in the warm up. I don't know what
that means as far as his ability to bowl properly
in Australia's second innings. I guess we'll wait and find out.
So a seventh wicket down for India now and a
lead still quite slender of one hundred and fifty one.
One hundred and fifty one is the lead at the moment.

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Closer to home, the Wellington Blaze have gone two from
two at the start of their defense of the domestic
women's T twenty competition. They bet the Central Hines by
twenty five runs in Nelson yesterday, posting one hundred and
fourteen for eight before bowling CD out for eighty nine.
It would have been a fairly straightforward choice, I'm sure
for Player of the match Wellington All rounded. Jess Kerr

(30:35):
made fifty nine or forty five balls in a game
where no other batter made twenty five, and then she
took three for fourteen with the.

Speaker 14 (30:42):
Ball Wow and gone, Jessica.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
It was the swing that did armitage. She came down
the wicket.

Speaker 9 (30:52):
Couple of quiet overs here or good swing straight on
to the stumps.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Jessicaz with us. Congratulations on your performance and the win yesterday.
Jess Can we start with your batting? This was your
second fifty in two matches after your beaten sixty one
against Northern Districts on New Year's Day in Hamilton. Is
you're batting something you've been working pretty hard on.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 15 (31:14):
I think obviously with the woman's game, you see all
around this sort of being the way to go, especially
in the international game. So it's something I've sort of
wanted to chip away at and I've sort of believed
I can contribute, especially with Wellington. So yeah, I've been
working hard in the winter and yeah, to have an
opportunity to bet a bit higher and spend more time

(31:36):
in the middle has been great.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
So in terms of the work you're putting in, what
is it specifically that you're focusing on when it comes
to batting in the T twenty game.

Speaker 15 (31:45):
I think I've always sort of naturally had the power
and ball striking abilities. I think it's for me just
the bits in between and being able to access a
few more areas across the wicket. I've always been quite
strong on the off side, so I've worked hard to
develop a sweep shot and just hitting hard, straight and
sticking to my drinks. But that's sort of been things

(32:09):
I've kept working on, and keeping that strike right.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
High and coming in a bit higher in the order,
coming in at number five. Is that something that you
were keen to do as well? I guess the high
you are, the more likely you are to spend time
in the middle. Is that something that you discussed with
the rest of the team and the coaching stuff.

Speaker 15 (32:26):
Yeah, I mean I didn't get too much of a
surge of Scott Toles, you know, merely as a big
supporter of mine, which is great, and obviously T twenty
it it's a short game, so to be able to
have more time to bet as many balls as awesome,
and yeah, it's just great to have those opportunities and
while you hit so many balls in the nets you

(32:47):
can't really replicate time in the middle and gain time.
So to be able to have this opportunity for Wellington
is just going to be some great learnings for me.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
How much did you enjoy batting with your sister Melee
against Northern up in Hamilton on New Year's Day? You
came together three down for not many. Did you enjoy
the chance to bat for a long period with Mealy?

Speaker 16 (33:06):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (33:06):
Yeah, it was pretty special. That she's obviously a world
class player and you know there's never going to be
pressure if you're betting with her, So yeah, she was awesome.
That made my job a lot easier, that's for sure,
And yeah, hopefully we can do that again. But she's
probably one of my favorite people to bet with and
managed to do it for a long time, so that
was great.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Good stuff. So yesterday one fourteen doesn't seem like a
big total to defend, but you defended it reasonably comfortably
to win by twenty five runs. In the Blaze, do
you kind of back yourselves to defend any total?

Speaker 15 (33:40):
Yeah, I think we do. I think for a few
years now we've managed to win from a lot of
different scenarios and you just develop that belief. And I
think our bowling attackers is something really special, especially with
the spinners. I mean, Sarah Jetley and Leave was fantastic yesterday.
And knowing you've got nearly curdible four overs in the
middle is just just an absolute weapon. So yeah, I

(34:03):
think we've had so many different scenarios we've been able
to win, so we know if we don't get the
runs you want, we.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Can fight hard with the ball and yourself with the ball,
you've always been able to swing it. But the delivery
that bold Holly Armata, she's a pretty handy player, must
have felt pretty good.

Speaker 15 (34:19):
Yeah, definitely. I was a little bit disappointed with my
bow and performance in Hamilton, so I was quite determined
to come back and contribute with the ball as well.
But yeah, it was getting a bit of movement down
in Molson, so yeah, I was happy with that delivery.
More swing than I usually get.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
No, it's a nice one. Alise Perry has spent the
first couple of games with the Blaze. I didn't quite
work out for her with the bat. But how much
did you enjoy having such a world class player around
the group.

Speaker 15 (34:50):
Oh, she's been fantastic. Her energy around the group has
been amazing, And yeah, like you said, probably would have
liked to have scored a few more runs, but I
think just the learnings we've all had seeing the way
she trained that the great person she is is you know,
has contributed so much to us as a team, and
she's talking about wanting to come back and the years come,

(35:12):
so hopefully schedules the line and we'll get her back.
But yeah, I'm sure she's a bit sick of me.
And nearly now she's been hanging like us quite a
bust and hits have a roomy and whatnot, so she's
probably been humbled a bit, but she's she absolutely loved
it and always loved having her So it's pretty cool
to have someone like her wanting to play this tournament
and hopefully going forward they can just keep getting more

(35:35):
internationals coming. And and yeah, bettering.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
The comp well, were you were you and meally sort
of the catalyst for this. Were you kind of chipping
a white herd during the you know, during your time
in Sydney, you know, say hey, come over for a
couple of games.

Speaker 15 (35:48):
Yeah, I think it was the drawer against CD last year. Actually,
she messaged me and said, I don't know what was
was more incredible that that that board, that game, or
I think she noticed that his flipped So I sort
of said, all you come and play for us one year,
and she actually said I would love to, And at

(36:10):
first I thought she might have been joking, but she
said she was serious and from there I just did
a bit of hard yards and then merely was obviously
with for six and she kept she kept hounding here
as well, and yeah, scared a couple of games before
she starts the Ashes. Harry, is it that sort of worked?

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Well?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Hope there's more to come. Hope there's more to come
on the years ahead. Change of coach for you as well.
Lance Dry has moved into a Pathway's role with Cricket Wellington.
Johnny Bassett Graham has taken the reins for the Super Smash.
How was it having a different voice around the group
having had Lance and Luke Woodcock there for so long.

Speaker 15 (36:45):
Yeah, look, it's it's been. It's been fairly seamless and
Johnny and Joe has bought a great energy. I've had
a couple of sessions with Johnny and he just quietly
goes about his business and stills confidence in each of
us and Joe's just exit and dozing to be here too,
so too keeping specialists which is awesome for just mcfeddin

(37:07):
and but yeah, no, it's been really good and credit
to our girls for being able, adept and all that
as well.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
And looking ahead this year, obviously the Super Smash takes
precedence at the moment, but ever international matches in March
Sri Lanka and Australia both here for White Ball Series,
then later in the year the fifty over World Cup.
How keen are you to be involved in more white
ferns cricket in twenty twenty five, Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 15 (37:32):
I think I found it quite tough obviously still being
in the squad but not necessarily in the eleven for
further World Cup in the home series against Australia. So
you know, I'm always someone that's wanting to improve and.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Get better, and.

Speaker 15 (37:47):
Like I said before that all round a spot is
sort of quite important now in the women's game, So yeah,
obviously bowling comes first, but if I can just keep
contributing and doing my job, hopefully I can I can
find a way into that squad and into that team
and yet pretty special to be able to play against
Sri Lanka and again and hopefully the World Cup in India.

(38:11):
I don't think you can get much better than that,
playing a playing in a World Cup in India.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Well, it's going well for you so far, Jess, thanks
for taking the time. Congratulations on the first two matches
for the Blaze. I look forward to seeing how the
rest of the season plays out.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Thanks Jesson, Thanks Jess.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Jess Kur there joining us from I presume she's at
the basin watching the black Caps take on Sri Lanka.
Shorlannkor have just brought up one hundred for four wickets
there in the twenty fourth over. One hundred for four,
so a good sort of bounce back partnership here, having
earlier been in a high degree of strife at twenty

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three for four, these two aout of what seventy seven
now to take up to one hundred for four and
the twenty fourth over. We'll keep eyes on this for
you as far as the Super Smash is concerned, no
games today because of the black Caps game, but back
to Nelson tomorrow for the resumption of the competition Central
against Northern and Nelson and both men's and women's. On

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Tuesday at Hagleyovland christ Church it's Canterbury against Otago again
and the men's and the women's and then a head
to Thursday the Blaze and the Firebirds back in action
for Wellington at the Basin, welcoming the Central Stags and
Hines to Wellington seven Away from One, New Stalks, HBO.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
From the track Fields and the Court on your Home
of Sport Weekends for it with Jason vine us Talks NB.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Four to one on News Talks EDB Weekendspat continues after
the News at one o'clock. One of the undoubted success
stories of last year and coming into twenty twenty five
the emergence of Auckland FC. I don't think anybody could
have predicted the success that I've had so early in
their professional life. A year ago they didn't even have
any players or a coach and here they are top

(39:56):
of the A League five points clear as we enter
the new year and crowds turning up in massive numbers.
So what is going so well there? Director of Football
Terry mcflynn going to do us after one with a
chat on that and speaking of going well seventeen year
old Luke Littler world darts champion after his win over
Michael van Goerwin in the final yesterday morning, New Zealand

(40:19):
time at Ali Pally. Our darts analyst Ben France is
going to put this into context for us talking sport
on this first Sunday of twenty twenty five. One of
the big success stories of twenty twenty four Auckland FC.
As they emerged blinking into the light. But it didn't
take them very long did it to make their presence

(40:39):
felt top of the A League men's table after ten rounds.
Why is it going so well both on and off
the field for Auckland FC Director of Football Terry mcflynn
standing by to chat to us. Luke Litler is a
world darts champion, beating Michael van Gerwin in the final
yesterday at Ali Pally in London. What might he go
on to achieve given the fact he doesn't turn eighteen

(41:02):
for a couple of weeks and darts is not really
one of those sports where age is a barrier. I mean,
could he play for another, goodness, I don't know, thirty
years if he doesn't get bored with it all. Ben
Francis is going to chat to us shortly as well.
About that. James mcconiy along for the first time in
twenty twenty five in his regular Sunday afternoon slot with

(41:24):
his irreverent look at sporting matters. Our lines of communication
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sport as you heard from Nathan in our sports news
and New Zealand have gone bang bang in cricketing parlance,

(41:46):
and Sri Lanka, who are one hundred and ten for four,
are now one hundred and ten for six. The partnership
between Jonathan Leanga and Avishka Fernando is over and both
of those two batsmen in our back in the shed,
Avishka Fernando the opener out for fifty six and Lee
Younger for thirty six. So after twenty seven overs, Sri

(42:08):
Lanka one hundred and ten for six. Batting first couple
of wickets for Nathan Smith one it's for Matt Henry,
Jacob Duffy and Mitchell Santinap and there's been a runout
in there as well. And Australia have just picked up
the ninth Indian wicket at the SCG, the wicket of
Muhammad Suraj. He's been caught by Usmand Kwaja off the

(42:28):
bowling of Scotti Boland, who's picked up his fifth wicket
of the innings five for forty four to go with
his four for thirty one in the first innings. What
a performance from Scotty Boland. Jaspery Boomra is out there.
He'll be joined by Prisheid Krishna and the lead is
not that big for India one hundred and sixty day

(42:50):
lead by with doubt over whether Jasper Bomra will even
bowl in the second inning. So Australia well and truly
on top there. A win here would see them into
the World Test Championship Final a bit later on in
the year. And finally, just updating you from the National
Bowls Championships, the twenty twenty five Somerset Nationals being played

(43:11):
in Auckland at Browns Bay. Its finals day in the
women's singles and the men's pair and the women's singles
finals are really tight affair it's the first to twenty
one shots. They've had twenty ends. Dead White from the
Hinuera Bowling Club and Wendy Jensen out of Takapoona twenty
ends and it is deb White who leads thirteen shots

(43:35):
to eleven. So it's going to take them a while,
you'd have to think to get to twenty one. They've
been out there for ages. This game started I think
at eleven this morning, eleven thirty, so what we are
approaching a couple of hours and we're still a wee
way away from working out who is going to win
that one. Dead White and Wendy Jensen battling it out
for the women's singles title at the National Bowls Championships

(43:58):
in Auckland. As always, we'll keep you right up to
date with all of the live sport happening around the
country and across the world.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
It's more than just a game. Weekend Sport with Jason
Dane News Talk b.

Speaker 14 (44:13):
Bum Storming Brilliant gave a football electric floom in the
Derby six on the bounce for Auckland f c.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Uncharted Territory.

Speaker 14 (44:30):
Alex Paulson's goal finally breached, but it wasn't enough to
silence the port, and it was not enough to lower
the blue and black colors of the A League's new boys.
They stay perfect, they go marching on.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
As mentioned, one of the undoubted success stories on the
sports field and offered off twenty twenty fourth was the
emergence of Auckland FC in their first A League men's season.
They won their first six matches, didn't concede a goal
until the sixth one, went under beaten for their first
seven matches and enter the new year five points clear

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at the top of the A League ladder. In the stands,
their fan base has grown from nothing to something pretty special,
with two sellout crowds at go Media Stadium and four
others over thirteen thousand. Awkland, the FC's director of football,
is a two time A League champion himself with Sydney FC,
Terry mcflynn, who joins us now, thanks for your time, Terry.

(45:32):
Are you where you thought you would be after ten games?

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (45:38):
Look, going into the season, Jesse, we were very optimistic,
with a lot of belief and a lot of trust
in the group that we've assembled. We knew it was
important in this league to get off their good start
and Thankfully we did that, and the boys have been
fantastic from July one when we start a preseason, they've
really brought into the project. And yeah, everyone's working really

(46:00):
hard and we're really pleased to be where we're sitting
at a minute.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
What do you think the foundations of your on field
success have been?

Speaker 17 (46:08):
Oh look, I think you know, there's a lot of honesty,
a lot of trust in the system, trusting and belief
in the project.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
And what we want to achieve. You know, is a
real burning.

Speaker 17 (46:17):
Ambition within the club to be successful and that stands
right from the top, you know, from the CEO, Nick Becker,
really drives that ambition day and day out. So you know,
for us as a football department, you know, we've got
the best job in the world and you get to
play football for a living and entertained people on a
weekly basis. So the players have really brought into what

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we're trying to achieve and we're just taking the game
by game at this stage.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
And in terms of the why the team is playing,
what have been the key reasons for your on field
success in that regard? What do you what do you
like about this football team?

Speaker 9 (46:51):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (46:52):
Look, I think there's a real togetherness right across the
whole group.

Speaker 5 (46:55):
I think you can see that.

Speaker 17 (46:56):
And you know, from the first whistle to the to
the last whistle, the boys never give up. They keep
working for each other, they keep working for the club,
they keep working for the supporters. And it's just a
joy to come in to work every day and see
how hard these boys are working and getting the rewards
on the weekend in terms of good performances and on
the backup good performance, you get good results.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Where do you think the growth areas all the improvement
areas are the main ones for this team?

Speaker 16 (47:23):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (47:23):
Look, I think you know we've got a lot of
improvement to do. We're a brand new group. Like I said,
we only started in July. There's a lot of cohesion
that still needs to take place over the common weeks
and months, and we continue to work on that day
and day as I said, did the coaching staff, Steve
Cork and Danny Hay, Jonathan Gold, Elias Priacre and all
the medical team beat Christie. They're doing an amazing job

(47:47):
with all the players and Foster and that relationships Foster
and that cohesion and working together behind the common goal.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
You've known Steve Carriker for a very long time. You
played together, of course at SYDNEYFC. What are his strengths
as a head coach?

Speaker 17 (48:02):
Alok, Steve is a very very good tactician first and foremost.
That's his job as a head coach is to set
the tactics for the team.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
He's very trusted of his staff.

Speaker 17 (48:11):
You know, as I said, all the coaching staff are
doing an amazing job with their departments, whether it's a
head of performance, whether it's assistant coach, goalkeeper, coach, medical.
There's a lot of trust in the group from Steve
as the head coach. He empires people. I think you
can see that in the freedom that the departments have,
but also in the players as well as a real
trust in the system. There's a real trust in the

(48:33):
environment and like I said, it's just a joy to
come into work every day.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Danny, how you mentioned them there, assistant coach of course,
former All Whites head coach and a guy who has
been a head coach for away while in other environments.
I guess there might have been a few questions about
how he'd adjust to a role as an assistant coach.
What have you sayen from him? In that regard.

Speaker 17 (48:52):
Oh, Daniel's been fantastic. You know, he's a real sign
and board for Stev. They've obviously known each other for
a long long time as well, they played together in England.
So again I think having that knowledge in the room.
Jonathan Gould's another one. Having that type of foot or
knowledge experience in the room is only beneficial to the
whole group.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Your imports, Terry Geygoss for Strata my moreno, Saki, I've
all worked out, which is you know, that's not always
the case with imports, as you know, I mean there
have been some imports on the A League who haven't
come as advertised. How did you do your due diligence
on your foreigners to make sure you've got good players
and good people.

Speaker 17 (49:32):
Yeah, I looked at this was a little bit different
to what we're previously used to Jesson, to be honest,
was to bring a foreign player to a club that
didn't exist was a bit of a challenge. Obviously, a
lot of the selling points and bringing foreigners to the
competition as your history and your heritage.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
Obviously we didn't have any of that.

Speaker 17 (49:50):
So again it's testament to our head of recruitment, Dog
Corse did a lot of work in the boatground in
around this type of player that we wanted to bring in,
but more importantly it was about the people that we
bring in. You know, we said that from day one
that we want to feel building up with good people.
With good people, you can achieve anything. And as you said,

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all five imports are good people.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
They're here for the right reasons. They want to bring
success to Auckland.

Speaker 17 (50:18):
They want to bring success to this football club and
make the supporters in the stands prior to the performances
weekend we go.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
And one of them came with huge pedigree obviously, Hierarchy Sakai.
He's your inaugural club captain. Can you give us an
idea of his influence around this playing group.

Speaker 17 (50:36):
Yeah, Look at Rookie is incredibly influential in the group,
you know. For I think it's a very important one
for our younger players to take note of what he's
actually done in the game. To play seventy five times
for your country, playing three World Cups, playing multiple countries
around the world, and obviously his hometown in his home
country in Japan.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
He also played in France, he played in Germany, so.

Speaker 17 (51:00):
He's the experience that he brings to the group, the
knowledge that he brings to the group, and just a
professionalism both on and off the pitch is a real
I don't think we'll actually see how important Hiroki is
for our football club short term. I think the benefits
our football club be long term. And the professionalism that

(51:20):
he's he's bringing to the club. And you know, the
younger players are run the run the traps that Fim
McKinley and Ollie Middleton and Louis Toomey and John t Bidwell,
Jesse randall these young players that are learning the craft
and learning their trade.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
To have someone like Karokie in the dress rooms invaluable.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
You're going along brilliantly. And then there was that that
little bump in the road, the four nilla home loss
to Western United. How much of a of a bump
in the road was that? And and how I guess
pleased were you to see the bounce back performance a
week later against the Mariners.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
Yeah, look, we've we've always said it, Jess.

Speaker 17 (51:53):
We're never getting too carried away with with things has
going well, and we won't get too carried away when
we do have a little speed bump for us, it's
a but sticking to the processes, sticking to what works
weekend week guide. For us, we wanted to see a reaction.
We got that reaction when we went to Central Coast.
The players refocused and we went again. So for us,

(52:14):
it wasn't a major deal. You know, we know in
sport that everything is not going to always go smoothly
and it's not always going to go your way. And likewise,
when things are going well, it's about how you react
to things. So you can never get too carried away
when things have gone well, and you can never get
too carried away when things don't go the way they are.
As long as we can identify areas where we can improve,

(52:37):
unless we continue to do day and day.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
How much are the players and the and the staff
and the you know, everybody in the club. How much
you enjoyed the atmosphere EDG Media Stadium for home games?

Speaker 17 (52:47):
Oh, it's amazing, It's absolutely amazing. I've said before the
work that Nick Becker and all the admin team off
the pitch is done to fill up the stadium. The
boys absolutely love it long and out to you know,
a massive crowd every week. I think we're leading the
crowded the men, I think, and so I'll start. You know,
the Day were the first club to break a hundred

(53:08):
thousand support us through the turnstiles this season, so you
know that's again that's testament to the to the team
that have made the fan experience what it is. You know,
to see families, kids, teenagers.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
You know, everyone turning up on match to day. There's
something for everyone.

Speaker 17 (53:25):
You know, we had the beach, we've got the inflatables,
we've got the slide, we've got much day experience, we've
got the Black night club, we've got good football on
the pitch, so there's actually something for everyone. And just
to see the joy on the people's faces. I'm obviously
getting good results helps as well.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
The director of football is an overarching role that you hold,
what takes up most of your time.

Speaker 17 (53:47):
Look, obviously in the initial phase was setting up the
football department for the men's team. When I shift and
focus to certainly myself is to setting up the female program.
So we'll into the competition this year. See that's that's
sort of where my focus shift at a minute. But
really to day it is just making sure that everything's

(54:08):
running smoothly. If the coaches need, I signed on board
if the players need to have a chat about anything, logistically,
making sure that the team's moving around the country in
and out of Australia smoothly, and just generally being here
and making sure that the department's run out smoothly.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Any unexpected surprises in that role, good or bad.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
Oh, Look, that's the beauty of football.

Speaker 17 (54:32):
You know, you're dealing with people, You're dealing with emotions
every single day. So that's the beauty of the jobs
in that never two days of the same. There's always
something that needs attention. There's always something that needs to
be rectified and something that needs to be addressed, which
is the beauty of it. But like I said, with
good people, you can achieve anything. We've got some fantastic

(54:53):
people in this building and it's just a joy to
be here every day.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Well, as I said at the start, one of the
undoubted success stories of the last little while is the
emergence of Auklandiff say, congrect on your part and that
Terry or the Beast four are brilliant. Twenty twenty five.
Thanks for taking the time for a chat.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
No problem, Thank you very much for your support.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Jesson Now too easy, Terry. Thanks indeed, Terry mcflynn, director
of football at Auckland FC, who have entered into the
new year. I said five points clear, actually four points
clear at the top Melbourne Victory picking up a point
last night in a too wall draw with Western Sydney,
so four points clear Auckland FC. But they do have
a game in hand over Melbourne Victory. They've got a

(55:29):
bit of a break actually now Auckland f C. Having
drawn nil all with Victory on New Year's Day. The
next match is next Saturday. It's the long trip to
Perth for a match against Perth Glory on the night
of Saturday January eleven. Next home game is the following
Saturday at go Media Stadium, which has become their fortress.

(55:51):
Apart from that little blip and that lost to Western United,
they take on Auckland City. That's on the night or
the late afternoon five o'clock of Saturday January eighteen. Man,
that's going to be a busy all weekend at Auckland
with Sale GP on at the same time. Looking forward
to that, India are all out in their second innings.
They are all out and have been dismissed in their

(56:12):
second innings for one hundred and fifty seven. That leaves
Australia one hundred and sixty two to win, one hundred
and sixty two to win. Time is not a factor.
This is only the third day, of course, of this
Test match, so this will almost certainly finish today on
the third day with Sam Constace and Osmond Kowaja going
out to have a crack at that total. In India's innings,

(56:38):
Scotti Boland sixteen point five overs, five maidens, six for
forty five. That's to go with his four for thirty
one in the first innings. What performance ten for seventy
six in the match. And you look across the series
and Scotti Boland has taken twenty one wickets and average

(57:00):
of thirteen. Terrific from him for a guy who's had
to wait and wait and wait behind the likes of
Mitchell Stone, Josh hazel Ward and Pat Cummins, and rightly so,
a wonderful story this. Scott Bowland didn't make his Test
debut until he turned thirty two. Here he is ten
wickets against India at the SCG and bowling his team

(57:22):
into a very very good position down at the base
of reserve updating you on Sri Lanka's first innings or
only innings in this one day against New Zealand. Pretty
slow going for them one hundred and nineteen for six
through thirty overs, so I took under four runs and
over big partnership for the fifth wicket has been broken.

(57:42):
So Sri Lanka looking to build again and post a
total of at least some competitiveness one hundred and nineteen
for six through thirty of their fifty overs on a
fairly chilly day down at the Basemin Reserve with a
cold southerly not adding to the comfort. I'm sure of
the Shri Lankan batsman. One twenty six. Let's get a breakway.
When we come back, we'll talk some darts. Incredible scenes

(58:05):
at London's Alex Palace yesterday morning with seventeen year old
Luke Littler becoming the youngest ever world champion. Ben Francis,
our darts analyst, is going to put this into context
for us when we come back here on Weekend Sport.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
The tough Questions off the turf Weekend Sport with Jason
Pine and GJ. Gardnerholmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder
News dogs.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
It is one twenty nine. Can tell you from the
SCG that Jasper Bomra has not taken the new ball,
so it doesn't look as though he will take any
part at the bowl increase for India as they try
and restrict Australia to less than one hundred and sixty two.
It is a massive blow for them. He is by
far their most dangerous bowler. He will not bowl. By
the looks of things in Australia's innings, they're fourteen without loss.

(58:51):
Early Constance five and Kawaja four saw a ball fly
away for four buyers as well, so not the start
that India were after. Australia well on track to knock
off the one hundred and sixty two runs to take
a three to one series victory and confirm their place
in the World Test Championship Final. Luke Littler is the

(59:12):
youngest champion, youngest World Champion in Darce history.

Speaker 18 (59:17):
To realize his dream to achieve his destiny to.

Speaker 11 (59:20):
Be world champed, good.

Speaker 13 (59:25):
Spending, Tastes, gervation, special Channans Pezza greats La, col Vandel bloops,
the new Cletum. The Teenager is Champion of the World.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
He is pizza them all.

Speaker 11 (59:44):
It's just seventeen to claim the biggest tras.

Speaker 13 (59:48):
In the sport.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
They're remarkable. The seventeen year old yesterday beat three time
former world champion Michael van Gerwins seven leagues to three
in the final at London's Alexandra Palace. He was runner
up last year Luke Littler, but stepped up a level
and this year's decide a racing to a four sets
to nill lead in the final and never letting Michael
Van gerwin get closer than three sets away. Let's bring

(01:00:11):
in host of the Key Week Darts podcast, Ben Francis. Ben,
can you somehow try to put into context for us
just how remarkable this is a seventeen year old winning
the World Darts Championship.

Speaker 19 (01:00:27):
Well, I think the only way you can reach some
it up is just as yourself. What were you doing
at seventeen and what was some of your achievements and
I think will be something a world champion at your
event and even making over a million million pounds, which
are of course is the UK currency and prizemen. None
of us would have done that, So that's kind of
what it is. That the manner way that he is

(01:00:47):
playing at seventeen years old. It's something that I don't
think anyone's ever seen before. And you think it back
to the like Sir Phil Taylor. Of course well before
my time that people that know Phil Taylor, he wasn't
punching in one hundred averages at seventeen years old, or
he might have been, but not in World Championship final.
And that's just how it sums it up. And you
think this has been seventeen years old. You think Christ
how much long was he going to keep this up

(01:01:08):
for it? It's just simply sensational.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
It's his fearlessness and his confidence as well for me being,
he was left at one point yesterday with a seventy finished.
There are lots of ways to clean that up. He
went bullseye double teen for goodness sake.

Speaker 19 (01:01:23):
Yeah, And that's kind of the stuff that we've seen
him do before. We've seen him do finishes. There was
one time we had one hundred and eleven left and
he went bullseye eleven bullseye and that's just unheard of,
you know, some of the way that he does things,
the confidence he has, and there were times during that
game we thought Michael van Gerwen was trying to match
that and tried.

Speaker 17 (01:01:42):
Ways.

Speaker 19 (01:01:42):
He was trying to finish, finish it off his scores
and it just wasn't working because there was his board
management was off and that really cost him. And even
just going back to that first leg when he had
two hundred and five left, hit the one eighty. Probably
did that a bit of confidence to show I'm in
charge here, but that really came back to fight him
because he couldn't even finish twenty five until attempts, which
in a final, and especially someone of his caliber, he

(01:02:04):
should be doing. But that was there was so many
incidents sorry, where he was doing that in the final
and it kind of just came back and bit him
and the backside Luke Little just ran away with it
and there was no coming back for Van Goirlin.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
Did you think he was rattled by let Laer And
he's been around for a long time Van Gouin, as
I say, three time former world champion, he wouldn't have
been rattled, would he.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
I don't know if rattled was the right word.

Speaker 19 (01:02:29):
I just go back to his confidence on the board,
and there's a saying in darts where they say triples
for show doubles for do I know lots of other
sports have very similar sayings that Van Girl was very
good at heading the trebles at certain stages, but he
just couldn't finish and that's what really let him down.
And I think he was getting a bit frustrated by that.
But just the composure of Luke Littler and even I
remember meeting him at the yell And Darts Masters last

(01:02:51):
year and just the calmness on his shoulders and it's
just crazy. He's just a quiet kid from Warrington in
the UK and it's just incredible what he's able to do.
I really don't know what else the comparator. It's almost
like a f You're maybe few pioneer say something like
it would be like a messy or something like that.
At seventeen years old, and he's just got the world
in front of him. It's just crazy to think what

(01:03:12):
he can achieve.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
You've joined us on weekends sport over the last two
or three weekends as the World Championships have been playing out.
You always liked the look of Luke. Did he at
all look troubled to you throughout the tournament? I can't
remember him being in any real trouble of elimination.

Speaker 19 (01:03:29):
I wouldn't say trouble, but there was this match against
Ryan Joyce, who did push him a little bit, but
that's because Maryan Joyce is one of the best finishes
and darts and he was taking out some big shots
and that was keeping him in touch, but was scoring
throughout the entire tournament. I think he averaged one hundred
and five across the whole tournament, which is roughly what
he had in the final as well, and that just

(01:03:50):
that little bit of extra scoring power just kept them
enough in front. And then his ability to finish on
his favorite doubles double ten, which he absolutely smashed every
single time. He pretty much threw it at in the final,
which is pretty much what got him over the line.
And they say the triples the show doubles to go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Darts is a sport where age isn't really a barrier, right,
I mean, having achieved this, it's seventeen, what could Luke
Littler go on to do?

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Well?

Speaker 19 (01:04:17):
That's the crazy thing, isn't it. You think you think
of Phil Taylor and all his world titles that he won,
and you think, at seventeen years old, he'd definitely give
it a good run for his money. But at the
same time, there's a lot of money in the sport now,
and like a lot of sports, it's only getting bigger
and bigger. And you might think for someone like Lout,
he might only want to do this the tenth fifteen.
You who knows, and he might think, you know what,
that's enough. But I'm done. You think, surely, if if

(01:04:39):
you've got all those heady ahead of you, you're going
to think, surely I'm going to go for it. Surely
you're going to go break the record, which most people
in sport would say is unbreakable. Seventeen world titles is
just simply sensational. But he can definitely give it a
good run for his money. But he wants to give
it a just work at it slowly. He just wants
to win. He won ten titles across his first season
as a professional, and he just wants to win more

(01:05:00):
than that. And no doubt we're going to see him
come to Walkland. That will be next year as well,
and I have no doubt he I want to give
that title a good well.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
I look forward to seeing him closer to home. A
couple of other storylines from the World Champs, Stephen Bunting
through to the semi finals where he was beaten by
Luke Humphries. But he seems to have gained a fair
degree of popularity as well.

Speaker 19 (01:05:18):
Stephen Bunting, Yeah, his story has been quite remarkable because
even going back a decade ago, he was here for
the inaugural Are New Zealand Arts Masters in Auckland and
he was one of the top players. Then he felt
away a little bit and if you go back and
look look at some of the things in his past,
lots of people say he used to look like Peter
Griffin's family guy, and it was something that he kind

(01:05:40):
of played along with it, but as well, but then
he's kind of gotten that older. I think he's had
a couple of kids now and he's kind of thing
I would be a bit more professional about this, and yeah,
I think like a lot of players will go through
the ups and downs, and he's really put down that
momentum now and he's definitely been one of the informant
players of the last year. And there's a Premier League
announcement which is usually the eight best players in the
world coming up early next week, and I would say

(01:06:01):
he's definitely going to be in the running for that
based on how he's been in the last year.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
And look, humphreyes I couldn't go back to back, got
nowhere near it, actually knocked out by Peter right in
the fourth round. Look, Humphrey's though too good a player
to not come again. Oh no doubt.

Speaker 19 (01:06:15):
Low Humphries is incredibly talented, and I think in that
game against Peter Wright, Peter Wright literally hit every double
he threw ass and it was remarkable. It was one
of those performances where you think, man, even if he
was plain of Luke Letler, the way he was hitting
the doubles, Luke Letler might have even struggled against Peter Wright.
He was just heading everything that was coming his way.
Then you saw in the next round he was struggling

(01:06:36):
to anything, and that's what happens in sports sometimes. But
I have no doubt Luke Countries will bounce back. He's
got a decent lead at top of the rankings, so
he's going to be holding number one for a while.
But heading into the back end of next year and
he's going to be defending a lot of money, then
he might drop down a little bit. But I have
no doubt he'll come back and he's definitely a guy
that you would expect one at least a couple more
world titles.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Great to get your analysis, Ben, Thanks for joining us
over the last two or three weeks and again today
we look forward to seeing what Lukeltler might go on
to do. Thanks for your time today is Bunny. Thanks
being Ben Francis, their host of the Kiwi Darts podcast
and a really good contributor for us over the last
two three weeks as the World Darts Championship has been
going on in London. Luke Littler world champion. Who knows

(01:07:20):
what he might go on to achieve? What had Ben say,
there's seventeen world titles for Phil Taylor. Well, I guess
you'd have to think it's possible. It seems unachievable, doesn't it.
But when you win your first one at seventeen and
a sport that doesn't really have age as a barrier,
who knows what Luke Littler might achieve. Twenty two to
two updating you on Live Sport at the Basemin Reserve.

(01:07:42):
It's Sri Lanka trying to build a competitive total against
New Zealand in this first one day, one hundred and
thirty for six. They are in the thirty third over,
one hundred and thirty for six, now one thirty six
for six as I speak, in the thirty third over,
So I guess on target for something around the two
twenty two to thirty mark if they can get going
a little bit only or six down only four wickets

(01:08:05):
in hand, so that might be bit of a barrier
for them. But we'll keep eyes on the base in
reserve for you, as we will on the Sydney Cricket
Ground where Australia have made a rollicking start in their
chase for one hundred and sixty two to beat India.
After three overs they're thirty five without loss, largely down
to this precocious teenaged opener Sam Constance, who's eighteen not

(01:08:30):
out of twelve balls, they already found the boundary three times,
so he is clearly in a bit of a hurry,
Sam Constance, as he looks to try and win this
Test match for Australia or certainly play his part in
doing that twenty one to two when we come back
for the first time in twenty twenty five. One of
them more popular Sunday features James mcconey going to join
us right after this.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
The Voice of Sport on your Home of Sport Weekend
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Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Be seventeen and a half away from two big part
of our Sunday afternoons the last couple of years has
been James McCay. It around about this time. Good to
know that the Weekend Sport people got together with your people,
James and negotiated another year. Good to have you back.

Speaker 20 (01:09:17):
Yeah, great, great negotiations. Thanks Pony. My people and your
people obviously agreed terms. And I'm back baby. I mean,
I was down in path here I'm looking at the
Great White sharks, but I thought, no, I can do
this for you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Well, it's great to have you with us for twenty
twenty five. Who knows what the year might hold. In fact,
want to talk about what the year might hold with
you in a moment, But what the years holding at
the moment is a fairly cold base in the reserve
where Srilanka are making fairly heavy going of it. One
forty two for six and the thirty fourth. That's not
even really a very good total in T twenty is
it let alone fifty others.

Speaker 20 (01:09:53):
I don't think I've seen this many puffer jackets at
a at a January book kick game. So that's a
world record maybe when you get get us out there
to test. But I was really looking forward to watching
com indumendous. Now he's the guy who averages seventy four

(01:10:14):
in tests. He's just raced up to I think five
centuries already in test matches and he got run out
for three. So and also the one thing about that
is you wouldn't even know he's in the country. Now,
I feel like that cricket does lack a little bit
of hype. And forgive me, you may have interviewed him
earlier in the show Piny, but you know, you know,

(01:10:35):
a batsman who's that talented coming to New Zealand would
usually create a bit more of a stare. I think
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
You're right. I haven't interviewed him. No, you're right. I
think probably apart from those who follow the game as
deeply as you and maybe you know the Sri Lankan
nationals who live now in New Zealand, you're right. I'm
not sure that there would be a great degree of
knowledge around about him as far as New Zealander concerned.
I don't know about you, but in the t twenties,
I just loved seeing some new guys out there, and
it's flowed into this as well, you know, Mitch Hayzach folks,

(01:11:05):
you know Tim Robinson's out there. I'm just really enjoying
the freshness of our white ball side.

Speaker 20 (01:11:11):
I know, Tim Robinson's an interesting one and he's a big, muscular, hunting,
fishing batsman who loves to throw himself around. And I mean, look,
I think we needed to see that new talent come through.
And Duffy as well, just showing that he can do
things with the ball. Seems like he could be you know,

(01:11:32):
a Test bowler eventually as well. I mean that's a
good thing about it. Mitch Hay as a keeper looks
really tidy, so you know that the signs are good.
It's just that the summer really it's going see the
Black Cats now, because I think the next time they
head off to Pakistan and then we turn in March
to play a big old series against Pakistan. But the

(01:11:55):
international cricket is about to disappear after this week.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Yeah, it is. It's a shame because we always love,
you know, watching certainly what I do, like what you've
read ball International cricket in January, in February, even into
March and April, and that's just not going to happen
unfortunately this year. But look, I am, as I say,
enjoying the freshness of the of the lineups that are
out there, with Mitchell Santna captaining the team. Obviously other

(01:12:20):
matters around tennis. Naomi Osaka is in the final at
the ASP Classic later on this afternoon. Good to see
her living up to her pre tournament billing.

Speaker 20 (01:12:30):
Yes, indeed, And I mean, look, I think Naomi Osaka.
Tennis really needs her. She is an outstanding talent. Four
Grand Slam singles titles. She is legit a potential number one.
And now when you look at the tennis landscape and
all the players and the big names they've lost, and

(01:12:52):
even with the drug scandals as well in the men's game,
tennis needs Naomi Osaka. The top three at the moment,
I think we've got Saberlenka from Belarus, Samita Tek from Poland,
Coco Golf from USA. He was young. She's only won
one Grand Slam, but you could easily say that playing

(01:13:14):
at it her full potential or Sarka should be right
up there, perhaps at number one. She took time off
ever at a baby of course, so you know she's
been using indeed.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
But yeah, i'd great to say her back out there
and hopefully she can continue to climb. I think fifty
seventh in the world at the moment, but yeah, a
good showing at the Aussie Open and she'll start to
climb up the rankings. Again, speaking of climbing up and
staying up there, Nottingham Forest are still fit in the
Premier League.

Speaker 20 (01:13:41):
Look, I can't believe this because you know, I was
watching the part of the Man's City game when they
beat west Ham this morning and the commentators have pretty
much written off man City, just saying, look, they'll be
aiming for top four, that's all the best they can
hope for. And then I sort of when they had
a look at the table, I thought, yeah, there's only
two teams that can challenge Liverpool at the moment, and

(01:14:03):
one of them is Arsenal on the other is Notingham Mars.
Because they've got a game in hand and if they
win again and you know, they go up to level
with Arsenal, which is crazy to think, and also with
Chris Wood at the forefront of everything they do and
right up there on the goalscorers list on the charts.

(01:14:24):
This is I don't think I've ever seen a key
player so influential in a top foreign league like that.
It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it hasn't happened. I can't. I
think it's unprecedented. It can't remember it happening. Wolves are
their next opposition. They go to Wolves tomorrow morning and
then I believe they welcome Liverpool next. I mean, this
is just brought in for Chris Wood and at the
start of a year where hopefully he'll also god New
Zealand to the World Cup when they have their final

(01:14:55):
couple of World Cup qualifiers in March. Speaking of looking
ahead twenty twenty five, I know you like to, you know,
suss out the latest rugby talent at the start of
any a year. Last year, I remember very well you're
telling me about Wallace a Titi and I said who,
and you were right? So who's the name to look
out for this year?

Speaker 20 (01:15:16):
I've actually most of these names people would have heard
of because they kind of made a splash twenty four
so I haven't got a Sa Titi out my sleeve
at the moment, but in sevens I sort of feel
like Georgia Miller and Oli Mathis are going to be unbelievable.
And Georgia wherever she plays, I think, and Oli if
he gets a chance at fifteens, but definitely Georgia should

(01:15:38):
be able to dabble them both. She just looks like
it's it's going to be. Well, she's a superstar in
the making. But if you're a if you're Highlanders fan,
Fabian Holland the big Dutch Awm Locke, I think is
going to make great strides. And I mean everybody went
into all that training raved about him. Even you would

(01:16:00):
like the look of someone who looks like your brother Piney.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Certainly heightwise, I think he's got a bit more in
terms of muscle, but yeah, I mean big lockforwards. I
know that Jason Ryan was a huge fan of passili
O Toossi when he first saw them the Big Hurricanes
prop he loved him. What did Scott Robinson say? It
was some sort of love story that he talked about.
I get the feeling Jason Ryan and feel the same
way about Fabian holland the big the big hunk of

(01:16:27):
Highlanders lock.

Speaker 20 (01:16:29):
So look, I mean the Crusaders. I've already sort of
harped on about Schaffee hockey before and Noah them. So
let's go to your team, the Hurricane, so I think
will dominate along with the Blues and Super Rugby. And
there's just seeing Cam Royguard on that end of Yew
tour if he can play an injured through and whoever

(01:16:50):
plays ten outside. And I think the nineteen twelve combination
with roy Gard's Terry Godfrey amazing, Ruben Love incredible and
then Riley Higgins outside them, I think that combination could
be amazing.

Speaker 15 (01:17:05):
To what.

Speaker 20 (01:17:07):
Just propped her as well Billy out there, So look,
I mean that that's something with the duplask easy as well.
But the way he finished that year because he had
injury troubles as well and was a leap frog, wasn't he?
By Peter Larkey. I just think those guys and that
Hurricanes team have got something special. So it's good news

(01:17:28):
for you Piney.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
Yeah, looking forward to that. Yeah, And what about further
up up your way? And then on to the defending champions.

Speaker 20 (01:17:35):
Yes, Malicho Rampling is probably a second to Tit if
you will. He's a loose forward who can run with
the ball. He's got great footwork, he's really silky skills
and was a star for the under twenty so he
was looking good in Japan last during the preseason. So
if he can get some minutes Malicho Rampling for the

(01:17:56):
Chiefs and then up for the Blues. I'm hearing good
things about Shay Clark, who will play You remember him
from the All Black Sevens, and he'll play blindside flanker.
I think tall. It's hard to tell these Sevens players.
You can't actually tell me hype until they sidle up
beside someone else in the fifteens game. And he's tall,

(01:18:19):
he's fast, So yeah, have a lookout for Shay Clark.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
I've written all of this down and so a year
from now you'll be able to to just celebrate and
luxuriate in your and your ability to ability to be
the weekend sport nostra damas.

Speaker 20 (01:18:36):
Look, well, I know I'm prepared to be absolutely humble pony,
so please bring that. Bring it on, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Great to chat for the first time in twenty twenty five.
Let's catch up again next week.

Speaker 20 (01:18:47):
Cheers, pony, See you mate, See.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
You mate, James mcconey. There part of our Sundays again
in twenty twenty five at around about this time every
Sunday afternoon on weekend Sport Australia. I've lost a wicket
there forty seven for one. Sam Constance out for twenty two,
so Marnus Lava, Shane's come out to join Usman Kawaja
and as far as Sri Lanka are concerned, one fifty
three for six, they are one hundred and fifty three

(01:19:09):
for six after thirty six overs at the Basemin Reserve.
Seven and a half to two News Talks.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
EP analyzing every view from every angle in the sporting
world weekends for it with Jason five call eight hundred
and eighty eight US Talks V.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
One fifty six. Mark on Text says today Jason like
to mention that spectators from eighty six different countries attended
the darts over the entirety of the World Championship. Thanks Mark,
Rochdale fan A Rochdale fan. Good on you, Mark, thanks
for giving us that stat. Yet it certainly has become
globally popular now, hasn't it? And the countries that they

(01:19:46):
go to and the fans that turn up everywhere they go.
It's just this juggernaut, isn't it? The darts now? Thanks, Mark,
appreciate your text. After two o'clock, this is the time
for making resolutions, isn't it the early part of any
calendar year. But most of them are kind of in
the bin, aren't they by the end of the month.
How can you make resolutions that you will keep in

(01:20:08):
a sporting sense? Wayne Goldsmith at Coaching Guru going to
talk to us about that. And doctor Inniotromatty made a
resolution at the start of last year to run an
ultra marathon in all seven continents and he did it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Why the only place to discuss the biggest fource issues
on and after fields, it's all on weekend forward with
Jason Vane on your home of Sport US talk.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Oho there seven and a half past two. I'm Jason
Pine on Weekend Sport until three o'clock. Chest Davidson going
to take over after that for summer afternoons before we
can let that happen though, a bit of sport to
talk between now and three o'clock. An Auckland City Hospital
doctor by the name of any Auromatty has achieved a
quite remarkable feat completing a self supported ultra marathon on

(01:21:01):
all seven continents inside a calendar year. In fact, he
did eight of them on seven continents. Incredible and not
tramrathon is two hundred and fifty k that's crazy eight
in a year. Normally I think it takes about two
or three months to recover from doing one. So why

(01:21:21):
and how did he do it? Dr Nyoldo Matti with
us this hour early January. Also the time you make
your resolutions, you know your chart, your year out, you
decide how are you going to be better. Our coach
in guru, Wayne Goldsmith has got a few tips for
grassroots coaches and maybe elite coaches too, or anybody really
who wants to set their resolutions for twenty twenty five

(01:21:44):
and importantly keep them. He's along shortly a bit of
a wrap of yesterday's Wellington Phoenix women's game. They're doing well.
Another win yesterday for them at at pottydo it. We'll
keep eyes on the two games of cricket that are
happening either side of the Tasman The eighth Sri Lankan.
Wicked has fallen one seventy five for eight in the
fortieth over Sri Lanka, so they're kind of stuck, umbling

(01:22:06):
their way towards I guess what they hope will be
somewhere close to two hundred, one hundred and seventy five
for eight. Matt Henry three for seventeen in eight point
three overs, terrific. Nathan Smith's got a couple of wickets,
one each for Duffy and Santna. There's a runout in
there as well. Sir New Zealand looking good at the
moments for Lanka one seventy five for eight in the
fortieth Marnus Lava, Shane's Aud and Sydney Australia are fifty

(01:22:30):
five for two chasing one hundred and sixty two, so
one hundred and seven needed eight wickets and hands Steve
Smith and Usmund Kowaja are at the crease together. So
we'll certainly keep very close eye on what's happening over there.
Your causing correspondence always welcome on the show. I eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty is the phone number ninet
two nine two for text messages and emails to Jason

(01:22:51):
at newstalk SEDB dot co dot nz. But as we
always do it around about this time on weekend sport,
it's time to bring you up to date with some
of the things you might have missed. We call it
in case you missed it, and can I tell you
it is a bumper edition in case you missed it.
Today with so much sport to keep you up with,
So let's start with the Premier League. A pleasing morning

(01:23:13):
for leaders Liverpool and they didn't even play. Two of
their top four chasing pack adversaries have given up one
nil Leeds to be held to one all draws. First
of all Arsenal away at Brighton with the penalty against
David Ryer.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Have rotaws.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Clutching harm level on.

Speaker 21 (01:23:37):
The ARMRK really well taken penalty.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
And then Chelsea away at Crystal Palace all away cross
the second arf, so one one there as well, leaving
Liverpool five points clear of Arsenal with a couple of

(01:24:01):
games in hand. Meantime, a resurgence Manchester City back into
the top six thresh in west Ham.

Speaker 22 (01:24:16):
If you one knew the gold mccollaghan from Manchester City,
it was just a matter of time and the case
of who would be on the end.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Of a hiding and it is west Ham United.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Man City won in that one for one. Newcastle also
into the top six after a two to one went
away at Tottenham. Murphy across it's coming.

Speaker 21 (01:24:36):
Isa May.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
I've got a touch as well.

Speaker 8 (01:24:39):
Brilliant played for Murphy once more in that wide area
and it looks like he does in fact come off
of Isaac.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
I think the last touch he'll certainly be claiming it.
Bournemouth up to the giddy heights of seventh with victory
over Everton by Watara. It's a Kirkis.

Speaker 15 (01:24:55):
Brooks.

Speaker 13 (01:24:59):
What's a glorious strike from David Rugs.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
That's why why to break the deadlocks? Absolutely wonderful goals
from the welshion. And at the bottom more misery for Southampton.

Speaker 22 (01:25:15):
It could be fight for Brentford because Wish is in
here and like Chelsea and like Tottenham, Bramford have got
five goals of some marries.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Yeah, Southampton just terrible, just six points after twenty games
for the Saints. Closer to home in the A League
Women's the Wellington Phoenix back to winning ways.

Speaker 21 (01:25:35):
The bounce of the ball favors Grace Charlay. We saw
her score from a.

Speaker 10 (01:25:39):
Similar position against Sydney and she's done it again Grace
Jarley from distance. It's a double dose at pottyo A
Park and Charlie returns to hornt the Perth.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Glory here too. Neil winners Wellington over Perth glory to
move into the top six, sending the memes A League.
Sydney FC rescued a point from too nil down away
at Newcastle.

Speaker 21 (01:26:03):
Curled in scott with the punch initially this.

Speaker 11 (01:26:07):
There's the equals up to sipy FSA for two nil down.
Back to two of peace with Anthony Kisserras's first.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Of the season. Back to the side of the Tasman
and the super smash and Nelson victory for the Wellington
Blaze over the Central Hinds.

Speaker 9 (01:26:28):
Yeah out, that's the end of it for the Central Hids.
Caitlin Kin gets underneath it and Jess Kersey has had
an absolute outing here at Saxon Oval fifty with the
bat and three wickets as well, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
The Wellington men repeated the Doves beating the Central Stags,
with James Hartshorn taking five wickets on his super Smash debut.

Speaker 9 (01:26:51):
Twelve runs needed to stay behind the line that's gone.
It's going to get an opportunity underneath it.

Speaker 11 (01:26:55):
Can he get five wickets on debut?

Speaker 7 (01:26:57):
Yes he can.

Speaker 9 (01:27:00):
What an outstanding performance. The boys get around and they
lift him up and say what stand there has been?

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
And then the Big Bash. The Melbourne Stars met the
Melbourne Renegades at the MCG last night. The Renegades one
sixty eight for seven. The Stars needed eight of the
last four balls. He streams swims, why are a bit
of the stars? Goossl He's done before.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
Hilton can't right and his timing is perfect.

Speaker 22 (01:27:33):
Well, that could be the biggest of the night. Two
to win three balls. Rodgers can't right. There's a gap
he finds it. Helton can't write things. The Stars home.

Speaker 13 (01:27:47):
They've got this winning feeling going now.

Speaker 22 (01:27:51):
Turn a row for the Stars, A classic Derby.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
And a lot sat a night at the MCG to
the ASB Classic. Naomi Osaka and Clara Towson will meet
for the first time in this afternoon's final, both emerging
from their semi finals with rights. It's wounds Towson over
American Robin Montgomery.

Speaker 6 (01:28:12):
Two matches in one day. That's the ultimate results for
Clara Towson through to the final of the ASB Classic,
the third final of her career, and she has done
it with some emphatic style.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
Big shots.

Speaker 6 (01:28:30):
Big winners are now a big smile six four or
six three. Clara Towson goes through to the final at Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
And Naomi Osaka two good for Alicia Parts.

Speaker 6 (01:28:45):
A marquee performance from the tournaments headline. At for the
first time since twenty twenty two, Naomi Osaka will play
for a title on the WTA Tour. The young American
Alicia Parks drew plenty at her She absorbed it all
in Naomi Osaka, clinical professional, come and composed. She goes

(01:29:10):
through to the final six four, sixteen and finally.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Kiwi free skier Luca Harrington has won the FIS Free
Ski Big Aer World Cup in Austria and what doubles
us as first World Cup podium and also the first
time any key we free skier has won a big
Aer World Cup. Luca Harrington rewarded with a combined score
of one hundred and eighty two point six from his

(01:29:34):
two counting runs.

Speaker 16 (01:29:36):
I've been working really hard this year. In the past
few years, you know, I've been. Making finals has been
huge and to put down these two tracks and a
walk away with the Wind is just the most insane
thing ever in the biggest three of come tu and
I'm so grateful.

Speaker 8 (01:29:52):
It's more than just a game.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
Weekend Sport with Jason Tyne News Talk.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
They Go told you it was a bumper edition two
seventeen on Weekend Sport. Early January is the time for
resolutions and many sports people and particularly coaches, we'll be
looking ahead and planning how twenty twenty five can be
their best year ever, whether it's elite or grassroots that
they're involved in. Coaching guru Wayne Goldsmith has joined us

(01:30:18):
earlier in the year to give us some tips. You
sent me a great article Wayne, how not to fail
at keeping your New Year's resolutions. I found it very interesting.
It's a good place to start when you're looking ahead,
to look back at the year that's been and reflect
honestly upon that.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
First of all, it is a happy new Year to you,
pointing to all your listeners and millions and millions that
I know are writes are in New Zealand and the
rest of the world if they want to follow sport
and learn all they can. But yeah, look, it's what
we know about resolutions. It's a very common thing. You
grow up with mum and dad saying, right, it's a

(01:30:56):
new year, let's get up and get into school, and
it's the year you're going to be in the first
eleven soccer team and all those things. Yet we know,
and research has been around for years and years, we
know that by the end of January about sixty to
seventy percent of those resolutions have been abandoned. And look

(01:31:17):
at what I said to you a point of let's
go and do something, but there's a seventy percent chance
it's not going to work, you probably want to take
another approach. And you know, thanks to the work of
people like Mark Manson, I'm sure people have come across
his book and other people who have looked at changed differently,
there's a much much better way of reflecting on what's gone,

(01:31:39):
but being better focused on the achievement of change in
implementing change going forward.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
So let's look at how you do that effectively. Let's
look at how we well might first of all, get
past the end of January for starters, and then implement
things which are going to have a concrete, positive effect
when you look back and you look at what has
been working, what hasn't doing, What should you stop doing,

(01:32:08):
what should you start doing? And how do you work
out which of your actions fall into which of those categories.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Yeah, and that's a question that even the professional teams.
I'm sure when the All Blacks came back from the
Spring tour, they came back from Europe and they went
through a process of saying, well, what did we do
that workers?

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
There's always things.

Speaker 3 (01:32:31):
At work, and then what did we do where we went, Well,
that just didn't work, that strategy didn't work, that player
didn't work in that position, or that preparation didn't work,
or the travel didn't work. And then we go, you know,
what did we learn about this? What did we learn
along the way that we can start doing? And that's
a very simple but very effective model. Keep doing, stop doing,

(01:32:54):
start doing what's working, they're doing it, what's not working,
stop doing it? What did we learn along the way?
What did we learn in the last week. I think
the problem that I see with coaches find is they
tend to abandon too much. There's a great one that says,
if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. So

(01:33:15):
instead of being analytical and say, let's sit down for
a minute, what actually worked, what didn't work, and what
can we do differently and ask the players, or sit
down and talk to the parents or the committee or
other coaches, or look at the data or whatever it is,
and try to get a bit of an objective assessment
of the things that work didn't work and what did

(01:33:36):
we learn and look at it if they can almost
from a distance, almost a helicopter perspective of looking at
the inside from the outside and go, well, you know what,
what actually worked, because otherwise they might be laying on
the bench and they're going there's an article from the
I don't know, the timber Wolves in the NBA, and

(01:33:58):
the coach says, you know what we found really works
is we train Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and we have the
rest of the week off. And he goes, that's it.
We've got to do that from now on with my
under apes, because that's what somebody else is doing.

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
Wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
Way to go about it. It's not about following trends
and saying we're going to change by following what's working
for other people. It's that methodical, systematic We're already doing
some things that are great, let's hang on to those
some things we know just did not work. And then
what did we learn though we're going to introduce some

(01:34:32):
smart change to make things better, just.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
On the.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Keep doing the things that worked. I guess the overplaying
of that is not changing too much at all. And
another one of our favorite sayings is insanity is doing
the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
How challenging is it for coaches who might have been successful,
maybe very successful in twenty twenty four to actually say, okay,

(01:34:58):
we still need to look at things that we can change.

Speaker 19 (01:35:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
I think you and I talked about this on a
recent call about this need for intelligent and smart change.
It doesn't have to be big change, but this differentiation
between what's working and that you know, those horrible words
or those really negative performance living in words of that's
the way we do it here. This is why there

(01:35:24):
needs to be a bit of a process of thinking,
because otherwise, you know, well we did that last year
and we came first. Therefore everything we do is great
and it's all working. Then you step back and say, well, hey,
on a minute, if we hadn't have got that penalty
with five minutes to go in the semi final, we
wouldn't have been been in the final. And if that

(01:35:45):
player hadn't been yellow carted after the first fifth day minutes,
we may not have won one nil, or we may
not have had that extramend's good to try and the
corner so you could success could almost blind you. You
can look back and say, well, okay, the performance was this.
Therefore we know everything and even at the other end
of the scale, pointing you could have come last in

(01:36:05):
the comp addition, it doesn't mean that every single thing
is wrong. There's always things that are working. And sometimes
that's the art is knowing what the tweet, what the change,
what not the change, and how to go about changing it.
And quite often the evidence is right in front of you.
If your eyes are open and you're not blinded by ego,
you're not blinded by habit and tradition and ritual thinking

(01:36:30):
that the things I do are all right. It's just
circumstance or one of the big ones that I see.
Point and I wrote an article about this year in
the Week is you can't buy success. But the coaches go,
you know what, Sure, we lost every every game last
year and our tackling was awful, and our tack was terrible,

(01:36:53):
and we couldn't kick and we couldn't pass. You know what,
we need some new gym equipment. Break the mold of
thinking that things you buy will fix your problems, and
you're probably lost whole bunch of sponsors. I'm terribly sorry,
but try to get the mindset of I as leader.

(01:37:14):
I need to lead the change. I need to change
what I'm doing and the way that I look at things.
I then need to inspire change in the people who
are around me. And then when I've got those things
and play, sure, let's look for maybe some equipment choices.
But I see a lot of you know, there's that.
The story I like to tell, the way I like

(01:37:36):
to describe it a people pointing is that if I'm
a terrible driver and I break too late or too
early and don't accelerate the right way and I don't
know how to corner, given me a Ferrari doesn't make
me a better driver, And I think it's a lot
of coaches go, well, you know what, the skills are
not great. There's not a lot of motivation, the culture

(01:37:56):
and the team isn't really working on a lot of
problems with parents. You know, we need a new gym,
or we need everyone needs to get a new uniform,
or we need some new goal paper. No good charming
up with a great solution to the wrong problem. So
first of all, figure out what's working, figure out what's
not working, and then what did you learn that you

(01:38:17):
can systematically implement and make it better?

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Change can be daunting, though, can't it wane? So can
even small steps make a difference?

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
Absolutely? And if you get a chance to read that
Manson book, The Subtle Art of Not giving a root word,
which I'm sure everybody's ever heard of or soon, but
it's great, And he's got a wonderful series on YouTube
about making change, James Clear with Atomic Habits. There's a
lot of material you can buy or read for free

(01:38:48):
online through social media by those two. But there's a
lot of others where the message is small steps matter.
So a lot of people going right, this is the
year I'm going to change everything about the way I
train for rugby. Everything's going to change every single thing. Well, no,
just first little step, turn up five minutes early and

(01:39:11):
do a few stretches. The next week, turn up five
minutes early, do a few stretches and do ten kicks,
or go by yourself the next week, turn up five
minutes early, do some stretches, have a few goal kicks,
and do a little bit more of a warm up,
or just little steps and the cumulative effect of those

(01:39:32):
little steps and achievable steps. What we know from the
research about things like news resolutions in broader society, most
of them fail because steps are too big. So you
might have someone like me is about ten fifteen clays
overweight on a good day. You say, right, this is
the day, this is the time, this is year. I'm

(01:39:53):
going to lose all the weight. I'm going to run
a marathon, I'm going to play NBA, and I'm going
to do it all by the end of February. Let's go.
And it's not sustainable. The steps are too big and
us putting human beings. We want to see results, we
want to see things happening, so I want to go.
If I go to the gym, I want to look
like Schwartz Nigga the next day. So we know that

(01:40:16):
just doesn't work. And your brain centeriator says, what's the point,
why bother? I'm not getting Whereas if I go to
the gym and say, my only goal to the gym
today is to get there on time and to do
ten or fifteen minutes of exercise that I enjoy. That's
all I need to do today. All Right, Tomorrow I'm
going to turn up, I'm going to go twenty minutes,

(01:40:38):
and I'm going to end it with five minutes on
the bike or five minutes on the treatment. All right,
next week, and those little steps achievable steps, but you're
getting immediate feedback to going, wow, I'm getting better. I'm
seeing progress. I'm seeing improvement. And if I can give
one piece of advice to coaches, to parents and athletes

(01:41:00):
is tiny steps. It's the cumulative effect, the impact of
And I'd say to swimmers, okay, what are you going
to do this year? And I go I'm going to
make the national team or I'm going to break a
national record. All right, how far is that? How far
are you off your target? And they might say, oh,
look I'm four seconds away, which is a huge chunk

(01:41:22):
of improvement, and it can be daunting, but say, look,
all you've got to improve is a tenth of a
second every session. That's it. Can you improve a tenth
of a second. Yes they can, they tell me back. Well,
that's all you need to think about, because accumulative effect
over a week is half a second, accumulat VINCO two

(01:41:43):
weeks is and those little steps matter.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Such instantly usable advice. As always, Wayne, thank you for
your time. Now I understand you're hitting our way. You're
catching up with a bunch of tennis coaches over the
side of the ditch.

Speaker 3 (01:41:59):
I am. I am on Monday morning on speaking at
the Tennis New Zealand the the Classic Tennis Tournament in Auckland.
I'm looking forward to it. I'm talking about the importance
of coaching choice, and the whole theme will be about

(01:42:19):
taking coaches on a journey on how they can go
from coaching kids by what I call bob coaching, bucket
of balls coaching and just trying balls across and getting
them to hit them back, which is quite off from
what we've seen in the really early years and introductory
years of coaching, true to helping athletes become independent, to

(01:42:42):
become self accountable, to become responsible for their own actions behavior.
So it'll be taking coaches through a process of how
do I help kids go from coaching coaching following my
coaching and doing the coaching process that I'm suggesting for them,
the taking ownership, responsibility and accountability for their own destinies.

(01:43:03):
So it's the asp CLA. We get to go to
the tennis that night. What a day. So I get
to work with coaches in the morning, hang out and
listen to some other presenters during the day, and then
we all go to the tennis at night. Carrot Waite's
going to be really really good.

Speaker 2 (01:43:17):
Fun outstanding.

Speaker 8 (01:43:18):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
I know they'll get great benefit from you, Wayne, as
we always do. Thanks for taking the time as always,
look forward to catching up regularly. As twenty twenty five
rolls on.

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
Cannot wait for talk again, my friend, have a wonderful week.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
You have a great week to Wayne. Wayne Goldsmith there
with some some great advice as always from more from Wayne.
WG coaching dot Com is his website, WG coaching dot Com.
Heaps a great snippets and articles and other bits and
pieces on there, and he's a regular contributor to Weekend
Sport across the year. Wayne Goldsmith, they're all out Sri

(01:43:52):
Lanka at the Basin Reserve for one hundred and seventy
eight and the forty fourth over Matt Henry the standout
for New Zealand with four for nineteen, Jacob Duffy two
for thirty nine, Nathan Smith two for forty three, Mitchell
sent Now one for twenty si seven. It was a
runout in there as well, So one hundred and seventy
eight all out and the forty fourth New Zealand will
come out and begin the chase for one hundred and

(01:44:13):
seventy nine and a couple of texts through though. Jack
says there are showers in p Toni and that's obviously
about ten or fifteen k app State Highway two from Wellington,
and Mary says, I've just been an Island Bay and
then Lyle Bay. A few spits of rain, Island Bay
and Lile Bay. Not far from the basement at all.
Still quite bright though it'll be interesting if the weather
holds long enough for the cricket game to finish. Thanks Mary. Yeah,

(01:44:35):
looking at the window, I'm literally five hundred meters from
the basement reserve where I'm sitting here in the ZB
Wellington studio. No spits of rain on the window here
at the moment, so I get the filing. They'll be okay.
New Zealand wuldn't want to make around though. I think
they want to get out there and start having to
go at it. As far as Australia and India are concerned,

(01:44:55):
Australia is seventy one for three. Seventy one for three.
That's at lunch on the third day. They're chasing one
hundred and sixty two to win, so another ninety one
needed with seven wickets in hand, twenty eight away from
three when we come back. A Auckland doctor has run
an ultramarathon on every continent in a calendar year. What

(01:45:19):
was it all about? How did he do it? What
was the secret? Doctor eny Aromati going to join us
right after this on Weekend Sports.

Speaker 1 (01:45:28):
The Big Issues on and after Fields Call oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Fine and GJ.

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Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Twenty five to three and Auckland City Hospital doctor has
achieved an incredible feat by completing a self supported ultra
marathon on all seven continents in just one year. In
twenty twenty four, doctor Ineotromatty completed eight races in eight
countries Australia, New Zealand, Namibia, Peru, Mongolia, Romania, the United

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States and Antarctica. Across all seven con stance each Ultra
Marathon was around two hundred and fifty kilometers and took
five to six days to complete. Doctor Annioldo Matti Joints
US Now, congratulations on this incredible, incredible feat. I guess
the obvious first question is why.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
Ah, that's a very good question.

Speaker 8 (01:46:27):
It was a bit of a combination of I was
raising money for a scholarship that we're starting to help
with school kids to get them motivated to partake in
sport and tertiary education. And the other reason why was
I was turning fifty, so I'm getting old.

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
What better way to celebrate bringing up a milestone birthday
like that than doing this. So let's talk about the
logistics of it, the scheduling of it. First of all,
did you I mean were you You were obviously confident
that you could fit them all into one calendar year,
but were there any logistical challenges?

Speaker 3 (01:47:02):
Oh, it was the logistical nightmare.

Speaker 8 (01:47:04):
Like we actually managed to get all is done in
ten months in the end, but people would cancel races,
you know, and then we'd have to find another race
on another on the same continent and try to work
it with other ones occasionally, like the worst I had
was one race I came back from. I literally got
back to New zealand had a day, had to repack

(01:47:25):
all my gear, swap it out, and was back on
the plane again the next day. So yeah, it was
pretty tight.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
So I want to come back to the scheduling, but
in terms of recovery, because how long would recovery for
one of these races normally be. I wouldn't imagine that
one day is the ideal recovery. What is the what
is the normal recovery time after one of these.

Speaker 8 (01:47:46):
Really realistically normally after a big race like that, was
the amount of you know, of course your playing I
guess for want a bit of term, you're looking at
about three months, I guess, so you know, turning around
and having like two weeks to be start and as
we're traveling between.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
It's not the best mat it's not, but obviously you
you factored all that in the one in Antarctica. I
think I read that that only happens every every other year.
So if you didn't do it this year, you would
have had to wait for a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (01:48:17):
Yeah, correctly it was the big one. You know, like
if I if I messed up at a race this
year and couldn't finish it, then I had to wait
like another two years.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
When you look back, which one was the hardest?

Speaker 8 (01:48:30):
Oh, I think the one in Libya in Africa. Unfortunately,
in the first race in New Zealand, I caught COVID
on the last day and so I sort of turned
around in the via and it got up to like,
you know, fifty degrees in the heat, so I was
pretty suffering. So that was probably put the biggest physical toll.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
Because I guess across the continents, depending on the time
of year and all that sort of thing, you came
up against different different weather, different climatic sort of conditions.
Do you prefer the heat, Do you like it when
it's a bit cooler? What's your preference?

Speaker 8 (01:49:03):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:49:03):
I I like the cold.

Speaker 8 (01:49:04):
I loved Antarctica. You know, not only an antactic has
made for like short, stocky people like myself. You know,
it's cold, the wind howling or the really skiny you
know runner athlete will get going around, So it works
in our favor.

Speaker 2 (01:49:20):
So these are self supported ultra marathons, so were you
basically buy yourself the whole time?

Speaker 8 (01:49:27):
I read a lot from myself, but the self supporter
side comes into like you have to carry everything you
need on you in your back for the sixty second days,
so all your food, your sleeping bag, everything like that,
and it just provides you overnight with ten ten water allowance.
I've got a really weird running style, so nobody sort
of runs with me for long, so that's quite good.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
What's weird about your running style?

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
Oh, I've got really short legs, and I think.

Speaker 8 (01:49:53):
I run as fast as some people walk at times
with the big, tall, lanky people.

Speaker 2 (01:49:59):
So actually for these for these races, you're probably taking,
you know, twice as many steps as somebody else is
doing it.

Speaker 8 (01:50:05):
Probably, you know, I probably weigh twice as much as
some of them as well.

Speaker 3 (01:50:09):
But it's all good.

Speaker 8 (01:50:10):
It happens with the endurance side of it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
So how do you split it up? Any do you across?
Do you divide the kilometers evenly across the days? Are
there certain days you run more k does? How does
it work?

Speaker 20 (01:50:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:50:23):
So typically they run about on the same format, so
you run roughly marathon the day, and there's a time
cut off that you have to make, and then they
totally have a long stage where they sort of double
it up, so you might be running eighty to one
hundred k's and that can go overnight. If you're quick enough,
you almost get a whole day off before the final
sort of sprint days to finish.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
And in terms of sleep, how many hours of sleep
are you're getting per night on average?

Speaker 8 (01:50:50):
Well, I think they'll probably get more than when I'm
working as an emergency dots. The truth you know, before
you've got to do is you wake up for a run,
eat and have a bit of a sleep. No, I
sleep quite well, intense I love it well.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
I imagine after doing the case during a day, you
wouldn't take much to not off in a race of
this length, in a two hundred and fifty kilometer run,
which are typically the hardest kilometers.

Speaker 8 (01:51:16):
Well, I think the early days and that's when most
people will put out or quit because you haven't really
invested much, and every time you started a new race,
it's like your body hurts. And then come about day three,
my brain just tells the body to shut up and
get on with it so usual. I used to get
better as the days go on.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
So how did you get the ultra marathon bug?

Speaker 3 (01:51:43):
It was a little went.

Speaker 8 (01:51:44):
Through my dad really like I sort of I hurt
my back quite badly in my thirties through work, looking
on the chop the service and that, and then just
sort of gradually got into running. And my dad was
always into like running. So one day, you know, there's
priceless earthquakes, he signed me up or he told people
I was going to run an ultra marathon to raise

(01:52:05):
money for charity. And that was the first one, and
it sort of just took off from there.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
And because I guess people get the running bag right,
they do and they run. They might run a ten k,
they might run a half marathon, they might run marathons.
The ultra marathon just seems to me to be an
entirely different commitment all together. When do you train? Did
you manage to train at all? Or was it just
race to race to race?

Speaker 8 (01:52:28):
Yes, most of my training was actually done in twenty
twenty three. I guess I spent a lot of time
and the putty once of what is on purposes of
muscle and running long back to back runs on the
weekends or you know, I could get off work, and
then last year you're really just recovery between races. You
don't really need to train if you're doing that many runs,

(01:52:49):
you just tried to rebuild enough to get back into
the next one.

Speaker 2 (01:52:53):
Where does your mind go during these runs? Do you
solve the problems of the world, do you do you
have do you play music?

Speaker 3 (01:52:59):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
Where does your mind go during these races?

Speaker 8 (01:53:02):
Yeah, sometimes they have little epiphanes and sort of they
have to quickly think about jotting them down about you know,
fixing the health care system.

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
Things like that.

Speaker 8 (01:53:10):
But mostly I don't listen to music. I like to
switch off. I get sort of bombarded with you know,
questions and all that sort of stuff every day all
the time. So I like to switch off and go
to my own little space and maybe have a bit
of a chat with the other runners and you know,
learn about why they're doing it as well, and that

(01:53:31):
sort of helps with other things I'm trying to organize.
And yeah, it's sort of sometimes I'll run in case whatever.
You don't even know it because you've just switched the
brain off.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
Incredible, incredible, So what does twenty twenty five hold for you.

Speaker 8 (01:53:47):
Well, at the moment, I think now that all the
big races are over, my body's sort of in that
it's sore and it's wanting to recover a bit. It's
going to be a busy start of the year because
I'm getting married and I've got one more race to
do to try to set another record, and then hopefully
the second half of the year will just be lounging
around it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
Well, you've earned it. What's the what's the race you
have to do to and what's the record that you're
looking to set with with us next one?

Speaker 8 (01:54:14):
Oh well, there's a four deserts race series run by
Racing the Planet, and so I was the first New
Zealander and so far the ownly New Zealanders do all
four in a year of those. But if I finish
the next race in March is a group of us,
there's a few of us that if we all finish,
will be the first to ever do it twice.

Speaker 2 (01:54:35):
And is that one amazing? And then marriage it'll be
a breeze after all of this.

Speaker 8 (01:54:43):
I've been told that I have on sunscreen to that
I show up at the winning of a bird face.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
I'm in trouble, you will be in trouble. That's very
good advice from whoever gave that to you. And it's
been such a such a delight chatting to your mate.
Congratulations on this incredible feat of mind over manner and
of physical resilience. Mate, just terrif they coulds been been
awesome to get the chance to chat to you.

Speaker 8 (01:55:04):
Thank you very much and you have a good new year,
a good.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
New year too. And he had doctor Eneodo Matti. There
eight races and eight countries and not just races, ultra
marathons self supported on all seven continents in just one year. Remarkable.
Two forty five News Talks Hebb.

Speaker 1 (01:55:21):
One Grudge Hold Engage Weekend Sports with Jason Tame and GJ. Gunnerholmes,
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Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
News Talks Abby twelve y from three. We have a
new women's singles champion at the at the Somerset National
Bowls in Auckland and after a marathon thirty ends thirty
ends in the final deb white out of the Innuetta
Bowling Club in Matamata, has defeated Wendy Jensen from Takapouna

(01:55:50):
Bowling Club by twenty one shots to seventeen, twenty one
shots to seventeen through thirty ends. Congratulations deb White, the
new women's singles champion. The men's Pears final underway very soon.
Adam Hayward and Scott Cottrell up against Lance Pan and
Jamie Hill. The Wellington Phoenix back to the A League

(01:56:11):
Women's top six after a two zil home win against
Perth Glory yesterday.

Speaker 21 (01:56:15):
The bounce of the ball favors Grace Charlay. We saw
her score from a similar position against Sydney and she's
done it again. Grace Jarley from distance.

Speaker 10 (01:56:27):
It's a double dose at potty to a park and
Charlie returns to.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
Horn the Perth Glory. Here Grace jarlac Us scoring the
first goal, Olivia ferguson the second. Here are some of
the postmat's thoughts of coach Paul Temple, starting with Grace
Jarlay's goal.

Speaker 18 (01:56:43):
Yeah, almost the same patch, right that She's been doing
those at training time after time, and I keep telling
her she's just got to keep shooting. She's got such
unbelievable ability and there's proof now two games in a
row of what she can do. So yeah, there'll be
more to come. She seems to keep believing in herself,
but technically she can do all those things. It's a
great goal two in a row now for Fergie as well,

(01:57:05):
which is good. Keeps building the confidence right. We created
a lot of good opportunities. Probably could have been a
little bit more clinical as well. Just decision're making in
and around the box at times can be a bit better.
But these are good problems to have because you know
as soon as we start fixing those things, we're just
going to start scoring a lot more goals. But we're
creating a lot and getting in their box. So unpleased

(01:57:27):
with that. I think this league it's really difficult to
plan ahead and think, oh, we could win that, or
we're going to struggle there or that Mum might be
difficult because you just don't know what you're going to
come up against on the day. I think everyone's capable
of beating everyone. So we're just this season going with
a one step at a time approach. We're not even
looking at the opponents ahead. We're just kind of going, right,

(01:57:48):
what are they this week? And what have we got
to face and how we're going to prepare ourselves. So
we just keep sticking with that strategy and hopefully yeah,
we just keep picking up the points. But yeah, I
think we're starting to show it's clicking and things are
starting to move in the right direction and I think
we're a team that can beat anyone and we'll be
a force if we can carry.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
That's pretty happy coach Paul Temple after the win yesterday.
Busy week ahead for the Wellington Phoenix Women. Thursday night
they're in Sydney to take on the Western Sydney Wanderers
and they'll stay in Australia and head to South Australia
for a game next Sunday. So a week today against
Adelaide United nine away from three. News Talks EB when.

Speaker 1 (01:58:25):
It's down to the line, you made a call on
eight hundred eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason Pine News.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Talks V six Away from three. That's just about us
on Weekend Sport for today, just updating the cricket for
you and the state of play on both sides of
the Tasman Sri Lanka bowled out for one hundred and
seventy eight by New Zealand at the based On Reserve
and the forty fourth over New Zealand will shortly start
their chase for one hundred and seventy nine to take
a one mill lead in the three match ODII series,

(01:58:54):
and at the Sydney Cricket Ground there at lunch on
the third day, Australia seventy one for three. They need
ninety one more runs to win this Test and take
a three to one series victory. On the other hand,
need seven wickets. Jess Davidson on the radio after three
o'clock with Summer Afternoons. Huge thanks to Libby for producing

(01:59:15):
the show this afternoon. Thank you for listening. In Weekend
Sport returns next Saturday. I think we just carry on.
There's no need to stop us there. We didn't stop
over the Christmas New Year breaks, so no need to
stop now. We'll be back next Saturday. Song to take
us out today, Well, Dodor Anyodomaty just inspired me, not
necessarily to run an ultramarathon, but certainly to find a

(01:59:36):
song that fits. And I thought about the way Forest
Gump ran across America in that movie, and the song
that was playing while that was happening. I thought it'd
applied pretty much to Doctor Aniodo Matti as well. Not
that he was on empty. He was running with a
full tank, by the sounds of it, right across the
calendar year of twenty twenty four. Running on empty, of course,

(01:59:57):
Jackson Brown. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. See you
next Weekend five an hour.

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