October 12, 2024 • 8 mins
Mid Canterbury's snapped South Canterbury's 39-game winning streak in their Heartland Championship semifinal.
The Hammers' 17-16 win in Timaru also ends their southern rival's bid to win four consecutive Meads Cups.
Mid Canterbury coach Matt Winter joined Piney to discuss the win.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The longest winning streak in New Zealand provincial rugby history
has finally come to an end. After thirty nine straight
victories stretching back over eighteen hundred days to October of
twenty nineteen, South Canterbury have finally been beaten by their
neighbors from an hour up the road. Mid Canterbury, playing
(00:33):
in their first Meads Cup semi final in nine years,
have won seventeen sixteen with a penalty deep into added time.
The win was masterminded by Mid Canterbury's first year head
coach Matt Winter, who joins us now. Matt, thanks for
your time. Did you sleep okay last night? Ah?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, like a baby, like a baby ja. Yep. It
was pretty special, pretty special occasion, pretty special performance and year. Yeah.
Very pleased to get it all done mate. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I heard your chatting on our christ Church News Talks
EDB show yesterday morning. You talk talked about limiting their opportunities.
How did you feel when they scored a try after
two minutes?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Not great? Kind of not off the script is what
we're what we planned on doing but yeah, n call
back and to stay in the game after Yeah, we've
been down early like that. The South Canterrey are team.
Once they get a bit of steam up, they're very
hard to stay with. So yeah, the boys showed a
lot of ticket.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And I'm looking at the Yeah, I'm looking at the
at the scoring action. And you were sixteen six down
going into the final ten minutes because you were so
close and hadn't let them get away. Did you feel
as though you had to come back.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
In you yep, Yeah, absolutely. We talked about it all
week about it being, you know, been an eighty minute
game and probably going to take longer than that. Text
you to want it, to get it, to get it done,
I suppose, But yeah, we felt that if the longer
we stayed with them, you know, the better we were
going to go. And yeah, we got a huge impact
off our beach. I can't speak highly enough of the
(02:06):
men that came off the beach what they did for us.
So yeah, we won in the last teen or fifteen
minutes on the back of what they did for us.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Let's go through the last eight minutes, shall we A
penalty which brought you back to sixteen to nine then
a try in the seventy fourth to make it sixteen fourteen,
but a missed conversion. Tell us about that try. Was
the conversion handy? Was it out wide? What was the
story there?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, it was a try in the corner. We'd finally
held onto the ball and built some phases which we
had struggled to do for the first sixty five CEO
of your minute. So built some phases, got down their
end and we were chipping away around the fringes and
then a great path from the base of the rap
from our half that Kieran mclador, a big Fiji and
winger right to b Vasa racoda and he gotted it
(02:49):
down in the corner. So it wasn't an easy kick
straight into the guts and easily coming off the coast too,
so it was never going to be an easy kick.
But yeah, again that's back within range. Was pretty crucial obviously.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Indeed, so sixteen fourteen, you get to eighty minutes, presumably
the hood goes then what because by the looks of this,
you didn't land the winning penalty into about four or
five minutes in. So tell us about the action after
the hood.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, so same again. Really, we just held onto the ball,
went a few phases, got turned over well untillor twice,
and they thankfully kicked it back to us. So we
managed to work our way back up in the field. Yeah,
retaining position, keep them under pressure. They gave us a
couple of penalties. They gave us one which was about
fifty out. Thankfully it wasn't about five meters closer. Otherwise
(03:37):
we might have lined it up and it would have
been a bit touch and go with that win. But yeah,
it was about fifty out, so kicked it to the corner.
Went a couple more phases off the lineup. We're lining
up with a drop goal, and then they stripped it
off our reserve hooker and as they stripped it, that
(03:57):
knocked it on into someone in front of them, so
they're actually offside, which they weren't all that happy about
with at the time, but just watching it back now
this morning, it was the right call from the referee.
So yeah, right in front of the sticks, I mean
eighty fourth minute, eighty fifth minute I think, and Tom
Rekey stepped up with ice in his veins and put
it through the sticks.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It was pretty handy. I've seen some footage of but
I guess it's never secure until it goes through. But
it sails through the whistle goes. What are your emotions?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I don't know. If there's a few videos going
around on my emotions struggling to keep them in the
best of times, but I certainly couldn't just then. So yeah,
elation mack. Yeah, absolutely over the moon. It's so very
difficult to put into words, and even now just talking
about it today, you still had to put them into words.
Really how it feels. But very cool. We've got to
(04:46):
We enjoyed last night, celebrated last night, and you know
we've got a job to do this week, to go
up to teams and put one on them too.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know, hindsight's a wonderful thing. But going in, did
you feel like it could be your day? I mean,
it's a long winning streak, isn't it, thirty nine straight wins?
Did you feel though that that might be your day? Yesterday?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah? Always, mate, always? Yeah. Pretty confident or incredibly confident
in the group of men. We've got the pretty special bunch,
so we always thought we could do it, but like
you said, it was it was incredibly tough like that. Yeah,
they're a press aside and to do what they've done.
I don't think anyone will have a thirty nine games
in a row again, so yeah, to be the ones
to do it's pretty special. But ye know, we always
(05:26):
felt we were a chance, definitely.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And it's a pretty pretty short hop down the road.
Isn't this all just straight line from Ashburton to Maros?
Do you have any fans come down with you?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah? We did. Yeah, we had an awesome turnout, the
lot of m and Kenny Judy in the crowd and
be a lot of support there. So yeah, we're very
grateful for that. It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So your last one the Meats Cup mid Calibarry, that
is in twenty fourteen. You'll face Teams Valley in the
final next weekend. Have you have you started to refocus
on that?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah? Yeah, no, I watched a little bit of Teams
Value already today, thankfully with the scouting that we've done
on some other teams that don't play Teams Value already,
so he had a bit of a look at them. Anyway,
they're a good side, They're definitely a good side. Yeah.
That pretty impressive. So it's not going to be easy,
especially going up there, but yeah, very much looking forward
to the opportunity, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
How was your phone afterwards to the blow up I did.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, people that don't even like me will miss me.
So yeah, there's quite a few of them, so that
was awesome. Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I love that. You probably had mad Monday fist of
but he's playing for tomorrow. Did you're gonna have to
put them on old for a week?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No? No, no, no, man, Monday definitely not. We we
didn't put that off till next week, so that I'll
probably take Monday off work though, just to watch team's
valley footage, so I'll put my leave in shortly.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Brilliant. So I mean, what, this is your first season
in charge, isn't it correct?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So, I mean at the start of the year you
always say you want to win it, right, at what
point did you start to think to yourself, actually, we've
got a you know, we've got a pretty good team.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Here, I reckon our first preseason game against South in
Development was pretty special. We were really light on numbers.
Everyone was sorry. I had a pretty long rugby season,
so we went in there under strength and they probably
took us for granted. A little bit, but we managed
to hold on to a pretty depressive win against End,
(07:16):
which we hadn't done for quite a few years. So
I think that was a pretty good indicator early on
that said that we had something pretty special all right.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, one to go the final of the Meads Cup
next weekend. Look forward to seeing how that goes. But
congratulations on and historic victory yesterday. It must have been
a wonderful bus ride home, mate, Thanks for taking the
time for a.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Chat, No worries, Thank you very much, Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Matt went to their head coach of Mid Canterbury after
they went over South Canterbury yesterday in Timoru seventeen points
to sixteen. At the same time, Thames Valley went to
Fonganui and beat them thirty eight fifteen. So the two
away teams victorious and the meads Cup semi finals yesterday.
Thames Valley will host Mid Canterbury in the Meads Cup
(07:56):
final next Saturday. In the Lahure Cup, these score lines
King Country bet East Coast four thirty one. I guess
that's not entirely unusual. But in Lavin yesterday hot off
a new a Carpitty fifty one West Coast fifty two
(08:19):
fifty to fifty one West Coast, but hot off a
new a Carpitty yesterday so they will play King Country
in the final of the Whore Cup.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks b weekends from midday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The longest winning streak in New Zealand provincial rugby history
has finally come to an end. After thirty nine straight
victories stretching back over eighteen hundred days to October of
twenty nineteen, South Canterbury have finally been beaten by their
neighbors from an hour up the road. Mid Canterbury, playing
(00:33):
in their first Meads Cup semi final in nine years,
have won seventeen sixteen with a penalty deep into added time.
The win was masterminded by Mid Canterbury's first year head
coach Matt Winter, who joins us now. Matt, thanks for
your time. Did you sleep okay last night? Ah?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, like a baby, like a baby ja. Yep. It
was pretty special, pretty special occasion, pretty special performance and year. Yeah.
Very pleased to get it all done mate. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I heard your chatting on our christ Church News Talks
EDB show yesterday morning. You talk talked about limiting their opportunities.
How did you feel when they scored a try after
two minutes?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Not great? Kind of not off the script is what
we're what we planned on doing but yeah, n call
back and to stay in the game after Yeah, we've
been down early like that. The South Canterrey are team.
Once they get a bit of steam up, they're very
hard to stay with. So yeah, the boys showed a
lot of ticket.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And I'm looking at the Yeah, I'm looking at the
at the scoring action. And you were sixteen six down
going into the final ten minutes because you were so
close and hadn't let them get away. Did you feel
as though you had to come back.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
In you yep, Yeah, absolutely. We talked about it all
week about it being, you know, been an eighty minute
game and probably going to take longer than that. Text
you to want it, to get it, to get it done,
I suppose, But yeah, we felt that if the longer
we stayed with them, you know, the better we were
going to go. And yeah, we got a huge impact
off our beach. I can't speak highly enough of the
(02:06):
men that came off the beach what they did for us.
So yeah, we won in the last teen or fifteen
minutes on the back of what they did for us.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Let's go through the last eight minutes, shall we A
penalty which brought you back to sixteen to nine then
a try in the seventy fourth to make it sixteen fourteen,
but a missed conversion. Tell us about that try. Was
the conversion handy? Was it out wide? What was the
story there?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, it was a try in the corner. We'd finally
held onto the ball and built some phases which we
had struggled to do for the first sixty five CEO
of your minute. So built some phases, got down their
end and we were chipping away around the fringes and
then a great path from the base of the rap
from our half that Kieran mclador, a big Fiji and
winger right to b Vasa racoda and he gotted it
(02:49):
down in the corner. So it wasn't an easy kick
straight into the guts and easily coming off the coast too,
so it was never going to be an easy kick.
But yeah, again that's back within range. Was pretty crucial obviously.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Indeed, so sixteen fourteen, you get to eighty minutes, presumably
the hood goes then what because by the looks of this,
you didn't land the winning penalty into about four or
five minutes in. So tell us about the action after
the hood.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, so same again. Really, we just held onto the ball,
went a few phases, got turned over well untillor twice,
and they thankfully kicked it back to us. So we
managed to work our way back up in the field. Yeah,
retaining position, keep them under pressure. They gave us a
couple of penalties. They gave us one which was about
fifty out. Thankfully it wasn't about five meters closer. Otherwise
(03:37):
we might have lined it up and it would have
been a bit touch and go with that win. But yeah,
it was about fifty out, so kicked it to the corner.
Went a couple more phases off the lineup. We're lining
up with a drop goal, and then they stripped it
off our reserve hooker and as they stripped it, that
(03:57):
knocked it on into someone in front of them, so
they're actually offside, which they weren't all that happy about
with at the time, but just watching it back now
this morning, it was the right call from the referee.
So yeah, right in front of the sticks, I mean
eighty fourth minute, eighty fifth minute I think, and Tom
Rekey stepped up with ice in his veins and put
it through the sticks.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It was pretty handy. I've seen some footage of but
I guess it's never secure until it goes through. But
it sails through the whistle goes. What are your emotions?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I don't know. If there's a few videos going
around on my emotions struggling to keep them in the
best of times, but I certainly couldn't just then. So yeah,
elation mack. Yeah, absolutely over the moon. It's so very
difficult to put into words, and even now just talking
about it today, you still had to put them into words.
Really how it feels. But very cool. We've got to
(04:46):
We enjoyed last night, celebrated last night, and you know
we've got a job to do this week, to go
up to teams and put one on them too.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know, hindsight's a wonderful thing. But going in, did
you feel like it could be your day? I mean,
it's a long winning streak, isn't it, thirty nine straight wins?
Did you feel though that that might be your day? Yesterday?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah? Always, mate, always? Yeah. Pretty confident or incredibly confident
in the group of men. We've got the pretty special bunch,
so we always thought we could do it, but like
you said, it was it was incredibly tough like that. Yeah,
they're a press aside and to do what they've done.
I don't think anyone will have a thirty nine games
in a row again, so yeah, to be the ones
to do it's pretty special. But ye know, we always
(05:26):
felt we were a chance, definitely.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And it's a pretty pretty short hop down the road.
Isn't this all just straight line from Ashburton to Maros?
Do you have any fans come down with you?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah? We did. Yeah, we had an awesome turnout, the
lot of m and Kenny Judy in the crowd and
be a lot of support there. So yeah, we're very
grateful for that. It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So your last one the Meats Cup mid Calibarry, that
is in twenty fourteen. You'll face Teams Valley in the
final next weekend. Have you have you started to refocus
on that?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah? Yeah, no, I watched a little bit of Teams
Value already today, thankfully with the scouting that we've done
on some other teams that don't play Teams Value already,
so he had a bit of a look at them. Anyway,
they're a good side, They're definitely a good side. Yeah.
That pretty impressive. So it's not going to be easy,
especially going up there, but yeah, very much looking forward
to the opportunity, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
How was your phone afterwards to the blow up I did.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, people that don't even like me will miss me.
So yeah, there's quite a few of them, so that
was awesome. Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I love that. You probably had mad Monday fist of
but he's playing for tomorrow. Did you're gonna have to
put them on old for a week?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No? No, no, no, man, Monday definitely not. We we
didn't put that off till next week, so that I'll
probably take Monday off work though, just to watch team's
valley footage, so I'll put my leave in shortly.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Brilliant. So I mean, what, this is your first season
in charge, isn't it correct?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So, I mean at the start of the year you
always say you want to win it, right, at what
point did you start to think to yourself, actually, we've
got a you know, we've got a pretty good team.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Here, I reckon our first preseason game against South in
Development was pretty special. We were really light on numbers.
Everyone was sorry. I had a pretty long rugby season,
so we went in there under strength and they probably
took us for granted. A little bit, but we managed
to hold on to a pretty depressive win against End,
(07:16):
which we hadn't done for quite a few years. So
I think that was a pretty good indicator early on
that said that we had something pretty special all right.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, one to go the final of the Meads Cup
next weekend. Look forward to seeing how that goes. But
congratulations on and historic victory yesterday. It must have been
a wonderful bus ride home, mate, Thanks for taking the
time for a.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Chat, No worries, Thank you very much, Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Matt went to their head coach of Mid Canterbury after
they went over South Canterbury yesterday in Timoru seventeen points
to sixteen. At the same time, Thames Valley went to
Fonganui and beat them thirty eight fifteen. So the two
away teams victorious and the meads Cup semi finals yesterday.
Thames Valley will host Mid Canterbury in the Meads Cup
(07:56):
final next Saturday. In the Lahure Cup, these score lines
King Country bet East Coast four thirty one. I guess
that's not entirely unusual. But in Lavin yesterday hot off
a new a Carpitty fifty one West Coast fifty two
(08:19):
fifty to fifty one West Coast, but hot off a
new a Carpitty yesterday so they will play King Country
in the final of the Whore Cup.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks b weekends from midday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
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