July 15, 2025 • 18 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 25th July 2025, F1 returns this week in Belgium, so Bob McMurray joins the podcast to preview the big weekend.
Piney offers his thoughts on an impressive start to Rob Walter's reign as Black Caps coach.
And D'Arcy and Piney are in the chamber to discuss the Black Ferns world cup squad.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
To the Sports Fox podcast and association with G J.
Gardner Homes New Zealand's most trusted home builder. It is Friday,
July twenty five. Cheapest this year is flying. I'm Jason
Pine with my good friend and I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
As old as you are, because that's what happens when
you get old and accelerates, which is frightening quite frank.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You remember school.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Holidays, you know, way back when, and they just seem
to go on forever, and then school just went on forever,
and suddenly you turn around and you're fifty five.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes, yes, I do. I know. It's like looking in
a mirror. I know exactly what you're saying. I know
exactly what you're saying. All right, Well, let's not keep
people waiting around too much longer. I want to chat
to you about the Black firm's Rugby World Cup squad
to be named shortly, I want to chat about the Warriors.
I've got some thoughts on the Black Caps as well.
What have we got in terms of an interview a
guest joining us today.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, Jason tonight, because this weekend is Formula One, it
is Spa Frank Courchamp. It is the greatest track in
Formula One, in motorsport, full stop. So why not get
my old mate Bob McMurray on to talk about the
ups and downs of the ins and outs all around
Formula One.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Looking forward to that and the latest and sports news
as well, So let's get into it, hug. In other news,
let's get underway with some of the big sports stories
floating around today. Starting with cricket. Black Caps spinner is
Ish Sody has become the second New Zealander to reach
one hundred and fifty T twenty international wickets in a
(01:44):
sixty run Try series win over Zimbabwe. The black Caps
made one hundred and ninety for six batting first before
rolling the hosts in Harari for one hundred and thirty each.
Sod He took four for twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I feel I can get an alter.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, it's pretty nice to be able to achieve that
milestone and yet nice to country.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
We to all into.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Steven elk is putting his second wind on golf's senior
circuit down to looking after himself more. The key we
have as a one stroke lead after the first round
of the Senior British Open in Berkship as he chases
a second Senior Major and an eleventh.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
To a win.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Keeping everything in shape really, and that includes my body.
It's hard at our age just to keep it up
and maintain it. But just across the board, you know,
I don't I probably don't practice as much as I
used to. It ain't grind as much, but you know,
I might spend more time in the body.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And Keey's half back Jerome Hughes's NRL season with the
Melbourne Storm is in the balance after being taken to
hospital with a dislocated shoulder. The Storm claimed a thirty
four point thirty win over the Roosters in Sydney last night,
but Hughes was taken from the field shortly after halftime.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Jerome Hughes is down with the left shoulder. Gee, this
does not look good, folks.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Delli a medal win up heading to the thought to
break Bellamy on Jerome Hughes.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Is it a world of pace? Dissecting the sporting agenda.
It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And Grave Welcome now to the podcast. Bob McMurray, Formula
one expert in facts. For thirty years he worked for
the legendary McClaren, that team you're just now looking ahead to. Well,
let's face and it is the best racetrack on the planet.
It is Spa Froncle Schamp. It is the home of
the Belgian Grand Prix, which is underway this weekend. Plenty
(03:29):
to look at first and foremost, but of extragress to
the mill if you will above make murray, it looks
like it's going to rain.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, there could be dusty. I mean, I wouldn't care
if it was a nine year dry period with absolute
high temperatures or whatever. Once you get to Spa, there'll
be a cloudy rain. There always is Spad. Well, put
it this way, it's always different weather. It's Spa somehow
or another. The forecast this weekend is for showers, occasional
(03:58):
showers now occasional. They could happen during after whatever the
practice or the race, So it'll be something to look
forward to. And Spa always, as you say, it's a
sort of a peerless track, isn't it. There is nothing
like it now on the Formula one calendar. There's nothing
like the elevation, changes the speed, the sheer devilry of
(04:21):
some of the corners for the drivers. So yeah, it's
a fantastic place. It holds a lot of good memories
from me as well, having been there so many times.
So I'll watch it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, did drop that and didn't you the amount of
times you've been there? Cheers?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Thanks, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That just comes with the territory.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Thirty years of McLaren. Yeh know, absolutely makes sense when
you mentioned the weather and the rain morning night halfway
through the race. The other side of that is it
might just end up at one side of the track,
might just rain on one area, and that makes it
even more exciting as far as tire choice and precision
and control. And this is just another dice roll for
the sevente.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It is and as you say, it can the weather
can be different from corner to corner, frankly, and that's
happened lots of times before, so yeah, that is something.
And they'll never bring the wet weather ties out because
they seem to have an aversion to using those at all.
As we saw at Silverstone they couldn't even bother to
put the wet ties on when it was too wet,
(05:24):
So you know it's going to be a question of
intermediates if it comes out if you put them on.
There's a whole lot of things. And leading up to
the race, Darcy, we've had, you know, part of a
big break to free weekends. Now every team just about
is going to bring upgrades. They're going to be our
upgrades on aerodynamics from Ferrari's suspension upgrades at the rear
(05:49):
end to try and lift the car up a little
bit and get away from this having to run it
on the floor. Athln Martin are bringing upgrades. McLaren got
a new floor, We've got the Racing Bulls bringing upgrades,
and of course Red Bull team itself has got an
upgrade if you want to look at it that way,
with a different boss. So everybody it's got something going
(06:09):
on this weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Before we talk about Redborne the situation there, because that's fascin.
It's been dominating IF One headlines since it was announced
that Christine Horner was being drop kicked just to talk
about the upgrades. Are they likely to stager these upgrades
between cars or are they going to be one off
for everybody. How is they going to operate you think.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I would imagine that they would for the first practice
they would separate the cars. Somebody will have one new
nose or floor or whatever on and the other driver
will not, because they would have been testing all these
in the not only the wind tunnel, but in the simulators,
so they know how each driver handles the upgrade. But nonetheless,
(06:51):
the faster upgrade will always win out on race day
as long as they've got the bits available. McLaren. I'm
sure they have, because they are in a particular quandary
in that they have got to be seen to be
giving each driver equal equipment now, because otherwise they'll be
accused of favoritism, which I don't believe that they would
get into at all. Ferrari they have been over the
(07:14):
last two or three weeks, well, in fact, since the
beginning of the season, they have been getting advice at
every possible opportunity from Lewis Hamilton telling them what he
thinks should happen with the car, and apparently they have
done something towards doing something in that direction. Aston Martin, Well,
they've got Adrian Ewe in there who says he's having
nothing to do with this year's car. He's working on
(07:35):
next year's car, but he's always going to cast his
eye over it and say we're to try this. So yeah,
everybody's going to be trying something for the first practice,
probably different cars, different upgrades.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
The other joker in the pack, of course, is the
sprint race. You talk about if they've got the spears
that they need. But there's a chance that it does
rain halfway through the sprint case someone's going to stuff
it into the scenery. So that just adds another age,
doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Bob? Oh, yeah, well that's the whole Why do you
think we watch it? Oh? You know, you think about
all the stress that the engineers are going through and
the designers and all the rest of it. We frankly
you meet and the other millions of people watch it.
Don't give a damn about that, because all we want
to see is who is fastest, who's managing to conquer
(08:24):
what they have or have not got, and who comes
out of it best. Because strategy has played quite a
part this year in all sorts of things. And of
course we might not be able to talk about Red
Bull without mentioning Horner, but don't forget. They are also
trying to get not only to keep Max for staff
and Super happy in that car, but they're also trying
(08:47):
to get a second car to be something driveable that
Yuki Sonoda can handle. So it'll be interesting to see
how they manage to do that. If they've managed it
at all in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Sports now, it may have escaped your retention, possibly because
these matches are happening in the wee small hours, But
at the moment the black Caps are giving a very
good acount of themselves. In the T twenty Try series
being held in Zimbabwe, the hosts, New Zealand and South
Africa are the three sides. New Zealand so far have
had wins over South Africa by twenty one runs and
(09:21):
seven wickets and wins over Zimbabwe by eight wickets and
by sixty runs, so four from four. They'll play South
Africa again in the final tomorrow night from around eleven
o'clock and have to go in as fairly firm favorites.
And one of the more promising parts of this is
the number of different players who are making contributions to
(09:43):
New Zealand's wins. All of our best players are pretty
much there, and you land on a guy like Tim
Seifert who seems to have decided that the wicket keeping
opening batting spot in T twenty Internationals for New Zealand
is a vacancy and he wants to fill that vacancy.
Scores of twenty two off sixteen three off five sixty
six not out of forty eight and overnight seventy five
(10:04):
off forty five one hundred and sixty six runs for
Tim's at a strike grade of one hundred and forty
five and an average of fifty five and fairly tidy
with the gloves as well. Others of chipped in the
likes of Devin Conway has got some runs, rich and Ravindra,
Tim Robinson whose opportunities have been pretty limited but still
came up with an unbeaten seventy five in the first match,
(10:27):
and everybody else chipping in. And then we get to
the Bowl as Matt Henry unsurprisingly absolutely brilliant again in
this series three for thirty four, three for twenty six
and two for thirty four in his three visits to
the bowl. Increase. That's eight for ninety four for the
mathematicians among you, average of eleven for Matt Henry, others
(10:47):
though chipping in with wickets each. Sody, as we heard
earlier on the Sports Fixed podcast bringing up one hundred
and fifty T twenty international wickets four for twelve overnight.
Jacob Duffy's been in the wickets. Mitchell Santner reliable as always,
Adam Milne, Michael Bracewell, Zach Folks and will ow' rourke
all involved. We're starting to build some real depth in
(11:10):
our white ball attack and our white ball batting order.
Let's not get too carried away. This is an under
strength South Africa and a relatively mediocre Zimbabwe. But you
can only play wats in front of you. And for
Rob Walter, he must think this black Caps coaching gig
is a piece of cake played for one four long
may that continue.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Into the Chamber we venture, and it is here that
we chat about a couple of sporting issues, pertinent ones.
I think Warriors tomorrow will take on the Titans. I'd
forgotten and I think this is maybe my memory protecting
me das that the Titans beat the Warriors sixty six
nil last year. Do you remember that.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, I've conveniently flushed that from my memory bags. Really no, now,
I'm thinking you, Oh, no, I chose to get rid
of that. It's not gonna happen this time around.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Surely not.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
No, No, I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I feel like the Warriors. You know, they obviously got
out of jail a little bit thanks to Leckahla SEMA's
heroics at the end of their game last weekend in Newcastle.
You know, Tanner Boyd I think was probably the most
relieved player in the entire in the entire stadium, having
missed the opportunity through a field goals in a penalty
to win the game. I feel like they have too
much for the Titans at Mount Smart tomorrow, won't they
(12:30):
what you'd think?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
So?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And it's not really a year with the Warriors have
been flash hairy one week and a train wreck the next.
They're being consistent and that's what we always want from
a team. I mean, people talk of a banana skin
of a game and you watch out for the Titans,
but like you can see a banana skin coming right,
you don't stand on it. So banana skins are post
match because you don't see it coming. And I think
(12:51):
being back at home and also with the Henny playing
there as well, it's coming out a marvelous weekend for
rugby league. Of course, all the eyes are going to
be on the flying lid. That is you can tell
a well a player by the way he wears his
hair and that whether he can actually get things done
(13:12):
out on that right edge, because that is all the
talk now, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Absolutely it is. And I heard Andrew Webbs to say, look,
the right edge defense isn't just Dallan. Why tenneys a Lesniak,
It's not just him. It's an entire team if it,
or certainly parts of the team on that right edge
you also see. Look I asked him on Monday night
when we had him on the show, should Dellan have
come in? Sorry, should Delon have stayed out instead of
coming in? He said, well, he stayed out on one
(13:36):
occasion previously and there was a line break, so he's
kind of damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But he does.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think they all do have to work out what
the strategy is on a move by move basis, don't they.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
They do, and capable involved in there too, So what
he sees. I think faith shown and a player is
really important from Andrew Webster. But let's look right back
throughout the year and look at rock o'berry for example,
and he's been injured in a few games and come off,
so that to retool that entire section, and you get
leaks when you have to read tools something you can
(14:08):
see and see. Maybe it's a little tighter. I mean
that might be a simplistic way of putting it, but
I love what Andrew said. You just can't look at
one guy and blame him for everything because it all
starts right in the middle.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It wasn't sixty six, Noil, It was sixty six six.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh sorry, Oh no, no, We're never as bad as
sixty six.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
No, I think sixty six six is terrible. I'd rather
sixty six NOIL say that number. I don't know is
something here anyway?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
It's moving about it? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Depending on when you're listening to Sports Fixed today, the
Black Ferns Rugby World Cup squad may about to be
announced or may have been announced, but we do know
that they're up against it when they get to the
Northern Hemisphere latter in the year, especially with his England
side that have hardly missed a step since they lost
to the Black Ferns in that epic World Cup final
at the back end of twenty twenty two. A few
(14:56):
players will go to this World Cup who were at
the last one. What's your gut telling your das about
our chance to go back to back in women's rugby
World Cups.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
My gut says England are impossible overcome. But I thought
that before I attended that final and that got proven
horribly wrong. So the ability of this team to stand
up rise to the occasion. The trick around this is
that combination that Alan Barnting and his coaching stuff need
to find around. We always talk about it, the youthful
(15:26):
exuberance and the old wise heads. And that's what's making
this announcement fascinating because early on in the piece they
dropped women out that everyone was surprised and then some
of them come back. Of course Ruby Twey is the
obvious one. Then will she make it back in the
side again? There are players that are under an injury
cloud too, will they get the nod to go forward?
(15:49):
We look at rent our homes out at fullback and
whether she's got enough. When you look at guaranteed players,
you'd like to think and I'll get away from the
injured players. But the ghost runner is the one we
love the most. Braxton McGhee quite the player, really looking
forward to seeing what she can do because.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
She's the player they don't know about, right, No, that's true,
you're right, the unknown quantity. Everybody knows about Porsche Woodman
Wittcliffe and what she can do. Everyone ready now knows
about Caitlin Vaha call Or and even Asha Litiainga, even
though she's had a long time out of the game.
So I just wonder who as we say these names.
I think you're right, Braxton Sorrens and McGee's going to
be there as well. I wonder whether there's room for
(16:28):
Ruby Tivy, you know. But then you look at a
squad and you say, do you want the players in
a thirty two person squad who are numbers twenty nine, thirty,
thirty one and thirty two to be good human beings
or people who are really a little bit annoyed that
they're not on the team.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, that's up to the coaching staff. Because some players
need a fire, they really do. They need to be
slapped to make them go other players don't. And that
is the fine art of coaching, how you get the
best out of each individual, not with an overarching concept
around how the entire team should be like that is
in any sport surely the way a good coach works.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yep. Indeed, well, the thirty two strong squad to be
named today and off they will go to try and
defend that Rugby World Cup title that they won in
such spectacular dramatic fashion at Eden Park at the back
end of twenty twenty two. That's us in the chamber today.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
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netball over the weekend, I'm informed, so looking forward to
(18:05):
what you can bring between twelve and day and three
o'clock that.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
To the Sports Fox podcast and association with G J.
Gardner Homes New Zealand's most trusted home builder. It is Friday,
July twenty five. Cheapest this year is flying. I'm Jason
Pine with my good friend and I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
As old as you are, because that's what happens when
you get old and accelerates, which is frightening quite frank.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You remember school.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Holidays, you know, way back when, and they just seem
to go on forever, and then school just went on forever,
and suddenly you turn around and you're fifty five.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes, yes, I do. I know. It's like looking in
a mirror. I know exactly what you're saying. I know
exactly what you're saying. All right, Well, let's not keep
people waiting around too much longer. I want to chat
to you about the Black firm's Rugby World Cup squad
to be named shortly, I want to chat about the Warriors.
I've got some thoughts on the Black Caps as well.
What have we got in terms of an interview a
guest joining us today.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, Jason tonight, because this weekend is Formula One, it
is Spa Frank Courchamp. It is the greatest track in
Formula One, in motorsport, full stop. So why not get
my old mate Bob McMurray on to talk about the
ups and downs of the ins and outs all around
Formula One.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Looking forward to that and the latest and sports news
as well, So let's get into it, hug. In other news,
let's get underway with some of the big sports stories
floating around today. Starting with cricket. Black Caps spinner is
Ish Sody has become the second New Zealander to reach
one hundred and fifty T twenty international wickets in a
(01:44):
sixty run Try series win over Zimbabwe. The black Caps
made one hundred and ninety for six batting first before
rolling the hosts in Harari for one hundred and thirty each.
Sod He took four for twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I feel I can get an alter.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, it's pretty nice to be able to achieve that
milestone and yet nice to country.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
We to all into.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Steven elk is putting his second wind on golf's senior
circuit down to looking after himself more. The key we
have as a one stroke lead after the first round
of the Senior British Open in Berkship as he chases
a second Senior Major and an eleventh.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
To a win.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Keeping everything in shape really, and that includes my body.
It's hard at our age just to keep it up
and maintain it. But just across the board, you know,
I don't I probably don't practice as much as I
used to. It ain't grind as much, but you know,
I might spend more time in the body.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And Keey's half back Jerome Hughes's NRL season with the
Melbourne Storm is in the balance after being taken to
hospital with a dislocated shoulder. The Storm claimed a thirty
four point thirty win over the Roosters in Sydney last night,
but Hughes was taken from the field shortly after halftime.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Jerome Hughes is down with the left shoulder. Gee, this
does not look good, folks.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Delli a medal win up heading to the thought to
break Bellamy on Jerome Hughes.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Is it a world of pace? Dissecting the sporting agenda.
It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And Grave Welcome now to the podcast. Bob McMurray, Formula
one expert in facts. For thirty years he worked for
the legendary McClaren, that team you're just now looking ahead to. Well,
let's face and it is the best racetrack on the planet.
It is Spa Froncle Schamp. It is the home of
the Belgian Grand Prix, which is underway this weekend. Plenty
(03:29):
to look at first and foremost, but of extragress to
the mill if you will above make murray, it looks
like it's going to rain.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, there could be dusty. I mean, I wouldn't care
if it was a nine year dry period with absolute
high temperatures or whatever. Once you get to Spa, there'll
be a cloudy rain. There always is Spad. Well, put
it this way, it's always different weather. It's Spa somehow
or another. The forecast this weekend is for showers, occasional
(03:58):
showers now occasional. They could happen during after whatever the
practice or the race, So it'll be something to look
forward to. And Spa always, as you say, it's a
sort of a peerless track, isn't it. There is nothing
like it now on the Formula one calendar. There's nothing
like the elevation, changes the speed, the sheer devilry of
(04:21):
some of the corners for the drivers. So yeah, it's
a fantastic place. It holds a lot of good memories
from me as well, having been there so many times.
So I'll watch it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, did drop that and didn't you the amount of
times you've been there? Cheers?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Thanks, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That just comes with the territory.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Thirty years of McLaren. Yeh know, absolutely makes sense when
you mentioned the weather and the rain morning night halfway
through the race. The other side of that is it
might just end up at one side of the track,
might just rain on one area, and that makes it
even more exciting as far as tire choice and precision
and control. And this is just another dice roll for
the sevente.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It is and as you say, it can the weather
can be different from corner to corner, frankly, and that's
happened lots of times before, so yeah, that is something.
And they'll never bring the wet weather ties out because
they seem to have an aversion to using those at all.
As we saw at Silverstone they couldn't even bother to
put the wet ties on when it was too wet,
(05:24):
So you know it's going to be a question of
intermediates if it comes out if you put them on.
There's a whole lot of things. And leading up to
the race, Darcy, we've had, you know, part of a
big break to free weekends. Now every team just about
is going to bring upgrades. They're going to be our
upgrades on aerodynamics from Ferrari's suspension upgrades at the rear
(05:49):
end to try and lift the car up a little
bit and get away from this having to run it
on the floor. Athln Martin are bringing upgrades. McLaren got
a new floor, We've got the Racing Bulls bringing upgrades,
and of course Red Bull team itself has got an
upgrade if you want to look at it that way,
with a different boss. So everybody it's got something going
(06:09):
on this weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Before we talk about Redborne the situation there, because that's fascin.
It's been dominating IF One headlines since it was announced
that Christine Horner was being drop kicked just to talk
about the upgrades. Are they likely to stager these upgrades
between cars or are they going to be one off
for everybody. How is they going to operate you think.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I would imagine that they would for the first practice
they would separate the cars. Somebody will have one new
nose or floor or whatever on and the other driver
will not, because they would have been testing all these
in the not only the wind tunnel, but in the simulators,
so they know how each driver handles the upgrade. But nonetheless,
(06:51):
the faster upgrade will always win out on race day
as long as they've got the bits available. McLaren. I'm
sure they have, because they are in a particular quandary
in that they have got to be seen to be
giving each driver equal equipment now, because otherwise they'll be
accused of favoritism, which I don't believe that they would
get into at all. Ferrari they have been over the
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last two or three weeks, well, in fact, since the
beginning of the season, they have been getting advice at
every possible opportunity from Lewis Hamilton telling them what he
thinks should happen with the car, and apparently they have
done something towards doing something in that direction. Aston Martin, Well,
they've got Adrian Ewe in there who says he's having
nothing to do with this year's car. He's working on
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next year's car, but he's always going to cast his
eye over it and say we're to try this. So yeah,
everybody's going to be trying something for the first practice,
probably different cars, different upgrades.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
The other joker in the pack, of course, is the
sprint race. You talk about if they've got the spears
that they need. But there's a chance that it does
rain halfway through the sprint case someone's going to stuff
it into the scenery. So that just adds another age,
doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Bob? Oh, yeah, well that's the whole Why do you
think we watch it? Oh? You know, you think about
all the stress that the engineers are going through and
the designers and all the rest of it. We frankly
you meet and the other millions of people watch it.
Don't give a damn about that, because all we want
to see is who is fastest, who's managing to conquer
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what they have or have not got, and who comes
out of it best. Because strategy has played quite a
part this year in all sorts of things. And of
course we might not be able to talk about Red
Bull without mentioning Horner, but don't forget. They are also
trying to get not only to keep Max for staff
and Super happy in that car, but they're also trying
(08:47):
to get a second car to be something driveable that
Yuki Sonoda can handle. So it'll be interesting to see
how they manage to do that. If they've managed it
at all in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Sports now, it may have escaped your retention, possibly because
these matches are happening in the wee small hours, But
at the moment the black Caps are giving a very
good acount of themselves. In the T twenty Try series
being held in Zimbabwe, the hosts, New Zealand and South
Africa are the three sides. New Zealand so far have
had wins over South Africa by twenty one runs and
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seven wickets and wins over Zimbabwe by eight wickets and
by sixty runs, so four from four. They'll play South
Africa again in the final tomorrow night from around eleven
o'clock and have to go in as fairly firm favorites.
And one of the more promising parts of this is
the number of different players who are making contributions to
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New Zealand's wins. All of our best players are pretty
much there, and you land on a guy like Tim
Seifert who seems to have decided that the wicket keeping
opening batting spot in T twenty Internationals for New Zealand
is a vacancy and he wants to fill that vacancy.
Scores of twenty two off sixteen three off five sixty
six not out of forty eight and overnight seventy five
(10:04):
off forty five one hundred and sixty six runs for
Tim's at a strike grade of one hundred and forty
five and an average of fifty five and fairly tidy
with the gloves as well. Others of chipped in the
likes of Devin Conway has got some runs, rich and Ravindra,
Tim Robinson whose opportunities have been pretty limited but still
came up with an unbeaten seventy five in the first match,
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and everybody else chipping in. And then we get to
the Bowl as Matt Henry unsurprisingly absolutely brilliant again in
this series three for thirty four, three for twenty six
and two for thirty four in his three visits to
the bowl. Increase. That's eight for ninety four for the
mathematicians among you, average of eleven for Matt Henry, others
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though chipping in with wickets each. Sody, as we heard
earlier on the Sports Fixed podcast bringing up one hundred
and fifty T twenty international wickets four for twelve overnight.
Jacob Duffy's been in the wickets. Mitchell Santner reliable as always,
Adam Milne, Michael Bracewell, Zach Folks and will ow' rourke
all involved. We're starting to build some real depth in
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our white ball attack and our white ball batting order.
Let's not get too carried away. This is an under
strength South Africa and a relatively mediocre Zimbabwe. But you
can only play wats in front of you. And for
Rob Walter, he must think this black Caps coaching gig
is a piece of cake played for one four long
may that continue.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Into the Chamber we venture, and it is here that
we chat about a couple of sporting issues, pertinent ones.
I think Warriors tomorrow will take on the Titans. I'd
forgotten and I think this is maybe my memory protecting
me das that the Titans beat the Warriors sixty six
nil last year. Do you remember that.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, I've conveniently flushed that from my memory bags. Really no, now,
I'm thinking you, Oh, no, I chose to get rid
of that. It's not gonna happen this time around.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Surely not.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
No, No, I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I feel like the Warriors. You know, they obviously got
out of jail a little bit thanks to Leckahla SEMA's
heroics at the end of their game last weekend in Newcastle.
You know, Tanner Boyd I think was probably the most
relieved player in the entire in the entire stadium, having
missed the opportunity through a field goals in a penalty
to win the game. I feel like they have too
much for the Titans at Mount Smart tomorrow, won't they
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what you'd think?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
So?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And it's not really a year with the Warriors have
been flash hairy one week and a train wreck the next.
They're being consistent and that's what we always want from
a team. I mean, people talk of a banana skin
of a game and you watch out for the Titans,
but like you can see a banana skin coming right,
you don't stand on it. So banana skins are post
match because you don't see it coming. And I think
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being back at home and also with the Henny playing
there as well, it's coming out a marvelous weekend for
rugby league. Of course, all the eyes are going to
be on the flying lid. That is you can tell
a well a player by the way he wears his
hair and that whether he can actually get things done
(13:12):
out on that right edge, because that is all the
talk now, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Absolutely it is. And I heard Andrew Webbs to say, look,
the right edge defense isn't just Dallan. Why tenneys a Lesniak,
It's not just him. It's an entire team if it,
or certainly parts of the team on that right edge
you also see. Look I asked him on Monday night
when we had him on the show, should Dellan have
come in? Sorry, should Delon have stayed out instead of
coming in? He said, well, he stayed out on one
(13:36):
occasion previously and there was a line break, so he's
kind of damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But he does.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think they all do have to work out what
the strategy is on a move by move basis, don't they.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
They do, and capable involved in there too, So what
he sees. I think faith shown and a player is
really important from Andrew Webster. But let's look right back
throughout the year and look at rock o'berry for example,
and he's been injured in a few games and come off,
so that to retool that entire section, and you get
leaks when you have to read tools something you can
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see and see. Maybe it's a little tighter. I mean
that might be a simplistic way of putting it, but
I love what Andrew said. You just can't look at
one guy and blame him for everything because it all
starts right in the middle.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It wasn't sixty six, Noil, It was sixty six six.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh sorry, Oh no, no, We're never as bad as
sixty six.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
No, I think sixty six six is terrible. I'd rather
sixty six NOIL say that number. I don't know is
something here anyway?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
It's moving about it? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Depending on when you're listening to Sports Fixed today, the
Black Ferns Rugby World Cup squad may about to be
announced or may have been announced, but we do know
that they're up against it when they get to the
Northern Hemisphere latter in the year, especially with his England
side that have hardly missed a step since they lost
to the Black Ferns in that epic World Cup final
at the back end of twenty twenty two. A few
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players will go to this World Cup who were at
the last one. What's your gut telling your das about
our chance to go back to back in women's rugby
World Cups.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
My gut says England are impossible overcome. But I thought
that before I attended that final and that got proven
horribly wrong. So the ability of this team to stand
up rise to the occasion. The trick around this is
that combination that Alan Barnting and his coaching stuff need
to find around. We always talk about it, the youthful
(15:26):
exuberance and the old wise heads. And that's what's making
this announcement fascinating because early on in the piece they
dropped women out that everyone was surprised and then some
of them come back. Of course Ruby Twey is the
obvious one. Then will she make it back in the
side again? There are players that are under an injury
cloud too, will they get the nod to go forward?
(15:49):
We look at rent our homes out at fullback and
whether she's got enough. When you look at guaranteed players,
you'd like to think and I'll get away from the
injured players. But the ghost runner is the one we
love the most. Braxton McGhee quite the player, really looking
forward to seeing what she can do because.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
She's the player they don't know about, right, No, that's true,
you're right, the unknown quantity. Everybody knows about Porsche Woodman
Wittcliffe and what she can do. Everyone ready now knows
about Caitlin Vaha call Or and even Asha Litiainga, even
though she's had a long time out of the game.
So I just wonder who as we say these names.
I think you're right, Braxton Sorrens and McGee's going to
be there as well. I wonder whether there's room for
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Ruby Tivy, you know. But then you look at a
squad and you say, do you want the players in
a thirty two person squad who are numbers twenty nine, thirty,
thirty one and thirty two to be good human beings
or people who are really a little bit annoyed that
they're not on the team.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, that's up to the coaching staff. Because some players
need a fire, they really do. They need to be
slapped to make them go other players don't. And that
is the fine art of coaching, how you get the
best out of each individual, not with an overarching concept
around how the entire team should be like that is
in any sport surely the way a good coach works.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yep. Indeed, well, the thirty two strong squad to be
named today and off they will go to try and
defend that Rugby World Cup title that they won in
such spectacular dramatic fashion at Eden Park at the back
end of twenty twenty two. That's us in the chamber today.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Jew This is Sports Fix, your daily dose of sports news.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
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Speaker 3 (17:41):
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I believe, as well, a bit of a focus on
netball over the weekend, I'm informed, so looking forward to
(18:05):
what you can bring between twelve and day and three
o'clock that.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
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the weekend, and we will be back with a fresh
episode of Sports Fix on Monday. Have a great weekend.
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