August 5, 2025 • 18 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Tuesday August 5, 2025, Sir Graham Lowe wants the State of Origin in Christchurch. Is he dreaming? There are plenty of reasons why it won’t happen, but what about the reasons why? He joins us to push his case.
D’Arcy celebrates Liam Lawson as the F1 season pitstops for a 3 week summer break. It’s been a mad year, but the young Kiwi hot-shoe is showing why he should be in Formula 1, despite being demoted at the start of the season. His resurgence is a reason to smile.
In the Chamber, D’Arcy and Newstalk sports journo Nathan Limm shoot the breeze around the Warriors' crumbling season and the lads give the thumbs up, or down, to Bazball.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is Sportsfix Howard by News Talks ed BE.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome on into the Sports Fix podcast. My name is
Darcy Walter Grave. There's a Tuesday. It's the fifth of
August twenty twenty five lined up for you on today's potty.
Sir Graham Lowe joins us. Who do you, respected Rugby
league coach and administrator. He wants the state of origin
in christ trix or two Thay christ Jets, their brand
(00:43):
fancy pants News Stadium, which is yet to be opened.
He believes is the perfect place to hold what would
be the first state of Origin game played outside of
Australia since I think nineteen eighty seven. Anyway, Lowe joins us. Shortly,
we're getting I've got some opinions around Liam Lawson eight
(01:04):
half year report cards, if you will. Were joined in
the chain by radios, and we enjoined the chamber by
News Talks the Bee Sports and we're joined in the
chamber by News Talk zeb Be sport journalist mister Nathan Them.
That is our master plan. That's what we're going to
do so, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
In other news.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Summarizing sport today, the greatest thrower of all time, Dame
Lisa Carrington is popping out of her self and pos
international racing break. The eight time Olympic gold medalist has
been kind enough to offer up her services to the
national squad and the World Championships. She's been subd in
for the injured Olivia Bred in the women's K four
(01:51):
and racing the high performance bro Nathan Lewis doesn't believe
your front in poor shape, and I don't think she
would either. She has been training since since the Paris Olympics.
She knows for kayaking you have to maintain that fitness
level of training even if you're not competing, and she
was able to keep quite a good standard a year.
(02:12):
Ba's ball forever evering our man, the full on aggressive
mode explodes in your face. But Brendan McCullum, coaching the
English side, is adamant that they won't start launching, even
though it probably cost them a test series versus in THEE.
When we go away from that and maybe try and
play like other teams where no one here is effective,
(02:33):
I think our defense become vulnerable and our wee could
take in ability drops if we stay.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
True to what we believe and we just keep.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Doing it and back it in. It gives us our
greatest chance.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Doesn't guarantee it, but it gives us our greatest chance.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And half back Kyle Preston has been summoned by Scott
Robertson kind of the Wellington and Crusaders nine as part
of the wider forty two man squad as injury cover
for Roy Garden holds them. He's been doing the marky
for a while now, the selection rewarding his efforts that
I could be easy to get the reconission of what
(03:04):
I've done, but it's been a guest chose of bing
in for the hard work and dedicated sport summarized.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
News Enemy and It's Sportsfix with Dancy Valdegrave.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Halfway through the Formula One season and all of the
teams and all of the drivers get a well deserved rest.
It is three weeks of tools down, which is not
really about the drivers. It's about the long suffering, hugely
traveled teams that provide the support for the drivers. Liam
Lawson can look back at the last half of the
(03:44):
season with a smile on his dial.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Look.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He started off at Red Bull Racing and it tumbled
and crumbled so very, very quickly. After only two races
he was out on his todd He was booted from
Red Bull to the younger sister side, if you will,
racing balls and things didn't work from there either, didn't
qualify well as car misbehaved. It was looking pretty bad
(04:10):
for Liam Lawson. But you know what, he didn't sulk,
didn't drop his loop, didn't drop his head, didn't blame
all in sundry. He got on with the business of
being a Formula One driver, and even though he was
being out driven by the much vaunted Isaac Hadja, he
didn't lose his call. He carried on doing what he
knows he can do best. He now is only two
(04:33):
points behind Isaac Hadja, and he's sitting fifteenth place in
the championship, which no isn't the greatest position in the world,
but he's still there. He's still circulating head down, us up.
Nothing to see here, don't mind me. I'm going to
qualify well. I'm going to keep my car on the
(04:53):
black stuff, out of the scenery, out of the kid
he litter. I'm not going to hit anyone. I'm going
to do the job I've been paid to do and
it is paying dividends. Yes, there's a long way to
go before the end of the season, but I think
the focus that we've seen from Liam Lawson after what's
been a pretty intense season for him shows that this
(05:15):
guy is made up of a lot more than people
gave him credit for. And now Max verse Stappen and
said he's not leaving the team. There is one seat open.
It's either Isaac Hadger or Liam Lawson. I'd suggest that
Liam Lawson has his destiny in his own hands if
he can carry on doing what he's doing. There's a
(05:36):
saying in motorsport in order to finish first first, you
must finish. Sure, he's a long way from finishing first,
but he is finishing hugely important for the continuation of
the career of Liam Lawson.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Meaning we've got just the ticket. It's Sports vexw by News.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And it's a big hello now to Sir Graham Lowe
who thinks that maybe he might be able to lure
origin not to New Zealand per se, but to Ottultahi
christ Church. Sir Graham or ways a pleasure what makes
you think that you can lure State of Origin into
the South Island.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Well, I think Darcy, good afternoon, mate, I hope you're
going well. I think that Chriss Hutch has now produced
a stadium that is capable of conjuring up an atmosphere
that's just so electric. New Zealand would have never seen
anything like it. And I think that if we can
get a State of Origin, even though it's got a
(06:37):
far limited crowd when comparing it, say to Eden Park
over here, I think the atmosphere will be electric and
unseen in New Zealand, unparalleled in New Zealand. And that's
taken into account even the great World Cups matches that
we've had in this country. No one has ever seen
in this country an Origin game here in New Zealand.
(07:00):
You might have been fortunate to see them in Australia
and they know what the Origin can deliver. But to
get that atmosphere in Queensland and the new stadium there,
I think would just be outstanding. And I know, financially
with the numbers of people, and you know, there's a
lot less people can fit into that stadium as compared
to maybe other places.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But that's up to.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
All those involved in including you know, the government, the
council down there, everybody else. They've just got to make
it work if the opportunity comes along.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You've approached the Sports Minister, Mark Mitchell around how important
this is plainly. What do they say? What kind of
contribution do you think the government? How could they push
this on its way? Do you think?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I think?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, to be fair, I've had a cup of tea
a cup of coffee with Mark and just told him
how good I think it would be. But I you know,
I haven't been in the position really to go much
further than that. But he Mark gets it straight away,
he understands it, and I think it's just a matter
of if all we need is a wink and a
nod from the NRL and then we can go to
(08:09):
the next step. I don't, but you know, I think
it's too early to count count the chickens yet. But
you know, the draw the draw card blind Freddy can
see it as the new stadium down there in christ Church.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
There's nothing in New Zealand that matches it.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
So while while it will have a you know, maybe
thirty thousand or you know, round about maybe a bit less.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'm not sure, but round about that number.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
The powers that be have just got to make those
numbers work and satisfy that the NROL and people that
are fortunate enough to get along there and watch it,
even those on TV, we'll see something that New Zealand
has never ever produced before.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Why would the NRL bring the State of Origin to
New Zealand. It's not our game, it's their game. It's
got not a great deal to do with us slowly.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
You know, there's a big part of that. I agree
with us.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
It is their game and that for that reason, I've
never been a fan of having a Kiwi side you
know involved or touching will been part of it, you know,
as an Australian game. But they've you know, the State
of Origin has already put itself on the world stage.
It's one of the great world sporting events now and
you know it's watched by gazillions around the world. And
(09:24):
New Zealand has got to get out of this little
brother syndrome they've got and put their hand up and say, hey,
we can make this work. We can make those shoes
mightn't fit us, but we'll wear them. Don't worry about that.
And we'll be able to run flat out on them.
We've got to just think a little bit bigger and
get a little bit of that Australian we can do
it attitude into us instead of coming up with the
(09:44):
reasons you can't.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's a very good point and Aussie has always looked
to reasons we can not, reasons they can't. I suppose
you look at the Landis and their attitude towards expansion teams,
which all know are all about, and they're almost they
don't have a great deal of desire to meet anybody,
So why would that change for them? Why would they
point it at New Zealand when there's no money to
(10:07):
be made at it and they're not overly interested in
us anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I mean, these guys know how to make money out
of anything, mate, So we might think there's no of
course there'll be money in it, mate. There will certainly
be money. There'll be there'll be gazillions in it. Don't
worry about that. You get the right people doing it,
the right people, the right partners involved. I don't think
money will be an issue. There will be, there will
be the argument, there's no doubt about it about bums
(10:31):
on seats and the numbers of people that can fit
in the stadium. But there's more than one way to
skin a cat and and I just think New Zealand
has got the opportunity here and we should just grab
the ball and absolutely run with it. And you know
we we often you hear a lot of people in
this country saying we can't do this, we can't do that. Well,
I think can't, we can't. We can't have that as
(10:53):
an excuse. Can't can't be an excuse because we you know,
a lot of us say can't because we don't know
what We don't want to ask for help. We think
asking for help to sign a weakness, but it's not.
It's a sign of strength. So this time everybody's got
to ask to help one another and we will make
it work.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
There'll be no clants anywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We're joint of the Chamber now by Nathan Limman, News
Talk zb sports writer and The Light podcast host. The
list goes on, Nathan, you've just come back from Warrior's
media session, Warriors training. I'm sure they're still all a
bit burnt by what happened over the weekend. But what
did you pull out of that?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean to be honest, like Tomighty Martin, he
is always very positive. But yeah, there's definitely sort of
a low tempo in terms of the vibe they gave
it the media conference. They're obviously to scruntle that last
gasp loss to the Dolphins, and that the nature by
which they conceded that last try with the Dolphins were
(11:57):
able to just throw it around until they found a whole.
They're obviously upset with that, and there came a lot
of individual work ons, especially with that last play, of
things they could have done different. He tamed to a peak.
He's been really hard on himself in terms of he said,
he said he let the boys down. He should have
been there to make that last tackle, that last tackle,
but he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
The whole team should have been there. Time is a line. Yeah,
well did you see that throughout the game. And I've
talked about this last week around the intense pressure on
young men and when you get mental fatigue and when
you get physical fatigue after so long, because they've been
playing right the way through the season, they're not going
(12:38):
to be able to make the right decisions. And I
think we saw that a number of times the Warriors
team they stopped, they're waiting for a whistle, actually didn't
know what to do. And to me, that says youth
and experiencer.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Well, I agree with you, Darcy, but that's compounded by
the fact that their experienced players, their leaders aren't there.
This Warrior's injury toll is enormous and it's only getting longer.
Jacob Laban has broken his leg from that tackle, break
his lead well police and he's copped a two match ban.
(13:09):
And Jacob Laban is out for six weeks up to
six weeks, so that'll be the rest of the regular
season gone for him. So it's yet another player goes down.
We don't know about Demetric Vai Munga like Alasimas okay,
he was on the ground during that final place so
the Warriors were a man short. But that was just
cramp so he should be okay. But yeah, it is
just warrying. Given the vast drop and experience of the
(13:30):
Warriors of face that could be set to be offset
a little bit by James Fisher Harris, who gave a
really encouraging report on how he's tracking back from a
carth injury. He was meant to be out for two games,
but he could potentially, based on what he said, be
in the mix for this weekend against the Bulldogs, and
the Warriors will need to stand up because the Bulldogs
have been one of the form teams of the competition.
They're probably not quite as good as the Storm or
(13:52):
the Raiders, but they are right up there, and the
Warriors will be big outside a big outside chance that
the book is to come away with a win here.
But with the Panthers and the Broncos and the Sharks
bearing down on the top four pressures on.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I like the way they say step up, next man,
and whoever goes down, there's someone else to replace him.
It has said before there's no replacement for experience, especially
when you're under duress, and I think that's what we
saw over the weekend. And when it comes to the
injury meet, it out to poor young Laban. How do
you feel about the punishment? Is there a case of hey,
(14:27):
he's out for six weeks, so are you? Don't behave
like that?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
One percent? One hundred percent. I was outraged, to be honest, Darcy,
it was a joke. The police Calfusie can inflict. It
was a dangerous tackle. Jacob Laban was already held. It
was totally needless the contact that Calfusi made on Laban
straight in at his knees. I've had that injury in
rugby myself and I was out for months. It's not fun.
(14:52):
So the fact that Calfusi gets away with only a
two week ban is a joke. And Andrew Webster actually
we asked him about this and he said that normally
when they go through this process, the NRAL or the
NRO judiciary representative will ask them what the medical reports
are on the player who's got injured, i e. How
long theyre going to be out for. They didn't know
at that stage, and then the NRL made the delivered
(15:13):
the punishment two weeks and then they got the information.
So the NRAL actually gave that punishment out without knowing
the extent of Laban's injury. And I think had they
waited and just got that information before making a decision,
it would be longer than a two week band because
that's just not fair.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Let's talk a little bit of cricket. Bas Ball carries on,
and basball carries on even in the face of defeat,
should have beaten India, didn't beat India India one in
the last gasp after England needed how many runs.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Thirty four three wickets in hand.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's yeah, it drew the series and really they had
the win. But McCullum said, we're not going to stop
playing the way we play. This is what we do.
If we change the way we why do we play,
We're going to interfere of our very DNA. Is that
the right attitude, do you think?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
First of all, I have a lot of respect for
in a McCullum for sticking to his guns under enormous pressure,
because it's really not easy to do that. But at
the same time, I'm actually going to side with the
England fans here who are despondent at a series which
has gone begging and since the bas ball eras come in,
they haven't won a series against India or Australia. So
(16:27):
at the end of the day, you're going to base
things off results, and England had that result in the
palm of their hand and they blew it. So you've
got to be adaptable in your philosophy of how you
play the game. And although I like the aggressive nature
I'm glad that the black Caps don't have this out
and now, oh we're just going to smack it from
ball one and we're going to be ultra aggressive. We
(16:49):
need cool heads at the top, and I believe the
black Caps have that. I think England perhaps need to
be a little bit more adaptable in their approach, especially
when you're getting to the tail end of Tests. You've
got tail enders out there who don't have the expertise
of the top order batters and the skill set. You
need to be adaptable in your approach to these targets.
Because they only needed thirty four runs and they had
(17:11):
three wickets and hands to win a Test series on
home soil, you need to be getting that done and
I can understand the fans being really really peeved off
of that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
And on that understanding note, Nathan Linn, we thank you
very much for your time in the chamber. Gee, you
imagine if they did something amazing like beat India in
a three match series three mil an Indian's backyard. I
can't imagine that.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
No, No, it's just unheard of.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
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This is Sportsfix Howard by News Talks ed BE.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome on into the Sports Fix podcast. My name is
Darcy Walter Grave. There's a Tuesday. It's the fifth of
August twenty twenty five lined up for you on today's potty.
Sir Graham Lowe joins us. Who do you, respected Rugby
league coach and administrator. He wants the state of origin
in christ trix or two Thay christ Jets, their brand
(00:43):
fancy pants News Stadium, which is yet to be opened.
He believes is the perfect place to hold what would
be the first state of Origin game played outside of
Australia since I think nineteen eighty seven. Anyway, Lowe joins us. Shortly,
we're getting I've got some opinions around Liam Lawson eight
(01:04):
half year report cards, if you will. Were joined in
the chain by radios, and we enjoined the chamber by
News Talks the Bee Sports and we're joined in the
chamber by News Talk zeb Be sport journalist mister Nathan Them.
That is our master plan. That's what we're going to
do so, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
In other news.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Summarizing sport today, the greatest thrower of all time, Dame
Lisa Carrington is popping out of her self and pos
international racing break. The eight time Olympic gold medalist has
been kind enough to offer up her services to the
national squad and the World Championships. She's been subd in
for the injured Olivia Bred in the women's K four
(01:51):
and racing the high performance bro Nathan Lewis doesn't believe
your front in poor shape, and I don't think she
would either. She has been training since since the Paris Olympics.
She knows for kayaking you have to maintain that fitness
level of training even if you're not competing, and she
was able to keep quite a good standard a year.
(02:12):
Ba's ball forever evering our man, the full on aggressive
mode explodes in your face. But Brendan McCullum, coaching the
English side, is adamant that they won't start launching, even
though it probably cost them a test series versus in THEE.
When we go away from that and maybe try and
play like other teams where no one here is effective,
(02:33):
I think our defense become vulnerable and our wee could
take in ability drops if we stay.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
True to what we believe and we just keep.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Doing it and back it in. It gives us our
greatest chance.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Doesn't guarantee it, but it gives us our greatest chance.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And half back Kyle Preston has been summoned by Scott
Robertson kind of the Wellington and Crusaders nine as part
of the wider forty two man squad as injury cover
for Roy Garden holds them. He's been doing the marky
for a while now, the selection rewarding his efforts that
I could be easy to get the reconission of what
(03:04):
I've done, but it's been a guest chose of bing
in for the hard work and dedicated sport summarized.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
News Enemy and It's Sportsfix with Dancy Valdegrave.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Halfway through the Formula One season and all of the
teams and all of the drivers get a well deserved rest.
It is three weeks of tools down, which is not
really about the drivers. It's about the long suffering, hugely
traveled teams that provide the support for the drivers. Liam
Lawson can look back at the last half of the
(03:44):
season with a smile on his dial.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Look.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He started off at Red Bull Racing and it tumbled
and crumbled so very, very quickly. After only two races
he was out on his todd He was booted from
Red Bull to the younger sister side, if you will,
racing balls and things didn't work from there either, didn't
qualify well as car misbehaved. It was looking pretty bad
(04:10):
for Liam Lawson. But you know what, he didn't sulk,
didn't drop his loop, didn't drop his head, didn't blame
all in sundry. He got on with the business of
being a Formula One driver, and even though he was
being out driven by the much vaunted Isaac Hadja, he
didn't lose his call. He carried on doing what he
knows he can do best. He now is only two
(04:33):
points behind Isaac Hadja, and he's sitting fifteenth place in
the championship, which no isn't the greatest position in the world,
but he's still there. He's still circulating head down, us up.
Nothing to see here, don't mind me. I'm going to
qualify well. I'm going to keep my car on the
(04:53):
black stuff, out of the scenery, out of the kid
he litter. I'm not going to hit anyone. I'm going
to do the job I've been paid to do and
it is paying dividends. Yes, there's a long way to
go before the end of the season, but I think
the focus that we've seen from Liam Lawson after what's
been a pretty intense season for him shows that this
(05:15):
guy is made up of a lot more than people
gave him credit for. And now Max verse Stappen and
said he's not leaving the team. There is one seat open.
It's either Isaac Hadger or Liam Lawson. I'd suggest that
Liam Lawson has his destiny in his own hands if
he can carry on doing what he's doing. There's a
(05:36):
saying in motorsport in order to finish first first, you
must finish. Sure, he's a long way from finishing first,
but he is finishing hugely important for the continuation of
the career of Liam Lawson.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Meaning we've got just the ticket. It's Sports vexw by News.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And it's a big hello now to Sir Graham Lowe
who thinks that maybe he might be able to lure
origin not to New Zealand per se, but to Ottultahi
christ Church. Sir Graham or ways a pleasure what makes
you think that you can lure State of Origin into
the South Island.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Well, I think Darcy, good afternoon, mate, I hope you're
going well. I think that Chriss Hutch has now produced
a stadium that is capable of conjuring up an atmosphere
that's just so electric. New Zealand would have never seen
anything like it. And I think that if we can
get a State of Origin, even though it's got a
(06:37):
far limited crowd when comparing it, say to Eden Park
over here, I think the atmosphere will be electric and
unseen in New Zealand, unparalleled in New Zealand. And that's
taken into account even the great World Cups matches that
we've had in this country. No one has ever seen
in this country an Origin game here in New Zealand.
(07:00):
You might have been fortunate to see them in Australia
and they know what the Origin can deliver. But to
get that atmosphere in Queensland and the new stadium there,
I think would just be outstanding. And I know, financially
with the numbers of people, and you know, there's a
lot less people can fit into that stadium as compared
to maybe other places.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But that's up to.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
All those involved in including you know, the government, the
council down there, everybody else. They've just got to make
it work if the opportunity comes along.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You've approached the Sports Minister, Mark Mitchell around how important
this is plainly. What do they say? What kind of
contribution do you think the government? How could they push
this on its way? Do you think?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I think?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, to be fair, I've had a cup of tea
a cup of coffee with Mark and just told him
how good I think it would be. But I you know,
I haven't been in the position really to go much
further than that. But he Mark gets it straight away,
he understands it, and I think it's just a matter
of if all we need is a wink and a
nod from the NRL and then we can go to
(08:09):
the next step. I don't, but you know, I think
it's too early to count count the chickens yet. But
you know, the draw the draw card blind Freddy can
see it as the new stadium down there in christ Church.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
There's nothing in New Zealand that matches it.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
So while while it will have a you know, maybe
thirty thousand or you know, round about maybe a bit less.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'm not sure, but round about that number.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
The powers that be have just got to make those
numbers work and satisfy that the NROL and people that
are fortunate enough to get along there and watch it,
even those on TV, we'll see something that New Zealand
has never ever produced before.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Why would the NRL bring the State of Origin to
New Zealand. It's not our game, it's their game. It's
got not a great deal to do with us slowly.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
You know, there's a big part of that. I agree
with us.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
It is their game and that for that reason, I've
never been a fan of having a Kiwi side you
know involved or touching will been part of it, you know,
as an Australian game. But they've you know, the State
of Origin has already put itself on the world stage.
It's one of the great world sporting events now and
you know it's watched by gazillions around the world. And
(09:24):
New Zealand has got to get out of this little
brother syndrome they've got and put their hand up and say, hey,
we can make this work. We can make those shoes
mightn't fit us, but we'll wear them. Don't worry about that.
And we'll be able to run flat out on them.
We've got to just think a little bit bigger and
get a little bit of that Australian we can do
it attitude into us instead of coming up with the
(09:44):
reasons you can't.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's a very good point and Aussie has always looked
to reasons we can not, reasons they can't. I suppose
you look at the Landis and their attitude towards expansion teams,
which all know are all about, and they're almost they
don't have a great deal of desire to meet anybody,
So why would that change for them? Why would they
point it at New Zealand when there's no money to
(10:07):
be made at it and they're not overly interested in
us anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I mean, these guys know how to make money out
of anything, mate, So we might think there's no of
course there'll be money in it, mate. There will certainly
be money. There'll be there'll be gazillions in it. Don't
worry about that. You get the right people doing it,
the right people, the right partners involved. I don't think
money will be an issue. There will be, there will
be the argument, there's no doubt about it about bums
(10:31):
on seats and the numbers of people that can fit
in the stadium. But there's more than one way to
skin a cat and and I just think New Zealand
has got the opportunity here and we should just grab
the ball and absolutely run with it. And you know
we we often you hear a lot of people in
this country saying we can't do this, we can't do that. Well,
I think can't, we can't. We can't have that as
(10:53):
an excuse. Can't can't be an excuse because we you know,
a lot of us say can't because we don't know
what We don't want to ask for help. We think
asking for help to sign a weakness, but it's not.
It's a sign of strength. So this time everybody's got
to ask to help one another and we will make
it work.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
There'll be no clants anywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We're joint of the Chamber now by Nathan Limman, News
Talk zb sports writer and The Light podcast host. The
list goes on, Nathan, you've just come back from Warrior's
media session, Warriors training. I'm sure they're still all a
bit burnt by what happened over the weekend. But what
did you pull out of that?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean to be honest, like Tomighty Martin, he
is always very positive. But yeah, there's definitely sort of
a low tempo in terms of the vibe they gave
it the media conference. They're obviously to scruntle that last
gasp loss to the Dolphins, and that the nature by
which they conceded that last try with the Dolphins were
(11:57):
able to just throw it around until they found a whole.
They're obviously upset with that, and there came a lot
of individual work ons, especially with that last play, of
things they could have done different. He tamed to a peak.
He's been really hard on himself in terms of he said,
he said he let the boys down. He should have
been there to make that last tackle, that last tackle,
but he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
The whole team should have been there. Time is a line. Yeah,
well did you see that throughout the game. And I've
talked about this last week around the intense pressure on
young men and when you get mental fatigue and when
you get physical fatigue after so long, because they've been
playing right the way through the season, they're not going
(12:38):
to be able to make the right decisions. And I
think we saw that a number of times the Warriors
team they stopped, they're waiting for a whistle, actually didn't
know what to do. And to me, that says youth
and experiencer.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Well, I agree with you, Darcy, but that's compounded by
the fact that their experienced players, their leaders aren't there.
This Warrior's injury toll is enormous and it's only getting longer.
Jacob Laban has broken his leg from that tackle, break
his lead well police and he's copped a two match ban.
(13:09):
And Jacob Laban is out for six weeks up to
six weeks, so that'll be the rest of the regular
season gone for him. So it's yet another player goes down.
We don't know about Demetric Vai Munga like Alasimas okay,
he was on the ground during that final place so
the Warriors were a man short. But that was just
cramp so he should be okay. But yeah, it is
just warrying. Given the vast drop and experience of the
(13:30):
Warriors of face that could be set to be offset
a little bit by James Fisher Harris, who gave a
really encouraging report on how he's tracking back from a
carth injury. He was meant to be out for two games,
but he could potentially, based on what he said, be
in the mix for this weekend against the Bulldogs, and
the Warriors will need to stand up because the Bulldogs
have been one of the form teams of the competition.
They're probably not quite as good as the Storm or
(13:52):
the Raiders, but they are right up there, and the
Warriors will be big outside a big outside chance that
the book is to come away with a win here.
But with the Panthers and the Broncos and the Sharks
bearing down on the top four pressures on.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I like the way they say step up, next man,
and whoever goes down, there's someone else to replace him.
It has said before there's no replacement for experience, especially
when you're under duress, and I think that's what we
saw over the weekend. And when it comes to the
injury meet, it out to poor young Laban. How do
you feel about the punishment? Is there a case of hey,
(14:27):
he's out for six weeks, so are you? Don't behave
like that?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
One percent? One hundred percent. I was outraged, to be honest, Darcy,
it was a joke. The police Calfusie can inflict. It
was a dangerous tackle. Jacob Laban was already held. It
was totally needless the contact that Calfusi made on Laban
straight in at his knees. I've had that injury in
rugby myself and I was out for months. It's not fun.
(14:52):
So the fact that Calfusi gets away with only a
two week ban is a joke. And Andrew Webster actually
we asked him about this and he said that normally
when they go through this process, the NRAL or the
NRO judiciary representative will ask them what the medical reports
are on the player who's got injured, i e. How
long theyre going to be out for. They didn't know
at that stage, and then the NRL made the delivered
(15:13):
the punishment two weeks and then they got the information.
So the NRAL actually gave that punishment out without knowing
the extent of Laban's injury. And I think had they
waited and just got that information before making a decision,
it would be longer than a two week band because
that's just not fair.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Let's talk a little bit of cricket. Bas Ball carries on,
and basball carries on even in the face of defeat,
should have beaten India, didn't beat India India one in
the last gasp after England needed how many runs.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Thirty four three wickets in hand.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's yeah, it drew the series and really they had
the win. But McCullum said, we're not going to stop
playing the way we play. This is what we do.
If we change the way we why do we play,
We're going to interfere of our very DNA. Is that
the right attitude, do you think?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
First of all, I have a lot of respect for
in a McCullum for sticking to his guns under enormous pressure,
because it's really not easy to do that. But at
the same time, I'm actually going to side with the
England fans here who are despondent at a series which
has gone begging and since the bas ball eras come in,
they haven't won a series against India or Australia. So
(16:27):
at the end of the day, you're going to base
things off results, and England had that result in the
palm of their hand and they blew it. So you've
got to be adaptable in your philosophy of how you
play the game. And although I like the aggressive nature
I'm glad that the black Caps don't have this out
and now, oh we're just going to smack it from
ball one and we're going to be ultra aggressive. We
(16:49):
need cool heads at the top, and I believe the
black Caps have that. I think England perhaps need to
be a little bit more adaptable in their approach, especially
when you're getting to the tail end of Tests. You've
got tail enders out there who don't have the expertise
of the top order batters and the skill set. You
need to be adaptable in your approach to these targets.
Because they only needed thirty four runs and they had
(17:11):
three wickets and hands to win a Test series on
home soil, you need to be getting that done and
I can understand the fans being really really peeved off
of that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
And on that understanding note, Nathan Linn, we thank you
very much for your time in the chamber. Gee, you
imagine if they did something amazing like beat India in
a three match series three mil an Indian's backyard. I
can't imagine that.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
No, No, it's just unheard of.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Really dissecting the sporting agenda. It's SPORTSFX with Darcy Waldegrave, just.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
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