On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave and Jason Pine for 21st August 2025, the Wallabies are looking to break another curse, having not won in Cape Town in 22 years. Australian rugby journalist Christy Doran caught up with D'Arcy to dissect the squads ahead of the second test
D'Arcy offers his thoughts on the importance of capitalising on the success the upcoming women's Rugby World Cup.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be hello there and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast.
We're here in association with GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's
most trusted home builder. At is Thursday, the twenty first
of August. My name's Jason, fine with my good mate
if I can get it out?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Are you sure about that pony?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I don't think you are.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That was what you call us.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was a Friday and slip. Are we not friends anymore?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Just because I stumbled on a couple of words. You
should not take that personally with my good mates.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Darcy Walter Grave, Hey, get to put whatever, We'll get
it out. What have we got coming out?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I want to tech to you about the All Blacks
team gets named tomorrow morning. They know what it is.
Well you find out tomorrow morning at eight thirty. I'm
keen to know from you what you think they'll change,
what they'll stick with, et cetera. Are also some thoughts
on the new signing for the Wellington Phoenix. So I
love his name? How good a player. Is he going
to be We'll find that out. And in terms of
an indiviuew who have we got to hear from today?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Christy Dorn joins a saponey. He is a rugby journalist
out of the law from Brisbane.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And the latest and sports news too. So let's get
into it. In other news, Let's get you under way
with a look at the big sports stories around today.
Cody Taylor preparing to join one of the All blacks
most exclusive clubs. The hooker will become the fourteenth Test
century in for New Zealand if he plays in Sunday
second Rugby Championship Test against Argentina in one A series.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's still care even fathm that this is my life,
young fellow from Lovan, come over from Mozie and then
doing what I'm doing today.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Expect the two former silver Ferns heading to Super Netball's
giants to become a tight unit on and off the
court mid quarter. Whitney Sooness is joining defender Jane Watson
in Sydney, the pair departing the A and Z Premiership's
pulse and tactics respectively.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I know we haven't probably spent as much time on
the court together, but I think first for me from
New Zealand, we'll be able to help each other out
a good and support each other quart as Ars being
away from.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Home and thirty two year old defender man Draker James
is the fifth and final import signing for the Wellington
Phoenix ahead of the new season of Football's Men's A League.
The Canadian center back, who has seventeen caps for his country,
will arrive in Wellington with thirteen years as a professional
under his belt across Europe, North and Central America.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I got the piece to cover behind and on the ball.
I'm very I like to keep the ball.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I'm played. I'd like to play those balls and machine
lines and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Use and a vinion.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussy Waldgrave and
it's warm.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Welcome now to the Sports Fixed podcast to Brisbane rugby
writer out of raw Christy darn get it. Christy. Good
to join you and it's great to have you on board.
I expect the entire rugby name of Australia are still going.
What the hell happened over in the Republic? Is it
likely to continue? I suppose what is looking ahead to
(03:17):
us come that huge fixture on Sunday morning.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Mate, You're not wrong, and it feels like it's almost
a bit of dreamland that's continuing. And I know that
that's what the Wallabies and Australia rugby fans are going
to be hoping for themselves. But is it likely to continue?
You look at the team that the Box have named
and they always get in early day. If it's a
Monday or a Tuesday, doesn't really matter. It's still early
and it's formidable and it almost looks like it's a
(03:41):
stronger team this week there last you know, you're bringing
back Damien d Lnde, Cheslyn Goldby the forward pack. They've
got four specialist locks in there too, coming off the bands,
one included. Even it's a bit so Jesus is going
to require another percolean effort and the first time, you know,
haven't been to Cape Town since nineteen ninety two and
come away with the chocolates. So they've broken the drought
(04:02):
that twicken them last year, nine years, sixty two years
at Ellis Park last week? Can it be a thirty
two year dro outbreaker this weekend? We'll find out.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Strong team from the Republic, but they've lost a number
of key players. So Russia Rasmus talked of depth and
the numbers are there, but if they're losing it, it's pointless.
So the difference you lose Closey for example, that is
massive to lose a guy like him. And there are
other players Pitter Steff to Toy that aren't around, but
(04:31):
like for like replacements, you're happy that they've they've got
the backup.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well Peter stets Toy I think is a bigger loss
at this moment. Like he's a two time well player
every year, isn't he. So he's just colossal. He's big,
he can dominate out wide. We saw him get in
the tram trucks last week and probably his error at
the base of the ruck was one of those real
crucial moments in the game when you look at big
moments and the box were really slamming hard and the
(04:58):
Wallabies kind of inside their twenty two and to Toy
it just went without the ball and that kind of
summed up their second half capitulation where they just kept
on there that out of thousand opportunities and putting none
of them away. Look, Franco Mosta comes in and he's
a World Cup winner. He is a quality player that
would start pretty much in every side going around the world.
(05:18):
So see CALESI I think, yeah, it was a little
bit by you know, his leadership particularly, but I actually
think it's a very very strong looking team right the
way through. And I like the fact that they've stuck
with Grant Williams at nine. I think he's a real
threat at half pack and Andre Pellett Pollard. You know,
we don't need to say too much about him other
than he's a double World Cup winner and he was
(05:39):
the difference between winning and losing two years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So they've been changes afoot with the spring box plainly,
what does and I don't believe I'm going to say
this because I got another correspondent who calls him that
what is Ossi Joe to do? As far as the
makeup of his team? Does he change much? Where does
he go?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, it's a good question, and generally speaking I would
have had the team already by now all cross look
what I've written them on a couple of other journals,
and Corey tool will start. We will play at the
very least, and that will used his debut. He's scored
twenty eight tries and forty two matches so far for
the Brumbi. He's a great strike rate there. But then
(06:19):
you look at Harry will be limped off last week
after scoring his second try. Looks like it'll be Rob
Balatini coming back into the twenty three for him as well.
So that's a good, pretty handy person to be able
to bring in. Obviously, no James Slipper, no deal in
peach guys that got injured last week. So I don't
(06:41):
think there's going to be too many changes because we
know Joe Schmidt is someone who strongly believes in cohesion
and if you recall back to this time two years
ago when the All Blacks played the Wallabies and Duneeden,
they made wholesale changes and the continuity wasn't there, and
he's often referenced that game as an example of why
you don't just bring in guys because you lose the
(07:03):
momentum that you get from a week earlier. So I
think otherwise it'll be a very very similar looking team
and they will see and hope that that's an advantage
over a spring box side that's made ten changes.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
How much was a case of South Africa losing that
game all the Wallabies winning that game.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, I think it's a combination of both. The Wallabies
were outstanding in the last sixty minutes, but but we've
got to remember that the spring Box had so many
opportunities and they kept on blowing them. So although the
Wallabies were outstanding with their finishing ability, it reminded me
of watching the All Blacks play with their marvelous counter attacking.
(07:44):
James O'Connor had a cracker. We're going to remember they
had thirteen entries into that twenty two zone and they
just came away with no points after that eight in
minute mark, So it was surprising. They thought they were
going to finish over the top of the Wallabies and
it completely flipped on its head. And discipline was the
reason for that. You know, the Box gave away ten penalties,
the Wallabies only four, so you know the averaging nine
(08:06):
point seven penalties under Joe Schmidi, you're getting under ten
penalties per match in international footy, you're generally in the
contest and we saw that last.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Week dissecting the Sporting Agenda, It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine
and Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
On the face of it. The Women's Rugby World Cup.
It's already a huge success. This is purely based on numbers.
Gets underway this weekend. Eighty percent of the tickets have
already been sold, including of course the final at Twickenham.
You wouldn't read about that would a decade ago a
(08:43):
women's fixture selling out Twickenham. That this is great. The
energy behind this is huge. The press inches, the radio coverage,
the TV coverage, the huge amount the phalanx of media
traveling over there to report back on this entertainment. Wouldn't
say beggars belief, but it's pretty amazing when you consider
(09:06):
where women's rugby has come from. Here's the issue, though,
the ability to capitalize on the fervor around the Women's
Rugby World Cup right here, right now. It was like
this three years ago in the last Women's Rugby World Cup,
which of course the Black Ferns were victorious, and he
(09:27):
promises made. Many ideas floated around how you benefit from
such a huge crowd engagement, from such massive media interest,
How do you generate the most out of this in
regards playing numbers, in regards TV and media interest, It
seems to me and I don't think I'm too wrong
(09:48):
in this. New Zealand and the world have got a
fascination predominantly with major sporting events. They turn up to
these particular tournaments and they want to watch this because
there's a pot of gold at the end. It means something.
It has relevance on a global scale. People flood to
(10:12):
major sporting events every year, but there has to be
a point. A World Cup, a World Championship. The list
goes on. So regardless of the numbers and how big
this sporting fixture or series of is going to be,
will it leak on to increasing player numbers, Will it
(10:35):
leak on to establishing women's rugby as a go to?
Will it attract more sponsors? So many questions unanswered, and
you'd have to say, historically, it doesn't necessarily work like that. Plainly,
all of the associations, Plainly all of the countries involved
(10:59):
must do their best to accelerate interest in the game
and use the Women's Rugby World Cup as a platform.
It has been lifting, it has been moving forward, it
has been growing, probably not at the pace that World
Rugby would like. It's on the way up. But don't
get too downcast. If this particular tournament doesn't accelerate the
(11:23):
love or engagement for women's rugby. It'll happen, but it
won't happen that fast.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And of the Chamber we go to kick around a
couple of sporting issues. Tomorrow morning eight point thirty we
find out the twenty three man squad for the All
Blacks to face Argentina and the second Rugby Championship Test
Sunday morning. Now we know a couple of things. Patrick
Tuipolottu and Anton Lennet Brown, who were among the reserves
last weekend, have come home with injuries. That's the only
(11:56):
unavailability we know of. We're told that Walla Ctiti and
to Mighty Williams are freshly available. They weren't last week.
Do you expect both of those guys, Williams and Satiti
to feature the fifteen and or the twenty three?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
The twenty three? Yes, the fifteen unsure. I like the
idea of to Mighty starting because that is his position.
He is our weapon. I've had discussing for people saying, hey,
look off the bench, tiring puma pack. He could absolutely
devastate the opposition. But I'd like to see him start.
(12:32):
Will a Setiti maybe come off the bench. It's been
a long time between drinks for him. It's me as
for the rest of the team. It's the Radiohead song,
isn't it? No Alarms and no surprises please?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What a great lyric What a great lyric. So to Borvai.
We saw him at six in the first two tests
against France. We saw him at six last week. I
kind of feel to us if they play him at
six on Sunday, they're all in on him for South Africa,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think we're already all in with him, aren't we.
It was a bit, not a punt. It was an
experiment and what I like about Razor and he's given
players plenty of opportunity to impress or to fall over.
And I go back to Damien McKenzie last year. He
gave him ample opportunity to prove that he could run
these team around the park, and variably it didn't work,
(13:20):
and so he moved on. I think we're seeing that
now with the Raser. He's given guys opportunity to cement,
to improve, or indeed drag themselves out of the side.
But it's kind of leaving it up to them, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I think he is the one caveat to what you
said before about Swalla Stiti being on the bench is
that I would like to see a bit of Simon Parker.
And I'm not sure if Satiti is on the bench,
that Parker makes it onto the bench, because I guess
it's more likely that you'd have lock cover rather than
to loose forwards. And some of penny females in this
mix as well, of course, So I wonder whether if
(13:53):
they want to have a look at Simon Parker, they
might start Satiti perhaps at number eight, move Savia to seven,
leave at six, and Simon Parker, on test debut might
come off the bench. Would that be a lot? You know,
a likely or unlikely scenario in your eyes?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Likely.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I know they're interested in him. I know the public
are interested in him, and it's a I suppose a
good place to cut your teeth up against Argentina as
opposed against against South Africa. My alarm around it. You
don't want to make you said no surprises, but you
don't want to make too many changes because he's getting
this regular lineup of his first fifteen slash twenty three.
(14:31):
There willways be a few changes, but I don't think
you want to get too keen with changes because it
might upset the combinations in the rhythm of the site.
That sounds overly paranoid, doesn't it pointy.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
No, it doesn't. It sounds actually imminently sensible. It sounds
very sensible that there will be a vacancy in the
back reserves. Though, because Anglina Brown has mentioned has gone home,
I quite like to see Ta Mothy Tavatavannahwai given another cracker.
I just quite like the way he goes about things.
A point of difference, what do you reckon any chance
Big Jim gets a game on Sunday bench?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah? Probably, But this is a devastating runner. We know
it can actually do ball in hand, and we also
know that he can swing position, so he might be
quite handy coming off the bench. But again I go
to that consistency of selection and how much playing around
do you want to do? And I'll just count myself
(15:27):
again if there's any time to do it, it's in
the second Test against Argentina.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Surely indeed, indeed, all right, eight thirty tomorrow morning, we'll
find out. So it'll be on the news around eight
thirty tomorrow on zed B and the other are stations
of in zed ME. A new face, a new name
in the Wellington Phoenix Stable announced today thirty two year
old defender Mandracer James and born in the caribbeanto a
(15:51):
cricket mad family. He is indeed named after former Indian
batsman Sanjay Mandracer. I think that's the best part of
the story. Well, no, tell me he can play, that'd
be a better part, surely. Well, I don't know whether
he can play yet. I mean, we know he has
been a player. He's played seventeen times for the national team.
Can't be too bad. He's been professional for thirteen years.
(16:12):
He's won titles in Denmark and Canada and Costa Rica.
That's the thing about import players, though, darcis they That's
what I've just given you is a greatest hits. It's
like a job interview. It's like you always put It's
like a first date. These are my great qualities. It's
not until they played twenty six games across the season
(16:32):
that you can really make a decent assessment. I do
like the fact that they have strengthened it center back.
I think that's a very very good idea.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I'm amazed you still remember your first date. How long
have you been married for now? Piney. That's a bit
of a stretch, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well actually to just to transition as well. If man
Draker James was named after a cricketer because he had
a cricket mad family is your family are big fans
of pride and prejudice, and mister Darcy my pride and prejudice.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
My mother read Pride and Prejudice whilst she was pregnant
with me and that's when that come. But she changed
the name because it was nineteen sixty nine. You've got
a bit fancy and added capitals and apostrophies and all
of that and letting me name that. My father refuses
to write my name like that. He just writes dar
c Hy. He doesn't believe any of that rubbish, the apostrophe.
(17:24):
So it's on my passport that it's on my birth
of don't care. Your name's darc dars. Why it's so bet.
It's been big football this week with all the cummings
and the goings, and I suppose the elbowing around to
get into prime position the Australia cuts me. I don't
know how much we place on the Australia. What about you.
I suppose if you win it, it's very very important.
(17:44):
If you don't, it doesn't matter. But jockeying for position
for players ahead of the A League. It's been great
week for that, hasn't it. Old Sales coming home.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, Oi sailed back to Auckland FC, Sam Cosgrove, who
I enjoyed hearing from with you on the pod yesterday
and last night on Sports Talk. It's all that's The
A League is a very transitional league. There's a big
turnover of players from season to season. Most of the
deals are short term two to three years, and some
of them are only one year deal. So you get
a whole bunch of new faces, which always keeps interest high.
(18:14):
But as you say, some familiar faces like Olli sail
coming back and we know what a character he is,
so looking forward to seeing how he goes.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well with this man Drake, his character Sorr. I've got
the question to ask whether he's a planning he's got game.
They're not on poorly guys that they can't play football.
But with the transient nature of the A league and
then a lot of football. To me, the key is
how long does it take before he fits like a
god into the patents that the team have got. How
much can he take on board and blend in with
(18:41):
what the team are already providing that there is the
trick of a good signing.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yep, great question. The league starts in a couple of months,
so depending on when he arrives, which I believe is
pending his visa clearance, I think it's less with the
defended us. I think as a defender, your kind of
job is to stop the opposition attack. Really, that's it
really got for set pieces, get your head on things,
especially a big blokelow this guy, whereas if he was
involved in the intricate passing movement in the front third,
(19:07):
for example, that might be something that would take longer
to find integration. And so look, I hope he arrives
as advertised as a big lump of a lad, gets
stuck in and just add some defensive steel to that side,
because after a pretty ordinary season last time around, that's
one of the things they definitely need. So let's hope
that that is what happens, and that is us in
(19:28):
the chamber today.
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Speaker 3 (19:49):
Does hey, Jason, who are you named after?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I actually don't know Jason and the Argonauts? Is that
a Greek? Sort of a Greek throwback?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Did they rap you in a golden fleece?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
There you go, mate, Well I was too young to remember.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Thanks focusing fog back on what we're doing. Look, if
you want to engage in like literal sports talk, you
can on Sports Talk Monday to Friday, News Talks EBB
between seven and eight pm. I've got most of the week,
Piney's got Monday, and of course you get to stand
and have the bright lights shine on you come Saturday
(20:29):
and Sunday on weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Sport midday through three. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be hello there and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast.
We're here in association with GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's
most trusted home builder. At is Thursday, the twenty first
of August. My name's Jason, fine with my good mate
if I can get it out?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Are you sure about that pony?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I don't think you are.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That was what you call us.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was a Friday and slip. Are we not friends anymore?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Just because I stumbled on a couple of words. You
should not take that personally with my good mates.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Darcy Walter Grave, Hey, get to put whatever, We'll get
it out. What have we got coming out?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I want to tech to you about the All Blacks
team gets named tomorrow morning. They know what it is.
Well you find out tomorrow morning at eight thirty. I'm
keen to know from you what you think they'll change,
what they'll stick with, et cetera. Are also some thoughts
on the new signing for the Wellington Phoenix. So I
love his name? How good a player. Is he going
to be We'll find that out. And in terms of
an indiviuew who have we got to hear from today?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Christy Dorn joins a saponey. He is a rugby journalist
out of the law from Brisbane.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And the latest and sports news too. So let's get
into it. In other news, Let's get you under way
with a look at the big sports stories around today.
Cody Taylor preparing to join one of the All blacks
most exclusive clubs. The hooker will become the fourteenth Test
century in for New Zealand if he plays in Sunday
second Rugby Championship Test against Argentina in one A series.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's still care even fathm that this is my life,
young fellow from Lovan, come over from Mozie and then
doing what I'm doing today.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Expect the two former silver Ferns heading to Super Netball's
giants to become a tight unit on and off the
court mid quarter. Whitney Sooness is joining defender Jane Watson
in Sydney, the pair departing the A and Z Premiership's
pulse and tactics respectively.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I know we haven't probably spent as much time on
the court together, but I think first for me from
New Zealand, we'll be able to help each other out
a good and support each other quart as Ars being
away from.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Home and thirty two year old defender man Draker James
is the fifth and final import signing for the Wellington
Phoenix ahead of the new season of Football's Men's A League.
The Canadian center back, who has seventeen caps for his country,
will arrive in Wellington with thirteen years as a professional
under his belt across Europe, North and Central America.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I got the piece to cover behind and on the ball.
I'm very I like to keep the ball.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I'm played. I'd like to play those balls and machine
lines and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Use and a vinion.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussy Waldgrave and
it's warm.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Welcome now to the Sports Fixed podcast to Brisbane rugby
writer out of raw Christy darn get it. Christy. Good
to join you and it's great to have you on board.
I expect the entire rugby name of Australia are still going.
What the hell happened over in the Republic? Is it
likely to continue? I suppose what is looking ahead to
(03:17):
us come that huge fixture on Sunday morning.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Mate, You're not wrong, and it feels like it's almost
a bit of dreamland that's continuing. And I know that
that's what the Wallabies and Australia rugby fans are going
to be hoping for themselves. But is it likely to continue?
You look at the team that the Box have named
and they always get in early day. If it's a
Monday or a Tuesday, doesn't really matter. It's still early
and it's formidable and it almost looks like it's a
(03:41):
stronger team this week there last you know, you're bringing
back Damien d Lnde, Cheslyn Goldby the forward pack. They've
got four specialist locks in there too, coming off the bands,
one included. Even it's a bit so Jesus is going
to require another percolean effort and the first time, you know,
haven't been to Cape Town since nineteen ninety two and
come away with the chocolates. So they've broken the drought
(04:02):
that twicken them last year, nine years, sixty two years
at Ellis Park last week? Can it be a thirty
two year dro outbreaker this weekend? We'll find out.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Strong team from the Republic, but they've lost a number
of key players. So Russia Rasmus talked of depth and
the numbers are there, but if they're losing it, it's pointless.
So the difference you lose Closey for example, that is
massive to lose a guy like him. And there are
other players Pitter Steff to Toy that aren't around, but
(04:31):
like for like replacements, you're happy that they've they've got
the backup.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well Peter stets Toy I think is a bigger loss
at this moment. Like he's a two time well player
every year, isn't he. So he's just colossal. He's big,
he can dominate out wide. We saw him get in
the tram trucks last week and probably his error at
the base of the ruck was one of those real
crucial moments in the game when you look at big
moments and the box were really slamming hard and the
(04:58):
Wallabies kind of inside their twenty two and to Toy
it just went without the ball and that kind of
summed up their second half capitulation where they just kept
on there that out of thousand opportunities and putting none
of them away. Look, Franco Mosta comes in and he's
a World Cup winner. He is a quality player that
would start pretty much in every side going around the world.
(05:18):
So see CALESI I think, yeah, it was a little
bit by you know, his leadership particularly, but I actually
think it's a very very strong looking team right the
way through. And I like the fact that they've stuck
with Grant Williams at nine. I think he's a real
threat at half pack and Andre Pellett Pollard. You know,
we don't need to say too much about him other
than he's a double World Cup winner and he was
(05:39):
the difference between winning and losing two years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So they've been changes afoot with the spring box plainly,
what does and I don't believe I'm going to say
this because I got another correspondent who calls him that
what is Ossi Joe to do? As far as the
makeup of his team? Does he change much? Where does
he go?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, it's a good question, and generally speaking I would
have had the team already by now all cross look
what I've written them on a couple of other journals,
and Corey tool will start. We will play at the
very least, and that will used his debut. He's scored
twenty eight tries and forty two matches so far for
the Brumbi. He's a great strike rate there. But then
(06:19):
you look at Harry will be limped off last week
after scoring his second try. Looks like it'll be Rob
Balatini coming back into the twenty three for him as well.
So that's a good, pretty handy person to be able
to bring in. Obviously, no James Slipper, no deal in
peach guys that got injured last week. So I don't
(06:41):
think there's going to be too many changes because we
know Joe Schmidt is someone who strongly believes in cohesion
and if you recall back to this time two years
ago when the All Blacks played the Wallabies and Duneeden,
they made wholesale changes and the continuity wasn't there, and
he's often referenced that game as an example of why
you don't just bring in guys because you lose the
(07:03):
momentum that you get from a week earlier. So I
think otherwise it'll be a very very similar looking team
and they will see and hope that that's an advantage
over a spring box side that's made ten changes.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
How much was a case of South Africa losing that
game all the Wallabies winning that game.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, I think it's a combination of both. The Wallabies
were outstanding in the last sixty minutes, but but we've
got to remember that the spring Box had so many
opportunities and they kept on blowing them. So although the
Wallabies were outstanding with their finishing ability, it reminded me
of watching the All Blacks play with their marvelous counter attacking.
(07:44):
James O'Connor had a cracker. We're going to remember they
had thirteen entries into that twenty two zone and they
just came away with no points after that eight in
minute mark, So it was surprising. They thought they were
going to finish over the top of the Wallabies and
it completely flipped on its head. And discipline was the
reason for that. You know, the Box gave away ten penalties,
the Wallabies only four, so you know the averaging nine
(08:06):
point seven penalties under Joe Schmidi, you're getting under ten
penalties per match in international footy, you're generally in the
contest and we saw that last.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Week dissecting the Sporting Agenda, It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine
and Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
On the face of it. The Women's Rugby World Cup.
It's already a huge success. This is purely based on numbers.
Gets underway this weekend. Eighty percent of the tickets have
already been sold, including of course the final at Twickenham.
You wouldn't read about that would a decade ago a
(08:43):
women's fixture selling out Twickenham. That this is great. The
energy behind this is huge. The press inches, the radio coverage,
the TV coverage, the huge amount the phalanx of media
traveling over there to report back on this entertainment. Wouldn't
say beggars belief, but it's pretty amazing when you consider
(09:06):
where women's rugby has come from. Here's the issue, though,
the ability to capitalize on the fervor around the Women's
Rugby World Cup right here, right now. It was like
this three years ago in the last Women's Rugby World Cup,
which of course the Black Ferns were victorious, and he
(09:27):
promises made. Many ideas floated around how you benefit from
such a huge crowd engagement, from such massive media interest,
How do you generate the most out of this in
regards playing numbers, in regards TV and media interest, It
seems to me and I don't think I'm too wrong
(09:48):
in this. New Zealand and the world have got a
fascination predominantly with major sporting events. They turn up to
these particular tournaments and they want to watch this because
there's a pot of gold at the end. It means something.
It has relevance on a global scale. People flood to
(10:12):
major sporting events every year, but there has to be
a point. A World Cup, a World Championship. The list
goes on. So regardless of the numbers and how big
this sporting fixture or series of is going to be,
will it leak on to increasing player numbers, Will it
(10:35):
leak on to establishing women's rugby as a go to?
Will it attract more sponsors? So many questions unanswered, and
you'd have to say, historically, it doesn't necessarily work like that. Plainly,
all of the associations, Plainly all of the countries involved
(10:59):
must do their best to accelerate interest in the game
and use the Women's Rugby World Cup as a platform.
It has been lifting, it has been moving forward, it
has been growing, probably not at the pace that World
Rugby would like. It's on the way up. But don't
get too downcast. If this particular tournament doesn't accelerate the
(11:23):
love or engagement for women's rugby. It'll happen, but it
won't happen that fast.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And of the Chamber we go to kick around a
couple of sporting issues. Tomorrow morning eight point thirty we
find out the twenty three man squad for the All
Blacks to face Argentina and the second Rugby Championship Test
Sunday morning. Now we know a couple of things. Patrick
Tuipolottu and Anton Lennet Brown, who were among the reserves
last weekend, have come home with injuries. That's the only
(11:56):
unavailability we know of. We're told that Walla Ctiti and
to Mighty Williams are freshly available. They weren't last week.
Do you expect both of those guys, Williams and Satiti
to feature the fifteen and or the twenty three?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
The twenty three? Yes, the fifteen unsure. I like the
idea of to Mighty starting because that is his position.
He is our weapon. I've had discussing for people saying, hey,
look off the bench, tiring puma pack. He could absolutely
devastate the opposition. But I'd like to see him start.
(12:32):
Will a Setiti maybe come off the bench. It's been
a long time between drinks for him. It's me as
for the rest of the team. It's the Radiohead song,
isn't it? No Alarms and no surprises please?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What a great lyric What a great lyric. So to Borvai.
We saw him at six in the first two tests
against France. We saw him at six last week. I
kind of feel to us if they play him at
six on Sunday, they're all in on him for South Africa,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think we're already all in with him, aren't we.
It was a bit, not a punt. It was an
experiment and what I like about Razor and he's given
players plenty of opportunity to impress or to fall over.
And I go back to Damien McKenzie last year. He
gave him ample opportunity to prove that he could run
these team around the park, and variably it didn't work,
(13:20):
and so he moved on. I think we're seeing that
now with the Raser. He's given guys opportunity to cement,
to improve, or indeed drag themselves out of the side.
But it's kind of leaving it up to them, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I think he is the one caveat to what you
said before about Swalla Stiti being on the bench is
that I would like to see a bit of Simon Parker.
And I'm not sure if Satiti is on the bench,
that Parker makes it onto the bench, because I guess
it's more likely that you'd have lock cover rather than
to loose forwards. And some of penny females in this
mix as well, of course, So I wonder whether if
(13:53):
they want to have a look at Simon Parker, they
might start Satiti perhaps at number eight, move Savia to seven,
leave at six, and Simon Parker, on test debut might
come off the bench. Would that be a lot? You know,
a likely or unlikely scenario in your eyes?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Likely.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I know they're interested in him. I know the public
are interested in him, and it's a I suppose a
good place to cut your teeth up against Argentina as
opposed against against South Africa. My alarm around it. You
don't want to make you said no surprises, but you
don't want to make too many changes because he's getting
this regular lineup of his first fifteen slash twenty three.
(14:31):
There willways be a few changes, but I don't think
you want to get too keen with changes because it
might upset the combinations in the rhythm of the site.
That sounds overly paranoid, doesn't it pointy.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
No, it doesn't. It sounds actually imminently sensible. It sounds
very sensible that there will be a vacancy in the
back reserves. Though, because Anglina Brown has mentioned has gone home,
I quite like to see Ta Mothy Tavatavannahwai given another cracker.
I just quite like the way he goes about things.
A point of difference, what do you reckon any chance
Big Jim gets a game on Sunday bench?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah? Probably, But this is a devastating runner. We know
it can actually do ball in hand, and we also
know that he can swing position, so he might be
quite handy coming off the bench. But again I go
to that consistency of selection and how much playing around
do you want to do? And I'll just count myself
(15:27):
again if there's any time to do it, it's in
the second Test against Argentina.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Surely indeed, indeed, all right, eight thirty tomorrow morning, we'll
find out. So it'll be on the news around eight
thirty tomorrow on zed B and the other are stations
of in zed ME. A new face, a new name
in the Wellington Phoenix Stable announced today thirty two year
old defender Mandracer James and born in the caribbeanto a
(15:51):
cricket mad family. He is indeed named after former Indian
batsman Sanjay Mandracer. I think that's the best part of
the story. Well, no, tell me he can play, that'd
be a better part, surely. Well, I don't know whether
he can play yet. I mean, we know he has
been a player. He's played seventeen times for the national team.
Can't be too bad. He's been professional for thirteen years.
(16:12):
He's won titles in Denmark and Canada and Costa Rica.
That's the thing about import players, though, darcis they That's
what I've just given you is a greatest hits. It's
like a job interview. It's like you always put It's
like a first date. These are my great qualities. It's
not until they played twenty six games across the season
(16:32):
that you can really make a decent assessment. I do
like the fact that they have strengthened it center back.
I think that's a very very good idea.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I'm amazed you still remember your first date. How long
have you been married for now? Piney. That's a bit
of a stretch, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well actually to just to transition as well. If man
Draker James was named after a cricketer because he had
a cricket mad family is your family are big fans
of pride and prejudice, and mister Darcy my pride and prejudice.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
My mother read Pride and Prejudice whilst she was pregnant
with me and that's when that come. But she changed
the name because it was nineteen sixty nine. You've got
a bit fancy and added capitals and apostrophies and all
of that and letting me name that. My father refuses
to write my name like that. He just writes dar
c Hy. He doesn't believe any of that rubbish, the apostrophe.
(17:24):
So it's on my passport that it's on my birth
of don't care. Your name's darc dars. Why it's so bet.
It's been big football this week with all the cummings
and the goings, and I suppose the elbowing around to
get into prime position the Australia cuts me. I don't
know how much we place on the Australia. What about you.
I suppose if you win it, it's very very important.
(17:44):
If you don't, it doesn't matter. But jockeying for position
for players ahead of the A League. It's been great
week for that, hasn't it. Old Sales coming home.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, Oi sailed back to Auckland FC, Sam Cosgrove, who
I enjoyed hearing from with you on the pod yesterday
and last night on Sports Talk. It's all that's The
A League is a very transitional league. There's a big
turnover of players from season to season. Most of the
deals are short term two to three years, and some
of them are only one year deal. So you get
a whole bunch of new faces, which always keeps interest high.
(18:14):
But as you say, some familiar faces like Olli sail
coming back and we know what a character he is,
so looking forward to seeing how he goes.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well with this man Drake, his character Sorr. I've got
the question to ask whether he's a planning he's got game.
They're not on poorly guys that they can't play football.
But with the transient nature of the A league and
then a lot of football. To me, the key is
how long does it take before he fits like a
god into the patents that the team have got. How
much can he take on board and blend in with
(18:41):
what the team are already providing that there is the
trick of a good signing.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yep, great question. The league starts in a couple of months,
so depending on when he arrives, which I believe is
pending his visa clearance, I think it's less with the
defended us. I think as a defender, your kind of
job is to stop the opposition attack. Really, that's it
really got for set pieces, get your head on things,
especially a big blokelow this guy, whereas if he was
involved in the intricate passing movement in the front third,
(19:07):
for example, that might be something that would take longer
to find integration. And so look, I hope he arrives
as advertised as a big lump of a lad, gets
stuck in and just add some defensive steel to that side,
because after a pretty ordinary season last time around, that's
one of the things they definitely need. So let's hope
that that is what happens, and that is us in
(19:28):
the chamber today.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
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Speaker 2 (19:37):
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Speaker 3 (19:49):
Does hey, Jason, who are you named after?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I actually don't know Jason and the Argonauts? Is that
a Greek? Sort of a Greek throwback?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Did they rap you in a golden fleece?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
There you go, mate, Well I was too young to remember.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Thanks focusing fog back on what we're doing. Look, if
you want to engage in like literal sports talk, you
can on Sports Talk Monday to Friday, News Talks EBB
between seven and eight pm. I've got most of the week,
Piney's got Monday, and of course you get to stand
and have the bright lights shine on you come Saturday
(20:29):
and Sunday on weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Sport midday through three. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
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