August 29, 2025 • 18 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 29th August 2025, The Warriors face the Eels as they look to keep their hands on a top 4 spot as the NRL Finals approach. Warriors Centre Adam Pompey joined the podcast to discuss what they need to do to keep their good form rolling.
Piney has read Mark Winterbottom's autobiography and shares his thoughts on the Supercars icon
And D'Arcy and Piney are in the chamber ahead of another big weekend of sport
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks EDB. Follow
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This is Sportsfix Howard by News Talks ed B.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast for Friday, August twenty nine,
in association with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted at home build. I think Friday is my favorite
day of the week. Actually with a big weekend is
Sport Ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
My name's Jason.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Pine and my name's Darcy Walter Grave and I enjoy
the build up to the weekend too. On tenderhooks, see
what's going to happen in the.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Wonderful wide world of sport.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, you haven't eaten, including what happens tonight out at
Mount Smart when the Warriors take on the Eels. Now
we're going to get inside the Warriors camp, deep inside
the Warriors camp on sports Fix today.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Adam Pompey, who's played every game so far this yere.
In fact, there's only one of four players that actually
played every game this year. I remember a couple of
years back, I think he played every minute of every game.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Bar about ten.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's got a machine that blow.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Huge part of this Warriors side. How important is it
that they win tonight? Pretty important, i'd imagine it, and
Pompey will tell us. We'll have a chat about it
in the chamber as well. Want to kick around a
couple of rugby issues with you too, the Loudest and
sports headlines coming your way as well. It's a Jam
Pag podcast as always, let's get into it. In other news,
let's kick things off have a look at the big
(01:27):
sports stories around today. Hamish Kerr has won the high
jump crown at the Diamond League Athletic season finale, and
Zurich tuning up nicely for next month's World Championships. The
Olympic champion cleared two meters thirty two in what proved
to be his final jump.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Perfective leading if he goes clay here really will put the.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Pessor at Doris Show two thirty two first to tests
and he gets it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Looks it very good form.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All of a sudden, the new Zealander wheels away. Job
done for men's world number one Yarnick Center in the
second round of the US Tennis Open. He's dispatched Ozzie
Alexi popperin and straight seats.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Center six track for his title defense.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
That's the plan over the next few days for the Italian.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Pana coof of New Zealand Rugby and the Crusaders, with
prop to Mighty Williams re signing through until the end
of twenty twenty nine. Crusaders coach Rob Penny excited for
what's to come for the twenty five year old.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
We know it's a world class player without doubt, proving
that time again, and you know he's still going through
his growth and evolution as a still a young man,
and he'll get better by the end of his career.
He would have stamped his mark deeply on the game.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine and
Dusty Waldgrave.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We's been some time now on the Fixed podcast with
iron Man center for the Warriors. His name is Adam Pompey.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He joins us.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Now, good day, Adam. I take it you're well, although
probably a bit tired man. You've played some league this year,
haven't you. It's don't me if I'm wrong, but haven't
you appeared in every game so far this year?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So far.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, it's been a rod for me. But yeah, just
trying to keep myself healthy and well for every game.
So yeah, touch Wood go every game this year, and yeah,
just keep healthy.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Hope.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I haven't put the curse on you, mate, that'd be
terrible for the mockers after that. Is there anything particularly
that you do to keep yourself playing? Your diet and
your exercise and so on and so forth, anything else
you look at to stay on the park? Means she's
a fairly confronting game. It's quite a difficult thing to manage,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah, nothing really changes for me.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I just you know, coming.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Early, put myself pretty early, and just I think the
main focus is doing the hot and colds. I've put
a sauna. Yeah, just trying to hurt myself. And I
know that the eatings, you know, you can be a
good thing with that, like just have your favorite meals,
but try to stay off towards the back end of
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So yeah, what do you like?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
What like turns your head when it comes to eating?
What's it really difficult not to eat?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Adam?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I think just sort of McDonald's, KFC and all that. Yeah,
I like to wrap myself around that. But yeah, towards
the end of the week. It's you know, just Salid's in.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That it's been a weird old year. You guys started
off with a person a rule on the first game Terror,
but after that it was amazing. But then you've really
fallen back again. So you start, well, it's how you finished.
So how's the headspace of the team, because you've clocked
that that win now, so you think it's all like
a blue skies from now on it.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah, I think we've built confidence off that Dragon's game. Yeah,
just set ourselves up for the finals. And you know,
obviously it didn't go too well in that period a
couple of months ago, but I think just the boys
staying in it and just trusting our system which is
helping at the moment. And you know, it's setting ourselves
for the finals and we're looking to improve every game,
(05:04):
and yeah, I think that's the most main focus on
it's just improving every week.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
So does the coach know you're already thinking about the finals.
I thought he'd tell you that's just no go. You're
not allowed to do things like that, Adam.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, I think it's in the back of our minds,
like the kind of you know, talks about it, But
you know, obviously it's just week by week for us,
just game by gaming, and I think we don't want
to look too ahead on it, just because we'll know
we have the confidence by paying every week. But yeah,
(05:36):
I think it's just been really good that you know,
the boys are no confidence off the Dragon's game, and
you know we're looking to just keep building in that area.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
So yeah, really difficult for yourself. Do you think you've
been given like fair treatment this year when you look
at the amount of injuries that you had when things
started going a right, especially with the sentence, because that's
been really hard. Dallin's probably taking a bit of grief
of what he's been up to. But it all leaks
right back from the middle, doesn't It is that how
(06:06):
complex has it been for guys to come in and
understand the process and work through this.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I think the process with our cup side is going
pretty well. And you know, whoever fills in it at
that spot or like any spot on the field, do
you know they know their role pretty well? And no,
it gives them confidence to play each week in And yeah,
I think just backing everyone up on our process in
our game, you know, everyone knows it, and it's just
(06:32):
really good to have at the club.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
What about your own game, where do you look to
try and improve? I suspect you'd be reasonably hard on
yourself and what you provide because you're a mainstay in
that team. Where do you look to improve.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Both aurious attack and defense? And they're obviously trying to
get involved but more but defense is just you know,
just sticking to my principles and just winning my own battles,
I guess, and I think if I could do that
for the team throughout the back end of the season
and leading up to the finals, I think, you know,
we'll be confident for our performances.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So yeah, you talk of confidence, and you've got to
have confidences in your insides and your outsides too, so
you guys can hold your defensive line. And that's what
really stood out in the first half of the season.
You had that trust that this is a difficult place
to be and when you look at your insides and outside,
how much work you do around having that trust with
(07:25):
your teammates when you're in a defensive line.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah, I think the trust trust your inside it's really important.
You know, the work that all the middles do and
all the edges do.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
We try to no practice that in our trainings and
you know it's been going really well for us, but
you know certain areas are to improve and try build
our game offers, you know, something that we are looking
for in our performances. But you know, yeah, this whole
year it's been really good for us, but you know
there's always work on. So yeah, Sports.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Fix, I assume it wouldn't say I'm the biggest fan
of motorsboard going around. My podcast co host Darcy Watergrave
certainly holds that mantle among the two of us. But
I was given the chance in the last couple of
weeks to read the autobiography of Mark Winterbottom Frosty, the
incredible true story of the boy from Duneside who became
(08:19):
a Bathurst King. In terms of the numbers, his career
stacks up. He won a Supercars Championship in twenty fifteen,
won Bathhurst in twenty thirteen and overall had thirty nine
race wins and one hundred and twenty podium finishes overall.
Last year he retired from full time driving after twenty
one years, but he remains a mentor and in duo
(08:39):
co driver with cam Waters for Tickford Driving. I found
the book really really interesting. The insight that Mark Winterbottom
is able to give us from the outside looking in
motor racing looks extremely challenging, but it wasn't until I
read these pages that I understood just how small the
margins are. We're talking tents, hundreds, in some cases thousandths
(09:05):
of a second between success and not getting the success
that you're after. One of the wonderful chapters gives you
the opportunity to go around Bathurst with Mark Winterbottom as
your guide. He takes us from the start line, through
every curve, through every straight, through every driving maneuver at
the famous Mount Panorama circuit. It already has some great insight.
(09:28):
He talks about Bathurst as being basically the holy Grail
for supercars drivers. He says crossing the finish line unlike
anything I'd ever felt before. It wasn't just a race win.
It was the culmination of years of effort, heartbreak and frustration.
After so many close calls in near missus, Bathurst was
finally ours. That's how he felt after twenty thirteen, and
(09:49):
he talks about going back into the pits and reuniting
with his team and having some of the burghest toughest
motorsport mechanics he's ever met, in tears at what they
had achieved. It hasn't all been rainbows and sunshine for
Mark wind and Bottom. He has faced adversity as well,
both in the car and off the track as well.
But unlike many sporting autobiographies, this one doesn't just scratch
(10:11):
the surface. It's not we race this particular circuit and
finished fourth. Then we went here and we won the race.
There's a lot more to it than that. Mark winter
Bottom a really really good read which I can recommend
not only for motorsport fans, buffer fans of sport in general.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Into the Chamber we go.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Great to hear from Adam Pompyg what a playery's been
for the Warriors for several years. Now, okay, do they
beat the Eels tonight? First of all, with a stick?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Go on, go on, get in with a stick.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
We always talk about teams that if you don't get
to the top four, you're not going to win. I
don't know if anyone can roll the likes of Storm
and if somehow the Peenrith Panthers managed to get out
of that bottom four of the eight. Ye watch out
for them too, and of course Raid it's bulldogs, no,
but at least if they get through these games, they
put themselves in a clear position possibly to win this thing.
(11:08):
They've got to do it, and that must have been
pushed through surely. And they've had their awful first up game,
a wonderfully strong start, a bit of a skid, a
robble kind of toward the end of the regular season,
but they've lifted themselves back up again in the last
couple of weeks. Positivity much piny, Yeah, very much so.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And you've I mean, you're right to point out the
peaks and the troughs of a season because you know,
you don't really win or you know, a contrary to
popular opinion, lose the NRL, you know, way way back
in sort of April May. But you go through ups
and downs. And look, the Warriors feel as though, off
the back of two wins that if they win tonight
and then you can go to Manly next week and
perhaps win, they're too that they do have that momentum.
(11:48):
Whether momentum is actually a thing or not, I don't
know whether it's ever been scientifically discovered or examined. I mean,
are you more likely to win the fifth game if
you've won the previous.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Four or not.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I don't even know what the amer hold on.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
What it was the key and momentum that I learned
back in science. You know, I actually picked something up
way back then in my school days. Momentum can be stopped.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
That's not good. Tom's saying.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Momentum is not continuous, it doesn't keep going forever. Momentum
can be stopped, So let's not too carried away.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
With momentum, right.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That sounds to me like somebody who doesn't have it.
I'm saying that because.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I feel like I feel like something like.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The storm has momentum. You say, don't worry, it'll come
to an end. At some stage. We can stop it. Look,
maybe you can. I don't know, but I think the
Warriors will win tonight. I think final regular season game
at at GO Media Stadium, so a lot on the
line there. They should, all things being equalill be back
for at least one playoff game. So yeah, it's important
(12:43):
for them mentally, not momentum, but mentally to actually know that.
Then if there's a game in front of them that
they should win and about to go ahead and deliver
because they've stumbled before. If that happens again, they'll start
questioning what they're doing out there, even though they'll be
told not to. So for me, this is hugely important,
just so they know, not momentum but mental capacity.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
That makes it all right.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It does the two M words. Let's go to a
bit of rugby news today. To Mighty Williams has signed
on with New Zealand Rugby and the Crusaders until the
end of twenty twenty nine. Only Damien McKenzie has a
contract that long. How significant a piece of business is
this for New Zealand Rugby.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Isn't that funny? You couldn't get two more opposite players,
couldn't you the size of the both of them? But
anyway they're both out of twenty twenty nine. Very significant, significant,
not only for the All Blacks, very significant for the Crusaders.
And Rob Penny's been waxing lyrical about the spikes like
all of this Christmases has come at once. But to
seal this guy off for the next handful of years
(13:45):
because they never target on his head. Everybody will mont
the sky on their team.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I mean you look at France.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
They must be salimating over him surely.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh they love their big props up north, don't they.
And there'll be some big checks thrown the way of
to Mighty Williams, he sprike strikes me without actually knowing
the bloke, but he strikes me as the kind of
guy who would love to continue playing for the Crusaders,
would love to continue playing for the All Blacks. He
even said, didn't he does when he was asked about
playing in the Super Rugby Final, which put his chances
(14:12):
of playing against France for the All Blacks and jeopardy
that he said, well, I can't not play for the Crusaders.
That's my team. I bleed red and black rather than
just black. Do you remember same white lock back in
the day, Same thing I'm playing. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Oh you're engined for the startup that don't care. This
is the Crusaders, this is my team, same drill.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I agree, So to Mighty Williams.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Good piece of business for the Crusaders and for the
All Blacks too, signed up to well beyond the next
Rugby World Cup, and just on pieces of silverware or
trophies that are available. Southland have in their sights the
ran Furley Shield when they head to Hamilton on Sunday
afternoon to try and prize it away from white Cuttle,
who themselves only wanted a week ago against Tulanaki. What
(14:55):
chance it's Antler's up for the Stags on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So you pose the question when you sent me some
topics that said, can South and win the Ranfurlly Shield
on Sunday? Yeah, they can, but I'll turn it back
on you.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Will they I don't think they will.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I've got a lot of good friends down in that
part of the country and I'm sure more no I
was gonna say, anyone and I'm listening to this will
now be slightly less less enamored of me.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
White Cattle are a good team. Southland seemed to me
to be very good at home. They just don't travel
particularly well. So given that if they were to prize
it away from White Cuttle, it would be a very
tough proposition for anybody to go to in the cargo
and try and win it. Canterbury would be the first
to get the chance. If indeed South and do what
that's that's me. This is me dodging the question, Darci.
I don't think they will. I think it stays with
(15:44):
White Cuttle for the meantime.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Who's got the most returning all Blacks. It's it's it's
like couple, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, we found out this afternoon that they kind of
played a little bit fast and loose with their team selection.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
They forgot what, we'll release their team now out on.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, and they've put them all back in, haven't they.
They've put all of the released all blacks back into
their team, the ones that were released back on. But
had you know, but as you say, Wakuto, they didn't.
They didn't tell us who, you know, who was going
to play or who wasn't going to play. But this
afternoon they've said, no, no, we're going to get them all
back and there Norris, Female Jacobs, and Lenet Brown they're
(16:22):
all going to play. So that swings it even Morter
White Cutter, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It does. And there's some heavy hitters in there, and
Jacobson is one of my favorite players and he feelings
not short changed, but difficult for him. Then, of course
got the boisterous front row and leon It Brown there's
an argument when you look at the midfield of the
All Blacks that they should put.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Him straight back in the side again.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, that's a topic of discussion for next week. Perhaps
in the meantime, Waycuto Southland. On Sunday afternoon you can
hear commentary that actually on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio. That
finishes us up in the chamber for.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast for Friday, August twenty nine,
in association with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted at home build. I think Friday is my favorite
day of the week. Actually with a big weekend is
Sport Ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
My name's Jason.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Pine and my name's Darcy Walter Grave and I enjoy
the build up to the weekend too. On tenderhooks, see
what's going to happen in the.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Wonderful wide world of sport.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, you haven't eaten, including what happens tonight out at
Mount Smart when the Warriors take on the Eels. Now
we're going to get inside the Warriors camp, deep inside
the Warriors camp on sports Fix today.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Adam Pompey, who's played every game so far this yere.
In fact, there's only one of four players that actually
played every game this year. I remember a couple of
years back, I think he played every minute of every game.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Bar about ten.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's got a machine that blow.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Huge part of this Warriors side. How important is it
that they win tonight? Pretty important, i'd imagine it, and
Pompey will tell us. We'll have a chat about it
in the chamber as well. Want to kick around a
couple of rugby issues with you too, the Loudest and
sports headlines coming your way as well. It's a Jam
Pag podcast as always, let's get into it. In other news,
let's kick things off have a look at the big
(01:27):
sports stories around today. Hamish Kerr has won the high
jump crown at the Diamond League Athletic season finale, and
Zurich tuning up nicely for next month's World Championships. The
Olympic champion cleared two meters thirty two in what proved
to be his final jump.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Perfective leading if he goes clay here really will put the.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Pessor at Doris Show two thirty two first to tests
and he gets it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Looks it very good form.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All of a sudden, the new Zealander wheels away. Job
done for men's world number one Yarnick Center in the
second round of the US Tennis Open. He's dispatched Ozzie
Alexi popperin and straight seats.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Center six track for his title defense.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
That's the plan over the next few days for the Italian.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Pana coof of New Zealand Rugby and the Crusaders, with
prop to Mighty Williams re signing through until the end
of twenty twenty nine. Crusaders coach Rob Penny excited for
what's to come for the twenty five year old.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
We know it's a world class player without doubt, proving
that time again, and you know he's still going through
his growth and evolution as a still a young man,
and he'll get better by the end of his career.
He would have stamped his mark deeply on the game.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine and
Dusty Waldgrave.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We's been some time now on the Fixed podcast with
iron Man center for the Warriors. His name is Adam Pompey.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He joins us.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Now, good day, Adam. I take it you're well, although
probably a bit tired man. You've played some league this year,
haven't you. It's don't me if I'm wrong, but haven't
you appeared in every game so far this year?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So far.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, it's been a rod for me. But yeah, just
trying to keep myself healthy and well for every game.
So yeah, touch Wood go every game this year, and yeah,
just keep healthy.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Hope.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I haven't put the curse on you, mate, that'd be
terrible for the mockers after that. Is there anything particularly
that you do to keep yourself playing? Your diet and
your exercise and so on and so forth, anything else
you look at to stay on the park? Means she's
a fairly confronting game. It's quite a difficult thing to manage,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah, nothing really changes for me.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I just you know, coming.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Early, put myself pretty early, and just I think the
main focus is doing the hot and colds. I've put
a sauna. Yeah, just trying to hurt myself. And I
know that the eatings, you know, you can be a
good thing with that, like just have your favorite meals,
but try to stay off towards the back end of
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So yeah, what do you like?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
What like turns your head when it comes to eating?
What's it really difficult not to eat?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Adam?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I think just sort of McDonald's, KFC and all that. Yeah,
I like to wrap myself around that. But yeah, towards
the end of the week. It's you know, just Salid's in.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That it's been a weird old year. You guys started
off with a person a rule on the first game Terror,
but after that it was amazing. But then you've really
fallen back again. So you start, well, it's how you finished.
So how's the headspace of the team, because you've clocked
that that win now, so you think it's all like
a blue skies from now on it.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah, I think we've built confidence off that Dragon's game. Yeah,
just set ourselves up for the finals. And you know,
obviously it didn't go too well in that period a
couple of months ago, but I think just the boys
staying in it and just trusting our system which is
helping at the moment. And you know, it's setting ourselves
for the finals and we're looking to improve every game,
(05:04):
and yeah, I think that's the most main focus on
it's just improving every week.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
So does the coach know you're already thinking about the finals.
I thought he'd tell you that's just no go. You're
not allowed to do things like that, Adam.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, I think it's in the back of our minds,
like the kind of you know, talks about it, But
you know, obviously it's just week by week for us,
just game by gaming, and I think we don't want
to look too ahead on it, just because we'll know
we have the confidence by paying every week. But yeah,
(05:36):
I think it's just been really good that you know,
the boys are no confidence off the Dragon's game, and
you know we're looking to just keep building in that area.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
So yeah, really difficult for yourself. Do you think you've
been given like fair treatment this year when you look
at the amount of injuries that you had when things
started going a right, especially with the sentence, because that's
been really hard. Dallin's probably taking a bit of grief
of what he's been up to. But it all leaks
right back from the middle, doesn't It is that how
(06:06):
complex has it been for guys to come in and
understand the process and work through this.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I think the process with our cup side is going
pretty well. And you know, whoever fills in it at
that spot or like any spot on the field, do
you know they know their role pretty well? And no,
it gives them confidence to play each week in And yeah,
I think just backing everyone up on our process in
our game, you know, everyone knows it, and it's just
(06:32):
really good to have at the club.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
What about your own game, where do you look to
try and improve? I suspect you'd be reasonably hard on
yourself and what you provide because you're a mainstay in
that team. Where do you look to improve.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Both aurious attack and defense? And they're obviously trying to
get involved but more but defense is just you know,
just sticking to my principles and just winning my own battles,
I guess, and I think if I could do that
for the team throughout the back end of the season
and leading up to the finals, I think, you know,
we'll be confident for our performances.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So yeah, you talk of confidence, and you've got to
have confidences in your insides and your outsides too, so
you guys can hold your defensive line. And that's what
really stood out in the first half of the season.
You had that trust that this is a difficult place
to be and when you look at your insides and outside,
how much work you do around having that trust with
(07:25):
your teammates when you're in a defensive line.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah, I think the trust trust your inside it's really important.
You know, the work that all the middles do and
all the edges do.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
We try to no practice that in our trainings and
you know it's been going really well for us, but
you know certain areas are to improve and try build
our game offers, you know, something that we are looking
for in our performances. But you know, yeah, this whole
year it's been really good for us, but you know
there's always work on. So yeah, Sports.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Fix, I assume it wouldn't say I'm the biggest fan
of motorsboard going around. My podcast co host Darcy Watergrave
certainly holds that mantle among the two of us. But
I was given the chance in the last couple of
weeks to read the autobiography of Mark Winterbottom Frosty, the
incredible true story of the boy from Duneside who became
(08:19):
a Bathurst King. In terms of the numbers, his career
stacks up. He won a Supercars Championship in twenty fifteen,
won Bathhurst in twenty thirteen and overall had thirty nine
race wins and one hundred and twenty podium finishes overall.
Last year he retired from full time driving after twenty
one years, but he remains a mentor and in duo
(08:39):
co driver with cam Waters for Tickford Driving. I found
the book really really interesting. The insight that Mark Winterbottom
is able to give us from the outside looking in
motor racing looks extremely challenging, but it wasn't until I
read these pages that I understood just how small the
margins are. We're talking tents, hundreds, in some cases thousandths
(09:05):
of a second between success and not getting the success
that you're after. One of the wonderful chapters gives you
the opportunity to go around Bathurst with Mark Winterbottom as
your guide. He takes us from the start line, through
every curve, through every straight, through every driving maneuver at
the famous Mount Panorama circuit. It already has some great insight.
(09:28):
He talks about Bathurst as being basically the holy Grail
for supercars drivers. He says crossing the finish line unlike
anything I'd ever felt before. It wasn't just a race win.
It was the culmination of years of effort, heartbreak and frustration.
After so many close calls in near missus, Bathurst was
finally ours. That's how he felt after twenty thirteen, and
(09:49):
he talks about going back into the pits and reuniting
with his team and having some of the burghest toughest
motorsport mechanics he's ever met, in tears at what they
had achieved. It hasn't all been rainbows and sunshine for
Mark wind and Bottom. He has faced adversity as well,
both in the car and off the track as well.
But unlike many sporting autobiographies, this one doesn't just scratch
(10:11):
the surface. It's not we race this particular circuit and
finished fourth. Then we went here and we won the race.
There's a lot more to it than that. Mark winter
Bottom a really really good read which I can recommend
not only for motorsport fans, buffer fans of sport in general.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Into the Chamber we go.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Great to hear from Adam Pompyg what a playery's been
for the Warriors for several years. Now, okay, do they
beat the Eels tonight? First of all, with a stick?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Go on, go on, get in with a stick.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
We always talk about teams that if you don't get
to the top four, you're not going to win. I
don't know if anyone can roll the likes of Storm
and if somehow the Peenrith Panthers managed to get out
of that bottom four of the eight. Ye watch out
for them too, and of course Raid it's bulldogs, no,
but at least if they get through these games, they
put themselves in a clear position possibly to win this thing.
(11:08):
They've got to do it, and that must have been
pushed through surely. And they've had their awful first up game,
a wonderfully strong start, a bit of a skid, a
robble kind of toward the end of the regular season,
but they've lifted themselves back up again in the last
couple of weeks. Positivity much piny, Yeah, very much so.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And you've I mean, you're right to point out the
peaks and the troughs of a season because you know,
you don't really win or you know, a contrary to
popular opinion, lose the NRL, you know, way way back
in sort of April May. But you go through ups
and downs. And look, the Warriors feel as though, off
the back of two wins that if they win tonight
and then you can go to Manly next week and
perhaps win, they're too that they do have that momentum.
(11:48):
Whether momentum is actually a thing or not, I don't
know whether it's ever been scientifically discovered or examined. I mean,
are you more likely to win the fifth game if
you've won the previous.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Four or not.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I don't even know what the amer hold on.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
What it was the key and momentum that I learned
back in science. You know, I actually picked something up
way back then in my school days. Momentum can be stopped.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
That's not good. Tom's saying.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Momentum is not continuous, it doesn't keep going forever. Momentum
can be stopped, So let's not too carried away.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
With momentum, right.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That sounds to me like somebody who doesn't have it.
I'm saying that because.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I feel like I feel like something like.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The storm has momentum. You say, don't worry, it'll come
to an end. At some stage. We can stop it. Look,
maybe you can. I don't know, but I think the
Warriors will win tonight. I think final regular season game
at at GO Media Stadium, so a lot on the
line there. They should, all things being equalill be back
for at least one playoff game. So yeah, it's important
(12:43):
for them mentally, not momentum, but mentally to actually know that.
Then if there's a game in front of them that
they should win and about to go ahead and deliver
because they've stumbled before. If that happens again, they'll start
questioning what they're doing out there, even though they'll be
told not to. So for me, this is hugely important,
just so they know, not momentum but mental capacity.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
That makes it all right.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It does the two M words. Let's go to a
bit of rugby news today. To Mighty Williams has signed
on with New Zealand Rugby and the Crusaders until the
end of twenty twenty nine. Only Damien McKenzie has a
contract that long. How significant a piece of business is
this for New Zealand Rugby.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Isn't that funny? You couldn't get two more opposite players,
couldn't you the size of the both of them? But
anyway they're both out of twenty twenty nine. Very significant, significant,
not only for the All Blacks, very significant for the Crusaders.
And Rob Penny's been waxing lyrical about the spikes like
all of this Christmases has come at once. But to
seal this guy off for the next handful of years
(13:45):
because they never target on his head. Everybody will mont
the sky on their team.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I mean you look at France.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
They must be salimating over him surely.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh they love their big props up north, don't they.
And there'll be some big checks thrown the way of
to Mighty Williams, he sprike strikes me without actually knowing
the bloke, but he strikes me as the kind of
guy who would love to continue playing for the Crusaders,
would love to continue playing for the All Blacks. He
even said, didn't he does when he was asked about
playing in the Super Rugby Final, which put his chances
(14:12):
of playing against France for the All Blacks and jeopardy
that he said, well, I can't not play for the Crusaders.
That's my team. I bleed red and black rather than
just black. Do you remember same white lock back in
the day, Same thing I'm playing. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Oh you're engined for the startup that don't care. This
is the Crusaders, this is my team, same drill.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I agree, So to Mighty Williams.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Good piece of business for the Crusaders and for the
All Blacks too, signed up to well beyond the next
Rugby World Cup, and just on pieces of silverware or
trophies that are available. Southland have in their sights the
ran Furley Shield when they head to Hamilton on Sunday
afternoon to try and prize it away from white Cuttle,
who themselves only wanted a week ago against Tulanaki. What
(14:55):
chance it's Antler's up for the Stags on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So you pose the question when you sent me some
topics that said, can South and win the Ranfurlly Shield
on Sunday? Yeah, they can, but I'll turn it back
on you.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Will they I don't think they will.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I've got a lot of good friends down in that
part of the country and I'm sure more no I
was gonna say, anyone and I'm listening to this will
now be slightly less less enamored of me.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
White Cattle are a good team. Southland seemed to me
to be very good at home. They just don't travel
particularly well. So given that if they were to prize
it away from White Cuttle, it would be a very
tough proposition for anybody to go to in the cargo
and try and win it. Canterbury would be the first
to get the chance. If indeed South and do what
that's that's me. This is me dodging the question, Darci.
I don't think they will. I think it stays with
(15:44):
White Cuttle for the meantime.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Who's got the most returning all Blacks. It's it's it's
like couple, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, we found out this afternoon that they kind of
played a little bit fast and loose with their team selection.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
They forgot what, we'll release their team now out on.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, and they've put them all back in, haven't they.
They've put all of the released all blacks back into
their team, the ones that were released back on. But
had you know, but as you say, Wakuto, they didn't.
They didn't tell us who, you know, who was going
to play or who wasn't going to play. But this
afternoon they've said, no, no, we're going to get them all
back and there Norris, Female Jacobs, and Lenet Brown they're
(16:22):
all going to play. So that swings it even Morter
White Cutter, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It does. And there's some heavy hitters in there, and
Jacobson is one of my favorite players and he feelings
not short changed, but difficult for him. Then, of course
got the boisterous front row and leon It Brown there's
an argument when you look at the midfield of the
All Blacks that they should put.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Him straight back in the side again.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, that's a topic of discussion for next week. Perhaps
in the meantime, Waycuto Southland. On Sunday afternoon you can
hear commentary that actually on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio. That
finishes us up in the chamber for.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
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Speaker 2 (16:58):
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Speaker 3 (17:23):
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