September 12, 2025 • 19 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 12th September 2025, The Ranfurly Shield goes on the line again this week as Canterbury host Tasman. Former Mako, Canterbury, and All Blacks prop Wyatt Crockett joins the podcast to give his thoughts on what may happen come Sunday
Piney offers his thoughts on how competitive the Wellington Phoenix women will be in the upcoming A League season
And D'Arcy and Piney are in the chamber to discuss whether the Warriors stand any chance against the Panthers
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks ed B.
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This is Sportsfix Howard Bay News Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be Friday and association with G J. Gardner Homes, New
Zealand's most trusted home builder. Big weekend coming with some
massive matches to discuss.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm Jason pine from Darcy Watergrave and one of these
days Piney will get to say, really small weekend. There's
no sport to wantch so everybody go back to work
or something that's not happening, is it?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, that ain't this weekend. I can tell you that
with an All Blacks Test match against South Africa tomorrow
night round about the same time or just before kick off,
and the Warriors first knockout match of the year against
the Penrith Panthers. There's a Shield challenge on Sunday and
all sorts of other things as well.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And amongst black ferns, black ferns, that's on. That's going
to be a long shift, isn't it, starting off very
early on Saturday and going right the way through to
the concludes to that game against South Africa. What that
kicks off? What mid night on Saturday through Sunday, crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I think that actually works out quite well, doesn't it,
Because the All Blacks will finish what nine to nine
to thirty ish, maybe you sort of, you know, find
a way to sort of stuck up on a bit
of food and some toime.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No no, I watched the first half of the Wars, right,
and then I watched the All Blacks, and then I
watched the second half of The Wars off of tape
because got the vhsloaded and by the time that finishes,
I'll be ready to help straight into the blackfin So
it works a treat, bro.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I've written that down. I've written that down as a strategy.
All right. I've got some thoughts as well on how
strong the Wellington Phoenix women might be in the upcoming
A League season and the latest sports news as well.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Who are we talking to in terms of an interview? Wow, okay,
we're going to beating a chat with Wyatt Crockett, former
All Black prop and of course this weekend if you
watching the All Blacks. But I'll be keeping an eye
on the Shield. It challenged to a stacked tasmand side
taking on Canterbury brilliant stuff. Let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
In other news, Let's get things going with a look
at some of the big sports stories around today. All
Blacks coach Scott Robertson claimed scrum issues that played the
first Test when over the spring box are under control.
This after the South African Pack earned a tight head
against New Zealand at Eden Park, with the All Blacks
also copying some said piece penalties is a technical element
(02:24):
and there's also a little bit of a mind set
element we've looked into.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And you know then obviously you look at the reef
as well as they did the interpretation of it. So
we've done our home and cornered and had a good week.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Pushing Silver Fern's great Laura Langman's taken issue with coach
Dame Nolen, told of his communication style allegedly being questioneded
by incumbent players. Dame Nolean's been stood down from the
South African Seria starting on Sunday week as a result
of a Netball New Zealand initiated review reportedly triggered by
players feeling unsafe in the environment.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
The need to seek feedback in an environment where you
can get it yourself from video through support staff. You
don't need to have the coach petting in you on
the back.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Twenty four seven and away.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Ington, Phoenix's best ever Plieres is back as new coach
Bev Priestman continues to build an impressive women's roster. Former
Style Academy graduate Macy Fraser is coming home from the
US after an up and down stint in the US
National Women's Soccer League with Utah.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I think the US is a really competitive environment, which
I expected and I learned so much. Yeah, I'm excited
to come back and hopefully just get minutes back under
my belt.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Use and a villion.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussy Walter Grave and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's the warm Welcome to the Sports Fixed podcast. Now
to Wyatt Crockett, former loose head prop for the All Blacks,
for the Crusaders, for Canterbury and for Tasman.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Goodate, what dance? How you mate?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'm very well and I presume you are as well.
Living in the sunny climbs of Nelson selling houses for
hardcourts too bro Well done mate.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Thanks mate. Yeah, and a bit of a change up
and yeah, really enjoying that. But yeah, like you said,
we live in a pretty special place. They can't complain.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You can't complain if you did. No one. Listen, Hey,
let's look at rugby. There is a really big rugby
fixture happening in Wellington on Saturday night. But there's also
a very big one happening on Sunday too. This Stamp
Tasman side are taking on the almost unstoppable Canterbury team,
and of course you've got feet in both camp. You
(04:30):
played for both of those outfits. Canterbury are on fire
right now. But Tasman, my lordie, what a team that is?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Mate, it is a classic matchup, isn't it? And really
looking forward to it. It's sort of like the Tasman
beck ones looking pretty outstanding in the Canterbury full Beck
pretty formidable. But yeah, looking really looking forward to actually
driving down on Sunday. We've got a group of mates
driving down in a big bus to go and watch
the game. So I can't wait for that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It'll be old school. You're living in Nelson now, so
like you've got to support Tasman and you played for
them as well, but it must be a week and
of you're going, I don't know, men a time Canterbury.
I spent there are you split?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh yeah, there's definitely a split. Obviously. I played for
Canterbury for a number of years.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
They gave me my first crack, so you know I've
definitely got you know, a foot and both camps like
you say, but I grew up here in Tasman and
Nelson Golden Bay Ashley to start with, and I finished
up here. So yeah, I suppose I probably hope that
Tearsman wonn't it. But you know Canterbury is my team
(05:38):
as well.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So you make an interesting point around that, the stats
back line of Tasman, and you look at it, you
shake your head and go out earth, could you jam
all those rock stars into into one team? But where's
the strength of rugby? All starts up front and that's
where you think that Canterbury have got the ascendancy. So
did you read much into that at all?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Or oh look, both both teams have been performing really well.
I think Tasman have been probably hoping that Canterbury won
last week and get this opportunity to have a crack
at the shield.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
So yeah, look like you said, Canterbury's got a very
good forward pack. They've been dominating this year, and you know,
if Tesman are going to win it, they're going to
have to front up and match that up front and
see if they can get ascendency there. Because yet we
all know dus that it starts and finishes from one
to eight.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So let's go.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
When you look out the back forward Canterbary though, once
they possessed the well, get possession, gain there and get
the ball. They're not really slugs out there, are they.
We've seen them unleashed before. So weakness, I don't know
if there is one on this Canterbury site saying saying
that is a true cantab of course?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
What yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Oh no, that it is quality and we've got some
experienced heads here as well, so look at Yeah, it's exciting,
exciting game of head.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I can't wait. There's lots of good matchups all over the.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Field and you know right through even through to the
bench as well, you know some pretty pretty good five
per sid in there waiting to come on the second half.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Ye Tasman coming off the back of a loss whereas
Kanabary haven't been defeated. Does that make any difference at
all when a fixture like this, these two Crusaders teams
coming together that I don't suppose they care about what's
just happened to though.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Oh look for speaking from both sides of the camp.
You know, when I was down at Canterbury, you know,
the big brother doesn't want to lose to the little
brother as it was back then. And you know when
you when you're living in Tarsman, you're playing for Tasman,
you know it's that it's their rivalry, it's that local derby.
It's something a bit different, so I think you know,
(07:43):
form goes out the window a wee bit and it's
just like a one off. Not it's not a test match,
but it feels like a test match when you're out
there because you know, regardless of what's going on in
the season, we're having a good season or a bad season,
a win against your local derby against you know, a
lot of it's made against mate sort of thing. So
(08:03):
a lot of these guys play together at the Crusaders,
so it's one that you know everyone looks forward to.
There's a bit of banter in the game and you know,
I'm sure pre and postgame as well, So yeah, it's
a pretty important one as a player.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And why there would be spots up for grabs, are
looking forward to the Crusaders and thinking, well, I'll get
one over this bloke and it's a line call. There's
a chance for higher honors for the guys who are
just coming through at a lower level.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Oh, I mean, you know, every time, every time you
lace up the boats and put yourself out there, you're
either adding value or you're decreasing value. So and but
no more so than when you're playing your franchise rival
inside franchise rival. So, like you say, you really are
trying to put your best foot forward and grab that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Sports question for you, how competitive are the Wellington Phoenix
women going to be in the upcoming A League season? Answer?
Extremely competitive. You would have to think that they will
have their best season ever based entirely on the roster
that has been assembled by new head coach Beev Priestman.
Just on Beef Priestman, we all know what a high
(09:15):
quality coach. She is an Olympic gold medal winner with
Canada and she has obviously been the catalyst for a
number of players to say, you know what, I'd quite
like Beef Priestman to be my club coach. The latest
acquisition is a familiar face Macy Fraser, who of course
came through the Phoenix Academy and had a standout season
(09:35):
in her first professional campaign. She earned a move to
the United States with the Utah City Royals. Didn't quite
work out for her over there, but great to see
the smile back on Macy Fraser's face when she returned
to Wellington Phoenix and was unveiled today alongside her fellow
football ferns of Vic Essen and c J. Bott have
been attracted to the club to add their steel and
(09:58):
experience to the roster. Some new overseas faces, including a
Nepali striker by the name of Subitra Bandari. She's been
very proli at every club she's played at and for
her country as well, and received quite the welcome at
Auckland Airport when she landed last week, a number of
Nepalese nationals turning up to welcome her to these shores.
(10:21):
Add in a sprinkling of young players and those who
have been there before the likes of Mackenzie Barry, Tiana
Jaber and Grace Jarlay, and this is looking extremely encouraging
from a Wellington Phoenix women's point of view. For a
long time, a lot of resource has gone into the
men's side, and the women perhaps haven't quite had the
investment and the resource to allow them to well make
(10:44):
playoffs and then push towards silverware. At its very base level,
this is a playoff team and who knows beyond that.
B If Priestman can weave her magic, I'm sure and
the players she's assembled will be ready to do her bidding,
and who knows how far they can go. Regardless, they're
going to be fun to watch the Wellington Phoenix women
(11:06):
in the summer ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
End of the Chamber. We go two big games tomorrow night.
You've already given a sure strategy. You're going to watch
the Warriors first half live, then across to the All
Blacks watch that in its entirety, come back for the
Warriors second half. So look, I think that's a terrific
way of doing things. Can we look at both games? Though?
Let's start with the Warriors. Can they beat the Panthers?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Can they?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, they can because it's the NRL. But will they
That is the question. And we talked about this last
week and the drive behind proving to themselves not the crowd,
not anybody else, proven to themselves that they are capable
of pushing through because they're all fatigued and winning a game,
and they've proved to themselves over the last couple of
(11:54):
weeks that they can't. I hate to say it, you know,
I'm a big fan, but it does not look good.
Is that too negative?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Pliny?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, I know, I think it's realistic more than anything.
But okay, let's look at it this way. Is it
possible that you can actually close the door on the
regular season and now just look forward to a fresh
four game season at its very peak and I don't know,
reset recalibrate. Does that possible or actually do the last
(12:24):
twenty four games actually tell us what we need to
know about all the teams who are about to go
into finals foot.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
They need to do that. They need to say, right,
fresh season, get that over the next what minisely their
season is only going to go one game and then
they worry about the next one after that. If they
can't recalibrate and they can't drop into that zone, which
they should have done last week in the weekend before, well,
of course it's curtains for them. But what do we
know about the NRL. Pointy, what's the big thing about
(12:51):
the NRL.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Anybody can bet anybody on their day.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
There you go, there you go. I mean, we've had
the Titans turn up, what the worries at home from
the bottom of the table. You've had all sorts of
topsy to the events. Here's a fun fact for you.
If you bet on all the favorites for the four
games this weekend, he put twenty bucks who probably won eighty.
If you bet on all the second place runners and
they come through in your multi you'll pocket nearly eight
(13:16):
hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I can tell you, almost without fear of contradiction, that
not all four favorites will win. That just how I feel,
you know. I just think the NRL is so unpredictable
at the moment, and with the extra pressure that comes
with finals football, it just feels to me as though
there's an upset coming and I hope it's go Media
Stadium tomorrow night. As far as the team's concern, great
(13:38):
to have Jackson Ford back, that makes a big difference.
Rock O'Barry, what a wretched season he's had with injury.
Kurt Capewell in the centers, I'm not entirely sold on that.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, I'll talk about Earl Kurtin, you know, with the
cigar standing behind the posts at Athletic Park when he
was an All Black coach, the big Old Scarf gang.
He's got gas and he hasn't and that's the thing
that have incurred in there. He's got no speed. So
how they work around that, I don't know. But the
most this could either work really positively or really negatively.
(14:08):
Not entirely sure. There is a phalanx of young players
who have done a lot of hard money over the
season so far, and they look gassed, like they mentally
and physically exhausted. But if anybody can pick it up
and turn it around and have an effect on that game,
it is these young guys. They just have to turn
it on their head. But I've got a lot of
(14:29):
faith in them to get the job done. But for
how long they can do it for sixty? Can they
do it for eighty?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
All right, we're going to find that out tomorrow night.
You're gonna split it in half to watch the fort
and then the second forty And like.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Me, every weekend, don't even bother contact me, social media,
cell phone, anything, because I simply will not answer. My
life just goes in to hold come six o'clock on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So in between the two halves of the Warriors, then
you'll keep eyes on Wellington and the second Rugby Championship
Test between the All Blacks and South Africa All Blacks
twenty four to seventeen last weekend. What's your gut telling
you about how this one's going to play out?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Difficult to run off my gut on this because what's
happened to Scott Robertson's All Blacks so inability to capitalize
in the last twenty minutes, and my guard says that's
probably going to happen again. But my head says, well,
maybe they've organized this and maybe just this time they'll
actually accelerate the way after the lead. But I thought
(15:28):
last week the South Africans are going to do slightly
better than that, and they look like doing it at
the end day, Pinty, they went back to that same
thing again. That's what worries me.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, and I think were two things. There's a deep
desire in the South African team, it would seem to
me to put right what happened last week. And there's
more improvement in them as well. They weren't great last
week dark at Eden Park. Let's be honest, they made
far too many mistakes. The impact off their bench wasn't
what they've had in previous weeks. And look, they will
(15:56):
freely admit themselves that they didn't play anywhere near as
well as they could have. So that's what I guess
concerns me tomorrow night is if they do. And that,
coupled with a burning desire not to go zero and
two against the All Blacks in New Zealand, would say
that they're a decent shot.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
They are a decent shot the spring box tomorrow night,
they are.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
But the number of new players that Raci has introduced
this week, and in key positions combination wise, that could
click and work really well or it could blow up
in his face. And we're not entirely sure about that.
I think the faith in the bomb squad and the
old school has wavered somewhat. They've leaned on that for
so long. So he's given these guys a chance to go, well,
(16:38):
We've got to World Cup in a couple of years,
are you our men? And I wonder if the pressure
from last week of trying to overturn that ridiculous record
at Eden Park was too much for some of these
guys and it crushed them. Will it happen again with
the young Blood? I like to talk about the worries
or is this the team to take them forward? And
will they respond to? You know what I love about
that no one knows what's going to happen, and that
(16:59):
it's so good.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Right, that's right now, We just I mean, we're just
giving opinions. We're just sort of trying to, you know,
wrap some opinions around what we've seen, some observations, a
couple of acts around you know, storylines and things like that.
But you're right, no one really knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
It's sport.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's why we love sport. I remember the All Blacks
were like odds on favorite a dollar six or something
to win. It was up against g and Dina and
they lost. It happens, it really does. It's so incredibly
difficult to predict. But as we know, it's so far
too important to take seriously. So just calm the farm.
It's just a game, right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Indeed, it is yere. That's why we love it because
it because it is unpredictable, but it also doesn't really
matter in the overall scheme of things well, and.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I can hear people now going you shouldn't be a
sports broadcaster, You shouldn't be a little what's going on
in the wonderful, wild world of sport. But I think
you've got to take that attitude into any games because
it means everything, but it also means nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That is us in the chamber today We've got just
the ticket.
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Speaker 2 (18:05):
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Speaker 3 (18:23):
And also got to send our love and support out
to the Black Ferns see quarter final of the World
Cup as well. Really hope they do well in that.
I'm looking forward to seeing Braxton the Ghost Runner Sorenson
McGee notch up another hat trick. And if you would
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(18:44):
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the whole shooting match on Saturday and Sunday, which.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
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you could want weeknights and also on the weekends.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And you're doing talk back straight after the test edge
as well, So you just got an extra shift.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
World done, poney, I've just been handed that note. I've
just been handed that memo by the bosses after full
time Tomorrow night tune and our eight one hundred and
eighty ten eighty lets you out about the test straight away.
Goodness gracious me, have.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
A great weekend us I will, indeed Piney you too.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be Friday and association with G J. Gardner Homes, New
Zealand's most trusted home builder. Big weekend coming with some
massive matches to discuss.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm Jason pine from Darcy Watergrave and one of these
days Piney will get to say, really small weekend. There's
no sport to wantch so everybody go back to work
or something that's not happening, is it?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, that ain't this weekend. I can tell you that
with an All Blacks Test match against South Africa tomorrow
night round about the same time or just before kick off,
and the Warriors first knockout match of the year against
the Penrith Panthers. There's a Shield challenge on Sunday and
all sorts of other things as well.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And amongst black ferns, black ferns, that's on. That's going
to be a long shift, isn't it, starting off very
early on Saturday and going right the way through to
the concludes to that game against South Africa. What that
kicks off? What mid night on Saturday through Sunday, crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I think that actually works out quite well, doesn't it,
Because the All Blacks will finish what nine to nine
to thirty ish, maybe you sort of, you know, find
a way to sort of stuck up on a bit
of food and some toime.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No no, I watched the first half of the Wars, right,
and then I watched the All Blacks, and then I
watched the second half of The Wars off of tape
because got the vhsloaded and by the time that finishes,
I'll be ready to help straight into the blackfin So
it works a treat, bro.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I've written that down. I've written that down as a strategy.
All right. I've got some thoughts as well on how
strong the Wellington Phoenix women might be in the upcoming
A League season and the latest sports news as well.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Who are we talking to in terms of an interview? Wow, okay,
we're going to beating a chat with Wyatt Crockett, former
All Black prop and of course this weekend if you
watching the All Blacks. But I'll be keeping an eye
on the Shield. It challenged to a stacked tasmand side
taking on Canterbury brilliant stuff. Let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
In other news, Let's get things going with a look
at some of the big sports stories around today. All
Blacks coach Scott Robertson claimed scrum issues that played the
first Test when over the spring box are under control.
This after the South African Pack earned a tight head
against New Zealand at Eden Park, with the All Blacks
also copying some said piece penalties is a technical element
(02:24):
and there's also a little bit of a mind set
element we've looked into.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And you know then obviously you look at the reef
as well as they did the interpretation of it. So
we've done our home and cornered and had a good week.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Pushing Silver Fern's great Laura Langman's taken issue with coach
Dame Nolen, told of his communication style allegedly being questioneded
by incumbent players. Dame Nolean's been stood down from the
South African Seria starting on Sunday week as a result
of a Netball New Zealand initiated review reportedly triggered by
players feeling unsafe in the environment.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
The need to seek feedback in an environment where you
can get it yourself from video through support staff. You
don't need to have the coach petting in you on
the back.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Twenty four seven and away.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Ington, Phoenix's best ever Plieres is back as new coach
Bev Priestman continues to build an impressive women's roster. Former
Style Academy graduate Macy Fraser is coming home from the
US after an up and down stint in the US
National Women's Soccer League with Utah.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I think the US is a really competitive environment, which
I expected and I learned so much. Yeah, I'm excited
to come back and hopefully just get minutes back under
my belt.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Use and a villion.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and Dussy Walter Grave and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's the warm Welcome to the Sports Fixed podcast. Now
to Wyatt Crockett, former loose head prop for the All Blacks,
for the Crusaders, for Canterbury and for Tasman.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Goodate, what dance? How you mate?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'm very well and I presume you are as well.
Living in the sunny climbs of Nelson selling houses for
hardcourts too bro Well done mate.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Thanks mate. Yeah, and a bit of a change up
and yeah, really enjoying that. But yeah, like you said,
we live in a pretty special place. They can't complain.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You can't complain if you did. No one. Listen, Hey,
let's look at rugby. There is a really big rugby
fixture happening in Wellington on Saturday night. But there's also
a very big one happening on Sunday too. This Stamp
Tasman side are taking on the almost unstoppable Canterbury team,
and of course you've got feet in both camp. You
(04:30):
played for both of those outfits. Canterbury are on fire
right now. But Tasman, my lordie, what a team that is?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Mate, it is a classic matchup, isn't it? And really
looking forward to it. It's sort of like the Tasman
beck ones looking pretty outstanding in the Canterbury full Beck
pretty formidable. But yeah, looking really looking forward to actually
driving down on Sunday. We've got a group of mates
driving down in a big bus to go and watch
the game. So I can't wait for that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It'll be old school. You're living in Nelson now, so
like you've got to support Tasman and you played for
them as well, but it must be a week and
of you're going, I don't know, men a time Canterbury.
I spent there are you split?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh yeah, there's definitely a split. Obviously. I played for
Canterbury for a number of years.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
They gave me my first crack, so you know I've
definitely got you know, a foot and both camps like
you say, but I grew up here in Tasman and
Nelson Golden Bay Ashley to start with, and I finished
up here. So yeah, I suppose I probably hope that
Tearsman wonn't it. But you know Canterbury is my team
(05:38):
as well.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So you make an interesting point around that, the stats
back line of Tasman, and you look at it, you
shake your head and go out earth, could you jam
all those rock stars into into one team? But where's
the strength of rugby? All starts up front and that's
where you think that Canterbury have got the ascendancy. So
did you read much into that at all?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Or oh look, both both teams have been performing really well.
I think Tasman have been probably hoping that Canterbury won
last week and get this opportunity to have a crack
at the shield.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
So yeah, look like you said, Canterbury's got a very
good forward pack. They've been dominating this year, and you know,
if Tesman are going to win it, they're going to
have to front up and match that up front and
see if they can get ascendency there. Because yet we
all know dus that it starts and finishes from one
to eight.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So let's go.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
When you look out the back forward Canterbary though, once
they possessed the well, get possession, gain there and get
the ball. They're not really slugs out there, are they.
We've seen them unleashed before. So weakness, I don't know
if there is one on this Canterbury site saying saying
that is a true cantab of course?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
What yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Oh no, that it is quality and we've got some
experienced heads here as well, so look at Yeah, it's exciting,
exciting game of head.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I can't wait. There's lots of good matchups all over the.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Field and you know right through even through to the
bench as well, you know some pretty pretty good five
per sid in there waiting to come on the second half.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Ye Tasman coming off the back of a loss whereas
Kanabary haven't been defeated. Does that make any difference at
all when a fixture like this, these two Crusaders teams
coming together that I don't suppose they care about what's
just happened to though.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Oh look for speaking from both sides of the camp.
You know, when I was down at Canterbury, you know,
the big brother doesn't want to lose to the little
brother as it was back then. And you know when
you when you're living in Tarsman, you're playing for Tasman,
you know it's that it's their rivalry, it's that local derby.
It's something a bit different, so I think you know,
(07:43):
form goes out the window a wee bit and it's
just like a one off. Not it's not a test match,
but it feels like a test match when you're out
there because you know, regardless of what's going on in
the season, we're having a good season or a bad season,
a win against your local derby against you know, a
lot of it's made against mate sort of thing. So
(08:03):
a lot of these guys play together at the Crusaders,
so it's one that you know everyone looks forward to.
There's a bit of banter in the game and you know,
I'm sure pre and postgame as well, So yeah, it's
a pretty important one as a player.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And why there would be spots up for grabs, are
looking forward to the Crusaders and thinking, well, I'll get
one over this bloke and it's a line call. There's
a chance for higher honors for the guys who are
just coming through at a lower level.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Oh, I mean, you know, every time, every time you
lace up the boats and put yourself out there, you're
either adding value or you're decreasing value. So and but
no more so than when you're playing your franchise rival
inside franchise rival. So, like you say, you really are
trying to put your best foot forward and grab that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Sports question for you, how competitive are the Wellington Phoenix
women going to be in the upcoming A League season? Answer?
Extremely competitive. You would have to think that they will
have their best season ever based entirely on the roster
that has been assembled by new head coach Beev Priestman.
Just on Beef Priestman, we all know what a high
(09:15):
quality coach. She is an Olympic gold medal winner with
Canada and she has obviously been the catalyst for a
number of players to say, you know what, I'd quite
like Beef Priestman to be my club coach. The latest
acquisition is a familiar face Macy Fraser, who of course
came through the Phoenix Academy and had a standout season
(09:35):
in her first professional campaign. She earned a move to
the United States with the Utah City Royals. Didn't quite
work out for her over there, but great to see
the smile back on Macy Fraser's face when she returned
to Wellington Phoenix and was unveiled today alongside her fellow
football ferns of Vic Essen and c J. Bott have
been attracted to the club to add their steel and
(09:58):
experience to the roster. Some new overseas faces, including a
Nepali striker by the name of Subitra Bandari. She's been
very proli at every club she's played at and for
her country as well, and received quite the welcome at
Auckland Airport when she landed last week, a number of
Nepalese nationals turning up to welcome her to these shores.
(10:21):
Add in a sprinkling of young players and those who
have been there before the likes of Mackenzie Barry, Tiana
Jaber and Grace Jarlay, and this is looking extremely encouraging
from a Wellington Phoenix women's point of view. For a
long time, a lot of resource has gone into the
men's side, and the women perhaps haven't quite had the
investment and the resource to allow them to well make
(10:44):
playoffs and then push towards silverware. At its very base level,
this is a playoff team and who knows beyond that.
B If Priestman can weave her magic, I'm sure and
the players she's assembled will be ready to do her bidding,
and who knows how far they can go. Regardless, they're
going to be fun to watch the Wellington Phoenix women
(11:06):
in the summer ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
End of the Chamber. We go two big games tomorrow night.
You've already given a sure strategy. You're going to watch
the Warriors first half live, then across to the All
Blacks watch that in its entirety, come back for the
Warriors second half. So look, I think that's a terrific
way of doing things. Can we look at both games? Though?
Let's start with the Warriors. Can they beat the Panthers?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Can they?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, they can because it's the NRL. But will they
That is the question. And we talked about this last
week and the drive behind proving to themselves not the crowd,
not anybody else, proven to themselves that they are capable
of pushing through because they're all fatigued and winning a game,
and they've proved to themselves over the last couple of
(11:54):
weeks that they can't. I hate to say it, you know,
I'm a big fan, but it does not look good.
Is that too negative?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Pliny?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, I know, I think it's realistic more than anything.
But okay, let's look at it this way. Is it
possible that you can actually close the door on the
regular season and now just look forward to a fresh
four game season at its very peak and I don't know,
reset recalibrate. Does that possible or actually do the last
(12:24):
twenty four games actually tell us what we need to
know about all the teams who are about to go
into finals foot.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
They need to do that. They need to say, right,
fresh season, get that over the next what minisely their
season is only going to go one game and then
they worry about the next one after that. If they
can't recalibrate and they can't drop into that zone, which
they should have done last week in the weekend before, well,
of course it's curtains for them. But what do we
know about the NRL. Pointy, what's the big thing about
(12:51):
the NRL.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Anybody can bet anybody on their day.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
There you go, there you go. I mean, we've had
the Titans turn up, what the worries at home from
the bottom of the table. You've had all sorts of
topsy to the events. Here's a fun fact for you.
If you bet on all the favorites for the four
games this weekend, he put twenty bucks who probably won eighty.
If you bet on all the second place runners and
they come through in your multi you'll pocket nearly eight
(13:16):
hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I can tell you, almost without fear of contradiction, that
not all four favorites will win. That just how I feel,
you know. I just think the NRL is so unpredictable
at the moment, and with the extra pressure that comes
with finals football, it just feels to me as though
there's an upset coming and I hope it's go Media
Stadium tomorrow night. As far as the team's concern, great
(13:38):
to have Jackson Ford back, that makes a big difference.
Rock O'Barry, what a wretched season he's had with injury.
Kurt Capewell in the centers, I'm not entirely sold on that.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, I'll talk about Earl Kurtin, you know, with the
cigar standing behind the posts at Athletic Park when he
was an All Black coach, the big Old Scarf gang.
He's got gas and he hasn't and that's the thing
that have incurred in there. He's got no speed. So
how they work around that, I don't know. But the
most this could either work really positively or really negatively.
(14:08):
Not entirely sure. There is a phalanx of young players
who have done a lot of hard money over the
season so far, and they look gassed, like they mentally
and physically exhausted. But if anybody can pick it up
and turn it around and have an effect on that game,
it is these young guys. They just have to turn
it on their head. But I've got a lot of
(14:29):
faith in them to get the job done. But for
how long they can do it for sixty? Can they
do it for eighty?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
All right, we're going to find that out tomorrow night.
You're gonna split it in half to watch the fort
and then the second forty And like.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Me, every weekend, don't even bother contact me, social media,
cell phone, anything, because I simply will not answer. My
life just goes in to hold come six o'clock on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So in between the two halves of the Warriors, then
you'll keep eyes on Wellington and the second Rugby Championship
Test between the All Blacks and South Africa All Blacks
twenty four to seventeen last weekend. What's your gut telling
you about how this one's going to play out?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Difficult to run off my gut on this because what's
happened to Scott Robertson's All Blacks so inability to capitalize
in the last twenty minutes, and my guard says that's
probably going to happen again. But my head says, well,
maybe they've organized this and maybe just this time they'll
actually accelerate the way after the lead. But I thought
(15:28):
last week the South Africans are going to do slightly
better than that, and they look like doing it at
the end day, Pinty, they went back to that same
thing again. That's what worries me.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, and I think were two things. There's a deep
desire in the South African team, it would seem to
me to put right what happened last week. And there's
more improvement in them as well. They weren't great last
week dark at Eden Park. Let's be honest, they made
far too many mistakes. The impact off their bench wasn't
what they've had in previous weeks. And look, they will
(15:56):
freely admit themselves that they didn't play anywhere near as
well as they could have. So that's what I guess
concerns me tomorrow night is if they do. And that,
coupled with a burning desire not to go zero and
two against the All Blacks in New Zealand, would say
that they're a decent shot.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
They are a decent shot the spring box tomorrow night,
they are.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
But the number of new players that Raci has introduced
this week, and in key positions combination wise, that could
click and work really well or it could blow up
in his face. And we're not entirely sure about that.
I think the faith in the bomb squad and the
old school has wavered somewhat. They've leaned on that for
so long. So he's given these guys a chance to go, well,
(16:38):
We've got to World Cup in a couple of years,
are you our men? And I wonder if the pressure
from last week of trying to overturn that ridiculous record
at Eden Park was too much for some of these
guys and it crushed them. Will it happen again with
the young Blood? I like to talk about the worries
or is this the team to take them forward? And
will they respond to? You know what I love about
that no one knows what's going to happen, and that
(16:59):
it's so good.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Right, that's right now, We just I mean, we're just
giving opinions. We're just sort of trying to, you know,
wrap some opinions around what we've seen, some observations, a
couple of acts around you know, storylines and things like that.
But you're right, no one really knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
It's sport.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's why we love sport. I remember the All Blacks
were like odds on favorite a dollar six or something
to win. It was up against g and Dina and
they lost. It happens, it really does. It's so incredibly
difficult to predict. But as we know, it's so far
too important to take seriously. So just calm the farm.
It's just a game, right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Indeed, it is yere. That's why we love it because
it because it is unpredictable, but it also doesn't really
matter in the overall scheme of things well, and.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I can hear people now going you shouldn't be a
sports broadcaster, You shouldn't be a little what's going on
in the wonderful, wild world of sport. But I think
you've got to take that attitude into any games because
it means everything, but it also means nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That is us in the chamber today We've got just
the ticket.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
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Speaker 2 (18:05):
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Speaker 3 (18:23):
And also got to send our love and support out
to the Black Ferns see quarter final of the World
Cup as well. Really hope they do well in that.
I'm looking forward to seeing Braxton the Ghost Runner Sorenson
McGee notch up another hat trick. And if you would
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(18:44):
and Friday on News Talk CB and Piney you got
the whole shooting match on Saturday and Sunday, which.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is weekend sport midday till three coming to your life
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Speaker 3 (19:05):
And you're doing talk back straight after the test edge
as well, So you just got an extra shift.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
World done, poney, I've just been handed that note. I've
just been handed that memo by the bosses after full
time Tomorrow night tune and our eight one hundred and
eighty ten eighty lets you out about the test straight away.
Goodness gracious me, have.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
A great weekend us I will, indeed Piney you too.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
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