November 13, 2025 • 17 mins
On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 14th November 2025, The All Blacks head to Twickenham to face the English and hope to keep their grand slam chances alive. All Blacks centurion Mils Muliaina previews the match with D'Arcy
Piney has high expectations for Wellington Phoenix Women side this year
And D'Arcy and Piney are in the chamber discussing who might become the new head coach for the Black Ferns
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello there, Welcome to Friday. Welcome to the Sports Feos
podcast with GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builder.
I'm Jason Pine.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
My name is Darcy Waldegrave.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Who here it is?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Here it is The weekend has arrived. We love Saturday,
we love Sunday. We love it even more when they're
jam packed with sport and there is a bit to
get through. I want to kick around a couple of
rugby issues in the chamber with your das the All
Blacks against England. What do we see happening Alan Bunting
departing as Black Fern's coach, So who are the candidates
perhaps to step into that role? The latest in sports
(00:56):
news coming your way as well. Who are we hearing
from In terms of a guest on Sports Fix.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Today, We're going to have a chat with Malelly Mulliana Mills.
Of course there's a test centurion for the All He
also started his career in Wellington for the All Blacks
against England and they lost. So Mills joins the program
to talk through the team in the game itself.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Looking forward to that, so hepes to get into Let's
get into it absolutely. In other news, Let's get you
either way with a look at some of the big
sports stories around today. Lester feight Inger Aluku will wear
a third jersey in as many Test matches for the
All Blacks as he becomes the ultimate utility back. He's
(01:41):
going to start on the left wing in the absence
of Caleb Clark for Sunday Mornings Test against England.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
His coach Scott Robertson, you felt.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
For him because he's just got his rhythm and power
game there, all game, all the things that you need
from the left wing, and we just felt there was
a beach change. And obviously Billy goes into his a
test and he's trained there and he came on with
Quinn and he's been vined.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
New Zealand pace follow Jacob Duffery has delivered a Player
of the series performance in the three to one T
twenty went over the West and he's taking ten wickets
across the series. We're constantly death stuff was a bit
pit missed the series I guess you could say so.
Certainly with the cricket coming up and India potentially and
maybe a World Cup, I think that's gonna be pretty
important over there.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And keep a golf for Dan.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hilly has shot a five hunderd past sixty seven to
sit tight the sixth after the opening round of the
European Golf Tour finale in Dubai. He set the tone
with this undulating forty seven foot birdie put on the
first hole.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
He'll to Ward's the whole rate to left. It will
be left to right at the end of it.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
A thought, No, it's tried to. That's a bonus leading
a VEX. We've got just the ticket.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's sports X powered by News Talks IVY.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We'll join now on the Sports Fix podcast by one
hundred test plus all Black mister Mills Muliana. He's also
of course played in the center role.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
He joined us.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Mills, Welcome to the podcast. So when it comes to
beating opposition, I think South Africa are right up there,
Australia are right up there, but England, England and the
team everyone wants to beat right.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Cuodo bro, I know then I'm hearing you man It's
definitely the English, isn't it. And the one one bad
thing about my career is when my first game that
I ever played for the All Blacks we lost to
the English.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
So that's always going to haunt me for the rest
of my life. Mate.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
But they are a tough team to beat, and when
you go to Twickenham, they're even tougher tasks because it
is a hostile environment.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Mate, who's the more more the pressure on? I mean,
you look at Borthwick hasn't managed to debat the All
Blacks or beat South Africa. They're on a tear. They've
run nine on the bounce, so at home in front
of the crowd, more pressure on them or on Scott
Robertson and his team to go. This year has been
a success because we've won the Grand Slam, because if
they don't.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
They're going to get judged yet oh man, yeah, I mean,
and this is why it makes it so tasty this
Test match, isn't it. I mean, forget about next week.
Welsh is in a way. But the thing is that
for the English, the one thing that sort of picked
up the radars for me is the first Test michiganst
the Australians a few weeks back and they, I mean
(04:16):
the score really fled the Australians because they dominated them.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
They looked like a sound sort of beast.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
They look you know, very sort of demanding of the
forward pick and how they sort of you know, get.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Into you know, the rolling walls and things like that.
But they're full of confidence.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
On the other side of that, the All Blacks, you'd
have to say it's a successful year if they if
they knocked this one off. They've been in a little
bit inconsistency. That's probably what gives you a little bit
of comfort. They have been a little bit inconsistent. But
the times that they have got the game, the game
plan right, they've been hard to stop.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
So is this now the game that's gonna you know, bring.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Out that the performance from the or blocks that we've
all been waiting for.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So it's a half tim report, isn't it. Two years in?
Two years out from a World Cup? So I think
the tents will start to come with this side. So
tell us about the strengths and the weaknesses on either side.
And you migrated to the midfield some stage in your career,
what if you make of the of the twist in
the midfield. Will You talked about consistency meals, and what
(05:25):
I like here is it's almost a consistent selection. We're
starting to see what Razor wants as far as his
twenty three are concerned, right, so talk to me about
the midfield.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah, well, Billy Procter comes back into the fold, right.
And then it's hard when you're not in and when
you kind of.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Reflect on it, I possibly would have taken a different
a different approach. I would have probably left Leicester there
and had Arica. You're only giving him another opportunity. But again,
I'm not in the environment. This is purely based on
getting results and getting consistency throughout this tour. And so
that's it's where he's gone there, Quincy Piers and another go.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
He's been really good this year. McKenzie's just for me.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
He's showing some really greatfulm Yeah, I understand it's off
the bench, but sometimes when you're when you're writing a
form by that you've almost got to give someone that opportunity.
I'm more for the fact perhaps maybe of starting him
at the back and moving Will Jordan, But I also
understand that this is a team that your name with consistency,
like you mentioned, and when you're when you're in the
(06:33):
environment and you've got you know, the rest of the
country and sort of judging you, you want results, and
this is a team that's fairly consistent. We've got a great,
great sign if you look at the likes of Parker
comes back into the mix. He's a big body sort
of type of person. Perhaps they're trying to nullify that with.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
The English sort of pack. Peter Larkeye, for me.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Has really stood up in that bat position, so I'm
liking his continuation in terms of sort of where he's
sort of getting to. But I mean it's a solid side.
The one thing I have to say about the English
is Ford and Marcus Smith. I mean it's always, you know,
two different types of players, but Ford now with all
the you know, his experience and guiding the team around
(07:18):
in the park, he just and his combination with Mitchell
as well. I mean those two seem really settled in
and really controlled and particularly when the heat's on, which
is something that they haven't had in the past.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Horsfex.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The Wellington Phoenix women's season is underway, but I think
it really gets underway this weekend. There's been so much
hype around about the side over the last few weeks
and even months, and when they hit their first game
last weekend at sky Stadium, the team and its coaching
staff free. He admitted that they let the occasion get
(07:53):
the better of them. It have been hyped up so
much the team, it's new players, how good they would
be this season, that it was almost as though they
stumbled a bit at the start line. They got there
and got a point against Canberra and started their campaign
at least a result. But I think, as I say,
it really starts this weekend when they welcome the Newcastle
(08:14):
Jets to pottydo A Park, and the venue is a
big part of this pottydo A Park, Jerry Collins Stadium
in the northern suburbs of Wellington is a perfect place
for a league women's football to be played. Yes, you
want to play in the big arenas, on the big stages,
but Sky Stadium, as we all know, can look a
bit cavanous when there are only a few thousand in there.
(08:35):
By contrast, at pottydo a Park, two or three thousand
pack in in a very intimate surrounding make a lot
of noise and really create a home advantage. Look, this
is a very good Wellington Phoenix women's team with an
exceptional coach in Bev Priestman, and while they would be
disappointed that they couldn't get off to a winning start
(08:57):
last weekend, they will be very pleased to have that
one out of the way. It was game one of
twenty six. It had been built up immensely. It didn't
quite deliver, But now they can put that behind them
and go about the process of week on week improving
and starting to show the rest of the league what
(09:17):
they are all about. Four o'clock Sunday it may well
be worth if you're in the area heading down to
potty to a park to be part of the action
or at least checking out the result, because this team,
mark my words, will be there or thereabouts when the
final placings are decided in a few months time.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
The Chamber is now in session.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
On Sportsfax, into the Chamber we go. Jee's a bit
chilly in here today. I wonder whether that is because
London is going to buy the sounds of it anyway,
be fairly inclement weatherwise over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Is that what you're hearing?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I was on the blower to the Ministry of Partner
in London this morning and she's like, yeah, it's going
to rain for the next three days. Good luck mate,
and enjoy the rugby. It's like, wow, we're okay and
the weet and I think the English are as well,
aren't they.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't think it advantages or or disadvantages either side.
We spoke yesterday about the naming of the team and
what we predicted. I think you've got it spot on.
So now that we know, I know, sorry, can I
just right it stopped?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Clock?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's right twice a day. It's gonna happen eventually, isn't it.
I saw that team come out when here we.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Go, indeed, well done.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well what now that we know the team's teams plural
England name, there's a course the previous nights. What are
you thinking, dars?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
First start? Are we favorite? Are they all blacks favorite?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's a lot of money coming in on the English,
so maybe by by kickoff they won't be. But I
don't know if that is really part of what they're doing.
They'll think their favorites. That's the main thing. It's not
what other people think. It's about internally, what the All
Blacks think and the panic or not panic. The pressure
is all on the English. They have nine on the bounce,
(10:58):
they're playing at home, they haven't won there against the
All Blacks and what was it twenty twelve, So I'd
say it's all with eas Old Borthwick's coach, come out
look and we're doing really well. Can't beat South Africa
or New Zealand. So that's to me the pressure point.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, Indeed, what I think that we can probably safely
say is it's likely to be close. Five of the
last seven games between these two have been decided by
three points or less, so we may well be looking
for somebody to provide a moment of magic and then
you land on the bench, don't you. I'm so pleased,
and we spoke about it a bit yesterday that they
(11:35):
haven't gone with rewarding if that's the right word, Damien
McKenzie for a standout impact performance last week by promoting
him to the starting fifteen. Being on the bench. Being
in twenty three is just as important, isn't it to
winning tight test matches as starting the game.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And the English have been getting up to this reasoning
as well. They ran down Fiji last time and it's
an area where they need to build and carry on
as opposed to the New Zealand's who desperately need to
do it so and I think that the continuity engage
with the bench too is really handy because they've got
an idea about what they're doing and that's what we
talked about yesterday. Continued in team selection, which hasn't been
(12:14):
the strong hand for Robinson so far, but we're seeing
that now.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
If there's any little worry line forming. If I look
back at the last two Test matches, all Blacks weren't
great really for the first hour against Ireland, came home
with a very strong finish to win that one. They
were ill disciplined last week and had a period from
about halftime through to about the sixty five minute mark
where Scotland were on top and could have won the Test.
(12:40):
Is that vulnerability of not playing well for a significant
part of a Test match something that England might pick up.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
On they should they look at this team. They know
that raz has not had the best time and it's
coming up to the end of his two years, so
it's kind of a half term exam if you will.
Before the World Cup in a couple of years time,
and in order for him to step back and look
at the season as a success, Grand Slam's got to
be theirs. They win that and then we look back
and go, okay, we forgive you for Argentina, we forgive
(13:07):
you for the second half outdown again South Africa. So
that is all there on Scott Robertson. But I still
think it's more on England than New Zealand in this match.
And I'm interested to see how each team deals with
the dreaded high ball, because if it's wet and horrible,
they're going to peper each other from each end, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yep, there's going to be a a lot to intrigue
us ten past four Sunday morning or blacksbeed England at Twickenham.
Other rugby issue that's become a parent today is that
the Black Ferns need a new coach. Alan Bunting is
stepping aside from that role director of Rugby I think
was his official title, effectively black Ferns coach.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
First of all, was this a.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Surprise that Alan Bunting has decided to buy the sounds
of it?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Withdraw from the role or do you actually think that
after the World Cup and not making the final that
somebody said a once, we need to go a different
way here. You know this your time might be up.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That would be not grossly unfair. I just wonder what
the KPIs were ahead of that. If you win, you're safe.
If you don't, we're going to look for somebody else.
So we don't know what the machinations in the back
room were around. That does seem a tad harsh because
they didn't exactly stink the joint up, but they didn't
win either, and that's the expectation on this team yet.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Not many New Zealand coaches survive an unsuccessful World Cup campaign,
do they? You know, history will tell us that we're
a fairly unforgiving lot, as are those who make these
decisions when the World Cups are lot one. So yeah,
just before we go, they want to make an appointment
before Christmas.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It's the fourteenth of November. Dus. Well, that's good with speed.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I like that they're working with. Who do you like
in this because you think that Willie Walker, who's looking
after the fifteens at the moment, had success with the
Blues and opicky this year, he's got to be up
front and center. Some of the other staff that have
been working as well under bunts, they might be there.
I like Whitney Hansen. I think that Whitney is like
(15:12):
I'm not quite sure if I'm ready that was last
time around. But with Marta too, what she's doing there,
and there's a lot about her and the way she
behaves and what she does and her success as a
coach and plainly wa as well. And I think there's
big import in a woman coaching the Black Fern. So
that's my outside bet that one.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Now, I think it's more of a strengthening inside bet
if that's the opposite to an outside bet. I think
she's a strong candidate, Whitney Hanson. I think she has
quietly but efficiently done well at Martatu. She's building up
her rugby iq her experience. I would love to see
(15:55):
Whitney Hanson get the role. I hope she gets the job.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm with you as well on that one. Well, let's
hope that like our predictions yesterday, it comes true and right.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
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of these correct predictions we make in the chamber, which
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Who here it is?
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Here it is The weekend has arrived. We love Saturday,
we love Sunday. We love it even more when they're
jam packed with sport and there is a bit to
get through. I want to kick around a couple of
rugby issues in the chamber with your das the All
Blacks against England. What do we see happening Alan Bunting
departing as Black Fern's coach, So who are the candidates
perhaps to step into that role? The latest in sports
(00:56):
news coming your way as well. Who are we hearing
from In terms of a guest on Sports Fix.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Today, We're going to have a chat with Malelly Mulliana Mills.
Of course there's a test centurion for the All He
also started his career in Wellington for the All Blacks
against England and they lost. So Mills joins the program
to talk through the team in the game itself.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Looking forward to that, so hepes to get into Let's
get into it absolutely. In other news, Let's get you
either way with a look at some of the big
sports stories around today. Lester feight Inger Aluku will wear
a third jersey in as many Test matches for the
All Blacks as he becomes the ultimate utility back. He's
(01:41):
going to start on the left wing in the absence
of Caleb Clark for Sunday Mornings Test against England.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
His coach Scott Robertson, you felt.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
For him because he's just got his rhythm and power
game there, all game, all the things that you need
from the left wing, and we just felt there was
a beach change. And obviously Billy goes into his a
test and he's trained there and he came on with
Quinn and he's been vined.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
New Zealand pace follow Jacob Duffery has delivered a Player
of the series performance in the three to one T
twenty went over the West and he's taking ten wickets
across the series. We're constantly death stuff was a bit
pit missed the series I guess you could say so.
Certainly with the cricket coming up and India potentially and
maybe a World Cup, I think that's gonna be pretty
important over there.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And keep a golf for Dan.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hilly has shot a five hunderd past sixty seven to
sit tight the sixth after the opening round of the
European Golf Tour finale in Dubai. He set the tone
with this undulating forty seven foot birdie put on the
first hole.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
He'll to Ward's the whole rate to left. It will
be left to right at the end of it.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
A thought, No, it's tried to. That's a bonus leading
a VEX. We've got just the ticket.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's sports X powered by News Talks IVY.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We'll join now on the Sports Fix podcast by one
hundred test plus all Black mister Mills Muliana. He's also
of course played in the center role.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
He joined us.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Mills, Welcome to the podcast. So when it comes to
beating opposition, I think South Africa are right up there,
Australia are right up there, but England, England and the
team everyone wants to beat right.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Cuodo bro, I know then I'm hearing you man It's
definitely the English, isn't it. And the one one bad
thing about my career is when my first game that
I ever played for the All Blacks we lost to
the English.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
So that's always going to haunt me for the rest
of my life. Mate.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
But they are a tough team to beat, and when
you go to Twickenham, they're even tougher tasks because it
is a hostile environment.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Mate, who's the more more the pressure on? I mean,
you look at Borthwick hasn't managed to debat the All
Blacks or beat South Africa. They're on a tear. They've
run nine on the bounce, so at home in front
of the crowd, more pressure on them or on Scott
Robertson and his team to go. This year has been
a success because we've won the Grand Slam, because if
they don't.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
They're going to get judged yet oh man, yeah, I mean,
and this is why it makes it so tasty this
Test match, isn't it. I mean, forget about next week.
Welsh is in a way. But the thing is that
for the English, the one thing that sort of picked
up the radars for me is the first Test michiganst
the Australians a few weeks back and they, I mean
(04:16):
the score really fled the Australians because they dominated them.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
They looked like a sound sort of beast.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
They look you know, very sort of demanding of the
forward pick and how they sort of you know, get.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Into you know, the rolling walls and things like that.
But they're full of confidence.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
On the other side of that, the All Blacks, you'd
have to say it's a successful year if they if
they knocked this one off. They've been in a little
bit inconsistency. That's probably what gives you a little bit
of comfort. They have been a little bit inconsistent. But
the times that they have got the game, the game
plan right, they've been hard to stop.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
So is this now the game that's gonna you know, bring.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Out that the performance from the or blocks that we've
all been waiting for.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So it's a half tim report, isn't it. Two years in?
Two years out from a World Cup? So I think
the tents will start to come with this side. So
tell us about the strengths and the weaknesses on either side.
And you migrated to the midfield some stage in your career,
what if you make of the of the twist in
the midfield. Will You talked about consistency meals, and what
(05:25):
I like here is it's almost a consistent selection. We're
starting to see what Razor wants as far as his
twenty three are concerned, right, so talk to me about
the midfield.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah, well, Billy Procter comes back into the fold, right.
And then it's hard when you're not in and when
you kind of.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Reflect on it, I possibly would have taken a different
a different approach. I would have probably left Leicester there
and had Arica. You're only giving him another opportunity. But again,
I'm not in the environment. This is purely based on
getting results and getting consistency throughout this tour. And so
that's it's where he's gone there, Quincy Piers and another go.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
He's been really good this year. McKenzie's just for me.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
He's showing some really greatfulm Yeah, I understand it's off
the bench, but sometimes when you're when you're writing a
form by that you've almost got to give someone that opportunity.
I'm more for the fact perhaps maybe of starting him
at the back and moving Will Jordan, But I also
understand that this is a team that your name with consistency,
like you mentioned, and when you're when you're in the
(06:33):
environment and you've got you know, the rest of the
country and sort of judging you, you want results, and
this is a team that's fairly consistent. We've got a great,
great sign if you look at the likes of Parker
comes back into the mix. He's a big body sort
of type of person. Perhaps they're trying to nullify that with.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
The English sort of pack. Peter Larkeye, for me.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Has really stood up in that bat position, so I'm
liking his continuation in terms of sort of where he's
sort of getting to. But I mean it's a solid side.
The one thing I have to say about the English
is Ford and Marcus Smith. I mean it's always, you know,
two different types of players, but Ford now with all
the you know, his experience and guiding the team around
(07:18):
in the park, he just and his combination with Mitchell
as well. I mean those two seem really settled in
and really controlled and particularly when the heat's on, which
is something that they haven't had in the past.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Horsfex.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The Wellington Phoenix women's season is underway, but I think
it really gets underway this weekend. There's been so much
hype around about the side over the last few weeks
and even months, and when they hit their first game
last weekend at sky Stadium, the team and its coaching
staff free. He admitted that they let the occasion get
(07:53):
the better of them. It have been hyped up so
much the team, it's new players, how good they would
be this season, that it was almost as though they
stumbled a bit at the start line. They got there
and got a point against Canberra and started their campaign
at least a result. But I think, as I say,
it really starts this weekend when they welcome the Newcastle
(08:14):
Jets to pottydo A Park, and the venue is a
big part of this pottydo A Park, Jerry Collins Stadium
in the northern suburbs of Wellington is a perfect place
for a league women's football to be played. Yes, you
want to play in the big arenas, on the big stages,
but Sky Stadium, as we all know, can look a
bit cavanous when there are only a few thousand in there.
(08:35):
By contrast, at pottydo a Park, two or three thousand
pack in in a very intimate surrounding make a lot
of noise and really create a home advantage. Look, this
is a very good Wellington Phoenix women's team with an
exceptional coach in Bev Priestman, and while they would be
disappointed that they couldn't get off to a winning start
(08:57):
last weekend, they will be very pleased to have that
one out of the way. It was game one of
twenty six. It had been built up immensely. It didn't
quite deliver, But now they can put that behind them
and go about the process of week on week improving
and starting to show the rest of the league what
(09:17):
they are all about. Four o'clock Sunday it may well
be worth if you're in the area heading down to
potty to a park to be part of the action
or at least checking out the result, because this team,
mark my words, will be there or thereabouts when the
final placings are decided in a few months time.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
The Chamber is now in session.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
On Sportsfax, into the Chamber we go. Jee's a bit
chilly in here today. I wonder whether that is because
London is going to buy the sounds of it anyway,
be fairly inclement weatherwise over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Is that what you're hearing?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I was on the blower to the Ministry of Partner
in London this morning and she's like, yeah, it's going
to rain for the next three days. Good luck mate,
and enjoy the rugby. It's like, wow, we're okay and
the weet and I think the English are as well,
aren't they.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't think it advantages or or disadvantages either side.
We spoke yesterday about the naming of the team and
what we predicted. I think you've got it spot on.
So now that we know, I know, sorry, can I
just right it stopped?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Clock?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's right twice a day. It's gonna happen eventually, isn't it.
I saw that team come out when here we.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Go, indeed, well done.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well what now that we know the team's teams plural
England name, there's a course the previous nights. What are
you thinking, dars?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
First start? Are we favorite? Are they all blacks favorite?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's a lot of money coming in on the English,
so maybe by by kickoff they won't be. But I
don't know if that is really part of what they're doing.
They'll think their favorites. That's the main thing. It's not
what other people think. It's about internally, what the All
Blacks think and the panic or not panic. The pressure
is all on the English. They have nine on the bounce,
(10:58):
they're playing at home, they haven't won there against the
All Blacks and what was it twenty twelve, So I'd
say it's all with eas Old Borthwick's coach, come out
look and we're doing really well. Can't beat South Africa
or New Zealand. So that's to me the pressure point.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, Indeed, what I think that we can probably safely
say is it's likely to be close. Five of the
last seven games between these two have been decided by
three points or less, so we may well be looking
for somebody to provide a moment of magic and then
you land on the bench, don't you. I'm so pleased,
and we spoke about it a bit yesterday that they
(11:35):
haven't gone with rewarding if that's the right word, Damien
McKenzie for a standout impact performance last week by promoting
him to the starting fifteen. Being on the bench. Being
in twenty three is just as important, isn't it to
winning tight test matches as starting the game.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And the English have been getting up to this reasoning
as well. They ran down Fiji last time and it's
an area where they need to build and carry on
as opposed to the New Zealand's who desperately need to
do it so and I think that the continuity engage
with the bench too is really handy because they've got
an idea about what they're doing and that's what we
talked about yesterday. Continued in team selection, which hasn't been
(12:14):
the strong hand for Robinson so far, but we're seeing
that now.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
If there's any little worry line forming. If I look
back at the last two Test matches, all Blacks weren't
great really for the first hour against Ireland, came home
with a very strong finish to win that one. They
were ill disciplined last week and had a period from
about halftime through to about the sixty five minute mark
where Scotland were on top and could have won the Test.
(12:40):
Is that vulnerability of not playing well for a significant
part of a Test match something that England might pick up.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
On they should they look at this team. They know
that raz has not had the best time and it's
coming up to the end of his two years, so
it's kind of a half term exam if you will.
Before the World Cup in a couple of years time,
and in order for him to step back and look
at the season as a success, Grand Slam's got to
be theirs. They win that and then we look back
and go, okay, we forgive you for Argentina, we forgive
(13:07):
you for the second half outdown again South Africa. So
that is all there on Scott Robertson. But I still
think it's more on England than New Zealand in this match.
And I'm interested to see how each team deals with
the dreaded high ball, because if it's wet and horrible,
they're going to peper each other from each end, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yep, there's going to be a a lot to intrigue
us ten past four Sunday morning or blacksbeed England at Twickenham.
Other rugby issue that's become a parent today is that
the Black Ferns need a new coach. Alan Bunting is
stepping aside from that role director of Rugby I think
was his official title, effectively black Ferns coach.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
First of all, was this a.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Surprise that Alan Bunting has decided to buy the sounds
of it?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Withdraw from the role or do you actually think that
after the World Cup and not making the final that
somebody said a once, we need to go a different
way here. You know this your time might be up.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That would be not grossly unfair. I just wonder what
the KPIs were ahead of that. If you win, you're safe.
If you don't, we're going to look for somebody else.
So we don't know what the machinations in the back
room were around. That does seem a tad harsh because
they didn't exactly stink the joint up, but they didn't
win either, and that's the expectation on this team yet.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Not many New Zealand coaches survive an unsuccessful World Cup campaign,
do they? You know, history will tell us that we're
a fairly unforgiving lot, as are those who make these
decisions when the World Cups are lot one. So yeah,
just before we go, they want to make an appointment
before Christmas.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It's the fourteenth of November. Dus. Well, that's good with speed.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I like that they're working with. Who do you like
in this because you think that Willie Walker, who's looking
after the fifteens at the moment, had success with the
Blues and opicky this year, he's got to be up
front and center. Some of the other staff that have
been working as well under bunts, they might be there.
I like Whitney Hansen. I think that Whitney is like
(15:12):
I'm not quite sure if I'm ready that was last
time around. But with Marta too, what she's doing there,
and there's a lot about her and the way she
behaves and what she does and her success as a
coach and plainly wa as well. And I think there's
big import in a woman coaching the Black Fern. So
that's my outside bet that one.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Now, I think it's more of a strengthening inside bet
if that's the opposite to an outside bet. I think
she's a strong candidate, Whitney Hanson. I think she has
quietly but efficiently done well at Martatu. She's building up
her rugby iq her experience. I would love to see
(15:55):
Whitney Hanson get the role. I hope she gets the job.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm with you as well on that one. Well, let's
hope that like our predictions yesterday, it comes true and right.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Our stocks will rise, will continue to rise with all
of these correct predictions we make in the chamber, which
we are now about to.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Vacate us and a vinion.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
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Speaker 2 (16:20):
Walter Grave, and we will vacate your ear drums as well.
That's the end of the sports Fix podcast for today,
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Speaker 3 (16:39):
The left can think that way as well, because you know,
I'm part of that generation, so I'm good with that.
But if you'd like to engage, you can. It's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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I've got the rest of the week and then I
go home and sit on my backside. I work all
(17:00):
weekend if watching television is working, but I can't have
to you though, you're on the tools when.
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