November 20, 2025 • 17 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave and Jason Pine for 21st November 2025, the All Blacks 2025 season comes to an end this weekend with their final match of the northern tour against Wales. D'Arcy caught up with Jeff to discuss what has and hasn't been achieved this All Blacks season and where to next.
Piney shares his thoughts on the ACL injury plague facing the Wellington Phoenix side.
And D'Arcy and Piney discuss the All Blacks team named for Sundays test match and what we need to see on Sunday, as well as Liam Lawson's chances at the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello there, well, would you look at that Friday again
and at the end of a working week the start
of a sporting weekend. This is Sports Fix, the podcast
with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted home
builder on Friday, November twenty one.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm Jason Pollen and I'm his colleague Darcy Waldgrave from Wellington.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
One of this from Auckrom the.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Other that were all across New Zealand and the world.
When it comes to Sports Fix podcast right.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Right, we try to be we try to be global.
We try to think locally, nationally and globally in this podcast.
In fact, I want to go to Las Vegas, not physically,
but I want to get your view on Liam Lawson
in Vegas this weekend. I want to go to Cardiff
and talk about the All Blacks. In terms of a
guest today, who are hearing drop Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
He hosts the Breakdown. He's a Jill International. As you know,
Goldie played cricket for the country. He played ragby for
their country. He's all over it like a rat. So
we'll talk to him about what's been a chief hasn't
been achieved? Are there rocks under the beach?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Cell?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And look we're too next for the All Blacks.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I've got some thoughts on the latest knee injuries to
afflict our top female sports people as well and the
latest and sports news a jam pack podcast. Let's get
into it. In other news, let's get kicked off with
a look at some of the big sports stories around today.
Ruben Love will make just his second start for the
All Blacks and Sunday morning schest against Wales at Cardiff.
Coach Scott Robertson says sipping behind Will Jordan and Damien
(01:45):
McKenzie has limited as chances when you give opportunities to change.
It's a skill set that I have to trust myself on,
definitely ten fifteen or fifteen ten. Silver Ferns netball captain
Karen Berger is proud of the side's achievements for the year.
Despite the Dame Nolene Toto a coaching standown. Saga New
Zealand won three of their four series under interim coach
of At McCausland jury only dipping out to Australia and
(02:07):
a Tiber after the formatch Constellation Cup series was level
at two apiece.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Here a slight disappointment and that there was a really
good plan set in place and how we wanted to
manage these three months to make sure that we do
our prep really well for Calm games next year and
with all the disruptions obviously that has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Nottingham Forest football manager Sean Disher is quelling fears over
the seriousness of the league injury keeping striker Chris Wood
on the sidelines. The neat issue has kept them out
for more than a month's grumblin. It's nothink too serious
at this time.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
That's serious enough to stop him from daily impact, daily
training and it's settling down, so we're just part of
the recovery period is just to rescan and check where
it's at.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Us and a villion It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine
and Dusty Waldgrave.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Were joined it now by Jeff Wilson, SkyTV commentator and
of course our host as well of rugby shows are
too many to mention. Jeff Wilson, Welcome to the program.
Great to catch up.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I trust you well, oh really well, looking forward to
the last one of the year, the last test, the
last game of rugby, It's going to be a very
interesting proposition Wales in Cardiff, one last time.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Everybody's writing the well shot and I suppose you'd look
back at what they haven't achieved recently, you'd understand why.
But this is a very raw and fresh All Black team,
so many changes. Is there an outside chance that something
might go a little awry.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Well they better not be, because I mean, I look reality,
man for man. Even with that, and you still look
at the number of experienced players that are playing for
the All Blacks in this game, and players who have
been in World Cup finals, and there are enough players
here to understand what it means to represent the jersey.
But also the fact how important is that they put
(03:54):
on a strong performance and leave a lasting mark in
twenty twenty five the last time they wore the jersey.
And for a lot of these guys, they haven't had
many opportunities. They need to make it count. So look,
this should be comfortable. It's a matter of how comfortable
it is for the All Blacks and if they make
hard work of it. From time to time out of.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
The players who didn't do what they were supposed to
do against England last week. Look, they were well beaten
by an English side that totally deserved the victory and
the credit they got. But these guys they sit down,
they don't get to finish their season off and make
up for the ills of last week. That must be
a very strange energy. I'm sure you've experienced that before
(04:35):
at an international level.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Yeah, there's no doubt challenging when you've played a game
you would like to have won. And even my very
very first tour we played England, we lost to England
that took in him and then we had to play
the Barbarians seven days later, and you know the nature
of that contest and how important it was to get
a result. It just, you know, just showed exactly how
much of a challenge it can be sometimes for players
(04:57):
who are trying to make a mark in the all
black jersey, and ultimately for these guys who now don't
get a chance to play. They've got to help the
guys who do get a chance to play in Test
match perform, so really critical that they do their job.
They don't think about the summer they don't think about
the break, the fact that they've had their chance to perform.
Now it's giving the other guys an opportunity to start.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's been mercuriel this season, you know, I'm talking about
sometimes brilliant, sometimes terrible, no consistency. So essentially, when we
look back at Razer's year and look back at the
first half of his four year contract, what we say
about what he's achieved, where he's going, and what he
hasn't achieved and where he shouldn't be going.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Jeff, Yeah, Look, this is a really hard one for
Scott Robertson and his team because you know, for a
number of big test matches there's been they would have
to admit that they haven't performed where they would have
liked to. And so it's about accountability responsibility. And you know,
the question mark is is whether or not they were
taking this team forward given the fact that there are
(06:00):
a number of young guys who have got a chance
to play, the likes of a Simon Parker, Fabian holland
those sorts of players. But were they still good enough
to win more games and do it more convincingly from
time to time? And I think that's the real challenge
that he's got is that I don't think this weekend's
result will matter in the context of this season and
(06:21):
where he's at right now. I think they'll have a
real deep review, rethink, and with Jason Holland leaving at
the end of the season, they'll have to make some
decisions whether there's a replacement, who takes his role, and
how do they build on I suppose some of the
disappointments of this year, but also how do they look
(06:41):
at the positives and go, you know what, There've been
signs we've been good. We just need to be good
for longer.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
We'd like to see the coaches fingerprints all over the
side and know what they want to achieve. Year one,
we didn't see that Raiser Robinson was very conservative and
very safe. We expected maybe more would come of this year.
As a former player and a commentator, are you starting
to see what Scott Robertson wants? Is there starting to
(07:09):
be a Robertson blueprint around this team? You're seeing a
fingerprints or note.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
It's interesting because I'd rather see the players fingerprints on
the team, because they're the ones out there playing. I'd
probably like to see more I think influence from the
senior players in the group and the leadership, and then
probably taking ownership because you know, if I look back,
you know there's no doubt that coach has an important
role to play, but ultimately it's the players that have
(07:35):
to drive that. And if you hear about the success
that All Blacks tasted in the twenty ten through the
twenty seventeen era, it was player driven and so I
believe we should be tapping into the guys who have
got World Cup experience, who've played seventy eighty ninety one
hundred test matches, some have played well over one hundred
(07:56):
test matches. Those are the players to me, I'd like
to see their fingerprints on it, and then having I
think the coaches complementing what we already have in terms
of experienced the highest.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason Fine and
Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There were some really unfortunate news confirmed this morning out
of the Wellington Phoenix Football Club, and that is that
they've suffered a double injury blow to their women's team.
They're going to be without Dutch international import Tessel Medock
and also young Kiwi star Alyssle Winnham for the rest
of this A League women's season after both suffered season
(08:39):
ending knee injuries. Tessel Midagg did hers in the very
first game of the season. In fact, in the opening
minutes of her A League debut against Canberra United earlier
in the month. She managed to play until halftime, but
then alerted the medical staff and it's been proven that
she has done her ACL. She's previously done that twice.
(09:00):
She had it repaired in twenty seventeen and again in
twenty eighteen, but this time it has been another knee
injury for Tesl Medick and Alissa Winnham, who seemed to
go down under minimal contact in the game last weekend
against the Newcastle Jets, got up and tried to play on,
but was eventually replaced a short time afterwards. She has
(09:21):
also been revealed to have suffered a season ending non
contact ACL rupture. This ongoing injury, particularly for women athletes,
is a real head scratcher. Female athletes are currently four
to eight times more likely to rupture their ACL than
(09:41):
male athletes, and those stats alone have led to a
huge body of research being done, whether it be around
preparation loading, recovery or anything at all that can help
alleviate this problem. It is an ongoing problem and the
immediate issue for Beev Priestman at the head of Wellington
Phoenix as women's side, is that she will be without
(10:04):
two pretty key players for the rest of this season.
All we can do is wish tessel Meddach and Alyssa
Winnham speedy recoveries and hope that further research helps to
alleviate problems like this in the future.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax and of
the Chamber we go.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We'll do our vessel of up to the expert analysis
of former All Black star Jeff Wilson. Well, I think
we can look at it from a fans point of
view and the way that he perhaps cannot. Yesterday you
predicted wholesale changes to the All Black side again for
the second week in a row. You were right. I
quite like the look of the site. I feel like
(10:44):
there's a bit of fizz in it and a few
players with I don't know, dare I say at a
point to prove to.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Us and possibly I feel for the guys though that
let the Grand Slam Tour down, because let's face it
they lost that the Grands, it's now the Northern Tour.
I feel for them that they can't come back and
make up the rights the wrongs from last weekend. That
they're in their number ones now, they don't get a chance.
A lot of them and even though the younger coming
through they can, they can make splash and leave themselves
(11:12):
fresh in the memories of Race Robertson and his crew.
But do you even feeling in some of these other
guys going, oh, I'm not done, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I would quite like to have had the opportunity to
right the wrongs of twicken him. Yeah. Well, look they
haven't been given that opportunity. Some of them have, but
not too many. It's a difficult balancing act, isn't it.
If he was to do that to us. If he
was to go back to largely the team that played
at Twickenham last week and given them the chance to
a tone, then you've got rugby players who've been away
for what five six weeks with very little rugby. So
(11:41):
what do you do to their mindset if you don't
give them an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well, you see, I'm just being the typical media. And
if they did play those guys again, I'd be climbing
in going why didn't you give them the chance? And
of course they haven't, So I'm gonna go, what about
those old guys? It doesn't matter what they do, There'll
be somebody there going you got that wrong, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What would you need to see on Sunday to Exit
twenty twenty five As an All Blacks fan with a degree,
if not of utter confidence and at least of optimism.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The confidence is the key word. I think what we've
all seen, I feel free to disagree and I know
you will, Jason. In this side, they don't have inherent
confidence in themselves when they need it the most, and
an All Black side always used to do that. The
chips are down, they'd stand up, they back themselves, they'd
play what's in front of them and they would rich,
(12:31):
snort and bust. We haven't seen that this year. We've
seen it in pieces, but not for the whole match.
And that's one I see. Confidence in yourself and your
ability and not being concerned about maybe being run down,
because that's all that's living. As they say, rent free
in their heads. The fact that they can be chopped
down in the space of a quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yep, very good point, very good points. So ten past
four Sunday Morning, New Zealand, time get the call on
news Talks. He'd be Gold Sport, iHeartRadio with our man
Leiot's Smith over there, and then we can pick the
bones out of it next week, perhaps in terms of
a review. As we are recording this podcast, Liam Lawson's
posted the thirteenth fastest time in first practice at the
(13:13):
Las Vegas Grand Prix. Apart from the obvious of trying
to finish as high up as he possibly can, what's
a good outcome for Liam Lawson this weekend?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Does old on? Before I go into that, and you
don't get a word, And what do you think about
what's happening in the all Blacks? You just can't throw
questions at me and walk away.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Go ahead. I just I've just displayed my interviewing skills. No,
you're right, I should perhaps profer an opinion as well.
Look I said it last week on Weekend Sport. There
doesn't seem to have been improvement in the two years
under Razor. If we go back two years to when
he took control of the side and we think about
(13:51):
how optimistic we felt about the twenty seven Rugby World Cup,
then I e at the start of twenty twenty four
and compare it to how we feel confidence wise now
about the World Cup. I'm not sure it has to
be too many All Blacks fans who feel more confident
now than they did eighteen months to two years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Exactly, completely and utterly on point. We can't trust anymore,
and that is devastating for all Black fans long term,
and the all Blacks and Razor Robertson, we're not the
only ones hurting right.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, you're right, you're right, and that's so right. We
can't trust the all Blacks. What do you mean? What
do you mean we can't trust the all Blacks? We can't.
We can't trust the all Blacks at the moment. Back
to Liam, It's thirteenth in practice one. He'd obviously love
to finish high up points again. Would that be a
good outcome for Liam?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
First and foremost, there's an old saying in motorsport in
order to finish first, first you must finish, and I
believe that that's what Liam's looking at. Get your car
through it, don't get hit by anyone, don't hit anyone,
don't end up in a state where you are fighting
no one at the back of the field. You need
to finish the race and bring your car home clean,
and I think that's really important for you're plainly finishing
(15:01):
high up and the points is great, but bringing a
clean car back again, I think is really important for
him and the Racing Bulls team, just to show that
he can and when it comes to understanding what the
Racing Bull's been doing, it's going to be much more
beneficial to the team if he doesn't end up getting
(15:21):
it all twisted up on turn number one.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Do you know what's best for a more more of
a discretionary, casual motor racing fan like myself about this
time zone zone five o'clock Sunday, It couldn't be better
to us.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
It is used to be back in the day that
Bathurst would wind up and an hour later the Japanese
Grand Prix would start, but that's long since been flushed.
But yeah, time zone is so good. And the fact
that Liam is I think Isaac hadjut has gone from
what I've read in going up to the Red Bull,
which is understandable, and the comment's being made around who's
(16:00):
going to replace it? But who's going to replace him?
Yuki's gone. I'm convinced of that, and Avan Lindblad will
come up. So I see a seat for another year.
And we have seen progression, and you're going to think
for a guy that started off in Red Bull after
two races with no preseason, he got gassed by the
(16:21):
bosses and to pick himself up out of that and
go on to do what he's done, that says a
lot about his intestinal fortitude and the stubborn nature of
him going I'm not giving this up. I'm a Formula
one driver and I'm going to make things count. So
I think we should be rightly proud of what he's achieved.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Absolutely well said, well said, Great resilience from Liam Lawson,
and that is us showing resilience in the chamber today.
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(17:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello there, well, would you look at that Friday again
and at the end of a working week the start
of a sporting weekend. This is Sports Fix, the podcast
with G. J. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted home
builder on Friday, November twenty one.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm Jason Pollen and I'm his colleague Darcy Waldgrave from Wellington.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
One of this from Auckrom the.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Other that were all across New Zealand and the world.
When it comes to Sports Fix podcast right.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Right, we try to be we try to be global.
We try to think locally, nationally and globally in this podcast.
In fact, I want to go to Las Vegas, not physically,
but I want to get your view on Liam Lawson
in Vegas this weekend. I want to go to Cardiff
and talk about the All Blacks. In terms of a
guest today, who are hearing drop Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
He hosts the Breakdown. He's a Jill International. As you know,
Goldie played cricket for the country. He played ragby for
their country. He's all over it like a rat. So
we'll talk to him about what's been a chief hasn't
been achieved? Are there rocks under the beach?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Cell?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And look we're too next for the All Blacks.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I've got some thoughts on the latest knee injuries to
afflict our top female sports people as well and the
latest and sports news a jam pack podcast. Let's get
into it. In other news, let's get kicked off with
a look at some of the big sports stories around today.
Ruben Love will make just his second start for the
All Blacks and Sunday morning schest against Wales at Cardiff.
Coach Scott Robertson says sipping behind Will Jordan and Damien
(01:45):
McKenzie has limited as chances when you give opportunities to change.
It's a skill set that I have to trust myself on,
definitely ten fifteen or fifteen ten. Silver Ferns netball captain
Karen Berger is proud of the side's achievements for the year.
Despite the Dame Nolene Toto a coaching standown. Saga New
Zealand won three of their four series under interim coach
of At McCausland jury only dipping out to Australia and
(02:07):
a Tiber after the formatch Constellation Cup series was level
at two apiece.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Here a slight disappointment and that there was a really
good plan set in place and how we wanted to
manage these three months to make sure that we do
our prep really well for Calm games next year and
with all the disruptions obviously that has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Nottingham Forest football manager Sean Disher is quelling fears over
the seriousness of the league injury keeping striker Chris Wood
on the sidelines. The neat issue has kept them out
for more than a month's grumblin. It's nothink too serious
at this time.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
That's serious enough to stop him from daily impact, daily
training and it's settling down, so we're just part of
the recovery period is just to rescan and check where
it's at.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Us and a villion It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine
and Dusty Waldgrave.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Were joined it now by Jeff Wilson, SkyTV commentator and
of course our host as well of rugby shows are
too many to mention. Jeff Wilson, Welcome to the program.
Great to catch up.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I trust you well, oh really well, looking forward to
the last one of the year, the last test, the
last game of rugby, It's going to be a very
interesting proposition Wales in Cardiff, one last time.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Everybody's writing the well shot and I suppose you'd look
back at what they haven't achieved recently, you'd understand why.
But this is a very raw and fresh All Black team,
so many changes. Is there an outside chance that something
might go a little awry.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Well they better not be, because I mean, I look reality,
man for man. Even with that, and you still look
at the number of experienced players that are playing for
the All Blacks in this game, and players who have
been in World Cup finals, and there are enough players
here to understand what it means to represent the jersey.
But also the fact how important is that they put
(03:54):
on a strong performance and leave a lasting mark in
twenty twenty five the last time they wore the jersey.
And for a lot of these guys, they haven't had
many opportunities. They need to make it count. So look,
this should be comfortable. It's a matter of how comfortable
it is for the All Blacks and if they make
hard work of it. From time to time out of.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
The players who didn't do what they were supposed to
do against England last week. Look, they were well beaten
by an English side that totally deserved the victory and
the credit they got. But these guys they sit down,
they don't get to finish their season off and make
up for the ills of last week. That must be
a very strange energy. I'm sure you've experienced that before
(04:35):
at an international level.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Yeah, there's no doubt challenging when you've played a game
you would like to have won. And even my very
very first tour we played England, we lost to England
that took in him and then we had to play
the Barbarians seven days later, and you know the nature
of that contest and how important it was to get
a result. It just, you know, just showed exactly how
much of a challenge it can be sometimes for players
(04:57):
who are trying to make a mark in the all
black jersey, and ultimately for these guys who now don't
get a chance to play. They've got to help the
guys who do get a chance to play in Test
match perform, so really critical that they do their job.
They don't think about the summer they don't think about
the break, the fact that they've had their chance to perform.
Now it's giving the other guys an opportunity to start.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's been mercuriel this season, you know, I'm talking about
sometimes brilliant, sometimes terrible, no consistency. So essentially, when we
look back at Razer's year and look back at the
first half of his four year contract, what we say
about what he's achieved, where he's going, and what he
hasn't achieved and where he shouldn't be going.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Jeff, Yeah, Look, this is a really hard one for
Scott Robertson and his team because you know, for a
number of big test matches there's been they would have
to admit that they haven't performed where they would have
liked to. And so it's about accountability responsibility. And you know,
the question mark is is whether or not they were
taking this team forward given the fact that there are
(06:00):
a number of young guys who have got a chance
to play, the likes of a Simon Parker, Fabian holland
those sorts of players. But were they still good enough
to win more games and do it more convincingly from
time to time? And I think that's the real challenge
that he's got is that I don't think this weekend's
result will matter in the context of this season and
(06:21):
where he's at right now. I think they'll have a
real deep review, rethink, and with Jason Holland leaving at
the end of the season, they'll have to make some
decisions whether there's a replacement, who takes his role, and
how do they build on I suppose some of the
disappointments of this year, but also how do they look
(06:41):
at the positives and go, you know what, There've been
signs we've been good. We just need to be good
for longer.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
We'd like to see the coaches fingerprints all over the
side and know what they want to achieve. Year one,
we didn't see that Raiser Robinson was very conservative and
very safe. We expected maybe more would come of this year.
As a former player and a commentator, are you starting
to see what Scott Robertson wants? Is there starting to
(07:09):
be a Robertson blueprint around this team? You're seeing a
fingerprints or note.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
It's interesting because I'd rather see the players fingerprints on
the team, because they're the ones out there playing. I'd
probably like to see more I think influence from the
senior players in the group and the leadership, and then
probably taking ownership because you know, if I look back,
you know there's no doubt that coach has an important
role to play, but ultimately it's the players that have
(07:35):
to drive that. And if you hear about the success
that All Blacks tasted in the twenty ten through the
twenty seventeen era, it was player driven and so I
believe we should be tapping into the guys who have
got World Cup experience, who've played seventy eighty ninety one
hundred test matches, some have played well over one hundred
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test matches. Those are the players to me, I'd like
to see their fingerprints on it, and then having I
think the coaches complementing what we already have in terms
of experienced the highest.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason Fine and
Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There were some really unfortunate news confirmed this morning out
of the Wellington Phoenix Football Club, and that is that
they've suffered a double injury blow to their women's team.
They're going to be without Dutch international import Tessel Medock
and also young Kiwi star Alyssle Winnham for the rest
of this A League women's season after both suffered season
(08:39):
ending knee injuries. Tessel Midagg did hers in the very
first game of the season. In fact, in the opening
minutes of her A League debut against Canberra United earlier
in the month. She managed to play until halftime, but
then alerted the medical staff and it's been proven that
she has done her ACL. She's previously done that twice.
(09:00):
She had it repaired in twenty seventeen and again in
twenty eighteen, but this time it has been another knee
injury for Tesl Medick and Alissa Winnham, who seemed to
go down under minimal contact in the game last weekend
against the Newcastle Jets, got up and tried to play on,
but was eventually replaced a short time afterwards. She has
(09:21):
also been revealed to have suffered a season ending non
contact ACL rupture. This ongoing injury, particularly for women athletes,
is a real head scratcher. Female athletes are currently four
to eight times more likely to rupture their ACL than
(09:41):
male athletes, and those stats alone have led to a
huge body of research being done, whether it be around
preparation loading, recovery or anything at all that can help
alleviate this problem. It is an ongoing problem and the
immediate issue for Beev Priestman at the head of Wellington
Phoenix as women's side, is that she will be without
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two pretty key players for the rest of this season.
All we can do is wish tessel Meddach and Alyssa
Winnham speedy recoveries and hope that further research helps to
alleviate problems like this in the future.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax and of
the Chamber we go.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We'll do our vessel of up to the expert analysis
of former All Black star Jeff Wilson. Well, I think
we can look at it from a fans point of
view and the way that he perhaps cannot. Yesterday you
predicted wholesale changes to the All Black side again for
the second week in a row. You were right. I
quite like the look of the site. I feel like
(10:44):
there's a bit of fizz in it and a few
players with I don't know, dare I say at a
point to prove to.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Us and possibly I feel for the guys though that
let the Grand Slam Tour down, because let's face it
they lost that the Grands, it's now the Northern Tour.
I feel for them that they can't come back and
make up the rights the wrongs from last weekend. That
they're in their number ones now, they don't get a chance.
A lot of them and even though the younger coming
through they can, they can make splash and leave themselves
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fresh in the memories of Race Robertson and his crew.
But do you even feeling in some of these other
guys going, oh, I'm not done, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I would quite like to have had the opportunity to
right the wrongs of twicken him. Yeah. Well, look they
haven't been given that opportunity. Some of them have, but
not too many. It's a difficult balancing act, isn't it.
If he was to do that to us. If he
was to go back to largely the team that played
at Twickenham last week and given them the chance to
a tone, then you've got rugby players who've been away
for what five six weeks with very little rugby. So
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what do you do to their mindset if you don't
give them an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well, you see, I'm just being the typical media. And
if they did play those guys again, I'd be climbing
in going why didn't you give them the chance? And
of course they haven't, So I'm gonna go, what about
those old guys? It doesn't matter what they do, There'll
be somebody there going you got that wrong, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What would you need to see on Sunday to Exit
twenty twenty five As an All Blacks fan with a degree,
if not of utter confidence and at least of optimism.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The confidence is the key word. I think what we've
all seen, I feel free to disagree and I know
you will, Jason. In this side, they don't have inherent
confidence in themselves when they need it the most, and
an All Black side always used to do that. The
chips are down, they'd stand up, they back themselves, they'd
play what's in front of them and they would rich,
(12:31):
snort and bust. We haven't seen that this year. We've
seen it in pieces, but not for the whole match.
And that's one I see. Confidence in yourself and your
ability and not being concerned about maybe being run down,
because that's all that's living. As they say, rent free
in their heads. The fact that they can be chopped
down in the space of a quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yep, very good point, very good points. So ten past
four Sunday Morning, New Zealand, time get the call on
news Talks. He'd be Gold Sport, iHeartRadio with our man
Leiot's Smith over there, and then we can pick the
bones out of it next week, perhaps in terms of
a review. As we are recording this podcast, Liam Lawson's
posted the thirteenth fastest time in first practice at the
(13:13):
Las Vegas Grand Prix. Apart from the obvious of trying
to finish as high up as he possibly can, what's
a good outcome for Liam Lawson this weekend?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Does old on? Before I go into that, and you
don't get a word, And what do you think about
what's happening in the all Blacks? You just can't throw
questions at me and walk away.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Go ahead. I just I've just displayed my interviewing skills. No,
you're right, I should perhaps profer an opinion as well.
Look I said it last week on Weekend Sport. There
doesn't seem to have been improvement in the two years
under Razor. If we go back two years to when
he took control of the side and we think about
(13:51):
how optimistic we felt about the twenty seven Rugby World Cup,
then I e at the start of twenty twenty four
and compare it to how we feel confidence wise now
about the World Cup. I'm not sure it has to
be too many All Blacks fans who feel more confident
now than they did eighteen months to two years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Exactly, completely and utterly on point. We can't trust anymore,
and that is devastating for all Black fans long term,
and the all Blacks and Razor Robertson, we're not the
only ones hurting right.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, you're right, you're right, and that's so right. We
can't trust the all Blacks. What do you mean? What
do you mean we can't trust the all Blacks? We can't.
We can't trust the all Blacks at the moment. Back
to Liam, It's thirteenth in practice one. He'd obviously love
to finish high up points again. Would that be a
good outcome for Liam?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
First and foremost, there's an old saying in motorsport in
order to finish first, first you must finish, and I
believe that that's what Liam's looking at. Get your car
through it, don't get hit by anyone, don't hit anyone,
don't end up in a state where you are fighting
no one at the back of the field. You need
to finish the race and bring your car home clean,
and I think that's really important for you're plainly finishing
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high up and the points is great, but bringing a
clean car back again, I think is really important for
him and the Racing Bulls team, just to show that
he can and when it comes to understanding what the
Racing Bull's been doing, it's going to be much more
beneficial to the team if he doesn't end up getting
(15:21):
it all twisted up on turn number one.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Do you know what's best for a more more of
a discretionary, casual motor racing fan like myself about this
time zone zone five o'clock Sunday, It couldn't be better
to us.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
It is used to be back in the day that
Bathurst would wind up and an hour later the Japanese
Grand Prix would start, but that's long since been flushed.
But yeah, time zone is so good. And the fact
that Liam is I think Isaac hadjut has gone from
what I've read in going up to the Red Bull,
which is understandable, and the comment's being made around who's
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going to replace it? But who's going to replace him?
Yuki's gone. I'm convinced of that, and Avan Lindblad will
come up. So I see a seat for another year.
And we have seen progression, and you're going to think
for a guy that started off in Red Bull after
two races with no preseason, he got gassed by the
(16:21):
bosses and to pick himself up out of that and
go on to do what he's done, that says a
lot about his intestinal fortitude and the stubborn nature of
him going I'm not giving this up. I'm a Formula
one driver and I'm going to make things count. So
I think we should be rightly proud of what he's achieved.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Absolutely well said, well said, Great resilience from Liam Lawson,
and that is us showing resilience in the chamber today.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
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(17:33):
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Speaker 2 (17:38):
I'm reagionably positive for this this. Let's go with that.
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