On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for 25th November 2025, the northern tours have come to an end in the rugby world. John Connolly is a former Wallabies coach and he caught up with D'Arcy to discuss the state of international rugby following the tours - and who is looking strong and who is struggling.
D'Arcy shares his thoughts on the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix that took place over the weekend.
And D'Arcy and NZ Herald sports journalist Ben Francis discuss Lou Vincent, Joey Yovich and David Mullan breaking a world record and what's better viewing - Sail GP or the America's Cup.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, Hello there, welcome my names of SPORTSBX podcast. Thanks
very much for down loading. My name is Darcy walder Grave.
I'm a few for the next fifteen to twenty minutes
as we cover off the big sports stories of the date,
thanks of course to GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted home builder. Coming out, We're going to be having
a yarm with John Connolly aka Knuckles, former Wallabies coach,
(00:45):
about the nature of the top of world rugby after
that Northern Tour, the world rankings are out, What does
he make of that and what does the future look
like at that top level. I've got some hot takes
plainly around Formula one. Can't help myself. What a weekend
in Las Vegas? More Marshalls running all over the track?
(01:05):
Will they ever learn? Of course, who didn't themselves in
glory after turn one? Liam Lawson? But there was a
positive and that and the chaos around McLaren being thrown
out of the race, and we'll be joined in the
chamber by New Zealand Herald sports journalist mister Ben Francis,
as we jack around some slightly different sports stories of
(01:29):
the day. All Right, let's stop kicking stones, let's get stuck.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
In it in other news time.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now for some vocal sports swipes of it. Tuesday, Blair
Techner has been selected to play for the black Cats
the Test Series versus the West Indies. He owned it
after being recalled for the white ball leg of the tour.
Now he's hoping two years of the county cricket with
Derbyshire will pay dividends with the.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Red ball off the two to four different grounds. From experience,
there's been a lot of learning a lot of cricket
in two years, really because I haven't had a break.
So hopefully I can take that to the test Arian.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And teen marks for you, Blea Techner, if I'm not pluralizing.
CEO of the Crusader's gone. Manbridge carried some doubt into
the Super Rugby or to pay christ Church round in
their fancy new stadium, but he really didn't need to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So you do get a little bit worried whether people
will want to buy the year. Now we've done a
pretty good job I think of getting the word out
and I think people have gone real hard on the Friday.
We obviously we still got some three day parts lift.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The opening game is a Sada's v. Tars. It's been
sought out from Evon and coach David Moyes is surprisingly
upbeat around the on field script between team members. His
team members address a gay got red card of after
slapping Michael King and this morning's Manchester United clash.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I quickly let Will's feet and each other getting annoyed
to each other because of the bad ball or someone
didn't do to the reaction, I think that's part of it.
If you want to winning team and you want that
resilts in the toughness which got as the result, then
I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Go on the act eventually with a man down evident
got the Chocolate's one nil the final score and that's
an air full of sport for you today. You're welcome news.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It's Sports Fix with Dancy's.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
A big glow. Now to John Connolly aka Knuckles, former
Wallaby's coach, to talk about the top level of world rugby. John,
I trust you, well, yeah, very well, good to hear.
What do we learn primarily out of the Northern tour
around the state of world rugby. The global rankings have
(03:43):
come out, I don't know if they mean a great
deal except South Africa plainly the best team in the world.
What about the rest of it? What did you glean
from that Northern League.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Well, I think rugby is a strongest state. You know,
the top five teams on any given day could beat
each other. Now we know that hard to be. Those
five are very competitive. The crowds, tax stadiums all the
(04:13):
way through. You know, you've seen Japan compared to Chili playing,
so they've got on the world. Looking at the World
r it's in a pretty healthy state. Australia is not
quite as healthy, but the rest of the world is
going pretty well.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And so looking toward this nation's championship next year, which
is a brand new toy. Hard unless you're talking about
South Africa to give favoritism to anyone, right.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
It is said, any given day, any of those top
five to win, and the improvement of Agentina, it's fantastic.
You can't take them easy anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What do you think South America are accelerated. I won't
say by the length of the straight. They are looking
dominant and well, scary, terrifying, whatever word do you want
to what is it about?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Then you've got to give a lot of crewd to
Erasmus is organization, how instructs that? Picking players from overseas?
They are an Asian side, there's no doubt and some
of those players have been around for quite a while.
At the moment. They play such a physical game. It's
(05:26):
it's a challenge for all countries. But just to say
they can be beaten Ireland with twelve men, they would
walk away disappointed. But there are some pluses out of that.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
As well. The Australians started off well with the guy
there or calling Ossie Joe for a while, maybe not
any more. That's a that's a big collapse, is it?
That's falling off a cliff on that northern too? What
did you pull out of that? John?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Well? Have we improved? It's a question. What is interesting
countries are going back to coaches from their own country
who know how it works, like New Zealand, South Africa, Wales, England,
Scotland and they've all got countries from their own country.
(06:19):
It's very hard to parachute someone in because someone was
successful in another environment. It doesn't necessarily mean they'll be
successful in this environment and it's it's tough for him
to come back in. We've got a ridiculous situation next
year where he's going to coach the first three games
aheaded to less Smith. Let's kiss well after being there
(06:43):
as a national coach. Your preparation starts in January, picking teams,
sifting through and it's be very confusing, especially as Kiss
has had very little success as a head coach and
the pressure on him for Queensland. If Queensland don't go well,
it'll be it'll be tough. Joe should probably step aside
(07:06):
now and kisswalk said his sisters his selection power, so
it's it's going to be quite a challenge for Australia.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, it's a way to start knit John Connley because
they've got this new Nation's Championship and pretty much he's
just been thrown into the deep end right at the
start of there. It's you're not ideal to what's the
logic behind what they've done? Do you think with Josh?
I mean like you're a Queensland stalwart, you know, Les Kiss,
they can't be overly happy, but what's the reasoning behind this,
(07:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I think they wanted to go for Australia. They saw
lessons that it'll be an easy transition, I guess. But
you know, every coach has for his own stamper selections
assistant coaches how you want to play the game so
at the moment that it doesn't appear and if Queensland
(08:01):
and say don't make the Semis and to see that
roby each year they've run a four or five week
break there for always play And yeah, at the time
it sounded okay. Looking at it now it would be crazy,
you know, because I said, after being there, I have
(08:21):
acqueened it. You're continually looking at the place and need
how you want to play the game with the test
coming out, So yeah, I have Australia had a stroll
this so with this year we had chances to fix
a final position and a number of positions and how
(08:42):
we play the game under the high ball. We were poor.
So it's a yeah, you can't stay We've improved.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sports Fix with Nancy Walter Grave.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The Americans had a crack another crack at Formula One
over the weekend the positive around this. What a great
time for a Formula One race to be on, not
earlier in the morning, not first thing in the morning,
not in the middle of the night, but at a
very very comfortable hour five o'clock of an evening. What
did we learn out of that race? Well, we learned
(09:19):
that the marshals are out of control there. Watching them
flee across the race track was really quite extraordinary. You've
got to learn not to do that. Liam Lawson raced.
Liam Lawson qualified extraordinarily well. Liam Lawson has got the
weight of the Formula one world on his shoulders right now,
looking to see if he can secure himself a drive
(09:43):
for next here for the Racing Bulls team. After qualifying
on the third row of the grid, it was looking
up for Liam Lawson. And what happened on the very
first turn, Really he temporarily ran out of talent, didn't he,
and crashed straight into Oscar Piastre. You could say that
maybe in the first corner of a Grand Prix there
was a bit of a wobble that he didn't see coming.
(10:05):
But at the end of the day he hit him
b his car. He had to go back into the
pits again. Race was over. I'll give this to Liam Lawson, though,
unlike so many Formula One drivers, what.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Did he do?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He didn't moan, he didn't pass the blame onto somebody else.
He put his hand up and said that's on me.
I blew it, that's my fault, which is so refreshing
in Formula One. Not quite sure it's going to help
his cause when it comes to securing himself a drive
for next year, but the honesty was amazing. Well done
(10:41):
Liam Lawson. As McLaren at the top of the table, well,
they made an absolute pigs there out of it. It
was a dog's breakfast. They were both. It's Oscar Piastre
and the championship leader, Lando Norris being excluded from results
after a technical issue. That, however, may be terrible for
(11:03):
McLaren and Lando especially and maybe Oscar, But how good
is it for the championship because now closer and closer
is the menace that is Max Verstappen.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The chamber is now in session on sports Fix.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The chamber door was up, fly open and oh look
who's there. It's Ben Francis Sports News right for n
ziherld dot co dot.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Zaid good Ben Good Ay Darcy. I'm glad the doors
stayed open for me. It was nice to sneak in
heah and know I'm going to shut it behind you.
Now you can't get out. You know what was that was?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It was it the joker who said, I'm not locked
in prison with you. You guys are all locked in
here with me. And that was even scary. It might
not have even been that forget about film references. No
one kias lou Vincent Joey Yovich catching golf balls. Now
you're all over this. You were there in the last
couple of days up in Farm r A. I believe
(11:57):
it was what was the skinny behind it? What were
they doing?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Yeah, so it kind of stems back at it's a
bit of a backstory to it. So you know you
Joey Yovich as he said, Northern districts.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Uh, Joey O. She's fantastic and of course lou VINCENTA.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
So they're both part of a charity called the Resport
Chattible Trust based up in northwand essentially it's repurposing sports
gare up in the region.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Joey's I have the T shirt.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
You got the T shirt. Mate's Joey's co founder of it,
and they have a mate who goes who's called David Mullen,
who has I think has Instagram handle. I apologies if
it's wrong. I think it's a bold something golf like
I said, I said it it's alluded me. I apologize.
You can search him anyway. Anyways, back on track, they
kind of had they wanted to do something a bit
(12:43):
quirky and something a bit different. So they initially started
off with a challenge of seeing how far they could
have a golf ball off like a t ball pitch,
but using different bats. They use like a cricket bat,
tennis racket.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's American junior sport, right, when they stick that up
on a what was it, well, smack at it. Yeah,
So they did that.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
They had a bit of fun, and then they heard
an interview with some guy who had said all these
rand and world records, and they thought, you know, let's
do something, and they decided to combine their love of
cricket and golf, and that was to see how far
they could catch a golf ball that was head off
a tee. David has got a very impressive swing on him.
He can drive it pretty far, so they said you
can do that. You'd think, as you know Joey, he's
(13:26):
got pretty big myths, so that thought that was the
obvious reason. But apparently he lost rock paper with Lou
to get the role. And Lou was essentially a spot
or so he was there with as binoculars kind of
telling what way Joe dold.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Mate hitting the ball. It had to be how accurate,
not how fake can hit it, but we have to
hit it. How did they position themselves to catch it?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Yeah, so they kind of they literally standing about you know,
I'm gonna say about two hundred and fifty meters away.
They had Lou there with the binoculars. As soon as
it was you kind of said go right, go right,
go left. Obviously you can see the bit of wind direction.
There's actually a video up on the Herald website which
you can check out now. You can also go check
it out on their socials. So the previous record was
by two American brothers. I think it was about two
(14:07):
hundred and fo fourteen meters. When the record attempt officially
took underway, they broke the record. I think it was
two hundred and thirty six meters. Was the first one
it was Americans. They did do it offer tea as well. Yeah,
and then and then they ended up breaking it further
and it was about two hundred and sixty one meters.
But because the cost of getting someone from the Guinness
World Records is incredibly expensive, they had to use proper
(14:29):
surveying equipment and they've got to send the data off
of that. They've got to send vision witness statements even
like photos and all that of the golf balls which
have the Guinness logo on them, to like verify it
all so they can actually get the record done. But
it was fantastic to see about one hundred people turned
out to the Pines golf course there at Funga da Heads.
It was a beautiful, beautiful north afternoon. Now I've got
(14:51):
a bit some burners. You'll be able to see myself.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So as an audio medium, no one can see you, Francis,
Well I can, That's what I meant.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, But yeah, it was great to just see those
guys out there are all for charity and raising money
for the Resport Charitable Trust. Joey co founder Louis an
ambassador for and along with David as well. So it
was a great afternoon out and quite a bizarre record
to break, and David a game quickly sidetracking. But David's
got a couple of other records he's got in mind.
(15:21):
One of them is trying to catch and catch the
golf ball himself, which the record, the records not that
record's about thirty thirty meters, it's not that big. But
he's going to give that a go. And he's got
a couple of others up his sleeve as well. So
if there's ever a man you can see how to
drive a golf ball, well, it's a he's got a
very impressive tripe on him.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I used to have this crazy pitching wedge called the Magician,
and it was almost like a plate on a pole.
It was that low you can catch off that it
went straight up in the air. Not anymore. I believe
the Magician is still in a tree somewhere at hew Wood.
I don't know how many years ago that it was
a nice chipper.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
And tell them you're not going to share any of
my endeavors on a golf course, Star said, they don't
really end.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, did you try, if you ever tried to catch
a golf ball?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
No, this is the thing, though, say so people there
actually do give it to go. Some members of the
the ACC were there as well, and no one else
could do it. It was one of those things that you
look you think, oh, this looks easy, but the boars
hat and it kind of you know, the way it drops,
the way it can kind of get caught on the wind.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It was so hard.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
It looks really hard to do. Joey made a couple
of catches there, but I mean with hands his sizer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's not that he's a sportsman. Ba being Francis out
of the hill, joining us here in the chamber. Berlin
has released some more Peter Berling has released some more
information around his split with the America's Cup team, and
you can kind of see it coming what he said
around It's like it was really inconsistent. I wanted too much.
(16:47):
I know, I'm going to go and do something else,
and we talked about that like months ago, and it happened.
It made perfect scense to me. But now I suppose
you look at what's happening, or got sl GP Final
coming up at the end of the week, you got
the America's Cup. Which way and why do you have
any skin in the game, you're a sailing fan.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Or well, I mean I live and live on the beach,
so I mean I say sailing is I've never been
much of a sailor, but you know, you see the
boats out on the water. But I think it's one
of those things where you probably did ask me even
six months ago, I probably would have said, I probably
do prefer the America's Cup. But I guess the more
and more I see and hear about the things that
have transpired, and even you know, things like taking overseas
(17:25):
and that I am kind of now steering or is
it gibing? Is the correct jibe the correct sailing term
on and someone will correct me. But towards the sail
gp and you know, it is really exciting seeing those
boats on the water. And I'm even quite tempted to
go out to auklant.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That the vicinity of them? Is it the speed of
the conflicts that they have, is the nature of the
fact that it's global, They've got a number of yachts.
What what actually gets it? Do you think? Well?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
I think I think it's a combination of all that.
But I think it's also just there's so much of
that political drama now in the America's Cup and so much,
you know, niggly things that that kind of just as
a sports fan, you just get frustrated. Just I just
want to watch the boat's race. I want to I
want it to be competitive. I don't want to be
one sided. And I think you kind of get that
was sale GP. But I used to love watching the
America's Cup. When I was in my last year at
(18:13):
high school in twenty thirteen, I had a broken hand
and I used to use that as an excuse to
stay home and watch the America's Cup. Oh sorry, guys,
I was sat the physio. Don't mind me, and then
no one questioned me going to the physio about five
days in a row. But that's that's what I did
because I used to love watching it. Of course, that
was the ill fated come from behind lost for what if.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
They lose it from me here? The Spittal affair, Yeah
you got it.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
So, But I think sale GP is definitely drawing a
bit more of an interest for me now, and I
think it's only going to increase. And I guess lots
of the more drama and everything we kind of see
with the America's Cup, I think it is going to
start putting more people off like myself.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And it's right in front of you, exactly. This is
a thing. You see it, be it. You want to
be there, And I was there last time around and
it was epic watching those things charge down the White matar.
So I'm with you on that. But nothing like a
bit of intriguing, I tell you what. From some of
the opinion pieces I've written, some of the stuff I've
done on air, people are so engaged with the America's
(19:14):
Cup still it's very personal for New Zealand as they
really hold it to heart, even though they uplifted it
and it to the other side.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Of the I guess so it's you know, lots of
New Zealanders still like it. But how much? What's that
interest like around the rest of the world though, I
guess that's one of the questions I still do have
around it. It kind of feels like, though if New
Zealand word shall lose it, what would that interest be like? Again?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Pretty low, but we will see and on that, mister Francis,
thanks very much for joining us in the chamber. I'll
unlock the door and I'll hold the dogs back so
they don't chase you back down the street again. Thanks
for your time help me. Thank you leading a vix.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, Hello there, welcome my names of SPORTSBX podcast. Thanks
very much for down loading. My name is Darcy walder Grave.
I'm a few for the next fifteen to twenty minutes
as we cover off the big sports stories of the date,
thanks of course to GJ. Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most
trusted home builder. Coming out, We're going to be having
a yarm with John Connolly aka Knuckles, former Wallabies coach,
(00:45):
about the nature of the top of world rugby after
that Northern Tour, the world rankings are out, What does
he make of that and what does the future look
like at that top level. I've got some hot takes
plainly around Formula one. Can't help myself. What a weekend
in Las Vegas? More Marshalls running all over the track?
(01:05):
Will they ever learn? Of course, who didn't themselves in
glory after turn one? Liam Lawson? But there was a
positive and that and the chaos around McLaren being thrown
out of the race, and we'll be joined in the
chamber by New Zealand Herald sports journalist mister Ben Francis,
as we jack around some slightly different sports stories of
(01:29):
the day. All Right, let's stop kicking stones, let's get stuck.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
In it in other news time.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now for some vocal sports swipes of it. Tuesday, Blair
Techner has been selected to play for the black Cats
the Test Series versus the West Indies. He owned it
after being recalled for the white ball leg of the tour.
Now he's hoping two years of the county cricket with
Derbyshire will pay dividends with the.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Red ball off the two to four different grounds. From experience,
there's been a lot of learning a lot of cricket
in two years, really because I haven't had a break.
So hopefully I can take that to the test Arian.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And teen marks for you, Blea Techner, if I'm not pluralizing.
CEO of the Crusader's gone. Manbridge carried some doubt into
the Super Rugby or to pay christ Church round in
their fancy new stadium, but he really didn't need to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So you do get a little bit worried whether people
will want to buy the year. Now we've done a
pretty good job I think of getting the word out
and I think people have gone real hard on the Friday.
We obviously we still got some three day parts lift.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The opening game is a Sada's v. Tars. It's been
sought out from Evon and coach David Moyes is surprisingly
upbeat around the on field script between team members. His
team members address a gay got red card of after
slapping Michael King and this morning's Manchester United clash.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I quickly let Will's feet and each other getting annoyed
to each other because of the bad ball or someone
didn't do to the reaction, I think that's part of it.
If you want to winning team and you want that
resilts in the toughness which got as the result, then
I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Go on the act eventually with a man down evident
got the Chocolate's one nil the final score and that's
an air full of sport for you today. You're welcome news.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It's Sports Fix with Dancy's.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
A big glow. Now to John Connolly aka Knuckles, former
Wallaby's coach, to talk about the top level of world rugby. John,
I trust you, well, yeah, very well, good to hear.
What do we learn primarily out of the Northern tour
around the state of world rugby. The global rankings have
(03:43):
come out, I don't know if they mean a great
deal except South Africa plainly the best team in the world.
What about the rest of it? What did you glean
from that Northern League.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Well, I think rugby is a strongest state. You know,
the top five teams on any given day could beat
each other. Now we know that hard to be. Those
five are very competitive. The crowds, tax stadiums all the
(04:13):
way through. You know, you've seen Japan compared to Chili playing,
so they've got on the world. Looking at the World
r it's in a pretty healthy state. Australia is not
quite as healthy, but the rest of the world is
going pretty well.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And so looking toward this nation's championship next year, which
is a brand new toy. Hard unless you're talking about
South Africa to give favoritism to anyone, right.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
It is said, any given day, any of those top
five to win, and the improvement of Agentina, it's fantastic.
You can't take them easy anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What do you think South America are accelerated. I won't
say by the length of the straight. They are looking
dominant and well, scary, terrifying, whatever word do you want
to what is it about?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Then you've got to give a lot of crewd to
Erasmus is organization, how instructs that? Picking players from overseas?
They are an Asian side, there's no doubt and some
of those players have been around for quite a while.
At the moment. They play such a physical game. It's
(05:26):
it's a challenge for all countries. But just to say
they can be beaten Ireland with twelve men, they would
walk away disappointed. But there are some pluses out of that.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
As well. The Australians started off well with the guy
there or calling Ossie Joe for a while, maybe not
any more. That's a that's a big collapse, is it?
That's falling off a cliff on that northern too? What
did you pull out of that? John?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Well? Have we improved? It's a question. What is interesting
countries are going back to coaches from their own country
who know how it works, like New Zealand, South Africa, Wales, England,
Scotland and they've all got countries from their own country.
(06:19):
It's very hard to parachute someone in because someone was
successful in another environment. It doesn't necessarily mean they'll be
successful in this environment and it's it's tough for him
to come back in. We've got a ridiculous situation next
year where he's going to coach the first three games
aheaded to less Smith. Let's kiss well after being there
(06:43):
as a national coach. Your preparation starts in January, picking teams,
sifting through and it's be very confusing, especially as Kiss
has had very little success as a head coach and
the pressure on him for Queensland. If Queensland don't go well,
it'll be it'll be tough. Joe should probably step aside
(07:06):
now and kisswalk said his sisters his selection power, so
it's it's going to be quite a challenge for Australia.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, it's a way to start knit John Connley because
they've got this new Nation's Championship and pretty much he's
just been thrown into the deep end right at the
start of there. It's you're not ideal to what's the
logic behind what they've done? Do you think with Josh?
I mean like you're a Queensland stalwart, you know, Les Kiss,
they can't be overly happy, but what's the reasoning behind this,
(07:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I think they wanted to go for Australia. They saw
lessons that it'll be an easy transition, I guess. But
you know, every coach has for his own stamper selections
assistant coaches how you want to play the game so
at the moment that it doesn't appear and if Queensland
(08:01):
and say don't make the Semis and to see that
roby each year they've run a four or five week
break there for always play And yeah, at the time
it sounded okay. Looking at it now it would be crazy,
you know, because I said, after being there, I have
(08:21):
acqueened it. You're continually looking at the place and need
how you want to play the game with the test
coming out, So yeah, I have Australia had a stroll
this so with this year we had chances to fix
a final position and a number of positions and how
(08:42):
we play the game under the high ball. We were poor.
So it's a yeah, you can't stay We've improved.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sports Fix with Nancy Walter Grave.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The Americans had a crack another crack at Formula One
over the weekend the positive around this. What a great
time for a Formula One race to be on, not
earlier in the morning, not first thing in the morning,
not in the middle of the night, but at a
very very comfortable hour five o'clock of an evening. What
did we learn out of that race? Well, we learned
(09:19):
that the marshals are out of control there. Watching them
flee across the race track was really quite extraordinary. You've
got to learn not to do that. Liam Lawson raced.
Liam Lawson qualified extraordinarily well. Liam Lawson has got the
weight of the Formula one world on his shoulders right now,
looking to see if he can secure himself a drive
(09:43):
for next here for the Racing Bulls team. After qualifying
on the third row of the grid, it was looking
up for Liam Lawson. And what happened on the very
first turn, Really he temporarily ran out of talent, didn't he,
and crashed straight into Oscar Piastre. You could say that
maybe in the first corner of a Grand Prix there
was a bit of a wobble that he didn't see coming.
(10:05):
But at the end of the day he hit him
b his car. He had to go back into the
pits again. Race was over. I'll give this to Liam Lawson, though,
unlike so many Formula One drivers, what.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Did he do?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He didn't moan, he didn't pass the blame onto somebody else.
He put his hand up and said that's on me.
I blew it, that's my fault, which is so refreshing
in Formula One. Not quite sure it's going to help
his cause when it comes to securing himself a drive
for next year, but the honesty was amazing. Well done
(10:41):
Liam Lawson. As McLaren at the top of the table, well,
they made an absolute pigs there out of it. It
was a dog's breakfast. They were both. It's Oscar Piastre
and the championship leader, Lando Norris being excluded from results
after a technical issue. That, however, may be terrible for
(11:03):
McLaren and Lando especially and maybe Oscar, But how good
is it for the championship because now closer and closer
is the menace that is Max Verstappen.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The chamber is now in session on sports Fix.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The chamber door was up, fly open and oh look
who's there. It's Ben Francis Sports News right for n
ziherld dot co dot.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Zaid good Ben Good Ay Darcy. I'm glad the doors
stayed open for me. It was nice to sneak in
heah and know I'm going to shut it behind you.
Now you can't get out. You know what was that was?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It was it the joker who said, I'm not locked
in prison with you. You guys are all locked in
here with me. And that was even scary. It might
not have even been that forget about film references. No
one kias lou Vincent Joey Yovich catching golf balls. Now
you're all over this. You were there in the last
couple of days up in Farm r A. I believe
(11:57):
it was what was the skinny behind it? What were
they doing?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Yeah, so it kind of stems back at it's a
bit of a backstory to it. So you know you
Joey Yovich as he said, Northern districts.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Uh, Joey O. She's fantastic and of course lou VINCENTA.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
So they're both part of a charity called the Resport
Chattible Trust based up in northwand essentially it's repurposing sports
gare up in the region.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Joey's I have the T shirt.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
You got the T shirt. Mate's Joey's co founder of it,
and they have a mate who goes who's called David Mullen,
who has I think has Instagram handle. I apologies if
it's wrong. I think it's a bold something golf like
I said, I said it it's alluded me. I apologize.
You can search him anyway. Anyways, back on track, they
kind of had they wanted to do something a bit
(12:43):
quirky and something a bit different. So they initially started
off with a challenge of seeing how far they could
have a golf ball off like a t ball pitch,
but using different bats. They use like a cricket bat,
tennis racket.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's American junior sport, right, when they stick that up
on a what was it, well, smack at it. Yeah,
So they did that.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
They had a bit of fun, and then they heard
an interview with some guy who had said all these
rand and world records, and they thought, you know, let's
do something, and they decided to combine their love of
cricket and golf, and that was to see how far
they could catch a golf ball that was head off
a tee. David has got a very impressive swing on him.
He can drive it pretty far, so they said you
can do that. You'd think, as you know Joey, he's
(13:26):
got pretty big myths, so that thought that was the
obvious reason. But apparently he lost rock paper with Lou
to get the role. And Lou was essentially a spot
or so he was there with as binoculars kind of
telling what way Joe dold.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Mate hitting the ball. It had to be how accurate,
not how fake can hit it, but we have to
hit it. How did they position themselves to catch it?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Yeah, so they kind of they literally standing about you know,
I'm gonna say about two hundred and fifty meters away.
They had Lou there with the binoculars. As soon as
it was you kind of said go right, go right,
go left. Obviously you can see the bit of wind direction.
There's actually a video up on the Herald website which
you can check out now. You can also go check
it out on their socials. So the previous record was
by two American brothers. I think it was about two
(14:07):
hundred and fo fourteen meters. When the record attempt officially
took underway, they broke the record. I think it was
two hundred and thirty six meters. Was the first one
it was Americans. They did do it offer tea as well. Yeah,
and then and then they ended up breaking it further
and it was about two hundred and sixty one meters.
But because the cost of getting someone from the Guinness
World Records is incredibly expensive, they had to use proper
(14:29):
surveying equipment and they've got to send the data off
of that. They've got to send vision witness statements even
like photos and all that of the golf balls which
have the Guinness logo on them, to like verify it
all so they can actually get the record done. But
it was fantastic to see about one hundred people turned
out to the Pines golf course there at Funga da Heads.
It was a beautiful, beautiful north afternoon. Now I've got
(14:51):
a bit some burners. You'll be able to see myself.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So as an audio medium, no one can see you, Francis,
Well I can, That's what I meant.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, But yeah, it was great to just see those
guys out there are all for charity and raising money
for the Resport Charitable Trust. Joey co founder Louis an
ambassador for and along with David as well. So it
was a great afternoon out and quite a bizarre record
to break, and David a game quickly sidetracking. But David's
got a couple of other records he's got in mind.
(15:21):
One of them is trying to catch and catch the
golf ball himself, which the record, the records not that
record's about thirty thirty meters, it's not that big. But
he's going to give that a go. And he's got
a couple of others up his sleeve as well. So
if there's ever a man you can see how to
drive a golf ball, well, it's a he's got a
very impressive tripe on him.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I used to have this crazy pitching wedge called the Magician,
and it was almost like a plate on a pole.
It was that low you can catch off that it
went straight up in the air. Not anymore. I believe
the Magician is still in a tree somewhere at hew Wood.
I don't know how many years ago that it was
a nice chipper.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
And tell them you're not going to share any of
my endeavors on a golf course, Star said, they don't
really end.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, did you try, if you ever tried to catch
a golf ball?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
No, this is the thing, though, say so people there
actually do give it to go. Some members of the
the ACC were there as well, and no one else
could do it. It was one of those things that you
look you think, oh, this looks easy, but the boars
hat and it kind of you know, the way it drops,
the way it can kind of get caught on the wind.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It was so hard.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
It looks really hard to do. Joey made a couple
of catches there, but I mean with hands his sizer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's not that he's a sportsman. Ba being Francis out
of the hill, joining us here in the chamber. Berlin
has released some more Peter Berling has released some more
information around his split with the America's Cup team, and
you can kind of see it coming what he said
around It's like it was really inconsistent. I wanted too much.
(16:47):
I know, I'm going to go and do something else,
and we talked about that like months ago, and it happened.
It made perfect scense to me. But now I suppose
you look at what's happening, or got sl GP Final
coming up at the end of the week, you got
the America's Cup. Which way and why do you have
any skin in the game, you're a sailing fan.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Or well, I mean I live and live on the beach,
so I mean I say sailing is I've never been
much of a sailor, but you know, you see the
boats out on the water. But I think it's one
of those things where you probably did ask me even
six months ago, I probably would have said, I probably
do prefer the America's Cup. But I guess the more
and more I see and hear about the things that
have transpired, and even you know, things like taking overseas
(17:25):
and that I am kind of now steering or is
it gibing? Is the correct jibe the correct sailing term
on and someone will correct me. But towards the sail
gp and you know, it is really exciting seeing those
boats on the water. And I'm even quite tempted to
go out to auklant.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That the vicinity of them? Is it the speed of
the conflicts that they have, is the nature of the
fact that it's global, They've got a number of yachts.
What what actually gets it? Do you think? Well?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
I think I think it's a combination of all that.
But I think it's also just there's so much of
that political drama now in the America's Cup and so much,
you know, niggly things that that kind of just as
a sports fan, you just get frustrated. Just I just
want to watch the boat's race. I want to I
want it to be competitive. I don't want to be
one sided. And I think you kind of get that
was sale GP. But I used to love watching the
America's Cup. When I was in my last year at
(18:13):
high school in twenty thirteen, I had a broken hand
and I used to use that as an excuse to
stay home and watch the America's Cup. Oh sorry, guys,
I was sat the physio. Don't mind me, and then
no one questioned me going to the physio about five
days in a row. But that's that's what I did
because I used to love watching it. Of course, that
was the ill fated come from behind lost for what if.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
They lose it from me here? The Spittal affair, Yeah
you got it.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
So, But I think sale GP is definitely drawing a
bit more of an interest for me now, and I
think it's only going to increase. And I guess lots
of the more drama and everything we kind of see
with the America's Cup, I think it is going to
start putting more people off like myself.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And it's right in front of you, exactly. This is
a thing. You see it, be it. You want to
be there, And I was there last time around and
it was epic watching those things charge down the White matar.
So I'm with you on that. But nothing like a
bit of intriguing, I tell you what. From some of
the opinion pieces I've written, some of the stuff I've
done on air, people are so engaged with the America's
(19:14):
Cup still it's very personal for New Zealand as they
really hold it to heart, even though they uplifted it
and it to the other side.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Of the I guess so it's you know, lots of
New Zealanders still like it. But how much? What's that
interest like around the rest of the world though, I
guess that's one of the questions I still do have
around it. It kind of feels like, though if New
Zealand word shall lose it, what would that interest be like? Again?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Pretty low, but we will see and on that, mister Francis,
thanks very much for joining us in the chamber. I'll
unlock the door and I'll hold the dogs back so
they don't chase you back down the street again. Thanks
for your time help me. Thank you leading a vix.
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