Andrew Alderson: Newstalk ZB Sports Reporter talks Liam Lawson, Alex 'Grizz' Wyllie

Newstalk ZB Sports Reporter Andrew Alderson joined Andrew Dickens to wrap this weekend’s sporting events.  

They discussed the Chinese Grand Prix and Liam Lawson’s unfortunate run, and the life and legacy of Alex “Grizz” Wyllie.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Andrew Orison, Welcome in to the show. Greetings Andrew sout
on Liam Lawson is getting just the most phenomenally bad press. Yeah,
yeah he is, And well it's gonna be up to
him to turn around it. I guess this team as well.
But ultimately it falls on him, doesn't it. He's moved
up to twelfth with three dis qualifications after initially finishing
fifteenth in Shanghai. But to me, Max of stuff and

(00:23):
not doing much better either into fourth as a result
of that, but McLaren going strong, Oscar Piastre winning the race.
I think the car is rubbish and the only way
that Red Bull is competitive is that Max is a genius.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, yep, that could be the case. It's got so
much experience under the bonnet so to speak now after
all those years, and is a depending world champion. But
I think Liam Lawson, I mean, the timing is not
great going in there and it's and ultimately it falls
with him. But it's showcased again why Formula ones that

(00:55):
are team sport as much as anything.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, and also why it's also called the Parana school. Yes, okay,
it's not far wrong. Very sad news. Gris Wiley has
died at eighty. I mean the first player that I idolized,
because I remember the Lions touring seventy one and Grizz
and I remember him being in the backseat with the
sombrero one and the hats, you know, with Tane Norton
and all that. Didn't I didn't think anything would ever
get to Grizz.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I know, and gris just such a formidable you know,
two to force really across the game for decades. But
as you say, as a player, all black and of
course such a formidable member of that Canterbury squad in
the sixties and seventies. But then I think probably I
mean for my generation at least, remembering him as a
coach as much as anything. I mean that tremendous record

(01:40):
he had with well, ultimately with Canterbury, winning the Repleet
Shield in eighty two, leading on through the National Championship
and then the Rapley Shield Challenge of eighty five when
I was younger, you know what, eight years old at
the time, in just that twenty eight twenty three and
what did you say at halftime that there's the ball,
I've scored twenty four points. You can do the same
with something that you know, various versions of.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
That magnificent game Lancaster Park, full to the Gunnals.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I watched that Kerwin whacking the ball over the dead
ball line, which would be looked upon differently today, and
then going on to coach the All Blacks and so
formidably with you know, in the buck shelf for the air.
I mean, had that controversy as well with bring back Buck.
But yeah, he was. It was a phenomenal period, wasn't we.
I think they meant nineteen games without a loss there

(02:25):
and just taking over from Bryla wore.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Grauffen tough but loveable underneath.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I had a couple of dealings with him and he
was tremendous. When you wanted to get hold of him,
he was. He was always available. So yeah, Rop Griz Andrew,
thank you for more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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