September 29, 2025 • 5 mins
United States golf captain Keegan Bradley has taken full responsibility for his side's Ryder Cup defeat to Team Europe.
Team USA threatened the greatest recovery in the event's history, winning eight and a half points from 12 singles matches on the final day only to lose 15-13 in New York.
Sportstalk host Jason Pine recapped the action.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason plain Sports stook coasters with us allow Pony. Hello, Heather,
how you going?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm going?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
God, I feel like it's been such a long time.
I have to start by I basically rein catching up.
Has it been in the last week? Hey, listen, Pony,
what's going on at the Ryder Cup? I don't understand
any of this?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, well, incredible scenes really going to the final day.
There were twelve matches, so twelve players from US against
twelve players from Europe, and you can get a point
or you can halve the match. Now, the overriding part
of this is that Europe was so far ahead, In fact,
so far ahead the historically no side had ever come
from as far back as the US would have to
come in order to win the Ryder Cup. They gave
(00:37):
it a decent crack. They won six of the matches,
Europe won just one. The other five matches were halved. Eventually,
Europe did retain the Ryder Cup, but only by a
small margin. So I think the US can be proud
of the golf, not that proud of their fans, but
Europe do retain the Rider Cup.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's what I'm talking about. What's going on with the fans.
Why are they throwing beer at people.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
A little bit far all over there? Hasn't it? I
don't know why. The Ryder Cup, you know, more than
any other golf tournament, in fact, more than pretty much
every other golf tournament, has this little kind of unusual
layer to it. They just seem to the American fans,
you know, just be a bit borish and a bit,
as I say, a bit feral and sort of yell
and throw bear.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A different crowd from the you usual I don't know, PGA.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I think, well it must do otherwise that I
guess the same things would happen at the PGA or
the other part of this is maybe it feels as
though to the American fans anyway, as though this sort
of thing's okay. At the Ryder Cup, clearly the European
players don't think it's okay. Even the American players were
embarrassed and we're telling the crowd to calm down. So
whatever has happened, it just seems to have attracted that
that sort of type of golf fan, not all of them,
(01:45):
but some of them, and it's added a rather I guess,
unfortunate layer to a thing that's normally played under pretty yeah,
good circumstances.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All the headlines are about this, right, about this bad behavior,
rather than the actual win. Anyway, listen, what's going on here?
What are you reading into the fact that Grace Week
has gone out publicly and supported Dame Noles.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, I'm glad somebody said something, because it's been just
a cone of silence, hasn't it from Netball New Zealand?
We've heard nothing from them, still haven't today. We've tried
to tried to organize to have a chat to Jenny Wiley,
the CEO, or Matt Matt Winerda, the chair of the board.
Neither is available to chat to us. I'm just glad
Grace said something interesting choice of words though here there
wasn't it we want you back, we miss you. It's
(02:27):
almost as though Grace wiki is speaking on behalf of
the playing group, when we know that there were at
least one or two members of that playing group who
have caused this whole thing to happen in terms of
having Dame Nolen investigated. So yeah, look, I just hope
that sanity prevails and that Grace and the vast majority
of those Silver Firm players get what they want and
(02:48):
what the vast majority of New Zealand netball fans want,
and that's for Dame Nolen to come back.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Are you are you reading? Because it seems like there's
two possible explanations for what's going on here. Either there
is a split in the players group where you do
have the two to seven, the group of potentially up
to seven who've caused the trouble for Dame Noll's and
there's a split in there now the troublemakers versus the
ones who want to back, or the player is actually
never intended for this to happen and it's been weaponized
by Netball New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What do you think why would netburn New Zealand weaponizer
that's the thing? What possible benefits.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We apply for her job last year?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well again I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I mean, that's just things being bullsed up by netballs strange.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I mean, like you're right, not their finest two years
really and it will be nice to hear from them.
But look, I when you say there's a split, I
don't know whether the split certainly not fifty to fifty,
not from my understanding anyway. So and when Grace Wicker
gets up and I don't know whether she checked with
the other players whether it was okay to say that
or not, but she felt that she had the money
(03:46):
to speak on behalf of the playing group and you know,
using the word we constantly, and that is a pretty
good indication of that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Interesting. Now, are you convinced by the way the Abs
are playing well?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I was convinced on Saturday night that they were very
desperate to win the game. And look, it was a
bit like that game three weeks ago against South Africa
when they kind of just had to win it, you know,
in any way they could, and South Africa nearly nicked
it at the end, but the All Blacks won it
even Part four.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Only win at the weekend because the ref basically made
some really dodgy calls.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh and I mean you're sounding like an Australian fan now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I'm just put on playing the devil's advocate.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, I know you are, and look that there certainly
has been a bit of chat about that. But you know,
when you whistled for fifteen penalties, which Australia were, I
think you have to look at yourselves and think, well,
what pictures are we showing the referee that is making
him blow up. Fifteen penalties against us. The yellow card
was a yellow card. There's no argument about that, not
from my point of view anyway. So look, when you're
(04:41):
winging about the ref, Heather, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Don't do that, piny.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know that's not fair because sometimes ref's actually suck.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Gee, it's good to have you back.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh, it's nice to have you back. Thank you finey
I appreciating you know. He doesn't mean that a Jason
Pine sports talk coaster is like, Gee, it's good to
have you back, like a winging wife, like one of those.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
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the podcast on iHeartRadio
Jason plain Sports stook coasters with us allow Pony. Hello, Heather,
how you going?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm going?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
God, I feel like it's been such a long time.
I have to start by I basically rein catching up.
Has it been in the last week? Hey, listen, Pony,
what's going on at the Ryder Cup? I don't understand
any of this?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, well, incredible scenes really going to the final day.
There were twelve matches, so twelve players from US against
twelve players from Europe, and you can get a point
or you can halve the match. Now, the overriding part
of this is that Europe was so far ahead, In fact,
so far ahead the historically no side had ever come
from as far back as the US would have to
come in order to win the Ryder Cup. They gave
(00:37):
it a decent crack. They won six of the matches,
Europe won just one. The other five matches were halved. Eventually,
Europe did retain the Ryder Cup, but only by a
small margin. So I think the US can be proud
of the golf, not that proud of their fans, but
Europe do retain the Rider Cup.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's what I'm talking about. What's going on with the fans.
Why are they throwing beer at people.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
A little bit far all over there? Hasn't it? I
don't know why. The Ryder Cup, you know, more than
any other golf tournament, in fact, more than pretty much
every other golf tournament, has this little kind of unusual
layer to it. They just seem to the American fans,
you know, just be a bit borish and a bit,
as I say, a bit feral and sort of yell
and throw bear.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A different crowd from the you usual I don't know, PGA.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I think, well it must do otherwise that I
guess the same things would happen at the PGA or
the other part of this is maybe it feels as
though to the American fans anyway, as though this sort
of thing's okay. At the Ryder Cup, clearly the European
players don't think it's okay. Even the American players were
embarrassed and we're telling the crowd to calm down. So
whatever has happened, it just seems to have attracted that
that sort of type of golf fan, not all of them,
(01:45):
but some of them, and it's added a rather I guess,
unfortunate layer to a thing that's normally played under pretty yeah,
good circumstances.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All the headlines are about this, right, about this bad behavior,
rather than the actual win. Anyway, listen, what's going on here?
What are you reading into the fact that Grace Week
has gone out publicly and supported Dame Noles.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, I'm glad somebody said something, because it's been just
a cone of silence, hasn't it from Netball New Zealand?
We've heard nothing from them, still haven't today. We've tried
to tried to organize to have a chat to Jenny Wiley,
the CEO, or Matt Matt Winerda, the chair of the board.
Neither is available to chat to us. I'm just glad
Grace said something interesting choice of words though here there
wasn't it we want you back, we miss you. It's
(02:27):
almost as though Grace wiki is speaking on behalf of
the playing group, when we know that there were at
least one or two members of that playing group who
have caused this whole thing to happen in terms of
having Dame Nolen investigated. So yeah, look, I just hope
that sanity prevails and that Grace and the vast majority
of those Silver Firm players get what they want and
(02:48):
what the vast majority of New Zealand netball fans want,
and that's for Dame Nolen to come back.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Are you are you reading? Because it seems like there's
two possible explanations for what's going on here. Either there
is a split in the players group where you do
have the two to seven, the group of potentially up
to seven who've caused the trouble for Dame Noll's and
there's a split in there now the troublemakers versus the
ones who want to back, or the player is actually
never intended for this to happen and it's been weaponized
by Netball New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What do you think why would netburn New Zealand weaponizer
that's the thing? What possible benefits.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We apply for her job last year?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well again I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I mean, that's just things being bullsed up by netballs strange.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I mean, like you're right, not their finest two years
really and it will be nice to hear from them.
But look, I when you say there's a split, I
don't know whether the split certainly not fifty to fifty,
not from my understanding anyway. So and when Grace Wicker
gets up and I don't know whether she checked with
the other players whether it was okay to say that
or not, but she felt that she had the money
(03:46):
to speak on behalf of the playing group and you know,
using the word we constantly, and that is a pretty
good indication of that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Interesting. Now, are you convinced by the way the Abs
are playing well?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I was convinced on Saturday night that they were very
desperate to win the game. And look, it was a
bit like that game three weeks ago against South Africa
when they kind of just had to win it, you know,
in any way they could, and South Africa nearly nicked
it at the end, but the All Blacks won it
even Part four.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Only win at the weekend because the ref basically made
some really dodgy calls.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh and I mean you're sounding like an Australian fan now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I'm just put on playing the devil's advocate.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, I know you are, and look that there certainly
has been a bit of chat about that. But you know,
when you whistled for fifteen penalties, which Australia were, I
think you have to look at yourselves and think, well,
what pictures are we showing the referee that is making
him blow up. Fifteen penalties against us. The yellow card
was a yellow card. There's no argument about that, not
from my point of view anyway. So look, when you're
(04:41):
winging about the ref, Heather, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Don't do that, piny.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know that's not fair because sometimes ref's actually suck.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Gee, it's good to have you back.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh, it's nice to have you back. Thank you finey
I appreciating you know. He doesn't mean that a Jason
Pine sports talk coaster is like, Gee, it's good to
have you back, like a winging wife, like one of those.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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