Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on the Warriors beating out the Cowboys in Brisbane

The Warriors have gone up the NRL ladder after a heart-stopping 30-26 NRL victory over the Cowboys in the Magic Round in Brisbane.

The first five first half tries had the Kiwi side up 28-12 at the break before the Cowboys surged back with three tries in eight minutes.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine recapped the action.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pine sports talk hosters with US Piney Come in Piney.
Are you there, Heather?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm here there, Yes.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
How could we even have doubted the Warriors against the Cowboys?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Look at the doubt? What do we say to each
other on Friday? I can't remember. It seems so long ago.
Did we bet that?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I came in with it a snark. I was like, oh,
surely they're going to win, you know, it's just like
a there was doubt in my voice.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, well, I mean it was unfounded because they got
over there. They were subjecting us to a couple of
nervous moments at the end. The Cowboys got back to
thirty twenty six and then had a try supposedly in
the corner, but Luke Metcalf had done a brilliant job
of getting the triscorers foot de touched just before we
touched it down. So thirty twenty six. Look, Heather, you know,
it's the best ever eight game starts to a Warrior's season.

(00:47):
Six wins, two defeats. You know, maybe we need to
see a slightly larger body of work. Maybe halfway through
the season we can make a more informed assessment of
how they'll go. But It's a pretty good start, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, it's not bad at all. I mean again, I
feel like I'm asking the same question of you today
as I did when they were having a massive slump
at the end of last year. But why, what is
it that what makes them perform so brilliantly at the
start of this year and so poorly at the end.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Of last year. What a great question, What a great question,
I reckon. If you asked Andrew Webster, ask James Fisher
Harris to ask any of the players, they'd probably struggle
to come up with a decent answer. For you, it
just seems to be an indefinable thing. Look, they're missing
a couple of players James Fisher Harris for starters. No
Roger tu Vasa Scheck, no Dellan what tennis Alesnik Roccoberry
went off injured the other night. Next man up seems

(01:36):
to work for them. Look, maybe it is undefinable. Maybe
it's just a wave that you have to ride, and
while you're riding it, you know, keep on riding.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
That happened last year. Remember when they were down to
like second or third guy that they would call into
a position, certing to the cucking positions only they were
playing amazingly well. It seems to be a little bit
of a pattern, there isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, and then when they you know, and I don't
suggest that this is the reason when they brought some
of the so called first you know, first choices back
in didn't quite go so well. So look, it's a
balancing act. There's always going to be injuries in rugby league.
But yeah, let's enjoy it while we can. Are they
next at home at the back end of May against
the Raiders. That'll be a massive game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Hey, now listen, why do you think that super Rugby
needs to bring back the super round?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Because I looked at the Magic Round for the NRL.
I thought that is magnificent. You know, all of those
people they're watching sixteen of the seventeen teams. I reckon
super around there, hear me out. Heather should be played
in Fiji. That's where you should have super round. You know.
You look at the Fiji and drew A fans who
turn up and just occupy every shred of space around

(02:38):
Latoka or souver or wherever they play. Imagine that across
the weekend. Look, I know what everyone's saying, oh, yeah,
hang on, yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but
let's start with the concept and work from there. I
know there aren't probably the infrastructure around hotels and travel
and recovery and rehab and that sort of thing in
the ground probably wouldn't hold up, but I still think,
I still think it's worth examining. And if not there,

(03:01):
then somewhere here they get the teams together make a
feast of line.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Argument sucks. You just told me why it shouldn't happen
in Fiji, and then you're like, well, if it doesn't
happen happen there, it needs to happen somewhere.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I was playing the part of the naysayers when I
was saying that, look, I love that Fiji.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Seriously, if you took it to Fiji, could you maximize
your dollar because that needs to be super Rugby. I mean,
this is what Rugby needs to seriously start bringing the
dollars in. So if Fiji is a place that's just
going to turn a massive buck for them, bowl means
go for it. But if it isn't, then they need
to take it somewhere where it's going to make it.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
But what dollars are we talking about here. We already
get the broadcast dollars, We already get the sponsorship dollars, dollars,
the ticket the ticket revenue. So give it to the
Fiji and Drawer, or most of it to them, and
give you know, the other teams that go up there
a portion of it. I mean to the Blues and
the Chiefs really need to take ticket revenue from the
Fiji and Drawer. They don't when they go up there
for a regular season.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Aren't there. But isn't everybody in rugby just a bit
stuffed when it comes to their finances?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes, Piney, honest ever know then not? Okay, I'll go,
I'll go find the facts. I'll come back. Are you sure, well.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Are you sure that they're on the look? Maybe? Down
at provincial level there are some unions who are having
a bit of a struggles. That's Wellington Rugby, heather different
from the Hurricanes, that's Wellington Rugby. All the Super Rugby franchises,
franchises I think are doing very well through their broadcast
revenue from New Zealand Rugby, through sponsorship, I think they're
doing okay.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Hold on, I'm pretty sure that I read not long
ago that the Hurricanes were having a real problem with
their finances. Leave it with me. I'm going to google
furiously in the break, and I'm going to send it
to you on email. Okay, Poney, I'll look forward to it.
You're so excited. Thank you, Poney. As always, Jason Pine,
sports talk host, back at seven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
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