Jason Pine: Weekend Sport host on America's Cup about to get underway

New Zealand’s America’s Cup defence is set to get underway.

Last week Team Britannia confirmed their challenger status after beating Italy’s Luna Rossa in the preliminary Louis Vuitton Cup.

NPC quarterfinals are also set to get underway, with Wellington taking on Counties Manukau in Wellington tonight, which will see TJ Perenara play his final game on New Zealand soil before jetting off to Japan.

Other fixtures over the weekend are Bay of Plenty vs Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki vs Waikato and Tasman vs Canterbury.

Weekend Sport host Jason Pine joined Francesca Rudkin.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Jason Pine is with us now host of weekend
Sport on Saturday and Sunday. How are you doing.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm doing well, Francesca. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Have I confused you by talking to you on a
Friday evening and not on a Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A little bit? Yeah, normally I've got a pair of
shorts on. I've actually got some lungs on at the moment,
you know, being a Friday and everything. Ah YEA, It's
a bit old, isn't it, you and I speaking on
a Friday afternoon, But here we are.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I think I didn't realize that you didn't dress formally
for me in the weekend. Any America's Cup is underway.
I am actually really excited, to be honest, I've pretty
much ignored the tournament, the regatter up till now, but
we're at the pointy end and I'm really hoping these
races are close and exciting and I'm all in.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I think you've spoken for most of us. I think
that basically sums up how we all feel. It's kind
of hard to get invented in it when it's a
in the middle of the night and B we're not
in it yet. But now that we are in it,
and the actual Emer's Cup race itself or races plural,
have arrived, I think there'll be a much greater investment.
The one o'clock in the morning thing is still niggli
to a lot of people that you know, most people

(01:01):
are doing other things at that time, the most notably sleeping.
So it's I think a lot of people may wake
up in the morning and check how it went. But
as it goes, and if it's tight, like you say,
and if it's exciting racing, then I think people will
be sitting their arms and maybe getting up and having
a look at it during during the nocturnal hours. Yeah,
I think there's still a school of thought that we

(01:23):
shouldn't be defeating offshore, but that ship has probably sailed,
if that's the right thing to say. So, Yeah, but
I think, you know, you think back to the previous
America's Cup campaigns and we've got right in behind them.
Let's hope it's the same with this one. But I'm
not entirely sure that it will be.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I think it is time to sort of put aside
where it's hold, how it's run, all that. Now you
know it's okay, you're allowed to be sort of late
to the party, but you to skip behind the team.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Zell.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
My teenagers have this belief that there is no point
watching sport unless you watch it live. That is the
whole point. It is to watch it life knowing it
has happened right then, which I mean I had taken
much more sensible approach these things. I will not be
getting up at one o'clock in the morning. I'm more
than happy to get up at wake up at seven,
not look at my phone, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
So you're gonna try and what You're gonna watch it
without knowing the results. And I'm with your teenagers. I
can't do that either. I just because I know, I
know that it's not happening right then and there, and
if I wanted to, I could check my phone and
find out what was going on. But look, I respect
the you know, the the compromise you make on your
sleeping patterns and things like that. But I'm a bit
the same. If I'm gonna watch it, I'll watch it live.

(02:30):
It's a bit like rap test, you know. Yeah, it
just frustrates me.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'm like, no, no, no, let's all watch it together. We'll
just prerecord it and they're up in the middle of
the night watching football and Formula One and I'm just like,
I don't get it. Just don't look at your phone,
get up, turn it on, watch the replay off.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
You go well if any if my kids, if my
kids are anything to go by, they won't be paying
any attention to you, so you know they'll probably just
do what they do.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
MPC quarter finals are underwegh the sevening Wellington vis Counties YEP.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Wellington County is the first of four quarter finals. The
home side should win. Wellington Bay have plenty Taranaki and
Tasman over the next three days. If there is an upset,
it might even come tonight. Counties Manecow beat Wellington a
couple of weeks ago by fifty points. Maybe that was
an aberration. I don't know. Cam roy Guard will play
for Counties Manicout tonight and t J Peinada will play
his final final final game on New Zealand soil when

(03:17):
he starts for Wellington, so the two half backs are
kind of front and center. Tonight. I think Wellington should win,
but if there is an upset there, it may come
tonight at sky Stadium.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Thank you so much, Piney I look forward to talking
to you on Sunday. Jason pineal Course's host of weekend
sports sat Down Sunday, kicking off at midday, It is
twenty four past four News Talks EDB.

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