July 8, 2025 • 3 mins
France will avoid Hamilton and instead base themselves in Auckland for as long as possible before their test series finale against the All Blacks next week.
A spokesperson confirmed that following the second test of the three-match series, Les Bleus will relocate from Wellington to Auckland, citing preferred facilities.
ZB sports reporter Nathan Limm explains further.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bread and Nathan Limb is here for sport. Good afternoon, afternoon, Ryan,
Good to have you here. Now, what's going on with
our captain.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, well he's out of the Test series, Ryan, that's
what's going on. He's picked up a calf injury fifty.
He went off in the fifty seventh minute of the
opening win in Dunedin and he will not feature regularly
All Blacks against France. It remains to be seen what
the timeline is on this injury recovery. Obviously, the Rugby
Championship starts next month after the French series, so there's
a question mark there in terms of how the All
(00:29):
Blacks handle this. They named three locks in the starting
lineup for Test one, with tupau Vai at blindside flankers,
so they could shift him into the second row alongside
Fabian Holland and bring some of Penni Feno into the
sixth jumper. Another option as Patrick Twepelotto, who wasn't named
in the Game one. He was sort of under an
injury cloud, was dealing with a couple of issues in
the back end of the Blues Super Rugby season. So
(00:50):
if he has recovered and he is fully fit, he
could slot straight into the second row for the All
Blacks and Test two on Saturday in Wellington. There's no
word from the All Blacks coaches. He yet to decide
as to whether they bring in a replacement for Scott
Barrett into the Test squad, so we'll wait and see
if someone gets the call up. And Arcoy was training
with the side. Ardie Savier was skipper for the remainder
(01:11):
of the series.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So no panic stations. We've got depth, we've got cover,
we can get through. It interesting that they saw the
French aren't going to be staying in Hamilton, so they
do Wellington obviously, but then they fly to Auckland not
going to stay in Hamilton ahead of that test.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is it a bit of an insult to the people
of Hamilton?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I think it is as well.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They said it's all about the facilities and not having
enough training gear and all that kind of stuff. But anyway,
people of Hamilton can weigh in on that. Now, this
is an interesting one about netball and head and neck injuries.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, so Silver fence defender Paris Mason suffered a neck
injury in the Pulse victory over the Stars over the weekend,
she was down on the court for a while and
she was wheeled off the court and she was actually
hospitalized as a precaution. Now apparently scans are promising in
terms of her recovery, but there was a release yes today,
it didn't really tell us anything in terms of when
(01:58):
she will be back, whether she will be okay for finals,
should the Pulse qualify, and there's a Silver Ferns test
coming up a bit later, so there's a question mark
over her. But also in terms of how head and
neck contact is officiated in netball, so will Netball. At
the start of this year brought in new rules which
apply to the A and Z and SECN that any
sort of head and neck contact would result in a
(02:21):
sinbinning where a player is sent off for two minutes. Now,
we saw her Pulse teammate Whitney Soonest suffer a head
knock when colliding with a Steel player a couple of
weeks ago and that did result in a sin binning.
But Soon has definitely hit her head while colliding with
another player. So the things that come into it is
whether it's malicious. I don't believe anyone is out there
on the Network court trying to hurt anyone. But you
(02:42):
cannot say that netball is a non contact sport. It's
called a non contact sport, but it's not. There's so
much contact going on, So it's just whether the contact
around this area is being officiated consistently with these new rules.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It sounds very hard to police. How do you tell
of someone if there's a collision that happens, how do
you tell us someone, Well.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's the same thing in rugby, it's the same thing
in loads of sports. I suppose it's the responsibility of
the defender to not put the person in possession of
the ball in a dangerous position. And it is a
case by case basis where urpives will have to look
at it. It was just a really unfortunate fall, I
think in the case of Paris Mason.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Interesting stuff. Thanks so much, Nathan Liben. Nice to heavy
on the program. It's twenty one minutes after four year
on News Talks. He'db for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.
Listen live to News Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Bread and Nathan Limb is here for sport. Good afternoon, afternoon, Ryan,
Good to have you here. Now, what's going on with
our captain.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, well he's out of the Test series, Ryan, that's
what's going on. He's picked up a calf injury fifty.
He went off in the fifty seventh minute of the
opening win in Dunedin and he will not feature regularly
All Blacks against France. It remains to be seen what
the timeline is on this injury recovery. Obviously, the Rugby
Championship starts next month after the French series, so there's
a question mark there in terms of how the All
(00:29):
Blacks handle this. They named three locks in the starting
lineup for Test one, with tupau Vai at blindside flankers,
so they could shift him into the second row alongside
Fabian Holland and bring some of Penni Feno into the
sixth jumper. Another option as Patrick Twepelotto, who wasn't named
in the Game one. He was sort of under an
injury cloud, was dealing with a couple of issues in
the back end of the Blues Super Rugby season. So
(00:50):
if he has recovered and he is fully fit, he
could slot straight into the second row for the All
Blacks and Test two on Saturday in Wellington. There's no
word from the All Blacks coaches. He yet to decide
as to whether they bring in a replacement for Scott
Barrett into the Test squad, so we'll wait and see
if someone gets the call up. And Arcoy was training
with the side. Ardie Savier was skipper for the remainder
(01:11):
of the series.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So no panic stations. We've got depth, we've got cover,
we can get through. It interesting that they saw the
French aren't going to be staying in Hamilton, so they
do Wellington obviously, but then they fly to Auckland not
going to stay in Hamilton ahead of that test.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is it a bit of an insult to the people
of Hamilton?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I think it is as well.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They said it's all about the facilities and not having
enough training gear and all that kind of stuff. But anyway,
people of Hamilton can weigh in on that. Now, this
is an interesting one about netball and head and neck injuries.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, so Silver fence defender Paris Mason suffered a neck
injury in the Pulse victory over the Stars over the weekend,
she was down on the court for a while and
she was wheeled off the court and she was actually
hospitalized as a precaution. Now apparently scans are promising in
terms of her recovery, but there was a release yes today,
it didn't really tell us anything in terms of when
(01:58):
she will be back, whether she will be okay for finals,
should the Pulse qualify, and there's a Silver Ferns test
coming up a bit later, so there's a question mark
over her. But also in terms of how head and
neck contact is officiated in netball, so will Netball. At
the start of this year brought in new rules which
apply to the A and Z and SECN that any
sort of head and neck contact would result in a
(02:21):
sinbinning where a player is sent off for two minutes. Now,
we saw her Pulse teammate Whitney Soonest suffer a head
knock when colliding with a Steel player a couple of
weeks ago and that did result in a sin binning.
But Soon has definitely hit her head while colliding with
another player. So the things that come into it is
whether it's malicious. I don't believe anyone is out there
on the Network court trying to hurt anyone. But you
(02:42):
cannot say that netball is a non contact sport. It's
called a non contact sport, but it's not. There's so
much contact going on, So it's just whether the contact
around this area is being officiated consistently with these new rules.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It sounds very hard to police. How do you tell
of someone if there's a collision that happens, how do
you tell us someone, Well.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's the same thing in rugby, it's the same thing
in loads of sports. I suppose it's the responsibility of
the defender to not put the person in possession of
the ball in a dangerous position. And it is a
case by case basis where urpives will have to look
at it. It was just a really unfortunate fall, I
think in the case of Paris Mason.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Interesting stuff. Thanks so much, Nathan Liben. Nice to heavy
on the program. It's twenty one minutes after four year
on News Talks. He'db for more from Heather 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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