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August 31, 2025 11 mins

Jason Pine and Andrew Saville join Mike Hosking this morning to discuss the weekend's sports.

On the table today: How are the Warriors shaping up for the playoffs, and do they have a chance at success? 

The Springboks have arrived in Auckland ahead of next week's game against the All Blacks.

And new technology graces the world of surfing, thanks to surf legend Kelly Slater.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Py and andrews Sevil, Good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning minding Mike, Jason.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
The Warriors when their final game this weekend, they end
on thirty six. Is thirty six good enough.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
For the fourth only if the Storm beat the Broncos
and the Bulldog beat the Sharks.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
So look on the face that those two things could happen.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I wonder whether the Storm and the Bulldogs might perhaps
rest some players ahead of the finals. They know they're
in the top three, so don't really need to do
too much other than just exist through the last week.
Warriors got to beat Manly Daily Cherry Evans three hundred
and fiftieth, or rather his final game for Manly. It

(00:38):
could be a bit of motion over there. I think
we need to prepare ourselves, Mike, for a home a
home playoff, finishing fifth or sixth the week.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Half the home playoff against who Maybe the Panthers.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Could be The Panthers could be the Roosters, Mic, which
will be tricky, very tricky.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Could be one of the other teams trying to get
into the eight.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
And I'm pretty sure the Bulldogs and Storm or rest
players in that last round. I've seen what the Panthers
have done Bulldogs the storm. Rather, they can only finish second,
Bulldogs third, so they.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Will rest players. I'd say it's a smart thing to do,
and then the Warriors will finish what fifth or sixth? Sixth?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
And how would we describe that season? Then Andrew, Well,
it sow much.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
It showed a lot more promise when they had a
fully fit squad, but those injuries to Mitch Bunny and
Luke Metcalfe clearly have taken their toll. But to still
make it's frustrating because they should be in the fourth yes,
and that have that have an extra life in the playoffs,
So that's the frustrating thing.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
But the point is what I've come to conclusion, slowly
but surely, is that it's in a way, and this
is not an excuse, it's just an explanation. Whether they
finish four, five or six doesn't matter to me because
they're not going to win it. Because it's abundantly clear
there are three sign it's one of which will win it,
and we're not one of them. And so where we
end the season doesn't really matter because we're not going
on any further because we're simply not good enough.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
And also it's all very well making the playff but
you've got to win a playoff for two exactly. And yes,
I'd agree they're not going to win the title. Well
that would be a minor miracle, but they need to
get into the playoffs, not just scraping, but go in
and win a playoff for two, especially your home playoff.
That would be a major boost to what has been
in that time frustrating.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'll tell you something. Let me say this, Jason, see
what we think if when we make the playoffs, which
obviously we will, so as we play at home, and
whoever we play, we win, so we win that first
playoff game, then does the whole thing change In my mind?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It does, Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I think if you win that playoff game, Mike, then
you do take confidence and to what would then be
in away game against one of the losers from the
one v four to two v three scenario. So yes,
I think perhaps you do take confidence. And we also
have to remember this team was thirteenth last season. I
think if you said to Warrior's fans at the startup
of the season, the lowest you'll finish is sixth, most

(03:03):
of them would have bitten your hand off.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
That is true, and that's been the weird thing about
the season. We've done so well so early on, that
the expectation was so sky high was sort of coming.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
When you say, it changes the whole thing. Do you
mean if they win the home playoffs?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I think if you when you saw if you win
your first playoff game, I reckon, it's all on. I
reckon anything at that points possible. I mean, what you what.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Were they played the loser of one of the highest.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I reckon, I reckon, I reckon that could change materially. Andrew,
answer me this question. How is it we've got three
sides in the NPC after five games that haven't won
a single game. Who's we well, we as an collectively assured.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'm sure, If I'm sure, if you're devoted listeners are
in the cargo listening, Mike, No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
No, Well, of course in Canterbury as well. I mean Canterbury.
I mean they're leaving the competition as they always do.
You know, it's boring to be that good, But why
are there three sides in a competition that after five
games cannot even win a single game?

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Three teams from the greater metropolitan Auckland area. That's right,
it has to be a concern. I think the same
thing might have happened last year, but maybe not for
such a such an elongated period of the season. I
think if you want to dig further, Mike, maybe that
maybe the talent is no longer coming through in great numbers.
Maybe there's other things to do than play rugby union

(04:18):
in the greater Augnd area, which you know there is
the kids.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
It just seems weird. It just seems I worry about
that being a competition that I like, a competition where
anything can happen, which is the good thing about the NRL.
I mean, on their day, anyone can beat anyone really,
whereas this it's apparent that we've got a bunch of
duds in there that don't know how to play rugby problems.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
There's there's a couple, I mean, Canterbury is top right,
then there's a there's a series of teams who pretty
much on the day can beat each other, which is
good for the competition, but then you've got the ones
lagging behind and good for good.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
For Southland though, Jason, I mean there's still a vibe
about the shield, isn't there.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Oh absolutely, And you saw the scenes after the game.
You know it's obvious what it means this log of wood.
Why cant I had it for what eight days? Southland
might have it for about the same because they've got
to put it on the line against Canterbury this coming weekend.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
You will lose that, so then Canterbury Canterbury will get
the shield and we'll hold it for what eight nine years?
Ten years?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
And well Tasma might take it off here the following week.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
It could look.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
But the great the great thing for Nicks, the great
thing for next weekend, Mike, is that in the cargo
will go off right.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I mean they had a bumper.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Crowd for the Otago Southern game a few weeks ago.
They'll have another i'd say sell out. It's huge for
provincial rugby. It still says the shield is alive and
those smaller areas and it'll be great to see.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, brief break now think about this going into the break,
you guys, I want a good, clean, clear answer, So
I think I'm going to ask you the question how
much would you pay to go surfing? Think about that.
I want to get to the surfing in a moment.
But just a quick, quick one, Andrew. Is the fizz
leading up to the South Africans this week? Is there's
going to be a thing like are We're going to
stop as a nation? All that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
I reckon, I reckon.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
It's the biggest game since could well be the biggest
game since the twenty eleven World Cup Final.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now the twenty eleven World Cup final, Andrew, I would
that's a big game.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
You'll be just for it come Saturday night. You'll be
watching it.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Of course I will. I'm a Patriot. But and it's
also before my bedtime sort of. Actually I'll probably have
to stay late, up late, to be honest, but never
the less. Speak that as it, mate, Jason, big fizz for.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
You, Absolutely massive.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Can't wait for the game. But worried about the All
Blacks injuries. You know, I catastrophize a bit over these things.
You do an update this morning.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
There's a long injury list after one NPC game each
I'm surprised they haven't called Caleb Clark back and or
Luke Jacobson. Anyway, they've decided to play them in the NPC. Cain, Hey, Mike,
I've heard the the spring bocks arrived last Wednesday night. Yes,
so they've been beavering away in Auckland. I've heard over

(07:00):
the weekend that the first training field they used wasn't
wide enough for them. They so they've changed training field.
So do you think they're going to put in the
old crossfield kicks I reckon and bombs away for the
All Blacks?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Probably?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I hope it's not windy. Did they close Eden Park
of it gets above ad ks?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
No, I forgets above fifty k There no.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Weekend an orange warning? How do you close the park
the day before based on a forecast? I mean, for
God's sake, what are they going to do with lineouts
if it's breezy? What's the met Service do about that?
It's a yellow or orange or red warning for the
breezy lineouts?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I thought you're talking about the bridge, Yah, the.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Bridge, the parks, the All Blacks, Auckland City in.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
A little bit of wind mate.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
And then you look when you look for updates somewhere
on some website and it's for five days old and.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's just a second. Tell me tell me about it enough.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
What's that with the surfing? Right? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Abu Dhabi has the world's longest artificial wave in the world,
and it's a perfect wave, and there's a tremendous amount
of technology that's gone into it. The technology is owned
by Kelly Slater, so that's where he's making his money
these days. Six hundred and ninety meters long is the wave? Right,
So it's a perfect wave, and you pay per wave?

(08:25):
How much? How much would you pay to ride the
perfect wave? Lasts a minute? How much would you pay
per wave?

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Probably asking the wrong pair of guys, I would imagine,
I don't want to speak.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
On Peare you're the only two here?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
There'd be a lot of people who would pay.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
There'd be a lot of people would pay a lot
of money to see me try to do it. Make
nine to fifty great detain pardon not one hundred and
fifty bucks.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Nine hundred and fifty bucks for a minute? Now you
get six waves, but one hundred and fifty eight dollars
per wave. What most people like to do, though, apparently,
is they hire the whole pool for ninety minutes four
five and half grand.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Oh my god, you'd have to have a lot of
other stuff, wouldn't you Before you pay five and a
half grand a surf an artificial wave.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
For ninety minutes.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
But you are surfers, Mike.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
I think a lot of surfers surf because they they
continually search for that perfect wave and it probably doesn't
exist in the end.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
But is it a year? But do they suit that?

Speaker 2 (09:20):
But that's whole, that's part of that, that's part of
the exactly in the thrill of surf.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
If you just turn up knowing it's perfect, after you've
done two perfect, you're going, this is boring and you
want your money back, don't you? Or do you not?
Maybe five and a half grand for ninety minutes, and
that's apparently they you can't. They're selling like this No tomorrow, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Much cheaper, much cheaper for the World Cup next year.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Ah did you see? Did you hear my interview with
the CEO of your very fine company?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I hear bits of it. Yes?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Did you Did you hear her her genuflection verbally when
I suggested one twenty nine, one thirty nine? She clearly
hadn't gone that high? I reckon, that's laid down, Missiga
for you guys, one twenty one to thirty bucks for
it's in four games.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's about not going to be it's not going to
be that much now, I.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Know she obviously she's going to sell you short. That's
why you're not getting a pay risers here at Andrew,
because she's going to flicking to flick it out of
seventy nine mention my name. Well she did well off here,
but I mean I was trying to do that thing
with her that you said that you needed to to
stay with the company.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
But yeah, I'll sell the public. I will sell hapes.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Honestly, guys, they will sell heapes the price point of
around that and one man. I mean, I'm a big
football man. I'd play one twenty nine and a half
bet for one hundred and four games.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I would. I would. I don't even like football. I'd
pay one hundred and thirty bucks for that. But I
pay streaming services. I don't even know I've gotten, I've
never seen.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
And I've told you brand. There's a number of NFL
games on TV ands in plus two starting next week
for three monch cannot want you all Whites versus Australia
coming up as well as for free.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah no, I'll leave that one. Nice to see you, guys,
Andrew Seville and Jason

Speaker 4 (10:53):
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