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September 28, 2025 11 mins

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

On the table today: The AFL semi finals draw 100,000 fans to each game.

Liam Lawson finished 5th in Baku to secure his best ever finish in F1.

And what should the Black Ferns take away from their defeat in the Rugy World Cup semi finals?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was saying to have been. No one's disagreed with
me so far, which is encouraging. But I thought the
rugby game was the best of the season so far,
and it beat the Australian victory that we had a
couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You mean the South African victory had in part better
than that. I think it was as far as the
spectacle was concerned with attacking play and entertainment. Mike, yep,
I'd agree. I think that was the best twenty twenty
five minutes we've seen from the All Blacks, the opening
probably of the whole season. The concern is that they
waved near the end, but big tick in their box

(00:31):
as they held on in the last five or ten minutes,
didn't blink and they scored that very good try at
the end. The other the underlying concern they make for
me is that the Wallabies only had forty percent of
the ball but almost won the game. It got pretty
close to winning the game, So I think it'll be
all on again in pers and clearly Joe Schmidt, Mike

(00:53):
Cron and co. Have this Wallaby's team very well drilled
by getting a few players back from injury and unavailability
for Perths, so game on again.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Just talking Jason, Good morning to you. Just talking to
Jason the boss a moment to go, very very impressed
with your broadcast quality on Saturday afternoon. Should go well
for the pay rise or the you know, at least
the application for the pay rise, Jason. So they're feeling
bullish about you at the moment. Do you agree that
it was the best game of the tournament so far?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I think so. Yeah, and certainly the reintroduction of cam
roy guard was a huge part of that. Look, he's
quickly become one of the most important members of his team,
and just having him back in there, you know, a
couple of tries, just as energy, his ability to run
from you know, the base of the rykor Kirk or
whatever he wants to do is so important.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Look, I think now the trick now is consistency, isn't it.
You know, you can't go to Perth and lose. You know,
that may well happen, but they've beaten Argentina, lost to Argentina,
beaten South Africa, lost in South Africa. They want that
consisted see that they've been craving for so long. They
just got to go to Perth and win. It'll be
tough because Ossie are getting some players back, but that
should be the goal this week. Go over there and

(02:09):
win and went well, did you get a chance?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Andrew? You would have been at the ground. I wasn't
watching where you were on saiday whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, No, I wasn't at the ground. Mike, Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Did you see any of the AFL final?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh? Little bits of it. I saw a bit of Snoop.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Did you like that? I thought Snoop? The reviews are
really fantastic. People thought Snoop was brilliant, but I thought
he looked completely out of place at a football game.
It's sort of the style of music that beat the pace,
the energy. It sort of looked weird.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was a little bit surprised when they confirmed he
was doing I thought, you know the news. I think
they had Katie Perry last year, but I thought they
might have gone back to an Aussie rocker or Ossie band.
But it was pretty one side of though in name,
wasn't it In the end it was.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It was very tight to the half. It was literally
within a point to the half, and then it sort
of fell apart and it was a disaster. But it's
just that atmosphere, that the size of the ground, the noise,
the the buzz. It's just an ins one of sports
great visual highlights.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
The game's almost secondary, as is so often the case
that in that week build up talk about atmosphere. What
about that Broncos Penrith game last night? Gee whiz, well.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
We had the I read out last week they did
a mathematician. One of the Australian papers had a mathematician
do the numbers and he had Melbourne and Brisbane for
the final, with Melbourne winning. And so far he's spot on.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Has mathematicians in Australia.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, well I think he's an immigrant, but he got
all he got all the qualifications. But he's right so far.
Just both wanted.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I mean, did you did you watch the end of
it too?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I saw the highlights this morning here.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, the veteran Broncos player who's been out injured for
a long time comes in. Reese Walsh's goalkicking was dreadful,
comes in to slot the conversion of the try to
go ahead sixteen fourteen difficult, care nails it right down
the middle.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's clutch, that's that's that's what makes it so good.
That's what just for either one of you from a text,
they want to recognize Fisher Black first ever Kiwi to
stand on a podium at the UCI the champions This
is the cycling is fantastic. Why my big question, what's
it doing in Rwanda?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, funny you say that, Mike, but over the last
few years, I think Rwanda has actually sponsored a couple
of professional teams in the Tour de France and some
of those big events, and I think they've actually had
a cycling team, fully pro team with Rwindans in it,
righting around the world and the big events.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Because I'd assumed it was some sort of tourism push
or something, because I mean, it's never it's never held
in Africa, far less Rwanda.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I think the other part of it, Mike, is there
is something going on with the UCI in terms of
an election for president or a high upposition in the UCI,
and whoever is looking to gain that position, I think
is looking for the African block of votes and therefore
has given or has sort of helped facilitate this World

(05:09):
road race in Rwanda for that end.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, Well that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Maybe the Rwandan president like cycling is there a president.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Not bounderby Well, look all that I have those details
in just a couple of moments. I'm surprised you don't
know that from your FI formed geography at Aaronui High Andria.
Paul Kagame used to be the head of the RPF,
the Republican Front and has been around for a long
time in Rwanda rule.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Also, he's a very he's a very he's a very popular.
He's been president for twenty five years.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
You're not always popular in places like that, app in
Andrew just.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Because popular is it forced popularity.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Not necessarily related to anyone thinking that you're any good. Also,
of course Rwanda sponsor Arsenal the Hope of Africa on
their jerseys.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
There is there is a feeling of is am possible
feeling of sports washing here.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Could be a touch of the sports washing here? Do
you know this? This will have passed everyone by except
a wont like me. If you watched Cash Patel last
week in front of the Judiciary Committee and his tie
was a Liverpool tie, did you notice that?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, I told you, no one else had see it
apart from me. But I thought, where the hell did
you get that from? I mean, is he honestly a
Liverpool supporter and he got a freebie.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
What is the Judiciary Committee?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, it's when you say cash all this FBI stuff
that's going on and we want to see.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
The epstein And he was the guy over here setting up.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
It was the guy no, no, now this will everyone
will be infuriated with me while going off topic here.
So when he was here recently on a secret visit,
Judith Colin signed off ten thousand dollars for hospitality for
him and that included airfares, accommodation, food and fundsies. And
I thought to myself that seemed a bit cheap budget

(06:58):
is yeah, I thought cheap? I thought cheap. You can't
you know what's he doing with that money? Because he
brought his own plane. I mean the Americans to be
feeding him, So it's not like so it's it's a
rainbow's end. You might have gone to Queenstwnd for a
couple of days something like that, and I thought, geezus
going to stay.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
At Judas since you put a roast on or something, so.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
All I can think of weird as. Anyway, where was
I Jason? Sorry about this? You're you're a sports officiator.
You're a real broadcaster here, and that's why you're beginning
to pay rise because you perform a time. Saturday was
so good. According to Jason win Stanley, the Great the Netball,
a player calling out for Noles to come back is
quite cool, I think, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Absolutely, I think he just echoed. Yeah, she just echoed
what everybody else is thinking. You've got to get her back,
and Goodness only knows why it's taking so long this review.
I know these things have to be followed with a
bit of you know, detail and that sort of thing,
but for goodness sake, just find a way to get
Dave Noling Totoo back in there. The players clearly want her.

(08:00):
As soon as Grace week you said her name, the
crowd just erupted. I've got no idea what's going on here, Mike,
and the Consolation Cup is fast approaching. So look, hopefully
this week I'll find a way to get this all
sorted and Dan Nolan'll.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Be so so pick up Andrew what Jason said. If
she's popular with the players, then why did she get
stood down? Because there must be players who don't like her.
I mean, they didn't just stand it down for the
sake of it, did they? No, Well, I'll pick up
that is Andrew done as well? How our whole WhatsApp
system blown up?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Is it? Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Andrew fat finger? Unmute yourself? Can you say living in
an leader community around here?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
I think Paul. I think Paul Kagami has been bugging
at my phone and I'm in trouble with it. The
man's just pulled up outside.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
How many times it TV in sport? Do they go?
TV is in sport?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
They go?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
There's Andrew talking to himself on the corner again.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Does the van just pulled up and it's got a
ten s feed on the roof?

Speaker 1 (09:06):
And so sorry Andrew. What I was saying is people.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Standing is the majority of the players want to play
for Nolan, get on with her well and enjoy her coaching,
her her hard nosed coaching, but at times innovative coaching
as well. Mike, it's two or three that have caused this,
And yes, Netbell's probably well within their rights to look
at this and to hear their concerns, but to stand

(09:34):
down the coach very drastic has to come back. Will she?
Most coaches will be inclined to get lost, but I
think I think Nolan has so much feel for this
team and wants to coach the national team. Still, she'll
be back.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
She shouldn't be Jason Erica McElroy was in tears having
been abused by the crowd. Is this the low point
of the year? As the Ryder Cup just become just
a circus.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's gone to.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Pretty ferrell, pretty feral, and especially when the when the
ground MC or whatever whatever they're called, is encouraging the
chanting with expletives. Yeah, I mean, golf's supposed to be
a sport with a bit more to core and than that,
but it all seems to go out the window when
it comes to the Righter Cup. I am enjoying, I
must say, watching Europe beat the United States in the

(10:28):
United States to the great despair of this feral American crowd.
It's quite it's quite awful.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
As now, I haven't seen that much grow on the
golf course since I last played with Larry Williams, and
that really was I thought, how.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Many how many clubs did Larry snap over his league three?

Speaker 1 (10:45):
On the first nine? It was the Ryder Cup?

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Is McElroy right here? Rory mcinwar More Rory McElroy strikes
me as a sort of guy you'd love to go
down the pub with and just you know, and enjoy yourself.
He just seems to be that guy exactly.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Nice to see you, guys. You have a good week.
So that is what's that segment done?

Speaker 3 (11:09):
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