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October 12, 2025 11 mins

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

On the table today: The weekend of supercars at Bathurst has concluded in a thrilling wet race that came down to the wire.

Canterbury look set to win the NPC, can they be stopped?

And Tiger Woods undergoes another back surgery, is it time to hang up the clubs?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Andrew Savills with us Morning mate, morning make along with
Jason Pine. Morning to you Piney, Good morning Mike. Very
very disturbed about your odds on the Bathhursty listened to
somebody earlier on texting me said that one thousands off
you it was all good. How do you, honestly, hand
on heart? Did you see the race yesterday?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Absolutely? I was glued to it, absolutely glued to it.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
There is no way you could tell me that Paine
was going to win that before the race started. You
could say is he in with the chance?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is he a good driver yes? Has he got some
form yes? But given what happens on a rainy day,
you could not possibly have known he was going to
win it.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
No, No, impossible, impossible to predict the storylines at Bathist anyway,
even on a good day, But on a day like yesterday, gee,
I mean it was I think the best sporting theater
I have seen in a long long time. And you know,
for Matt Paine to come through and win it as
a key we obviously was amazing. But some of the

(01:00):
cut and thrust and the and the wheel to wheel action,
and the the rain and the treacherous conditions and the
broadcast coverage as well. Gee, I mean it's absolutely compelling stuff.
But you're right, Mike, there's no way from what he
was eighteenth on the grid, Matt Pain, he wouldn't be
putting a lot of money on him, but there he was.
Garth Tander as well, off Horse's co driver. Look, just

(01:22):
just remarkable stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Andrew are you in the inn?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Mic? It doesn't really matter where you qualifying a race.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Look, I have to say, yes, we've had winners and
if one, yes we've had a long time ago. Yes
we've had winners across the years of Lamon. But that
would have to be one of the great would have
to be one of the great New Zealand motor racing
drives of all time, wouldn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Just in the condition I said, he he's got to
have a Hellberg nomination, doesn't he surely as well?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean, yeah, incredible And just to hold his nerve
what is he twenty three? I know, young these guys,
but to hold his nerve in the I mean, you
know it's hard enough to drive on the motorway here
on Wellington when it's raining, you know, and you've normally
gone about seventy k.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
These guys are up to two.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Hundred k in the wet, in the misty cloud at
the top of Mount Panorama.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know, huge pressure to hold your nerve. It's just
remarkable that.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Move he made at the end of the strait and
when he went off. He eventually went off, but that
moved to go on the inside. There were three cars altogether.
The third place guy was up there, Jacksi's of the
first two. That was just extraordinary. Talk about threatin determination and.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
I think they lost. I think they lost all sense
of normality at that point. I think it was just
one of those mad because the under normal circumstances. You
would not advise him doing what he did, because that
was almost like you.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I think he knew he had to have a crack.
He had to have a crack at getting into the lead.
There was you know, there was the issues with the
tires and pit stops and other crashes. I was watching
with one of my boys and I said, look, look
when he was in third pain, I said, I reckon
the number two car is going to have a crack
at the leader and they'll probably take each other out.

(03:14):
Because exactly what happened pretty much wasn't that.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Thing corner as they went up the hill for the
final time, that thing on the corner where he got
a five second penalty.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
So he did well. He did well to handback and
third and just just waited a little bit to see
what one and two did. But extraordinary for twenty three
years of age. And we did a yarn on this
kid probably about four or five years ago when he
received a poor scholarship, and back then people were saying
to me, this kid has got a lot of talent.
He will go far and he won I think some

(03:44):
races in the TOYDA Racing Series single season, but certainly
a talent and he'll win a lot more in supercars.
Very very close friend of Liam.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Lawn Lawson, exactly the same age, same sort of stage,
and they went through. I mean he's he was currently
before yesterday, was currently coming second and the you know,
in the in the championship in general, they've got one
more to go. I think it's on the Gold Coast.
But it really was as as Jason, just to wrap
this up as a sporting you don't even need to
be remotely interested in motor racing to understand if you
were watching that yesterday, you would be virtually dead if

(04:16):
you weren't spellbound.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
And I leap off the couch. But when those first
two took each other out, I actually leaped off the
couch watching motor racing. Couldn't believe it.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
And Daddy you okay, Dad, get up.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
The same with my wife. She came running in. What's
going on? What's going on? Have you done?

Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'm just watching the motor racing. I felt for Ryan Wood,
I must say, yea. With his car sailing him, he
was right up there, was there with thirty laps to go.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
He probably would well I reckon, Yes, a lot could
have happened, but he probably would have won if his car,
if it held it together.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Here but that's the thing. You look at Kasticki. He
was the hot favorite for the weekend. Could he do
it three in a row? And he won the shootout
and all that sort of stuff. Next thing you know,
he's in the wall. He's got another car up his backside.
His car has broken to pieces. That's Bathhurst, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
So that's what that's why you can't really say who's
going to win. Jason, Let's do this quickly, so Canterbury's
going to win the NPC. It's just a matter of
who they've beaten, how it goes. And so the semi
finals of who is it Canterbury Otargo.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
No No, No Otago against Bay of Plenty Canterbury Hawks Bay.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
I just like the way Otago are going about things
at the moment. Yes, it took them to the ninety
or eighty odds minute that mark the other night to
kick the penalty that beats beat White cutto in a
high scoring one. But I just like the momentum they
have and Canterbury huffed and puffed. Yes against Counties they
eventually got there. They did, but an extra time and yeah, look,

(05:39):
I think everybody outside of the Canterbury region probably wants
somebody else to win.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Canterbury probably will.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Win, but I like the way Otago are going about things.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Of them cannebar you haven't actually won it for seven
or eight years.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Miche exactly.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I don't know what sitting out of talent, but I
actually like they Plenty played very well on Saturday. They've
got a good pack and they've got some electric backs,
so look out for. But also loving this Otago story.
You know, they haven't won it since ninety eight, I think,
and given the history of a Tiger rugben, how strong
rugby's always been in that area, in that city. It's

(06:14):
it's great for the game. I just wish more people
would turn.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Up, That's true.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
I think David Lasser, David Laffer was trying to get
a lot of people along yesterday the Otago legs and
he was on social media.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Saying, you've got to get there, you got to get there.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
What they have five thousand there the other night, I'd
say double that for a semi final, wouldn't they surely
on Friday night?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
And yeah, to see them home.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Saw Karen Reid at the game and he's he was
eating pies. Is that what you do want?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
I think it was it was actually, can I just
pull you up? I think it was hot chips.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
There was hot chips. My apologies, it was hot chips.
Is that what happens to you when you when when
you retire?

Speaker 3 (06:45):
You to see him great to see him in his
home union, which was which was County County's.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
He'd looked good though, didn't he. I mean for a
post post player enough.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, it's not like.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
You wanted to get away with a poddle of chips.
I'd say he keeps himself a pretty good nick.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Looked like he was in pretty good nick. This R
three sixty sav seems so. I'm glad that somebody finally
woke up to it, you know, because we raised it
a couple of weeks ago and I thought he attention
to this at all, and then last week all the
unions came out and said, you're not playing it.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
May have, don't.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't think it's completely dead just yet. Might because
it sounds like they do have the money and they've
got a ton of it. But as we mentioned, I
think last week, is it going to garner any interest?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
No?

Speaker 3 (07:24):
None, games between the Madrid and Magicians, Lisbon Lions or whatever.
I don't. I just and if you haven't got the superstars,
and a lot of those superstars will stay with their
respective countries because they want to carry on playing test rugby.
I don't know if they're going to have them be
able to sign a big enough names.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Hey, you should want a lot of Pacific Island players. Well,
a lot of Pacific Island players will look at it.
I think you know their union stage some more tongu
they can't afford to keep their best players playing domestically,
they don't do they And so if those players can
earn some really good money playing R three sixty and
probably enhance themselves as internationals, maybe that's the kind of
player we're going to see in our three six.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
And I wouldn't blame Look, I wouldn't blame a lot
of these young guys or mini players for taking the money. Mike,
it is huge money. It's a lot more than they
getting to do that for two or three years. You
see yourself. Well, but as long as the money definitely
gets through and is paid. And then you look at
live golf and that's losing money hand over first, how
much long is that going to Las?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well, they don't care that Saudi's got all the money
in the world. By the way, do we need to
start some sort of fun for Nolin? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Or a body quite enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
How many weeks is this going on for? I mean,
I thought that this would be wrapped up, that this
is two weeks in encounting. If it's not three weeks
in encounting.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Isn't it it's longer than that it's been. I think
of the year.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
I think that's stopped mediation. I don't think they're mediating now.
I think they've reached an impass.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Well what's that mean?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, I don't know what does that mean? I really
don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, Jason, Jason, what are the odds of it being
concluded this week? Two to one? Well, very chance win
a job than Matt Payne doesn't winning. What are the odds?

Speaker 4 (09:01):
No chance, no chance, no chance at all, more chance
of more chances, But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
But no, no chance of being.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
And I don't think it'll it'll Probably it's kind of
stopped now, hasn't it. And Knit Moore, New Zealand probably
quite liked that because there was this huge ground swallow
support behind Dame Noleine.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
They just the last few days as part of the
news cycle.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's going to fizzle out.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Pretend it's a local body election. Everyone will get bored
by it. No one will be interested anymore.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
It works cogrets to Ken Laban. By the way, Ken Laban,
he's a good guy, isn't he. Yeah, yep, yeah, terrific stuff.
Mayor of Hart City.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now, yeah, what are the odds of him being successful? Jason?
Two to one.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
I mean he's I mean, he knows everybody. I think
he'll be okay, that's true.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Right, quick question for you, sef So Tiger Woods seventh
back surgery, How at what point do you get surgically
interfered with to the point where you go, you know what,
as fun as the masters were, this is not this
is not worth it to me.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
And what point do you go? You know what, I've
had a brilliant career, one of the greatest in history.
I've made hundreds of millions of dollars. Why don't I
just stop?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah? How many surgeries do you need to go through
before you go? This is ridiculous?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, how many of you had on that little frame
of yours from your tennis I remember you blue both
and he's out at tennis and you're playing against me once.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Literally literally that's libelists. You know, that's libelist because you've
literally just made that.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Up and the way you used to play golf and
swing that, you know, drive the ball. With the amount
of talk going through that small.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
I'm going to get I'm going to get Nolan's lawyer
onto this because he or she's clear if you're not
doing anything about.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
It, yeah, that won't help you.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
No exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean, let's let's face it, you're only held together
by bottles of Rezveritro plus or whatever the hell you take.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Pat Cummins, he's another one. He's got lower back that
I know whether he's going to play how long do your.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Bott because he's a fast bottle, They've always got lower
But that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
When you're a fast bother, when you're a kid, does
mom and dad not go at you and say, look,
it's cool, you look really cool. It's not as good
as you know. It's way more flamboyant than spin. But
believe me, by the time you get to thirty nine,
you're not going to be able to be able to
do the reading.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah you know, yep, but they've had fun doing.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
It, or you could have been just like you Sam,
and you spend the rest of your life out of
shape reading about it, leaping off.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
The coup, leaping off the couts like a gazelle like
I just imagine it.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
No, we're seeing Karen read yesterday exactly by me, mate,
you to do what it's inspired me to stop doing
the bench priests and just focus on cardio, focus on
the hot chests.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
And nice to see you, guys, Andrew Sevil, Jason Pine.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
For more from The Mike Asking Breakfast, listen live to
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Speaker 4 (11:43):
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