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April 21, 2025 13 mins

Andrew Saville and Jason Pine joined Mike Hosking to reflect on all the sport that took place over the long Easter weekend. 

They discussed the Warriors’ golden point win over the Broncos, a kick from Luke Metcalf allowing them to claim the win. Also on the agenda was the latest in Formula 1, Super Rugby, and Reiko Ioane’s sabatical location. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
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Commentary Box Andrewsbill and Jason Pine both with US fellows.
Good morning, sir, but are you still in the Far
North and where you wacked badly? Meteorologically speaking?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know I returned to Orcan for the storm, just
some time with that lightning and thunder the other night.
But then I'm back up. I'm back up in the
far far far North.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Now, did you have to deal with the slip?

Speaker 5 (01:12):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Miss that thankfully, shock horror. It rains a little bit
and there's a slip on the brinderwin.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's amazing how many weather alerts did you get? And
did it give me anxiousness?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
On. You would have got the same on Saturday, the
weather alert on your phone to tell you that the
severe thunderstorm morning is going to finish in fifteen minutes,
but it actually started about twelve hours earlier. Is the
person who pushes the button to send out the alert?
Do they live in Australia or America?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I think they're on annually and they had to bring
them back and they'd taken the three days. It's just
it's too funny. Hey, Jason just quickly just confirmed for
my happiness and peace of mind, Auckland will win. They
just need one more week. They were going to the
other side last they didn't lose their well, they didn't
win officially at the weekend. Is that about it?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeap bang on Mike. In fact, they can do it
with one of your favorite things, a drawer coming Sunday
and they won't draw. They won't draw with Perth. They'll
beat Perth. Perth have been very very poor. So yeah,
Sunday afternoon they'll claim the Premier's Plate, the regular season silverware,
first time of asking.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Incredible story.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah it's and then beyond that, of course they could
go on and win the whole thing. So yeah, quite
what's the format?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean, first two questions, what's the plate look like?
Is it a plate worth having in one? You'd display
or stick in the cupboard? Two? What's the format for
the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Plate?

Speaker 4 (02:36):
As it says a plate is quite big silver, and
yes you would stick it in the cabinet. The format
for the finals top two go straight through to the semis.
Three plays six and four plays five for the right
to go to the semis. The semis a home and
away and then there's one Grand final, so awkle FC
would probably only be two games away from winning it
that have a or three games rather the home and

(02:58):
away semi and then the grand final.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
So my understanding is they'll sell that Perth game out
this weekend well, which is which is probably no great
surprise given the crowds have had this year. Jason, will
they would they go? I know, I think it's the
A League's call. But would they go to Eden Park
for any possible ground final?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah? I don't think they can if they want to
have it on the Saturday because there's already a game scheduled.
Are Blues in the rugby game here on the Saturday?
But look, here's the here's the conundrum the league itself
takes the ticket revenue for the finals. Therefore they want
it at the biggest possible ground. Auckland FC want it
at a fortress like go Media has become for them.

(03:39):
Now there's a precedent. Last year the Central Coast Marin
has held it at their home ground, which only holds
twenty thousand. So look, I think it's going to be
at go Media and I think that's the right call.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Interesting, the Warrior is said.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
But wouldn't it be I mean, great atmosphere at Mount Smart,
wouldn't it be wouldn't it be a fantastic.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Look if they could see data, be amazing.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
That That's how I'd eaton parks.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Would you look at even park guys, I mean even
you're watching a game of rugby. They We've talked about
this a lot. You know you're so far back.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I know you're right.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
If you sold, if you sold record in five thousand,
it would be great. But you're so far away. That's
the beauty of go Media Mount Smart for Warriors and
for Auckland FC. How close you are to the game.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
You've also got an insult factor. Haven't you like that?
You can play at the duney ground until you're really good,
and then we'll pick you a flash ground. And there's
something wrong with that, isn't it. It's like when I
used to play sav You remember this? When I made
representative football side. We played at English Park and the
grass there was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Hold on a minute, how come what if sport we
talk about you've made a representative team. And what representative
team was this?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't know, I can't remember, but it was some
sort of represent It was like you know what football is,
It's like the under twelves, the under elevens, the under eights,
whatever it was. Anyway, the point was that we're at
English parking, Christ did you know English Park, Jason?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Beautiful? Beautiful? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I couldn't believe the quality of the surface. And I
was running on and the only the abiding memory I have, unfortunately,
is not long into the second half, I was subbed
and I've never been so devastated in my life. I
thought I'd made a better contribution than that. I was
thinking about packing a sad but I walked off, you know, quietly,
and just sat on the bench.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Never to be seen, never to be seen in that
representative team again.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
It was a cycling track round English part, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (05:28):
No? No, okay, your weird memory line there? The Warriors?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
What about the Warriors? Though?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Now answer me this question. You both can answer the question.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Save.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'll ask you first, what do you do about Luke
metcalf Right? He can't kick? He clearly can't kick. He
doesn't know how to kick, and therefore we need a
proper kicker.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, but he won the game, Yes he did.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
But it was in a straight line from fifty. I
backed myself from forty probably not fifty. But does that
then counterbalance.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
When you were a representative kicker, you would you would
have nailed that. Look, it's still it's still a pretty
difficult kick from fifty meters to win the game. The
pressure is on.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, but you would wouldn't be wouldn't is my points?
You wouldn't be there if you'd got the other four.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I wouldn't give up totally. Look, the I think the
goal kicking stand in the league's improved recently. Years ago,
the league goal kickers compared to Union whose were terrible,
weren't they?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
But they were change.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know, I know, I think Dan Carter has been
or maybe pre season was working for kickers absolutely, well
maybe not, maybe not all the kickers, or maybe not
for a very long time, but some sort of work anyway.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
That's the question. Then if Dan Carter's working with the
kickers and that you still can't kick, you're either.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Maybe they need to bring him back in.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
So here's what they need to do. Here's what they
need to do, guys. Look, Metcalf needs to stay in there.
I think he's doing well, but give the kicking to
Pompey when Shawn John's That's true. Last year Adam Pompey
took the kicks and was very good.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
He looked he looked on orthodox, didn't he He looked
unorthodox in his approach. But they worked.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
It just has to go between the stakes and yeah,
you're right. Look metcalfrom the start of that game. Couldn't
kick a door down, could he know? And but and
he missed the drop at the end. But you got
to give it to the guy. He wanted that that
kick right at the end to win it all turned
out and scored.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
He scored the last tried and he was back, there's
no way he's going to catch that past and he.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Called fantastic Yeah, here's a player. I'm not criticizing him
as place, just as to kick it. Listen brief break
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Speaker 5 (07:37):
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Speaker 3 (07:46):
Mike, there was a concrete cycling track around the old
English Park when I was a ball boy there for
christ Ditch United in the early seventies. But then I've
got one sad that sees the ground with the cycling
trackers Dent and Oberland Hornby. So you've just sown a
whole lot of confusion in people's minds.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
You don't know is this cycling track still there?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
I don't think I didn't oble have one too yet.
That's right.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Mett Cadaff is kicking at sixty percent, Pompy at seventy seven.
I rest my case. Numbers, numbers don't lie.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
It wasn't there wasn't it. I thought the defense was outstanding, brilliant.
The other night. How do you explain leaking? What was it?
Forty fifty.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
You can't storm psychological.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Then they turned that around to beat the Broncos, and
the Storm get beaten by the Dolphins. Can't.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't know what's going on unless you want to
say it's rigged, Butcher it isn't. So I don't know
how you explain any of it. But the point is,
and you would agree with this, Jason, is that we're
second on the table, not officially, but if you look
at the points, we may as well be second, which
is top four, which is home sis. You know how
it goes, So this is this is our year.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
It is early, Mike.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Let's where are they actually on the table?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, technically their third or fourth. They've got ten points.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
There's the I think, but the vibe they're giving off,
they shouldn't be second as it was.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, no, no, because one of the teams that's Abarba
technically has played the Raiders have played seven games. We've
only played sex, so you've got apples and apples. But
we've still got ten points each, so technically we're second.
So it's it's the same thing. Can't argue with that.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Are the bulldogs going? By the way, I didn't take
that idly anybody did the Bulldogs? What six from Sex?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Everyone thought Penrith was going to be a dynasty until
they're not. So you know, that's how That's how sport goes.
I suppose, isn't it at the end of the day.
By the way, quick question for you, sav If I
get the snooker on Sky Sport by the end of
the World Championships, have you heard this story?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I've been I've been sort of keeping up. We ran
a story last week about the young Welsh guy doing
the double one four seven. Did you see that?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yes? I did, of course I watched all he did.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
He has he done anything? Has he done?

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Okay, well, they've only just that. He hasn't played yet.
They only just they've only just begun in the play. Anyway,
My point is that I put so much pressure on
Sky they are going to look at bringing the lat
apart from the quarterfinals on of snooker on to Sky
onto the Sky platform so we can all watch it.
If I'm success full in that campaign, actually I'll ask you, Jason,
you're the better journalist. If I'm successful in that campaign,

(10:06):
is that do I win a hell Burg Award?

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Because that'll be like, well, surely a Nobel Peace prize
of some.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Described modesty prevented me from making that suggestion. But I mean,
come on, is it is it?

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Is?

Speaker 5 (10:19):
It?

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Is it just you?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
I believe? Well, I have no evidence anyone else has
made an attempt, and I have and it looks like
I'm going to be successful, sav And I want it
covered on TV one Sport too.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
By the way, So do you think if you started
all of a sudden the campaign about showing reruns of
Faulty Tag on TV one and we would we would
succumb to you? I don't think.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
So it's not impossible, mate, Quick word Savile about the
Super Rugby Crusaders are winning. They're fantastic. That was the
highlight of the weekend.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Wasn't it. It was a great game, very dramatic. Blues
should have probably won that they had heaps of heaps
of possession and territory and and but the cruft and
a bit of a bit of crusaders of old. You know,
they should have probably lost to the Hurricanes before, probably
should have lost to the Blues, but they didn't. They won,
building momentum, building confidence, So I know that they're looking

(11:11):
pretty good. Like James O'Connors certainly added something off the
bench his experience. Yeah, yeah, things have put it in
well too. It seems like a lovely cat.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, he'll be enjoying christ Everyone who moves to a
nice church enjoys it. And I think that's half the
battle league. It's the cycling tracks. I think it's the cycling.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's the multi it's the multi use sporting facilities in Christy.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Exactly exactly what it will be when.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
You were playing for the Rep. So when you're playing
for the Rep soccer team, do they actually pick the
wrong Hosking? It was actually supposed to be Mark Hosking.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
When you do your thing to the North.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
They probably sent the physio on a half time to
confirm that you'd been born with two left feet. That's
why they hold jopped you.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
When you travel to the far North. Do you run
a deel? What are you running for? Petrol and miles
on that one, I'm thinking, I'm just petrol. It's not
so you're doing You're doing hundreds of k's and you're
running a petrol engine.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I'm not going up and down every week. It's you know,
school holidays and.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, but it's still a lot of miles.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a decent amount.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yep, you thought about a bev No, no, fair enough.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
I need you need something sturdy to give given, like
we say week on the show. Given it's a goat
given it's a goat track. You need something fairly sturdy.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, that's fair Cool. You're not running a beef, are you,
Jason Portrack.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm just you can. Can I just give myself a
pat on the back? I haven't cut myself off this morning.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
No, actually you did. Technically speaking. I mean, some of
the stuff you said was a bit ordinary, but technically speaking,
you remained on here the whole time.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Technically speaking, I didn't cut myself off because I was
listening last Thursday and there were there were a lot
of casting of aspersions about my weight and the fact
my weight somehow cuts my phone off.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
It's called fat check syndrome. That's what we're.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
So.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
You know what, I haven't touched a bloody easter egg
the whole weekend because of you.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
I don't believe that, Andrew Savile Jason Pine for another weekend.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
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