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November 30, 2025 11 mins

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

On the table today: Auckland FC suffered a loss at home amid monsoon-like rains. Should the game have been called off? 

The F1 Driver's Championship is headed to the final race of the season, with three contenders for the title. 

And the V8 Supercars Championship has changed up their format, but is it too confusing? 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Oh, andrews herbs with us along with Jason Pine. Andrew,
good morning to.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
You, Good morning, make what was the story?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
And then do excuse me, Jason, I've got a penetrating
question for you in just a couple of moments. But
I was just concerned for you, Andrew. I believe it
was Friday night on the news bulletin and you were
out in the humid weather interviewing somebody. Who was that?
Was that a footballet?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
That was that? Was a yeah? Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Did you make it out of the park alive? You
looked like you were literally about to keel over. You
were red in the face. You look you look to
be huffing and puffing and question.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Look, jeez, it was very warm. It was very warm.
I probably needed a water. Yeah, that knew that new
hundred inch TV yours obviously shows every little It must
be a brilliant picture that you're picking up.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, I just thought, why were you wearing a long
sleeve shirt with long pants and so red in the face.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
It was just like, mate, I wouldn't turn up in shorts.
I'm working, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, Well, did you did you not have it like
a cool like a cool suit in the f one
or something like that. No, no, no, if I was,
I couldn't if I was the football player, Well was
it the Auckland f C people. I can't remember the
story now. Yeah, so if I was, if I was
the Oakland f C player, I couldn't concentrate on the

(01:27):
answer because I'd be looking at.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Look.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Maybe the TV is just maybe the colours too vibrant
on your TV Francis to freeze the guys interviewing. He's
a reading from christ jug Maybe both of us were
looking a little part.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, you didn't want to edit it out. I mean,
it was just it was concerned for the audience, probably
the phone lines at TV and zebra lighting. The guy died.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I wanted to show you I singing of you at
the time.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I wanted to show you that I'm out and about
man of the people.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, fair cool, fair cool. Now, Jason, your question is
I know we got your comry there for the Phoenix
and they won, and good on them. But I happened
to be watching the Auckland game yesterday while I was
waiting for the supercars to start, and in between the
rain fade on sky, I'm watching the monsoon open up
and the field become a pool and I'm seeing no
crowd and I'm seeing a lot, So what's going on there?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean farcical At the end they even stopped for
a minute to decide whether they would carry on. If
it had been called off, the result would have been
the same the result at halftime stands in any game
that's called off after halftime. So look, Auckland FC, you've
got some little issue starting to build, ever so slightly.
A drawl last week when they probably should have won

(02:42):
a game against a bottom play side yesterday, Yes, in
the rain, But what it means is they go into
next weekend's derby against the Phoenix off the back of
a couple of substandard results. As far as they're concerned,
I think the Phoenix might sniff a chance. Look the
rain was I mean, it was absolutely biblical rain, wasn't
it Earth? They managed to play in it was beyond me.

(03:06):
But but look same for both sides. Good on Newcastle
stets up a good derby.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Next week missing their captain, aren't they the missing Sacky
for a start, and would be a temptation to bring
him back for the derby, But I don't think they will.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I think he's back the week after something.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Hamstrong you never you never never show with hamstringth watering
for the you know, the phoenix sort of down and out.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
They've had a win and win and the IFC's lost,
and it'd be great. It's great, great build up to
the Derby.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, I hope so not as good as the not
as good as the IF one though, sad. I mean
the mathematics on that one for next weekend are just
you couldn't write this. It's like you go back to
Hamilton and the Stappen. I mean, it's this is as
good as that.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's it's an it's the if one.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Bosses and and TV networks all around the world must
be licking their chops because this is just brilliant sitting
here right now. Would you back the staff and ahead
of anyone else to win it all?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, if it was on him, then I'd back him
all the way. But it's not on him. It's on
him plus some other stuff going wrong. And that's where
that's where it becomes crapshootish, because in other words, Norris
needs to cock it up and.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Orlando tank Orlando bottle it. Do you think then you'll
bottle it.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I don't think you'll bottle it, but I wouldn't put
it past McLaren to cock it up now like they.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Did this morning.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
What on earth happened this morning with not pitting well
the most elementary era everybody else during that safety car.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
What on earth were they thinking? Did they not come
in as well?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I don't know. It's the same way. One of the
things I've learned about since I've been following if one
is that is the pit stop strategy and Ferrari were
famous for it in the last couple of years. Is
that something that seems obvious isn't. And I can only
put it down to I don't know that they'd see
stuff we don't, or they lose their mind, or they
second guess themselves or something, because the number of cockups

(04:58):
you see in the pit stop strategy is astonishing for
people who do nothing but think about pittstrop strategies, it's
like it's amazing.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
So now so so as I understand it with the
point so as lot as the step and wins yes,
and Norris's fourth yes, then the step and wins the
Driver's Championship. Now will pstre and Norris work together next
week as a McLaren team to try and get Norris
as high up as possible.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
You'd have to say so, I mean, if I was Pstree,
the chances I mean, once you get past the first
corner and stuff, and you're not going to crash out
and stuff, and it plays out the way you would think.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
It to you, you can go the estre still win it, Mike.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Not without a bunch of stuff happening. So people need
to not finish for him to get the elevation rightwelve
it's twelve and sixteen points as the gap. I'm getting
a bit of text action Jason on the business of
Ellis Robinson. Is that worth celebrating? A men of wins
and win obviously? And you know in the World Cup,
I guess she's on the up and up. When's the
next Olympics?

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Do we know wins for Olympics are early next year?

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, so you know she's Yeah, she's now the most
successful skier from from a non I think it's a
non U s or European country in history. It's an
incredible record. She's fashioned and she's had she's had picks
and troughs as well. So yeah, no, good on that's
a good fun.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Is your show regularly full of those sort of fun facts? Jason?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Are you Jason?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well, no, I know you savage.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Full of these things. Look it's fun, it's full of facts,
fun and otherwise. So yes, Alice Robinson, you're great and
I think I think, I think one I think you
might have even lead with it.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Last night.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
There was big news she did, she did very well
and she won by a second, which is a lifetime
and that sort of scheme. Just just back the motor racing.
Liam Lawson knights one ahead of that must be sweet
for him, finishing one ahead of sona in a in
a in a car that is apparently much much better
than the racing balls and everything.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Everything I've led over the weekend, learned over the weekend
is that he he's got a seat, he's safe, lind
lad gets promoted, and the Sonoda's out and Hedges going
up to Red Bull.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So I tell you who impressed me over the week
in two and I know he's already won on supercars.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
But Ryan would jesus a racer.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yes he is. You ask Greg Murphy about Ryan Wood
and he'll tell you some good stories he's a he's
a natural talent, that guy.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I saw a bit of that top ten shootout. I
think it was on Saturday and he threw that car
around Adelaide.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
It was it was. He didn't finish top but tell
you what, he gave it a crack.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Do you have you followed? I should say by the
way that Matt Payne won the race yesterday, which was
good and muss did I wither if you follow the
format of the Supercars at the end of the season
where they went to a semi final and a final.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
I think they've tried to be a bit like NASCAR,
but it's all got a bit too tricky, hasn't it.
Love forget Australians aren't that bright.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
So no, I looked at it. Yes, I couldn't work out.
I mean they had these little tags next to their
name and they were in the semis or the finals
and everyone else sort of didn't matter. And it did
matter if he won a race, but it didn't count.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Would increase attendance and viewership? Probably not.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Wouldn't have thought I keep it, I would you know
the cost?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Brock Feeney didn't it. Phoenne was what was he hit by?

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Twenty three points hit into the final but spun out
on what the first one.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, he didn't spin out, he got smacked into it.
It's sort of like you can't you know, And so
the other guy got the penalty. But that's you know,
if you're at the back of the field. You're at
the back of the field. What do you do that,
eye gouge said the South African bloke. What do you
get for one of those? What do you get for that?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh? Quite what? I'd say eight ten, twelve weeks? Maybe
why do you do that?

Speaker 2 (08:25):
But what happens to you push?

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I know, a couple of minutes ago, you're up seventy
odd mil. It's a bit does often have brain snaps?
He pushed his thumb right into the well players.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, it's just yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
No better one hundred and forty one tests and he
should know better than that.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
There's something, there's something psychological there that snaps some people,
you know, by the way, just either of you. The
Wei nick thing, this cricket thing. Is this a thing
or not? Is this some sort of scandal going on
in New Zealand cricket as racoup brewing? Is there? What's
going on?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
What sounds like there's a massive push to move the
CEO on, but he's digging his toes in Mike that. Yeah,
there's some there's some real back room fighting going on,
and it's been bubbling away for quite a while.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
But I think Jason would agree that this new T
twenty league has sort of brought it all to it here.
It has yet it has.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
I think that's there's been major pushback from Scott Wining
on that he wants the teams in the Big Bash,
the major associations and the players associations. I understand it
wants the n Z twenty to go ahead.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Again, It's just like.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Another example of administrators and I'm not pointing fingers here,
but they don't put the game in the middle of
the conversation. It's more about, you know, own their own
personal interest and personality clashes. You know, all sorts of
people are not getting on with one another when they're
there to administer and oversee the game.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Hey, Mike, is this it?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Mate?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Can I just say next year?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Sorry? You were that's you? Andrew's uh, Andrew, Yeah, I've
got a piece of pap for you somewhere. I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Look, it's been it's been a it's been another great year, Mike.
Have you been here the whole time I've been I
had been yet.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
So seventeen years. This is the end of the seventeenth.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Oh, the whole I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I need to check on that.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
But it's been a pleasure filling in the couple of
gaps between ad breaks.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I do have to say as well.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Look, I host a sports show on this on the
number one radio station in New Zealand both days. On
the weekends, I commentate football on Sky Sport. But my
profile has never been higher than it has from sharing
the sort of seven past eight to twenty two past
eight slot. I need to change my business cards to
to commentary box contributor rather than the other stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's that's what happens when you That's what happens when
you stick with me. Jason. You've known that for years. Mate,
I'll take you to the promised Land.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Hey, look, just Sam mint off here that heathers filling
in for the next couple of weeks and Jason. Jason's
tone of celebration, I thought it was quite disrespectful to
the little the little battler, the little Petler from Linwood's
out the door and everybody's celebrating.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
But look, I'm looking forward to working with her.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
That she's you know, she's bright, humorous, she.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Knows a lot about sport. Maybe you should listen.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
In the next I'll look out for some tips.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Merry Christmas to you guys, Love you both, and we'll
see you, possibly Andrew Savil Jason Pine.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
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