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March 7, 2025 10 mins

Sports Commentator Andrew Gouride and Newstalk ZB Rugby Commentator Paul Allison join Ryan Bridge on the Sports Huddle.

Super Rugby is taking a hit after the Fijian team were forced to right in the back of a truck on their arrival in Napier. How bad is this for the tournament?

The Champions Trophy is getting underway on Sunday – could the Black Caps win?

What does the Huddle think of a new review saying Super Rugby franchises should be merged with provincial unions?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
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twenty three is on the board.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
The handshakes from do belong to New Zealand. Here they
have won this semi final vote fifty runs. It will
be the third final in the last six ICC white
ball tournaments. Yeah, I mean, I think this is as
tough for sure, tougher, tougher fight for me, tougher matchup
than Dan Hooker was I mean, busy of his one
hundred percent, you know, Top of the Game.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Sports Huddle time, Andrew Gordy Sports commentators here. Hey Gordy mate,
how a thank you? Good to see you, Topal. Paul
Allison's here with us too, News Talk ZID best rugby
commentator Paul Good evening.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Can I Ryan?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now, let's say, Andrew mate, let's up with the Fijan drewer. Paul,
were you? I mean that doesn't sound great Ian. We
obviously don't know. I don't think it was a tactic
from anyone to try and put them off their game
or anything, but it's not great hospitality, is it.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Someone's dropped the ball on this one big time. I
think it's really an embarrassment in terms of what they've
had to go through. If what we're hearing through the
Great Buyne is correct. The fact that someone had canceled
the bus. I heard that the bus what I read
originally with the bus was ordered, then someone's canceled it.
Who's actually canceled it? Was it a member of the
Fijian management team. Was it a member of the bus company.

(01:35):
We've got to get to the bottom of this. The
fact that they checked into the hotel and one of
their rooms weren't ready, The fact that they had to
get out of the hotel early. I mean, it's just
a chapter of errors. And the reason they didn't wait
for the bus. As I understand it, it was three
hour wait for them. So the guys needed after the
fight from overseas, needed to get to the hotel, rest
up and then get to themselves to nap you the

(01:55):
next day. So this is a really embarrassing situation where
the blame lies. So I guess we'll have to wait
and see whether it was poor organization at the drawer
end or whether it was logistically a logistical era at
the New Zealand in and if it was, they need
to fix that up because this is really poor in
a professional rugby environment.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Big question for me, why did they get on the
back of a truck?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Ryan?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
If you and I arrived and to Auckland the airport
now uber had been canceled, would you and I get
into the back of a truck? The answer is no, mate,
The answer is did.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
There's lots of them. There's lots of them, so waiting
China sought out twenty individual ubers would be quite difficult. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Okay, let's put another scenario together. Let's say the war
retars arrive into Auckland and they've got to travel down
to Napier. Do you think the warratars are getting onto
the back of a truck? Do you think any Why
did they get onto the back of a truck? It
makes absolutely no sense, and we can talk about how
unprofessional it is, and you're absolutely right. We need to
ask and we need to answer that question. Who canceled

(02:54):
the bus? That's a fair question that needs answering. I've
got more questions as well about the preferential treatment with
the late checkouts. That's not right.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's not a true full lot because that's before they
played too right, that's exactly right. So any any kind
of that's not on.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Any instance we have or feeling we have that a
New Zealand team is getting preferential treatment over a visitor.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's a dreadful lot.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I just want to see some accountability here. Can someone
put their hand up?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Andrew Gordon, I don't think it was a big I
don't think it was a big bus ride that they
had on the back of the luggage van. I think
it was only from the airport to the hotel in
Auckland for the overnight stay. But even so, it's still
not a good look and those questions need to be answered.
And let's let's hope we get a very transparent investigation
into this so that it doesn't happen again.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Even if it is to the hotel bridge. He's not
getting into the back of a truck, I know.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I know, way on God's green Earth though, I'd be
getting in the back of the truck. And maybe this
is actually just the tip of the iceberg. This is
just the tourist experience people get now and then welcome
to Walkland. No wonder we're not back to pre COVID.
Andrew Gordy Paul Allison on the Sports Huddle the.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
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Speaker 2 (03:58):
Andrew Gordy and Paul Allison on this sports Huddle tonight.
Lots of text firing in about the Fiji and drawer
that we've just been discussing and why did they end
up in the back of a truck when they arrived
at Auckland Airport. Lots of people are saying in Fiji,
it's very common, very often you will see people jump
on the back of a ute or on the back
of a truck to get around. So it's no big deal.
And yes, that is true. We've all jumped in the

(04:20):
back of a ute in Fiji or in the Islands.
But it's the fact that we sent we didn't have
a bus organized that.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
They and in the context of a professional rugby competition,
yeah it's different.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, all right. Now, speaking of professional competitions, one that
we're hopefully going to win this weekend and that is
the Crack at the Champions Trophy Final. How are we looking?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Gordy did I reckon, I reckon, we're looking all right.
I wouldn't say that we're favorites to win the match
because this is against India and a Champions Trophy final
in Dubai. They'll have all the support. It will feel
like a home game for India. I wouldn't read too
much into the final pool game, which saw India win
pretty comprehensively. I don't think you can use that as

(05:00):
an indicator for what we might see in the final,
but certainly India are the favorites. Black Caps have done
very well to get to this point of the competition,
and when you're in a final, anything can happen. They've
certainly got the quality of players and they've certainly got
the experience within this side. They're not going to be
overawed by this occasion. You would have heard Smith in
the commentary before. This is the third final they've made
in white ball cricket in the last six tournaments, so

(05:21):
they're not going to be overawed by the occasion. It's
just where they can turn up on the day.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Paul, does this mean that we're back in love with
Gary Stead again?

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I don't if we really fell out of love with
Gary Stead to be fair, I know that things didn't
go well for New Zealand at the T twenty Cricket
World Cup last year, but this team's performed well pretty
much with Gary Stead for quite some time now, and
you look at this tournament where they've actually played really well.
Sure they got beaten by India in that round robin

(05:50):
Paul Play match, and just looking at this match on Sunday,
first ball at ten o'clock on Sunday evening, so it's
going to be a long night for a lot of people.
I would imagine who will be who will be sort
of enduring the early hours of Sunday night and then
Monday morning. But this is going to be a lower
scoring match than what the black Caps have played on

(06:10):
because India played all their games in this tournament at Dubai,
which I think we'll give them some advantage in some way.
They know the ground, they know the wicket. The highest
score that's been scored on that ground and Paul play
was two hundred and forty nine New Zealand. As we know,
I've scored over three hundred on a couple of occasions.
And spinners are going to be very much in the forefront,
so Santana Phillips, Ravendra and Bracewell will be very much

(06:34):
the key to New Zealand success. Can they win, of
course they can. All they start is favorites. I agree
with Andrew, we won't start as favorites. But I'd love
to see twenty five years ago being repeated when we
won in Kenya in that ICC Champions Trophy, when it
was a knockout tournament back then. So wouldn't it be
good to see history repeating itself. Names like Sir Stephen
Fleming and Nathan Astell and Chris Ken's and Craig McMillan.

(06:55):
We've got the firepower. We just hope we can deliver
it on the night brilliant.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
I hope we can too. There'll be a few weary eyes,
I imagine on Monday morning. Then here back home in
New Zealand. Now staying in the Middle East, the Saudi
Provincial Investment Fund is offering, apparently offering quite a sweet
maternity leave deal to the women's tennis players. Is this
a little anything more than transparent sort of attempt to

(07:19):
clean up their image? It's twelve months as I understand
at Gordy.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean what you just said That's exactly what it is,
because that's what Saudi Arabia have been doing shamelessly, quite
openly for several years now. They've tried to do it
with livgolf, They've doing it at the moment with heavyweight boxing.
They've essentially bought heavyweight boxing, and this is another attempt
to clean up their image. Somewhat ironic, you'd have to say.

(07:45):
But putting all that to one side, this is a
good thing. This is a great thing for women's tennis players.
And so I start getting twelve months of maternity leave,
I don't really mind who's paying for it.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Necessarily.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's great for women's tennis and great for women's players,
is it not.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
What's wrong with a bit of oil money anyway?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Paul, Yeah. WTA, the Women's Tennis Association, have been very
instrumental with this. The amounts haven't been publicly disclosed, but
to be able to qualify, there's about three hundred and
twenty of the world's top tennis players that would be
entitled to access this fund. You've got to have played
eight WTA tournaments or including click Grand Slams in the
last twelve months or twenty four over the previous thirty six,

(08:23):
so it's not everybody that plays tennis. You've actually got
to be at a reasonably high level to be able
to do that. And the program also provides grants for
fertility treatments and supporting players and their family planning decisions
and the like. And Victoria Azarenka, who's the rep on
the WTA Players Council, has said that the response that
she's got from her colleagues has been absolutely incredible. This
is a major step forward. She had a son back

(08:44):
in twenty and sixteen. Players likes of Osaka and wasn't
the Aki in townshend are all mothers that are playing
on that top one hundred in the world. So this
is a great step forward for women's tennis. Whether it's
coming from a sort of a doubtful source in terms
of Saudi, yeah, maybe there's a question mark over that,
but what they're achieving and what they're doing for women's tennis,
I think is a really positive step forward.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Take the win. Yeah, hey, Gordy, big day and at
Ellesleie tomorrow you'll be getting yourself all dressed up, no doubt,
No doubt.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Mate.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
NZBKI we first ever m zbkey. We Southern Hemisphere's richest race. Mate,
four and a half million dollars up for grabs, was
frothing at the mouth and frothing at the mouth. Mate,
this is huge, This is huge. Showing me another sporting
event where you can win four and a half million
dollars in this country. You can't, Mate, It's great.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
What time is it tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Four thirty two pm?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Mate?

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Make sure you tune into tracks on You'll be on course,
they won't you surely crossed up to the ninth?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Are you calling the races? He's gone.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Give us a Give us a tip. Andrew four thirty two,
Race eight at Elslie. I've looked at some of the
name's public attention. I thought that was about the school
lunch program. I saw Evaporator. Thought there was still goth
going up in flames from Winston Peters yesterday. Checkmate is
in there as well.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Give us a tip. Evaporate.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Evaporates definitely the one to beat, carries the best form
into the race, a the highest crediential horse to ever
compete in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
That I did seet a fact it is. It is a.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Fantastic, fantastic event. It's going to be a great race,
looking forward to it. But yeah, evaporate, that's where the
smart money is.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Fantastic. Don't forget in zib can we toy we might
be there tomorrow. Gordy, thank you for that. That's Andrew
Gordy's sports commentator and Paul Allison, Thank you, Paul. News
Talk ZIBB.

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