March 14, 2025 • 10 mins
Newstalk ZB Sports Editor Elliot Smith and Sports Journalist Lavina Good join Ryan Bridge on the Huddle.
The F1 is on everyone's lips this afternoon, as fans gear up to for the big race on Sunday.
It's been seven years since New Zealand has has a full-time F1 driver, and despite being off to a disappointing start today, Liam Lawson has 24 weeks to prove himself.
Can the Warriors take the win tonight? The Huddle worries our team is lacking structure and attack.
And Joseph Parkers title shot is back on.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand Suburby's International Realty Find.
You're one of the kind that there's a lot of
nixt fight.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
He will be the one after he's right up to you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
He's ranked one.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
He's creatable, defends want to see it, so they can
only dodge from so long.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Doctor down and I'm out of it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Get locked up.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
If the last you want takes it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Ends up on top of.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Stephen Adams, it's like a full more rustling Max out there.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Got another now, Dorothy, No, no, no, coming from No,
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm from New Zealand. We've got red stars. Not why oi,
I'm not doing.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It And he didn't do it on the project in
Australia that was laying Lawson to the India. Elliott Smith
News talks sports news directors with us this evening, Hey,
Elliott evening, Hayden, good to see yeah, and Levina Good
is here a sports journalist. Good evening to you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, good evening from tarding A. Nice to chat.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Nice to have you on. Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Levina.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
We'll start with you, actually, Levina, because we've just been
to Melbourne. It sounds like an awesome place to be
this weekend, the big race of courses on Sunday, and
we asked Jason Pine, who's with us here at news Talk,
said be earlier, what does success look like for Liam Lawson?
He basically just don't crash? Is that summon up?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I mean it's been seven years since New Zealand had
a full time Formula One driver and I think you
really don't have to love this sport to appreciate what
Liam Lawson has achieved. And he's got a twenty four
week season to prove himself a little shaky in that
first practice run, but the thing is the car is
still there. There's loads of pressure on him, but he
obviously thrives under pressure. And the big thing for me,
(01:44):
and also when you conducted that interview, I think the
Australian fans will back him, even though he replaced their
favorite Daniel Ricardo in six races last year. But the
Australians love a butler and Liam Lawson is a butler.
And I tell you what New Zealand will be gripped
watching the race this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
How many quies you think have gone over for the
weekend because as soon as he got him out. Yeah,
but so many I reckon people would have circled that
one and gone that's the easiest form one. It's the
debut race from and Red Bull, and they want to
go and cheer him on and as we heard say
there before, you know, plenty of cheers for the Kiwi. Look,
he's not going to make or break his contract in
this opening weekend. But what he can do is just
(02:20):
win some of those supporters over because there were question
marks not here in New Zealand around whether he should
have got the seat. We're all for that, of course,
but around the globe there are a few other options
that they maybe could have gone with Red Bull that
backed him into the seat. What he can do is
start winning some of those people over around the globe.
He's got such a winning personality as well. Liam Lawson
really looking forward to seeing him out on track and
hoping that the success follows him there too.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Absolutely. What about success for the Warriors tonight, Levina.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh my goodness. I was in Sydney last week and
I went along to the Manly match and they put
thirty points on the Cowboys and I thought, actually that
was the best performance of round one. Yes, better than
the Broncos, as everyone else will say, and I know
it's an air sellout crowd, but it will be hard
going for the Warriors. I just feel as though they're
lacking structure and attack at the moment, and defensively there
(03:08):
were just too many holes and Manly are looking strong.
I am glad that Jazz Tebunger gets a chance to
play against the Warriors. He played one hundred and thirty
matches for the Warriors, so that will be something exciting
for the fans as well. But the Warriors have only
won one from six against Manly, one of their last
six matches, and I think it'll be one from seven,
although I did mention it's an a sellout crowd and
(03:30):
those loyal Warriors fan don't mind too much how they go,
but it would be good to see them do some
tackling this time. We do this against the Raiders. Defense
wins game.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That would be a start, wouldn't it after what we
saw in Las Vegas where defense fil optional. I agree
with you Levini, you were the very up closed. I
thought that the performance of Manly was very very good,
the pace they played that last week. I don't know
if the Warriors can stick with them tonight. It's going
to be a dry track in Auckland. The conditions are
going to be pretty pretty good, and the Warriors just
didn't seem to have any idea where they needed to
(04:00):
be on attack. You know, the best half backs, best
attacking structures in the game, they're looking two plays ahead
to go, where do we need to be on tackle
five when they're in tackle three at that point in time.
We didn't see that in Las Vegas, didn't see any
defensive structure. But those time fans with the Warriors are
worth a few points. You just wonder how much they
will last. The full house signed that the Warriors have
become accustomed to O would last couple of seasons ever
(04:22):
since they got back after COVID, how long that will
last if the results don't follow them. I think this
is a pretty big that game for the Warriors, and
it's only a round two of the season, but they
were so dismal first up. They need to put something
on the board. Tonight lacked a lot of omph? Did
they plenty of it?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
There's a red moon tonight, a blood moon tonight, so
I'm thinking that might bring in a Warrior out.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Is that good news for bad news? Is it an
Homer Goman nor?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I think it's a good omen. Okay, I think it's
a good omen for the Warriors. We'll have to wait
and see. Elliot Smith Lavena good on the Sports Huddle
back in just a second.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The Friday Sports Tuddle with New Zealand Southby's International Reality
the Ones with local and global reach.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Eleven to six news talks, Ellie Smith, Newstalk's Heb's Voice
of Rugby, and Levin a good sports journalist on the
Sports Huddle tonight, Joseph Park a lot of chat about
this in the last couple of days. Is he going
to get Elliott a title shot? And if so, is
he going to win it?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I think he's capable of. He's had a great second
wind in his career because a few years ago, three
or four years ago, maybe a wee bit longer, it
felt like he was just sort of in the journeyman fights.
He wasn't really getting anything that was going to put
his name up in lights again after he had lost
his world title fight and foot, you know, Joshua a
few years ago. Now, he's had a bit of a
second wind, and you've got a feel for the guy
(05:32):
a couple of weeks ago who's supposed to have that
world title fight against Endo Dubois, and then on the
morning of or sort of, you know, twenty four hours beforehand,
they decided if you did wise sick, he's not going
to get it. Let's hope that this gets across the line,
because he's been given the run around a couple of
times now around his title shot. I think the promoters
have done well to not rock the boat too much
(05:53):
because boxing is a sport about egos and various things.
You say the wrong thing, you basically get off side
with these people. So look, I hope he gets a
shot the form that he's coming to, the shape that
he's in the latter stages of his career. Said, latter stages.
You know, he's still looking very, very good. I think
he'd win a fight. I really do. I think he's
got the knockout punch that maybe didn't have in the
early part of his career.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
It's interesting us.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Sorry, yeah, I was just going to say, like to
make an official apology to Joseph Parker because a year
and a half ago, I thought he was just fighting
as a journeyman. As Elliott said, just for money. And
then you go twelve twelve months down the line and
he defeats John Tay Wilder didn't No one expected him
to do that Young as well, and then he knocked
out for Coli. I mean, it's been a really good
(06:34):
run for the last twelve months and if you think
about it, Fury is gone, Joshua is no longer in form.
He's in the top three. But I don't think this
fight will go ahead against Usik because there's not enough
money in it for Usik. He'll pick the Bois because
he'll get a sellout crowd and make heaps more money.
And boxing is so funny, isn't it. Like most sports,
when a sanctioning body says you have to do something,
(06:57):
you have to do it, but in boxing you don't.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
It's just such a weird. I'm learning so much about
this bizarre sport this week and how many different federations
are there and acronyms. Yeah, goodness me. Now. The Super
Rugby season kicked off to a flaming good start and
somebody suggesting today I think it was the Napiers saying
(07:20):
there are only eleven teams. Is that something to do?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
With it quite well be because the Melbourne Rebels dissolved
after last year. They couldn't pay their bills, they were
in administration, so they're gone. So it's eleven teams, which
is an ideal number for the shape of the competition.
Ideally you'd have an even number makes it easier for
the buyers. But what it has done all the Australian
teams have picked off the best Rebels players and they've
risen up as a result, and they're more competitive against
(07:44):
the New Zealand sides. And I think the New Zealand
sides are all relatively even, with perhaps the Chiefs just
poping their head up above and being just above the
rest of the New Zealand teams. It has been really
really even. We're four weeks and start a week five
tonight and there hasn't been a blowout. There hasn't been
a bad game among them, which WHI is very very
rare for Super rugby. In recent years. You've had the
Rebels being pummeled, you have poor old more Una Pacifica
(08:05):
copping hidings that drew it as well. There hasn't been
blots and each game has been really really close, and
at this point of the season. There's no whipping Boys
and every team has had at least one loss apart
from the Warritas, so it's a great start for the
competition and a couple of big Kiwi darby's this weekend
that could make or break seasons and were already into
Week five. It has been a superb start and I
(08:26):
think the reduced number of teams has a lot to
do with it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, I'm a massive rugby league fan, as most people know,
and I never ravee about rugby, but after apologizing to
Joseph Parker, I have to let the fans know I've
really enjoyed the start of the rugby season and I
think the rebirth is here and it's mainly because it's
competitive and close. Every team has had to win naninely
four rounds in that's outstanding. Last year the Hurricanes topped
(08:50):
the regular season. Now there last I agree condensing that
Australian The Australian teams down to foremant that there's more
talent pool out there to be chosen from. The Brumbies
not shot up their first win at Eden Park in
twelve years, and the Chiefs are no longer the IT teams,
so fewer teams short of season, keep the punters craving
for more. And I'm like in the look of the Highlanders,
(09:11):
even though I'm in Chiefs Territory.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like the Highlanders.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Hey, do you have any idea what they viewer ship
numbers are?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Like?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I mean, because everyone's been saying it's so great.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We've been up up the season. I have percent to
join me, but they're up compared to last year, which
was up on the year before. So I know that
Sky is happy on No. New Zealand Rugby is very
happy with the way that the season starts.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Interesting, so the changes that have been made are actually
working out working Yeah, so it can be saved, I
think quite possibly.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think you know a lot of questions when South
Africa left and then the rejig of the competition. But
we're beginning maybe, and I was a doubter as well,
We're beginning now to see maybe the format actually finding
its feet. Very cool.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
We'll look forward to seeing more of it. Alliot Smith
and Lavenda Good here on the News Talks. He'd be
Sports Huddle for your Friday night.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
For more from Heather duplessy Ellen Droy, listen live to
News Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
The Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand Suburby's International Realty Find.
You're one of the kind that there's a lot of
nixt fight.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
He will be the one after he's right up to you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
He's ranked one.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
He's creatable, defends want to see it, so they can
only dodge from so long.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Doctor down and I'm out of it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Get locked up.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
If the last you want takes it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Ends up on top of.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Stephen Adams, it's like a full more rustling Max out there.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Got another now, Dorothy, No, no, no, coming from No,
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm from New Zealand. We've got red stars. Not why oi,
I'm not doing.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It And he didn't do it on the project in
Australia that was laying Lawson to the India. Elliott Smith
News talks sports news directors with us this evening, Hey,
Elliott evening, Hayden, good to see yeah, and Levina Good
is here a sports journalist. Good evening to you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, good evening from tarding A. Nice to chat.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Nice to have you on. Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Levina.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
We'll start with you, actually, Levina, because we've just been
to Melbourne. It sounds like an awesome place to be
this weekend, the big race of courses on Sunday, and
we asked Jason Pine, who's with us here at news Talk,
said be earlier, what does success look like for Liam Lawson?
He basically just don't crash? Is that summon up?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I mean it's been seven years since New Zealand had
a full time Formula One driver and I think you
really don't have to love this sport to appreciate what
Liam Lawson has achieved. And he's got a twenty four
week season to prove himself a little shaky in that
first practice run, but the thing is the car is
still there. There's loads of pressure on him, but he
obviously thrives under pressure. And the big thing for me,
(01:44):
and also when you conducted that interview, I think the
Australian fans will back him, even though he replaced their
favorite Daniel Ricardo in six races last year. But the
Australians love a butler and Liam Lawson is a butler.
And I tell you what New Zealand will be gripped
watching the race this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
How many quies you think have gone over for the
weekend because as soon as he got him out. Yeah,
but so many I reckon people would have circled that
one and gone that's the easiest form one. It's the
debut race from and Red Bull, and they want to
go and cheer him on and as we heard say
there before, you know, plenty of cheers for the Kiwi. Look,
he's not going to make or break his contract in
this opening weekend. But what he can do is just
(02:20):
win some of those supporters over because there were question
marks not here in New Zealand around whether he should
have got the seat. We're all for that, of course,
but around the globe there are a few other options
that they maybe could have gone with Red Bull that
backed him into the seat. What he can do is
start winning some of those people over around the globe.
He's got such a winning personality as well. Liam Lawson
really looking forward to seeing him out on track and
hoping that the success follows him there too.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Absolutely. What about success for the Warriors tonight, Levina.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh my goodness. I was in Sydney last week and
I went along to the Manly match and they put
thirty points on the Cowboys and I thought, actually that
was the best performance of round one. Yes, better than
the Broncos, as everyone else will say, and I know
it's an air sellout crowd, but it will be hard
going for the Warriors. I just feel as though they're
lacking structure and attack at the moment, and defensively there
(03:08):
were just too many holes and Manly are looking strong.
I am glad that Jazz Tebunger gets a chance to
play against the Warriors. He played one hundred and thirty
matches for the Warriors, so that will be something exciting
for the fans as well. But the Warriors have only
won one from six against Manly, one of their last
six matches, and I think it'll be one from seven,
although I did mention it's an a sellout crowd and
(03:30):
those loyal Warriors fan don't mind too much how they go,
but it would be good to see them do some
tackling this time. We do this against the Raiders. Defense
wins game.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That would be a start, wouldn't it after what we
saw in Las Vegas where defense fil optional. I agree
with you Levini, you were the very up closed. I
thought that the performance of Manly was very very good,
the pace they played that last week. I don't know
if the Warriors can stick with them tonight. It's going
to be a dry track in Auckland. The conditions are
going to be pretty pretty good, and the Warriors just
didn't seem to have any idea where they needed to
(04:00):
be on attack. You know, the best half backs, best
attacking structures in the game, they're looking two plays ahead
to go, where do we need to be on tackle
five when they're in tackle three at that point in time.
We didn't see that in Las Vegas, didn't see any
defensive structure. But those time fans with the Warriors are
worth a few points. You just wonder how much they
will last. The full house signed that the Warriors have
become accustomed to O would last couple of seasons ever
(04:22):
since they got back after COVID, how long that will
last if the results don't follow them. I think this
is a pretty big that game for the Warriors, and
it's only a round two of the season, but they
were so dismal first up. They need to put something
on the board. Tonight lacked a lot of omph? Did
they plenty of it?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
There's a red moon tonight, a blood moon tonight, so
I'm thinking that might bring in a Warrior out.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Is that good news for bad news? Is it an
Homer Goman nor?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I think it's a good omen. Okay, I think it's
a good omen for the Warriors. We'll have to wait
and see. Elliot Smith Lavena good on the Sports Huddle
back in just a second.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The Friday Sports Tuddle with New Zealand Southby's International Reality
the Ones with local and global reach.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Eleven to six news talks, Ellie Smith, Newstalk's Heb's Voice
of Rugby, and Levin a good sports journalist on the
Sports Huddle tonight, Joseph Park a lot of chat about
this in the last couple of days. Is he going
to get Elliott a title shot? And if so, is
he going to win it?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I think he's capable of. He's had a great second
wind in his career because a few years ago, three
or four years ago, maybe a wee bit longer, it
felt like he was just sort of in the journeyman fights.
He wasn't really getting anything that was going to put
his name up in lights again after he had lost
his world title fight and foot, you know, Joshua a
few years ago. Now, he's had a bit of a
second wind, and you've got a feel for the guy
(05:32):
a couple of weeks ago who's supposed to have that
world title fight against Endo Dubois, and then on the
morning of or sort of, you know, twenty four hours beforehand,
they decided if you did wise sick, he's not going
to get it. Let's hope that this gets across the line,
because he's been given the run around a couple of
times now around his title shot. I think the promoters
have done well to not rock the boat too much
(05:53):
because boxing is a sport about egos and various things.
You say the wrong thing, you basically get off side
with these people. So look, I hope he gets a
shot the form that he's coming to, the shape that
he's in the latter stages of his career. Said, latter stages.
You know, he's still looking very, very good. I think
he'd win a fight. I really do. I think he's
got the knockout punch that maybe didn't have in the
early part of his career.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
It's interesting us.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Sorry, yeah, I was just going to say, like to
make an official apology to Joseph Parker because a year
and a half ago, I thought he was just fighting
as a journeyman. As Elliott said, just for money. And
then you go twelve twelve months down the line and
he defeats John Tay Wilder didn't No one expected him
to do that Young as well, and then he knocked
out for Coli. I mean, it's been a really good
(06:34):
run for the last twelve months and if you think
about it, Fury is gone, Joshua is no longer in form.
He's in the top three. But I don't think this
fight will go ahead against Usik because there's not enough
money in it for Usik. He'll pick the Bois because
he'll get a sellout crowd and make heaps more money.
And boxing is so funny, isn't it. Like most sports,
when a sanctioning body says you have to do something,
(06:57):
you have to do it, but in boxing you don't.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
It's just such a weird. I'm learning so much about
this bizarre sport this week and how many different federations
are there and acronyms. Yeah, goodness me. Now. The Super
Rugby season kicked off to a flaming good start and
somebody suggesting today I think it was the Napiers saying
(07:20):
there are only eleven teams. Is that something to do?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
With it quite well be because the Melbourne Rebels dissolved
after last year. They couldn't pay their bills, they were
in administration, so they're gone. So it's eleven teams, which
is an ideal number for the shape of the competition.
Ideally you'd have an even number makes it easier for
the buyers. But what it has done all the Australian
teams have picked off the best Rebels players and they've
risen up as a result, and they're more competitive against
(07:44):
the New Zealand sides. And I think the New Zealand
sides are all relatively even, with perhaps the Chiefs just
poping their head up above and being just above the
rest of the New Zealand teams. It has been really
really even. We're four weeks and start a week five
tonight and there hasn't been a blowout. There hasn't been
a bad game among them, which WHI is very very
rare for Super rugby. In recent years. You've had the
Rebels being pummeled, you have poor old more Una Pacifica
(08:05):
copping hidings that drew it as well. There hasn't been
blots and each game has been really really close, and
at this point of the season. There's no whipping Boys
and every team has had at least one loss apart
from the Warritas, so it's a great start for the
competition and a couple of big Kiwi darby's this weekend
that could make or break seasons and were already into
Week five. It has been a superb start and I
(08:26):
think the reduced number of teams has a lot to
do with it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, I'm a massive rugby league fan, as most people know,
and I never ravee about rugby, but after apologizing to
Joseph Parker, I have to let the fans know I've
really enjoyed the start of the rugby season and I
think the rebirth is here and it's mainly because it's
competitive and close. Every team has had to win naninely
four rounds in that's outstanding. Last year the Hurricanes topped
(08:50):
the regular season. Now there last I agree condensing that
Australian The Australian teams down to foremant that there's more
talent pool out there to be chosen from. The Brumbies
not shot up their first win at Eden Park in
twelve years, and the Chiefs are no longer the IT teams,
so fewer teams short of season, keep the punters craving
for more. And I'm like in the look of the Highlanders,
(09:11):
even though I'm in Chiefs Territory.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like the Highlanders.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Hey, do you have any idea what they viewer ship
numbers are?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Like?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I mean, because everyone's been saying it's so great.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We've been up up the season. I have percent to
join me, but they're up compared to last year, which
was up on the year before. So I know that
Sky is happy on No. New Zealand Rugby is very
happy with the way that the season starts.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Interesting, so the changes that have been made are actually
working out working Yeah, so it can be saved, I
think quite possibly.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think you know a lot of questions when South
Africa left and then the rejig of the competition. But
we're beginning maybe, and I was a doubter as well,
We're beginning now to see maybe the format actually finding
its feet. Very cool.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
We'll look forward to seeing more of it. Alliot Smith
and Lavenda Good here on the News Talks. He'd be
Sports Huddle for your Friday night.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
For more from Heather duplessy Ellen Droy, listen live to
News Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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