Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on the Chiefs beating out the Hurricanes

The Chiefs have beaten the Hurricanes 22-17 in extra time to leap into top spot on the Super Rugby ladder.

There's been two boil-overs across the ditch, with the Crusaders beaten 31-26 by the Force in Perth and the Brumbies humbled 33-28 by the Fijian Drua in Canberra.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine explained further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Against Jason Pine. Sports TALKCOSA is with us, Hello Piney,
Hello Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
So are the Chiefs now the favorites?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I think they are marginally after their win over the
Hurricanes the other night. It was only one game, of course,
I think these two are demonstrably the best two sides
in Super rugby. You look at who's in the chasing
pack and they've all kind of stumbled and had their
ups and downs the season, where the Chiefs and the
Hurricane seem to be immune to all of that apart
from when they play one another. So yeah, look, I

(00:33):
think the golden point or super point aspect of it
on Saturday night gave us a bit of drama and
you know, the bounce of the ball. If things go
slightly different, maybe the Hurricanes win that game. But I
would fully expect these two to meet in the final.
It's a long way away, I know, but as I say,
they seem like the best two sides. Maybe it's advantage
Chiefs after their win on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, so do you believe Auckland FC was wronged?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's a really interesting question this is around the red
card that wasn't given to James Donnahey, the Central Coast baron,
is defended yesterday when he appeared to deliberately stamp on
the back of Sam Cosgrove, the Auckland FC striker who
was lying prone on the ground at the time. Afterwards,
Danny Hay, who was standing in his head coach for
Auckland f C, was absolutely adamant, would not be convinced

(01:18):
otherwise that wasn't a red card. He said, look at
absolutely a red card every day of the week, any
football game anywhere in the world, even when it's far
as to say that that he thinks that if it
had been the other way around, Auckland f C would
have been given a red card, which is getting quite
dangerously close to conspiracy theories and stuff, but nonetheless it
should have been a red card. Even Central Coast Mariners
coach said, look, we were a bit lucky it didn't

(01:41):
you know, it doesn't change the result though Auckland f
C losing one nilt they relinquished the Premier's plate. They
now need to win next week to ensure that they're
in the top two, so hopefully they can pick themselves up,
dust themselves often and go deep into the finals again.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Okay, now tell me what is happening with the crowds.
Is this season lost a bit of the luster of
last season.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think there's always that sort of you know, newness,
isn't there around a new team coming in? And last
year was was that. It was this bright shiny thing
that Auckland FC. You know, they arrived and everybody wanted
to be there. They've still had good crowds comparatively to
other A League teams. This season there were fourteen thousand
there yesterday and you know we had a fifteen minute
delay for lightning strikes for goodness sake. Yeah, not quite

(02:21):
the same buzz in the second season. Second album is
always a bit harder though, Heather, as you know, so yeah,
I think I come a football player. This is the
second album. The second album is always harder, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Fair enough Back to my singing career and Piney thank
you as always. It's lovely to chat to you, mate,
Jason pine Sports Falk.

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