This weekend's Super Rugby semifinals have raised a few eyebrows over their smaller-than expected attendance numbers.
ZB sports reporter Andrew Alderson suspects this is because these Super Rugby matches had to compete with this weekend's Warriors' clash.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come now for some sport, Andrew some morning to you.
Greetings Mike the super Rugby. Do you watch much of it?
I saw that. I mean, God bless sky, but they
did this beautiful I'm assuming it's a drone drone shot
on on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Gray seats.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh, I mean, are you serious? It's like, what's the
point of a drone shot? If you're showing an empty
stadium with thirty people running around the center of the field.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You need something like the Gabba, don't you where they
sort of well, they pepper pot the seats, that sort
of the I know, Crimson and the yellow and the
blue and that, just to make it look like real
people are there. Yeah, I presume it's a disposable income
thing at the moment. I mean, if you've got the
Warriors on as well, et cetera, I reckon, people don't care.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, here's my thing. So I asked Andrew Sell the
same sort of question. He goes cost of living. The
other thing he says is maybe it's you know, people
have got other things to do with the time. Whatever.
You go to Detroit, whether he often cites you either
go to Detroit or Pittsburgh or Boston, or New York
in the middle of winter they're full. You know, the
NFL stadiums are full. You know, you either love your
(01:03):
sport or you don't. And if you can't in a
city of a million and a half people find what
forty thousand to turn up for some rugby, there's something
wrong with you. Well, I think there's apathy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Is there also the fact that they and I guess
you don't reveal the eyeballs on the screens, but the
people think, ah, put the fire on, put your feet up,
of course, get some pizza and just you watch it,
have a couple of beers a home.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Could you also argue then that's part of the reason
they did the afternoon game in Wellington, so you get
people along in a bit of daylight and you don't
have to deal with trouble on the way. Something not right.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I've always preferred that the daylight afternoon footy is just
so much it's great.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's better to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I think you get a bit of quality of rugby
as well, just with the lights.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
With a TV. Of course, if you don't get the
audience at four o'clock in the afternoon, that you do it, no,
But I just I just refuse to believe that this
is the sharp end of the season. This is not
Round one building into it. There's something not quite right there.
Just give me your entry.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Horus just talk about this this morning actually on our
boards and it's just saying I'm in the expectations they'll
get a crowded over forty thousand. So yeah, well, if
you can't for a final.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You can't for an unpark for the final.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
For New Zealand's national supposedly national game.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
There's something there's something seriously wrong this T twenty thing.
What this seems to have been a complete cluster.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, I think you're asking a lot if you're going
if you've got one venue or group in South America
and you've got another in New York Dallas. It's just
so widespread across the I mean, the Caribrant Bean is
what fifteen nations as a whole who are part of
the West Indies. Yeah, it's been you're hard to I
mean that's coming from a cricket fan, but I just
(02:41):
think too that I know T twenty is just there
seems to be so much focused on it and you've
just come out of the IPL. I guess they're pushing
to get cricket into America. It seems to be the
focal point with the Major League cricket coming on the
back of this. But yeah, and the New Zealand teams
has performed poorly.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So it's I saw came Williams the end of one
of the match. He goes, oh, it's a game of
fine margins, and I thought, well, that's that's that's a
delicate way of putting out. Wasn't margins against you can?
And no, exactly. We just weren't up for it. We
were underdone and it was embarrassing at the end of
the day. We should have been We should have done
that's fair, Yeah, we should have done better. Do you
know you're following the golf this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I am, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't watch a lot of golf anymore, but I
was watching that d Chambeau bloke. So first of all,
who's capturing the crowd one hundred cent? But you can
see why his stance and this is a classic example
of you know, you look at how you should stand
and address the ball. He addresses the ball all wrong,
he's twisted up like it. But look at what he does.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He's getting the result. Go back to the gym fury
is he I was intered with his parting stands. That's all.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's quite, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Pinocchio or something far?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Rather watch your Fred Couples or Nielsuffle.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I love Kuffles. Both their swings actually big, easy, exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The swings you want you flay a bit around if
you're playing with someone that this this the the sheer
relaxation of it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
But it's going to be good this morning. The chambo
has got his chambo has got the three stroke lead
Macroy and the hunt.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Is he going to hand them down? Is he looking
for a fuse major in ten years? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Go to get to watch all right on those on
the turtle back.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Greens and threw all this.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
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Come now for some sport, Andrew some morning to you.
Greetings Mike the super Rugby. Do you watch much of it?
I saw that. I mean, God bless sky, but they
did this beautiful I'm assuming it's a drone drone shot
on on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Gray seats.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh, I mean, are you serious? It's like, what's the
point of a drone shot? If you're showing an empty
stadium with thirty people running around the center of the field.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You need something like the Gabba, don't you where they
sort of well, they pepper pot the seats, that sort
of the I know, Crimson and the yellow and the
blue and that, just to make it look like real
people are there. Yeah, I presume it's a disposable income
thing at the moment. I mean, if you've got the
Warriors on as well, et cetera, I reckon, people don't care.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, here's my thing. So I asked Andrew Sell the
same sort of question. He goes cost of living. The
other thing he says is maybe it's you know, people
have got other things to do with the time. Whatever.
You go to Detroit, whether he often cites you either
go to Detroit or Pittsburgh or Boston, or New York
in the middle of winter they're full. You know, the
NFL stadiums are full. You know, you either love your
(01:03):
sport or you don't. And if you can't in a
city of a million and a half people find what
forty thousand to turn up for some rugby, there's something
wrong with you. Well, I think there's apathy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Is there also the fact that they and I guess
you don't reveal the eyeballs on the screens, but the
people think, ah, put the fire on, put your feet up,
of course, get some pizza and just you watch it,
have a couple of beers a home.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Could you also argue then that's part of the reason
they did the afternoon game in Wellington, so you get
people along in a bit of daylight and you don't
have to deal with trouble on the way. Something not right.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I've always preferred that the daylight afternoon footy is just
so much it's great.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's better to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I think you get a bit of quality of rugby
as well, just with the lights.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
With a TV. Of course, if you don't get the
audience at four o'clock in the afternoon, that you do it, no,
But I just I just refuse to believe that this
is the sharp end of the season. This is not
Round one building into it. There's something not quite right there.
Just give me your entry.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Horus just talk about this this morning actually on our
boards and it's just saying I'm in the expectations they'll
get a crowded over forty thousand. So yeah, well, if
you can't for a final.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You can't for an unpark for the final.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
For New Zealand's national supposedly national game.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
There's something there's something seriously wrong this T twenty thing.
What this seems to have been a complete cluster.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, I think you're asking a lot if you're going
if you've got one venue or group in South America
and you've got another in New York Dallas. It's just
so widespread across the I mean, the Caribrant Bean is
what fifteen nations as a whole who are part of
the West Indies. Yeah, it's been you're hard to I
mean that's coming from a cricket fan, but I just
(02:41):
think too that I know T twenty is just there
seems to be so much focused on it and you've
just come out of the IPL. I guess they're pushing
to get cricket into America. It seems to be the
focal point with the Major League cricket coming on the
back of this. But yeah, and the New Zealand teams
has performed poorly.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So it's I saw came Williams the end of one
of the match. He goes, oh, it's a game of
fine margins, and I thought, well, that's that's that's a
delicate way of putting out. Wasn't margins against you can?
And no, exactly. We just weren't up for it. We
were underdone and it was embarrassing at the end of
the day. We should have been We should have done
that's fair, Yeah, we should have done better. Do you
know you're following the golf this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I am, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't watch a lot of golf anymore, but I
was watching that d Chambeau bloke. So first of all,
who's capturing the crowd one hundred cent? But you can
see why his stance and this is a classic example
of you know, you look at how you should stand
and address the ball. He addresses the ball all wrong,
he's twisted up like it. But look at what he does.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He's getting the result. Go back to the gym fury
is he I was intered with his parting stands. That's all.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's quite, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Pinocchio or something far?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Rather watch your Fred Couples or Nielsuffle.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I love Kuffles. Both their swings actually big, easy, exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The swings you want you flay a bit around if
you're playing with someone that this this the the sheer
relaxation of it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
But it's going to be good this morning. The chambo
has got his chambo has got the three stroke lead
Macroy and the hunt.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Is he going to hand them down? Is he looking
for a fuse major in ten years? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Go to get to watch all right on those on
the turtle back.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Greens and threw all this.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
For more from News Talks B listen live on air
or online, and keep our shows with you wherever you
go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
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