The Country 10/07/25: Ian Kirkpatrick talks to Hamish McKay

We catch up with an All Blacks great to talk a bit of footy before the second test against France in Wellington this weekend.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got a couple of minutes left to chew the
fat about the footy, and we'll go to Ian Kirkpatrick
swining down in the Capitol ahead of the Test match. Kurky,
how are.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
You not too bad? Hey? Not too bad?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Not too bad.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
When Jamie is he playing golf for something.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're bound to be something sort of lucky, curious and
keeping with his lifestyle, you know, bring the other Mackay
off the bench a but like tavanaway tomorrow Saturday night,
he is coming to the team. Patrick twoy palodo for
Scott Barrett and Caleb Clark get to start with seevou
Reeseau quite conservative, he isn't they too many changes? Kurki?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah no, well well well there pretty good changes to me. Yeah,
so it's wait and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Do you reckon that we're a bit hard on them?
I mean, I mean we can put out two decent
squads of twenty odds and the French, I mean their
top forty in competition with all those Georgian front rowers
and everything. It's a good competition. It was no surprise
they showed they had a bit of depth, not all,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Even though they had seventy uncapped players. I mean their
standard of the top four in for example. I mean
it's pretty up there. So you know, they've got guys
that are coming over here that haven't they had caps
they wanted, they want caps, So they're going to muck
around and and and be not very productive, not at all.

(01:23):
I mean the French. You we know the French. I've
played against them and with them a couple of times.
And man, know something else, if they were if they
want to come out and play, look out, And that's
just what they did.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, they certainly didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah they did it.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, yeah, yeah, of course you'll be. Of course these days
you're you're always sort of wrapped in like around on
your bike. You have been for the last ten years.
I suppose you're watching the Tour de France and dreaming of
what it might have been had you decided to take
up cycling instead of rugby.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Not at all, not at all, no, I no, I
lo that stuff. We did it for exercise, that's not
for financial things.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'll tell you what those boys do on that Tour
de France is quite quite remarking. Now we've got about
a minute to go. Turkey bit a big Shinn't you
get involved in a big do that our mate Steely
Klinac has in the Capital, big fund raiser, big lunch
for what about five thousand people? I hear these days
it's grown a bit since I used to get an invite.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I wonder why it's going when you failed to turn
up now oheeh, I tell you right, But yeah there's
about one thousand. Yeah, you have the best thousand last year. No, great,
great support. Really they'll champions lunch and I think it's
a twenty eighth I think one. That's that the Clinate
is organized over the years. So yeah, yeah, it's always

(02:44):
it's always a good afternoon and a good fund Rosers
for Life Light.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah yeah great cause Life Light indeed May Turkey. Thanks
very much. You get back to enjoying what you're doing
for a couple of days in Wellington as you're warm
up to the Test match. That's our former All Black captain,
a great man of ty Rafferty up there the Poverty
Bay region of course, Ian Kirkpatrick