September 7, 2024 • 10 mins
The Tasman Mako have lifted the Ranfurly Shield for the first time in their history - beating holders Hawke's Bay 25-24.
Tasman had never previously won the Log O' Wood since the unions of Nelson Bays and Marlborough combined in 2006.
Campbell Parata, the man behind the match-winning penalty shot, joined D'Arcy Waldegrave to discuss the victory.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What a day for the top of the South Island.
Ran Filly shield is off there finally the left boot
of Campbell Podata.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He's about forty eight meters from the posts thanks to Tamatava.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
No, why can they steal it? Hit the deck, Parlata
lines up the posts.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
He'll have the distance.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's got a good boot on him.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Direction is key Parata towards the uprights and.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That's o far.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Tasmin Tasmin when the Renfurly shields for the first time
in their young history.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Okay, so not the first time to the top of
the South Island because he's been here before ninety seventy three.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Marlborough managed to pick it up.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
But for Tasman Marco, the relatively new franchise, this new
club combining both Nelson and Marlborough, first time for them.
Haven't been to Nelson before.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They I love that so.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And he calm down, bruh Andy McDonald's and Nelson boys
still celebrating, still jahing, I'm glad he didn't bring his
jugg and that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
They pick up the shelf for the first.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Time, and now we're joined by the bloke get this
on as a replacement eight minutes to go when he
turned up. Suddenly he's the hero that kicks the match.
When his name is Campbell, Parata Campbell, welcome to the show. Congratulations,
dare I say it? How's your head?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Must have been a big night last night. Yeah, it
was a great night.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
We're just at the airport to get on a flight
back to back home, so no other boys are in
good spirits. Ay, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The end of the game. I know another colleague of
mine just about turn the TV off. He again is
a Marco fan. He was go, I can't cope with us.
But the end was it was tough and tough. Now
it wasn't who went in there and caused the ruckers
as they were trying to basically hang on to the
ball and defend that lead the penalty. You basically ran
straight and grabbed the ball, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yeah, it's awesome. Like we we actually trained that simulation
a lot, trying to try to get the ball back
with a minute to go, So we have a play
that we try to do. We get gym in there
and it works, so we trained it and then yeah,
I knew I knew it was in my range when
I seen where he got it from. So but it's awesome,
(02:43):
like the boys backed me straight away. When you get
that from the teammates, you know you have the confidence
to have a shot. So I was pretty pretty happy
that it went over over obviously.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Okay, I've been told fifty forty six, forty seven, forty
eight doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It was a long lay candle. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I think one of the coaches picked some grass up
from the spot after I kicked it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He's got it with him.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So yeah, but we'll just say forty ish fortyish on it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, it was a long long way.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And for you, wasn't it your first touch of the
ball since you come on?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, so came on with eight to go. We're sort
of on defense the whole time. They ended up scoring,
and then I older in my seconds, I kicked kicked
off after they scored, and then the next next time
I touched the ball was the kick. So yeah, it
was awesome games come on and be able to do that,
(03:44):
especially for for the region, but Nelson from Marlborough, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So talk to us about what was flying through your
mind before you took that kick.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
What kind of kicker are you?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Do?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You do you do you picture it? Do you panic?
Do you go into a blank? How does that work? Yeah,
it was pretty It's pretty good. Like especially this week.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We trained a bit, but in those situations, so after
training would muck around with some of the boys, say,
you know, pretend we're kicking the gold to win the
win the shield sort of things like that. So but yeah,
as much as you know, I'd like to say that
I was calm, you know, cool, collective and all that.
It was, you know you obviously thoughts come through the
(04:26):
mine about you know, if and butts and all that.
But now as soon as I had it, it was sort
of heading to the right post and then five ten
meters to go, it's sort of just snuck in. So
I was I was happy when the flags went up.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
For sure, Campbell Pilot, you took the air out of
McLean Park. I expect that the fans would have just gone, ah,
you are kidding me, and you guys would have reveled
in that silence.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, no, it was awesome, Like, man, the crowd was
huge there. I couldn't couldn't get over it when they
scored with a couple of months ago. It's honestly the
loudest game I've been a part of. And then to
be able to put it back on them after the
after the siren was awesome. And just to be with
the lads after the game, and just people like Quentin
McDonald's played over one hundred and twenty games, have never
(05:13):
never touched the shield, you know, to get it for
him and people like that just specially means he.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You've had a pretty rotten year. You've been a rotten
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
To talk us through what happened with the Force, what
you're a couple of year contract over there, but what
you hardly played?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did you just fell apart? Talk us through that?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That was it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So I was over at.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
The Force for super but picked up a shoulder injury
heading over there, had a shoulder reconstruction surgery, so that
took me out of my first year just rehabbing that
completely and then coming back from that, ended up doing
a grade for HAMI tear off the bone, so that
(05:55):
was the second year fully out. It was a good
a good period out of the game, just in rehab,
some some tough times obviously just constantly been written rehab,
but no, like we sort of spoke about it last night.
To be able to sort of stay at it, stick
(06:16):
in it, and then to be able to have a
moment like last night sort of makes it all all
worth it really, So yeah, and I was just just
grateful to be back playing, really especially after Yeah, like
the past couple of years.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So relatively young.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
What are you early twenty twenty three, twenty four something
along those twenty four What happens now? Have you been
like piastering super franchisers for a job process?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Nothing like that at the moment, Yeah, sort of. Previous
years I used to, especially when I was injured, used
to get worked up about, you know, the next contract
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But at the.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Moment, just enjoying, enjoying the rugby day by day sort
of thing. And now the culture at Tasman's unreal. It's
probably the best place I've ever been at. So I'm
just enjoying my time I'm here, and you'll see what
comes from it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You also, next week have got your first defense up
against now that I'm well, you're unbeaten there you managed
to roll Hawk's Bay there I went, and now you're
up against Wellington next week, your potty who were born
Does that mean extra to you going.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
There and take well then coming over and taking that on.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, it'll be awesome. My parents still live in Wellington
up the Carpety Coast actually, so no, it'll be awesome
to diverse Wellington. Obviously born in Wellington, but didn't spend
too much time there, but you know it will be awesome,
especially as a shield defense game, So that'll be awesome,
(07:48):
especially at home.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You're raised in Western Australia. It seems to him interesting
you spent a lot of time over there.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, exactly, so my me old man he sort of
worked over there as he does still now he still
works in Aussie.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
So we shot off there when I was when I
was pretty young, grew up over there and then ended
up going to boarding school in in Queensland at TSS,
the Southport School. So yeah, it was awesome time over there.
But it's good to be back home.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Must be great.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And what about the Yamea Wobblers, how are they feeling
right now?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Even in touch with them?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, now we've got a we're taking the shield
back to the Wobbers club rooms and I think it's Wednesday,
so that would be good for me and Mackat to
get back there and get it around. Like I said before,
like we probably don't know the extent of what the
shield means to so many people in the region, so
that'll be awesome the next couple of days to be able
(08:45):
to get around and get out and about. So yeah,
looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Campbell Panta, I've got to ask, have you guys been
schooled on a protocol around the shield, like you know
what not to do off it, what not to drop
it on and so forth.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, we have.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We have had a little chat last night about it.
Our team manager has actually got a nice photo of
us with a with a fizzy drink on it drinking
a fizzy drink off it. So now we'll be responsible
and make sure we look after it for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And then finally over the Hill and Marlborough they can
say wow.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's the first for the Marco, but not the first
the district because we picked it up back in seventy three.
But for the market as a club, this is huge, celebrated,
enjoy it treasure. It's an incredible Tonger and I know
that all the crew up there, I will love you
guys to bring it back. You look after yourself, look
after the shield and defend well next week, next time
(09:44):
against Wellington.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Awesome. Appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
We appreciate you for picking the phone up. Campbell Parata,
who kicked the winning penalty to send the whole of
Michael District into huge celebrations and picking up that shield.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks'd be weekends from mid or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What a day for the top of the South Island.
Ran Filly shield is off there finally the left boot
of Campbell Podata.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He's about forty eight meters from the posts thanks to Tamatava.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
No, why can they steal it? Hit the deck, Parlata
lines up the posts.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
He'll have the distance.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's got a good boot on him.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Direction is key Parata towards the uprights and.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That's o far.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Tasmin Tasmin when the Renfurly shields for the first time
in their young history.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Okay, so not the first time to the top of
the South Island because he's been here before ninety seventy three.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Marlborough managed to pick it up.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
But for Tasman Marco, the relatively new franchise, this new
club combining both Nelson and Marlborough, first time for them.
Haven't been to Nelson before.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They I love that so.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And he calm down, bruh Andy McDonald's and Nelson boys
still celebrating, still jahing, I'm glad he didn't bring his
jugg and that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
They pick up the shelf for the first.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Time, and now we're joined by the bloke get this
on as a replacement eight minutes to go when he
turned up. Suddenly he's the hero that kicks the match.
When his name is Campbell, Parata Campbell, welcome to the show. Congratulations,
dare I say it? How's your head?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Must have been a big night last night. Yeah, it
was a great night.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
We're just at the airport to get on a flight
back to back home, so no other boys are in
good spirits. Ay, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The end of the game. I know another colleague of
mine just about turn the TV off. He again is
a Marco fan. He was go, I can't cope with us.
But the end was it was tough and tough. Now
it wasn't who went in there and caused the ruckers
as they were trying to basically hang on to the
ball and defend that lead the penalty. You basically ran
straight and grabbed the ball, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yeah, it's awesome. Like we we actually trained that simulation
a lot, trying to try to get the ball back
with a minute to go, So we have a play
that we try to do. We get gym in there
and it works, so we trained it and then yeah,
I knew I knew it was in my range when
I seen where he got it from. So but it's awesome,
(02:43):
like the boys backed me straight away. When you get
that from the teammates, you know you have the confidence
to have a shot. So I was pretty pretty happy
that it went over over obviously.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Okay, I've been told fifty forty six, forty seven, forty
eight doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It was a long lay candle. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I think one of the coaches picked some grass up
from the spot after I kicked it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He's got it with him.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So yeah, but we'll just say forty ish fortyish on it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, it was a long long way.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And for you, wasn't it your first touch of the
ball since you come on?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, so came on with eight to go. We're sort
of on defense the whole time. They ended up scoring,
and then I older in my seconds, I kicked kicked
off after they scored, and then the next next time
I touched the ball was the kick. So yeah, it
was awesome games come on and be able to do that,
(03:44):
especially for for the region, but Nelson from Marlborough, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So talk to us about what was flying through your
mind before you took that kick.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
What kind of kicker are you?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Do?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You do you do you picture it? Do you panic?
Do you go into a blank? How does that work? Yeah,
it was pretty It's pretty good. Like especially this week.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We trained a bit, but in those situations, so after
training would muck around with some of the boys, say,
you know, pretend we're kicking the gold to win the
win the shield sort of things like that. So but yeah,
as much as you know, I'd like to say that
I was calm, you know, cool, collective and all that.
It was, you know you obviously thoughts come through the
(04:26):
mine about you know, if and butts and all that.
But now as soon as I had it, it was sort
of heading to the right post and then five ten
meters to go, it's sort of just snuck in. So
I was I was happy when the flags went up.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
For sure, Campbell Pilot, you took the air out of
McLean Park. I expect that the fans would have just gone, ah,
you are kidding me, and you guys would have reveled
in that silence.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, no, it was awesome, Like, man, the crowd was
huge there. I couldn't couldn't get over it when they
scored with a couple of months ago. It's honestly the
loudest game I've been a part of. And then to
be able to put it back on them after the
after the siren was awesome. And just to be with
the lads after the game, and just people like Quentin
McDonald's played over one hundred and twenty games, have never
(05:13):
never touched the shield, you know, to get it for
him and people like that just specially means he.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You've had a pretty rotten year. You've been a rotten
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
To talk us through what happened with the Force, what
you're a couple of year contract over there, but what
you hardly played?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did you just fell apart? Talk us through that?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That was it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So I was over at.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
The Force for super but picked up a shoulder injury
heading over there, had a shoulder reconstruction surgery, so that
took me out of my first year just rehabbing that
completely and then coming back from that, ended up doing
a grade for HAMI tear off the bone, so that
(05:55):
was the second year fully out. It was a good
a good period out of the game, just in rehab,
some some tough times obviously just constantly been written rehab,
but no, like we sort of spoke about it last night.
To be able to sort of stay at it, stick
(06:16):
in it, and then to be able to have a
moment like last night sort of makes it all all
worth it really, So yeah, and I was just just
grateful to be back playing, really especially after Yeah, like
the past couple of years.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So relatively young.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
What are you early twenty twenty three, twenty four something
along those twenty four What happens now? Have you been
like piastering super franchisers for a job process?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Nothing like that at the moment, Yeah, sort of. Previous
years I used to, especially when I was injured, used
to get worked up about, you know, the next contract
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But at the.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Moment, just enjoying, enjoying the rugby day by day sort
of thing. And now the culture at Tasman's unreal. It's
probably the best place I've ever been at. So I'm
just enjoying my time I'm here, and you'll see what
comes from it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You also, next week have got your first defense up
against now that I'm well, you're unbeaten there you managed
to roll Hawk's Bay there I went, and now you're
up against Wellington next week, your potty who were born
Does that mean extra to you going.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
There and take well then coming over and taking that on.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, it'll be awesome. My parents still live in Wellington
up the Carpety Coast actually, so no, it'll be awesome
to diverse Wellington. Obviously born in Wellington, but didn't spend
too much time there, but you know it will be awesome,
especially as a shield defense game, So that'll be awesome,
(07:48):
especially at home.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You're raised in Western Australia. It seems to him interesting
you spent a lot of time over there.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, exactly, so my me old man he sort of
worked over there as he does still now he still
works in Aussie.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
So we shot off there when I was when I
was pretty young, grew up over there and then ended
up going to boarding school in in Queensland at TSS,
the Southport School. So yeah, it was awesome time over there.
But it's good to be back home.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Must be great.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And what about the Yamea Wobblers, how are they feeling
right now?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Even in touch with them?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, now we've got a we're taking the shield
back to the Wobbers club rooms and I think it's Wednesday,
so that would be good for me and Mackat to
get back there and get it around. Like I said before,
like we probably don't know the extent of what the
shield means to so many people in the region, so
that'll be awesome the next couple of days to be able
(08:45):
to get around and get out and about. So yeah,
looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Campbell Panta, I've got to ask, have you guys been
schooled on a protocol around the shield, like you know
what not to do off it, what not to drop
it on and so forth.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, we have.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We have had a little chat last night about it.
Our team manager has actually got a nice photo of
us with a with a fizzy drink on it drinking
a fizzy drink off it. So now we'll be responsible
and make sure we look after it for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And then finally over the Hill and Marlborough they can
say wow.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's the first for the Marco, but not the first
the district because we picked it up back in seventy three.
But for the market as a club, this is huge, celebrated,
enjoy it treasure. It's an incredible Tonger and I know
that all the crew up there, I will love you
guys to bring it back. You look after yourself, look
after the shield and defend well next week, next time
(09:44):
against Wellington.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Awesome. Appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
We appreciate you for picking the phone up. Campbell Parata,
who kicked the winning penalty to send the whole of
Michael District into huge celebrations and picking up that shield.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks'd be weekends from mid or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
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