March 8, 2025 • 8 mins
Moana Pasifika's 40-31 win over the Hurricanes in Albany has broken a 20-match Super Rugby losing streak against New Zealand sides.
Fly half Patrick Pellegrini joined Piney to discuss what the win means for the team.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What's a Saturday? It was first this that.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Is the Fiji and Drawer who knock off the unbeaten
Chiefs twenty eight twenty four in Louvetoka. What a performance?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And then this or have it takes contexts?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Mowanna got the ball, Mowanna, I gotta chalk it over
the touchline. While I call this competition Super Rugby Pacific.
The power of the Pacific has been felt today. First
the Drawer, now Mawana pacifica knockover Kiwi teams in succession.
(00:48):
Mawana pacificer forty the Hurricane's thirty one.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Great calls from from Nathan and Elliott on those games.
Nathan m Elliot Smith part of our commentary team on
Gold Sport and iHeartRadio ONEA Pacifica snapping a twenty match
Super Rugby losing streak against New Zealand sides beating the
Hurricanes forty thirty one and Albany Last night first five
Patrick Palegrini had an absolutely superb game in the number
(01:16):
ten jersey for more one, He joins us, Now I'm
sure you slept pretty well after that. Patrick, thanks for
joining us this afternoon. How significant a result is this
for you and your More one pacificate teammates.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, bigger thought, definitely, especially going into the buy you know,
getting a win under the belt, big, big, big win
back at home. So yeah, good, good to get the
good to get that under the belt going into the
bye week.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Did it feel like this win was coming after your
performances in the first three.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Games, Yeah, definitely, No, two of those games we could
have won easily, just got away from us in the end,
So definitely felt like it was coming.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
And yeah, so it's good to good to put that
one for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You came off the bench last weekend against the Highlanders
and nearly drove you a side to victory there. Handed
the starting first five role for the first time last night.
What was your approach to the game in general terms
and the starting team jumper?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, well, just for me, nothing really changes, to be honest,
just prepower how I normally would prep. Obviously getting the
start it was big, but yeah, just kind of just
go about my week as I normally would any any
other game weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, I just want to ask you about a couple
of features of your game. You're kicking and play terrific
last night, big chunks of territory carved off of fifty
twenty two at one stage and on attack, you know,
sit out up a trific Karen Tomoy for lal, How
big a part of your game and how hard do
you work on your kicking in play?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Definitely, Like I definitely work on that a lot, you know,
priding myself for a lot of my kicking, and so
I was my attacking as well. So I think I
know we knew if we could get the ball in
front of the boys, which our kicking game, those the
big boys up front could get the job done for us.
So you know, just had to had to keep them
pull in front of them, and yeah, just get the
(03:18):
job done after that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And I know you probably don't want to talk about
yourself too much, so I'll move on in a moment.
But you can run as well. It lead to another
try the criple thread of kick pass run. Is that
something you also pride yourself on?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You know, I love love my running game, you know,
I'm kind of Yeah, just one one of my things
that you know, I've worked on throughout my career, so
definitely trying to trying to incorporate all of it, you know,
now the kicking game, running game, and yeah, all that.
So yeah, definitely working working on all of that and
trying to trying to bring it all together.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
A lot of the narrative and the lead up to
last night was about Ardie Savia facing his former side.
Of course, you lost him for the second half with
a tight hamstring. How did your rise above what could
have been a big sidelogical blow in losing Artie for
the second half?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, sure, you can't can't play Arty, you know, the
best player in the world. But you know, we've got
a got a good, good bench, got a lot of
depth in the squad, so we knew the boys on
the bench could come and bring that energy, you know,
and just finish the job for us.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
So you know, we knew, we knew we had that.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Just just had to finish the job we've got. We've
got ourselves in a good position in that first half,
so yeah, the the on the benches come in and
get the job done.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In the end, as your artist save the best player
in the world. I don't think you'll get too many arguments,
can you tell us about his influence inside the Mona
Pacifica playing group.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Oh yeah, I can see on TV and that knows.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Very humble guy, very easy to get on with, and
just leads by example, you know, trained hard and then
show's up. You can see it in the game. So yeah,
I think that's the biggest thing from him. He's won't
ask you to do anything that he won't do, so
just leads from the front and leads by example to
(05:14):
these actions.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And another one of your loose forwards, a youngster miracle
for a lungy scoring a hat trick, the first hat
trick in mo Onea Pacific history. Actually, how do you
a SS Simon rate him among the other young players
you've had the chance to play alongside and against.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, he's a beast back, you know, a whole forward
packed unreal. But our loose forwards as well, then they're
stat and there he's been on fire this year. He's
strange power, he's a free cathelete and yeah he was
unreal yesterday as well. Again you know, luck he has
(05:51):
a north season.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The Hurricanes came out, you're pretty hard in the last
ten minutes, didn't. They got a couple of tries to
reduce the margin. What sort of conversations were going on
out there as you defended your lead and defended your
line late in the game.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And yeah, it gave us a bit of a scare there.
We're kind of just, you know, we had a good lead,
just kind of just need to do our jobs. You know,
a couple of missed tackles here and there, we kind
of we knew what they were going out of but yeah,
we just kind of slipped off a bit there.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
But yeah, luckily, luckily we just held on at the end.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And scoring points hasn't been a problem for you one
hundred and forty nine across your four games. So that's
that's going well. Is defense do you think one of
your your bigger work ons as you move forward.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I think our defense is really solid. You know, it's
just I think in moments were kind of it's just
kind of putting a putting together eighty minute performance. You know,
we sometimes we kind of just switch off in moments
and you know, lose momentum for a blocker period. Because
our defense, Yeah, it's solid, and we can we can
stop teams pretty pretty pretty well. So I think it's
(07:02):
just kind of putting together an eighty minute performance and
just not switching off for for big blocks of lots
of the game and.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Just just back to you to finish. You're coming off
too terrific seasons with Coventry. But was it a pretty
easy yes when you offer the chance to play Super
rugby for.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
More one, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I think you know, it's a dream to play Super
rugby since I was a kid, and you know, I
wanted to kind of move back closer to home, and
perfect opportunity to play for more on closer closer to
my home and also closer to my roots, you know,
in terms of my culture and all that. So yeah,
(07:46):
it was pretty pretty easy, yes, when when that came through.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, well I bet the your teammates were pretty happy.
How about that crowd last night. You're starting to build
quite a quite a cool base of supporters at Albany,
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, fans are unreal, you know, specific specific fans all
around the world, you know, you know all of them,
they are there. Yeah, They're huge and very loud, very vocal,
so been behind us definitely definitely helped to get us
over the finish line yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Congrats on the win. Patrick, first of many I'm sure
this season terrific performance from you personally as well. Mate,
Thanks for taking the time for a chat and all
the best.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Oh good, thank you, Jason, appreciate it now.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Thank you for your time. Patrick, Patrick Pellegrini there and
the first five jumper for more one Pacific. I had
to wait for a bit. Jackson Garden. Bishop wore the
ten jumper in the first three games. Patrick Pellegrini off
the bench last week and almost got them home against
the Highlanders. Started there last night and one from one
the filling. He'll take ownership of that jersey for the
next little while.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What's a Saturday? It was first this that.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Is the Fiji and Drawer who knock off the unbeaten
Chiefs twenty eight twenty four in Louvetoka. What a performance?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And then this or have it takes contexts?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Mowanna got the ball, Mowanna, I gotta chalk it over
the touchline. While I call this competition Super Rugby Pacific.
The power of the Pacific has been felt today. First
the Drawer, now Mawana pacifica knockover Kiwi teams in succession.
(00:48):
Mawana pacificer forty the Hurricane's thirty one.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Great calls from from Nathan and Elliott on those games.
Nathan m Elliot Smith part of our commentary team on
Gold Sport and iHeartRadio ONEA Pacifica snapping a twenty match
Super Rugby losing streak against New Zealand sides beating the
Hurricanes forty thirty one and Albany Last night first five
Patrick Palegrini had an absolutely superb game in the number
(01:16):
ten jersey for more one, He joins us, Now I'm
sure you slept pretty well after that. Patrick, thanks for
joining us this afternoon. How significant a result is this
for you and your More one pacificate teammates.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, bigger thought, definitely, especially going into the buy you know,
getting a win under the belt, big, big, big win
back at home. So yeah, good, good to get the
good to get that under the belt going into the
bye week.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Did it feel like this win was coming after your
performances in the first three.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Games, Yeah, definitely, No, two of those games we could
have won easily, just got away from us in the end,
So definitely felt like it was coming.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
And yeah, so it's good to good to put that
one for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You came off the bench last weekend against the Highlanders
and nearly drove you a side to victory there. Handed
the starting first five role for the first time last night.
What was your approach to the game in general terms
and the starting team jumper?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, well, just for me, nothing really changes, to be honest,
just prepower how I normally would prep. Obviously getting the
start it was big, but yeah, just kind of just
go about my week as I normally would any any
other game weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, I just want to ask you about a couple
of features of your game. You're kicking and play terrific
last night, big chunks of territory carved off of fifty
twenty two at one stage and on attack, you know,
sit out up a trific Karen Tomoy for lal, How
big a part of your game and how hard do
you work on your kicking in play?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Definitely, Like I definitely work on that a lot, you know,
priding myself for a lot of my kicking, and so
I was my attacking as well. So I think I
know we knew if we could get the ball in
front of the boys, which our kicking game, those the
big boys up front could get the job done for us.
So you know, just had to had to keep them
pull in front of them, and yeah, just get the
(03:18):
job done after that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And I know you probably don't want to talk about
yourself too much, so I'll move on in a moment.
But you can run as well. It lead to another
try the criple thread of kick pass run. Is that
something you also pride yourself on?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You know, I love love my running game, you know,
I'm kind of Yeah, just one one of my things
that you know, I've worked on throughout my career, so
definitely trying to trying to incorporate all of it, you know,
now the kicking game, running game, and yeah, all that.
So yeah, definitely working working on all of that and
trying to trying to bring it all together.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
A lot of the narrative and the lead up to
last night was about Ardie Savia facing his former side.
Of course, you lost him for the second half with
a tight hamstring. How did your rise above what could
have been a big sidelogical blow in losing Artie for
the second half?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, sure, you can't can't play Arty, you know, the
best player in the world. But you know, we've got
a got a good, good bench, got a lot of
depth in the squad, so we knew the boys on
the bench could come and bring that energy, you know,
and just finish the job for us.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
So you know, we knew, we knew we had that.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Just just had to finish the job we've got. We've
got ourselves in a good position in that first half,
so yeah, the the on the benches come in and
get the job done.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In the end, as your artist save the best player
in the world. I don't think you'll get too many arguments,
can you tell us about his influence inside the Mona
Pacifica playing group.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Oh yeah, I can see on TV and that knows.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Very humble guy, very easy to get on with, and
just leads by example, you know, trained hard and then
show's up. You can see it in the game. So yeah,
I think that's the biggest thing from him. He's won't
ask you to do anything that he won't do, so
just leads from the front and leads by example to
(05:14):
these actions.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And another one of your loose forwards, a youngster miracle
for a lungy scoring a hat trick, the first hat
trick in mo Onea Pacific history. Actually, how do you
a SS Simon rate him among the other young players
you've had the chance to play alongside and against.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, he's a beast back, you know, a whole forward
packed unreal. But our loose forwards as well, then they're
stat and there he's been on fire this year. He's
strange power, he's a free cathelete and yeah he was
unreal yesterday as well. Again you know, luck he has
(05:51):
a north season.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The Hurricanes came out, you're pretty hard in the last
ten minutes, didn't. They got a couple of tries to
reduce the margin. What sort of conversations were going on
out there as you defended your lead and defended your
line late in the game.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And yeah, it gave us a bit of a scare there.
We're kind of just, you know, we had a good lead,
just kind of just need to do our jobs. You know,
a couple of missed tackles here and there, we kind
of we knew what they were going out of but yeah,
we just kind of slipped off a bit there.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
But yeah, luckily, luckily we just held on at the end.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And scoring points hasn't been a problem for you one
hundred and forty nine across your four games. So that's
that's going well. Is defense do you think one of
your your bigger work ons as you move forward.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I think our defense is really solid. You know, it's
just I think in moments were kind of it's just
kind of putting a putting together eighty minute performance. You know,
we sometimes we kind of just switch off in moments
and you know, lose momentum for a blocker period. Because
our defense, Yeah, it's solid, and we can we can
stop teams pretty pretty pretty well. So I think it's
(07:02):
just kind of putting together an eighty minute performance and
just not switching off for for big blocks of lots
of the game and.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Just just back to you to finish. You're coming off
too terrific seasons with Coventry. But was it a pretty
easy yes when you offer the chance to play Super
rugby for.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
More one, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I think you know, it's a dream to play Super
rugby since I was a kid, and you know, I
wanted to kind of move back closer to home, and
perfect opportunity to play for more on closer closer to
my home and also closer to my roots, you know,
in terms of my culture and all that. So yeah,
(07:46):
it was pretty pretty easy, yes, when when that came through.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, well I bet the your teammates were pretty happy.
How about that crowd last night. You're starting to build
quite a quite a cool base of supporters at Albany,
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, fans are unreal, you know, specific specific fans all
around the world, you know, you know all of them,
they are there. Yeah, They're huge and very loud, very vocal,
so been behind us definitely definitely helped to get us
over the finish line yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Congrats on the win. Patrick, first of many I'm sure
this season terrific performance from you personally as well. Mate,
Thanks for taking the time for a chat and all
the best.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Oh good, thank you, Jason, appreciate it now.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Thank you for your time. Patrick, Patrick Pellegrini there and
the first five jumper for more one Pacific. I had
to wait for a bit. Jackson Garden. Bishop wore the
ten jumper in the first three games. Patrick Pellegrini off
the bench last week and almost got them home against
the Highlanders. Started there last night and one from one
the filling. He'll take ownership of that jersey for the
next little while.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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