April 12, 2025 • 9 mins
James McOnie from The Crowd Goes Wild joined Piney to discuss the 2025 Masters and the ongoing Super Rugby season.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine
from news Talk zed B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's get the pleasure of the company of James mcconey.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hello mate, how are you poney? Great to be on
the show once again.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Great have you on the show.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Considering the fact this is your regular slot it has
been for some time, It's good to have you with
us as always.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Have you been watching the Gulf at Augusta?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I have the masters. I mean, look at the boiler
suits worn by the caddies, the flowers, the patrons, they're
not allowed cell phones, the history, it's just incredible. And
now the match up between Rory mclroy and bryceon Shambo,
it's all set up, pony.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah're going to be box office, isn't it. Do you
get the feeling that the vast majority of people want
Rory McElroy to win.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah? I think so. He made a little sneaky tour
trip to New Zealand over the summer. Rory small fella,
He's he's a wee man, slight man against the Shambo
with all his big muscles and big energy, and he's
kind of, you know, the new poster child of American golf.
You know, and with his weird putting style. But I
(01:22):
think for Rory mcaury, it's all about the career Grand Slam,
which is where you've got to win all four not
in the same year. No one's really done that. I
think Tiger had a Tiger Slam where he held them
all at the same time but didn't win them all
in the same calendar year. So yeah, Rory's got he
needs the masters to complete the set, and he really
after an underwhelming first round, he's been brilliant. There was
(01:45):
a couple of moments there that you would have seen
the eagle, but it's really set up by the Shambo's
put fifteen meters forty eight feet in the American terms,
fifteen meters off, the sort of the apron of the
green on the eighteenth that cut the lead to two.
That is pure drama and theater makes it so mouth ordering.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
For tomorrow it does.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah, for the neutual, you're sall right because Bryson d
Chambau what, he picked up three shots on his last
four holes, didn't He birdied fifteen sixteen, and then as
you said, he burdied eighteen as well. I think if
he'd been say four or five shots back. That may
well have been too much to make up two shots,
though it doesn't seem like a lot, does.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It, No, and they appear together. It's perfect. You actually
need that. Really, you need something like that on the
final day with somebody breathing down Rory's neck, and they
will make it all the more sweeter if he gets it.
I don't know if Donald Trump's turning up, but he
is mates with the Shambo. But Rory famously that he
has played with Trump before, but after COVID he thought
(02:50):
Trump was such an idiot he just declined to play
with him now, So it would be quite awkward to
see if he won and Trump was there and how
he had react because I think even when he was picking,
and when he deliberately ignored Rory McClory in his form
coming into it, even after they had their incredible second round,
Trump was picking anybody else because of.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The smart anyone got Rory all right?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Tomorrow we'll watch with interest McElroy and d Chambau battling
it out on the final day at Augusta. Hey, who
do you reckon our Super Rugby favorites? Everyone's played eight
games now, who are favorites?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think the Crusaders are the favorites. I think they
look to be a team that if they peak they
have and get there. Let's just say their full compliment
of players out there, that they would look the strongest
as well on paper. So look, they've done really you
know more, Nanu at hooker filling in for Cody Taylor
(03:48):
has been exceptional, and I think Taha Kimada has had
that turning point season for him running the cutter at ten.
Any number of half back seemed to be able to
do the job. I'm almost miss Kyle Preston now, don't
you you know? He was so electric there for winning
Field and for Noah Hotham. Look, I think on paper
it's the Crusaders.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yourself, Piny, I kind of still think the Chiefs are,
you know, I yeah, yeah, I take what you're saying
about the Crusaders, But I've sort of been saying the
Chiefs all along. And look, I think when they play
the Crusaders in about a month or so, we'll get
a pretty good gauge, but only a couple of games
to go until the finals. At that point, I just
(04:31):
still think they have the strongest squad. It's an odd
thing to say when you look at the Crusaders roster.
But yeah, it's still the Chiefs for me.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah. Well, I mean, obviously my love for the Chiefs
will never die. But I was watching them against the
Waratahs and the wheels that came off of They lacked
a little bit of direction and even Joseph Siweley, he
did slap the ball down and it should have been
a penalty at the end. I don't think the Chiefs
really had many answers. They had twenty four phases and
didn't even threaten and they were still pottering around out
(05:04):
by the twenty two and normally team and position well
but just by sort of being at the door that
often will make its way to the tryline. So there's
definitely things to work on for the Chiefs at the moment.
They've got to sort things out. I mean, look, watching
Boden Barrett run the cutter for the Blues last night,
you can't discount them. I think you know that. I
(05:25):
think we've talked about this pony, but been a team
in a state of flux. You know, Mark Kallear could
be leaving. Sounds like he's leaving. Taylor Clark probably once
they have a sabbatical and get away from this court
case all those things. But then when they got it
together yesterday and just started to boss the game, they
looked imperious. So maybe the Blues could speak one with
(05:46):
their nice you know, sort of back nine as everyone's
talking about for them. A pretty kind draw to finish
the round robin just.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Before we move from Super Rugby. Could could Could the
Brumbies or the Reds win it? I feel like they
could make the final. Do you think the Brumbies or
the Reds could win it? Because it's likely I guessed
to be away from home.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, possibly the Brummes. I mean it's I mean, yeah,
they could. They could. There's there's no doubt. I mean
what the Waitars could you know if they go if
they played like they did last night and played with
that sort of intensity and you watch Joseph so elitely
improving the whole time, that they do look like they're
(06:26):
a team that could beat anyone, and that's probably the
best thing about the competition. But hey, just the word
as well on wine in pacifica Patrick Pellegreen, he's been
outstanding for them at ten. Why do you rest your ten?
I mean it's not that hard for first wives to
play minutes. It's not like they're bashing heads against and
bodies like a forward. And to rest them in that
(06:46):
game yesterday just seemed a little bit crazy to me.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You playing, Yeah, very odd decision, a very odd one.
I'd have him running the cutter basically every day he
was available. But you know in Tana they trust. So
let's see what happens from here on. And hey, just
before we leave rugby, good Opiki final last night, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So the Opiki Final? You take the three finals they've
had have been exceptional, just all cliffhangers, nail byers. There
was the first one, remember I think it was Tanika
Willison needed a regulation penalty to win it and Duff
the shot and that went to Marta tu Last year
the Blues got up again. These are all one score victories,
(07:25):
they're all basically within touching distance, and last night the
Blues they looked they were like they were going to
lose this one. Marty Tuo had all the possession, banging
on the door and then the incredible intercept and long
range try from Braxton, Sorenson and McGee. Remember the name
the Young Blues fall back eighteen years old. But also
(07:48):
the Blues using a tactic that I think the male
players are very slow on latching onto, which is when
players are trying to go for the line, they were
dragging them into the dead ball area, into the goal
and holding them up, you know, like a sort of
Koala bear tackle as they like, you know, just dragging
them in. Of course, what the result now isn't a
five minute scrum, It's a dropout from the line. So
(08:11):
I just find the women's game. They're quick to innovate,
and yeah, it was just an incredible final.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Let's finish with the NRL where the table looks like
it's upside down. Not with the Eels, but the Panthers
are sixteen of seventeen teams one win from their first
six matches.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, the only team not to win in Australia. It's
the only team not to win in the Southern Hemisphere.
I mean, this isn't crazy to see, but I guess
they do get picked off. Every year a star will leave,
so we all know them. Kick our Crichton, they all
go Loui's the latest, and of course we've got James Fisherharris,
(08:50):
so I think for Ivan Cleary, who is really a
modern day super touch. It's just been a step too far.
But I'm noticing Nathan Cleary just as in himself, and
I think it's because of love, Pony. I think he
is in love, of course with Matilda striker Mary Fowler,
who plays from Manchester City, and I think Nathan should
just go and be with the one who loves. Just
(09:11):
go to Manchester. There are rugby league clubs up there,
plenty of them along that the sixty two, the motorway
between Leeds and Manchester. Anyway, just go and be with Mary,
because it's not working out here with Penet. And you've
done all you can. You've won three in a row
and I think at some point you've got to do
(09:32):
things for love, Pony.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Sporting insight and romantic advice. We get it all with you,
James Dooke.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We are on a Sunday. Thanks for your time.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Always advice will you.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm sure you'll get plenty for more from Weekend Sport
with Jason Fine. Listen live to News Talk z B
weekends from midday or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine
from news Talk zed B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's get the pleasure of the company of James mcconey.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hello mate, how are you poney? Great to be on
the show once again.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Great have you on the show.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Considering the fact this is your regular slot it has
been for some time, It's good to have you with
us as always.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Have you been watching the Gulf at Augusta?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I have the masters. I mean, look at the boiler
suits worn by the caddies, the flowers, the patrons, they're
not allowed cell phones, the history, it's just incredible. And
now the match up between Rory mclroy and bryceon Shambo,
it's all set up, pony.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah're going to be box office, isn't it. Do you
get the feeling that the vast majority of people want
Rory McElroy to win.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah? I think so. He made a little sneaky tour
trip to New Zealand over the summer. Rory small fella,
He's he's a wee man, slight man against the Shambo
with all his big muscles and big energy, and he's
kind of, you know, the new poster child of American golf.
You know, and with his weird putting style. But I
(01:22):
think for Rory mcaury, it's all about the career Grand Slam,
which is where you've got to win all four not
in the same year. No one's really done that. I
think Tiger had a Tiger Slam where he held them
all at the same time but didn't win them all
in the same calendar year. So yeah, Rory's got he
needs the masters to complete the set, and he really
after an underwhelming first round, he's been brilliant. There was
(01:45):
a couple of moments there that you would have seen
the eagle, but it's really set up by the Shambo's
put fifteen meters forty eight feet in the American terms,
fifteen meters off, the sort of the apron of the
green on the eighteenth that cut the lead to two.
That is pure drama and theater makes it so mouth ordering.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
For tomorrow it does.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah, for the neutual, you're sall right because Bryson d
Chambau what, he picked up three shots on his last
four holes, didn't He birdied fifteen sixteen, and then as
you said, he burdied eighteen as well. I think if
he'd been say four or five shots back. That may
well have been too much to make up two shots,
though it doesn't seem like a lot, does.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It, No, and they appear together. It's perfect. You actually
need that. Really, you need something like that on the
final day with somebody breathing down Rory's neck, and they
will make it all the more sweeter if he gets it.
I don't know if Donald Trump's turning up, but he
is mates with the Shambo. But Rory famously that he
has played with Trump before, but after COVID he thought
(02:50):
Trump was such an idiot he just declined to play
with him now, So it would be quite awkward to
see if he won and Trump was there and how
he had react because I think even when he was picking,
and when he deliberately ignored Rory McClory in his form
coming into it, even after they had their incredible second round,
Trump was picking anybody else because of.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The smart anyone got Rory all right?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Tomorrow we'll watch with interest McElroy and d Chambau battling
it out on the final day at Augusta. Hey, who
do you reckon our Super Rugby favorites? Everyone's played eight
games now, who are favorites?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think the Crusaders are the favorites. I think they
look to be a team that if they peak they
have and get there. Let's just say their full compliment
of players out there, that they would look the strongest
as well on paper. So look, they've done really you
know more, Nanu at hooker filling in for Cody Taylor
(03:48):
has been exceptional, and I think Taha Kimada has had
that turning point season for him running the cutter at ten.
Any number of half back seemed to be able to
do the job. I'm almost miss Kyle Preston now, don't
you you know? He was so electric there for winning
Field and for Noah Hotham. Look, I think on paper
it's the Crusaders.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yourself, Piny, I kind of still think the Chiefs are,
you know, I yeah, yeah, I take what you're saying
about the Crusaders, But I've sort of been saying the
Chiefs all along. And look, I think when they play
the Crusaders in about a month or so, we'll get
a pretty good gauge, but only a couple of games
to go until the finals. At that point, I just
(04:31):
still think they have the strongest squad. It's an odd
thing to say when you look at the Crusaders roster.
But yeah, it's still the Chiefs for me.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah. Well, I mean, obviously my love for the Chiefs
will never die. But I was watching them against the
Waratahs and the wheels that came off of They lacked
a little bit of direction and even Joseph Siweley, he
did slap the ball down and it should have been
a penalty at the end. I don't think the Chiefs
really had many answers. They had twenty four phases and
didn't even threaten and they were still pottering around out
(05:04):
by the twenty two and normally team and position well
but just by sort of being at the door that
often will make its way to the tryline. So there's
definitely things to work on for the Chiefs at the moment.
They've got to sort things out. I mean, look, watching
Boden Barrett run the cutter for the Blues last night,
you can't discount them. I think you know that. I
(05:25):
think we've talked about this pony, but been a team
in a state of flux. You know, Mark Kallear could
be leaving. Sounds like he's leaving. Taylor Clark probably once
they have a sabbatical and get away from this court
case all those things. But then when they got it
together yesterday and just started to boss the game, they
looked imperious. So maybe the Blues could speak one with
(05:46):
their nice you know, sort of back nine as everyone's
talking about for them. A pretty kind draw to finish
the round robin just.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Before we move from Super Rugby. Could could Could the
Brumbies or the Reds win it? I feel like they
could make the final. Do you think the Brumbies or
the Reds could win it? Because it's likely I guessed
to be away from home.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, possibly the Brummes. I mean it's I mean, yeah,
they could. They could. There's there's no doubt. I mean
what the Waitars could you know if they go if
they played like they did last night and played with
that sort of intensity and you watch Joseph so elitely
improving the whole time, that they do look like they're
(06:26):
a team that could beat anyone, and that's probably the
best thing about the competition. But hey, just the word
as well on wine in pacifica Patrick Pellegreen, he's been
outstanding for them at ten. Why do you rest your ten?
I mean it's not that hard for first wives to
play minutes. It's not like they're bashing heads against and
bodies like a forward. And to rest them in that
(06:46):
game yesterday just seemed a little bit crazy to me.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You playing, Yeah, very odd decision, a very odd one.
I'd have him running the cutter basically every day he
was available. But you know in Tana they trust. So
let's see what happens from here on. And hey, just
before we leave rugby, good Opiki final last night, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So the Opiki Final? You take the three finals they've
had have been exceptional, just all cliffhangers, nail byers. There
was the first one, remember I think it was Tanika
Willison needed a regulation penalty to win it and Duff
the shot and that went to Marta tu Last year
the Blues got up again. These are all one score victories,
(07:25):
they're all basically within touching distance, and last night the
Blues they looked they were like they were going to
lose this one. Marty Tuo had all the possession, banging
on the door and then the incredible intercept and long
range try from Braxton, Sorenson and McGee. Remember the name
the Young Blues fall back eighteen years old. But also
(07:48):
the Blues using a tactic that I think the male
players are very slow on latching onto, which is when
players are trying to go for the line, they were
dragging them into the dead ball area, into the goal
and holding them up, you know, like a sort of
Koala bear tackle as they like, you know, just dragging
them in. Of course, what the result now isn't a
five minute scrum, It's a dropout from the line. So
(08:11):
I just find the women's game. They're quick to innovate,
and yeah, it was just an incredible final.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Let's finish with the NRL where the table looks like
it's upside down. Not with the Eels, but the Panthers
are sixteen of seventeen teams one win from their first
six matches.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, the only team not to win in Australia. It's
the only team not to win in the Southern Hemisphere.
I mean, this isn't crazy to see, but I guess
they do get picked off. Every year a star will leave,
so we all know them. Kick our Crichton, they all
go Loui's the latest, and of course we've got James Fisherharris,
(08:50):
so I think for Ivan Cleary, who is really a
modern day super touch. It's just been a step too far.
But I'm noticing Nathan Cleary just as in himself, and
I think it's because of love, Pony. I think he
is in love, of course with Matilda striker Mary Fowler,
who plays from Manchester City, and I think Nathan should
just go and be with the one who loves. Just
(09:11):
go to Manchester. There are rugby league clubs up there,
plenty of them along that the sixty two, the motorway
between Leeds and Manchester. Anyway, just go and be with Mary,
because it's not working out here with Penet. And you've
done all you can. You've won three in a row
and I think at some point you've got to do
(09:32):
things for love, Pony.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Sporting insight and romantic advice. We get it all with you,
James Dooke.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We are on a Sunday. Thanks for your time.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Always advice will you.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm sure you'll get plenty for more from Weekend Sport
with Jason Fine. Listen live to News Talk z B
weekends from midday or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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