Full Show Podcast: 11 October 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hello, Deck, youon good afternoon, A very warm welcome into
the Saturday edition of Weekend Sport on News Talk SEDB.
For October eleven, nineteen sixty six foot four World Cup
win with England Bobby Charlton born on this day in
nineteen thirty seven. He passed away in twenty twenty three.
I'm Jason Pine. The show produced by Andy McDonald. As always,
we're talking sport until three. Joseph Parker preparing for his

(00:54):
next fight against Fabio Wardley on Sunday, October twenty sixth,
New Zealand time at the O two Arena in London.
The winner of that fight will earn the mandatory position
to fight Olig under you Sick for a shot at
the undisputed World Heavyweight Championship. Joseph Parker is with us
on the show in around an hour from now, just

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after one o'clock to update us on his progress. We
kick off today though at bathist where else the Great
Race is taken over Mount Panorama. Four time winner Kiwi
icon Greg Murphy going to set the scene for us shortly.
Eric Thompson is also with us from Bathurst across the afternoon.
And your Bathurst experiences? Have you been? What was it like?

(01:38):
I feel like it's a bucket list sort of thing
for a lot of Kiwi sports fans and obviously in
particular motorsport fans. So if you've been, we'd love to
hear all about it and what stands out when you
think back to your trip to Bathurst. Now, other matters
around today, The White Fans up and running finally at
the Cricket World Cup, beating Bangladesh by one hundred runs
in Guwahati this morning. Brook Halliday top scoring with sixty nine.

(02:02):
She was Player of the match. She's going to join
us to recap the win. Absolutely thrilling opening quarterfinal in
Rugby's MPC. How good was that? Last night? Otago the
first team to book their spot in the Semis, a
fifty one meter penalty from Cam Miller, clinching a forty
four forty one victory over Wakuta and Dunedin last night.
Cam Miller is going to join us to recap that.

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This year marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the Sydney Paralympics,
which saw our very first Paralympic medal in cycling, mark
Ingalls claiming silver in the kilo time trial. Now you
know Mark, He's gone on to other things, much higher things,
including being the first ever double amputee to scale Everest.

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But he's going to join us in the studio after
two o'clock for a chat about that Paralympic medal twenty
five years on Adam Peacock with Australian Sporting Matters and
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sport to keep you up to date with while we're
on the O. This afternoon, Heartland Championship Semifinals in the
Meets Cup Mid Canterbury against whited Up a Bush and
Ashburton from one thirty five. South Canterbury take on Thames Valley.
A little bit later on in the Lahore Trophy, fang
Anui against Holofanua, Carperty from two thirty North Otago against
Poverty Bay at the same time. Will be sure to
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Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's down to the line.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
You made a call on eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Weekend Sports with Jason Pine News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
So all roads lead to Mount Panorama this weekend for
the great race, the Bathurst one thousand from one forty
five tomorrow afternoon, New Zealand time. It's hard enough to
win one of these Bathurst one thousands. Many top drivers
never win it. Greg Murphy won at four times nineteen
ninety six, nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and three and

(04:14):
then in two thousand and four as well.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I'm calling a little early, perhaps because this is after all.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Mount pator Ramava. Not long to go now for Greg Murphy,
Rick Kelly.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
The team will be keeping their fingers crossed, rising to
their feet, heading towards the apron.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
The raw going up everywhere.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Now the lights are flashing for Murphy.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's a great job, isn't it. He's just a fantastic
job here.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well done, Greg Murphy.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
You can hear the.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
Chairs inside and outside the cars.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Murphy and Kelly make it.

Speaker 7 (04:44):
Two and a row of key make world gone great drug.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
That is the two thousand and four victory at the
Bathurst one thousand for Greg Murphy, who joins us now
from Bathurst where he's obviously working over the weekend in
various capacities. Greg, thanks for taking our call. Nineteen ninety six,
nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and three, two thousand and four.
Does of the four stand out above the others?

Speaker 7 (05:10):
No, No, they don't. I mean the significance. Sorry, there
is significance with all of them for various different reasons.
So I just would never want to try and put
them in an order, and I don't think anyone that's
one multiple races here at the mountain would do that.
The challenge of winning it is always the same, and

(05:33):
there's so many things over one hundred and sixty one laps,
one thousand kilometers that can go wrong, So you know,
they've all got their own stories.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
With so much to think about, as you say, with
so many potential things that can go wrong, what's the
best way to prepare for Bathurst.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Well, there's a lot of preparation and it starts really
with obviously the team doing everything that they can to
ensure that you know, the race car that's been presented,
you know, has had every single nutt and bolt, every
opportunity to check and make sure you know, no stone
has been left unturned and no bolt's been left loose,

(06:14):
you know. So it's about experience too. It's it's knowing
how to control a race like that been prepared for,
strategy and then you know, so many parts of that
process as a team, and then the drivers again, experience
is such a big part of success at the mountain,
you know, and knowing your role. You know, obviously co
drivers come and play a big, huge part of that

(06:35):
and having a great combination having a lead driver who's
got confidence to be able to qualify the car and
be that driver that's going to have to be in
the car for you know, well over a couple of
hours at the end of the race and be physically prepared,
and a co driver that understands what their role is
to do the laps that they've got to do, you know,
keep the car on the racetrack, non make mistakes and

(06:56):
hand it over to the to the lead driver in
good condition and a good position. So you know, there's
just you've got to try and a lot of eyes
and cross a lot of tea's and when one of
those things isn't quite right, you're not going to win
the race.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
You speak about co drivers, you're one with Craig lounds
with Stephen Richards and twice with Rick Kelly. Is there
a pre planned percentage of the lapse grig that you
each do and can and does that change as the
race unfolds.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
Yeah, it can change. I mean there's a minimum requirement
for the co driver to do fifty five I think
it is fifty five laps here at Bathurst, so you
know that one driver is obviously not dominating. But depending
on strategy, depending on safety cars when they arrive, all
sorts of things can mean.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
That a co driver can be in a car for
a lot more.

Speaker 7 (07:44):
Than what is planned and that's when the combination of
lead driver code driver is so important and can make
the big difference. So when you've got a co driver
that's running around doing lap times that are the same
or just even just slightly slower than the main guy,
you have an ability to open up your strategy and
not be so locked into how you're planning your race.

(08:07):
So that's a critical one and there's some obviously some
superb combinations out there that have that luxury.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
In tomorrow's race, you.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Drove what many still consider to be the greatest single
lap ever completed, Amount Panorama Top ten Shootout two thousand
and three, the Lap of the Gods, as they called it.
No one had ever gone under two minutes eight John
Bow did, and then you went over a second faster
two six point eight five nine four seconds. What is
going through your mind during that one hundred and twenty
six seconds?

Speaker 7 (08:36):
Yeah, I mean the shootout, the qualifying session yesterday and
Friday afternoon, which turned out to me and absolute Huntinger,
the closest in history.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
It was just I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
Literally, it's the definition of unbelievable what we saw stand qualifying.
You know, it's the biggest qualifying session of the year
and then we have the bigger shootout of the year,
and I just it's a moment, it's a period of
the weekend that I just love, I can't wait for
because you're on this piece of ash felt all by yourself,

(09:09):
looking to try and do a fast the fastest that
you can, to be on pole position at the greatest race,
and you know, it's a privilege to have that opportunity
to do it. So when you get that chance, you
make the most of it. And you know, every opportunity
I got wasn't too many, but I got to do
it a few times. You know I was there to
give it my all, and you know, try and put

(09:31):
it on pole and not think about the race on Sunday,
think about the moment that you've been given to to.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Do a hot lap shootout lap at Bathist.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
How much trust do you have to have in the car.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
You have to have absolute trust.

Speaker 7 (09:48):
And I every time I've got in a car here
to do a shootout lap, I've had that and sometimes
it's been good enough to put it on the front row,
and that you have to you know that the confidence
you've got to have in that vehicle, and that comes
with the preparation before you get to Bathist and all
the racing during the year. Then when you get to Bakfast,
you know it's having that trust is about what you've

(10:11):
done and the lead up, but then what you do
in practice and the confidence that you build with the machine,
with your engineers to hopefully have the best prepared and
the fastest car so that you can go and put
it all on the line.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
A lot of excitement around about can we driver Matt
Pain at the moment currently second to the overall Supercars championship,
but he'll start from eighteenth tomorrow. Is that too far
back to contend or not?

Speaker 5 (10:36):
No, it's not.

Speaker 7 (10:38):
It gets to a stage depending on their car speed
and depending on you know, how how tough the competition
is ahead of you. When it comes to race pace,
you know there's a moment where you see it slipping away,
but certainly at the beginning of the race one thousand
kilometers ahead, before the first couple of pit stop cycles

(11:04):
happen and before you cap you know what kind of
pace you've got in the car. It's still a very
much reality, especially considering it's Matt Pain and his co
driver Garth Tander, who's obviously had huge success here on
the mountain and that's going to be a critical critical
component component of them being able to become a contender

(11:26):
by the end of the race. So too, very experience
or he's very experienced, Guthtander. Matt Pain is showing experience
beyond his years. So you know they'll be coming up
with a plan, probably go off strategy in some way,
shape or form, to try and find a way to
build speed and make ground without traffic around them and
then find themselves back into the you know, so you know,

(11:49):
safety cars give us and they take us away. Also
positions they can change your day when it looks like
your day is done, so you know they will not
be giving up until obviously the last lap.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
We do have a key we in the top ten
shootout though tonight Ryan Wood qualified third fastest. What have
you seen from him during practice and.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
Qualifying calmness for most of it, He has shown speed
out the gate was P one and the first practicession
of the weekend on Thursday, just has has been in
tune with the track and in tune with the car,
the team. Everything has been working really well. As confidence

(12:29):
is really good at the moment.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
And that's what you've got to have.

Speaker 7 (12:31):
So you know, for a kid that's only been here
a couple of times and this is only his second
Baptist one thousand two, have been showing the speed that
he has proves that you know he's going to be
a future future star and a potential Baptist winner. So
you know he and Jayden no Jada make another superb combination.
Even though their experience isn't there, their working relationship together

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and the speed they've both been showing means that you
know they without doubt a contend it on come Sunday's race.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Can you see Matt Payin and Ryan were emulating the
supercarspe of Scotty McLoughlin and Shane van Gisbergen before they
shifted their careers to IndyCar and Escar in the US.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
I totally can yes. I think I think both those
both these young key.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
Weis have have got the traits of those two drivers
and have you know, the the X factor and the
wherewithal two and they're the work ability and commitments to
be able to make it and win multiple championships in
this in the Supercars Championship without doubt.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
And I've got a massive weekend here. Greg, appreciate you
taking the time for a chat. Do you still get
a bit of excitement though you've been there so many
times when you hear noises like we've just too there,
you still get a bit excited about this?

Speaker 7 (13:46):
If I wouldn't becoming back here, if I didn't still
get a buzz for it, you know, it's it's it's
still is a privilege to be able to come and
be a part of this event, regardless I'm driving or not,
so you know, without doubt, I still get a ship
down the spine and it's a it is a wonderful
place to come being with fans week I'm working with

(14:07):
Rep Cod and a whole lot of activation and the
passion for the sport, but also the passion for this
event is as certainly hasn't changed in the time that
I've been coming here.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
It's amazing, brilliant stuff. Really appreciate your time, Greg, thanks
for taking the call. Thanks, no, thank you. That is
Greg Murphy from Bathurst full time winner kei We Motorsport Icon.
Of course, great to have him on the show and
no doubt it'll be involved in the coverage that is
available across the weekend, as well as his commitment with
REPCO and others. I'm quite keen to hear from you
if you've been to Bathurst, Oh eight hundred and eighty

(14:39):
ten eighty. I know a lot of key Wes have
been there. I know a few who are over there
this year. It feels like a bucket list item for
a lot of key We motorsport fans in particular, but
keep we sports fans. It's an event, isn't it that
even if you don't have a deep, deep, lifelong love
of motorsport, if you are going to choose one, you
might choose, for example, the Australian Grand Prix. You might

(15:01):
choose Bathist if you have. If you've been, please give
us a well and tell us about your experiences there.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighties our number. Bathist itself.
The town isn't a big place. The permanent population is
only about forty five thousand and Last year and presumably
again this year, over four times that many people came

(15:25):
along to watch. One hundred and ninety three thousand fans
attended last year, presumably the same, if not more this year.
Bethur's yourself about two hundred k inland from Sydney. So
when you get there, where do you park? Where do
you stay? I think it's a lot of it's camping.
They have I think one thousand camp sites where you

(15:48):
can pitch a tent. They're all sold out. And once
you are there, where does your ticket get you? Where
can you go? Where can't you go? And what are
the best advantage points? I mean, one lap is six
point two one three kilometers, so there must be heapes
are good viewing places around. I also wonder how the

(16:12):
people of Bathurst feel about the race being in their backyard.
It obviously injects a heck of a lot of money
into the local economy. And I would imagine, look if
I lived there and I wasn't a huge fan of motorsport,
I'd rent my house out. I'd inflate the price of
a night. I don't even know what the going rate is,

(16:33):
but I'd certainly be doubling it or cribbling it, and
then renting my house out here b and being it
for a week, and then getting out of there, coming
back and I guess returning to normality for the other
fifty one weeks of the year. If you have been,
wo'd love to hear from you. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is our number.

Speaker 8 (16:51):
Good I Tim, Hi, Hi, Piny's Tim here?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
How are you very well? Thank you Tim? Have you
been to Bathurst?

Speaker 9 (16:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (16:58):
I've been to you about about five times.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
What's it like?

Speaker 8 (17:04):
It's fun, It's so fun to go. It's worth it. Yeah,
so let's tell me.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Tell me about the first time. And you know what?
Where can you go? Can you walk around freely? Can
you sit anywhere? What's what? What are the restrictions? Once
you get in, you get what we do?

Speaker 8 (17:22):
We we see she's at six o'clock on Sunday morning,
ready for the big day on Sundays. And we got
into the pits. We go all over the place, the
whole we go with the eveny we.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
We want and what do you Where do you stay.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
At my auntie's house?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah? She somewhere nearby?

Speaker 8 (17:46):
Is she Yese and Bethish?

Speaker 10 (17:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (17:50):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
So five times? Are you planning another trip back? Yes?

Speaker 8 (17:57):
Hopefully next you.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Good on your Tim, Well, it sounds like it's a
place that you enjoy so much. You've been back to
a number of times. Thank you for calling mate. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two
is our text number if you've been Bevan.

Speaker 11 (18:11):
Have you been, mate, Yes, But it's a bit of
a sad story. I was there when Jenny hillm had
its heart attack down that back straight.

Speaker 10 (18:19):
That was.

Speaker 11 (18:21):
Pretty difficult to sort of seed. You remember when his
car he just he was coming down the back straight
and the car just kind of veered off to the
to the left, and yeah, he had a heart attack him.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Right, Yeah, no, of course, yeah, and I do. I don't.
I don't think I've watched that particular incident, but it
sounds pretty pretty grim, man.

Speaker 11 (18:44):
Yeah, it's on it's on that, Yeah, you can. You
can see. It's basically just yeah, the ticker kind of
stopped just ticking, and yeah, the car just ed off
to the right, and I think of the commentary was
just like going, oh, somebody's having here and we don't know.
And then yeah, he just he passed. I suppose he

(19:04):
was doing what he was doing well and shouts out
to his daughter as well as I knew his daughter
quite well. They had a play well in Rotor Ready
or actually Lake Rodority just sort of out of between
Rotorua and Fani and yeah, shout out to their family
that they're great family, and yeah it was pretty devastating.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, nineteen ninety two. I'm just looking it up here.
He was driving a semi works support support of bmw
M three.

Speaker 10 (19:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Man, how yeah, that's that's yeah, that's really quite quite
quite troubling. Isn't it disturbing? But you know it's a
it's a if.

Speaker 11 (19:48):
I can make it, if I can Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Like I mean positive, it's a brutal I love the
top of the course, and there's always stories about people
digging holes and bearing slabs of beer and stuff. It's
it's become a lot more modern now his hotels there,
Like it's really pretty flash, but it's a brutal course.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Like when.

Speaker 11 (20:13):
You know that each car probably has maybe thirty engineers
that are just there on the ready. But like when
go there's one of the ones, there's a top band,
I can't remember the name of it, but there's always
these brutal kind of crashes and yeah, it's like it's
kind of crazy. I know it's crazy for Key we

(20:34):
used to kind of think about it, but like it
is a it's awesome thing to watch.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I've just had look at some of the some of
the ticket prices. I'll get to these and a sick
but yeah, it's clearly extremely popular. Even the top end
hospow options are just selling out. So clearly it's become
a thing that, you know, isn't just for you your
died in the wool mulic spall fans, but for you know,
for people to entertain their clients, and you know, something
a bit different. But it's conrad straight, isn't it where
they really you know, they just go, don't they up

(21:01):
to sort of roundred k.

Speaker 11 (21:03):
Yeah that's oh yeah, yeah, correct on best one. I
was thinking correct, yeah, but they've built they've built hotels
there now like it's it's yeah, it's not like the
old days where people who are like running around like
you know.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't recogn you should finish that sentence, but I
know what.

Speaker 12 (21:22):
You know, Yeah, well, I don't know where.

Speaker 11 (21:28):
I'd actually like to find out a bit of a
history about who even who even started the first race.
That would be something I need. I might like to
do after I've done the lawns today, I might have
a look at that. Where did it come from? Where
did it come from.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's a very good question. I'll get my team of researchers.
In other words, just andy onto it. But you can
do your deep dive as well. We've always good to
cheat to you, mate. Thanks for thanks for calling in.
We're talking Bathurst and it.

Speaker 13 (21:55):
You went last year, Yes, I did, and of course,
being a woman, I really had to find a tour
company to go with and so if I'm allowed to play.

Speaker 14 (22:06):
I went with sports Net Holidays and based in Australia.
Everything was laid on. It was fantastic. You could buy
whatever package you liked and it gave you in the
package a dinner on a Friday night with legends. It
gave a helicopter ride so you get to go right
over the top and of course you want to do that,
especially during a practice round so you can watch them.

(22:28):
I've actually driven over the course as well because I
am a motorsport fan and so it's been quite a journey.
I really enjoy it and I will definitely go back
again on Monday.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Outstanding. So you'd been a motorsport pan for a while
in it but never got the opportunity last year you decided, right,
this is my year, I'm going to go. Yeah, good
on you, and by the sounds of it, it wasn't
something you regretted. So when you say there was different
packages available, I suppose you could probably spend as much
as you wanted to and be somewhere really flash and

(22:59):
the hospital and stuff like that. But where did you
watch the actual race from on the Sunday.

Speaker 14 (23:04):
From the start, from the from in front of the
start finish line and in front of the pits. I
love to be in front of the pits, so Cook
Koe Talpo pases like that I've been to. I'm always
in front of the pits because I like to see
this what goes on that, you know, pit stops and
things like that as well. So I really enjoy being there.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Was the action, what was the Was there a typical
type of spectator or was it just a whole bunch
of different people.

Speaker 14 (23:31):
It's a whole bunch of different people, and there are families.
It's just the most amazing atmosphere and even the.

Speaker 12 (23:40):
What do you call it, the.

Speaker 14 (23:41):
Merchandise, all that sort of jazz. It's just there are
you know, little kids in trolleys. Everybody has whatever they've
got in their trolley and they set themselves up all
around the place. The only thing I didn't well, it
was a bit so sad about was I didn't know
about the stands. So I just picked the stand that

(24:02):
I wanted to be in by the straight, but of
course it didn't have any shape or shelter. And then
gets hot and we got something. I got sunburnt on
the on on the Friday.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
I can imagine. I can imagine, yes, yes, that's because
I because I get what I was. Yes, sort of
getting intowards sort of mid spring, aren't we. And yeah, Inland,
New South Wales, I can imagine it get quite hot.

Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (24:26):
So, and even the tour package you could have different
levels of accommodation and that sort of thing. So I
went with a motel accommodation and the motel had a
bar and a restaurant and everything with it. That was
all set up for Bathist. The town is just amazing.
They take it on. And you've got to remember that
there's racing on that mountain every at least once.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
A month, So not just the big one, not just
a bat this one thousand. It gets used a lot
more than that, oh.

Speaker 14 (24:55):
A lot more than that, A lot more than that, Yes, yes,
and so you know, the town takes it on, and
the town on the Thursday Wednesday night the cars all
come into town. People powers thousands of people lining the streets.
Certainly met a lady and a lady who worked at
the motel who rents out her house and goes and
stays with somebody else. So there's lots of that sort

(25:16):
of thing. There are porterloos and quartercom showers in the
amp show grounds just down the road, and on the
other park on the way up to the mountain. There
are camper vans by the hundred in the paddock that
you can rent. Their are tents. They're all exactly the same.
You can rent all those. It's just the town turns
it on and knows how to make it and it

(25:38):
make it work. And I mean the drive from Sydney
to Bathhurst was nothing. It was really nice and I
would definitely be on board go again another day.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I'm surprised you came home in itt.

Speaker 11 (25:49):
I know.

Speaker 14 (25:52):
It sounds amazing, but rrapooner and something else to look
forward to next year.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Good on you and then hey, you wonderful to hear
from you. Thank you for calling in and giving us
your experience. It sounds amazing. Ah, right, one hundred and
eighty ten eighties and number ken with you right after
this twenty seven to one, we're talking Bathurst. We're back
with more after this.

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Coming up twenty four to one, talking the great Race,
the Bathurst one thousand. Joe, not only have you been,
but you've raced at Batheist? What three times?

Speaker 15 (26:26):
Yes, yep, three times and I'm a Mustang nineteen sixty seven.
Mustle come?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
When when did this happen? When were these times? When
were these years? When did you race there?

Speaker 15 (26:40):
The last time I raced there was six years ago.
I've been going to Bathist since the eighties and crewing
for different people, so I can you know, the history
of the place is interesting. It used to be Bogans,
you know, the four Versus are holding and it was
rough up on the mountain and it was dangerous. Had
been there, there were fights and vehicles would be tipped

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upside down and set fire. So but they cleaned all
that up. So it was a place to go, and
you avoided certain parts of the mountain for sure, But
it's a huge track and there's plenty of places to
go to watch. As far as far as the track
to race on, it's one of the most dangerous and
most challenging I've been on. There's very little room for error.

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My car can get up to Turndred and seventy thousand
are turned in seventy k on the back straight on Conrad,
which is a lot for an old car without aerodynamic help.
It's a very steep course and it's very challenging and
there's really no room for mistakes, and that's why people
love it. You either go there and go this is

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too much, I'm never coming back, or unfortunately you get
the bug and.

Speaker 16 (27:50):
Then you just keep going back if you can afford it.
It's expensive to go there, for sure.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, So how do you? How do you enter? Can
anyone just enter if they've got the right car and
enough money.

Speaker 16 (28:04):
Well, it depends on the class. As that lady said before,
there are different events throughout the year. The one that's
on now, I wouldn't qualify for that anymore. My car
would be considered too slow. I don't know what my
times would be now compared to what they're doing. You
don't just let anyone in there with money because I
wabble all over the track and cause an accident, probably death.

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So you have to qualify and be up to a
certain standard to race on some events, for sure.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Did you get your Mustang up to two seventy?

Speaker 16 (28:32):
Yeah? It It touched two hundred and eighty once, but
that was very scary because comes along halfway down the
track and the wind gusts through a bit of a
value between the trees and you can get blown one
meter to the left if you're not careful, which is
a lot.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
What's it like at Toadie.

Speaker 16 (28:53):
And my car are scary, you know because mind the
nineteen sixty seven and it doesn't have the aerodynamic design
and I'm not at a class I'm not allowed aerodonnamic aid,
so you can't have air underneath the car, you know.
So my bonnet bends and half at suit and speeds,
the tires get sort of the car gets very goofy,

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it gets very very light on the steering that those
in ending over two twenty for me, So yeah, it's
scary in my car.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Must be as something. Yeah, No, trouble must be a
buzz though, I mean cheapest, Joey, Are you're right? I mean,
I'm sure you're sailing pretty close to the edge, as
you say, in terms of you know your your your
levels of being scared. But it must be a buzz man.

Speaker 16 (29:37):
Yeah, it is. I mean after one race I was
down Conrad, I do about two sixty and I could
see Jimmy Richards coming up behind me and his car.
And then just halfway down Conrad, I got the gusta
wind blew me across the track one meter. Just the
whole car that s went sideways. And later on Jimmy
came up and said, oh, thanks Joe for moving over.

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I says I didn't move over him. That was the wind.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
He thought you were just being polite.

Speaker 16 (30:04):
Yeah. Yeah, So you know, it's a very scary place,
but it's very intoxicating. And you know, as a lady
said about acommodation and someone talking about renting a house, yes,
if you live there, you do rent your house out
and a team or a crew. They love to be
nice and close. The motels in town are hydrate rates.

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If you can get a house on the track or
near the track, and that place where you can park
your car, work on your car if a car is
not put into park firm which is locked up at night. Yeah,
it's very handy and people will pay a fortune just
to have the right house or accommodation close to the
close to the track, because getting to the track is

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a disaster on race days is people everywhere and traffic
and so on.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Good Man, Joe, thanks for bringing up with your experiences. Mate.
Sounds absolutely brilliant. Really, I appreciate you taking the time. Ken,
thanks for holding make good afternoon.

Speaker 17 (31:02):
Hi, I was I'm lucky enough to have family in
Vessis invited me over in twenty twenty three where Shane
then Vickersbergen won the race and did the big Bogan
burn out at the end and exploded his tie right
in front of us. So what you're going to do

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is you've got to go right round the track and
they have shuttle busses that take you up to the
top of the mountain and you see all these really
elaborate camping arrangements. I saw one guy had a generator
in a TV just under an umbrella on the side
of the hill watching the whole lap.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
So you're the family who lived there, your family who
lived there, ken they are they motorsport fans. I presume
you wouldn't buy or live in Bathurst if you didn't
at least have a passing interest in motorsport.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (31:55):
Well yeah, the sister in law's husband, he works for Mars,
who have a thing in Bathist so that's why he
lives there. And he's Aussie and she's Kiwi and they Yeah,
he gets to go to those races all the time
because you get like passes and that through the company.
So yeah, and we were ten minutes from the track

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that dropped off at the door. And if you ever
thought about going to it, just just make it happen,
because it's awesome. When we were coming back staying in
Sydney to go home exactly when the Israeli conflicts happen.

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So it's about basically two years ago.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh sounds awesome.

Speaker 10 (32:42):
Again.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
I'm glad you've got the chance to go. And as
you say, look, I think a lot of people say, oh, yeah,
it'd be nice to go. Maybe I'll go next year.
Maybe you know, that's something for my bucket list, and
off of that bucket list just sits untouched. Doesn't it.
I'm glad that it got ticked off on your bucket list, Ken,
and that you had the chance to stay with family
over there. I read or heard like, it's actually a
residential road, isn't it. People live sort of not on

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the actual race track, but they live not, you know,
sort of in that area. It's a it's a normal
road during you know, non race weekends. So I meagine
living there, Marke Hi, mate.

Speaker 18 (33:20):
Sore you go plenty, very good, Mike. You hear me
all right?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
I can hear you fine, Mane. Have you been to
Bathist Yeah, ninety.

Speaker 18 (33:29):
Nine two thousand and twenty twenty two, so I was
I would be classed as ninety nine two thousand one
of the bogan's up from the top of the mountain and.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Did you did you fill the brief? Did you fill
the brief up there?

Speaker 10 (33:41):
Mate?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Did you did you act like one?

Speaker 10 (33:44):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (33:44):
We did? We are ten of us brought a xf
Falcon forty bucks seat and each four hundred dollars put
it up there went out the darky pettitt, which was
quite scary actually, and probably had it four or five
times out there. And then it's stopped one night and
then we had a four wheel drive with the bullbar
comeing out, push us under the side, put a rag

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in the mitual care and said on fire.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, I think that qualifies as Bogan as Bogan behavior, yes.

Speaker 18 (34:14):
Well yeah, yeah, well on one guy was running around
with the chain taw, a chain saw without the chain on,
with the big dryers, both scaring the shit out of everybody.
And yeah, it was just it was just crazy. It was.
It was over the top of his ear.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
So quite different when you went back in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 18 (34:32):
Then, yeah, four of us went back on a VIP
trip and we had VIP tickets on the pit lane TV.
Hey lunch. Yeah, totally different, but quite Yeah, it wasn't
too good though. It was four of us in the camp,
even for five days, four guys, so that wasn't too
so much fun.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeah, I can imagine that might have been a little
bit smelly after a while. Not casting his versions at all,
Mark obviously, but but no, it sounds like you had
two two very different but very memorable experiences over there, mate,
the uh, the Bogu experience, shall we call it, and
then the slightly more refined and civilized experience a few
years ago good to chet. To you, mate, thanks for

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calling in TOEP forty five. Can take a break, Can
get you to Bathurst? Eric Thompson over there for the
New Zealand Herald. He's gonna chat to us after this.

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They'd be twelve to one. Let's get you back to Bathurst,
New Zealand Herald motorsport writer and expert and good friend
of weekends for Eric Thompson as with us. Where do
we find you?

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Eric?

Speaker 12 (35:38):
We're standing it's just down from mccillermy park and for
the co driver practice of the supercars, Mate, we're just
standing opposite the yes is before the cars disappeared down
into the tip Hack and it's unbelievable seeing these things
on the ragged edge. Even in practice they're pushing the
limits and just how post It's really interesting, Piney. You

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really see the cars are constantly moving around as he's
trying to go from left hard left and left to right,
and then there's the elevation change and it's magical, Piney.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Magical I can hear it in your voice at I'm
just so pleased that we've got the chance to have
a chat to you while you're over there. I know
it's a little way away and we might talk more
about it later on, but the Top ten shootout later tonight.
Ryan Woods has qualified third. Have you said much of
Ryan Wood these last couple of days.

Speaker 12 (36:26):
You've been there, Yeah, lucky enough to have a chat
to him earlier on before. It's very difficult to get
hold of the drivers at all between sort of today
and tomorrow. Fridays is a little bit of time, but
it's best on Thursday, so I add a chat to
him and he's really really tough, fastest of the kiwis
because you know he's that's his first Baptist Top ten

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shoot out. His car is looking wickedly quick. And the
good thing Piney is his co driver. En Jada has
as a two time Baptist six hour winner from here
all be it in a GT car, so he knows
this place right the back of his hand. So that combination, mate,
people's really interesting. In the In the press conference at

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the end of qualifying, he was sitting there and somebody said,
you know, if you regard you out. You know, you're
a bit of a dark horse around there. And what
he just turned around look everybody and just said, no,
we don't regard ourselves as dark horses around here. We're contenders.
And it was really great for a young guy to go, nah,
we've got to beat the faith in us and they've

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been pretty quick since since they rolled out on Thursday.
So but just balancing that, our poor old Matthew Pain
was looked absolutely gutted because there's something not quite right
with the car. Because in the practices all day yesterday
he was languishing down in sort of fifteenth fastest, eighteenth
and he ended up eighteenth fastest, and he was absolutely

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gutted yesterday that he missed out on the top ten shootout.
So all the drivers are fired up, mate.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Just on the top ten shoot I just just clarify
this for us, a ted I get one lap a
cheating these ten. They go from the slowest I guess
of the ten to fastest and that's Brodie Kosticki. And
that that determines grid position for the big race tomorrow.

Speaker 19 (38:15):
Is that right?

Speaker 12 (38:17):
Yeah? Eleven to twenty six was as locked in right
on the grid. Then those guys don't get to go
out today, you know, in the top ten shootout. And
why the drivers love the top ten shootout is that
they get the track the only time they ever get
the track to themselves. You know, they're all alone, they

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have the whole place to themselves, and they absolutely relish.
I mean a lot of them want to get into
the top ten shootout so they can just blast around
here on their own. They don't have to worry about
traffic or anything else. It's just their place all to themselves.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I love that. Just on Brodi KISTICKI, I see he's
had a bit of a he's had a few words
after qualifying, but he is clearly the fast He's clearly
the fastest out there.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
He is now.

Speaker 12 (39:07):
I'm glad you touched on that home. It was quite
funny in the in the conference, Brody started going on,
it's a bit of a parody issue, but they've been
humming and hiring. It's it's it's the old Ford versus
GM now instead of Ford versus Olden but at animosity,
and Brody was saying, oh, I think it's unfair.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
We should have.

Speaker 12 (39:23):
Done da da da da da da da da, And
then the and then the went to Jamie win Cup
was there because Brop was second fastest, so Jamie Wincup fair.
And then then the answer said, so what do you think, Jamie,
and Jamie said, oh, look, I'm just here to race,
so that's all I am. This weekend a race, so

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I'm not a team principal. And anyway, I'm happy to
chat about it next week. So that that brought a
laugh out. And then Chad Nale, who runs the conference,
said to Brody after his complain he said, but hang
on a minute, Brody, your car's the fastest, so what
you know, you're complaining about being slower, but you set

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the fastest lap. And that when it all got a bit,
Brady spat the tummy a little bit. This says, well,
you know, you get tired degradation, but you don't get
engine degradation. And you know, quite lovely, great lively paint.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Love it mate. Good to have you there for us.
Going to catch up with you again after two if
that's okay, if that fits your schedule, but wonderful I
have you there painting the picture for us. Eric Thompson
redim at ZHERLD dot co dot NZ and he'll be
back on with us a little bit later on as well.
So Ryan Wood, the best of the kiwis in fact
the only key we in the top ten shootout. He's
the third fastest that goes at five past seven to
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Speaker 2 (40:52):
eNB Gary on email get Jason. My daughter's driven her
camper van around Bathurst during the week. It's open to
the public. You can pay a small fee and take
any car and drive around the track. Thanks Gary. Another
Gary on texs memory from the first visit was on
the last lap police with rifles came and lined the
fence in front of the stands. Were and but jarring
for a Kiwi. It was twenty fifteen. They had their

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rifles out, not just pistols. Hadn't send any trouble at all.
Kind of ruined the end of the race for me. Otherwise,
absolutely brilliant. What an hour on Bathurst. Loved it. Thanks
for your causing correspondence. Joseph Parker.

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Speaker 3 (41:48):
Come on, you.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Wouldn't love it Bathurst if you weren't a racing fan. Now,
this is true. This is true. And I suggested that
a lot of people might rent their place out for
a week. Must say, Poney, you'd be mad bonkers to
reach your house out to the first racing fans. There'd
be nothing left of it. I think most I think
it's moved on from the from the the Bogans that

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it used to be. Just as an example of that,
I just checked prices ticket prices for Bathist Now the
cheapest ticket you can get is a paddic pass that's
forty four dollars Australian in forty four, But it doesn't
get you into the event itself. It's just basically a
back paddic as the name would suggest, where all the
cars and the garages are during the weekends. They can

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wander around and you might see some drivers, you might
see the mechanics, or you see the cars, but you
don't actually see the racing itself. General admission, from what
I can see, the cheapest general admission ticket is one
hundred and twenty two Australian dollars. Now kids under twelve
are three. That's pretty good, so kids under twelve three
with a paying adult. But the cheapest general admission ticket

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I think is one twenty two. And then you go
up from there reserved grand stand tickets from three hundred
and forty six. And then you get up to the
hospitality options, and there are heaps of different ones, including
the very top end premium pit suites. Now you can

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entertain thirty three to zero thirty guests for the very
good price I think of fifty seven thousand, one hundred
and ten dollars, and that does not include your food
and beverage. That just gets you the space, nothing else.
Fifty seven grand for thirty guests, and that is sold out.

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That particular hospitality option is sold out. In fact, many
of the top end hospit options are sold out. There's
the Concourse Villa twenty eight grand sold out, the pit
Ruf Villa twenty eight Grand sold out and many of
the other cheaper options as well. So clearly there's a
much wider audience for Bathurst and that corporate space is

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one that they're moving into. Eric Thompson back with us
after two Top ten shootout tonight five past seven. The
Great Race goes tomorrow one forty five. We'll bring you
extensive coverage right across our shows and in our sports
news as well. Ten past one. Joseph Parker is preparing
for his next fight. He is the current WBO Interim

(44:22):
Heavyweight Champion. He'll face the WBA Interim Champion Fabyo Wardley
of the UK on Sunday, October the twenty sixth New
Zealand time at the two Arena in London. It's live
and exclusive on Dezonne. The winner will earn the mandatory
position to fight Alexander Yusik for a shot at the

(44:42):
undisputed World heavyweight Championship. It is Joseph Parker's first bout
since he beat Martin Bacoli by technical knockout TKO back
in February.

Speaker 20 (44:54):
If you're shut down from Parker, see Parker's going to
stop loading up here otherwise he've you the.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
One olds turning fights shot. He was biscardled. How he's down,
and I'm not sure he's gonna make this count.

Speaker 9 (45:14):
Nosier Curley just about he gets cracks.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Miss Corney.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
Hate sight to John Parker's getting the job done.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Hoddy does it by stop it.

Speaker 9 (45:26):
Latimer Curley halted.

Speaker 12 (45:28):
For forty eight hours.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
He gets here. It's Curdy didn't deliver too long.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
That was Joseph Parker's last fight. He is with us
on Weekend Sport ahead of his next one. Joseph, thanks
for taking the time. If you win this next fight,
does that make a fight against Alexander Usik a certainty
for you?

Speaker 10 (45:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (45:49):
You know what, it's great to have this fight locked
in for October twenty five. As a fighter, you want
to fight as often as you can, right. And I
had the fight in February against Martin McCauley, and I
thought to myself, two or three months and I should
have enough fight locked in.

Speaker 10 (46:02):
And it's taken a while to get this fight locked in.
But I was waiting for and I keep waiting, keep waiting.

Speaker 21 (46:08):
And I said to my team, you know what, instead
of waiting for Usick, let's just lock in the fight.

Speaker 10 (46:11):
I need to get busy. Time is ticking and I want.

Speaker 21 (46:13):
To get active, and so surely the winner of this fight,
should you get the chance to fight Usick.

Speaker 10 (46:19):
I know Usik is.

Speaker 21 (46:20):
Injured, and Usik's out at the moment and enjoying family time.
But if we can get the win over this fight
over favor Wardley, then they used to fight as next.

Speaker 10 (46:28):
Surely it is next.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Surely surely, as you say, though, it's just your third
fight since you beat Deontay Wilder in December twenty twenty three,
so that's coming up two years. Would you ideally like
to fight more often?

Speaker 10 (46:41):
I've made it. I've made it.

Speaker 21 (46:44):
I've made the team, aware, management team, promotional team, everyone
involved in my team that I want to fight often
and I want to fight as many times as I can,
And unfortunately there hasn't been the case for me. Fighting
three to five times a year would be fantastic, but
I'm just not getting those fights and opportunities. So I'm
not sure what I need to do. I put up

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my hand. I've said yes to every that have offered me.
But finally we have this fight locked in for October
twenty five, and Hopefully with this fight and a win,
we can keep the ball rolling, keep it going.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
How much has your fight preparation changed throughout your career.

Speaker 21 (47:20):
I had eight years in Vegas, the tremendous eight years
of Kevin Barry becoming champion of the world, defended against
Anthony Joshua unified it and I lost that fight, then
lost the instilling white and then there's a time. There's
a time when I was in Vegas, no one's taught
by the time where I sort of lost the love
and passion for boxing.

Speaker 10 (47:37):
I'm not sure why.

Speaker 21 (47:38):
Maybe it was just the same routine, or I pushed
harder and it wasn't getting the results that I wanted.
So I may change. And I feel like I've learned
so much along the way. I've changed trainers. I've got
a nutritionis, I got a change the conditioning train I
got a massage therapist, and I have right now, I
can honestly say that I have the best set up
that I've ever had in my whole entire life, in
my whole career, and I'm I'm excited to show that

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once five time coming.

Speaker 10 (48:02):
But we still got two and a half weeks to
put in work.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
When you say you lost your passion for it. Was
there ever a point when you wondered whether you would
get it back?

Speaker 10 (48:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (48:12):
Yeah, I was thinking to myself like it came a
point where I was just doing boxing just to do it,
And that's probably why I've had results where it wasn't
It wasn't the great results of getting the wins, but
it was like black luster and it wasn't really exciting
to watch. And then now that I've found what I
feel like is the perfect preparations to a fight or

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perfect camp, I love it.

Speaker 10 (48:35):
I love boxing. I got the passion for it. I
wake up excited every single day to train.

Speaker 21 (48:40):
I look forward to the meals that we have because
we're on a meal plan, and I just can't wait
to be in the best shape come fight nighte.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
I love that in the three years since you lost
to Joe Joyce, you've had six more bouts, won them all,
they often say. Sports people have said this to me
a lot. You know, you learn a lot more from
your defeats than you do from your wins. What did
you learn from from that defeat? The most you know
was that, as I say, three years ago, what did
you learn from that?

Speaker 21 (49:05):
Well, from that defeat, I learned many things from defeat
to Joe Joyce. The first one I learned was don't
ever fight if your health is not right. Don't ever
fight if you're not fit to fight. Secondly, I started
asking myself questions, what.

Speaker 10 (49:18):
Am I doing wrong?

Speaker 21 (49:19):
I'm leaving my family and I'm traveling to England to
train for eight weeks at a time, leaving my wife
and kids at home, And how come I'm not being
getting it right, you know, making these sacrifices. So then
one thing led to the next, and then I employed
a nutritionist and then worked on strength conditioning and actually,
for like right now, I got the best balance and
I so from that fight and even though you don't

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like losing fights, but from that fight I was able
to make drastic changes that I've seen be very beneficial
an in my career.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
The whole Daniel Dubois thing was weird, wasn't it. You know,
you're supposed to fight him back in February he pulled out,
like call up for Martin Bacoli. You one that easily?
How do you reflect back on that, you know, incident
in your career?

Speaker 21 (50:03):
You know what that I was very much looking forward
to my goal a year before that was I am
going to chase the IVF Championship of the world, and
that's the goal I'm going to take right and we're
right there. We had it right there in our hands,
r and it got taken away from us two days
before the fight. Again, there's no one to blame. He
got sick and medical examiners talk him out of the fight,
and then Martin McCauley stepped in got that win. But

(50:25):
still I'm not satisfied. Like you know, dall In Duois
pulled out of that fight. They went to fight U
six for all the belts. So there's a lot of
things happening in boxing where even though you're getting good results,
and even though you're putting in the work and you
believe and you trust the process, but there's so many
other things against you, promoters or the like. You know, promoters,
if you're not a favorite, if you're not one of

(50:47):
the favorite fighters, and if you're not a big name,
they'd rather give opportunities to their own guys.

Speaker 10 (50:52):
So even though so let's.

Speaker 21 (50:54):
We're fighting against the opponent, we're fighting against sometimes the
promoted to fight against everyone. But you know what, we
will get there because I remained strong and I you know,
I trusted my ability and I just love what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Now, how do match up against Abeo Wardley?

Speaker 21 (51:10):
He comes with power, He's he's gotten a lot of
experience along the way with the pressure face he's had,
and every time he's he has stepped up in levels,
he's been able to find a way to win. But
I feel like with this fight, he's stepped up a
level too far. You know, he is mandatory number one
in the WBA and I'm mandatory number number one interim

(51:31):
Champion WBO. But I do feel like with the experience
that I have and I know he possesses power. But
like I say to all the other fighters that I've fought, like,
bring it on.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Yeah, eighteen of us nineteen wins by knockout. So does
it suit you to take the fight deeper? I mean
you hardly even knocked out I think once maybe in
your whole career. Does it suit you to take it deep?

Speaker 9 (51:53):
Uh?

Speaker 21 (51:54):
You know what if I could get a knockout in
the first round, Oh, that'll be sensational.

Speaker 10 (51:58):
That'll be besten, that'll be the best.

Speaker 21 (52:01):
But I know, I know with this guy, I'm not
underestimating him in any sense, and I'm taking him so
seriously that I've done it like, I don't think there's
any much more that I could do in this camp.
There's nothing more that I could do to be as
as prepared as I'm going to be, And so I am.
I'm treating him like he he's the USAK for me,
because there's no point thinking about USA or anyone else

(52:23):
if I don't get passed through.

Speaker 10 (52:25):
Fabye Waldley and.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
I was just checking. I mean, we've been watching you
fight professionally since twenty twelve. Man, it seems like an
awfully long time ago. And you know, I mean that's
a that is a spectacularly long career. How different a
fighter are you now from the Joe Parker we saw
a fight for the first time in July of twenty twelve.

Speaker 21 (52:46):
There, Well, I don't even I don't even know where
to start in comparison like the fighter that I am now,
not even just the fighter, but the person now I'm
a father. Like if I look back at that younger,
like the younger person or the younger my younger self,
I wouldn't even know where to start or what to
say or what's you know what I mean? So totally

(53:07):
different and I get at this very moment in time,
I love life and they got the best.

Speaker 10 (53:13):
I got the best of both worlds. I got my
training team.

Speaker 21 (53:16):
Here, my coaches besides therapist, camera man, training partners, spiring partners.
But then I also have my family living five or
six minutes up the road, and do you know what
that brings me joy? To be able to see them
every single day after a hard day, I just go
to where they're staying and just see the kids, and
they're so excited to see me and I. Time goes
so fast, not only in boxing career, but in life,

(53:38):
So you got to make the most of every single day.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Sounds like you're in a brilliant place, Joseph. Chet's got
to get the chance to catch up made These next
two weeks can't fly by quick enough, I'm sure for
you and for us as we get forward to get
rid of watch you fight. Fabia Wadley, thanks for logging
and make great to chat and all the best.

Speaker 10 (53:54):
Thank you, thank you very much, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Thank you, no, thank you for joining us, Joseph. Joseph
Parker there from his training base in the UK ahead
of his next fight, which is two weeks away. The
morning here in New Zealand Sunday, October twenty sixth of
that label weekend Sunday morning estimated ring walkers around nine
forty five am New Zealand times, so it's fairly civilized

(54:16):
time to watch Joseph Parker's next fight live and exclusive
on Dezone, up against Fabio Wardley. Look, I don't know.
I've sort of given up trying to work out how
boxing works. It's not as straightforward as you could tell
from Joseph Parker there that the winner of this fight
will definitely fight Alexander. You sick. It doesn't seem to

(54:37):
work that way. Even though you hear that, you know
the winner will get the mandatory position to fight him.
That sounds pretty official, doesn't it. But look, I, like
I say, I've given up trying to work out whether
whether that will actually happen. I guess all we do
know is that Joseph is fighting Fairbear Wardley in a

(54:57):
couple of weeks, and if he wins that it'd have
to be near the front of the queue. Wouldn't he
near the front of the queue. So yeah, we look
forward to that coming up one at twenty one. It
is if you can Shedney light on that, that'd be
great boxing fans, boxing for Shnado's educate us, you know,
is this where we're headed? And also I think says

(55:20):
a lot about Joseph Parker, you know, because he had
that loss to Joe Joyce off the back a few
years earlier. If he lost consecutive fights and often in
you know this this game, from what I can see,
a loss is a really quite a significant dent to
your chances of ever getting back towards the top again.

(55:41):
And Joseph Parkers lost three fights, but here he is
still going and depending on what happens with an opportunity
perhaps to have another crack at it to fight you
sick for the undisputed World heavyweight championship. So a triumph
of resilience, perseverance and bouncing back from disappointment from Joe Parker. Anyway,

(56:05):
if you can Shouldney light on this be great to
hear from you. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
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Speaker 1 (56:14):
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Speaker 2 (56:23):
News Talks a B one twenty five on News Talks
Here Bigoday, Steve.

Speaker 16 (56:28):
Good Afternoon, Piney. Hey, I listened to you every Saturday,
but I've never run under my first time because I
want to make you a bit of our ice cream.
This is what I think is going to happen. Parker
is the most dangerous guy in the division. Nobody wants
to fight him. He can't even buy a fight. That's
why Duboy pretended to be sick. That's why Usik is

(56:50):
saying injured that they don't want to fight him. This
is what I think USK is going to do. He's
going to drop the WBO so he doesn't have to
fight Parker. He's going to have one last big payday,
and I think it's going to be against Tyson Fury.
I think they're going to settle with one ball, because
after Usik, the second biggest fan base in the world

(57:12):
is Tyson Fury. Then, when we'll lose, I think Usk's
gonna retire. I think Parker is then gonna fight, and
I think it's gonna be the fight he doesn't want.
It's gonna be against Fury because once the game, it's
all got to do with money. This is show business,
this is boxing business. And all of that fan base

(57:34):
of Usik, they hate Fury, and they're all gonna go
over to the Justice for Joseph, Justice for Joseph our
fan base, and it's gonna be big. It could even
be the biggest, Iban thinking fifty seventy five, even over
one hundred million, because it's the fight all the fans want,
and that's why the Saudis will back it. You go

(57:57):
on to any YouTube boxing channel, doesn't matter what it is,
CounterPunch boxing, proper boxing boxing. Today, for every every comment
that is Usik will beat Parker, you're talking half a
dozen plus comments that say no, Parker will beat us.
He's the only one in the division that can beat usk.

(58:17):
I mean WBO, Heaven at number one, all the other
three sanctioning bodies, Heaven at at least two or three,
including the rooms. Yes, nobody wants to fight him, So
I think that's what's going to happen. I'm gonna beat
you or ice cream, Okay.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Steve I love this. I'm so pleased you've called for
the first time. So okay, So just to recap here,
So you don't think Parker will ever fight.

Speaker 16 (58:42):
You sick, No, Usk doesn't want to fight him. Look,
here's the thing he's saying, he's injured. Right, Well, what's
that got to do with entering into negotiations. You can
still enter into a negotiation right as soon as you are. Well,
we're gonna step the date, but we'll sign it and
now we'll lock it in. Now, nobody wants to fight Parker. Nobody.

(59:04):
You take a look at all the guys they have
said they want to fight Parker. But then the people
pulled out. When Daniel Dubois pretended to be sick. Lawrence
the Coley said that he'll step in, but as people said, no,
you won't. Same as who was it? Was it a
jet Cuby l for the vacant I think it was
the Ivys. He was calling Parker out. But then when

(59:28):
the contract, when the offer was put on the table,
all of a sudden he didn't want to sign it.
It was THEIRS clause in that clause. All of a sudden,
he's changing his mind. You were the one calling come out,
and now all of a sudden, he won't fight. G Man,
make up your mind. Now, nobody wants to fight Parker.
He's the most dangerous guy. And I'm not just being parochial.

(59:49):
It's because you just take a look at him now.
You know it was since he spent there two years
with Tyson Fury over in Ireland. And you know Andy
Lee that's his trainer, Tyson Fury's cousin, and George Lockhart
that used to be Fury nutritions. They saw in Parker

(01:00:10):
what every other fighter in the division seats. He is
just getting better and better with time. Won't fight in me.
That's why I'm not sure in myself. That's why I'm
willing to better ice cream.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
I feel like giving it to you anyway, Steve the
ice cream. That is because you've called it such a
great call. Look, I'll take the bet, but only because
it'll guarantee that you and I will speak again. I'll
take the bed of the ice cream. I appreciate your insight,
and please don't wait so long to call again. It's
been awesome to chat to you, mate. Thanks. Indeed, will
I will make sure that when what happens happens, and

(01:00:47):
I imagine it'll be what plays out as you've outlined it,
that that ice cream comes your way, mate, and I'll
make sure it's nice and nice and frozen doesn't melt
in the post. Good to chat to you, mate, Thanks
indeed for your call. One nine.

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White Ferns are up and running at the Cricket World Cup.

(01:01:47):
New Zealand have posted two hundred and twenty seven for
nine before dismissing Bangladesh for one hundred and twenty seven
to clinch a one hundred run win. At Guwahati, Sophie
Devine hit fifty or more for a third consecutive match.
She made sixty three. Brook Halliday top scored with sixty
nine to earn Player of the Match on.

Speaker 22 (01:02:08):
Us, it's a big year, feel it inside the circle
to get to a fifty and get that in style.
You did a bit of resurrection when she joined Sophie
Divine out there in the middle and she's chosen the
game New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
In desperate need to get fines on the board.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Brooke Hella. Day is whether you're on the board the
white ferns with your first wen't how much is there
a bit of relief mixed in with your satisfaction of
a good winner for Bangladesh tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:02:43):
It's always a good start, isn't it to finally be
on the board.

Speaker 24 (01:02:46):
And obviously those first two games were disappointing because I
feel like, you know, we had a lot of good
or positive things that we did well and it was just, yeah,
we didn't get that full performance. But today I felt
like we actually had a bit more of a full performance.
So it was, yeah, very satisfying and I think there's
a lot of happy people in our group at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
You came in to join Sophie Divine at thirty eight
for three after winning the toss and adding first. So
when you arrived what sort of conversations were you having
at that time?

Speaker 24 (01:03:11):
Cricket it's a long game, so basically just a better
long time. So we've kind of had those chats of
the last couple of days, especially after that South African
game and just when you're over in India with slower wickets,
you know, taking those ones or even those twos for
a long period of time actually sets up the game
quite nicely. And obviously Sophie and I we're kind of

(01:03:34):
in that position today where that's the role we kind
of had to take.

Speaker 23 (01:03:37):
And we did say at one point and our innings.

Speaker 24 (01:03:40):
Like that's actually really hard because both of us do
like to play shots, and we actually had to, yeah,
mentally try and hold back to a point and just
rotate that strike and take it deep.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
So betting with Sophie Divine, I mean, one of our greats.
What's it like out there? Batting with Sophie Divine?

Speaker 23 (01:03:59):
Very calm?

Speaker 24 (01:04:00):
I think she's you know, quite a you know when
you're playing that mini mattress for New Zealand. I don't
know how I suppose in her mind how things are
going to go. And the biggest thing that I've enjoyed
over the last couple of games that I've been able
to bat with her is just how simple she keeps it.
And it kind of works for me as well, because, yeah,
I don't try and overcomplicate too much, and half the
time what we talk about in the middle is just
watchable or you know, we've still got you know, fifteen

(01:04:25):
overs to the fortieth mark or something on those kind
of lines. So it's never too heavy, I suppose, and
we're very different players, so it's never too technical. It's
very simple, so it's actually really enjoyable. And the biggest
thing today was just that mental fatigue and trying to
make sure that we were both all right and checking
in with each other. And then later on that physical
heat fatigue head and kind of came in and that

(01:04:48):
was kind of a different conversation, but no, overall, Sophie's yeah,
really good to bat with.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
So different innings from you today then, compared to the
innings against South Africa the other day, forty five off
thirty seven. You got twenty eight against Australia, so one
hundred and forty two runs at an average of forty
seven point three three. So do you feel like you're
betting well? Are you happy with the way you're betting? Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:05:09):
Yeah, oh yeah, I'm happy with the way I'm betting.

Speaker 24 (01:05:11):
I'm probably just more fustraial with the way I'm getting
out because I think I've gotten out playing the same
shot in all three games, so that probably a sign
I'm not really learning too quick. But at the same time,
I'm heading runs off the same shot as well, so
it's like a very Yeah, there's a balance there, and
I just might need to put this slog sweep away
for a certain linked.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Ball, but.

Speaker 23 (01:05:31):
You know, I'm really enjoying it and I think they're cool.

Speaker 24 (01:05:33):
Thing about these three games that I've played, I've had
to come in and maybe play a little bit differently,
And the biggest thing that I've kind of wanted to
come into the World Cup was trying to adapt as
quickly as possible, and I think I have been doing
that quite well, and it's just yeah, trusting what I
am doing and been able to stick with that throughout
the whole World Cup.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
You've betted at four, five, six, and seven for New
Zealand during your fifty over career. Number five is number five?
Is where you are at the moment? Is that your
best time? Do you reckon? You found a natural home
there in fifty over cricket.

Speaker 24 (01:06:02):
Batting at five an interesting one because I feel like
when you're fishing in the order, you know you can
bat four, five, six or seven, and the I suppose
the role you have to play could be completely different
no matter where you are. So you know, coming in
at five, I could be in at the tenth ove
I could also be at the fortieth, but you could
be in the same kind of situation betting for six
or seven. So the biggest thing for me, it's nothing

(01:06:25):
really changes. I seem to have a home at five
at the moment, but yeah, not two fays. At the
end of the day, I just watched the ball and
try and bat and put a team in a position
to win.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
And you also today brought up one thousand runs in
ODII cricket for New Zealand. Did you know you were
approaching that milestone?

Speaker 24 (01:06:43):
I came up on the screen when I was waiting
to bat and Maddie Green was like, oh, you could
get that today. So yeah, that was the only reason
I knew because I sec or the World Cup kind
of have those milestones on there on the screen at
times during the match. But other than that, no, I'm
definitely not a stets person.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
All right, Well, I mean, well it's a nice one
to tick off anyway, and you just continue batting and
see what else comes your way. Hey, bowling wise three
we could each for Jess Kerr and Lea to who
can you tell us about their bowling tonight?

Speaker 24 (01:07:11):
Yeah, I thought even Rocco as well. The way that
they bowled on that pitch. They keep the really simple
and just hit that hard length that hit the top
of the bales. And that's the biggest thing that we've
kind of been talking about as a group over the
last couple of days from a bowling point of view.
It's just keeping it simple, as keeping it as simple
as possible and just being boring. And I think we've
seen probably I think we might have been the eleventh

(01:07:32):
match of the World Cup all ever matches. When the
ball is actually on the stumps at that good length,
it's very hard to play and it's just trying to
do that for a long period of time, and I
thought our pace bowling group really nailed that today.

Speaker 23 (01:07:44):
And yeah, Leah and.

Speaker 24 (01:07:45):
Jess were fortunate to get a few wickets, but I
thought the other way, Rocco came and also really put
us on the front foot.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
And you had a couple of overs today as well,
you had three in the last game. What is your
bowling role in the New Zealand fifty overside?

Speaker 23 (01:07:58):
Oh, it's a heavy question.

Speaker 24 (01:08:00):
Just failed And then if so, if he wants me
to roll the home over over, do it and probably
check a couple of no balls in there as well.

Speaker 23 (01:08:09):
It seems at the moment, So yeah, it's going really well,
So we'll see if I get another overnext game.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Do you see a time though, where your bowling contribution
is more significant and fifty over a cricket? Like, can
you see a time where you bowl your ten overs?
For example?

Speaker 24 (01:08:23):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:08:23):
Absolutely not. I do not see me ever bowling teen overs.

Speaker 24 (01:08:27):
I have told Ben Sawyer so many times that he
needs to lower my bowling loads because it's unrealistic that
I've ever gon bowl ten overs.

Speaker 23 (01:08:37):
Six overs, you know.

Speaker 24 (01:08:39):
I guess I'm like a yeah, never an od obviously
domestic crickets a little bit different. But yeah, my role
definitely in this team is batting with the odd part time.

Speaker 23 (01:08:49):
Roll the arm over.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
So next up shril Ancha Colombo on Tuesday. How do
you best use tonight as the springboard for the rest
of the tournament.

Speaker 24 (01:08:59):
Yeah, obviously that momentum and the I think the positivity,
the you know, few of the girls who are a
lot happier today, which also helps. And I think if
we can just carry that through over the next few
days looking into Schlanka, it's always a positive. And for us,
I think the way that you know, Sophie and I
did bat today kind of kind of gives an insight

(01:09:19):
into the way that we might have to bat worth
on Colombo wickets with it being a little little bit slower.
So it's just you know, individually figuring out maybe on
those slower wickets, how we're going to approach that and
stick into our game plan and actually being boring, whether
that's with the ball or the bat. And you know,
hopefully today we kind of saw that, you know, if
you grind a way, you can still be able to

(01:09:41):
put a competitive total, especially with the way that Maddie
and you know, lead to who who came out and
battered and that last ten over is to kind of
give us a competitive score.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Well, congrats on the win today and your significant part
and it Broke, thanks for chatting to us. All the
best against Sri Lanka on Tuesday and for the rest
of the tournament too. Thank you, Thank you Brook for
joining us, Brooke Holliday there out of the white ferm
so I'll win for them against Bangladesh this morning. The
way there your Woman's World Cup works, there are eight teams,
everybody plays everybody in round robin, so he plays seven
games and then the top four go through to the

(01:10:12):
semi finals. So really you kind of got to win
four games. That is the size of it. Really. New
Zealand lost their first two of course to Australia and
then to South Africa, so good to get the win
on the board here. Next up they play, as I
just mentioned, Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Sri Lanka have had
a loss and a no result so far. Then Pakistan.

(01:10:36):
Pakistan have played three and lost three and then it
is India after that. The home side, they've had a
couple of wins in a loss and finally for the
White Ferns that is England, so they're not exactly and
must win territory, but you don't want to lose too
many more from here. Two losses and the solitary win

(01:10:58):
after three games. If they were to win their remaining
four pool games, that would guarantee them a spot in
the top four, so that has to be the aim, right.
It may well come down to that game against England
depending on other results, or they may already secured their
semi final spot by the time the last game against
England rolls around. We'll certainly keep eyes on it for
you anyway, Across the next couple of weeks as the
White Ferns continue their fifty over World Cup campaign coming

(01:11:21):
up twenty to two after the break, we get you
across the Tasman Adam Peacock and his regular slot.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
The big issues on and after fields Call Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty Weekend Sport with Jason Paine and GJ.
Gunnerhomes New Zealand's first trusted home, Bilder News Talks at BB.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
News, Talks at b and we can Sport. More meral
results to come, but let's get you across the Tasman
at seventeen to two. Australian correspondent Adam Peacock is with us. Adam,
we've been talking a lot about Bathurst already on the
show this afternoon, on this weekend of course at Mount Panorama.
Huge with motorsport fans as we know, but how much
cut through does the great Race have with every day

(01:12:02):
Australian sports fan.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Yeah, pine not huge amount perhaps what it once did
because it doesn't have those iconic names like Peter Brock
for instance, but it's still it's still very much paid
attention to it. They're smart with the calendars before cricket,
after footage, so it's in that little period there. But
I lost it a bit to Melbourne Cup, where it
was once upon a time the biggest thing ever on

(01:12:28):
that particular weekend or that particular day. But yeah, obviously
motorsports fans foth on it, absolutely love it, and fair
enough too because it is such a great race. But yeah,
it doesn't seem to have that general appeal that at once.
I don't know if it's that kind of forward holding
thing that's kind of gone away or something else made
to the icons, but yeah, it's still big, but not huge.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
All right, you mentioned cricket there and we're about to
get underway with the home summers for yourselves and ourselves
as well. Usband Kawaja has said this week that Australian
cricket bosses should consider moving the Boxing Day and New
Year's Tests if it allows the top players to take
part in the big every year. How have these comments
been received?

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
Big call? Because although we yell tradition and this New
Year's Test and Boxing Day Test, it's not like it's
been around for one hundred.

Speaker 16 (01:13:20):
And fifty years.

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
I'm not totally sure that the Boxing Day Test, but
certainly the New Year's Test wasn't around when I started
following cricket. It only became a thing. But it is
a success. So do you want to tamper with something
that is iconic like the Boxing Day Test. Are you
going to get that type of crowd if you play
it on December tenth? Probably not. Are you going to

(01:13:43):
have the amount of people that come in too sitting
in to watch the news test from all around the
country just to celebrating years and all that. If you're
going to have that on February fourteenth, probably not. On
February fourteen, Valentine's Day. But you know what I mean,
people love their cricket not that much. But yeah, yeah,
it's a big call because it's all around the big batch.
But do you want to change something that is working

(01:14:06):
for the sake of trying to get something else to
work properly or just maybe work out hout of work
that other things out properly without tampering with what's there.
That's my feeling on it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
As the reason he made the comments the fact that
that you know, big players like Pat Cummens Travis Head
are being offered big money to exit Australian cricket all together.
So the collateral damage of trying to keep them is
let them play Big Bash and we'll move the test matches.
Is that the retinal behind the comments.

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
Potentially, especially when your factor in what might happen to
those big DASH franchises, which is being bought by these.

Speaker 4 (01:14:37):
Big conglomerates who will run these franchises around the world,
the centerpiece being the IPL team, but then having spin
offs here, there and everywhere, and Pat and Travis for instance,
to go and play four or five T twenty tournaments
a year and that's their bang for bucks for ten million.

Speaker 5 (01:14:54):
So yeah, I can receive that argument, but still and
then up ending something. But I like our of thinking
outside the boxom not against what he said. It's it's
more let's crime consider this for the best for all
parties at the moment looking at it, I would not
like to tamper with it that other people might be different.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
All right, you're Australian women's team as ours are is
the Cricket World Cup right now, A couple of comfortable
wins and a watch out to start stack team. You
have a Lissa Healey at least Perry Beth Mooney, Ash
Gardner and others. Would anything less than winning the World
Cup be a bit of a disappointment.

Speaker 5 (01:15:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty bad because they win them for fun,
this team, and actually because I do a bit of
work with Elisa Healey here in Australia with New Zealand's
favorite son Brad Haddan on Willow's Talk, we've actually.

Speaker 25 (01:15:48):
Been just giving it to heel saying, oh, it doesn't
matter about your top five, top six, get playing a
merry go round and whoever whoever's in the gun seat
scores the century for that match and then you move
on beat that team.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
And then move on. They were in trouble. There's a
bit of trouble in both their games so far. They've
had one wash but durn stripe and then Beth Mooney
stepped up in the first one. It was actually out
and they've just got much depth. It's ridiculous. And yeah
they've got good bowling to gots, especially on those we
gets over there. But with the bat on any day.
Someone called the century and that's the problem for the opposition.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
And speaking of your women's sides, the Matilda's have upcoming
matches against Wales and England. This is football, of course,
and your biggest star is back for what I can
see is the first time since January twenty twenty four.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
Yeah, officially in the squat Sam ker So had a
acl a need problem and then had a hiccup. I'm
not entirely sure what that hiccup was, but it delayed
her and then she's obviously had off field things happened
in the lights happy things like becoming a mum. The
things that made it probably stressed out a fair bit

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in terms of that case in London with the police officer,
but that's all washed away now and she's back. She
came into the last camp. I think just to be around.
This is her first official time back and first time
that she's probably going to play a minute. She's being
used carefully by Chelsea at the moment her club only
off the bench. But it's great to see her back

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and she's an icon and yeah can talk with people.
When you start this conversation about backer and how much
cut through well Sanko does. Something everyone knows is that
I be sheas if you start.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Thanks as always for updating us so well on Australian Sport. Adam,
have an excellent weekend, mate. We'll catch you again next Saturday.

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
You too, finey last one without a for all.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Well, BJ, it's going to get busy. Thanks mate, She's mate.
That's Adam Peacock, our Australian correspondent, as always on a
Saturday afternoon, eleven minutes to.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Two, This is news Talk said be breaking news.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
And local body election results coming through this afternoon. Progress
reports results rather show that Wayne Brown has been re
elected mayor of Auckland. He has almost one hundred and
forty seven thousand votes ahead of Karen Lee only on
just under fifty seven thousand, So Wayne Brown has been
re elected the mayor of Auckland, and earlier film Major

(01:18:15):
has been confirmed as winning a second term as mayor
of christ Church. More results across the afternoon here on
news Talks HEADB ten to.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Two, breaking down the Hail Mary's and the epic fails
weekends for it with Jason Hine News Talk ZENB.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
News Talks just on seven and a half away from two.
Updating you on some live sport Heartland Championship semi finals
this afternoon in the Meads and in the Lahore. The
Meets is the top four at the moment at the
Ashburton Showgrounds in wonderful Ashburton, Mid Canterbury. The home side
lead Wided Up a Bush by thirteen points to five.

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They've had about fifteen minutes in that game. It was
a one thirty five kickoff, so Mid Canterbury thirteen to
five ahead of Wided Up a Bush. The other semifinal
is just down the road in Timurdo Fraser Park. That's
three thirty five this afternoon with the home side South
Canterbury welcome Thames Valley. So that's the top four for
the Meads Meats Cup and then the Lahore Cup or

(01:19:17):
Lahare Trophy. I can't remember what the correct name is
for it, but it's the teams that finish fifth through eighth.
They play off for the Lahore fong Anui against Tolafanua
Carpety at Cook's Gardens and Fongu this afternoon at two
thirty that's one of the semis and North Otago against
Poverty Bay at the A and P show Grounds in Oamaru.
So both of those games underway at two thirty. We'll

(01:19:39):
keep you up to date with how it's all going
Heartland Championship wise, and the respective finals for both trophies
are next Saturday. That's the Heartland Championship. Just on the NPC.
Of course, we're at quarter final time in the Bunnings MPC.
What about that game last night, it's just u to
lead tremendous. I got a message actually from Andy, producer

(01:20:03):
Andy about twenty minutes into the second half and I'm
just going to bring it up, bring it up here,
and he said, I predict the final score tonight will
be Otago ninety four, Waikato eighty eight. And it was
getting done those those lines, wasn't It was certainly free
scoring last night and eventually it was the homeside Otago
who got there forty four to forty one, courtesy of

(01:20:27):
a penalty after the final hooter from cam Miller. It
was looking all Otago for a while there when Sam
Gilbert dropped a gold that took them out to forty
one twenty seven. With about twelve minutes to go. It
looked as though it would all, you know, all sort
of finish in the fashion that we expected, but two
converted tries from Waikato brought it back to forty one.

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All the final hooter goes Otago get a penalty fifty
meters out on the angle. Cam Miller says, yep I
like a piece of that stepped up nailed it forty
four forty one. So what was going through his mind
as the penalty was given and as he was lining
up and as it was sailing towards the post. We'll
find out after two o'clock Candler is going to join

(01:21:08):
us for a bit of a chat about that. The
other three quarter finals Bay of Plenty Tasman ten past
four this afternoon at the Todonga Domain Hawks Bay against Tartanakia,
but later on tonight at McLean Park in Napier that
kicks off at ten past seven, and then tomorrow afternoon
at ten past two Canterbury against Counties Monaco for the

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for the fourth of the quarterfinals. It is the the
highest qualifier plays the lowest qualifier in the semi finals.
So TAGA won't know until after that Canterbury game tomorrow
who they're gonna who they're going to come up against.
I just got a text from our good mate a
Pardahama meets top four Lahore five to eight. A Pardaham.

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I knew that, but I just didn't know whether it
was the Meats Cup or the Meats Trophy, the Lahore
Cup or the Lahaw Trophy. That's cup, Piney, I've got,
thank you and good authority the Meats Cup and the
Lahore Cup.

Speaker 26 (01:22:04):
Indeed, no trophies involved, just cup. It's the same thing.
But yes it's called the Cup.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
We need to get these things right for reasons of
authenticity and credibility. Andy, good to have you along with
with the correct the caressing to be involved. Fin it's
just happy to have you here. After two Ken Miller,
as I say, we're also going to head back to
Bathurst where Eric Thompson is with us. But after two
straight away, joined in the studio by Mark Ingles, who

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has scaled Everest as a double mputee, but also on
our first paracycling medal twenty five years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
The only place to discuss the biggest sports issues on
and after fields.

Speaker 3 (01:22:48):
It's all on Weekend Sport with Jason Vane on your
home of Sport.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
So I six five hours away from the Top ten
shootout at bathist Ryan, what has you just heard in
the Sports news There third fastest in terms of qualifying
for the top ten shootout. Great to see him hold
that position or maybe even improve it ahead of the
great race tomorrow, or hege back or head back to Bathurst.
This hour with Eric Thompson from the New Zealand Herald

(01:23:18):
also going to play a sporting chance for the tav
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You choose one of them, we place the bet, if
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out of the Otago rugby side nailing a fifty meter

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penalty to win their quarter final last night under the
roof in Dunedin against Wakuttle very surely mark ingles our
very first Paralympic cycling medalist twenty five years ago. Next
week he's going to pop into the studio to chat
about that and about the Paralympic movement and what he's
up to these days. Oh e one hundred and eighty

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ten eighty remains our number nine two nine two for
your text messages emails to Jason at newstalk SHADB dot
co dot nz. Keeping on on live sport for you
as well, including those Heartland Championship quarter finals semi finals.
They are semi finals. But as we tick towards eight
pass two, as we always do at this time on
weekend sport, it's time to catch you up on some

(01:24:21):
of the stuff you may have missed. Not a tremendously
busy sporting weekend, but certainly a but to update you on.
Starting with Test cricket, India well on top of the
West Indies and their second Test in Delhi led by
a big century from Yashavi Jaswald.

Speaker 9 (01:24:42):
And proof of an appy tag that is unquestionable, unquenched.
Five now up is seven Test match hundreds are one
hundred and fifty plus. That is a young man who's
willing to make the best of a good.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
Deed, just while making one hundred and seventy three not
out on the first day India, finishing the day three
hundred and eighteen for two of it. Going on in
the United States and the NFL, the New York Giants
shocked the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 27 (01:25:18):
First throws intercepted, kicked off all the way down the
sideline cardial flat inside the thirty out of hounds deep
in Eagles territory.

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
Balls from behind docs it, which allows Flop to recover,
step in front of it and come up with the
game maybe ceiling interception for the.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Giants, so rookie quarterback Jackson dot getting his second career win,
a thirty four to seventeen victory to the Baseball and
the MLB. It took eleven innings, but the Los Angeles
Dodgers eventually beat the Phillies.

Speaker 6 (01:25:57):
No balls in the strait has breaks his bad Kirk
ring gotta fight it goes to the play.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Oh my goodness, he turns it away of the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Of law.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
The Dodgers when and they are moving on to the NLCS.

Speaker 6 (01:26:14):
An emost implamable tennis pandemonium at Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
Here the NLCS the National Championship Series. The Dodgers are
through and back to the race cars. A bit qualifying
day for Brodie Kostecki as he looks for his third
pole in a row at Mathurst.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
What position number two? This isn't a cry that was unbelievable?
Now Mecca has just time in in ninth round?

Speaker 18 (01:26:40):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Brady Kostecki knocks them all off for the four and
three six one thousand spaster than many unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Analyzing every view from every angle in the Sporting World
Weekend Sport with Jason Pie they call.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
Us Talk Zivy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
Eleven minutes past two. This year marks the twenty fifth
anniversary of the Sydney Paralympic Games. Forty two Kiwis represented
New Zealand at those Games and brought home eighteen medals,
including our first ever Paralympic medal in cycling, when Paralympian
number one two four Mark Ingalls claimed silver in the

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Keiloh time trial eighteen years previously, in November nineteen eighty two,
at the age of twenty three, had been stuck in
a snow cave on Odaki Mount Cook for thirteen days
because of an intense blizzard and had both his legs
amputated below the knee. After he was rescued, his passion
for the outdoors never left him, though. He became a

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successful power alpine skier, claiming several national and international medals,
and later turned to competitive cycling, representing New Zealand at
the World Champs and winning that historic silver medal at
the two thousand Sydney Paralympic Games. In two thousand and two,
he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order
of Merit for services to People with disabilities. In two

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thousand and six, became the first ever double ampute to
reach the summit of Mount Everest. What a pleasure to
welcome mark Ingalls into the studio. Great to see him
make one week short of twenty five years since you
won that medal October eighteen, two thousand it was. Is
it still vivid?

Speaker 20 (01:28:26):
Oh very much so?

Speaker 11 (01:28:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:28:28):
I mean, well, you couldn't think of the better place
to have what we call it the Olympics, you know,
because it's the they have the practice event. The few
weeks earlier and they've got it right for us. And
when we turn up and you know, Sydney, what a
phenomenal atmosphere, that whole city of five million or a
hair of many they have just brought into the whole thing.

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It was electric.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
You'd been a very successful skier. What was it about
cycling that attracted you?

Speaker 20 (01:28:58):
Because I wasn't that successful at skiing. Really it's you know,
it's for cycling. The one thing for a dumble lamp
utee is it allows you to have a really high
cardiac output without wrecking your stumps. And so I tried
the running thing and things like that. Skiing you really

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can only do it in the winter here in New
Zealand then you have to go overseas. And had a
young family, so that wasn't working out. But if you've
got a bike, yeah, it can bike anywhere at any time.
And you know, back at Mount Kok in the day,
back in the late seventies and early eighties, we had
some of the first mountain bikes in New Zealand. We
had ski guides bringing them over from America. You know,

(01:29:39):
so the very first specialized stump jumpers and earn all
these things and so we were happily riding around national parks.
Well you're still allowed to, yeah, And so cycling has
always been in the DNA.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
So once you took it up, was it always your ambition,
your aim to be bloody good at it?

Speaker 20 (01:29:59):
Well, yeah, I guess you know a bit of your
attention deficit mail and it's like you're going to ride
a bike, the emails will ride at fast. And so
initially I hadn't discovered the Paralympic cycling. It was only
once i'd got into it for a few years when
I was doing a bit of technical mountain biking and
the likes. There was no mountain bike or Paralympic mountain biking,

(01:30:24):
and so I swapped back over to the road and
then got on the road bike and discovered that whole
paralymp you know. And we were ten years behind the
rest of the world here in New Zealand, you know,
because we are a long way from everywhere. There were
professional European Paralympic cyclists. All of the big teams had
a Paralympic team as well, you know, the US, the UK,

(01:30:48):
all of Europe, even Australia was striding out in front
of US. So you know, it was what a fantastic opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
How long did it take you to get used to
riding on a velodrome?

Speaker 20 (01:31:02):
For the ten days before riding on my key hell
to do the training. I was senior winemaker at Montana
and Mulbre at the time, and our only training track
was the four hundred meter concrete track that was on
the outside of the running track, and so the steepest
part of that valodrome was flatter than the flattest part

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of the valodrome, and so I'd never ridden on boards.
You know, poorl Wayne that the team manager, when he
saw me going for my first lap around, you know,
telling me to go up, go up, go up, and
I'm getting there. I'm getting there. And I always remember
he rang up Ron Cheatly, you know, New Zealand's most
famous cycle and track coach, and he said, you know, Ron,

(01:31:48):
what am I going to do here? You know I
got this, you know I've got this country hick who's
never actually been on it. So it was it was
a bit of a learning experience for us all.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
So you went to Sydney, as I understand it, without
even an official time recorded. Over one thousand meters had
you never competed in this event before.

Speaker 20 (01:32:08):
No, not in the kilo, so you know I made
some I had some good wins and in the road cycling,
you know, and that my advantage has always been as
a double mputee, you can get out of the settle
and you can sprint, so it means you can climb
really well on road cycling, or it means you can
start really fast. So it was no use me doing

(01:32:30):
an individual pursuit. I'd be able to do the first
lap fast and everyone catches you up. And so the
selectors at the time took a punt. They knew that
I was riding really well, an amazing coach, Tony Kaderick
from Blenham, and you know, they put the faith in
me and blindly entered me in the kilo, and you

(01:32:52):
know it was like it was.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Made for me. So you're completely under the radar, unranked.
So the way this event works, as most people know,
is that the I guess, the faster riders go last,
so you ought to be one of the first. You
clocked one twenty three point one nine and then what
you just have to sit and watch the rest of
the field and hope they don't go quicker.

Speaker 20 (01:33:12):
It's amazing every time I see this happen on our
Olympic and Paralympic coverage. You know, you see that person
that's done a really fast like toa to France. You know,
you see in the time trials, you know that one
guy is sitting in the hot seat until someone goes faster.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
It's like, ah, you know.

Speaker 20 (01:33:29):
And it was just watching everyone, you know, because yeah
it was there were all of the fastest guys in
the world were coming after me, and it was just
like there was one, you know, the one that then
all of a sudden You've got a bronze medal. You know,
it's like sweet, that's that's good for me, you know.
And then you know the last one and so that
was Radavar Kaufman. And you know he was a single

(01:33:50):
abovenee amputee. But that one leg he had that had
a lot of Slovenia beef in it, you know, it
looked like a powerpole. And as soon as he as
soon as he lit off on you that he would
come close or beat me.

Speaker 10 (01:34:02):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
Silver must still have been special by because what were
your expectations going and did you expect to be on
the podium.

Speaker 20 (01:34:08):
Oh definitely not. You know, well, no, that's wrong. You're
not competing in something if you don't want to win,
of course, you know, and you don't compete in something.
And I knew that in my training, I had written
the first lap faster than the world record for the
first lap, but you know it was unofficially timed. I
knew that if I could just hang in there for

(01:34:30):
the last three laps when these single above the amputees
would be catching me up. And so you know, I
knew that as long as I could put that together,
and all the training Tony had put me through, and
the tutoring by Wayne on the track, you know, we
were quietly confident that I could do something.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
And so once you'd won your silver medal, then you
didn't really carry on for much longer with the with
the cycling after that, I yes, you moved on to
your new challenge, which was trying to get to the
top of Everest, among other things. So did you ever
consider that, hey, I'm quite good at this, I might
carry on with the cycling.

Speaker 20 (01:35:03):
Yeah, but you need to understand that two thousand was
probably the last time you could be a really an
amateur athlete. At the Paralympics, you know, and especially you
know if you're you know, a senior wine maker at
Montana at the time, and so you need cyclings that
sort of the sport where you have to put the

(01:35:25):
miles in and those miles cost hours. And so I
tried to keep the training up until two thousand and one,
went to the World Championships in Zurich, you know, and
just bombed out.

Speaker 22 (01:35:38):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:35:38):
It's just everyone else had just got so much better.
You know that the leagues at Wayne, Alexander and I
had designed for Sydney, people had copied them and starting
to use those. So you lost a lot of your
dark horse advantage. So it was once I'd seen that
that I really needed to focus on other things.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
How long did it take after your amputation to accept
the cards that you'd been dealt and to start focus forward.

Speaker 20 (01:36:08):
Well, because we had to lie in hospital and watch
our feet right for that month before we had the
amputation on Christmas Eve in eighty two. You sort of
get through all of that before, and so when you
wake up on Christmas Day, you know, and the sheets
end halfway down the bed, that's the time to start,
it really is. And so we've done a lot of

(01:36:29):
that processing.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
It's still still really.

Speaker 20 (01:36:32):
Hard, you know, it's still damn hard. But you know,
if you're going to have your legs cut off at
twenty three, then the best person to do it too
is a young mountaineer.

Speaker 10 (01:36:42):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:36:42):
I was a professional mountaineer, and you know, you.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
You live in an.

Speaker 20 (01:36:48):
Environment where if you make the right move you might die,
and so you have that ability to focus, and that's
what you know, you're able to bring along to this
new situation. Really, and so it wasn't about oh, never
climb again. It's just like when can I climb again?

Speaker 10 (01:37:04):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:37:05):
And there was a frustrat about climbing too slow, which
is why I stepped away into the cycling and the
skiing and then stepped straight back into It takes time, yep,
I'm still learning, it's you know.

Speaker 11 (01:37:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Were there times though, that were particularly challenging where you
thought to yourself, this just isn't fair. Why has this
happened to me?

Speaker 20 (01:37:25):
Not really, because in a lot of cases, you know,
because we sat in an ice cave for thirteen and
a half days and it was like your own Discovery
Channel program on frostbite playing at the end of your feet.
You know, it was just like I was a trained paramedic.
You know, you knew exactly what was happening. You're making
decisions not to get hypothermia, but to accept frostbite, you know,

(01:37:45):
because frostbite doesn't kill you, hypothermia does. And so all
of that, all of that processing was going on. It
would be much much harder if you were out racing
on a motorbike and you wake up in hospital the
next day and you're a double mputee or a car
accident or you know many of these other things that
you know, I just pattent unfair. But in many ways

(01:38:08):
we put ourselves Phil and I into a position where
we got stuck on the top of cock and and
you know, they are the cards that you're being dealt.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
What takes that most of your time these days?

Speaker 20 (01:38:21):
Oh, I mixed the things. I'm here in Wellington at
the moment at the Trails Forum for New Zealand Cycle Trails.
So I'm the trail manager for the Saint James Great
Ride's got a new bridge, come and ride and it's
right down at one end of the continue. It's a
real mountain bike adventure, you know, it's not paved in gold.
It's yeah, yeah, bring your a game to the Saint James.

(01:38:43):
That's about half my time. The other half is either
traveling and doing motivational work with corporates around the world
and communities. Plus our charities Limbs for All, so we
work in Cambodia where we educate, help educate children with disabilities,
make education accessible for them. That's Limbs for All. They're

(01:39:03):
a variety of other charities. The one of them excite
ones in the last three while that's been tying up
a lot of time is the Soldier's Block in Hamnah.
So we've set up a charitable trust, the Queen Mary
Historic Reserve Charitable Trust. We've renovated the old Soldier's Block.
It so almost three point six million dropped into that.

(01:39:23):
Already phenomenal because it's the heart of Hamnah Springs where
I live, but it's also the heart of so much
of our post war recovery. It was built in nineteen
sixteen and then of course it became New Zealand's premier
year drug and alcohol rehabilitation. And so you know, there's

(01:39:45):
just so many places I go in New Zealand that
people go, you know, oh I spent six weeks at Hamnah.
You know, it's like really it's nationally important and very Excitingly,
we've been working with the team here in Wellington called
WETA Workshops, and we're going to be installing over the
next couple of years once we raise a few more
dollars the immersive experience that will tell about the darkness

(01:40:10):
and of the horror of war, of the challenge of
dependency on drugs and alcohol. But then it will also
show that the incredible healing process that comes out of it.
You know, it's called from Darkness to Light. Where's like
super excited. There's not a day when there's nothing, you know,
when there's not anything going on. I'm not very good

(01:40:31):
at holidays, Piny.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
Not very good at holidays. Look, I can tell I
just have to read your CV for that. Can we
circle back to two thousand just to finish. Were you
naked when you cross the finish line?

Speaker 20 (01:40:41):
I'm pretty sure that Tony, my coach said, if you
don't faint or vomit going over the finish line, don't
come home. You know, So I fell off my bike
but that was about yeah and so oh yeah, yeah,
you're naked. But then you have to go through that
process of I had three cups of coffee that morning.
Am I going to be over the caffeine? Because in

(01:41:03):
two thousand caffeine was a restricted drug and I'd worked
out you could have four short blacks, you know before
the ride. Now I'd had three, and am I going
to go over? Before? I had to have my pea
in a bottle and so you're naked, but there's all
these other things going on. It's a phenomenal experience.

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
I'll never take the silver medal away from you. Mark,
one of many amazing things that you've done. Lovely to
see you, mate, Thanks for stopping in and all the
best for what lies ahead. Thank you. Mark Ingles, our
very first Paralympic cycling medallist twenty five years ago. Next Saturday,
October eighteen, the year two thousand when he claimed silver
in the kiloh time trial. Just one of, as I say,

(01:41:41):
many amazing things that Mark has done. Great to have
him here in studio with us two twenty five on
news Talks here, b we'll get you back to Bathurst
after this. The top ten shootout goes at five past seven, Ryan,
what is the only key we involved? How should he
be approaching this and the other key was in the field.
Still a chance in tomorrow's Great Race, which goes at
one forty five tomorrow afternoon. Eric Thompson going to chat

(01:42:04):
to us when we come back.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
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Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
Two twenty eight. This time tomorrow will be underway in
the Great Race one forty five tomorrow afternoon, New Zealand
time is when the Bathist one thousand is underwayover as
the name would suggest, one thousand kilometers at Mount Panorama.
It's great to have Eric Thompson there. Read him in
the Herald ins at Herald dot co dot z or
listen to him on this very show. How are you mate?

Speaker 12 (01:42:36):
Yeah? Great? May have we came back down from the mountain.
I'm actually just wandering along behind all the pit garages,
the supercar pit garages, seeing everybody settling their machines and
of the briefings because they had the co driver head
out earlier today and wow, Jamie Wincup was the only
co driver that actually put it in the sandtrap early
on brought out the red flag, so you know, one

(01:42:58):
of the most established strawaks and multi winner out of
the batist one hundred was the one to go off.
You could see the co drivers pining, absolutely going for
it like madness. Because now I was talking to some
people yesterday the co drivers are actually on the limit
because for the car set up, there's driving set the

(01:43:20):
car set up for the race day. So that's really
pretty busy here mate, right Sunshine.

Speaker 16 (01:43:29):
A few lobsters wandering around, but you can just feel
if you can just feel attention building and building to
shootouts a little way off yet, but you can just
feel it all. You know, people are getting a little
bit more excited and bits and pieces like that. But
I was saying to your producer mate, we watched at
the top of the mountain after chatting to you and

(01:43:50):
the listeners. Angus Folk, the good old Kiwi who was
here racing for Team Kiwi Racing about twenty odd years
ago and he's now.

Speaker 12 (01:43:59):
In the Central Muscle cards. And they had a race
where it was the Kiwis versus the Ausies Fans Bosmand
rivalry and Foggy won it and an absolutely blinder of
a race and he was up against Stephen Johnson again.
Multi that's just when I say that Kwi and the
Aussies would go and hammer and tongs across the top
of the mountain.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
It was fantastic, outstanding. They really keep you interested in entertained,
don't they. I know the Great Race tomorrow is the
big one, the Top ten shootout tonight, as you say,
is still a few hours away, but it sounds as
though there's always something to see and to look out.
What about xcesst you say, you're there down there and
put Lane? Are there? Can you go? Most places? Can
you sort of wander around? I know there are places

(01:44:40):
you can't go, but as excess pretty good.

Speaker 12 (01:44:43):
Oh yeah, if you get the right ticket. You can
have it like a general admission ticket, which you know
will get you anywhere around the outside of the circuit.
And they've got a really good sort of bush shuttle
service up and down, you know, from the bottom of
sort of pitt straight that takes you up to the top.
And the queues MI need to get the bus back. Amazing.

(01:45:05):
We were very very importan as part of the media
contingent here it's own shuttle bus. The number of people
queuing for the bus and yes, you can get access
to walk around the back of the pit boxes. Yeah,
of course you can't go into them, and then if
you want to. Oh, I'm just watching some photographs some
people having their pictures taken with the Peterbrock Trophy. Piney,

(01:45:28):
I'm looking at it right now, the big trophies for
the event. What a magnificent piece of silverware. Anyway, I digress.
But you can and you can actually pay a small
fortune and you can actually walk down pet Lane. So
the real Anna acts a bit like yourself. You know,
you can actually get their access to just about anywhere,

(01:45:51):
so loads of corporate boxes entertaining clients that the pieces
like that. But it's very user friendly. That's the word
I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Fantastic. Well, I know you've spoken to all of the
keywis involved. There are five main drivers and one co
driver in the field this year. We spoke a bit
about Matt Pain when we were chatting last time, and
I know there were high hopes for Matt Pain and
there may well still be. But the fact that he's
only qualified eighteenth, he won't be part of the top
ten shootouts you mentioned when we spoke last time. He

(01:46:20):
was quite disappointed. Can he still turn things around and
have a very memorable day tomorrow.

Speaker 12 (01:46:27):
He certainly can. It's quite I mean some people say, oh,
matt Pain's bonus chance, not at all. I mean some
of your listeners will remember when I mean it was
Chas Mostat and Paul Dunbrow to morrow sorry one from
twenty fourth on the grid, dead last, and they ended
up winning the Great Race. So anything can happen. Specially

(01:46:50):
is that there's a little bit of forecast of rain
about five pm towards the end of the race our time,
Australian time, So if it does get a bit a
bit wet towards the end of the race, you know,
drivers are a bit tired, cars are a bit tired.
But it's eminently possible for him to be you know,
we're saying how to go and with a chance, you'd

(01:47:12):
write somebody like Matthew Kainoff at your own peril. I'm
rooting for Andre hung Gardner. He's had eleven starts here
I only, but only finished five times, and none of
them due to his fault. So I'm really hoping for
a big turn around for Andre. He just missed out
on the top ten shootout and their car's really fast,

(01:47:33):
so looked to him to go.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
Well, all right, Richie stand away as well Jackson Evans.
But let's talk about Ryan Wood, who is the man
in the top ten shoot out there, the sole key
we there. He sounds like he's had a heck of
a couple of days. Have you been impressed?

Speaker 11 (01:47:48):
Oh? Absolutely.

Speaker 12 (01:47:50):
I mean he's been around here before, but he does
not have the mileage that some of the other drivers.
I mean I touched on it with you earlier that
his co driver has done more that's around here than
he has, and that bodes really really well both young
guns and he the place. He is so excited to
be racing in the Great Race. He's all fired up.

Speaker 16 (01:48:12):
He said he watched it when he.

Speaker 12 (01:48:13):
Was four or five and it was his passion to
be here. And he's worked. It's been a single minded
focus to get here.

Speaker 10 (01:48:21):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:48:21):
If anybody's got a lazy fiver, finally, I'd go and
put it on Ryan Wood.

Speaker 2 (01:48:25):
All right, I know, And we can talk as much
about Ryan Wood and the others as we like, But
is everybody really chasing Brodie Kostiki? Is that the way
you see it?

Speaker 12 (01:48:34):
Yeah, he is gonna he's going for a three peak
this afternoon because he put it on pole the last two.
You know, he won last year, the year before he
put it on pole, so and I would say he's
pretty much odds on. But brock Feene has had the
year of amazing pole. He's had fourteen pole positions rock

(01:48:56):
Fenny so far this season, and it looks as quite
possible and he'll break Scott mcdoplin's record of seventeen poles
because there's three more events to go after this one.
But and he was only zero point zero, zero sixth
of a second off just sickies time.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
Yeah's look, it's yeah. The margins are so small, aren't they,
you know? And it seems incredible really around a track
that was six point one k that they can be
separated by hundreds, sometimes thousands of a second. It's just
astonishing how close they all are. I think Greg Murphy
said that qualifying was one of the closest it's ever been.

Speaker 12 (01:49:39):
It was from first to sixteenth was point four of
a second, you know, And for your listeners, pint, when
you your eyes blink, that's about a second.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
It's just crazy, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:49:53):
It's just crazy first first sixteen drivers less than half
a second between them, and as you said, around one
of the most difficult circuits in Australasia six point two
or six point one kilometers, they're on the ragged edge
most of that lap. So talk about pinpoint accuracy, its
shaft phenomena. We were watching at the top and you

(01:50:16):
could see drivers have a different line into all the corners,
some co and shallow, some going wide. But if you
put a match box down on the apex, the perfect
apex of any of those corners, every single car would
hit that match box, every.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Single So cool. Plenty of places to get something to
eat or a drink if you felt like one over there.

Speaker 12 (01:50:37):
Well, I already booked in my spa and weight loss treatment.
But when I get that, so I've pre booked that pony,
pre booked that Bird's great you can get I mean,
there's up the top. They had a pig on a
spit roast.

Speaker 16 (01:50:55):
That was the camp guys, not the other guys.

Speaker 12 (01:50:59):
So it's just yeah, you won't stay up here mate,
low Way.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
I just love the pictures you're painting for us. Eat
say thank you for joining us. A couple of times
this afternoon enjoy the rest of today. We'll catch up
again tomorrow for fits into your schedule mate, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:51:12):
Real ring, look forward to final.

Speaker 11 (01:51:14):
Thanks man, all the best.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
Eric Thompson to read him at mzidherld dot co dot
m z. He did a great piece on all the
kiwis who are involved and and yeah, Ryan Wood obviously
is the is the one who we're all watching in
the Top ten shootout tonight, which goes at five past
seven New Zealand time, that is the top ten. Obviously,
in qualifying they'll go from slowest to fastest and that
will determine grid position for tomorrow. Everybody from eleven down

(01:51:40):
is already set. Matt Payne eighteenth, Andre Heimgartner nineteenth, Richie
stand Away twenty third, Jackson Evans twenty fourth. Those are
the other keyweeks and Ryan Wood is in the mix
obviously in the in the top ten shootout. The other
key we involved is Fabian Coulthard who is co driver
with Chaz Mostard. And Chaz Mostard is in the Top

(01:52:02):
ten shootout. In fact, he qualified sixth fastest for that
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last night. From about forty nine meters out right foot
round the corner, cack up towards that post that.

Speaker 27 (01:55:54):
Is over, came over.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
I'm I saies next week there it is a long
range penalty after the hood from first five cam Miller
has given otar Go a forty for forty one victory
over Waycatto under the roof and Dunedin. Cam Miller joins
us Cam the penalties awarded. It's fifteen meters or so
on the angle. Did you always fancy a shot at goal?

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:56:22):
Yeah I did. I think every kicker wants to take
that opportunity. You know, we make some with some, but
always always had a crack.

Speaker 2 (01:56:31):
So you kick it, you look up to watch the
flight of the ball. Did it feel over off your boot?

Speaker 10 (01:56:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:56:39):
It started off looking pretty good down the middle and
then started fading right but late, which made me a
wee bit nervous, but yeah, lucky enough it snuck over
in the end, which was good.

Speaker 2 (01:56:50):
And how are the emotions when the flags go up?

Speaker 19 (01:56:54):
Yeah, that was just Pierre euphoria. I suppose. I'm not
even really sure what I was doing after I got
it over, but yeah, obviously pretty stoked.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
The phone blow up afterwards, Yeah, I had a few.

Speaker 19 (01:57:08):
A few messages on the phone. I don't know if
I've e't got to them all yet, but no, that's yeah,
it seem pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
Continuation of a really good season for Otago. Eight wins
from ten and the round robin to finish second, you
claim the Ramfilly Shield. You'll have that over the summer
into the NPC semi finals. Now, what has gone so
well for Otago in twenty twenty five and why have
things gone so well?

Speaker 19 (01:57:35):
I think our new coach Mark Brown's just created an
environment where ever I can be themselves and I think
it's just, yeah, a culmination of everyone's strength coming together,
and yeah, we've just bonded really well and have been
able to put together some really good footing.

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
Was there a point during the season when you realized, hey,
actually we're we're going well here, because I think we
had the had great day first up and you're down
in a Vicago beat Southland down there, but then a
loss to Hawk's Bay. Was there a point after that
where you thought, hey, we're actually traveling pretty well now.

Speaker 10 (01:58:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:58:09):
I think we played Wellington in one of the early
rounds and it was a really tight affair, but we
managed to scrape a wind. I think from that game
onwards we've just been able to build momentum and belief
and it's just keep stacking games and yeah, we've got
ourselves at this point from there.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
Just back to last night, did you know that your
skipper Sam Gilbert had a drop goal in his locker?

Speaker 19 (01:58:35):
Yeah, I've seen it at training quite a bit actually,
but when I passed it to him, I had no
clure who was going for it. But it turned out
to be quite a crucial three points in the end.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
So that put your forty one twenty seven ahead, so
out to the two tri margin with seven minutes to go.
What happened between then and the eighties when they scored
a couple of tries to bring it back to forty one.

Speaker 19 (01:58:55):
All, I think we just had a couple of years
in our own half and then I set piece was struggling,
and then there and we lead a problem a pretty
couple easy tries and to be fair, so yeah, we'll
have a look at that tomorrow, I suppose. But yeah,
pretty grateful we have a scrape win there, because, to

(01:59:17):
be fear, we didn't close it out as well as
we should have had.

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
You started to prepare yourself for extra time.

Speaker 19 (01:59:25):
Yeah, I did have that thought. But yeah, I was
pretty pretty desperate to get that penalty over because, to
be honest, the lungs were hurting. I was keen just
to end it there and avoid the extra extra time.

Speaker 2 (01:59:40):
I guess the other option would have been to kick
for the line right and set up and move from
a line out or something like that. But but that
wasn't even disgusting. You just said, no, no, this is me,
I'm taking this.

Speaker 17 (01:59:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:59:50):
I wasn't even discussed.

Speaker 23 (01:59:51):
I just.

Speaker 19 (01:59:53):
Yeah, I just I just wanted to have a crack
and I knew that I'd probably about have the leg,
so yeah, why not why not give it a go?

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
Absolutely, and you're half back. Dylan Pledger goes all right,
doesn't he?

Speaker 19 (02:00:06):
Oh yeah, what a handy player doing is Yeah, it's awesome.
I'm just able to try to get him in the
right parts of the field and when he gets out
smiling around the rocks. Is a seriously dangerous player with
a massive future.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
So you're into the into the semifinals. You won't know
who you're playing until after the last quarter final tomorrow.
But is it kind of nice to be able to
enjoy the weekend, watch the other three quarter finals play out,
and know that you'll be there next weekend for you
for another week.

Speaker 22 (02:00:35):
Yeah, that is.

Speaker 19 (02:00:35):
I was, yeah, unsure of how a Friday game would
go with the short turnaround, but it's worked out good
now for us because we get that full week going
into the semi final to prepare. So yeah, it's nice
to put the feed up on a twenty degree today
today is pretty uncommon, is it really?

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
Is it twenty degrees down there today?

Speaker 19 (02:00:58):
Yeah? Yeah, everything found out just perfectly.

Speaker 2 (02:01:01):
What is your range?

Speaker 19 (02:01:01):
Mate?

Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
Could you kick fifty five? I've watched you, what's your
what's the our limit of your kicking range?

Speaker 19 (02:01:09):
Yeah, that was touching it last night. I would say
fifty one fifty two, just just blind halfways pushing it
for a real good strike because.

Speaker 2 (02:01:19):
You probably you may have watched it back, but when
he gave the penalty in your signal to the post,
Beno Keith, the referee kind of gave it the up eyebrows,
you know, thinking, oh man, he's keen to have a
crack here.

Speaker 19 (02:01:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. I think there were a few
people given those, but oh well, sess it now.

Speaker 2 (02:01:34):
It has happened now mate, it's not a dream. You're
into the semi finals. Well on camp to you and
the team on what's been a terrific season so far.

Speaker 10 (02:01:42):
Mate.

Speaker 2 (02:01:42):
May there be a couple more Saturdays for you. Thanks
for joining us today.

Speaker 19 (02:01:45):
Awesome, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
No, thank you, Cam cam Miller there the kicker of
the winning penalty for Otago last night, forty four to
forty one. Did I call Stag day Craik day?

Speaker 22 (02:01:54):
Then?

Speaker 19 (02:01:54):
Did I?

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
Did I say? It does?

Speaker 26 (02:01:58):
To be fair to you finally have the same sort
of energy those two days Downtown and Downtown South, to
be honest, same vibe as it. I like how he
just played that one off. Actually, yeah, sure, whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:02:10):
Whatever you say. I just thought there was a tremendous
I think I might have said I might have said
it during the week on the Sports Fix podcast. Now
that I don't have a horse in this race, now
that Wellington haven't made it, and I want Otargo to
win the NPC. I think they'd be great story if
they were to if they were to win the NPC.
And you look at some of those players there, including
Cam Miller, Dylan Pledger who just continues to impress, Lucas

(02:02:34):
Casey and others. We know Josh Jacob has hited down
to the Highlanders in a couple of seasons. I'm not
quite sure why he's not going next season, but that's
probably a discussion for another day. I just hope the
Highlanders have a bit of a renaissance. Piney. It's twenty
two degrees in Southland, creat day stag day. Same same
says Robbie Kamela should tour. We haven't had a ninety

(02:02:58):
percent goalkicker in ten years. He should bench be on
the bench against Ireland, then start against Scotland. A very
good goalkicker, isn't he and last night was just the
lightest evidence of that. Eight to three News Talks NB.

Speaker 1 (02:03:13):
Let's scoop from the track, fields and the court on
your home of Sorts Weekend Sport with Jason Vine us
Talks NB.

Speaker 2 (02:03:23):
Issues. Want to get your views on tomorrow on the
show Rugby three sixty is one. A bunch of rugby
unions have said, look, if you play our three sixty
you're not going to play internationally. That's no different from
New Zealand Rugby's current policy. But came to kick around
R three sixty with you tomorrow and Osbon Kawaja, the
Australian Test cricket I said we should move the Boxing
Day test away from Boxing Day so Australian players can

(02:03:44):
play big Bash. That's ruffled a few feathers across the taskment.
But we should bring back our Boxing Day test, shouldn't we.
We can chat about that tomorrow Bathurst as well. Thanks
to any McDonald for producing, Thanks for listening in what's
our exit song today? Mate?

Speaker 26 (02:03:57):
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So I've gone for a car with an iconic car
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