The Muster- Andrew Alderson: Weekend Sport

Andrew Alderson of Newstalk ZB looks ahead to the sporting weekend.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
And before we wrap up on a Friday afternoon, we're
catching up with Andrew Ordison out of news Talk. Zibby orders,
good afternoon. Firstly, you are a South Auckland farming correspondent.
How's it looking on the ranch?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was graff everywhere. We're struggling to keep under control.
So I think we were probably gona get the haymaker
in a bit earlier this year. Maybe you nearly decend
or something like that, and you go for me just
to keep things years under Yeah, a bit more control.
I suppose you'd say, but you're not too many stock
on a place at the moment, dough so and you know,
I guess you sell high, but you're so buy high

(00:41):
at the moment. So we're keeping an eye on that.
And I think this is Alison is going to be
heading to the sale yards before long, so we could
pick up.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, you are the hey baron of Pokakoe. No less
say you not?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, yeah, you know, just that's not to not to
you know, find a point on I suppose yeah, well,
you know, nice little secondary income.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Absolutely, Ellen Bunting no longer involved with the black ferns.
I spreak this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes, yes, so I think this is inevitable enough for
a third place, an exit at the semi final stage
from the World Cup having defended or having won the
World Cup the previous time with Wayne Smith in command.
So yeah, he said three seasons in the job, Alan Bunting,
But I mean the talk from New Zener Rugby as
they've got the culture right, but they just need to

(01:30):
work on the performance and they actually giving the results,
so that all there is that they'll have someone else
in place by Christmas in that role for the Black
Ferns heading into the next campaign. But yes, Ellen Bunting
deciding that that is enough in the Generobian is heading off.
So that's the news out of in our headquarters this morning.

(01:55):
And yes, and probably not totally unexpected.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I would have thought now Daniel Hellia, he's chasing his
PGA tour card. Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
He is? I mean, this is the hot light of
the morning for me, and he could be perfectly honest.
I mean, I think this is outstanding from General Hillyer.
He's had a pretty consistent year on that European tour,
but he has started to really make it count in
these latter stages and as of today, I mean they've
played the first round of this race to Dubai or

(02:23):
with the rankings, et cetera. He has shot a five
hundred pass sixty seventies thing tied to sixth. He's three
shots off the league. But more importantly so he's right.
He's two places high this morning. On basis of today's round,
he moved to fifteenth on the season rankings and as
it stands, he'd get the nod over others. There's ten

(02:44):
USPGA Tour cards on offer. You have to be in
that top ten, but there's exemptions there, so that's that.
Rory Mackell always this world, the Tommy Fleetwoods who are
ahead of Hearier, so I think there's five of them.
So he's fifteenth, So that means that as long as
he holds where he is, he would actually be going
to the US next year, so joining Ryan Fox, et cetera.

(03:05):
I mean, I think it's a tremendous performance. And Hi,
there uter just a few seasons on the European Tour
and yeah, he just seems to be really maturing into that,
into that mold and as a professional goal for him,
it's such an ambitious undertaking I suppose for a young
guy when they first go on that tour, you make
it to the European Tour, weak their way out through
the Challenge, Challenge Tour, et cetera. But he's on the

(03:28):
cust of doing it and being able to reach that
top level. So good luck to him in these next
three rounds in Dubai.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
So what would this mean for New Zealand golf if
he was able to achieve, if we were able to
achieve this.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, I think it's just a great advertisement, isn't it
that another New Zealand and those top ranks, alongside the
likes of Ryan Fox Dame lydia Co being able to
contest week to week once you've got that tour card
and you get that decent run at it over the
course of a season, and then you know, if you're
like Ryan Fox, you guarantee it for longer if you
can put those victories in. So it's just you know,

(04:02):
it's just livelihood, isn't it. And then that I think
that reflects well as a whole on the governing body
and I guess the development and the structure of the
game in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
The Ashes gets underway next week in Perth Are, England,
going to be underdone heading into this series. It sounds
like it.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's a risk, isn't it. I mean, you go in
the general I guess school of thought is that you
want warm up games and you want plenty of them
if you can, especially in Australia where I mean having
tour excuse me with the Black Caps and seeing what's
on off of there and just the I guess the

(04:41):
sheer intimidation or the intensity of the environment, and it
goes through the team, that goes through media, goes through supporters.
It can be a fairly I guess, daunting place to play.
I mean some a lot of these guys have been
there before, but I don't know if any of them
in that team, maybe just one. I'm trying to think

(05:01):
we're around in twenty eleven and last time England won
in Australia I think it was under Andrew Strauss, was
it back in the day. So they need to try
and get that right and just you know, playing essentially
like an emerging players or development team from their own
That is a risk. And of course a form of
captains and in the form and a star in the

(05:25):
form of Urian both of them also Michael Vaughan coming
out and not so impressed with this, but Ben Stokes
is holding their line as it is Brendan McCallum and
I guess it comes when it comes down, and it's
just going to be that first day in which is
a week today. We'll see it on the hard and fast,
uncompromising environment that the Australia can present. I'm just absolutely

(05:50):
fascinated as to how that goes because it is a
different approach to what would normally There's been a lot
of time on the golf course, et cetera. And whether
that is a winning approach we had to wait and see.
But you're just just fascinated to see how that might unfold.
I mean into whether these teams have you know, has
astrained your age too much and they're going to be
weaker without the leadership of Cummings there. I mean, they've

(06:12):
got a bit of experience to back it up still,
but in the same price to England, I suppose and
has been Stokes fit. There's just so many angles to
this ASHES series and it's a fairly intense rivalry, especially
after the last one we saw in England. So yeah,
as a as a neutral observer, that's been especially with
our times though for it's perfect.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
But the way they just sit there and go at
each other in the media orders, it's fascinating. Australia sees
englic congratulations Johnny Bearsto, you won the Spirit of Cricket
Award for infinity. But they're just looking at Australia and
they just can't help themselves. It's almost childlike.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Oh yeah, there's plenty of puriality. I suppose you would
you would say about the whole scenario, and you know
they never missed an opportunity to take a pot shot,
that's for sure. But I think, yeah, it's it'll just
be a lot of it right even on the first
day first view over. It's just that just getting it

(07:11):
out there actually on the field, just to set the
tone is as fascinating for me as anything in the
first hour even so, Yeah, I mean it's in purpose
time for the first match at Office there, which is
a bit of a cauldron like ground. We we're going
to need to cover up when he's even played there
on their last two of Australia. But it probably hasn't.

(07:34):
It lacks the characters that say the whacker has, but
no doubt there will still be plenty on offer for
fans of the game to be able to soak up.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Now these changes to the Olympic Games in La this
is really intriguing.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Eight. So what we've got is the scenario where normally
you have the swimming program goes first ahead of the athletics,
but this time they've switched it around. They've got quite
a logical reason for that, and that the Yeah, the
Sofi Stadium there is going to be hosting the opening
ceremony is also going to be hosting the swimming. So

(08:08):
what they'll do is they've got the pools I think
will be in the base and then they'll put a
big cover over that for the efficts coming into the stadium,
et cetera. But like Rod Laverna or any of these
main stadiums in the world where you can put a
pool in them or take it out and everything is
pretty mobile, but it's going to take them away while
to do that properly. So therefore they'll start with the
athletics and then they'll move on to the swimming in

(08:31):
the second week. So that's just a turnaround in events here,
I think, and we'll have the women's hundred meters will
be decided on the first start, think the men's hundred
meters on the second day, and then it'll work its
way back from there into the swing events in the
second half of this edition of the of the Olympics.
But yeah, that's that's really I guess one of the

(08:55):
big changes women's trathle on the first day as well.
Women's sevens is underway too. Soping on offer, I guess
we're a New Zealand perspective. Also just a little bit
of a concern I think, and perhaps a reflection on
Trump's America. But Nicky Nichols saying that, you know, they
want New Zealand, New Zealand athletes to speak their minds,
et cetera, but to exercise caution, which is a bit

(09:17):
of a you know, a contradiction of terms, I think.
Just but I guess the monitoring of these things in
America these days, so just some a far everitable warning
shot there ahead of well, I guess we're sort a
long way out, almost three years out of the fact,
but the planning underway even in that respect.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Andrew ornestly out a new stog ZB. We always appreciate
your time on the muster. You enjoy the weekend. Good
luck with that grass harveston.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Ah, that's right, and good luck with your cricket. Laugh
out loud with ag proud because life on the land
can be a laughing matter.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
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(10:16):
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that speech, the emotional speech was completed, all the men
started clapping. That's us over and done with for the afternoon.
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(10:38):
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Enjoy the afternoon. Go the Abs.