January 29, 2026 • 8 mins
Andrew Alderson of Newstalk ZB looks at tennis and the expectation that comes with it, plus he looks at the current hay season on his South Auckland farm!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Andrew Watterson of Newstalks Zeb joins us before we wrap
up for the week here on the Muster Orders. Good
afternoon and welcome to a new year.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Greetings Andy, Yeah, pleased to be with you again. And yeah,
just well hoping this summer might finally be kicking in
up north. We've had some pretty grim conditions across the
majority of January, that's for sure. Not just I mean
you can gage these says, okay with the haymaking as
to whether the contractors come in and do the baithing, etc.
And honestly, I don't think since mid December there's been
(00:39):
a window more than three days where there hasn't been
some form of rain forecasts or actually eventuate. And I
really feel sorry for them because I just must limit
them during what should be their prime season.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Absolutely mate, And of course you're a South Aukland farming
correspondent as well, and you got a heap of hay
yesterday and it is that time of year where you
should be able to get.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
A couple of days to get that hay dried and cured.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, we're ever hopefully and that this will be the case,
so we have come through and do it. They're pretty energetic, efficient,
et cetera. You know, reminder of myself and the panics there.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Any you're pretty handy throwing the idiot bricks and the shed,
were you on? You're pretty handy throwing the idiot bricks
and the shed back.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You just bogged them up like lego. I just love
marrying them together, you know, in the back of the shed,
just get a real seat to achievement out of that,
and and doing a tidy tidy stack. But you know,
both on the truck and off the truck, you got
to you got to keep things in order.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Putting hay bales away one way of getting rid of rage,
in other ways getting rid of six seven, eight hundred
a thousand dollars rackets for goodness sake, of course, Coco
GoF we're talking about how she got followed by the
cameras and what she thought was a private space, absolutely
going to town on a racket.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Are you what do you make of all this?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Orders as have we gone too far? Is wanting to
see what athletes provide? Or is this just part of
the drama?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
She it's certainly part of the drama. But I was
really I was actually quite disturbed by because I've always
sort of Coca gov quite passive, quite quite measured actually
in her disposition over the years. But geez, that was
quite a dark moment. I mean, she really gave it
to that racket. I mean, I don't know, I've never
beshed a racket around it like that, but I mean
(02:24):
I don't maybe just you get so intense in competition
or something like that. Just haven't been at that level.
But it was just it was quite a shock to
the system. But I do think too that I go
back to the Raphae on the DAR. I mean, he
was always given that advice in his career that you
don't you ever damage a racket. It's done because you
know you're lucky enough to have one. And I wonder
(02:47):
there's a bit of that you have to have to
show a bit more spect there to your equipment and
in the end, it's how important this I suppose. I mean,
she's certainly done well at the tournament, but just yeah,
I just thought that was there was a little shot,
but it almost made it look like it's disposable. She's
not probably paying for it, it'll be sponsored, and I
just thought that I know she's still young, and but
(03:08):
she's got to really put that into some context there
and rationalize it. And I think it's just because she
was sort of throwing the angle about how, oh there
shouldn't be cameras there, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I mean she just didn't go far enough into the
dressing room bot, you know, to be able to get
out of that that view of the camera. But really
it's it's a wider or a more deep seaters in that.
It's just just her her anger management, I think, and
not just her. I mean there's plenty of players like it,
but yeah, I just think it's you want to you
(03:38):
want to see more mental control for my mind to
really respect those athletes.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The Australian Open this year. How have you enjoyed it?
I think it's been great doing.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it's been dreadful for my sleep, I have to say,
you know, getting up early in the mornings and I
just can't turn the telly off at night. I just
get so into some of those games. I love watching it.
I've been really impressed with the amount of drop shots
that seem to be played this year. I think there's
been more of those, which is nice to see. A
bit of variety rather than just your crash and bash
(04:10):
with the serve, etc. But it's just such a compelling
any of those majors, I just I just get right
wound into them. You know, you just see such great
quality of work with the racket, and I just I
love watching it. There's not really a lot between some
of those top players, but you looked at the other
night for ragaents like Sinner against Shelton. Shelton played really
(04:33):
well at times. You know, he's ranked eight in the world,
but Cinner's second, and so just had that extra capacity
with those levers to be able to you know, push
push Shelton around and just that it's a touch more
for Neesse perhaps and ands fine Margins put it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The black Caps are over in India. They managed to
get aw in the T twenty series. Will least be honest,
this is all null and void. When the T twenty
Cricket World Cup, that's when we see the re election.
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Actually I'm not too worried about losing those first three
games India. This Indian side is tremendously strong. It's powerful
across the board, I think, probably particularly with the bat.
But that's idea build up for New Zealand, I think
ahead of the actual event itself. I mean, they've already
won the One Day Series against India and that's a
pioneering moment itself for New Zealand to go with the
(05:22):
Test series in twenty twenty four in India. But I'm
actually I like what I'm seeing with that team. I
think they're greater than some of their parts. I think
they played really well in New Zealanders and I think
that they will. I think they will contend quite strongly.
At least they're having a build up. This time. It
was twenty twenty four in the Caribbean, they didn't really
to any great extent and then they were ousted from
(05:43):
full play. I think that at this time, at least
that is I'm viewing it now, that they'll they'll go
a lot stronger.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, Daniel, Hell, are you in the golfing landscape? What
are we expecting from them from the year?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Look, he is just going from strength to strength, isn't
the I'm loving what Dnue when to get the opportunity
and just seeing how his career is unfolding here. I mean,
once upon a time he might have thought maybe he
might go down that sort of journeyman track, et cetera.
I reckon he's genuinely going to contend for like he
did last year, for the USPGA Tour card by season's end.
(06:18):
He's had what four tournaments in the European Tour so
far this season he's had. Of those four, he's had
three top six finishes an ties and even today getting
to third after the first round of the Bahrain Championship
with a six hundred sixty six, it just feels like
he's really found his rhythms, mojo, etcetera. And yeah, he's
(06:42):
going to be continuing alongside Ryan Fox or for long
if he keeps up this terrific run of form that
he's had. And he just seems to be a really
measured character, well disciplined and doesn't get too fret up
about things on the course. And I think it's really
paid dividends from there after for a few seasons at
that top level.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So it's a fair to say New Zealand golfs in
a pretty good place at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I think it is, isn't it. I Mean it's
when you think of what Lydia Coldalydia co has achieved
over many years now. But what Ryan Fox and the
last years is really coming to his own. You've got
Danny Hill, he got others coming on to the tour
as well. I think yeah, they'd be they would be
pretty happy with where they're at and looking at the
development of the game and New Zealand, it's not like
(07:27):
we haven't got enough golf courses out there for people
to practice on. You know, it's not anywhere you go
along that he stayed highway in the country. It doesn't
date long before you're seeing a golf course. It's been
carefully managed, sometimes from MOA's, sometimes from sheep, but it's
it's It's one of the great elements of New Zealand
country life.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Isn't it. Well, No, no, no golf course around pocket
Coe is safe for Andrew Waltersons in this hey empire.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And tell you that much orders, Hey good on your mate.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You wouldn't want to be on State Highway twenty two
and your club eighteen.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Hey good on your orders. Always appreciate your time on
the muster. Will chet again, lovely.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Cheers Eddie laugh out loud with ag proud because life
on the land can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
How do you make a tissue dance? Put a little
boogie in it?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kind of relevant today, seeming the music as Casey in
the Sunshine.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Band, So we'll leave it there for the week. Eddie
muh is my name.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
This has been the muster on hockey new He cheers
the Peterston and it's best in the Master of five
Am Tomorrow podcast up shortly.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Enjoy the weekend.
Andrew Watterson of Newstalks Zeb joins us before we wrap
up for the week here on the Muster Orders. Good
afternoon and welcome to a new year.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Greetings Andy, Yeah, pleased to be with you again. And yeah,
just well hoping this summer might finally be kicking in
up north. We've had some pretty grim conditions across the
majority of January, that's for sure. Not just I mean
you can gage these says, okay with the haymaking as
to whether the contractors come in and do the baithing, etc.
And honestly, I don't think since mid December there's been
(00:39):
a window more than three days where there hasn't been
some form of rain forecasts or actually eventuate. And I
really feel sorry for them because I just must limit
them during what should be their prime season.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Absolutely mate, And of course you're a South Aukland farming
correspondent as well, and you got a heap of hay
yesterday and it is that time of year where you
should be able to get.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
A couple of days to get that hay dried and cured.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, we're ever hopefully and that this will be the case,
so we have come through and do it. They're pretty energetic, efficient,
et cetera. You know, reminder of myself and the panics there.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Any you're pretty handy throwing the idiot bricks and the shed,
were you on? You're pretty handy throwing the idiot bricks
and the shed back.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You just bogged them up like lego. I just love
marrying them together, you know, in the back of the shed,
just get a real seat to achievement out of that,
and and doing a tidy tidy stack. But you know,
both on the truck and off the truck, you got
to you got to keep things in order.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Putting hay bales away one way of getting rid of rage,
in other ways getting rid of six seven, eight hundred
a thousand dollars rackets for goodness sake, of course, Coco
GoF we're talking about how she got followed by the
cameras and what she thought was a private space, absolutely
going to town on a racket.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Are you what do you make of all this?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Orders as have we gone too far? Is wanting to
see what athletes provide? Or is this just part of
the drama?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
She it's certainly part of the drama. But I was
really I was actually quite disturbed by because I've always
sort of Coca gov quite passive, quite quite measured actually
in her disposition over the years. But geez, that was
quite a dark moment. I mean, she really gave it
to that racket. I mean, I don't know, I've never
beshed a racket around it like that, but I mean
(02:24):
I don't maybe just you get so intense in competition
or something like that. Just haven't been at that level.
But it was just it was quite a shock to
the system. But I do think too that I go
back to the Raphae on the DAR. I mean, he
was always given that advice in his career that you
don't you ever damage a racket. It's done because you
know you're lucky enough to have one. And I wonder
(02:47):
there's a bit of that you have to have to
show a bit more spect there to your equipment and
in the end, it's how important this I suppose. I mean,
she's certainly done well at the tournament, but just yeah,
I just thought that was there was a little shot,
but it almost made it look like it's disposable. She's
not probably paying for it, it'll be sponsored, and I
just thought that I know she's still young, and but
(03:08):
she's got to really put that into some context there
and rationalize it. And I think it's just because she
was sort of throwing the angle about how, oh there
shouldn't be cameras there, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I mean she just didn't go far enough into the
dressing room bot, you know, to be able to get
out of that that view of the camera. But really
it's it's a wider or a more deep seaters in that.
It's just just her her anger management, I think, and
not just her. I mean there's plenty of players like it,
but yeah, I just think it's you want to you
(03:38):
want to see more mental control for my mind to
really respect those athletes.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The Australian Open this year. How have you enjoyed it?
I think it's been great doing.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it's been dreadful for my sleep, I have to say,
you know, getting up early in the mornings and I
just can't turn the telly off at night. I just
get so into some of those games. I love watching it.
I've been really impressed with the amount of drop shots
that seem to be played this year. I think there's
been more of those, which is nice to see. A
bit of variety rather than just your crash and bash
(04:10):
with the serve, etc. But it's just such a compelling
any of those majors, I just I just get right
wound into them. You know, you just see such great
quality of work with the racket, and I just I
love watching it. There's not really a lot between some
of those top players, but you looked at the other
night for ragaents like Sinner against Shelton. Shelton played really
(04:33):
well at times. You know, he's ranked eight in the world,
but Cinner's second, and so just had that extra capacity
with those levers to be able to you know, push
push Shelton around and just that it's a touch more
for Neesse perhaps and ands fine Margins put it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The black Caps are over in India. They managed to
get aw in the T twenty series. Will least be honest,
this is all null and void. When the T twenty
Cricket World Cup, that's when we see the re election.
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Actually I'm not too worried about losing those first three
games India. This Indian side is tremendously strong. It's powerful
across the board, I think, probably particularly with the bat.
But that's idea build up for New Zealand, I think
ahead of the actual event itself. I mean, they've already
won the One Day Series against India and that's a
pioneering moment itself for New Zealand to go with the
(05:22):
Test series in twenty twenty four in India. But I'm
actually I like what I'm seeing with that team. I
think they're greater than some of their parts. I think
they played really well in New Zealanders and I think
that they will. I think they will contend quite strongly.
At least they're having a build up. This time. It
was twenty twenty four in the Caribbean, they didn't really
to any great extent and then they were ousted from
(05:43):
full play. I think that at this time, at least
that is I'm viewing it now, that they'll they'll go
a lot stronger.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, Daniel, Hell, are you in the golfing landscape? What
are we expecting from them from the year?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Look, he is just going from strength to strength, isn't
the I'm loving what Dnue when to get the opportunity
and just seeing how his career is unfolding here. I mean,
once upon a time he might have thought maybe he
might go down that sort of journeyman track, et cetera.
I reckon he's genuinely going to contend for like he
did last year, for the USPGA Tour card by season's end.
(06:18):
He's had what four tournaments in the European Tour so
far this season he's had. Of those four, he's had
three top six finishes an ties and even today getting
to third after the first round of the Bahrain Championship
with a six hundred sixty six, it just feels like
he's really found his rhythms, mojo, etcetera. And yeah, he's
(06:42):
going to be continuing alongside Ryan Fox or for long
if he keeps up this terrific run of form that
he's had. And he just seems to be a really
measured character, well disciplined and doesn't get too fret up
about things on the course. And I think it's really
paid dividends from there after for a few seasons at
that top level.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So it's a fair to say New Zealand golfs in
a pretty good place at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I think it is, isn't it. I Mean it's
when you think of what Lydia Coldalydia co has achieved
over many years now. But what Ryan Fox and the
last years is really coming to his own. You've got
Danny Hill, he got others coming on to the tour
as well. I think yeah, they'd be they would be
pretty happy with where they're at and looking at the
development of the game and New Zealand, it's not like
(07:27):
we haven't got enough golf courses out there for people
to practice on. You know, it's not anywhere you go
along that he stayed highway in the country. It doesn't
date long before you're seeing a golf course. It's been
carefully managed, sometimes from MOA's, sometimes from sheep, but it's
it's It's one of the great elements of New Zealand
country life.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Isn't it. Well, No, no, no golf course around pocket
Coe is safe for Andrew Waltersons in this hey empire.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And tell you that much orders, Hey good on your mate.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You wouldn't want to be on State Highway twenty two
and your club eighteen.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Hey good on your orders. Always appreciate your time on
the muster. Will chet again, lovely.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Cheers Eddie laugh out loud with ag proud because life
on the land can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
How do you make a tissue dance? Put a little
boogie in it?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kind of relevant today, seeming the music as Casey in
the Sunshine.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Band, So we'll leave it there for the week. Eddie
muh is my name.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
This has been the muster on hockey new He cheers
the Peterston and it's best in the Master of five
Am Tomorrow podcast up shortly.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Enjoy the weekend.
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