October 14, 2024 • 8 mins
We are at the pointy end of the Heartland footie season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sport, the Latest from the Land and just great rock.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport,
your home of live commentary. Well, we've made it to
the finals of both the Meads and Lahau Cup in
Heartland Rugby, joining us out of Rugby Heartland dot co
dot NZ. A man, it does a great job covering
the competition.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Kevin here morning, Kevin, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, finals at weekend, but before we do that, let's
look back at last weekend and I guess the big one,
the winning streak all over for South Canterbury having finally
lost a game, going down to a last minute penalty
against Ravels Mid Canterbury. What do you make of that one?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh? It was crazy. I mean it was very very
tight the whole game, all the way as you know,
and it was just like I was sitting there going, okay,
well this is all right, South Camp, We're going to
get the ball, South Canon, We're going to kick it
out and Mid Canterbury just kept on niggling, niggling. Sorry,
Mid Canterbury just kept on niggling away. And then as
(01:02):
I said, right there, I mean, the worst possible place
to be offside, right in front of your posts and
that's what South Canterbury did. But South Canterbury they had
kicks they could have taken. They would have had a
rocket by Nigel Welsh at half time to start playing,
(01:22):
but no, they gave their hammers a sniff and of
course something that hadn't been done for five years, Mid
Canterbury toocket and so huge congratulations to them, and yeah
and they're off to the big dance.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Did you see that one coming? That result? I mean,
at the end of the day was seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
My head was still saying South Canterbury would win it.
My brain or my heart and all that was saying that,
But my brain was watching the speed wobbles happen. They
had a big tough match against Typhon at Eden Park,
they had a they had a tough match against West
Coast the previous week. There was just there was some
(02:11):
games there where South Canterbury just look like they're you know,
starting to and I'm just saying, well, I wouldn't be
surprised because I mean, you know, and and the thing is,
I suppose what just makes it a little bit worse
for the Green and Blacks is they have been beaten
by their neighbor.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you talk about the the other Meads
Cup semi final also somewhat of an upset. Really, Thames
Valley went to Cook's Gardens and good old wong Anui
and they beat the Butcher Boys.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, one hundred percent picked this last week and main
reason being because teams can't win in teams against Wongoni,
they can win against Wi in teams against Mongani. And
I looked at last year's game when Thames played there.
(03:02):
It was the fifth consecutive semi final this year between
teams and Mangini. And last year Tames went there, you know,
hiped up and rear into play and longing. We put
thirty eight points on them pretty quickly and sort of
shut them out. And I looked at that and I
thought okay. And they went down by sixteen fourteen and
(03:24):
the wet and fung matar this year, and I thought, no,
I think they might get this because wongenough. We had
players out, I believe it or not, players overseas for
the weekend. Still scratching my head, but they will be
back for the final. Not well, not now. They mulded
to stay there. But no teams have been on fire
(03:48):
and when they went down to Horrofinilla the pre in
the last round up there at Fidianga, they would have
been put through the ringer at training all week. As
I said, I literally did one hundred percent teams Ali
to upset Wanganilli there, which makes it an interesting little
(04:10):
stat I mean, we can go back to twenty fourteen
and there's only been two teams that have topped the
trice scoring charts in Heartland rugby, Wangani and South Canterbury.
The last team to not be either or then, believe
it or not, is Baller in twenty fourteen, so you
know the two powerhouses of Heartland rugby will not be
(04:34):
at the big dance and in scoring terms, so I
mean between them they've scored throughout the season one hundred
and seven tries around wong and then you look at
teams in Mid Canterbury they're on one hundred tries, so
that's not that far up behind. But it's also the
(04:54):
greatest tries scoring season in Heartland history.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Great meats couple Thames Valley. It's it's like a North
versus South. Isn't a Thames Valley versus Mid Canterbary let's
look at the Lahul Cup semis from the weekend and
boy there was some big scoring games there King Country
and and East Coast.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, Ken Condrey, East Coast. It was. It was looking
very comfortable for King Country and then the Nadi came
back and started chipping away at that school line. And
you have to say, even though they've gone down in
a semi final, successful season for Tamata and that and
(05:37):
team thirty four to thirty one, the King Country got
up at Owen Delaney Park in lovely conditions and stuff
like that as well. In Talp, I'm thinking, okay, this
was going to be a great place for a final,
only two at the same time, because both games kicked
off at once, and of course, like the tragic I am,
I'm here watching both of them. Going went to rue
(05:59):
of my watching here because you know, and they both
pretty much were going to injury time and then King
Country final whistle blue and I still got to watch
the fully the horror Fanilla West Coast game, which you know,
I'm a West Coast fan from wayback and I'm sitting
here looking at this game and in the season Horrafaniulla
(06:22):
stole the match almost on full time against the West
Coast to winning Graymouth twenty seven to twenty six, and
my brain's going return the favor West Coast, and it
was forty points to twenty seven and a halftime, I'm going,
thank you, West Coast, and then four minutes to go,
it's fifty one, forty seven to Horror Fanilla Carpety. I
(06:43):
could not believe my eyes. And then the clock had
clicked over to eighty minutes. And then there was a
knock on a scrum underneath the Horrofanila line and I thought, oh, okay,
get it, and then again over there go No, it
was an advantage. They lost the ball for it. Let's
have another scrum and I'm going, okay, right, okay, oh no, no,
(07:05):
on the referees arms out again. There's I'm going, is
this game ever going to stop? When is the And
it was just sending me to the end of the
paddock basically because I was just thinking, I can just
see the referee now saying that's it, game over. But no.
On the third attempt, ball came out went wide instead
of through the middle, out to Jamie Garland, who scored
(07:26):
a famous try to secure a famous victory fifty two
fifty one to score the sixteenth try of that game.
It is the highest ever Heartland semi final. It is
the most try scored, I believe for a very long
(07:46):
time because we have had a couple of hundred blowouts
in the past and round robins, but when it comes
to knockout footy, that's going to go down as one
of the greatest Heartlin games ever.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
One hundred and three points scored in a game. So
it'll be King Country playing West Coast in the Lahore
Cup and Tim's Valley Mid Canterbury this weekend in the
Meads Cup. Hey Kevin, we look forward to a tasty
rugby coming up this weekend.
Sport, the Latest from the Land and just great rock.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport,
your home of live commentary. Well, we've made it to
the finals of both the Meads and Lahau Cup in
Heartland Rugby, joining us out of Rugby Heartland dot co
dot NZ. A man, it does a great job covering
the competition.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Kevin here morning, Kevin, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, finals at weekend, but before we do that, let's
look back at last weekend and I guess the big one,
the winning streak all over for South Canterbury having finally
lost a game, going down to a last minute penalty
against Ravels Mid Canterbury. What do you make of that one?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh? It was crazy. I mean it was very very
tight the whole game, all the way as you know,
and it was just like I was sitting there going, okay,
well this is all right, South Camp, We're going to
get the ball, South Canon, We're going to kick it
out and Mid Canterbury just kept on niggling, niggling. Sorry,
Mid Canterbury just kept on niggling away. And then as
(01:02):
I said, right there, I mean, the worst possible place
to be offside, right in front of your posts and
that's what South Canterbury did. But South Canterbury they had
kicks they could have taken. They would have had a
rocket by Nigel Welsh at half time to start playing,
(01:22):
but no, they gave their hammers a sniff and of
course something that hadn't been done for five years, Mid
Canterbury toocket and so huge congratulations to them, and yeah
and they're off to the big dance.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Did you see that one coming? That result? I mean,
at the end of the day was seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
My head was still saying South Canterbury would win it.
My brain or my heart and all that was saying that,
But my brain was watching the speed wobbles happen. They
had a big tough match against Typhon at Eden Park,
they had a they had a tough match against West
Coast the previous week. There was just there was some
(02:11):
games there where South Canterbury just look like they're you know,
starting to and I'm just saying, well, I wouldn't be
surprised because I mean, you know, and and the thing is,
I suppose what just makes it a little bit worse
for the Green and Blacks is they have been beaten
by their neighbor.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you talk about the the other Meads
Cup semi final also somewhat of an upset. Really, Thames
Valley went to Cook's Gardens and good old wong Anui
and they beat the Butcher Boys.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, one hundred percent picked this last week and main
reason being because teams can't win in teams against Wongoni,
they can win against Wi in teams against Mongani. And
I looked at last year's game when Thames played there.
(03:02):
It was the fifth consecutive semi final this year between
teams and Mangini. And last year Tames went there, you know,
hiped up and rear into play and longing. We put
thirty eight points on them pretty quickly and sort of
shut them out. And I looked at that and I
thought okay. And they went down by sixteen fourteen and
(03:24):
the wet and fung matar this year, and I thought, no,
I think they might get this because wongenough. We had
players out, I believe it or not, players overseas for
the weekend. Still scratching my head, but they will be
back for the final. Not well, not now. They mulded
to stay there. But no teams have been on fire
(03:48):
and when they went down to Horrofinilla the pre in
the last round up there at Fidianga, they would have
been put through the ringer at training all week. As
I said, I literally did one hundred percent teams Ali
to upset Wanganilli there, which makes it an interesting little
(04:10):
stat I mean, we can go back to twenty fourteen
and there's only been two teams that have topped the
trice scoring charts in Heartland rugby, Wangani and South Canterbury.
The last team to not be either or then, believe
it or not, is Baller in twenty fourteen, so you
know the two powerhouses of Heartland rugby will not be
(04:34):
at the big dance and in scoring terms, so I
mean between them they've scored throughout the season one hundred
and seven tries around wong and then you look at
teams in Mid Canterbury they're on one hundred tries, so
that's not that far up behind. But it's also the
(04:54):
greatest tries scoring season in Heartland history.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Great meats couple Thames Valley. It's it's like a North
versus South. Isn't a Thames Valley versus Mid Canterbary let's
look at the Lahul Cup semis from the weekend and
boy there was some big scoring games there King Country
and and East Coast.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, Ken Condrey, East Coast. It was. It was looking
very comfortable for King Country and then the Nadi came
back and started chipping away at that school line. And
you have to say, even though they've gone down in
a semi final, successful season for Tamata and that and
(05:37):
team thirty four to thirty one, the King Country got
up at Owen Delaney Park in lovely conditions and stuff
like that as well. In Talp, I'm thinking, okay, this
was going to be a great place for a final,
only two at the same time, because both games kicked
off at once, and of course, like the tragic I am,
I'm here watching both of them. Going went to rue
(05:59):
of my watching here because you know, and they both
pretty much were going to injury time and then King
Country final whistle blue and I still got to watch
the fully the horror Fanilla West Coast game, which you know,
I'm a West Coast fan from wayback and I'm sitting
here looking at this game and in the season Horrafaniulla
(06:22):
stole the match almost on full time against the West
Coast to winning Graymouth twenty seven to twenty six, and
my brain's going return the favor West Coast, and it
was forty points to twenty seven and a halftime, I'm going,
thank you, West Coast, and then four minutes to go,
it's fifty one, forty seven to Horror Fanilla Carpety. I
(06:43):
could not believe my eyes. And then the clock had
clicked over to eighty minutes. And then there was a
knock on a scrum underneath the Horrofanila line and I thought, oh, okay,
get it, and then again over there go No, it
was an advantage. They lost the ball for it. Let's
have another scrum and I'm going, okay, right, okay, oh no, no,
(07:05):
on the referees arms out again. There's I'm going, is
this game ever going to stop? When is the And
it was just sending me to the end of the
paddock basically because I was just thinking, I can just
see the referee now saying that's it, game over. But no.
On the third attempt, ball came out went wide instead
of through the middle, out to Jamie Garland, who scored
(07:26):
a famous try to secure a famous victory fifty two
fifty one to score the sixteenth try of that game.
It is the highest ever Heartland semi final. It is
the most try scored, I believe for a very long
(07:46):
time because we have had a couple of hundred blowouts
in the past and round robins, but when it comes
to knockout footy, that's going to go down as one
of the greatest Heartlin games ever.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
One hundred and three points scored in a game. So
it'll be King Country playing West Coast in the Lahore
Cup and Tim's Valley Mid Canterbury this weekend in the
Meads Cup. Hey Kevin, we look forward to a tasty
rugby coming up this weekend.
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