January 15, 2026 • 45 mins
Andy Muir talks to Phil Duncan, Andrew Cochrane, Michelle Watt, Tom O'Brien and Jacob Duffy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday afternoon, so were welcome for the first time in
twenty twenty sixth Nathan Aberneasy from Regional Ford onto the
show yet I know those things.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, good Andy, good afternoon, and good afternoon to everybody.
I hope everybody's had a good break through Christmas, a
new year where there could be a little bit better
this summer, but all I suppose it's still we e
bit of watered to run nder. The bridge for summer
is over, so hopefully we get some sunshine yet. But look,
we're all systems go here and good to be back
with you for another year. We've got some amazing deals
happening in twenty twenty six, with of course field days
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coming up next month, so that is in their focus
right now. There's new vehicles coming through this year and
we'll keep you up to date as the year goes
on with what's coming through. But look, there's a lot
of exciting things happening in twenty twenty six in the
world of Ford Andy, that's for sure. Guys are back
on deck as far as the workshop obviously and all
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that sort of thing goes, although we were working right
through so they've done a good job.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
But yeah, looking forward to being back.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We've got a great range of US vehicles, plenty of
good stock coming through. So if anybody sort of thinking
of doing something, some amazing deals happening on new vehicles,
a lot of new ranges coming through at the moment,
and we've got a good stock of forty Everston at
the moment as well, and plenty good used vehicles. And
like I often say, look if you drive past and
it's not on the used lot, remember there's a lot
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in the preparation stages, so make sure you park the
car up and come and talk to myself or one
of the team, and we can.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Show you plenty of others.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But yep, we'll be as always. Doors will be open
tomorrow morning and have past nine through to twelve o'clock.
If there's anything we can do, whether it be newer
used vehicle servicing our part, don't be afraid to give
us a yell.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Good on you, Nathan, enjoy the weekend, catch you next week.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Thank you, Andy, good afternoon, and welcome to the Muster
on Hakanui.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
My name is Andy Muer and the show is brought
to you by Peters Janet. If we're here until two o'clock.
Thanks for your company on a damp afternoon hearing gorge.
It's a reminder as well if you're heading down to
in Vicago. The funeral force through tim shed bolts kicking
off I think at two o'clock, and there are various
changes to the roads for a few hours and in
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the cargo as a result of this. So bear in
mind regarding that and the z Allwax coaching scenario. Well,
Rais is gone, Raiser got the taser, the razor's edge.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Has gone blunt.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Say what you want, but I think ultimately it's been
a big twenty four hours as far as the New
Zealand sporting landscape regarding the all blacks. So what happens
next timele on you telling that one? So the music
todays Black Eyed Peas. This is one of the original
songs called the Weekend. This came out twenty five years ago.
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That's a scary fact for the.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
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Speaker 1 (02:57):
So the weather came out this morning, not twenty five
year years ago, although arguably you'd wish it ahead and
come out at all. It's not looking that flash for
the next few days. This afternoon's shollers of breezy sow
easterly is and thirteen Saturday morning showers a light sou
easterlyes four and fifteen. Sunday partly cloud of your breezy
sol easteries five and eighteen easterly is.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
That's just the theme. That's the way it goes, right Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Sunny with breezey sow easterly seven and twenty one. In
Tuesday sunny with you guessed it, breezy easterly's six.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And twenty two.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So just a hen Harriet thirteen point six, Northern South
from fourteen point nine, Riverton sixteen point one now fifteen
point eight, shout out the base of ninety point fourty five.
Hope it's all going well up there went in fourteen
point six and Woodlands sitting at fifteen point one. As
we start the show with Phil Duncan, a weather wash
to give us a rundown on the weather to see
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what's happening over the next seven days and just for
the rest of January as well, and what has been
intriguing summer to say the least. Andrew Cochrane of Venus
Fitz is on the program, follow that by Michelle Watt
and the Country Crossover. Thomas O'Brien. There's another ultra race
happening on his farm up at Garston. The race is
(04:09):
to know we arguably you could deem them, but this
one's an interesting one which Tom tells us about. And
finally from the Black Cats, Jacob Duffy getting organized to
get to the airport to go to India for the
T twenty Cricket World Cup as well as the IPL. So,
without further ado, well start the yewl with Phil Duncan.
This is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peter's genetics.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Because we have laid.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
For the first time in twenty twenty six, let's check
in with Phil Duncan of weather Watch.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Phil Duncan, good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Good afternoon, and the happy New Year. I know too
late to say that.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Isn't it now.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's a very awful conversation. So in the first week
I'll give you some saving grace there mate. How was
your holiday? Did you have a holiday or does the
weather not stop like the farming.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
It's like farming. It's like farmers, you take your holiday
when there's like a gap in the weather, and.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
It's just like kind of the right gap in the weather.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, when you see like a sunny spell coming
or whatever it is. But you know, I did get
a break. It wasn't you know, it wasn't a proper,
proper one. But we had a lot of thunderstorms at
the end of December and the very first couple of
days of January, and I was a little bit nervous
that I wasn't going to get tied out. But the
first week was pretty quiet, So yeah, I got time out.
I got to sleep in for about two weeks, which
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was enough to energize me for another year of waking
up early.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So what have you got for the weather down here
in the Deep South, because it has not been a
particularly kind summer A side.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Yeah, I feel like already feel guilty with this interview
because it's, yeah, it's not the best at the moment.
It is going to get better, so I've got I've
got positive news, but yet it is going to be
I would argue it's actually going to be a bit
of a cold couple of days, just a couple of days.
Overnight low on Tomorrow night Saturday night is three degrees.
So this happened last year. I remember we talked at
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the end of January last year because there was a
frost in parts of northern Southland. I don't think we'll
see a frost. You know, three degrees is cold, but
the ground's warm ish, so probably not, but possible on
the surface of some vehicles and things. And the daytime
temperature today, you know only around thirteen or fourteen. Tonight's
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low is single digits. In fact, single digit overnight lows
right through until Wednesday next week. Next week does warm
up and you know Wednesday next week could be in
the mid twenties just for the one day, but it's
probably I don't know. I'd say it's a little more
like the temperatures. It's not like peak summer. It feels
like you're kind of at the start or the end
of summer as far as temperatures are concerned. So, yeah,
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you've had a bit of a cold run and that's
obviously continuing for the next couple more days and the
next few more nights.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
So as far as the risk of January, what are
we got?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
So we are seeing high pressure growing. So part of
the reason it's cold is there's quite a strong high
pressure zone moving in from Tasmania, but it's south of Tazzi,
and so that southern placement means that as it moves
into Southland or south of Southland, it dredges up a
southerly because southerly is are usually what you get when
the start of a high pressure moves in and then
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you get the warmer, more humid northerlies when the high
moves out east of us, and so you're dredging up
the cold air at the moment, but the high pressure
zone means you're probably going to see some dryer weather
coming true for a time, especially as we go into
sort of the weekend going into Sunday, and then once
we get to about Monday Tuesday, that high pressure zone
is just south of Stuart Island. By Wednesday next week,
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that's your warmest day of the next seven or eight days.
That high pressure zone is east of Dunedin, sort of
between Dunedin and the Chatham Island the center of it,
so it moves a little further northwards and that's when
you get that northerly or northeasterly airflow. Another fun fact
about Wednesday of next week is while you warm up
a little bit and you've got really settled weather with
the higher round to the north of the country, there
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could be a tropical cyclone or an ex tropical cyclone
coming into the north of the country, and we're not
really sure what happens after that. It might kind of
drop right down over New Zealand and unravel as not
a storm but just a large area of low pressure.
And when I say large, I mean indulfing all of
New Zealand. And you're on the southern end next to
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another high pressure zone moving in, So that means probably
easterly winds kicking in for you later next week, and
they could become kind of strong, but because they'll have
a subtropical connection, they may not be overly cold. But yeah,
it's a bit of a funny forecast. It's you're at
the better end of the country. Put it that way
as far as sort of the worst of the weather
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is concerned.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
A lot of in the forecast.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I was at a crack and practice last night at
Hamilton Park and it was just better.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
It just cuts through you. It was like the middle
of May.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Yeah, Easterly is are you know, they're not the best
wind direction in a number of regions unless you live
on the west coast and it's like a reverse noll Western.
But yeah, the easterlies are coming in. And you know
I've been talking about l'arnin you're off and on since winter.
It's now weather us at the moment, Larninia is expected
to stay for the rest of summer. And this is
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the first week where the weather pattern has looked like
Larninia in New Zealand, where we've got easterlies everywhere around
the country. And like I say, a possible tropical cyclone
or just a tropical depression dropping down. It's sort of
moderate chance that it would become a cyclone north of
the country and then it falls apart here changes into
a new system, and like I say, it could be
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quite a large low large. I always say large loads
are like large human beings, right. Some can be very
tough and strong with muscles. Others can be kind of
lazier and larger. Sorry to the listeners if anyone's defended by.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
That, But the bind individuals lightless south. I'll give you
your time.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Yeah, and myself at the moment after summer. But basically
I say that because sometimes people see a large lower,
they hear of a large low, and they think of
it as being like, you know, like your black of
weather systems. But sometimes they're just kind of large and
lazy and they don't really do a lot of severe weather,
but they produce low pressure everywhere, and that produces instability,
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which means you can get thunderstorms and rain areas and
kind of messy sort of forecast. So that's what we're
monitoring next week. I think for you guys, it's not
looking like severe weather, but the low is possibly going
to affect our weather pattern for quite a large part
of the rest of January, so we're just sort of
waiting to see where that goes. But the high pressure
zones are closest to Southland more than they are to
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Northland and Auckland, so there's a little positive spin for you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
As far as our Mania Alnino or Laminia, none of
that comes into the equation.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
I mean, Lamina is around, and like I say, it's
kind of peaking probably about now, which is why we're
getting these lows. But at the same time, this time
of the year is when we get tropical loads you know,
we're going into the real peak of the cyclone season
right now to kind of the end of March. So
this is the time of year that we get tropical
cyclones forming, you know, like I said, potential one near
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New Caledonia next week, and then there also might be
another one over on the western side of Australia up
near brew So a couple of things to keep an
eye on. I mean, the one over in western Australia
doesn't pose a threat to New Zealand, but it might
drop down south of Australia some of the long range maps,
so it staying as a low all the way through
the desert, popping out over the southern part of Australia,
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and that could end up coming to New Zealand just
as a rain maker. Nothing, you know, there won't be
a cyclone at all by then, just be some rain.
But yeah, it could affect us. So there's there's a
lot of low pressure in the tropics trying to drop southwards.
But at the same time, the other theme is high
pressure zones both south of Australia and mostly south of
New Zealand, and so that means there will still be
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some cold injections but you guys are perhaps one of
the regions more likely to get some sunny, dry days,
more so than certainly the North Island neighbors are going
to be seen.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Absolutely feel Duncan of weather Watch. You always appreciate your
time on the Muster.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
You're welcome. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Till Duncan of weather Watch. Up next, Andrew Cockrand from
in Fits. You're listening to the Mustard Stres.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
The Muster's animal health segment with nis vets adding value
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Speaker 4 (12:49):
Andrew Cochrane of in Fits joins us on the Muster
for the first time in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Get a Andrew, Gooday, Andy, how are you?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
You're going pretty good?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Look at Spain an interesting start to the year weatherwise.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Firstly, the situation from your lens, what's it like?
Speaker 9 (13:08):
The northern south wind is cold and dry as how
I describe it, It's not very summer like. Other than
the dry aspect, we're getting showers in a bit of rain,
but this constant wind is taking any moisture straight back
out of the ground, and we haven't really had the
warmth to back up any growth. So I think in
a lot of cases people are reasonably short for pasture
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and we'd all, I think, like to see some nice,
warm summer days.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Some people in particular, I think around the Glenn you're,
for example, this rain that seems to be falling in
certain areas they're missing out on. Does that seem to
be a common thing that you're hearing.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Yeah, I think it's certain depending on who you talk to.
Around Southland, some people have had enough rain, others haven't
had near enough. Like I say, I think this wind
and the cold is the biggest problem. Yeah, it would
be nice to see some decent rain or some warm weather.
That'll be nice.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
SAT stuff seemed to be handling it regardless.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Makes certainly hearing people's land kills being back on normal
And I don't imagine users are in a great condition yet.
That will be variable depending on who you talk to.
But I think there's a wee bit of work to
be done to get lambs away and get used back
to who we want them to come mating, and mating
is just around the corner now too. We're started to
talk about toxo and campy with people already, so it
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all sort of swings around pretty quickly. So yeah, and
then cows. I mean, I've been talking to some very
cockies recently who see cows are still producing quality. Again,
there's lots of variables there, and some farms will be
coping better than others. But I think in general stock
aren't I'm doing too bad, but there's a better.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Work to do.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Still scanning going on around the place regarding cows and
mers as well.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Yes, it's a flat out with the cow scanning and
with the mears at Mecca. The cow scanning is going okay,
probably early enough to say with any real confidence how
it's going to look. But the ones we've done to
date are sort of tracking similar to last year. And
if we remember, last year was actually quite a good
year for pregnancy rates despite the bad spring. So I
think in general, what's looking positive enough for reproductive success.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
In the dairy sector rampal patients That time of years
come around quickly. I can't believe we're talking about this already.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Yeah, Well, like I say, we're talking about toxo already,
so that we're talking about getting the rams checked as well.
So yes, we're in the process of finalizing our RAM
runs that will try to get done over February and
if you guys have had these done already, so yep,
in that sort of space, people will hopefully have picked
up their new rams for the coming mating, and it's
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just making sure that we give everything a good checkover
and generally were recommending then those new rams checked as well.
Often they're in their own mob when we arrive, but
it's not silly idea to swing them through and it
and checked. We have often we're not often we do
at times find unusual things with a brand new ram
that just been purchased of I have diagnosed a round
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with one testicle that was purchased only two weeks prior,
so were just double checking that nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Slipped through the gaps.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Absolutely regarding fly strike, what are you saying with the
season like this or was it a bit early to
tell yet properly?
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Are we getting a few guys through the shot picking
up fly products. Yeah, probably hasn't been a really strong
season for fly I think predominantly because of the cold,
but we are getting that moisture and that sort of humidity.
I guess that could create conditions for flies. I imagine some
people are betting a bit of fly strike and others
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maybe have gotten away with it so far, but something
to definitely keep in the back of your mind. If
we get a wee bit of heat, we've had enough
sort of moisture that there will be fly conditions out there.
The wind, I think probably is helping to keeping that
similar flyaway.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
When you're doing your differ, are people looking at fly
strike as well as life's protection or just going for
one over the other?
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Generally, historically they were more and more noweople are focusing
on one or the other, and that's generally the recommendation.
Where we try to do both with one product. We
tend to do both poorly, whereas we focus on just
fly at this time of year and deal with life
a bit later than we can do both. Don't do
both better. So but no, certainly people are still trying
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to do it a little bit of both. But generally
at this time of year, the focuses fly.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
So what you're saying is it doesn't pay the multitask.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Not always. Yeah, Sometimes a shortcut is just that it's
a shortcut.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Fair enough. Now, small animals, you want to comment on this.
You're based at the clinic this week. What's happening in
that space.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Yes, it's becoming more of a rarity me spending time
with the clinic on small animals, but it's my rostered
week this week and they just thought it might be
worth touching on some of the things we've seen. We
do get quite busy at this time of year with
working dog injuries because they are doing a fair bit
of work in the yards and mustering, so fractures and
cruciate ligament repairs are reasonably common. We do see more
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and more of them sort of over the summer months,
so again that's just probably a reminder to be wary
of that. The most common problem in that space is
often dogs getting their legs caught in the yards and
that the gap between the top rail and the next rail,
so it's not necesarily idea, and we've seen some farmers
block that gap up and then there's less chance of
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dogs getting back legs hocked on there and breaking cruise
at ligaments and things like that, and that can help
prevent a few injuries, but otherwise sometimes it's just unavoidable
and those things happen, But get them into the clinic
and habit chat with the vet and make a plan
we've got Sam doing a lot of those surgeries here
and doing a really good job and having some good success,
so worth getting them sorted. Also, barley grass season, I've
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seen a run of spaniels this week with barley grasses
and ears, but we also see them between paws and
and other breeds as well, particularly long haired breeds, So
those Spaniels and Golden Retrievers are pretty high risk, so
keep that in mind if you've got a dog with
a shaking head or having problems with the ears, or
are swelling between the toes. Barley grass are very common
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at the time, at the summer year, and then if
the other classics. I've seen a few cats in this
week with that fight injuries probably while far and away
the most common reason we'll see cats as injuries as
a result of fighting. I saw a couple of pig
dogs on Monday, which we do see from time to time,
and a dog with diabetes. And the cool thing in
that space which I thought I mentioned was now there's
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been a lot of technology in terms of monitoring that
I guess humans have been able to take advantage of,
and in that space we can also put some of
those monitoring senses on dogs. So we actually did that
this week on a dog that we has long term
diabetes that we're managing and monitoring, and we were able
to put one of those human monitors on into his
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skin and check how his glucose was going over the
course of a few days.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
So that's cool.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Diabetes on a dog that's in.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Yet dogs and cats can get it, and so we
do manage several patients at different times. With diabetes, it
is quite intensive the treatment and so it's not for everyone.
For those dedicated owners, we can manage to teasus like that.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Very intriguing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Andrew, Now, the best way for people to get in team,
get in touch with the team within his FETs.
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Yeah, give us a call three two oh two five
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Speaker 4 (20:26):
Good on you, Andrew, Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Goodness Thanks Andy.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Andrew Cochrane of nice Vets Animal Health Advices to the muster.
He talking about Maca Lodge as well, get a Brita
and Scherie. If you guys are listening, a great outfit.
You're running out there too. Regarding the horses you're.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Listening to the Muster up next and The Country Crossover
for a Friday Michelle Watt girl starting, Let's Scare this Starting,
Let's scare this.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Start.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Let's Michelle Wi's executive producer of the Country Joe for
the Country Crossover. Good afternoon, Michelle, Welcome to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Afternoon, Andy, can we still say Happy New Year? I've
been having that discussion all week with people because we're
pretty much halfway through the month and we're already talking
about February, which is a little bit scary.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Phil Duncan mentioned this before and we decided you can
do it for the first week, then after that it's
just business time.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
Fair enough. I think I probably agree with that one,
so maybe I should go on with that. But you know,
if you haven't seen them for a.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
While anyway, how is your holiday?
Speaker 10 (21:29):
It was brilliant, Thank you. I got to relax and
recope and recharge and ready to go with the Country
for twenty twenty six. Of course, we've been back for
the first week this week with Hamish mackay and next
week Jamie will be back in the hot seat.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, so quite a bit on the table at the moment.
We'll just touch on this very briefly, but all the
world rugby world anyway talking about the decision regarding the
Yull Blacks to end the reign of Scott Robertson only
two years in. And there's so many questions.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
To be answered around all of this, which we're not
going to go into, but you go to acknowledge it.
I suppose it's just such a big topic.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Oh, it's crazy, isn't it. I mean, yesterday in the
newsroom to give some insight into that, and it was
just manic as soon as the news was out that
this might be happening, that meeting might be a thing
of yesterday, everyone was just with baited breast waiting and
watching to see what happened next. And there's a lot
to unpack. I think personally, I feel a bit sorry
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for Raiser. It's hard. I mean, losing your job publicly
like that, with the whole world whispering about it by
the sound of it before it even happened, has got
to be difficult.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Yeah, that's welcome to the life of being an All
Blacks coach, I suppose.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Well, yeah, it's a very high profile position. People argue that,
but he's still a person at the end of the day.
And I think people forget that about politicians and coaches
and rapi players and sports people, is that at the
end of the day, there's still a person. They're still
a human in there. And I think he'll be going
through a lot of emotions at the moment and finding
things incredibly tough. I'd imagine it won't be easy for him,
and there's a lot to unpackless it'll be interesting to hear. Obviously,
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there'll be a lot of opinions over the next week
from different people about why and how and speculations and
things like that. Whether we'll hear about what really happened
or how it came about, who knows.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Sir John Kerwin put a fantastic post out on social
media yesterday regarding the mental health of Scott Robinson. We'll
carry you on the Tour of Southland getting underway this weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Finally, Oh isn't it exciting? Well, I'm excited because I'm
a cyclist and I enjoy cycling Andy, but this is
huge down in Southland. Anyone who lives in Southland will
know about the Tour of Southland. It's been going I
think this year is sixty nine. Actually know there's going
to be two editions of the tour, so obviously it
got postponed last year end of last year do that
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massive weather event down in Southland, and it was going
to be the sixty ninth edition. So this year the
sixty ninth edition which will now be starting this weekend,
and the seventiears edition which will be the end of
this year, will be in the same year, which I
don't think has happened before from my history looking back,
someone might want to correct me on that one. But
the first stage obviously on Sunday, and it kicks off
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with a tour with the prologue team time trial of
Stage one, which starts and finishes at the y Kiwi
Rugby Club. Now you should head down there and have
a lot. It'll be fantastic. There are some really great
riders to look out for, and of course brand new
team within there with Open Country sponsoring a team this year,
and there's some great writers in that team as well,
one of which is Logan Curry who has actually written
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overseas in Europe for Team Lotto and I think FDJ
Grupmer potentially he might have been in that originally, but
someone might want to creept me on that as one
as well, but great writers to watch. We've also got
an open country nick kids. I can't pronounce his last name.
It's kerr Gozu de la Bossier.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
I think.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
He's done a few tours. He is known as the
sprint King. He is a Southland lad and he is
one to watch in that race over the week. And
also Daniel Whitehouse who is in that qs Southland which
is the Jerseys that look a bit like Swan drives.
He's one to watch and the climb. We also have
a few others in there, like really famous New Zealand riders.
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We've got Hayden Rolston, of course, he was a four
time winner of the tour from two thousand and six
to twenty ten and an Olympic silver medalist. There is
Aaron Gate who is currently one of the one of
the New Zealand's well known amazing riders. He's actually heading
I think over to ride and tour. I think he's
riding in a team and Tour de France this year.
We've also got Julian Dean, who competed in seven Tour
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de France races during his professional career. And Michael Vink
who's a three time winner and he was a talented
climber and he raced in professional ranks as well. Some
really great riders that have been in that in this
race and it's been sort of like a launching pad
for them into that professional career. So definitely go down
and watch it. I know all the schools come out.
I think down in Tianno, they come out and watch
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them come through tian Now that'll be stage three this year.
But he's to the website and have a lock if
you want to follow it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Small town heroes, every town's got one, haven't they think
your towns go on?
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Yeah, absolutely do have one.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Are you?
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Are you a small town here? And Andy?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
God No, just turn up and do a job, go
home and get abused by my kids for not doing
this and not doing that.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
Oh well, some of the small down heros I was
going through. And the reason why I thought about this
is because we interviewed Eating Carson this week. Of course,
Eating Carson spin bowler from the White Friends, currently injured,
also plays for Targo Sparks and she's from the Manio
Toto gimmer Burn originally, and they really respect those small
places love the fact that they've got someone who's in
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these top teams. And it made me think of like Kurow.
Have you been to Kurow and seeing the fundraiser for
Richie mccau's statue.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
No, but I played rugby there in the late eighties
when I was the Third Forest and Kevin's.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
There's a giant fundraising thing there. They want to try
and get a statue of Richie mccare in the main street.
You should go check it out.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
I've been doing it for years though, have they not.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Yeah, it's been there for a while. I'm not sure.
I haven't checked it out lately to see where the
funds are. I might have to have a look next
time i'm up there. But other people, you know, Andrew
Howeer from ran Fairly as well, David Ladder from Our Closer.
I'm sure Gore's got their local hometown not just sporting
heroes but heroes as well, but a lot of them
around the place. And it's great to see those small
towns really get behind people and help them get to
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where they are.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Absolutely, and just to wrap up, Michelle, it's been a
positive start to the year. We talk about good stories.
I think this comes as Lord does come of that category.
Wall continues to go up. The South Island price update
you came out yesterday the sale went up thirty eight
cents average.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
That's amazing, isn't it. It's been such a good positive
start to twenty twenty six where the dairy prices now,
Wall meets looking pretty good. We're to chat to our
dear guy the other day from PGG Tony Cochrane, Velvet
and Venison are looking quite good as well. Things are
all looking really positive on that front, so hopefully it
continues through twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Good on you, Michelle. Always good to catch up. You
enjoy the weekend you too.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's starting Shell What executive producer of the Country and
the Country Crossover.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Away to Garston next.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Tom O'Brien a regular correspondent, but he's got another multi
sport event happening on his farm. He's going to tell
us about it.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
And I just can't get I'm a one a jermy said,
Black Eyed Peas is the music. My name's Andy Muh.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
You're listening to the Muster on hock and know he
brought to you by Peter's Genetics. We're away to Garston next,
catching up with our corresponding up that way, Thomas O'Brien,
Good afternoon time. Now normally around this time of year
we speak to you. And the Rivenant was the thing
that was occurring on your property, the race that went nowhere.
Basically it was epic. But we've got something called the
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Welcome Rock Ultra. What's this about?
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Good, Good afternoon, Andy. I took a moment here. I
can't figure I couldn't figure out whether it was the
morning or the afternoon, so I had to had to
do a bit of a barometer check on my bearings
on what time of the day it was. But yeah,
we have the Welcome Rock Ultra which is occurring as
we speak. So yeah, yeah, big three days up here.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
So explain what the Welcome Rock Ultra is all about.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
So basically, the Welcome Rock Ultra is a running race
which occurs on the Welcome Rock property on the farm.
Competitors have to navigate fourteen different checkpoints sequentially from one
to fourteen.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
They have.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
What you would consider orange and white row game type
flag markers at each checkpoint, and they have a card
and they have to whole punch each card, and each
whole punch has a different configurational design of pattern for
each checkpoints that they go to. So they've got fourteen
different patterns that they punch into their card. And then
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they get back to the start finish they have to
show us their cards to prove so that they got
to their checkpoints. Then they replenish with food and maybe
warm a dryer clothes. They repoud at their feet and
you know, maybe make a hot meal and yeah, just
prepare themselves and then they go out and they do
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the coarse anti clockwise. They've got to do four laps
and if they complete it, it will be around two
hundred kilometers and around fourteen thousand vertical meters over a
sixty hour period.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
So what's the main difference between this and the Revenant.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Probably the navigation ASTEC. So we've made the the navigations
a little bit easier for people to actually find the checkpoints. Previously,
it was pretty difficult unless you were particularly good at
navigation skills using a compass and map only. It was
pretty difficult for a lot of the competitors a lot
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of the time to actually locate the checkpoints, and that
meant that they spent quite a lot of time, you know,
mucking around in the bush or wherever they were trying
to find the checkpoint, and that became quite frustrating for
a good percentage of the competitors. So what we wanted
to do is we wanted to people people to be
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out there for a longer period of time, spending more
time in this amazing environment that were in subalpine conditions,
you know, few autumn like beech forests and rivers and
creeks and up the knockom I. So, so, yeah, there's
a better chance of a greater percentage of people completing
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the course. However, you're probably talking about less than point
five percent of the population actually being able to still
complete this course. You know, as one guy said last night,
it's still effing bloody hard. So yeah, we'll see what happens.
So is there a time limit sixty hours?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Far else you're a suck of a punishment for these
competitions time, I'll give you that.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Well, I don't know, yeah, I am probably. I mean
I haven't really had any sleep myself, and I've got
my bloody hunter away killed up with me on the
mattress up at the ski hut. Here at the moment,
she's probably more comfortable than what I am to be fair.
But but yeah, look, I mean it's that you know,
it's queued off to the competitors. You know that they're extraordinary.
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You know, the physical and mental you know, strength and
determination that these these guys and girls possess is next
level and that's really inspirational.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
So as far as taking up these events and getting
the right people to get involved with it, was there
a sec CRI terrier for competitors.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
Well, yeah, they have to basically submit almost like a
bit of a CV. So yeah, if if you're thinking
that you can come and do this after going for
a for a walk and down to the local area
to get a pie and a coke and you walk
home again, it's probably not going to quite cut them up.
Not quite, no, not quite. But look, I mean we
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take everybody based on the individual merit. But look, you know,
as we've said in the past, you know, any anyone
from local musters on farms through the people who you
know who've got corporate jobs in the middle of the
city and they and they train after work or before
work early in the mornings and they try and get
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that elevation in the gym or out in the out
in whatever sort of hell country or hell blocks that
they can as well as getting the getting the k's
under their belt. You know, it's open to everyone and
anyone who who thinks they can give it a crack.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
So where can people follow this online?
Speaker 8 (33:59):
So you can go on to the Welcome Rock, Thank You,
Welcome Rock Ultra Instagram page or Facebook page, So if
you just google Welcome Rock Ultra, it'll come up. But
we also have a link on those pages so that
any Tom Deck or Harry or Sally or Jane can
actually download the link and follow these competitors from anywhere
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on the planet. So if you go onto those areas
you download the link, you'll be able to see all
the action unfolding as they as they cruise around this
epic adventure.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Thomas O'Brien, if you're not engineering the Kings and Flyer,
you're making up some sick twisted ultra race on ther
back doorstep. But it's an awesome initiative. All the best
for it, and we'll catch up to see how things
finish up.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Fantastic, Thanks very much, Andy.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Wow, Tom O'Brien talking about the Welcome Rock Ultra sounds bonkers.
That's what adventure support is all about. I suppose Jacob
Duffy sport as well, but a different kind.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
He's a black Caps bowler. He's up next. You're listening
to the muster.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
How you got.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
That, Nate, gotta be a good night.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
That to night's gotta be a good night.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
This is the Muster on Hakanui.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Jacob Duffy, black Caps bowler, about to head over to
India for.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
A few months. That's the truth, but of the truth.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Son and he's got the black Caps T twenty World
Cup campaign and then the OPL following not long after.
He's had a bit of a breakover summer and joins
us once again for a chat.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Jacob, good afternoon, goody.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Here are we going? Well?
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Good?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeah, pretty good. We'd just like to sort the weather out.
I mean, you're a cricketer.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
You know what it's like when you're board there waiting
for the sun to come out.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, crets a funny on it. Sometimes you want to
end sometimes as the worst trainers. I don't know if
you saw the game, yes, say we had this mizzly
crep that just hang around. We're on and off and
deciding what to do. So either passed all the sunshine that.
That's how I like it.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So what's it like though, if you're a bowler and
the weather's doing what it does and it's not playing
ball as such, does it does? It just guts frustrating.
You just want the umpires to make a call one
way or the other so you can just get on
with stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah, it is, especially you know, like you're warming up
warming down. We had a lot of that at the
start at the well in the springtime for October November,
so that Australia England series has a lot on off
and just that it's not good for anyone, like you
lose your rhythm as a bowl wough, the betters don't
like it.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
It's just frustrating.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
But that's the weather mate. I know you're on a
farming show, so I think you probably talk weather.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
But yeah, it's just yeah, something you can't control the credit,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah it's fair to say weather's a bit of a
conversation started down here mate. Now we talk about the
Stelley year you had last season, especially your breakout season
with the black Caps as such, especially in the Test arena.
Did you manage to get a bit of a rest
over summer because you must have been sick of the
side of a red ball.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Yeah, it's good. The whole year really, there was no
real gaps in the calendar. So after that test serious
sort of Rob just said you go chill for a
little bit, which was quite nice. So the boys left
for the twenty ODI series on. I think it was
the fourth of January. So I've been lucky enough to
have I got that series off, which you know, I
never thought I'd be choosing to rest, you know, international cricket,
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but I guess I just without how everything is going
and the time away I got coming up, it just
kind of made sense. So have that time off and
just you know, I had a Christmas at home, which
for a cricket is pretty radic at that time. Just
chilling the family, which was cool. And then yeah, just
gear enough and spend some time with the wife and
now off today and read to go again for a
big shift over in India.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
And of course you got to play a couple of
games for your beloved vaults.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yeah, yeah, it was cool. There was more. Yeah, it
was just I feel like I'd get rusty quite quick,
so just to blow some cob webs out and get
the feel for you know, twenty twenty again. So you're
buying your change ups in New Yorker's which obviously after
a month of test cricket haven't had much to do
and had been able to do much of that, so
just to get a you know, bit of game, bit
of game time and and then hopefully had a ground
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running in India in a few days one.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Now, of course, the vaults are the vaults now, not
the O Tago vaults, says they have been for white
form white Bull cricket. That is, you were one of
the main drivers for this, along the Logan Savory and
the like. So you'll be pretty chaffed with the outcome.
The change the name.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, man, I'm super proud of that. I guess there's
the conversation for South ofs goroing up down there, and
you know you're planning to the arch nemesis to Tago
teams the pinnacle of the area, which yeah, I still
don't quite sit well for me and a few of
the other kids down there, I know that for sure.
So it is it's a starting point, I guess. I
guess there's only the twenty twenty teams dropped the Targo
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tag down to the Vaults and yeah, even that I
don't think capsulates what the region represents. I guess my
my end goal would be to like maybe a Southern
or something for across the board in terms of you know,
your age group cricket. You've got your underservent teams, you're
under nineteens girls and boys hang up in Southend trying
to make the Southern team instead of the Ottager teams.
So that's my pipe dream and that's my that's where
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I want the listening to get to. But I guess
it's one step at a time and it's a starting
point that I guess the associations realize. I realized, you know,
the Otago thing is a thing. I guess for Southerners it.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Is a big thing to have a name change, a
suppose and you think of the history that goes back
in time. But I mean you look at the Highlanders
and Super Ruguy franchises and such. To get more engagement
with the franchises, that's why they did it.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
So arguably the case is there for the Vaults.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
If you're going through to Dunedin, you want to be
part of a team that encumbents as a year you're
not just the province right exactly.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I know the Hahanders did it, yeah a few years
back their song and everything changed. But you're right around
the history and tradition. Cricket obviously goes along a lot
further back than the hands compted, So you know there's
I guess when the when the Otago first class team
first started playing. I think a Southern didn't even exist
at the time, so that actually was the Attago region.
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So there is history, and you know there's talks about
maybe the target the first class team remains a Targo
but there everything else changes to Southern or whatever it
might be. I guess we're open to the suggestions and ideas,
but like I said, it's a starting point, so we'll
go from there and figure it out as we go.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
So as far as preparing to go over to India,
and how long did you actually get off about touching
a cricket battle ball.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That's the thing as a bowler, you can't stop. So
even though you know I had had a break, I'm
still bowling through that break, and albeit just probably a
little bit half assed if monus, so just you know,
taking a ball by the lads that are rough and
central Targo for the twenty twenty. So when it popped
onto a couple of training for beers and just didn't
do it, you know, it didn't take it too seriously.
(40:44):
Just keep the body ticking over, you know, bowling loads.
And I'm sure you've heard about injuries and stuff that's
happened in the in the black kIPS environments. The bowling
loads are a hot topic at the moment. Even if
you get through a truck kind of work, you've still
got to set sort of keep ticking over, so you
can't exactly go cold turkey. So I was sort of
bowling once or twice a week. And then trainer also
(41:06):
likes a seek view that time is a nice weet
window to get some listening and running into. So it
was a working hole. They put it that way.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
No backyard cricket through the Christmas season.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
They wore theretually. Yeah, there was the brothers and nephews
and nieces chand to drag us out there. So we did.
That's always good fund down at Christmas Day out in
the back morn and it was yeah, that was good
fun enough.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Un Fortunately, well, let's be honest, you're able to bring
the check because you can.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Okay, so through brothers they handing up cricks really, yeah, yeah,
they brought they brought some good injury to it.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Okay, So you're going to India for quite a while,
truth to be known. How do you prepare for something
like that. It's almost a case into the unknown, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, yeah, it is a little, but we're going some
You got five twenty twenties before the World Cups, and
they were on pretty random places that I'll be honest,
I've never heard before. So I've got no idea we're
walking into that, Regardo. I know it'll be India, so
it won't be too seen. Their friendly. But yeah, I
played a couple of games with the vaults obviously, which
is good, just to buy some Cobble without and get
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a bit of that game time back and feel the
rhythm again. Any I guess it's a it's a twenty
twenty series, but I guess there's an element of sort
of gearing up to the World Cup, which is the
main goal. So I got five internationals to compete and
try a win. But I guess in the back of
your head we're sort of preparing and getting ready for
a World Cup, so in India against India, you can't
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get bit of prepped in that.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
When I thought, yeah, Darryl Mitchell getting there Eynings the
other day, do you get it to your feet when
you're watching the black Caps on Telly at the moment
considering you're part of the setup?
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Definitely?
Speaker 7 (42:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Sitting there home with my wife the other day and
obviously happy to be home and she's happy to hit
me there, but the little part of me it feels
like I'm missing out. You know, the boys are steaming
and falling over undire and some cool crowds and stuff
that looked like so, you know, it doesn't feel right.
I guess I had the option to be there or
not to be there, and to choose not to be
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I didn't know. Yeah, it's a finny one. Like I guess,
I've never thought that situation would occur to me, But
I guess with what's coming out that sort of just
meet and what's up, and it sort of just made sense.
So but there's definitely a part of me sat there
and man, I wish I was there.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Now going over to India is Shane Warn infamously once
got to heave a baked beans shipped over there because
he wasn't a fan of the caulinary delights locally. How
are you going to go with for the food situation
because it is different to what will be used to
being Westerners obviously, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, I've been here a few times now and you
can sort of get what you want to be fear
the foods. It's amazing food experiences over there. Ratch and
Revenge seems to have a lot of contacts, so I
think we get looked after pretty well, and a lot
of the places that he's been to before in the
recound and stuff. So that's always fun to get experience
and try some of that stuff. But I have also
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you know, whether it's Sri Lanka or Pakistan or India,
I do it seem to get sick every time, so
I'm sure there'll be one time I next for my
I'll be I'll be hugging a toilet bowl. But yeah,
I don't know. He's he's got to take the good
the bet I guess, because there's some bloody good stuff
there too.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Absolutely, Hey, Jacob, will let you carry on. You're traveling today,
so thanks very much for your time. All the best
going over there, the T twenty.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
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to catch up with Jacob. There's the black Cats. I
think you're playing this evening or the next day, so
whenyway the last game and that ODI series over in India,
enjoy the weekend, stay dry, imany Muur. This has been
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Speaker 4 (45:04):
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Friday afternoon, so were welcome for the first time in
twenty twenty sixth Nathan Aberneasy from Regional Ford onto the
show yet I know those things.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, good Andy, good afternoon, and good afternoon to everybody.
I hope everybody's had a good break through Christmas, a
new year where there could be a little bit better
this summer, but all I suppose it's still we e
bit of watered to run nder. The bridge for summer
is over, so hopefully we get some sunshine yet. But look,
we're all systems go here and good to be back
with you for another year. We've got some amazing deals
happening in twenty twenty six, with of course field days
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coming up next month, so that is in their focus
right now. There's new vehicles coming through this year and
we'll keep you up to date as the year goes
on with what's coming through. But look, there's a lot
of exciting things happening in twenty twenty six in the
world of Ford Andy, that's for sure. Guys are back
on deck as far as the workshop obviously and all
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that sort of thing goes, although we were working right
through so they've done a good job.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
But yeah, looking forward to being back.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We've got a great range of US vehicles, plenty of
good stock coming through. So if anybody sort of thinking
of doing something, some amazing deals happening on new vehicles,
a lot of new ranges coming through at the moment,
and we've got a good stock of forty Everston at
the moment as well, and plenty good used vehicles. And
like I often say, look if you drive past and
it's not on the used lot, remember there's a lot
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in the preparation stages, so make sure you park the
car up and come and talk to myself or one
of the team, and we can.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Show you plenty of others.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But yep, we'll be as always. Doors will be open
tomorrow morning and have past nine through to twelve o'clock.
If there's anything we can do, whether it be newer
used vehicle servicing our part, don't be afraid to give
us a yell.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Good on you, Nathan, enjoy the weekend, catch you next week.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Thank you, Andy, good afternoon, and welcome to the Muster
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Speaker 1 (02:57):
So the weather came out this morning, not twenty five
year years ago, although arguably you'd wish it ahead and
come out at all. It's not looking that flash for
the next few days. This afternoon's shollers of breezy sow
easterly is and thirteen Saturday morning showers a light sou
easterlyes four and fifteen. Sunday partly cloud of your breezy
sol easteries five and eighteen easterly is.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
That's just the theme. That's the way it goes, right Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Sunny with breezey sow easterly seven and twenty one. In
Tuesday sunny with you guessed it, breezy easterly's six.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And twenty two.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So just a hen Harriet thirteen point six, Northern South
from fourteen point nine, Riverton sixteen point one now fifteen
point eight, shout out the base of ninety point fourty five.
Hope it's all going well up there went in fourteen
point six and Woodlands sitting at fifteen point one. As
we start the show with Phil Duncan, a weather wash
to give us a rundown on the weather to see
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what's happening over the next seven days and just for
the rest of January as well, and what has been
intriguing summer to say the least. Andrew Cochrane of Venus
Fitz is on the program, follow that by Michelle Watt
and the Country Crossover. Thomas O'Brien. There's another ultra race
happening on his farm up at Garston. The race is
(04:09):
to know we arguably you could deem them, but this
one's an interesting one which Tom tells us about. And
finally from the Black Cats, Jacob Duffy getting organized to
get to the airport to go to India for the
T twenty Cricket World Cup as well as the IPL. So,
without further ado, well start the yewl with Phil Duncan.
This is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peter's genetics.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Because we have laid.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
For the first time in twenty twenty six, let's check
in with Phil Duncan of weather Watch.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Phil Duncan, good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Good afternoon, and the happy New Year. I know too
late to say that.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Isn't it now.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's a very awful conversation. So in the first week
I'll give you some saving grace there mate. How was
your holiday? Did you have a holiday or does the
weather not stop like the farming.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
It's like farming. It's like farmers, you take your holiday
when there's like a gap in the weather, and.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
It's just like kind of the right gap in the weather.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, when you see like a sunny spell coming
or whatever it is. But you know, I did get
a break. It wasn't you know, it wasn't a proper,
proper one. But we had a lot of thunderstorms at
the end of December and the very first couple of
days of January, and I was a little bit nervous
that I wasn't going to get tied out. But the
first week was pretty quiet, So yeah, I got time out.
I got to sleep in for about two weeks, which
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was enough to energize me for another year of waking
up early.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So what have you got for the weather down here
in the Deep South, because it has not been a
particularly kind summer A side.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Yeah, I feel like already feel guilty with this interview
because it's, yeah, it's not the best at the moment.
It is going to get better, so I've got I've
got positive news, but yet it is going to be
I would argue it's actually going to be a bit
of a cold couple of days, just a couple of days.
Overnight low on Tomorrow night Saturday night is three degrees.
So this happened last year. I remember we talked at
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the end of January last year because there was a
frost in parts of northern Southland. I don't think we'll
see a frost. You know, three degrees is cold, but
the ground's warm ish, so probably not, but possible on
the surface of some vehicles and things. And the daytime
temperature today, you know only around thirteen or fourteen. Tonight's
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low is single digits. In fact, single digit overnight lows
right through until Wednesday next week. Next week does warm
up and you know Wednesday next week could be in
the mid twenties just for the one day, but it's
probably I don't know. I'd say it's a little more
like the temperatures. It's not like peak summer. It feels
like you're kind of at the start or the end
of summer as far as temperatures are concerned. So, yeah,
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you've had a bit of a cold run and that's
obviously continuing for the next couple more days and the
next few more nights.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
So as far as the risk of January, what are
we got?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
So we are seeing high pressure growing. So part of
the reason it's cold is there's quite a strong high
pressure zone moving in from Tasmania, but it's south of Tazzi,
and so that southern placement means that as it moves
into Southland or south of Southland, it dredges up a
southerly because southerly is are usually what you get when
the start of a high pressure moves in and then
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you get the warmer, more humid northerlies when the high
moves out east of us, and so you're dredging up
the cold air at the moment, but the high pressure
zone means you're probably going to see some dryer weather
coming true for a time, especially as we go into
sort of the weekend going into Sunday, and then once
we get to about Monday Tuesday, that high pressure zone
is just south of Stuart Island. By Wednesday next week,
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that's your warmest day of the next seven or eight days.
That high pressure zone is east of Dunedin, sort of
between Dunedin and the Chatham Island the center of it,
so it moves a little further northwards and that's when
you get that northerly or northeasterly airflow. Another fun fact
about Wednesday of next week is while you warm up
a little bit and you've got really settled weather with
the higher round to the north of the country, there
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could be a tropical cyclone or an ex tropical cyclone
coming into the north of the country, and we're not
really sure what happens after that. It might kind of
drop right down over New Zealand and unravel as not
a storm but just a large area of low pressure.
And when I say large, I mean indulfing all of
New Zealand. And you're on the southern end next to
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another high pressure zone moving in, So that means probably
easterly winds kicking in for you later next week, and
they could become kind of strong, but because they'll have
a subtropical connection, they may not be overly cold. But yeah,
it's a bit of a funny forecast. It's you're at
the better end of the country. Put it that way
as far as sort of the worst of the weather
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is concerned.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
A lot of in the forecast.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I was at a crack and practice last night at
Hamilton Park and it was just better.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
It just cuts through you. It was like the middle
of May.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Yeah, Easterly is are you know, they're not the best
wind direction in a number of regions unless you live
on the west coast and it's like a reverse noll Western.
But yeah, the easterlies are coming in. And you know
I've been talking about l'arnin you're off and on since winter.
It's now weather us at the moment, Larninia is expected
to stay for the rest of summer. And this is
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the first week where the weather pattern has looked like
Larninia in New Zealand, where we've got easterlies everywhere around
the country. And like I say, a possible tropical cyclone
or just a tropical depression dropping down. It's sort of
moderate chance that it would become a cyclone north of
the country and then it falls apart here changes into
a new system, and like I say, it could be
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quite a large low large. I always say large loads
are like large human beings, right. Some can be very
tough and strong with muscles. Others can be kind of
lazier and larger. Sorry to the listeners if anyone's defended by.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
That, But the bind individuals lightless south. I'll give you
your time.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Yeah, and myself at the moment after summer. But basically
I say that because sometimes people see a large lower,
they hear of a large low, and they think of
it as being like, you know, like your black of
weather systems. But sometimes they're just kind of large and
lazy and they don't really do a lot of severe weather,
but they produce low pressure everywhere, and that produces instability,
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which means you can get thunderstorms and rain areas and
kind of messy sort of forecast. So that's what we're
monitoring next week. I think for you guys, it's not
looking like severe weather, but the low is possibly going
to affect our weather pattern for quite a large part
of the rest of January, so we're just sort of
waiting to see where that goes. But the high pressure
zones are closest to Southland more than they are to
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Northland and Auckland, so there's a little positive spin for you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
As far as our Mania Alnino or Laminia, none of
that comes into the equation.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
I mean, Lamina is around, and like I say, it's
kind of peaking probably about now, which is why we're
getting these lows. But at the same time, this time
of the year is when we get tropical loads you know,
we're going into the real peak of the cyclone season
right now to kind of the end of March. So
this is the time of year that we get tropical
cyclones forming, you know, like I said, potential one near
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New Caledonia next week, and then there also might be
another one over on the western side of Australia up
near brew So a couple of things to keep an
eye on. I mean, the one over in western Australia
doesn't pose a threat to New Zealand, but it might
drop down south of Australia some of the long range maps,
so it staying as a low all the way through
the desert, popping out over the southern part of Australia,
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and that could end up coming to New Zealand just
as a rain maker. Nothing, you know, there won't be
a cyclone at all by then, just be some rain.
But yeah, it could affect us. So there's there's a
lot of low pressure in the tropics trying to drop southwards.
But at the same time, the other theme is high
pressure zones both south of Australia and mostly south of
New Zealand, and so that means there will still be
(12:09):
some cold injections but you guys are perhaps one of
the regions more likely to get some sunny, dry days,
more so than certainly the North Island neighbors are going
to be seen.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Absolutely feel Duncan of weather Watch. You always appreciate your
time on the Muster.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
You're welcome. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Till Duncan of weather Watch. Up next, Andrew Cockrand from
in Fits. You're listening to the Mustard Stres.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
The Muster's animal health segment with nis vets adding value
through practical advice and service, no gimmicks, no potions, total
vet care.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Andrew Cochrane of in Fits joins us on the Muster
for the first time in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Get a Andrew, Gooday, Andy, how are you?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
You're going pretty good?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Look at Spain an interesting start to the year weatherwise.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Firstly, the situation from your lens, what's it like?
Speaker 9 (13:08):
The northern south wind is cold and dry as how
I describe it, It's not very summer like. Other than
the dry aspect, we're getting showers in a bit of rain,
but this constant wind is taking any moisture straight back
out of the ground, and we haven't really had the
warmth to back up any growth. So I think in
a lot of cases people are reasonably short for pasture
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and we'd all, I think, like to see some nice,
warm summer days.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Some people in particular, I think around the Glenn you're,
for example, this rain that seems to be falling in
certain areas they're missing out on. Does that seem to
be a common thing that you're hearing.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Yeah, I think it's certain depending on who you talk to.
Around Southland, some people have had enough rain, others haven't
had near enough. Like I say, I think this wind
and the cold is the biggest problem. Yeah, it would
be nice to see some decent rain or some warm weather.
That'll be nice.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
SAT stuff seemed to be handling it regardless.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Makes certainly hearing people's land kills being back on normal
And I don't imagine users are in a great condition yet.
That will be variable depending on who you talk to.
But I think there's a wee bit of work to
be done to get lambs away and get used back
to who we want them to come mating, and mating
is just around the corner now too. We're started to
talk about toxo and campy with people already, so it
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all sort of swings around pretty quickly. So yeah, and
then cows. I mean, I've been talking to some very
cockies recently who see cows are still producing quality. Again,
there's lots of variables there, and some farms will be
coping better than others. But I think in general stock
aren't I'm doing too bad, but there's a better.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Work to do.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Still scanning going on around the place regarding cows and
mers as well.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Yes, it's a flat out with the cow scanning and
with the mears at Mecca. The cow scanning is going okay,
probably early enough to say with any real confidence how
it's going to look. But the ones we've done to
date are sort of tracking similar to last year. And
if we remember, last year was actually quite a good
year for pregnancy rates despite the bad spring. So I
think in general, what's looking positive enough for reproductive success.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
In the dairy sector rampal patients That time of years
come around quickly. I can't believe we're talking about this already.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Yeah, Well, like I say, we're talking about toxo already,
so that we're talking about getting the rams checked as well.
So yes, we're in the process of finalizing our RAM
runs that will try to get done over February and
if you guys have had these done already, so yep,
in that sort of space, people will hopefully have picked
up their new rams for the coming mating, and it's
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just making sure that we give everything a good checkover
and generally were recommending then those new rams checked as well.
Often they're in their own mob when we arrive, but
it's not silly idea to swing them through and it
and checked. We have often we're not often we do
at times find unusual things with a brand new ram
that just been purchased of I have diagnosed a round
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with one testicle that was purchased only two weeks prior,
so were just double checking that nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Slipped through the gaps.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Absolutely regarding fly strike, what are you saying with the
season like this or was it a bit early to
tell yet properly?
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Are we getting a few guys through the shot picking
up fly products. Yeah, probably hasn't been a really strong
season for fly I think predominantly because of the cold,
but we are getting that moisture and that sort of humidity.
I guess that could create conditions for flies. I imagine some
people are betting a bit of fly strike and others
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maybe have gotten away with it so far, but something
to definitely keep in the back of your mind. If
we get a wee bit of heat, we've had enough
sort of moisture that there will be fly conditions out there.
The wind, I think probably is helping to keeping that
similar flyaway.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
When you're doing your differ, are people looking at fly
strike as well as life's protection or just going for
one over the other?
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Generally, historically they were more and more noweople are focusing
on one or the other, and that's generally the recommendation.
Where we try to do both with one product. We
tend to do both poorly, whereas we focus on just
fly at this time of year and deal with life
a bit later than we can do both. Don't do
both better. So but no, certainly people are still trying
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to do it a little bit of both. But generally
at this time of year, the focuses fly.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
So what you're saying is it doesn't pay the multitask.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Not always. Yeah, Sometimes a shortcut is just that it's
a shortcut.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Fair enough. Now, small animals, you want to comment on this.
You're based at the clinic this week. What's happening in
that space.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Yes, it's becoming more of a rarity me spending time
with the clinic on small animals, but it's my rostered
week this week and they just thought it might be
worth touching on some of the things we've seen. We
do get quite busy at this time of year with
working dog injuries because they are doing a fair bit
of work in the yards and mustering, so fractures and
cruciate ligament repairs are reasonably common. We do see more
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and more of them sort of over the summer months,
so again that's just probably a reminder to be wary
of that. The most common problem in that space is
often dogs getting their legs caught in the yards and
that the gap between the top rail and the next rail,
so it's not necesarily idea, and we've seen some farmers
block that gap up and then there's less chance of
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dogs getting back legs hocked on there and breaking cruise
at ligaments and things like that, and that can help
prevent a few injuries, but otherwise sometimes it's just unavoidable
and those things happen, But get them into the clinic
and habit chat with the vet and make a plan
we've got Sam doing a lot of those surgeries here
and doing a really good job and having some good success,
so worth getting them sorted. Also, barley grass season, I've
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seen a run of spaniels this week with barley grasses
and ears, but we also see them between paws and
and other breeds as well, particularly long haired breeds, So
those Spaniels and Golden Retrievers are pretty high risk, so
keep that in mind if you've got a dog with
a shaking head or having problems with the ears, or
are swelling between the toes. Barley grass are very common
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at the time, at the summer year, and then if
the other classics. I've seen a few cats in this
week with that fight injuries probably while far and away
the most common reason we'll see cats as injuries as
a result of fighting. I saw a couple of pig
dogs on Monday, which we do see from time to time,
and a dog with diabetes. And the cool thing in
that space which I thought I mentioned was now there's
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been a lot of technology in terms of monitoring that
I guess humans have been able to take advantage of,
and in that space we can also put some of
those monitoring senses on dogs. So we actually did that
this week on a dog that we has long term
diabetes that we're managing and monitoring, and we were able
to put one of those human monitors on into his
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skin and check how his glucose was going over the
course of a few days.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
So that's cool.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Diabetes on a dog that's in.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Yet dogs and cats can get it, and so we
do manage several patients at different times. With diabetes, it
is quite intensive the treatment and so it's not for everyone.
For those dedicated owners, we can manage to teasus like that.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Very intriguing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Andrew, Now, the best way for people to get in team,
get in touch with the team within his FETs.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Yeah, give us a call three two oh two five
six three six here in Riversdale or in tijarale O
three two four nine seven zero three nine.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Good on you, Andrew, Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Goodness Thanks Andy.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Andrew Cochrane of nice Vets Animal Health Advices to the muster.
He talking about Maca Lodge as well, get a Brita
and Scherie. If you guys are listening, a great outfit.
You're running out there too. Regarding the horses you're.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Listening to the Muster up next and The Country Crossover
for a Friday Michelle Watt girl starting, Let's Scare this Starting,
Let's scare this.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Start.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Let's Michelle Wi's executive producer of the Country Joe for
the Country Crossover. Good afternoon, Michelle, Welcome to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Afternoon, Andy, can we still say Happy New Year? I've
been having that discussion all week with people because we're
pretty much halfway through the month and we're already talking
about February, which is a little bit scary.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Phil Duncan mentioned this before and we decided you can
do it for the first week, then after that it's
just business time.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
Fair enough. I think I probably agree with that one,
so maybe I should go on with that. But you know,
if you haven't seen them for a.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
While anyway, how is your holiday?
Speaker 10 (21:29):
It was brilliant, Thank you. I got to relax and
recope and recharge and ready to go with the Country
for twenty twenty six. Of course, we've been back for
the first week this week with Hamish mackay and next
week Jamie will be back in the hot seat.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, so quite a bit on the table at the moment.
We'll just touch on this very briefly, but all the
world rugby world anyway talking about the decision regarding the
Yull Blacks to end the reign of Scott Robertson only
two years in. And there's so many questions.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
To be answered around all of this, which we're not
going to go into, but you go to acknowledge it.
I suppose it's just such a big topic.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Oh, it's crazy, isn't it. I mean, yesterday in the
newsroom to give some insight into that, and it was
just manic as soon as the news was out that
this might be happening, that meeting might be a thing
of yesterday, everyone was just with baited breast waiting and
watching to see what happened next. And there's a lot
to unpack. I think personally, I feel a bit sorry
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for Raiser. It's hard. I mean, losing your job publicly
like that, with the whole world whispering about it by
the sound of it before it even happened, has got
to be difficult.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Yeah, that's welcome to the life of being an All
Blacks coach, I suppose.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Well, yeah, it's a very high profile position. People argue that,
but he's still a person at the end of the day.
And I think people forget that about politicians and coaches
and rapi players and sports people, is that at the
end of the day, there's still a person. They're still
a human in there. And I think he'll be going
through a lot of emotions at the moment and finding
things incredibly tough. I'd imagine it won't be easy for him,
and there's a lot to unpackless it'll be interesting to hear. Obviously,
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there'll be a lot of opinions over the next week
from different people about why and how and speculations and
things like that. Whether we'll hear about what really happened
or how it came about, who knows.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Sir John Kerwin put a fantastic post out on social
media yesterday regarding the mental health of Scott Robinson. We'll
carry you on the Tour of Southland getting underway this weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Finally, Oh isn't it exciting? Well, I'm excited because I'm
a cyclist and I enjoy cycling Andy, but this is
huge down in Southland. Anyone who lives in Southland will
know about the Tour of Southland. It's been going I
think this year is sixty nine. Actually know there's going
to be two editions of the tour, so obviously it
got postponed last year end of last year do that
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massive weather event down in Southland, and it was going
to be the sixty ninth edition. So this year the
sixty ninth edition which will now be starting this weekend,
and the seventiears edition which will be the end of
this year, will be in the same year, which I
don't think has happened before from my history looking back,
someone might want to correct me on that one. But
the first stage obviously on Sunday, and it kicks off
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with a tour with the prologue team time trial of
Stage one, which starts and finishes at the y Kiwi
Rugby Club. Now you should head down there and have
a lot. It'll be fantastic. There are some really great
riders to look out for, and of course brand new
team within there with Open Country sponsoring a team this year,
and there's some great writers in that team as well,
one of which is Logan Curry who has actually written
(24:24):
overseas in Europe for Team Lotto and I think FDJ
Grupmer potentially he might have been in that originally, but
someone might want to creept me on that as one
as well, but great writers to watch. We've also got
an open country nick kids. I can't pronounce his last name.
It's kerr Gozu de la Bossier.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
I think.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
He's done a few tours. He is known as the
sprint King. He is a Southland lad and he is
one to watch in that race over the week. And
also Daniel Whitehouse who is in that qs Southland which
is the Jerseys that look a bit like Swan drives.
He's one to watch and the climb. We also have
a few others in there, like really famous New Zealand riders.
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We've got Hayden Rolston, of course, he was a four
time winner of the tour from two thousand and six
to twenty ten and an Olympic silver medalist. There is
Aaron Gate who is currently one of the one of
the New Zealand's well known amazing riders. He's actually heading
I think over to ride and tour. I think he's
riding in a team and Tour de France this year.
We've also got Julian Dean, who competed in seven Tour
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de France races during his professional career. And Michael Vink
who's a three time winner and he was a talented
climber and he raced in professional ranks as well. Some
really great riders that have been in that in this
race and it's been sort of like a launching pad
for them into that professional career. So definitely go down
and watch it. I know all the schools come out.
I think down in Tianno, they come out and watch
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them come through tian Now that'll be stage three this year.
But he's to the website and have a lock if
you want to follow it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Small town heroes, every town's got one, haven't they think
your towns go on?
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Yeah, absolutely do have one.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Are you?
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Are you a small town here? And Andy?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
God No, just turn up and do a job, go
home and get abused by my kids for not doing
this and not doing that.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
Oh well, some of the small down heros I was
going through. And the reason why I thought about this
is because we interviewed Eating Carson this week. Of course,
Eating Carson spin bowler from the White Friends, currently injured,
also plays for Targo Sparks and she's from the Manio
Toto gimmer Burn originally, and they really respect those small
places love the fact that they've got someone who's in
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these top teams. And it made me think of like Kurow.
Have you been to Kurow and seeing the fundraiser for
Richie mccau's statue.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
No, but I played rugby there in the late eighties
when I was the Third Forest and Kevin's.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
There's a giant fundraising thing there. They want to try
and get a statue of Richie mccare in the main street.
You should go check it out.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
I've been doing it for years though, have they not.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Yeah, it's been there for a while. I'm not sure.
I haven't checked it out lately to see where the
funds are. I might have to have a look next
time i'm up there. But other people, you know, Andrew
Howeer from ran Fairly as well, David Ladder from Our Closer.
I'm sure Gore's got their local hometown not just sporting
heroes but heroes as well, but a lot of them
around the place. And it's great to see those small
towns really get behind people and help them get to
(27:16):
where they are.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Absolutely, and just to wrap up, Michelle, it's been a
positive start to the year. We talk about good stories.
I think this comes as Lord does come of that category.
Wall continues to go up. The South Island price update
you came out yesterday the sale went up thirty eight
cents average.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
That's amazing, isn't it. It's been such a good positive
start to twenty twenty six where the dairy prices now,
Wall meets looking pretty good. We're to chat to our
dear guy the other day from PGG Tony Cochrane, Velvet
and Venison are looking quite good as well. Things are
all looking really positive on that front, so hopefully it
continues through twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Good on you, Michelle. Always good to catch up. You
enjoy the weekend you too.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's starting Shell What executive producer of the Country and
the Country Crossover.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Away to Garston next.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Tom O'Brien a regular correspondent, but he's got another multi
sport event happening on his farm. He's going to tell
us about it.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
And I just can't get I'm a one a jermy said,
Black Eyed Peas is the music. My name's Andy Muh.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
You're listening to the Muster on hock and know he
brought to you by Peter's Genetics. We're away to Garston next,
catching up with our corresponding up that way, Thomas O'Brien,
Good afternoon time. Now normally around this time of year
we speak to you. And the Rivenant was the thing
that was occurring on your property, the race that went nowhere.
Basically it was epic. But we've got something called the
(28:47):
Welcome Rock Ultra. What's this about?
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Good, Good afternoon, Andy. I took a moment here. I
can't figure I couldn't figure out whether it was the
morning or the afternoon, so I had to had to
do a bit of a barometer check on my bearings
on what time of the day it was. But yeah,
we have the Welcome Rock Ultra which is occurring as
we speak. So yeah, yeah, big three days up here.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
So explain what the Welcome Rock Ultra is all about.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
So basically, the Welcome Rock Ultra is a running race
which occurs on the Welcome Rock property on the farm.
Competitors have to navigate fourteen different checkpoints sequentially from one
to fourteen.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
They have.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
What you would consider orange and white row game type
flag markers at each checkpoint, and they have a card
and they have to whole punch each card, and each
whole punch has a different configurational design of pattern for
each checkpoints that they go to. So they've got fourteen
different patterns that they punch into their card. And then
(30:06):
they get back to the start finish they have to
show us their cards to prove so that they got
to their checkpoints. Then they replenish with food and maybe
warm a dryer clothes. They repoud at their feet and
you know, maybe make a hot meal and yeah, just
prepare themselves and then they go out and they do
(30:26):
the coarse anti clockwise. They've got to do four laps
and if they complete it, it will be around two
hundred kilometers and around fourteen thousand vertical meters over a
sixty hour period.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
So what's the main difference between this and the Revenant.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Probably the navigation ASTEC. So we've made the the navigations
a little bit easier for people to actually find the checkpoints. Previously,
it was pretty difficult unless you were particularly good at
navigation skills using a compass and map only. It was
pretty difficult for a lot of the competitors a lot
(31:03):
of the time to actually locate the checkpoints, and that
meant that they spent quite a lot of time, you know,
mucking around in the bush or wherever they were trying
to find the checkpoint, and that became quite frustrating for
a good percentage of the competitors. So what we wanted
to do is we wanted to people people to be
(31:24):
out there for a longer period of time, spending more
time in this amazing environment that were in subalpine conditions,
you know, few autumn like beech forests and rivers and
creeks and up the knockom I. So, so, yeah, there's
a better chance of a greater percentage of people completing
(31:45):
the course. However, you're probably talking about less than point
five percent of the population actually being able to still
complete this course. You know, as one guy said last night,
it's still effing bloody hard. So yeah, we'll see what happens.
So is there a time limit sixty hours?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Far else you're a suck of a punishment for these
competitions time, I'll give you that.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Well, I don't know, yeah, I am probably. I mean
I haven't really had any sleep myself, and I've got
my bloody hunter away killed up with me on the
mattress up at the ski hut. Here at the moment,
she's probably more comfortable than what I am to be fair.
But but yeah, look, I mean it's that you know,
it's queued off to the competitors. You know that they're extraordinary.
(32:32):
You know, the physical and mental you know, strength and
determination that these these guys and girls possess is next
level and that's really inspirational.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
So as far as taking up these events and getting
the right people to get involved with it, was there
a sec CRI terrier for competitors.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
Well, yeah, they have to basically submit almost like a
bit of a CV. So yeah, if if you're thinking
that you can come and do this after going for
a for a walk and down to the local area
to get a pie and a coke and you walk
home again, it's probably not going to quite cut them up.
Not quite, no, not quite. But look, I mean we
(33:17):
take everybody based on the individual merit. But look, you know,
as we've said in the past, you know, any anyone
from local musters on farms through the people who you
know who've got corporate jobs in the middle of the
city and they and they train after work or before
work early in the mornings and they try and get
(33:38):
that elevation in the gym or out in the out
in whatever sort of hell country or hell blocks that
they can as well as getting the getting the k's
under their belt. You know, it's open to everyone and
anyone who who thinks they can give it a crack.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
So where can people follow this online?
Speaker 8 (33:59):
So you can go on to the Welcome Rock, Thank You,
Welcome Rock Ultra Instagram page or Facebook page, So if
you just google Welcome Rock Ultra, it'll come up. But
we also have a link on those pages so that
any Tom Deck or Harry or Sally or Jane can
actually download the link and follow these competitors from anywhere
(34:22):
on the planet. So if you go onto those areas
you download the link, you'll be able to see all
the action unfolding as they as they cruise around this
epic adventure.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Thomas O'Brien, if you're not engineering the Kings and Flyer,
you're making up some sick twisted ultra race on ther
back doorstep. But it's an awesome initiative. All the best
for it, and we'll catch up to see how things
finish up.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Fantastic, Thanks very much, Andy.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Wow, Tom O'Brien talking about the Welcome Rock Ultra sounds bonkers.
That's what adventure support is all about. I suppose Jacob
Duffy sport as well, but a different kind.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
He's a black Caps bowler. He's up next. You're listening
to the muster.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
How you got.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
That, Nate, gotta be a good night.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
That to night's gotta be a good night.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
This is the Muster on Hakanui.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Jacob Duffy, black Caps bowler, about to head over to
India for.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
A few months. That's the truth, but of the truth.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Son and he's got the black Caps T twenty World
Cup campaign and then the OPL following not long after.
He's had a bit of a breakover summer and joins
us once again for a chat.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Jacob, good afternoon, goody.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Here are we going? Well?
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Good?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeah, pretty good. We'd just like to sort the weather out.
I mean, you're a cricketer.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
You know what it's like when you're board there waiting
for the sun to come out.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, crets a funny on it. Sometimes you want to
end sometimes as the worst trainers. I don't know if
you saw the game, yes, say we had this mizzly
crep that just hang around. We're on and off and
deciding what to do. So either passed all the sunshine that.
That's how I like it.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So what's it like though, if you're a bowler and
the weather's doing what it does and it's not playing
ball as such, does it does? It just guts frustrating.
You just want the umpires to make a call one
way or the other so you can just get on
with stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah, it is, especially you know, like you're warming up
warming down. We had a lot of that at the
start at the well in the springtime for October November,
so that Australia England series has a lot on off
and just that it's not good for anyone, like you
lose your rhythm as a bowl wough, the betters don't
like it.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
It's just frustrating.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
But that's the weather mate. I know you're on a
farming show, so I think you probably talk weather.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
But yeah, it's just yeah, something you can't control the credit,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah it's fair to say weather's a bit of a
conversation started down here mate. Now we talk about the
Stelley year you had last season, especially your breakout season
with the black Caps as such, especially in the Test arena.
Did you manage to get a bit of a rest
over summer because you must have been sick of the
side of a red ball.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Yeah, it's good. The whole year really, there was no
real gaps in the calendar. So after that test serious
sort of Rob just said you go chill for a
little bit, which was quite nice. So the boys left
for the twenty ODI series on. I think it was
the fourth of January. So I've been lucky enough to
have I got that series off, which you know, I
never thought I'd be choosing to rest, you know, international cricket,
(37:22):
but I guess I just without how everything is going
and the time away I got coming up, it just
kind of made sense. So have that time off and
just you know, I had a Christmas at home, which
for a cricket is pretty radic at that time. Just
chilling the family, which was cool. And then yeah, just
gear enough and spend some time with the wife and
now off today and read to go again for a
big shift over in India.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
And of course you got to play a couple of
games for your beloved vaults.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yeah, yeah, it was cool. There was more. Yeah, it
was just I feel like I'd get rusty quite quick,
so just to blow some cob webs out and get
the feel for you know, twenty twenty again. So you're
buying your change ups in New Yorker's which obviously after
a month of test cricket haven't had much to do
and had been able to do much of that, so
just to get a you know, bit of game, bit
of game time and and then hopefully had a ground
(38:06):
running in India in a few days one.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Now, of course, the vaults are the vaults now, not
the O Tago vaults, says they have been for white
form white Bull cricket. That is, you were one of
the main drivers for this, along the Logan Savory and
the like. So you'll be pretty chaffed with the outcome.
The change the name.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, man, I'm super proud of that. I guess there's
the conversation for South ofs goroing up down there, and
you know you're planning to the arch nemesis to Tago
teams the pinnacle of the area, which yeah, I still
don't quite sit well for me and a few of
the other kids down there, I know that for sure.
So it is it's a starting point, I guess. I
guess there's only the twenty twenty teams dropped the Targo
(38:44):
tag down to the Vaults and yeah, even that I
don't think capsulates what the region represents. I guess my
my end goal would be to like maybe a Southern
or something for across the board in terms of you know,
your age group cricket. You've got your underservent teams, you're
under nineteens girls and boys hang up in Southend trying
to make the Southern team instead of the Ottager teams.
So that's my pipe dream and that's my that's where
(39:06):
I want the listening to get to. But I guess
it's one step at a time and it's a starting
point that I guess the associations realize. I realized, you know,
the Otago thing is a thing. I guess for Southerners it.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Is a big thing to have a name change, a
suppose and you think of the history that goes back
in time. But I mean you look at the Highlanders
and Super Ruguy franchises and such. To get more engagement
with the franchises, that's why they did it.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
So arguably the case is there for the Vaults.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
If you're going through to Dunedin, you want to be
part of a team that encumbents as a year you're
not just the province right exactly.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I know the Hahanders did it, yeah a few years
back their song and everything changed. But you're right around
the history and tradition. Cricket obviously goes along a lot
further back than the hands compted, So you know there's
I guess when the when the Otago first class team
first started playing. I think a Southern didn't even exist
at the time, so that actually was the Attago region.
(39:59):
So there is history, and you know there's talks about
maybe the target the first class team remains a Targo
but there everything else changes to Southern or whatever it
might be. I guess we're open to the suggestions and ideas,
but like I said, it's a starting point, so we'll
go from there and figure it out as we go.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
So as far as preparing to go over to India,
and how long did you actually get off about touching
a cricket battle ball.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That's the thing as a bowler, you can't stop. So
even though you know I had had a break, I'm
still bowling through that break, and albeit just probably a
little bit half assed if monus, so just you know,
taking a ball by the lads that are rough and
central Targo for the twenty twenty. So when it popped
onto a couple of training for beers and just didn't
do it, you know, it didn't take it too seriously.
(40:44):
Just keep the body ticking over, you know, bowling loads.
And I'm sure you've heard about injuries and stuff that's
happened in the in the black kIPS environments. The bowling
loads are a hot topic at the moment. Even if
you get through a truck kind of work, you've still
got to set sort of keep ticking over, so you
can't exactly go cold turkey. So I was sort of
bowling once or twice a week. And then trainer also
(41:06):
likes a seek view that time is a nice weet
window to get some listening and running into. So it
was a working hole. They put it that way.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
No backyard cricket through the Christmas season.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
They wore theretually. Yeah, there was the brothers and nephews
and nieces chand to drag us out there. So we did.
That's always good fund down at Christmas Day out in
the back morn and it was yeah, that was good
fun enough.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Un Fortunately, well, let's be honest, you're able to bring
the check because you can.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Okay, so through brothers they handing up cricks really, yeah, yeah,
they brought they brought some good injury to it.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Okay, So you're going to India for quite a while,
truth to be known. How do you prepare for something
like that. It's almost a case into the unknown, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, yeah, it is a little, but we're going some
You got five twenty twenties before the World Cups, and
they were on pretty random places that I'll be honest,
I've never heard before. So I've got no idea we're
walking into that, Regardo. I know it'll be India, so
it won't be too seen. Their friendly. But yeah, I
played a couple of games with the vaults obviously, which
is good, just to buy some Cobble without and get
(42:10):
a bit of that game time back and feel the
rhythm again. Any I guess it's a it's a twenty
twenty series, but I guess there's an element of sort
of gearing up to the World Cup, which is the
main goal. So I got five internationals to compete and
try a win. But I guess in the back of
your head we're sort of preparing and getting ready for
a World Cup, so in India against India, you can't
(42:32):
get bit of prepped in that.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
When I thought, yeah, Darryl Mitchell getting there Eynings the
other day, do you get it to your feet when
you're watching the black Caps on Telly at the moment
considering you're part of the setup?
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Definitely?
Speaker 7 (42:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Sitting there home with my wife the other day and
obviously happy to be home and she's happy to hit
me there, but the little part of me it feels
like I'm missing out. You know, the boys are steaming
and falling over undire and some cool crowds and stuff
that looked like so, you know, it doesn't feel right.
I guess I had the option to be there or
not to be there, and to choose not to be
(43:02):
I didn't know. Yeah, it's a finny one. Like I guess,
I've never thought that situation would occur to me, But
I guess with what's coming out that sort of just
meet and what's up, and it sort of just made sense.
So but there's definitely a part of me sat there
and man, I wish I was there.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Now going over to India is Shane Warn infamously once
got to heave a baked beans shipped over there because
he wasn't a fan of the caulinary delights locally. How
are you going to go with for the food situation
because it is different to what will be used to
being Westerners obviously, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, I've been here a few times now and you
can sort of get what you want to be fear
the foods. It's amazing food experiences over there. Ratch and
Revenge seems to have a lot of contacts, so I
think we get looked after pretty well, and a lot
of the places that he's been to before in the
recound and stuff. So that's always fun to get experience
and try some of that stuff. But I have also
(43:52):
you know, whether it's Sri Lanka or Pakistan or India,
I do it seem to get sick every time, so
I'm sure there'll be one time I next for my
I'll be I'll be hugging a toilet bowl. But yeah,
I don't know. He's he's got to take the good
the bet I guess, because there's some bloody good stuff
there too.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Absolutely, Hey, Jacob, will let you carry on. You're traveling today,
so thanks very much for your time. All the best
going over there, the T twenty.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Cricket World Cup, Cricket World Cup.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Coming up, I PL it's all happening over the next
six months to coin Bill Lourie will be in touch again.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Always great to chat.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Any thanks mate, laugh.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
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Speaker 1 (44:34):
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Speaker 4 (44:39):
I saw a piece of toast at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
The zoo keeper said it was breeding captivity. Is that
more acceptable, Jamie King. That's us for the afternoon. Great
to catch up with Jacob. There's the black Cats. I
think you're playing this evening or the next day, so
whenyway the last game and that ODI series over in India,
enjoy the weekend, stay dry, imany Muur. This has been
the Master on Hockey new he thinks the Peters ylicks
(45:03):
the best of the Master.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Five am tomorrow in Israel. The podcast for the day
going up shortly see you Monday.
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