August 31, 2025 • 9 mins
Graham "Mintie" Mead says the Ranfurly Shield coming to Southland is a great thing for NZ rugby.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
In this began support us five miles around. Thanks for
joining us on the muster of this afternoon. We're away
up to the White Kadow Graham Minty Meade. He called
the game yesterday on gold Sport, the Stags of course,
bringing the log of wood home arguably in a smash
and grab. Now Minty first League. Good afternoon, where we're
(00:31):
just not quite twenty four hours on from the game,
eighteen hours or so? Has it sunk? Can you what
actually happened yesterday at the FMG Stadium?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For you? Oh, look at sunken pretty quick, come about
ten minutes to go. To be honest, Andy, Steve, Gordy
and I talked about it before the game that the
shield changes players. You put the jersey on and they
grow the leg and you guys grew three or four leagues,
to be honest, that's seen it happen a few times
(00:59):
where you know, the big win, they come down the
week later and they struggled a little bit and work
and I really struggled, and by jing as your followers
put on a good show. Yeah yeah, there wasn't quite
expecting that, but yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
I'm still behind the couch hiding at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Because if you look at those teams on paper, way
can I with your four abs coming back into the equation?
Do you reckon that hindered your team more than helped
or as just a matter didn't matter who was on
the field that night.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Look, I don't know, I don't know. The guys needed
some rugby. We poinicle teams, the abs they need some footy,
they come back into the team. Did it disrupt the
team a little bit? Maybe? Did the weather conditions that
you sent from Southland and disrupt what we've got up
here in the beautiful why Canto were at sunny all
the time? Probably we had we had in the cargo
(01:49):
where the let's be honest, it was a howling gale
piddling with rain. You fellows looked at that and said,
by jeez, we're home. And yeah, I don't think who
we put on the panic last night could have made
a difference or would have made a difference. We got out, passioned, out,
played out and out out everything. Actually that the guys
chucked it out there. But defense from you guys two
(02:10):
good attack at times both of us were pretty stoic.
You know, we knocked each other over in tackles and
then end of the day, that big barely number eighty
yours burst down the sideline, brushed off about fifty nine people,
pushed most of the crowd back up into the stand
and passed your half back and he scored. How many
(02:30):
people there wasn't fair?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But how many people meanted were at the game though,
because there's not a good look when you see these
big stadiums empty for occasions like this or is that
just the nature of the NPC these days and we
need to accept on Sunday afternoon you're not going to
draw the crowds like once upon a time.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well, the crowd wasn't bad. I know what you saw
on TV. On the other side, they don't normally open that,
so the TV doesn't show the main stand that we
were in, and everybody was way up the top. They
opened up and let everybody get right up underneath cover.
So it was just terrible con less shoest. So it
was probably the worst we've had for a while. So
everybody head right up the top of the stands and
(03:09):
no one wanted to stay in the weather other than
kJ He got pretty wet, but you know, there wasn't
a bad crowd. I'm thinking probably about from my best
guess what they said after I think about six seven
thousand people eight thousand people there, which will be half
of what you got down there on the weekend when
Canterbury come.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, because we've got Canterbury on Saturday afternoon. Arguably tm
K for Stag Day was the mantra. We went by
here down the South for the opening ground of the
MPC Monte. But all indications are there the South's going
to need each neary voice on that terrace, in the
stands around the ground and just throughout the province to
take on the mighty Cantabs this weekend. Let's be honest,
(03:48):
nobody wants Kenna ready to have the shield.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
No, no, no, no, I'm with you on that one
hundred percent on that. But I just got a tip
my hat to the team. He brought up young fellows, Keen,
couple of old heads in there with the and Doune Shay.
They led, Well, there was just shield Rugby. Look, I
love it for me. It's shield Rugby and it's great
(04:11):
for the shield to move around. You know, we had
it for a week. There was parties everywhere. You'll have
it for however long you have it. But I guarantee
you what three o'clock this afternoon, when it lands down
in the cargo or airport, all hell is going to
break loose.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Because the consensus seems to be mante that this is
exactly what the Ranfrelly shield and arguably the emptc this
is a shot in the arm that was needed.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Damn right, it is too right, it is. There's been
more talk about the shield moving than there is about
NPC rugby and things in the last few weeks. And
isn't that good? Isn't it what we want from a
game of foot? We want that passion. Like I got
a photo with the shield last night before the game,
thank goodness. But every time it visits, I try and
(04:57):
get a photo with it because it is something for
me that it's iconic. It's a piece of wood with
a bit of steel on it. And yeah, like Steve
Gordon said to it, said, there's something about it. He said,
there's something about that piece of wood. He said. When
you get your hands on it, he said, you treasure
it because you never know how long you got it for.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Because you think of the team from yesteryear, you think
of the Kennedy team we wanted in eighty two, held
it to eighty five. Then Auckland held it for the
rest of a decade until nineteen ninety three, and it's
just a you're around it and the people that have
held that log of one and it's gone through generations
of New Zealand rugby. So it's great to see that
the appeal is still there.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh look for me, it's it is and it's youngsters
as well. Now we're seeing a little bit of the
kids now understanding what ran Philly Shields. They're saying, oh, hey,
this is pretty different. You know, everyone's got a story
with the shield. David Fox let me look after it
for two days because there was no one around to
look after it. It slept in my bed. My wife
(05:59):
was waying. I you know, I was scared of losing
the damn thing, so I put it in a bed
sleep with me because I was too scared to lose
the damn thing. Every call I went to, every day,
I carried it with me because I couldn't leave it
in macayendrome and they're stupid because they're never going to
get stolen. But that's how scared I was losing.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It just finally Montete the state of rugby up in
the Waycadow. What's it looking like?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Kids? Why huge? We've got a little group running now,
Power Farming Cup they call it where because we lost
the Gwin shield, roller mills, all those sorts of things.
Because if some of the regions pulled out acident want
the competition. But these guys have got teams going. They're
getting thousand kids tending up every Sunday to play what
(06:41):
you'd call rep rugby where teams are put together. So
junior rugby's really good. Secondary school rugby's okay. We come
out of secondary school and we die and then we
somehow some of the kids turned back up and we've
got a bit of senior footy going on. So we've
got a real between leaving school and becoming a young
(07:04):
adult at about twenty one twenty two, but trying hard
to bring it back. There's a lot of cooperation going on.
Under eighty fives had a house set a few years ago.
It's flattened out. You we're battling financially and for players.
Basketball's taking so many players at the moment because the
kids are loving that it's something to run into rugby
(07:27):
will always be there, but I don't know any you
and I used to pull the boots on for a
pair of shorts and a beer afterwards. Yeah, a lot
of them got the hens out and there to say, well,
I won't put my shorts on unless stuff free and
I've got a pair of this one them. But yeah, look,
different reasons, different seasons. I played footy because I love
(07:48):
the buddy thing and always will, always will. But yeah,
a bit different now. But I could say too much
sometimes it will get me the trouble. Mate.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Hi, good on your mentor you say thanks very much
for your time. Tremendous call, uster layers, do yourselves a
favor of people. When you're listening to your commentaries, turn
the telly down and link it on with Iiheart Radio.
Get the time in going there at the center of
the mind and full picture. Get on your MINTI and
Antler's Up.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Adler's Up. Mate. You've got a few of those out
of me last night too, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It was a few of those.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Love your work mate, laugh out loud with ag proud
because life on the land can be a laughing matter.
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer. Here's a fun fact. Koi fish always
travel in groups of four, and if attacked Koi A, B,
and C will scatter leave him behind the decoy. And
(08:46):
that's us on this beautiful southern afternoon. Who it is
morale wise anyway, remembering the stags get into Imbicago Airport
around three point thirty if you're able to make it,
Amy Miller, this has been the muster on Hokanu he
cheese to Peter's genetics, see him alright,
In this began support us five miles around. Thanks for
joining us on the muster of this afternoon. We're away
up to the White Kadow Graham Minty Meade. He called
the game yesterday on gold Sport, the Stags of course,
bringing the log of wood home arguably in a smash
and grab. Now Minty first League. Good afternoon, where we're
(00:31):
just not quite twenty four hours on from the game,
eighteen hours or so? Has it sunk? Can you what
actually happened yesterday at the FMG Stadium?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For you? Oh, look at sunken pretty quick, come about
ten minutes to go. To be honest, Andy, Steve, Gordy
and I talked about it before the game that the
shield changes players. You put the jersey on and they
grow the leg and you guys grew three or four leagues,
to be honest, that's seen it happen a few times
(00:59):
where you know, the big win, they come down the
week later and they struggled a little bit and work
and I really struggled, and by jing as your followers
put on a good show. Yeah yeah, there wasn't quite
expecting that, but yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
I'm still behind the couch hiding at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Because if you look at those teams on paper, way
can I with your four abs coming back into the equation?
Do you reckon that hindered your team more than helped
or as just a matter didn't matter who was on
the field that night.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Look, I don't know, I don't know. The guys needed
some rugby. We poinicle teams, the abs they need some footy,
they come back into the team. Did it disrupt the
team a little bit? Maybe? Did the weather conditions that
you sent from Southland and disrupt what we've got up
here in the beautiful why Canto were at sunny all
the time? Probably we had we had in the cargo
(01:49):
where the let's be honest, it was a howling gale
piddling with rain. You fellows looked at that and said,
by jeez, we're home. And yeah, I don't think who
we put on the panic last night could have made
a difference or would have made a difference. We got out, passioned, out,
played out and out out everything. Actually that the guys
chucked it out there. But defense from you guys two
(02:10):
good attack at times both of us were pretty stoic.
You know, we knocked each other over in tackles and
then end of the day, that big barely number eighty
yours burst down the sideline, brushed off about fifty nine people,
pushed most of the crowd back up into the stand
and passed your half back and he scored. How many
(02:30):
people there wasn't fair?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But how many people meanted were at the game though,
because there's not a good look when you see these
big stadiums empty for occasions like this or is that
just the nature of the NPC these days and we
need to accept on Sunday afternoon you're not going to
draw the crowds like once upon a time.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well, the crowd wasn't bad. I know what you saw
on TV. On the other side, they don't normally open that,
so the TV doesn't show the main stand that we
were in, and everybody was way up the top. They
opened up and let everybody get right up underneath cover.
So it was just terrible con less shoest. So it
was probably the worst we've had for a while. So
everybody head right up the top of the stands and
(03:09):
no one wanted to stay in the weather other than
kJ He got pretty wet, but you know, there wasn't
a bad crowd. I'm thinking probably about from my best
guess what they said after I think about six seven
thousand people eight thousand people there, which will be half
of what you got down there on the weekend when
Canterbury come.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, because we've got Canterbury on Saturday afternoon. Arguably tm
K for Stag Day was the mantra. We went by
here down the South for the opening ground of the
MPC Monte. But all indications are there the South's going
to need each neary voice on that terrace, in the
stands around the ground and just throughout the province to
take on the mighty Cantabs this weekend. Let's be honest,
(03:48):
nobody wants Kenna ready to have the shield.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
No, no, no, no, I'm with you on that one
hundred percent on that. But I just got a tip
my hat to the team. He brought up young fellows, Keen,
couple of old heads in there with the and Doune Shay.
They led, Well, there was just shield Rugby. Look, I
love it for me. It's shield Rugby and it's great
(04:11):
for the shield to move around. You know, we had
it for a week. There was parties everywhere. You'll have
it for however long you have it. But I guarantee
you what three o'clock this afternoon, when it lands down
in the cargo or airport, all hell is going to
break loose.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Because the consensus seems to be mante that this is
exactly what the Ranfrelly shield and arguably the emptc this
is a shot in the arm that was needed.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Damn right, it is too right, it is. There's been
more talk about the shield moving than there is about
NPC rugby and things in the last few weeks. And
isn't that good? Isn't it what we want from a
game of foot? We want that passion. Like I got
a photo with the shield last night before the game,
thank goodness. But every time it visits, I try and
(04:57):
get a photo with it because it is something for
me that it's iconic. It's a piece of wood with
a bit of steel on it. And yeah, like Steve
Gordon said to it, said, there's something about it. He said,
there's something about that piece of wood. He said. When
you get your hands on it, he said, you treasure
it because you never know how long you got it for.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Because you think of the team from yesteryear, you think
of the Kennedy team we wanted in eighty two, held
it to eighty five. Then Auckland held it for the
rest of a decade until nineteen ninety three, and it's
just a you're around it and the people that have
held that log of one and it's gone through generations
of New Zealand rugby. So it's great to see that
the appeal is still there.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh look for me, it's it is and it's youngsters
as well. Now we're seeing a little bit of the
kids now understanding what ran Philly Shields. They're saying, oh, hey,
this is pretty different. You know, everyone's got a story
with the shield. David Fox let me look after it
for two days because there was no one around to
look after it. It slept in my bed. My wife
(05:59):
was waying. I you know, I was scared of losing
the damn thing, so I put it in a bed
sleep with me because I was too scared to lose
the damn thing. Every call I went to, every day,
I carried it with me because I couldn't leave it
in macayendrome and they're stupid because they're never going to
get stolen. But that's how scared I was losing.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It just finally Montete the state of rugby up in
the Waycadow. What's it looking like?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Kids? Why huge? We've got a little group running now,
Power Farming Cup they call it where because we lost
the Gwin shield, roller mills, all those sorts of things.
Because if some of the regions pulled out acident want
the competition. But these guys have got teams going. They're
getting thousand kids tending up every Sunday to play what
(06:41):
you'd call rep rugby where teams are put together. So
junior rugby's really good. Secondary school rugby's okay. We come
out of secondary school and we die and then we
somehow some of the kids turned back up and we've
got a bit of senior footy going on. So we've
got a real between leaving school and becoming a young
(07:04):
adult at about twenty one twenty two, but trying hard
to bring it back. There's a lot of cooperation going on.
Under eighty fives had a house set a few years ago.
It's flattened out. You we're battling financially and for players.
Basketball's taking so many players at the moment because the
kids are loving that it's something to run into rugby
(07:27):
will always be there, but I don't know any you
and I used to pull the boots on for a
pair of shorts and a beer afterwards. Yeah, a lot
of them got the hens out and there to say, well,
I won't put my shorts on unless stuff free and
I've got a pair of this one them. But yeah, look,
different reasons, different seasons. I played footy because I love
(07:48):
the buddy thing and always will, always will. But yeah,
a bit different now. But I could say too much
sometimes it will get me the trouble. Mate.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Hi, good on your mentor you say thanks very much
for your time. Tremendous call, uster layers, do yourselves a
favor of people. When you're listening to your commentaries, turn
the telly down and link it on with Iiheart Radio.
Get the time in going there at the center of
the mind and full picture. Get on your MINTI and
Antler's Up.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Adler's Up. Mate. You've got a few of those out
of me last night too, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It was a few of those.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Love your work mate, laugh out loud with ag proud
because life on the land can be a laughing matter.
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer. Here's a fun fact. Koi fish always
travel in groups of four, and if attacked Koi A, B,
and C will scatter leave him behind the decoy. And
(08:46):
that's us on this beautiful southern afternoon. Who it is
morale wise anyway, remembering the stags get into Imbicago Airport
around three point thirty if you're able to make it,
Amy Miller, this has been the muster on Hokanu he
cheese to Peter's genetics, see him alright,
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