November 26, 2025 • 9 mins
Nathan Burdon hopes the English cricketers play more competitively after getting thrashed inside two days in the First Ashes test.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome back to the Muster.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's happening this afternoon the Southern Storm Shout at Nigel
Woodhead's property at Level Slat halfway between Balcluther and Milton
Studying at three o'clock this afternoon. If you're in the vicinity,
you want to hit up there by all means at
Emerson's tiny.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Pub, the Spates Bar.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They're going to be there, the Milton Lions on the
Barbie silverfar and Farms has got the meat for the
barbecue and there's going to be A and Z the
Earth of Coffee and ice Cream card as well. So
it's happening at three o'clock the Savoy. Many thanks to
Nigel and Leanne Woodhead. As we catch up with our
residence Sporting Gury Nathan Burdon House things You.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Good mate yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm just looking at the new Highlanders jersey. It's been
released for next season. It's a throwback to nineteen ninety six.
My first look at it was it's almost like they've
gone for a bit of John McGlashan college in.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
There about I guess thirty years of for rugby and
see doesn't that time feel like it's like it's flying past,
and so all the New Zealand franchise franchises are going
to be rocking a bit of a retro look. Yeah,
but I guess you know thirty years of professional rugby
in New Zealand and see the game's changed in that time,
(01:16):
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I remember the first game and in the Cargo under
Lights and Super Rugby in ninety six, I was on
a bus coming from Northern Southland.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The Highlanders played the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Chiefs won on that occasion, but just the terraces were
absolutely choker.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, your memories are better than mine. I do you
remember going for the odd game at Kerisbrook at the time.
Remember one memorable Highland as Hurricanes game Jimmy Barnes played
at halftime. But yeah, I think they were probably the
healthy in days in some ways because you had some
some of those great personalities who were sort of right
(01:52):
on the end of that that amateur era and they
were pretty much able to sort of take an amateur
attitude into thetional into the professional game. So they were
sort of still training like amates, but getting paid for
the privilege, which it was probably a great opportunity for
those guys who were just able to cash in at
the end of their careers.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
In nineteen ninety six, I remember that game end Foster
at number ten for the Chiefs and playing very very
well as well. When you think about it, so gee,
how time flies? Now, the Ashes, the two day Ashes?
What did you make of this? I call it a
de barkle.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But it was hard not to feel ripped off, wasn't it.
You were sort of settling in for what we're anticipating
as being a really great and competitive series between these
two teams, and by the end of the weekend she
was all finished. She was all cut and busted. So yeah,
hard not to feel ripped off. And I guess if
(02:51):
I was an English cricket fan who paid thousands of
pounds to get myself to Australia to watch what was
a pretty enticing first matchup in Perth, I'd be feeling
even more ripped off.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But Mark would as well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
He wanted to drive from Perth to add Perith, sorry
to Brisbane to get his mind off things. He didn't
realize it was two thousand, eight hundred and thirty two miles.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, so as long as preps as well as some
lessons in slightly more conservative betting over the team had
a few geography lessons there.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We say, I think it's a bit like that too.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But look, baseball didn't work for the first innings watching
it fold and I made a point of watching a
lot of that first day and it's nineteen wickets alone,
It's like, what is going on here? Like second day
England were one hundred for one effectively at lunch they
lost a heap of wickets and then Travis here came
out and played his own baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I think that's probably the most confounding piece of
the whole thing. As you say, England was in such
a commanding position early on in their second dig and
they probably only needed another half an hour, maybe an
hour of good batting, and they would have completely batted
Australia out of that game. But yeah, the things, things
(04:08):
just completely completely fell apart, and they it wasn't so
much even just I guess the bear's ball and trying
to be attacking it was it was sort of a
I mean, they were half shots. There was there was
maybe one, you know, one you would say was was
a really good nut, and the rest of them were
It just feels like Australia. No, if they can just
sort of, you know, just bowl wide enough that the
(04:32):
you know, the England will just knack off and and
that's that's the way it proved. And then obviously Travis
Head turned around and did Travis Head things at the
same time. And I guess Australia's biggest question mark now
is whether they you know, whether they keep persisting with
Osmond Kwaja, give him some sort of a fairy tale
send off on his home track at Brisbane, or whether
(04:54):
they cut him now and let him go and play
even more golf.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
But is there a room for sentiment for someone like
Cosmon Kawaja.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, it's interesting times. I think the probably the cricket
Australia selectors are a little bit more sentimental than they
than they have been in the past, and that's probably
why they've why they have sort of persisted. Yeah, he's
been a great servant for Australian cricket obviously, and there've
been a lot of people saying that, you know, obviously
(05:23):
golf's a big part of getting the brain right and
getting away from the game can be pretty all consuming,
so it's not necessarily that, but there's only a handful
of Australian cricketers that have played continued to play in
their in their late thirties, and not many of them
have been able to do it successfully. So he is
bucking the trend to a certain extent. But yeah, would
(05:45):
I guess the sentimentalist in me would would love to
see him sort of bow out on his own terms.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
In Brisbane, the Black Caps have got the first Test
against the West Indies next week. This is not exciting
me won but in Test cricket I love it. But
I don't known if we've just got to be happy
with what we've got being Kiwi cricket fans.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right, yeah we do. Yeah, We've got a massive year
of red ball cricket coming up next year. Yeah. I
think it's the thing that's probably keeping Kan Williamson going
in terms of international cricket. So I guess this is
this is in a lot of ways, this is the
this is the appetizer to what's a big twenty twenty
(06:26):
six programs. So we will take We'll take West Indies
and they are a team that can at times lift
in red ball, so I know we will go on
as a heavy favorite, especially at home. We played very
good Test cricket on our own decks. But you know,
I don't think the black Caps as we as we
(06:47):
found out against a second string South African Test team
not that long ago, we're not a team that can
afford to be complacent even against teams that don't have
a great recent red ball record.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, it'll be in a recent heabit we're out of
course next year we've got that three tests over and
Nosey perhaps the little carrot there on the end of
the fishing line for came Williamson as you talked about.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, and you know, I think locally we'll have a
very close eye on you, Dufly duff Man here. Whether
Jake obviously he's in that squad of fourteen, it's just
so competitive in terms of who's going to be amongst
those medium paces Spleaar Tickner, Nathan Smith, Zach Folks, who's
going to be joining Matt Henry And but yeah, I'd
(07:32):
love to see Jake sharing that new ball with Matt Henry.
He obviously made his Test debut earlier in the season
over in Zimbabwe, but to be able to play a
home Test match with the very special occasion for the
Big South.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Under good on your nas always appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Lovely thanks mate.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Laugh out loud with ag proud because life on the
land can be a laughing matter. Brought to us by
Sheerwell data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
After thirty years of marriage, Tom and Sandra went to counseling.
When asked what the problem was, Sandra goes into a tirade,
listing every problem that ever hadn't the years have been married.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
On and on she goes neglect, lack of.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry
list of unmet needs she has endured. Finally, after getting this,
after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the
therapist gets up, walks around the desk and asks Sandra
to stand. He embraces her passionately and kisses her long
and hard, while Tom watches have raised eyebrows. Sandra sits down,
(08:35):
stunned and silent. The therapist turns to Tom and says,
this is what your wife needs at least three times
a week.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Can you handle that? Tom, thanks for a moment.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
In replies, well, I can bring her in on Mondays
and Wednesdays, but on Fridays I go fishing.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's us for the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hopefully I'll see you up at the shout This afternoon
the Southern farmers shout at Nigel what he is property.
I'm Andy Muir. This has been the muster on Hakkanui.
Many things to Peter's genetics. Enjoyed the afternoon, see tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
So
Welcome back to the Muster.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's happening this afternoon the Southern Storm Shout at Nigel
Woodhead's property at Level Slat halfway between Balcluther and Milton
Studying at three o'clock this afternoon. If you're in the vicinity,
you want to hit up there by all means at
Emerson's tiny.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Pub, the Spates Bar.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They're going to be there, the Milton Lions on the
Barbie silverfar and Farms has got the meat for the
barbecue and there's going to be A and Z the
Earth of Coffee and ice Cream card as well. So
it's happening at three o'clock the Savoy. Many thanks to
Nigel and Leanne Woodhead. As we catch up with our
residence Sporting Gury Nathan Burdon House things You.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Good mate yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm just looking at the new Highlanders jersey. It's been
released for next season. It's a throwback to nineteen ninety six.
My first look at it was it's almost like they've
gone for a bit of John McGlashan college in.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
There about I guess thirty years of for rugby and
see doesn't that time feel like it's like it's flying past,
and so all the New Zealand franchise franchises are going
to be rocking a bit of a retro look. Yeah,
but I guess you know thirty years of professional rugby
in New Zealand and see the game's changed in that time,
(01:16):
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I remember the first game and in the Cargo under
Lights and Super Rugby in ninety six, I was on
a bus coming from Northern Southland.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The Highlanders played the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Chiefs won on that occasion, but just the terraces were
absolutely choker.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, your memories are better than mine. I do you
remember going for the odd game at Kerisbrook at the time.
Remember one memorable Highland as Hurricanes game Jimmy Barnes played
at halftime. But yeah, I think they were probably the
healthy in days in some ways because you had some
some of those great personalities who were sort of right
(01:52):
on the end of that that amateur era and they
were pretty much able to sort of take an amateur
attitude into thetional into the professional game. So they were
sort of still training like amates, but getting paid for
the privilege, which it was probably a great opportunity for
those guys who were just able to cash in at
the end of their careers.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
In nineteen ninety six, I remember that game end Foster
at number ten for the Chiefs and playing very very
well as well. When you think about it, so gee,
how time flies? Now, the Ashes, the two day Ashes?
What did you make of this? I call it a
de barkle.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But it was hard not to feel ripped off, wasn't it.
You were sort of settling in for what we're anticipating
as being a really great and competitive series between these
two teams, and by the end of the weekend she
was all finished. She was all cut and busted. So yeah,
hard not to feel ripped off. And I guess if
(02:51):
I was an English cricket fan who paid thousands of
pounds to get myself to Australia to watch what was
a pretty enticing first matchup in Perth, I'd be feeling
even more ripped off.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But Mark would as well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
He wanted to drive from Perth to add Perith, sorry
to Brisbane to get his mind off things. He didn't
realize it was two thousand, eight hundred and thirty two miles.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, so as long as preps as well as some
lessons in slightly more conservative betting over the team had
a few geography lessons there.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We say, I think it's a bit like that too.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But look, baseball didn't work for the first innings watching
it fold and I made a point of watching a
lot of that first day and it's nineteen wickets alone,
It's like, what is going on here? Like second day
England were one hundred for one effectively at lunch they
lost a heap of wickets and then Travis here came
out and played his own baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I think that's probably the most confounding piece of
the whole thing. As you say, England was in such
a commanding position early on in their second dig and
they probably only needed another half an hour, maybe an
hour of good batting, and they would have completely batted
Australia out of that game. But yeah, the things, things
(04:08):
just completely completely fell apart, and they it wasn't so
much even just I guess the bear's ball and trying
to be attacking it was it was sort of a
I mean, they were half shots. There was there was
maybe one, you know, one you would say was was
a really good nut, and the rest of them were
It just feels like Australia. No, if they can just
sort of, you know, just bowl wide enough that the
(04:32):
you know, the England will just knack off and and
that's that's the way it proved. And then obviously Travis
Head turned around and did Travis Head things at the
same time. And I guess Australia's biggest question mark now
is whether they you know, whether they keep persisting with
Osmond Kwaja, give him some sort of a fairy tale
send off on his home track at Brisbane, or whether
(04:54):
they cut him now and let him go and play
even more golf.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
But is there a room for sentiment for someone like
Cosmon Kawaja.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, it's interesting times. I think the probably the cricket
Australia selectors are a little bit more sentimental than they
than they have been in the past, and that's probably
why they've why they have sort of persisted. Yeah, he's
been a great servant for Australian cricket obviously, and there've
been a lot of people saying that, you know, obviously
(05:23):
golf's a big part of getting the brain right and
getting away from the game can be pretty all consuming,
so it's not necessarily that, but there's only a handful
of Australian cricketers that have played continued to play in
their in their late thirties, and not many of them
have been able to do it successfully. So he is
bucking the trend to a certain extent. But yeah, would
(05:45):
I guess the sentimentalist in me would would love to
see him sort of bow out on his own terms.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
In Brisbane, the Black Caps have got the first Test
against the West Indies next week. This is not exciting
me won but in Test cricket I love it. But
I don't known if we've just got to be happy
with what we've got being Kiwi cricket fans.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right, yeah we do. Yeah, We've got a massive year
of red ball cricket coming up next year. Yeah. I
think it's the thing that's probably keeping Kan Williamson going
in terms of international cricket. So I guess this is
this is in a lot of ways, this is the
this is the appetizer to what's a big twenty twenty
(06:26):
six programs. So we will take We'll take West Indies
and they are a team that can at times lift
in red ball, so I know we will go on
as a heavy favorite, especially at home. We played very
good Test cricket on our own decks. But you know,
I don't think the black Caps as we as we
(06:47):
found out against a second string South African Test team
not that long ago, we're not a team that can
afford to be complacent even against teams that don't have
a great recent red ball record.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, it'll be in a recent heabit we're out of
course next year we've got that three tests over and
Nosey perhaps the little carrot there on the end of
the fishing line for came Williamson as you talked about.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, and you know, I think locally we'll have a
very close eye on you, Dufly duff Man here. Whether
Jake obviously he's in that squad of fourteen, it's just
so competitive in terms of who's going to be amongst
those medium paces Spleaar Tickner, Nathan Smith, Zach Folks, who's
going to be joining Matt Henry And but yeah, I'd
(07:32):
love to see Jake sharing that new ball with Matt Henry.
He obviously made his Test debut earlier in the season
over in Zimbabwe, but to be able to play a
home Test match with the very special occasion for the
Big South.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Under good on your nas always appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Lovely thanks mate.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Laugh out loud with ag proud because life on the
land can be a laughing matter. Brought to us by
Sheerwell data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
After thirty years of marriage, Tom and Sandra went to counseling.
When asked what the problem was, Sandra goes into a tirade,
listing every problem that ever hadn't the years have been married.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
On and on she goes neglect, lack of.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry
list of unmet needs she has endured. Finally, after getting this,
after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the
therapist gets up, walks around the desk and asks Sandra
to stand. He embraces her passionately and kisses her long
and hard, while Tom watches have raised eyebrows. Sandra sits down,
(08:35):
stunned and silent. The therapist turns to Tom and says,
this is what your wife needs at least three times
a week.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Can you handle that? Tom, thanks for a moment.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
In replies, well, I can bring her in on Mondays
and Wednesdays, but on Fridays I go fishing.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's us for the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hopefully I'll see you up at the shout This afternoon
the Southern farmers shout at Nigel what he is property.
I'm Andy Muir. This has been the muster on Hakkanui.
Many things to Peter's genetics. Enjoyed the afternoon, see tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
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