The Muster- Nathan Burdon: The Silver Ferns Finish In Style

Nathan Burdon looks at the Silver Ferns finishing their international season on a high.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
The Artist's Kiss. The song is Detroit Rock City. You're
listening to the muster on Hakanui. Our next guest is
our Residents Sporting Gury Nathan Brandon out of in Viicago, Get.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
A natht a mate, How are you pretty good?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
We've had two days of warm weather. It's like a
thing of beauty, right, yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, after the spring we've had. It's it's lovely to
have a bit of consistently nice weather lifts the mood,
doesn't it.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, well, enjoy it while we've got it. I'll tell
you about lifting the mood. The mood and the silver
Ferns beating England in this series over there as well
of what has been an interesting couple of months for
the team.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, the body language at the end of that game
looked really good too, and it looked like the players
almost a sense of palpable sense of relief. But also,
you know, a job very well done under some pret
trying circumstances. And to take that series two one over
what is a what a pretty good England Roses team

(01:07):
brink number four in the world, just a couple of
places below us, but that is that is a great
result and some good resilience shown by those players.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Because the whole situation with Dame Nolin Taro has just
been fascical.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Right, Fascicle would be a very good word, I think. Yeah,
and my problem potentially still some more to come, I think,
And because this just rolls on in terms of how
the program is structured going forward and the lack of games.
I guess in the build up to Commonwealth Games next year,
which is a pinnacle event for netball, but they don't.

(01:43):
It doesn't seem to be a pinnacle program in terms
of building up to that, and at worst case, Dame
Noleine Todu could be coming in like a week out
from that from that event, which, as you say, seems farstacle.
But yeah, at least I guess the Silver Friends are
getting the job done on the court, which is I
guess at the end of the day, the main thing.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Do you think there's a bit of a hint though,
and the players are leaving New Zealand to go and
to go and play in the Aussie competition. There's a
bit of an inkling there as to who isn't happy
you reckon? Or is that just looking too much into it?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Look, I just don't know enough to say convincingly. To
be honest, there is just so much going on the
game in terms of where the where professionally, players are
looking for those those best opportunities, and they're getting so
much more money to be playing over in Australia than
they can under the current model in New Zealand. And
I don't know if even at their best of Netball
New Zealand, if there's a lot that they could do

(02:36):
about that. They've opened the floodgates a little in terms
of changing those eligibility the Great Niki rule. But and
so this is sort of where we're at. Maybe there'll
be a silver lining and all of this that those
players will go over there and you know, potentially come
develop your own games. It'll be a stronger competition that

(02:59):
they'll be playing in. It certainly hasn't done any done
grace any harm playing a season over there, So you know,
we'll make for a better Silver Freends team going into
a com OFFF games left wait and see the All Blacks.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
They finish up the season against Wales, who arguably have
been pretty crap over the last twelve to eighty months. Least,
be honest about it, they beat Japan at the weekend
in the eighty first minute. But for the All Blacks,
you need to blood these young players. Get them out there,
get your Ruben loves and the likes out on the paddock.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's gonna be really interesting to see what sort of
team Scott Robertson picks, isn't it? And I guess it
is a golden opportunity to give some players but haven't
had a lot of game time, and Ruben loves one
of those who's been sort of a bit of a
mystery man, an opportunity to give some of these players
a run. It really just feels like a lose lose test,

(03:50):
though I don't think any of us would in their
wildest dreams expect the All Blacks to drop a game
against what is a struggling Welsh team. But but what
do they doing? I mean if they if they win
by a little, then it's you know, then that that
will be there'll that won't leave those detractors of this
current team. You know, it'll give them plenty of ammunition.

(04:12):
If they win by a lot, well you know it's
sort of what you expect too, So it's going to
be tough. It's a tough outing in Cardiff and it's
hard to see. I guess what a great outcome for
the All Blacks here.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Is because the unfortunate thing from the twicking, I won't
say debarcle, but the loss was the lack of game plan.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
There was there just doesn't feel well. There's something that's
just not right.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Something isn't right in that set up. We don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
About, just just something that's not clicking. I've been thinking
over the last week around you know, are we just
another international rugby team these days? And is this just
sort of where we're at that certainly that All Black
aura and this is not a Scott Robertson thing by
any by any means. This is this started definitely under

(04:58):
under Ian Foster. We've had you know, over the years,
we've had air first losses to Argentina, air first losses
to the Irish. We've we've lost, you know, we've lost
games that we would have expected to win. This team.
I think in international rugby they feel beata bull teams
go into games knowing that they can beat the A B.
So is that is that just a blip arm or

(05:22):
is that a sign of sort of where the new
Zealand game is at you know, and is this a
matter of have we dropped their standards or have international
teams lifted lifted theirs? And you know who really knows.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
The ashes It gets underway tomorrow and Perth. But look,
this is going to be fascinating. Firstly, we've got test
cricket on the horizon. It's fewer friendly for Kiwi's and
it's the rivalry between the two old foes interesting one.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
We obviously we've had England on airs Shaw's recently probably
felt like they had one eye more sort of on
the horizon in terms of this series than than what
was happening against the black Cats. But yeah, that's it's
always it's always a great series. You'd love it to
be as competitive as possible. Maybe it's enough. I don't

(06:11):
know what's which foot you actually put the put the
camp in. I probably go with the English. Actually, it'd
be good to see England knock over Australia over there
and it'll be interesting to see what they can do
with Optus and they'll be wanting to make a great
first impression in terms of the series and get off
to the best possible start.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I don't really care who wins. I just want to
see them going at it and I think that is
exactly what's going to happen. I mean this oussie bowling attack.
Who have you got Scott Boland highly underrated, remembering sex
for seven against the Poems on at Boxing Day a
couple of years ago, Mitchell Stark and there the guys
still got all the goods Josh Hazl will but then
you look at the English side finally in a Test match,

(06:51):
Mark Hood and Joffra Archer, two very good bowlers but
very prone to injury.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, it's outstanding, isn't it when you when you put
it like that, especially, I guess we've got this this
steady diet of white ball cricket. So it is great
to sort of just sit back on the couch and see,
you know, two of the better teams in red ball
cricket across the international scene going in a series that

(07:17):
you know, it means a lot and a lot of
cricket will come and go, but this is a series
that players sort of state the whole reputation and careers on,
isn't it.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Get on your Nathan Burden and always appreciate your time.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Lovely, thanks mate, laugh.

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(07:52):
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