December 11, 2025 • 9 mins
Nick Bewley of Newstalk ZB looks at the injury curse of the Blackcaps bowlers.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Man, welcome back to the muster, remembering text and tract
at a five double a nine to put your name
in the draw thanks to the Central South and Vindors
Machinery Club. Put your name forward to get into the
main draw to win that new holand tractor of course
at Southern Field Days next year. Nick Buley of New
Stork zvy good afternoon if you want to win attractor.
(00:26):
The is your revenue?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good to know, Andy, I don't think attractively too much
use in suburban christ Church, but that sounds like a
cracking prize play.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hey, look we're at lunch at the Test ninety eight
for six the Windy's. I think it's just got underway
actually again, but this game understandably so or unfortunately injuries
and yeah, just not longevity into a five day format
being the key at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, it has been sort of the story of this
Test series. I suppose we're gonna cast them on back
to the last week with Matt Henry and Nathan Smith
and the fast bowling department, Tom Blundell just you know,
running between the wickets and tweaking a hamstring as well.
You know, I can't really recall the last time three
players and a playing eleven went down in the same
(01:14):
Test match. And then the just innoxious nature of which
Blair Tickner got injured on the final league boundary yesterday,
just you know, trying to prevent a boundary and dislocates
his shoulder having taken a fourth in the first innings. Yeah,
I'm not sure exactly what it is, you know, some
you know, I think that example there with Tickner is
(01:36):
just extraordinarily unfortunate Lutch. But some of these sort of
soft tissue ones, the stress fractures in the back, when
you look at guys like Willow Rourke and Kyle Jamieson
and the like over the last couple of years, I
think there probably is a bit more of a you know,
if you dive a little bit deeper into the strength
and conditioning and preparation to red ball cricket, when there's
(01:56):
just such a constant diet of limited his cricket, particularly
in the T twenty format, it probably is something that
requires further examination. I know. Actually, Rob Walter, the relatively
new Black Caps coaches, come from in SNC background, and
he'll be very wary of the nature of which the
fast bowling department in particularly has to go very deep
(02:20):
into the playing stocks to find Michael Ray, for example,
out of formerly Otago now Canterbury to make it Test debut.
So it has been quite a curious series. But in
saying that, I think it's a real not to first
class cricket and the playing pets of guys as mentioned
like Michael Ray, like Mitchell Hayes here on debut, the
batting wicket keeper from Canterbury, that they do not look
(02:43):
overawed by the occasion of international Test match cricket. What
have we got Michael Ray now he took three for
in the first innings. He's got Shay Hope here today
caught in bold and Mitch haytop scoring in that first
innings with a really commanding sixty one to put New
Zealand in a really healthy position and sharp behind the
(03:04):
stumps too earlier today you know having a big saying
that that runout that Michael Brashaw also you know impacted.
So yeah, it's been a curious Test match in the
sense that it's a playing eleven that I don't think
we will ever see you again. Andy. But New Zealand
in the box seat, as you say, when they's ninety
(03:26):
eight to six here in the second session a leader
just twenty five runs could very well be if you're
just finishing up work for your Friday get in front
of a TV or the alternative commentary collective on radio,
because it might be all done by dusk.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I mean, we look at the bigger picture for the
Black Cats, no more tests cracking until England in the
middle of next year. Then we got the Biggie the
Tests over in Australia. This is a good chance to
see what depth we do actually have.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I totally agree, and I think if there is one
player that could really push their case for the playing
eleven at full strength, who's playing here in this Test
match at the base and reserve, it would be Mitch Hay.
I think there isn't much in it when between Tom
Blundell and Mitch Hay. When Tom blundle was fully thirty
(04:15):
five years of age, he's been the incumbent Test work
keeper now since making his debut back in twenty seventeen.
The runs haven't quite been as there for some time now.
And I know it's one innings and one performance, but
Mitch Hay's averaging just to tick under fifty in Red
Bull cricket at Plugashield level for category. Yeah, like I say,
(04:36):
looks really assured behind the wickets as well, So that'll
be one of the watch over the course of the
next twelve months. As you say, it's some really big
fish to come with England, Australia and India the Big three,
so that'll be one to watch, as will be with
the bowling stocks. And I'm from south in perspective Andy.
You know, everyone's championing the efforts of Jacob Duffy and
(04:58):
it was fantastic to see, you know, his effort, particularly
here in christ Yetch last week. They're getting a maiden
five for and I think he'll be there or they're
about too, because we just don't know where a Willow
Rourke will be, you know, first ever stress fraction in
the back Kyle Jamison. They're just uncertainty lingers about his fitness.
(05:19):
You know. We hope Matt Henry will be there to
spare ahead the attack, but there is some Yeah, there's
some interesting decisions to come for Rob Walter and the
returning convey of New Zealand selectors gathered Larson over the
next six or twelve months, right, but of.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
A change attacks here's c V. Reese. He's away over
to France at the end of the year, contracted to
the end. Z are will he be viewed as a
Crusaders great, Well, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think the short answer is yes, purely, when all
said and done, we look at his record, he will
leave that super rugby all time try scoring record in
a place that it might not get anywhere near close
ever again, and it's currently at sixty six from eighty
eight games. You know, let's say hypothetically he plays, I know,
(06:06):
he really wants to get to one hundred games, which
which puts him again in rear territory as a Crusader,
so they'd say, scores another eight tries, you know, in
the mid seventies. I think he will go down as
a great winner for the Crusaders. It's just, you know,
it's probably subjective in terms of how far you go.
There's been a lot of greats of have played for
the Crusaders over their thirty year history. But yeah, I
(06:29):
mean in terms of his playing legacy. You know, he
came down here around this time of the year, back
in twenty eighteen to seven years ago on a bit
of a whim he played NPC for Wakato. He was
actually due to go to Ireland but says contract was
torn up by Connacht after he was before the courts
for a domestic violence charge. He came down here to
(06:52):
the Crusaders and to say about seven years ago as
an extra body at training with a couple of injuries,
all of a sudden gets a debut Round one, scores
a couple of tries. Within that twenty nineteen year. He
went from not even having a full time super aby
contract to scoring a bucket load of tries in that
first season for the Crazy Crusaders, into an All Black
stable and played at the World Cup in Japan in
(07:12):
twenty nineteen and the rest is sort of history. That's
the tradutary his career has gone on. He's obviously fallen
out of the pecking order, down the pecking order this
year with the All Blacks, such as their options on
the wing. But yeah, I think to answer your question,
I'm trying to wrack my brains just to who would
hold a candle to him on the wing in a
Crusaders Yearsey Over the last thirty years and kayleb Ralph
(07:35):
played a lot of rugby for the Crusaders on the
wing and scored a lot of tries as well. But
he might be if you had to name a Legends
fifteen over the last thirty years and for the Crusaders,
it probably would be my right wing.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
As far as his contract with the Ends, and we
know that he came to Southland, he only played the
one he had made the one appearance for them, good
old South.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Too from a member of a one two and they
never gave him the ball forty points. Did he touch
the ball?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, he did it. They never passing the bloom and ball.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It might be a problem.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So m PC is he hanging around I don't know
if he's resigned for south or not for this year,
whatever reason when he'd done that for But so if
he is hanging out with the Inda, he's going to
hang around New Zealand until the end of the domestic season.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So my understanding is that the New Zealand aragby contract
goes right through to the end of twenty twenty six
the Super Rugby. You know, the outside of outside chances
of him being selected for the All Blacks Tour of
South Africa and the first round of the nation's Championship
fixtures in July. I don't think that'll be on the cards,
(08:41):
both from where he is in the picking order and
where his future lies. Yes, so there is an outside chance.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
NC Buley had a news dog zib. Thanks very much
for you a musings this year. Enjoy the holiday season
with the family that's doing it all again next year.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Hey, same to you Andy Mery Christmas. And to all
the listeners out there and and the South particularly and Gore,
have some fantastic family time. We'll catch you in the
new year.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Man 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.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So the other half is just coming to the living
room wearing a little PVC number of fish nets and
high heels. Handed me a bear and tobby to relax,
sit down. When she comes back, she'll give me what
she does best. I can't wait. A bloody loves Shepherd's pie. Good.
All right, that's us over and done with a couple
of all some competitions and giveaways for you to be
(09:38):
a part of next week on the Muster, the last
week for twenty twenty five and Mandy Miller. This has
been the muster on Hock and new he Thanks to
Peters Genetix. Enjoy the arvat them see her Monday,
Man, welcome back to the muster, remembering text and tract
at a five double a nine to put your name
in the draw thanks to the Central South and Vindors
Machinery Club. Put your name forward to get into the
main draw to win that new holand tractor of course
at Southern Field Days next year. Nick Buley of New
Stork zvy good afternoon if you want to win attractor.
(00:26):
The is your revenue?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good to know, Andy, I don't think attractively too much
use in suburban christ Church, but that sounds like a
cracking prize play.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hey, look we're at lunch at the Test ninety eight
for six the Windy's. I think it's just got underway
actually again, but this game understandably so or unfortunately injuries
and yeah, just not longevity into a five day format
being the key at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, it has been sort of the story of this
Test series. I suppose we're gonna cast them on back
to the last week with Matt Henry and Nathan Smith
and the fast bowling department, Tom Blundell just you know,
running between the wickets and tweaking a hamstring as well.
You know, I can't really recall the last time three
players and a playing eleven went down in the same
(01:14):
Test match. And then the just innoxious nature of which
Blair Tickner got injured on the final league boundary yesterday,
just you know, trying to prevent a boundary and dislocates
his shoulder having taken a fourth in the first innings. Yeah,
I'm not sure exactly what it is, you know, some
you know, I think that example there with Tickner is
(01:36):
just extraordinarily unfortunate Lutch. But some of these sort of
soft tissue ones, the stress fractures in the back, when
you look at guys like Willow Rourke and Kyle Jamieson
and the like over the last couple of years, I
think there probably is a bit more of a you know,
if you dive a little bit deeper into the strength
and conditioning and preparation to red ball cricket, when there's
(01:56):
just such a constant diet of limited his cricket, particularly
in the T twenty format, it probably is something that
requires further examination. I know. Actually, Rob Walter, the relatively
new Black Caps coaches, come from in SNC background, and
he'll be very wary of the nature of which the
fast bowling department in particularly has to go very deep
(02:20):
into the playing stocks to find Michael Ray, for example,
out of formerly Otago now Canterbury to make it Test debut.
So it has been quite a curious series. But in
saying that, I think it's a real not to first
class cricket and the playing pets of guys as mentioned
like Michael Ray, like Mitchell Hayes here on debut, the
batting wicket keeper from Canterbury, that they do not look
(02:43):
overawed by the occasion of international Test match cricket. What
have we got Michael Ray now he took three for
in the first innings. He's got Shay Hope here today
caught in bold and Mitch haytop scoring in that first
innings with a really commanding sixty one to put New
Zealand in a really healthy position and sharp behind the
(03:04):
stumps too earlier today you know having a big saying
that that runout that Michael Brashaw also you know impacted.
So yeah, it's been a curious Test match in the
sense that it's a playing eleven that I don't think
we will ever see you again. Andy. But New Zealand
in the box seat, as you say, when they's ninety
(03:26):
eight to six here in the second session a leader
just twenty five runs could very well be if you're
just finishing up work for your Friday get in front
of a TV or the alternative commentary collective on radio,
because it might be all done by dusk.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I mean, we look at the bigger picture for the
Black Cats, no more tests cracking until England in the
middle of next year. Then we got the Biggie the
Tests over in Australia. This is a good chance to
see what depth we do actually have.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I totally agree, and I think if there is one
player that could really push their case for the playing
eleven at full strength, who's playing here in this Test
match at the base and reserve, it would be Mitch Hay.
I think there isn't much in it when between Tom
Blundell and Mitch Hay. When Tom blundle was fully thirty
(04:15):
five years of age, he's been the incumbent Test work
keeper now since making his debut back in twenty seventeen.
The runs haven't quite been as there for some time now.
And I know it's one innings and one performance, but
Mitch Hay's averaging just to tick under fifty in Red
Bull cricket at Plugashield level for category. Yeah, like I say,
(04:36):
looks really assured behind the wickets as well, So that'll
be one of the watch over the course of the
next twelve months. As you say, it's some really big
fish to come with England, Australia and India the Big three,
so that'll be one to watch, as will be with
the bowling stocks. And I'm from south in perspective Andy.
You know, everyone's championing the efforts of Jacob Duffy and
(04:58):
it was fantastic to see, you know, his effort, particularly
here in christ Yetch last week. They're getting a maiden
five for and I think he'll be there or they're
about too, because we just don't know where a Willow
Rourke will be, you know, first ever stress fraction in
the back Kyle Jamison. They're just uncertainty lingers about his fitness.
(05:19):
You know. We hope Matt Henry will be there to
spare ahead the attack, but there is some Yeah, there's
some interesting decisions to come for Rob Walter and the
returning convey of New Zealand selectors gathered Larson over the
next six or twelve months, right, but of.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
A change attacks here's c V. Reese. He's away over
to France at the end of the year, contracted to
the end. Z are will he be viewed as a
Crusaders great, Well, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think the short answer is yes, purely, when all
said and done, we look at his record, he will
leave that super rugby all time try scoring record in
a place that it might not get anywhere near close
ever again, and it's currently at sixty six from eighty
eight games. You know, let's say hypothetically he plays, I know,
(06:06):
he really wants to get to one hundred games, which
which puts him again in rear territory as a Crusader,
so they'd say, scores another eight tries, you know, in
the mid seventies. I think he will go down as
a great winner for the Crusaders. It's just, you know,
it's probably subjective in terms of how far you go.
There's been a lot of greats of have played for
the Crusaders over their thirty year history. But yeah, I
(06:29):
mean in terms of his playing legacy. You know, he
came down here around this time of the year, back
in twenty eighteen to seven years ago on a bit
of a whim he played NPC for Wakato. He was
actually due to go to Ireland but says contract was
torn up by Connacht after he was before the courts
for a domestic violence charge. He came down here to
(06:52):
the Crusaders and to say about seven years ago as
an extra body at training with a couple of injuries,
all of a sudden gets a debut Round one, scores
a couple of tries. Within that twenty nineteen year. He
went from not even having a full time super aby
contract to scoring a bucket load of tries in that
first season for the Crazy Crusaders, into an All Black
stable and played at the World Cup in Japan in
(07:12):
twenty nineteen and the rest is sort of history. That's
the tradutary his career has gone on. He's obviously fallen
out of the pecking order, down the pecking order this
year with the All Blacks, such as their options on
the wing. But yeah, I think to answer your question,
I'm trying to wrack my brains just to who would
hold a candle to him on the wing in a
Crusaders Yearsey Over the last thirty years and kayleb Ralph
(07:35):
played a lot of rugby for the Crusaders on the
wing and scored a lot of tries as well. But
he might be if you had to name a Legends
fifteen over the last thirty years and for the Crusaders,
it probably would be my right wing.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
As far as his contract with the Ends, and we
know that he came to Southland, he only played the
one he had made the one appearance for them, good
old South.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Too from a member of a one two and they
never gave him the ball forty points. Did he touch
the ball?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, he did it. They never passing the bloom and ball.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It might be a problem.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So m PC is he hanging around I don't know
if he's resigned for south or not for this year,
whatever reason when he'd done that for But so if
he is hanging out with the Inda, he's going to
hang around New Zealand until the end of the domestic season.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So my understanding is that the New Zealand aragby contract
goes right through to the end of twenty twenty six
the Super Rugby. You know, the outside of outside chances
of him being selected for the All Blacks Tour of
South Africa and the first round of the nation's Championship
fixtures in July. I don't think that'll be on the cards,
(08:41):
both from where he is in the picking order and
where his future lies. Yes, so there is an outside chance.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
NC Buley had a news dog zib. Thanks very much
for you a musings this year. Enjoy the holiday season
with the family that's doing it all again next year.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Hey, same to you Andy Mery Christmas. And to all
the listeners out there and and the South particularly and Gore,
have some fantastic family time. We'll catch you in the
new year.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Man 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.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So the other half is just coming to the living
room wearing a little PVC number of fish nets and
high heels. Handed me a bear and tobby to relax,
sit down. When she comes back, she'll give me what
she does best. I can't wait. A bloody loves Shepherd's pie. Good.
All right, that's us over and done with a couple
of all some competitions and giveaways for you to be
(09:38):
a part of next week on the Muster, the last
week for twenty twenty five and Mandy Miller. This has
been the muster on Hock and new he Thanks to
Peters Genetix. Enjoy the arvat them see her Monday,
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