1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Elliott Smith's sports talk Hoosters with Us. Hey, Elliot, I. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 2: Heard you talking about this before the break. Have you called. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 1: Netball New Zealand and just offered to be a supporter? 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: Can't be the mediator? Yeah, we could put this on 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: the yesternight seven o'clock, which. 6 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: She would just do it in public. 7 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. It's like an election to mate or whatever. 8 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: Imagine it horse was televised, the ratings it would go off, 9 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't it. But have you seriously have you called them 10 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: and just done a welfare check and made sure they're okay? 11 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be them. No, it's just one 12 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: thing after another, isn't it sucks? Then there are also 13 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: one kneel down in the series. Let's not forget that 14 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 2: and that. 15 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: But Elliott, I don't feel sorry for this is what 16 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: happens when you stuff something up last. And I think 17 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: what they've I think they have failed to appreciate the 18 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: national treasure that she is. But also just you know, 19 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: people's sense of fairness. 20 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's it. And everyone, to a person 21 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: promotion loves apart from maybe a couple of players in 22 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: the Silver Fins loves Dame Nolan told her they may 23 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: not you know, the results may not always come their way. 24 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: But she won to World Cup for New Zealand. She 25 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: was a savior when she did come in in the 26 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 2: first place back in twenty eighteen. She's got an outgoing personality. 27 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: She tells it like it is, and that endears you 28 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 2: to people. It's not like an All Blacks coach, where 29 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: even if you lose a couple of games people come 30 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,199 Speaker 2: at you. It's you know, she is, as you said, 31 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 2: a national treasure and when she is deemed to be 32 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: treated unfairly, that's when people get their their backs up 33 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: that I think this is what happens. 34 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: But now is it possible for for the thing to 35 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: happen the way that Willie Jackson wants it to happen, 36 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: which is funding to be withheld. 37 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 2: I don't know that that would necessarily play art in actuality. 38 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: They're freezy funding there, you know, teams in the middle 39 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 2: of a series. You can't just freeze the funding and go, well, 40 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 2: we're gonna pause this right here. You've got things that 41 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 2: need to be paid, players that need to be paid. 42 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: It's a it's a great headline from Willie Jackson. I 43 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 2: don't know whether it holds up an actuality, but what 44 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,639 Speaker 2: it does do is put the pressure on Mark Mitchell 45 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 2: and Sport New Zealand and Knitball in New Zealand to 46 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 2: get something done and resolve this thing. Because it looked 47 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 2: like it was going to be a resolved before the 48 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 2: South African series finished. Then we drag into the Australian series. 49 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: If at McCausland jury and co are appointed right through 50 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 2: to the end of the year, there seems to be 51 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: no end in sight. And that's, you know, frankly not acceptable. 52 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 2: It wouldn't be samtable for a government to apartment to 53 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: drag on something this long. Not acceptable for Niitball in 54 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 2: New Zealand. 55 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: Chances she comes back, I. 56 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: Don't think it's I'd say fifty to fifty at this point. Look, 57 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: you hear various things, don't you, around the traps and 58 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: she wants the job back, and I think that's a positive. 59 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: Because she's made it known that she wants that's right. 60 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 2: She may have gone, I can't be bold dealing with anymore. 61 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 2: Give me a contract with England or Australia or one 62 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 2: of those Australian teams and I will just not be 63 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: done with you. Know the Nible New Zealand's I mean, can. 64 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: You imagine how awkward if she got the job back, 65 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: how awkward it would be to be Dame Knowles walking 66 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: down the corridor or for it to be Jenny Wiley 67 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: walking down the corridor and if pops out of the 68 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: loo walls. 69 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, office kitchen, you know, around the water cool 70 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: it exactly to recently. 71 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: Yeah weather anyway, listen, would you would you rather play 72 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: for Canterbury in the NPC final for the All Blacks 73 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: in Chicago? 74 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 2: I think if you're giving me the option, I'd rather 75 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 2: still play for the All Blacks in Chicago. I think 76 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: it's understandable. Look, the state's been the calendar for ages. 77 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: It's just the way it goes. And a couple of 78 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 2: players that have been called out of the NBC, Sam 79 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 2: Darry and George Belip can't play for Canry. They've done 80 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 2: their bet to get them to the final. Now they 81 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 2: have to spread their wings and go abroad and allow 82 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: their teammates. 83 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: To refeel about that, I think. 84 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 2: They're accepting of it. They didn't make much of a 85 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 2: pictures my understanding to try and get these players basically 86 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 2: that they knew the flight was going on Friday, and 87 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 2: these players had to go, and there's a few injuries 88 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 2: persisting around the All Blacks or niggles around the All 89 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 2: Blacks that this is always going to be a tough 90 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: ass to get them. So it was always going to 91 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 2: be unlikely that these players played. They weren't part of 92 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 2: obviously of the All Black squad to begin with for 93 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 2: the Rugby Championship. They're now coming in. So it's a 94 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 2: hard one. But I suspect that they probably knew this 95 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: was always going to be likely to how. 96 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: You know, it's always the All Blacks, always, don't they? 97 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: Yeah? 98 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: Hi here, Yeah, thank you very. 99 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 2: Much, Elliot. 100 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: Elliott Smith will be our sports talk host this evening. 101 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen live to 102 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 103 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.