1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: It's still celebrating the fairy tale finish for our mighty 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: mid Canterbury Hammers head coach Matt Winter again, congratulations, a 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: perfect season hasn't sunk in yet? 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 2: No, no, it hasn't made it still pinch yourself stuff 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 2: really to personally honest, But yeah, hopefully over the next 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 2: week while can sit back and yet so could all in. 7 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 2: But at the moment it still seems pretty surreal, to 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: be honest. 9 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: Recounted the final ten minutes with Jason Rickard yesterday. I 10 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: can't imagine how stressed you would have been. Those foxes 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: could have easily spoiled the party, but they didn't. How 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,279 Speaker 1: much of a bear hag did Dickie get from you? 13 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 2: A huge one? Yeah? Yeah, what a shift, What a shift, 14 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 2: what a player? You know, we were pretty lucky that 15 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: he was out there. He put us on his back 16 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: pretty much and said follow me boys. So yeah, what a. 17 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: Performance from your perspective. What's the win really mean? 18 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really hard to put into words, like, to 19 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 2: be honest, what it means a huge man? Yeah, pretty much, 20 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: it means it means everything really that we were able 21 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: to do that. I mean, you saw that crowd, you 22 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: saw who we were playing for and saw the performance 23 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 2: from some of the fellows to put in. So yeah, 24 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 2: for it all to come together like that, it's going 25 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: to take some beating. It's for sure. 26 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: That crowd like anything you've ever experienced. 27 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 2: No, No, it certainly isn't it was. Yeah, you were there. 28 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: It was pretty unreal, wasn't it. The support we got 29 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 2: very special? Yeah. Yeah. 30 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: Thinking back to last week, on the verge of what 31 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: we've achieved, redemption in the making, the weight of expectation, 32 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: what was your approach how did you frame it up 33 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: for the leads? 34 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: Framing it up for the fellows was pretty straightforward. The 35 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 2: emotion side of things was more trying to manage it. 36 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, not so much redemption or anything like that. 37 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: It was that we worked this hard, we've earned it 38 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: to go out there and just to put on a 39 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 2: performance that we'll be proud of and that makes our 40 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 2: people proud and results going to take care of itself, 41 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: which it did in the end. I think that was 42 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 2: a pretty good display of you know, first fifteen minutes 43 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: showed while we were number one, and the last thirty 44 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: showed while they were number two, and we managed to 45 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 2: just hold on so it was a pretty good game 46 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: of foot It really wouldn't it. 47 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: The most magic or special moment for me was seeing 48 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: the reaction of Coat skip of Fridge. He's worked hard 49 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: across a long decade for this. Was it your call 50 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: to keep him on for the full eighty? 51 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 2: We were actually trying to get him off. Yeah he was. 52 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,119 Speaker 2: He was absolutely out to it. Yeah, no, not many 53 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 2: people know, but he spent most of Thursday night and 54 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 2: most of the day for Friday came huddled or hugging 55 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 2: a bowl, a toilet bowl going from both ends. So 56 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 2: the Bookbella was in a handy. Yeah, he only started 57 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 2: He only started eating on Saturday morning. So the idea 58 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 2: was that he was probably going to come off first 59 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:52,839 Speaker 2: and Hunter and as we're going to go, and then 60 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 2: he had to do it that way. But with Gunny 61 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 2: Hunter getting his ankle, things changed a little bit, so 62 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: Fridgie had to dig deep. So yeah, he put on 63 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 2: a one love a shift and for him to play 64 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: the probably the best Aniamnutes he played all season in 65 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: the finals. Just speaks volumes as the men, and yeah, 66 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 2: it was messive after the game, just to be able 67 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 2: to spend a bit of time with him all of 68 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: us really just yeah, ten ten odd years on the bounds, 69 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 2: he's been trying to get one and he finally got one, 70 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: and no one deserves it more. 71 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: Really, Heartland's fifteen squad names today. Have you been given 72 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 1: the heads up you've got any insided trading? How many 73 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: Hemmers we're going to see? Feature? 74 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 2: There? Nothing confirmed. He's been awesome in the way that 75 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 2: he's he's gone to be out this year. David Harrison, 76 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: the New zeal And cut Hartman coach. He's been talking 77 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: to me most weeks getting feedback on players. But it 78 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: also worked out in his favorite because he's a teams 79 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: vary coach, so he had all the inside mood on 80 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 2: our best players going into the final. Did you help that? No? Not, 81 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 2: I mean it didn't. Didn't doing that for him? No, 82 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 2: that's all right. But he's been really good. So I 83 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: had a little bit of an idea of who might 84 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: be in the frame, but I think the phone calls 85 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: were getting made last night, so I've had a head 86 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 2: an inside word from one until of the fellows that 87 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: they've been have been called in, so they've been that've 88 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: made it so mate, I could give you one to 89 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 2: thirty names who deserve to be on that team because yeah, 90 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: like you go ten and zero be the best team. 91 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: Yeah all season you deserve to get a fuel and 92 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 2: so yeah we also to see how many we get. 93 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: But like I said, they fenw Fellaws that deserve it, So. 94 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, looking forward to catching that a little later today. 95 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 1: Enjoy the continued celebrations the perfect season. The Maids Cup 96 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: is mid Canterbury's Cup and in a big part thanks 97 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: to you head coach Matt Winter.