1 00:00:06,667 --> 00:00:10,387 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Fine 2 00:00:10,707 --> 00:00:12,067 Speaker 1: from Newstalks. 3 00:00:11,747 --> 00:00:15,587 Speaker 2: B James mcconey a massive part of our Sunday's alternative 4 00:00:15,587 --> 00:00:18,667 Speaker 2: commentary collective crowd goes wild all across your socials and 5 00:00:18,747 --> 00:00:19,387 Speaker 2: on our radio. 6 00:00:19,467 --> 00:00:20,347 Speaker 3: How are you mate? 7 00:00:21,027 --> 00:00:23,547 Speaker 4: I'm great, mate. And also I see Hamilton Boys High 8 00:00:23,587 --> 00:00:25,707 Speaker 4: as a big part of your Sunday Steven Alko, I 9 00:00:25,707 --> 00:00:27,947 Speaker 4: went to school with him. I hope you've got Scott 10 00:00:27,947 --> 00:00:29,227 Speaker 4: Styris stuff after. 11 00:00:28,987 --> 00:00:35,307 Speaker 2: The news to complete the holy trinity of Hamilton Boys High. 12 00:00:35,587 --> 00:00:38,467 Speaker 4: The best looking man out of Boys High, those three. 13 00:00:39,267 --> 00:00:42,667 Speaker 3: Macony, Elka and Styrus. Who would have thought? Who would 14 00:00:42,667 --> 00:00:44,787 Speaker 3: have thought? Hey? Did you enjoy the Derby yesterday? 15 00:00:45,827 --> 00:00:50,347 Speaker 4: I love the Derby, the biggest already the biggest domestic 16 00:00:50,387 --> 00:00:53,507 Speaker 4: event in New Zealand sport, right it's twenty six thousand. 17 00:00:54,667 --> 00:00:58,147 Speaker 4: The noise of fan Fair just the best atmosphere. I 18 00:00:58,187 --> 00:01:01,987 Speaker 4: actually caught the train with the yellow Fever, only three carriages, 19 00:01:02,027 --> 00:01:05,787 Speaker 4: though Auckland Transport or whoever we should help, could have 20 00:01:05,867 --> 00:01:09,067 Speaker 4: done with a you more. But even then they just 21 00:01:09,107 --> 00:01:13,347 Speaker 4: set the town. Great fan base from both both sides. 22 00:01:13,787 --> 00:01:16,747 Speaker 4: But I having said that the yellow fevers some of 23 00:01:16,787 --> 00:01:19,507 Speaker 4: their Andy Auckland songs were a little close to the bone. 24 00:01:19,547 --> 00:01:23,187 Speaker 4: For example, you're always stuck in traffic, You're always stuck 25 00:01:23,227 --> 00:01:25,067 Speaker 4: in traffic. That won't really hurt. 26 00:01:25,587 --> 00:01:28,787 Speaker 3: Well, it is accurate though, it's fact based, yeah it is. 27 00:01:28,867 --> 00:01:31,467 Speaker 4: But what a game though, piny oh. 28 00:01:31,467 --> 00:01:35,067 Speaker 2: A great game, a brilliant occasion. But on the grass, 29 00:01:35,187 --> 00:01:38,787 Speaker 2: you know, this rivalry is real. I thought Costa Barbarussis 30 00:01:39,467 --> 00:01:42,427 Speaker 2: has finish was was excellent. I still wonder about Auckland 31 00:01:42,467 --> 00:01:44,267 Speaker 2: and look, they won the game and absolutely deserve to 32 00:01:44,267 --> 00:01:45,787 Speaker 2: win the game, but an own goal and a goal 33 00:01:45,787 --> 00:01:48,587 Speaker 2: by Nander Pineker, a center back, they're not they have 34 00:01:48,667 --> 00:01:51,027 Speaker 2: they got the cutting edge up top that they'll be after. 35 00:01:52,187 --> 00:01:53,787 Speaker 4: That's the thing. I think they should have had more 36 00:01:53,787 --> 00:01:55,987 Speaker 4: shots on goal. They did boss the game Aukland FC. 37 00:01:56,187 --> 00:01:58,787 Speaker 4: So I think we can safely say the best team won. 38 00:01:58,867 --> 00:02:02,187 Speaker 4: But they'll be I'm sure Steve Carricter will be annoyed 39 00:02:02,627 --> 00:02:06,707 Speaker 4: with maybe just their hesitancy in front of goal. You know, 40 00:02:06,747 --> 00:02:09,027 Speaker 4: they just need to pull the trigger a bit quicker. 41 00:02:09,427 --> 00:02:12,267 Speaker 4: But there was also I mean it's pretty clear Heiroki Sakai, 42 00:02:12,387 --> 00:02:15,947 Speaker 4: the Auclan captain it right back, is probably the best 43 00:02:15,947 --> 00:02:17,987 Speaker 4: player in the A League. You know, he could still 44 00:02:18,027 --> 00:02:20,827 Speaker 4: play for any club in the world. Obviously played for Marseille. 45 00:02:21,267 --> 00:02:23,467 Speaker 4: But there was just some I mean, that own goal 46 00:02:23,627 --> 00:02:27,507 Speaker 4: was crazy. I mean, poor Isaac cues the perfect heater 47 00:02:27,587 --> 00:02:31,627 Speaker 4: into his own nets. But you could see with Krake. 48 00:02:31,707 --> 00:02:34,787 Speaker 4: He was on your show just before saying that they 49 00:02:34,987 --> 00:02:39,827 Speaker 4: used the chiefees comments as motivation, that they were lucky 50 00:02:39,907 --> 00:02:42,467 Speaker 4: with the drawer. You know, could see, and it just 51 00:02:42,547 --> 00:02:44,947 Speaker 4: shows that it's a real battle of the derby. It's 52 00:02:44,987 --> 00:02:47,107 Speaker 4: not like a normal game of football where you turn 53 00:02:47,227 --> 00:02:48,827 Speaker 4: up and just think, oh, this is going to be fun. 54 00:02:48,987 --> 00:02:51,747 Speaker 4: They really fired up, you know, it's like smelling salts 55 00:02:51,787 --> 00:02:53,627 Speaker 4: and UFC sort of preparation. 56 00:02:53,787 --> 00:02:54,387 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. 57 00:02:54,507 --> 00:02:54,907 Speaker 4: I love it. 58 00:02:55,227 --> 00:02:57,667 Speaker 2: It's already, it's already bubbling away. Can't wait for the 59 00:02:57,747 --> 00:03:03,027 Speaker 2: next one. In February, Chris Wood underrated, underappreciated. 60 00:03:03,107 --> 00:03:03,987 Speaker 3: I'm not sure that he is. 61 00:03:04,267 --> 00:03:06,947 Speaker 2: He I think we all appreciate, you know, how good 62 00:03:06,987 --> 00:03:10,787 Speaker 2: he is, but do we all like really grasp the 63 00:03:10,947 --> 00:03:14,307 Speaker 2: magnitude of what he is achieving at this later stage 64 00:03:14,347 --> 00:03:14,907 Speaker 2: of his career. 65 00:03:16,307 --> 00:03:18,267 Speaker 4: We probably don't understand how big a deal. I mean, 66 00:03:18,307 --> 00:03:23,427 Speaker 4: already double figures before Christmas, he's on target to get 67 00:03:23,507 --> 00:03:26,707 Speaker 4: twenty odd goals with season and challenge for the Golden Boot. 68 00:03:26,787 --> 00:03:30,947 Speaker 4: I mean, Chris Wood. It's the confidence really that he shows. 69 00:03:31,067 --> 00:03:33,747 Speaker 4: I think, you know, if you the faith that Nottingham 70 00:03:33,747 --> 00:03:36,747 Speaker 4: Forests have put in him by saying you're starting number nine, 71 00:03:36,827 --> 00:03:39,067 Speaker 4: he just keeps on repaying it. I mean, he didn't 72 00:03:39,067 --> 00:03:41,227 Speaker 4: score many goals at Newcastle because they just didn't rate 73 00:03:41,347 --> 00:03:43,547 Speaker 4: him the way that Forest does. And as soon as 74 00:03:43,587 --> 00:03:46,707 Speaker 4: they did that, not only is he transforming their team, 75 00:03:46,747 --> 00:03:49,667 Speaker 4: I think he's transforming the league and so they will 76 00:03:49,747 --> 00:03:54,427 Speaker 4: be looking to countries like New Zealand for a big striker. 77 00:03:54,467 --> 00:03:56,907 Speaker 4: They're not going to be that shy about. It's not 78 00:03:57,027 --> 00:03:59,947 Speaker 4: always going to be a little guy from Portugal. Okay, 79 00:04:00,587 --> 00:04:03,707 Speaker 4: that he is. He's changing the way that EPL teams 80 00:04:04,227 --> 00:04:06,307 Speaker 4: eye players and scout players. 81 00:04:06,667 --> 00:04:08,787 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a great point because you know, there's 82 00:04:08,867 --> 00:04:11,427 Speaker 2: there's more than one way to win a football match, 83 00:04:11,507 --> 00:04:15,467 Speaker 2: isn't there? And his way is as effective as as 84 00:04:15,507 --> 00:04:17,747 Speaker 2: any other one. Just bringing the table up now, Nottingham 85 00:04:17,787 --> 00:04:20,827 Speaker 2: Forest a fifth. You know, Manchester United are currently down 86 00:04:20,907 --> 00:04:24,987 Speaker 2: in thirteenth place. If you'd said, you know, after Forest play, 87 00:04:25,067 --> 00:04:26,387 Speaker 2: you know, if you said at the start of the season, 88 00:04:26,787 --> 00:04:29,227 Speaker 2: after Forest play United in early December, one of the 89 00:04:29,267 --> 00:04:31,187 Speaker 2: teams will be fifth and one will be thirteenth. You 90 00:04:31,267 --> 00:04:34,307 Speaker 2: know what most people would have said, Oh exactly. 91 00:04:34,467 --> 00:04:37,387 Speaker 4: And if you'd said that the top three goal scorers 92 00:04:37,507 --> 00:04:39,467 Speaker 4: just to go, say twenty years ago, and you'd said 93 00:04:39,507 --> 00:04:41,747 Speaker 4: the top three goal scorers of the Premier League are 94 00:04:41,827 --> 00:04:46,227 Speaker 4: going to be from Norway, Egypt and New Zealand, you 95 00:04:46,267 --> 00:04:49,507 Speaker 4: would have got laughed out of town. That football is changing. 96 00:04:49,587 --> 00:04:51,947 Speaker 4: It's very much a global game. And we're in the conversation. 97 00:04:52,627 --> 00:04:54,547 Speaker 3: I don't think were favorite to win the cricket. 98 00:04:56,107 --> 00:04:59,587 Speaker 4: Do you think are not hanging under hope? 99 00:04:59,707 --> 00:05:03,307 Speaker 2: There seventy seventy one for four, so we're almost under 100 00:05:03,347 --> 00:05:05,347 Speaker 2: the five hundred needed to I know we are under 101 00:05:05,387 --> 00:05:05,907 Speaker 2: the five hundred. 102 00:05:05,987 --> 00:05:08,227 Speaker 3: The targ it's five eighty three. So no, we're not. 103 00:05:08,267 --> 00:05:08,507 Speaker 3: We're not. 104 00:05:08,547 --> 00:05:10,187 Speaker 2: I'm trying to do my maths on the on the 105 00:05:10,267 --> 00:05:13,787 Speaker 2: hop here. Yeah, they're they're getting down to below five 106 00:05:13,907 --> 00:05:15,067 Speaker 2: hundred needed to win soon. 107 00:05:16,307 --> 00:05:18,547 Speaker 4: Well, it's appropriate they're playing at the basin because this 108 00:05:18,667 --> 00:05:22,707 Speaker 4: test series has gone Now mcgurglar, we can officially say 109 00:05:22,787 --> 00:05:27,147 Speaker 4: that or it's going down mcgurglar. It's a hangover after India. Really, 110 00:05:27,667 --> 00:05:29,907 Speaker 4: I think they've got some selections wrong. Piney. I think 111 00:05:29,947 --> 00:05:32,547 Speaker 4: Will Young should have been picked the head of Devin Conway. 112 00:05:32,587 --> 00:05:35,747 Speaker 4: I think we should have picked the spinner. Mitch Saner 113 00:05:35,867 --> 00:05:37,587 Speaker 4: was fit and I think they should have played him. 114 00:05:37,667 --> 00:05:41,587 Speaker 4: I mean, the picks won't help him as much as Mumbai, 115 00:05:41,867 --> 00:05:45,187 Speaker 4: but the guy's confidence has got to be sky high. 116 00:05:45,787 --> 00:05:47,747 Speaker 4: And I think when you show those guys a bit 117 00:05:47,867 --> 00:05:50,307 Speaker 4: like picking Chris Wood, when you show those guys that faith, 118 00:05:51,467 --> 00:05:54,067 Speaker 4: you know they'll often to repay you. So I look 119 00:05:54,107 --> 00:05:56,507 Speaker 4: at the conversely, look at the English selections. They choose 120 00:05:56,547 --> 00:05:59,227 Speaker 4: this guy Jacob Bethel hasn't scored a first class ton, 121 00:05:59,427 --> 00:06:02,587 Speaker 4: just missed out yesterday, so he's freeh you know, twenty 122 00:06:02,627 --> 00:06:06,667 Speaker 4: one years old. The spinner who's bowling right now. First 123 00:06:06,667 --> 00:06:10,787 Speaker 4: class they do for Somerset last year. So it's just 124 00:06:10,907 --> 00:06:14,347 Speaker 4: so much more bolden. Every single way tactic selections the works, 125 00:06:14,427 --> 00:06:17,467 Speaker 4: and of course Brendan mccullums behind a lot of them, 126 00:06:17,827 --> 00:06:18,507 Speaker 4: almost all. 127 00:06:18,347 --> 00:06:20,427 Speaker 2: Of that, and I just I wanted to mention him, 128 00:06:20,427 --> 00:06:23,307 Speaker 2: and I'm glad you have because Brendan McCullum during a 129 00:06:23,347 --> 00:06:25,627 Speaker 2: game of cricket, sits up on the balcony, doesn't have 130 00:06:25,707 --> 00:06:28,747 Speaker 2: an iPad, doesn't have a notebook, doesn't have a phone 131 00:06:28,787 --> 00:06:31,987 Speaker 2: out that I can see, just sits there and watches 132 00:06:32,067 --> 00:06:32,507 Speaker 2: the cricket. 133 00:06:33,267 --> 00:06:35,627 Speaker 3: And I'm sure there's more too of than Nan. In fact, 134 00:06:35,667 --> 00:06:36,867 Speaker 3: of course we know that there is. 135 00:06:37,027 --> 00:06:40,867 Speaker 2: But whatever it is, whatever the secret sources that he's 136 00:06:40,907 --> 00:06:43,427 Speaker 2: brought to this England team, I mean, wouldn't it be 137 00:06:43,547 --> 00:06:44,787 Speaker 2: great if we had a bit of that. 138 00:06:45,987 --> 00:06:48,667 Speaker 4: Yeah, we do need to think about I think the 139 00:06:48,947 --> 00:06:51,907 Speaker 4: leadership and direction of the team. And let's wait, you know, 140 00:06:51,947 --> 00:06:55,627 Speaker 4: I mean they obviously deserve a chance to redeem themselves. 141 00:06:55,667 --> 00:06:59,467 Speaker 4: The Third Test is not too far away, so I 142 00:06:59,627 --> 00:07:02,747 Speaker 4: just want to see that they can perform and maybe 143 00:07:02,867 --> 00:07:05,827 Speaker 4: recapture some of that mojo they had in India. Came 144 00:07:05,867 --> 00:07:07,587 Speaker 4: Williams and was looking good there for a while, and 145 00:07:07,667 --> 00:07:10,427 Speaker 4: he just went past nine thousand runs and he will 146 00:07:10,507 --> 00:07:12,547 Speaker 4: want to get to ten thousand. So I think we've 147 00:07:12,587 --> 00:07:15,587 Speaker 4: got him for at least another calendar year, because even 148 00:07:15,627 --> 00:07:17,467 Speaker 4: though he's quite low tea and will say, oh, you know, 149 00:07:17,507 --> 00:07:19,867 Speaker 4: I don't care about stats. As soon as a player 150 00:07:19,947 --> 00:07:22,667 Speaker 4: retires and writes a book, it's all about the stats. 151 00:07:23,227 --> 00:07:24,987 Speaker 4: You know, you read it, and it's all they ever 152 00:07:25,067 --> 00:07:27,347 Speaker 4: think about. They just learned to lie to us in 153 00:07:27,427 --> 00:07:30,907 Speaker 4: the media during their career and that's impressive in itself really. 154 00:07:31,987 --> 00:07:34,987 Speaker 2: And just before you go, what's there going to be 155 00:07:35,067 --> 00:07:38,267 Speaker 2: a Raygun musical? Raygun The Breakdowns are from Paris? 156 00:07:39,027 --> 00:07:40,907 Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's been shut down. So if you're buying 157 00:07:40,947 --> 00:07:44,827 Speaker 4: your tickets to Raygun the musical in Sydney, the performer 158 00:07:44,907 --> 00:07:48,987 Speaker 4: who was going to stage it has been slapped with 159 00:07:49,547 --> 00:07:52,747 Speaker 4: an injunction from Raygun's lawyers threatening to sue. So they've 160 00:07:52,827 --> 00:07:56,467 Speaker 4: shut down the show. And so even though Reagun is hilarious, 161 00:07:56,747 --> 00:07:59,787 Speaker 4: she's not laughing, is she. So she wants to take 162 00:07:59,827 --> 00:08:02,427 Speaker 4: him very seriously. And that's why painting. I think you 163 00:08:02,547 --> 00:08:04,987 Speaker 4: and I can help here, and we can make it 164 00:08:05,107 --> 00:08:10,107 Speaker 4: happen at the next Kiwi Derby at halftime Raygun versus Raiser, 165 00:08:10,507 --> 00:08:14,067 Speaker 4: the breakdown speedtal that everybody wants to see. Get Ali 166 00:08:14,147 --> 00:08:16,467 Speaker 4: Williams and the Mowbrays on the phone. 167 00:08:17,347 --> 00:08:19,907 Speaker 3: Let's do this, ray Gun versus Razor. 168 00:08:20,147 --> 00:08:22,667 Speaker 2: I never thought it would be a sentence I'd say, 169 00:08:22,747 --> 00:08:24,467 Speaker 2: but if anyone was going to say it, it was you. 170 00:08:24,867 --> 00:08:28,307 Speaker 3: James always loved chatting mate. Let's do it again next week. 171 00:08:29,067 --> 00:08:30,907 Speaker 4: Jeers mate, see your pony, see you, James. 172 00:08:30,987 --> 00:08:33,187 Speaker 2: James mcconey that part of our Sunday's big, part of 173 00:08:33,187 --> 00:08:34,547 Speaker 2: our Sunday is a popular part. 174 00:08:35,387 --> 00:08:38,547 Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine. Listen live 175 00:08:38,667 --> 00:08:41,947 Speaker 1: to News Talk set B weekends from midday, or follow 176 00:08:41,987 --> 00:08:43,547 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio