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Speaker 3: It is a Tuesday, the twenty fifth of February twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, and coming up on today's Fix podcast, I
Speaker 3: catch up with Scott Dixon, six times IndyCar champion. He's
Speaker 3: one at Indianapolis as well. Season gets underway next Monday,
Speaker 3: New Zealand Times. We'll chat with Scott about what that means,
Speaker 3: what's changing. You've been here? How long, bro, it's been ages.
Speaker 3: I've got some opinions on the black Caps and where
Speaker 3: they go now now that they have qualify five of
Speaker 3: the semi finals of the Champions Trophy. Joining me in
Speaker 3: the chamber to juggle some of the big sports stories
Speaker 3: of the day. Rugby writer, voice of Rugby Newstalk zb
Speaker 3: sport journo Elliott Smith, Right, you know what's happening, so
Speaker 3: let's do it in other news time for some short
Speaker 3: sports thoughts from the mouths. The news made is the
Speaker 3: black Caps and swatted the Bunglan dish. He's away with
Speaker 3: a five wicket win in the Champions Trophy to Avendra
Speaker 3: again issued a statement about his enormous ability scoring yet
Speaker 3: another One day International ton John Latham, who has turned
Speaker 3: his own form around with his third healthy scor in
Speaker 3: three games. It's another fifty. He shared a key partnership
Speaker 3: of one hundred and twenty nine with Rutchen. He had
Speaker 3: a great view the.
Speaker 4: Way he came in with us under a little bit
Speaker 4: of pressure as well as into really wickets and I
Speaker 4: guess there for him to absorb a little bit of
Speaker 4: pressure and then and then put the pressure back on
Speaker 4: them just shows their head on his shoulders to I
Speaker 4: guess to not play for a couple of weeks and
Speaker 4: then come out and play on things like that was
Speaker 4: he was outstanding explosive.
Speaker 3: Joseph Jurassic Parker picks the Boggie man and fight them
Speaker 3: in Saudi Arabia. But even that power laden Ko in
Speaker 3: the second round isn't enough to cement him a heavyweight
Speaker 3: title shot yet, maybe another long wait for Joe manage
Speaker 3: it day Higgins.
Speaker 5: If dub who sick happens, there'll be a unified champion
Speaker 5: and then Joseph can have a crack about unified.
Speaker 6: Champion towards the end of the year.
Speaker 5: Perhaps, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see
Speaker 5: Joseph Parker have a doll at unifying, maybe unify towards
Speaker 5: the end of the year.
Speaker 3: And Warriors wingman Dulnwatona's leisni Ark is out for a
Speaker 3: bunch of time. Dyln, what's the skinny with your busted
Speaker 3: up wrist, bro.
Speaker 7: Depending what the stairs is, if it's healing, or I
Speaker 7: could start progressing getting my strength back in my arm,
Speaker 7: because I'm gonna cast at the moment.
Speaker 6: You lose a lot of muscle and a lot of
Speaker 6: your strength in man and they'bility in the rest.
Speaker 5: If you're goes well at the bus, I've hit all
Speaker 5: that back, then I see I get back over the field.
Speaker 3: And as you know, the sooner the better, are all concerned.
Speaker 3: So there are your daily sports short thoughts. If you
Speaker 3: will you.
Speaker 2: Scandian it's Forcefix with Dancy Waldegrave.
Speaker 3: And the black Caps have done it again. No, they
Speaker 3: haven't won anything yet, Bert, Let's face it. They are
Speaker 3: now in dare I say, the box seat and the
Speaker 3: champions trophy. They beat Pakistan, who are hosting the tournament
Speaker 3: first up, no mean feat. Although well prepared in the
Speaker 3: build up to that particular game. Last night they beat
Speaker 3: up Bangladesh. They did it by five wickets, reasonably comfortably. This,
Speaker 3: of course, is after there were some struggles came. Williamson
Speaker 3: didn't score any run, will Young didn't score any runs,
Speaker 3: maybe wabbling a wee bit. But then Tom Latham, who's
Speaker 3: had a stunning last couple of One Day Internationals, and
Speaker 3: Rutchen Ravendra back from that head knock, joined together in
Speaker 3: a century plus stand save the day. And therefore the
Speaker 3: black Caps have gone straight through to semifinals. Remember they've
Speaker 3: still got India to play before that, but that game
Speaker 3: carries no weight as the semi finalists have already been found. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's going to come down to who they play in
Speaker 3: the semis or who they play in the finals. But
Speaker 3: quite frankly, this team has to beat them all in
Speaker 3: order to call themselves the ICC Champions Trophy champion. They've
Speaker 3: done it once before. It was a long, long time ago,
Speaker 3: a quarter of a century ago. Since then, she's been skinny,
Speaker 3: got to a number of finals of recent times, but
Speaker 3: still haven't done enough to get it over the line.
Speaker 3: I've said a few years ago they used to get
Speaker 3: to semis and not quite get it through. Now they
Speaker 3: get to finals and don't quite get it through the
Speaker 3: way things were in stages, I'd suggest now this team
Speaker 3: is at the situation where they get into semifinals, then
Speaker 3: into finals and then win those finals. It's a new
Speaker 3: look team. It's got some new guys, but it's been
Speaker 3: held together by some seasoned professionals. It could be our
Speaker 3: time and let's face it, home away from home, that
Speaker 3: is the sub Continent. I'd suggest New Zealand spend more
Speaker 3: time on pitchers and outfields in the subcontinent than they
Speaker 3: do here at home. Advantage US. It's getting.
Speaker 2: Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Dancy Waldegrave.
Speaker 3: And it's a warm welcome to the Sports Fix podcast
Speaker 3: to six times IndyCar champion in the five hundred winner
Speaker 3: mister Scott Dixon. Gooday, Scott how are you.
Speaker 6: I'm doing good man good excited for the new season
Speaker 6: to kick off.
Speaker 3: Good to hear, always excited. It doesn't matter how many
Speaker 3: times you do this. What is it about?
Speaker 6: Well, I think it's the long off seasons.
Speaker 7: But you know, luckily I'm able to do a bit
Speaker 7: and so racing as well in sports car stuff with
Speaker 7: Daytona and then prepping for for Seabring twelve hour here recently.
Speaker 7: So yeah, the off season this year was pretty quiet
Speaker 7: on the anycar front, with no real testing, kind of
Speaker 7: had one day at Seabring before we kick off this week.
Speaker 7: So yeah, last year we had quite a bit just
Speaker 7: due to the fact of the hybrid testing.
Speaker 6: And all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7: So yeah, there's been a lot of drivers sitting around
Speaker 7: for a little while, so it's good to get going here.
Speaker 3: What's new this year, if anything at all when it
Speaker 3: comes to the season and it comes to the series,
Speaker 3: when it comes to the car, when it comes to
Speaker 3: the team.
Speaker 7: So quite a few changes, mostly on the team front.
Speaker 7: We went from five cars back down to three, which
Speaker 7: I think is a great move. They've done a new
Speaker 7: engineering alliance deal with my Shank Racing, which they previously
Speaker 7: had been with Andretti, so it's kind of five cars.
Speaker 7: You know, Armstrong is still teammate, he's you know kind
Speaker 7: of leased out or used out t Shank my shank racing.
Speaker 7: And then obviously you know, being back with an ex teammate,
Speaker 7: Felix rosen Quest, so you know, it's quite a great combo.
Speaker 6: I think on the car side there's not too much.
Speaker 7: I think energy levels change a little bit on the hybrid,
Speaker 7: you know, just more usage. I think per lap is
Speaker 7: kind of one of the key differences. And then some
Speaker 7: bigger differences on the tire front. I think between the
Speaker 7: you know, the the black or you know standard tire
Speaker 7: to the option tire, which I think is green or
Speaker 7: red this year will have a bigger difference, so you know,
Speaker 7: the softer tire will degrade a little bit more, but
Speaker 7: have you know, kind of a higher peak speed. And
Speaker 7: then for the series, you know, a new new deal
Speaker 7: with the broadcaster with Fox, which has been fantastic advertising
Speaker 7: and all the stuff at the Super Bowl and you know,
Speaker 7: they've been really knocking out of the park. So you know,
Speaker 7: all of the races in America will be on live TV,
Speaker 7: which is great. Hasn't been like that for quite a
Speaker 7: few years, so that's a big push forward.
Speaker 6: I think definitely for the sport, a bit.
Speaker 3: More pressure on you and the team to make sure
Speaker 3: you put on a good display.
Speaker 6: That pressure is a waste man.
Speaker 7: Pressure is a privilege, and you know, for us it's
Speaker 7: just you know, it's always the same mindset, right, You're
Speaker 7: just going out there to try and win each race
Speaker 7: and that will still obviously with the first one this weekend,
Speaker 7: but no different on that front.
Speaker 3: Him As far as picking up what last year if
Speaker 3: you had a big off season, we had plenty of
Speaker 3: time to think. I'm sure what was the main takeaway
Speaker 3: from twenty twenty forty I think for you and Chip
Speaker 3: Ganassi raising.
Speaker 6: Yeah, frustration.
Speaker 7: I think on the nine car side, you know, it
Speaker 7: was still another great year for the ten obviously going
Speaker 7: back to back championships, so you know, a championship year
Speaker 7: for the team again, which was fantastic. You know, Alex
Speaker 7: and the ten Card group did a phenomenal job. You
Speaker 7: know for us, we led kind of the first half
Speaker 7: of the season and then you know, we just had
Speaker 7: issue after issue with tire failure and then a hybrid failure,
Speaker 7: and you know, then got crashed out a couple of
Speaker 7: races and as soon as you get knocked out of
Speaker 7: one or two man, you're really out of the running.
Speaker 7: And you know, the ten cards that are a fantastic
Speaker 7: job of having rough weekends and still turning them into
Speaker 7: two great points point stays. So, you know, for us,
Speaker 7: I think the performance was there. We had some great races,
Speaker 7: obviously a couple of wins. The wind count for a
Speaker 7: lot of people, it was kind of spread. Last year,
Speaker 7: you know, for Alex only two race winds but still
Speaker 7: won the championship. We had two race wins, but just
Speaker 7: didn't really capitalize on the low points. But yeah, I
Speaker 7: think for us, you know, definitely a rebuilding off season
Speaker 7: and just making sure that we cover you know, all
Speaker 7: avenues and making sure that you know, we get the
Speaker 7: most out of each session and each race. And you know,
Speaker 7: you only need to average kind of a fourth, fifth
Speaker 7: or six finishing position to win the championship, So you know,
Speaker 7: you've got to make the most out of the bad days.
Speaker 3: What are you coming up quarter of a century racing?
Speaker 3: This has it got an hard or easier as far
Speaker 3: as what happens in the cock pit, not the racing itself.
Speaker 3: How do you think it's developed as a series.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it kind of you know, it's it's
Speaker 7: a bit of a rollercoaster. I think some years are
Speaker 7: easier than others, you know, championship years where you've really
Speaker 7: been on a roll. It's not like you do anything different,
Speaker 7: it's just sometimes it kind of rolls with you. So,
Speaker 7: you know, I think the details, it's always been about
Speaker 7: the details. But I think more teams. You know, there
Speaker 7: are no small teams now, so you know, I think
Speaker 7: you've you've really got the capability from just about everybody
Speaker 7: on the grid that's going to have a shot at winnings.
Speaker 7: So you know, the competition level is much more stout.
Speaker 7: You know, the first championship I won back in two
Speaker 7: thousand and three, you know, I think I dnf five
Speaker 7: or six races.
Speaker 6: You know, you wouldn't even be in the play.
Speaker 7: But that was just because reliability was you know, wasn't on,
Speaker 7: wasn't the forefront then, whereas you know, you now have
Speaker 7: some drivers completing you know, every lap of the season,
Speaker 7: which you know that's what you've got to really do
Speaker 7: to make sure that you're in the running for the championship.
Speaker 3: What about the way skid that you have apparently minor
Speaker 3: re damage. You weren't hurt, but a bit of a
Speaker 3: shake up. Oh the tests. Yeah, the test was like
Speaker 3: the way you've completely forgotten about it already.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you move on. The test was a bit rof.
Speaker 7: We actually blew the engine on the first lap, which
Speaker 7: took us out of running for the first day. And
Speaker 7: that's one of your four engines that you get for
Speaker 7: the season, so at some point we'll get a penalty
Speaker 7: for that, which was definitely frustrating.
Speaker 6: And then yeah, had a locked rear with.
Speaker 7: The increased hybrid, you know, toll on the real axle
Speaker 7: rear axle, and then kind of got in the grass
Speaker 7: a bit and just tapped the wall which bent the
Speaker 7: upper wishbone. But you know, we were out kind of
Speaker 7: thirty minutes later. It was nothing too crazy, but yeah,
Speaker 7: you know those are those are some of the things
Speaker 7: when you're pushing hard that happened.
Speaker 3: I suppose it gives you a distinct reminder of the
Speaker 3: extraordinarily fine lines that you guys ride every time. We're
Speaker 3: talking millimeters. At some stage that'll just I suppose of anything.
Speaker 3: Not a shakeout, but you look at this and go, yep,
Speaker 3: we're right on the edge here. I can't forget that
Speaker 3: because you're a reminder, isn't it, Scott, Yeah.
Speaker 6: It does.
Speaker 7: You know, you've got to maximize everything and finding the limits,
Speaker 7: you know, is definitely a big point to that. So
Speaker 7: you know, sometimes you cross over it and kind of
Speaker 7: have a bit of a reset and get after it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, you're always pushing to the maximuman.
Speaker 3: Unlike Formula One, very very close and I think that's
Speaker 3: part of the magic of the IndyCar series of all
Speaker 3: the vehicles all pretty similar really, and the quality of
Speaker 3: the drivers. I member a couple of years ago, she
Speaker 3: was a bit rookie thick and got a bit wee
Speaker 3: bit reckless. Do you think the closeness of the competition
Speaker 3: last year and the quality of other people on the
Speaker 3: track is improved? You think it's going to be a
Speaker 3: better season when it comes to that.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 7: You know, again, I think you've kind of lost you know,
Speaker 7: the seasons of you know, there might have been some
Speaker 7: years where there was really only you know, ten to
Speaker 7: fifteen really compared cars. I think at the front and
Speaker 7: the point end of the field that's never really changed,
Speaker 7: you know, It's it's always been super intense, you know,
Speaker 7: I think it's just the depth of the field now
Speaker 7: is as drastically increased. You know, a lot of the
Speaker 7: tracks will be at capacity now. You know, some cars
Speaker 7: may have to go home if they're not part of
Speaker 7: the leader circle or you know, part of you know,
Speaker 7: the charter program. So you know, I think the series
Speaker 7: is really healthy at the moment. I think this year
Speaker 7: with the with the Fox Steel will really build on that,
Speaker 7: you know. So it's it's definitely the depth. As I
Speaker 7: keep saying, there are really no small teams anymore. Each
Speaker 7: team functions extremely well. They're well budgeted and you know
Speaker 7: they have a great team drive a combo that you know,
Speaker 7: the depth is pretty intense.
Speaker 3: The most important thing for you is what happens coming
Speaker 3: up this week came back to Saint Petersburg. Is there
Speaker 3: a bit of comfort around that track that you've moted
Speaker 3: on so many times?
Speaker 7: Definitely, you know, I think it's one of the best
Speaker 7: IndyCar events we have on the on the calendar. You know,
Speaker 7: Saint Pete and that town really embraced the race, which
Speaker 7: is you know, half of the battle sometimes you know,
Speaker 7: but it's had a great longevity so far. It's one
Speaker 7: of the biggest and best races that we have much
Speaker 7: you know, similar to you know Long Beach or the
Speaker 7: Indy five hundred or you know some like that. So
Speaker 7: you know, it's it's a fun track. It's probably the
Speaker 7: best place you can kick off the season. And you
Speaker 7: know we've had some fantastic results. I think I've been
Speaker 7: you know, second there five times and on the podium
Speaker 7: many a times, but never actually won it. So you know,
Speaker 7: trying to fight for that first one at Saint Pete.
Speaker 3: Scott, go well, drive fast, mate, Tore. We keep it
Speaker 3: on the black stuff, keep it safe at all times
Speaker 3: and wave that New Zealand flag one of a handful
Speaker 3: and IndyCar will be written for you all the way.
Speaker 3: Mister Dixon. Let's get rid of those five brides made
Speaker 3: at Saint Pete's this weekend. We'll be there.
Speaker 6: Thanks for your time, mate, much appreciated man. Thanks.
Speaker 2: The chamber is now incision on Sports Fix and we
Speaker 2: swung open the chamber door and we welcome and news talk,
Speaker 2: said Bee's rugby man.
Speaker 3: His name is Elliot Smith. Elliott, welcome on and I
Speaker 3: trust you well and I'm still amping over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Super rugby, huh, Super rugby has been made great again.
Speaker 8: It is back and it is compelling viewing, which is
Speaker 8: exactly what we wanted because we talked all pre season
Speaker 8: about how you know this competition is adding new things.
Speaker 1: Well, the Rugby's delivering on the park.
Speaker 3: Super duper Rugby you can call it. Now we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about that. We'll talk about some other stories
Speaker 3: out there. So short thoughts if you will. Elliott Smith
Speaker 3: joins us in the chamber. Now, Elliott Smith, News talk,
Speaker 3: zeb reporter, podcaster, herald writer. The list goes on, You're
Speaker 3: a very accommodating man, You're very busy, so thanks for
Speaker 3: taking a couple of minutes to join us in the chamber.
Speaker 1: Elliott, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3: Right. So today this story comes out around Design, the
Speaker 3: massive streaming service predominantly known for their boxing coverage, but
Speaker 3: they are trying to spread might be in talk with
Speaker 3: in Zea to pick up the rugby coverage. Suddenly Sky
Speaker 3: going oh.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well this is this is big look New Zealand
Speaker 8: Rugby talking to Dezonne. Sky haven't been able to come
Speaker 8: to a deal with New Zealand Rugby. We understand that
Speaker 8: they've put in less money across the table than they
Speaker 8: did in the last cycle that is about to end
Speaker 8: at the end of this year. So New Zealand Rugby
Speaker 8: have gone to Design or vice versa and having a
Speaker 8: bit of a conversation. Now there is no bids on
Speaker 8: the table as it stands from the zone to say
Speaker 8: that we are going to make an offer here, but
Speaker 8: it does represent a conversation that they're not happy with
Speaker 8: the amount of money that Sky is putting across the
Speaker 8: table and saying this is what we're prepared to pay
Speaker 8: for the next few years. Whether it's a bargaining tactic
Speaker 8: and negotiation tactic from New Zealand Rugby to drive up Sky, yeah,
Speaker 8: or whether they are interested in having designe in the
Speaker 8: market is fascinating design. You know, you're right that they've
Speaker 8: had a boxing foothold around the world. They have the
Speaker 8: Champions League here in New Zealand, but they don't really
Speaker 8: have much of a foothold. If they were wanting to
Speaker 8: get a foothold in New Zealand, you get the All
Speaker 8: Blacks and you get New Zealand Rugby boy so.
Speaker 3: Globally as well, wouldn't it. It will work through. Rights
Speaker 3: coming through depend.
Speaker 8: On the structure of the of the deal and you know,
Speaker 8: if they could do a global deal and say all
Speaker 8: the rugby there, but there are sort of fish shocks
Speaker 8: around it because Australia sales their own rights for rugby,
Speaker 8: so they only have certain things to sell. But it
Speaker 8: would open up a relationship between the SO and to
Speaker 8: an extent, to me, it's almost surprising that this has
Speaker 8: been the first talk of a streamer having genuine interest
Speaker 8: because there are so many of them out there now,
Speaker 8: you know, you look at Disney Plus for example, Amazon Prime,
Speaker 8: others that have NFL SO and Boxing as you point out,
Speaker 8: so to an extent, it's almost surprising that this is
Speaker 8: the real first confirmation that Dezone or a streamer is
Speaker 8: interested in having the rights. And it's almost at the
Speaker 8: eleventh hour because you look at the cricket deal which
Speaker 8: was announced last Friday that starts at the end of
Speaker 8: twenty twenty six twenty seven summer New Zealand and Rugby's
Speaker 8: current deal ends at the end of this year, so
Speaker 8: starting February twenty twenty six for the new Super ab
Speaker 8: season and beyond, they're still trying to piece it together.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter who approach too, I think it does.
Speaker 8: Actually, I think if New Zealand rugby approach to dezone.
Speaker 3: And real power players that's going.
Speaker 8: Actually, we're not happy with the amount of money that
Speaker 8: Sky's said that they're willing to pay for our content
Speaker 8: if the zone came in ago they're probably just maybe
Speaker 8: just testing the water a little bit, but would have
Speaker 8: genuine interest. I spoke to Design's VP of Global Marketing
Speaker 8: on Weekend Sport a couple of weeks ago, and they
Speaker 8: have big plans for Australia and New Zealand. They're about
Speaker 8: to buy Foxtail and Australia, it's going through the red
Speaker 8: tape and regulatory process over there. The question would be
Speaker 8: do you get a foothold in New Zealand by buying
Speaker 8: the all Blacks rights or do you get a foothold
Speaker 8: by doing similar to what you've done in Australia and
Speaker 8: buying Sky like they had with Foxtel. What's the easier
Speaker 8: path to taking up residents in New Zealand And that's
Speaker 8: a question that Greg has posted in this column as well.
Speaker 8: Better Would they be better off buying Sky and having
Speaker 8: the sports rights that come and tail it, And assuming
Speaker 8: you have a New Zealand rugby rights agreement with Sky,
Speaker 8: you get that as part of the package.
Speaker 3: Well it's out of the say satellite TV, do they
Speaker 3: put everything.
Speaker 8: Out that's a Well in Australia, they're gonna have to
Speaker 8: figure out that because we've got foxtail boxes right across
Speaker 8: Australia that are still being used. Same situation with be
Speaker 8: in New Zealand. You've got skyboxes that are still being
Speaker 8: used here in New Zealand that people haven't moved to streaming.
Speaker 8: So it wouldn't be foreign territory necessarily that they move
Speaker 8: away from their entire streaming product, but it's something they're
Speaker 8: going to have to get their heads around.
Speaker 3: The ever shifting sands of sport coverage. The Crickets overnight
Speaker 3: dismissed Bangladesh. They were in a bit of a dodgy
Speaker 3: situation for a while, didn't panic carried on so real
Speaker 3: deal Now after what they've been up to in the
Speaker 3: last couple of games.
Speaker 8: Well I think they've got to be considered as real
Speaker 8: contenders for this tournament now on the basis of what
Speaker 8: we've seen. The Try series is one thing, but to
Speaker 8: come in and do it in an ICC tournament and
Speaker 8: play like they have against Pakistan and then Bangladesh overnight and.
Speaker 3: Well it's the key against Pakistan at home and that
Speaker 3: really set it all up. So we're not backing up
Speaker 3: for anyone, Nope.
Speaker 1: And you know performances from players.
Speaker 8: You know Michael Brace, well he didn't have it go
Speaker 8: his way in the first game, but comes back in
Speaker 8: the second game. Okay, Kane Williamson has failed twice in
Speaker 8: a row, but that doesn't seem to have mattered. Darren
Speaker 8: Mitchell was out with sickness overnight as well. Russian Ravendra
Speaker 8: comes in at four and then scores his fourth ICC
Speaker 8: tournament century. There are players standing up and it's not
Speaker 8: the same ones every game. It's not like you're relying
Speaker 8: on Caine Williamson to do the job. You've got Russian
Speaker 8: Revengder stand again. Michael Bracew with the ball. Tom Latham's
Speaker 8: come into a nice vein of form and recent type.
Speaker 3: Three consecutive ducks and he hits a fitty a ton
Speaker 3: on a thirty. That's a good way to bounce back that.
Speaker 3: He loves that part of the world. When you talk
Speaker 3: about subcontinental cricket, if there's a team more adept at
Speaker 3: dealing with that outside of the subcontinental teams it's New Zealand.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, because we travel there so often. It's a lot
Speaker 8: of cricket over there, because we tend to agree to play,
Speaker 8: you know, those games because you know, they they give
Speaker 8: us money and you know, and we're not necessary to pushover.
Speaker 8: But it's good financial sense for New Zealand to play
Speaker 8: those games. So they're certainly helping in this tournament. And
Speaker 8: in the great position for the black Caps is that
Speaker 8: they can go into a game against India and knowing
Speaker 8: it's not a must win and you know, it used
Speaker 8: to affect the seeding in their pool and where they
Speaker 8: go to for the semi finals. But the fact of
Speaker 8: the matter is they don't need to worry about winning it,
Speaker 8: and that is a good position for the black Caps
Speaker 8: to be in.
Speaker 3: I don't know where it stands right now until the
Speaker 3: other group games are out, but I suppose I dearly
Speaker 3: they don't want to play India in a semi final,
Speaker 3: do they? Although probably not afraid. I'd say the Indians
Speaker 3: to be more freaked out than anyone right essentially.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and look, you know Australia has had that big
Speaker 8: run chase against England the other night as well, so
Speaker 8: they'll be contenders as well. But I think it works
Speaker 8: out that they could take India in the final. You
Speaker 8: know that's probably you know, we live in Indian Cricket's head,
Speaker 8: rent free, so bring it on.
Speaker 3: And it's more than a monkey on the back when
Speaker 3: it comes to winning these short form tournaments. It's a
Speaker 3: troop of the boons. It's so big and that's got
Speaker 3: to affect these guys so close but so far away
Speaker 3: for so long World Test Championship to one size.
Speaker 8: Twenty five years since the ICC knockout in Nairobi, and
Speaker 8: you know, maybe twenty five years on, there's something in
Speaker 8: the stars and it might be the new generations turned
Speaker 8: to finally lift that silverware.
Speaker 3: Well we know how to do it in the subcontinent,
Speaker 3: no doubt. Alie Smith joining us in the chamber. So
Speaker 3: Joseph Parker is he sat for another long long wait.
Speaker 8: This must be so frustrating for Joseph Parker. It's been
Speaker 8: a frustrating week. I mean he's done his part held
Speaker 8: up as part of the bargain. He's you know, actually
Speaker 8: entered the ring for the fight. So that's more than
Speaker 8: Daniel Dubai.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 8: He knocked out Bikoley with absolute ease, didn't get the
Speaker 8: title fight that he was expecting to get, and now
Speaker 8: he has to sit on his chaff waiting for the
Speaker 8: world boxing power brokers to figure out exactly how it's
Speaker 8: going to play out. Now. Dubois and Usik has been
Speaker 8: talked about obviously as a as a fire that's being
Speaker 8: lined up. So the frustrating thing for Joseph Parker, and
Speaker 8: I've read some of the comments that he's made to
Speaker 8: our colleague Liam Napier and David Higgins as well as
Speaker 8: that they've obviously got no real saying this. They just
Speaker 8: have to basically cop whatever they're served up by the
Speaker 8: people in world boxing. Hope for a title fight because
Speaker 8: that's what they were supposed to get on the weekend,
Speaker 8: but it may pan out that they may be waiting
Speaker 8: a year, eighteen months aronother one. And you know the
Speaker 8: kind of form that Parker is in, it has been
Speaker 8: a wonderful renaissance in his career because you know, he
Speaker 8: had been fading out of his career.
Speaker 3: To that again called a journeyman, didn't he Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's got a sting.
Speaker 8: But he's come back with a second wind that I
Speaker 8: don't think anyone expected I certainly didn't, you know. I
Speaker 8: was looking at them going, you know, maybe it's time
Speaker 8: just to give up the dream of being the world
Speaker 8: heavyweight champion. But the second one that he's having is
Speaker 8: superbse so you just hope he's rewarded with the chance
Speaker 8: that he deserves and that is a world title fight.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: Well, Chris Ratto wrote in The Herold and of course
Speaker 3: I don't write Sir Rugby and the Herald as well,
Speaker 3: and you said, look now, wonder people are walking away
Speaker 3: from boxing because you look at the UC and the
Speaker 3: way fights are made. It's a lot more transparent, it's instant,
Speaker 3: whereas boxing is just a mess.
Speaker 8: We can't run. In the UFC, you if there is
Speaker 8: a fight that is to be made, it will happen.
Speaker 8: And that's the thing to admire about the UFC is
Speaker 8: that it will be scheduled at some point, whether it's
Speaker 8: down the track whatever. To say what you're like about
Speaker 8: the UFC, They make those big fights happen. Boxing is
Speaker 8: not at that point, and you know, it's it's shambles
Speaker 8: to put it mildly, and you've just got you know,
Speaker 8: as is it if you jokes A Parker and David Higgins.
Speaker 8: You've just basically got to wait for that phone called and.
Speaker 3: You go to wait to Thesaudi Royal Familist roll and
Speaker 3: go all right like we did last time. Everyone sitting
Speaker 3: the door, here's the money. Shut up, you fight you,
Speaker 3: you fight U f time be done and on that
Speaker 3: Elliott Smith out the chamber.
Speaker 2: You go.
Speaker 1: How do I go?
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