WEBVTT - "The Road To The WTC" 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.200 Live from the Export Beer Gaden Studio and brought to 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.240 you was always by Export Ultra of the beer for here. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.320 This is the Agenda Podcast for Tuesday, the third of December. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.160 The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting Nonsense and clap 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.400 Trap brought to you my next sport Ultra A. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.279 Couple of points to get to to pull you behind 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.759 the curtain to start the podcast. We gave the you 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:22.040 to it. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.200 Oh, I know, but you did. I gave the you away. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.600 I passed. I handed him over the keys. He's a 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.640 great New Zealander though, drove down from Fay pick it 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.680 up from Auckland. He had one of the most magnificent 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.960 shampooed mullets. You know. It's one of those ones that's 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.519 long and luscious and yeah, ads is a beautiful thing. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.479 And I felt like the ninety eight Ford Falcon you 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:47.440 has gone to a better place. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.800 At win cheap wind cheap, it went for about twelve grand. Yeah, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.600 and I know that someone's going to listen to this 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.520 and go O would have paid more than that for that. Well, 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.600 you had your chance, we told you all about it. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.960 Handed him over is five grands worth of goodies. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:00:59.960 Oh my god. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.480 He was stoked the fact that I was dressed up 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.200 he had to toe like Broke Back Mountain put him 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.400 off a little bit. Yeah, because we had a photo 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:08.840 shoot for something we're going to have to reveal in 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.440 twenty five Yes, evolving cowboys, Yes, which I think the 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.040 listeners will be pretty excited about. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:15.400 Yes. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.479 So yeah, it's a little that's what you call tease. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.080 Yeah till next year. Yeah, but no, it was it 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.680 was the money went directly into the November all, every 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.200 last cent of it. We didn't even see the money. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:30.720 We just gave them the November account. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.360 That was a taxi shoe. Yeah, it was dexter shoe. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.400 We didn't want to skim any of the top. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.319 No, we didn't want to be accused of anything. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:38.679 No. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.240 I went straight in there and yet farewell, you were 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.959 you've gone through in your first stage of grief? 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.880 What's on denial? Yeah? Then anger? Yeah? No no, no, yeah, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.320 I've been through denial then anger. Then what's what's the next? 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.760 Your resentment as well? You're quite resent You're quite resentful. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.040 You were like, do you want to come and give 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.480 this sayhi, argument enough, I hate the car, I hate him. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.480 Stages of grief. I'll look them up there. Shive denial. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.600 That was the first one. I went straight into. Denial 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.960 was like we came out of the meeting where I said, well, look, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.600 if we're going to sell the let's sell the URT. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.400 And then I came out of the meeting. I was like, no, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.760 I didn't. I didn't say that we're not selling the anger. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.200 Then I was angry first of all that everyone else 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.160 for even coming up the idea. Secondly with myself bargaining. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.400 That was when I was running the bidding up on 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.800 the ute. That was bargaining. I was bargaining with myself. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.280 I was bargaining with my partner. I was bargaining with 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.760 anyone else who was placing a bit a bid. Rather depression, 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.720 which I think is where I'm at now. I'm not 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.360 at acceptance yet, and the way I've gone about it 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.280 as I've gone it's like when you see you make 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:45.799 go through a breakup, Well, when you go through a 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.360 breakap yourself. It's way easier to be dumped than it 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.200 is to dump someone. I think because you can blame them, 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.239 make them the bad guy, if they cheated or whatever 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.200 it was that they did, then you can be like 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.360 that piece of shit I hate them. That's why. Worse 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.560 than being like, oh, actually all right, you need something 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.639 to make them the villain, and so I've just gone 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.639 fuck that guy. They bought that. You shout out to him, 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.680 love you, but. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.600 But you just don't want to meet him. Yeah, we'll 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:11.600 see him, no, okay. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:12.880 Someone asked me if I wanted to drive the ud 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.720 Hume the other day. I said no, No, I threw 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.600 the keys onto Lawren's desk because I don't even want 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:17.200 to see them again. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.440 Well good, because for the past what three months, even 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:21.880 since we announced we were going to sell it, I've 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.160 been terrified that either you or Joe Jurry, we're going 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:25.400 to put it into a fence post. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.480 So has Joe, so he stopped driving it me. I 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.480 could that outside the Warriors part the other day he 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.440 right in front of Luke Kemy's esail. The whole thing. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.520 I'm in the dog box, and really it's one of 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.680 the more bizarre dog boxes I've ever been in. You 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:42.880 might relate to this. I don't know. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:45.280 I've been in a few. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:46.840 I know you've been in a fair few, but this 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.880 is one of the few that actually one of the 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.360 fear few that doesn't revolve or have anything to do 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.520 with alcohol or being out. She was actually with me 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.680 the whole time. Yesterday after work, she had a We 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.560 went shopping for her secrets into a thing. So we'll 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.880 find ourselves a work one. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.240 Yeah, okay, not your personal one when you were here. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.400 No, no, no, So we find ourselves at the mall. 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.960 Actually wasn't too bad to be fear like, I know, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.560 I was preparing for this is going to be a 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.120 shit show. Actually wasn't too bad. We get into the 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.400 mall last week when we played cricket. Was that last 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:17.119 week week before? 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:17.520 Yeah? 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.720 Whatever? When we played cricket, I dropped my glasses and 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.039 stood on them and I bent them, and so I 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.600 was like, look, while she's shopping, I'm going to take 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.560 them into one of these glasses shops and see if 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.760 they can straighten them out. Drop them off, leave ten minutes, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.440 come back. She's standing there, the girl behind the counter. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.000 She goes, oh, hey, yeah, straighten them out, try them on. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.719 And I tried them on. I was like, yeah, they're perfect, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.200 right deal. Actually, then she goes, do you want this case? 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:41.720 Because I noticed you didn't have a case to them. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.960 I was like, yeah, how much do you want for 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.720 the case. She's like, I'm feeling generous today. And then 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.280 she and then I said, well, how much to are 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.280 you for the service on the glass or what? She goes, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.839 no charge, no charge, and then gave me put the 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.200 glasses in the case, gave me the case. I'll walk back, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.320 show the message. She goes, Oh, who's this special to 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.719 give you a case and and a bloody free glasses. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.919 I love how you know no one's allowed to be 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.520 nice to you. There's always an ulterior mode. What did 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.640 you do? What did you leave it at number in 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.000 the glasses case for you? 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.599 As well? Did she lifted perfume on the glasses? I 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:21.680 can smell it still remains with me. So I'm in 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.680 the dog box for something I didn't even realize I 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:24.200 was going to be. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.839 That's the Christmas spirit, right, there's the Christmas The weirdest 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:29.920 thing you've gotten in the dog box? 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:30.200 Oh? 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:35.160 Fuck mine? Not always just just mindful, like that mindless 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.200 stuff that I'd presume that there was a presumption that 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.919 I was supposed to do something and I had no 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.400 idea I was supposed to do it. That's the probably 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.880 the most the kind of ones that I'm most confused. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.640 I was like, well, no one told me which stage, Like, well, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.120 you're made sense of course, Why wouldn't wy wouldn't you 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.280 do that? Why wouldn't you pick the kids up if 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:53.880 you come back? I well, I didn't know they would 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:54.120 hear it. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:56.279 They look at the fruge. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.600 She was like, yeah, but I didn't. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:58.400 It's a lot going on. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.680 That's those kind of ones that I get. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.720 And then there's the obvious like coming home, waking up 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:04.880 on the couch, that kind of stuff. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.160 That's that's kind of that's part and parcel. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.359 That's understandable. Yeah, but the yeah, didn't have given a 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.719 free glasses case on the the dog box. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.960 Nah, well that's yeah, that's she did. She go and 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.120 fuck her up? 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.880 Show me what shop you want to do? Which one 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:21.080 is it? 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.200 You think she would have done the same defense as 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.120 the guy in the phone mobile phone repair shop who 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.440 just possim possim. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.720 Yeah, yeah, I think I think she might have. No, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.320 she might have been made of sterner stuff. Cricket Senna 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.920 has been recalled into the side, into the squad. The squad. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.880 We don't know if he's going to play. You don't 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.840 know the line up until basically an hour before. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.600 Yeah, even then I think on the morning they usually 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.240 announced that we mentioned it yesterday that he was going 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.120 to probably come in because it turns a bit more 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.320 in the basin. But the argument is is it Southy 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.279 or is it Smith? Yeah, has to step out to 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.200 bring him in or a. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:00.839 Carby Phillips because we need betting. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.320 Yeah, and he played pretty well in the first Test. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.240 I don't think I'm apart from the drop catches. Yeah, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.000 And you've got the likes of Young like do you 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.320 bring young in? But who do you bring him in? 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:10.520 Forward? 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.800 Do you bring him for Conway? Do you replace Blundell? 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:14.080 Like? 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.280 I don't think they're going to do change a lot. 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.360 This is they're always being pretty conservative this team. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.800 What I don't understand about the cricket thing is we've 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.920 seen NRL do such a good job of the teamless thing. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.080 And obviously they've put their squad out today. That's why 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.400 we're talking about it. Why don't we make them announce 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.400 their team a few days earlier and lock it in. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.440 I guess it's a lot to do with the conditions, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.480 and I mean not so much in New Zeland really, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.360 the conditions, the weather forecast, whatever, you know, if it's 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.680 going to need to look at the pitch on the 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:46.440 morning of the. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.000 Test and then decide if you take your spinners or not. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.160 I think you're pretty set the day before, if you've 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:52.760 trained at the ground you're like, Okay, well we're going 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:53.120 to play. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.320 This looks like going to take turn or yeah. But 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:57.760 it's just a very. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.720 Cricket thing that you don't announce it till the day. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.320 It depends on the conditions. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.480 But wouldn't it be great if we're like, Will Young's 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.920 back today, you know, and the team we're like, oh shit, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.360 we know who's going to be in there. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.960 They must know. They must I mean, they don't surprise 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.480 the team on the morning. No, so the team must 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.160 know the day at least the day before. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.200 You'd have a fear Inklan Yeah, yeah, because you would 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.680 not want to know if you were center, like have 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:20.360 you brought me in here? 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:20.440 Like? 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.120 Am I actually going to play? Or how's this going 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:22.320 to go? 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:22.680 Yeah? 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.960 What was the point of bringing him in? Us? Guess again, 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.120 it guess it depends on the conditions when they get 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.520 to Wellington. If they should a ready there, I guess Yeah, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.560 what is that Tuesday starts on Friday? 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.840 Yeah, I don't know. That's always been an interesting one 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.200 to me that every other sport has decided to start 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.200 naming teams a couple of days ahead of time. And 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.679 I think that's because it gives people something to talk about. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.600 But I guess does the teams have to name it 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.480 exactly the same time though? Don't they? Because otherwise, Yeah, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.360 you see one team name three spinners and you're like, oh, yeah, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.800 they're saying, we don't you go to name three spinners 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:55.200 as well? 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.480 Yeah, that's right. And the other thing that's been happening 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.600 more and more in the NRL because they make them 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.520 submit their preliminary team list and then they lock them 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.800 in like on the day before. But what's been happening 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.080 is teams will name a team knowing that they're going 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.360 to swap a dude last minute. The Warriors were doing 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.760 it a lot, particularly if there's a guy that's going 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:14.240 to debut. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.080 Didn't they like seventeenth man? What was that eighteen eighteenth? 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.360 Yeah, And so they'll often name a dude who's going 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.440 to debut at like eighteenth man, even like nineteenth and 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.680 then be like, surprise, he's actually going to start. We 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.160 just want the media asking him questions this week so 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.880 we didn't name him in the team. But yeah, it's 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.160 just the whole other thing. I mean selfishly, as a 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.520 sports broadcast. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.240 You just need some content, midweek content, just. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.400 Another thing to talk about on a Tuesday. Yeah, one 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.400 hundred percent. All right, I have found an article explaining 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.480 how we can still win the Cricket World Cup. I'm 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.400 going to take a break. Everyone, take a deep breath, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.000 and then I'm going to explain to you how we 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.160 can still win the World Test Championship. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.640 Hey, before we go to the break, Maniah the ACC, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.360 We've created a daily cricket quiz for all you cricket 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.439 heads throughout the entire England tour. You can test your 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.200 knowledge with a daily quiz on the iHeartRadio ap. Every 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.880 time you get a question right, you get an extra 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.920 entry into the weekly draw to win a sign New 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.280 Zealand black Caps Test shirt and a double pass to 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.840 any match during the summer of cricket. Just text quiz 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.920 to sign up for the Cricket Mind Quiz. Now do 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:21.920 it now, you cricket heads. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.080 Somebody else did the work here, I'm just reading it. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.520 But this is how the Black Caps can still qualify 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.560 for the World twenty twenty five World Test Championship. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.360 If is this when you need the wall of madness, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.560 you need like pins and bits of wool and will 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:40.720 go into pictures. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.920 Yes, okay, yeah, one hundred percent. So here's what we 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.400 need to do. All we need to do is beat 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.920 England and Wellington and Hamilton. Simple, that's all we can control. Yes, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.200 then we need three of the following things to happen. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:53.280 They all need to happen. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.720 Three of these four things need to happen. So, because 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.880 there's four other teams around us India to win no 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.920 more than one of their four remaining tests, which are 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.280 all against Australia. Oh, that's doable. That is doable. If 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.360 they If they don't win one but they draw three, 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.320 we're out. South Africa need to win no more than 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.040 one of their three remaining tests, which is one at 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.520 home versus Sri Lanka and two versus Pakistan. They can 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:22.520 only win one of those. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.800 Oh and they're both at home. Yeah, and they just 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.440 got Sri Lanka out for forty two or something. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.559 Yes, they did. That's it. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.760 That's that that can we cross that one up? That's 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:32.280 not gonna happen. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.319 Okay, so two. Yeah, the other thing is two draws, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.200 will do us out of that one as well. Okay, 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.520 so that's not gonna happen. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.640 I think South Africa will hump Sri Lanka. Well yeah, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.000 and the next one, which is done, we're. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.240 Done, well they just well then they still need to 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:55.080 be Pakistan at least once. Could Pakistan whitewash them? No, okay, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:56.840 so we'll cross that one out. This is where it 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.960 becomes problematic because Australia then need to win no more 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.040 and three of their six remaining tests, four of them 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.240 against India, two against Sri Lanka. So the problem is 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.960 there that if they beat India, then they become the 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.000 one that jumps us. But if India beats them, then 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.000 India becomes the one that jumps us. So India win 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.240 no more than three of their six remaining tests. Australia Australia, sorry, yes, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:18.960 that could happen. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.320 That could happen because they're playing Sri Lanka away and 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.240 that has been a graveyard for quite a few teams, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.720 including US over in Sri Lanka. I think even England 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.360 might have struggled over there as well. So it's possibility, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:33.760 especially the way they're playing at the moment. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.480 The problem is we don't want Tri Lanka to beat 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.720 them two times. Because of Sri Lanka win two of 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.359 their three remaining tests, one against South Africa, two against Australia, 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.200 then we're out as well. So we need three of 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.400 these things to happen. If you're saying South Africa will not. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.600 Well, they'll win more than one of their three main tests, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.120 will win more than one. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.280 We crossed them out. We need India to win no 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:54.040 more than one of. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.040 Their so it needs to happen. Serf can need to 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.920 win more than one of their fests that that will happen. Yeah, 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.880 so they're out. They can't. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.080 They can't win more than one of their three remaining tests. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.280 Are you following along at home? Threat? 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.040 Look, they win no more than one of their Okay, yeah, 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.600 pretty much, we just need to beat England and Hamilton 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:15.360 and Wellington. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.440 Yes, that means we've won fifty seven percent of our 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:18.400 available tests. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.000 And then we sit back and watch the house burned down. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.200 That's pretty much. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.200 It, basically, and there are four different ways that can 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:23.720 burn down. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.000 Okay, So we try to say, is we're still a chance? 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.760 We're still a chance. I think I know less about 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.400 how we can make that happen than before I started 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.400 reading that Augland FC are working with management at go 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.080 Media Stadium in Penrose to open up the embankment at 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.640 the northern end of the venue for extra fans this 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.400 weekend and the derby match, the Dooby match against the 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.640 Wellington Phoenix. And that is the end with the grass 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.480 on it, opposite the Port end or the Cave Creek end. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.319 Yeah, that's one of the steepest embankments in world world sport. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.520 Yeah, and they want to open that up so that 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.679 the venue will be able to hold twenty six thousand, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.000 two hundred and fiftyfty three people, which is precisely one 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.160 more than the current regular seed season record. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.120 This does not pass the sniff test. It's held by 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.520 the Phoenix that could. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.560 This is just one of the somebody did a deep diver. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.079 I think it was a Herald reporter a couple of 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:22.080 years ago on attendance numbers and at Eden Park, the 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.760 attendance numbers always ended in one of two different digits, right, Like, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.000 what are the chances of that every single time? Let's 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.800 say it was a seven and a two every single time. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.160 And so they confronted them with all of the stats 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.960 and the spreadsheets and said what's going on here? And 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.160 they were like, well, yeah, I mean, you know, people 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.240 don't buy a ticket, or people buy tickets don't show 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.920 up that it's in this seat, blah blah blah. So 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.880 there's an element of estimation going on. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.480 I can tell you with hand on heart after working 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.479 with FIFA and doing tournaments in the Middle East. Yeah, 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.000 they required to put an attendance on the big screen. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.480 I think with about twenty minutes to go in the game. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.080 It's kind of like a FIFA thing. Yeah, And I 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.880 can vividly remember being in the jock the Joint Operations 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.480 Center and going how many reckon you pick here? And 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:13.120 everyone go it's about fifteen thousand, I reckon And then 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.440 they goes, oh, we need to put a number. I 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.600 goes fifteen thousand, two hundred and sixty one. Yeah, and 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.880 you go to go sweet, and then up on the 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.480 screen we go to see the eight attendances. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.280 It was just tertabullshit. So that must have been why 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.480 they were always coming up because whoever got asked that 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.520 question would only come up with one of two numbers. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.920 Yeah, it's a total estimation. Yeah, Like I mean, we'd 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.760 know how many tickets were sold like they would sell 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.720 like we'd sell, say, for that game, twelve thousand seconds 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.960 were sold. We'd assume there was a three thousand walk up. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.080 We'd look around the stadium and go, yeah, capacities twenty five, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.320 this looks like it's about eighteen. Look your fingers two 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:45.200 hundred and twenty one. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.720 Well, it's like the Warriors, not last season, but the 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.520 season before when they were going into the playoffs and 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.080 there was articles coming out saying, are the Warriors going 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.200 to be able to play a playoff game at home? 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.080 Or will they have to move it to Eden Park 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.760 Because the minimum attendance for a you know, a real 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.160 playoff game is twenty five thousand. You have to have 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.720 capacity of twenty five thousand. All of a sudden, the 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.520 very next week, Mount Smart had a capacity of twenty 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.240 five thousand and one. I think it was three. Actually, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.000 I think they were like, congratulations to you know, record 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:20.800 breaking attenders. Twenty five thousand and three people are here today. Hmm, 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:21.840 thank you. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.840 The problem with that embankment though, at Gohard Stadium is 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:29.080 you can only. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:29.680 Sit at the top of it. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.040 Yeah, because if you sit halfway down, you're just pulling 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.880 your undies out of your ass the whole time because 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.640 you can't gravity. Gravity's taking hold, your pants are staying 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.480 where they are, and the body's moving down and you're 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.120 constantly picking your pants out of your ass. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:42.440 Yeah. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.040 So if you are going at that end, I don't 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.480 know if you can take some sort of cheer with you. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.560 They probably only you even take a cheer. And will they. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.760 Well, they're working to open up the embankment. I presume 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.560