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Speaker 2: Said, be hello there and welcome into the Sports Fix podcast.
Speaker 2: A fresh episode in your ears for today, Thursday, the
Speaker 2: sixth of March. I'm Jason Pine, who.
Speaker 3: Of course is the vocal harbinger of the weekend to come.
Speaker 3: You like that, Piney, the vocal harn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 3: That would sound well, look good on a business card.
Speaker 3: I hear you, and I know the weekends just around
Speaker 3: the corner, mate. Yeah, I trust you well and looking
Speaker 3: forward to a big show.
Speaker 2: Indeed, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night,
Speaker 2: as I know you didn't, because both of our well
Speaker 2: our four eyes, your two and my two were both
Speaker 2: on the cricket. And what a night to stay up
Speaker 2: and watch your wonderful performance from the black Caps. I
Speaker 2: know you want to break it down, so I hope
Speaker 2: we've got joining us on the podcast today to do that.
Speaker 3: I'll be talking with John Bracewell, former New Zealand coach,
Speaker 3: about what happened last night and the fantastic fifty run
Speaker 3: win over South Africa.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to that. I've got some thoughts too. I
Speaker 2: know you will as well, so let's get into it.
Speaker 2: In other news, let's kick things off with a look
Speaker 2: at the big sports stories around today. The Black Hats
Speaker 2: will play India in the final of Crickets Champions Trophy
Speaker 2: in Dubai on Sunday nightetew Zealand time. They posted three
Speaker 2: sixty two for six, a tournament record in their semi
Speaker 2: final to beat South Africa overnight by fifty runs in Lahore,
Speaker 2: right in Ravendra and Cain Williamson making centuries.
Speaker 5: The wicket was used, so we knew we just wanted
Speaker 5: to try and get in on it and then increase
Speaker 5: the run rate throughout the innings and the guys coming
Speaker 5: in that obviously come out and play a few shots.
Speaker 5: So it was a great sort of all round team performance.
Speaker 2: Brisbane Rugby League coach Michael McGuire has reflected on the
Speaker 2: threat of cyclone Alfred coinciding with the start of his
Speaker 2: Sides NRL Rugby League season. The Broncos play the Roosters
Speaker 2: in Sydney tonight.
Speaker 6: A special had our chief ex that come down last
Speaker 6: night and yes, she turned around and went straight back
Speaker 6: to So he's in town making sure that everyone's safe
Speaker 6: for the team's down here. You know they're talking and
Speaker 6: getting out of the partners of making sure and then
Speaker 6: the wives that everyone's.
Speaker 2: Safe and fresh legs in the eighty seventh minute have
Speaker 2: secured Liverpool. The late went over parising Germain and leg
Speaker 2: one of their Champions League round of sixteen times.
Speaker 3: Causing consternation here and Harvey Elliott, Hey Strawdinry what an entrance.
Speaker 3: Harvey Elliots strikes for the pool with not be well
Speaker 3: be its first cut.
Speaker 1: Us An Avinion. It's Sports Fix with Jason Hine and
Speaker 1: Dussie Walter Grave.
Speaker 3: It's a welcome now to form a New Zealand coach
Speaker 3: and player John Bracewell, who I expect will be rather
Speaker 3: happy around what happened overnight and what faces New Zealand
Speaker 3: come the end of the Champions Trophy. Good evening, John,
Speaker 3: leaning Darcy, how are you. I'm very happy, A bit
Speaker 3: tired because I had to start watch the first inning
Speaker 3: I can't help myself, and then watch the second bit
Speaker 3: of a morning when I got up. But that was
Speaker 3: a comprehensive victory in anyone's book, wasn't it. They didn't
Speaker 3: really put a foot wrong.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't really think they've put a foot wrong
Speaker 4: the whole tournament. Do you say, got beaten by India
Speaker 4: and India and a dead rubber, but ended up on
Speaker 4: the right side of the drawer. Anyway, back in the
Speaker 4: hall playing against South Africa, who are you? A good
Speaker 4: team and are starting to emerge as a more consistent side.
Speaker 4: But this news dal inside know how to play tournaments.
Speaker 3: Well that's it. And they've had so much experience and
Speaker 3: we've seen that build and build, and I often talk
Speaker 3: about they were semi finalists regularly, never quite got it done,
Speaker 3: then finalists regularly in ICC whiteball competition, but still haven't
Speaker 3: got it done. But it's a slow progression and by
Speaker 3: now you'd think they're actually in prime position even though
Speaker 3: it's India to actually get it done. They know how
Speaker 3: to do these two or play these two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't mean to be disrespectful, disrespectful for
Speaker 4: those who are no longer in the site, but you know,
Speaker 4: you almost think that the smoothness of the transition out
Speaker 4: of Trent Bolt and Tim Saudi in particular in our
Speaker 4: in our international site has been so smooth that we
Speaker 4: tend to underestimate the credit that needs to go to
Speaker 4: that management staff of how well they've managed those guys
Speaker 4: one out of the game, and two the transition of
Speaker 4: those guys coming into the game, the seamless dominance at
Speaker 4: the crease of of our bowling attack, the way they've
Speaker 4: gone about their business that you're almost you know, players
Speaker 4: tend to look at the past and go, if we
Speaker 4: only had another one of them, you know, Tim Soudy
Speaker 4: or a Donald Bradman, is he be the next one?
Speaker 4: But this transition has been so smooth, to Matt Henry
Speaker 4: to Jamison, to the spin bowling attack, the growth of Satner,
Speaker 4: the leadership of Satna, the dynamics of some of the
Speaker 4: batters in between, and the consistency, the growing consistency of
Speaker 4: Revendra and the continued consistency of obviously of came Williamson
Speaker 4: and the brilliance of him.
Speaker 3: And that's absolutely undeniable with what we saw last night.
Speaker 3: The stroke play, and more than the stroke play, I
Speaker 3: suppose of raction, it's the calm and the precision with
Speaker 3: which he bats that really blows me away. Doesn't even
Speaker 3: look like he's doing much. Man, he can find gaps.
Speaker 4: That boy yeah, and he will make mistakes along his
Speaker 4: journey because he's young, but you know, we've got to
Speaker 4: learn to ride those and rather than keep our expectations
Speaker 4: so high, it's appreciate what is actually growing from his performances.
Speaker 4: And I just love the way him and Caine back together,
Speaker 4: and I think he's a karmer athlete. When batting with Kine,
Speaker 4: he's not looking to be the dominant partner. He just
Speaker 4: bats and Seaball hit ball and I really like that.
Speaker 4: But when he tends to bat with somebody else, he
Speaker 4: tends to bat in the highlights package a little bit.
Speaker 4: But he'll learn to calm that down and become the
Speaker 4: dominant partner.
Speaker 3: As he grows and transitions into.
Speaker 4: That role.
Speaker 3: It is about to handle the weight of expectation that
Speaker 3: he's performing at major tournaments when it really counts, and
Speaker 3: that's a hard thing to consistently do. But it looks
Speaker 3: like he he values, he treasures that he almost breathes
Speaker 3: with that kind of pressure. John. Yeah, And some people
Speaker 3: just love tournament play. It's it's something about the.
Speaker 4: Interaction of other teams and playing against other teams, not
Speaker 4: just touring play where you're playing the same team all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, some people get a really good kick out
Speaker 4: of the buzz of being in that tournament and being
Speaker 4: in part of something that's greater.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And he sends to and he tends to be be
Speaker 4: one of those guys who responds to that.
Speaker 3: Enjoy your Sunday night Monday morning. Like most of us,
Speaker 3: He's going to be a long drawn out affair with
Speaker 3: a whole lot of coffee. But I'd suggest you'll be
Speaker 3: all over it like a rash John Brasil, because I
Speaker 3: definitely will be mate. Thanks for your time as always see.
Speaker 2: Nowhere at all supports TX SENSEX Surprise surprise.
Speaker 3: Rassi Erasmus says, come out and cause the ruckers by
Speaker 3: suggesting maybe that the rugby Championship should be moved to
Speaker 3: the middle of summer to appease his players, his union,
Speaker 3: and his chances of carrying on with massive success in rugby.
Speaker 3: Greedy man doesn't need anymore is already absolutely dominating. I
Speaker 3: get it that Rasi Erasthmus his job as the director
Speaker 3: the coach of South African rugby is to pitch for
Speaker 3: the best possible deal for his team. There's stretch between
Speaker 3: two hemispheres. They've got players playing a lot of club
Speaker 3: rugby up North, then they've got to come down South
Speaker 3: and play international rugby and as a direct result, the
Speaker 3: player welfare of his team is well pretty much nonexistent.
Speaker 3: These guys don't get breaks, they don't get rests, and
Speaker 3: Rassi's saying, look, we need to change this, but change it,
Speaker 3: Rassi for who. The key question, of course for New
Speaker 3: Zealand and Australia is that would it work for us? Well,
Speaker 3: you play a tournament like that start of February through March,
Speaker 3: in the middle of summer. No, it's not going to work.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work for us, it doesn't work for Australia.
Speaker 3: It only works for South Africa. Hence Razie Erasthmus floating
Speaker 3: the idea. It's at the same time as the Six Nations.
Speaker 3: It is untenable. It will not work. We will appreciate
Speaker 3: the concept of a global season to ease pressure on
Speaker 3: the players, on the clubs, on the internationals, but let's
Speaker 3: face it, the idea of a global season for rugby
Speaker 3: is completely untenable. It's never going to work. Infairy it
Speaker 3: sounds lovely, in practice, it's a nion impossibility. So let's
Speaker 3: just let that concept go and play amongst ourselves as
Speaker 3: far as South have our concerned. Well, guys, you keep
Speaker 3: winning World Cups. Really, it can't be that bad for you,
Speaker 3: can it. Yeah?
Speaker 1: The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2: Let's get into the chamber where we kick around the
Speaker 2: sports stories of the day. And while we've basically already
Speaker 2: been talking about them on the podcast today, can we
Speaker 2: jump to the Rassi Erasmus thing. I've just heard your
Speaker 2: thoughts on. But it just ain't gonna work, is it?
Speaker 3: Well? I don't think so. They've been trying for a
Speaker 3: long time, and I get why people want it to happen.
Speaker 3: It's understandably desired by everyone concerned for play it well,
Speaker 3: for you primarily, and for people to understand what's going on.
Speaker 3: But it's not a global game that the seasons. It
Speaker 3: just doesn't work like that. Are you going to get
Speaker 3: any movement from six nations around anything? Of course you're not.
Speaker 3: So we've got a doodle. Is that gonna happen? Or we're
Speaker 3: gonna play rugby test rugby in the middle of summer?
Speaker 2: No, I just would need a complete restructure of New
Speaker 2: Zealand's rugby calendar. Wouldn't as well, we'd have to play
Speaker 2: Super rugby presumably if you moved everything back, our Super
Speaker 2: Rugby would be played where we play NPC and do
Speaker 2: our end of season tour currently into what the Rugby
Speaker 2: Championship at the start of the year, and then so
Speaker 2: what happens from March through until August. It just seems so,
Speaker 2: I mean, have an inbound to it, but just there's
Speaker 2: just too many gaps in this well, and.
Speaker 3: You leave the NPC where it is, and of course
Speaker 3: then you have like a four week break for Christmas,
Speaker 3: then you come back and play international rugby. Well that's
Speaker 3: not going to work. And seeper rugby tagged on to
Speaker 3: the end of it. And I understand Rassi, right, he's
Speaker 3: obviously fighting for Springbok because that's what he does.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: But the whole concept, I know it's been floated, but
Speaker 3: the great minds in sport, not including us Jason Pine,
Speaker 3: still haven't found a way to make it work. So
Speaker 3: maybe it's just the time to take it out in
Speaker 3: the back and put a bullet in it.
Speaker 2: Hey, that cricket was great last night. That cricket was
Speaker 2: so good I went into the game. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to remember it because hindsight's a wonderful thing. I remember
Speaker 2: feeling as though we had a chance against South Africa
Speaker 2: for a couple of reasons. We won the toss and
Speaker 2: bat at first on an absolute road was a good start,
Speaker 2: but the fact that South Africa don't always produce their
Speaker 2: best crickets in knockout situations, and again it proved to
Speaker 2: be the case. But watching Ruch and Ravendra bat is
Speaker 2: one of life's great pleasures for me at the moment,
Speaker 2: Yeah it.
Speaker 3: Is, And I thought the same thing, Piney. But my
Speaker 3: thought process was they've got to turn around eventually, so
Speaker 3: out they're forcat. They can't carry on like this. Surely,
Speaker 3: surely they could do something. But in the face of
Speaker 3: the master and the apprentice ration, you're right, so gorgeous
Speaker 3: to watch. And of course came Williamson saying, hold my beer.
Speaker 3: Don't forget me. What a treat.
Speaker 2: He's came Williamson. And I don't know why it surprises
Speaker 2: me anymore, but he's the kind of guy comes in,
Speaker 2: he scratches around a little bit and you think he's
Speaker 2: not really you know, he's not really on his game whatever,
Speaker 2: and then you look at the scoreboard. He's on forty
Speaker 2: from forty eight balls or something. He gets to one
Speaker 2: hundred at much better than run a ball pace. He
Speaker 2: just accumulates runs without anybody really noticing.
Speaker 3: Well, it confuses me because every time at the start
Speaker 3: of a game, oh you know, he's not really commuting
Speaker 3: at the moment, he's behind the run rate like he
Speaker 3: always is. If you're not watch this guy play before,
Speaker 3: this is what he does. And I also on that
Speaker 3: plainly Fantas has to watch and pick up yet another ton.
Speaker 3: But how good is it to see Darryl Mitchell after
Speaker 3: a bit of a break injury comes back and rolls
Speaker 3: in what he does? I mean people contributing everywhere Piney.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a not a weak link in this
Speaker 2: New Zealand side at the moment. And will most remember
Speaker 2: this is a side that doesn't have Devon Conway in it.
Speaker 2: Nathan Smith isn't getting a game. Mark Chapman, who's been
Speaker 2: a good white ball batter for a long time, is
Speaker 2: not getting a looking because how do you in this lineup,
Speaker 2: even someone like Michael Bracewell. You look at Michael Bracewell's
Speaker 2: bowling at this tournament. He's going for less than four
Speaker 2: and a half and over, he's picked up half a
Speaker 2: dozen wickets. He's become a proper white ball spinner, not
Speaker 2: a bloke. He goes, oh, shivers, we need we need
Speaker 2: to get three overs out of somebody. Braces, give us
Speaker 2: three overs. He gives you his ten overs.
Speaker 3: We need to get three hours out of someone. Try it,
Speaker 3: rats and see what he can do. Oh, you can
Speaker 3: do that, I got you missed out. Lucky Ferguson too.
Speaker 3: He's in the sideline as well, but yet not a
Speaker 3: week link and if someone does fall over, this someone
Speaker 3: there to take their place. And you look at at
Speaker 3: Gary Stead and you look at under his command and
Speaker 3: remember people were calling for his head not so recently,
Speaker 3: and like look what he's done now. The guy just
Speaker 3: gets business done. Or this pretty new team as well.
Speaker 2: Piney, Just a word on Mitchell Santa too. I think
Speaker 2: he's clearly taken to this white ball captaincy, like like
Speaker 2: the proverbial duck to water. But have you ever met
Speaker 2: I mean, we've met a lot of sports people, you
Speaker 2: and I I haven't met too many more laid back
Speaker 2: than Mitchell Santna, have you.
Speaker 3: That's what I call him, flatline mate. He doesn't have
Speaker 3: a puss. But it's perfect in that situation. I love.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but I really enjoy interviewing match.
Speaker 3: He's got a nice, bizarre sense of humor. It always
Speaker 3: gives you a wee bit of a giggle. Knows where
Speaker 3: you're coming from from an interviewer's point of view, and
Speaker 3: plays that game, watching him, watching him captain yesterday, watching
Speaker 3: the way he juggled his field and of course the
Speaker 3: way he applied is bowling. Are that again you reckon?
Speaker 3: We can beat India, Absolutely, we can beat India. I'll
Speaker 3: tell you what I mean. Is there a monkey riding
Speaker 3: round on the back of Indian cricket? I tell you
Speaker 3: what its name is? The black Caps?
Speaker 2: Yes, well, I mean they did beat us in Paul play,
Speaker 2: but by that stage we were through to the semes.
Speaker 2: Didn't really matter, was it? Twenty nineteen Cricket World Cup
Speaker 2: we beat them in the semi.
Speaker 3: Ah My, look, it's so long ago. I don't remember.
Speaker 3: To be all, to be perfectly honest with you, but
Speaker 3: I just look at a Veric cole In, what a
Speaker 3: magnificent player is. But I think he's done when he's
Speaker 3: done for this tournament. So far, he's out for four
Speaker 3: and we'll just carry on rolling. How about that's going
Speaker 3: to come back and bite me, isn't it, Piney?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it could, it could.
Speaker 2: But regardless of all of that, we get the opportunity
Speaker 2: to watch the black Caps one more time at this
Speaker 2: Champions Trophy on Sunday night around ten o'clock. So look,
Speaker 2: do whatever you have to do to get a couple
Speaker 2: of naps in on Sunday, or bank ups, some sleep
Speaker 2: or whatever you do, or just stock up on the
Speaker 2: coffee or the red ball or whatever it is that
Speaker 2: keeps you awake, because you want to be in front
Speaker 2: of your TV from ten clock on Sunday night as
Speaker 2: the black Caps take on India in the Champions Trophy.
Speaker 3: It's the beauty of my shift. I can watch it
Speaker 3: through to halftime, have a sleep, get up, take my
Speaker 3: kid to school, come back because I don't work on Monday,
Speaker 3: and watch the whole chase, whichever way it is. So
Speaker 3: I'm so looking forward to it. What a joy to behold.
Speaker 2: I work on Mondays, does he Jason.
Speaker 3: Jason Jayson, Neither of us works that true.
Speaker 2: When I say work, I turn up to the I
Speaker 2: turn up to this place on a Monday yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: be bleary eyed, but I will be here and hopefully
Speaker 2: with lots to celebrate. That is us in the chamber
Speaker 2: for today.
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