1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: The Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand Southebeast International Realty, 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: local and global exposure like no other. 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 2: There's been a talk about restoration and restoring the manner 4 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 2: and the significance of the Crusader image. 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 3: Inescapable factor is that Inios and the owner of Inios 6 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 3: are reasonably wealthy. They won't have taken this action lightly. 7 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 3: They will have looked at all of the options, including 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 3: the cost of legal. 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 4: The worries have been abound thirty years now. 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 2: You know what we believe is another team in Auton 11 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 2: is only going to lift the game and we. 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 4: Would hope toy hey for the sports huddle we've got 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 4: Nick Burley News Talks MB Canterbury Sports Reader and Clay 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 4: Wilson News Talks MB sport News Directed together. Gentlemen, good 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 4: evening to you, Andrew. All right, Andrew Hey, Clay and 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 4: the Crusaders do better. 17 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 3: Well. 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 2: Not with thirteen or fourteen injuries that Nick reported to 19 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: us during the week after we came back from training. 20 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: It seems like a like a hard ask. I think, 21 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 2: you know, you'd say their prospects look perhaps a little 22 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 2: bit bit of this year with a couple of a 23 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 2: couple of faces back, but starting the season with such 24 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: a big casualty board as it's pretty tough going and 25 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: you've got the Hurricanes going down there, who have a 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 2: pretty good roster, and you'd have to think are going 27 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: to be somewhere in the max. But probably the man 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 2: to really ask about that as our Canterbury sportsman like himself. 29 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 4: I was about to say, Nick, Billy, has your boss 30 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 4: actually stolen all your talking points or what else? Would 31 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 4: too late to say? You are you've been there and 32 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 4: look I've just had mister Mansbridge actually come on and 33 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 4: say these are fit and healthy men. You know they 34 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 4: can it's not too hard. They've got fourteen injuries and 35 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 4: they haven't even played a game. 36 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, look I found that comment. I think what to 37 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 5: help out my friend Colin Mansbridge there what he was 38 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 5: probably suggesting, it's compared to last year in terms of 39 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 5: the type of player that they're without. If we look 40 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 5: at last year, which was a bit of a basket 41 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 5: case by the end of it, no Will Jordan and 42 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 5: all Scott Barrett played four games to Mighty Williams was 43 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 5: out a long time. Cody Taylor had a non playing 44 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 5: sabbatical ridden into his contract. These are guys who are 45 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 5: there outside of Cody Taylor's got a wee hamstrings train, 46 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 5: but they're there tonight, Will Jordan, you know Scott Barrett 47 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 5: that they're going to make a huge difference to this team, 48 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 5: and rightly or wrongly, in terms of talking about attrition 49 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 5: throughout the season, a large part of the success is 50 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 5: what players you do have available over a competition which 51 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 5: spans the best part of four months. So look, I 52 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 5: think the Crusaders are in a much better position. Pretty 53 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 5: Much everything that possibly could have gone wrong last year 54 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 5: did go wrong, and I do suspect that they'll be 55 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 5: a lot better this year. Do I think they can win? 56 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 5: I think it's the Blues and the Chiefs to lose personally, 57 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 5: but I think they'll be there at the business end 58 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 5: of the season. 59 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 4: Because they are playing tomorrow in a replay of the final, 60 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 4: and that'll be good. A final rugby question, Joe Schmidt 61 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 4: abandoned by Australia or no? Or did he know he 62 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 4: abandoned Australia, which is actually must be heartbreaking for Australia. 63 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 4: But here's the thing. We can we take him up 64 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 4: in some role or another with the All Blacks all 65 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 4: with the New zeand Rugby Clay Well. 66 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: Another of our steam College, Eliot Smith, made this point 67 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 2: during his column for The Herald and I and I, 68 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: you know, you have to look at what Joe Schmitt's 69 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: done across world rugby and just everything you hear about 70 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: Joe Schmidt. He's a rugby man through and through. He 71 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 2: lives and breeds it and he clearly knows the game 72 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 2: inside out. You look at someone like Sawayne Smith, who 73 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: obviously was just a brilliant mind, and Joe Schmitt seems 74 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 2: to fit into that kind of kind of mold. We 75 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 2: obviously know that, you know, he had his time with 76 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: the All Blacks and he's gone to Australia, but he 77 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 2: does really want to be in New Zealand in terms 78 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 2: of his family and that kind of thing. If he's 79 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: back here, how does he fit into an All Black situation? 80 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: Perhaps he doesn't, we know. With when Scott Robertson came 81 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 2: on board, they tried to get those two guys to 82 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 2: work together and what we sort of heard was that 83 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: perhaps Joe Schmitt wasn't quite as comfortable with that. So 84 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: whether it's that or Elliot alluded to the Black Ferns. 85 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 2: You know they've got a World Cup coming up this year. 86 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: A great mind like that, someone who's brilliant behind the 87 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 2: intricacies of the game. Maybe he's a perfect man if 88 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: you can get him on board in a in a 89 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 2: with the Black Fans the. 90 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 4: Year which which which Wayne Smith did. So yeah, that 91 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 4: once again there's there's that storyline. The new professor is 92 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 4: Joe Schmidt. 93 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: What do you think? 94 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 4: What do you think, Mack? 95 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 5: I think it's it's incredibly important Andrew where we have 96 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 5: so much intellectual property in terms of coaching rugby coaching 97 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 5: going overseas and understandably so to Europe because the money's 98 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 5: there in Japan, because the money is there. Here's a situation, 99 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 5: as Clay outline there where this is a coach who 100 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 5: wants to be in New Zealand because of family reasons 101 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 5: that we need to make the most of his geographical 102 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 5: position within the country and whether you slice it up 103 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 5: and get him to work with the Black Fans. But 104 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 5: how about the All Black sevens, for example, the men's 105 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 5: team who struggled last year, or just as a mentor 106 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 5: a consultant to our six super rugby teams here in 107 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 5: New Zealand. I think that'd be stupid not to pick 108 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 5: up the phone. 109 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,119 Speaker 4: New Zealand Rugby, Nick Burley and Clay Wilson is a 110 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 4: huddle today. We're back in a few moments time league 111 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 4: and golf and all sorts still to come here on 112 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 4: New schalksb. 113 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand Sotheby's International Realty the 114 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: marketing of your home. 115 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 4: All right, it is now ten minutes to six. Claiy 116 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 4: Wilson and Nick Buley on the sports huddle. We have 117 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 4: a Man of pacifica bid for a second NRL team 118 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 4: in Auckland. Couple of issues there can Orkan support another 119 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 4: sporting franchise and the other issue is well, actually I'm 120 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 4: just going to go straight to Nick Beuley because you'll 121 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 4: be heartbroken. The South I Other missed out. Three teams 122 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 4: in the South Island missed out. So you'll be sitting 123 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 4: there going well, there's no way another team in Orcland's 124 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 4: going to get it or. 125 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 5: Missed out for now, I should say Andrew, it's a 126 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 5: very slow moving beast, this NRL expansion. And there's someone 127 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 5: who's sort of covered those three christ Church Consortium or 128 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 5: group of business people over the last out of twelve 129 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 5: to eighteen months. Yeah, it's very much a slow moving beast. 130 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 5: But look what the point you were making there around 131 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 5: can they survive in a market like Auckland. You think 132 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 5: Blues Warriors break is Auckland FC and Maana Pacifica the 133 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 5: Super Rugby team and I think you've just got to 134 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 5: go knock on the door at Maana Pacifica understand how 135 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 5: tough it has been for them to survive and be 136 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 5: where they are at the start line for this edition 137 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 5: of Super Rugby. So look, I quite I like the 138 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 5: romantic idea given the amount of Pacifica players in the NRL. 139 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 5: I think something upwards of forty percent of men's players 140 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 5: in the NRAL are of some sort of Pacific Pacifica descent. 141 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 5: But the bottom line is it is not a cheap exercise. 142 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 5: And you look at the crowds and population and the 143 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 5: stadia issues. I just, I honestly don't think it will work. 144 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 4: That's a funny thing, Clay. After all the talk that 145 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 4: Auckland's has too many stadia, we seem to not have enough. 146 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 2: Well, it's funny you talk about stadiums, because that's what 147 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 2: I started to sort of pop into my mind when 148 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 2: I've thought about this Man PACIFICA team. It's a bit 149 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 2: like the stadium issue because of well, because it's so 150 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 2: slow moving, it's sort of hard to really get your 151 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 2: hopes up too much or sort of invest too much 152 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 2: in something like this because the NRL really aren't haven't 153 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: shown a ton of interest even in those in those 154 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 2: christ consortiums. So I know they say they've been speaking 155 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 2: to the NRL, but you know, the NRAL until they 156 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 2: come out publicly and sort of offer up something in 157 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 2: terms of neck another New Zealand franchise at all. But yes, 158 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 2: obviously it's going to make sense financially and where do 159 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: those corporate sponsors come from? Do they have to go 160 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 2: to go elsewhere? And with my Wana Pacifica obviously there's 161 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 2: a large Pacifica base in that team. But in the 162 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 2: NRAL Rugby League it's slightly different. As Nick alluded to, 163 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 2: there's already so many Pacifica players playing in this competition, 164 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 2: so that kind of pathway does exist for them at 165 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: the top level. So whether it would work in rugby league, 166 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,559 Speaker 2: I'm not sure. The romanticism of it is there. Of course, 167 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 2: it would be great to have a Pacific team. But 168 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 2: I think we're a long way between sort of the idea, 169 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: the sort of bid now in any kind of reality 170 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 2: down the road and. 171 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 4: Do you finally talk about something that does not involve 172 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 4: an oval ball. The TV and Z is to air 173 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 4: live golf. Okay, Now, live golf gets some funny old 174 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 4: pressed because it's sounding backed and it's called sports washing. 175 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 4: And should our national broadcaster owned by the state be 176 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 4: getting into bed with a competition owned by Saudi Arabia? 177 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 5: Nick, I think we're drawing quite a long bow these 178 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 5: days when you look deep down at where money comes 179 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 5: from in the grandest scheme of sport. Are we now 180 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 5: going to say that next week when Joseph Parker fights 181 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 5: for another world heavyweight title in Saudi Arabia. TVNSD aren't 182 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 5: able to air any preview review stories on their sports 183 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 5: news look. Liv golf exists, and there has been controversy 184 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 5: around it, of course, but this is the somewhat unfortunate 185 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 5: reality of the situation that that is where the money 186 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 5: is being pumped into sport at the minute on a 187 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 5: global stage, and we just have to accept it. I 188 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 5: don't have an issue with it. I think we're getting 189 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 5: too far in the weeds if we're going to start 190 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 5: having issues with it, Clay, you agree. 191 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Next, so right that if you 192 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 2: start diving into where money comes from from, not just 193 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: for sporting things, but for any kind of ventures around 194 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: the world these days, you're probably going to start winding 195 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: around some pretty murky corners. And it is, as he says, 196 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 2: are really an unfortunate reality for those people who you know, 197 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 2: I'm certainly not a geopolitical expert by any and I 198 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: work in sports, in strictly sports. But look, obviously that 199 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 2: that issue has existed and it's always going to hang 200 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 2: over these sports that are getting Saudi money pumped into them. 201 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 2: But you are drawing quite a long bow to start saying, well, 202 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 2: you know TVZ can't can't screen a golf tournament, aren't you. 203 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a tough it's a tough one. It's 204 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 2: a very complicated one. But at this stage, I think, 205 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 2: you know, if they can get a hold of something 206 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 2: like that, people are people in this country are going 207 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 2: to watch it. And the stage that it is. 208 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 4: The golf is good, and that comes down to it. 209 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 4: I was I was thinking I could ask you about 210 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 4: the top one hundred highest paid sports people in the 211 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 4: world are all men. But you are all men, and 212 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 4: I don't want you to get into any trouble and 213 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 4: or broadcasting standards complain to or anything like that. So 214 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 4: I'm going to leave it there. I thank you, bye 215 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 4: bye now and Nick Burley and Clay Wilson. 216 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive. 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