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Speaker 2: And it's a big hello to you from me. My
Speaker 2: name's Darcy Ruler Grave. Well, welcome on and to the
Speaker 2: Sportsfex podcast. It's a Wednesday. It's the fifth of March
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five and coming up for your joy. I'd
Speaker 2: like to think in this podcast we're going to be
Speaker 2: chatting with Peter Lester, sailing commentator, former world champion sailor
Speaker 2: and a good bugger at that around the possibility of
Speaker 2: the America's Cup returning to the shores of New Zealand.
Speaker 2: Chances are is the money there, other government interested, Do
Speaker 2: the people have an appetite for the return of the
Speaker 2: America's Cup? All that or Pete Lester and more It's
Speaker 2: still to come. Hop After that, I'll give you a
Speaker 2: few words on the champions Trophy. Semi fun starts tonight
Speaker 2: at ten pm. The South Africans are in the way
Speaker 2: of New Zealand going through to the final up against India,
Speaker 2: which is not being hosted in the host country of
Speaker 2: Pakistan because well, you know the general deal and then
Speaker 2: beyond that. Nathan Lynn Sports from the journalist for News
Speaker 2: Talks here b joins us in the chamber as we
Speaker 2: discuss some of the big sports stories of the day.
Speaker 2: That is our plan, so let's kick it in other
Speaker 2: news and in sports today. From the allarynces of the newsmakers,
Speaker 2: the black Caps face the proteust tonight for a place
Speaker 2: in the Champions Trophy Final. India will be the opponent
Speaker 2: after dismissing the Australian threat last night, and they, let's
Speaker 2: face it, hold all the cards after the BCCI decided
Speaker 2: playing in Pakistan, that's the term I'm the host wasn't acceptable,
Speaker 2: so they stay in the UAE. Everyone else has to
Speaker 2: travel to meet their needs. Deth typical Indian cricket rubbish,
Speaker 2: But a black Caps coach, Gary Stead reckons both teams,
Speaker 2: that's them and South Africa can do with it.
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be a distraction for either team.
Speaker 2: We've known what it could be for a long time now,
Speaker 2: so moster can't prepare yourself physically, you can mentally, I
Speaker 2: think for what you're going to face. Sean Shoota. Stephenson
Speaker 2: is back from his mini sabbatical in Japan, messing around
Speaker 2: for the bag. Amidst the one test, All Black got
Speaker 2: straight off the plane and back into training. According to
Speaker 2: chiefs assistant what Jor Randal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well he's coming really keen, so he come back
Speaker 4: straight from the airport.
Speaker 2: So he was wanting to be involved.
Speaker 5: He's showing his interest in.
Speaker 4: He got over all the detail around our strike adjustments
Speaker 4: and already gone over our playbook.
Speaker 2: And another racetrack is set to be built in tah
Speaker 2: The man behind Hampton Downs, Tony Roberts, thinks everything is
Speaker 2: in place to get the turf turned on thunder Ridge
Speaker 2: Motorsport Park, a three point two k venue between Rotto
Speaker 2: and Tod.
Speaker 6: Got everything in plays track designed. We're just waiting now
Speaker 6: to put a beat in place with the council. It'll
Speaker 6: be a thirty five year league worth two rites of
Speaker 6: renewals of one hundred and five years.
Speaker 2: Twenty six meters of elevation, eight corners Gennon's and there's
Speaker 2: a morsel of sports speak for you.
Speaker 3: Here on the Fix new Scandavidian It's Sportsfix with Darcie
Speaker 3: Valde Greve.
Speaker 2: Huge sailing news today when it comes to the America's Cup,
Speaker 2: so GP was astonishing, but is there a chance of
Speaker 2: the granddaddy of all of these regattas coming back? To
Speaker 2: Auckland Shawes Well, the chance is lying were joined now
Speaker 2: by a format world champion way back in nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 2: and America's Cup commentator Peter Lester to discuss that. Get
Speaker 2: a Peter, Hi, Darcy, I trust you're well and maybe
Speaker 2: not overly excited, but you would have a twitch when
Speaker 2: you saw that information that possibly maybe the America's Cup
Speaker 2: is coming back. Look, there's a lot of war yet,
Speaker 2: but isn't it nice to see the advance from TARATUCKI
Speaker 2: Auckland unlimited.
Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely, and like all negotiation that the parties are
Speaker 7: talking and so as a pundit sitting on the outside
Speaker 7: of the politics, you think, well, if they're talking, there
Speaker 7: is a chance and if a deal can be put
Speaker 7: together that works for local and central government and for
Speaker 7: Emirates Team New Zealand to try and defend it for
Speaker 7: the fourth time, that'd just be brilliant.
Speaker 2: It seems pragmatic from Team New Zealand statement from Grant Dalton.
Speaker 2: Yet we are talking, yes, we understand it needs to
Speaker 2: be private. Investment. Yes, there needs to be central government investment.
Speaker 2: We haven't gone along that route yet yet, but this
Speaker 2: is what we need. So it's not a shut door.
Speaker 2: There's obviously no bad blood. It's all washed away and
Speaker 2: they're just sticking by the statement. They know what they
Speaker 2: need to present this and they're not gonna wabble from it.
Speaker 2: But I think when you look at the amount of
Speaker 2: money they've got dragged through Barcelona and that report that
Speaker 2: came out, you can understand why haha.
Speaker 7: Well, the America's Cup, you know it's got a value
Speaker 7: and in that report and I read it this morning
Speaker 7: like you did, Darcy, and I guess i'd had window.
Speaker 7: But when we're actually up in Barcelona that the Barcelona University,
Speaker 7: we're doing the report on the America's Cup being in Barcelona,
Speaker 7: and the initially, even when the event was on, it
Speaker 7: was very positive and that's been born out today with
Speaker 7: some pretty eye watering figures.
Speaker 2: Pretty eigh watering. I think you've got to put an
Speaker 2: asterisk around this though, don't you two billion dollars New
Speaker 2: Zealand of economic benefit. You probably wouldn't replicate that here
Speaker 2: in Auckland. And that's just based on the distance and
Speaker 2: the population hard to get here. There's not a lot
Speaker 2: of us here, but it's still got a lot of traction.
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely yeah, But you do have to keep it
Speaker 7: in context. I mean having a major sporting event, a
Speaker 7: marine sporting event like the America's Cup and the Mediterranean
Speaker 7: it's easy for people to get to and have a look.
Speaker 7: I mean, two hundred and thirty odd you know, super
Speaker 7: yachts in that harbor. You're not going to get those
Speaker 7: numbers down in Auckland, but you'd still get a significant
Speaker 7: amount of you know, the world's billionaires because it attracts them.
Speaker 7: They want to be there, They want to be seen
Speaker 7: around an event like the America's Cup, you know which
Speaker 7: what now, it's one hundred and seventy three years old,
Speaker 7: the oldest competitive sport you know, trophy in the world.
Speaker 7: It's got that mantra that the rich and the famous
Speaker 7: love it.
Speaker 2: I don't like to be proven wrong, no one does.
Speaker 2: But I suppose I have to. When Grant said, we
Speaker 2: need this money to defend this, otherwise it's not going
Speaker 2: to happen, Well, it got us money and they defended
Speaker 2: it and they did very very well. So it still
Speaker 2: showed they are at the top of their tree that
Speaker 2: the funding has to be there otherwise they'll be toppled.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look the team, you know, for the team to
Speaker 7: be competitive and to have a chance of defending the
Speaker 7: America's Cup, look, the hard reality is you've got to
Speaker 7: have enough funding. And that was the driver why Dalton
Speaker 7: took the America's Cup off shore. He didn't want to
Speaker 7: set the team up to fail and they didn't. The
Speaker 7: other thing I think that's relevant is what the other
Speaker 7: bits that went on with technology around the America's Cup
Speaker 7: in Barcelona. You know, from the the e Sports America's Cup,
Speaker 7: you know, a computer game that was huge, the Youth
Speaker 7: and Woman's America's Cup in the ac forties that was massive.
Speaker 7: The automation that was used to move marker boys around
Speaker 7: around the course, the you know, on the television side,
Speaker 7: the use of windfield, you know, so we could see
Speaker 7: the breeze on the water. That technology doesn't come cheap.
Speaker 7: And that's in addition to what happens with the team
Speaker 7: in terms were rich to New Zealand and the other
Speaker 7: America's Cup teams are really technology companies. Now Darcy that
Speaker 7: happened to sale yachts, but all of that technology comes
Speaker 7: at a price.
Speaker 3: Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's sportsfix with Darcy Wildegrave.
Speaker 2: I've said it before and I'll say it again. The
Speaker 2: black Caps are primed in their position to not only
Speaker 2: roll over the top of South Africa tonight, but to
Speaker 2: finally take the cookies when it comes to a major
Speaker 2: white ball tournament run by the ICC. Yeah. Sure, they
Speaker 2: did it back in two thousand. That seems like an
Speaker 2: age ago because it was, and we know that over
Speaker 2: the years they have impressed by the fact they've constantly, well,
Speaker 2: not all the time, but with alarming regularity, found themselves
Speaker 2: in the semi finals of the T twenty World Cup,
Speaker 2: of the One Day World Cup, yet failed to go on.
Speaker 2: Of recent time, though, they've hit the after burner and
Speaker 2: they've started to qualify for finals, and they've qualified for
Speaker 2: finals on a semi regular basis. What's the next step, Well,
Speaker 2: the next step is to start winning them. This takes
Speaker 2: some time. They've got to one semi finals plateau. Now
Speaker 2: they've hit the finals plateau, and that basically is base
Speaker 2: camp for their final assaults on the everest of ICC
Speaker 2: whiteball competitions. In this case, the Champions Trophy. They're well primed.
Speaker 2: They've got a new look team, They've got Batsman in
Speaker 2: fantastic form, they've got a couple of menacing quicks and
Speaker 2: Mitchell Santna a very wiley wiley captain. I've got to
Speaker 2: back these guys not only to beat South Africa and
Speaker 2: beat them well, but to embarrass India in the final
Speaker 2: of the Champions Trophy, because there's nothing more entertaining than
Speaker 2: watching the BCCI grovel to getting flogged by New Zealand,
Speaker 2: he said, going back to the Test Championship victory all
Speaker 2: of those years ago. Get in black caps, you got this.
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Speaker 2: Welcome into the chamber. I got a bit of a
Speaker 2: shot this morning when I woke up and saw how
Speaker 2: much money the America's Cup contribute to the economic benefit
Speaker 2: and buff the loner two billion New Zealand dollors. Not
Speaker 2: entirely bad, of course. Hard on the heels of that,
Speaker 2: we get the information that Tucky Unlimited Auckland are back
Speaker 2: in negotiations, if you will, with Team New Zealand to
Speaker 2: get it back again. What's your initial feeling on this.
Speaker 4: That two billion would have been really nice in the
Speaker 4: New Zealand economy, but there we go. It's a little
Speaker 4: bit yeah, you're right, it's a surprise. It's a bit
Speaker 4: bizarre because obviously they couldn't reach an agreement last time around,
Speaker 4: and that's why the event went to Barcelona anyway, and
Speaker 4: they've now reaped the benefits of this, so I'm not
Speaker 4: surprised that, you know, Auckland Unlimited are now you know,
Speaker 4: the council are pushing for options as to how we
Speaker 4: can bring this event back. I know the Mayor Wayne
Speaker 4: Brown really wants to bring more sporting events to Auckland.
Speaker 4: That's a big focus for him, and I think it's
Speaker 4: definitely worth exploring the option given the financial upside for Spain.
Speaker 4: Obviously we're not going to bring in two billion dollars
Speaker 4: because we don't have as many people.
Speaker 5: I think there was hundreds of doubting.
Speaker 2: And you'll wonder how many super yachts had actually come
Speaker 2: down here and what the engagement so but plainly there
Speaker 2: is a huge interest in it and that's what's prompted
Speaker 2: this and Grant Dalton a team, he said on an
Speaker 2: issup to statements, saying, look, they've been doing a lot
Speaker 2: of background work of Auckland Unlimited and we've been talking
Speaker 2: to the team. There's other stuff that has to come in.
Speaker 2: They need big private spenders, they need central government to
Speaker 2: climb in as well. But what I like about this
Speaker 2: is they're not saying it's feat in the water. No,
Speaker 2: So if there was any had blood, that's gone and
Speaker 2: I think that's really important.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, this is just the first step of many.
Speaker 4: Obviously, like you said, they any private backers, they need
Speaker 4: the government to get in and help. But I think
Speaker 4: you know, we've done it before and obviously maybe the
Speaker 4: financial upside of when we hosted the event in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one wasn't as great as they would have liked. Obviously,
Speaker 4: then it went overseasons and Barcelona's had this massive, you know,
Speaker 4: economic benefit from it, and we want a slice of that.
Speaker 5: It is our event to New Zealand.
Speaker 2: You know, it's winning it so you can defend it
Speaker 2: in your own backyard, which is I think what caught
Speaker 2: in the throat of a lot of people last time around.
Speaker 2: But the appetite. What would you think to actually have
Speaker 2: this back again? Do you think people you know, live
Speaker 2: and forgive. They've seen the huge success and they go, okay,
Speaker 2: that was then, this is now eyes forward? Is that
Speaker 2: the way we think?
Speaker 4: I think because I'd have that attitude, And when they
Speaker 4: took the event to Spain, I really my interest in
Speaker 4: it dive because it was happening during the middle of
Speaker 4: the night and I wasn't watching. I catch the highlights
Speaker 4: of the results in the morning, but I didn't feel involved.
Speaker 4: I didn't fel like it was our event. I didn't
Speaker 4: really feel like I was a part of it. And
Speaker 4: if you bring the event to Auckland and we can
Speaker 4: actually see it out the window, you know, you can
Speaker 4: go down and have a lock and people in New
Speaker 4: Zealand it's on during the day.
Speaker 5: It's a part of New Zealand's.
Speaker 4: You know, identity during that little period, I suppose, and
Speaker 4: everyone gets the chance to get really excited.
Speaker 5: About it and need it.
Speaker 2: And we've lost so much around the world. Race has
Speaker 2: gone and disappeared. But look at what happened when sale
Speaker 2: GP turned up and how many ears pricked up and
Speaker 2: people well this is cool, So maybe that's helped lay
Speaker 2: the pavement for it as well. Whyn't just me about
Speaker 2: what happened over in Barfalona though there wasn't a lot
Speaker 2: of engagement from New Zealand based companies from MB to
Speaker 2: actually utilize that platform they had over there to actually
Speaker 2: advertise New Zealand that almost from what I know, was
Speaker 2: lacking somewhat. That there was a mistake that as we
Speaker 2: pointed out.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean every America's Cup, it seems like we're learning, right,
Speaker 4: we're learning how best to go about hosting these events.
Speaker 4: Obviously we did it in twenty one when overseas we've
Speaker 4: missed out on the financial profit. So every time we're
Speaker 4: doing this, we are learning and we are I suppose
Speaker 4: last time out they had those negotiations fell through and
Speaker 4: tem MW Zealand weren't able to get the money that
Speaker 4: they wanted.
Speaker 5: One hundred million wasn't enough.
Speaker 4: And now you know, it seems to be back on
Speaker 4: the table and like you said, no love, you know,
Speaker 4: clean sheet, clean sheet, And I think if they come
Speaker 4: back in and everyone's positive about how can we actually
Speaker 4: get this event going in New Zealand and everyone at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, the end goal. Everyone's got
Speaker 4: the same end goal, right Tim New Zealand want to
Speaker 4: win the America's Cup. Everyone else wants to enjoy the
Speaker 4: event and we want to have it here. Can we
Speaker 4: make it happen?
Speaker 2: That's don't look for reasons as to why it can't work.
Speaker 2: Look for reasons and opportunities to actually make it work.
Speaker 2: And I've been critical plainly about the fact was a way,
Speaker 2: but I did say as soon as the racing starts,
Speaker 2: I'll forget all of that and I go, wow, how
Speaker 2: cool is And that's exactly what happened to me up
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. Come that is awesome.
Speaker 2: Ya can't help myself. Let's walk away from that. Something
Speaker 2: else is going to be up for in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night tonight. I don't know how long it's
Speaker 2: gonna last. Champions Trophy semi final against the South Africa.
Speaker 2: Probably should win this, but the South Africans perennial loses
Speaker 2: at semi finals. I think they've won one semi and
Speaker 2: white ball ICC tournaments out of seven attempts. But you've
Speaker 2: got to be wary of the South Africans because they
Speaker 2: might lose. But they're tough.
Speaker 4: I mean, is our semi final record that much better.
Speaker 4: I know we've made a few finals in recent years,
Speaker 4: but we were the perennial losers in semi finals well, but.
Speaker 2: Then we stepped up to the leader and we started
Speaker 2: getting to finals. So now the next step up right
Speaker 2: is win finals. And that's what this team has got
Speaker 2: to aim at. Have we got the man power because
Speaker 2: it's it's the team is regenerating. There are different players
Speaker 2: now there that we rely on, different people with the
Speaker 2: you bore. You look at how good Matt Henry's been going.
Speaker 2: You look at Ravishing wreck Revendra and what he's up to.
Speaker 2: You hopefully he gets the nod. But this is a
Speaker 2: newest team I don't think is burdened with those chains
Speaker 2: of defeat and finally they should have this right.
Speaker 4: Well, it feels like they've got depth. It feels like
Speaker 4: they've got depth, especially in the in the batting sense.
Speaker 4: I mean, Racha Mavendrick came back in for the game
Speaker 4: against Bangladesh and scored a ton and that was when
Speaker 4: Daryl Mitchell went out. And these are two, you know,
Speaker 4: frontline players who can just interchange and replace each other.
Speaker 5: So it's a selection.
Speaker 4: They've got a selection headache on their hands as to
Speaker 4: how they play this.
Speaker 2: Well, who do you go with foe? When you look
Speaker 2: at those four, because Mitchell was Wow, he's back, He's
Speaker 2: so reliable, well Young, kind of hot and cold when
Speaker 2: he's on, he is on. Devin Conway was awful, but
Speaker 2: now he's returned to form to a degree. You're not
Speaker 2: going to get rid of ravishing wreck. But out of
Speaker 2: those three, who drops out come on? Nathan put it
Speaker 2: on the line for us.
Speaker 4: Conway based on Ah, Actually, no, I'm going to change
Speaker 4: my I go, I go Will Young. You can't drop
Speaker 4: down Mitchell because of all of his experience and what
Speaker 4: he's done in.
Speaker 5: The tournaments before.
Speaker 4: Will Young and Devin Conways to toss up for me
Speaker 4: and in a major tournament back end your back experience.
Speaker 2: I don't think you lose either way.
Speaker 5: I don't think you do.
Speaker 2: The idea of watching Jamison back in Pomp again the
Speaker 2: way Matt Henry has taken the role as the senior
Speaker 2: fast bowler, and of course we've got O'Rourke in great
Speaker 2: form two and let's not forget what Bracewell brings to
Speaker 2: the party and the new skipper sent who's a sneaky
Speaker 2: bugger and Captaincy is he not?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and you've got Glenn Phillips right from Revenge.
Speaker 5: I mean the spinning depths is just it's brilliant.
Speaker 2: He's not spinning. He needs to stand there at point
Speaker 2: or cover or gully with.
Speaker 5: His specialist point.
Speaker 2: He's got hands like a chameleon's tongue.
Speaker 4: Mate, I don't know how yeah, yeah, And Kate Williamson
Speaker 4: took it one very similar but with the left hand
Speaker 4: on the other side of the field as well. So
Speaker 4: they're playing really well in all facets. And although you
Speaker 4: know so we beat South Africa in that try series
Speaker 4: before the tournament. They've got a few big names weren't
Speaker 4: there before. But I think the momentum that the black
Speaker 4: Caps have got, yes, the India loss, but I don't
Speaker 4: think it's such a bad thing to have a loss
Speaker 4: heading into you know, the finest bit of a kick
Speaker 4: up the ars and hopefully it gives them some you know,
Speaker 4: food for thought and just have to see how it goes.
Speaker 4: Anything can happen.
Speaker 2: Nathan Lamb, thanks for joining us. Just got to remind
Speaker 2: you of one thing. You know, that momentum can be stopped.
Speaker 5: I do but I have hope. That's all we have
Speaker 5: Darcy in this world.
Speaker 2: He get on your eliminador to get out.
Speaker 5: All right.
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