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Speaker 3: the Sportsbooks podcast for today, Friday, February seven.
Speaker 4: We missed you yesterday.
Speaker 5: I'm Jason Pyte, I'm Darcy Waldergrave and you may have
Speaker 5: missed everybody but piney OLiS having a holiday and I
Speaker 5: tend to turn off from everything on my day off.
Speaker 5: Is that mean and cruel?
Speaker 3: We're just honest, No, not mean, not cruel, just honest.
Speaker 3: Which are I think equalities? Fuck that We can abscribe
Speaker 3: to you for the most part, Darcy, But we are
Speaker 3: back into it today with a bit of get true.
Speaker 4: We haven't yet, I don't think.
Speaker 3: Heard from Toahu Harris since his announcement that he will
Speaker 3: retire as Warriors captain. I think we might be about
Speaker 3: to end that drought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, managed to go into his house, break in hold
Speaker 5: him down for a microphone note. We're spoken to Tay
Speaker 5: who super good guy, and what the future is and
Speaker 5: how the career ended, the injury, so on and so forth.
Speaker 5: All that's coming out shortly.
Speaker 4: All right, look forward to that.
Speaker 3: I've got some thoughts on the departure of Joe Schmidt
Speaker 3: as Wallaby's coach and who might come in. And I
Speaker 3: want to kick a couple of issues around with you
Speaker 3: in the chamber as well, So let's get into it.
Speaker 1: In other news, let's get.
Speaker 3: Started, as always with some of them sports stories floating
Speaker 3: around today. Zoey Sadowski Senate has secured another World Cup
Speaker 3: title victory in the snowboardings Big Air on the Slopes
Speaker 3: of Colorado.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be enough.
Speaker 5: Fact does mean that zobe Sidowski Senate takes the win
Speaker 5: here and asper.
Speaker 3: She completes the double at the event after also winning
Speaker 3: the Slope Style title. On Monday last month, Zoey Sadowski
Speaker 3: Senate won her sixth X Games title at the venue
Speaker 3: as well. Kiewi tennis player Manique Bowry has broken her
Speaker 3: silence about online abuse she receives playing on the ITF circuit.
Speaker 3: She believes most of the messages are from international gamblers
Speaker 3: because often relate to money lost on results.
Speaker 2: I'm going to kill you. I hope you kill yourself.
Speaker 5: Any possible thing that you could think of has been
Speaker 5: said to us like I will find you lots of threats,
Speaker 5: huge paragraphs about how much we suck.
Speaker 3: Liverpool through to the final of English Football's League Cup
Speaker 3: meantime with a four NELT drubbing of Tottenham and the
Speaker 3: second leg of their semi final, Looking for.
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Speaker 1: Darcy Walter Grave.
Speaker 5: Harris, former Warrior skipper, joins us Now to talk all
Speaker 5: about his enforced retirement through injury from the game of
Speaker 5: rugby league and what next? Get a tahoo.
Speaker 2: How's it going?
Speaker 5: Just going very very well, I suppose the big questions
Speaker 5: how's it going with you? You had to retire from
Speaker 5: the game that you love with repeated and now you
Speaker 5: sat down, you're not doing pre season. That's got to
Speaker 5: be of a relief surely.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, my rest is certainly appreciating it and being
Speaker 6: able to spend this time with the family has been
Speaker 6: really nice.
Speaker 2: It's yeah.
Speaker 6: The club club have been amazing. They've allowed me the
Speaker 6: time to spend with family and before any commitments they
Speaker 6: need you to do.
Speaker 5: So what is your relationship now with the club. You're
Speaker 5: plainly not playing. Are you still under contract you still
Speaker 5: have a role within the Warriors.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm still under contract for this year. As part
Speaker 6: of the medical retirement, I've I'm still contracted for this
Speaker 6: year and obligated to to fill any obligations that are
Speaker 6: needed from the club. So yeah, just waiting to see
Speaker 6: how that looks.
Speaker 2: But you know, they've been amazing.
Speaker 6: They've allowed me the time to sort of get set,
Speaker 6: spend time with family before the I guess the busy
Speaker 6: part of the year starts.
Speaker 5: You've had time to come to peace with the decision
Speaker 5: that was pushed on you to retire. You get your
Speaker 5: entire life at Hidio now and teld who I'm presuming
Speaker 5: you would have thought a little bit about it. You've
Speaker 5: got commitments this year to the Warriors, but beyond that,
Speaker 5: a man who's been involved. Gee, I remember when you
Speaker 5: first got picked for the key is a the expense
Speaker 5: of sunny Bill Williams and he came back and you
Speaker 5: were out. You've been doing this a long long time,
Speaker 5: So to consider your future. What else is Tod Harris
Speaker 5: capable of doing?
Speaker 4: What next?
Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's sort of.
Speaker 6: Because I'm contracted this year, and and I've got commitments
Speaker 6: with the club, but I've still still got quite a
Speaker 6: bit of time to figure that out. So yeah, it's
Speaker 6: all sort of constantly communicating with my wife and trying
Speaker 6: to figure that out and how that how that could look.
Speaker 6: But yeah, first and foremost, I've got to make sure
Speaker 6: my family's all right and and that I'm fulfilling those
Speaker 6: my commitments to the club and whatever they need.
Speaker 2: So still waiting to hear how that looks.
Speaker 5: Like a complete professional. So who's going to be the
Speaker 5: new captain? Tell who? No one's going to tell us.
Speaker 5: You've got a rough fight.
Speaker 4: Who do you like?
Speaker 5: Who do you think's got the ear of the players?
Speaker 5: And what's the most important thing for the new captain?
Speaker 5: What's the biggest consideration do you think?
Speaker 6: To be honest, I've got no idea who it's going
Speaker 6: to be. But like the club's in a in an
Speaker 6: outstanding position, they've got a number of different options and
Speaker 6: it's I guess it all comes down to what, well
Speaker 6: where he thinks the team needs. You know, they've you've
Speaker 6: got Roger theare who has captained the club and he
Speaker 6: leads by example, But whether he wants the job or no,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure. But then you've got guys like Fish
Speaker 6: coming in who's led his country, who's had the high
Speaker 6: the most amount of success someone can have in this
Speaker 6: in this profession. You know Mitch Barnett who led the
Speaker 6: team for the second half of last year, and you've
Speaker 6: got a wealth of experience through there like Dylan Walker,
Speaker 6: Kirk Cape Well all these all these guys like they've
Speaker 6: got a number of different options. Yeah, it all comes
Speaker 6: down to what Webee thinks the team needs. And yeah,
Speaker 6: so that's that's sort of above my pay grade anyway.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I'm waiting to find out too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're glad you're not making that decision. Just a
Speaker 5: word on the captains. What's the most important part of
Speaker 5: being a captain from what you know from your experience
Speaker 5: in the role. Primarily, what does a captain have to
Speaker 5: do not just win the toss?
Speaker 6: Well, I think first like for a captain, first and foremost,
Speaker 6: his performance has got to be to a high standard
Speaker 6: and consistent, so that so that when when he does speak,
Speaker 6: he doesn't have to speak much. But when when he
Speaker 6: does speak, people listen because they see the work they
Speaker 6: put in, the standards they hold themselves to and and
Speaker 6: that they're performing at the highest level. So I think
Speaker 6: I think that's always got to come first, is the
Speaker 6: place performance. So yeah, I think you're looking for someone
Speaker 6: who can perform under pressure and can do it week
Speaker 6: and week out, and that's and that's right from Monday
Speaker 6: through to Sunday, every day of the week.
Speaker 2: They've got to be consistent.
Speaker 5: And finally, Tahu and always a pleasure. Thanks very much
Speaker 5: for joining us here on News Talk the B pre
Speaker 5: season tonight up against the Sharks and explosive game. No Art, Yes,
Speaker 5: unfortunately can a wee bit of an injury. But from
Speaker 5: what you've seen so far, how do you like this
Speaker 5: this new look worri aside, what what do you smile about.
Speaker 6: I'm really excited, like obviously with the new combinations with
Speaker 6: Fish coming in, excited to use the halves run out together.
Speaker 2: But I think the thing that.
Speaker 6: I want to see most, I guess is guys like
Speaker 6: Jacob demitric Ali, those guys who have had some any
Speaker 6: in our experience and they're some of the most talented
Speaker 6: guys in the team. But I want to see them
Speaker 6: take the next step because I think if they can
Speaker 6: sort of perform week in week out to their capabilities.
Speaker 6: The whole team's performance is just going to go up
Speaker 6: another level. So I'm excited to see what they do.
Speaker 6: And they've had really good preseasons, outstanding preseason, so hopefully
Speaker 6: they can take that out on the field, take that
Speaker 6: form to the field and on that.
Speaker 5: We'll let you get on with Seemi retirement. Looking forward
Speaker 5: to hearing what your new role is and I'm sure
Speaker 5: you are as well. It's that we continue our chats.
Speaker 5: Really appreciate your time, mark to who thinks for that,
Speaker 5: no worries, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Sports effects.
Speaker 3: No real surprise to hear the news today that Joe
Speaker 3: Schmidt will step down as Wallaby's coach at the end
Speaker 3: of the Rugby Championship. He was initially contracted until the
Speaker 3: end of the Lions tour this year, but he's extended
Speaker 3: that by three months, but that will be it. Joshmit's
Speaker 3: always said this was a temporary gig for him. His
Speaker 3: family is still back here in New Zealand and he
Speaker 3: wasn't prepared to put them through two more years of
Speaker 3: him being absent, and probably wasn't willing to put himself
Speaker 3: through that either.
Speaker 4: It's the right call. Family first. Always.
Speaker 3: I think Rugby Australia probably signed him up and secretly
Speaker 3: hoped he'd loved the job so much he'd changed his
Speaker 3: mind and stay. But instead he's given them three more months.
Speaker 3: But that'll be it his last game in charge October fourth,
Speaker 3: against the All Blacks in Perth. Regardless of what happens
Speaker 3: this year, and there is plenty of rugby ahead, three
Speaker 3: Lions Test matches and the Rugby Championship, Joshmitt will likely
Speaker 3: leave the Wallabies in a better place than he found
Speaker 3: them now. That, of course, is a very low bar,
Speaker 3: because he found them as an absolute basket case after
Speaker 3: the departure of Eddie Jones. Anything would have been an
Speaker 3: improvement on that shambles of a coaching tenure. And while
Speaker 3: Joe Schmidt hasn't won everybody over, he has at least
Speaker 3: righted the ship. So now we ask who will take over? Well,
Speaker 3: the candidates seem to be the super rugby coaches in Australia,
Speaker 3: Reds coach Les Kiss, Rumby's coach Stephen Larkham, war A
Speaker 3: Tars coach Dan McCalla. They seem to be the front runners.
Speaker 3: There's also a bit of mail around about former coach
Speaker 3: Michael Checker returning into the fold. But for me, the
Speaker 3: dark horse is Leon McDonald, no longer part of the
Speaker 3: All Blacks set up of course, in the market for
Speaker 3: a job you'd presume, and bringing with them a deep
Speaker 3: knowledge of New Zealand rugby and specifically the All Blacks environment.
Speaker 3: Why not follow one key we with another razor against
Speaker 3: Leon for Bledislow twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: I would love to see it.
Speaker 1: The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 3: Into the Chamber we dive. We've heard from Toho Harris
Speaker 3: he won't be a part of the Warriors this year.
Speaker 3: Really interesting to hear from the great man.
Speaker 5: But I will be a part of the Warriors, but
Speaker 5: he won't be playing. I mean, he's still going to
Speaker 5: be engaged. He's contracted them for the you know, well
Speaker 5: another year, so he'll be doing something we just don't
Speaker 5: know what yet.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I'll rephrase, he won't be out there with
Speaker 3: the boots on and that thirteen jersey that we've come
Speaker 3: to know and love over the past few years. Look,
Speaker 3: I know this is a question fraught with peril and
Speaker 3: with a challenging task to even answer it, But what
Speaker 3: should our expectations be of the Warriors in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: I don't have any expectations. I've learned after following these
Speaker 5: guys for longer, and then I can remember that if
Speaker 5: you set yourself up with expectations, you're going to be
Speaker 5: very disciple pointed. I want them to turn up, put
Speaker 5: in their best effort. It give me some entertainment, because
Speaker 5: that's what they are. They're a form of entertainment. I
Speaker 5: don't harder any thoughts of them bashing their way through
Speaker 5: and winning a final. I've often said that I reckon
Speaker 5: I'll be in a retirement home before that happens. Ever
Speaker 5: it does. But I don't follow them, Jason, because I
Speaker 5: expect them to win everything. I follow them because they might.
Speaker 3: Team yep, and that's look, and you you were perfectly
Speaker 3: able to do that. But I just go back a
Speaker 3: year and you and I might have even spoken about
Speaker 3: this a year ago, after the year they had in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, which was so good. We did have expectations,
Speaker 3: I think, well, I certainly know that I did have it.
Speaker 3: Had expectations last year of at the very least a
Speaker 3: top eight finish and maybe a.
Speaker 4: Push towards that.
Speaker 5: I know what happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so should I? Should I?
Speaker 3: Therefore, Look, I'm not as much of a as a
Speaker 3: Warriors fan as you, So should I be limiting my expectations?
Speaker 3: Should I be saying, you know what, if they make
Speaker 3: the eight, it's pretty good?
Speaker 5: Yes, I think so. The more energy behind them and
Speaker 5: going this time, you're going to do it. This time,
Speaker 5: it's our year. It's never ever worked. I don't know
Speaker 5: how well they respond to it. All we can do is,
Speaker 5: as I said, turn up, play your absolute hardest. I hope,
Speaker 5: like hell, the Aussie referees don't have their way with us.
Speaker 4: I normally do.
Speaker 5: And enjoy the process for what it is.
Speaker 4: Is this you trying to reverse Jinx this whole thing?
Speaker 3: Are you doing that thing where you say, look, I
Speaker 3: don't have any expectations.
Speaker 4: I'm just going to enjoy it.
Speaker 3: And what you hope is that the universe will hear
Speaker 3: that and deliver you a championship.
Speaker 5: No, I don't believe in Jinx's There's nothing I can say,
Speaker 5: do or think that's going to affect anything possibly anywhere ever. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: there's a wee.
Speaker 4: Bit of that, all right. I love the caveat love
Speaker 4: the Cavit at the end. All right, We waiting to
Speaker 4: see what happens with the Warriors.
Speaker 3: No doubt there'll be a topic of conversation on sports
Speaker 3: Fax across twenty twenty five, as I'm sure will Super
Speaker 3: Rugby be and Fantasy Super rugg has been launched. This
Speaker 3: is a new way of engaging fans. I've actually already
Speaker 3: picked my team for the first week. I'll have to
Speaker 3: obviously remove a couple of players as they get injured
Speaker 3: over the next seven days. But I like the idea
Speaker 3: of a new way of engaging with fans.
Speaker 5: I used to play a fantasy rugby back in the day.
Speaker 5: There was a version of I Think and New Zealand
Speaker 5: Herald ran one way back when. That's when I first
Speaker 5: discovered Dealander and Creole. I picked them up in a
Speaker 5: couple of games and never heard of them before I
Speaker 5: read something that might be quite handy. Gee they're still
Speaker 5: playing at an international level. That was my first introduction
Speaker 5: to those two guys. So yeah, I'm going to climb
Speaker 5: in boots and all. I just can't pick the winger
Speaker 5: that everybody's picked Alreadybody's not there, right.
Speaker 4: Jay, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: No, there there's an opt out option, and Caleb Clark
Speaker 3: has taken the opt out option. We'll find out more
Speaker 3: about that, I think next week when he does a
Speaker 3: bit of media. But interesting what you said there. You
Speaker 3: know you found out about players for the first time.
Speaker 3: I think this is a good way of engaging people
Speaker 3: about you know, who the players are, because you know
Speaker 3: you've got to pick a fifteen every week. Who am
Speaker 3: I going to put on my you know, on on
Speaker 3: each side of the scrum, who am I going to
Speaker 3: play it half back?
Speaker 4: Whom I'm going to play at first five?
Speaker 3: And it gives you an option, or gives you almost
Speaker 3: the compulsion to go and look at who the options are,
Speaker 3: who the players.
Speaker 5: Are, Yeah, and you look across the stats and how
Speaker 5: they've played, so you take a keener interest in players
Speaker 5: from Australia, for example, players out of fig like, Okay,
Speaker 5: you may not have been interested before, but you've got
Speaker 5: a gap where you still want That guy scored a
Speaker 5: busload of points last week. Maybe I look at him,
Speaker 5: So I think it adds extra I don't know if
Speaker 5: non rugby fans codeheads would climb in like they might,
Speaker 5: but I think the code heads out there we'll have
Speaker 5: a wee bit of joy putting the team together every weeks.
Speaker 3: That's got yeah joys one day, putting it a time
Speaker 3: wasting the other. I'm not sure you'll get much out
Speaker 3: of me on a Friday, and I got off Twitter.
Speaker 5: I got off Twitter, so I got plenty of time
Speaker 5: to waste now, trust me?
Speaker 4: All right, good stuff.
Speaker 3: Fantasy Super Rugby is up and running for twenty twenty five.
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