Speaker 1: Live from the Export Beer Garden Studio, which today is
Speaker 1: in christ Church. This is the Agenda Podcast for a
Speaker 1: Thursday Wednesday. God, we're gonna do that again, Live from
Speaker 1: the Export Beer Garden Studio which today is in Krush Church.
Speaker 1: This is the Agenda Podcast for Wednesday, the twenty seventh
Speaker 1: of November.
Speaker 2: The Agenda Podcast the home of Sporting Nonsense and clap Trap,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Export Vulture.
Speaker 1: And we are down here in the Garden City, Mike Glavee, Yes,
Speaker 1: beautiful Garden City, christ Church. It's actually a very warm
Speaker 1: balmie day outside. We are here to go and check
Speaker 1: out the grounds ahead of the cricket match tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That's right to a bit of pregame, ye work? Is
Speaker 3: it wrecky? Recky?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a recky for you at home. We'll do the
Speaker 1: pitch report, yep. I'll see what until we can find.
Speaker 1: You know, I do my best punting work at the track.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that that'll carry over to the pitch as well.
Speaker 3: Hope it gives you something.
Speaker 1: Hoping it gives me something. We'll let you know what
Speaker 1: we see after we head down there. We're recording this
Speaker 1: about lunchtime on the Wednesday, so We're heading down there
Speaker 1: this afternoon and then coverage will be on iHeartRadio tomorrow live.
Speaker 3: And free on iHeartRadio. Just thinking.
Speaker 4: If you text cricket to three two three six, you'll
Speaker 4: get a link through to the commentary.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the cricket in just a few moments time.
Speaker 1: But yesterday we were very very lucky to be able
Speaker 1: to head along.
Speaker 4: To Yesto Links golf Course with the November team and
Speaker 4: the Great newsy on Tea Off which is happening this
Speaker 4: week around the country. Everyone's using their tea times that
Speaker 4: they won an auction at the start of the month.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and good, how did these guys win?
Speaker 3: They're one, so basically they it was Eddie. Edie won
Speaker 3: the prize.
Speaker 4: He got to bring three mates along, which was Jace,
Speaker 4: Steve and Ben who came along and they got to
Speaker 4: stay the night there and we had dinner. Thing's got
Speaker 4: a bit carried away afterwards. But yeah, all they had
Speaker 4: to do was this bit on any tea time on
Speaker 4: the Great News on Tee Off early in the month
Speaker 4: to go on the drawer. Great New Zealanders, great day.
Speaker 4: I'm still feeling a little bit sun burnt. I think
Speaker 4: I might have.
Speaker 3: I think I might have been seen way too much sun.
Speaker 1: We didn't get home till about eleven o'clock. I still
Speaker 1: jumped in the shower and worked the messes up running
Speaker 1: the shower. But I was standing in the mirror afterwards
Speaker 1: that my forearms are burnt. Yeah, I got roasted out there.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard to describe howsome. Yes, you play
Speaker 4: good if you play golf. If you're not a gold Steffie,
Speaker 4: then you know, it's still it's an impressive set up
Speaker 4: out there outside Munga Pi.
Speaker 1: It was a hell of a prize. So it was Yeah,
Speaker 1: they actually see Team Movember team and then there was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a couple of the Blues players, but
Speaker 1: one of them pulled out. That's how I managed to
Speaker 1: you did. I'm very happy I did. And Harry Plumber
Speaker 1: came along as well.
Speaker 3: She's how good a golfer is Harry Plumber.
Speaker 1: Harry Plumber is. He has a I think he's got
Speaker 1: a zero handicap, right or maybe three or something.
Speaker 3: He is in crell.
Speaker 1: He hits those shots where you're like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: going to go flying off the back of the green
Speaker 1: and then it just rips and stops.
Speaker 3: Oh, you had to spin it. I don't even know
Speaker 3: how to start doing that. Neither do I.
Speaker 1: Every shot, he is so consistent, great striker of the ball.
Speaker 1: He said, it's interesting how many kicking coaches use a
Speaker 1: golf analogy. Yeah, so it'll be like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: a seven iron, you know, smooth stroke, you don't need
Speaker 1: to crush it, blah blah blah. So yeah, but he
Speaker 1: is outstanding. He shot seventy six for the round at
Speaker 1: which is it's actually a much more forgiving course than
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It's good.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just good fun. You don't want to
Speaker 4: go to a course and just get bent over, no,
Speaker 4: which is what I thought was going to happen to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. You played bluddy well.
Speaker 4: You you the only ACC member who won and that yeah,
Speaker 4: six match plays, you were the only one that won.
Speaker 1: And I shot a hundred, So I don't want anyone
Speaker 1: out there to think that I was crushing it.
Speaker 4: I shot a hundred two and the guy beat me
Speaker 4: shot one hundred and three, so work that out.
Speaker 3: Well, he got a lot of strokes.
Speaker 1: It's because of the handicap, which I still don't understand.
Speaker 1: And I've never put in a card before, so I
Speaker 1: don't know what my handicap is.
Speaker 3: So you were maximum.
Speaker 1: So I was maximum, and I was peered up with Eddie,
Speaker 1: who won the trip. He said his handicap was twenty nine,
Speaker 1: and I said, seventy two plus twenty nine, it's one
Speaker 1: hundred and one. I was like, that's what I'm aiming
Speaker 1: for every time. Best I've ever done it ninety four.
Speaker 1: What I didn't tell him was that was last week.
Speaker 1: And so after about six holes, I was five up
Speaker 1: and would split one of the holes, and he was
Speaker 1: he was ropal, he was ropeable. I didn't realize until
Speaker 1: the turn that he was actually like massively passed off
Speaker 1: at how far behind he'd gotten. And after the thirteenth
Speaker 1: hole he came over and shook my hand and said
Speaker 1: it's done. I can't catch you now, and and then
Speaker 1: he sort of bit his leap a little bit. But
Speaker 1: then at the end you came over and asked me
Speaker 1: how I went, and I said, oh, you're my sandbag
Speaker 1: diddy a little.
Speaker 3: Bit there because.
Speaker 1: And he goes you fucking once I'd said it had
Speaker 1: just tipped him off, and so we stayed out there
Speaker 1: for a few beers and the whole night. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was just blowing up about how Sam Bag did it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and big, big thank you too to Joe Jury,
Speaker 4: who who offered to drive us there and back and
Speaker 4: in his words, the worst car trip he's ever had
Speaker 4: taking us back to Auckland.
Speaker 1: And he said, some shockers.
Speaker 4: He said, that's saying something because he has witnessed some
Speaker 4: pretty horrendous roadies and that was up there an hour
Speaker 4: and a half of his life.
Speaker 3: He will never get bad.
Speaker 1: Hour and a half of us just rambling on. It's
Speaker 1: the worst thing when you're the sober driver. He was saying, Look,
Speaker 1: he was waiting for us. He's like, surely we're going
Speaker 1: to leave, we've had dinner hour. But then the beers
Speaker 1: just kept coming.
Speaker 3: Oh he should have just told us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he should have. He should have said, we got
Speaker 1: to go. This is his fault, Yeah, this is we're good.
Speaker 1: We're going to gaslight him, victim blame him. So you
Speaker 1: made your own bed, it's your fault. But yeah, an
Speaker 1: hour and a half of just us wasted on repeat,
Speaker 1: just saying the same old.
Speaker 3: Doing same jokes, same story, same story.
Speaker 1: Me trying to do the math on whether I actually
Speaker 1: did sambaghm or not, which I Well, he said twenty nine,
Speaker 1: which means we were both going to shoot one hundred
Speaker 1: and one.
Speaker 3: I only shot a hundred, So did I did? I?
Speaker 1: Sand begum.
Speaker 3: I think he was just about better, better and twisted
Speaker 3: he was.
Speaker 1: But he and I know he listens to the podcast,
Speaker 1: will probably be listening to the shout out, shout out
Speaker 1: to you, Eddie, but he has sworn to besmirch my
Speaker 1: name to anyone who'll listened.
Speaker 4: Well, the good news is they made the most of
Speaker 4: their accommodation out into Actually they didn't. I don't think
Speaker 4: they spent much in time in their beds.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they saw it.
Speaker 4: They knocked it on the head at five am. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, so they almost would have seen the sun
Speaker 4: com up.
Speaker 1: On a Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what the hell league is this?
Speaker 1: So we're just in the We're actually in the Hits
Speaker 1: studio and Christ shoots right now.
Speaker 4: They've got sky Sport one on chick out Ronnie. There
Speaker 4: is a there is a it's George Costanza.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's the Guyana Cricketing League. It's a real hodgepodge
Speaker 1: of players. They've got what looks to be Carry O'Keeffe
Speaker 1: one of the bowler. And then is that Buddy Lobul's
Speaker 1: Super League? Is that old Bravo coming out there? Now
Speaker 1: they've got players walking through fireworks which is spraying them
Speaker 1: in the eyes. They having to shield their eyes as
Speaker 1: they walk out, and they are dressed like darts players.
Speaker 3: Okay, Global super League, that's get.
Speaker 1: That bizarre anyway, Yeah, great day out of toute Lynx.
Speaker 1: If you ever get the chance, and in fact you
Speaker 1: had the chance, you could have bid on you could
Speaker 1: have been on one of the Great New Zealand teoffs.
Speaker 1: I think is there still spots.
Speaker 4: Because the idea is that one hundred and ninety clubs
Speaker 4: put tea times up and everyone had a lock about
Speaker 4: four weeks to bid on them and that closed at
Speaker 4: the start of November raised over seventy grand though for
Speaker 4: November the Great New zeal On Teoff. Ollie Olli Bradshaw
Speaker 4: founded that and organizes that.
Speaker 1: I think he hit did he hit seventy two yesterday?
Speaker 4: I think he's not a bad player as well. But
Speaker 4: it was a great time, so big thanks to Vollet
Speaker 4: as well. Put on the Great New zeal On Teoff
Speaker 4: in November.
Speaker 3: For looking after us. It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, let's take a quick break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we're going to talk about it cricket. We're
Speaker 1: are down here in christ chitch Lane, and that is
Speaker 1: because tomorrow is the well, it's the start of the
Speaker 1: summer of cricket, really, isn't it? Is?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 4: Well, it's the first day of the first Test New
Speaker 4: Zealand versus England. It's been sent a message by Tim Southy.
Speaker 4: He's keen to have Oh, he's keen to keep the
Speaker 4: camel that we're trying to source.
Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen it on our Instagram, we've
Speaker 1: been trying to source a camel on this podcast for
Speaker 1: the longest time. We need to get it into Tim
Speaker 1: Southy's last game, which is in Hamilton. Someone sent us
Speaker 1: in a photo of a fiberglass camel.
Speaker 3: But that looks it looks like it's unloved.
Speaker 1: It on its side, but it's on a frame. It
Speaker 1: looks like it's on wheels. So we need to I
Speaker 1: don't know if the person who send us that photo
Speaker 1: actually owns the camel, but we need to get in
Speaker 1: touch with them. Could that potentially be the Sylvia Park camel.
Speaker 1: It looks it does looks very similar to the Sylvia
Speaker 1: Park camel fiberglass camera South. He's asked if he can
Speaker 1: have that for his backyard. Afterwards, we look if we
Speaker 1: can get hold of it, Yeah, one hundred percent you can.
Speaker 1: We'll put a steed of the ship had on it.
Speaker 1: You'll be away laughing. But yeah, we take on England
Speaker 1: and I'm so excited for this, and I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of people are because the memories of the
Speaker 1: last English Test series here are still so fresh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the one all that we got a pantsing and
Speaker 4: tot on and then we had the thriller down in
Speaker 4: the basin, the thriller.
Speaker 1: In Manila, last Bloody Wagner, last ball, top of off start.
Speaker 1: I can still see it so clearly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then that was caught down, strangled down league side,
Speaker 4: wasn't it was Jimmy Anderson. I can see strangled down
Speaker 4: league side. The worst way to go, Yeah, the worst
Speaker 4: way to go it was. I mean, it was so
Speaker 4: everyone was into that game. It was to the point
Speaker 4: where I was working at a rival sporting media outlet
Speaker 4: and we were watching the ACCS coverage.
Speaker 1: In the office and it just it took over the nation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of the great things about a Test match.
Speaker 1: I think that's what we all loved about that India
Speaker 1: series because it builds for so long and you've got
Speaker 1: a chance to get involved in it, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and listen that we have to win all three
Speaker 4: if for any chance for this World Test Championship, we
Speaker 4: have to win all three. So that's kind of in
Speaker 4: the background as well, that's going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So because India we're trying I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure this out yesterday. Because they beat Australia. That's bad
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 4: It's bad for us, but it's not totally bad. If
Speaker 4: Australia win like for one over there or three to
Speaker 4: one whatever, that's good for us. If India win this
Speaker 4: series in Australia not good for.
Speaker 1: Us, yeah, right, because it gives them too many wins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But saying that, we just need to win these
Speaker 4: three games and then see what happens. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 4: crux of it. It'll be a classic. Well, we'll update
Speaker 4: you tomorrow on the state of the patroom we go
Speaker 4: out there, but I'm packing it's going to be fairly green.
Speaker 4: It always has something in it. The toss is always
Speaker 4: crucial because you just want to bowl first. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't see I can't see it being playing any
Speaker 4: different than it had last year.
Speaker 3: So a bit juicy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one. I love watching cricket at Agley Park.
Speaker 1: I think it's such a great, great little spot there.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 4: And also we're staying opposite the new Takaha Stadium.
Speaker 3: How epic is that going to be?
Speaker 1: It looks incredible. Now the roadworks is going to drive
Speaker 1: me insane. But yeah, that thing looks out the gate.
Speaker 1: I mean them thirteen years. But city Center, city Center,
Speaker 1: it is a hop, skip and a jump from the
Speaker 1: Hits studio. We've climbed through the window and today, but
Speaker 1: it's a hop, skip and a jump from everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: going to be like can you imagine Game Day because
Speaker 1: Christ Hitch and Hamilton, they the whole city gets overtaken
Speaker 1: by the game, sometimes during Super Rugby, certainly for an
Speaker 1: All Blacks game. Yeah, the city is just going to
Speaker 1: be a buzz when that happens.
Speaker 3: So when is it only next year? Is it still
Speaker 3: another year to go?
Speaker 1: I'd be speaking out of turn, but I'll do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's opening next year, so yeah, we'll have to come
Speaker 1: We've got to come down for years.
Speaker 4: I mean it's hard. Here's not many city center stadiums
Speaker 4: like that in New Zealand. I don't think there is one.
Speaker 4: Wellington Stadium is still a bit of a ball eight
Speaker 4: way out. It's not really city center and it's.
Speaker 1: Also city center at all.
Speaker 4: And also although it's also not yeah the basmin, but
Speaker 4: it's not a it's not a cricket stadium and it's
Speaker 4: not a rugby stadium Wellington.
Speaker 1: It is a it's an arena for gladiators to fight in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, because you're so far.
Speaker 4: Back from the terrible it's a terrible oval ball experience
Speaker 4: and around ball experience, and it's a terrible cricket experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was great for the Sevens for about ten
Speaker 1: years and they killed it and that's about it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to that one as well. But
Speaker 1: Hagley Park, when you get a good day in Hagley,
Speaker 1: you get burnt to a crisp sitting out there.
Speaker 4: I only my only not it's not a criticism, but
Speaker 4: with the with the kind of ovals like Bay Oval,
Speaker 4: like Hagley and like Hamilton, the atmosphere is kind of
Speaker 4: funny because the noise disappears, so it doesn't sound when
Speaker 4: you get ten thousand people in there. It doesn't sound
Speaker 4: like ten thousand people. It's very quiet, unlike a kind
Speaker 4: of an arena or stadium where the noise gets trapped
Speaker 4: in the stands and it's like a visceral kind of
Speaker 4: raw goes on when something happens that doesn't happen at
Speaker 4: an oval.
Speaker 3: It's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point actually, And for as much
Speaker 1: as a slug I feeding park that does do a
Speaker 1: good job.
Speaker 3: At it, a full eating park is immense.
Speaker 1: When there's a break or a chargedown or something that's yeah,
Speaker 1: you can really feel it. Yeah, So that Travis Scott's playing,
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, Yeah, I don't know if Travis Scott's going
Speaker 1: to be playing in this game against England though I
Speaker 1: don't actually know. I haven't seen the teams.
Speaker 3: I even named the teams.
Speaker 1: I know they've brought Jeff Archer over with them, but
Speaker 1: I feel like he's the biggest blue balls player of
Speaker 1: all time where you're always like, oh, Jeoffrey Archer is
Speaker 1: going to play it, nat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was rubbish last time we smashed him around
Speaker 4: a little bit Geoffrey Archers, So I think that's kind
Speaker 4: of that that mystique has gone with her.
Speaker 3: I mean he's slippery.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say he's probably the quickest bowler their face
Speaker 4: for a while. Yeah, but for some reason he was
Speaker 4: an effective last time he was out here.
Speaker 1: I guess once you get past the gold chain, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of the intimidation has gone,
Speaker 1: you know, once that's out of your head a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing is, my advice would be, if you're going
Speaker 1: to face a guy like that, don't watch him bowl
Speaker 1: before you go in, because that's that's how I got
Speaker 1: out the st footage of me getting bowled out just
Speaker 1: on Friday evening, and I got so in my head
Speaker 1: because I saw the guy bowling before I went out there,
Speaker 1: and he looked quick, and when I got out there,
Speaker 1: he actually wasn't, but I was already in my head
Speaker 1: about it has run up. He came in behind the umpire,
Speaker 1: he hid behind the umpire and then he'd pop out,
Speaker 1: put gunner and then bowl at it. And it freaked
Speaker 1: me out. It was done too much pop up, like
Speaker 1: in Sears. So I think we were debating. I think
Speaker 1: maybe in the car the other day. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're with us or not, whether Will Young gets
Speaker 1: a run in this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean what's circling is that he's getting he's going
Speaker 4: to get dropped for Williamson, which is unlucky for Will.
Speaker 1: Unlucky for Will. But if you're going to get dropped
Speaker 1: for anyone, you can probably stomach that. Yes, but then
Speaker 1: it's like, well, how do you who else could you
Speaker 1: potentially drop for him? It got down to jeez, do
Speaker 1: you go Phillips Phillips? Well, but the thing is Phillips
Speaker 1: is too useful. He's a real like obviously, he's a
Speaker 1: handy fielder. He's a break glass in case of emergency bowler. Yes,
Speaker 1: he could pick up the gloves if something would have happen.
Speaker 3: He's also, I.
Speaker 4: Think we're discussing he's your T one player. Yeah, he
Speaker 4: can field, he's a best fielder. Yeah, he's keecking bowl
Speaker 4: and he can bat. He's a decent bowler.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he's your first T one pack in it. That's
Speaker 4: really one competition, and.
Speaker 1: I think he just needs to he needs to be
Speaker 1: in the team because over five days weird shit happens
Speaker 1: in a Test match, you know, and you need a
Speaker 1: dude like him to make some weird shit happen. I
Speaker 1: was wondering, like, and I'm sure there's a stat for it.
Speaker 1: Cricket is great for nerd stuff and you know stats
Speaker 1: and all that. I'd love to see a stat for
Speaker 1: how many runs you prevented in the field. I know
Speaker 1: it a bit of squirrely stat. I think they I
Speaker 1: think they do do. Yeah, right, I'm sure they would
Speaker 1: have something.
Speaker 4: I think I've seen it before of like how many
Speaker 4: runs that person's technically saved? Yeah, but then how do
Speaker 4: you if someone canes it straight at you at cover
Speaker 4: and you stop it? Yeah, is that counted as a
Speaker 4: you've saved a four? Or does there have to be
Speaker 4: some sort of movement?
Speaker 1: It would be very hard. The only way I could
Speaker 1: see it done would be in your like whatever eighth
Speaker 1: of the ground how many runs were scored in that
Speaker 1: match versus how many runs on average are scored you
Speaker 1: know in your area. It wouldn't be a perfect stat, no,
Speaker 1: but I think that's that would really favor Glenn Phillips.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's I mean, you can't drop him. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Who else you drop zippy from Rainbow?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: If you don't, I don't know, we'll just get He's
Speaker 4: just going to have to carry the drinks. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 4: man of the match wasn't in the series.
Speaker 3: Yeah in India.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, unfortunately he's got to carry the drinks.
Speaker 4: Like Ajs Pattel came back with ten for. Yeah, never
Speaker 4: played again until the next tour. Well, so he won't
Speaker 4: play against India, will against England.
Speaker 1: He's going to be one of He's going to be
Speaker 1: one of those. I mean, he already is a bottle
Speaker 1: cap question with the with the ten for but he's
Speaker 1: just going to be one of those. Whatever happened to
Speaker 1: a Jess Battel.
Speaker 3: So I don't get him to he just doesn't play home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just took a million wickets in India and
Speaker 1: then they don't play him when he comes back over here.
Speaker 4: We should just create a dust ball. One of the
Speaker 4: grounds should just be a dust ball. I'm saying Wellington,
Speaker 4: just turn it, turn it into something at Turns Square.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So when Australia and England come here, they're like, oh god,
Speaker 4: I play at the basin and we just basically base
Speaker 4: our all our spinners out of Wellington and so they
Speaker 4: play all their domestic cricket there and then we just
Speaker 4: have one game every tour where it's just turning square. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we buy ag as a house. We just need to
Speaker 4: fuck them up. You need we need to be missing
Speaker 4: with touring teams. I think we're a bit too nice.
Speaker 4: Everyone comes down here and they get a nice welcome
Speaker 4: and you know, and you're having a good time. Do
Speaker 4: you love New Zealand And then they say, yea new
Speaker 4: zeud's great. To make it hostile totally, we used to
Speaker 4: send them to Daneedin and start. Yeah, we just send
Speaker 4: Pakistan down to Dunedin and November and that.
Speaker 1: Freezer ursoles send the Windys down there. Also a man
Speaker 1: wearing two beanies. Last time they came out.
Speaker 3: They basically bring their doubts from the hotel. Yes, they
Speaker 3: wrapped themselves up hot water bottles and ship more stuff
Speaker 3: like that. That's all we need.
Speaker 1: Pictures severy recent Italy, but eleven of them sitting on
Speaker 1: the sidelines on his the socks on his heads, just
Speaker 1: absolutely dying. Yeah, we don't need to do a bit
Speaker 1: more of that because there's no other sport that the
Speaker 1: surface you play on has such a big impact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got any basketball quarter around the world hoops ten foot
Speaker 1: off the ground, but cricket all around the world is
Speaker 1: completely different. Jesus. What we looked up the there was
Speaker 1: footage of Don Bradman's last innings. If you saw the
Speaker 1: pitch that they were playing on, it looked like it
Speaker 1: had just been shelled in the blitz. It was that
Speaker 1: like pot holy and a man came out and boulder
Speaker 1: wrong and at him on that pitch. I was like,
Speaker 1: there should have been rules against that kind of shit.
Speaker 1: So three game series, right, We've got christ Church, then
Speaker 1: we're at.
Speaker 4: The basin, yes, and then in the tron So that's
Speaker 4: we're heading the trim with the camel. That is that
Speaker 4: is Tim Sowdy's last game add his home ground at
Speaker 4: Craon Park because in Northern Districts, Yeah, Through and Through
Speaker 4: is only only association he's ever played for. He's from
Speaker 4: Northland though, right, Yeah, the Northland encapsulates Northern districts. Just
Speaker 4: the little work quirk of cricket. It's like Central Districts
Speaker 4: includes Nelson Marlborough.
Speaker 1: I've never known what Central districts. Man, Central can't wrap
Speaker 1: my head around.
Speaker 4: Central districts as Hawk's Bay, Tartanaki and Nelson Marlborough.
Speaker 1: Of course it is, of course it fucking is. That's
Speaker 1: very cricket cricket. What does someone and Nelson have to
Speaker 1: do with someone in Hawk's Bay. They don't even speak
Speaker 1: the same language. So how do you think this series
Speaker 1: is going to go? Oh?
Speaker 3: Like we've got We've got a bit of BDC coming
Speaker 3: into this.
Speaker 4: We've got some confidence coming out of the Indian Series.
Speaker 4: I think that'll help New Zealand. I think England aren't
Speaker 4: aren't playing the.
Speaker 3: Greatest I thing. They got rolled do they get rolled
Speaker 3: by Sri Lanka recently?
Speaker 4: I can't remember, but it's one of those ones that's
Speaker 4: always tied against England. I think they've got a strong
Speaker 4: batting lineup. I don't know about so much about their
Speaker 4: bowling just yet. They love these conditions, they love these conditions.
Speaker 1: Well and from all accounts, Bears been showing them around,
Speaker 1: showing them a great time here in New Zealand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Bears.
Speaker 4: Their first destination Queenstown, Queenstown Casino, Queenstown Casino golf course,
Speaker 4: Jack's Point. They played a warm up game in Queenstown.
Speaker 1: Of cricket, Yeah, of cricket right against hurt plumbers.
Speaker 4: Some plumbers and some yeah, some train lasers, some train
Speaker 4: layers down in there. But yeah, Harry Plumber was saying, yeah,
Speaker 4: they had a great time on the courses over around
Speaker 4: Europe on their trip. Oh yeah, he said there was
Speaker 4: a golf tour with a rugby got in the way.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. Well that was actually one of my first
Speaker 1: questions for him. Did he ever play some rugby when
Speaker 1: the South African teams were still in He said, yeah,
Speaker 1: he got one season there where he got to go
Speaker 1: over and it was like the first two weeks of
Speaker 1: the season the Blues would be over in South Africa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a tour of the most.
Speaker 1: Beautiful golf courses, yeah that South Africa has to offer.
Speaker 1: But cricketers, cricketers are even are even worse for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I also asked Harry who's the who's the biggest golf
Speaker 4: hundi in the all blacks off? Ah, really he's the bigger.
Speaker 4: He's the biggest goal nufty around. He's the absolute honey
Speaker 4: here because he's got all he has to buy a
Speaker 4: piece of memorability at every course he goes to Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: so that's and you wouldn't want to You wouldn't want
Speaker 4: to be calling him up on any etiquette, would you.
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: No one. I reckon you would not be able to
Speaker 1: find a man who says that they've seen off a
Speaker 1: song of ussy kickers all that from behind the bush.
Speaker 4: You don't want to head up on him either, No, God, no, God,
Speaker 4: no hit up on, head up on off as sorry man?
Speaker 1: Yeah, your carden. The rounds over? So, yeah, so you
Speaker 1: think this is going to be tight? Do you think
Speaker 1: we win the first one here at Hagley?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I reckon we win the first one.
Speaker 4: I reckon Wellington will be a different killer fish if
Speaker 4: the pitch plays like it did last year.
Speaker 1: Was the pitch?
Speaker 4: The Wellington pitch was a bit spicy last year and
Speaker 4: started to turn on day one.
Speaker 1: So the Hamilton one was the confusing one for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Glenn Phillips looked like fucking Shane Warnon for a couple
Speaker 1: of overs there. I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 4: I think I think we win this one, and then
Speaker 4: I think the second one is going to be potentially tighter.
Speaker 3: But I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen much of him playor I'm just going
Speaker 4: purely on vibe.
Speaker 3: Don't follow me in on any of that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's well. The t ib just about
Speaker 1: can't split them. Think when I last checked, we were
Speaker 1: a dollar ninety, they were two ten, Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: like no one can really split that. It's going to
Speaker 1: it's going to be it's going to be exciting. I mean,
Speaker 1: it starts on Thursday, so you've got the whole weekend
Speaker 1: to just park up. Yeah, my missus is at work.
Speaker 1: You will not get me.
Speaker 3: Off that couch unless you're commentating on commentating it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're still on the couch. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all I was going to be doing anyway. So
Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to that. Just one last
Speaker 1: thing before we go, and we will have to cut
Speaker 1: this one just a little bit short because of the
Speaker 1: hit squad down here and Crush.
Speaker 3: It's going to come and they're mobilizing.
Speaker 1: Come for our heads very shortly. Did you see. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of talk about relaxing the eligibility rules
Speaker 1: for the all blacks, and this is because Raiser has
Speaker 1: been asked about it, and he thinks that all blacks
Speaker 1: should be able to pick from anyone from around the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, basically, it's funny he's changed his tune on that
Speaker 4: because when he was a Crusaders coach, yes, so much.
Speaker 1: No, I know it's a good point, but he always
Speaker 1: had that point about the like rest and rotation thing
Speaker 1: that the All Blacks make the players doing super rugby.
Speaker 1: He was just like, look, if I was the All
Speaker 1: Black coach, I'd be all for it. But I'm the
Speaker 1: Crusaders coach, so I hate it. Yeah, And so you
Speaker 1: know he's he's at least open about how his allegiances
Speaker 1: have switched.
Speaker 4: I don't know about the overseas players. I mean, part
Speaker 4: of me is like, the best players should play for
Speaker 4: the All Blacks. Yeah, that's that's a very simple way
Speaker 4: of looking at it. But then does that jeopardize our league?
Speaker 4: And I mean not that our league is robust anyway,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I mean that they all
Speaker 4: just go and play Japan.
Speaker 1: Well, Beaver had a good point the other day on
Speaker 1: whatever sports outlet that he works on. It was basically
Speaker 1: just saying, well, that means that you're you're the kids
Speaker 1: aren't going to get to see those players lay so
Speaker 1: because you know when when the All Blacks are playing overseas,
Speaker 1: it's very easy to miss a game when it's in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, now, if you've got Richie mong or you've got
Speaker 1: you know, Boden Barrett whoever, playing over overseas, but then
Speaker 1: playing for the All Blacks, you'd be like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, like hard to get behind, hard to get behind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you see the point, it's like those South
Speaker 1: African teams. I never knew who was playing for any
Speaker 1: of those South African teams when they're in Super Rugby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the time zone was so awful, you just never
Speaker 1: watch the games. I couldn't even tell you where the
Speaker 1: Bloody Stormers are from. Is it Cape Town?
Speaker 3: The Western Stormers now?
Speaker 1: Is it's gwas so Yeah, So I think that's a
Speaker 1: that's a good point. We were talking about the other day.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was on the podcast, but a
Speaker 1: rugby club championship, So I know they're doing something similar
Speaker 1: over in the Middle East. I think from next year,
Speaker 1: like a club challenge sort of thing. That would be
Speaker 1: I reckon that'd be the way to do it because
Speaker 1: you can still get the money in there, the players
Speaker 1: can still play overseas, but we still have our local
Speaker 1: comp So let's say we do Super Rugby and all
Speaker 1: of our teams play themselves. Ozzie do their thing, South
Speaker 1: Africa have their Carry Cup whatever, Argentina do it too.
Speaker 1: In the top two go, then the top two go
Speaker 1: and then we hash it out. I reckon that would work.
Speaker 1: Do it fight Island here we come will so yeah,
Speaker 1: I I I can't see them doing it for only
Speaker 1: for one reason. It is the only bargaining chip New
Speaker 1: Zealand rugby have is the black jersey. H and that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that because we can't compete financially, so
Speaker 1: that all these players want a bugger off, so they'll
Speaker 1: never do it. They're also that's just the way New
Speaker 1: Zealand rugby is always run and will always be run
Speaker 1: as where the fucking all blacks. Yeah, everyone wants to play.
Speaker 1: Every kid wants to be in all black. Whether it's
Speaker 1: true or not, I don't know, but that's how they'll
Speaker 1: be running.
Speaker 3: And it's only Richie moh, isn't it. That's the Catalyst's
Speaker 3: let's be honest with ourselves. Yeah, he just wants he.
Speaker 1: Wants Richie back. He's seeing him Booty calls.
Speaker 3: Would yeah too every night?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Should we should do that thing again? Will we
Speaker 1: won like seven competitions? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean he's just won the competition in Japan. He's
Speaker 4: on a good work out, He's only playing for four
Speaker 4: months a year.
Speaker 1: I've put my foot in my mouth when I met
Speaker 1: him at the start of this year when those All
Speaker 1: Blacks games are on and I said to him, jeez mate,
Speaker 1: when was the last you bloody lost the competition? He
Speaker 1: goes the World Cup?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, it's Shennon for sales. Next. Do you
Speaker 3: want me to finish the.
Speaker 1: Yeah? And then man Shannon Frazell figured out how Fantasy
Speaker 1: Rugby Union would work. Jesus, look at the state of
Speaker 1: that opening Batsman and the Global Super League. My god,
Speaker 1: they're rolling him out there.
Speaker 3: The Global Super League, Like what what is that?
Speaker 1: Guyana x on mobile? All right, let's knock this thing
Speaker 1: on the head for a Wednesday, We're going to shoot
Speaker 1: down to Hagley. Oval Line's going to put his car
Speaker 1: keys into the pit ye. And then we will be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow to tell you what we found at the
Speaker 1: ground yep, and give you some awful awful trips to
Speaker 1: follow it. And we'll see then.
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