WEBVTT - "Brad Shields Challenge" 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.120 Life from the Export Beer Guden Studio and brought to 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.360 you was always by Export Ultra the beer for here. 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.320 This is the Agenda Podcast for Thursday, the twelfth of September. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:12.479 The Agenda Podcast the home of Sporting Nonsense and clap Trap, 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:14.880 brought to you by Niggsport a Vulture. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.480 Later on the podcast, Brad Shields is going to be 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.239 joining us the Wellington Lions Storm Week this week. Last 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.479 night they played against Otago they won. They have the 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.000 Shield Challenge this week. So weapon Brad Shields. Yeah, yes, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.720 you see him on the field. He's got that bag, 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.880 he's got the beard that like all those Argentinian players have. Yeah, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.839 the big kind of big that increases his jaw by 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.519 about ten Yeah, bugger coming up against him twice in 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.479 one week. But he didn't play last night. But yeah, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.239 we'll pick his brain on. I don't know if he's 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:44.080 won the Shield or not. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.680 No, I don't think he has. I think he has. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.080 How you go contesting for the Shield in the Storm 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.440 Week And I want to know a bit about that 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.760 wasps thing because it still confused me that there was 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.319 a team and then there wasn't a team anyway. That's 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.840 coming up later on. We sort of glossed over it yesterday. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.560 But how did you mark nine to eleven. 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.040 By watching the presidential debate? Oh my god, yes, Oh 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.039 my god. Like that was one of the funniest ship 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.800 I've ever seen in my life. Like I was lolling 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.880 around laughing and in the office I was ruffling around 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.280 the off because some of the ship mayo, my ass off. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.559 Some of the ship that Trump was saying was probably 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.679 one of some of the funniest shiver here, like getting 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.840 cats and dogs and they're it in the dogs. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.600 Again, the cats in the pats and the cats they're 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.360 in the dogs. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.040 How do you I mean he's talking about there are 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:33.640 bording babies after they're born. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:40.880 Yeah, what if sometimes after the burn? That's what I'm hearing. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.840 That's what they're doing. Was there at CapMan on, Yeah, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.600 I've got to work on the I've got to work 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.600 on my Trump. No, that's how That's how I marked it. Yeah, 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.160 the memes were out of control straight away as well 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.160 while the debate was still going on. The most salient 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.760 point I thought I saw was if you went into 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.720 a job interview and said half the ship that he 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.400 just said, that, you'd be escorted out of the building. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:03.920 I love it. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.880 I want him to be president again, purely for the comedy. Yeah, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.160 we don't live in that country, so I don't care 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.200 what I do not care. And if they he gets 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.440 voted and it's on them. But if they do vote them, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:15.840 and it's gonna be fucking hilarious. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.359 Yeah it is. I've been walking around asking people did 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.400 you know that they were eating dogs and cats over there? 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:29.040 Trying to say the migrants were ravaging Springfield by cats 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.480 and hilarious. Anyway, we don't even Delvin Apolyodets batters as 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:33.600 politically as we're going to get. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.040 There was another thing that it was like he clearly 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.760 thinks that people asylum seekers are people who have broken 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:39.560 out of asylums. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.520 Oh he said mental asylum as well. Yeah, Like he 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:43.880 was just dropping these bombs. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.880 I can illegal aliens. It's just tremendous for the memes. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.240 Sticking with a miracle because we were stuck on an 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.200 American channel from watching that yesterday. This morning they were 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.560 playing a sports show, Yeah, and one of the topics 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.799 was the All Whites. Yeah, because they drew one all 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.600 with Team USA yesterday. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.760 And they described it as one of the luckiest goals 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.320 in international football, you're gonna put yourself in the position 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.239 that day if you haven't seen it. The ball was 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.840 kind of hacked forward in a classic kind of New 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.760 Zealand football style. I'm not taking it away from them, 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.440 but it's usually smash it up to the strikers away 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.840 from the backfield. Yeah, and the defender or was the 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.120 defender will look to just clear it and it hit 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.760 the face of one of the All Whites and ricocheted 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.400 off his face, middled it, his face middled it and 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.639 back of the neck, top corner. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:34.800 And even the. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.560 Keeper you could see him, he was like, what the 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:38.240 fuck was that? 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.160 What am I supposed to know about that? 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.080 But saying that, they kept them, you know, to one 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.720 nil till then. So they played pretty well defensively, they 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.000 played well. They got a lucky goal against their sixteenth 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.480 rank side in the world stuck on. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:51.680 That put themselves in a position. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.720 So you know, and look, and we know that the 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.040 All Whites will be at the next World Cup because 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.360 Oceania get an automatic entry in the next World Cup, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.120 so presumably that's going to be absolutely going to be 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.920 us to tip us up. Yeah, so we've we've got 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.360 to get more practice against these top teams before that World. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.600 Cup, And isn't it fitting that we end up drawing 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.120 the game and quintessential Kiwi style, hope it from the 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.040 backfield and just see what happens, and something happened, and 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.080 something happened. It was the cheapest celebration as well. I've 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.040 forgotten a man's name. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.279 He kind of did a little bit of a a 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:24.520 little bit of a celebration. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.400 Who's obviously stoked, but he was like, don't put that on. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.680 He still scored it. I put that on my highlight reel. Yeah, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.960 he's still scored a goal against America. Yeah, so football's 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.240 coming home. That's what I'm here. And long short of 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.000 all that, you've done a bit of research on these 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.000 bloody via sideline situation. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.000 Oh yeah, so you would have seen, I know, you 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.400 can't get away from it on social media, these those 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.920 great clips of people sitting in a pub but it 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.800 looks like they're behind the goalposts or in there all 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.560 on that sideline, Yeah, the sideline of NBA, or they're 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.000 behind the goalpost during a Chelsea Man United game, and 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.960 it's just an epic kind of imax three sixty scre 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.599 and it's just like a basically stacked out with people 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.360 drinking purse like there at the ground. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:05.800 So there's two of these. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.320 It's a company called Cosm, which is they've just raised 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.640 two hundred and fifty million US so half a billion 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.479 dollars New Zealand dollars to expand around the world. So 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.240 they've got two of them at the moment. Ones in 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.640 like near so Far Stadium. It's it's and the arenas 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.480 are designed by the same guys they designed so Far 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.479 in LA And then he's one in Texas as well, 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.919 of course, and it's the company. This is great. The 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:33.080 company usually supply like you know those planetariums, you know, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.120 the where your kids go and you lie down and 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.360 you look at the stars and ship. Yeah. Yeah, so 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.680 the US, that's what they usually do. That's what was 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:45.720 their core business was planetariums they're called Yeah, and now 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.279 they've moved into this and they've like this. Now they're 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:49.679 into a real money maker. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.160 Yeah. I can't understand why. More like movie theaters don't 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.400 show games, you know, people don't go to the movies anymore. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.719 This is especially built though, it's like it's like a dome. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.520 It's like a dome with a sphere and yeah, but 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.280 a miniature version just built for sport as well, and 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.160 they already supply cameras. They've already have done deals that 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.080 there's a USC so you can be basically mixed to 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.600 the cage in USC. So it's fucking cool. And I've 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.240 got deals with ESBN, NBC, Fox, T and T, NBA 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.760 and the UFC, so they've got all these deals stitched 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.400 up in the ACC and the ACC ringside at the ACC. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:22.440 I don't know why you want to do that. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.560 We should put that in our studio. It's getting done 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.360 right now. We should have the little like ring side 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.960 of the ACC. So yeah, so this is setup. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.400 It's an eighty seven foot by fifty five foot screen, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.160 so I have that in metric PA that's kind of like, 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.440 yeah meters by twenty five meters high, so I think 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.000 of a ten meter high diving board. It's more it's 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.760 higher than that. So it's pretty epic. Yeah, But tickets 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.480 to go in there and be refront railer like two 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:52.279 hundred US. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.560 And if we did it here in New Zealand, you 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.960 wouldn't be able to buy a beer and get kicked 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:56.880 out if you're too noisy. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.640 I hate to say it, it's never going to happen 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.320 because each one costs between eighty to ninety million US 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:01.679 to build. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:03.880 Jesus. Yeah, but they do. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.400 Have like a kind of a sports bar out the 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.760 back which has a smaller screen, which he only costs 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.960 ten bucks to go in, so they've got little pockets of. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.640 It they're banking on. Once you're there, you're going to 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.160 want to go out because you'll see everyone else. And 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:16.080 we're talking. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.320 The LED display you've got is between eight and twelve 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.120 K in definition. It's like next leve. Well, that's why 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.600 it feels like you're on the ground. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.680 This is the future of watching sports because people don't 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.920 go to games because you know, you're competing with home 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.360 and how comfortable that is. But this is like all 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.360 of the comfort of home without actually having to go 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:35.880 and sit in the stadium in am I putting a 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.600 roof on Eden Park put all of these next to it. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.720 Well, you think about all the biggest teams in the world. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.520 You know, halfy games are away, so fans are going 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.920 to travel. They just go to this bar and it's 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.840 like you're at the ground anyway. So COSM lookout for it. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.640 They've just, like I said, they're just raised two hundred 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.160 and fifty million, which values the company up plus one 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:01.280 billion US. Now so and in terms of PR, it's 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.720 gone through the roof. If you haven't been served that ad, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.520 and you're a sports fan and you haven't been served 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.160 not the ad, the video of people you know, oh yeah, 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.120 you have even been served that, then you're not really 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.280 probably searching the right thing. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.360 Well, they've just made it onto New Zealand's number one 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.640 sporting podcast two years in a row. That's right there, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.080 you go. 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.800 So yeah, so coming to a town near you, except 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.880 in New Zealand will be COSM and those fucking epic 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.040 sports bars. I mean, forget full time pales in comparison 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.720 to that. It just shows that if you want to 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.760 actually have an outstanding sports experience, you're going to have 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.480 to go to the States or Europe. Really hopefully they've 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.280 built on an assy Ossie seem like the kind of 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.280 people that would put one in eventially, imagine watching a 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.840 game in our game from one of those Yeah yeah, anyway. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.599 It's just basically all those people on put one on 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.800 Caxton Street. So you go. If the game's that's Uncork, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.040 you go there. But if it's not. You can still 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.800 watch it just down the road at the old Cosmo 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:56.760 Club or whatever it. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.160 Is, the Cosmos Cosm, which is CECM, which is Cossum Club. Yeah, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.040 the Cossom Club, go down the Cossom. Yeah, maybe we 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.000 can get a mini version. Maybe we don't need the 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.719 you know, the twenty five meter by fifty meter one. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.120 Maybe we just maybe we built a smaller dome. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.160 Look, I didn't want to, but I will talk about it. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.079 I go to the gym quite a bit. And at 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.920 the gym that I go to, there is a there's 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.960 like a bike class thing where it's got a massive 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.760 screen that wraps around. This thing is enormous. It'd probably 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.240 be about fifteen twenty meters long. Yeah, and it wraps around. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.280 Just get all bin all the bikes out of there, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.640 put seats in and put that on. Yeah. The ship 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:30.800 not the issue. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.440 But the advantage of these guys is they have camera 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.440 set ups already at these grounds, so they pipe that 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.240 into they have specific cameras the bike studio. Oh you're 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:40.760 saying like we've partnered with them and just get the 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.959 feed from the feed from I thought you mean like 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.280 they do it for a super rugby or well cricket 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:45.679 or whatever. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.280 But oh no, no, no, check in the NFL game on 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.920 in there. Yeah, yeah, I've got to watch it. Fuck, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.280 leave the bike and it might get a workout. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.960 I love our emphasis on the word mic. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.320 I might. I don't know. I'll jump on it for 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.920 a laugh and I'll probably It is quite sad. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.120 Yeah, I mean, look, if we can't afford a half 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.800 billion dollar stadium, waterfront stadium, I'm happy for ratepayers to 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:11.720 pay eighty to ninety million, yeah for COSM Arena. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.600 One hundred percent. And then we can watch literally any 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.679 sport from around the world. They don't have to come here. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.920 And during the day you get some primary school kids 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.440 and they can look at some fucking planets and shit, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:20.360 yeah what shrek? 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:21.160 Yeah, I don't know. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.880 And then during the evening just get lizard and watch sport. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.439 Yeah it's a nip. Yeah, all right, let's take a 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.120 quick break and when we come back, we're going to 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:35.000 be joined by Brad Shields. Well it's storm week for 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.640 the Wellington Lines and the NPC. They played last night, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.800 they play again this weekend and joining us live from 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.640 well presumably Wellington, is Brad Shields. This good morning, Bred, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.280 How are you mate, we're abouts in the country. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.160 Are yes, I'm comfortable in Wellington at the moment. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.120 Did you head down to Dunedin last night for that game? 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:55.960 I was. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.600 I was glued to my television screen though. That was 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:03.000 a freaking sort of back and forth game. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:03.280 You know. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.400 It's just I don't know, it's something about the NPC 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.280 competition that each game seems to get more and more exciting, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:08.520 you know. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.480 Yeah, particularly last night, that was such a nail byer, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.040 Like I didn't really have a dog in the fight, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.200 but it was just so back and forth, disallowed tries, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.960 then allowed tries, than a sideline conversion, just about to 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.560 win it, then all of a sudden, you guys won 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.280 in the end. How nervous were you watching that one? 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.720 Yeah, well, nervous is probably not the right word, but 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.360 like I was just on the edge of my seat 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.200 and adrenaline pumping, like show I could play a game. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.360 You know, kind of felt like I was missing out 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:39.839 a little bit. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.240 Focusing though on this weekend. You would have been pretty 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.640 stoked that the mark Or got up the other week 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.920 against Hawk's Bay, which means you have a challenge this Saturday. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.720 Yeah, I mean that's pretty cool. And obviously pretty cool 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.800 for the Marcael as well. To you not take that 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.880 back to Tasaman, the Tatsman region. I was almost just 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.440 as sort of on my edge of my seat as 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.559 I was on Saturday night as I was last night. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.320 Yeah with that game, as probably was most of Tasman 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.840 and Hawks Bay. But oh look, it's just it's an 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.400 awesome opportunity and that's the one thing that the Shield 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.680 gives the competition. There's a little bit of added either 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.719 it's pressure, you know, holding on to it, or a 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.760 little bit more excitement for teams to challenge for it. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.160 So there's not many competitions in the world that sort 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.320 of have that sort of well loggerwood that we call, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.400 have it throughout the season, which is bloody cool. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.760 Is it tough having it during your storm week? Like 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.360 if you had to pack a week to not have 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.120 the Shield challenge, this will probably be it because you 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.680 got two games in one week. Does that change anything 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.400 or do you think that just the fact that the 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.520 shield's up for grabs that will see the boys up enough? 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.360 Yeah, I think the boys will be pretty gig duck 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.760 ready to go, like we we actually when we had 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.040 the Shield. I've only ever challenged for the shield once. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.840 In twenty fourteen. We lost every single game for Wellington 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.360 except for the last one, and that was the what 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.000 we're holding up hopes on that Hawk's Bay challenge. But 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.520 now my second chance, so I don't think. And we 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.160 obviously had it. We defended it last year throughout storm Week, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.960 which was awesome. I think we actually played Tasmin on 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.840 the Wednesday night, So there is an added pressure for 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.480 the team that's kind of got it. But you're kind 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.600 of like a team that's visiting has got nothing to lose. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.880 You know, you win a game, you try and do 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.840 everything you possibly can. So it's tough, but I just 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.839 think it comes Sunday, the boys will be ready to 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.360 go regardless. I think CD Caleb Delaney will need to 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.880 put his legs on ice for a few days. We 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.040 don't care if he doesn't move until Sunday mornings to 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.360 make sure it's press ready to go. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.720 You know, I wanted to ask because neither of you 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.480 guys have lost. You know, I was looking at the 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.480 standings this morning. Do you ever get like the speed 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.880 wobbles after you've won so many games in a row? 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.360 Is that is there ever added pressure not to lose 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:53.959 that zero in the lost column. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.840 Yeah, probably a probably more external noise than anything else. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.560 A bit of a rugby term there. But I don't know, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.599 we kind of got I guess last year if you 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.120 look at the way we played, we kind of got 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.160 those speed wobbles towards the back end of the season. You know, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.480 when we played Hawk's Bay in the last round robin, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.679 then you know, played them again in the semi final. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.400 We couldn't quite get over the line. So I suppose 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.360 there was a little bit headed pressure, but also you know, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.400 brings a little bit of confidence. Like you look at 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.720 our squad last night. It just shows the great depths 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.120 at Willenton, scott and to get a one away from 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.680 home on a Wednesday night in Otago with you know, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.920 you know, I think we had five debutantes in the end, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.600 so you know, that's pretty exciting in itself. So it 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.560 doesn't you know, it doesn't add too much pressure, but 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.200 it definitely adds a bit at edge, I suppose. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.400 Yeah, speaking of you are your squad, Dips, You've got 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.560 a pretty pretty stack squad with super rugby players. You've got, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.400 as Mike Correcton's saying that Rubin love and the Doctor 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.640 Proctor's returning Is this this weekend? 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.680 Yeah, I read something yesterday. I think All Blacks might 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.960 have put something out saying who's available to play, So 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.920 we haven't selected them yet, but maybe if available. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.920 I think, yeah, look, that'd be pretty handy off the bench. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.520 I reckon there'd be the Lion's own bomb. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.160 Squad the game for the last couple. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.480 I think, I think it's. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.160 Going to be pretty even this weekend, you know. And 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.080 my reasoning is, I mean, it's a hell week for 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.920 for the for the Lions with two games, but I'm 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.120 I'm picking that the Tasman mark or may have pushed 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.760 the boat out and celebrations you see, and I think 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.880 they might be on the back foot slightly this week 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.280 in terms of preparation. So that's why I'm that's why 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.520 I'm picking potentially the Shield's going to head back over 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.880 the cook straight Mania you're discussed. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.400 Yeah, well, because right on from South Canterbury. I don't 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.080 know if you've paid much attention to the Heartland over 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.200 the last few years. South Canterbury haven't lost since pretty 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.680 much COVID, and so every year the Heartland team gets 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.600 the challenge for the Shield and I would love for 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.920 the Shield to end up back in Heartland. I think 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.280 it would just be one. It would be great for 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.960 the competition too. It'd actually be quite funny to have 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.360 the Shield just flitting around Heartland, you know, to see 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.720 all these different thans having it. But this year South 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.680 Canterbury couldn't afford to travel to Hawk's base. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:07.120 Yeah. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.800 So, but if it stays in Tasman. Selfishly, I just 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.000 wanted to stay in the South Island. Yeah, we'll pony 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:12.680 up for a coach. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.720 We'll coach, we'll they'll bust them there if they because 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.000 I reckon they were just runing scared. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:18.560 They didn't want to get a hiding. That's That's what 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.520 I'm thinking, Mina. But to be but to be fear, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.960 Wellington's not much further than Nelson, you know, if the. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.760 The fairy, who knows what, they might get stuck in 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.720 the middle of the straight. But I think it's on 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.640 your point. I think it's great that the Partlan gets 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.120 a challenge for it, and it would be it would 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.520 be so awesome if that Shield went down to that division. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.760 But you just don't want to be the team that 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:46.320 that division, so you m knows. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.160 Yeah, that's not something you want on your on your 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.680 working viedio page. While I've got you know, I've got 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.240 to I've got a question. What happened with the the 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.120 wasps thing over there? Did they I've never been able 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.080 to wrap my head around it. So they went under. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.360 Was that halfway through the season or something? Well ben't there? 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.120 Yeah, it was like so four games or five games 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:09.720 into the season, basically we got told, you know, halfway 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:15.040 through October. I think it was that. Basically the administrator 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.199 said that the club doesn't have any money to pay anyone, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.760 so we don't basically have a job. It was like 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.719 the week that weekend we played our game and then 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.359 they say it on the monday, Oh can you guys 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.560 all come in quite a four more sort of meeting, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.480 And a couple of weeks before that, they're all like, oh, yeah, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.320 it's gonna be good. We've got to buy we got this, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.760 We got that, and then got to that Monday and 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.600 I was like, no, I think it's not right to 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.960 fo more. And then that was that. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.159 It was a hell of a three years or so 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.560 for you though, because you went over there, you represented 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.520