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Speaker 2: Are returned to familiar surroundings for four time at World
Speaker 2: Cup winner Kelly Brazier. She signed with the Chiefs Munaway
Speaker 2: and Super Rugby Opicky for next year, but will remain
Speaker 2: with the Blackburn Sevens on the World Series if selected
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Speaker 2: Frank Endicott after New Zealand's tournament opening defeat. The hands
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Speaker 2: And it's warm. Welcome to the programmer, to Greg Murphy
Speaker 2: and a Murph welcome on and I trust.
Speaker 3: You well, so I am thank you.
Speaker 2: You'll be taking keen interest in Formula one. I think
Speaker 2: a lot of New Zealanders are now we've got our
Speaker 2: tenth driver in there, Liam Lawson's he's shaking things up
Speaker 2: a little bit and I suppose that a little video
Speaker 2: of him flipping the bird is something that has really
Speaker 2: piqued the interest of a lot of people. Are the
Speaker 2: aggression there? Should he apologize for that?
Speaker 6: Do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It's a PC world we live in, mate, which is
Speaker 3: a real shame.
Speaker 4: So you know, you go and do something like that,
Speaker 4: which is great, it's great for the excitement of the sport,
Speaker 4: but it controvers you all the stuff, all the things
Speaker 4: we need to stay interested in things these days and
Speaker 4: then someone or he obviously maybe thought that they wouldn't
Speaker 4: see him do it. You know, it's going, oh, maybe
Speaker 4: it wasn't a good thing to do, and.
Speaker 3: I was it good for the brand and blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: And next minute you're apologizing. I'm sure he hasn't changed
Speaker 4: his thoughts around why he did it, and I thought
Speaker 4: it was fantastic. You know, It's like there was a
Speaker 4: bit of a riff going on there during the race
Speaker 4: between the two of them. Sergio didn't hold back on
Speaker 4: what he thought of Liam called him an idiot. So
Speaker 4: I think giving him this middle figure is only justification,
Speaker 4: perfect justification. So anyway, that's as I say, it's this
Speaker 4: pathetic world that we currently live in these days.
Speaker 3: You can't can't do things like that. Someone will be offended.
Speaker 2: How would you an ambrose go on the day and
Speaker 2: age do you think?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'd be fine because I don't care
Speaker 4: about social media and that respect, and I'm not worried
Speaker 4: about what people's opinions are.
Speaker 3: I didn't worry back then and I don't care now.
Speaker 4: It's people can say whatever they like preferred if they've
Speaker 4: got an opinion to come up and sat to my
Speaker 4: face and then hide behind it on a computer screen.
Speaker 4: But unfortunately that's the way it's done these days. So
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, social media has caused caused no end
Speaker 4: of controversy around its own own self for allowing allowing
Speaker 4: things to be said I suppose that shouldn't be and and.
Speaker 3: Then people's opinions, Yeah, you're taking putting weight behind the
Speaker 3: wrong the wrong thing. So it is what it is. Mate.
Speaker 3: He's doing a great job.
Speaker 4: He's doing everything that he needs to do Liam to
Speaker 4: give the team no option but to promote him to
Speaker 4: that top step. And Pereza's doing everything he possibly can to.
Speaker 3: To justify that decision.
Speaker 4: I mean, someone of it's been enough one that long
Speaker 4: to be knocked out in Q one in that car
Speaker 4: when your teammates, you know, on the front row and
Speaker 4: then go and park your car over your grid box.
Speaker 3: And then act like you didn't do it.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's someone who's long overdue for either retiring
Speaker 4: or replacement, certainly from a team like Red Bull. So
Speaker 4: he's under pressure and it's it's pretty obvious, obvious really
Speaker 4: that Red Bull needs to make the shift now. And
Speaker 4: I think even Christian Horne has maybe run out of
Speaker 4: patience with it as well. So Liam just keep doing
Speaker 4: what he's doing. He'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's storming a tea cup. It'll be forgotten soon.
Speaker 2: I think it's a lot of excan nationals to get
Speaker 2: really upset by the fact Checko's gone hor you know,
Speaker 2: Checko's not very happy, so they were piling into them.
Speaker 2: I understand where it comes from.
Speaker 4: Are they really I have not, As I say, I
Speaker 4: don't pay any attention. So if that's the case, it's
Speaker 4: not worth listening to.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm watching it because I can't help myself. I'm
Speaker 2: addicted to all of it. With Liam though, and what
Speaker 2: he's done, there's there's words now from Checko saying he's
Speaker 2: got to show more respect Fernando Alonso. He's not respectful that.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that for a second. You don't earn
Speaker 2: respect like that.
Speaker 3: You respect my winning Fernando.
Speaker 4: Fernando Alonso will be will be more impressed by the
Speaker 4: fact that Liam, you know, is treating him just like
Speaker 4: everyone else. So I wouldn't be wouldn't be listening to
Speaker 4: what Checko's got to say and giving his opinion on
Speaker 4: what someone else thinks. Right now, as I say he's
Speaker 4: the statements he's making and the way he's going on
Speaker 4: is based on someone who's under a huge amount of
Speaker 4: pressure to perform and proven that he's not capable.
Speaker 3: So, you know, I'm sure Fernando an.
Speaker 4: So has respect for the fact that Liam is racing
Speaker 4: him as hard as what he was. And and you know,
Speaker 4: when you're a double world champion and you're fighting rookie
Speaker 4: back in his you know, it's back at secutive Americas
Speaker 4: the other week in Texas. He's in the car for
Speaker 4: the first time this year and he's fighting Alonso. I
Speaker 4: think that's more about of frustration by Alonso, who should
Speaker 4: who believes he should be further up the grip.
Speaker 3: You read between the lines, you know, I've got to
Speaker 3: read between the lines.
Speaker 4: If one at the moment is very popular, it gets
Speaker 4: lots of attention and lots of people have opinions about it,
Speaker 4: and that's what we want. But you know, don't get
Speaker 4: too carried away and believing everything you know that you
Speaker 4: read or hear either because it doesn't in the greater
Speaker 4: scheme of the thing. It doesn't stand for a lot
Speaker 4: moving forward.
Speaker 2: You know, Liam, you know what he's done this the
Speaker 2: way he races, and I think he races with respect.
Speaker 2: When he's on the track. He doesn't go out of control,
Speaker 2: but he races with a massive amount of aggression, and
Speaker 2: we've seen that right the way through his serious As
Speaker 2: he builds up towards Formula One, he doesn't appear to
Speaker 2: have changed. He backs himself. He knows what he do.
Speaker 2: He can drive a wide car and he's got well,
Speaker 2: he's got nuts, hasn't he great? He really has.
Speaker 4: The big difference is he hasn't bought brought his way
Speaker 4: into into anything.
Speaker 3: He's done.
Speaker 4: He's did on merit. So he's driving a Formula one
Speaker 4: car on merit. He's a lot of drivers in that
Speaker 4: field who have bought their seat there and would like
Speaker 4: everyone to believe that they hadn't haven't. So you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know if we even need to justify it
Speaker 4: in any other way. He is there because he is
Speaker 4: a fantastic race car driver with the potential to be
Speaker 4: one of the best of all time. So you know,
Speaker 4: that's why he's there, and that's why Red Buller put
Speaker 4: him in a car. So if that wasn't the case,
Speaker 4: what's he doing there.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to disagree with you for one New
Speaker 2: York minute on that one. I think he's fantastic, But
Speaker 2: his behavior to me, I was like, well, it is
Speaker 2: what it is. I'm not exactly in love with that.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't like he crashed into the side of someone.
Speaker 2: He didn't get in anyone's way. It was a quick
Speaker 2: bubbed upright finger, That's all it was. And I'm off racing.
Speaker 2: It's nothing.
Speaker 4: I mean, just you know, the if you can drag
Speaker 4: something on for a long time and not have to
Speaker 4: go and actually do some.
Speaker 3: Real work, which is the case for a lot of journalism.
Speaker 4: These days, then you know that's what they'll do because
Speaker 4: it's a it's an easy thing to keep regurgitating.
Speaker 3: So it really means nothing in the great scheme of things.
Speaker 4: It's just to move on to the next one, which
Speaker 4: will be good because it will be it.
Speaker 3: We'll be at Brazil this weekend.
Speaker 4: Albeit I'm sure the Sky TV people and everybody else
Speaker 4: that does the coverage for Formula one will will drag
Speaker 4: it out and make a big deal of it this
Speaker 4: week because it's it is some kind of story. So anyway,
Speaker 4: he'll be focused on actually just going this weekend to
Speaker 4: sal Paula and putting in another great performance.
Speaker 2: I'm sure upping the anty and I love the sound
Speaker 2: effects and the crown with a fly. Greg mn if
Speaker 2: you always could get your opinions, thanks very much for
Speaker 2: joining the program.
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Speaker 2: He didn't see that coming, did you. In fact, nobody did,
Speaker 2: with the exception of the Silver Ferns themselves and of
Speaker 2: course their coaching staff led by Dame Nolin Todua. After
Speaker 2: flashing the Dunny on the Diamonds in the first two
Speaker 2: exchanges in New Zealand, it was roundly expected that the
Speaker 2: Diamonds would turn up and show the Silver Ferns just
Speaker 2: whose boss they showed up or right in Perth, But
Speaker 2: they didn't show the silver Ferns anything. A tight enough
Speaker 2: tussle if you will, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: the superior silky skills and the speed of the Silver
Speaker 2: Ferns proved too much for the Assie team to deal with. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and let's not forget the absolute weapon under the net.
Speaker 2: Someone we're going to lose for a year. Grace Weke
Speaker 2: is turning into one of the most outstanding netballers of
Speaker 2: modern times. I think that coming up tomorrow when the
Speaker 2: Silver Ferns try and sweep the Australian Diamonds, it would
Speaker 2: be great to see some changes within the lineup of
Speaker 2: the Silver Ferns and try and work on the possibility
Speaker 2: of not having Grace Wiki, which is a distinct possibility
Speaker 2: either through injury or if they don't let her play
Speaker 2: when she disappears off and plays over in Australia. But
Speaker 2: aside her, what a joy to watch in mid court,
Speaker 2: What a joy to watch Dave nol Lean enjoy the
Speaker 2: proceedings from the sideline after some pretty tough time she's
Speaker 2: been through. But look the players, they retool, they had
Speaker 2: a look at what went horribly wrong and they've now
Speaker 2: made it look horribly right. There is new energy in
Speaker 2: international netball and you've got to thank the Silver Ferns
Speaker 2: for that. Can't wait, I have to, of course, until
Speaker 2: the fourth and final. I'd like to see something change
Speaker 2: as far as the athletes, but are also really like
Speaker 2: to see a clean sweep, which is something I'd also
Speaker 2: like to see the black Caps do come their third
Speaker 2: and final Test match against the Indians. What a time
Speaker 2: it is to be a Kiwi sports fan.
Speaker 1: The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2: We'll join now in the chamber on the Lena by
Speaker 2: Digital Sport editor for he Zellen Herald, Alex Powell. Alex,
Speaker 2: welcome on and I trust you're well Aim. Were you
Speaker 2: as weirded out by the concept of n Z are
Speaker 2: stealing Cam George? It's a rumor that's since been dispelled,
Speaker 2: but my ear is peked when I saw this one. Well,
Speaker 2: when I heard this one, what do you make of that?
Speaker 2: And welcome?
Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks having me mate, I know it made perfect sense.
Speaker 7: Cam George has done incredible things commercially with the Warriors.
Speaker 7: You look at where they are as a club and
Speaker 7: I guess as a franchise what they're doing outside of
Speaker 7: the sport with opening a bar. If NSI are about
Speaker 7: finding new revenue streams, then why not go to Cameron George?
Speaker 2: How would the league community feel about that? Or is
Speaker 2: it all love more and no one actually cares whose
Speaker 2: side who's on?
Speaker 7: I imagine that'd probably be feeling the same way the trackside
Speaker 7: racing community felt when Cam George left there to go
Speaker 7: to the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Well, you want the best but insit, I said, now
Speaker 2: it's not happening, So does that mean it is?
Speaker 6: I mean, who knows.
Speaker 7: Cam George was also pretty steadfast that he hadn't been
Speaker 7: approached whether or not.
Speaker 6: Cam George would want to leave the Warriors right now.
Speaker 7: I mean, you look at the squad that they've got
Speaker 7: on paper for twenty twenty five, you'd say the window
Speaker 7: for them to actually want a premiership is probably only
Speaker 7: about two years two years wide. So if he's going
Speaker 7: to up sticks now and then they go to win
Speaker 7: the comp at you know, twenty five or twenty six,
Speaker 7: he's going to look a bit silly as he goes
Speaker 7: to try and dig enz there NZR out of the doldrums.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm personally between me and you and everybody listening
Speaker 2: to this. I'm involved in sport. I'm not going anywhere
Speaker 2: near z Are right now. It looks like a poison
Speaker 2: to tell us. That's another story though. On incidentally, I
Speaker 2: had a dream earlier this morning that Cam George wrung
Speaker 2: me up, this is about quarter to six in the
Speaker 2: morning and said, Dars, I've got some big news. Let's
Speaker 2: record now. Dream ended, And then that happened when I
Speaker 2: walked into work how twilight zone is that.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you gave a dream about me winning Lotto,
Speaker 6: then if that's how it.
Speaker 2: Goes, okay. I tend not to dream about my colleagues.
Speaker 2: I do dream about winning Formula One, as does Liam Lawson.
Speaker 2: Still want to teake up? Well, I really think it is.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't have been my reactions. I've come down a
Speaker 2: lot now on the road. But like he casually flicked
Speaker 2: the bird, flipped the bird, excuse me up at Sasjo
Speaker 2: Paris whilst passing passing him. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 7: Right, I mean it's standard in terms of the incidents
Speaker 7: that will go down in Formula on history that barely
Speaker 7: scratched as the surface.
Speaker 6: Although I will put.
Speaker 7: It to you you and I have both covered and
Speaker 7: dealt with Lim since he was a teenager. He's now
Speaker 7: twenty two. How good to see the bit of a
Speaker 7: dark side come out. You know he's got his elbows
Speaker 7: out in the last two races. He's showing he's not
Speaker 7: here to make friends.
Speaker 2: No, I've seen racing that as you would have done
Speaker 2: as well. And once the visor goes down, the lights
Speaker 2: go he's on. He gets his elbows out like the
Speaker 2: best of them. And he will not take a backward step.
Speaker 2: You're like you asked Marcus Armstrong some of the tussles
Speaker 2: they had in TRS and Formula too. This is not
Speaker 2: unusual the gesture. Maybe it was, but heat of the moment, yeah.
Speaker 7: Heat of the moment. I mean you look at the
Speaker 7: race vision from Liam's onboard. Peris was trying to slow
Speaker 7: him down. He was trying to ruin Liam's weekend, just
Speaker 7: like Limb had done to him a few laps earlier.
Speaker 7: So I'm completely team lost them from this, and I
Speaker 7: am very biased because, like I've said, I've covered Limb
Speaker 7: for a long time and wanted to do well.
Speaker 6: But I mean, just move on.
Speaker 7: I mean all of Mexico has now flooded Liam's social
Speaker 7: media and abusing him left right in the center in Spanish,
Speaker 7: let's just scrab up, guys.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest issue here for Red Bulls not
Speaker 2: the behavior of the young racing bull driver, but it's
Speaker 2: the behavior and the lack of talent shown by Yuki
Speaker 2: Sonoda and of course Sergio Perris. They have absolutely stumbled.
Speaker 2: They're being crushed under the pressure. Just look at their
Speaker 2: results of recent times. They ain't dealing with this very
Speaker 2: well at all, are they? That's the big issue.
Speaker 6: I think that's harsh on Yuki.
Speaker 7: Yuki has shown all weekend in Mexico that he was quirk,
Speaker 7: but once you know, he crashed and qualifying and then
Speaker 7: crashed again in the race. Perryes knows that his jobs
Speaker 7: not safe here, doesn't he his actions all weekend?
Speaker 6: He was not quirk.
Speaker 7: He got a lot of fanfare for a driver that
Speaker 7: qualified eighteenth. I was sim I would be looking over
Speaker 7: both shoulders at Lamb laws and coming for his job
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: You're on an overreaction. How about the Australian media over
Speaker 2: reaction wasn't overreaction. They just got absolutely slapped in the
Speaker 2: face by the Silver Ferns who up and dominated the
Speaker 2: Diamonds again, but this time at a home court for
Speaker 2: the Aussie don't I very much? Do they?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 7: I mean remember a couple of years ago when the
Speaker 7: Silver Ferns won both of those tests in New Zealand
Speaker 7: and then completely lost it over the ditch. So a
Speaker 7: how good is it see that Daniel en Turu and
Speaker 7: her coaching staff have been able to fix that in
Speaker 7: this window. You're right, they don't like losing, then not
Speaker 7: they will accept you know, are lost in new Zeands,
Speaker 7: but not three and definitely not three in a row.
Speaker 2: They're going to come back firing or do you think
Speaker 2: it's all over lights out in Melbourne? Because I would
Speaker 2: like to see, and I've talked about this in my
Speaker 2: opinion piece, maybe a slight change up and look to
Speaker 2: see what else they can do under the net. Because
Speaker 2: Grace wiki as good as she is, she ain't going
Speaker 2: to be around forever and if they don't give a dispensation,
Speaker 2: she's not going to be around for a whole year.
Speaker 2: So maybe a bit of room to test the waters.
Speaker 6: Elex, I see that, But I raise your four nil.
Speaker 7: You know how good would it be to be the
Speaker 7: first silver fir in stent to go over and completely
Speaker 7: whitewash them in the modern era?
Speaker 2: Well, maybe whitewash them in the first three quarters and
Speaker 2: then when it's beyond reproach, they led someone else in
Speaker 2: to finish the job. How about that.
Speaker 7: Let's look at that with the shoe on the other
Speaker 7: foot though, if that's Australia to us three and up,
Speaker 7: they're not taking their foot off the gas by any means,
Speaker 7: are they.
Speaker 6: They are coming for blood and I.
Speaker 2: Think we should return the compliment. I take back everything
Speaker 2: I said and I hope they well they shred them
Speaker 2: in Melbourne and on that. Mister digital sports editor for
Speaker 2: The New Zealand Herald, Alex Powell.
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