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Speaker 1: Mid Canbury Hammer's coach is Matt Winter Morning morning, Loke

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Speaker 1: you kept up by the big thunder and lightning storm

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Speaker 1: last night?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Yeah, No, it was pretty impressive, pretty impressive. Felt

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Speaker 2: like the street was having a bit of a disco

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Speaker 2: and I wasn't invited. I know.

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Speaker 1: Well, I thought it was the next door neighbors kids

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Speaker 1: who are now on school holidays kick it off, and

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Speaker 1: I thought, she, this is going to be a long

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Speaker 1: summer break. But thankfully not the case. We've got some

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Speaker 1: spectacular footage coming through on the Hawknowy ashburs On Facebook page.

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Speaker 1: To be fair, I was standing by for the thunderous

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Speaker 1: applause that would have been radiating from the fine line

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Speaker 1: where you and our Hammer squad were gathered watching those

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Speaker 1: New Zealand Rugby awards last night. But no denied Men's

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Speaker 1: Team of the Year by the Crusaders, And I mean yes,

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Speaker 1: they had an outstanding turnaround season, but they still lost

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Speaker 1: three of their games. We had a perfect run, We

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Speaker 1: claimed the hen and Shield, we claimed the Meads Cup.

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Speaker 1: What more do they want? A spleen of kidney in

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Speaker 1: our firstborns?

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Speaker 2: Well that's why it sounds mate, Yeah, it doesn't say

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Speaker 2: we can do much more. But I suppose when we

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Speaker 2: turn around in a couple of months and the shield,

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Speaker 2: they're going.

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Speaker 1: To absolutely so. I guess there's been with that. In

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Speaker 1: our local awards that were held last week, which was

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Speaker 1: a great fear at the Events Center, there's been a

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Speaker 1: bit of reflection looking back on what's been what's been

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Speaker 1: top of your mind?

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Speaker 2: I just I suppose, mate, it's pretty been pretty cool year,

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Speaker 2: been pretty special year to be a part of. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: even now and then you catch yourself just looking back

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Speaker 2: on the things that happened on and off the park,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, now it was, yeah, pretty pretty cool to

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Speaker 2: be to be to be there. Really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that President Jock mentioned, and it's been

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Speaker 1: noted many times through the year, the culture through this

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Speaker 1: team and the respect that everybody's got for themselves and

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Speaker 1: everybody else. You know, he mentioned, for instance, when you

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Speaker 1: travel to those away games. I didn't even think about it,

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Speaker 1: but you know, the old making sure that we stay

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Speaker 1: seated until everybody else is off the plane before you know,

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Speaker 1: the players get up and move on. That's pretty neat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something that's been going on a long time,

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Speaker 2: long time before we started as involved at something. It's

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Speaker 2: just a big part of the traveling thing. And it's

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Speaker 2: just a bit of a sign of respect for everybody

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Speaker 2: because came of twenty three thirty fellows sit sort of

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Speaker 2: get off and have bags and everything can take up

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Speaker 2: a bit of time. So yeah, it's just the right

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Speaker 2: thing to do. It's just to let everyone go first.

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Speaker 2: It can cause a few headaches when we're running late

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Speaker 2: for flight.

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Speaker 1: Have been a couple of skiers, yeah, they.

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Speaker 2: Having been a couple of close calls, especially coming back

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Speaker 2: from Grisbon this year there was a playing on the

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Speaker 2: tarmac from Auckland to christ Each weren't very heavy with that, right,

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Speaker 2: that's right, But rules of rules, so we waited till

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Speaker 2: last again, so that's all right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But in regard to just you know, everybody seems

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Speaker 1: to want to be there having a good time. I

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Speaker 1: mean it helps when we're winning, of course, but in

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Speaker 1: just the commitment to you know, like some of those

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Speaker 1: loan players. I remember reading articles in the Herald about

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Speaker 1: you know, two hour round trips twice a week for training.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Lookt just it's hard to pin point one or

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Speaker 2: you know, a group like we've got a pretty special

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Speaker 2: group of fellows that are, yeah, pretty committed and love

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Speaker 2: what they do. So yeah, to have been able to

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Speaker 2: be a part part of that and get to work

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Speaker 2: with it, it's just just your absolute privilege, I suppose.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, those fellows they sacrifice a lot with. Look

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Speaker 2: at those all blacks and those professional raby players, and

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Speaker 2: we're supposed to call them role models. But in my eyes,

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Speaker 2: the fellows that I get to deal with and we

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Speaker 2: get to watch every weekend out of the show grounds,

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Speaker 2: I think they probably do be the job and some

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Speaker 2: of those professional fellows. So yeah, and it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: We're very lucky.

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Speaker 1: Will you be back in the top job next year?

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Speaker 2: Where else would you rather be? Absolutely yeah, bluddis mateld

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Speaker 2: nowhere else to be apart from yeah, sitting on there

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Speaker 2: in the showground stand losing the call all the time.

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Speaker 2: So that couldn't think anything better.

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Speaker 1: What are your plans for Christmas?

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Speaker 2: Were? Run home? We're round home. We're not going too far.

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Speaker 2: Number two's dull and febury, So missus doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: get too far away from our own bed at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So make congratulations.

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Speaker 2: I thank you, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: I could have warned you against it, but here we

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Speaker 1: are yeah right, he's all.

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Speaker 2: Right, it's too late too. And mcmire yeah, oh that'll

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Speaker 2: be awesome.

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Speaker 1: No, look, it has been one heck of a season

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Speaker 1: and if there's anything that epitomizes how rugby is woven

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Speaker 1: into the tapestry of this community and it's galvanized and

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Speaker 1: brought everybody together, it would be this season, and especially

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Speaker 1: that meets Cut final at the Showgrounds really stands out

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Speaker 1: as one of my yearly highlights. So you should be

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Speaker 1: and all the players should be absolutely brimming with pride,

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Speaker 1: enjoy a bit of a break and I look forward

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Speaker 1: to staying in touch into twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: A good man, I appreciate it, Luke. Thanks mate,