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Speaker 3: And a very good morning to James mconey more than me, Iah.
Speaker 3: How's it going? Yeah, happy Halloween Boxing Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose it isn't there any Halloween. There'd be
Speaker 1: a lot of Halloween sales on right now, isn't there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's Halloween always in my neighborhood, which is basically
Speaker 4: your neighborhood. And I think the code is you're going
Speaker 4: to put out orange balloons?
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, some kind of paraphernalia.
Speaker 1: It did see on the local Facebook community pages, people
Speaker 1: being like, if the house isn't decorated, don't go up
Speaker 1: there trick or trading, which I thought was quite good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and no one did this year for me, which is good.
Speaker 1: I'd lock the gate anyway, sir.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I did a bit of a gate shut as well,
Speaker 4: because I'm a massive Grench around Halloween.
Speaker 3: And but then I.
Speaker 4: Looked at my house and you mistake some of the
Speaker 4: flotsam and jetsam for decorations. You know, there's a bit
Speaker 4: of a there's a few things that need to be
Speaker 4: thrown out that I'm just like, could that look like
Speaker 4: pretend you know, sort of spiders whibs and stuff, actual
Speaker 4: actual spiders whibs.
Speaker 3: It looks like, yeah, it does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't go up there, they say, still lips and
Speaker 1: don't go up there.
Speaker 3: He's only got a Turkish delight and cherry rape nobody
Speaker 3: likes them. Well.
Speaker 1: He had a flat mate when I was at UNI
Speaker 1: who would never come and do the flat shop with us,
Speaker 1: and whenever we went and did it, we buy ourselves
Speaker 1: a chocolate barriage. And every time we bring him back
Speaker 1: a cherry ripe, there's like an if you for not
Speaker 1: coming to do the flat shop with us, and he
Speaker 1: gets saying, no, I love cherry ripes. At the end
Speaker 1: of the year we went into his room. His top
Speaker 1: drawings has been full of cherry ripes that we brought
Speaker 1: him back every flat shop.
Speaker 4: But also in the dark when he's he's pulled, it
Speaker 4: does look like he's got a draw of condoms as well,
Speaker 4: super safe cherry flavored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was the full candy US as well.
Speaker 1: So I guess the magnums mcconey you won US Game
Speaker 1: of Two Halves last night, did I? Yes, So if
Speaker 1: you didn't watch it, we did the buzz the Burner game,
Speaker 1: which they did on the original Game of Two Halves
Speaker 1: because we have to tick someone and they have to
Speaker 1: call in, and we did third person to call in.
Speaker 1: Once you called in first you were too quick, yeah,
Speaker 1: Then Petty Gower called in, then you called back and
Speaker 1: was subsequently the third person and those are the three
Speaker 1: points we needed to win basically, So that was you
Speaker 1: with Ross Taylor, Yes, And who else was Brodi Kine
Speaker 1: and she ticks Patty Gower so he you called first,
Speaker 1: then her one came through.
Speaker 3: Man, how much it was about that.
Speaker 4: The question was who was what's the name of the
Speaker 4: waitress who allegedly poisoned the nine ninety five all blocks
Speaker 4: at Rugby World Cup?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the answer was Susie. Answer was Susie. But
Speaker 3: you had to be the third caller. And it's kind
Speaker 3: of one of those things.
Speaker 4: I definitely think it helps if you're a bit older
Speaker 4: for that one, you know, Yeah, but it's still is
Speaker 4: you know, nine only five, Susie was talked about a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he was everywhere. Did anyone even know who Susie was?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I mean i've because I worked with Josh Cronfell. It's
Speaker 4: just the name drop, but it's it's a fair enough
Speaker 4: one because he does work for Crowdgoes Wild. He has
Speaker 4: said that he thought it was the chicken Burgers, and
Speaker 4: also there was there was I think it was chicken burgers.
Speaker 4: And because there's a group of them that all went
Speaker 4: and just did their own thing and went down to McDonald's.
Speaker 4: I think it was Frank Buntz, John Olomou, Eric Rushes,
Speaker 4: a whole group of them. It just didn't and they
Speaker 4: didn't get sick, but it was partaking in the old
Speaker 4: chicken burgers. It looked a bit green. Yeah, right, so
Speaker 4: undercooked chicken. I've been poisoned in South Africa by under undercooked.
Speaker 3: Chicken as well.
Speaker 4: SUSI got you, Susie got me in twenty ten, jays, how.
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 4: I was at the breakfast buffet and I could see
Speaker 4: that they were handling a raw chicken as well as toasts.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just a bad combo when you know
Speaker 4: they're doing those two things.
Speaker 3: They're multitasking. Why why did they have chicken and toast?
Speaker 4: Well, on the one hand they're washing a check and
Speaker 4: on the other hand they're putting the toast in the
Speaker 4: I don't know, it just stuffed. There's a lot going on,
Speaker 4: and I felt like that's where I pinpointed it too.
Speaker 4: I mean, I could have easily got swine flu.
Speaker 3: You look at me. I feel like, you know, a
Speaker 3: war dog could have just brushed against her or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: I've had the old salmonella diet before. It was the
Speaker 1: butter chicken at the food court at the Meridian Center
Speaker 1: in Dunedin.
Speaker 3: Yeah you, oh straight away.
Speaker 1: The sheets hurt when I was lying in bed the
Speaker 1: whole week and my sheets hurt.
Speaker 3: They had to take them off as how. Croco was
Speaker 3: so yes, congratulations on that.
Speaker 4: By the way, Bradie Kane on Game of Two halves
Speaker 4: every time she is a freaking encyclopedia, isn't she.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, and it's a strange set of knowledge as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's motorsport fact.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, she beat Lisa Carrington like a some
Speaker 1: sort of surf life saving event, which.
Speaker 3: Was Yeah, she was good.
Speaker 4: I raced her actually once in a we wanted to swim.
Speaker 4: It was a Christmas party for Radio Live now defunct
Speaker 4: Radio Live, and I said to Bradie Kane, go on,
Speaker 4: then I'll race you over to that boat.
Speaker 3: So we had to run.
Speaker 4: Across Cox's Bay Reserve, hop into the water, swim out
Speaker 4: to the boat.
Speaker 3: Anyway. He's just about walk out there at Cox Yeah
Speaker 3: he could.
Speaker 4: It was pathetic, but there was a big warning about
Speaker 4: you know, poos in the water or something like that,
Speaker 4: so we couldn't need to swim. We both back down
Speaker 4: from that, so it was a straight running race. I
Speaker 4: beat her, Yeah, nice, I beat Brady Kane.
Speaker 1: And so by extension, you're faster than Lisa caring Kne exactly.
Speaker 3: That's right. The goat in the boat at.
Speaker 1: Least across land, Yeah, exactly. McCartney's got a number. The
Speaker 1: All Backs team was named yesterday. Mccaroniy, I've taken the
Speaker 1: liberty of printing you out a copy at the back
Speaker 1: of you we run down there. But the biggest point
Speaker 1: would be one Boden Barrett has taken the number ten
Speaker 1: Jersey off Damian McKenzie.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think that's that's the way it was trending
Speaker 4: wasn't it When you get cent ahead, you know on
Speaker 4: the advanced flight, it's like.
Speaker 3: Who's going to play against than you are?
Speaker 4: And so, which is pretty cool for someone like tupo
Speaker 4: Au as well, because it's like, hey, you're on that
Speaker 4: flight too, mate, don't you worry?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're one of the first teams.
Speaker 4: So I think it's it's great that's kept his spot
Speaker 4: ahead of Patrick Tupul or two. You know, that's that's
Speaker 4: a big deal for a young type five forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It a pump his tires up a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well they take a bit of the pressure off, you like,
Speaker 1: because you'd feel like you're going to get cut at
Speaker 1: any moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it would be a good little gum.
Speaker 4: Mate, go mate, you're actually that you know he's been
Speaker 4: bloody good.
Speaker 3: But yes, I agree. Boden is a big talking point.
Speaker 3: I think cam roy guard off the bench.
Speaker 4: It feels like this could be his tour, you know,
Speaker 4: it's the comeback tour. He was cutting capers in Japan
Speaker 4: without putting a sort of a full stop on it.
Speaker 4: There was one where he just went by himself and
Speaker 4: it was a massive hungus move, you know when the
Speaker 4: big overlap. Yeah, I think he was two meters out
Speaker 4: from the try line and he was going you know,
Speaker 4: it was like that what's that video game where the
Speaker 4: go goes le Roy Johnson and he just runs off
Speaker 4: by himself.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that was one of the call of duty's
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, yeah, Leroy Jenkins, Leroy Jenkins.
Speaker 4: So he went full Leroy Jenkins by himself when he
Speaker 4: had about four people outside him. And I'm sure the
Speaker 4: video session it must have had a group session where
Speaker 4: they went.
Speaker 1: Fucking hungers, he fucking hummer, the ballast the ball I
Speaker 1: think if he hadn't been out for a year, he
Speaker 1: probably would have, you know, but he hasn't played foot
Speaker 1: in so long. Is this a I mean, this is
Speaker 1: obviously a massive vote of confidence in Boden Barrett as
Speaker 1: the number one, number ten because this this is a
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if it's must win, but
Speaker 1: this is the biggest test that.
Speaker 3: We've had in quite a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so obviously these are this is the best
Speaker 1: possible team we could put on the field.
Speaker 3: What does that mean for d mach going forward? My
Speaker 3: reading too far into it. I feel that d mac as.
Speaker 4: I feel like Mak is a team guy anyway, so
Speaker 4: he'll take the bench with good attitude.
Speaker 3: He knows.
Speaker 4: I think he realizes that he is so important to
Speaker 4: that team because just as Spark, he provides as as
Speaker 4: elite you know like that. England have got one guy
Speaker 4: like that, Marcus Smith, right, and so we've got we've
Speaker 4: got two guys like that, and you'd probably put Roy
Speaker 4: Guard in that category as well, just in terms of
Speaker 4: you know, Spark plug off the bench. So I reckon
Speaker 4: England will be shitting their pants about DMC coming coming
Speaker 4: on and cutting capers. They'll have to have a plan
Speaker 4: for for that, because everything changes when he's injecting himself
Speaker 4: into the game. Boden though, my my theory, my feeling
Speaker 4: about Boden, I've got very strong feelings and about and
Speaker 4: about four and about he. I reckon he was never
Speaker 4: given enough of a run in the number ten Jersey
Speaker 4: and even though he had these sort of speed wobbles
Speaker 4: where he didn't play well enough and it was clear
Speaker 4: Richie Wonger was kind of starting to eclipse, and I
Speaker 4: felt like Boden was never given the chance to kind
Speaker 4: of iron those out, like you have a shaky lion
Speaker 4: series like he did well, then surely the next year
Speaker 4: he's gonna go, Okay, I've learned, I've learned from that,
Speaker 4: let's go, let's go oh and own it all the
Speaker 4: way through to the twenty nineteen World Cup. And he's
Speaker 4: never really given that chance. And do you think McKenzie's
Speaker 4: gone through that now a little bit?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he needs to actually have all those you know,
Speaker 4: those games where you just go fuck. Should have just
Speaker 4: not thrown the reverse flip pass, yeah, to a giant
Speaker 4: prop who needed it right in the bread basket, all
Speaker 4: that stuff.
Speaker 1: A The other one that I thought was interesting is
Speaker 1: the group got dropped and they asked Razor about it,
Speaker 1: and he said that he didn't meet internal standards, and
Speaker 1: then when he was pressed on it, he just kept repeating,
Speaker 1: we've got our own internal standards.
Speaker 3: He didn't meet them there anything, What did the group do?
Speaker 3: What could he have done?
Speaker 4: I mean, I am Grout, one of the great tourists,
Speaker 4: and here's the one who said in Washington, with all
Speaker 4: the monuments, including the Washington Monument, it's not the it's no,
Speaker 4: it's no Brown Trout from Gore, you know, which is
Speaker 4: just an perfect tourist. I don't know what happened there,
Speaker 4: but every now I'm in razor. He's quite he's quite
Speaker 4: good with the media in the in the sense that
Speaker 4: he'll he'll say stuff, you'll bat things away, and then
Speaker 4: all of a sudden he will just go, oh, I know,
Speaker 4: we send him away to do this, this and this,
Speaker 4: Like he said, Oh, I'm a penny fe now I
Speaker 4: need to go away and put on weight. I'm like,
Speaker 4: come to my place mate, I'll show you.
Speaker 3: Come down the on Saturday night. Yeah, the pork belly
Speaker 3: at the raza, hold the broccoli for you. We'll get
Speaker 3: your chip. But the thing is all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: Then I'm not sure that you're making it sound like
Speaker 4: maybe there was a disciplinary thing.
Speaker 1: That's what I immediately go to when hear that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unless maybe it was a fitness thing. But then why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you just say it was a fitness thing, you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I've been to all Blacks trainings, especially the
Speaker 4: start of tours, start of seasons, where all the naughty
Speaker 4: kids in terms of fitness out and it's always fucking
Speaker 4: wingers and props, you know, like the whole time, like
Speaker 4: they just they won't do their homework, you know, and
Speaker 4: it'll be like just some bloody Charlie FuMO and Julian
Speaker 4: Savia just doing broncos or some.
Speaker 3: Sort of shit running exactly. Yeah, I could have been there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I just think if you if,
Speaker 1: if that's what it was, why not say oh, it's just.
Speaker 3: A fitness issue.
Speaker 1: And then that sort of quells it because my conspiratorial
Speaker 1: mind's like that he hit the past, did he less
Speaker 1: his fly? What did he what did he get up to?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if we found something out. How
Speaker 1: do you think we're going to go against England this weekend?
Speaker 4: I think I think we beat England. I think Ireland
Speaker 4: and France are the slippery ones. But the thing is
Speaker 4: England have kept improving. But the issue for them is,
Speaker 4: well we've had a whole season to work out stuff out.
Speaker 4: They haven't seen Wallace the TT yet and he's going
Speaker 4: to be unleashed, or they might he might have come
Speaker 4: on off the bench, but anyway, he's a revelation.
Speaker 3: So Caleb Clark as well.
Speaker 4: After just having this awesome season, we've got this strike
Speaker 4: winger who I don't think they'll be able to cope with.
Speaker 4: And again that bench I was looking at Almore Roy
Speaker 4: guard and d Mac in particular and Tossi Pascilli or Tossi. Yeah,
Speaker 4: coming off the bench, I was like, Tossy looks like
Speaker 4: he has done his fitness right, Yeah, he's looking slum.
Speaker 3: He does. He does.
Speaker 1: It's actually almost shocking when you see him out on
Speaker 1: the Fieldy I didn't. Yeah, okay, because you remember him
Speaker 1: or you a picture him. It's the biggest man you've
Speaker 1: ever seen in your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got a bit of shape about him. Yeah, Godzilla,
Speaker 3: you've fucking trimmed down, haven't you, mate?
Speaker 1: And no respite either as to Mighty Williams comes off
Speaker 1: in the fiftieth sixtieth minute usually as a prop you're
Speaker 1: breathing of siyah relief, not we'll got another one.
Speaker 3: Comes to see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like Jurassic Park where that one of the
Speaker 4: great scenes with the water and on the dashboard of
Speaker 4: the car starts to make little ripples and you go,
Speaker 4: oh fuck, t Rex is here. So when England lose,
Speaker 4: we went sacked in England.
Speaker 3: We're doing the hacker. You can't stop us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, what do you think of old Joe
Speaker 1: mart I know he's come out and said, oh.
Speaker 3: He was just a tongue in cheeks, so they having
Speaker 3: a correct Yeah, no, I mean it's weird. I think Look,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's called war.
Speaker 4: Dancers are therefore all in Sundry and in fact Australia
Speaker 4: and South Africa shoulde hundred percent be doing one. Yes,
Speaker 4: I've fucking missed the boat big time because we know
Speaker 4: I've seen, I've been to those countries. They've got some
Speaker 4: awesome shit going on in that over it and that
Speaker 4: kind of genre. So fucking do one. Whereas England can
Speaker 4: do one, can do one, whereas England are like pissing around.
Speaker 3: I mean everyone the jokes. Are they going to do
Speaker 3: a Morris dance?
Speaker 4: Well there's other ship if you want, if you want
Speaker 4: to do one, but I know we don't because we're
Speaker 4: here to play rugby stiff shit man. We do the hucker, yes,
Speaker 4: and get the may pole out or shut up, bring
Speaker 4: that pole if it's a strip of pole, fine whatever,
Speaker 4: just use any pole you can express yourself.
Speaker 1: We'd love to see this goal post there. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: one's stopping you from using those. Yeah, run a couple
Speaker 1: of bloody strings.
Speaker 3: Ribbons yeah, ribbons, yes, ribbons.
Speaker 1: Morris darts would be that, it would actually be the
Speaker 1: perfect counter to the hucker.
Speaker 3: It would just the most bizarre.
Speaker 4: Or a Monty Python dance where they slap the fish
Speaker 4: on the If you slap someone with a fish, I
Speaker 4: think it will be all on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, yeah, toy much clip clopping with the coconuts.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, okay, just quickly before we're going
Speaker 3: to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: But before we do, g Lane has got a hold
Speaker 1: of the tearb account and he's put today's a sec
Speaker 1: agenda hunch on. He's gone for the Brazilian Grand Prix
Speaker 1: and he's gone Liam Lawson for a points finish nice
Speaker 1: at three dollars, which I thought, it's pretty good, Like
Speaker 1: it's quite short. He's looking good, yes, and he's passing
Speaker 1: everyone off. He's given the flipping the bird. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize it was his teammate that he flipped the bird too.
Speaker 1: Yeah he or is it a it's not his teammate.
Speaker 1: There's like two red Bull teams. Sorry, so it's the
Speaker 1: other red Bull team, right, but I mean I guess
Speaker 1: that's no.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, you're quite right, that's right, the other red
Speaker 4: Bull team. But yeah, it is kind of I guess
Speaker 4: they related don't they. Yeah, well yeah, it's like I mean,
Speaker 4: it's yeah, you're definitely going to see them quite close
Speaker 4: in the pits, aren't you. You're not going to be
Speaker 4: totally separated.
Speaker 1: It's like me flipping off Jason Hoyt while he's doing
Speaker 1: his drive show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly what you do frequently, which I do every
Speaker 3: day I'm out of building.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going to come across each other and
Speaker 1: put lane at some point, and it's on Jason hord.
Speaker 1: I hope you listen to this. All right, quick break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk a little bit of n RL.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back from the first of our paid
Speaker 1: o breaks. Have you said that story about the company
Speaker 1: offering O breaks?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, six for a company offering it's quite good.
Speaker 3: And Organs back. So McCay and I have just had
Speaker 3: an break separate, but maybe the next one. We joined
Speaker 3: the NRL.
Speaker 1: So it's first of November, as I said, pension punch,
Speaker 1: and it kind of almost feels like they're starting to
Speaker 1: get a bit of an off season free agency thing
Speaker 1: going in the NRL. So what's happened is basically, if
Speaker 1: your contract, the contracts are up until October thirty, first,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of players who are off contract.
Speaker 1: There's also the first day that you're allowed to talk
Speaker 1: to other clubs officially if you are on contract. But
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of like back room shit
Speaker 1: that goes on. So that's why you're seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of headlines around player movement in the NRL. I feel
Speaker 1: like I've always complained about the way players move in
Speaker 1: the NRL, Like there'll be a player who's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving after the season, like we just had with
Speaker 1: ad Infanua Blake, Yeah, and I for the whole season,
Speaker 1: You've got to sit there and be like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: he's fucking off at the end of the year. You know,
Speaker 1: they need some sort of trade window free agency situation.
Speaker 3: That always been the.
Speaker 4: Weirdest thing in the NRL, as a guy announcing that
Speaker 4: he's leaving and then it's just six or maybe four
Speaker 4: months of just weirdness, awkwardness and then hoping that they
Speaker 4: that there might be a playoff run. But probably in
Speaker 4: their heart of hearts, they like thinking, actually, like a
Speaker 4: proper off season before I have to go and run
Speaker 4: on other sand dunes somewhere around.
Speaker 3: The good point, you know, like how do they get proper?
Speaker 3: Do they? I mean delivering a.
Speaker 4: Title to your old team. I guess that will be
Speaker 4: still cool. But your mind's elsewhere. You're looking on real estate,
Speaker 4: dot com, dot au for your new digs.
Speaker 1: Everything is trying to find a home for your dogs.
Speaker 1: Ye take it back to Australia with you.
Speaker 3: All of that. It's expensive a to take a dog
Speaker 3: over there.
Speaker 1: Or they think you can afford it. A few other
Speaker 1: number one paid proper in the league anyway.
Speaker 4: Yes, but anyway, that's that's by the bye. The fact
Speaker 4: that when James Fisher Harris was signed, I just remember thinking,
Speaker 4: all ship, that's it's actually good. I didn't think we
Speaker 4: were going to get anyone in as good as Adam
Speaker 4: Fanua Blake. But we've done that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have done that. That's exactly it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's it's all very confusing, but a
Speaker 1: lot of players changing teams. Obviously, yesterday, just after we
Speaker 1: finished recording, the Warriors signed Tanner Boyd And there were
Speaker 1: two reactions that I've seen to this from Gold Coast
Speaker 1: Titans the Gold Coast SARTs. The first reaction was who
Speaker 1: and the second reaction was do we need that? So
Speaker 1: Tanner Boyd. If you don't know who he is, he
Speaker 1: plays for the Titans. He's a half that can cover
Speaker 1: hooker as well ki Assie. He's an Aussie as far
Speaker 1: as I know, But I also thought Phoenix Crossland was
Speaker 1: an Aussie in terns out. Yeah, he's a proper k
Speaker 1: well into yeah yeah, so as far as I know,
Speaker 1: he's Australian. But I guess the confusing part is we
Speaker 1: also signed Aaron Clark from the Titans, who's a hooker
Speaker 1: slip right Locke. We've basically pillaged there. The bench is
Speaker 1: now our bitch, so that hooker slash lose forward is it? There?
Speaker 4: Is that a panic by after Ja Stavangert left or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 3: It kind of seemed like that. It is a bit
Speaker 3: of a much for a muchness sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But I really don't know where Tanner Boyd fits into
Speaker 1: the to the Warriors thing. He's not going to be
Speaker 1: one of our starting halves. He won't be our starting hooker.
Speaker 1: I guess it's injury cover for if Wade Eggan gets
Speaker 1: his dumb rattled again. But there's been a few more
Speaker 1: interesting headlines out of the NRL in the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours the main one is and everyone knew this,
Speaker 1: but josh Ado Carr has officially been.
Speaker 3: Sacked by the Bulldogs. What for this time?
Speaker 1: Josh Adow lines in the car got done for test
Speaker 1: a positive for cocaine at a roadside drug test over
Speaker 1: there in Australia and the the NRL handed him a
Speaker 1: four match suspension, but the Bulldogs said because of a
Speaker 1: lack of transparency, I he wouldn't talk to them about
Speaker 1: what had happened, what hadn't happened. There's a chance he
Speaker 1: probably tried to cover it up and they said, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna bin here.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: If there's a team that needs a winger without an outspeed,
Speaker 1: it is the one New Zealand Warriors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, we.
Speaker 4: Don't mind, mate, come over here. We'll give you an
Speaker 4: Uber account or something. The thing with I wonder if
Speaker 4: he was stopped by that Ossie Checkpoint TV show. Have
Speaker 4: you seen it where they blow in the bag and
Speaker 4: then they put them in the light. You don't know
Speaker 4: where is it going to go over the limited and
Speaker 4: you're waiting. Sometimes I'll cut to in the head and you.
Speaker 3: Go, oh, you fastest, because there's.
Speaker 4: Some bloody, bloody Bogan and his single It just waiting
Speaker 4: and just saying, no, mate, I've only had a couple
Speaker 4: and bloody, I'm absolutely fine, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: And you're going, no, you're not, and then he blows
Speaker 4: in the bag and it's like, actually he is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, It's like I can't believe that because his
Speaker 4: speech was slurs and everything, and so I'm just wondering.
Speaker 4: I was hoping that Josh had Oca was caught on
Speaker 4: that show.
Speaker 3: That would have been great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite clips on social media. I
Speaker 1: laugh as I cry every time I said this guy wasted.
Speaker 1: His eyes are rolling in the back of his head
Speaker 1: and it's just like on the brink of passing out,
Speaker 1: and then it comes up green and he's fine, He's fine.
Speaker 3: Exactly what the hell like?
Speaker 4: Sometimes the machine explodes the ones who carry it, who
Speaker 4: hide it, well, the old boys a you know in
Speaker 4: an old commodore, you know, the Commodore Calaei or something
Speaker 4: like that, and you think that all right, and it's like, no, no,
Speaker 4: he's fucking eighty percent whiskey.
Speaker 3: You actually have you seen the guy that.
Speaker 1: Drives around our neighborhood on a paramedic heels bike thing.
Speaker 1: He goes up and down to the I think to
Speaker 1: THEAH in our neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, it's like decked out
Speaker 1: in paramedic heels. Anyway, I think that a lot of
Speaker 1: those mobility scooters for those old guys, are to get
Speaker 1: away from the drink driving because can't get done on sidewalk.
Speaker 3: You will get you kick.
Speaker 4: Can you're not on a mobility scooter, Well they must
Speaker 4: find you can't.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a good question. They're not going
Speaker 3: to pull you over. But yeah, but if.
Speaker 4: They saw you weaving around on your mobility scooter, some
Speaker 4: of them end up on the you know, you could
Speaker 4: get done.
Speaker 3: They go bucking rogue.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I almost got hit by a bike on
Speaker 4: the footpath today.
Speaker 3: And there's so many cycle lades in central Auckland. I
Speaker 3: was like, what the fuck.
Speaker 4: There's one right over there. And this guy had a
Speaker 4: little crate on the front. Have you seen him around
Speaker 4: the crate guy and craig guy. I think he has
Speaker 4: the crate in case he sees bits and pieces on
Speaker 4: the on the Yeah, yeah, he's anyway, it's just about
Speaker 4: cleaning out. So who else are we getting the wires?
Speaker 1: So the wars we are getting Aaron Clark, who's a
Speaker 1: son of Timapatter Clark George.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, she Tima Patter George these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah Clark anyway, Yeah, so yeah, that's and he's been
Speaker 1: with the Warriors before.
Speaker 3: I think she presented him as Jersey when he first played. Awesome,
Speaker 3: So he's coming back.
Speaker 1: And then Tanner Boys obviously James Fisher Harris as well.
Speaker 1: But we've lost Marcelo Montour, yes, so we're down a winger.
Speaker 1: So we could probably do with Josh edow lines in
Speaker 1: the car. Tyrone Thompson was a brother of Leoson Jeeves
Speaker 1: Monna plays for your Chiefs mana. He's hitting over, he's
Speaker 1: leaving the Chiefs. He's going to join his brother at
Speaker 1: the Nights.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful sort of fairy tale story, this one,
Speaker 4: because I feel like Tyrone is an exact what would
Speaker 4: you call a description of a rugby player who was
Speaker 4: always between three or four positions.
Speaker 3: He wasn't a perfect hooker.
Speaker 4: He wasn't he could have played loose forward, but probably not,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know, just he wasn't so big
Speaker 4: enough or all hookers or rapid or you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. Like there's that thing where you go, yeah,
Speaker 4: all hookers are that guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all hookers are loose forwards that never grow true.
Speaker 4: And so you go, Okay, this is actually good for him.
Speaker 4: League solves that problem. And I feel like there's a
Speaker 4: lot of small guys in union. Like there's a guy,
Speaker 4: what's his name is, Jared Cook Savage. You know, he's
Speaker 4: a combination of Captain Cook's first landing. It's like he
Speaker 4: is the guy who's little and buzzes around the NPC.
Speaker 3: Looks kind of good. But in an NRL team, yeah he.
Speaker 4: Could because they've got those little spots for a fallback
Speaker 4: or a impact hooker or whatever you know. Like, and
Speaker 4: there's two halves who are generally quite small, so there's
Speaker 4: at least four positions out there in the league that
Speaker 4: you can fill.
Speaker 1: League players are deceptively small. Yeah, when you see them
Speaker 1: out in the out in the wild, like is actually
Speaker 1: quite small. I reckon it's why Benji couldn't transfer to
Speaker 1: rugby union.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a little bit too small for a first five.
Speaker 3: And he wasn't really a first five, no natural position
Speaker 3: for him, no, exactly. He did it the other way.
Speaker 4: Whereas always look at even justin Marshall. He was a
Speaker 4: really good halfback, but you know in league it would
Speaker 4: have been because he's so combative and stuff, and he
Speaker 4: could have probably been a really good hooker in league.
Speaker 3: Same with TJP.
Speaker 4: He's been eclipsed by those young guys, but he always
Speaker 4: seemed to me like he probably could have made the move.
Speaker 4: And Jimmy cown Yeah, well yeah, he would have loved
Speaker 4: the the afters. He would have loved the parties on
Speaker 4: the Goaldie. I reckon, jim I think he's a power
Speaker 4: diver down there and in the cargo now is even bluff?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh nice? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: Could never get him, could never get a hold of him.
Speaker 1: Does never his phone on him when he's down there
Speaker 1: under the water. The other, the other one that really
Speaker 1: caught my eye.
Speaker 3: Is Terrell May. So he is he You may have
Speaker 3: heard of him.
Speaker 1: He's a prop for the Roosters who just lost Jared
Speaker 1: Wide your hardgravees can we as well? Terrell May has
Speaker 1: been dropped by the Roosters that sort of came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Now his brother is the one who got
Speaker 1: May tattooed across his throat.
Speaker 3: Do you remember seeing that?
Speaker 1: So Tyrone is his name. He played for the was
Speaker 1: he Tyrone? Yeah, he played for the Panthers. He got
Speaker 1: may tattooed across his throat. Then he filmed himself doing
Speaker 1: about one hundred and something k's past the school in
Speaker 1: a rented supercar.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, got his contract torn up.
Speaker 1: Terrell may Is the guy was one of the guys
Speaker 1: in the video with Brandon Smith earlier this year. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: when they're all in the hotel room.
Speaker 3: So what's happened to him?
Speaker 1: Don't know, but he so just torn his contract up.
Speaker 1: The thing is he's had a breakout season. They just
Speaker 1: signed him to a two year extension. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: just lost another one of their props. They then they
Speaker 1: drop them. Something's going on there.
Speaker 4: He sounds like the perfect we called fodder for that
Speaker 4: NRL three sixty exactly because they would love to talk
Speaker 4: about all the drama of a young prop doing naughty things.
Speaker 4: They're never going to talk about the drama of a
Speaker 4: senior official at a club or maybe a club owner.
Speaker 3: But they will bloody whale on any young any young
Speaker 3: player with a neck tattoo. They are in all in.
Speaker 4: Whereas it's quite funny because everyone goes that's such a
Speaker 4: hard heading show, and I go, yeah, not for the
Speaker 4: top brass, like they don't seem to talk about you know,
Speaker 4: shit dodgy little payments and paper bags full of money
Speaker 4: and how they because that apparently happens a lot in
Speaker 4: the NRL. Yeah, and you think they don't know about it.
Speaker 4: Of course they know exactly. But if they brought that
Speaker 4: fucking house of cards down, then isn't it then either
Speaker 4: I don't know, they'll end up like Swimming with the
Speaker 4: Fishes or there'll be no NRL three sixty because those
Speaker 4: guys are so powerful.
Speaker 3: Like that show is taken off now, that's right, And
Speaker 3: if our show isn't back on Monday, you'll know what's happening.
Speaker 4: Talking about paperbag payments by a lot of clubs.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, two two clubs really stick out, they are
Speaker 1: We mentioned one one of them's yeah, and the other
Speaker 1: ones had some titles stripped off for exactly that. Clinton
Speaker 1: Gatherson's leaving the Eels as well. I can't picture Gutho
Speaker 1: in a different Jersey.
Speaker 3: Fuck where's he going? Well the Dragons.
Speaker 1: So the Eels have picked up Zach Lomax, right, so
Speaker 1: oh my god, what is signing? So presumably the Dragons
Speaker 1: are going to use that money to sign Gotho, so
Speaker 1: it's basically a trade. But again, if there was a
Speaker 1: trade window, you know, this would have been so much
Speaker 1: more exciting if this was a trade.
Speaker 3: Yes, we'd be so excited about that. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 3: I know, didn't.
Speaker 4: The West Tigers have signed someone bigs Jerome Loui. Yes,
Speaker 4: Jerome Loai, So that is really cool because Louais going
Speaker 4: to work under Benji Marshall is exciting. But they've also
Speaker 4: got that absolute superstar in the making who's eighteen years
Speaker 4: old and Lucky Galvin. So just having those guys there.
Speaker 4: Can people just leave the Wist Tigers. I've got a
Speaker 4: bit of a soft spot for them because of Gary
Speaker 4: Freeman and all the kiwis Olsen for the pineter who
Speaker 4: played there. But leave Brittany alone, Leave Brittany and alone
Speaker 4: because the Roosters they took to Disco, the Storm took
Speaker 4: Peppenhausen from under their noses. Can they just leave these
Speaker 4: two there and see what they can do.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Melbourne Storm even gave Harry Grant to the Tigers
Speaker 1: and then we're like, oh no, hang on, actually we're
Speaker 1: having back because that's mean. And the one other one
Speaker 1: that I wanted to mention was buntil four. He is
Speaker 1: leaving the NRL, going over to the Super League, and
Speaker 1: I feel like not enough was made of buntil four
Speaker 1: being told he could leave the Warriors.
Speaker 3: Yes, what a legend he's been for the club. Yes,
Speaker 3: that iconic. Here, the whole thing is like, so he's going,
Speaker 3: but unceremonious to be to be feared. How old is he?
Speaker 3: Because he always seemed forever young. He he is just
Speaker 3: the pist went to high school with him. So okay,
Speaker 3: that's how old he is. Oh well it might not
Speaker 3: even be thirty.
Speaker 1: Y know.
Speaker 3: He's young, Yeah, very young.
Speaker 1: Okay, he may be back yet, and this is probably
Speaker 1: something that I should discuss with Matt Heath when he's
Speaker 1: back on next week.
Speaker 3: But the Dodgers won the World Series? Do we hear? Yes?
Speaker 4: We do here because before we move on to the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: you talked about the Worriors needing a winger. So Micah
Speaker 4: Sivo apparently is on the market. But is he looking
Speaker 4: at rugby or something?
Speaker 1: I think he's looking at Super League right, which because
Speaker 1: he could make so much money in rugby. He could
Speaker 1: and they could probably do with them, he'd probably walk
Speaker 1: into the Wallabies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, easy this take that tharough.
Speaker 1: I was also thinking, imagine if you're a winger and
Speaker 1: you play for a whole of hooders Field or Wigan
Speaker 1: or something, and you're gonna go out there on the
Speaker 1: frozen tundra and face Micah sibo oh Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he could do a rad raja and end up,
Speaker 4: you know, playing for Fiji and all that sort of
Speaker 4: stuff if he wanted to, but long and needs to
Speaker 4: do it too long, do a too long deal?
Speaker 3: Okay, Yes, Dodges Dodgers. How do we feel about it?
Speaker 3: We're excited. I know Matt he's been talking about nothing
Speaker 3: but the Dodgers. Yes.
Speaker 4: I've got a couple of mates who love the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: Matt Heaths one, Nathan NADERI is mad keen Dodgers fan.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of like, I'm semi Dodgers, you know. I've
Speaker 4: got a bit of semi for them. I think that
Speaker 4: there's there's stuff to like, but then they keep keep
Speaker 4: on spending, and so I feel like they're a bit
Speaker 4: like Manchester United in the old days, where you just
Speaker 4: like any good player just ended up.
Speaker 3: On the Dodgers. Yeah. Yeah, felt that way with it
Speaker 3: because they got it. When they did that deal. It
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, yeah, I see what you've done there.
Speaker 3: Yeah the salary sombrero.
Speaker 4: So yes, I think it's cool apparently, Like I listened
Speaker 4: to I won't say we don't promote other podcasts, but
Speaker 4: I listened to an American one where they were going,
Speaker 4: remember when people cared about base Remember when they're honking
Speaker 4: their horns when someone won the World Series and blah
Speaker 4: blah blah, so skills. Yeah, no it's not, no Dan Libertad,
Speaker 4: but anyway, it was. It's like that kind of a
Speaker 4: little bit miffed or you know, underwhelmed by the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But this is I mean, maybe it's just because I've
Speaker 1: been talking to Heath a lot, but this seems to
Speaker 1: be the most well supported World Series I can remember.
Speaker 4: Well, it's you have the two powerhouses right there. There's
Speaker 4: no bigger names in the sport than Dodgers and Yankees, right.
Speaker 3: So, and everyone's got one of the hats? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: exactly which one? Which one goes better?
Speaker 4: I mean I feel like New York Yankees sells more hats,
Speaker 4: but LA still makes a decent splash.
Speaker 1: It'd be one A one B. I got a New
Speaker 1: York Yankees hat somewhere in my closet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my sister brought me the pin stripe hat back
Speaker 4: in the nineties and I thrashed the shit out of
Speaker 4: that till it was red beer. Yeah, a great cap.
Speaker 4: But I've still got so much abuse from Americans because
Speaker 4: they are for no reason. It's like because you don't
Speaker 4: know anything about the team, or just because they hate
Speaker 4: the Yankees. Ah right, you don't realize is really just
Speaker 4: a lightning rod for for abuse. Whereas I wore a
Speaker 4: Cleveland Brown's jersey once and they over in America and
Speaker 4: they were every American second favorite team, and I.
Speaker 3: Was like, oh, yeah, it's quite good.
Speaker 4: And the same with a Georgia Bulldog shirt, like you
Speaker 4: just go Bulldogs and you just get that from people
Speaker 4: yelling across the streets. So it's just like a that
Speaker 4: that's an American thing. Really, they acknowledged the team that
Speaker 4: you were, that you're wearing or supporting, and as a key,
Speaker 4: we like I've got a Dodger's shirt. I've got a
Speaker 4: free freaking hot dog from some guy in la As
Speaker 4: they had my Dodger's shirt on. I didn't even realize
Speaker 4: because it just said Los Angeles and I, oh, of
Speaker 4: course it's a Dodger shit.
Speaker 3: In New Zealand, no one had mentioned anything. No I
Speaker 3: would say anything.
Speaker 1: Although I do think if you're wearing Warriors kit and
Speaker 1: another guy in Warrior's kit partechiclarly on game day, they'll
Speaker 1: have a yarn.
Speaker 3: I think so too. I think that's actually where it's
Speaker 3: changed there.
Speaker 4: I thinks merchants become a big up the Wars when
Speaker 4: you see and I saw someone in airport security overseas
Speaker 4: and I set up the wires to them and he
Speaker 4: wasn't that excited at all. He's like, I was like,
Speaker 4: come on, mate's and I'm upping the Wars.
Speaker 3: You're wearing Wars. Can we have a little first mount.
Speaker 3: Let's go on. He's probably just got to have a
Speaker 3: seventeen hour flight show.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about selling our ute on Auto Trader
Speaker 1: mccaroney and we're finally doing it. The auction went live overnight.
Speaker 1: I know who's leading the bidding, and that's because it's me.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to buy this thing. Yeah, all the boy,
Speaker 1: do you want to buy it?
Speaker 3: I love the suit.
Speaker 1: I've bonded with it, and I've been saying this whole time.
Speaker 1: It's been a massive own goal because it was my
Speaker 1: idea to sell it. I was like, look, the Auto
Speaker 1: Trader want to want you to tell New Zealand about
Speaker 1: your cars, Like we've got a car, let's sell it.
Speaker 3: And then I was like, what the fuck did you
Speaker 3: say that? You do it because I drive it most
Speaker 3: of the time.
Speaker 4: So Auto Trader we're doing auctions a bit like trade
Speaker 4: me now, Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Basically, yeah, that's the go.
Speaker 1: And so this is actually the first car that Auto
Speaker 1: Trader are selling by auction, as the Alternative Commentary Collective's
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight Ford falcon Ute. We've done it up
Speaker 1: because all of the proceeds go to November in z
Speaker 1: and you can bid on that bad boyd right now,
Speaker 1: but you'll be going head to head.
Speaker 3: With me if you place the winning bid.
Speaker 1: A bunch of people have gotten on board with us,
Speaker 1: so we've loaded the glove box with a thousand dollars
Speaker 1: worth of petrol vouchers, one thousand dollars worth of grocery vouchers.
Speaker 1: We're going to iPhone sixteen, a Marshall amp Bear fridge
Speaker 1: as well dropped into the tray.
Speaker 4: So really shit, I'm the start bidding so text what
Speaker 4: sorry I interrupted, you'll read no, no.
Speaker 1: I know the text ute to three two three six
Speaker 1: for a direct link to the Auto Trader listing. And
Speaker 1: while you're there telling New Zealand about your car, it's
Speaker 1: so easy to sign up for an account there as well.
Speaker 1: I did it this morning and straight away I'm into
Speaker 1: the into the bidding war.
Speaker 3: What's the bidding end? At the moment before we.
Speaker 1: Walked in here, it was I think somewhere between a
Speaker 1: grand and fifteen hundred, so it's very early doors and
Speaker 1: when does it shut? Runs for the whole month? So
Speaker 1: I will be out but by someone at some point.
Speaker 3: Because it is a bit of a classic that you use.
Speaker 1: It's so suck like when people, particularly dudes, they'll come
Speaker 1: over and be like, this is sirck what year is it?
Speaker 1: Is it six? Celeing the eight cylinder whatever? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And it used to have your face on it, which
Speaker 1: would stop people in their tracks. Yeah, yeah, we've done
Speaker 1: it up now so it doesn't have everyone's face on it.
Speaker 3: Storm Purpose's face was over the petrol cap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right, and then every time you put petrel
Speaker 4: and you were putting something in the Storm's mouth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which and when we did burnouts in it, there
Speaker 1: was petrol coming out of the camp that was like
Speaker 1: coming out of Storm's eyes.
Speaker 3: She was gorying. But also storm purpose is only done.
Speaker 4: I think two podcasts, maybe a little bit of commentary
Speaker 4: for the AC set.
Speaker 3: What I What am I going to do? I couldn't
Speaker 3: get on the petrol cap whea. Do you know what
Speaker 3: I checked?
Speaker 4: Speaking of things that are for sale, the ACC Almanac,
Speaker 4: I've heard a lot of people saying I want to
Speaker 4: get that as a Christmas gift for this person that person.
Speaker 4: Can you sign it? When they first told me about it,
Speaker 4: I thought they're talking about like a cricket almanac.
Speaker 3: Or was than sports?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there was some New Zealand sports almanac
Speaker 4: out and I went, why do you want me to
Speaker 4: sign it?
Speaker 3: Get someone who actually plays sport?
Speaker 4: And they said no, no, you were actually on the
Speaker 4: cover the fucking ACC Almanac. And I went, oh shit, Okay,
Speaker 4: well yeah, I guess so. But then I thought I'm
Speaker 4: going to check and see because I wrote a chapter
Speaker 4: for Dylan Cleaver who was on deadline. He was absolutely
Speaker 4: shitting his pants. It was about two days before he
Speaker 4: had to hand in his manuscript and he goes, I
Speaker 4: need something on you know everyone's doing it.
Speaker 3: You've got a chapter on how to streak?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 3: Yep? How to Streak?
Speaker 1: And also the signs that you're a Warriors diehard fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you write those yourself?
Speaker 1: That was ghost written by my dad nice who comes
Speaker 1: up every time you're on this podcast we talk about
Speaker 1: my dad.
Speaker 3: Ste's a good writer. She's a good writer. These spelling mistakes, but.
Speaker 4: That's still but he's still got the gift of the quill.
Speaker 4: And so I think, Dylan, he goes, it's okay, mate,
Speaker 4: you can just we can do an interview.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I'll turn on the dictaphone and I'll just take some notes.
Speaker 4: And I went, mate, just leave it with me. I'll
Speaker 4: write you something. And I because I could tell I could.
Speaker 4: It was Dylan Cleaver under pressure, Dylan Cleaver. You know,
Speaker 4: He's like, I've got this bloody book I've got to write.
Speaker 4: And then I went, it's all right, I'll write you
Speaker 4: a chapter. But then I thought, is he going to
Speaker 4: credit me with the chapter?
Speaker 3: Given that I wrote it with my own bare hands?
Speaker 4: And then he did. Well, it does say in the
Speaker 4: book James mcconey's Guide to blah blah blah. But I
Speaker 4: do notice your two chapters have no mention of your father.
Speaker 1: No, I probably should have said on this podcast this
Speaker 1: we'll get back to him.
Speaker 3: He'll be hitting them out for front there for some royalties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well look if it makes him feel any better,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the fucking center it either.
Speaker 3: But you can't go and buy them forty bucks or something?
Speaker 3: Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's forty bucks. So go
Speaker 1: onto the a SEC website and audio your copy. Now,
Speaker 1: all right, I think we need to take a quick
Speaker 1: break and when we come back, let's get Jason Pine
Speaker 1: on to preview this K football derby.
Speaker 3: Juicy.
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's a great honor and privilege to join,
Speaker 1: well what I consider to be the voice of the
Speaker 1: round ball here in New Zealand. Mcconi absolutely the douy
Speaker 1: and the youngest douyan ever.
Speaker 3: It's Jason Pine. Good morning, Piney. How you going?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Good things. I feel like deui in you know,
Speaker 5: suggests a community elder of some sort. But that's okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've just risen to power really young, like Justin
Speaker 4: Trudeau in Canada. Really, I think it's just one of
Speaker 4: those ones where who's that handsome devil?
Speaker 3: He's now in charge? What's that handsome doy in? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You fired up for this weekend's derby, piny. Does it
Speaker 1: feel like a derby?
Speaker 5: You absolutely does. I'm usterly fired up for it, totally
Speaker 5: first for it in the capital. Yeah, it feels like
Speaker 5: the start of a pretty special weekend. The Auckland FC fans,
Speaker 5: some of them have already hit town. I've seen a
Speaker 5: few blue and black Recklica shirts around here this morning.
Speaker 5: Lots of yellow though as well. David Dome has been
Speaker 5: encouraging Wellingtonians to wear yellow today and that certainly has
Speaker 5: happened too. But yeah, it does feel like a derby.
Speaker 5: You know, when you consider the Phoenix, there's only derbies
Speaker 5: up to now been distance derby's, which I mean, I
Speaker 5: don't even know if that's a thing you play Perth
Speaker 5: and that's a derby, I don't think. So this feels
Speaker 5: like one. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: The interesting part to me is how quickly this rivalry
Speaker 1: has come about. Like before the Auckland FC even kicked
Speaker 1: their first ball, there was a rivalry the Phoenix fans
Speaker 1: were passed off about it. This could only be good
Speaker 1: for the next though, can't It Doesn't the rivalry make
Speaker 1: football more enjoyable for the Yellow Fever fans?
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely it does, and you know the hype around
Speaker 5: it and the fandom and the rivalry and all of
Speaker 5: that stuff. Absolutely it does. What happens on the grass,
Speaker 5: there's going to be we hope anyway great, But yeah,
Speaker 5: this is a this is an occasion for the fans,
Speaker 5: I believe, the active support of Auckland FC, the port
Speaker 5: as they're known, and Yellow Fever who are well established
Speaker 5: obviously in New Zealand, you know, fans circles. It'll be
Speaker 5: such a great occasion. I mean the last two or
Speaker 5: the first two games for Auckland FC at Mount Smart
Speaker 5: have been absolutely terrific because of the fans in the steams.
Speaker 5: They've brought the energy and the hype of these occasions
Speaker 5: and that's what they've been and it'll be the same
Speaker 5: tomorrow at Sky Stadium. It'll be exactly the same. We're
Speaker 5: expecting kind of twenty twenty five thousand turn up, so
Speaker 5: big crowd, a lot of color, a lot of noise.
Speaker 5: I think it'll be terrific.
Speaker 4: Now, look, yes, that's all good in theory, pony, but
Speaker 4: let's be honest. The arrival of the Black Knights has
Speaker 4: ruffled some Phoenix feathers, hasn't it. And there's I think
Speaker 4: when you talk to maybe their support staff management, the
Speaker 4: fact they flew a plane over Mount Smart Stadium, say,
Speaker 4: New Zealand is yellow. What's what's really going in at Phoenix?
Speaker 4: Going on at Phoenix HQ.
Speaker 5: I think I think they're embracing it. Look, I think
Speaker 5: they yeah, look, there's that. You don't mind the band
Speaker 5: are going back and forth. It's normally the fans, but yeah,
Speaker 5: it seems as though some of the some of those
Speaker 5: employed in the in the plush mahogany offices the clubs
Speaker 5: have also got involved planes flying over and a bit
Speaker 5: of band to back and forth media releases with I
Speaker 5: think I think David Dome referred to Auckland as or
Speaker 5: to the to Auckland f C as Auckland three point zero,
Speaker 5: you know, obviously referencing the failed New Zealand Knights and
Speaker 5: Football Kings. You know, I think the only ones really
Speaker 5: who seem unaffected by it all of the players, you know,
Speaker 5: you talk to them about it and they're doing their
Speaker 5: best to downplay the occasion. I think they'll relish it.
Speaker 5: They all want to play in big games. This is
Speaker 5: a big game, yes, so I think the players are
Speaker 5: probably the ones who are who are least affected by
Speaker 5: it all. They just want to get out there and
Speaker 5: you played the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right about Auckland fans just want like the
Speaker 1: three point zero thing. I've talked to a few people
Speaker 1: who missed the Kings and the Nights Days and I
Speaker 1: couldn't I couldn't wrap my head around why there was
Speaker 1: such a big fandom for Auckland f C. Before they
Speaker 1: ever played a game. I couldn't understand it, and I
Speaker 1: think when I went to the game, I realized these
Speaker 1: are just football fans that wanted a local team to support,
Speaker 1: you know. So they already had their songs ready and
Speaker 1: it could have been about anything, but they just wanted
Speaker 1: a football team to get them behind. So I completely
Speaker 1: understand the fandom part of it. But what I don't
Speaker 1: understand is the x's and o's. I see that both
Speaker 1: at the top of the table. Pony, how do you
Speaker 1: see this one playing out on the field.
Speaker 5: I think it'll be pretty tight. You know, Auckland have
Speaker 5: been good. You know, two wins from two games. Can't
Speaker 5: do better than that. Haven't let a goal, and yet
Speaker 5: they haven't. You know, they've been good without being absolutely magnificent.
Speaker 5: You know, I think they'll need a bit more of
Speaker 5: a cutting edge. They're three goals, an own goal, are
Speaker 5: back from a center back in the ninety seventh minute,
Speaker 5: and Logan Rogerson's nice finish. So it's not as though
Speaker 5: they've really shit the world on fire in an attacking sense.
Speaker 5: Wellington are a good defensive team. I've quietly gone about
Speaker 5: their business. They probably should have won their first game
Speaker 5: they won, and Perth last weekend they probably should both
Speaker 5: have two from two. Look, I think you know, often
Speaker 5: with these things, guys, as you know, you hype them up,
Speaker 5: and you hype them up and you say, this's going
Speaker 5: to be a great occasion. I don't think this is
Speaker 5: going to be a four to three. I don't think
Speaker 5: it's going to be goal laden. It might just be
Speaker 5: decided by one moment of brilliance or perhaps an error.
Speaker 5: I think it'll be a pretty cagy affair. But what
Speaker 5: your hope is that is that you know there are
Speaker 5: storylines in the game which live up to what the
Speaker 5: occasion should be. I'm curious to see how Alex Paulson
Speaker 5: handles himself. We all know the story behind Alex Paulson,
Speaker 5: his departure from the Phoenix over the Bournemouth but now
Speaker 5: back to Auckland FC. So the fans that used to
Speaker 5: cheer and revere him will we'll be giving him a
Speaker 5: slightly different kind of reception tomorrow. But yeah, again, as
Speaker 5: I said before, I think these are the game that
Speaker 5: players want to be involved in. Big crowd, big occasion. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I hope it lives up to it, but I get
Speaker 5: to me, it might just be a one nill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Piney, there's two things, two factors I think
Speaker 4: really help. Apart from obviously the home crowd and the
Speaker 4: history that the Phoenix have got. I think their coach
Speaker 4: Chiefy Giancarlo and Taliano. I think he's a bit of
Speaker 4: a genius, that guy. And also they've got the senior
Speaker 4: pro and Costa Barbarusis who's playing with a freedom that
Speaker 4: I've never seen before. I mean he walks out on
Speaker 4: the field with his holding the hands of his daughters.
Speaker 4: I mean there's just how do you compete with that?
Speaker 4: That is just a guy who's like, yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: family day out and by the way, I'm going to
Speaker 4: play football for ninety minutes and then I'll be back
Speaker 4: with you guys. I mean, he to me is pure
Speaker 4: X factor at the moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're hearing tomorrow that he might be joined
Speaker 5: by Marco Rojas, so we haven't seen yet this season.
Speaker 5: So a rohas barbarosis partnership is something to get the
Speaker 5: fans excited. But you're right about Costa. You know, a
Speaker 5: year or a couple of years ago, there was all this,
Speaker 5: There was a suggestion that you know, he might be
Speaker 5: on the way out, his career was coming to an end,
Speaker 5: and he might just sort of wander off into the
Speaker 5: sunset holding his daughter's hands and not be seen again.
Speaker 5: He's had, you know, something of a renaissance at the
Speaker 5: back end of his career back in the All Whites.
Speaker 5: Now determined to play at the World Cup in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six, Wellington's best player last season and yeah, a
Speaker 5: real X factor guy. So yeah, Costa will be well
Speaker 5: and truly up of this one. And you wonder that
Speaker 5: to you whether you know the fact he's got so
Speaker 5: much else going on in his life. There's a couple
Speaker 5: of young daughters who don't care about the result really,
Speaker 5: they just want to hold their dad team and they
Speaker 5: walk out. You wonder whether the balance he's got in
Speaker 5: his life has actually been very positive for US football.
Speaker 1: If you were a betting man, Pony, how would you
Speaker 1: view this weekend's game?
Speaker 5: I think Wellington will win it narrowly. I think Wellington
Speaker 5: will win it one nil.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh, okay, pony, we're going to should we do
Speaker 4: a pony bitch a bit a pony hatch?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Poney hunts you out on one that it's good.
Speaker 1: We'll see if there's some spear change floating around in
Speaker 1: the ac z t air.
Speaker 3: Be account brilliant.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time this morning, party
Speaker 1: and enjoy the game this weekend.
Speaker 5: Great to jet boys.
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