WEBVTT - "Koru Lounge Bender With Neil Barnes" 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.280 Life from the Export Beer Garden Studio and brought to 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.440 you by Export Ultra the beer for Here. This is 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.160 the Agenda Podcast for Tuesday, the eighth of October. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:12.280 The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting Nonsense and clap Trap, 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.640 brought to you by Export of Vulture. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.120 We're very lucky to have the coach of the Tartanaki 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.640 Bulls on the podcast. Later on, Barnsey Neil Barnes will 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.280 be joining us fresh off winning the Shield and then 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.520 their flight got canceled. So I want to know how 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.120 exactly their celebrations panned out after winning the Shield and 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:32.839 then gets getting stuck in the airports. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:34.519 I want to get to the bottom of that. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.080 But before we do, the All Blacks team was named 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:38.960 yesterday by Razor at two pm. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.960 Yep, I gotta be honest, no surprises. No, that's full 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:48.159 missionary position from Razer. The two controversial, I didn't say controversial. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.000 The ones that we discussed the most was the TJ Peinada. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.960 Is he the future? Should you pick him? And of 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.880 course Sam Kaine, the Cleveland Steamer, and he's picked both 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.040 of them. Yeah, yeah, he's gone full missionary and I 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.520 think as result of he wants results from this tour. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.959 He needs results, and I think that reflects that in 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.200 the squad that's going And there is absolutely no one 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.000 that's a surprise in there at all. Reuben Love back 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.000 in the squad, that's about it. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.840 It's about as surprising as you would. Yeah, when you 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.440 look through the team, there's no one really. Like you said, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.560 you were saying TJ should never play in the black 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.360 jersey again yesterday you were saying to his contract up, 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.240 but you were saying he probably never should have in 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:33.360 the first place. But yeah, but yeah, I just think, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.320 like we were saying yesterday, he's gonna win games, and 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.160 so he needs to take the squad that he thinks 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.520 is going to win him the most games. I feel 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.360 like the forward pack is sort of solidifying. It looks 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.080 about what it's going to be going forward. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.600 Absolutely. I mean, you've got Patrick Tuopolo too, as you know, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.080 the experienced campaigner in the air. Because you've got Tupiva 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:57.000 and Sam Darry it's a locks dog roll. You've got 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.280 the props. That's the same props kind of squad had 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.720 all season. I think that's I think that's us going 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:03.400 into the World Cup. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.440 To be honest, to Group Lomax, Fletcher Yule, Tossy Of 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.240 and Fussy to Mighty Williams. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.200 Yeah, I think the locks as well. I mean the 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.239 Patrick to a Poloti can can stand one piece for 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.360 a couple more years, and even the loose forwards. Apart 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.160 from Sam Kaine, you know you got was the t 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:25.440 T side, Teddy Syvia Papoli, Jacobson, Female Caine black Eader. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.800 Yeah, it's it's all pretty pretty standard. And Wallace Ti. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.280 I mean I saw that there was a quote from 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.880 Sam Kaine saying that this is the most meteoric rise 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.840 he's seen because just a year ago he couldn't get 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.040 a start for Counties and then now all of a 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.919 sudden he has looks to have signed up the six Jersey. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.160 And when we were in Amsterdam, we got punished by 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.799 these three Welsh dudes, yes, who came over. They heard 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.680 that we were Kiwis and all they wanted to talk 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.120 to us about was Wallace Tetic. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:49.720 Yeah. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.519 One of them was to be fair, this guy was 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.520 buckled and he was you know, when you're so drunk 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.880 that you just get stuck on one thing. No, but 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.120 Wallace t is one of the best players. Yeah, and 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.040 so he's making a name for himself around the world. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.560 But yeah, like I said, nothing really to pick over. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.960 I mean Billy Proctor probably no. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.400 Yeah, I mean Billy Proctor and Reuben Love about the 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.560 only ones that. But they've always been in the wider 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.160 squad the whole time. So no biggie. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.160 As says Sam Darry, I'm just trying to think if 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.240 there are any injuries people that have been omitted that we. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.720 I'd say that Stutu and I agree with and I 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.440 often agree with the kid or you any but he's 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.760 come out and said that go overseas, make some money. Yeah, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.920 and I tend to agree he's on the outer. If 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.480 he's not picked for this, then I don't think Robinson's 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.400 going to pick him. So go to France, mat make 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.800 make your millions. You've got an all black you've got 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.720 all black caps under your belt, you get another zero 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:48.400 on your value. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.560 Yeah, just go for it. No, one hundred percent. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.560 I agree as well, And I've heard people say this morning, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.160 may or may not have been Joe Jerry, it's basically 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:57.960 just dropping lip. If you don't get picked and see 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.040 you go bugger it on going overseas well. Yes, but 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.160 also the only leverage that New Zealand Rugby has over 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.240 these players is the black jersey. Yeah, and so if 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.200 they're saying we're not going to give you the black jersey, well, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.120 what's the leverage there. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.440 Yeah, you know, the negotiations over. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.560 And you've only got a very limited window. Oh were 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.120 near it? The peaking your powers playing rugby, it's about 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.800 four or five years really, particularly in the forwards and 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.200 loose forwards. So you've got to go make You've got 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.840 to go make your crust somewhere. And if it means overseas, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.599 and I wouldn't blame him. I wouldn't blame him if 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.240 he goes over and plays in Toulon or Toulouse or 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.280 whatever in France and does well for himself for the 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.159 next four or five years, come back, plays a couple 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.280 of seasons in Japan and then Petsville Counties and makes 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.960 a bajillion dollars go for it. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:45.760 I agree. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.440 I mean, it'd probably be disappointing to him. But you know, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.360 this isn't the first time a player has just been 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.679 stuck behind. You know, some really good players like Wallace 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.440 Steitis comes through. Now he's behind ARTI who you know, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.240 some would say, is the best, if not one of 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.000 the best players in the world. How many how many 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.600 flankers had to go overseas because of Richard mccaugh, How 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.960 many first fives had to go overseas because of Dan Carter? 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.159 You know what I mean that this happens in professional rugby. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.840 It is a little bit unfortunate. And he's not far off, 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:17.840 you know it must be. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.279 Would have been weird from getting blindsided though, like part intended, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.640 I couldn't. But Satiti literally has come out of nowhere. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.440 He's like, yep, I'm swearting. Holy shit, who's this guy? 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:29.560 Hoskin Situtu? 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.160 You know, one super rugby had himself, had himself a 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.040 blinder and and then all of a sudden wasn't picked. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:37.680 And to be honest, like it could have been a 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.880 different coach and he could be in there. He could 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.880 be the starting number eight. You know, it's not it's 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.120 not due to a lack of lack of effort. But yeah, 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.520 I agree, go and make your money. Yeah, go make 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.120 you millions. I wouldn't be shocked if he stuck around 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:52.880 for another year and was like, let's see how we go. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.800 You know, I reckon I could make it but would 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.839 you wait around for a whole World Cup cycle? 0:05:58.760 --> 0:05:58.960 Nah? 0:05:59.240 --> 0:05:59.840 No, I wouldn't. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.000 I think when your values at them, when you're at 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:06.200 the peaky value, Yeah, I agree. The Australians have named 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.719 the rugby lu team as well. Straight off the back 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.560 of the Grand Final, Mitch Barnett was named in the 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.919 Australian team as well. Friend of the show, dear, friend 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:19.040 of the show. He is one of the many debutantes. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.240 Has been a bit of an overhauled squad. So Nathan 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.160 Cleary's not in there because he's apparently going to need surgery. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.200 I was wondering that because I looked at the squad, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.240 I was like, Cleary, who's better than him? 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:29.200 Yeah? 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:30.160 Exactly. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.480 Australian skipper, the incumbent skipper, James Tedisco has been dropped 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.200 outright drops so Dylan Edwards is going to be the 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.960 starting fullback. It was the Panthers fullback. And they've also 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.680 dropped both State of Origin captains Jack Travoyevich and Daily 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:45.360 Cheery Evans. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.120 Neither of them have made the team. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.040 And it's interesting because Daily Cheer Evans has been the 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.320 skipper of Australia as well and for the longest time 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.160 he has been like basically of his fit. Yeah, you're 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.880 going to have him in there, So he's gone as well. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.080 So it's a bit of a shake up for Australian 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:01.640 rugby league. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.240 Is this the result of their pants down threshing last 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.960 year at the hands of the Kiwis it could well be? 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.480 Yeah, Melmanning is now in charge of the whole outfit. Yeah. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.800 Maybe he's just like, nah, I'm gonna pick the dudes. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.600 I want maybe the end of it for poor Daily 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.280 Chair Evans about thirty six years old. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:19.440 He does, but he does it. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:20.480 He ages very well. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.520 It's like Dan Carter. Yeah, Dan Carter doesn't seem to age. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.760 It's those dudes who have like an incredible kicking game. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.480 So it's not like he has to try and step 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:30.280 dudes all the time. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:30.520 You know. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.920 All he does is kick a couple of forty twenties 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.240 in a season, you know, kick at ninety percent conversion rate. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:37.840 Yeah, and he's alway laughing. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.960 And just finally before we do get to Neil Bard's 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.320 differend Ellie Williams and the Auckland FC conglomerate, yeah, are 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.720 putting together a bid to revamp Western Springs. What they 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.240 want to do is turn it into the hub of 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.880 football in Auckland. So they want to they would have 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:58.080 to bin off the motor game's ring. Yeah, that's that's 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.080 the clincher though, Well maybe you could see there's a 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.560 few other places that they're proposing to send that out, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.520 so like why could I a speedway and there's a 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.200 couple of other different parts there. It would mean the 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.880 revamp there would mean that you can't use it for cricket, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:16.160 not that they have forrageous but it would turn it 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.560 into because they want it to be the home of 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:19.640 football in New Zealand. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.800 It all say, is the home of the ponsom rugby club. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.240 Yes, yeah, So they were proposing to move them out 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.800 to Coxas Bay, which was halfway between my house. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:28.480 And the viaduct. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.440 When we got let out of that lockdown, remember one 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.679 hundred and twenty seven day lockdown. We got lead out 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.160 of that. I blacked out and passed out at Cox's Bay. Ah, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.520 so that's where that is, quite low lying Coxas baye. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.319 It very polluted little bay there. I don't know if 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.040 Cox's Bay is big enough to house Ponsomby rugby. It's 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.880 a big rugby club. Is that yeah, I don't know 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.839 if that's big enough. Anyway, maybe they should put it 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.920 in Ponsonby Vac Park. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.080 Oh yeah, yeah, that's exactly. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.319 That you put it. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.160 But anyway, the long short of all of this is 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:56.800 it could. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.839 Change the whole stadium debate because if they're putting a 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.120 ball stadium in there, that the part of the proposition 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.240 is that it would house some of the rugby games 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:05.600 as well. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.760 You know, it's the same size. Could this be the 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.400 answer to our to our debate? 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.440 I love how it's Ali Williams, Ali Williams. Five years 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.400 ago we were shut up Arli Williams. But he's married 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.959 to a billionaire, yes, and he's gone into business in 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.439 the Aukland f C another billionaire. So that's the only 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.480 people that are actually going to make shit happen because 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.920 we can shout to the clouds as long as the 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.280 day is long to about VIC Park into a test 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.240 cricket ground, but we're never going to do it because 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.440 we've got no cash behind us any cloud. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.959 As a person, he's a person, we've got nothing. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.880 I don't know as an organization, the a SEC is 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.360 floundery financially. I like as thinking Ali Williams but he's 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.240 just going to come up against some so much bureaucratic 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.079 bullshit with the Council that it'll get the life sucked 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.160 out of it, and like most good ideas, will get 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.720 to a point where he'll go, fuck this. I can't 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:02.520 be fucking bothered. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.520 This is the thing that I noticed every time I 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.040 go overseas is how many rules we have here in 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.920 New Zealand for such laid back people. 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:10.480 We love a rule. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.040 Because we listen to the minority. We need to get 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.719 I've talked U about this with Jeremy. We need to 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.520 get to a population of about ten million before we 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.920 can tell the minority to shut the fuck up around 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.240 these rules and about what we can and can't do 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.840 or can't say. And they just get too much. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.719 They get too much sheer voice. Yes, because the rest 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.160 of us don't give a shit. We need someone to 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:32.959 come up with the rules and someone else do it. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.800 I can't really be our on the beach if you 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.959 don't mind. And then the guys who loved it I 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.920 want to do it, and then we just tolerate it. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.319 We're like, what's the latest one? 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.120 You tell me this morning? 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:44.000 I told you this morning. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.800 New World's binning five hundred Milkraft beer cans. They're going 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.079 to sell through this stock and then stop selling them. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.199 The problematic drinkers in our communities are not drinking five 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:56.720 hundred mil crafties. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.240 Because they are about seventeen dollars. That's right for that 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.719 one can. That's right. That is not how you get 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.760 yourself tragically wasted. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.120 What kind of brainstorm were they in when they said, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.559 what's the problem. It's the big cans? So no, No, 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:14.079 I can buy twenty four cans, yes of something. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.880 Yes, and that's and if I'm looking to get wasted, 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:16.719 That's how I'm gonna do it. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:17.040 Yeah. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.120 But because the five hundred milk can is just the 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.839 perfect midweeker. Yeah, if you're on your way home, you 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.280 can buy a loose five hundred mil crafty. You only 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.200 have to have one of them. Yep, you know you're 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.880 not getting it'll just get you on the level on 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:30.560 a Wednesday night. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.680 Yeah, nice, fealthy, kind of strong, six point seventy perfect 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.120 fit's perfectly into a pint glass. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.160 That's right. You're not sitting around drinking six of them. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.120 Yeah, because if you crack two other can, two small cans, you're. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.520 Like, yeah, well, This was my idea for when and 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.040 I've pitched this to several breweries and it was a 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.640 one five hundred milk cans about seven percent. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.520 It was called home Wrecker. Yeah, I think I think 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.520 the name was the one that Achilles heel. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.199 Yeah it was. But it was like I figured, you know, 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.080 I'm not a father, but I've been around a lot 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.319 of fathers. In fact, I have one. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.920 And you know, if you're a father, you can't come 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.559 home and be seen to crush six beers on a Tuesday. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.960 Yeah, that's true, but you can have one. And yeah, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.160 that's true because that the repetitive sound of cans opening, yes, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.280 and in the windows. Yeah, that triggers. That triggers a 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.679 lot of partners. I mean in the weekend, for example, 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.400 we had quit a big Friday night and then on 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.800 Saturday morning and the head snapped around. But I was 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:30.079 actually drinking a Vista, so I snapped around. But the 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:35.240 fact that that triggered a reaction, yeah is saying something. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:40.240 So you're right, just one yeah is better than that's right. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.079 Like I heard on the plane when flying over with 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.400 you and Joe jury behind. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:43.440 Me, we. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.719 Found that you could play blackjack on the back of 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.120 the screens against each other. Yes, and then there were 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.600 all these other people coming in and we were like, okay, 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.480 our mission is to run the table against the rest 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:56.400 of the cabin that we're in. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:56.880 Yeah. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.800 So we're playing against like four or five other people 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.439 that all of a sudden, a new person we come in, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.959 and we got to the point where we wiped everyone out. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.920 We're sitting there so stoked with ourselves, cheersing, and then 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.680 we found out they were actually computer players. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.439 We weren't barking against the real people. We were like, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.120 fuck you sixty seven c Yeah, we. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.960 Were just playing against each other. We'd clean the whole 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.480 a three eighty out of our poker players. But no, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.880 it was just me and Joe playing against the computer 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:27.400 for about three hours, crushing the All right, let's take 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:28.640 a quick break and we come back. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.880 We got Barnsy from the Tartanaky Bulls. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:33.560 All right. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.200 All over the weekend. They took the shield off Tasman. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.880 They now get to lock it away for the rest 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.079 of the summer, but they still have a job to 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.000 do with the quarterfinals coming up this weekend and joining 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.120 us as the coach of the Tartanaky Bulls barnsy Neil Barnes, 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.600 Good morning mate, how are spirits around the camp this morning? 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.559 I've only seen them for a little bit, they've just 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.200 been over to gym. But it was very broken day yesterday. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.880 Obviously we celebrated pretty hard on Sunday night and their 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.320 travel plans got thrown into bloody disarray because we've got 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.160 halfway home to Wellington now. Flights and New Plymouth got canceled, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:09.920 so stuck at Wellington, three different flights to Auckland back 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.720 to Plymouth. The boys can get back of that four 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:16.360 o'clock yesterday. But mate, they're tired of hangover, so they 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.240 should be. But now it's about getting back up. We've 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.360 got a quarterfinal that we're pretty serious about. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.240 Yeah, it must be. It must be quite difficult now 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.240 because obviously you've you've got you've got the shield for 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.320 the summer, you've locked it away in the cabinet for 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.680 the summer and now you've got to refocus and move 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.000 into the knockout stages of the NPC. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.720 Howre you going to how are you going to focus? 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:35.320 The fellers? 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.000 Yeah, I'm one of those coach that shoots from the 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.120 hip a little bit off theel. The room. But for me, 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.440 the hardest part is to treat the shield with the 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.160 respect it deserves. With your community as well. Obviously, you 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.000 know they want to celebrate it as well, and it'd 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.760 be nice to get out there amongst the schools and 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.440 that with a shield at the moment. But for me 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.720 in our room today, we've got to you know, celebrate 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.000 what we did because it was a pretty good effort 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.920 and then put it to be other people deal with 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.600 that and get back into what we've set out sights 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.400 on in the quarter final side of things. And we 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.880 know we've got Whyekadow, which like our neighbors, and they're 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.400 a bloody awesome crew and they rested a fair number 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.680 of their players on the weekend and got a few 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.360 all blacks coming in, so they're going to be up 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.400 for it. So it's another mighty challenge. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.520 Yeah, for sure, just going back to the shield, weren't 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.560 And so you guys flew from Tasman to Wellington. Then 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.000 what happened The flight got canceled from Wellington. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.360 But the unfortunate thing is like we couldn't even bloody 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.120 have a beer with the tas And boys after we 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.800 had to get to an airport straight away, and because 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.480 we were supposed to be flying straight back, but then 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.840 we got stuck in Nelson Airport for two and a 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.680 half hours. I got no idea why, but obviously the 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.560 boys went upstairs into the courier of enginemed their fridges 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:56.040 for them their that alcohol was getting old. They were 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.040 in great space by the time we got to Wellington. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.640 So I take my head off to our managery at 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.280 a hell of bed or keeping them together. Yeah, then 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:03.960 we were probably stuck there for another two and a 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.600 half hour, was trying to sort out where the hell 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.080 we were going to sleep to the night and getting 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.800 all our team geared there. So she hasn't mean beer 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.880 and skittles for the management side of it, but the 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.960 players had a ball and so you just. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.040 Basically just travel throughout the night to get back the 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:17.600 next morning. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.240 Well, we traveled to Wellington on the night of the 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.360 game and then had to get accommodation in Wellington for 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.400 the night, and then we had to be flying to 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.240 all come back to New Plymouth, which involved three different flights. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.000 This guy's hanging around the airports for a whole day, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.520 So yeah, it takes the gloss off things. But man, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.040 it's just one of those things you need to get 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.720 through it. Like I said before, like the job there 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.880 is to find out what we can learn from it 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:44.920 that game down there, because it was a pretty special 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.720 day because the log would deserve sath and just refocus. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.800 Was there a bit of a reception at the airport 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.280 when you finally made it back to the neck. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.560 Yeah, there was. Actually, I'm so proud of our people. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.240 They're so supportive. So yeah, the airport was full when 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.000 they got back in. The thing is the public had 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.920 no idea because not did we what time we were 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.199 going to get back. I had to be on an 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.239 earlier flight on my own and got back and there 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.040 were kids in that waiting at the airport then in 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.800 the first part of the day, and I felt so 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.520 bad because I walked in the door and they're like, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:19.080 where's the player? You got some ninety year old dinosaur 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.280 in the room. I don't really want to see me. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.760 What is the state of the shield at the moment? 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.160 I trust it's all in one piece? 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.720 No, absolutely, mate, JJ our young lucid prop got the 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.440 role of looking after it, and he did a grand job. Yeah, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.359 the boys obviously enjoyed the night, but you know, We 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.200