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Speaker 1: We're very lucky to have the coach of the Tartanaki
Speaker 1: Bulls on the podcast. Later on, Barnsey Neil Barnes will
Speaker 1: be joining us fresh off winning the Shield and then
Speaker 1: their flight got canceled. So I want to know how
Speaker 1: exactly their celebrations panned out after winning the Shield and
Speaker 1: then gets getting stuck in the airports.
Speaker 3: I want to get to the bottom of that.
Speaker 1: But before we do, the All Blacks team was named
Speaker 1: yesterday by Razor at two pm.
Speaker 4: Yep, I gotta be honest, no surprises. No, that's full
Speaker 4: missionary position from Razer. The two controversial, I didn't say controversial.
Speaker 4: The ones that we discussed the most was the TJ Peinada.
Speaker 4: Is he the future? Should you pick him? And of
Speaker 4: course Sam Kaine, the Cleveland Steamer, and he's picked both
Speaker 4: of them. Yeah, yeah, he's gone full missionary and I
Speaker 4: think as result of he wants results from this tour.
Speaker 4: He needs results, and I think that reflects that in
Speaker 4: the squad that's going And there is absolutely no one
Speaker 4: that's a surprise in there at all. Reuben Love back
Speaker 4: in the squad, that's about it.
Speaker 1: It's about as surprising as you would. Yeah, when you
Speaker 1: look through the team, there's no one really. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you were saying TJ should never play in the black
Speaker 1: jersey again yesterday you were saying to his contract up,
Speaker 1: but you were saying he probably never should have in
Speaker 1: the first place. But yeah, but yeah, I just think,
Speaker 1: like we were saying yesterday, he's gonna win games, and
Speaker 1: so he needs to take the squad that he thinks
Speaker 1: is going to win him the most games. I feel
Speaker 1: like the forward pack is sort of solidifying. It looks
Speaker 1: about what it's going to be going forward.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. I mean, you've got Patrick Tuopolo too, as you know,
Speaker 4: the experienced campaigner in the air. Because you've got Tupiva
Speaker 4: and Sam Darry it's a locks dog roll. You've got
Speaker 4: the props. That's the same props kind of squad had
Speaker 4: all season. I think that's I think that's us going
Speaker 4: into the World Cup.
Speaker 1: To be honest, to Group Lomax, Fletcher Yule, Tossy Of
Speaker 1: and Fussy to Mighty Williams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the locks as well. I mean the
Speaker 4: Patrick to a Poloti can can stand one piece for
Speaker 4: a couple more years, and even the loose forwards. Apart
Speaker 4: from Sam Kaine, you know you got was the t
Speaker 4: T side, Teddy Syvia Papoli, Jacobson, Female Caine black Eader.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's all pretty pretty standard. And Wallace Ti.
Speaker 1: I mean I saw that there was a quote from
Speaker 1: Sam Kaine saying that this is the most meteoric rise
Speaker 1: he's seen because just a year ago he couldn't get
Speaker 1: a start for Counties and then now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he has looks to have signed up the six Jersey.
Speaker 1: And when we were in Amsterdam, we got punished by
Speaker 1: these three Welsh dudes, yes, who came over. They heard
Speaker 1: that we were Kiwis and all they wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to us about was Wallace Tetic.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of them was to be fair, this guy was
Speaker 1: buckled and he was you know, when you're so drunk
Speaker 1: that you just get stuck on one thing. No, but
Speaker 1: Wallace t is one of the best players. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so he's making a name for himself around the world.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like I said, nothing really to pick over.
Speaker 1: I mean Billy Proctor probably no.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Billy Proctor and Reuben Love about the
Speaker 4: only ones that. But they've always been in the wider
Speaker 4: squad the whole time. So no biggie.
Speaker 1: As says Sam Darry, I'm just trying to think if
Speaker 1: there are any injuries people that have been omitted that we.
Speaker 4: I'd say that Stutu and I agree with and I
Speaker 4: often agree with the kid or you any but he's
Speaker 4: come out and said that go overseas, make some money. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I tend to agree he's on the outer. If
Speaker 4: he's not picked for this, then I don't think Robinson's
Speaker 4: going to pick him. So go to France, mat make
Speaker 4: make your millions. You've got an all black you've got
Speaker 4: all black caps under your belt, you get another zero
Speaker 4: on your value.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just go for it. No, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I agree as well, And I've heard people say this morning,
Speaker 1: may or may not have been Joe Jerry, it's basically
Speaker 1: just dropping lip. If you don't get picked and see
Speaker 1: you go bugger it on going overseas well. Yes, but
Speaker 1: also the only leverage that New Zealand Rugby has over
Speaker 1: these players is the black jersey. Yeah, and so if
Speaker 1: they're saying we're not going to give you the black jersey, well,
Speaker 1: what's the leverage there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the negotiations over.
Speaker 4: And you've only got a very limited window. Oh were
Speaker 4: near it? The peaking your powers playing rugby, it's about
Speaker 4: four or five years really, particularly in the forwards and
Speaker 4: loose forwards. So you've got to go make You've got
Speaker 4: to go make your crust somewhere. And if it means overseas,
Speaker 4: and I wouldn't blame him. I wouldn't blame him if
Speaker 4: he goes over and plays in Toulon or Toulouse or
Speaker 4: whatever in France and does well for himself for the
Speaker 4: next four or five years, come back, plays a couple
Speaker 4: of seasons in Japan and then Petsville Counties and makes
Speaker 4: a bajillion dollars go for it.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, it'd probably be disappointing to him. But you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time a player has just been
Speaker 1: stuck behind. You know, some really good players like Wallace
Speaker 1: Steitis comes through. Now he's behind ARTI who you know,
Speaker 1: some would say, is the best, if not one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the world. How many how many
Speaker 1: flankers had to go overseas because of Richard mccaugh, How
Speaker 1: many first fives had to go overseas because of Dan Carter?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean that this happens in professional rugby.
Speaker 1: It is a little bit unfortunate. And he's not far off,
Speaker 1: you know it must be.
Speaker 4: Would have been weird from getting blindsided though, like part intended,
Speaker 4: I couldn't. But Satiti literally has come out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: He's like, yep, I'm swearting. Holy shit, who's this guy?
Speaker 3: Hoskin Situtu?
Speaker 1: You know, one super rugby had himself, had himself a
Speaker 1: blinder and and then all of a sudden wasn't picked.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, like it could have been a
Speaker 1: different coach and he could be in there. He could
Speaker 1: be the starting number eight. You know, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not due to a lack of lack of effort. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, go and make your money. Yeah, go make
Speaker 1: you millions. I wouldn't be shocked if he stuck around
Speaker 1: for another year and was like, let's see how we go.
Speaker 1: You know, I reckon I could make it but would
Speaker 1: you wait around for a whole World Cup cycle?
Speaker 5: Nah?
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I think when your values at them, when you're at
Speaker 1: the peaky value, Yeah, I agree. The Australians have named
Speaker 1: the rugby lu team as well. Straight off the back
Speaker 1: of the Grand Final, Mitch Barnett was named in the
Speaker 1: Australian team as well. Friend of the show, dear, friend
Speaker 1: of the show. He is one of the many debutantes.
Speaker 1: Has been a bit of an overhauled squad. So Nathan
Speaker 1: Cleary's not in there because he's apparently going to need surgery.
Speaker 1: I was wondering that because I looked at the squad,
Speaker 1: I was like, Cleary, who's better than him?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Australian skipper, the incumbent skipper, James Tedisco has been dropped
Speaker 1: outright drops so Dylan Edwards is going to be the
Speaker 1: starting fullback. It was the Panthers fullback. And they've also
Speaker 1: dropped both State of Origin captains Jack Travoyevich and Daily
Speaker 1: Cheery Evans.
Speaker 3: Neither of them have made the team.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because Daily Cheer Evans has been the
Speaker 1: skipper of Australia as well and for the longest time
Speaker 1: he has been like basically of his fit. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: going to have him in there, So he's gone as well.
Speaker 1: So it's a bit of a shake up for Australian
Speaker 1: rugby league.
Speaker 4: Is this the result of their pants down threshing last
Speaker 4: year at the hands of the Kiwis it could well be?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Melmanning is now in charge of the whole outfit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's just like, nah, I'm gonna pick the dudes.
Speaker 3: I want maybe the end of it for poor Daily
Speaker 3: Chair Evans about thirty six years old.
Speaker 4: He does, but he does it.
Speaker 3: He ages very well.
Speaker 4: It's like Dan Carter. Yeah, Dan Carter doesn't seem to age.
Speaker 4: It's those dudes who have like an incredible kicking game.
Speaker 4: So it's not like he has to try and step
Speaker 4: dudes all the time.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: All he does is kick a couple of forty twenties
Speaker 1: in a season, you know, kick at ninety percent conversion rate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's alway laughing.
Speaker 1: And just finally before we do get to Neil Bard's
Speaker 1: differend Ellie Williams and the Auckland FC conglomerate, yeah, are
Speaker 1: putting together a bid to revamp Western Springs. What they
Speaker 1: want to do is turn it into the hub of
Speaker 1: football in Auckland. So they want to they would have
Speaker 1: to bin off the motor game's ring. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: the clincher though, Well maybe you could see there's a
Speaker 1: few other places that they're proposing to send that out,
Speaker 1: so like why could I a speedway and there's a
Speaker 1: couple of other different parts there. It would mean the
Speaker 1: revamp there would mean that you can't use it for cricket,
Speaker 1: not that they have forrageous but it would turn it
Speaker 1: into because they want it to be the home of
Speaker 1: football in New Zealand.
Speaker 4: It all say, is the home of the ponsom rugby club.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, So they were proposing to move them out
Speaker 1: to Coxas Bay, which was halfway between my house.
Speaker 3: And the viaduct.
Speaker 4: When we got let out of that lockdown, remember one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty seven day lockdown. We got lead out
Speaker 4: of that. I blacked out and passed out at Cox's Bay. Ah,
Speaker 4: so that's where that is, quite low lying Coxas baye.
Speaker 4: It very polluted little bay there. I don't know if
Speaker 4: Cox's Bay is big enough to house Ponsomby rugby. It's
Speaker 4: a big rugby club. Is that yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4: if that's big enough. Anyway, maybe they should put it
Speaker 4: in Ponsonby Vac Park.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 4: That you put it.
Speaker 3: But anyway, the long short of all of this is
Speaker 3: it could.
Speaker 1: Change the whole stadium debate because if they're putting a
Speaker 1: ball stadium in there, that the part of the proposition
Speaker 1: is that it would house some of the rugby games
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: You know, it's the same size. Could this be the
Speaker 3: answer to our to our debate?
Speaker 4: I love how it's Ali Williams, Ali Williams. Five years
Speaker 4: ago we were shut up Arli Williams. But he's married
Speaker 4: to a billionaire, yes, and he's gone into business in
Speaker 4: the Aukland f C another billionaire. So that's the only
Speaker 4: people that are actually going to make shit happen because
Speaker 4: we can shout to the clouds as long as the
Speaker 4: day is long to about VIC Park into a test
Speaker 4: cricket ground, but we're never going to do it because
Speaker 4: we've got no cash behind us any cloud.
Speaker 3: As a person, he's a person, we've got nothing.
Speaker 4: I don't know as an organization, the a SEC is
Speaker 4: floundery financially. I like as thinking Ali Williams but he's
Speaker 4: just going to come up against some so much bureaucratic
Speaker 4: bullshit with the Council that it'll get the life sucked
Speaker 4: out of it, and like most good ideas, will get
Speaker 4: to a point where he'll go, fuck this. I can't
Speaker 4: be fucking bothered.
Speaker 1: This is the thing that I noticed every time I
Speaker 1: go overseas is how many rules we have here in
Speaker 1: New Zealand for such laid back people.
Speaker 3: We love a rule.
Speaker 4: Because we listen to the minority. We need to get
Speaker 4: I've talked U about this with Jeremy. We need to
Speaker 4: get to a population of about ten million before we
Speaker 4: can tell the minority to shut the fuck up around
Speaker 4: these rules and about what we can and can't do
Speaker 4: or can't say. And they just get too much.
Speaker 1: They get too much sheer voice. Yes, because the rest
Speaker 1: of us don't give a shit. We need someone to
Speaker 1: come up with the rules and someone else do it.
Speaker 1: I can't really be our on the beach if you
Speaker 1: don't mind. And then the guys who loved it I
Speaker 1: want to do it, and then we just tolerate it.
Speaker 1: We're like, what's the latest one?
Speaker 2: You tell me this morning?
Speaker 3: I told you this morning.
Speaker 1: New World's binning five hundred Milkraft beer cans. They're going
Speaker 1: to sell through this stock and then stop selling them.
Speaker 1: The problematic drinkers in our communities are not drinking five
Speaker 1: hundred mil crafties.
Speaker 3: Because they are about seventeen dollars. That's right for that
Speaker 3: one can. That's right. That is not how you get
Speaker 3: yourself tragically wasted.
Speaker 4: What kind of brainstorm were they in when they said,
Speaker 4: what's the problem. It's the big cans? So no, No,
Speaker 4: I can buy twenty four cans, yes of something.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's and if I'm looking to get wasted,
Speaker 3: That's how I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But because the five hundred milk can is just the
Speaker 1: perfect midweeker. Yeah, if you're on your way home, you
Speaker 1: can buy a loose five hundred mil crafty. You only
Speaker 1: have to have one of them. Yep, you know you're
Speaker 1: not getting it'll just get you on the level on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nice, fealthy, kind of strong, six point seventy perfect
Speaker 4: fit's perfectly into a pint glass.
Speaker 3: That's right. You're not sitting around drinking six of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because if you crack two other can, two small cans, you're.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, well, This was my idea for when and
Speaker 1: I've pitched this to several breweries and it was a
Speaker 1: one five hundred milk cans about seven percent.
Speaker 4: It was called home Wrecker. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 4: the name was the one that Achilles heel.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. But it was like I figured, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm not a father, but I've been around a lot
Speaker 3: of fathers. In fact, I have one.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're a father, you can't come
Speaker 1: home and be seen to crush six beers on a Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true, but you can have one. And yeah,
Speaker 4: that's true because that the repetitive sound of cans opening, yes,
Speaker 4: and in the windows. Yeah, that triggers. That triggers a
Speaker 4: lot of partners. I mean in the weekend, for example,
Speaker 4: we had quit a big Friday night and then on
Speaker 4: Saturday morning and the head snapped around. But I was
Speaker 4: actually drinking a Vista, so I snapped around. But the
Speaker 4: fact that that triggered a reaction, yeah is saying something.
Speaker 4: So you're right, just one yeah is better than that's right.
Speaker 4: Like I heard on the plane when flying over with
Speaker 4: you and Joe jury behind.
Speaker 6: Me, we.
Speaker 1: Found that you could play blackjack on the back of
Speaker 1: the screens against each other. Yes, and then there were
Speaker 1: all these other people coming in and we were like, okay,
Speaker 1: our mission is to run the table against the rest
Speaker 1: of the cabin that we're in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're playing against like four or five other people
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, a new person we come in,
Speaker 1: and we got to the point where we wiped everyone out.
Speaker 1: We're sitting there so stoked with ourselves, cheersing, and then
Speaker 1: we found out they were actually computer players.
Speaker 3: We weren't barking against the real people. We were like,
Speaker 3: fuck you sixty seven c Yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Were just playing against each other. We'd clean the whole
Speaker 1: a three eighty out of our poker players. But no,
Speaker 1: it was just me and Joe playing against the computer
Speaker 1: for about three hours, crushing the All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we come back.
Speaker 3: We got Barnsy from the Tartanaky Bulls.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: All over the weekend. They took the shield off Tasman.
Speaker 1: They now get to lock it away for the rest
Speaker 1: of the summer, but they still have a job to
Speaker 1: do with the quarterfinals coming up this weekend and joining
Speaker 1: us as the coach of the Tartanaky Bulls barnsy Neil Barnes,
Speaker 1: Good morning mate, how are spirits around the camp this morning?
Speaker 6: I've only seen them for a little bit, they've just
Speaker 6: been over to gym. But it was very broken day yesterday.
Speaker 6: Obviously we celebrated pretty hard on Sunday night and their
Speaker 6: travel plans got thrown into bloody disarray because we've got
Speaker 6: halfway home to Wellington now. Flights and New Plymouth got canceled,
Speaker 6: so stuck at Wellington, three different flights to Auckland back
Speaker 6: to Plymouth. The boys can get back of that four
Speaker 6: o'clock yesterday. But mate, they're tired of hangover, so they
Speaker 6: should be. But now it's about getting back up. We've
Speaker 6: got a quarterfinal that we're pretty serious about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it must be. It must be quite difficult now
Speaker 4: because obviously you've you've got you've got the shield for
Speaker 4: the summer, you've locked it away in the cabinet for
Speaker 4: the summer and now you've got to refocus and move
Speaker 4: into the knockout stages of the NPC.
Speaker 3: Howre you going to how are you going to focus?
Speaker 3: The fellers?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm one of those coach that shoots from the
Speaker 6: hip a little bit off theel. The room. But for me,
Speaker 6: the hardest part is to treat the shield with the
Speaker 6: respect it deserves. With your community as well. Obviously, you
Speaker 6: know they want to celebrate it as well, and it'd
Speaker 6: be nice to get out there amongst the schools and
Speaker 6: that with a shield at the moment. But for me
Speaker 6: in our room today, we've got to you know, celebrate
Speaker 6: what we did because it was a pretty good effort
Speaker 6: and then put it to be other people deal with
Speaker 6: that and get back into what we've set out sights
Speaker 6: on in the quarter final side of things. And we
Speaker 6: know we've got Whyekadow, which like our neighbors, and they're
Speaker 6: a bloody awesome crew and they rested a fair number
Speaker 6: of their players on the weekend and got a few
Speaker 6: all blacks coming in, so they're going to be up
Speaker 6: for it. So it's another mighty challenge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, just going back to the shield, weren't
Speaker 1: And so you guys flew from Tasman to Wellington. Then
Speaker 1: what happened The flight got canceled from Wellington.
Speaker 6: But the unfortunate thing is like we couldn't even bloody
Speaker 6: have a beer with the tas And boys after we
Speaker 6: had to get to an airport straight away, and because
Speaker 6: we were supposed to be flying straight back, but then
Speaker 6: we got stuck in Nelson Airport for two and a
Speaker 6: half hours. I got no idea why, but obviously the
Speaker 6: boys went upstairs into the courier of enginemed their fridges
Speaker 6: for them their that alcohol was getting old. They were
Speaker 6: in great space by the time we got to Wellington.
Speaker 6: So I take my head off to our managery at
Speaker 6: a hell of bed or keeping them together. Yeah, then
Speaker 6: we were probably stuck there for another two and a
Speaker 6: half hour, was trying to sort out where the hell
Speaker 6: we were going to sleep to the night and getting
Speaker 6: all our team geared there. So she hasn't mean beer
Speaker 6: and skittles for the management side of it, but the
Speaker 6: players had a ball and so you just.
Speaker 3: Basically just travel throughout the night to get back the
Speaker 3: next morning.
Speaker 6: Well, we traveled to Wellington on the night of the
Speaker 6: game and then had to get accommodation in Wellington for
Speaker 6: the night, and then we had to be flying to
Speaker 6: all come back to New Plymouth, which involved three different flights.
Speaker 6: This guy's hanging around the airports for a whole day,
Speaker 6: So yeah, it takes the gloss off things. But man,
Speaker 6: it's just one of those things you need to get
Speaker 6: through it. Like I said before, like the job there
Speaker 6: is to find out what we can learn from it
Speaker 6: that game down there, because it was a pretty special
Speaker 6: day because the log would deserve sath and just refocus.
Speaker 3: Was there a bit of a reception at the airport
Speaker 3: when you finally made it back to the neck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was. Actually, I'm so proud of our people.
Speaker 6: They're so supportive. So yeah, the airport was full when
Speaker 6: they got back in. The thing is the public had
Speaker 6: no idea because not did we what time we were
Speaker 6: going to get back. I had to be on an
Speaker 6: earlier flight on my own and got back and there
Speaker 6: were kids in that waiting at the airport then in
Speaker 6: the first part of the day, and I felt so
Speaker 6: bad because I walked in the door and they're like,
Speaker 6: where's the player? You got some ninety year old dinosaur
Speaker 6: in the room. I don't really want to see me.
Speaker 3: What is the state of the shield at the moment?
Speaker 3: I trust it's all in one piece?
Speaker 6: No, absolutely, mate, JJ our young lucid prop got the
Speaker 6: role of looking after it, and he did a grand job. Yeah,
Speaker 6: the boys obviously enjoyed the night, but you know, We
Speaker 6: had a lot of respect for that trophy, so don't
Speaker 6: worry about that it didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 4: Oh nice, and you've got it. It's a home quarter
Speaker 4: this week in against the Wakato.
Speaker 3: Boys, is that right?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Absolutely? And a lot of them are teammates of
Speaker 6: our guys in Super rugby as well, so we all
Speaker 6: know each other at the bench are involved. But you
Speaker 6: know this is serious shit. Now we're actually playing for
Speaker 6: an opportunity to be in the semi and then the
Speaker 6: opportunity to be in final. That's pretty special. So the
Speaker 6: exciting times I'm wrapped away. The competition's panning out freaking hell.
Speaker 6: There's eight teams there and an idea. Anyone to tell
Speaker 6: me who's going to win any of the quarterfinal games?
Speaker 4: Speak anyway? Is this one of the one of the
Speaker 4: tightest NPC competitions you've seen in a while, because other
Speaker 4: games I've watched have been absolutely cracking.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that too. There's two things in it you can't
Speaker 6: You can't tell before a game who's going to win.
Speaker 6: Anybody can beat anybody, but the quality of the rugby's
Speaker 6: been outstanding. There's a real attacking mindset and NPC at
Speaker 6: the moment which I'm thoroughly enjoying, and so it's entertaining.
Speaker 6: The fact that you don't know who's going to win
Speaker 6: makes it exciting. I just want the competition respected for
Speaker 6: what it is and given the window it needs to have,
Speaker 6: because I felt so bad for Tasman that they had
Speaker 6: to play two shield games in a storm week leading
Speaker 6: into the quarterfinals. And why so we can have a
Speaker 6: game against Japan or have a all back B team
Speaker 6: go and play a game. I mean, get real, Yeah
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, and he's going on Rugby traded as
Speaker 1: an afterthought, but you're right. This should be our premiere
Speaker 1: provincial competition and you know, and leave the franchise stuff
Speaker 1: to the Super Rugby. But I definitely feel like this
Speaker 1: year the regions have been more in behind their teams
Speaker 1: because I think as New Zealanders we feel more affinity
Speaker 1: to our NPC team than we do to our Super
Speaker 1: Rugby team. I don't really know exactly why. But are
Speaker 1: you expecting a sell out this weekend at Yero Stadium.
Speaker 6: I'll be very surprised at the place. Saint Paul. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's just one of those ones that we only pick
Speaker 6: players from our club competition, and yes I will go
Speaker 6: outside the province if we're seriously short somewhere, but very
Speaker 6: very reluctant to do so. So I just understand what
Speaker 6: NBC is. Therefore, you're there to develop players for the
Speaker 6: professional game and to provide an opportunity for them to
Speaker 6: play at a higher level. So I'm wanting to go
Speaker 6: to the next cab off the rank in regardless of
Speaker 6: who that person is, because I know I've done a
Speaker 6: lot of work with them during the club season and
Speaker 6: trust them. So you can't do that if you've got
Speaker 6: no coaches around during during the club season, because nowadays
Speaker 6: unions can't afford ever coach around. But I'm lucky to
Speaker 6: be in a union that supports that.
Speaker 4: Nice Neil Barnes, I know you've got to You've got
Speaker 4: to got the team gathered there. You're just going to
Speaker 4: go through a bit of a review of the weekend.
Speaker 4: But we've got a bit of admission to make in
Speaker 4: the acc studios here, we we have a piece of
Speaker 4: your property. We have your chiefs Rugby Social blazer in
Speaker 4: our studio with your name emblazoned on the inside. Yeah
Speaker 4: we do.
Speaker 3: I've got the Chief Social Committee. It's the black, red
Speaker 3: and gold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the kind of black red and gold stripe
Speaker 4: blazer with the gold buttons and on the inside it
Speaker 4: has Neil Barnes and we're.
Speaker 3: Like, how did we?
Speaker 4: How did we?
Speaker 3: How did we get this piece of property?
Speaker 4: And I still actually don't know.
Speaker 3: Have you been looking for it?
Speaker 6: Neil?
Speaker 3: Did they tell you they were giving it to us?
Speaker 6: They were that happy to get rid of me. They've
Speaker 6: just given all my property.
Speaker 4: I think you can blame it on Kent Curry, actually,
Speaker 4: I think he was the one that may have did
Speaker 4: it to us. But I wear it for every Chiefs
Speaker 4: game I commentate, actually, and it really passes off any
Speaker 4: other team we play with that blazer.
Speaker 3: Hey, Neik, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4: And for those of you who want to see Barnsey
Speaker 4: at his best, I know you've talked about it before.
Speaker 4: That on Netflix is the six Nation Six Nations full
Speaker 4: content from last year. I know you obviously copped a
Speaker 4: bit of ship for that because you have caught you
Speaker 4: on the hot mic several times coaching Italy and with
Speaker 4: I love it. I think it's great. It's a real
Speaker 4: breath of fresh air when you've got a kiwi because
Speaker 4: you're you're.
Speaker 3: A distinct accent, sticks out like dogs balls. I was like,
Speaker 3: it's a Kiwi. Oh, it's fucking Barnsi.
Speaker 4: It's like Barns again stuck into the Italians. It's great,
Speaker 4: it's great stuff. So congratulation of that. I know you've
Speaker 4: you were, You're quite world famous here for a while,
Speaker 4: probably still are.
Speaker 6: I'm just a farmer boys.
Speaker 3: Just one last question before you before we let you go.
Speaker 1: Obviously don't want to look too far down the track,
Speaker 1: but you have got the shield sewing up. Last year
Speaker 1: South Canterbury won Heartland and they weren't able to get
Speaker 1: up to Hawk's beta challenge for the shield. If they're
Speaker 1: in a similar situation at the end of this year,
Speaker 1: do you reckon you'll you'll maybe.
Speaker 3: Meet them halfway so that the Heartland can challenge for
Speaker 3: the shield.
Speaker 6: If they're willing to fill my fridge, anything's possible.
Speaker 3: We can help you with that.
Speaker 4: Where we can help.
Speaker 1: Exports sponsor that. I think between the three of us
Speaker 1: we can probably figure something out.
Speaker 6: Thank you, curry out of that fridge.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for your time this morning.
Speaker 1: Go well this weekend against wait Ketto and I'm sure
Speaker 1: all the listeners here will be watching along this weekend.
Speaker 3: So yeah, go well, thanks very much for your time, Matte.
Speaker 6: Good luck on the problem fellows. Go well.
Speaker 1: I was always good to have the reigning defending shield
Speaker 1: holder on. Barnes is such a great news yander.
Speaker 4: God, he's a great New Zealander, just so also so
Speaker 4: honest about the fact that he's got a to the
Speaker 4: mildly hungover that he's got to refocus into a quarter
Speaker 4: final this weekend.
Speaker 1: I know, I said before we went on here, I
Speaker 1: said to him pretty relaxed reviews today, wouldn't it, because
Speaker 1: you reckon, We've got alf the class are still hungover
Speaker 1: from Sunday and we've got a quarter final coming up
Speaker 1: this weekend. Oh yeah, true, it's five days away. I
Speaker 1: know what day is today, Tuesday. Yeah, And as we said,
Speaker 1: massive slate of games this weekend. I mean she's quite
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. We are selling the ute. If
Speaker 1: you haven't heard already, Auto Trader want you to tell
Speaker 1: New Zealand about your car. The US has to help
Speaker 1: them and so we are taking the lead. We're selling
Speaker 1: our ute. It is a nineteen ninety eight Ford Falcon Ute.
Speaker 4: YEP.
Speaker 3: It is a straight six engine which is humming at
Speaker 3: the moment when you.
Speaker 4: Put your foot down. Just the rumble that comes out us.
Speaker 4: It's heartwarming.
Speaker 1: It's a head turner. It's a big bet of equipment,
Speaker 1: bench seat across the front which we've just had redone. Yep,
Speaker 1: she's she's a different color. There'll be video out to
Speaker 1: explain all of the things that we've done to soup
Speaker 1: it up. One thing I would mention, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's important to be transparent when you're selling
Speaker 1: your car.
Speaker 3: The tray does smell like Sultan vinegar.
Speaker 4: Which is better than dog shit or cat person.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right. It's not a bad smell. And the
Speaker 3: tray is quite good.
Speaker 4: If you're a builder, or you're in any sort of
Speaker 4: trade and you've got expensive equipment. It has a lockable
Speaker 4: tray slides out and you can put stuff here. If
Speaker 4: you're looking to shift anything big, it's useless for that.
Speaker 1: Although there is across the top of the trade is
Speaker 1: a bit of plywood, so you can put something on
Speaker 1: top of that and struck them down.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what it's perfect for is you.
Speaker 1: Back that thing up at the local rugby league grounds
Speaker 1: and watch the pantsman play league and you sit on
Speaker 1: the tray.
Speaker 4: It's perfect for that.
Speaker 1: You fill the little slide out draw with beers and
Speaker 1: you just slide it out, grab yourself a beer, slide
Speaker 1: it back and it is a really impressive piece of
Speaker 1: kit and we are selling it all thanks to the
Speaker 1: Great New Zealanders Auto Trader. We all the proceeds are
Speaker 1: going to go to the Great New Zealand Is at November.
Speaker 1: So they're saying it's one of the great own goals
Speaker 1: of all time because I drive that thing to work
Speaker 1: most days.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it is a little bit, but we're working
Speaker 4: on a replacement. Any vehicle sponsors out there who want
Speaker 4: us to jump on board, yeah, let us know.
Speaker 3: Here's an opportunity for you.
Speaker 1: But to make sure that it's got the best chance
Speaker 1: to sell, we've gotten a rewrapped and gloss black. The
Speaker 1: seats rearpolsed. As I said, it is delightful, great for
Speaker 1: the posture as well on the bench seat and we
Speaker 1: made a shine with a proper clean It looks like
Speaker 1: a completely different ute than the one that we initially
Speaker 1: bought for a dollar. Look out for our Ford Falcon
Speaker 1: this November on Auto Trader and of course Tell New
Speaker 1: Zealand about your car.
Speaker 3: Another thing we need to tell New Zealand about is
Speaker 3: the book is out.
Speaker 4: Yes, the ACC ten Year Sports Almanac Book, hardcover book
Speaker 4: is out today, available today. We went out and signed
Speaker 4: three hundred copies yesterday, my god, out at Mighty Ape.
Speaker 4: You've got a touch on that actually, and the CEO
Speaker 4: of Mighty Ape game you are whipping on the table
Speaker 4: tennis table beforehand.
Speaker 1: And then we had to sign three hundred books. And
Speaker 1: that's when I became aware that I actually don't have
Speaker 1: a signature.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I also was signing at G lane, which is
Speaker 4: not my normal signature, and I occasionally got the yips
Speaker 4: and signed half my proper one half because my probably
Speaker 4: name is James Michael Lane. Yes, so my signature is
Speaker 4: James Lane. But you can't so I put G lane.
Speaker 4: But then halfway through I get the yips on the
Speaker 4: G and the alans. Couple of them are a couple
Speaker 4: of them are not tidy.
Speaker 1: For anyone out there has not written their signature three
Speaker 1: hundred consecutive times.
Speaker 4: Boy, do you get the yips? I was slicing them,
Speaker 4: hogging them. I chunked a couple of them well, and
Speaker 4: I made I made the stupid decision to do a
Speaker 4: gag at the start and drew a cock on balls
Speaker 4: on every signature. Yea, and I had to commit to
Speaker 4: the gag, so I drew three hundred cocks on the
Speaker 4: six hundred balls. Six hundred balls.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: But you can get those signed copies if you go
Speaker 4: to Mighty Ape, search acc Almanac or Alternative up and
Speaker 4: the book will come up, and it's on a special,
Speaker 4: a launch special at City five ninety nine, which is
Speaker 4: fucking cheap.
Speaker 3: Look it's a big book. Yeah, it's a big hard
Speaker 3: cover book.
Speaker 4: And I and you'll and you'll probably get a signed
Speaker 4: copy because I've got three hundred of them that they
Speaker 4: so the next three hundred they sell on there, you'll
Speaker 4: get that. But you can get it from any good bookstores,
Speaker 4: wet calls, paper plus anywhere.
Speaker 1: And about five of those pre orders have Lane's actual
Speaker 1: signature on it. So if you wanted to forge it
Speaker 1: for anything totally is, you've got a five and three
Speaker 1: hundred chance of getting that. I was wondering if the
Speaker 1: ones that we signed would be half priced because we've yeah,
Speaker 1: significantly devalued.
Speaker 4: I think so, yeah, I mean that probably kind of
Speaker 4: kind of white out ours and leave Jeremy Wells is
Speaker 4: in there. Yeah, that's probably the most valuable one.
Speaker 1: I would say thirty five bucks. I reckon forty is
Speaker 1: about the sweet spot for a Christmas present. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to spend you know, you can't put
Speaker 1: a price on love, but if you had to be
Speaker 1: about forty bucks.
Speaker 4: This is a great gift for the hard to buy
Speaker 4: for because any any kind of dude over the age
Speaker 4: of kind of thirty thirty five, it's quite hard to
Speaker 4: think what to buy them, because they by themselves here
Speaker 4: yeah I think they want yeah, and it's like a fuck,
Speaker 4: whatld I get them?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: And usually you default into some sort of voucher, rebel
Speaker 4: sport voucher, or some sort of west Fields, yeah, west
Speaker 4: Fields or something. But this is perfect. It's got all
Speaker 4: of our west stories, our best stories, oral histories, heaps
Speaker 4: of pictures.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You peir that up with a
Speaker 1: twelve pack of export Ultra, wrap that up. That's Christmas sorted.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Because either the.
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Speaker 1: comment at which point it's a gag gift.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They love these guys for fuck that. So yeah, that's
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Speaker 6: I just wanted to say it hasn't gone unnoticed that
Speaker 6: Lane has managed to shirk all of us.
Speaker 4: Scoorehol those possibilities, gets back from Europe and suddenly he goes.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know what, actually I need to help out
Speaker 3: on the morning show. I need to go and fill
Speaker 3: in for them.
Speaker 5: I'm just going to be gone for the next couple
Speaker 5: of days in the morning, so you can drop the
Speaker 5: kids off to where they're gone.
Speaker 6: I'm bidding it's home and.
Speaker 4: The house is empty.
Speaker 6: Heads to himself. Did this well well played?
Speaker 4: Mate? Okay, it's definitely gone noticed. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4: I just you know, we peek behind the curtains. It's
Speaker 4: definitely gone noticed. Has been noted. It has been noted. Okay,
Speaker 4: so I have not got away with this. That's not
Speaker 4: like some sort of perfect crime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because obviously the drop off you're doing breakfast at
Speaker 1: the moment with Jerry on Hidaky. The drop off, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is out of the question. There's no drop off,
Speaker 1: but there's a pickup. There's a pickup every afternoon. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, No, no, which is more punishing the morning
Speaker 1: drop off or the afternoon pick up.
Speaker 4: I prefer the pick up, actually, yeah, because the drop
Speaker 4: off involves you've got to make all the lunches. So
Speaker 4: it's three lunches, you've got to make, get them dressed,
Speaker 4: breakfast dressed, T give you got your books. So yeah,
Speaker 4: all that ship sounds and in summer comps you got
Speaker 4: your sunscreen on your Yeah, all that ship. But the
Speaker 4: pick up is like yo, getting the fucking car. He's
Speaker 4: a cookie years yeah yeah, but yeah, at least what
Speaker 4: the drop off.
Speaker 1: There is a finish line, you know, this is true,
Speaker 1: they're gone, yeah, whereas the pickup could often start.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I I can do both, but I
Speaker 4: do the pick up for the pick up. And look,
Speaker 4: this may shock you to the core, Yes, but I
Speaker 4: make the lunches every morning.
Speaker 3: No, I know you have told me this. It's my
Speaker 3: Olympic sports.
Speaker 1: It was your ringing endorsement for suit or if you
Speaker 1: dream when you were sick, I made all of the
Speaker 1: kids lunches. You made scones, muffinedokies, cookies.
Speaker 4: I was high as a kite.
Speaker 3: I was so hyper. God bless and bringing back for dream,
Speaker 3: God bless?
Speaker 4: What's Seymour? And how that would help me? Like a
Speaker 4: ton of back. That helped me at one hundred miles
Speaker 4: an hour? That pseudo.
Speaker 1: Oh mate, it saved my ears when we're in the overseas,
Speaker 1: when I got the bender flu after October fish.
Speaker 4: Oh, you've got the October fist packs. Remember he was
Speaker 4: selling fist packs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that had sudo for drin,
Speaker 1: isn't it. But yeah, that saved me. So yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it hasn't gone unnoticed at or it has gone very notice.
Speaker 1: One more caller here, you're speeze.
Speaker 3: A few follows.
Speaker 5: Know that Southby's facing the knack Neck. Why don't you
Speaker 5: start fundraising now? The Knacknack's got a good port. South
Speaker 5: Canterburys must be close to the water somewhere, can get
Speaker 5: a boat.
Speaker 6: I don't think about the navy.
Speaker 3: That's that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 4: Get a fairy leaving from Caroline Bay, Caroline Bay up
Speaker 4: to the port of Tartanaki.
Speaker 1: Yep, A great we put down there in South Canterbury,
Speaker 1: bottom of the port loop no and dogging spot down there,
Speaker 1: so you know something for everyone down there. The problem
Speaker 1: you'd have to do is that Tartanuki is on the
Speaker 1: west coast. South Canerby is on the east coast, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to cross the straight yeah, in some
Speaker 1: sort of rackety old fer It's a dodgy stretch of
Speaker 1: water too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Rough, it's a nice idea, but I think probably.
Speaker 4: The flight from what christ Church to this christ.
Speaker 1: Church tomorrow to Wellington you can do. Yeah, okay, you
Speaker 1: have to if you want to go to but if
Speaker 1: they bust.
Speaker 4: A christ Chitch, I could just do christ Church to
Speaker 4: Tartanaki direct.
Speaker 3: I think so. But I think that's worth a trip.
Speaker 4: I love Tanaki. Yeah, you get down there for a
Speaker 4: weekend and we could probably commentate that game, isn't she.
Speaker 1: The only the only problem is this is an early crow.
Speaker 1: This if ever there's a jinks that I've heard of,
Speaker 1: it is starting to plan the trip.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they haven't wony, they haven't won, and they
Speaker 4: went close against West coast.
Speaker 1: I think it was forty three thirty eight on the weekend,
Speaker 1: so you don't want to get too ahead of yourself,
Speaker 1: but we did. Like Barnesy said, if we fill their fridge,
Speaker 1: they'll come and meet South Canbrian Wellington.
Speaker 4: What's halfway Wellington?
Speaker 1: I think Wellington only because the straight crossing is the yeah,
Speaker 1: and although is it a shield challenge if Tartanuki aren't
Speaker 1: in Tartanuki.
Speaker 3: Well they can.
Speaker 4: They can decide that you can take the shield on tour.
Speaker 1: That's that's their call. I think Wellington Caketon fill that
Speaker 1: thing out easily. Fillers fridge. Oh yeah, well this this
Speaker 1: is the thing we've been saying. We can't do much.
Speaker 1: What we can do is provide beer, a lot of beer.
Speaker 1: And so if we fill Neil barnes fridge, he'll meet
Speaker 1: South Canabriyan Wellington. We'll have the the Shield Challenge there
Speaker 1: and then for the first time in a long time,
Speaker 1: the Shield will be in the Heartland Championship for at
Speaker 1: least a year, which would be wild.
Speaker 3: All right, that'll do it for today. We'll not sing
Speaker 3: on the head. We'll be back tomorrow for a Wednesday
Speaker 3: edition of the Gender Podcast.
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