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Speaker 3: Hi there and welcome along to Sports Fix. This is
Speaker 3: the Friday edition for October the twenty fifth, at the
Speaker 3: back end of a weekend, at the start of a
Speaker 3: long weekend on Jason Pine.
Speaker 4: Our long overwhelming sporting weekend, yet another one. I'd suggest
Speaker 4: we probably won't enjoy the same success as last weekend, but.
Speaker 2: You never know.
Speaker 4: I'm Darcy Walter graven Line. Enjoyed all the same, right fighting, Yeah,
Speaker 4: absolutely right, we enjoyed all the same sports.
Speaker 3: What we do and what we talk on the podcast.
Speaker 3: We need to get to Japan. I feel on the
Speaker 3: podcast today does.
Speaker 4: Well Elliott Smith. He gets the fly over the world,
Speaker 4: mounting up huge airpoints to talk about rugby. What a
Speaker 4: life for some people, I tell you. So we're tracking
Speaker 4: down in this Japan accommodation to ever talk about the
Speaker 4: relevance of this Test match, the nature of the test
Speaker 4: That's what we want to get out of this Test
Speaker 4: match because it's a really well it's a strange one,
Speaker 4: and we'll talk about that later on when we're up
Speaker 4: on the leaning right Pony.
Speaker 3: Absolutely right, and the rugby league in christ Jitch on Sunday,
Speaker 3: and some quick picks as well. I've got some thoughts
Speaker 3: on af for the f C too, so let's get
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 5: In other news, let's get underway, as always with some
Speaker 5: of them sports stories floating around today. Indian spinner Washington
Speaker 5: Soundar has taken career best figures of seven for fifty
Speaker 5: nine to help dismiss the Black Caps for two hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty nine on the opening day of the second
Speaker 5: cricket Tested poone Yes.
Speaker 4: A put on again best figures ends of ststricket.
Speaker 1: And Test match.
Speaker 3: The Breakers have slumped it to an eighty eight sixty
Speaker 3: two Australian National Basketball League defeat to Southeast Melbourne and
Speaker 3: christ Church has Breakers head coach but t re Copenhan.
Speaker 4: I don't care if you if you miss your shats.
Speaker 4: You know the energy, the effort, especially from the younger guys.
Speaker 4: It has to be in different level.
Speaker 3: And six time Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy has
Speaker 3: spoken for the first time since announcing he has terminal
Speaker 3: pross date cancer.
Speaker 6: It's not the news anyone imagines hearing and it obviously
Speaker 6: came as a huge shock. We've taken time to process
Speaker 6: it as a family and I now have a deep
Speaker 6: resolve to turn this incredibly difficult diagnosis into something more positive.
Speaker 2: Leading of Vix, We've got just the ticket. It's sports Vix.
Speaker 2: How my news tours is he?
Speaker 4: Yeah, point Elliott, That's what we call him now. He's
Speaker 4: the commentators. The man's the rugby editaries off in Japan
Speaker 4: currently is he's chasing the All Blacks through the hemispheres. Elliott.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the program. We kick off the second part
Speaker 4: of the season come Saturday evening. You're feeling a bit
Speaker 4: of that energy around there, are you?
Speaker 7: And welcome absolutely. Darcy kanishi Wa from Tokyo. It's been
Speaker 7: a good week here in Tokyo with the All Blacks
Speaker 7: building in to this test. There's a sense of excitement
Speaker 7: there always is in Japan that the fans come out,
Speaker 7: and the Japanese fans absolutely love the All Blacks, so
Speaker 7: they've come out in numbers to support them this week,
Speaker 7: and I think a good way for the All Blacks
Speaker 7: to start this end of year to Japan will provide
Speaker 7: a test tomorrow evening New Zealand time, no doubt about that.
Speaker 7: But you just get the sense that the All Blacks
Speaker 7: like being here, they like being around the Japanese people,
Speaker 7: but are also ready to deliver a performance tomorrow evening kpiyes.
Speaker 4: That's a terrible old term, but it's right. What do
Speaker 4: we expect out of this? We know we're not going
Speaker 4: to lose, well we think that's not the case anyway,
Speaker 4: But what's the point. What do we get? What are
Speaker 4: we trying to achieve out of this game?
Speaker 7: Well, I think first and foremost to win, and let's
Speaker 7: not forget two years ago in Tokyo. Your Blacks are
Speaker 7: pushed very, very hard by Japan. Emerged with a thirty
Speaker 7: eight thirty one victor victory, but it wasn't impressive from
Speaker 7: the All Blacks and they started along the Japan size
Speaker 7: lost a bit of ex varian since the end, some retirement,
Speaker 7: some injury withdrawals. At the moments, they've had a coaching
Speaker 7: change Jeddie Jones now steering the good ship Japan at
Speaker 7: the moment, so there's been some changes around it. It
Speaker 7: very much feels like a team building towards the next
Speaker 7: World Cup from a Japan perspective for the All Blacks though,
Speaker 7: they need to deliver, they need to finish opportunities and
Speaker 7: that's the big thing that they have not really been
Speaker 7: able to do often enough this year. It's gained some
Speaker 7: wins for them, no doubt about that, but you think
Speaker 7: back to South Africa, Missed opportunities cost them there, Sydney,
Speaker 7: missed opportunities constant there and Wellington. They could have even
Speaker 7: blown out the Wallabees more than they did on the night,
Speaker 7: but they missed some opportunities on that night in Wellington.
Speaker 7: So the big thing for the All Blacks is they
Speaker 7: look not only to this week but also the rest
Speaker 7: of the tour is finishing their opportunities. From what I
Speaker 7: can gather, they're very happy with the number of opportunities
Speaker 7: they're getting in games, the number of penetrations inside the
Speaker 7: twenty two that they're making on opposition sides, but they're
Speaker 7: just not finishing them and they need to be more clinical.
Speaker 7: And tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening is a good opportunity to
Speaker 7: try and find a bit more about themselves against the
Speaker 7: Japan side, which is I say, is lacking on a
Speaker 7: bit of experience compared to some of those Japanese teams
Speaker 7: your Blacks have played in the past.
Speaker 4: It's very difficult though, in consistency of selection and combinations
Speaker 4: to create that when you are changing your sides week
Speaker 4: in week out. And this is I won't say a
Speaker 4: second string team, but it is not the run on fifteen.
Speaker 4: It's not the primary twenty three. So what they achieve
Speaker 4: out of this, it's all well and good, but does
Speaker 4: it actually transfer to the thick end of the tour
Speaker 4: without the consistency of the combinations.
Speaker 7: That's a good point, doesn't it. And eleven players have
Speaker 7: jumped on a plane this morning from Tokyo and departed
Speaker 7: early to London to begin preparations for next week, so
Speaker 7: and they'll all be starters. So yeah, that's a fair point.
Speaker 7: You look at that and go, how much can you
Speaker 7: gain in terms of creating and completing opportunities. Well, I
Speaker 7: think that's just a mindset shift from the All Blacks,
Speaker 7: is that if you do complete these opportunities tomorrow night,
Speaker 7: that could flow on further next week. A little bit
Speaker 7: more confidence comes into the camps of those players. There
Speaker 7: will be players that play tomorrow afternoon that turn around
Speaker 7: next week. So chance to state claims as well and
Speaker 7: impressed their selection claim. So if any fee now haven't
Speaker 7: seen much of him in recent times. Steven Peter Feenza
Speaker 7: started the season as the All Blacks first choice fall back,
Speaker 7: then got injured. Patrick coy Bilotto is captaining this team tomorrow.
Speaker 7: You know, he started the season as a first choice
Speaker 7: lock alongside Scott Barrett, but injuries have seen him out
Speaker 7: of the team and two taking his chance. So when
Speaker 7: you balance that out and go there's a number of
Speaker 7: opportunities for these players to stake their claim for more
Speaker 7: test footballer. I think that's where the All Blacks will
Speaker 7: want to get to tomorrow afternoon, a good performance and
Speaker 7: also have players pushing for selection as they build to
Speaker 7: those big three weeks in the middle of this tour.
Speaker 4: So play your way in, play your way out, you'd suggest,
Speaker 4: Even with a superb game from any individual, considering the opposition,
Speaker 4: I should pay more respect to the Japanese than I do.
Speaker 4: As you mentioned thirty eight thirty one was it recently,
Speaker 4: But someone has a barnstormer of a game that necessarily
Speaker 4: actually played them into contention for a start against those
Speaker 4: Big three. We're playing in conversy. If someone has an
Speaker 4: absolute shockra bit more like it's pay more likely you
Speaker 4: can play your way out than play your way in,
Speaker 4: if that makes sense.
Speaker 7: Quite possibly. Yeah, you look at someone though like cam
Speaker 7: Broyguard who has played two games of rugby since March,
Speaker 7: both the counties and the comeback from injury. You know,
Speaker 7: he was anointed as perhaps the All Blacks first choice
Speaker 7: half back with the form that he was in earlier
Speaker 7: on in Super Rugby, but now he has played fewer
Speaker 7: tests than Cordesratama who any debut earlier on this year,
Speaker 7: so he's got a point to prove and stake his claim.
Speaker 7: Wouldn't expect him to start against England, but if he
Speaker 7: has a good match tomorrow then perhaps to start against
Speaker 7: Island is in the offering for Sam, someone like camp
Speaker 7: Royguard Sam PENNI fine, Now another player mentioned there that
Speaker 7: has sort of faded out and not been able to
Speaker 7: take his opportunities. And Wallace a Titi has you stepped him?
Speaker 7: Wallace a ted himself at number eight position that he's
Speaker 7: more familiar with, could stake a claim there and put
Speaker 7: himself in a position. So I guess it will depend
Speaker 7: on the way the game plays out as to how
Speaker 7: much he can read into performances and how things go
Speaker 7: from a team perspective, But I think there are certain
Speaker 7: jerseys and certain roles in this team that are up
Speaker 7: for grabs as they head north. You know, eleven players
Speaker 7: have gone up, but they've still got to fill out
Speaker 7: of twenty three next week, and I think there's a
Speaker 7: few contestable positions. Sevy recent mark to Lea for mine
Speaker 7: will be playing off for one wing position next week,
Speaker 7: assuming Will Jordan starts at fallback against England. Billy Proctor.
Speaker 7: We liked what he saw from him against Fiji and
Speaker 7: San Diego. He's had to hold the tackle bags for
Speaker 7: the last few months since. If he can build on
Speaker 7: that performance in San Diego, he gives some more questions
Speaker 7: to the Goblinic so to Bill black select. So I
Speaker 7: think there are opportunities, maybe not even outside the first
Speaker 7: choice team, but just to get some more game time
Speaker 7: for these players and build that twenty three because I
Speaker 7: don't think the all backs have quite centered on their
Speaker 7: first choice twenty three is yet with these big matches
Speaker 7: to come, Elliot.
Speaker 4: It's worth fair Man on the spot over in Japan.
Speaker 4: He has the call, News Talks, EBB and gold Sport
Speaker 4: get amongst have a listen, Elliet. Enjoy your time as
Speaker 4: the start of a long, long trip for you mate.
Speaker 4: Make sure you're well fed and well watered.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've managed to do that pretty well in Tokyo, Darcy.
Speaker 7: The foods and the water has been exceptional, so we'll
Speaker 7: look forward to more of that as the too goes on.
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Speaker 3: Talk to FC up and running in Football's A League
Speaker 3: and on the evidence of Game one last weekend, they're
Speaker 3: set to make a bit of a splash. Japanese international
Speaker 3: Hiroki Sakai came with a big reputation and he well
Speaker 3: and truly delivered in Game one. The architect of the
Speaker 3: side's first ever A League goal and the way he
Speaker 3: celebrated afterwards showed signs of a player who was fully
Speaker 3: invested in this club. And the lead up to the
Speaker 3: goal he was fouled. He could have stayed down, but
Speaker 3: bounced up, rejoined the attack and drilled in a cross
Speaker 3: which a Boosbane defender could only divert into his own net.
Speaker 3: It was just one moment of Sarco's overall influence on
Speaker 3: the game, which was significant at the start of this
Speaker 3: club's life. The stated recruitment aim was to prioritize local
Speaker 3: talent in the hometown boy certainly delivered as well, Logan
Speaker 3: Rogerson scoring the side's second goal, Francis Devrees a constant
Speaker 3: thread up and down the left, Liam Gillion repaying the
Speaker 3: faith shine in him with a start and an energetic display,
Speaker 3: and Jesse Rand were coming off the bench providing good impact.
Speaker 3: Sitting at the base of Auckland FC's midfield, Louis Vastrata,
Speaker 3: the side's best player the Belgian age group international, shielded
Speaker 3: the back four to impressive effect. He broke up would
Speaker 3: be attacks and transition the side into attack with a
Speaker 3: great passing range and a bit of a no nonsense approach.
Speaker 3: He will be integral for Strata to Auckland's success this season.
Speaker 3: All great teams, though, are built on a solid defense,
Speaker 3: and on the evidence of Game one, the Black Knights
Speaker 3: will certainly have that. Dan Hall and Ander Pinnaker have
Speaker 3: already formed a solid center back pairing and with for
Speaker 3: Strata sitting in front, the central channel really hard to
Speaker 3: penetrate out wide. SARChI and Devrees we sound meaning reigning
Speaker 3: a League goalkeeper of the Year Alex Paulson had very
Speaker 3: little to do a clean sheet to start, so chick
Speaker 3: that box and as the saying goes, build it and
Speaker 3: they will come, and they did. The sellout crowd provided
Speaker 3: the perfect backdrop to Walkland FC's inaugural a legue match,
Speaker 3: from the celebrities up in the corporate areas, to the
Speaker 3: families and fans in the stands, and the outstanding active
Speaker 3: support provided by the port. Even this early in the
Speaker 3: club's life, Go Media Stadium appeals as a cauldron that
Speaker 3: no away team will fancy visiting, starting with Sydney FC
Speaker 3: this Sunday.
Speaker 2: The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 3: Into the Chamber, we go onto our leenas we lean.
Speaker 3: We've heard from Elliott Smith in Japan. I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to the test match. I'm looking forward more to the
Speaker 3: test matches that follow. But if you look at that
Speaker 3: All Blacks team that's been named for this game tomorrow
Speaker 3: evening darts, who do you think has the most to gain?
Speaker 3: Which player or players have the most to gain from
Speaker 3: playing well tomorrow night.
Speaker 4: That is a very difficult question. There are a number
Speaker 4: of players who are looking to award, not establishing themselves,
Speaker 4: but maybe notching further up in the pecking order. Damien
Speaker 4: McKenzie has to be one of those who's fallen out
Speaker 4: of favor. I'm also interested in Setiti what he can
Speaker 4: do in his customary position of number eight. Those are
Speaker 4: the guys that I will be looking at with most interests.
Speaker 4: And also the debate around eleven and fourteen. Caleb Clark
Speaker 4: as you're eleven. So what happens with these two diminutive wingers.
Speaker 4: Who gets the upper hand may end up plane come
Speaker 4: the real thicking of the two here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely a couple of guys. I'm going to keep
Speaker 3: a very close eye on. Billy Procter. I think you know,
Speaker 3: he's been criminally under used in the All Blacks this year,
Speaker 3: just that one outing against Fiji. I think if he
Speaker 3: plays well, then he's certainly knocking on the door of
Speaker 3: a center spot, perhaps for one of these end of
Speaker 3: year tests. And I think this is a massive test
Speaker 3: for some a penny female. You know, he has come
Speaker 3: into the All Blacks, he's been sort of branded as
Speaker 3: an enforcer. I don't think he's taken his chances. He
Speaker 3: has a chance tomorrow to muscle up and wear that
Speaker 3: six jumper that he does so well for the Chiefs
Speaker 3: across Super rug Let's see how some a penny female goes.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there are any number of players who I'm
Speaker 3: sure will want to, as you've said, put themselves up
Speaker 3: the pecking order as we get towards the big matches
Speaker 3: on this end of year tour.
Speaker 4: There's only so much they can do right. They've got
Speaker 4: to get the victory plane. It's got to be I
Speaker 4: would say comfortable. They've got to be dominant. The key
Speaker 4: thing here is not being too dominant. And when you
Speaker 4: look at some of those explosive loose four players, let's
Speaker 4: just not get too aggressive and cause trouble. I think
Speaker 4: some of Benny females a fantastic player, but he's always
Speaker 4: right on that cuss, isn't he, which is what we
Speaker 4: love about him. But it can also go too far.
Speaker 4: So it's a difficult balance for him, absolutely, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: one he's found hard to strike. I think at Test
Speaker 4: level Rugby League hits the Garden City of christ Church
Speaker 4: on Sunday, the last time the Kiwis played the Kangaroos.
Speaker 3: Does the Kiwi's won thirty zerols?
Speaker 2: Right? That?
Speaker 3: Could we be so bold as to suggest a repeat
Speaker 3: in your hometown on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Wait, they'll be absolutely filthy the Kangaroos about that. They
Speaker 4: will have carried that since last November and they'll want
Speaker 4: to come back. But when you look at the Kiwi side,
Speaker 4: I think that under Stacy Jones and the fact that
Speaker 4: a couple of South Islanders in there as well, they
Speaker 4: won't fall over. They won't roll over packed house. What's
Speaker 4: seventeen thousand people? I had the lean to I'm looking
Speaker 4: forward to that. Not only that, but of course you
Speaker 4: can't really call it a curtain because it's not the
Speaker 4: case anymore. But it's the first game as well where
Speaker 4: the fans take on the jell A Ruse. It's a
Speaker 4: wonderful doubleheader in christ It's and so good to see
Speaker 4: the people turning up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and really turning up as well. And they turned
Speaker 3: up for what the Warriors earlier this year. I guess
Speaker 3: the question always gets asked, should should christ Church perhaps
Speaker 3: be a place where an NRL bid is taken? Seriously?
Speaker 3: I know that Peter Balandi's and Andrew Abdo are both
Speaker 3: in christ Church for this one. I don't know, Das
Speaker 3: my heart says, I'd love to see it. My gut
Speaker 3: says we won't see it well.
Speaker 4: Once see the team, or won't see a victory. Help
Speaker 4: me hear Pine?
Speaker 3: The NRL team in christ Church. Look, I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to the game. I think that goes. That's going to
Speaker 3: be a cracker. I think you're right. I think maybe
Speaker 3: Australia have the edge in pregame favoritism. But now I'm
Speaker 3: talking about the NRL team and christ Church. I know
Speaker 3: there's been a lot of noise made about it, a
Speaker 3: lot of league fans in christ Church, heaps of them.
Speaker 3: But can you really see an NRL team being stood
Speaker 3: up there?
Speaker 4: No, predominantly because I'm not entirely sure if the NRL
Speaker 4: give two hoots about what happens in New zeal And.
Speaker 4: They've got their talent and when it comes to the wars,
Speaker 4: and that's probably enough of them. They're more interesting going
Speaker 4: to Papua and New Guinea. Still can't work out the
Speaker 4: financial logic behind that one looks so be it, but
Speaker 4: it makes much more sense. And imagine, imagine every other
Speaker 4: week you have a home game under a roof in
Speaker 4: christch How will that be for the NRL. Let's expand
Speaker 4: that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not going to be the eighteenth team, maybe
Speaker 3: the twentieth, but there are other bids on the table
Speaker 3: for that. Hey, some quick picks from you if I
Speaker 3: could in PC final tomorrow five past three Gold Sports
Speaker 3: where you'll catch the commentary of that one. Wellington or
Speaker 3: Bay have plenty for you.
Speaker 4: I'm still like grimacing over what they have plenty of
Speaker 4: did to Canterbury. So I've got to support them against
Speaker 4: your guys, just because I feel like that means the
Speaker 4: loss was okay, it was justified because they have plenty
Speaker 4: of won it. Look at the end, I don't have
Speaker 4: any skin in any of the teams. I just want
Speaker 4: to see a good game of football and I think
Speaker 4: we'll get it because it's in the afternoon. It's daytime football.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: I want Wellington to win, course, I don't care if
Speaker 3: it's I want Wallington to win the game of rugby
Speaker 3: npball Constellation cut number three or Test number three Sunday
Speaker 3: night and Perth. We don't normally went over there? Can
Speaker 3: we win over there?
Speaker 4: Well, every time we beat them up over here, they
Speaker 4: beat us up back over there again, so that is
Speaker 4: kind of regular programming. And this sounds really unpatriotic. But
Speaker 4: I kind of wouldn't mind if Australia one and then
Speaker 4: one again on Wednesday, just so we can see how
Speaker 4: the players deal with seven minutes each way of extra
Speaker 4: time to determine that they'd be absolutely gassed. And I
Speaker 4: tell you, the ferns are fitter, so I know it's
Speaker 4: a sick fascination. I'd like to see them under that
Speaker 4: kind of pressure. Plainly, I'm gonna key you. I want
Speaker 4: to see that the ferns wouldn't be You know where
Speaker 4: I'm going with that, pliny.
Speaker 3: I do, I do. I know exactly what you where
Speaker 3: you're going. It's a unique proposition, a mini game at
Speaker 3: the end of a four game series. I can't remember
Speaker 3: it happening in any sport ever before. So yeah, looking
Speaker 3: forward to that. And finally, black Caps India. The black
Speaker 3: Caps boalty yesterday for two five nine India sixteen for one.
Speaker 3: What to India get in their first innings.
Speaker 4: I watched most of it yesterday, and I watched what
Speaker 4: Patel could do and how he was manufacturing his delivery,
Speaker 4: and again with Mitchell sat Now now that Purchu is
Speaker 4: showing explosive qualities already, it's turned into a bit of
Speaker 4: a pop a dom it will have done by the
Speaker 4: end of the game. I think if they can they'll
Speaker 4: probably maybe score three three hundred and three fifty. The
Speaker 4: trick here, of course is who has to bat second,
Speaker 4: and it's them, and that's when things get really really interesting.
Speaker 4: Two fifty nine not a dominant score, not a losing score.
Speaker 4: They are still very much in the fixture and those
Speaker 4: runs are on the board.
Speaker 3: Now, I was just you've you took the words right
Speaker 3: out of my mouth, as you so often do. Those
Speaker 3: runs are on the board. It's up to Indy and
Speaker 3: how to get close to or go past it in
Speaker 3: the first innings and trigguing test match in poone playing out.
Speaker 3: That is us in a jam packed chamber for today.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Jason Bin. Always a pleasure to
Speaker 4: breathe the air in the room with you there, my friend,
Speaker 4: dissecting the sporting agenda.
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Speaker 4: US. If we were still under the cash of COVID,
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