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ACC Head G Lane joins Manaia Stewart to rip through the latest sporting headlines including Corey Horsbrugh's suspension for punching Jacob Laban, giving them a taste of Kiwi at Wimbledon, and how to get a lift from the airport from Richie Mo'unga (0:00).

Then the fellas are joined by the voice of the roundball in NZ Jason Pine to break down the latest action in the Euros (13:07).

Finally, they get to your feedback in 'Yours Please' (29:09).

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Speaker 1

Live from the Export Beer Garden studio and brought to you by Export Ultra the beer for here. This is the Agenda Podcast for Tuesday to second of July.

Speaker 2

The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting nonsense and clap Trap, brought to you by Export Culture.

Speaker 1

Jason Pine will be on the podcast later on to god lend a bit of backbone to this podcast because as well as we often say football blind spot to.

Speaker 3

Us, I'm look, it's my goal and the end of the year to not be our blind spot. You know, on some wing mirrors, you know they have the little round thing at the top of the wing mirror to cover the blind spot.

Speaker 1

Are you saying that, as far as this podcast is concerned, things in the rear view mirror may be bigger than they actually appear. Correct, You may actually know a little bit more about the round ball.

Speaker 3

Yeah, correct. By the end of the year, we hopefully I love having Piney on he is the voice of the round ball in New Zealand. But I'm hoping that with Auckland FC coming on board in October that we will be skilled up enough not to upset the football fans out there, because at the moment I think they're agitated.

Speaker 1

Yeah. It's hard though, because, like you know, if you follow rugby, it's quite easy to figure out who the biggest players are. You follow basketball, they're all play in the NBA, so that's very easy. But with football there's so many different leagues. Yeah, you know, you get found out very quickly when you're like, who what, I think he's.

Speaker 3

Just an Italian league. You just have to weigh into one team, like follow Aston Villa and then just know all the players there, and then you don't have to know about anyone from men City.

Speaker 1

Or because I mean, yeah, no, I do know what you mean. Because if you can just summon up a bench player for Aston Villa, yeah, then it sounds like you know a lot about the camp, but actually you only know about one team.

Speaker 3

So maybe we should okay, I mean we're going to go all in on Auckland FC. That's that's the startup, and maybe we should go all in on one team each on the APL.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and then we can pretend like we know. I think the shortcut is a development player. If you can summon up like a development players, like well, I love where they're going and they've got this young kid.

Speaker 3

Yeah, he's good, he's good man, he's come through.

Speaker 1

I think he's at a out of Germany.

Speaker 3

And he's He's one team you can't follow tonight, and that's Rexham. Okay, that's cheating.

Speaker 1

Yeah, that's the drive to survive.

Speaker 3

Yeah, you can't follow Rexham. Now you got to pick someone else. Reading was a team for me when I was in London. Yeah, only because my parents lived in Reading and then yeah that was my only affiliation.

Speaker 1

That's enough though, because it's like people stayed of origins like that. We're here in New Zealand, there'll be people who are like I bleed blue, New South Wales slide die. I couldn't name two cities in New South Wales. I don't think I could either Will Newcastle, Yeah, Rudy Hill, Broken Hill, Dubble Tarr No, I think mountains, but yeah, I just think yeah football quite hard to quite hard. Fallow anyway, you don't have to listen to us talk about it for much longer because Piney will be on

very shortly. Cory Hawesbrough, who was throwing the punches at Jacob Laban, the Fiery Ranger, Fiery Ranger. He has had his judicial bandhanded down to him. It's only two weeks. So he got one week for one incident in two weeks for another. And I think they're going to be served concurrently. I'm sure I'll be corrected on that. It's either two or three weeks that he's got for that.

Speaker 3

So do you think they the judiciary looked at it and meant if we ban him for more than six weeks, we're going to be called up by all the gingers for picking on being gingerous.

Speaker 1

Yeah, potentially there's a bit of wocism at play here. I just kind of think, you know, they talk so much about bring back the Biff three weeks for throwing multiple punches that landed on a guy's face and a head butt and a head butt, and you only get three weeks. Bff's back. The Biff is back. Someone wake up Red Dragon, because the Berff is back. I doubt the.

Speaker 3

Biff is back until a Warrior's player biffs. Yeah, well then he's gone for six months.

Speaker 1

That's the other thing, isn't it. Because the referee that when they were going through the footage, they played the referees tape and he said, oh yeah, there was a bit from both sides as well. And then you watch the replay like extended replays, you watch it in real time. There's nothing, there's no back and forth. There's a bit of like smiling and laughing and pointing, which will definitely inflame a fiery rang Corey hawsbro. Yeah, but that's not against the rules of the game.

Speaker 3

One one I did see the replayer, did I watched it. One warrior who got sent off came flying it did come flying in with it.

Speaker 1

That was Tom Ally, Yeah. Yeah, and he's the third man, and I think he went for one of those like shirt collar push punch.

Speaker 3

Here was an ice hockey punch, wasn't it. Yeah, Yeah, where they grabbed the shirt and then multiple punches.

Speaker 1

Yes, and they're trying to make it look like that just trying to rough them up with the collar, but actually what they're trying to just punch them in the chin. I've always been big on the third man, and he gets been regardless, so that was fair enough. But I just the biff's back. I reckon, you're you're gonna throw it down if you're gonna be out there in the NRL at the moment, just buger it. But that's three weeks out for Corey Hawesbury, who's had an absolute shocker

of a season, can't get back onto the field. This will not help him. Also, Wimbledon has just started. I don't know if you knew that, well, yeah, because I do.

Speaker 3

I only know because I heard it on the news, on the radio, actually on Herdaki and the wireless, on the wireless, because I don't think any there's no broadcast the covering it in New Zealand.

Speaker 1

Oh it's not on Sky nah and on tv Z either. It's very early doors in the competition, so maybe they'll get around to it. But all the big names have started. Alcarez just smashed someone. We'll probably find out. I always forget how young Alcarez is.

Speaker 3

Yeah, it's like nineteen.

Speaker 1

He's getting younger. Yeah, he's Benjamin Buttoning. I think he's about fourteen this year. But we've got our own qualifier. Can we qualify Lulu's Sun who's stunned Chinese eighth seed Jing Jin Winn in the Wimbledon opening round. Now she Lulu was born in Tiana char Now you may know it is down there in the South Island, beautiful, beautiful part of the country wit and lived in Switzerland for a while, Yeah, but has elected to play under the New Zealand flag.

Speaker 3

She's got the most sensational international accent. Yeah, her talk, it's like, not Kiwi, it's not American, it's not Australian, it's just this international, nondescript accent.

Speaker 1

Yeah. I think there's a tennis accent that started to develop. Who's that girl, Ratliffe, She's got it as well, A little bit right, And I think it is just because if you want to get good at tennis, you get identified at about eight years old, and you go to Florida, and you go to Florida, and then you're playing tournaments

around Eastern Europe. Chances are you're of some sort of former Yugoslav descent and then you just get chucked into this hodgepodge and then you get that accent, and that accent makes you good at tennis, but a massive upset as well. I think as much as the tennis circuit seems to creat psychopaths and it would be a grueling, grueling sport to bean, I feel like it'd be quite fun just going floating around the world, going from tournament to tournament.

Speaker 3

I think if you could get past the like yeah, it's psychopathic because it's individual and it is physically so physically demanding. You look at golf, Golf is mental and individual. You know, there is some real mental games going on there, huge, and that is some mental struggles. Tennis you've got the mental struggle and the physical struggle. You know, You've got someone goes to a five setter and they're playing to three in the morning, and then you got to get out the next day and go again.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and it's just.

Speaker 3

You, whereas in golf, I feel, oh, yeah, it's not. It's physical, sure, but it's not. But it's you're not like, nah, eighteen holes, don't go for eight hours one day, no, yeah, yeah, that's.

Speaker 1

Right and all through the night. Yeah, and then like forty degree with it. Yeah, that's right. Any niggle you pick up playing golf, you can get a massage in your suite again. Yeah. But yeah, you roll your you roll your ankle on the grass there at Wimbledon, you're in deep, deep shit because you get another tournament next week and you haven't quite paid the bills from the last tournament. So that part of it is. But I do think it'll be fun just going around the world,

going to tournaments, like the setup of it. But yeah, anytime you watch those Netflix docos.

Speaker 3

You're like, oh, these guys, Yeah, they're on edge, they are on edge.

Speaker 1

And then I mean everyone would have read Old Andre Agassi's autobiography.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I think that the weirdest had that autobiography for me was the fact he had a picture of Stiffy Graff on his wall as a teenager. Yeah. I had a massive crash on Stiffy Graff and then he ended up closing the Well, I mean to me, that's that's the ultimate, isn't it.

Speaker 1

Well, it's on the one hand, very very creepy. On the one hand, like very very very creepy. But on the other hand, how he didn't just completely capitulate when he finally met her, Because you know, that's what I mean. I had a poster of Dwayne Wade Duncan for the Miami Heat on my wall, and if I hadn't met him, I would have lost the plot, let alone. Piling on top of that meritable intentions.

Speaker 3

I had a picture of you know, the the tennis player model who was fetching the ball from her the back of her skirt and she was lifting up her skirt you know that famous photo from behind, but get a wee cheeky shot of the bum cheek and they're reaching around getting the ball. It's a non description, not even a tennis player. But I d on my ball and I would have capitulated if I'd ever met that person. I also had Samantha Fox. I had a picture of

Samantha Fox. Can you remember her? No, don't look her up.

Speaker 1

Now, Okay, I will. I will look her up in my own time. Yeah, but I just manifestation at its best. Yeah, that he had a thing I've heard and he ended up married.

Speaker 3

But yeah, I don't happily married to Hey still happily married either?

Speaker 1

YEA great? I don't think. Yeah, I don't think anyone makes it out alive with that sport. No one seems to be too well adjusted. He might be one of the more normal ones.

Speaker 3

Roger Federer seems feeling normal. But I mean, is that just the Swiss metronomic nature of his personality is he's managed to survive without being too messed up.

Speaker 1

He's too nice. He's like those guys. Yeah, when you meet someone that's just like really really nice.

Speaker 3

And you're like he's into something bad.

Speaker 1

Yeah, we're all running from something. You know, you just don't talk about what your thing is. That's the only difference. Roger. The rest of us are pretty open with our vices.

Speaker 3

Hey, somebody's gonna announce today.

Speaker 1

Up.

Speaker 3

We might have re announced it yesterday around the pregame at the Kensington and Dunedan that some else will be joining us. And Richie Muwanga, yes, will be joining us and driving the Export Express yep. And he's going to be doing transfers from the Kensington to Foresight Bar all afternoon on Saturday. On Saturday, you just had to get to the Kensington. I think it's two for one deals is live music. I've got Mitch James playing. We've got

heaps of stuff to give away. Me and you and Heath are going to be there, give anyway a bit of stuff.

Speaker 1

Oh me, you and Heath. I love me, you and Heath, Me, you and Heath.

Speaker 3

So it's going to be a great afternoon. I wouldn't go anywhere else. If you are going to Dunedin, or you are in Dunedin, come down and join us at the Kensington. But the day before we're thinking about on the Friday is getting the Export Express, which is a sixty seed a bus and heading out to the airport in Dunedin. Now, anyone who has flown into Dunedin will know.

Speaker 1

That they have never flown into Dunedin because Dunedan does not have any ever.

Speaker 3

No Momona does, which is one hundred dollars taxi ride out of Dunedin. And so we're thinking of maybe just rolling up with the Riches Export Express and just parking up and piling it with punters and driving them into town.

Speaker 1

I love the idea, but you told me this just before we walked in here. I was like, I can't imagine anyone would fly into Dunedin without a plan of how they were going to get into thing, because into town, because it's so far, it is so far. It's like, honestly, it'll be one hundred dollars taxi probably.

Speaker 3

Well, you know people in Dunedina though, so you can make a call and go, hey, Dave, come pick me up.

Speaker 1

I think that's the part I'm missing is that I'm only ever like, if I'm going to Dunedin, I do know people that are there, and that anyone else who doesn't know people there probably is going there for business. Yes, and you get a taxi yeah, or has had this all Blacks game circled Yeah, and so then they were going to go get a taxi as well. So I don't know, I could be wrong. So I just couldn't imagine showing up to that airport without a plan.

Speaker 3

If you are flying on Friday afternoon from Wellington or christ Church or Auckland and you're landing there, look out for maybe myself or Richie Mo will be by the barrack baggage carousel. We've got sixty seats going. We may get our tires slash by the Dunedin taxi mafia because that's how they run. But it's going to be a great weekend. We're there what Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and we're also going to be doing a few flat drops around there.

We've got some Leader lasagna toppers and Southern Fried chicken toppers and a few refreshments to give away as well. So cruising up and down Castle Streets potentially and around there the slums.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I wonder maybe someone could let me know. I think Thursday night, well, at least when I was there Thursday night with student night. So are we in the school holiday and.

Speaker 3

There's the holidays. Yeah, yeah, there's but there is a few people that stay down there. Not everyone departs, but you don't if you want a prize pack anyway, with like Snacker Changy Sports Scholarship, for example, you don't have to be in donedan text chip to three two three six because I've also got the Snack Changy Sports Scholarship to give away, which is a bunch of Snacker Changy's, some refreshments and where bingea, watching sport is a sport

is what we're saying. So there you go get into it.

Speaker 1

Alrighty, let's take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to get the voice of the round Ball in New Zealand, Jason Pine, to run us down through the Euros. Well, it's been spoken about quite a lot on this podcast, lame that football can sometimes be a little bit of a blind spot for us and our Kelly's heel and Achilles heel. Yes, So to fill in that blind spot, we've brought on someone who knows all about the round ball, Jason Pine. Good morning, Piney, how are you mate?

Speaker 4

Yeah? Great, guys, thanks thanks for giving.

Speaker 3

Us a call mate, Thank you for coming on because you just basically rescue all of our credibility when it comes to football. We gave it a stab last week. We gave it a good, honest stab, and we absolutely cocked it up by saying that Portugal got knocked out by Georgia and that the Germany Denmark game was a nothing game. But we did predict the score. It was two nil and one seven hundred bucks. So it's been a roller coaster.

Speaker 4

Yeah, I look like a good redemption there at the end. Yes, good. You have to say, though, betting on football is fraught with theficulty, especially at tournaments like this, where you're always going to get teams raising their game. You're going to

get the likes of Georgia. It wouldn't have never even been to a major tournament actually, you know, pulling off results like they did against Portugal, you'll get you know, supposed favorites Italy, you know, defending champions being knocked out in the round of sixteen, So very very difficult to predict. The cream does tend to rise to the top as we get towards the Semis in the final, but yeah, it wouldn't be a wouldn't be a major football tournament without without a few upsets along the way.

Speaker 1

No, we just finished watching at the time recording this, we just finished watching Portugal takeout Slovenia on penalties. Man, that was a show of emotion from old Ronaldo because I looked up from my desk and because I was working quite hard smating ye and then I saw he was crying in the huddle and I was like, oh, did they lose? No, no, no, They've still got another twenty minutes of footing to play and then they're going

to penalties. I was like, what's going on here? It just is he always like.

Speaker 4

That, he's yeah, he's he's different, Old Christiana Ronaldo. I think, well, the the backstory of it is he missed a penalty in extra time, which would have in all likelihood have given Portugal the win. The fact that he missed it meant they went to a penalty shootout, during which he actually scored his penalty, so he kind of redeemed himself. But he knows, Cristiana Ronaldo that this is highly likely

to be his last major tournament for Portugal. Watching now thirty nine, unlikely he'll be at the next Football World Cup, so this is probably it for him, and I guess. Yeah, the tears that were flowing fairly freely were just a shove of that emotion that you know, I've messed this up. And I was going to say he was thinking I've messed this up for my team, But really, when it comes to Cristiano Ronaldo, all he thinks about really is himself. So I think he's crying because he's thinking I've missed

this up for myself. Thankfully, his teammates rallied around and gotten through the penalty shootout there and they're onto the next round.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it was a resounding one in the end on penalties, but I was just thinking, like, if you're going to go back out there onto that football pitch and he's your leader, absolutely balling his eyes out on the sideline, so that doesn't fill you with confidence.

Speaker 4

It's a great point. And if you think to yourself, Okay, what would Leonelle Messi do? Would he do that? Would he be, you know, blubbering away in a you know, in a in a team huddle, having having mister penalty. I think what he'd probably do was, even if he was feeling internally distraught, he'd say, right, I've got to show some leadership here and go out there and make sure that the next chance becomes along goes in the back of the net. So yeah, I mean Christiana Ronaldo.

I mean absolutely generational footballer. And there's always been the Messi v Ronaldo debate. But yeah, if you're looking at them as human beings, I think Messi is a lot easier to like than Christiana Ronaldo is.

Speaker 3

Well, absolutely, he's not. He's not has a bath of fake tan and a suspiciously large Adam's Apple for a start. So I'm a massive Messy fan. I've actually, I've actually Metel Messi. Piney that I met him. I met him in Abu Dhabi during the Football Club World Cup. He was playing for bas Lona and he was playing in that rock star team that had pool in Esta and him, and he was in the changing rooms and he was

a bit lost. I didn't know where he was going, and I showed him where the changing room was, like he lost. He's tiny, He's a small man, so.

Speaker 4

How what were you doing there?

Speaker 3

I used to work for FIFA Pony. I used to run the Football Club Club World Cup and the UEE for two years.

Speaker 4

No, I mean hanging around the I mean hanging around the changing room.

Speaker 3

No, I was in operations, so I basically a player operations and stuff, so were and it was very comp It was very complex at the time, Pony, because we had a double hitter, so we had four teams all in one corridor. And one of the teams was actually Auckland, the Auckland Football Club, Auckland City and that I told you about that and when I caught them ups afterwards after the games had finished, all queued up outside the Barcelona changing room with merchandise to sign.

Speaker 4

Yeah, just display of notes when it comes to that tournament. Yeah, it's although we're the same as the World Cup. You know, when Australia played Argentina, all of the Australian players afterwards were queuing up to get messis you know, photo and signature.

You know, I've always wondered about that, you know. You I know you're on the field, it probably goes off to one side, But when you revere someone so much that you're desperate to get a selfie with them afterwards, I'm just wondering whether your mind's fully on the job when you're on football. I'm sure that it is.

Speaker 3

I wasn't. I wasn't overly aware of how half the players were to be honest at their time, So I was probably quite useful in the back of house because I had no idea who anyone was, so I wasn't getting any selfies. I definitely knew who mess he was. Anyway, back back on to the topic of the Euros. We're getting to the quarter finals. We've got who have we got in the quarters? We've got France? Are they? Are they playing Portugal now?

Speaker 1

Is that right?

Speaker 4

Yeah? That's right? Yeah, yeah, France. Yeah, we're starting to get some some matchups now which we can look forward to. Yeah, so France bi Portugal. That's seven o'clock Saturday morning, the game before that'll be worth getting up for. I think Sain, Germany Spain have looked for me. I've looked the best team at the Euros. Germany are the hosts and always do well at tournaments, regardless of where they're being played.

So yes, Spain, Germany will be good, Portugal, France, then England and Switzerland, and we've still got one who want to decide after the final round of sixteen matches tomorrow morning.

Speaker 3

And who I mean, obviously Spain you're looking at are they probably looking the red hot favorites for you.

Speaker 4

They're the best team I've seen there.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

Speaker 4

The only thing is that they're on the side of the draw that if they get past Germany then they have to play the winner of Portugal France, so their road to the final is quite tough. England, I just noted before I came on with you guys at the tab favorite sill, which is just crazy, given the fact that they've been so poor during their four games here

so far. They've stumbled and bumbled their way through. They were thirty seconds away from going out against Slovakia and they're around the sixteen match bicycle kicked from Jude Bellingham got them level and then Harry Kin got the winner. But they are on a more favorable side of the draw. Having said that, anybody who plays England at the moment I reckondacts themselves and the Swiss will be well up for it on Sunday morning at four o'clock out time. I don't think they're going to roll over.

Speaker 1

They seem to be a fairly well supported team over there. Seems like the English fans have really gotten them behind their team over there. Every time they pan around the crowd, there's English fans everywhere, shirtless, banging on their drums. Are they Are they one of the best traveled fandoms there.

Speaker 4

Yeah, Look, it's interesting you say that they're certainly the most there's I think probably more of them than any other team, but I'm not sure that they're always necessarily behind their team.

Speaker 5

One.

Speaker 4

You might have seen some footage actually of a whole bunch of English fans actually leaving the ground in the round of sixteen. There one nil down, as I say, against Slovakia, there's only a couple of minutes to go, and some fans thought, no, bugger this, I'm out, And just as they were leaving and being filmed by a local news crew, you heard there's raw from the stadium that just exoded of Dude Bellingham's goal which got on level.

I've never been able to work out why people leave a game early, regardless of the of the results or whether your team's behind or whatever you just stated.

Speaker 3

At the end, I think, yeah, I mean the beat. Everyone wants to beat the traffic. Piney, at that point, you are the traffic, because.

Speaker 4

Actually none of those English fans are driving around Unich or or whatever the hell they are. You know it's yeah, I've never worked it out, but yeah, England well supported their fans, are you know. I think there's there's less and less of the of the real hardcore hooligan stuff going on now, I think, I mean, there's a lot of guys who have clearly seen the insides of a

lot of bars. But but yeah, they they turn out and look they'll be they're in big numbers again when they when they take on Switzerland, and whereas at Dusseldorf on on Sunday outside this is.

Speaker 3

About the only point of the Euros where I get really interested? Is that about the quarter final stage. I was struggling through the pool play. Hence I was bumbling my way through any updates on the g the podcast and getting roundly abused by our faithful audience. Can you see any any dark horses coming into those quarterfinals? Any anyone we need to look out for? And I mean you've got Austria, Turkey, Romania and Netherlands still to play.

Speaker 4

Yeah, on those four. I mean, the Netherlands seem like the one that will go through to the semi finals. They'll get I would imagine they'll get past Romania. Okay, i'd keep an eye on Turkey. I mean, their fans are absolutely bonkers, completely mental, and often that flows onto what they do on the pitch as well. So if Turkey can get past Austria, they are pretty functional side, you know, and then come up against you know, Turkey could beat England. Put it that way, they could at

this tournament. Anyone who's played England's a chance of beating them. So yeah, so if you're looking for a dark horse, probably Turkey. As to say, on the other side, guys, I mean Spain, Germany, Portugal, France. We're talking football and superpowers there so no dark horse to be found there. So yeah, let's see what happens in the final round

of sixteen matches tomorrow. But as I say it, usually in tournament football, you know, you find that the really top teams are the ones who are playing at the business end.

Speaker 1

As a non football like a very casual football follower, This one seems a lot bigger than the last, Like, I don't remember people being this big into the Euros. Is that a big part of that because last time was during COVID or do you feel like this is growing in popularity?

Speaker 4

Yeah, that's a really good question. It's like it's not as big as a World Cup. You know, I think people already wrap themselves into a World Cup because, as the name would suggest, come through small around the world. You know, these are teams that are all from the same continent, and by and large a lot of them play the same style of football, so you're not really going to get too much in the way of the contrast and styles. It's funny. I've like I normally and

I have this time as well. I normally watch every game, but I've just found some of them to be just a little bit shamey. And the time difference is tough. I'm getting up at one in the morning and then getting through to a four o'clock and then at seven o'clock. That's not great for the sleep pattern. But look, there are there are There are twenty four teams in the in the tournament, which is more than they have had previously.

And what that's led to is third place teams in a group going through, and so I think that's probably kept you know, more fans more interested for longer in the tournament. Yeah around here, I mean, like I say, you know, if you can get up at breakfast time and watch football at just the seven o'clock game, for example, that's a pretty friendly time to watch a game of high quality sports. So maybe, you know, maybe more and more people are taking advantage of that.

Speaker 3

Speaking of popularity, Pineer the All Whites Now, I said something yesterday on the podcast and then I thought about it and I thought, I wonder if I've got that right. But obviously we took out the Oceania Nations Cup over the weekend betting. Is it Vanowa two?

Speaker 1

Is it?

Speaker 3

Have I read this right? But in the future, are they opening up an automatic qualification from Oceania into the FIFA World Cup?

Speaker 4

Absolutely? Bang on, yep. It's because the World Cup itself is increasing in size. The next one will be normally the World Cup, or for the last few editions has been the two teams. It's going to be forty eight teams from the next one, and so in order to get more teams, you open up more spots. Obviously, and Oceannia has never had direct entry into the World Cup. That's why we've always had these intercontinental playoffs, the bar

Rain Ones, the most famous one. When we got through, we've lost to Mexico, lost to Peru, lost to Costa Rica last time. But now yes, so whoever wins the Oceanian Nations Cup immediately before the World Cup will gain direct entry into the World Cup. So really it's a bit of a it's a bit of a lay down these for the all whites. Really, they are far and away the best team in Oceannia. All of their players are professionals, you know. The island sides are you know,

are you know? They're really a long way below there are very few professional players in the Islands. They're just did this local club players? Really? So so yeah, New Zealand's path to the World Cup the next one and everything beyond that looks a lot clearer. So yeah, I feel like the agenda needs to needs to start booking tickets to Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Speaker 3

Absolutely well, we're going to have to maybe scale up on our knowledge, but so let's to bring it with us, pony, Yeah a piney. Is there any chance that Australia can Flippans decide to go back to Oceania and move away from Asia.

Speaker 4

I don't think they will now, you know, they're they're actually I mean the move to Asia has been good for their the quality of their football and actually ever since they move, they've made the World Cup every time, so there's no real reason for them to come back. And of course with more with more teams, they're actually more spots through Asian Hour as well. So yeah, I don't think they will. Yeah, they they I think they'll leave. They'll leave it. They'll leave it to New Zealand to

be the big fish in this pond. What it does do, though, is it it kind of puts to bed any thoughts that New Zealand might join the Asian Confederation, which I think from a football sense would have been great for our football. But why would we go somewhere now where we know we've got direct the entry to World Cups where we are. I think they'll probably just, you know, just just stay put and battle away against the island nations and probably make every World Cup from now until the end of time.

Speaker 1

I'd rather do that anyway.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I wouldn't, but I wouldn't put a past the Aussies. No, I wouldn't put it past them. I wouldn't put a part.

Speaker 4

Of them another to form when it comes to the sort of.

Speaker 3

Yeah, absolutely, and some of the news out of the Phoenix another Phoenix player has been signed over to Europe. Sara Hight.

Speaker 4

Yeah, yeah, Ben Old. Yeah, this news will be confirmed in the next couple of days. As I understand it. He had a terrific season. It's a name to remember, guys, he has. I think I first saw Ben Old play when he was about about sixteen years old in the Phoenix Academy. And you know, when you see anyone play any sport, you think, oh, that kid's got a bit about him, and you wonder whether they'll go on with it. And I've always sort of followed Ben Old's career for

the last six or seven years. Absolutely tremendous for the Phoenix last season and yet picked up by a French club, Saint Etien. They'll be I've just been promoted back into the top flight in France, so that Ben Old makes that team, he will be playing in the top French league. He's off to the Olympics, so I get the feeling we'll just go to Paris for the Olympics and then probably just stay put and join his new club over there.

So yeah, another one we know, Alex Paulson. Of course we've talked about him, the goalkeeper who's off to the Premier League. So yeah, great to see these young key weekids coming through the Phoenix and then going on to bigger and brighter and better things.

Speaker 1

It sounds like the round balls and a healthy spot here at least in New Zealand. And Yeah, as I said before, I feel like everyone at the moment is off to a pub at about four o'clock in the morning to watch the Euros. At the moment, we'll have to get you on. I think we've got what two more weeks yet of the Euros, Pony.

Speaker 4

Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1

We'll have to get you on throughout there to keep us updated because as we know, we are less than updated here on this podcast.

Speaker 3

So I tell what I have done, Thoman and Piney. I've put one hundred bucks on twelve and a half corners or more in the Romanian Netherlands game. I love aw you bet on corners?

Speaker 4

Yeah yeah, well look, I mean absolutely no rationale behind it, but I like the way.

Speaker 1

Is that your own money or has that come out of our pop no comment? Okay, all right, thank you very much for your time this morning, Pony. Enjoy your football over the next couple of weeks, mate.

Speaker 4

Yeah, take an easy boys.

Speaker 2

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Speaker 3

Huge.

Speaker 1

Thank you to Jason Pine for joining us on a Tuesday morning. It is time for yours. Please let's just rip straight into it. First call here yours please.

Speaker 5

Good a fellas. It's Mike Hunt here. I have a bit of a ethical Well no, it's actually just a logistical dilemma. I've got a very close friend's thirtieth birthday which coincides with the All Blacks game, and I'm just wondering how the fuck do I get out of that so I can just watch the footy? Yeah?

Speaker 1

Help me? Please?

Speaker 3

Wow, there's several ways you can do this, Mike Haunt. Well, Hunt, you could still go to the thirtieth, can't you? Or does he want to go to the actual footy? What does he want to watch it? Because if you just wants to watch it, you can just turn up late. You can just say you've got something on and turn up at nine o'clock. As opposed to.

Speaker 1

Sex, I'd need to know a bit more about the thirtieth. How big is this due going to be? Because my initial thought was just invite him to the footy. But if he's got family and it's a whole thing. Yeah, then that's probably gonna ruin it. I don't think anyone would be opposed to at their thirtieth putting the game on. I presume it's going to be at a venue that would have screens.

Speaker 3

Or you just stick it on your skysport.

Speaker 1

Now, yeah, on your phone. That is a little bit anti social. Although I went out for dinner on Saturday night and at the restaurant, three different tables were watching the Warriors yep, on their phones.

Speaker 3

I hope you went over and changed it to Skysport nine.

Speaker 1

Oh no, they're only phones.

Speaker 3

I mean, yeah, you can go over there and just go hey, mate Brown, each of the my phones, go back to the menu and then go digo.

Speaker 1

That's better. I will generally, if I'm following a game, I'll just check the scores. I won't have the game going if I'm in that kind of situation. But I why you could just chuck it on the screen.

Speaker 3

Surely the other option is we can give mister hunt here a prize, so you can say I've won a trip to the footy thing with the acc I got to go to that.

Speaker 1

Okay, all right, Well, then, without any further ado again, I'd just like to clarify this is something we do from time to time. This is not a real prize. But Mike, not you, but the other one. Pause podcast. Now go and get maybe clip this and send it to your mates so that he can be like, oh no, all right, all right, Lane, Well it is time to give away flights and tickets to the All Blacks game this weekend in Dunedin. And we've had millions of interest

from around the world. And the winner, without any further ado, is Mike Hunt. Congratulations, Mike, clear your schedule, mate, whatever your head on, Bennett, whatever you had planned ye for your weekend, you're gonna have to scrap that, mate, because we are sending you to the All Blacks game in Dneden. Well done, Come down and say gooday to us at the Kensington beforehand.

Speaker 3

There you go, that you, Mike.

Speaker 1

I always want to say for you and a mate, but then I feel like I'm probably stitching them up because then whoever they send the thing to it. Oh why don't you say me?

Speaker 3

I just to mate anyway, it's just a single.

Speaker 1

There you go, mister Hunt. Hey, look, we're just making dreams happen here on the podcast. Another call here, you're spits.

Speaker 6

Yeah, get a mary, first time call, a long time listener on your ultimate Australian sports Events. Adlaid for the Lions versus Commonwealth fifteen is a goodie. But get over there for the live golf.

Speaker 3

Oh yeah, it's very reasonable.

Speaker 1

Fifteen hundred bucks or something for entury.

Speaker 3

It all you can drink.

Speaker 6

Come on, I think it maybe even been there six hundred bucks anyway.

Speaker 3

Yeah, great, great, I agree. I totally overlooked that live golf. Adelaide at won the best live event globally. I can mellon up at the Herald went and he said it was. He said it was loose and great fun. So yeah, you're right. I will flag that end Zach Lions game and Code of the liv.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I've heard Adelaide's actually quite cool.

Speaker 3

It's got a lot better. I went twenty odd years ago and it was rough. Yeah, and then I went during the Pinkball test and it was awesome.

Speaker 1

Yeah, one point three million people.

Speaker 3

It's great. And you've got the Barossa Valley, you've got McLaren Vale, you got your Whiny. The Adelaide Oval is next level after their renovations. It's great. I really enjoyed Adelaide.

Speaker 1

My concern with a fifteen hundred dollars entry fee and free purse is that that fifteen hundred dollars then becomes a target because you have to drink fifteen hundred dollars worth of piss to feel like you've won that situation.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I think that's is that for a corporate area, because that's quite dangerous that all you can eat and drink, yeah scenarios. I'd rather get access and maybe just cheap drinks, you know, and then there's to be a transaction for me.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 3

Right, I want to control my consumption because otherwise you just feel like you've You've just got to go health for leather. Otherwise you feel like you're getting ripped off. It's like if you've ever stated a hotel.

Speaker 1

Where you drinks her included, like an all inclusive package or never done that. Even a flight, oh yeah, flight where you're like other serving pass and I sit there and I'm like, yeap, can I grab a beer? And they ask my messas if she wants anything, She goes no, thanks, I'm all good. I'm like, you're kidding me? You want a beer? What are we doing? Here. But the problem

with that is they have her seat marked down. Is she's got Celia, she can't have so they're like, oh, so you you got Celia and you're gonna drink a beer, are you? I don't think they give a ship. But to be fair, that one kills me. But yeah, the fifteen hundred dollars, that's a target for me. But anyway, we should go to live as long and short of that. Another call here you please.

Speaker 7

Hi boys, I'm just wanting to point out that you may well have your facts wrong. If the All Blacks are located currently, it is in here a tonguel and Upper Hunt, not Lower Hunt. Just come on, simple ship, get it right?

Speaker 3

Oh God, the Heart Valley?

Speaker 1

Can we not?

Speaker 3

Can we not get into a debate about the Heart Valley and the geopolitics of Haut Valley.

Speaker 1

We want to steer clear of regional politics.

Speaker 3

Especially the Heart Valley at letast just say they're training in Eastbourne. That'll really wind them up.

Speaker 1

It's a troubled pass that they've got there in the Heart Valley. Yeah, they're the North and South Korea of New Zealand.

Speaker 3

They are, and they quite happily build it. The military zone through it are.

Speaker 1

Yeah, genetically indistinct from one another, but culturally and I've heard widespread famine and upper hut That's what I'm hearing. And nuclear arms anyway, another caller here, yours please?

Speaker 4

Yes, Fellows a thought on that.

Speaker 1

You know, instead of shitting on you for getting something wrong, you've got the bust. But right in a class four in a p endorsement.

Speaker 3

There you go in.

Speaker 4

This one's for you and I fuck the Wye Hadow.

Speaker 1

Subrobert Championship you don't have.

Speaker 3

So I mean again as a compliment, and then it wasn't.

Speaker 1

I'm hoping that's going to catch on because you know everyone's been signed off South Canterbury is it doesn't have to be South Canterbury. Don't limit yourselves. You can go wherever you want.

Speaker 3

So it'll meet the heart Valley now little not the caller here? Oh you get a loving the Formula one redcap.

Speaker 1

Thank you. Fellows.

Speaker 7

Should do a little highlights episode every week, fucking quick montage.

Speaker 4

You've already got all the nicknames down packed just for the motorsports.

Speaker 7

You know, I didn't mind the round ball blue balls with all those over balls.

Speaker 3

You look Van strap On, he's obviously he's going to take this one out. I mean, this is my goal call her in the end of the year is to convert and I out of the Motor Games, move him on from motor games and into motor sport.

Speaker 1

I need to find a driver I can let you onto. I think.

Speaker 3

Yeah, Orlando Norris is good. I like him.

Speaker 1

Yeah, Orlando Kelrazion, Yeah, I don't mind him.

Speaker 3

He's not bad. He's you know, he can't.

Speaker 1

Go Daniel Rotardo.

Speaker 3

No, you can't go Retardo, especially when he's occupying the seat that Liam Lawson needs to be in. Yeah. Big schnozer big.

Speaker 1

Otherwise a very good looking man. I think he's got that thing where, you know, a good perfume has to have that little hint of like a bad smell about it. He's got that look to him. It's like he's a very handsome, good looking man with just like an odd looking nose, which I actually think makes him hotter, which makes me hate him more.

Speaker 3

Yeah, and you've got Charlot Claire, who's the hardest man alive. He makes He's been responsible for a vast change in the demographs. So who's watching the Formula one Charlotte Clerk Yeah.

Speaker 1

It's the other part of Formula one at least, is that it's unrelatable for me. I don't know how hard it is any of the stuff that they're doing. It's like when we commentated the Jesse Well's Invitational last year. It may shock you to know I actually didn't know any of the moves that I was commentating, And it may shock you know that you don't ski, you have seeding. I cannot ski, And so I was looking at them and I was like, I don't know, is that hard

to do? Because I've just seen five guys do like quadruple flips in a row and the like, Yeah, no, that is like one of the hardest things in the world to do. You're watching the best people in the world.

Speaker 3

Luckily we had Lee with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, who knew exact calling the scream and semens left right and send it.

Speaker 1

Akaya Satan Whoppercock he was. He was I think the two time winner of the World Guitar the Guitar Competition under the pseudonym Satan Whoppercock.

Speaker 3

Yeah, and he played in a giant Pallas costume and at the top of the e guitar riff, yogurt would fly out in a pneumatic gun out of the top of the phelic costume into the crowd, and I think it.

Speaker 1

Went haywire because he had no way of testing it beforehand because it was like a one shot yeah costume, and so he's like, I can't have a dry run of this. We're just going to go for it on a note. And I think it just exploded at a meltdown. We need to get on the podcast at some point, but yeah, I think maybe maybe a motor Game's recap. I don't know. I feel like we're waiting into the same territory we are with the round ball.

Speaker 3

Yeah. Look, I mean, just going back just a few seconds to ed Lee, we should probably talk to him about the Olympics because he commentates the skateboarding and the skatepark stuff, which is really interesting. In the Olympics Member last time and was it Tokyo fourteen year old kid one gold and some of the meanest tricks, And they'll go and they're just listening to the ear pods and it'll be passing off every boomer known to man to

watch that. Yeah, and the Olympics and there's a kid honors ear pods just completely oblivious to the world and then just throws down in the street park So maybe we've talked to him about that.

Speaker 1

Yeah. Absolutely, I'm going to introd into the break dancing all right. That'll do us for today. That's the last years. Please feel free to fire and more and we'll get around to those tomorrow as well as another half baked sports idea. We will see you then.

Speaker 2

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