The latest edition of 'The All-Star Panel' features Rugby Commentator Hamish McKay and Graeme the 'Sportsfreak' Beasley.
On this weekend's agenda:
Has the focus on Tim Southee taken away from the test series against England? Greyhound racing will soon be banned in New Zealand, and has Saudi Arabia won at sport?
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Wildgrave from News Talks at be All Sports Breakfast All
Star Panel.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Time to hit the ground running with their All Star panel.
It consists of today, mister.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Great beezer, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, that's when you say hi, how are you and
bring some enthusiasm. Come on beas ay a bit of
that right and I know someone who's going to play
this game.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Hey McKay, Darcy, how are you?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Mackay changed my name by Dee Polder McLaren after last weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Look at that Formula one fan, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Good on your bike.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, let's get let's talk some turkey A why what
is actually going on as far as the world of
sport is concerned and what we need to discuss of
a day. We should really start off with the cricket.
What's the point of this test?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Graham?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
The point of this test is to allow people in
the Upper North Island to go along and watch test cricket.
You know, I've got to get that many chances to
do it. So here it is. It's a three test series.
You know you you you play the third Test and
it's a chance for the black aps miraculously to somehow,
(01:27):
you know, a bit of faith saving.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No, it's not damish. It's a case of saying bye, Tim,
thanks for coming.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is the Tim Salve.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Party, isn't it? Yes, turned into the Tim Sawi party,
has it?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
But I agree with Graham's a great opportunity for people
to go along and enjoy our best cricketers and the
world's best cricketers. But it's hard, isn't it when it
is a dead rubber And you know, I'll argue that
the cows come home England, the top ten percent is
gone when you wrapped up the series too, nil. I
know that they've got some pretty heady characters in there
and they'll want to win it. But at the end
(01:59):
of the day, the opening is there to show us
some glimpses of what we saw up on saw in India, soyea.
But it is a Tim Tim Mumm. You know, I
crack up when I hear him called the peace. But
he just sort of feels like he's been around forever,
so he deserves a bit of a party.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's the same, isn't it, Graham. Because there's there's so
little on it in so many different areas, and what
gets me the most is the last Test match of
the summer. Even though the summers only just started. This
is a home series. Anything else to what July. There's
been no real testing of different possessions. The English don't care.
The Test Championships long gone as well, so it's just
(02:35):
it's a twilight zone of a Test grain.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
And it has been a little bit hijacked, if you like,
by the by the Tim Saudi farewell tour. And I
wonder if if Steve and co had their time again,
that wud Approachess differently, you know, to commit basically a
month ago that Saudi was going to play in this
Test in particular. They then kind of had their hands tied.
(03:00):
And if the rumors are true that Sentin is going
to come in and that's all good, but he's going
to replace Nathan Smith. That seems like a real lost
opportunity for Smith to play again because clearly he's got
a lot of talent, but it's still learning the Test
game on the spot. So to have given him another run,
I would have though, would have been good.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
I mean these farewell tours in cricket in particular can sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Be a bit manufactured.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
We had David Warner last season and that was just nauseus.
And then we got this one where a guy who
in any other circumstances probably wouldn't wouldn't make the starting eleven.
But you know they're naming a stand after him and
something about a camel and all that kind of stuff.
Why not just don't play him, put them in a
car and driving around seven Park at lunchtime so you
(03:46):
can wave to the crowd. The crowd would give him
a standing ovation if that was the case. But this
just seems just a little bit messy, messy.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It is what's done now, We've got it, we know
it saying you can't name a standout for a bloke
not peck and let's move on to the story of
the week. Hey, mission, I think that's probably a fair thing,
so much so as the ABC state broadcasters over in
Australia got me on to talk about it. The Greyhound
Racing it is all over, talk us through this punching the.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Iron, previous presenter of the getting the nod for the
big Gong, the Greyhound Awards presenter and inc I'm I'm
a bit chat that that gig might not come up again.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
But look, I think it's a bolt from the blue.
I really do.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I mean, I you know, I know there's a lot
of course, there's so much talk about, but when you
walk around the leafy burms of the eastern suburbs of
Auckland and see how many retired greyhounds there are now
prancing along, I thought we'd sort of overcome some of
the post the post sort of racing career problems that
you know, with health and you know, big holes being
(04:53):
found with Charcoald greyhounds in them and some of the
hideous stuff that went on behind the scenes. And there's
some there's some pretty genuine people involved in the industry.
I don't think we've heard the end of this yet
because I mean, I know there's only sort of six
or nine clubs and tracks in the country, but this
will affected a lot of people. So it's you know,
it's it's talking about go for the jugular. I mean, yeah,
(05:15):
but I.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Don't want people going for the jugular now though, because
they've passed the law very fast. That means they can't.
They're going to go to a vent before there's any
jugular removal. If you will and Graham. I don't know
about you, but I'm not my papers in order. I'm
not allowed to the leafy eastern suburbs of Auckland. He's
speaking of different places. What have you made of this?
(05:36):
Let people say it caught them by surprise, but I
actually called bs on that this has been going on
for years, the investigations for years and years and years.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, how many?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
How many last chances can can an industry get?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The thought that when the last review came.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Out I think it was about twenty twenty, it was
so scathing I thought there was a good chance so
much shut it down then.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So I don't think it's come as a surprise.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
And some of the greyhound advocates, including one that Ye
had on his show during the week, saying it was
a mess of surprise and you know dogs having met
in them, that there was just a mistake, they ate
the wrong bit of meat or something. I mean, there's
just that there's a lot of sort of denial going
on within the industry. I'm sure the majority of it
are well intentioned and they're doing well, but it's always
(06:25):
had that sort of sort of under underbelly to it,
I think, and they haven't really addressed that in some
of the sort of the head of the sand comments
that will come out this week. You know, oh, well
you know dogs can die fighting each other in a park. Well,
that's not really an excuse. And the head of the
greyhound industry whose main argument was a more dogs side
(06:48):
in Australia than here, I don't think he quite realized
that wasn't a great line attack.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That didn't come across that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, no, but because of it's still legal in Australia.
It's just two nine hundred poachers. They've got to rehome,
may very well find themselves over in Australia, and if
this government's and then to do it, they'll export them
live in a boat. I shouldn't have said that. I
just did thirty seventeen minutes away from nine. Coming up
next on the All Star Panel with a very excitable
(07:17):
Hamish mackay and the slightly less Graham Vsy, we'll be
talking about Papa and New Guinea and the n r
L and FIFA, Oh, FIFA, FIFA in Saudi Arabia, Oh
here a class Act, FIFA News talks, spelling, lie and
(07:41):
and Home Magings eight forty five. This is the All
Star Paneline, the All Sport Breakfast, Hamish Mackay. You can
start this time around Papa and New Guinea get the
NRL franchise. It's all on for Port Moresby.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Ho some tour groups over there are your friend.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, i'll tell you what it's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
It's kinda be you know, like it's hard enough getting
wives and partners to want to move to Auckland. I
don't know about Port Moresby, which can be a bit
ropie at the best of times. And it sort of
feels like the Kiwi rail theory announcement. It's sort of
a few years.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Away, so it's hard to get a sort of a
vibe for it.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Obviously the Australian you know, there'll be sort of forces
at play there with Papua New Guinea that make good
sense of it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
But yeah, I mean they've got that. I mean, I
guess if they get some guys who some of those.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Local boys can play so but yeah, it's still a
bit of a it's still a bit of pie in
the sky and at the moment, isn't it. And but
it must give us sort of a bit of a
drive to try and get our second or third team
in there.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What are the chances Graham Beasley of the South Island
actually managing a rugby league team now they've decided that
Papua New Guinea is part of Australia.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
It's hard to know really so because on one hand,
obviously there's a new slot that's gone that won't be
taken up by the South oln On the other hand
of shows that the NRL are still keen on ex bentions,
so that doesn't give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I actually think an old team in the South Island.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Would work, especially with the new stadium in christ shet
and I think we're seen from the A League that
having a couple of Kiwi teams in an Australian based
competition is just great, So I think it would worked
from that point of view. But boy, remember it was
only a month ago the TJ per Andara added an
extra line under the Harker and a whole lot of
people cutched their pills and said that sport and politics
(09:32):
do not mix. The Australian government are paying six hundred
million dollars to back this under the agreement that Papua
New Guinea will not allow the Chinese to build them
a new airport. I mean this, this story is outrageous.
Apart from the story that we're going to talk about next,
the biggest example of sport and politics being absolutely entwined.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So who are we trying to hide from? Can we Antarctica?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
They're coming, Well, we should put out a room in
that the Chinese. Maybe the Chinese is going to give
at the end Erlo fairies and then we'll get an
Rolta based and picton.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
And you know there'd be the way around that one.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You mentioned it, and we'll hand this over to you.
He mentioned another big sport politics larder, FIFA. They've been
criticized for choosing Saudi Arabia, but I'd suggest that Saudi
Arabia actually chose FIFA. I said, you know what, we're
gonna this money, We're going to give it to you,
and all we want is a World Cup And they went, sure,
why not? No one complained and everybody just acquizes because
(10:35):
we're all hopelessly greedy, aren't we Hamish?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, well I think that's the case.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Then.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I mean, I think we could use the hyper drive there.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I think we can do better than that, though you'd
like to think we could know it's it's just it's
kind of mind bogging, isn't it. But then again, I
go this, we're sort of appeased by the next one.
Is am I right in saying that it's going to
be Spain, Morocco, Portugal, in which case I think that's
got a beautiful vibe to it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Well that's the first one. So but I think it's
really odd that they spread it across continents and.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, look, but saying that, you know, if
you're not gonna you know, I mean, if you want
a great sporting event to sort of shave your save
your shekels for, I mean, go and base yourself and
porthole Lisbon next time round. But yeah, it's just purely
driven by the by the liquid gold, isn't it, and
what that generates. And yeah, it's just kind of a
no brainer for what it will do for the FIFA coffers.
(11:29):
But you know, as Graham's pointed out, you know that
there's a lot more to the world of sport and
politics and all these human rights things and everything. I mean,
every country, I mean, they've still got guys in chains
breaking rocks in the State seven they I mean, I
don't know we we.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Got to choose your line, and you got to choose
your line. You gonna work out where you go. Let's
face it, Graham, FIFA, I mean they've set us up
for this. It's like the one two three trick is
because they've already given to Russia Kata, so we shouldn't
really be shot or confused anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
It's what they do right.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They've softened.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
The massively set up up for this because people wondering, well,
how can we have a World Cup in Saudi Arabia
so soon after the win and guitar.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And the reason for that.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
There's more to the twenty thirty World Cup than just Spain, Morocco,
Portugal the first rail. Some games are also being played
and wait for it, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. And supposedly
that's to celebrate the one hundred anniversary of the first
ever World Cup, which was.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Held in Uruguay. Well, why then involve those other two countries.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
But the real reason is that though, so South America
gets to co host the World Cup, so that twenty
thirty World Cup has been co hosted by the continents
of South America, Africa and Europe, which is why it
cycles through so quickly and so luckily if you like too,
it needs to be a third again.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Right, we've been to all the major continents, so we
can go back to you guys again exactly.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
So the three day I mean it really is a
double ticket the twenty thirty World Cup, and I agreed
with Hamer, so you know it'll be good in the final.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Stay it.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
But it's massively ratted to mean that Saudi Arabia can
hold the twenty thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well we just accepted that, don't we. Hamous we know this.
It's like, oh yeah, we've been browbeating with sport washing
and after a while we're like, we're offended, we're upset.
Whereas I was all right, I'd say, okay, but how
much have you got?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
No one?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
No one cares because everybody's doing it.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Yeah, well when it comes around, I don't know, but
I you know that that whole fort I love a
centralized competition. I hate, you know, like as you will
well know all blacks having to play the French rugby
the World Cup in two thousand and seven in Scotland
and bloody Cardiff when the tournament was in France.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It does I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
It takes a bit of shine off at having going
down into South America, but you're right, just ticking all
the boxes.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
We're playing along. We'll all watch the.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Final possibly and on. That will let you guys go
away and enjoy your weekend, enjoy the test match, enjoy
the tim Southy. What do you call a testimonial valedictory game.
I'm not entirely sure, Hames Rakai, Graham Beazy.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Thank you very much, cheers, gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
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Speaker 3 (14:33):
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Star Panel.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Time to hit the ground running with their All Star panel.
It consists of today, mister.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Great beezer, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, that's when you say hi, how are you and
bring some enthusiasm. Come on beas ay a bit of
that right and I know someone who's going to play
this game.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Hey McKay, Darcy, how are you?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Mackay changed my name by Dee Polder McLaren after last weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Look at that Formula one fan, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Good on your bike.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, let's get let's talk some turkey A why what
is actually going on as far as the world of
sport is concerned and what we need to discuss of
a day. We should really start off with the cricket.
What's the point of this test?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Graham?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
The point of this test is to allow people in
the Upper North Island to go along and watch test cricket.
You know, I've got to get that many chances to
do it. So here it is. It's a three test series.
You know you you you play the third Test and
it's a chance for the black aps miraculously to somehow,
(01:27):
you know, a bit of faith saving.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No, it's not damish. It's a case of saying bye, Tim,
thanks for coming.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is the Tim Salve.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Party, isn't it? Yes, turned into the Tim Sawi party,
has it?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
But I agree with Graham's a great opportunity for people
to go along and enjoy our best cricketers and the
world's best cricketers. But it's hard, isn't it when it
is a dead rubber And you know, I'll argue that
the cows come home England, the top ten percent is
gone when you wrapped up the series too, nil. I
know that they've got some pretty heady characters in there
and they'll want to win it. But at the end
(01:59):
of the day, the opening is there to show us
some glimpses of what we saw up on saw in India, soyea.
But it is a Tim Tim Mumm. You know, I
crack up when I hear him called the peace. But
he just sort of feels like he's been around forever,
so he deserves a bit of a party.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's the same, isn't it, Graham. Because there's there's so
little on it in so many different areas, and what
gets me the most is the last Test match of
the summer. Even though the summers only just started. This
is a home series. Anything else to what July. There's
been no real testing of different possessions. The English don't care.
The Test Championships long gone as well, so it's just
(02:35):
it's a twilight zone of a Test grain.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
And it has been a little bit hijacked, if you like,
by the by the Tim Saudi farewell tour. And I
wonder if if Steve and co had their time again,
that wud Approachess differently, you know, to commit basically a
month ago that Saudi was going to play in this
Test in particular. They then kind of had their hands tied.
(03:00):
And if the rumors are true that Sentin is going
to come in and that's all good, but he's going
to replace Nathan Smith. That seems like a real lost
opportunity for Smith to play again because clearly he's got
a lot of talent, but it's still learning the Test
game on the spot. So to have given him another run,
I would have though, would have been good.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
I mean these farewell tours in cricket in particular can sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Be a bit manufactured.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
We had David Warner last season and that was just nauseus.
And then we got this one where a guy who
in any other circumstances probably wouldn't wouldn't make the starting eleven.
But you know they're naming a stand after him and
something about a camel and all that kind of stuff.
Why not just don't play him, put them in a
car and driving around seven Park at lunchtime so you
(03:46):
can wave to the crowd. The crowd would give him
a standing ovation if that was the case. But this
just seems just a little bit messy, messy.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It is what's done now, We've got it, we know
it saying you can't name a standout for a bloke
not peck and let's move on to the story of
the week. Hey, mission, I think that's probably a fair thing,
so much so as the ABC state broadcasters over in
Australia got me on to talk about it. The Greyhound
Racing it is all over, talk us through this punching the.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Iron, previous presenter of the getting the nod for the
big Gong, the Greyhound Awards presenter and inc I'm I'm
a bit chat that that gig might not come up again.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
But look, I think it's a bolt from the blue.
I really do.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I mean, I you know, I know there's a lot
of course, there's so much talk about, but when you
walk around the leafy burms of the eastern suburbs of
Auckland and see how many retired greyhounds there are now
prancing along, I thought we'd sort of overcome some of
the post the post sort of racing career problems that
you know, with health and you know, big holes being
(04:53):
found with Charcoald greyhounds in them and some of the
hideous stuff that went on behind the scenes. And there's
some there's some pretty genuine people involved in the industry.
I don't think we've heard the end of this yet
because I mean, I know there's only sort of six
or nine clubs and tracks in the country, but this
will affected a lot of people. So it's you know,
it's it's talking about go for the jugular. I mean, yeah,
(05:15):
but I.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Don't want people going for the jugular now though, because
they've passed the law very fast. That means they can't.
They're going to go to a vent before there's any
jugular removal. If you will and Graham. I don't know
about you, but I'm not my papers in order. I'm
not allowed to the leafy eastern suburbs of Auckland. He's
speaking of different places. What have you made of this?
(05:36):
Let people say it caught them by surprise, but I
actually called bs on that this has been going on
for years, the investigations for years and years and years.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, how many?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
How many last chances can can an industry get?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The thought that when the last review came.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Out I think it was about twenty twenty, it was
so scathing I thought there was a good chance so
much shut it down then.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So I don't think it's come as a surprise.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
And some of the greyhound advocates, including one that Ye
had on his show during the week, saying it was
a mess of surprise and you know dogs having met
in them, that there was just a mistake, they ate
the wrong bit of meat or something. I mean, there's
just that there's a lot of sort of denial going
on within the industry. I'm sure the majority of it
are well intentioned and they're doing well, but it's always
(06:25):
had that sort of sort of under underbelly to it,
I think, and they haven't really addressed that in some
of the sort of the head of the sand comments
that will come out this week. You know, oh, well
you know dogs can die fighting each other in a park. Well,
that's not really an excuse. And the head of the
greyhound industry whose main argument was a more dogs side
(06:48):
in Australia than here, I don't think he quite realized
that wasn't a great line attack.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That didn't come across that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, no, but because of it's still legal in Australia.
It's just two nine hundred poachers. They've got to rehome,
may very well find themselves over in Australia, and if
this government's and then to do it, they'll export them
live in a boat. I shouldn't have said that. I
just did thirty seventeen minutes away from nine. Coming up
next on the All Star Panel with a very excitable
(07:17):
Hamish mackay and the slightly less Graham Vsy, we'll be
talking about Papa and New Guinea and the n r
L and FIFA, Oh, FIFA, FIFA in Saudi Arabia, Oh
here a class Act, FIFA News talks, spelling, lie and
(07:41):
and Home Magings eight forty five. This is the All
Star Paneline, the All Sport Breakfast, Hamish Mackay. You can
start this time around Papa and New Guinea get the
NRL franchise. It's all on for Port Moresby.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Ho some tour groups over there are your friend.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, i'll tell you what it's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
It's kinda be you know, like it's hard enough getting
wives and partners to want to move to Auckland. I
don't know about Port Moresby, which can be a bit
ropie at the best of times. And it sort of
feels like the Kiwi rail theory announcement. It's sort of
a few years.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Away, so it's hard to get a sort of a
vibe for it.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Obviously the Australian you know, there'll be sort of forces
at play there with Papua New Guinea that make good
sense of it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
But yeah, I mean they've got that. I mean, I
guess if they get some guys who some of those.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Local boys can play so but yeah, it's still a
bit of a it's still a bit of pie in
the sky and at the moment, isn't it. And but
it must give us sort of a bit of a
drive to try and get our second or third team
in there.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What are the chances Graham Beasley of the South Island
actually managing a rugby league team now they've decided that
Papua New Guinea is part of Australia.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
It's hard to know really so because on one hand,
obviously there's a new slot that's gone that won't be
taken up by the South oln On the other hand
of shows that the NRL are still keen on ex bentions,
so that doesn't give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I actually think an old team in the South Island.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Would work, especially with the new stadium in christ shet
and I think we're seen from the A League that
having a couple of Kiwi teams in an Australian based
competition is just great, So I think it would worked
from that point of view. But boy, remember it was
only a month ago the TJ per Andara added an
extra line under the Harker and a whole lot of
people cutched their pills and said that sport and politics
(09:32):
do not mix. The Australian government are paying six hundred
million dollars to back this under the agreement that Papua
New Guinea will not allow the Chinese to build them
a new airport. I mean this, this story is outrageous.
Apart from the story that we're going to talk about next,
the biggest example of sport and politics being absolutely entwined.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So who are we trying to hide from? Can we Antarctica?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
They're coming, Well, we should put out a room in
that the Chinese. Maybe the Chinese is going to give
at the end Erlo fairies and then we'll get an
Rolta based and picton.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
And you know there'd be the way around that one.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You mentioned it, and we'll hand this over to you.
He mentioned another big sport politics larder, FIFA. They've been
criticized for choosing Saudi Arabia, but I'd suggest that Saudi
Arabia actually chose FIFA. I said, you know what, we're
gonna this money, We're going to give it to you,
and all we want is a World Cup And they went, sure,
why not? No one complained and everybody just acquizes because
(10:35):
we're all hopelessly greedy, aren't we Hamish?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, well I think that's the case.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Then.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I mean, I think we could use the hyper drive there.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I think we can do better than that, though you'd
like to think we could know it's it's just it's
kind of mind bogging, isn't it. But then again, I
go this, we're sort of appeased by the next one.
Is am I right in saying that it's going to
be Spain, Morocco, Portugal, in which case I think that's
got a beautiful vibe to it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Well that's the first one. So but I think it's
really odd that they spread it across continents and.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, look, but saying that, you know, if
you're not gonna you know, I mean, if you want
a great sporting event to sort of shave your save
your shekels for, I mean, go and base yourself and
porthole Lisbon next time round. But yeah, it's just purely
driven by the by the liquid gold, isn't it, and
what that generates. And yeah, it's just kind of a
no brainer for what it will do for the FIFA coffers.
(11:29):
But you know, as Graham's pointed out, you know that
there's a lot more to the world of sport and
politics and all these human rights things and everything. I mean,
every country, I mean, they've still got guys in chains
breaking rocks in the State seven they I mean, I
don't know we we.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Got to choose your line, and you got to choose
your line. You gonna work out where you go. Let's
face it, Graham, FIFA, I mean they've set us up
for this. It's like the one two three trick is
because they've already given to Russia Kata, so we shouldn't
really be shot or confused anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
It's what they do right.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They've softened.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
The massively set up up for this because people wondering, well,
how can we have a World Cup in Saudi Arabia
so soon after the win and guitar.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And the reason for that.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
There's more to the twenty thirty World Cup than just Spain, Morocco,
Portugal the first rail. Some games are also being played
and wait for it, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. And supposedly
that's to celebrate the one hundred anniversary of the first
ever World Cup, which was.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Held in Uruguay. Well, why then involve those other two countries.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
But the real reason is that though, so South America
gets to co host the World Cup, so that twenty
thirty World Cup has been co hosted by the continents
of South America, Africa and Europe, which is why it
cycles through so quickly and so luckily if you like too,
it needs to be a third again.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Right, we've been to all the major continents, so we
can go back to you guys again exactly.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
So the three day I mean it really is a
double ticket the twenty thirty World Cup, and I agreed
with Hamer, so you know it'll be good in the final.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Stay it.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
But it's massively ratted to mean that Saudi Arabia can
hold the twenty thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well we just accepted that, don't we. Hamous we know this.
It's like, oh yeah, we've been browbeating with sport washing
and after a while we're like, we're offended, we're upset.
Whereas I was all right, I'd say, okay, but how
much have you got?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
No one?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
No one cares because everybody's doing it.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Yeah, well when it comes around, I don't know, but
I you know that that whole fort I love a
centralized competition. I hate, you know, like as you will
well know all blacks having to play the French rugby
the World Cup in two thousand and seven in Scotland
and bloody Cardiff when the tournament was in France.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It does I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
It takes a bit of shine off at having going
down into South America, but you're right, just ticking all
the boxes.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
We're playing along. We'll all watch the.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Final possibly and on. That will let you guys go
away and enjoy your weekend, enjoy the test match, enjoy
the tim Southy. What do you call a testimonial valedictory game.
I'm not entirely sure, Hames Rakai, Graham Beazy.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Thank you very much, cheers, gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Eight minutes to nine. This is News Talks EB on
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hiding in here somewhere down the end of the phone line.
We'll find Jason pine Yers. You can tell us what's
going on and we can sport between twelve midday and
three today and tomorrow on News Talks EB.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
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