The Hurricanes have earned a well-fought win over the Highlanders.
They claimed the win 20-18 at Forsyth Barr Stadium on the back of an immense performance from loose forward Du’Plessis Kirifi.
Head Coach Clark Laidlaw joined Jason Pine to recap the win.
“[Kirifi] should be really proud of his performance last night, and yeah, we’re really enjoying the way he’s leading the team.”
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalks EDB kind of.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Take it own, kicks down field, where the belts going
take it down looking for it for a bit enough
gone that he's.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
A judgment of horst.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It'll be a tryin to check.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Me anyway where we come from.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, that's Paul Ellison on the call last night of
the Highlanders against the Hurricanes. Unfortunately for the Highlanders, they
couldn't get the job done, even though they led for
various stages during the game. The Hurricanes got up by
twenty points to eighteen off the back of a monumental
defensive effort in the last ten minutes. Hurricanes coach Clark
(00:44):
laid laws with us from Duneeda Airport, the team about
to fly home. How tense were the last ten or
fifteen minutes last night, mate?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah? Pretty tense. Yeah, you know, I think we felt
like we'd minute difficult for ourselves. You felt like we
were on top for big parts of the game, but
then then they sat before halftime, you know, and then
we scored again, and then you know that sort of
kicks through and the bounds of the balls that felt,
(01:12):
you know, it felt like one of those nights where
you know, maybe I was going to get awaareness. So yeah,
this sort of composure that we managed to show in
the last ten to fifty minutes, you know, the massive
sets and defense, Yeah, it was super pleasing to get
on the right side of a tight one.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
How many tecos do you reckon your time made in
the last ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, say, well, somebody said one hundred. Wow last night
you said to me, we made a hundred tackles in
the last time minutes. I'm not sure if that's if
last accurate, but man, we made a lot. And yeah, Cory,
Jane and in the defensive group, yeah, they've been in
the last couple of weeks, you know, around some of
our defense and send. The last week up in Auckland,
(01:53):
we felt we didn't defend well enough or for long
enough period. So that was a real focus when we
took that to the extreme last night. But yeah, really
pleasing to show that sort of heart and real care
to try and get the wins.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There's the commitment, of course, of making those tackles, but
also the discipline, you know, when you're only two points ahead,
any indiscretion and you know, I get kickable penalty points,
so you must be placed with the discipline as well.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, and that's exactly you know, I think the whole
competition you've seen that if teams get ball and keep ball,
it's difficult to sort of stay on side and then
not give away a cheap penalty. So yeah, as you say,
for ten to fifteen minutes, you know, obviously had that
shot at goal that they didn't manage to take, and
then after that we were, you know, were as clean
(02:40):
as we needed to be. And yeah, you go over
there was, I say, with a tight win.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
One of your assistants, Jamie Macintosh, hit on the radio
this morning, Duplessy corif he's smart mouthguard measured over one
hundred points of contact in an eighty minute performance. How
big was his performance for you last night?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah? Huge? Yeah, I mean he's he's an awesome hurricane.
You know, he loves the team. He puts his arm,
soul into his preparation and his performance every week. And
I think what you're seeing now is a real maturity
that's given him that consistency. We had some really good
(03:20):
charts and off seasons. Yeah, just around How does he
keep mature and how does he take his game. You know,
he's not going to make massive shift in his game now,
but the consistency is what you're saying. And yeah, the
amount of what he's done both sides. You know, he
carried the ball, you know he was he was out
on his feet, wasn't he at the end? So yeah,
(03:42):
he should be really proud of his performance last night.
And yeah, we're really enjoying the joining his way, the
way he's leading the team. And I think that responsibility
really thrives on Urickon.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Scott Robertson is looking.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
At him, Oh, I guess so. I'm sure they're looking
at all players. Yeah, I think I'm making a conscious
effort not to get too distracted around all Blacks. And
I said to some the last night asked me the
sort of similar question. He played like a Hurricanes captain,
you know, and that's that's what we need and we
want from him, you know, So we'll, you know, we'll
(04:16):
try and get the best out of him and if
it's good enough at the back end of the year
to make all Blacks, then then cool. But yeah, something
I noticed last year, it's a really difficult team to make.
We were a number of players that played really well
last year and didn't quite make it. So see that
was all the people to.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
The sort of out layer in the year you welcome
back a sph more in tyrol Lomix. Last night they
kind of throw Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah they did. I think it's a little bit stuffing.
So we're starting a little bit underdone, you know, starting
the season late and sort of walking into that type
of game. But now they were both they were both
fine this morning, and yeah, it's nice to see a
scrump penalty, isn't it. You know, we got some kind
of hear that sort of tight period of the game.
And yeah, to say, I thought the team last night
(05:02):
looked looked a bit more like the team we thought
we would have at the start of the year. And
it's obviously been a cookie start to the season with
you know, Injy's and players away and you know, when
I had one game in wanting, you know, so to
play five games. Yeah, we're maybe a couple of show
them what we wanted. But yeah, it's quite nice going
in the bye week to sort of reset. It's been
(05:24):
a big haul since was it the fifth or sixth
of January till now so so Yeah, everybody's ready for
a few days off, and yeah we'll look ahead to
the water tas at the back end of the week.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Why do you think Bilin Sullivan passed the ball to
came Roy Guad when he was basically out of the
lawn himself for that second try.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, well, it's actually a funny thing about that, because
that's actually something I quite enjoy when I was coaching Simmons.
We we've done a big start on the difference between
kicking inside the fifteens and outside the fifteens. So maybe
I have to blame for thinking about stuff like that,
you know. So and like Alimentley, we got inside the
fifteen and we kicked the conversion, won by two points,
(06:05):
you know, so sometimes people think it's a little bit
of showboating, but actually getting inside and scoring inside the
fifteen and kicking the conversion. You know, last week we
missed a conversion that would have given us a chance
to win the game against Molana outside the fifteen. So yeah,
maybe maybe I have to play for that fair enough.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, good tonight, there's a method on it, and that
savings does translide across the Fifteen's good tonight. Just before
you go, I think I can hear your flat being cold.
How big a win is this for you?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, it's big in the context of what's happened the
last few weeks. You know, I thought we played really
well against Considers for most part, and you know, we
we maybe could have could have won that game. We
obviously beat the Druer. I thought we should have beat
the Blues. You know at twenty nine to twenty one.
We're opportunities there to close that game out, and then
(06:57):
we played poorly against Molana, you know, so they saved
me a tricky start, so to get a win. You
can see the competition is going to be super tight,
and winning your home games and picking up a couple
away from home, it's probably going to take you pretty
close to those playoffs. So we're well aware of what
the competition is going to look like. But you start
(07:18):
digging yourself a pretty deep hole, if you know, if
you lose again last night, and then we've got a
big book of games after the bye with some really
tough games. So so yeah, it was it was. It
was a big win. It was important to get back
on track, and as I say, the Buys, you know,
come out quite a nice time where we can reset
and then get ready for a big six block six
(07:39):
game book in the middle of the season.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Congrats on the victory, Clark enjoyed the Biwick. Thanks for
the check mate to thank you, no, thank you Clark
Clark like lovel from duned Newport Hurricanes flying home with
the win from last night's game against the Highlanders.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks it'd be weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on I HAD Radio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalks EDB kind of.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Take it own, kicks down field, where the belts going
take it down looking for it for a bit enough
gone that he's.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
A judgment of horst.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It'll be a tryin to check.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Me anyway where we come from.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, that's Paul Ellison on the call last night of
the Highlanders against the Hurricanes. Unfortunately for the Highlanders, they
couldn't get the job done, even though they led for
various stages during the game. The Hurricanes got up by
twenty points to eighteen off the back of a monumental
defensive effort in the last ten minutes. Hurricanes coach Clark
(00:44):
laid laws with us from Duneeda Airport, the team about
to fly home. How tense were the last ten or
fifteen minutes last night, mate?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah? Pretty tense. Yeah, you know, I think we felt
like we'd minute difficult for ourselves. You felt like we
were on top for big parts of the game, but
then then they sat before halftime, you know, and then
we scored again, and then you know that sort of
kicks through and the bounds of the balls that felt,
(01:12):
you know, it felt like one of those nights where
you know, maybe I was going to get awaareness. So yeah,
this sort of composure that we managed to show in
the last ten to fifty minutes, you know, the massive
sets and defense, Yeah, it was super pleasing to get
on the right side of a tight one.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
How many tecos do you reckon your time made in
the last ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, say, well, somebody said one hundred. Wow last night
you said to me, we made a hundred tackles in
the last time minutes. I'm not sure if that's if
last accurate, but man, we made a lot. And yeah, Cory,
Jane and in the defensive group, yeah, they've been in
the last couple of weeks, you know, around some of
our defense and send. The last week up in Auckland,
(01:53):
we felt we didn't defend well enough or for long
enough period. So that was a real focus when we
took that to the extreme last night. But yeah, really
pleasing to show that sort of heart and real care
to try and get the wins.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There's the commitment, of course, of making those tackles, but
also the discipline, you know, when you're only two points ahead,
any indiscretion and you know, I get kickable penalty points,
so you must be placed with the discipline as well.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, and that's exactly you know, I think the whole
competition you've seen that if teams get ball and keep ball,
it's difficult to sort of stay on side and then
not give away a cheap penalty. So yeah, as you say,
for ten to fifteen minutes, you know, obviously had that
shot at goal that they didn't manage to take, and
then after that we were, you know, were as clean
(02:40):
as we needed to be. And yeah, you go over
there was, I say, with a tight win.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
One of your assistants, Jamie Macintosh, hit on the radio
this morning, Duplessy corif he's smart mouthguard measured over one
hundred points of contact in an eighty minute performance. How
big was his performance for you last night?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah? Huge? Yeah, I mean he's he's an awesome hurricane.
You know, he loves the team. He puts his arm,
soul into his preparation and his performance every week. And
I think what you're seeing now is a real maturity
that's given him that consistency. We had some really good
(03:20):
charts and off seasons. Yeah, just around How does he
keep mature and how does he take his game. You know,
he's not going to make massive shift in his game now,
but the consistency is what you're saying. And yeah, the
amount of what he's done both sides. You know, he
carried the ball, you know he was he was out
on his feet, wasn't he at the end? So yeah,
(03:42):
he should be really proud of his performance last night.
And yeah, we're really enjoying the joining his way, the
way he's leading the team. And I think that responsibility
really thrives on Urickon.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Scott Robertson is looking.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
At him, Oh, I guess so. I'm sure they're looking
at all players. Yeah, I think I'm making a conscious
effort not to get too distracted around all Blacks. And
I said to some the last night asked me the
sort of similar question. He played like a Hurricanes captain,
you know, and that's that's what we need and we
want from him, you know, So we'll, you know, we'll
(04:16):
try and get the best out of him and if
it's good enough at the back end of the year
to make all Blacks, then then cool. But yeah, something
I noticed last year, it's a really difficult team to make.
We were a number of players that played really well
last year and didn't quite make it. So see that
was all the people to.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
The sort of out layer in the year you welcome
back a sph more in tyrol Lomix. Last night they
kind of throw Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah they did. I think it's a little bit stuffing.
So we're starting a little bit underdone, you know, starting
the season late and sort of walking into that type
of game. But now they were both they were both
fine this morning, and yeah, it's nice to see a
scrump penalty, isn't it. You know, we got some kind
of hear that sort of tight period of the game.
And yeah, to say, I thought the team last night
(05:02):
looked looked a bit more like the team we thought
we would have at the start of the year. And
it's obviously been a cookie start to the season with
you know, Injy's and players away and you know, when
I had one game in wanting, you know, so to
play five games. Yeah, we're maybe a couple of show
them what we wanted. But yeah, it's quite nice going
in the bye week to sort of reset. It's been
(05:24):
a big haul since was it the fifth or sixth
of January till now so so Yeah, everybody's ready for
a few days off, and yeah we'll look ahead to
the water tas at the back end of the week.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Why do you think Bilin Sullivan passed the ball to
came Roy Guad when he was basically out of the
lawn himself for that second try.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, well, it's actually a funny thing about that, because
that's actually something I quite enjoy when I was coaching Simmons.
We we've done a big start on the difference between
kicking inside the fifteens and outside the fifteens. So maybe
I have to blame for thinking about stuff like that,
you know. So and like Alimentley, we got inside the
fifteen and we kicked the conversion, won by two points,
(06:05):
you know, so sometimes people think it's a little bit
of showboating, but actually getting inside and scoring inside the
fifteen and kicking the conversion. You know, last week we
missed a conversion that would have given us a chance
to win the game against Molana outside the fifteen. So yeah,
maybe maybe I have to play for that fair enough.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, good tonight, there's a method on it, and that
savings does translide across the Fifteen's good tonight. Just before
you go, I think I can hear your flat being cold.
How big a win is this for you?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, it's big in the context of what's happened the
last few weeks. You know, I thought we played really
well against Considers for most part, and you know, we
we maybe could have could have won that game. We
obviously beat the Druer. I thought we should have beat
the Blues. You know at twenty nine to twenty one.
We're opportunities there to close that game out, and then
(06:57):
we played poorly against Molana, you know, so they saved
me a tricky start, so to get a win. You
can see the competition is going to be super tight,
and winning your home games and picking up a couple
away from home, it's probably going to take you pretty
close to those playoffs. So we're well aware of what
the competition is going to look like. But you start
(07:18):
digging yourself a pretty deep hole, if you know, if
you lose again last night, and then we've got a
big book of games after the bye with some really
tough games. So so yeah, it was it was. It
was a big win. It was important to get back
on track, and as I say, the Buys, you know,
come out quite a nice time where we can reset
and then get ready for a big six block six
(07:39):
game book in the middle of the season.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Congrats on the victory, Clark enjoyed the Biwick. Thanks for
the check mate to thank you, no, thank you Clark
Clark like lovel from duned Newport Hurricanes flying home with
the win from last night's game against the Highlanders.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talks it'd be weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on I HAD Radio.
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