Chiefs coach Dave Rennie joins the Radio Sport Breakfast to give his thoughts on the Crusaders victory over the Hurricanes ahead of their trip to Suva to play the Crusaders this weekend. 

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Mitchell Santner has led an inexperienced Black Caps bowling line-up to a 51-run win over Ireland in their tri-series one-dayer in Dublin.

The left-arm spinner has taken a career-best five for 50, including a match-winning spell of four for seven from his final four overs, to dismiss Ireland for 238 in pursuit of New Zealand's 289 for seven.

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Without the likes of Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Matt Henry, Scott Kuggeleijn and Seth Rance made their ODI debuts.

Santner says Kuggeleijn and Rance bowled well at the top of the innings, but he knew he had to take on some extra responsibility.

He says a few of the lads have played a little less than him and he's happy to step up.

The Black Caps next face Bangladesh on Wednesday night.

Team New Zealand thinks Oracle may be bluffing over whether their recent capsizing has caused harm to their AC50.

Oracle has capsized twice in the lead-up to the America's Cup in Bermuda, most recently earlier this week.

No other team is thought to have yet tipped up, but TNZ crew member Blair Tuke said it's likely there was some damage to Oracle.

"Even though they said there wasn't damage, there will be damage to the boat. Not major stuff but they will certainly be working hard and the electronics guys before the right side of their boat ends up under water."

Reports emerged during the week of Oracle testing the use of bike power on the dock, after earlier labelling TNZ's use of the concept as unworkable.

But, trimmer and on-board cyclist Tuke said there are some differences.

"They've obviously seen some benefits to what we're doing and they've tried to copy a little bit... but we'll see where they get to with that.

"From what we can see they've put some sort of leg-powered station at the back of their boat, just for one of their guys so in certain manoeuvres or certain situations around the race track they'll put him back there to input power."

The America's Cup starts in just over a fortnight.

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All Blacks captain Kieran Read spoke to the Radio Sport Breakfast about the Rugby World Cup pool the All Blacks have been drawn in.

"South Africa's obviously a massive game. It's a massive game to have in your pool. Traditionally you have one big team."

"It will be good for us to have a team like that in our pool to get ourselves ready."

Assistant coach Ian Foster believes the All Blacks will face a stern challenge in pool play at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.

New Zealand's in Pool B along with traditional foes South Africa, Six Nations strugglers Italy, an African qualifier and a repechage winner.

Foster remains wary of South Africa even if the Springboks are struggling at the moment.

South Africa lost eight test matches last year including heavy defeats by the All Blacks but Foster told Radio Sport Breakfast in World Cup years they will be able to pick players from all over the world.

"If that comes to fruition then clearly they're going to be a different beast in the World Cup year than what they are now."

Foster told Radio Sport Breakfast it's a testing pool.

"We've obviously got a really big game in South Africa and that's going to give a really good edge to things and I think that's important in that pool.

"Italy, even though we've had a good edge over them for a long time, I think they're an improving team."

After failing to get out of pool play in 2015 England face another battle to get out of its pool at the 2019 World Cup in Japan.

The pool of death is C with England, France and Argentina grouped together.

Foster told the Radio Sport Breakfast there are plenty of talking points.

"Particularly that England, France, Argentina pool will be a bit of fun, but the fact that we've got a really big game in it is going to guarantee an edge for us. Now we can put it away and focus on the Lions."

The winner of the All Blacks pool will face the runner up in Pool A that includes Ireland, Scotland and Japan.

The All Blacks could face England in the semi finals if both sides win their pools and quarter finals.

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Kieran Foran worked hard to stay at the Warriors.

The Kiwis five eight has signed a three-year deal with the Canterbury Bulldogs, starting at the end of the current NRL season.

Foran said he's returning to Sydney so he can be close to his children.

Warriors managing director Jim Doyle accepts that, but told Radio Sport Breakfast he worries that he's returning too quickly to a place that brought out some demons in him.

"It's something that he'll no doubt continue to work on with specific people over there... but certainly he got himself into a pretty dark hole just over a year ago.

"Hopefully by then he'll be much stronger and learn from the past and not get himself back into that position.... That's something he'll need to work through with the Bulldogs and the family round him."

Doyle said Foran met with his lawyers and ex-partner last week to see if there was any way that he could stay in Auckland.

He said Foran's ex-partner wouldn't agree to a deal that allowed him to stay in New Zealand and see his children sporadically.

"To try and find a solution where he could see the kids during the off-season and during the season, every couple of weeks when we were across there, but unfortunately we couldn't come up with something which meant he had to go back to Sydney."

Doyle said they've been keeping an eye on free agents whilst this process has been ongoing and are also confident of re-signing Ata Hingano.

Foran struggled with mental illness, gambling issues and suicidal thoughts last year when in Sydney.

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Senior players in the Kiwis squad gave David Kidwell their seal of approval to ban Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor from Rugby League World Cup selection.

New Zealand Rugby League boss Alex Hayton has revealed Kidwell had decided on a course of punishment as early as Sunday night.

"In his mind he made his decision but didn't have the chance to talk to my myself to confirm that so that it was a NZRL stance."

He said the governing body and players agreed with his stance.

Hayton believes they may need to change their team-policies to avoid further incidents in the future.

"Obviously we'll have to renew that and look at that. Trust is a big part of what we're trying to establish within the team and to treat the players like adults."

Rugby league great Peter Sterling has called for harsher penalties for players found guilty of drug offences, declaring they are doing immeasurable damage to the sport.

Sterling feels the punishments dished out to players for their transgressions weren't harsh enough, saying they "get hit with a feather."

But Hayton told the Radio Sport Breakfast they're happy with the stance they've taken.

"We had an issue out of the 2013 World Cup. We took a position then and what we've done in the last 24 hours is consistent with that position."

Hayton said they're still investigating adding another person to their coaching staff for the Rugby League World Cup.

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A gut feeling from Kiwis coach David Kidwell that Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor will play at the Rugby League World Cup.

The pair's future in the black jersey is up in the air after they were caught allegedly using cocaine after the test loss to Australia in Canberra.

Jesse Bromwich has stood down as captain and has been banned from two NRL matches, while Kevin Proctor has stood down as Gold Coast Titans skipper.

Kidwell told the Radio Sport Breakfast the decision won't be his alone.

"I'm going to have to meet with senior management, working with the NZRL, the senior leaders of the team, and we'll come up with a solution."

Kidwell said he's still to decide on who the Kiwis captain will be, but they have to live and breath the Kiwis culture.

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Radio Sport commentator Dale Budge has a rather blunt take on the Kiwis' efforts after losing to the Kangaroos.

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Dillon Boucher spoke to the Radio Sport Breakfast about becoming the second player in NBL basketball history to reach 400 games played. As the general manager the SKYCITY Breakers he gets the chance to play against younger players and evaluate their abilities.

Boucher is now only six games behind Phill Jones’ record of 406 games.