Sports Fix

On Sports Fix with Jason Pine, Auckland FC coach Steve Corica reveals how his side celebrated their Premiers' Plate win and looks ahead to how they plan to achieve an historic double in their first season by adding the A-League Championship to the trophy cabinet.

Piney also has some thoughts on the key reasons for the Black Knights' success this season.

Elijah Fa'afiu is in The Chamber as the boys try to pick Super Rugby's top six and give their predictions for the Warriors' next game, plus the latest in sports news.

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On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Wednesday 24th April 2025, chief executive of NZC, Scott Weenink, runs through a few of the drivers behind their investment into Major League Cricket, the USA’s dive into T20 franchise cricket. What do they stand to gain? What are they bringing to the competition - and why New Zealand cricket?  

D’Arcy extrapolates a fun fact from Super Rugby Pacific - and examines what it means and where it may lead. 

The Chamber is inhabited by D’Arcy and Jason Pine as they pull apart the day's big sporting stories, including cricket in the Sates and the retention of Phoenix gaffer Giancarlo Italiano. 

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On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Wednesday 23rd April 2025, Warriors backrower and sometimes centre Kurt Capewell gives freshly re-signed Nicoll-Klokstad the seal of approval and downplays his team's start to the NRL season.  

D’Arcy defends the ridiculous concept that women’s rugby in NZ doesn’t deserve funding due to poor crowd numbers. 

The Chamber is inhabited by D’Arcy and NZ Herald sports journo Bonnie Jansen. Auckland City soooo close to silverware - and how big is the initial Black Ferns squad?  

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On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Tuesday 22nd April 2025, Head of NZR Women’s High Performance, Hannah Porter joins us to look at the streamlining of women’s rugby pathways -from the professional youth of 15s (only three years old!) to the more stable world of 7s – 13 years in the pro game

D’Arcy buys into Wisden’s latest annual, as the most respected almanac in cricket punches the ICC in the face. 'The World Test Championship looks as it was designed on the back of a fag packet' writes the editor. Ouch.

The Chamber is infested by D’Arcy andNZ Herald sports journo Alex Powell. F1 inequalities and Portia Woodman-Wickliffe are the main points of discussion. 

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On Sports Fix with Jason Pine and D'Arcy Waldegrave for 17th April 2025, Crusaders loose forward Ethan Blackadder joins the podcast ahead of their big clash with the Blues on Good Friday.

D'Arcy declares war on the term 'sabbatical'.

And the lads are in the chamber to discuss Grace Nweke's Silver Ferns.

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On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Wednesday 16th April 2025, Former Warriors skipper Steve Price unpacks the skid against the Storm. What caused it, what happens now and how will the new look team fare against the Broncos this weekend? No Fish, no CNK, no Berry but a start for Leka Halasima. Pull the last performance apart, or just let it go? 

D’Arcy celebrates the Super Rugby Aupiki final, convinced that the signs are there for the competition, indeed women’s rugby, to flourish. His Matatu got beaten by the Blues, but he loved the exchange all the same. 

The Chamber is infested by D’Arcy and Newstalk ZB rugby editor Elliott Smith. They talk Mea Motu, Good Friday football and the new kid in Olympic town, mixed golf. 

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On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Tuesday 15th April 2025, NZ Herald rugby scribe Liam Napier unpacks the departure of current All Blacks winger Mark Tele’a. The Japan-bound Blues player had to weigh up his options. At 28, remembering that AB wingers rarely last beyond 27, was it worth the punt to stay or was the money too good regardless?  

D’Arcy is not at all concerned about the Warriors latest ‘effort’. They got flogged by the Storm again, with a shocking first half display, but he’s not sweating bullets.  

The Chamber is infested by D’Arcy and NZH’s Alex Powell, talking America’s Cup venues and the Tele’a tale.  

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Piney is joined by former NZ golf professional and now top coach Marcus Wheelhouse who watched on at Augusta this morning as Rory McIlroy finally won an elusive green jacket at the 89th Masters to complete a career Grand Slam. How did he recover from the disappointment of missing a winning putt on 18 to recompose himself for the playoff against Justin Rose? And where does this place McIlroy in terms of golf's greatest ever players? 

Elijah Fa'afiu pops into The Chamber to discuss the Warriors' woes, Liam Lawson's latest outing and the boys ask the question: Who are Super Rugby favourites with six games to go?

Plus Piney picks out a bright spot in the Phoenix's difficult season.

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D’Arcy is joined by former America’s Cup sailor and long time yachting commentator Peter Lester to discuss Team New Zealand’s departing helmsmen, Peter Burling. Where to now? For him and TNZ?

What made him the most valuable member of the team? Is this as potentially as damaging as when Coutts and Butterworth departed? Lester reveals all. 

Piney chimes in with his considerations around the fairytale world of the Masters at Augusta, the home of the biggest fashion crime in sport.

The Chamber is infested by D’Arcy and Piney, throwing around some sporting predictions and reckons on yet another mammoth weekend of sport.

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On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave and Jason Pine for Thursday April 10, 2025, Blues Rugby CEO Andrew Hore unpacks why Super Rugby Aupiki was given a 'prime time' slot but still clashes with Super Rugby Pacific - is it just lip service or commercial reality? 

D’Arcy delivers an opinion on Joey Manu's rumoured move back to the NRL - and possibly the Wahs? 

Plus, the lads join the panel to discuss the start of the 'Masters' golf tournament. 

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