The Tight 5: Springboks vs All Blacks, New Champions League Format, F1 Safety Car Crash

it's time though the tight five five separate sporting topics roughly a minute so on each when the bell dings well we move on to the next topic Champions League Champions League champions league the supercomputer did the draw Cristiano pushed the button this morning the we small hours there are now 36 teams four more than last year and it's its own League the Champions League so a couple of years ago if you do remember all the kafuffle around Europe's Super League or well let started whether you like it or not Dalton Pap has a thumb injury does he really Lin are you a conspiracy theorist on this do you reckon that's just a nice way of saying that he's not playing because he hasn't been playing well I have no basis in fact to even suggest that ladies and gentlemen but I have a sneaking suspicion why is that storm versus NQ last night North quenson 1 3630 the storm rested 10 fls F1 have you seen the footage of this the safety car driving around at Monza no one else on the track and the guy gets the speed wobbles goes off the track uh the frightening thing about it is that all of that gravel does not slow a car down one bit and this guy's not driving at 300 kph like the F1 cars are and he slams into the tire wall but it's not about that it's about what kind of loser crashes the safety car in a practice lap before the GP even starts uh Team New Zealand's boat Tha hodle dropped by the crane 7 meters onto the ground L now we were there when Tha hodle was put into the water in Oakland um these things are quite fragile I know that they weigh an awful lot and so forth but what they're built of uh it's not steel it's carbon fiber and so no one knows what kind of damage has been done uh but quite a setback for Team New Zealand there and also are you happy with the US Open men's draw and I only just realized this when Dave told us this in the show um that Sinner and alares are on the same side of it Champions League draw though do you care really Lan the way it works now you've got one League everyone plays eight games two more than last year the year before and we're in because the group stage always used to be six matches are the top eight qualifying then teams 9 to 24 play off to get the remaining eight spots and then it's around a 16 and and knock out from there oh just it's just another money-making exercise isn't it they just squeeze more out of the lemon as fast as they possibly can here uh it is um I kind of like it whenever I see these new obviously we knew this was happening earlier this year when the last season's Champions League was still sort of going but I I I mean I mean it increases like for example my Liverpool of course I'll use them as an example we open against Real Madrid uh and we have a slew of pretty achievable fix uh achievable is not the right word uh uh Wonder fixtures that's the word I'm looking for uh we've got B lus and at Beck at anfield like I I you know they used a superc computer to do the new draw so obviously you play Eight Games as opposed to six and the The Knockout phase is the same as it was but instead of having eight groups similar to a FIFA World Cup and then the top two go through from each group you've now got just a massive round robin a humongous round robin where you R it's randomized who you play and then the top eight automatically qualifies the top seeds and then the next is it 8 to 24 9 to 24 excuse me 9 24 go through to a knockout tournament to decide the next eight teams so then essentially The Knockout phase is the same as it was I actually like it I mean there's more overall there it goes from 125 to 189 Champions League games a season which no I I get I get that it's a moneymaking exercise my only issue with these look I'm a I'm a selfish viewer all I care about is that it's a good product it does it is when it gets to The Knockout stage the rest of it is no no no but the product doesn't actually I I think it gets better I think because more games for example one thing I never liked about the Champions League I understood why they did it but I never liked about the Champions League was that it would the group phase would finish around November December and then you do nothing until February uh so I like that essentially it extends that I think this is this is turning into what it always was going to turn into which was a league that is actually going to usurp all the other leagues it eventually is going to be that it's going to be the Super League that they didn't they didn't no they might they didn't want that might happen but I don't I don't think this change if you isolate this change I don't think it spells anything I it's got I don't think I don't doesn't hold a candle to the Europa League is all I'm saying the Europa League okay so here we go there's another I should I should have picked up on this at the start actually you're anti this because you're if if man united were in there instead of Liverpool you'd be all over you'd love it when yeah never but I mean the one thing they the the super computer that did the uh they did the draw the draw from the super computer yeah an all powering button hit by Ronaldo and Monaco it's all opulence I hate it but um it promises more big fixtures and I think there are more big fixtures so I like that Martin the team Razer has picked as probably As Good As It Gets I like it however I'd prefer tiia over clark has Clark fixed his tackling papal I like him but sadly he's gone Mia in recent matches I prefer him as a six uh summer P now gets a chance to prove himself can I can I interject there if you're going to bring up Clark's defense I don't think tier is exactly a great he and C ree were exposed against England and and Argentina as well you know the Crossfield kick out a reason why they were both dropped and you know it's not like the South Africans haven't looked at that videotaping on oh tiia box kick to him because he's got no left foot under pressure and neither's TJ remember the argentinians in Wellington really exploited that does dton p have a thumb injury or is this just the old black selectors rather than facing all kinds of questions about why he's been dropped conveniently coming up with this I'd be amazed if that's the case but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case because there's so so much PR schmuck and smoke screen now around everything to do with the All Blacks and if you do remember just cast you I'm not going to keep hopping on about Leo McDonald but the way that that story was presented is here are the facts this is it this is what you're going to be talking about this is all you're going to be talking about now we're moving on we're not talking about it anymore and then all of a sudden some pesky member of the media brings up that oh did he get a pay out I think we mentioned that on the first day how much did he get paid out because he's got a four-year contract and so you know these days they want so much to direct the message so much to to decide what it is you're going to debate what I'm going to debate what it is and if Doan Pap's been dropped because he simply has not been good enough at in the number seven jersey for the All Blacks and I think that's a fair statement then that's going to be a major talking point amongst certainly all the New Zealand media and also I dare say the South African media would be all over it as well uh yeah he'd be a bloody front up on the sideline with his arm in a sling or something if his thumb injury is that bad he can't play otherwise I got conspiracy the is happening yeah when I saw it I thought it was interesting because I was like I it's just first I've heard of a thumb there's not even been any crumbs of it in the media and also you got to remember that the the guys that are on the ground are really good at spotting this kind of stuff because those that go along to training the first thing you're looking for and we did this in France didn't we who's training who's not training and I think we remember we saw who was it that was running by no there was we saw this at a Warriors game this year or last year oh uh not game excuse me uh a Warriors training s to Harris on his own was on his own that's right and as soon as you see that kind of stuff why is he not in contact why is he running by himself I think it was Sam white loock in the quarterfinal before we played Ireland he was running by himself away from the rest of the team and he eventually he came off he on the Ben these kind of things you do notice so I'm I'm fascinated to to know who's been there and who's watching that anyway I like the idea of Sam Penny on the bench I I I think it's a much better side for the All Blacks with that yeah just quickly with Dalton um if it's gotten to the point now where I I I thought the same thing when I when I heard it um when I read that he had a thumb issue I'd be really really disappointed if Scott Robertson and his colleagues can't just be honest like when Mark T was dropped for the quarterfinal last year against Ireland Ian Foster was honest he said he didn't make curfew he's been stood down so they weren't honest about Roy well no because the r okay well we're not going to talk about that but at the same time remember they shut those questions down they did but you know that wasn't confirmed but assuming the rumors were true well he actually came up with this he came up with this oh Roy guard's defense isn't up to it which was the first we' heard of it at that press confence I know but anyway so coaches often when it comes to dropping players they're honest about it because if anything you know Razer was honest about it with Rico when it comes to dropping players you want to be honest publicly because you're putting them on notice so if he is dropping Dalton not because he's got an injury but actually formed but he's not saying why that's that's not good you shouldn't be doing that so I I do actually think there's a thumb isue I'd be surprised if he's Dro we're going to ditch the North Queensland versus Melbourne storm topic and replace it with this which has just come through which I really like that belmain uh considering exiting from the merger with West tigers and going alone and becoming the Bel Tigers because the course the Tigers and wests merged W and sub yeah and always hated it that's when I patched over Bel to the Warriors because I couldn't stomach W West they just west is like moving out to Messi from ponon why would you do it well no disrespect who lives in Messi it's like if Nate and Hastings emerged town no they're not going to and you wouldn't you wouldn't be having well this this this was pitched by someone from some Hastings local the central Vikings this is probably a better example paliston North and napia had to get to get Hawks b m I had to become the central Vikings it was a marriage maid in Helen was never going to work I don't I've never wanted wests to be part b m if Bel man come back I'd be more than happy with that and I'd probably go back to being a b m fan cuz I was always a b m fan I love the I love the B well I I I don't know the merges because it takes away from the history attached to it St georgea when you read about um yeah when you read about um the history of the St George a dragons you don't read about what they did in the 60s as the St George dragons because that's the history of the St George dragons so I'd love it if it happened okay so who's the trust aarian that was driving the F1 safety car because the guy that gets that job daddy is either a major sponsor isn't he or he's got some kind of connection with the upper echelon of F1 look my loser son's never had a job um he just in nightclubs his whole life can you please give him something to do on the track he can drive the safety car right you want to see this clown in the safety car he's coming down the street and he's obviously decided he's going to do a little bit of a with the steering wheel and he loses control he just wobbles wobble and then he under over stairs the next place he's in the gravel the next minute he's through the tire wall frightening thing is how that gravel didn't stop him at all didn't it did nothing it was like skating on ice wasn't it as soon as he hit that maybe gravel has a different impact on Open Wheel cars as opposed to you got to hope so after that but the safety car crashes with no one else on the track what kind of loser are you well it's like it's like okay go back to the nightclub filling your nose full of coke because you're not going you're not I'm not not having you out there on race day if you can't drive that thing without any else on the track I'm not having you out there on Race Sebastian it's a blow driving go back to your super yacht he's clearly jeez he's clearly driving that and he's got the whole track to himself cuz the safety car or the mid car he's on the phone FaceTiming some is what he is M you know you hate people who are younger than you stop it no he's not yes I do for good reason mate have a brain mate what Sebastian is doing is he's just driving the car and he's got the track to himself he's going I'm want to quite a nice he's sh off to a he must stop stop it he's putting his foot down going here going and then he he breaks a bit late cuz he's looking at the carow going yeah yeah look at me over the safety car Daddy got me in this oh maybe he's actually qu because you've got to be a qualifi you got to be a decent driver to get that good yes of course you don't have to be you've just got to have dad being rich to get in the seat of a Formula 1 car which is why Liam can't you got an agenda move on last topic Ty hodle hits the deck from 7 m that ain't good no okay okay rule number one with the America's Cup boats don't drop it it's like the the precious crystal glass you get out out of the glass thing at home we going okay can you get the champagne fluts out and every time I go to get the champagne flutes out they were bought back from Paris and I'm thinking I know what's going to happen here I'm going to trip over the dog and one of these is in the floor right and that's there's only two of them I keep saying I don't want to use those glasses can we just keep those for for best no let's use them because they're there that's the whole point of it but as soon as I'm going to break it I'm going to break it okay don't put it in the dishwasher I was never going to put it in the dishwasher don't use the brush on it I won't use the brush on it how do you clean it then I just this is it I'm just I'm yeah how do you drop the bloody boat mate well how does a crane malale function well no no no okay the only reason is that what they said well there's no malfunction the hook goes in the bit where the hook goes okay so somebody didn't tie that on properly maybe the dude operting the bung cord isn't it may the dude operating the crane hit the wrong button like oh jeez no not drop oh sorry Grant sorry dos sorry mate yeah technical computer malfunction with the controls here I don't know what went on there I hit the right button but you better believe it the platform