Ngā Take Hākinakina - Kiwis outclassed by kangaroos

Tumamao Harawira is here to talk sports after the weekend. Tena koe. League. It was Kiwis v Kangaroos on Friday night. What a tired game that was. Not one shot from the Kiwi camp. Why didn't they? The current state of our team, and with how the whole country thinks that they are really strong, has created a sense of confusion and uneasiness because the Kiwis have been able to win three years in a row. It has lulled us into a sense of false security believing that NZ is the best in the world at league. That has come back to bite us. It's now clear to us that if some players are missing from the team then those filling in might not be able to completely fill in for those missing. So it looks like reality has hit for some of us that actually Australia is the best at rugby league in the world. So despite the pretty terrible game where it felt like we were watching paint dry, who played in your mind from both teams? Paul Gallen who played as prop for the Kangaroos was one of the best players in my view. If we look at what was said before the test, the majority of what was said related to Australia's forwards as well as NZ's. There was Jesse Bromwich, Jason Taumalolo and Martin Taupau. But we saw in the test it was Paul Gallen who was on fire while out there on field. Then after him there was Matt Scott. So there our Maori boys were silenced. I was a little bit embarrassed. So you had the old man there correcting every position made. I hear what you're saying there. To netball now and Noeline Taurua and the Southern Steel, that team has done well and they've yet to lose a match! Of all the teams competing in the competition that are being called the weakest in the competition, that title was getting lumped on to them. Then next minute they were at the top of the competition when Noeline came on board, and she isn't on her own in this. Some of her players have shown really strong development under her leadership. I think this is amazing. There's more there being said about the group that has just recently named the coach for the Silver Ferns. Do you think she will be Silver Ferns coach some day? She has put her name in the ring at least two to three times now. She is probably no longer interested in it. But the time will come very soon that the light will touch the Silver Ferns camp that there is only one coach who should be coaching the Silver Ferns - Noeline Taurua. And the netball union will be humbled by this realisation and will have to ask Noeline the question. Today my friend, we are both on board the same waka. Tumamao Harawira, thank you.