The Silver Fern

I got to chat with the ref after the game

Check out our Mitre 10 Cup season preview, available on:

• Youtube
• Podcast https://anchor.fm/drivingmaul/episodes/Mitre-10-Cup-2019-Season-Preview-e4rmqq

We'll bring you the DrivingMaul Mitre 10 Cup show every monday at 8pm reviewing the last round of action, talking about the hot topics and looking forward to the next round.

Also I'll be at over 20 games bringing you pre-game, halftime and post match reports as well as post match player and coach interviews. That will all be on https://twitter.com/DrivingMaul

Cheers Paul aka DrivingMaul

Looking forward to being at this game, look out for my post match interviews

We are starting our buildup to the Mitre 10 Cup on New Zealand Sport Radio.

The aim is to interview a coach from all the provinces before the start of the tournament

First up is Southland with head coach Dale MacLeod going live at 6pm this evening. Tomorrow it's the turn of Ta$man with skills coach Gray Cornelius

My post match interviews from last night

Hello All
Another cracking round of rugby in the Mitre 10 Cup. Is it time for Canterbury to panic? How good are BOP looking? Can anyone stop Ta$man? Steven Harris and I will talk about all of that on The Mitre 10 Cup Show this evening at 8pm.

the recording will be available on YouTube or via podcast https://anchor.fm/drivingmaul
My post match interviews from the weekend:
Northland v Auckland &
North Harbour v Counties Manukau &
Bay of Plenty v Waikato &

Cheers Paul

My chat with Rivez Reihana after Waikato training today about his first season in the Mitre 10 Cup

Looking forward to previewing the NZ Super Rugby conference this evening at 8pm

Already previewed the Africa and Australia conferences over the last 2 weeks:
Africa - https://drivingmaul.com/2020/01/07/super-rugby-africa-conference-preview-rugbychat-ep122/
Australia - https://drivingmaul.com/2020/01/14/super-rugby-australia-conference-preview-rugbychat-ep123/

Cheers Paul

Very late but here are my post match interviews from both the Miter 10 Cup and Farah Palmer Cup games:

Starting tomorrow morning we'll be producing a morning Sports News Show. Initially it will be broadcast on Facebook and the recording put out as a podcast.

For tomorrow we'll host it on my DrivingMaul channel but this show won't be rugby centric and we'll be setting up new pages etc... for the channel.

The idea is that over time we will add in other shows to grow the content out to be an online NZ focused Sports Radio Channel. We have a number of ideas how this will look and I'm sure that vision will evolve over time.

Any suggestions or thoughts would be much appreciated.

We've been going for 2 months now and this week we're rolling out a new schedule for our shows:

Mon-Sun 7am The Morning Sports Briefing - Your best way to start the day up-to-date with the important sports news
Mon-Fri 2pm The Long Talk - long form interviews

Mon 8pm The DrivingMaul Show (rugby) including Samoan International Dwayne Polataivao
Tue 8pm Do You Know Sport? (quiz)
Wed 8pm The League Hour (league)
Thu 8pm Swinging From The Hip (cricket) including Black Cap Tarun Nethula
Fri 8pm Super Rugby Round Preview
Sun 8pm Super Rugby Round Review

We're available on Facebook or as a podcast just search for New Zealand Sport Radio on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio or your favourit podcatcher

My post match interviews with Dillon Hunt and Danny Tusitala

Steven Harris will be joining me on #RugbyChat at 8pm NZ Tuesday to go over all the International action

I don't think many of us saw that coming! Here are my post match interviews with Clayton McMillan the BOP coach, Abraham Papali'i the BOP 8 and Henry Purdy the Otago winger who was previously with Leicester Tigers and Gloucester:

@trooa Papali'i played at 8 at the weekend and looked really good. Got a shoutout from the coach when I asked for a non-Super Rugby player to watch and I was impressed by his performace

I recon we have 29-30 names right here, the only questions are:

• The last loose forward, is it Squire or Fifita? outside chance for Jacobson
• Is Crotty fit? If not then Laumape is in
• Do they want the versatility of Hemapo over Tuipulotu?
  
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CgMs05Lt0J4H2QBbqS0fw_DqEFK4PxDO5_CJF6MwtEM/edit?usp=sharing

The first long form interview is now available. I chat with Samoan rugby International Dwayne Polataivao.

This Saturday I'll be talking with Cameron Bell the CEO of Northland Rugby

Cheers Paul

Video

Podcast https://shows.acast.com/new-zealand-sport-radio/episodes/the-long-talk-with-samoan-international-dwayne-polataivao

Steven Harris, Ashwin and I will be reviewing & previewing the All Blacks, Maori All Blacks and Black Ferns games on Wednesday evening at 8pm

Nobody seems to be taking injuries into account. I think that a lot of the changing has been down to the first choice players being injured. A lot of the fringe players have head overseas earlier than they would previously and we are seeing the the depth isn't what it was.

post match interviews with Mitchell Drummond on his 50th cap and Hamilton Burr on his debut