The All Sport Breakfast

A setback to the All Whites Football World Cup preparations, going down 2-nil to Finland at Eden Park.
The Finns scored from a corner after 25 minutes and added a second late in the game.
They’ll be facing Chile at Eden Park on Monday – their final home encounter before the FIFA World Cup later this year.
Former All Whites Coach Ricki Herbert joined D’Arcy to reflect on last night’s defeat, and look ahead to the next clash.
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The White Ferns wrapped up their T20 series against South Africa in style, a dominant 92 run victory in the final match resulted in them winning the series 4-1.
Now a three match ODI series against the Proteas is looming to wrap up the team’s home summer.
Captain Amelia Kerr played a fantastic knock in the final T20 clash, hitting a career high of 105, and she joined D’Arcy to reflect on her form and look ahead to the ODI series.
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The Warriors winning streak has come to an end.
They stumbled last night in their clash against the Wests Tigers at Go Media Stadium, losing their first game of the season 32-14.
The Warriors started hot, scoring two quick tries to take a 10-0 lead, but the Tigers struck back, outscoring the Warriors 32-4 throughout the rest of the game.
Former Kiwis player and rugby commentator Richie Barnett joined D’Arcy to review the game.
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Last night's Warriors loss illustrated how incredibly difficult it is to gain and keep ascendancy in the NRL.
The result also reaffirmed —underlined, in bold, and in italics— that the crazed notion the Warriors fan base have clung to for generations, this is our year, can only ever be applied retrospectively, i.e., that was our year. Not a question for the future, but a statement of the past.
In the NRL, 5% off is all it takes for a team to be made to look a little ‘village’ in the wash up.
Even the perennial great teams of the comp can get their pants pulled down in a flash, exposing their tender buttocks to the world.
The Warriors didn't get trousered last night, nor were they embarrassed, it was an almost confused display from a team that appeared to not have a great understanding of what was happening to them on the park.
So far this season they had done an impressive job of leaving the previous week’s result in the past —where it belongs— and focusing only on the present. The display against the Tigers though smacked of a team that had a sneaky look at the press and started believing that it was indeed their year.
There are upsides to the limp showing of course. No-one got stretchered off or fell afoul of the judiciary. The 6-7 pairing had a game to bed in their combo, even though it looked like neither player was sure which way to roll to keep the duvet in place.
They need to park that game, reload, and charge on.
It wasn’t a disaster; it shouldn’t have any bearing on the season as a whole.
Don’t ever forget, ‘our year’ should only ever be a season to look proudly back on, not a dangerous roll in a soothsayer's suit.
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Last weekend saw the Northern League football tournament get underway for 2026.
Auckland City started strong, claiming victory over their rivals Western Springs, 3-0, and are back in action this afternoon as they take on the Eastern Suburbs at home.
Mario Ilich is captain of the side, and joined D’Arcy for a chat.
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