Manaia Stewart

Yeah, which would be interesting.

If I was a gambling man, and to my detriment and the detriment of my family, I am, and I would go Jamie Joseph, Tony Brown, maybe a bit of Tony, maybe a bit of Schmitty, maybe a little bit of Wayne Smith.

I reckon if you were ever going to break glass in case of emergency and bring the professor back in, this is the kind of moment you would need to do it.

And I think he would love the challenge of coming back into the environment.

I reckon they won't want to wait on it, but, you know, really this is about winning the World Cup in 2027.

So they do have time, but you want to give the new coach as much time as possible in there to turn it around.

What I think the interesting part is, why did they sack him?

Because, you know, when the Fozzie thing happened, as Joe cranks the AC.

Just a bit of background white noise there for the listener at home.

When they were going to sack Fozzie, I was working in the mainstream sports media.

Okay, sorry, Minaya.

No, I actually broke the Razor story.

I was the journalist that broke the Razor story initially because I was working in the mainstream sports media and they did not give me Waitangi Day off, so I had to go.

I had plans to observe the signing of the treaty.

Okay.

You can do that still, can you?

The station I work for, this was pre-coalition.

Right.

So I had plans to observe the treaty, but my Australian bosses said, no, we don't do that kind of thing.

You certainly don't.