Mike Hosking

Good morning, Mike.

Christmas, New Year, talk me through it.

Did you have a good time?

What's your view on Wanaka being overdeveloped?

Did you do the crown range?

Can I play a game with you?

If you weren't involved with South Africa and you were just sitting in Wanaka wondering what to do with your life, would you bite somebody's hand off to be the All Black coach?

Yeah, and is there no moment in time where you go, damn, this just hasn't quite worked out right, and there's nothing you can do about it, but it just hasn't quite worked out right timing-wise?

Do you know Robertson well enough to know why that would have fallen apart and would that have potentially been a problem for you as well?

There was some international reporting saying as a result of all this, the aura of the All Blacks is gone.

Do you believe that?

Mike, great interview with Tony Brown.

Mike, most enlightening interview ever.

What a bloody interesting interview with Tony Brown, Mike.

Sounded like a verbal job application.

I'm glad you said that because halfway through the interview, I was thinking to myself, this is good.

Oh, my God.

Then I wasn't 100% sure whether it was good or not, but it was.

It turned out to be really good.

But we've just been talking about it off-air and how useless are the union?