Mike Hosking

And you can't help but think the NRL officials who were in Christchurch over the weekend would not have been impressed by that and would be thinking again about a South Island team.

Do you know what?

You might surprise...

be surprised to hear me say this I'm not convinced yeah I'm not against it but I'm not I'm you need to twist my arm a bit harder I think I think the Warriors are fine I think the NRL's fine that West Australian thing I don't know whether that's going to work the PNG thing's a scandal you can get you can expand too far and I worry too about the NBA I know the NBA are about to announce their European bid winners and I mean you know what's the NBA if it's not about American sport the the

Next thing you know, you're going to have global everything, and I just don't know there's magic in that.

The franchise and setting it up would take a lot of money, right?

But I think there's the rugby league talent in the country that keeps getting plucked off by all these other clubs, so why shouldn't it stay here?

The irony, guys, is that the Warriors wouldn't want another New Zealand-based side, would they?

They wouldn't want one.

They'd just want themselves.

But going to Christchurch and showing what is possible down there almost would have turned their heads.

I think Peter Volandes was actually there yesterday, as I understand it.

Yeah, he was.

There seems to be a lot of water to fly under the bridge before it happens.

But, yeah, I mean, that stadium, it's just utterly brilliant, isn't it?

The next time we're there, it'll be All Blacks France, won't it, in a couple of weeks?

Yeah.

Am I excited about that, Jason?

France?

I mean, are France on the road?