Rory O'Connor

It was a horrible night.

Lashings of rain.

And Eli, sorry, Peyton Manning was at his absolute height.

Game was over in five minutes.

He just destroyed them.

Working on a piece for Sunday.

New Zealand awaits.

I need to rein this in.

Like, I don't want to oversell this.

How's he getting stories?

Rud, they all call him Rud.

Not that I've detected, but I haven't been talking to him that much.

So what's the... That much?

What's that mean?

Yeah, I've got a bit of insight into the kind of process and how it all worked and how it all played out and how it seems like that this review was a fait accompli that the board, you know, like a lot of these processes, they'd already made a decision

when you start digging into it, the parochialism, like this elite sporting brand that's held up as being the best of the best, the legacy book by James Kerr, there's still the people in Auckland don't like the people in Christchurch and there's resentment and they don't have enough people in the squad and all this stuff.

And it's playing out over there as well.

I'm not claiming I'm the only one talking about this.

Sumo Stevenson does a radio show and he was talking about it recently as well.

Like the...