Predicting the Final Month of Super Rugby Pacific's regular season🏉End of Month Mailbag: April 2026📬
The Nigel Yalden PodcastShow Notes
Following a very brief review of Super Round (2:00) Nigel undertakes his annual exercise in absurdity of predicting the outcomes of all 24 games that make up the final month of Super Rugby Pacific's regular season (4:36) before diving into a jam-packed mailbag (10:47) PART 1 David (10:50) share his thoughts on Super Rugby Pacific, Moana Pasifika, EPL and Rochdale vs York City Carlin (13:35) asks which departing player(s) will be missed most by NZ Rugby? Ronnie (18:26) has questions about the current owners of Moana Pasifika Craig R (21:55) wants to know who wins the EPL and do Spurs stay up? Melanie (23:54) has some concerns about Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz Matt aka OBC (25:28) brings his traditional six pack, asking about Leicester the Loosie, distribution of All Blacks tests, the Black Ferns PAC4 campaign, the Warriors and the Storm, the NY Jets draft grade and comments on WrestleMania42 PART 2 Isaac C (34:23) is chatting NBA & NHL playoffs Craig T (38:09) asks about the B&I Lions touring either France or Argentina, the Springboks sending a weakening squad for the November Nations Cup tests, a third A-League team based in Christchurch & famous movie sites Isaac H (43:23) wants to know if NZ Rugby has a decision to make about Super Rugby Pacific Corey (46:03) wonders if Hearts can hold on to win football's Scottish Premiership? Murray (48:07) asks about the new T20 franchise competition coming to NZ Cricket Mike (49:36) wants to know who wins SRP - Chiefs, Hurricanes, Crusaders or Blues? David (53:00) asks about Christchurch Stadium as the "National Stadium" and who hosts Super Rugby going forward Alex (55:13) Host & Producer: Nigel Yalden "If you like the vibe, please subscribe" https://www.facebook.com/thenigelyaldenpodcast/
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Nigel starts this week's show with his review of the All Blacks second test victory over the Wallabies in Sydney (1:36) First Half (2:05) Second Half (16:51) Post Test Statistics, Standouts and Thoughts (25:49) Then its time to roll through the five big rugby games in New Zealand over the weekend: Black Ferns vs France 1st Test (33:30) NPC Semi-Finals - Northland vs Otago (36:00) & Canterbury vs Taranaki (37:30) HLC Meads Cup Final - Mid Canterbury vs King Country (38:27) HLC Lochore Cup Final - South Canterbury vs Whanganui (41:43) And we finish the episode with some quick thoughts and a prediction on the NPC Final between Canterbury & Northland (48:05) Host & Producer: Nigel Yalden "If you like the vibe, please subscribe" https://www.facebook.com/thenigelyaldenpodcast/
Nigel starts this week's episode by reviewing the All Blacks Bledisloe-Cup-retaining, Eden-Park-record-defending thumping of the Wallabies (0:53): 1st Half (1:50) 2nd Half (14:53) Post Test Statistics, observations & thoughts (27:33) That's followed by a quick look at the All Blacks team for the 2nd test in Sydney (37:58) and the Black Ferns team for the opening test of three against France in Hamilton (41:01) We concluded the show by talking provincial rugby (43:14): NPC semi-finals (43:30) Heartland Championship (aka the Peoples Rugby) Meads Cup and Lochore Cup finals (48:35) HOST & PRODUCER: Nigel Yalden "If you like the vibe, please subscribe" https://www.facebook.com/thenigelyaldenpodcast/
Nigel opens the show with his thoughts on the All Blacks squad that will face the Wallabies at Eden Park on Saturday night (1:24) before running through another big weekend of provincial rugby (13:19) NPC quarter-finals (13:32) Heartland Championship aka The Peoples Rugby semi-finals (24:19) Farah Palmer Cup finals (28:24) And then Nigel is joined by Peter Dickens, the Chief Executive of Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ, to chat about this Sunday's Pedal 4 Prostate fund-raising event at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park (32:22) Host & Producer: Nigel Yalden Guest: Peter Dickens "If you like the vibe, please subscribe" https://www.facebook.com/thenigelyaldenpodcast/
The second show of the week starts with Nigel's thoughts on the 34 player All Blacks squad named for the two test Bledisloe Cup series (1:04) before we are joined by Sydney based rugby league writer for Sportsfreak.co.nz Stephen Gallagher to talk Grand Final Day (8:01) Preliminary Finals reviews (9:52) The Crossland suspension & its impact on the Kiwis RLWC campaign (20:50) NRLW Grand Final preview (22:40) NRL Grand Final preview (26:40) Then we finish with a look at another mega weekend in provincial rugby (42:30) Last round of the NPC (42.45) Premiership & Championship semi-finals in the FPC (47:12) Last round of the Heartland Championship aka The Peoples Rugby (48:25)
This month's mailbag episode comes to you in three parts: PART 1 Craig (1:00) asks about AFL wildcard weekend, defence in NZ rugby, the NZR meeting, EPL & what movie needs a prequel or sequel? Jordan (16:24) asks are Northland that good and Wellington that bad? PART 2 Michael (20:45) is keen for thoughts on the Race of Champions and who should partner Hayden Paddon Blair (24:37) enquiring about ABs selection for the Bledisloe Cup and Northern portion of the Nations Championship Matt (27:55) with his traditional six pack (ish) about the return leg of the RGR tour in a few years, NZR, the Hawks AFL season, the 35th anniversary of the Dream Team, optimism levels for the Jazz and Rangers (NBA & NHL) & wee trip down memory lane Scott (35:45) wants to see more of the ABs in the NPC PART 3 Lauren (43:26) with a F1 travel update & Super Rugby Pacific question Michael (48:13) about the Springboks year round durablity And David (50:23) closes the show asking about Lucas Casey & Daniel Sinkinson's AB potential, the inaugural NFL game in Oz, thoughts on Tottenham's start to the EPL season and some prediction to finish