Waikato

Very excited, yeah.

Kind of just wanted to focus on Waikato.

I'm 47 games at the moment, so was looking forward to my 50th before leaving, but unfortunately I don't know if that's going to happen.

But yeah, in terms of Yokohama, very excited.

play,

not to mention Sopawanga, and we know what he did.

Mate, how have you enjoyed your time with Waikato? I mean, NPC rugby to us is really special.

I know for Izzy, as a youngster coming up through schoolboys and into provincial rugby, and I just love it because it's the game I grew up with.

It was interesting.

I'd seen, obviously, I ran Waikato Rugby, and I'd seen Radix Nutrition doing a collab with Waikato Rugby and that.

I was like, oh, that's pretty cool.

I'd be keen to... find out a bit more about that maybe get some of my hands on some of those protein powders and then you reached out and said hey fan of podcasts and we just got talking and I thought it would be awesome because I know so many of the people that listen to the podcast they like working out they like the sports but I've seen the whole saga going down with NZ Muscle and other companies and what's imported, what's not, what it is, is A, what is protein powder? I think is a key one.

Certainly not perfect, so we've got a long way to go in that area, but for me it's probably less about the mass consumption of more and more and more and the ability to just keep repeating those areas of just keep... keep rehashing it till it sticks

yeah interesting yeah that's cool um yeah there's so much there's it's really democratized or opened it up the ability to podcast and audiobooks are sort of great for people to be able to learn but yeah dale carnegie i've read that book a few times um it's just great how to relate to people how to be a more effective person um that's awesome um one of the things i saw lately that you've done a collaboration is your 1080 performance uh creatine had come across liam mesem so how did that

1082 performance 1082 yeah um so that's his all black number 1082 is all black numbers the business named after that again um relate back to the earlier um aspects of the network um so we went deeper into the waikato rugby um relationship this year uh signed up for a couple more years this that'll bring us to five years of collaboration with them and obviously he's a he's an ex all black he's a ex wakata rugby boy yeah um you kind of just put you in those circles get you get you known in those in those areas of it and um watched creatine be a boom market i believe in the product myself but again the the radix aspect is not a not positioning as a supplement product so we don't want to bring out a huge number of supplemented products in that in that category but sitting down with liam hearing about what his vision is there, the connection of that and the use case of kind of that cognitive health benefit of creatine and relating that back to the rugby background of the kind of head injuries and knocks and other bits and pieces was awesome.

he's a big advocate for us and what we're doing and how we're positioning our protein into industry and supporting the local rugby teams and whatnot in that there just felt like synergies there and him being a proud wakatapui although the the creatine itself is coming out of Europe, done a fantastic job of finding the best supplier in Europe for that and bringing that over.

Um, yeah, Manawatu were on three straight wins heading into this game.

Uh, yeah, just, uh, not convinced that much by the Mooloos this year.

The same with Canterbury.

Um, but they ended up losing Manawatu by nine.