# Wayne Smith

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How Mike Cron Helped Turn Good All Blacks Into Greats For 15 Years

Mike ‘Crono’ Cron spent 15 years with the All Blacks — more than 200 tests, two World Cups, and a reputation as the best scrum coach in the game. In this conversation he breaks down how he actually does it: Why he shows a photograph of cyclists shoving cigarettes in each other's mouths to every tea…

Six-time World Champion With The Insight That Unlocked It All

Mark Sorenson won two world championships by the age of seventeen. But at twenty, despite playing the best tournament of his life, his team lost the final. That heartbreak led to an insight: it doesn’t matter how spectacular you are if you can’t make the people around you better as well. Mark is on…

11 Years Running All Blacks Rugby: Protests, Earthquakes And 6 World Cups

Steve Tew was chief executive of New Zealand Rugby from 2008 to 2019, and ran the Crusaders and the Canterbury Rugby Union from 1996 to 2001. He is now Director of High Performance at High Performance Sport New Zealand. This week, he joins the podcast to talk about a career that started with a box …

The Rugby Stat Pundits Love But Coaches Hate: Defence Analysis Explained | Mini-Documentary

In this mini-documentary I name the misleading rugby stat that pundits and fans love but defence coaches hate. With the help of writers, analysts and coaches, I explain the nuance of defending in rugby, what people are getting wrong and the tactics teams use to mask defensive weaknesses. The video …

Are Canadian travellers still boycotting the U.S.?

With new U.S. tariffs in place on Canadian goods, we'll hear whether travellers in this country are renewing their boycotts to the United States. Recent data suggests those boycotts may have been softening this summer, but tourism professor Wayne Smith has a different view. And with more money bein…

1,000 Miles Down The Yukon, Three Days From Rescue: Inside The World’s Longest Paddling Race

A thousand miles down the Yukon River, from Canada into Alaska and up to the Arctic Circle. It’s the definition of remote — more people have been to the top of Everest than have been past Dawson City. No support boat, no resupply, no road, and no rescue worth the name. Get it wrong out there and yo…

Sir Graham Henry On Failure, Ego And Handing Over Control

Sir Graham Henry has the best win record in All Blacks history - but there was a moment in the early stages when he almost walked away from it all. In 2001, as the highest-paid rugby coach in the world, he lost a Lions series he expected to win. He hit a wall, resigned, and moved back to New Zealan…