Sports talk with a loose screw.
The Agenda runs on fast, loose sports banter from the ACC world, with betting slips, rugby takes, cricket complaints, and domestic disasters all fighting for airtime. It is sport talk with a short attention span and a long memory for absurd details.
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The Agenda is a brisk, unruly sports show from the ACC universe, where the official subject is sport and the actual subject is whatever the room can get away with before the next topic. It has a desk-show shape, but not a desk-show temperament. Rugby, cricket, golf, racing, league, and betting lines all get proper airtime, then get shoved into odd little arguments about parenting, airports, bins, pub etiquette, and doomed team loyalty. The pace is quick. Nobody sounds interested in sanding the edges off a thought. A punting segment can move from school-holiday exhaustion to a racing multi, then into league, try scorers, and the pure theatre of a small stake turning into a big collect. A rugby chat can start with Masters distractions and end with Jonah Lowe at centre, Moana Pacifica’s future, Chiefs confidence, daylight kickoffs, and fandom accusations. The show likes certainty, especially the doomed kind. Hurricanes predictions, Warriors reactions, cricket complaints, and IPL irritation arrive with the confidence of people who know the evidence may betray them later. That is part of the texture. The Agenda is strongest when sport and nonsense are not separate lanes but the same lane at different speeds. A strange family-road-trip story can sit beside genuine team analysis. Christchurch nightlife can become a field report. A casual airport-beer tangent can become the prelude to a listener-segment omnibus. The show also has a darker curiosity, shown in its Peter Plumley Walker two-parter, where recurring references are turned into a blunt, detail-heavy investigation of a New Zealand case. Those episodes are more narrative and adult, but they still carry the same dry disbelief. Nothing becomes too polished. The appeal is the rotating-room feeling: someone has a topic, someone else has a correction, and the conversation keeps finding a sillier exit. For listeners who want solemn expertise, it will sound allergic to order. For listeners who want sport treated as pub argument, group chat, betting board, and bad life advice all at once, it fits neatly.
Made for: For listeners who follow New Zealand sport, rugby, cricket, league, golf, and punting, but prefer their analysis wrapped in banter rather than ceremony. It suits people who already enjoy ACC-style in-jokes, quick pile-ons, and sporting opinions that can survive being mocked.
What sets it apart: The Agenda stands apart by letting the side roads become part of the format: betting wins, rugby calls, Warriors angst, and cricket complaints share space with domestic disasters and bizarre local anecdotes. Even its more serious detours keep the same blunt, conversational frame.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Agenda pairs informed New Zealand sports talk with comic detours, strong opinions and a sharp eye for the details that fuel fan arguments.
The Agenda turns a sporting rundown into a fast, unruly group conversation, moving from rugby selections and Warriors form to cricket, golf, baseball and Formula One.
A missed bin collection before rugby refereeing: your sports talk takes the scenic route.
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