D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host ahead of the second Auckland FC v Wellington Phoenix derby

The Wellington Phoenix are readying themselves for a raucous reception in Saturday's return Kiwi football derby against Auckland FC. 

One section of the sold out 26,000-seat Mt Smart Stadium has been dedicated to Phoenix fan group Yellow Fever.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains what fans can expect ahead of the match.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Daisy Waldgrave, how are you? I'm very very well yourself
a Phoenix? Shit, that's AORR orc and shit orknef Phoenix chees?
Have you? I wish? Oh that's a pity I'm not
on tomorrow because I've got an orcandev C shirt. Oh right,
and you could have won the Phoenix shirt. Ah, and
you're gonna lose.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Actually possibly, I don't know. Look, it's a bit of
revenge coming in for this game, right after they got
beaten in the other derby. Well there's one of three,
there's one next to you too, so they're coming up
here to try and exact some revenge on a team
that hasn't been beaten all seasons past five and zero.
It's incredible.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Isn't even let in a goal? I know, it's amazing.
Can I just say mister Pawson was a brilliant buy
from Bournemouth?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wait, well didn't it? So if you're keen on throwing
a bit of cash around on this, because I think
this is this is a right up for betting. This
is going to be a mad, mad crowd. What twenty
six thousand piled and I'm quite sure how they've managed
to get such traction. Is it just winning? I don't
know anyway. R eighteen beat responsibly play. But if you
want to have a crack three point fifty for the draw,
no one's going to see that coming. I do like

(01:04):
that they're talking about the possibility of Auckland winning to
Mill and there's some money in that too, three dollars
seventy five. So if they keep their clean sheet and
win three dollars seventy five, Wellington way outside on three ninety.
Auckland won ninety one. So I'm teening towards the draw,

(01:27):
so we'll go anyway. It's all with the tav again.
R eighteen bit responsible.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So you know I'm a I'm an AFC fan, right
you are, and they have been good John, But I
was also a Knights fan. I was also a Kings fan.
I've got all those shirts. I've got all those shirts
I've been waiting for We've been waiting for a decent
football team for a long time. There's a decent football
team here. But I know that the Phoenix is a
decent football team as well. And I watched that game

(01:52):
the other day which they went this is the Phoenix
and Chief he was talking afterwards and he was talking
about how basically he used five different formations in one game.
And he sat there and said, okay, go to two
four four, it's checked, and change it up. He's changing
around all over the place. They got a week off, right,
they had to buy last week. The Corica is talking
this week. He says, I understand that the Phoenix just

(02:15):
change all over the place, and we're going to have
to be aware of it. And that's when I started thinking,
this is going to be a mighty, mighty match full
of great tactics, you know, and the best tactics will win,
and it could be the Phoenix and it could be
a draw, A three sixty. Well, that's a very good
that's a very good payout our atem bit responsibly, Why
are they all backs in France not playing and why
did they give the exclusive health.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
We don't want to fly their f team halfway around
the world for what essentially is a meaningless game of football.
It is meaning that's because they're not going to seend
their their A team because they can't because they're all
tied up with clubs. Clubs won't release them, so they
haven't got their beer splits.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Why don't they have an international window like they have
in football.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Because football is old, it's been going for a long
time and I hate to say it, it's probably a
lot more sensible than rugby. Rugby is odd because it's
got split seasons. It's got a northern hemisphere southern hemisphere.
There's no international season. It's quite complex, whereas football have
got an ironed out which makes sense. But they're like,
we're not going to send our f team over to

(03:15):
basically a game. We're going to get thrashed and it's
not good for them to be flying all over the woods.
We know we're not going to do it. Look, they
were asked, it was never confirmed, and I plead in zi,
are you've got this extra match which is great one
you thought you were going to give away and when
you're going to sell and you didn't, Can you please
take it to the provinces? Can they take it to

(03:37):
Yarrow Stadium? Can you? Can you when it's t Valgar Park?
Mcclaim part.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know Trafalgar would have to rebuild. I get that,
but Yarrow had a great test once upon a time
and they've been rebuilding. Is that ready to go? They
had England play down there thirty thousand people.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
And I'd say that also sunstrike is not an issue
at McClean Park for rugby, so over there, I don't know,
maybe even I know. I don't want to call Hamilton
the Provinces because it's not but a smaller ground. I'm saying,
go wide, go wide and far. And because they're our team,
right the all blacks out, so can you actually can

(04:11):
they actually play in front of us?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Good stuff? That just saying yeah, thank you very much,
saying it, saying all right tonight.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, I think we're going to talk about the power
of Auckland FC tonight and David Choke I believe he's
going to join us around how they've been So what
is the deal with this bandwagon?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
The town's been gagging for it for a very long
time and it's a party night. So thank you mate,
seven o'clock tonight.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
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