D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host ahead of the start of the State of Origin

Warriors coach Andrew Webster has joined the chorus wanting a mid-season break in the NRL to play representative rugby league - and stop disruption to club sides.

State of Origin - which gets underway tonight in Brisbane - saw 36 of the top players in the competition unavailable for selection over the weekend amid a truncated five-game schedule.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, hither because tradees normally quote for one hundred and
eighty percent of their workload, and they have multiple jobs
on the hustle to ensure that they have enough work
and then flows into move No. No, no, they and
then they don't end up doing an eight hour day
on site. No, they did eight hour days. They did
eight hour days. They were doing eight hour days. It
still went from three weeks to nine weeks. And I
don't understand anyway. Darcy Waldgrave at twenty past fours with

(00:22):
me right now?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, dars, so are you referencing chippies?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
You have just that's a dad joke, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well we talked yesterday about whether you can call the
right honorable Leader of the Opposition chippy?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
And now I'm talking about chippies.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Now you're talking about chippy. I couldn't help myself. The
dad goes from you stay upshot. Can you call him
chippy or is he his royal chipness?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
No, he can be chippy.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
He can be chippy.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
The people are spoken chippy it is, he said to me.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's fine. So it's my personal relationship with Chippy.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
So I'm a national relationship.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm going to roll that one out. Hey, state of
Origin tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, here we go again.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Every time I said it, they say, they say five
past ten, they say normally it dribbles a little to
about quarter past twenty bars, but that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Every I'm like, I don't know Origin. Yeah, it's not
as soon as it starts to go.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh my lot in the last few years has been astonishing, Right,
who are you rooting for Queensland?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I lived there for it was only about four or
five months, but when I was there, I watched Origin
with Queenslanders in pubs drinking schooners.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So I feel like I'm a Queenslander now. Yeah, you know,
I've been there, done that, killed by the hat. They're horrible,
but I'll be supporting them.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well you think that maybe that New South Wales might
have when it comes to this. It's at sun Court,
they're playing at home and they're really hard team to
beat at home. But honestly, I don't care about the result.
I haven't got enough skin in the game either way.
If Steve Twice listen to this, I'm really sorry, Steve.
Please take my calls. But I just want to see
good football and that's what you get. It's an amazing,

(02:02):
amazing experience when it comes to rugby league.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
So I'm all.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Brilliant, Hey, really quickly, what's going on with the under
twenty rugby team.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Milton Hay did really, really well. He was the head coach.
They won the Rugby Championship of the under twenties.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
That's Australia. So there, Argentina there and they're looking down
the barrel of the World Champs coming up and Italy soon.
And I mean, you know what, my coaching philosophy with
the other coaches is not aligned.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm leaving. So if coaching.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Philosophy isn't in alignment with the other coaches, imagine if
it was.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
But what does that actually mean?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's the words.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I want to spend more time with my family.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
You just whatever you.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Want to pull.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Does that mean that you're a renterer and a raver
and the others don't like it or like is it
that kind of a style thing?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Possibly? Possibly doesn't align. Yeah, I like to poke my
players in the eye, and my.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Other coaching staff don't.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean, I don't want allegedly what's the what's the
what's our philosophy? Do.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
We still work to get there even though we have
very different philosophies.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Who you and I? Yeah, yeah, but that's because you
have your own show.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah that's good. That's so we're not like it's not
like we're both doing that show.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, what is important is that the philosophy between myself
and the German are aligned.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
For example, yes, you know, last time I checked, she
was a New Zealander.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Shut up, Okay, off, here goes. He'll be back at seven.
Darcy Watergrave Sports.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
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