D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Beauden Barrett sitting out a few Super Rugby games following hand injury

The Blues are prepared to spend around a month of Super Rugby without Beauden Barrett.

Barrett will certainly miss the next two games against the Chiefs and Crusaders with a broken hand, with coach Vern Cotter hopeful he might be available after those two fixtures.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave outlines his predictions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy's here with Sport. Hey Darcy, Hello, Ryan, Boden Barrett,
he's going to be back from injury. Actually a little
sooner than we thoughts well, no one actually knows. Vern
Kotta seems to think maybe, you know, three to four
weeks after therebye he might be back, and then Meadows said, oh,
probably four or six weeks, so somewhere in between. So
between three to six weeks he might magically heal his hands.

(00:23):
It's happened before, happens quicker. But I don't think we
should be so freaked out about that, Okay, because Stephen
Perrefefther is back now after some injury, and of course
we've got Harry Plummer who managed to steer the Blues
to that title last year, so it's not like they're
without pivots. They've got guys to play the role. No
one like Boden Barrett, who's it's a freak show. But

(00:46):
he's also Boden Barrett coming toward the end of his career,
where Stephen peerterfefter Harry Plumber, though he's running off to France.
These guys are on the app so I don't think
it's necessary. The worst thing, it's not you don't want that.
But this is the names of super rugby. It's combative
and people get broken broken fingers. In the meantime, he's
drinking wine. Have you seen that today? He's starting some

(01:08):
kind of wine company. Read one's good for you, isn't it?
Well in dark chocolate founding not for your fingers. Daniel Desboi,
he's confirmed he's ducking out of this Joseph Parker fight.
What's going on? It's called him fleeing ah, because he
was supposed to fight Explosive Joseph Jurassic Parker for the
right to, you know, if it's to take that belt

(01:31):
and then maybe move on up to take on Alexander
Ussik for the grand title, the undefeated, the everything. But
of course Daniel got a headache or you've got a
sore throat, or he cut his finger, or he had
a car for I don't know, but he said, oh no,
I can't. So they pulled out of it. So Explosive
it's like, oh, here we go. So we took on

(01:51):
this guy from Africa who was well out of shape,
smack him in the head and he fell over and
he's sat in there going, well, when's our rematch Daniel,
and he's like, nah, I think we mentioned anymore. I
think I'm going to fight looks under Usik because that
means my beout goes in the line along with his
three belts, which means the winner of there becomes the
undisputed world champion. Now, the conspiracy theorists are probably right,

(02:13):
would say the reason to buy a ran away from
Joseph Parker as he was afraid to get beat and
then his chance of becoming the undisputed world because this
is the second time we've had someone running away from
a fight just recently, isn't it. It happens all the time. Yeah,
but I remember what sort of sport is this? You
can just run away, run away, run away. Do you

(02:34):
remember Asterix the cartoon Asterix the Gaul. No, you don't
remember Asterisk the Gaul. No. Wow, you can get absolutely
on text for that. How old is it? Oh? Okay,
it's quite a long time. It's a wonderful gallic cartoon.
It's Tinton, you know, Tinton. Okay, there you go, the
same thing. And there was a fight once and the

(02:56):
King Vital Statistics or the Chief of the Gauls. He
basically just had lapse of the ring as fast as
he could and the guy trying to find him couldn't
catch up. And that's probably one something. And that's that
was summrise at the end of it. You've got the
title on your belt. Stand there and punch. But Joseph
would have to be patient. But he's been patient before.
He'll be patient again. He's waiting. They're all afraid of him. Darcy.

(03:18):
We'll see you tonight, Darcy Grab on the show tonight.
We'll be joined by Liam Lawson's father, Jared Lawson, the
head of the Grand Proof starts tomorrow the IF one
and also golfer Ryan Fox makes an appearance on the
show to not brilliant look forward to it then, Darcy,
thank you very much for more from Hither Duplessy Allen
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