D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Gary Stead's departure as Black Caps coach

No hard feelings from Gary Stead with New Zealand Cricket rejecting his proposal to job-share the Black Caps coaching role.

His seven-year tenure will conclude at the end of this month - with NZC deciding to stick with an all-format mentor.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further,

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave sports store.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Coasters with me does near the policey Allen.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
No surprise, Gary Steed has now officially retired.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
That's it end of season or season in a month.
Once this contract expires, he's going to go on I
don't know, lying a deck chair. I have no idea
what he's going to do with actually want.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
To retire or is it that they forced him out
because he didn't want to do the whole job.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
He said, I want to be the test coach. That's
all I'm interested in being. That is it. I don't
want to take every possible level of cricket and run
with it. It's too tiring, we told me. He said,
I'm buggered, not fair enough, that's well born, and he
doesn't want to so he's not there and he's on
a cricket went while we want someone to do all three.

(00:40):
Are you going to talk about this tonight? After we
talked with Gary Stead on Sports Talk if they made
a huge error here and letting go all of that ip,
all of that understanding, that dealing with the group so
they can go one coach.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Fix explained why they did that.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Not to me, because I mean they probably.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Seemed like a completely wild idea to have two different coaches.
I mean, it's the same game, but it's two different disciplines.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Verybody else is doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
No, I mean it's like I would argue, it's like
coaching rugby league and rugby union. It's like same, same
but different.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, it's the same kind of plays roughly. I think
the problem it was coach doing at all is that
with one coach to cover all the rule them all,
it's an enormous amount of work. Yes, traveling all over
the world to all different areas of the world, dealing
with all these different characters and all these different teams.
That's a lot to do. Yeah, maybe it's just cheaper.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I did wonder if that do them all.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
We've got much money, so we will give you X
and you do everything. I'm fine because.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Otherwise, I mean, if if Gary wants to do half
the job, then Gary has to get paid half the wage.
And nobody would want that, would they not?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Really, he loves what he does and he's had huge success.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
To you. When we were talking about this on Friday
with the Sports Huddle, the question was whether Gary would
be remembered as a wonderful coach or would he be
remembered as a coach who had a lot of bad
runs in between the good runs pretty inconsistent.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's not dead stop. It reflect on his career now
in cricket, it is impossible to hit that top level
and stay there for seven years across all formats. It
just does not happen.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So he will be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, the Indians have got all the money, all the talents,
everything in the world. Have they done it? No? Okay,
in fact, they got humbled in their own backyard. We've
got no players, no resources, no nothing. So what he's done,
I think if you look at it a trend since
he's had the team, they've been going on an upward
in yet time they dip, but that's okay, like an

(02:43):
Enny graph you have you look at the trend. The
trend is this team has got better and better and better.
They're getting to semi finals, they're getting into finals, winning
the game. Yeah, they fall apart, but I don't think
there's a cricket team in the world. Maybe sure of
the Australians back in their helse and that routinely pulled
everyone apart.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Best news here the best newstead. Look at the number
of senior players that have jumped in recent times, and
it's all down to his man management skills all lack thereof.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
And this person comes from what position of strength?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Just just pointing it out.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
All these plays that left you'd have to finish playing
the end of their careers, keep going, Saud.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
He was at the end of the one eye shut
that other eye because you're one eyed.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Listen, I'm blind in my eyes. Surgically put back an again.
When I moved to Auckland twenty five years ago from
christ Jitch, I have you.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Know, Darcy, you know that there was some have been
weird selections, weird selections the people left out seemingly out
of spite.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I wouldn't say that, Hello, well you give me the example.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Trent Bolt out of was that spite or wasn't? Wasn't
it Trent Bolt where they were playing down the road,
but because he didn't want to take one of the contracts,
I want to go off contract, that didn't call him up.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well you look to the future and he's thinking, well, actually,
I'd rather use these guys here that are vested interest
that I can use all the time for the future.
Trent Bolt is off now playing in the gorilla circus,
so let him go gerrilla, not as in the guys
who throw bananas around, but the ones that you hang
out in the bush and shoot it back right.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm looking forward to listen to the discussion this evening.
Thank you does Frank Darcy water Grave will be back
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