D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Ma'a Nonu joining the Toulon rugby club

Toulon have taken a page from the Dad's Army recruitment manual, re-signing 42-year-old All Black great Ma'a Nonu to their roster as medical cover.

He's previously had a couple of stints at the French Top-14 side.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy's here with sport.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey, Darcy, Hi, that's alarming.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Somebody getting stabbed. Certainly is like.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The ability to say I'm putting you into citizens arrest
based on what on the shopkeeper.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
So if the shopkeeper sees somebody stealing something from their store,
that you can actually do it at the moment and
you'll be sort of exempt from criminal or civil liability.
But they're changing that. So any time of day and
for an item with any amount used to be more
than a thousand dollars is that.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
They're carrying handcuffs now, and so they can prove it.
They take photographs of a packet of biscuits that you flog.
It opens up a whole ness, doesn't it. But anyway,
that doesn't matter. It's not sport. I shouldn't bother about politics.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
This is the great thing about politics. Everyone's allowdin opinion.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
They are apparently I've got to stick to sport because
I'm the human being. I don't have opinions on anything
except sport.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, luckily we've got a lot to talk about. So
Martin ANDU is signing on it is forty two. Yeah,
forty two is very old for a rugby players.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Isn't that it's old enough. You don't tend to last
that long. I mean Brad Thorn, he was probably eighty
five before he retired, but he was a freak show.
You're forty two. He's going back too long. But this
guy shows no sign of abaiting when it comes to
what he brings. And you look at the end of
his All Black career. He bowed out twenty fifteen World
Cup after a virtuoso performance. Like, man, we don't want

(01:25):
to lose this dude. He's been around since what I
think two thousand and three was the first World Cup
he played at. But he's carried on. He'd be going
back to too long again, been there before. It's the
French top fourteen professional league. I think there'll be a
lot of eyeballs on that. Now. He is an absolute weapon.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now his injuries whole, injury wise, holding.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Up well plainly is okay because he's coming in his
injury replacement for a couple of plans. You'd think he
trains well, eats well, and there he is. I mean,
injury can hit any professional sports regardless. I mean some
of them do it. They cut their hand when they're
Corey Webster opening and avocado once sliced his hand. He
was out for a while, go figure. So yeah, it

(02:05):
can't happen.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is that why Dan Hookers had to pull out of
his kneses.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
His hand a bit of a fracture in there. There
was training and he smacks someone on the bomce and
cracked his finger. So he's not so goja, He's not
going to be fighting. But Dan Hooker's star waned to
a degree, but now it's right back on the way
up again. So this is an interruption. I think a
fan favorite fight Hooker and Goija. Dan Hangman. Hooker is

(02:31):
an odd character. He gets almost an unhealthy kick out
of the violence of the unleashes in the octagon. He's
every time around. I mean he gives him a massive kick. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
He a funny one to interview. I had him in
the studio once and when I was doing tally and
it was he was quite scary. Yeah, he was quite quiet.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
And now he's covered in ink so he looks even scarier. Yeah,
but you know, he's always nice to me. I'll give
him that.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Just a photo of him, even at every shop front,
should be enough to put the thieves off Darcy. I
would have thought, who needs the well?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Now? Maybe they can have a photo up for the
shopkeepers so they can get the required cahonies to actually
do it themselves.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Exactly all right, Darcy, We'll see tonight. Darcy water Grave
was sport. It is twenty after four News Talk SIBB.
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