D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Patrick Tuipulotu signing on with the Blues and All Blacks til 2028

Patrick Tuipulotu believes his body can hold up to the rigours of three more years in New Zealand Rugby.

The Blues captain and All Blacks lock has signed on until 2028, turning down offers from Japan.

Tuipulotu has been an All Black since 2014 but has often been sidelined through injury - limited to just one World Cup in 2019.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Heather, there has been a McDonald's a Mission Bay before.
It's where the Mervin peck is now spelt so bad.
I almost didn't know what you were talking about.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Character, isn't it Mervin peck.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's funny. Yeah, anyway, so there was McDonald's before, So
it's just a return to the good old days in
Mission Bay. Darcy water Grave at seventeen past fours with me. Now, Hey, Darcey, Hey,
here the hell are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Can I offer? You? Are chippy?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
What are we talking about on Tuesday? Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Geez, you're lame?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
What are we talking about? You? Blame chili?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Blame? However, did you go and especially go to the
vending machine and buy chips?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I never go to the vending machine because I can't
stand the vending machine. I think it's an absolute scam.
But yes, I went to the vending machine machine and
I purchased said crisps. I could make another terrible dad.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'll tell you what interesting that you've gone for sea salt.
It would be I just think sea salts like buying water,
isn't it. That's the It's boring, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I like salts. I'm a very boring individual. I like simplicity,
playing T shirts, playing jeans.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Anyway, thank you to ask you to share that ship
with me. So Patrick's recenting lame though, Patrick and the
All Black.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Thirty two up says, Yeah, he's decided that he's going
to stick around in twenty eight which is so good
for not only the Blues, but you know he's been
around since twenty fourteen. Wow, it'll take him fourteen years
twenty fourteen playing rugby for the Blues? Are you serious?
That's one hundred and six? But he's not He's not

(01:34):
going He's not going to go anywhere. Yeah. He made
his All Black debut in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
And so when he gets the end of this, this
is so good because.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Plays with Japan for a while, didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
He Yeah, I think been over for a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's made a few dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Wow. I don't think if you're an All Black for
that amount of time, you're really going to be short
of a crust, are you? Well? He wants to I
don't know. I don't know the detail behind it, but
I suspect that he's got a couple of young kids.
It's like, do I need to go with it. No,
I'm on a good wicked here. I love it here
in New Zealand, and I'm going to hang around here

(02:11):
and do that.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, well, you've got the kids, you like, the family
around you with grannies and stuff like that. So I
get that you.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Need the free babysitters, don't you.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Isn't that what they are?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Sound like me making everything economic? Hey, yes see the
Blues one. I'm really sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
No, I don't apologize. It was a terrible game, was this?
I'm apologizing. I sat through it. I didn't get what
I wanted ordered a good game. It was the New
South Wales team tried the best they could to butcher that.
They scored four tries to one, but couldn't kick anything
over the past like one from five. I think it
was so that means Queensland were there or thereabouts there

(02:49):
was the chance, but Queensland to talk about feet for
hands that were they? Honestly, it was so bad to
watch my oh no and the crowd. But this is
only they went back to back and this has happened
New South Wales since twenty eighteen twenty nineteen. If they
go back to back and when the series are going
to Perth next, but not since ninety seven have they

(03:10):
gone back to back at sun Corp. So the crowd a,
this is not r works, You're not supposed to do.
That wasn't the game i'd like I expected. There was
some magnificence, but mostly it was it was salty or
crunchy or whatever you want to put at the chips.
Of course I'm gonna point it because of.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Course you are, all right, what are you talking about
this evening?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I want to talk about Origin. I want to talk
about Andrew Webster yesterday for the Warriors saying, look it's insane.
These are not his words, he's a mine. But basically,
the NRL cannibalizes itself for six weeks of the year
when they start cutting a drift players and teams, and
just for Origin, it's so big, it's the pinnacle, so
you get why they do it. But just because it's

(03:52):
always been like that doesn't mean I have to carry
on being It's going to be perfectly honest about this.
Half of the best players, maybe more in the NRAL
are not Australians. The new Cylinders pacifica yep. And during
that period they don't get to do much except get
beaten around the head and face because a lot of
their teammates are off playing origen.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
So you'd think they should dominate.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Maybe something should happen here. Do we get someone I
know it's been talking to be.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
A party of Cooper Darce. It's working, it's fun working
for who. We'll talk about it this evening, Darcy water Grave.
We're back at seven o'clock for Sports Talk.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
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