D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Richie Mo'unga's return to NZ Rugby

Richie Mo'unga will return to New Zealand Rugby next year, via the NPC with Canterbury.

The 56-test All Black has signed an 18-month contract to return to New Zealand Rugby in July next year - after three seasons playing in Japan.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
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work like that. Treat them like children. Suggest the positives,
don't have a crack the negatives anyway. Our r A
T bet responsibly of course with the TA B. That
is the call behind that. If you want to have
a look, I think that at the moment I'll be
looking at long term betting because Tasman were outrageous favorites

(00:57):
to win the NPC itself. Now that's not quite as
favor as it used to be. It's still up there.
It's still three dollars seventy five to win the whole thing.
But if you start looking back through your personal teams
and it just gives you something to lean on for
the whole season, you know, this sweet back burn. It's
not going to give you instant joy straight away unless
you're North or South and they're both paying one hundred

(01:17):
and fifty one dollars to win, So maybe it wouldn't
go along those lines. But Canterbury four fifty, Bay of
twenty five bucks, Tadannaki seven, Wellington Hawks bay eight bucks,
why couple ten dollars, Auckland thirteen dollars. So it is
long term, but it's one that smolders. And yet will
the end of the season a goas you hold on?
Didn't I put a sneaky ten bucks on those guys

(01:38):
to win and see how it goes. That's my idea.
Bit responsibly before you get ninety ab.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, okay, So Richard Muanga has signed. There is no
why is this even news? It's not a surprise, is it.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Maybe it's the length of the contract and what he
is going to be able to do when he comes back.
More than anything. It's two years, no year and a half. Now,
what it does is it falls foul of what the
ends are have bot as far as their rulings with
overseas players and how long they commit for as to
how many sabbaticals they get.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's how does it fall foul?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
You've got to be playing for a particular amount of
time before you get a particular amount of time off
to go to the sabbatic And I think they've got
a length on it because it's only a year and
a half. They're not overly keen, but it's their law right,
they're the boss. They do what they want.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
So did we not just yesterday discuss the Handsome One
in Japan and the rules being bent for him, and
then we find out today that the rules being bent
for the hands and One in Japan?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, rules are there to be broken, aren't they?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
But is this not come on, Darcy? Are you not
getting are you not getting convinced that we're headed the
way of Australia, like I was saying yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Heading in the way? Yeah, abs heading the way possibly,
But it's how fast we traverse the terra firma between
now and then. The interesting thing here for me is
Richie's going to come back. It looks like he's not
gonna be able to play the end of the Super
Sea when he arrives back at twenty twenty six. I
believe there are some rulings again around the amount of

(03:07):
games you had to play before you can rejoin the
team going into finals time. So we'll be playing NPC
for Canterbury. He will get a couple of games to
the All Blacks and the end of season two, although
it'd be nice to get him back earlier. It's going
on that South African tour. We will see. Then he's
got a season of Super Rugby there and then it's
the big fight. It's the Showdown. It's the twenty twenty

(03:28):
seven Super Rugby Showdown. Damian McKenzie, Ruben Love, Richie Muwanga,
Bowden Barrett, who puts the most down on that season,
say I've got the jersey for the World Cup because
I don't think you want to go giving the role
take on.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
See is this not already locked in the fact that
they have chased him as hard as they have. Does
that not say to you that when he comes back
for body who.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, my Meggas problem with that though, is if you
start planning so far ahead and down the track, your
hamstring yourself. And that's what I've loved about South African Rugby.
They go, right, we've got eight weeks, let's go what
can we do? And they dragged the Beast together at
the time and they played if you're committed to someone
because you've resigned them, that says it sends a bad
message to the other people competing for that Jews that

(04:11):
it was no point, so it needs to be competitive
And Voden Barrett someone said to me, he's too old
to be there, thirty six age number number Martin who's
still playing he probably couldn't be an All Black, but
still playing top fourteen. So I think he looks after
himself and he's shown the way he's bounced back with
the damium. Ok, fine, I'm going to go now to

(04:33):
I was.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Just like, if we're now talking about Martin, we've got
nothing to do.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
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Speaker 1 (04:41):
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