D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Super Rugby tweaking the 'Lucky Loser' rules

A change of luck for Super Rugby playoff sides.

The 'Lucky Loser' format for the top-six has been tweaked after just one season, with the highest-ranked first round loser sliding to bottom seed for the remainder of the finals.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sport with tab in play with real time odds and stats.
Sorry eighteen bit responsibly, I see water Grave sports stalkcoasters
with USLO does ahead. Let's climb straight on unto this
the bets of the week. If you will remember R
eighteen do bet responsibly. We've got this thing about multis
going on at the moment, right. I think they're quite funny,
but with a twist. So I've taken the under one

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dollar twenty odds in the NPC. Okay, so there are
five of those games. They have plenty of dollar four
into win, Canterbury a dollar thirty into win, Tartanakia dollar
eighteen to win, Tasmen a dollar seventeen to win. I
thought a dollar sixteen to win. Huh. Now it's not
a sure run thing, but you don't actually win that
much of you do that. So what you do is
you add something a bit crazy at the end just

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to see. And my bit crazy is will the Auckland
has finally win a game they're playing against well heaps
three sixty to win. But if you put them all
together in a heap Wellington, I've got four all blacks
coming back. So best of luck and great this here either,
but they've got to win sometime twenty bucks on that

(01:03):
one hundred and fifty bucks. Hey you're not stupid. Ay,
oh wow, thank you. I could cuddle you right now. Okay,
talk to you about the lucky loser, because I don't
get it. What is the difference with the lucky What
are we changing about the lucky loser? Simply that the
lucky loser is the one that has to travel well,
the lucky loser loses all rights to play at home?

(01:24):
Is that what? It drops right down the table? Okay,
So the highest ranked losing team from the qualifying finals,
which is the first final, the top six right six,
place one, and back from that two, five, three, four, right.
So once that goes through, the next is basically the
semi finals. But if you lose is the top You've
got to be excuse me, the highest ranked losing team

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you'll progress is the fourth seed. You won't just go second.
So it won't offer that problem that we had last year.
It will be And here it is what I always
liked about systems. Regardless of how they work out, keep
winning and no one cares. Yes, that's the whole idea.
Start keep winning. St complaining about seeking best or lucky

(02:05):
loser to just keep winning, like keep winning it means
you stay at home, you keep winning at home. You
And what I like about this has been pointed, I'm
sure a lot of people is that the sniff test.
I think Jason Pine called it. They looked at that,
that a stiff and went, oh, that stinks. We're going
to do something about that. And they did it. Yeah,
they didn't wait away, they didn't s we were going

(02:27):
to say, we're going to talk to all the union,
We're going to do this. We've got maybe in ten
years you might do something. This is what Super Pacific
are doing now they're going this is a problem, let's
change it. And Jack Missi is going to join us
on the show tonight to talk about this. This new
draw and no games to be confirmed with the Blues

(02:47):
home games, Well, what's that supposed to mean? Why you
there's a possibility there's been throwing up the idea a
couple of weeks back that maybe just maybe they won't
play all of the games at Eden Park because it
was that already locked in. How many Mount Smart canous mess?
I don't know that the problem with Mount Smart is

(03:07):
they've got two other teams. Hold on, no, I've confused.
What's our local team called Auckland and the Blues? What
the Blues is The Auckland's where you live. That's the
n PC. The Blues are a conglomerate of it. Super

(03:28):
fane know the Blues. I'm sure. I'm sure the Blues
have confirmed that they're playing two games. They they say
t when you look to me, because your face was
confusing me. But in the end I was who knows
what they're going to do around where they play all
of their games? And no more sports talks. For more

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