D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the upcoming trans-Tasman Women's Super Rugby Final

There's hope a women's trans-Tasman Super Rugby final is a sign of things to come.

The Super Rugby Aupiki champions will face the Australian Super W winners in a crossover finale to be hosted in New Zealand next year.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks this news further. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Graves. Hello Darcy, your hype day because you've
got so much to do today.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh yeah, no, nothing us really, that's it could be worse.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Real job, are you running? Are you just running on?
Like the smell of your armpits right now?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
You know when you get possibly. But I don't have
an odor. I'm actually ai. I don't exist. I'm a
figment of everyone's digital imagination.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yep, you're going to crash later today, Okay, Dull tell
me about him?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, so he's gone from Davis Cup. So Spain has
been a erradic of oopse, as they say, And that's
the end of an error. It's a very long error.
When he started, he had hair put it that way.
It's been so long.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
It's a bit of a bumma that it's gone out
like that.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Like, well, I don't know what I like about Ruffian Dull.
And he said it the other day, like I don't
have an ego. He goes, I could play for another year.
I could tour my retirement around the planet. Why he
basically does doesn't need the world telling him he'll be missed,
the world telling him he's good. He knows he's good.
He's had a storied career is what twenty Grand slams?
Are full of Grand slam.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
How loaded is he as well?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Absolutely? Dot? I mean if you count success in life
by how much money you've got, I'm an absolute failure.
So I don't choose to do the fair. I don't
know how your rate success, but I believe he's a man.
It's extraordinarily comfortable in his skin. That was a huge
part of tennis folklore for twenty odd years. And people
say the Big four. I'm sorry, Andy Murray's won two

(01:31):
what three Grand slams? He doesn't count? That was obviously
coined by British journalists, Right, yeah, So you've got rough
On Thedell, You've got sorry rough Nadell, You've got Djokovic,
and you've got a Federer and that's your Big three?
What an error? How blessed will we to be involved?
Jokovic is going to carry on a whole lot more now,
isn't he and just disappear from the.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Rest of the Seeing that this guy's ego is so
healthy that he's not going to do this big kind
of exit tour. A farewell to it, he said two
days ago.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
He goes, I don't need it, I could, but I'm
quite happy. I don't need to be told that I'm
out to see you later. Thanks on going off to
moment like that.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah okay, So what's going to happen next year with
the Super Rugby Women's competition is that the ones who
win here are the team who wins here is going
to play the team who wins in Australia.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's right. I like the Superdub versus Picky. So they
join them together and they have a celebration of both games, and.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
So they play against themselves. So it's New Zealand versus
New Zealand Australia versus Australia for pool matches and then
bang against a.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Grand final so trans Tasmin combination collision. What has also
been said so is this is slowly bit chully because
this competition develops every year. You've got admire in's at
art for what they're doing. Yeah, they're not sitting back
going oh we started it, that's good enough, we build it.
Come on, how can we make this better? How can
we expand? Think?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
If this works really well, they might roll it out
for the boys competition, which frankly sucks.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Who knows but what they want to do is try
and combine both the OPICKI and the superw together. Stop
so we actually have a trans Tasman women's competition. Now
that might not be in twenty twenty six or twenty seven,
but that's what they're looking at. I think try and look.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
They're not working for the boys.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well there are fishhawks. But just because it didn't work
for the boys doesn't mean to say the way and
you can't get it together?

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Right, Yeah, but it's the problem. It's the format, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, I try a new format. The women's game is
so important for sport in this country and women's rugby
and so important for rugby as well because it's a
growth area and you can actually expand you can try
a few things. You can take a few puntsok, you
risk So why'd you say? Good on for doing it?
And I love the cherry on the cake of women's
rugby And that's that final. It's going to be fantastic.

(03:42):
I Hanna Porter is going to join us on the
show tonight as well.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Have all we talk about fabulous love it Hey, dars,
thank you very much and go well for the rest
of the days. I know you've got It's a lot,
Darcy water Grave when he makes it to seven, trust me,
it's a thing. Darcy water Grave, Sports Store Coast Who
will be back at seventh for more from Hither Duplessy
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