D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the long-running confusion over Silver Ferns player eligibility

Confusion reigns between Netball New Zealand, the Silver Ferns captain and the country's star player on eligibility criteria for the national team.

The issue has resurfaced with shooter Grace Nweke currently ineligible for the Ferns because she's playing for New South Wales in Australia's Super Netball competition.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks the ongoing discussions.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy Watergrave Sports Talk Hoosters with.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Us Heather, Heather, I want to talk to.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
You about greg Or Paul. Did you read his opinion piece?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I did?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, what did you think?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I think he has a point to a degree, but
we've possibly advanced so much in society. I don't know
how many people care about F bombs.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
No, no one cares. We haven't ever cared about F bombs.
We love swearing in New Zealand more.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
When you start looking at C bombs or N bombs,
you're in all sorts of trouble. Yeah, I think so.
I get what he's saying about bringing the level down
and about a number of organizations that are forcing on
field interviews and forcing microphones in the mouths of player
and getting that reaction straight away, part and parcel of

(00:50):
the fan entertainment package. I really don't think it turns
that people have some antiquated characters who might freak out.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sure that I know that I've got his idea hum
and straight right. So from what I am from reading
his column today in The Herald, what it seems he's
arguing is that we shouldn't go onto the pitch straight
after the match stick A camera and a microphone in
a player's face and ask them their reaction because we
might get an F bomb.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You shouldn't expect not to get the F bomb. Probably
that's a better way of putting it. Like, I can't
paraphrase for him. But if you do that, you go
to get what respect? Well, this is it. It doesn't
bother me, and the players go whoa or we're not
talking UFC. Also, UFC is a completely different story.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
This is so frustrating to me, Darsk, because this is
exactly the opposite of what I think, right, I think
that we have too much sanitization of what these players think.
It's already too boring, and I am so bored of
hearing them talk about how the boys left everything on
the field in the second half.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
And they gave it or credit to the opposition.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it's the same nonsense from these boring, wooden people
every single time. I love it when they give me
a bit of character immediately afterwards, and in fact, I
want to see more of it in my own.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Crease egregious swearing. It's like that I opened the mic
up and just start iffing and blinding straight away, because
I think you'll find the person in view, which go.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, but who does that and who has ever done that?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Nobody except UFC when Israeli Jasnya has made a.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
What is Gregor just getting old? Do you know what
we all are?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
What we are?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
When Gregor was with us in an hour, So I'm
just going to ask him this, Have you just turned
into a grumpy old man?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Gregor? Well, I Gregor, and I don't want to speak
out of turn, but I think he celebrates being a
grumpy old man. Okay, as I do we like being
I think the word in scott remember that the term,
oh that's grouse from back in the day. Oh mate,
that's grouse. It was back in the seventies. You probably
don't mean. The verb to complain in Scottish is to grouse.

(02:56):
So he's grousing. He's the famous grouse.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Okay, now listen, I cannot believe that Netball New Zealand
still isn't letting grace and work I play for the
silver ferns. What the hell? Come on on me.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
We're talking about that tonight on the program. Because it
extends right across rugby, it extends across cracket, it extends
across a number of sports. There are some sports they
don't care. You play wherever you want. But I can't
understand why the likes of rugby want to keep a
little on that. Now cricket have given up, they've gone
the other way. Can't play for review you want, We'll
just give you a separate contract. They understand that netball

(03:31):
are not laboring under any global laws around when and
where their players can't They say, make an exception for
Grace wiki and an exception is okay. I don't think
too many people have a problem with that. If you
maybe allow two or three of the top players to
go and experience the Australian competition, which is considerably better

(03:53):
than it. Yes, especially for the shooters dealing with the defensive.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Ew it's a win win, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
That they will say, we haven't got Grace at home.
We want our young players seeing her and Nanzi Premiership.
We want to expose the az Premiership to the skills
that she had.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
What they're worried about is Grace does it, then everybody
else thinks it's okay to do it. Everybody else goes
over there and then we've got a crappy domestic competition.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
But they're the rules. They tell the rules. This is
what's happening. Because there was that idea that and I
think that Emir and Echinasio and Grace Wiki both said,
you know, it's excuse me, it's one hundred caps, but
there's no law in the Zella and Neports says it
has to be one hundred caps. No, there isn't. The
only reason they say one hundred caps is because Laura
Langman and Maria then both went over and played there

(04:38):
after that reached one hundred one hundred caps. That's a
long long way to go. They've got to be pragmatic,
pragmatic in this space, and they've got to supplay. Yeah,
and it's it's okay, you're allowed to bend things. It's
your game. I don't think it's going to destroy the
fabric of the game in New Zealand. What's going to
destroy the fabricam in New Zealand. There's no broadcast rights

(04:59):
to do. We need to be focusing on that more
than any right.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
What's on your show tow me quickly?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, we've got Anna Stanley joining us to talk exactly that.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh brilliant.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
There's somebody who understands the ebbs and flows of international network.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
You got stuff, Darcy water Grave, sports talk host. We'll
be back at seven this evening for more from Hither
Duplessy Allen Drive.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
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