D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the Silver Ferns gearing up for their Constellation Cup test

The Silver Ferns won't lack for belief heading into the deciding Constellation Cup netball test in Christchurch tonight.

Australia leads the series 2-1, but if the Ferns win they'll force a tiebreaker - consisting of two seven-minute halves of overtime to determine the series winner.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm very disappointed. You even't got the cricket on here,
you've got ice hockey and some parliamentarians from Australia. Graph,
my lord, come back, thanks thanks having me fantastic.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Maus, you're crossing your knees.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, no, no, it's all good.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Which one did they cast?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It was the left one, the one.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
That you've got at the top, right next to the
I'm worried that you're going to hit the disc with it.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've got to show and tell. I can show you
the tin and I've got in the plastic bag outside
what's in the into the studio and shook it for
the boys in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's in it?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Eight bolts and a piece of titanium was holding a
leg together for twenty years. The same guy who put
it in and took it out, Bruce Twaddo, you're a star,
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Ussy did they did they give it a clean? Like?
Did they clean all the flesh off?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
There's bone still on it. There's no flesh on it,
but this bone has actually grown on the titanium. No,
it's really cool.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
They must have cleaned the flesh off in because that
would just like that.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I doesn't stink so because I need to put it
on the chain and wear it in my neck. You
know those lot long pieces of punami that people wear
that kind of look cool with you. I can't buy
one from It has got to be gifted to you, right,
so wear so pleased to be back and doing something,
then things that things are working.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, Constellation Cup decided tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, no it is. And the interesting thing around this
because this story hasn't ended with netbarn in New Zealand,
as much as they would like to say, oh, that's
all tied up now there's a pretty little bow and
it Dame nol Lean's coming back at the end of
the year. There's so much more to come. There has
to be. Surely we're not going to sit there and go, oh,
it's okay, you've just overseen an absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Can I give you my please? Do I have not?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
You know what, I've been sitting on this conspiracy theory
all of last week and it's only until you've come
back that it's coming out.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, I bring out the best and you don't I
hear that you do.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I don't think Dame Knowles ever coaches the silver ferns again.
I reckon that she has been brought back to clear
her name, and she will be given a job offer,
and she will just go somewhere else, to a happier
pasture where she will be here.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
You're not the first person that said that to me recently?
Is the same through we sit there and go, well,
after six weeks of deep thought and talking to my family,
I've decided to and we won't see her again. How
on earth could she go back into that viper's nest?
If she doesn't go back into that or she does,
what about the vipu's nest itself? Is anybody gonna stand

(02:17):
there and go, actually, we really mess this up and
this is what happened and fall on their sword? Is
that likely to happen? Can you see these people working
together in the fact that the players want it back.
You saw what happened when it was announced woo. They
suddenly started thrashing the Australians. And hopefully that that finishes tonight.
But that's the other story. What we're gonna look at
tonight is win the game, and when in the seven

(02:42):
minutes of extra time and in the extra seven minutes
of extra time, and then beyond that as well, because
if it's all tied up, they've got to somehow have
a winner, right, Yeah, so this is what they're going
to do.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh, they just keep going seven minutes and seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Seven minutes and seven minutes, and then if that's all
hasn't worked, man, I've got a winner. Then they go
first team with a two goal difference wins the game.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
How long, just quickly, how long did that that baseball
game go? How many hours?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
It was? Eighteen innings?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
How many hours?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I don't know how many hours it was. There'll be
I think if we still had Matten here, had better
tell you because he's an absolute tragic round.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Things tape of game back to back basically, but it's.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Happened before, because about World Series Game three happened with
the Dodgers. It was an eighteen inning game right across.
But Blue Jays bounce back. They had a win today
in Game four. So it's all even to too the
way that offers, okay, so much more. And the black
Cats are rolling the English right now. It's looking pretty

(03:42):
tragic for the English. They are getting blown.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Off the park by the black Cats.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Which is nice to see.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
It went for six hours thirty nine minutes, six.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Hours, thirty nine minutes to introduce these people with test
cricket and see how they come exactly that all you got.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Thank you, Darcy, It's nice to have you that. Darcy
waldergro You're back seven o'clock for Sports Talk. For more
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Speaker 3 (04:07):
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