D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson's Achilles injury flaring up again

Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson will be sidelined for at least four weeks due to the re-emergence of an old Achilles tendon injury.

The 33-year-old was sidelined last month through a combination of the achilles issue, as well as a pectoral muscle strain.

He returned in Round 15 before suffering a hamstring strain in last weekend's heavy loss to the Titans.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacked what this loss means for the Warriors.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave Sports Talk Hoosters with me right now, Darcy.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Is anything better than watching Australia get beaten by Afghanistan
for the weekend of T twenty Well Cup, even though
I wasn't really supposed to be watching it because I'm
still sulking about the performance, although seeing that Afghanistan minutes
to slap us out of the way and then they
slapped the Australians out of the way. Now we're waiting
on this and it looks.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Like this is Afghanistan Bangladesh.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, it is waiting on results here.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
So how does it impact things?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, which way it goes depends on who wins and
how much of a hurry they win. In that we
could find Australia going through, or Afghanistan going through, or
Bangladesh going through. So Bangladesh need to beat Afghanistan, but
they've got to do it in quite a good margin,
and I think they're going to get that done now.
They've only got a handful of balls to get that done.

(00:51):
But so Bangladesh has got a higher net run. I'm
not even going to run races Afghanistan when they go through.
That's eighty for six.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Delivery, just been vindictive now, aren't you why? Because this
is about taking Ozzie out.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well when you think about only just recently the Australians
thinking about maybe not having the Afghanistan tour and complaining
about the Taliban's treatment of women, and we're not going
to do it. But we're not going to walk away
from the World Cup because it's too important of it.
You know, we'll just we'll stand darp and we'll have
this moral high ground when it doesn't really matter to us,
and then they get roll by if can it's done.
I'm sorry, that's just funny. Isn't that instant karma orleance

(01:30):
delayed karma more than anything else?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Darcy yea, it's good news that Shaw Johnson's out for
four weeks, Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Not very good news for him? But I suppose it
saves the pain of Andrew Webster. Now that team comes
out in about an hour and forty minutes and whatever
assistant coach Richard agar on show tonight to talk through.
Do they climb into these guys and start slapping them
the players, the players and go that's it, we can't
do this anymore. You are sitting down sixty six sixty.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, well, I just wonder do you think that he's
been because this is this is the Archilles injury that's
fled up again. Right, So the fact that the same
thing keeps coming back says to me, he is playing
with a bit of a niggle, isn't he.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well they claim that it was actually aokay and good
to go, but then it reinflamed itself again. So they're
going to give him a lot longer. They're saying four weeks.
It might be six weeks. But what happened last time?
The rock stars weren't there, The juniors came through, did
the job, did the job on a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I'll tell you what Darcy one example.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Right Yeah, if the juniors do the job again, it
kind of settles the argument, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Webster must be pulling his hair out. Ha'ds some really
good players on the park. Of course, everyone's climbing into
Sean Johnson. They're climbing into Aden Fanilla Blake, including other
raging ball Gordon Tallis. He's like, what's he doing there?
And a few people have said that about adding tap
him on the shoulder, get your board, pass, get out.
We're not going any four. So six o'clock, that team
come up here.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
What I am weirdly into that white collar on the
all Blacks jersey?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Are you? It doesn't really bother me either way.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
No, I love Isn't it cool? It's nice nostalgia at
least in nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
At least it hasn't got Remember that costume they had
a few years ago, and I say costume because they
had little demonte'es on it. Those Oh yeah, yes, it
was like it was like a ball. It was. It
was really lovely. They never ever ever stoop or drop
to those depths again because that was just hurrimal liking
the white as long as I go back, I kind

(03:23):
of like the all black and then the black socks
and the black boots and all that. You know, the
blackness of the jersey sends the chills through your heart.
As Bill McLaren once said, I'll put it in a
Scottish accent, but it's probably not that come bune.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's okay, Darcy, you can save that for seven. Look
forward to having a listen to your show when you're back.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
John Hart on the show as well for All Black
Coach taking a look and picking that thirty two man
squad parts brilliant.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Thank you, Darcy, Darcy water Grave Sports Stork Coast. We'll
be back at seven for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
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