D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the rugby touring proposal between New Zealand and South Africa

A new touring proposal between New Zealand and South Africa has been reached, according to new reports.

New Zealand will tour South Africa in 2026 with eight-games proposed - including three tests between the All Blacks and Springboks, before New Zealand hosts South Africa in 2030.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks this announcement.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here that a friend's mother had her funeral money under
the carpet and her wardrobe, but only told them a
few years later and a few homes later. So that's
going to be a nice fine for someone. There, you go,
it might have just been might have just been somebody
who'd married an anti vaxer and gone anti Banks and
then headed up in the attic. And now we've assumed
it's the mongrels.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
One don't have to be an anti vaxer, not like Banks.
I mean, I'm a pro vaxer. I don't like Banks either.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I don't know. I just felt like that added to
the drama of the story, didn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Isn't it a good story?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
It's a great yarn.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Now, no one's dying, there's no one.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
You take the money down.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
My Unfortunately, I have a strong moral compass, and I
would go to the police and take it to them.
Possibly I'd take one hundred dollars and go and get
on the lash beforehand. And so it's only a hundred bucks, Oh.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
My gosh, Ma, for God's say, can you just please
take a thousand at the there's two hundred thousand.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, a thousand bucks and go to the cascine. Maybe
take it all, bury it in a hole, sell the house,
disappear three years, that's what I read.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
No, you cad.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Now what you do is you go to the casino
and you buy chips with it and then you launder it.
So now it's now it's casino winnings. Nobody can prove
it's not that right, So now it's yours legitimately.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But what if someone comes back to the house, who
you are? They go the ex owner was.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Bla, So how to move on?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Three move A problem with the criminals is they're not
smart enough to think of the repercussions. So if you
immediately did that and then I feel.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Like the mungral mob are not smart enough to track
you down in Australia. So as long as you live
in Australia, well, I don't know, you've got two hundred
and thirty thousand dollars is a little incentive laundering? Sorry,
explained something to me. Okay, So the All Blacks in
South Africa have basically confirmed that they're going to do
tours of each other's country. They were alternating every four years,
and it's going to be signed shortly. Why is this

(01:46):
a problem for the Rugby Championship, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It depends on the frequency of games being played and
how it sits in the calendar. That's the biggest issue
world rugby. You've got they've got so many different championships
and competitions that they've got a shoehorn into a limited
amount of time. So an inbound two and an outbound tool.
Where exactly does it fit? Does it become part of

(02:11):
the Rugby Championship and those two games or three games
against South Africa two of them? Can two of them? Don't?
I don't think it's beyond control because I think most people,
especially people of my vintage and beyond who actually experience tours,
we want something like that. It's too slick now, it's
too packaged up Turn up waym bam, Thank you man,

(02:32):
if you go and leave. Yeah, there's something about the
anticipation and the momentum that you get out of a
tour that really builds a wonderful narrative and I think
it's great for.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
The problem also for the Rugby Championship that the other
two teams that we play against being Australia and Argentina
kind of or Argentina lesser, but Australia suck. So if
you're going to so you basically got the two best
teams of the Rugby Championship playing each other already. Why
are you gonna watch the Rugby Championship.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
What we need to have happened is a reconstruction of
the entire international program. And I don't there's anything wrong
with going back to the days where tours are there.
It works on so many different levels. It works on
bringing the new players through understanding on a tour is
what it's like to be an all Black. When the
South Africans come here, they go up and down the country,
up and down the whole Motsu, and they they spread

(03:21):
and there's a lot of South Africans living over here,
so they get to go and watch a provincial game
and see their guys play. I can't see a poor
point around them.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, brilliantly.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
But Josh Confeld is going to join us later on
the piece to talk about he was He was there
back in ninety four when Otago beat the Spring Blogs
and of course he's over that last successful tour ninety
six as well.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Good stuff and also good we're getting rid of that flavor.
Sab looks tidy. Oh, now you just look Burt Reynolds.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you like that Bert Reynolds.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's not bad, Maz.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
If you're listening, I'll put another photo on Insta for you.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh jeez, I think you.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Muzz's talking us.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Muzz Muzzle on the text machine. He's already texting you.
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