D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on English rugby prop Joe Marler calling the haka 'ridiculous'

England prop Joe Marler has labelled the haka 'ridiculous' and claimed it needs to be scrapped altogether in a post on social media.

Marler's not involved in this weekend’s test, sparing him the glare of an on-field response come Sunday at Twickenham.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacked the controversy further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy Watergrove Sports Talk Coasters with me.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello, Darcey Ellen.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Does he have a point about the haka?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Why not? What it is is basically it's living rent
free in his head and it's just really STFU because
shut up. It doesn't matter to the all Blacks. They
don't key complaining that you want mate, stop it if
you don't like it.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Okay, So this is Martin.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
What he's trying to do is get clickbait because he's
not playing, he's injured, he has gone.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Maybe he's just having an opinion. I think he's got
a point. Can I explain to you absolutely. I think
that everything that we do before international tests is ridiculous,
like the national anthems for example, what the hell are
we doing before playing a game of footy? That's all
it is.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Don't even move to America.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why are they standing there singing songs like they're going
to go to war with each other? It's a game
of football.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Not a fan of the national anthems, but not a
fan of constantly playing Star Spangled But it's all very
I know, it's very.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I mean look because have a look, for example at
an NPC game or a super rugby game right, we're
not having songs and carry on playing your hand, which
is going we just go off play the game exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Maybe I have a countdown on the big screens.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Five now it does. Maybe back in the day when
when an international test was a really rare, weird thing
because you couldn't really travel, I can understand that you
wanted to stand there and sing and make a big
before the show performance. But it's like a dime a
dozen't now give rid of all the stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I suppose I'd throw this back at you, like myself,
unless I'm sadly mistaken, never represented your country in any
sport at the highest level. This is true because I'd
suggest that for people that have dedicated their life to
getting that jersey, jersey what.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
It is, I'm not sentimental and they get a.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Huge amount of pride going I have worked my butt
off my entire life. I want to them like that
twenty three and you play the anthem for me and
I'm proud.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Really, I counter that with the proportion of all blacks
who sing the anthem.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, you're talking about your homeland again.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
No, the proportion of all blacks who sing the anthem standing,
they just stand there to half of them don't even
know the lyrics.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, they don't. They don't know the words, so that's
been embarrassing. When they do that, they pan it across
and can see them kind of gulping. And then you
go to other countries and they climb right into it
and they love it.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I know, the Japanese squad, we're not that singing at
the weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
But when you look at the nature of international sport, though,
there's what a percentage maybe eighty percent of actual born
New Zealanders that play in the team. A lot of
these guys like I did three years residency. Hell are
you singing?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So to the point is all of the stuff that
we do before an international test, like the drama of it,
maybe a little bit lost in the modern era when
actually it doesn't feel like that dramatic an event.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Remember back in the day, when Buck Shelford is actually
joining us to silence sports talk to talk about this,
I would say, Sir Wayne shelf the point he revitalized
the haka. But remember back in the day it was
only actually performed away from home. Yes, at home, yes,
and that made it really special because yes, I'm staying
at the middle of the night to watching it to
see that even though they butchered it every time, it

(03:18):
was something to look at. Whereas now it's at home,
a lot of people really enjoy it. They completely buy into.
They like the challenge nature, the respect nature, the whole thing.
But I think I think, Marla, you know what happened
straight after that, Well he deleted the tweet and then
collapsed his Twitter account and ran away. So I think
he got some responses he didn't like. I think he panicked.

(03:41):
He's like, can you give me some swing low sweet
charity anytimes?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
So traditionally, you're obviously talking about it tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah. And also the man behind the new Indian NBL team, Yeah,
the Panthers.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Interesting, Okay, Darcy, thank you, Darcy Wild Grow Sports Soral Coast.
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