D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the new young talent set to join the Blues next season

 A host of young talent have earned fulltime contracts with the Blues for next season.

Among the seven fresh faces are fullback Payton Spencer - son of former All Blacks first-five Carlos - and loose forward Che Clark.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
We go again.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
So the Blues, it's not you, it's not I'm not
making that noise at you. I'm making that noise at
what is his name? Is it? Richard? Richard wrote the
opinion piece. Okay, so Richard's written an opinion piece and
it says why the Blues can hold three all blacks
first fives while other Super Rugby teams have none, and
then it starts with New Zealand Rugby did not approach

(00:28):
the Blues to ask whether they would consider relinquishing one
of their three all blacks first eights to play for
Super Rugby Pacific team because they.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Don't interfere it. They never had, so you're not going to.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Why write an opinion piece about New Zealand Rugby not
doing something that the rules don't let them do.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
What upsets that? Maybe the Crusaders had to bring over
James O'Connor to help their first five eighth stocks because
they haven't got very many. I'm actually it wasn't good
last year. What I really like about this though, who
was the team that used to hoard first five?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Stop the Crusaders?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Thank you? I think that it's important and we'll talk
more about that of the evening up after seven o'clock.
Chris l Ejem joining us. He's the gem of professional
rugby for n z are. Yeah, what their attitude is,
how they operated? Do they stick their nose and why
don't they stick their chausetas is?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
We don't do this, we don't. We don't do a
player trading system. We don't say to Bowden Barrett, you
have to go to the Crusaders now used to be
back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
When it started. We need to spread our best talent
right over super rugby. That's twenty five years ago. It's
a long time ago now, and I think it's very
important that the players have some control over where they're going,
where they're playing, and how they're playing. You look at
the Melica back in the day, right couldn't get a
shoe in the blue. So you know what, I'm going
to take control of this. I'm going down to a

(01:59):
tag go bang. Isn't all black? This does happen. But
when you look at Auckland Well Boden Barrett's a fallback
come first five eighth, Harry Plumbers a second five eighth.
So they play in different posients. Stephen Pierre fifth, here
is a fallback and a first five eight. There are injuries,
so you need not a great deal on the ground

(02:21):
of first five eighths, but doesn't mean to say you
need to spread them.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Is Richard trying to start a discussion about whether maybe
we should be spreading our talents around, whether ins are
actually maybe should have a greater saying where the players are.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
We're going to talk to. I can't climb into his
head and say that. And there's also discussions around the draft,
and maybe we need a draft process to make this
appear slightly more equal.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's where Richard's going with it. I am on board
with it.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, I don't know how it would operate, particularly because
these clubs aren't privately owned, so the arguments between could
be interesting. But I don't think ins are are afraid
of that. I think they just need to tread carefully
and then look at it. Look, we have players out
there first five eight. You to remember that over a
number of years that role was dominated by a couple

(03:11):
of players, so really hard for players to come to
We've got a lot of good players out there.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I appreciate you dealing with my frustration there Darcie and
trying to do.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I'm only doing it in the studio on a purely
professional basis. I'm not going to deal with anything outside
of this.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Thank you, Darcy, appreciate it does. Water Grave will be
back for Sports Talk at seven this evening. For more
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