D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Super Rugby Pacific introducing a Player of the Year award

Super Rugby Pacific chief executive Jack Mesley feels they've landed on the best possible format for the competition's new Player of the Year award.

Captains and coaches will vote on their top three players from the opposing team on a 3, 2, 1 basis after every match.

The votes from each game and an updated leaderboard will be published on the competition website and social media channels every Tuesday during the season.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sport now, Darcy's here. Hey Darcy, it's reassuring. I know, right, Hey,
Super Rugby is the Player of the Year award going
to save rugby union.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I think the first thing to do is come up
with a name. They're basing this on Deli m one
of the legendary awards in Australian rugby league and Deli
Messenger is one of the superstars, right, So find the name.
Don't just call it player of the Year. I mean, really,
you want to engage, you want to make people excited,
give it a name. I'm not saying John like a
proper name. I can't work out what's I immediately to

(00:34):
something yeah like that. But then, as rightly pointed out
by Clay Wilson, Director of Sport at CB, goes, well,
it's kind of trans tasmic competition. Darcy can't name it
after a New Zealander. True, ah, and there's the Fijians
and there's more on a pussy figure.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
But what is the point It says it's going to
drive fan engagement? Is that really going to happen? I
mean it's a.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Nice catchphrase, isn't it. Look the whole idea? Is it
something that you keep abreast with on social media. So
at the end of each the opposition captain and coach
they nominate their three best players on the opposition side
give them three two one points respectively. That totals up
so through the year you can see your favorite play.
How well are they going? This was stop laughing at.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
This was explained to me earlier. It's like man of
the match or something when you're a kid when you're
playing rugby. But they're doing it on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure. If you get a fast
food voucher, I don't know of prestige, they'll have a
big end of yet, Like I know that most professional
sports people they play to win major tournaments. They don't
really care about gongs. No, you know, I want to medal.
I want to compete at the hirest Leave and it's
very lovely end of the end, we'll get to dress

(01:45):
up and here you go, here you go, here's your
here's your certificate. Yeah, trying something. What gets me that
I was being told by Super Rugby Pacific that there
was a new competition coming up. It's a fantasy based composition,
which are very big all over the world, and I like, hey,
we're starting soon. Where's the competition. We're right in the
shadow of the start of the tournament, and where's the competition.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, men's and women's basketball teams will play their Ossie equivalents.
Listen a three game series in May.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's on the seventh and the ninth and the eleventh.
Adelaide and Sunshine Coast got the first two games and
then Hamilton has got the third or the fifth and
the sixth game, so they're double headers, both the Opals
and the Boomers taking on the Tall Ferns and the
Tall Blacks. And then they do it across three events.
And the thing about this is they're trying to obviously
promote basketball. It's outside of a FEEB window, so it

(02:36):
doesn't mean points when it comes to internationals. What they're
doing is they're trying to re encourage this trans Tasmin
competition because basketball's on the up and up, and they
want to reach out and say you can what they say,
if you can't see them, you don't want to be them.
They want their stars playing in their backyard. Thing is fantastic.
Giving it a name, I'm really going to go with that.

(02:57):
I don't really matters.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
We can't name everything, Darcy.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
No, no, we can't.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Hey, I went and bought a basketball on the weekend,
haven't you haven't haven't touched a basketball since I was
probably at high school.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
We're quite tall, so normally you would get that, wouldn't you,
Although not that, or you'd be a you wouldn't be
a center, you'd be a point guard.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Something. Got a hoop, But there's a hoop around near
my house. It's on the back of a school, so
I go and use it in the evening. It's great fun, fantastic,
a little bit of exercise, not too much, you know,
a bit of concentration, a bit of joy.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
When you get the.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Because all the kids rip the messing off, of course,
so they all need to put a chain one up there. Yeah,
there's no.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
No a chain rattle all than anything. And Dylan Boucher
is going to be on the program today talking about
the basketball brilliant and all things going well and go.
Richie mccare joins us talk about the return of God's
own adventurice.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Fantastic, look forward to seeing so in Darcy was sport.
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