D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the All Whites advancing to next year's Football World Cup

Captain Chris Wood expects the excitement of qualifying for next year's Football World Cup to be a slow burn for the All Whites.

The win over New Caledonia in the Oceania final booked New Zealand a berth at the tournament for the third time in the team's history. 

They're just the fifth team to qualify for the 48-team event so far - alongside co-hosts the USA, Canada and Mexico - and Japan.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just a bit of a heads up really from the
National Emergency Management Agency. This after a six point eight
earthquake near south of this afternoon. Basically the warning is
get out of the water, don't go near the water
if you're near Milford Sound to south to poigisappoint. This
is south of Milford Sound after the six point eight
quake that was a near Southland. It's strong and unusual

(00:24):
currents they're expecting there and danger to swimmers, surfers, people fishing,
anyone in or near the water or close to the shore.
So if you do happen to be around that area
and close to the water at the moment, then the
advice is to not be. It's just gone nineteen minutes
after four Darcy's here was sport Darcy, good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
They're tough down in south and looked to myself, who's
going to be in the sea now? Down? Man? It's
actually hold on it's Southland.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Plenty, Probably a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Look after yourselves out there, full sholl Hey.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The all whites are going to the Feof for World Cup.
But it's quite an expanded field, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, not as big as the one hundredth anniversary even more.
It's small guns. We've talked about this before and we'll
talk about it tonight with Darren Beazy is going to
join us on the show. The head coach or the gaffer,
the manager of the all whites getting there one thing,
getting out of your group. That's the new demand because
previously get in there was tough. Yet to go through

(01:19):
playoffs into continental playoffs, it was hard. That's why I've
only done twice. I say we, I mean then he
said on football teams had nothing to do with it.
But now with an easier path because of direct qualification
for Oceania, it's fairly simple. You just have to beat
the other Oceania teams, which we've done with relative ease,
although the first fifty five off and it's used today,

(01:42):
it was a bit sketchy bit anyway or sixty minutes.
So now it's a case of getting to the finals
and actually getting out of the group playing games the
next round of thirty two. So that's got to be
the new and of course it's not. That's going to
be very difficult to World Cup.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Ded Rugby says no to the enzact day test.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah and right, so because the idea is they wanted
to expand the idea instead of having two tests series,
having a three test series. So it happens every year,
So we've got to plead so cup maybe on the
line all the time that when push comes to shove
it would have fallen right in the middle of Super
Rugby Pacific season and ins and I went, yeah, and

(02:21):
I get that, because what would happen is you basically
have to take all the all Blacks of import out
of these Super Rugby teams for a couple of weeks
during the middle of the Super seasons. Hard enough as
it is, when you have this compulsory restauran rotation with
the All Blacks, that's kind of devastated the quality of
Super Rugby in years gone by. This time around is

(02:41):
very much a case by case, a player by player basis,
hey is that guy exhausted, is a bit broken. What
are we going to do? So they're not taking all
of the best players from his zeal point of view
out of Super Rugby and as a direct result, we're
getting a much better product. I mean, you're getting their
restauran rotation because a lot of.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Them are getting You've seen that on the field, aren't
you Thank you, will see you tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thank you. Darren Bazy joining us tonight's talk about.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
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