D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the death of former All Blacks doctor John ‘Doc’ Mayhew

The man who treated countless numbers of All Blacks and Warriors players over more than a 30 year period has died.

Dr John Mayhew has died at the age of 70, after recent heart complications.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks his legacy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy's here was sport Hey Darcy Ian. Good afternoon now
Dr John Mayhew has passed away.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, sad, sad news. Doctor John Doc Mayhew O n
z M passed away this afternoon surrounded by loved ones.
This is difficult for people in the in the Rugby community.
He's been around so long with rugby. He was the
first guy who was the doctor for North Harbor Rugby.

(00:28):
It's a life member of North Harbor Rugby. That's looking
way back when, of course he went on to be
the All Black doctor four one hundred and thirty one tests.
I think it was so it's spent a lot of
time around the All Blacks, which suggests he's not only
very good at what he did, he's also a really
nice guy and people wanted to be around him. My
personal experience of doctor John Mayhew look only spoke to

(00:50):
him a couple of weeks ago, and I think everybody
when they are faced with the death of somebody they
know they immediately. But I was just talking to him.
Hard problems there, but he was always wonderful to talk to,
super super friendly, really knowledgeable. I think the legacy who

(01:10):
leave is not the fact it was an all Black
doctor nor Harbor doctor. As he was so hot on
concussion and concussion protocols. That was really really important to him.
The way the world develops and treats head injuries, how
serious they take it, what methods have to be used
to mitigate the problems with head injuries?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So very sad.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Super Super said, Hey, Channel nine over in.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Australia that signed a new deal with Rugby Australia and
if the Aussie teams win then nine will pay Rugby
Australia more money.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well there's extra money, which I think is an interesting
idea because that they're saying that the Australian teams win
some Super Rugby comps and you know the Wallabies win
some big competitions. Well are they going to do that?
A safe bet? Do you think that any ass team
is going to win Super Rugby? But if after all
they've made a whole lot more money a significant thing

(02:06):
out of this. It doesn't include the twenty seven World Cup,
but nine are currently negotiating with that. So it's Wallabies,
Wallaroos and Super Rugby fixtures and Means and women's competition.
It comes on nine and the sub screening service stands
Sport there's no longer free to air rugby once they

(02:28):
take this over in Australia, which I think is standing
for a lot of people there.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
But yeah, do they say what the deal's worth.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
According to people in the know, they're going to bank
an extra sixty five million bucks in this deal, would say,
one hundred and fifteen million dollars in cash and kind advertising.
Thekers good.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
How many people would you have watching how many rugby
fans in Australia versus New Zealand because it's obviously not
as popular there as it is here. But in terms
of total fan numbers do you reckon that?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Wait, it's gone art because Jack Meresley, who who is
the CEO of supergues on with Mike Asking this morning
talking about the increase in eyeballs and apparently it's gone
up thirty percent this year in Australia. Australia, it's up
here as well, thirteen I think here. Yeah, but people
are more interested. They made a lot of changes to
try and make the game more consumable fan at the

(03:18):
scenes of the room. You've heard it all before. It's working.
People are actually going, you know what, this is a
good product and they're buying into it. So that's great
news across the board and Mark Robinson joins us tonight
the CEO of Insida. Are just to reflect in my
life of times of Dr John Mates.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
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