D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Cam Roigard returning from injuries to play for NPC

The return of Cam Roigard from a foot fracture headlines 13 players released by the All Blacks to NPC duty this weekend.

Roigard hasn't played since the second test against France in Wellington in July.

He'll come off the bench for Counties-Manukau as they face Auckland on Saturday in Pukekohe, with the visitors from the other side of the Bombays facing an injury crisis and delaying their official team naming.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Darcy water Grave sports talk hosters with me, Hello Darce.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Totably the worst thing to happen to the nation.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is it to be able to speak more than one language.
Feels to me we should be pretty stoked about that. Now.
NPC is going to be full of all blacks this weekend, yet.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Not full enough, of my humble opinion, send them all
back to the NPC. Go and learn how to run
past cats, to fuse a high ball and follow a
master plan. Go on kill an idea that might be
a bit extreme for some people. But one of the
guys that's coming back is a very very rare gem
in rugby and all blacks, it's called a halfback. We

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haven't got many.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Of those we have.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
They just kind of break down or they got a
hot hand. Hope them last week. I feel so sorry
for him. How long did he last? Ten minutes? Oh
my lord, so came Roy Guards back. He's bound next
weekend playing for County Manica. Absolutely he is, and all
things going well and good. I'll be talking to him
tonight up after seven o'clock, about the time spent waiting

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what he's done, how happy he is with how he's
surviving his injury, because it must be really stressful for
players when they go back onto the park again after
coming through an injury, going and my still on trusting
of this? Is this? Still? Is this still? I'd actually

(01:30):
like to talk to him about stock cars and saloon
cars because he likes over racing and dirt. But I
don't think that listeners would be too pleased. Yeah, but yeah,
with a rugby player who loves his stock cars. But
I'll talk with There's a number of players.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
But if he's back at the NBC this weekend, that
means that he will be selected for the game against
the Wallabies the following one.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Would think so, providing he comes through it. Okay, so
that's that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
What about Hamish?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
What about Amish Cat? I'm sorry, he's more than good,
He's great. He is one of the greatest. I set
up last night ntil one thirty in the morning watching
the coverage of the I eventually passed out and it
was quarter past how past one around there couldn't get
to the end. There were still five or six guys jumping.
I was like, this is ridiculous. This is too late,

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and I thought i'd have a Then worke up at
eight a clar what happened? And I saw it before.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Did you sleep until eight o'clock on your couch?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
No? None, on my couch. I was watching it in bed. Oh, sorry,
I will take my phone on my phone. Oh okay there,
and I was watching It's like I'm going to sleep.
I'm going to sleep. I'm going I've gotta I'm go
to tenure.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh you need to turn it off first.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I was so upset because you know what he's done,
this guy. Olympic Games title, gold medal, yeah, Commonwealth Games title,
World Indoor Championship title, Diamond League final and then now
the World Athletics Championship. This is awesome and I will
bore people with this, but I think you need to
repair these things over and over again. I chatted with

(03:03):
Hamish care a few years ago, and I was struck
by his inherent confidence and what he can do and
where he can go and what he can achieve. But
it wasn't the confidence that got me. It was the
lack of pretense or arrogance or ego. He wasn't I'm
the best I'm the greatest. I want to do that.

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He goes, I have a plan. This is how my
plan is going to operate. Nothing I have and that's
all I'm going to go on to do it.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Think nothing keeps you grounded like growing up in New
Zealand and not playing rugby. Like if you're a high
jumper in New Zealand, you'd just a bloke down the road,
aren't you.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Man? But I'd say increasingly athletics is becoming the go
to for anover of parents because you know what, when
you're high jumping, when you're distance running, when you're throwing
a discuss, no one tackles you from one you know
the way. Okay, we're going to stick with this. Athletics
is on the up and up. Well. Jordy Beamish and
of course now a hamishkur and I believe the way

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he name from ten thirty tonight the.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Poll, Well, thank you very much for that. Dark Darcy
Watergrove Sports Talk postal a back seven o'clock tonight for
Sports Talk.

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