D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the Football Ferns attending the next women's World Cup

The Football Ferns will attend a seventh women’s World Cup next year in Brazil after beating Papua New Guinea 1-nil in the Oceania qualifying final.

The result capped a dominant campaign - New Zealand scored 25 goals without conceding.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explained further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave sports talk hosters back with us. Hello Darcy, Heather, Plussy,
Yell and n Limb. It's been a while and you
limped into the studio, which made it look like you've
been off with some sort of disability.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, no, I no, I've been off over the school holidays.
Spent a couple of days with my gorgeous daughter hanging
out with her ben Dad. You know, at fifteen and
a half they like whatever, Dad.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You would have loved it more than she did.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Probably, yes, I'd say so.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We spent Why the limp?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Why the limp was my old knee. It's my thirty
nine years old motorbike accident that's still given me grief. However,
I found out yesterday that it's been funded by acc
I'm getting a new knee this year.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Fantastic, a new bottle, Mike. Mike's going to to the bike.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
He's going to get out his bone saw and he's
going to get done on it. Yes, I'm really looking
forward to this. It's going to change so much. I
don't think you realize how much little things like that
affect your life until they didn't afect it anymore, too, right, Yeah,
So I'll be back rotten, No way, I'll be about
playing golf again.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Now, talk to me about the football Ferns.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
They won. That's about all we can say about it.
What do they say, Steve Hanson? Yeah, the World Cup? Yeah,
you flush the duney and move on. It's significant the result,
but how they got there and the nature of them,
it's like, well, we got the job done. I'll quote
Jason Pine Jason Goes. I challenge anyone to watch a

(01:23):
replay of that match to be masochistic, to say the least.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
What was wrong with it? What's the hard?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
It was dire and slow and shots were left and
the domination with the football Ferns was huge, but they
couldn't convert any of it. And then he came through
and won the match. But it wasn't one for the ages. However,
the Ferns, I believe, through this entire qualifying campaign, have
conceded a goal and they scored a hatful, so at

(01:49):
least they getting that right. So what happens now now
they're going to the World Cup. Like their men's counterparts
in New Zealand, football have got to put together a meaningful,
relevant program for them leading up to twenty twenty seven.
So they go fully prepped into this and get eyeballs
on the players back here, which is what the All

(02:10):
Whites have achieved with all of their warm up games
so far. They've created a bit of joy for football.
Fantom here do it comes. So they've got there and
now the work really starts to go in.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Now do you agree with me that this is all
over for the live right? They're being called to that
meeting insut that you've put out the email and they've said,
don't worry about it. The season will continued uninterrupted. But
they haven't seen anything about next season precisely.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Not a sausage. And it's the classic. The board fully
support the CEO gone by lunchtime. As soon as you
read that, you go ha ha. And when you get
the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph and the New
York Times and the Wall Street Journal all reporting, I
mean they're not fly by nicas. No, their mainstream media, which.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Triggers a Q four four of them. If all four
of them are citing anonymous sources, it means somebody has
gone out to plant the story deliberately, like there's a
strategy right.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Now, you'd think so. And even the player, the superhero,
says he Gathiez who will told us nothing so never
aug as well too. I don't think it'll be missed
quite frankly, but look, this is the take between a
few parties in the Middle East that is partially behind
this because plainly the Saudi Investment Fund, which is worth

(03:26):
a trillion dollars probably taking a bit of a hat
right now, is it all not? Well?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I read? I thought it was the New York Times
article which quoted something along the lines of they have
spent an inordinate amount of money on the World Cup, right,
which has cost them a huge amount of money couple
couple of three years ago. It's big events like that
that have actually been well.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
This has cost five billions so far. But if the
fund is worth a trillion, does it really even matter.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Look after the pennies and you saved the pounds.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Look after the millions and you'll save the trillion.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Exactly too, right, Darcy, thank you very much, looking forward
to your show. It's nice to have you back.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
And Greg murfe is joining us to to preview the
Wasting at the Wasting the racing at the a Poona
this weekend and the supercars and I'm also going to
talk about the removal of Auckland Rugby from Eden Park
and what has to happen in order for that to happen.
We go to the chair of Auckland Rugby to discuss there.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Very cool, all right, Dars, Thanks very much mate. Darcy
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