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Scrum V

S3 E14: The Willis Halaholo story

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Gareth Rhys Owen and Nicky Robinson sit down with Cardiff Blues centre Willis Halaholo to discuss growing up in New Zealand, winning a Super Rugby title with the Hurricanes and his ambition to represent Wales.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Garrelinika here with Alan Shearer and Mike Wicherichs to say the

0:05.2

match of the day top 10 podcast is back. We'll be ranking our footballing

0:09.8

top 10s and debaitin who is right. We've got quite a good list obviously there's an

0:14.8

exception. It's the top 10 euros golden boot winners. Now we're talking

0:20.1

that's all right. You're not going wrong. Really?

0:23.4

Definitely not. Oh, thanks.

0:26.0

Mash is the day, top 10. Listen only to BBC Sounds. Hi folks it's the Scrum 5 podcast I'm Garath 3an, and what a pod we have for you today.

0:55.0

It's with the Cardiff Blue Centre, Willis Hallaholo, myself and Nicky Robinson sat down with

1:00.0

him, Harleholo on crutches in Whitch Rugby Club, to discuss, well, everything about him, and he's got some story to tell.

1:10.3

From Tonga descent, grew up in New Zealand.

1:12.8

Let's just say he was a challenging teenager and those troubles continued into his early 20s.

1:18.4

Eventually, of course, he arrived here in Wales and actually was selected by Wayne Pivac in the autumn squad to play the barbarians.

1:26.5

He got injured, didn't play. However, he received a lot to flack online to the fact that he'd been selected having come over from New Zealand and in this

1:36.7

pods he responds to that pulls no punches but I think more importantly more fascinatingly is the fact that he's just such an honest

1:45.6

candid person yet at the same time chilled relax and just lovely company I know you're going to find this fascinating, you'll enjoy it as well.

1:56.5

Here's the brilliant Willis Hallaholo. Can I start with that, the anecdote, I have told Willis. The anecdote I always tell you.

2:10.0

About what? About how we kept going on and on. you were playing how great the Nick you were in once he'd retire.

2:16.0

Well you know you thought I was in good shape when I retired.

2:20.0

You were in Civies, wouldn't you?

2:22.0

So Nick's in Civies, when you? So Nick's in sivies, he's in, you know, shirt, trousers, jeans, and he's

2:27.1

only a jumper as well. Jumper, but he's on television and we keep commenting, you know, This boy's still got it.

2:33.6

He's in great Nick.

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