#2 BIG Season Preview – Prem & URC Signings, Zammit Returns to the Pod + Red Roses’ RWC Final

The Rugby Pod

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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It’s a big un' ahead of the new season kicking off this weekend. Louis Rees-Zammit is back in rugby and straight onto the Pod after a wild 18 months in the US and an eventful debut for Bristol – scoring worldies, scrapping, and spending ten minutes in the bin. We’ve also got the Red Roses charging into another World Cup Final at a sold-out Twickenham this weekend, plus all the big Premiership and URC transfer chat with Farrell back at Sarries, Ikitau rocking up at Exeter, and Bath somehow stacking even more stars, and Rieko rocking up at Leinster. Jim and Goodey are getting stuck in to their new roles at Rugby F.C, and Bigs has had a rough run-in with Tim Henman at Wimbledon. And we have a couple of big live shows coming up. Settle in and subscribe on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod, pod, pod. Rugby pod. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to episode two of season 10 of the rugby pod. And we've got a massive guest coming up this week. He's quick. He's beautiful. He's Welsh and he's back from the NFL. Dan Biggers, mate. Lewis Rees Summit is going to join us.
0:21.6	What else we got, lads? The Prodigy. Well, I'll take this one, Biggs. I'll start this next bit, because there was a bit of scrapping as well at the weekend from Lewis Rees Summit. And I felt it could have gone deeper. It could have gone deeper, but that would have been going back into the archives of what rugby used to be for men. But anyway, he was scoring worldies and yeah, there was a bit of simbin action as well for him. But it was a hectic first week back for Lewis Riesman. We can't wait to have him on the show. It was actually like watching a little bit of a young Jim Hamilton, wasn't it, at the Majeacy Stadium all those years ago. very much. Hey, I'll take that. Yeah, I'll take that bit. Did Sam get filled in like Jim did?
1:13.0	No, did Z scoring tries from the halfway line? We will ask Sam if he's happy being compared to a young Jim Hamilton as well. So we'll see what his response is to that. Red Roses are through to another Rugby World Cup final, this time in front of a sold-out Allian Stadium on Saturday afternoon, which would be great. Scotland were robbed, so I don't want to go too much into that.
1:16.4	We were robbed in the quarterfinals.
1:18.4	But, yeah, we'll give a nod to our sisters on the other side as well.
1:22.9	We'll also be analysing all the wheeling and dealing that's been going on across the URC and the
1:28.2	Prem as the season kicks off this week, lads.
1:31.5	Yeah, yes, we will, Gavin.
1:32.9	So settle back, you know the drill by now.
1:34.6	Enjoy and make sure you subscribe on the channel that has been so good to us and delivering
1:38.9	to you, Spotify.
1:42.9	Lad, quiet weekend for me.
1:44.3	Thanks for asking.
1:45.5	Andrew,
1:46.5	you at the zoo this week or what?
1:48.2	I might have played a load of golf last week,
1:49.7	a couple of golf days down at the Grove
1:52.1	after the high of playing in the BMW Pro Am the other week.
1:56.3	So just golf mad at the minute,
1:57.9	but trying to avoid the kids
1:58.9	because the attitude I'm getting from my girls
2:00.8	is pretty tough.
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