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The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

2018 Reviewed with Ben Ryan

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

The Telegraph

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.5679 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Joining Brian Moore in studio this week is the World and Olympic winning coach Ben Ryan. Listen in as they look back on the year that was and as they make a couple of wishes for 2019. Before all that though we look back on the Premiership's talking points from the latest round of fixtures including events at The Rec, Kingsholm, and Twickenham. Former Sale and England winger Mark Cueto speaks with us about Sale's current form and how the club are faring in a football dominated area. Plus we speak with Nigel Owens one last time in 2018 about what he would like to see changed in the sport, and about the time Sir Bill Beaumont wrote a letter to him. Show NotesFor Nigel's video go to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/spirit-of-rugby/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Telegraph Podcasts.

0:07.0

Welcome to the final episode in 2018 of Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.

0:15.0

Pictures have thrown up a few surprises on the way.

0:17.0

Lesser tags have finally confirmed Jordan Murphy as a permanent head coach and the

0:21.8

Premiership table continues to be congested as ever, especially at the bottom.

0:27.3

Here, to discuss it all, we have the World and Olympic Champion Coach Ben Ryan.

0:31.9

Hello, Ben, how are you?

0:32.8

I'm great, thanks, Brian.

0:33.8

Good Christmas.

0:34.6

Yeah, good Christmas, yeah, getting over it slowly.

0:37.0

Fair enough, yeah. Quiet,. Yeah, good Christmas, yeah. Getting over it slowly. Fair enough, yeah.

0:37.9

Quiet, noisy, rowdy or what?

0:39.4

No, it was really quiet, really quiet.

0:40.9

Excellent.

0:41.4

Getting older.

0:42.2

Okay, well, look, the big game.

0:44.2

I didn't go to this one, but I've been to nearly every big game.

0:47.5

And for some reason, habitually, it turned out not to be very good.

0:51.2

I don't know why. I don't know whether people players are overawed by the occasion,

0:54.8

but it's a shame because they get, you know, an 80,000 there.

0:58.3

And I don't think this was a particularly great game.

1:00.8

Quinn's coming out on top, but the big talking point,

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