#41 Shaun Edwards Shock, State of Origin, Prem Playoffs & URC Semi Showdowns

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Plenty to get stuck into as the URC semi-finals are locked in, the Premiership top-four race goes down to the final day, and rugby delivers drama everywhere you look. Bigs, Goodey and Jim chat State of Origin lessons, Shaun Edwards’ shock France exit rumours, Newcastle Red Bulls’ All Blacks contract drama saga, creator rugby selling out stadiums in France, giant South African schoolboy signings, and Bordeaux choosing the pish over the president. Plus, the lads preview a huge final Premiership weekend and look ahead to the URC semi-final showdowns. Sign up to NordVPN by going to ⁠https://nordvpn.com/rugbypod⁠ to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 additional months free. It’s completely risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod, pod, pod, rugby pod.
0:10.7	Hello and welcome back to the rugby pod after a mad weekend of domestic rugby.
0:16.1	We have our URC semi-finalists locked in. Surprise, surprise, four home wins. We saw fierce
0:22.5	rivalries renewed, last-minute winners, clubs battling out to make the top four and some
0:27.8	spicy other news as well. In early other news, the great Sean has been sacked from the French
0:34.5	team. Who knew? Got to felt something weren't right there. Anyway, we'll get into it in other news. Absolute madness. The All Blacks are also trying to ruin Rob's summer, allegedly. What's going on, Rob? Shocking. Trying to steal our best player, trying to stop him coming. Oh, okay. Right, we will get into that as well then. We've also got content creators selling out stadiums and we've also
0:54.6	got clubs sacking off presidents celebrating with their teams as well so they could go out on the
1:00.4	push. More on that later, lads. We'll also be previewing the big clashes next week in the
1:05.7	URC as well as exploring the Prem top four permutations as the competition comes down to the final weekend.
1:12.1	So settle back, enjoy and make sure you're subscribed on Spotify.
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