#8 England’s New Bomb Squad, Josh Adams on Welsh Revival, and Ireland Controversy in Chicago

The Rugby Pod

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Sports, Comedy, Rugby

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week on The Pod, Jim, Goodey, Bigs dive into a massive opening weekend of the Quilter Nations Series — red cards, redemptions, and peroxide-blond hair. England made it eight wins on the bounce with a dominant bench-inspired victory over Australia, with Borthwick building his own “Bomb Squad.” Ireland meanwhile, were left reeling after a controversial red card and second-half collapse against the All Blacks in Chicago, while Scotland and South Africa both flexed with huge wins over the USA and Japan respectively. Plus, Wales and Lions winger Josh Adams joins the show to chat about life in camp, the mood under Steve Tandy, and where Wales are going into some massive games with World Cup qualification implictions. Plenty of laughs this week as the lads are on great form after their US trip Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod, pod, pod.
0:01.1	Rugby pod.
0:06.3	Hello and welcome back to the rugby pod with myself.
0:10.2	The Big Jim Hamilton.
0:11.3	It sounds weird saying your own name.
0:12.8	The Big Jim.
0:13.4	Did you call yourself the Big Jim Hamilton?
0:15.3	Never, never done it before, but I thought I changed it up.
0:17.7	I don't know why I've done that.
0:18.7	But anyway, Andrew James Gude, Daniel Bigam, producer Rob is here too. And the Quilter Nation series is also here and underway. And it only gets bigger and better from here on in. The All Blacks and England are off the mark. South Africa and Scotland racked up big victories while Ireland returned home from Chicago with a little bit to think about,
0:38.8	a fair bit to think about.
0:40.1	Red cards, records leveled and peroxide blonde hair that I'm there for.
0:44.1	So settle back, enjoy and you know the drill by now.
0:46.6	But if you don't, you need to subscribe on Spotify.
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1:28.0	Right, come on, lads.
1:29.0	I was Chicago.
1:30.0	Give it to us.
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