A George Ford masterclass, as England ‘batter’ New Zealand
The Ruck
Reynolds Alfie
3.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
England have beaten the All Blacks for the 9th time in their history! Steve Borthwick's side ran out comfortable winners for a statement victory.
Alfie, Alex and Will react to the result and discuss what it now means for England moving forward. They pay tribute to George Ford who produced an outstanding performance to guide England to victory. And, they ask what does it tell us about this New Zealand team?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:19.6 | The question we posed at the end of our Thursday preview was, would we be speaking about a famous England win? |
| 0:26.5 | Or would it be the same old story and a narrow defeat? |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Alfie Reynolds, Will Kelleher, Alex Lowe. |
| 0:32.5 | It's history. |
| 0:33.5 | Ninth victory ever for England against the All Blacks. |
| 0:36.8 | And they battered them. |
| 0:38.9 | They battered them. |
| 0:39.8 | 3319. |
| 0:41.5 | Second largest win over New Zealand ever. |
| 0:44.2 | Just behind 2012, 3821. |
| 0:46.8 | And look, the Will Jordan walk in, you sort of think, |
| 0:50.3 | ah, gloss on the scoreline there. |
| 0:51.9 | But another try, another pen. |
| 0:55.5 | Properly definitive. No caveat. Massive victory. Huge. think, ah, gloss on the scoreline there. But another try, another pen, properly definitive, |
| 1:00.7 | no caveat, massive victory, huge scalp, beat the second best team in the world, delivered on all the promises. And it was fantastic, and the place was rocking, wasn't it, Alex? |
| 1:05.4 | It felt different all day here. There was a huge roar after a rendition of jerusalem the anthem was like notches up |
| 1:13.4 | on the on the volume scale from the last couple of weekends you just you know it was a big day and it was |
| 1:19.9 | one of those test matches where you know there are too many test matches which devalues them |
| 1:25.8 | you get a day like today where you think that you go into it thinking not certain which way this is going to go. We said on the board we think you're going to win. It was all about today. It's not about whatever they might construct around these games in the future. And it was a test match that mattered in its own right. for the context of england it allowed them to |
| 1:46.4 | smash through this glass ceiling that they've been banging up against for the best part of a year |
| 1:51.8 | i know they came into this game nine unbeaten but a lot of those teams were pretty mediocre beating |
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