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Scrum V

A new face at the top of Welsh rugby

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We chat to the new WRU chief exec, Abi Tierney, and look ahead to Wales' World Cup warm up against South Africa.

Warren Gatland also speaks to Gareth Rhys Owen as his Wales players prepare for their final chance to impress before the World Cup squad is announced.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

0:03.8

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

0:08.6

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

0:15.3

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

0:19.8

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

0:23.7

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

0:28.4

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

0:30.2

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

0:36.1

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

0:39.7

You're listening to BBC Sounds.

0:43.3

Hello, those of you who have been on this journey.

0:47.2

With the past six months to a year can appreciate that it's not always

0:52.1

been the easiest of sports to cover rugby and Wales but today's

0:56.3

been a good day good old-fashioned Welsh rugby day in the sense that when we woke up we

1:02.1

had no idea what would pan out.

1:04.0

It's been a busy day as well.

1:06.0

Injuries on the front in terms of the Welsh national team

1:10.0

ringing endorsements for Warren Guttland, South Africa on the horizon, but the headline

1:16.0

is that there is a new chief executive in charge of the W.R.U. She's got plenty of work to do but we'll introduce you to Abbotini and we look

1:28.0

ahead to the spring box.

1:32.0

Yeah, yeah good, good day.

1:34.6

Welcome to the show. So it has been one of those 24 hours redrafting. We were meant to meet Warren

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