May we, may we, here we are again serving up another ITV rugby workup pod.

As the group stages, they do draw to a close.

It's this weekend, I think, yes, it is.

One fixture is the big one this

weekend. We all know what it is. Let's not muck about. Well, actually, there's more than one.

Argentina and Japan's going to be big. But in home nation's terms, Scotland against Ireland or

Ireland against Scotland, however you look at it, which is why we've dropped Shanks and sent him

on unpaid leave, and we've replaced him with big John Barclay.

About the time you got rid of shanks.

Yeah, it's a difficult one because what people wouldn't know at home is that we're

basically alternating. So he does Mondays and then he doesn't do Thursdays. But by about

lunchtime every Thursday, he is messaging the producer Ben and me saying, all right,

lads, what was the pod like without me? Who was on it? Who was on it? And I'm like, mate, just listen to it. He's like, no, I'm not listening

to it. I'm not giving numbers to the ones that I'm not on. That's who he is, mate,

behind the scenes. How are you doing? Yeah, good, mate. Good'm Denard. And for a while, actually, a couple of weeks ago when you and I were on air together,

we were going to start the show by saying, I know there's a big game,

but John, can you please tell us about your week?

Because you had the worst week of travel ever.

And in the end, it was like we just didn't have time.

But if you could just tell us about your logistics? Yeah, lost bags, cancelled flight, missed flights, got robbed at the airport,

and buy some scumbag.

Literally robbed my wallet at security, and then I had to run back.

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