Bath: Now Vs Then

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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Sports, Rugby

4.4 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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With Bath chasing a historic double and a Champions Cup semi-final looming in Bordeaux, Tins is joined by two proper club legends, and his former flatmates: Matt Perry and Lee Mears. Bath Now: The Finn Russell era, a world-class academy at Farleigh House, 9,000 fans watching Bath University games, and a squad that has traded "hope" for "belief." Bath Then: From Matt Perry earning £1.80 an hour in a tea room to the training-ground fights at Lambridge that led Bath to '98 European Glory. Plus Lions Tales and why Paul O'Connell begged the 2009 squad to "sacrifice professionalism" to become friends. 00:00 🛞 Season 6 is sponsored by Continental Tyres 01:15 🏆 Bath Legends and Hall of Fame 03:35 🥫 Living With Tins 09:08 🫖Perry Pathway to Pro 18:50 🥊 Training Fights and Culture 22:44 🍷 1998 Bordeaux Glory 28:05 🏉 Bath Today Semi Final Preview 35:08 📉 Why Trophies Dried Up 40:46 🃏 Card School 45:55 🦁 Lions Tour 2001 Lessons 48:28 ❤️ Lions Tour 2009 Culture 50:57 🤔 Should Lions Change? 01:09:12 💪 Grip Strength Challenge 📗The Good, The Bad & The Rugby: Unloaded are now available: https://lnk.to/GBRUnlocked/waterstones Welcome to The Good, The Bad & The Rugby with journalist and former broadcaster Alex Payne, England and Lions flanker James Haskell, and World Cup Winner Mike Tindall. #Rugby #Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the one where you went to the World Cup leaving his front door open. Yes. For two, three months. Who really put you through your post? Jerry, yeah, without a shout over that. Jerry led everything. What do you remember of the run of becoming the first English club to win in Europe? Seeing the bar fans, seeing how much it meant to them, that they'd raised the biggest trophy was very special. There's no better time to beat Bordeaux.
0:21.6	You're playing the gates the best.
0:23.6	It would be wonderful.
0:24.6	A new fresh name back in a final of Europe.
0:27.6	Just Russell versus Chalabar.
0:29.6	Now's the right time.
0:31.6	Oh, I said the juices are flowing.
0:33.6	How's your back?
0:34.6	Alex Payne trying to keep the sight going forward.
0:39.8	Haskell takes it on now with just relentless chat.
0:42.6	And there's Tyndall to add the finishing touch of glamour and World Cup winning stories,
0:47.0	a dominant display by the good, the bad and the rugby.
0:50.8	Hello Dream Team.
0:51.7	Welcome along to this week's episode of the Good, the Bad and the Rugby proudly sponsored, as always, by our fantastic partners at Continental Tires. Continental Tires are the official tire partner of England Rugby. Engineered for victory, their award-winning tires are built to perform no matter the conditions. So get yourself involved. Drop us a like and a comment and make sure you're subscribed wherever you get your podcasts.
1:13.1	It's not bad, is he?
1:14.2	Very good.
1:14.7	Not bad.
1:15.9	Today we are diving into all things bath.
1:18.5	We have got two proper Bath legends with Lee Mears and Matt Perry, England internationals,
1:24.0	Lions Test Players and crucially two men who have a story or two about our own Mike Tyndall
1:28.7	before 2003 changed his life forever and then we're going to fast forward a little bit to
1:33.3	Bath as they are today, a club back where it belongs, chasing Silverware, a Champions
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