Ben Ryan: Marcus Smith should go to the World Cup, not George Ford.

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Six weeks have been and gone in the domestic game and the Premiership and PRO14 tables are starting to take shape. In the studio with Brian Moore this week is two time World Champion and Olympic Games Gold medal winning coach, Ben Ryan.Brian and Ben discuss the big talking points in the Premiership, and get stuck into who should and shouldn't be on the plane to Japan for England next year - with Ben standing by his belief that England will not win the World Cup with George Ford at fly half.We speak with Dragons Head Coach Bernard Jackman about his side's start to the season and how he prepares for a European fixture.European Professional Club Rugby Chairman Simon Halliday brings us up to date with how the Champions and Challenge Cups are shaping up for the future.Plus stick around to the end to hear referee Nigel Owens and Ben Ryan debate judo rolling at the breakdown.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph.
0:03.1	The Telegraph. Podcasts.
0:12.3	Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's fault contact with the Telegraph and Remy Martan.
0:17.9	Coming up, we'll be speaking with the Dragons Coach.
0:20.7	Bernard Jackman, the EPCR chairman, Simon Holliday,
0:24.1	and Nigel Owens returns to the podcast too.
0:27.1	The first time joined this week by the two-time world champion
0:30.3	and Olympic Games gold medal winning coach, Ben Ryan.
0:34.3	It sounds good, doesn't it, Ben?
0:35.4	It does, yeah.
0:36.1	Sounds a long time ago as well.
0:42.2	What are you up to at the moment a number of things really like in and out of rugby I'm I work for the French Federation which is good fun and they good look yeah just well they got me
0:47.1	I'm in three mornings a week now at the embassy learning French it's I enjoy it it's good
0:52.1	and then I'm building up my consultancy, so a ton of different
0:54.9	things. How have you found it when they get to that level? Because I've always had a theory that
0:58.9	relatively sane coaches at club level, like Philippe Santandre and Berda de la Port, when they get
1:05.9	to national level, they seem to go completely haywire. It's different. Every union's different, right?
1:11.3	You know, and I'm enjoying spending time with them in Paris and Mockercy and going to the top 14 clubs.
1:17.3	And they've got this golden generation that won the under 20s World Cup,
1:20.8	that won the Youth Olympics that are playing this week and the Youth Olympics again.
1:24.8	And they've got 2023 World Cup and 2024 Paris Olympics. So it's kind of, I mean,
1:29.9	it's aligned pretty well for them in the next few years and it's theirs really to stuff up, which
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