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get it selection box and Christmas get it of some of the best bits starting with Andy Rose,

chat with his old mate, not my mate Joe Marler about his time being mistaken for a hobo I get that

bit on the lion's tour enjoy. Pied, pied, pied, pied. Rugby pod. Let's line up a little bit maybe

with the New Zealand tour. How was the Lions tour for you? How great were the Kiwis? How much

did you hate it? How boring was it? Or like, did you have a good time? We'll tell me a little bit

more about your experience with the Lions and New Zealand. Yeah mate. Mate, yeah mate. New Zealand.

Tell me about it mate. 2017. I love a trip. I don't want to give away too many stories.

It's coming one. I need them lined up. You know what I mean?

Now we'll go with this one. We played the Hurricanes on the, was it a Tuesday night? Come on you should

remember. Yeah, it was a midweek mate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember it was Tuesday.

I didn't play no Saturday so I was a straight, I was a straight midweek veg. See if they wasn't

a week ago. And we'd had a few beers together and then a few more back at the hotel we stand at

and it got to about, say, one o'clock? After bed time. After bed time. It was late. We had a

late start the next day so that's fine. And I just, I remember being in the team and pretty

steaming, having facetimeed all the Quinn's coaches. Because I'd facetimeed the guy who was head of

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