Booed but not beaten, England win the Calcutta Cup
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Charlie and Charles reflect on round three of the Six Nations where England saw off Scotland by a single point to win the Calcutta Cup!
Despite the win, there was a chorus of boos from the home crowd, who were voicing their discontent at England's style of play and overall performance. We discuss if the criticism of England's win is fair, or if fans should be a little more realistic with their expectations given England's recent form against Scotland.
Elsewhere there's praise for Wales who pushed favourites Ireland all the way in Cardiff in Matt Sherratt's first game in charge, and France bounced back from their England defeat by putting eleven tries past a hapless Italy
Plus we tackle your questions as always, including England's options at scrum half, Scotland's grievance's with the referee, and an impressive outing for England A against Ireland A.
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| 0:30.6 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the latest episode of the Telegraph Rugby podcast. Another weekend of the Six Nations is in the books. |
| 0:38.8 | England to have the Calcutta Cup back. Wales have life, I think. And France were just mean on, |
| 0:44.7 | mean on Sunday against Italy. It was like bullying. It was awful to watch. I'm Ben Coles, |
| 0:49.8 | Telegraphs rugby reporter. I've got Charlie Morgan with me. Hi, Charlie. Hello, Colson. |
| 0:53.5 | I've got Charles Richardson with me. Hi, Charlie. Hello, Carlson. I've got Charles |
| 0:54.1 | Richardson with me. Hi, Charles. Hello, hello, hello. Let's get straight into your highlights of the |
| 0:59.3 | weekend, because I know where you were. We were all at Twickenham and we were all, we were all kind of dotted |
| 1:03.4 | along a line. You know what we did last weekend? I do, yeah, I saw you working hard, Charles. Straight into highlights of the weekend, I think. |
| 1:11.8 | Charlie, what did you like from the third round of the Six Nations? |
| 1:15.6 | Well, I like loads of things, but I'm going to go with a Friday night, Rodney Parade, Wales under 20, |
| 1:20.7 | dogging out the most dogged of wins over Ireland under 20, the 1 20 points to 12, and just tackled themselves to a standstill. |
| 1:28.8 | What was the tackle count? |
| 1:34.3 | I saw something mad. I think they had something like the top 12 tacklers in the game led by Harry Bedell who got 34, I want to say, which was about eight or nine more than anybody else in the game. |
| 1:42.1 | Yeah, just remarkable and just actually maybe set a tone of optimism. |
| 1:48.0 | There was a lot of sort of on social media sort of surfing that a little bit afterwards. |
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