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The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

Brian Moore: If England carry on as they are then they will cause problems for any opposition

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

The Telegraph

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.5679 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The second round of the Six Nations has come and gone with England backing up a stellar performance in Ireland with a resounding victory over hapless France, the Welsh second string ground out a win away in Italy, whilst Scotland are yet again left to rue their missed opportunities against Ireland. Alongside Brian Moore to discuss it all is the former England and Lions fly half Rob Andrew.Brian and Rob discuss the way England were able to capitalise on French confusion to secure victory in half an hour at Twickenham saying that England showed how athletic they are across the pitch.Up to Scotland who blamed the referee on the day but really only had themselves to look to for not providing more of a competitive match for Ireland. Their flanker John Barclay joins to say it was a frustrating game but if they can get everyone fit again then they are a match for any side.As for the winning side, Ireland, former centre Paddy Wallace says the weight of expectation is causing problems for his old team and the loss to England may well have been a blessing in disguise. Wales are England's next opponents but the question mark over them is who to start at half back following an unconvincing performance by Dan Bigger over Italy. We ask former fly half James Hook for his thoughts on Wales' squad selections and how they can defeat England.We also speak with referee Nigel Owens on the laws pertaining to "advantage" and "penalty tries", plus a word with Maggie Alphonsi on the Women's Six Nations.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.

0:02.9

The Telegraph. Podcasts.

0:06.9

Hello, welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.

0:11.4

Second round of Six Nations games have taken place, and England backed up a stellar performance in Ireland with another one, at least the first half, against the hapless French,

0:22.3

the Welsh scraped a victory, albeit with a second team away in Italy and Scotland.

0:27.9

Well, they are ruing mischances, but blaming the referees, so that's okay.

0:32.3

Here to discuss all this with me is the former England and Lions Fly Half Rob Andrew.

0:36.9

Hello, Rob.

0:43.7

Hi, Brian. Well, Mick Cleary wrote about the England France game is not so much Le crunches le castroff Catastrof Catastrophe Catara was French for utter shambles

0:50.2

and frankly it was England starting off again at huge pace.

0:57.0

And when they play like that, I don't care who, they're playing.

1:00.7

The defensive side will have problems.

1:03.1

Yeah, I mean, brilliant again from England.

1:06.2

But we were talking before we came on.

1:08.6

What is going on with France in terms of the management?

1:12.0

And I mean, I know you're a Chelsea fan and we probably won't touch on that.

1:16.1

But you look at these teams and you look at selection and you look at plans and coaching.

1:21.1

And you don't need to go behind the scenes to see what's happening in training.

1:26.1

I've always said you just watch the team,

1:28.1

whether it's a cricket team and football team or rugby team,

1:30.2

watch the match, and that tells you everything you need to know

1:33.4

about what's going on behind the scenes.

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