Brian Moore: If you want to be brutal, pick the right players

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The first week of the 2020 Six Nations is in the history books and it was not one to remember for England and their head coach Eddie Jones.

This week, Brian Moore is joined in studio by former Scotland fly half Craig Chalmers to reflect on the opening weekend, including that loss for England in Paris.

Former England centre Mike Tindall joins the show and expresses his concerns for England's ageing squad after they were outplayed by a young and daring French side. There's also concerns over England's options at scrum half and number eight after Tom Curry failed to have the desired impact on the game after being moved there from openside flanker.

Next up for England is a trip to Murrayfield to take on Scotland who were one major Stuart Hogg error away from picking up a result away to Ireland. Finn Russell will once again miss out on the game as his spat with head coach Gregor Townsend continues, but Craig is confident that the Scots can upset the odds against their old rivals without Russell in the team.

It was a case of new coach, same result for Ireland who had 34 year old captain Johnny Sexton to thank for all 19 of their points against Scotland. Despite a pragmatic performance from the Irish, former Munster and Leinster back row Liam Toland is satisfied from what he saw in Andy Farrell's first game in charge. He joins the show to look ahead to Ireland's clash with Wales.

And finally Wales picked up a routine bonus point win at home to Italy, the former Ospreys head coach Sean Holley gives us his verdict on the game and what we can expect to see from Wayne Pivac's side in Dublin on Saturday.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.
0:25.1	The opening weekend of the 2026 Nations is now a matter of record and not one which
0:31.4	England or their head coach Eddie Jones will be particularly happy with our underthought.
0:37.4	Jones promised to be brutal and to bully his opponents up front,
0:41.1	but was made to eat his words by a young French side who were better in almost every department.
0:47.3	We'll get the thoughts of the former England centre Mike Tyndall
0:49.8	on what needs to change for England ahead of next week's game with Scotland.
0:54.8	As for Scotland, while they were left to rue missed opportunities against Ireland in Dublin,
0:59.6	notably, obviously, from Captain Stuart Hogg, who inexplicably simply dropped the ball over the line
1:06.4	when the game was finally balanced.
1:08.7	But they were positive for Gregor Towns inside.
1:11.8	Ireland got off to a winning start under the new coach Andy Farrell,
1:16.0	thanks to 19 points from the newly appointed Captain Johnny Sexton.
1:20.7	And despite claims that Scotland have played better rugby,
1:23.4	Farrell says he was very happy with the performance.
1:25.8	We'll speak to the former Munster and Lester back row,
1:29.3	Liam Tolland about what he made of Farrell's first game in charge.
1:34.1	Next up for Farrell and for Ireland is another home game,
1:36.7	but this time it's against the defending champions Wales
1:39.9	who cruised to victory over Italy in Cardiff.
1:43.8	English-born Nick Tompkins impressed on his debut
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