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The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

Brian Moore: Leicester and Bath should be worried about relegation

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

The Telegraph

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.5679 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It's back to domestic rugby action this week and the Premiership table is looking very compact - apart from the top two of course - which means we're set for an interesting relegation battle. Joining Brian Moore to discuss all this and more is the Telegraph's Gavin Mairs.As Leicester "embarrass" themselves according to Geordan Murphy, we get the thoughts of club legend George Chuter on what needs fixing at Tigers with George saying the club needs a shake up from top to bottom.We discuss the woeful match at The Rec with James Simpson-Daniel who enlightens us on Bath's equally woeful missed tackle stats and on his old side's Gloucester's chances of making the top four.As for the PRO14 we speak with Leinster's Scott Fardy after their thrashing of Dragons and how they're getting ready for the European games against Bath.Plus we have a full review of the Premier 15s with Gloucester-Hartpury coach Susie Appleby. Show NotesIf you want to see Scott's video then follow this linkSee 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

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0:09.0

Hello and welcome to Bymode Full Contact with the Telegraph and Robbie Martin.

0:16.0

Well, it's back to domestic rugby this week after a thrilling international break.

0:21.2

And this week I'm joined in the studio.

0:23.8

He's back from Monaco.

0:25.1

It's Gavin Mayors of the Telegraph.

0:27.9

Gavin, how are you?

0:28.5

Are you considerably richer or poorer?

0:30.6

Yes, probably richer of mind, purer of finances.

0:35.4

You've found some culture in Monaco because I've never, never found any better.

0:39.3

Just just good company, you know, good rugby people, Brian, you know, the finest were all

0:44.3

there, including me.

0:45.4

So, yeah, good fun, good fun.

0:47.6

Well, England players straight back to it.

0:50.0

We've got a table here, courtesy of the telegrafts Charlie Charlie Morgan and out of 23 international players only six didn't feature

0:58.8

yes just shows you in in the constant narrative of player welfare

1:04.0

Brian we see that we well we we we contrast Lentzer's decision to rest all their

1:10.1

international players for most of the England boys.

1:12.4

It was straight back to the Premiership and ahead of two tough weeks of Europe as well.

1:17.5

So you're making your point in the telegraph in your column today that raises that point.

1:22.6

It's just a real difficult decision for a director of rugby of a club who hasn't seen his players for four or five weeks.

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