Brian Moore: This is the trickiest 6 Nations to call

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🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week saw the culmination of the group stages in Europe leaving three Irish, two French, two Scottish, and one English team left to fight it out for the Champions Cup. Here to discuss that and the upcoming 6 Nations tournament with Brian Moore is the former England, Saracens, and Leicester hooker, George Chuter.Brian and George debate the big question following the weekend's results, are the English clubs as interested in Europe in the same way as the French and Celtic clubs? Before delving into why Exeter should have taken kicks at goal instead of going for tries against Munster, and what George thinks of Leicester's current state of affairs.For an Irish perspective on the Champions Cup we speak with former Ireland, Leinster, and Munster centre James Downey on how you beat Leinster, whether Munster can defeat Edinburgh at Murrayfield, and why he thinks Ireland will win the Grand Slam again this year.With Eddie Jones announcing his initial 6 Nations squad last week, we discuss whether it is the best possible squad and who could replace Owen Farrell at fly-half and as leader if needed. Plus Nathan Middleton brings us up to date with the Premier 15s and previews the Red Roses' 6 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 Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's for contact with the Telegraph.
0:11.0	This week saw the culmination of the group stages in Europe leaving three Irish, two French, two Scottish and one English team left to fight it out for Champions Cup.
0:21.8	Here to discuss it all with me and no doubt England and the Six Nations is the former
0:26.8	England, Saracens and Lester Hooker, George Schueter. How are you, George?
0:30.2	Good evening, Moor, very well, thank you.
0:31.9	Well, quarter finals are now set in case you didn't know.
0:34.4	It's Saracens v. Glasgow.
0:36.3	Edinburgh versus Munster,
0:38.3	Lensster versus Ulster and Rassing versus Toulouse.
0:41.3	So the semi-finals will see at least one Irish team and one French team,
0:45.9	only one English team, Saracens.
0:49.4	They were the best performing team of the group stage,
0:52.6	but that's all relative to the other clubs.
0:56.6	George, to a certain extent, this is cyclical, but some people have said that the English
1:02.5	clubs are not as interested as other clubs in the Champions Cup in the same way, possibly
1:10.4	the French and certainly the Celts are.
1:12.7	I disagree with that, to be honest, more. I think the English clubs are very ambitious in the
1:17.6	European Cup. I think just at the time, at the moment, they're not very good, simple as that.
1:22.7	I think if you look at the Premiership, you can look at Exeter and Saracens as the two best
1:27.2	teams by a country mile. And then below that, you can look at Exeter and Saracens as the two best teams by
1:27.8	a country mile. And then below that, you've got, I know, maybe even 10 teams. The remaining
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