Brian Moore: Winning rugby is more important than entertaining rugby
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The inaugural Autumn Nations Cup is done and dusted and it's congratulations to England who saw off France in the final after extra time.
Joining Brian in the studio to reflect on Sunday's win and England's year overall is the World Rugby Hall of Fame member, Maggie Alphonshi. They discuss more criticism aimed at England over their style of play and try to find the line between entertaining fans and ensuring you win your games.
Ireland finished in third place after an impressive win over Scotland in Dublin, former scrum half Eoin Reddan joins the show to discuss how their first year under new head coach Andy Farrell has been perceived from the Irish public and whether there is an over reliance on 35 year old skipper Johnny Sexton.
We also assess what impact both Wales and Scotland could have on next years Six Nations, in particular the Welsh, who had a year to forget.
Plus we tackle all your questions and look at some of the amazing work done by volunteers at grassroots level during the turbulent last 6 months.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Full contact. |
| 0:09.0 | In association with Mitsubishi Motors. |
| 0:34.1 | England needed a last minute try and extra time to see off an inexperienced French side at Twickenham on Sunday, |
| 0:40.7 | and they lifted the inaugural Autumn Nations Cup. |
| 0:43.9 | Despite this being the second trophy of the year, head coach Eddie Jones says, |
| 0:48.5 | we are still to see the best of his side, and he's calling them to embrace the pressure of being favourites |
| 0:53.4 | as he switches focus |
| 0:54.9 | onto the Six Nations next year. We'll be discussing England's successful year and looking |
| 1:00.4 | at how the squad is looking ahead of the 20-21 Six Nations. Elsewhere, Ireland ended their |
| 1:06.3 | first year under Andy Farrell with a comfortable win over Scotland in Dublin. Farrell described Ireland's campaign afterwards as work in progress |
| 1:13.3 | and we'll be speaking with the former Ireland strum half, Owen Redding, |
| 1:17.2 | to get his take on Farrell's first year in charge |
| 1:19.4 | and what needs to be done to bridge the gap between England, |
| 1:22.6 | well, and France actually, ahead of the Six Nations. |
| 1:25.2 | We'll also assess the impact both Scotland and Wales could have on that tournament. |
| 1:29.4 | The Welsh head coach Wayne Pevac insists to decide our heading in the right direction |
| 1:33.3 | after what's frankly been a bit of a year to forget for Welsh rugby. |
| 1:37.2 | And we'll be taking a closer look at some of the work being done at grassroots level |
| 1:40.6 | during the last seven months as parts of the Misabushi volunteer recognition program. |
| 1:46.8 | Alongside me today, Maggie Alfonci. Hello Maggie. Hello Brian. How are you? I'm all right. |
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