Can Dyson's dosh build a dynasty at Bath?
The Ruck
Reynolds Alfie
3.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Sir James Dyson has become a 50% shareholder at Bath, so what does that mean for the club and for English domestic rugby?
Will it cement the clubs place at the top of the PREM for years to come? And it will it encourage further investment into the league?
Alfie Reynolds is joined by Alex Lowe, Charlie Morgan and Will Kelleher to answer all those questions and chat about the return of the Prem. With Saracens' defeat is it now 5 teams vying for a spot in the top 4? Why are Harlequins lacking such an identity? And, was Chris Boyd at The Stoop having started in his new role with Gloucester? 'Detective Charlie' has the answer.
Plus, Will interviews Gloucester and England centre Seb Atkinson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:19.6 | The Gallagher Prem is back. It's Monday and we are back in studio. We're not recording this from the cobbled streets of Rome or from a cafe in Paris in the sunshine after Super Saturday. We're back in studio, but what a pleasure. Alongside me, once again, is Will Kellogglerot. Hello, how's it going? Very good, thank you, Will. Alex Lowe as well. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello. |
| 0:38.4 | And Charlie Morgan. |
| 0:39.7 | Hi, pal. How are we chaps? No six nations, but no rest weeks here, no mandatory stand-down period for any of us. We all did a game. We all did a game. I was at Bath. You were at Queens, Alex? Yeah. Charlie was at Tigers. that sounds like that sounds like |
| 0:53.3 | yeah |
| 0:53.4 | it was dreadful |
| 0:54.6 | was what comes |
| 0:56.3 | I had a moment in the game |
| 0:57.8 | where I was like, is this dreadful because last week I was watching one of the great test matches or is it actually dreadful? |
| 1:05.6 | And no, it was actually dreadful. |
| 1:07.1 | What was the point? Can we ask what the point was? Because Brian O'Driskel's, I'm not sure they're good enough for professional rugby, paraphrasing |
| 1:14.1 | slightly, is about as damning as... |
| 1:16.5 | It was first half. |
| 1:18.3 | I mean, there was a couple of moments, like, about three minutes in. |
| 1:22.1 | Wow. |
| 1:23.2 | Three minutes in, where Sue Townsend throws a pass to Marcus Smith |
| 1:28.1 | who isn't looking and it bounces off his chest |
| 1:30.5 | knock on, gloss the score, try off the back of it |
| 1:33.7 | and you're like, that didn't happen last week. |
| 1:36.2 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 1:36.7 | That was, and there were incidents like that |
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