Definitely a blast from the past
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4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Salter is joined by Alex Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies and James Hook to discuss Nigel Davies returning to the Scarlets, Dan Edwards re-signing for the Ospreys, and they look ahead to this weekend's European fixtures with all four Welsh regions in action.
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| 0:58.0 | Well, we have two teams already qualified for the knockout stages of European rugby and two are the chance to do so this weekend. |
| 0:59.5 | Dan Edwards is staying. |
| 1:08.1 | Nigel Davis is returning and huge news on the international front as All Black's head coach, Scott Robertson, is departing. |
| 1:11.8 | So joining me to discuss all that this week, John Davis, Alex Cuthbert and James Hook. How are we, gentleman? Very well. All good. And Dan Edwards, |
| 1:16.8 | not the only man putting pen to paper this week, Alex Cuthbert. Congratulations. Congratulations |
| 1:23.3 | on the new job. Tell us about it. Yeah, good. Yeah. It's quite nice to find to come out. Yeah, I've started with managed support, IT, sort of cyber security, AI company. So we've gone into a lot of businesses. So it's very new, very different. I'll tell you what, it's a lot. I say it's probably actually easier than talking about what it should be. But no, it's been good fun something different um to get my teeth stuck into really a regional business development director director yeah yeah my wife |
| 1:51.3 | took uh mickey about me saying fair play i don't know how you got our first role uh yeah no i've been |
| 1:56.5 | enjoying it uh marteckinson from gloucester, he fronts the side from England. So, yeah, still |
| 2:01.8 | quite a better rugby relation within it. So it's good, good fun. Well, you're not the only new |
| 2:06.1 | director that's been appointed this week, and that's where we're going to start with the interim |
| 2:10.2 | director of rugby, Nigel Davis, returning to the Scarlets, a team he previously coached between |
| 2:15.9 | 2008 and 2012. |
| 2:19.3 | And this sees a real restructure in their rugby department. |
| 2:23.1 | Lee Jones was a performance director. |
| 2:25.9 | He's left after just one year. |
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