England's Irish showdown with Will Carling
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Charlie and Charles look ahead to the penultimate round of the Six Nations and in particular England's showdown with Ireland at Twickenham.
Former England captain Will Carling joins us to offer us his thoughts on England, arguing a 'data straitjacket' is holding them back while revealing he had to argue with Eddie Jones to get current captain Jamie George into the leadership group back when he was a team mentor.
The big selection question mark this week surrounds fly-half with Marcus Smith back in contention. Should he be fast-tracked into the starting line-up, or is George Ford or Fin Smith the better option? The guys make cases for each of the three starting on Saturday.
Plus, we ask if Wales can turn their good performances into a win against struggling France this weekend, and whether Italy can replicate their heroics from round three when they host Scotland in Rome.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks, we're back in the studio. |
| 0:09.9 | I hope all of you are well rested following your respective fellow weeks and that you're |
| 0:13.9 | ready to digest another busy week of Sixth Nations action. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Ben Coles. |
| 0:18.5 | He's Charlie Morgan. |
| 0:19.7 | Colesie. |
| 0:20.3 | He's Charles Richardson. |
| 0:21.5 | Hello. |
| 0:22.1 | How are you, Falaw weeks? |
| 0:23.0 | What did you do, Charlie? |
| 0:24.3 | Downtime. |
| 0:24.8 | Hard downtime, family time. |
| 0:26.9 | Only rugby I watch was Celestino |
| 0:28.9 | Ravutamada. |
| 0:30.6 | Wow. |
| 0:31.3 | That's how he pronounced his name. |
| 0:33.2 | Carving for Fiji and Drew or even though they lost. |
| 0:35.7 | Ask Charles. |
| 0:36.3 | He'll tell me. Well, yeah, the backstory to that is that Charles thought he was terrible |
| 0:39.7 | during that warm-up game between England and Fijian, |
| 0:42.0 | he carved up in that game as well. |
| 0:43.2 | He was terrible for the first 15 minutes, |
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