England should be feared after outsmarting All Blacks
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
England now have 10 consecutive wins under Steve Borthwick after beating the All Blacks at Twickenham!
Join Alan, Gavin, Charlie and Charles for all the fallout to Saturday's win, which was arguably the finest since Borthwick took charge.
There is high praise for George Ford after he delivered a player of the match performance. We discuss what he offers this England side and if he is the undoubted first choice at number 10 for the foreseeable future.
Away from England, it was a weekend to forget for Scotland. They threw away a 21-point lead at home to Argentina and were booed off by their own fans. Has Gregor Townsend taken them as far as he can?
We also take a look at the rest of the weekend's action including a return to form for Ireland ahead of their clash with the Springboks and a first win for Steve Tandy since taking charge of Wales.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
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| 0:46.6 | Hello and welcome back to the Telegraph Rugby podcast. |
| 0:47.9 | My name is Alan Dimmick. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm commissioning editor for sport here at the Tell. |
| 0:56.5 | And we're talking about a jam-packed weekend, triumph, disaster. We'll even be talking about transport in a bit and that'll become clear. However, need plenty to get into |
| 1:01.2 | England. Defeated the All-Blacks and I suspect that that'll be a large part of what we end up |
| 1:06.5 | talking about today. At least if I have anything to do with it, there was also a small matter |
| 1:10.2 | of a Scotland game to get through. There was a victory for Wales, Ireland keep marching on, |
| 1:16.3 | France, Fiji. That was a hell of a lot of fun. Anyway, let's start off by introducing Gavin |
| 1:21.6 | Mayors and Charlie Morgan and Gav. Just your quickest hot take off the weekend. What was it like |
| 1:26.7 | for you? |
| 1:32.9 | Well, England, we talked last week about them trying to get their big scalp and they got it. |
| 1:36.0 | And they got it in a really impressive fashion. |
| 1:43.6 | And, you know, I think it was a cracking weekend of Test Rugby, Springboks winning again with 14 men. |
| 1:45.4 | That seems to be all they need at the minute. |
| 1:53.5 | We've got nail biter in Cardiff. We maybe not mention the Scotland game just yet. |
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