England v South Africa special from Paris
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Charlie and Charles are joined in Paris by the Telegraph's Chief Sports writer Oliver Brown ahead of England's Rugby World Cup semi-final against South Africa.
They run through the England starting line-up, which features three changes to the side that beat Fiji in the quarter-final and discuss if head coach Steve Borthwick has nailed his selection ahead of the biggest game of his coaching career.
We hear also from the England head coach who is embracing the tag of underdog heading into Saturday's clash.
South Africa named an unchanged side for the first time this tournament. We look at their strengths and ask if they have any weaknesses to exploit.
We also hear from their head coach Jacques Nienabar, who outlines where he thinks England could hurt the defending champions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | The Telegraph. Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good evening, everybody, from a very wet, windy Paris. |
| 0:19.0 | We're delighted to be hosted for this podcast special in the Old Metro Bar by |
| 0:23.8 | Pastor, our good friend of the telegraph rugby podcast, Jean-Pierre. As we look ahead to South Africa |
| 0:29.9 | against England on Saturday night, delighted to be joined by Charlie Morgan. Hi Charlie. Hi, |
| 0:35.2 | I Colsey. Also here with Charles Richardson. |
| 0:38.3 | Hi, Colsey. |
| 0:39.4 | And a special guest, the Chief Sports writer |
| 0:41.4 | at the Daily Telegraph, Ollie. |
| 0:42.3 | Hi, Ollie. |
| 0:43.5 | Hi, Ben. |
| 0:44.9 | Ollie, how do you feel about England |
| 0:47.7 | going into this week? |
| 0:48.6 | It's quite an interesting vibe |
| 0:50.2 | around the team. |
| 0:51.9 | You were there at the press conference earlier. |
| 0:53.4 | What did you make of them |
| 0:54.5 | i don't feel especially confident uh i always feel there's a slight air of joylessness around |
| 1:02.8 | england but c bork wasn't wasn't giving a huge amount away but he seemed to think that there |
| 1:10.6 | were ways in which they could trouble away, but he seemed to think that there were ways in which they |
| 1:12.8 | could trouble South Africa. He seemed very effusive about Freddie Stewart and his composure |
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