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The Rugby Pod

Episode 18 - Always Edinburgh's Mike Blair & Zach Mercer

The Rugby Pod

The Ringer

Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.7 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week the lads are joined by Montpellier back-row Zach Mercer after his side's impressive victory over Exeter last weekend. He fills us in on his positive conversations with Eddie Jones and addresses the transfer rumors surrounding his possible return to the premiership. We also catch up with Edinburgh head coach Mike Blair and look ahead to Scotland's Six Nations opener and Calcutta Cup clash against England. We of course run through all the weekend's Champions Cup Fixtures and take a closer look at Eddie Jones' England Squad and the news of George Ford's call up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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a breath.

1:24.7

Yeah, I know. We've already gone through it, but I'll tell you again. Let me ask

1:28.1

how I've had on the plane.

1:32.1

Yeah, that's where we go back to again. I've not seen any ruggers, like I just mentioned,

1:39.1

because I promised back on the last two days of holiday, because the screen time was up

1:44.6

four or five hours, and justifiably I was on the news. I just educated myself at the

1:49.7

old time, educating Rita, but I didn't catch any ruggers. Like one, we mentioned being

1:54.3

geoblock last week, because I was fluking it a little bit. Obviously someone's blocked

1:58.3

me. I don't know how. I don't know how Siri works and all that, where you're on holiday

2:01.2

and Dubai. Obviously the laws and the rules and stuff are very strong, as you know, Andrew.

2:05.9

Because you're an influencer. Well, I'm an influencer, but I don't want to get me arm chopped

2:09.2

off or anything for geoblock, and so I don't want to push it anymore. So I haven't seen

2:12.8

a lot of ruggers. I've seen a couple of headlines since a bit ago, and we're seeing that

2:15.7

Ford is back in England team, where he should be.

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