Episode 21 - England Roll France, Italy Rise in Rome & The Irish Machine Runs over Scotland

The Rugby Pod

The Ringer

Rugby, Comedy, Sports

4.8 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The lads are on great form after a cracking weekend of Six Nations ruggers. They were at Allianz stadium for England v France, so they chat about the electric atmosphere and break down an England win in the context of the tournament, but also in terms of the Borthwick and Itoje eras — we also look at whether Finn Smith has cemented himself as the 10 over Marcus. We cover Ireland's impressive performance in Scotland as Prendergast continues his march as Sexton's successor. Jim gives his take on what it means for Scotland going into a huge game against England. Meanwhile, Italy’s well-managed win over Wales shows a new maturity, but also surely spells the end for Gatland. Plus, Joe Schmidt’s exit from Australia leads to speculation and some big names putting their names forward for the Wallabies gig. Don’t miss our legends lunch at Brigadiers in London this Saturday, tickets for this and our next live shows in Cardiff and Plymouth are on our website! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the rugby pod for another week of chat.
0:12.5	We've got one very happy Englishman, James.
0:14.8	One very happy Englishman here.
0:17.1	Well, we've got one unhappy Englishman as well.
0:20.6	Who's that? Oh, you've got one unhappy Englishman as well. Who's that? It's made. Oh, you've got English
0:23.0	now, you mean? But we also have a happy Newcastle fan after they had a hell of a win against
0:30.5	the Mighty Caldy on the same day that Scotland were playing Ireland. Hell of a game. Yeah, it's been a week
0:35.9	of trains, planes, automobsk, covskins, live shows,
0:40.2	work with Alians at Twicken and we've been all over the place.
0:42.8	We've loved our ruggers. In England,
0:44.5	we're going to win the Six Nations now.
0:46.3	It's been great.
0:47.2	So settle back, enjoy, and make sure you subscribed on Spotify.
0:51.7	Spotify.
0:53.7	Six opinionated Brits with very different views on immigration,
0:57.4	experience parts of refugee routes to Britain.
0:59.9	We don't get that in South Yorkshire.
1:01.3	Will the ordeal change their minds?
1:03.1	Oh my God, what is this?
1:04.8	Syria is scary.
1:06.0	I don't know what we're going to do.
1:07.6	This is horrible.
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