The Telegraph Podcasts.

Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's full contact in association with the Telegraph.

I'm Brian Moore and alongside me in the studio

is former Queens and London Irish lock, George Robson. We'll be hearing from Scolk Brits, Mark

Coato, James Downey and Craig Murdoch to go over the week's rugby union and rugby league action,

plus we'll be answering your questions. On with the show.

George, the table, even though there's only a couple of games gone, has a familiar ring to it,

apart from the fact that Newcastle are sitting number two.

Now, they won their second game and away win at Sail Sharks, 13 points to 12.

You were at Queens when Dean Richards was there,

and therefore you know the man very well.

I know him from playing days.

I'm not as familiar with his coaching techniques,

but... You're probably far less afraid of him than I was

when he was in charge at Queens.

Well, certainly, but I wanted to ask you, you know, he was a successful coach with the Tigers.

He was responsible for setting in motion the game that Quinn's successfully started, the

offload game, quite against what his character seems to be, you know, was when he played,

and yet he's now fashioning another decent fist of it at Newcastle. So tell us about the man, as you know him as a

coach. Well, I think what Dean's, one of Dean's biggest strengths is realizing what he wants to achieve with the signings that he makes.

So at Quincy, he looks at the guys he had, he realized he needed to bring a bit more ballast

in the pack, guys like Olly Cone, some big heavy blokes, Mike Ross, who then ended up playing

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