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The Rugby Pod

Episode 31 - Inaugural Isolation Pod

The Rugby Pod

The Ringer

Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

We're all locked down and coming to you via the wonders of video calling, complete with Jim's kids making an appearance in the background! Premiership Rugby CEO Darren Childs joins us to discuss what the likelihood is that the season will be completed and tells us they want to be first to get back up and running whenever possible. We also discuss the 25% pay cuts being imposed by many clubs across the league and have some juicy rumours and a bit of a laugh as well...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Pied, pied, pied, pied, pied.

0:01.0

Rookie Pods.

0:02.0

Hello and welcome along to the Rookie Pod brought to you as usual by our good friends at Guinness.

0:10.9

A big thanks to Guinness and all their support throughout the whole season.

0:15.3

We're back but we're not quite back in the same way as usual.

0:18.2

Not in studio together but Jim and Goody are with us via the wonders of video calling.

0:23.6

So talk us through, Lads.

0:25.0

Where are you?

0:26.0

And what's going on Goody?

0:27.1

I'm in my office, you can see my dartboard behind.

0:30.4

Working from home in the FX job so I got my desk set up and I need to get a bigger bin

0:36.3

really because it's tough.

0:37.8

Working from home, you know, you've got your laptop, you try and do a few jobs and you obviously

0:42.5

need some pick me up throughout the day, don't you?

0:44.6

Put a chocolate here or there?

0:46.1

The odd Coke Zero Cherry, there's the odd kind of Guinness, there's the odd 12 bar, star

0:50.7

bar, you know, any cabbri's chocolate really and the misses keep fine, keeps fine and all

0:55.5

the wrappers in the bin.

0:56.5

So it just looks at me and says what you're doing, you can't go to the gym, I celebrated

0:59.7

when Boris closed the gyms.

1:01.5

So I've been out walking, playing with the kids in the garden, playing a bit of golf,

1:05.5

but I stay in contact with my good friend James Hamilton every day, don't I Jim?

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