The Telegraph Podcasts

Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's full contact in association with a telegraph.

I'm Brian Moore and this week we have a special episode.

Later, you'll be hearing from when I sat down with former Lions

and Scotland Lock Doddy Weir to discuss his life, his career

and his battle against motor neurone disease.

But before we get into that, I'm joined in the studio by the Telegraph's rugby reporter Ben

calls. Ben, how are you? Very well, Brian. How are you doing? Not too bad. Up and coming

internationals, the autumn's, you can only read so much into them, but what do you think should

be England's realistic aim out of their set of fixtures?

I think they would be incredibly frustrated if they didn't win all three and by significant

margins as well. It's almost a bit of a shame that they're facing Argentina and Australia

again, having had so many runs at them in the last few, the last couple of years and the Samoa game represents

a chance to experiment.

It looks like a fixture that should be three wins and there is that disappointment that

they're not facing the all blacks and possibly even South Africa as well.

Now they're starting to gradually turn things around under Alistair Cus here.

So yeah, a clean sweep, anything but that would be hugely disappointing, I think.

I think from my point of view, it isn't just that.

It's a fact that we need to see what I thought was quite a flattening out of their form actually from the rise that happened with Eddie

John straight away continued a bit I thought they flattened out a bit I thought

Argentina away was significant for the younger players the more inexperienced

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