Episode 33 - Saints Slay Leinster in Epic & Lions Implications

The Rugby Pod

The Ringer

Rugby, Comedy, Sports

4.8 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is packed after a seismic weekend in the Champions Cup. Jim’s got some apologies to make as Northampton Saints pulled off the unthinkable in Dublin, knocking out Leinster in their own backyard. We have Bigs on to break down exactly how his former club did it, where Leinster got it wrong, and what it means for the upcoming Lions squad announcement. Plus, we’ve got all the fallout from Jordie Barrett’s bench role, Caelan Doris injury whispers, Fin Smith and Polock’s meteoric rise, and some listener questions, including who from Lions history we’d bring back for 2025 and whether 100 Jim Hamilton could actually take down a gorilla. We also dive into Bath’s win over Edinburgh to reach their first European final in over a decade, Bordeaux’s breakout moment as they dismantled Toulouse and how the final might play out against Saints. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod, pod, pod.
0:01.1	Rugby pod.
0:07.7	Good afternoon, gentlemen, our gentlemen, but the ladies that are listening as well.
0:12.6	We're a day late.
0:13.4	Apologies for that.
0:14.2	It's been a bank holiday.
0:15.4	The 400th one this month.
0:18.1	I'm not complaining, though.
0:20.2	Everyone else's, aren't they, Roberto? But with a hell
0:22.8	of a weekend, aren't we, Andrew, and a weekend where I have been made to eat my words, I've been
0:27.9	humbled as well. And off the back of that, I've got two massive apologies on this show.
0:33.9	Really? Yeah, I have, yeah. Yeah, we're getting to it. Two apologies. Okay, okay.
0:38.1	Well, you have a little faith, Jim.
0:40.1	The mighty, mighty Shoe Army Northampton Saits defied the odds,
0:44.8	travelled over to Dublin and did an absolute job over what Rob wants me to say.
0:50.6	And I'm putting that caveat in at the The Kings of Choking in Final Footy.
0:55.0	You can't put that in there, Andrew,
0:56.5	off the back of our Friday night in Dublin
0:58.2	where we went down very well.
0:59.8	I'm just saying Rob said that.
1:01.0	He wasn't allowed to go,
1:02.3	so he's a little bit,
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