The Telegraph Podcasts

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

I'm Brian Moore and over the course of the podcast,

we'll be going around the British and Irish Isles,

as we speak to Scott Hastings, Richard Himbert, and Gordon Darcy.

Plus Craig Murdoch updates us on the Rugby League World Cup,

which has got to the semi-final stages,

and commentator Nick Heath tells us how England's women are getting on.

The first time I'm joined here in the studio by the Telegraphs Rugby News correspondent Gavin Mears.

Gavin, how are you?

Very well, Brian. Thank you.

Good man.

The weekend was a filthy day at Twickenham.

We will spend a little bit of time talking about the other home countries, but we've got guests from each of them so

let's let's just have a look very briefly Scotland near I mean people have been saying

about Scotland it was a great performance it was in parts and they were saying we can

lose the plucky underdog mode well we're still lost. Yeah. But, you know, the tries were good.

Kieran Reed should have been sent to the sin bin for a cynical tackle, well, a cynical slap down when he was on the floor.

And New Zealand are the world champions.

So how much credit did they take from it?

I think quite a bit Brian as you say

they did still ultimately lose the game

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