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The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

Episode 38: Martyn Williams, Alex Corbisiero, James Downey, Amber Reed and Mick Cleary

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

The Telegraph

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.5 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Martyn Williams joins Brian Moore in the studio this week to look back at an excellent weekend of European rugby action.Alex Corbisiero tells us what's gone wrong with Northampton Saints recently, and how the game is going down across the Pond.Ireland's James Downey analyses the provincial sides and which team he expects to see progress. As always, we look back at the Premier 15s and England's Amber Reed goes through the results of round 10.Plus Mick Cleary unpicks Saracens humiliation to Clermont Auvergne at Allianz Park.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

The Telegraph Podcasts.

0:07.0

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

0:19.0

I'm Brian Moore and joining me on the show today are the

0:22.5

former England prop Alex Corbusierro, former Ireland Centre James Downey and England Centre Amber

0:28.9

Reid. Plus we'll have the Telegraph's Mick Cleary who will join us later from Allian's Park.

0:34.1

But first I'm joined here in the studio by the former Wales flanker, Martin Williams.

0:38.3

Martin, how are you?

0:39.3

I'm good, moral. Good to be you.

0:40.3

As we speak, the Saracens are playing.

0:44.3

The three tries to one down at the moment, so we'll keep an eye on that.

0:48.3

But first of all, do you look forward to European rugby weekends?

0:53.3

Look, for me, me you know as a player

0:55.8

they were they were the highlight of the calendar really

0:58.4

you know obviously apart from the internationals club wise

1:01.5

you know you look forward in the summer

1:03.2

what groups you're droning and then when they come along

1:05.9

particularly I used to really enjoy

1:07.2

some people don't like these back-to-back weekends

1:10.0

where you play the same team twice but I think as a player and as a fan, they're just, they're so intriguing, you know,

1:16.2

how we've seen over so many years how one week a side gets blown away and then six, you know,

1:22.0

five, six, seven days later they turn things around. So it's a brilliant competition,

1:26.7

a different format of the last couple of years, but still I think it's a brilliant competition, a different format

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