Episode 39 - Pat Lam & The Ackermann Controversy

The Rugby Pod

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Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.7 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Bristol Bears Director of Rugby Pat Lam joins Big Jim and Goodey to discuss how he's leading his troops through the Coronavirus crisis, how the club wants to keep the marquee player rule in the Premiership and how he thinks the league can grow and prosper. Plus, Goodey spills the beans on why Johan Ackermann has left Gloucester, we discuss Lord Myners' salary cap review, there's a Quarantine Quiz, Jim's stumped by another riddle and much more... 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.
0:01.0	Rocky Pied.
0:02.0	Hello and welcome along to the rugby pod brought to you as usual, by our good friends at Guinness.
0:11.7	How good is this?
0:12.7	They've pledged over £1 million to those affected by coronavirus and have been helping out
0:19.0	bartenders across the UK, which is amazing work from Guinness.
0:22.5	Big German Goody with me as usual.
0:24.8	How's your week being guys?
0:25.8	What have you been up to?
0:27.0	Well big news in my house is the Nannies back, which is unbelievable.
0:31.7	And the golf course is open.
0:33.7	The golf courses are open so absolutely delighted to change.
0:36.9	Yeah, completely.
0:37.9	You're actually able to work yourself now and not have the twin screaming the door down.
0:44.8	It's a massive change in terms of the ability to have another pair of hands here to look
0:49.7	after the twins, which means there's less stress on me and the misses.
0:52.5	I've played golf, I've got the Nanny working for us and she's an absolute godsend.
0:57.5	So I love our Nanny, not in a weird way, but just to the she's amazing with our kids way.
1:03.2	So we're a lot happier this week and it's getting that one step closer to normal.
1:06.7	But my week wasn't anywhere near as eventful as yours, was it James?
1:10.8	It's really interesting, you mentioned golf.
1:12.5	I've always, I've always liked golf.
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