Episode 43 - Lions Test Week, Wales Snap the Streak & England Whitewash the Pumas

The Rugby Pod

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Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.7 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Join the lads as they discuss the final Lions warm up match against an underwhelming AU NZ invitational side and prep for the big one - the first Test in Brisbane. After 644 LONG days, Wales finally got a win against Eddie Jones' Japan and England's young guns do an impressive double down in Argentina. We also look at Rassies latest bit of... innovation, a double Ravo's arm for Ireland and what went wrong for Scotland in Suva so settle back, enjoy and make sure you're subscribed on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod, pod, pod.
0:01.0	Rugby pod.
0:02.0	Hello and welcome back to the rugby pod where our Welsh friends, they're finally smiling and singing because after 644 days, which is 21 long months without a victory, they finally got over the line.
0:20.0	Matt Sherrott's boys finally broke the losing
0:22.7	streak and they got a win over in Japan. Eddie Jones, Cam on the journey mate. You lost to what?
0:27.1	Who loses to Wales, Eddie? That's how big a win it was. The fact that we're opening the show
0:31.5	talking about Wales's historic win down in Japan. But we've got bigger fish to fry on this show. The Lions, here we go.
0:40.2	It is test week, but they look very good at the weekend, nearly a Ravo's arm against what we thought
0:47.0	and we hoped was going to be a much better Australian and New Zealand hybrid, invitational.
0:53.2	They were garbage. They were garbage.
0:55.0	They were garbage.
0:56.6	They weren't great.
0:57.2	They weren't great.
1:02.6	But in other news and in good news as well, England secured a 2-0 sweep against the mighty pumas in Argentina.
1:03.7	Who was the last team to have done that, Andrew?
1:06.0	Jim Hamilton, Scotland.
1:07.5	Let's fact-check that, but I think it might have been.
1:09.4	It's not about me.
1:10.3	It is all about Ireland.
1:12.8	Pumping Portugal, it's not.
1:14.4	But anyway, there was nearly a double Revo's arm down in Portugal, the poor lads,
1:18.7	where Ireland's fifth team gave them an absolute hammering.
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