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The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

Episode 44: Rob Andrew, Shane Williams, Conor O'Shea, Mike Blair, Shane Byrne and Claire Purdy

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

The Telegraph

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.5679 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As the Natwest 6 Nations fast approaches Brian is joined in the studio by Rob Andrew to attempt a prediction of what the 2018 tournament will bring.To help them are Scotland’s assistant coach Mike Blair, former Ireland hooker Shane Byrne, former Welsh winger Shane Williams and Italy's head coach Conor O’Shea.Plus World Cup Winner Claire Purdy goes through the Women’s 6 Nations.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 Telegraph and Nat West.

0:22.8

I'm Brian Moore and joining the show today,

0:25.2

a Scotland's assistant coach, Mike Blair,

0:27.4

former island hooker Shane Byrne,

0:29.4

former Welsh winger Shane Williams,

0:32.1

an Italian head coach Connor O'Shea.

0:34.6

Plus we've got the World Cup winner Claire Purdy who will take us through the Women's Six Nations,

0:38.2

but first I'm joined here in the studio by the former England fly half and treble grand slam winner. Rob Andrew,

0:44.2

Rob, hello. How are you? Hi, Brian. I'm good. How are you? I'm not too, but unlike a lot of

0:49.4

players, I might say, before each particular section, I'm going to read out the injury lists for the

0:56.2

relative sides because I think it's right to contextualise this particular Six Nations, which

1:02.5

I'm not sure. There are always injuries before the Six Nations and quite a lot of them.

1:08.2

This year there seemed to be an unusual amount and they seem to be spread across all the teams.

1:13.3

For example, England's injury list, Chris Robshaw,

1:17.2

Beno O'Barno, Charlie Yules, Jack Knoll, Matt Mullen,

1:20.7

Pierce, Francis, Will Spencer, Henry Slade,

1:22.7

Nathan Hughes, Alice Genge, Carl Sinclair,

1:25.4

Billy Vinipola, Elliot Daley, Tom Curry, Sir Mesa Rock Ganguni.

1:31.7

England do have great depth, but there are some significant ones there.

1:36.4

The Billy Vinipola one in particular, given also that Nathan Hughes is down as an experienced replacement.

1:48.6

How badly affected do you think England will be by this injury crisis?

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