Episode 49: Rob Andrew, Rory Underwood, Thinus Delport and Susie Appleby

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

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🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the fallow week of the NatWest 6 Nations Brian Moore and Rob Andrew discuss what has gone wrong for England and how they can turn their fortunes around against France. Former Leicester and England winger Rory Underwood gives his perspective saying England's performances have been disappointing, as well as a look at the latest round of Premiership action.With Rassie Erasmus appointed South Africa head coach, Thinus Delport returns to tell all about his old teammate and what the new coach can bring to the Springboks.We speak to Gloucester-Hartpury coach Susie Appleby about her side's excellent win over league leaders Harlequins.And we go down to the grassroots of rugby to find out more about NatWest's Rugby Force programme. 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. I'm Brian Moore and joining the show today are the former England and Leicester wing,
0:23.6	Rory Underwood and former South African wing, Tinas Delport.
0:28.6	The Gloucester Harbury coach Susie Appleby discusses her team's win over Harlequins at the weekend.
0:34.6	Plus we look at some of the work that Nat West's Rugby Force program
0:38.4	has been doing in helping expand the women's game. But first, I'm joined here in the studio
0:43.8	by former England and Lions fly half, Rob Andrew. Hello, Rob. Hi, Brian, how are you? Okay,
0:49.6	mate, week off, Six Nations, lots of questions about this. Let's start with this one. Is Eddie Jones honeymoon over?
0:58.3	It might be if it loses the next two. It's a really interesting phase this, isn't it? Because they'll all get judged. All head coaches will get judged on their results in the end. And mostly that comes down to selection, and how good a selector are they?
1:15.1	I have to say, I think Eddie's been a pretty good selector since he took over.
1:20.1	He's got some big questions now, and this next, well, this next week around selection,
1:26.2	this week and next week.
1:31.7	He hasn't got many selections wrong in the last two years.
1:39.5	We're now going to start to see how tougher selector he is, where his mind is at.
1:41.9	Because it doesn't matter what you and I say,
1:45.3	and all the pundits can talk about who should play seven, who should play 10 or 12.
1:52.1	There's only one bloke that matters, and it's the head coach, and he's got a lot on his shoulders this weekend next week.
2:00.8	Well, big games coming up because France, more difficult at home always, if they were to lose, one, no chance of a title.
2:06.2	And facing Ireland, who were the pre-tournament favourites that have shown the best form,
2:12.2	could be staring on two wins out of five, which would be a very poor return bearing mind of home fixes they've had.
2:14.8	You're talking about selection, and I wrote a piece of Telegraph this week and I said
2:19.5	I am always reluctant to pick players out of position because when they come under pressure,
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