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The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

Episode 50: Rob Andrew, Paul Wallace, Scott Hastings, Rupert Moon, Simon Middleton and Nigel Owens

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

The Telegraph

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.5679 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With one round to go, Ireland are the 2018 NatWest Six Nations champions! Back to analyse all the action are Brian Moore and Rob Andrew. After a second successive defeat for England, Brian says it's time to ring the changes, whilst Rob believes England have lost part of their identity.Ireland's Paul Wallace joins to discuss the whether his old side can complete the Grand Slam on Saturday, although the former prop is hesistant that they will succeed.Despite another loss away from Murrayfield, Scotland have turned a corner according to Scott Hastings but they need to be better at game management. Whilst a buoyant Rupert Moon thinks Wales will finish the tournament in second place.We also speak with England Women's coach Simon Middleton after his side's unfortunate last minute loss to France. Plus Nigel Owens breaks down the laws around high tackles.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

0:02.0

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

0:19.0

I'm Brian Moore and joining the show today to discuss the penultimate round

0:22.6

of the NatWest Six Nations are Ireland's Paul Wallace, Scotland Scott Hastings and Wales Rupert Moon.

0:29.6

The England's women coach Simon Middleton will reflect on the Red Roses 1-point defeat to France,

0:34.6

plus Nigel Owens will take us through rugby's laws.

0:38.5

First, I'm joined here in the studio by former England and Lions Fly Half.

0:42.7

Rob Andrew, hello Rob.

0:43.9

Hi, Brian.

0:44.8

Well, first of all, let's congratulate Ireland.

0:47.5

Outstanding tournaments so far, and they moved to second in the world.

0:51.8

We'll be going through what went wrong with England and all sorts of other things as we go through this show. First of all, bear in mind, England gave away yet again a rash of penalties. I think it was 15 this time. But half of those at least came from when they had the ball.

1:11.5

And you saw this writ large.

1:12.8

It was interesting because I was saying to Paul O'Connell during the game.

1:15.8

He said the best way to approach a jackling player,

1:19.7

especially one who's big as Mattiobastro or Camero was very big as well.

1:24.0

He said you don't let them get in the jackling position.

1:27.3

As they're going down, you hit them, you target them and get them out of the way. He said, if you can't do that, you have got to have two people trying to leave them off the ball from both sides. He said, if you get two people, you've got a chance. But if, for example, like happened twice on Saturday

1:46.5

at least, the first player to react and go in as a clearing player is George Ford. Now, that's

1:52.8

not his fault. He's nearest. He has to do that. But he can only do so much. He's not going to

1:57.5

move someone who's as big as the two French players I've just mentioned.

2:02.7

If he has someone who's simultaneously hitting the player from the other side,

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