The Telegraph Podcasts.

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

I'm Brian Moore and I'm joined in the studio by the Telegraph's rugby news correspondent,

Gavin Mears.

Hello, Gavin.

Hi, Brian.

Back to normality, shall we say, after a very, very interesting Six Nations.

And one of our colleagues has put together a very interesting

table about who is and isn't playing. Charlie Morgan has listed all the starting players

of the weekend just gone that started the Six Nations and if you look through this list,

there's a stark contrast between those playing and those not.

For example, all of England's players by those who are injured and Mako Vinopola, who was on the

bench, started at the weekend.

In contrast, in Ireland, one injury, but only two starts out of the remaining 15. In Wales,

it's about half and half. Scotland, about a third, and in Italy, there are three players who started

at the weekend. Now, there are tactical reasons for that that because some of the Irish players will be resting for the

forthcoming European games, which will also discuss.

However, the point is, had they been in a situation where the Pro 14 had promotion and relegation

and they were either top or bottom,

then this option probably wouldn't have been open to them.

Absolutely.

And another point, Brian, on that is the club's being privately owned.

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