Eyes on the Opposition: Georgia
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4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Wales' defeat to Georgia last autumn was the beginning of the end for Wayne Pivac. Now Gatland's back - and Georgia are on the horizon again.
In the second episode in our series looking at Wales' World Cup pool opponents, Gareth Rhys Owen chats to Georgian head coach Levan Maisashvili and YouTuber Robbie Owen, aka Squidge Rugby, to ask whether lightning could strike twice in Nantes in October.
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| 0:00.0 | Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men. |
| 0:06.5 | It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out. |
| 0:09.0 | Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham. |
| 0:11.6 | But his life of violence led to his downfall. |
| 0:15.0 | Why did it happen? |
| 0:16.0 | Why did they do that? |
| 0:17.3 | How did Viv Graham build an empire? |
| 0:19.8 | It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really? |
| 0:24.4 | Gangster, the story of Viv Graham. |
| 0:27.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.4 | You're listening to BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.6 | Rugby now and Wales suffered a shock 1213 loss to Georgia earlier. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to part two of this mini series looking at Wales's pool rivals in this year's World Cup. |
| 0:47.0 | We've done Australia, should be in your feed, just dig it out and have a little listen. |
| 0:52.0 | In this episode episode we turn our |
| 0:54.5 | attentions to the latest bogeymen for whilst right being. Yep. It's Georgia. |
| 1:02.4 | As far as I'm concerned I'll be here rolling the sleeves. It's Georgia. |
| 1:02.8 | As far as I'm concerned, I'll be here rolling the sleeves up. |
| 1:05.6 | We're here to do a job and we're totally focused on building towards the World Cup. |
| 1:10.4 | You know, it still feels very weird isn't it now if you remember the Scrum |
| 1:15.8 | podcast released in the days leading up to that defeat we were joined by Wayne |
| 1:20.4 | Pivac he was about to enter the final few weeks in charge of Wales. |
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