From Champions Cup Glory To Sevens Slashes: Mike Friday & Rugby’s Future

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

Folding Pocket

Sports News, Sports, Rugby, News

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Vive Bordeaux! Ex-England, Kenya and USA Sevens coach, Mike Friday dives into a jaw-dropping week of rugby alongside Payno and Hask. The lads debate the titanic final between Bordeaux and Northampton Saints, centring on accusations of foul play against Rugby’s greatest showman, Henry Pollock. What did our young Lion learn? & as the EPCR announce a new Club World Cup, we look to rugby’s future. Sevens guru Mike also reacts to the sport’s management in the face of heartbreaking headlines that Ireland Men’s Sevens team will cease to exist and Great Britain men and women will move to a part-time programme. Is its Olympic status at stake? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What a week it was last week to be a fan.
0:02.6	Well done, Bordeaux, who broke the hearts of Northampton States to win a fiercely heated
0:06.5	Investick Champions Cup final.
0:08.1	Hask and I are joined once again by a guru player, a guru coach.
0:11.9	Welcome to the pod.
0:13.2	Mike Friday.
0:14.2	How are you, sir?
0:14.8	I am well, thank you.
0:15.8	Great to be you.
0:16.4	As we record this, the news is breaking that Jefferson Quarrow faces a ban after being cited for grabbing the throat of Henry Pollock.
0:22.6	It's mad that he souls murders and plays rugby.
0:24.8	He's very impressive, I know.
0:26.3	Pollock on that day was Bordeaux's common enemy.
0:28.8	He needs to keep doing what he's doing.
0:30.3	All of their celebrations about him.
0:32.2	What does that say about a 20-year-old young man?
0:34.4	Ireland and G.B. Men's sevens have now announced major cutbacks.
0:37.8	Do you lay the blame squarely at the door of World Rugby?
0:40.4	I do.
0:40.8	I'm sorry, but I do.
0:41.6	The tier two and tier three nations rely on them.
0:44.4	The hand that feeds you can hurt you, so they're scared to speak up.
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