GB7s Kicks Off!

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

Folding Pocket

Sports, Rugby

4.5 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The World Sevens Series kicks off in Dubai this weekend - where GB7s men & women will take on the best teams in the world & start their epic international journey! Before they headed off, Alex sat down with a couple of the big bosses & players from GB7s to reflect on the summer in Paris, the growth of the sport & size up the season ahead! Joe Lydon, Director of Performance for GB7s, women’s player, Lauren Torley, who’s rumoured to have the best dance moves in Team GB join Alex first. Then World Cup winner & newly appointed Head Coach of three women’s side, Giselle Mather & men’s captain Kaleem Baretto plot their maps for the of a World Series ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Dream Team and a very warm welcome to the good, the band, the Rugby!
0:04.4	Alongside me, Joe Leiden, Director of Performance for GB-Sevents and Lauren Toy, who is owner of the finest dance moves in Team GB.
0:11.5	Guilty!
0:12.0	Is that guilty?
0:12.9	Where is the overall health of the Sevens game?
0:15.2	It is as competitive as it's ever been.
0:17.3	If we can add job opportunities, educational opportunities, the game will grow.
0:22.6	Most followed rugby player in either sex in the world.
0:25.6	Jealous much?
0:26.6	It shows a lot what women can do. We've always had to do something else. It's never just like,
0:29.6	okay, you're just going to be a rugby player.
0:31.6	We are thrilled to welcome to exciting leaders, Giselle Maythe, the newly appointed head coach of the GB women's team, and the new men's team's captain, Colleen Barreto, who's come on a mobility scooter. Tell me about the essence of your
0:43.0	team, the desire to change the narrative. Sevens is such a perfect opportunity to be yourself,
0:48.1	to be a character, and what rugby's missing is like stars, it's partying, it's people in the
0:52.8	crowd that maybe don't even know what's going on. People want to see the ball fly about all over the place.
0:57.0	Little girls are going, I want to be a red rose.
0:59.0	Well, I want them to say, I want to be Abby Brown.
1:01.0	I want to be a GV7's athlete.
1:03.0	Into the final moments, Alex Payne trying to keep this side going forward.
1:06.0	Haskell takes it on now with just relentless chat largely about himself and there's Tyndall to add the finishing touch of glamour
1:12.9	and World Cup winning stories
1:14.6	that is how you podcast
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