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For The Love Of Rugby

Going to the Pub with Mack Hansen: Rugby's Wildest Character

For The Love Of Rugby

Crowd Network

Rugby, Sports

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In quite possibly the loosest episode of For The Love Of Rugby, Ben Youngs and Dan Cole are in Galway for a pint with one of Ireland rugby's favourite sons: the man, the myth, the Mack Hansen. From sunny Canberra to the wild west of Ireland, Mack opens up about his journey through rugby, life in Galway, and what it meant to tour his homeland of Australia with the British & Irish Lions. Dodgy trims, naked wrestling and tattoos of legendary coaches: this is how you become an off-pitch icon. 🏥 Use code LOVEOFRUGBY to get 20% off your first Thriva blood test: http://thriva.co/ 💳 Use code FTLOR100 to get £100 cash reward when you spend up to £500 in your first 30 days. Ts & Cs apply: http://tide.co/ftlor100 📋 Fill out the FTLOR listener survey: https://forms.gle/rPGCtcPe7NpnBgfh6 ✍️ Subscribe to Coley's newsletter: https://loveofrugby.substack.com/subscribe 📹 Send us your rugby videos: https://forms.gle/TrB1MB2V2krVXdqd7 💭 Got a question for us? Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/4o1f7VCSFvj5aZb38 💗 Buy a bobble hat: https://crowdnetwork.co.uk/podcasts/for-the-love-of-rugby 🎶 Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So

0:32.5

Yeah, this is a place to be

0:35.0

Could I get two pints please?

0:51.3

Yeah Yeah, I can't. This is the place to be. Could I get two pints, please? Have a seat, boys. You actually have a seat, boys.

0:58.8

You actually have smoked it.

0:59.6

Clockwork, lads.

1:04.0

I've put in a lot of hours to get to this point, so this doesn't just happen overnight, right?

1:05.8

I took it very seriously at the start.

1:08.2

And then once I got injured, I was like, you know, fuck it.

1:08.9

I'm going for it now.

1:11.8

I don't think Genji was naked, but I was, I was fully nude.

1:13.7

His quote was, he wore you like a glove.

1:27.3

It was a punch-a-duty puppet show. It honestly wants me to this day. It honestly haunts me. Did you scout out Gourway or Connups before you? No, not at all. like I thought everything was like lit by candles and stuff like that and I've gone straight over the crowd singing stand up for the Ulster Man

1:31.1

and there Like I thought everything was lit by candles and stuff like that. And I've gone straight over the crowd singing Stand Up for the Ulster Man. And they're freaking into me and then one of the boys actually grabs me and was like, I don't think he scored it like. And I was like, oh oh, I went wide as a ghost and Johnny comes up to me and he's like, he's like, remember if we win today, you're getting that tattoo right? tattoo I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess so, yeah.

1:45.6

And then he's like grabbing Fazz going, Fazz, if we win today, he's getting your face on his leg. I got it, sent Fas a photo, Fazz saw it, and didn't reply for like two hours. What was going for your head at that point? I'm never playing for Ireland again, ever. My career's done on the back of the tattoo.

2:01.3

Poor Smithers.

2:03.5

Yeah.

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