How England blew away Australia with 'Borthball' and 'Pom Squad'
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
England are up and running this Autumn after seeing off Australia 25-7 at Twickenham.
Alan, Charlie, Charles and Gav dissect the win and the overall performance which has been crowned as 'peak Borthball' by Charlie Morgan.
Tommy Freeman's performance at centre comes under scrutiny, we discuss if it's an experiment worth sticking with or if he is better utilised back on the wing
Elsewhere there is high praise for the 6-2 bench and questions over the Wallabies who looked tired after a long summer.
Away from Twickenham, New Zealand won their Soldier Field rematch with Ireland in a largely forgettable game. There is some criticism for the event as a whole too and Gavin suggests there is lessons to be learned for America before their staging of the World Cup in 2031
Plus, we take a look ahead to a huge weekend of games coming up and tackle all your questions as usual too.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:06.8 | Home to the Emirates-Dubai Sevens, Dubai is the ultimate sporting break, with a packed events calendar every year, including the DP World Tour Golf Championship and the Dubai tennis championships. |
| 0:20.3 | There are lots of opportunities to witness world-class sport in action. |
| 0:24.2 | And if you're looking to have your own active adventure holiday, you'll be spoiled for choice, |
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| 0:37.0 | Thank you. Plan your getaway at visit Dubai.com. |
| 0:45.9 | Well, there we go. |
| 0:50.4 | A week into the Ottoman internationals and, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. |
| 0:52.1 | The test window is actually now officially open. |
| 1:12.3 | Last week wasn't quite in the window, but we're there now. Welcome back to the Telegraph Rugby podcast. My name is Alan Dimmick. I'm commissioning editor for sport here. And let's roll into rugby. Last week, you had the pleasure of Charles Richardson and Gavin Mayers with us. Round of applause, everybody. Welcome back, Charlie Morgan. Charlie, how did you of the last week of rugby we didn't get your teak the build-up was lovely for being being a little bit detached apart from the odd piece from doing from holiday grafting |
| 1:19.4 | but no i was at the game on uh on twicken em on on saturday and yeah felt like i'd rolled into it a little bit cold |
| 1:26.3 | but no good to good to get going again |
| 1:28.6 | good to be back all thank you for having me well we had big wins in some cases very big wins |
| 1:34.9 | for the favourites great to have one of our favorites back we're going to be getting stuck into |
| 1:40.0 | that england performance against the wallabies we're also going to be touching a bit on on |
| 1:43.8 | Ireland Gavin looking to you here to talk about the old blacks a little bit they're facing my lads this week that England performance against the Wallabies. We're also going to be touching a bit on Ireland. |
| 1:44.3 | Gavin, looking to you here to talk about the old blacks a little bit. |
| 1:47.0 | They're facing my lads this weekend. |
| 1:49.2 | New Zealand are facing Scotland. |
| 1:50.9 | Plenty to get stuck into. |
| 1:52.8 | Let's get going. |
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