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Have you recovered, Lauren?

Um, well, my voice says no, but yeah, just about a very busy weekend.

Feeling quite tired on this Monday morning,

but glad to be in loads to talk about.

I went to Dublin and back in a day,

and then Scrum 5 yesterday.

So, so yeah, nice and early this morning to talk to you Gareth you

commentated in you on the much I did comment here on the gay at least you're briefed

that's the one thing I think is important if you have ingested and digested rugby the whole weekend.

You're not coming into this one cold.

Well, it helps, doesn't it?

You know, what you're working on a Saturday

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