It’s a game of cards as England come up trumps, Wales follow suit and brave Scotland fold

The ITV Rugby World Cup Podcast

ITV Sport

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4.5 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

David is joined by his old chum Shanks to digest the first round of matches at France 2023, which were not short of thrills, skills and controversy. Our regular stats guru Ross Hamilton serves up some corking intel on the home nations, and we get the thoughts of Maggie Alphonsi and Bryan Habana on the action. The fellas also select their now legendary team of the round.

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0:00.0	Greetings, rugby fans and welcome to the second World Cup pod from us guys here at ITV.
0:12.5	I'm David Flatman and I've got Tom Shanklin, aka Shank the Tank, he calls himself, with me once more.
0:18.2	Before we invite him to make way for Brian O Driscoll,
0:21.5	who's co-presenting the next episode with me, which lands, it lands, it drops on Thursday.
0:28.2	Like Drake, you know, partnering up with somebody to release trainers. Is it Drake? Or is it
0:32.0	Kanye West? It's Kanye West, wasn't it? Basically do trainer drops. We do pod drops.
0:36.1	Quite a lot to digest following the opening
0:37.8	random matches,
0:39.1	which we'll do in the company
0:40.2	of our regular stat data computer nerd,
0:43.0	Ross Hamilton,
0:44.1	but we don't take the Mick too readily
0:45.4	because he's enormous
0:46.5	and he works out.
0:48.0	An England and Springbok legends,
0:49.7	Maggie Alfonzi and Brian Habsey-Habana.
0:52.5	We'll also hear from George Ford
0:54.1	and Gregor Townsend.
0:55.6	But hello, Tommy.
0:56.5	The first weekend of 2023 was not short of incident.
1:00.4	Did it live up to all of your hopes and dreams?
1:02.6	Yes, flats.
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