James Simpson-Daniel: Ben Morgan ticks the boxes for England's number eight shortage

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🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The European Champions Cup and Challenge Cup are back for another season and what an opening weekend it was. In the studio this week Brian Moore is joined by former England and Gloucester winger James Simpson-Daniel.Brian and James dissect the weekend's European Rugby action including a day to forget for Bath and Freddie Burns. Former Leinster hooker Shane Byrne joins the show to discuss whether his old side are going to make it two Champions Cup titles in a row, and Worcester head coach Rory Duncan reflects on a memorable win for the Warriors against Stade Francais in Paris.They analyse who is best suited to replace the injured Billy Vunipola in Eddie Jones' upcoming England squad and preview another big weekend in Europe.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph.
0:02.0	The Telegraph.
0:03.0	Podcasts.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to Brian Moes for contact with the Telegraph and Remy Martin.
0:17.3	Coming up, we will obviously be rounding up the opening weekend of European rugby in the Champions and Challenge Cup
0:23.6	and we'll speak to the former Ireland hooker Shane Byrne after Lester made an impressive start to the defence of their title.
0:30.6	Worcester head coach Rory Duncan will join us also to discuss their Challenge Cup win over Stadfranc in Paris.
0:37.5	First, I'm joined this week by the former England and Gloucester winger, James Simpson-Daniel.
0:41.8	Hello, James. How are you?
0:42.5	Hi, Brian. I'm really well, thank you.
0:43.9	Good man. Well, look, let's start where most of the papers started.
0:47.6	I don't think Freddie Burns realized that he was playing on the first European Cup weekend,
0:53.9	but there were no football fixtures to take his... that he was playing on the first European Cup weekend,
1:00.0	but there were no football fixtures to take his mishap, shall we say,
1:03.7	off the front of the back pages, and they did go for him.
1:06.6	Like, if you didn't see this, basically what happened.
1:08.5	Bath are two points down.
1:09.8	You go into the last five minutes,
1:12.1	there's a kick right in front of the posts no kick is necessarily easy but as they go it was
1:15.6	hit the post
1:17.1	didn't make anything of it but I did write this and I
1:20.7	said look he still had the wherewithal to make the break
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