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Rugby Union Weekly

Jersey Boys

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chris takes the pod to Jersey and goes inside the England camp ahead of their opening match of the autumn. Pod favourite Marcus Smith tells us what the team have been up to on the island and why he's feeling so at home in an England shirt. We also catch up with Jack Willis who explains how it felt to be made redundant by Wasps and what is next for the England flanker. Chris also heads to the open training session at the Jersey Reds and speaks to Mako Vunipola.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds music radio podcasts five lives rugby union daily. Hello and welcome to the rugby union daily the weekly has gone daily

0:11.4

They said during the six nations it couldn't be done. They were wrong and we're back every single day for the next three weeks taking in the final

0:19.6

stages of the women's world cup and the men's autumn international as well. We're all over the place. We're on the ground in New Zealand. We're here in Jersey. We're across the UK. We're on Paddy's sofa.

0:29.7

Big name guests guest presenters. You will not miss a thing with us and what a cracking lineup to get us going on the rugby union daily jack willis is coming up on the pod you do not want to miss that.

0:40.3

But first doesn't get much bigger than the pod here and himself Marcus Smith Marcus great to see you.

0:45.8

Yeah good see you back on is it yeah really good to back on different vibe from the plow though yeah massively different lovely see viewer reminds me a bright and a little bit.

0:53.4

Not a pub environment yeah so set the scene for us because we're in Jersey you've had England camp here ahead of the Argentina game on Sunday building up for a big old autumn.

1:02.8

Yeah put on your best kind of radio broadcast of voice just set set the scene where we are what you can see I think we're in St.

1:09.9

Brilard Bay we got some nice mountainous region to that to our left and we've got a beautiful low tide at the minute can hear the waves in the distance which is beautiful and a slight left to

1:20.8

right breeze which is fantastic the sun just trying to poke through the clouds beautiful setting here to remind you of reminds you of home does it yeah does apart from the pebbles of course much

1:31.4

professor sounds so you've been in the sea yeah we have a few times we had a swimming challenge on Tuesday I think it was which was good fun nice to nice to about with the boys and then

1:41.7

a bit of recovery walking down to the beach and then into the sea trying to ride the waves tell us about the sea swimming challenge how did that go down yeah it was really good I think boys were a bit anxious beforehand but once we got here and the weather was good waves were you could see the waves from a mile off and the boys got stuck in there was two teams and

2:03.7

a team came up came out on top which was which was nice we just had to basically swim out with these paddleboards pick rescue a few things from the sea and then get back as quick as you can so it was a race and we're all competitive men so we all want to win and can any player not swim

2:22.8

yeah so the boys who can't swim had to do different sort of exercises who's that name and shame who could can't swim

2:33.3

Marrow was out, I think he put his hand up, he can't swim, so he was just doing some deep sea breathing.

2:39.6

He was just standing there, he's a big enough man, so he went pretty far out.

2:43.7

He got a deal he likes, got a piece of Marrow too.

2:46.2

Now I think their exercise looked pretty tough as well, so it was good to see them as well.

2:50.7

So it sounds like it's been quite a relaxed few days maybe at the start, and then when do

2:55.7

you start turning attention to the game, to Argentina, to the autumn?

3:00.4

Yeah, so the first few days of camp is mainly just getting together, obviously we've been

3:05.3

playing against each other for the first few weeks in the premiership, and the big word

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