Johan Ackermann: Cipriani tells me when there are things we can improve on

The Telegraph Rugby Podcast

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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It was a fantastic finale to the Premiership regular season as the action unfolded on Saturday with Saints getting into the play offs and Bath sneaking into the Champions Cup places. Alongside Brian to discuss that and the other results of the weekend is the former England and Bath full back, Matt Perry.Brian and Matt mull over the action including the upcoming rematch between Exeter and Saints, they discuss how Quins can improve, and the impressive season Worcester have had following their shock win over Saracens. Matt takes us through his thoughts on Bath rugby club and where their future lies.With Gloucester up against Saracens in their Premiership play-off, we speak with Head Coach Johan Ackermann about what they need to do to beat the reigning Champions, why they can't get carried away, and he discusses his relationship with Danny Cipriani.It's not all about England as the PRO14 semi finals took place at the weekend with Glasgow and Leinster coming out on top against Ulster and Munster respectively. Rory Lawson joins to tell us about the impact Dave Rennie has had at the club, the reasons Stuart Hogg is moving to Exeter, and how much of a home advantage Glasgow will have in the final.Plus we speak with Rob Vickerman about the upcoming London 7s and its added importance in an Olympic year.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 Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.
0:11.0	Coming up today, we'll be giving the lowdown on the business end of the season.
0:15.0	It's the Dumont of not only the premiership in England, but also the Pro 14.
0:20.0	We'll be chatting to Johann Ackerman, the Gloucester head coach,
0:23.9	and Rory Lawson, the former Scotland scrum half.
0:27.0	Plus we'll have Rob Vickerman, the Sevens Guru on the London Sevens.
0:30.9	First, I want to tell you that I'm very pleased to say that with me to discuss all this
0:35.2	is the former Bath and England fullback Matt Perry.
0:38.5	Hello Matt, how are you?
0:39.2	Yeah, good evening, Brian. How are you?
0:40.6	I'm all right. In the end, it turned out pretty much as predicted.
0:45.2	Let's go through the games at the weekend.
0:48.5	Why don't we start with the Saints clash at Exeter?
0:52.8	Saints didn't know until a couple of minutes before the final whistle that they were going through because
0:58.1	Queens had lost to us.
0:59.4	So they give it the best shot and they came up quite short.
1:02.6	If I were Exeter, I'd be quite pleased about the six tries and I'd be quite pleased about
1:07.9	the fact that their legendary patient stroke attrition,
1:11.5	whatever you like to call it, in the 22, seems to be back
1:14.4	because they appear to have gone away from that.
1:16.6	But it's fairly resounding the victory.
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