Keenan & Roebuck: Champions Cup preview part 2

Rugby Union Weekly

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In episode two of our bumper Champions Cup preview, Ashy and Chris catch up with Lions hero Hugo Keenan who reflects on his winning try in the MCG and Leinster's ambition to add fifth star to the jersey. High-flying Sale winger Tom Roebuck looks back on his breakthrough autumn with England and reveals he scored his try against the All Blacks with a broken toe! Pau are back in the tournament for the first time in 25 years and Joel Kpoku tells us they are keen to make a splash and targeting their opener against Northampton. Scarlets are also back in the competition and we sit down with their captain Josh Macleod for an open and honest conversation about how tough it is to be a Welsh player right now with all the uncertainty around the club game.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	This winter, cricket's oldest rivalry is reignited.
0:15.0	England and Australia do battle to compete for the ashes.
0:20.8	That is extraordinary.
0:23.1	Hear live ball by ball commentary on Five Sports Extra.
0:27.4	And get analysis and reaction of every day's play with the Test Match Special podcast.
0:32.9	The Stamps out of the ground.
0:34.4	Test match special at the Ashes.
0:37.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:40.3	Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly.
0:43.3	Right, episode two of our Champions Cup special.
0:47.3	If you've missed episode one, some brilliant, brilliant guests.
0:50.3	So get that now, we've got some fantastic players to come over the course of this episode, including the
0:55.4	likes of Josh McLeod, Tom Robuck, Joel Kopoku.
0:59.2	But we're going to start with a man who has one of the moments of the year, I think,
1:04.8	actually.
1:05.2	When we think of 2025, we think of that moment at the MCG for the Lions, but a man who's
1:10.4	achieved so much in the blue of lends to the green of Ireland
1:12.9	and he's got the four stars on his chest.
1:15.5	You were cheering him on you?
1:16.9	Well, I was an impartial journalist in the summer,
1:19.3	but I think you're allowed to.
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