Welcome, everybody. You are listening to the ITV-S-D-V rugby World Cup podcast with myself, DiFlats, and him.

Tom Shanklin. We were going to have a mate on, weren't we? We were going to have Andrew Merton's on, and he was keen, but he wasn't allowed, basically.

He wasn't allowed because of his other commitments to media.

His arrogance wouldn't let him come on.

He was like, on what's happened?

It's like, yeah, I'd love to come on boys be a real pleasure for me because he calls us to flats and shanks juggernaut doesn't he and some people try and get on the train and then he just said what's you know

what's the fee and we said this is love of the game mate and he's deleted both of our WhatsApps he's

blocked us both i think he's a little bit worried because he is so out of shape now and he's not

looking good no that you know he's just going to feel inferior really in front of us because we're sat here

in my little hotel room in our gym kit.

Oh.

Yeah, not even been.

We've had a Japanese pork pancake and a coffee.

We're going to go, though, boy, aren't we?

We're going to go after this.

We're going to try.

Yeah.

As long as we can go with Nicky Robinson yesterday.

He was doing, you know, the combat ropes.

Yeah.

Oh man, I saw him again last night in town.

I said, you're back on the ropes tomorrow, is it, mate?

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