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With Matt Dawson and Sonny McLaughlin

Yup, it's back and coming at you with a big one, England against Wales

and a six nations games go, Matt, where does it rank for you?

It's definitely one of my favourites, Sonny, for sure, close to my heart,

I guess for lots of reasons, my first ever twicken of adventure on my own with a load of mates

was in 1988 watching Adrian Hadley score two tries in a classic,

eight, eleven, three thriller, and I know what you're thinking, hold on, two tries,

eleven points, yes, it was four points per try back in those days.

But yeah, yeah, what's funny about that?

Actually, it blended blow, how'd you pronounce that, Shanks?

Blended, blended, blended, bow in, bled in, bled in, bow in,

I'm playing golf against him tomorrow, I mean, what a small world.

Scotland, France, that's going to be one to save a two and Ireland against Italy completes the set

in round three. So plenty to get stuck into for our team, but wait, hang on a minute, Matt,

we are missing someone.

Yeah, well, of course we are, because you never very, very rarely do you go through a six nations

tournament with the same team, playing every single match. Consistency is key, but there are

going to have to be, it's not a five man stroke woman game this Sonia. So we knew that there

were going to be replacements and unfortunately, Philippa can't make it this evening, but she has sent

in a heavyweight of rugby broadcasting in five lives, friend Tom Shanklin, good evening, Tom,

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