Rugby in 2021 - The year in review
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
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🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Brian Moore is joined by former Springbok captain Bob Skinstad to reflect on the year in rugby.
It was a year of two halves for England and Eddie Jones. After a disappointing fifth place finish in the Six Nations, the England head coach made wholesale changes for the Summer and Autumn series and went undefeated in both. The Telegraph's Ben Coles joins the show to review England's year and discuss where they are at ahead of the Six Nations in 2022.
Elsewhere we assess the state of play for the rest of the Northern Hemisphere sides and in particular France who have arguably ended the year as the number one side in the world.
We also look back on the British and Irish Lions Tour to South Africa and it's legacy after widespread criticism of how the tour was managed.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph Podcasts. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello and welcome to Brian Moes contact with the Telegraph. |
| 0:23.9 | Today we are recapping what has been an eventful and at times a very difficult year in rugby. |
| 0:30.0 | The ongoing presence of COVID has met the majority of the games this year have been played in empty stadiums, |
| 0:34.9 | including the Six Nations and the entire British and Irish Lions |
| 0:38.1 | tour of South Africa too. It's been a year of two halves for England. Eddie Jones side |
| 0:42.9 | finished fifth and six nations, picking up just two wins from five but bounced back by going |
| 0:48.0 | through both the summer and autumn series undefeated. Over the course of the year, Jones has drafted |
| 0:53.0 | in a number of fresh faces as he looks to build a new look squad ahead of the 2023 Rugby World Cup. We'll assess just |
| 0:59.6 | where England are at the moment, with the 22 Six Nations just around the corner, with the |
| 1:05.3 | telegraphs rugby correspondent Ben Coles. We'll also be looking at the state of play for the |
| 1:10.1 | rest of the teams in the Six Nations. |
| 1:11.6 | If any champions, Wales, go into the new year off the back of a difficult autumn. |
| 1:15.6 | Ireland, well, they seem to have clicked on Andy Farrell and France, well, they look to be back to their best with the prayer of the year, Antoine DuPont, right to the four. |
| 1:24.6 | The biggest event of the year was undoubtedly the British and Irish Lions Tour to South Africa. |
| 1:28.4 | The tour went ahead under very strict COVID restrictions, which resulted in some one-sided |
| 1:32.5 | and at times uneven games. |
| 1:34.8 | We'll look back on that tour and its legacy both here and in South Africa. |
| 1:38.6 | We'll also be discussing who isn't on one side in the world at the moment. |
| 1:42.1 | World Champion South Africa had another successful year. Meanwhile, the Kiwis suffered rare back-to-back defeats in the world at the moment. World champion South Africa had another successful year. |
| 1:44.4 | Meanwhile, the Kiwis suffered rare back-to-back defeats in their autumn tour, |
| 1:49.1 | and we're all pleased about that, aren't we? |
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