Rugby Players Association - Christian Day chats with Jim Hamilton

The Rugby Pod

The Ringer

Rugby, Comedy, Sports

4.8 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Christian Day is Head of Player Affairs for the Rugby Players Association. He joined the RPA after 17 seasons as a professional rugby player, including stints at Sale, Stade Francais and Saints. The RPA is the representative body of professional rugby players in England, and represents more than 800 male and female current rugby players. In this chat, Jim asks Christian about some of the work RPA does as well as the challenges the union faces and some of the criticism the RPA receives from current players. It's a candid chat and gives an insight into what the RPA is trying to achieve, how it goes about it, and what the future holds for the game and players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.
0:05.6	The young gentleman's name would be...
0:08.3	Oliver, Oliver Twist.
0:10.7	...with Brian Cox as Fagan.
0:12.9	What have you seen?
0:14.1	Street boy.
0:14.9	Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Callugia as Bill Sykes.
0:19.3	Oh, look at me like a hound of my knowledge!
0:21.3	I love you, baby!
0:22.3	...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells.
0:25.7	Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms.
0:32.0	Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:37.1	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like...
0:41.2	It was so, it was all wrapped up, but it was so obvious what it was obviously
0:44.2	because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so
0:46.8	guess.
0:47.6	For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now,
0:51.6	so for that one change me a little.
0:53.9	Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
1:00.0	On this episode I speak to a celebrity master chef, a man who has played 17 years
1:05.4	at the top of our sport. He is now head of player affairs with the rugby players association.
1:10.8	We chat about what things are in place for current players when it comes to player welfare.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.