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Hello, Egg Chasers. This is the Egg Chasers Rugby Podcast, the podcast about rugby that doesn't take itself for the game to seriously back in the rugby dungeon to give you your fix of rugby

As we do every single Monday, 52 weeks of the year and if you appreciate that well, you can find us anyway

Get your podcast go hit subscribe for more patreon.com forward slash Egg Chasers. I'm Tim. That's JB. Hello Tim and he's Phil. Hello, Tim. Nice to be back. Yeah, nice to be back

Enjoy the weather. Oh mate, ridiculous. Absolutely insanely good weather and yeah, a great week. Thank you very much. Did you find a Greek rugby club? No, the end. No, enjoy. Although there were some of the locals quite curious because

We had a rugby ball on the beach. Oh, there's quite a few of us sort of I'm a little just chuck it a ball about what is this thing teaching my well not teaching, but I was getting bullied by my my nephews.

Absolutely. Oh, yeah, they're big. Yeah, they're big aren't they?

The good sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you mean it wasn't on in every tavern of the England, Greece, Ruby League fixture this weekend? Yeah, of course. No, no, no interest whatsoever.

Not not surprisingly if you were Greek watching 94 for victory for England. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, the semis all be good for the Ruby League walk up, at least as that.

Maybe maybe one of the semis. Well, someone's got to play New Zealand, haven't they? Someone's got to play New Zealand. Someone's got to play Australia.

Many actually, Samoa and Tonga both had emphatic wins this weekend. So maybe they'll be two good semis. And yeah, and there's England. And yeah, one more team don't die.

You've named you've named about seven teams just then. Yeah, but we're in the semifinals. What's going on? No, so we're not a semifinal stage yet, but there are there are three very good teams, or certainly there's one incredible team, two passable teams in England and New Zealand as the kind of passable teams, but I think everyone else is a bit of a step down. Yeah, it's quite interesting.

Ruby League walk up because they seem to have got the bottom tier rights, which sounds ridiculous. The top tier is ridiculous. Like there's just no competition. But the bottom tier actually pans out really interestingly. So you're like Tonga and France, Cook Islands, played Wales. That was good. You know, they're compelling competitions.

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