S3 E48: Rhys Webb on life after Toulon and volunteering during lockdown
Scrum V
BBC
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Rhys Webb speaks exclusively to the Scrum V podcast about how it all ended with Toulon, before joining Bath on a short term deal.
Webb will be an Ospreys player again come July, but has been spending his time in lockdown making PPE equipment, and home schooling his three sons.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Garrelinika here with Alan Shearer and Mike Wicherichs to say the |
| 0:05.2 | match of the day top 10 podcast is back. We'll be ranking our footballing |
| 0:09.8 | top 10s and debaitin who is right. We've got quite a good list obviously there's an |
| 0:14.8 | exception. It's the top 10 euros golden boot winners. Now we're talking |
| 0:20.1 | that's all right. You're not going wrong. Really? |
| 0:23.4 | Definitely not. Oh, thanks. |
| 0:26.0 | Mash is the day, top 10. Listen only to BBC Sounds. Hello folks, welcome to the Scrum Fight Pod. I'm Garthrice Owen and today I'm joined by |
| 0:50.5 | Reese Webb. 33 caps for Wales, two for the British Lions, played for the |
| 0:55.3 | Ospreys too long and now technically he's still with Bath before heading |
| 1:00.2 | back to the Ospreys. Now his CV is mightily impressive, but that only tells half of the story. |
| 1:07.3 | The fact that he went to Toulon and sent him to international purgatory as he'd fallen short of the 60 cap rule. |
| 1:14.6 | However, midway through this season he agreed to return back to the Ospreys. |
| 1:19.6 | This then allowed the World Track Union to relax his policy and allow him back into the |
| 1:24.8 | international squad. This in turn Angie Toulon and his contract was |
| 1:30.5 | eventually terminated. Now fair to say things didn't end well and as you'll hear he's pretty unhappy about it all. |
| 1:39.0 | But he's back with his family in Wales keeping fit, healthy and helping out with some volunteer work with the NHS. |
| 1:47.0 | This is a very straight talking, Reese Webb on the Scrum Five Pod. |
| 1:57.3 | Reese Webb. 5 Pot. Ries Webb, thanks for joining us. Can you remember the last time we met six weeks ago, roughly seven weeks ago in the Vale Hotel Thursday before playing against Scotland and you walked in to the room like LeBron James. |
| 2:09.0 | You were so pumped, you were so confident and he said to me, I've got the shirt back I've got the shirt back and |
| 2:16.2 | wearing number nine on Saturday and lo behold the mash gets cancelled and you don't |
| 2:21.1 | draw a rugby ball in anger since then? |
| 2:23.0 | Yeah, I'm really very different sort of six weeks. |
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