S3 E50: Mark Jones on life at the Crusaders
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4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Gareth Rhys Owen is joined by former Wales wing Mark Jones who talks about life in New Zealand and how he’s getting on at the Crusaders.
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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 everyone. Welcome to the Scrum Five Podcast. I'm Garthree, so today I'm joined |
| 0:51.2 | by Mark Jones all way from New Zealand, |
| 0:53.6 | Homer Wales winger is now a coach with the Crusaders. |
| 0:58.0 | And Mark, thanks for joining me evening with you, morning here. |
| 1:01.4 | First things first, how are things out there? |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah they're good all things consider thanks Gar obviously it's been tough |
| 1:09.0 | tough seven or eight weeks you know on lockdown like everybody else across the majority of the world. |
| 1:15.0 | So we just been trying to do our bit to stay within our bubble and I had good news yesterday |
| 1:19.3 | that the Prime Minister has agreed to drop the alert level to level two, which basically allows everybody |
| 1:24.5 | to get back out and about still got to maintain your social distancing, but these kids can get |
| 1:29.2 | back to school. We can go back into work under some controlled instructions and we can start to get life back to a new normal. |
| 1:38.0 | Speaking of new normal, you'd have arrived in New Zealand what mid to end of January yeah yeah it's been tough tougher on the family actually I got out sort of pre Christmas came home for for the festive period and then went back out really early in January so I I've been here five months, but family only |
| 1:54.4 | came out sort of mid-February, so they virtually had two weeks year or three weeks |
| 2:00.2 | year and then straight into the bubble, so it's been tough for them. |
| 2:03.3 | Had not an opportunity to build up many relationships at school with the kids you know |
| 2:07.6 | friendships and the same with Helen just an opportunity to get out and about and |
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