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Scrum V

S3 E54: Pat Lam on playbooks & Wales' next fly-half superstar

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Playbooks, accountability and Wales’ next fly-half superstar.

Bristol's Director of Rugby, Pat Lam takes us through his coaching philosophy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men.

0:06.5

It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out.

0:09.0

Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham.

0:11.6

But his life of violence led to his downfall.

0:15.0

Why did it happen?

0:16.0

Why did they do that?

0:17.3

How did Viv Graham build an empire?

0:19.8

It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really?

0:24.4

Gangster, the story of Viv Graham.

0:27.4

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:30.4

You're listening to BBC Sounds. Hi everyone it's the Scrum5 podcast with Alfresoe and Nicki Roberson.

0:50.4

Today we've got a very special guest. It's Pat Lamb, the Bristol head coach. He's got a great CV. He won the Pro 12 with Cornick. He was a fantastic rugby player with Newcastle Falcons and of course with Samu won he did play one game for

1:04.8

New Zealand but most importantly he's such a dynamic strong character Nicki and as a

1:11.6

coach his respect, well, it goes a long, long way, it goes all across the rugby world.

1:19.0

Yeah, it does. Obviously what he did at Connaught, to take a side like Connaught to win at the Pro 12 was exceptional and I think around the world he was kind of sought after as a coach and Bristol had to pay a fair bit of money I think to get him over to to

1:35.6

Ashton Gate but already there you can see his development of the play and the players are signing that's

1:41.2

okay that that's financial but also they know that he's

1:44.4

built and building a culture and a team that is going to go very far and as I

1:51.0

think Pat has said he wants to be winning the Champions Cup and I think that he generally believes that and you speak to any of the players and I know a few of the players at Bristol that they all believe that the same as well that that team is

2:05.2

pat there is going to be winning trophies.

2:08.4

Yes, he's also got some Welsh interest in Bristol.

2:11.3

Notably, are you fair, Nicky and I converse a lot about Louis Reese

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