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The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

S3 Ep17: How do you solve a problem like the Champions Cup?

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

Platform Media

Sports, Rugby

4.42.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Alex, Hask and Shane Horgan take a deep dive into the Heineken Champions Cup. How did a competition once viewed as the pinnacle of the northern hemisphere club game lose its lustre? What should it look like in the future? Should it stay traditional or become something completely new, like cricket's The Hundred? Joining them are the head coach of reigning European champions La Rochelle - and all round legend - Ronan O'Gara and the former Wasps Head Coach, and now Scarlets Backs and Skills coach, Lee Blackett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In to the final moment, Alex Payne trying to keep this site going forward. Haskell takes

0:10.8

it on now with just relentless chat, largely about himself, and there's Tindall to add

0:15.3

the finishing touch of Glamour and World Cup winning stories and a slightly sideways

0:19.9

nose. That is how you podcast a dominant display by the good, the bad and the rugby.

0:28.4

Hello everybody, welcome along to this week's episode of the good, the bad and the rugby

0:32.5

it's another meaty one. Europe. What do you think when I mention the miracle match

0:39.2

and the hand of back, the great Axel, Yinevins, Taptackle, Nick Evans, Drop Girl, the battle

0:43.9

of breathe? Lens does come back, Wilkinson's finale, Stimpson's monster match winner, Martin

0:49.6

Williams head in hands. Howley's try, blood gate, last gasp, bliota, monsters 40 phases,

0:55.2

Healy's break, Wall Island at Croca, Toulouse two strong, stringers short side, and Ulsters

1:01.2

greatest day. Rose tinted for sure, but memories that will live forever. Every moment and every

1:07.8

name mentioned featured over a decade ago. So what would you add in the last 10 years?

1:13.8

Answers on a postcard please, Sarasins in the rain in Leon, La Rochelle in the port, and

1:18.5

then certainly I begin to search. I am old and I am biased, but it's not what it was.

1:24.3

This week we are looking at the state of European rugby because it is 10 years since English

1:28.9

and French clubs served notice and broke away from ERC, a union run tournament called the

1:34.2

Heineken Cup. The clubs formed EPCR and they rebadged into what is now known as the Heineken

1:40.6

Champions Cup. In the studio this week we have two former winners from the glory days,

1:45.8

Hask and Shane Hogan. Welcome to both of you. Diling in, we've got the goat, Ronanogara,

1:50.8

Pysawinner as a player, a point scoring record that will never be beaten and coach of the

1:55.2

current Champions La Rochelle and also joining us a bit later on Lee Blackin, the ex director

1:59.8

of Rugby at Wasps and the current assistant coach at the Scarletz. We did also ask the

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