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Scrum V

S4 E10: 'Most tight-heads are weirdos'

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of Exeter's Champions Cup final against Racing 92, Gareth Rhys Owen talks to Wales prop Tomas Francis about his obsession with scrummaging and Lego and the time he asked Adam Jones for an autograph.

Transcript

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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.

0:34.0

Hi everyone, it's

0:38.0

Hi everyone, it's Carl Threseo in here with the Scrumfy Podcast and this week it's one of Wales's

0:46.5

unsung heroes we rarely hear from him he's if anything a little bit

0:50.9

unfashionable it's Thomas Francis, whose club side

0:54.6

exeter chiefs are about to play in the Champions Cup final, and he's a proper

0:59.7

rugby person. Late developer loves the game, loves Exeter, loves

1:05.1

scrumaging and loves LEGO. All will be explained. Basically he's a good

1:11.0

egg and I really enjoyed our conversation.

1:13.6

Here he is Thomas Francis.

1:18.6

So I'm right so we got what the issues we've got with the dogs potentially

1:21.9

barking you have you can't switch off your email What the issues we've got? We've got, we've got dogs potentially barking.

1:22.8

Yeah, you can't switch off your email.

1:25.2

Yeah, any alerts and the computers, and doorbell maybe, who knows?

1:30.0

Any other distractions we've got doorbell, right? Okay, so we're all right.

1:33.0

Give us a little spin. I just want to check out what your lids like at the minute, because that's a key thing.

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