S4 Ep5: The Rugby World Cup Preview: The Northern Hemisphere

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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Sports, Rugby

4.4 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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🎟️ TOUR TICKETS: https://bit.ly/GBRTourTickets 🎟️ It’s Rugby World Cup week and Alex and Tinds are joined by some elite level guests, with France, Ireland & Scotland in focus. Scotland Head Coach Gregor Townsend dials in from their training camp in Nice. Former Internationals Ben Kayser and Shane Horgan discuss the pressure on their respective nations as hosts and World No.1’s. Plus Mystic Mike makes is predictions for a fantastic opening round of matches. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/goodbadrugby Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Le Bon, La Brute et le Rugby.
0:15.9	It's time for France 2023, 7 weeks of great sport, great food and delicious wine, all
0:21.4	in the company of the three Musketeers, Monsieur James Haskell, Michel Tindel, and Alexandre
0:28.7	Pain, have fun, but not as much fun as you did in New Zealand 2011, but fun nonetheless, bon voyage.
0:39.9	Wait, wait, you dream team, the Rugby World Cup is here. It has been a long time coming,
0:44.3	but we are now down to hours until the big dance in France gets underway a 7 week rugby extravaganza
0:51.1	celebrating all things of our beautiful game, and we are extremely excited to be heading out in
0:57.0	mere minutes. Thanks to our good friends at Continental Tires, we are going to be covering every
1:01.1	twist and turn. We're going to be right in the middle of the carnage that is set to ensue,
1:06.3	and on this week's show we are going to have a little look at the front runners from the
1:18.5	Northern Hemisphere, joining Tins and I at GBR HQ this week. It's a very warm welcome representing
1:23.5	the Blues, the three-time finalists, the hometown boys, Bojo and Cazer, how are you?
1:27.6	Very well, thank you. Bonjour, Bojo. And of the boys in Green, it says seven-time quarter-finalists,
1:35.3	not to reiterate the point. My status is one of those, I've contributed to one of those.
1:39.7	Well, hold on to it Ty. Good memories, here's the time of changes. Shane, we're going to love you
1:44.9	to have you alongside as well. Shouldn't forget number one side of the world. We are also delighted to
1:49.0	be joined by the Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend fresh out of his welcome ceremony,
1:53.1	but the first question I'm going to ask you is, as we said, hours to go, how comfortable are you
1:58.4	sitting right here right now for your boys France? Comfortable, not comfortably. No, no, no, no.
2:05.1	Like to quote, was it Paul Sackie in 2007? I'm buzzing. Absolutely buzzing. Excited. Look, I covered
2:12.0	the warm-up games for French TV and it was great, it was tasty, but there's nothing to it,
2:16.4	right? There's guys who've been running around the field for three months for a game out of
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