This episode is in partnership with green king IPA who've been championing grassroots sports clubs through their proud to pitch in initiative

Now we like to think of this podcast as you pull it up a stall at our table in your local rugby club

And just chatting about the sport we love and during the rugby World Cup

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Recently this initiative passed five hundred thousand pounds in grants given away

So while you're watching Antoine de Pont, Ardi Severe, Malcolm Mark's tearing it up in France at the World Cup

You can also do your bit for your local team and for the volunteers who keep grassroots sports going and all you have to do is

Enjoy a refreshing hoppy ale and raise a glass of green king IPA right on with the pod

All right, we're back. We're giving you two episodes this time just to compartmentalize the European cup because it was a big final weekend

So that first episode in your feed before this one is there right now

You can go and listen to all our chat about the rugby

But as JB pointed out right at the end of this podcast, there's all sorts of stuff going on off the pitch

That he's only tangentially and indirectly related to the actual product of rugby

Yes, well, yeah, there is actually there's all sorts going on. So I mean, it's not the games that have been played

I don't start with a nice one actually rather than getting straight into bath. Have you seen the

Some of the names that

Hunger have announced that might be playing for them

Wonderful wonderful to see world class players on the world stage

Yeah, so

One former wall of the and three former all blacks in the in the

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