Sean O'Brien: Outstanding Itoje should captain the Lions in South Africa
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
With the 2020 Six Nations finally put to bed, our attention now turns to the upcoming Autumn Nations Cup, a five week tournament featuring the teams from the Six Nations alongside Georgia and Fiji.
Alongside Brian this week to discuss the upcoming series as well as his stellar career for Ireland, Leinster and the British and Irish Lions is London Irish back row Sean O'Brien.
Sean talks Brian through his career and unfamiliar route into rugby, his relationship with the likes of Michael Cheika and Joe Schmidt and the horrible impact injuries have had on his career including a hip operation which forced him to miss ten months of action, including the Rugby World Cup in 2019.
We also get Sean's memories of two Lions tours in 2013 and 2017 where he scored one of the most memorable tries in test match history and how he thinks next year's tour in South Africa is shaping up.
We also answer your questions as ever and take a look at some of the work being done at grassroots level around the country in association with the Mitsubishi Volunteer programme.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Full contact. |
| 0:09.0 | In association with Mitsubishi Motors. |
| 0:35.3 | Well, what's happened since last time? |
| 0:36.8 | We're in a better place, aren't? |
| 0:38.2 | We've got present-elect Joe Biden, |
| 0:39.9 | and we've got a vaccine on the way for the pandemic. |
| 0:42.9 | So let's hope that works out well. |
| 0:44.5 | The 2020 Six Nations is finally in the history books. |
| 0:48.0 | Attention now turns to the up-and-coming Autumn Nations Cup, |
| 0:50.9 | a five-week tournament, |
| 0:52.4 | which features a Six Nations side alongside Georgia and Fiji. |
| 0:56.0 | As ever, we'll be across every game here on full contact over the next five weeks, starting |
| 1:00.2 | with today's episode where I'm joined by a very special guest. He's a two-time British and Irish |
| 1:06.0 | line, a four-time Champions Cup winner and a former European player of the year, |
| 1:11.7 | now plying his trade with London Irish. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm sure you've guessed if you follow rugby, and even if you don't, it's Sean O'Brien. |
| 1:18.7 | We'll be discussing his recent book fuel, where he details his career for Ireland, Lenster and the Lions, |
| 1:24.4 | and gives an insight into, well, what he says could have made him an angry young man. |
| 1:28.3 | Whether he turns into an angry old man, we don't know. |
| 1:30.9 | But we'll get these thoughts on lots of things, including working with Joe Schmidt, |
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