Six Nations: Coaches special
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Chris is joined by John Barclay at the Six Nations launch in Edinburgh to quiz the men hoping to lead their nation to glory in 2026. Are England and France the clear favourites for the title? They chat to Steve Borthwick about the added expectation this year after they racked up 11 wins in a row in 2025. Andy Farrell says Ireland are the hunters not the hunted this year, but how will their lengthy injury list impact their chances of regaining their title? Steve Tandy makes his pod debut as he talks openly about the off-field issues that are looming over another campaign Wales. What does success look like for them this year? Gregor Townsend tells us this is the best Scotland squad he’s had, but can they put their disappointing autumn to one side and finally mount a serious title challenge? They start in Rome and our favourite multilingual coach Gonzalo Quesada is back to talk fashion and what it would mean to finally beat England in the Six Nations.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.5 | Five Lives, Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:11.6 | Right, rugby and weekly, Six Nations is here. |
| 0:15.7 | The start of a mega six weeks and the first of our run of daily podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Thursday night, the Stad de France, Ireland against France, five live BBC sounds, all the best coverage across the pod, then England of Wales on Saturday and Italy against Scotland as well. |
| 0:30.6 | It is all happening and over the course of this pod we're going to hear from all of the Six Nations coaches loads to come through the week |
| 0:38.5 | nations pod captain special in the England camp you will not must a thing with us now six |
| 0:44.9 | nations launch Rome last year doubling the year before that now it's Edinburgh's turn to host so |
| 0:51.1 | what do you do when you're in Edinburgh? You call up Mr. Edinburgh. |
| 1:11.2 | Enter stage left. John Barkley. You're introing yourself. I'm John Barkley and this is my manner. This is my patch. That's how I speak when I'm up here. Yeah, exactly. It's just a look, isn't it? You know, like I'm Ema Geekin used to say about, see someone on the street, you on the line just to look. |
| 1:13.5 | Do you get that when you walk into an Edinburgh pub? |
| 1:44.5 | Just to look and they go, I'm Mr. Barkley, here's your tenants. Yeah, the exact same thing. Yeah, well here's your whiskey, a whiskey man, on you? I do like my whiskey. Former Scotland captain, played for Edinburgh and Glasgow. We've got written down in the notes that Adam did, you want Calcutta Cups plural. Is that doing some heavy lifting? Or was it just, was it just the Calcutta Cup? There is one and one draw. One and one draw. Okay. I missed out in... A draw when you retained it, I suppose? No, we didn't retain it. 2010. Oh, yeah, we're not talking about 2019, 30th or we're talking about I didn't play 2019. |
| 1:45.6 | Right, but 2010 |
| 1:46.3 | was then |
| 1:46.9 | not quite as high scoring. |
| 1:48.7 | 2010 was |
| 1:49.5 | 9 all or something. |
| 1:50.7 | It was an |
| 1:51.0 | absolute thriller. |
| 1:52.8 | 2008 I was |
| 1:53.7 | 24th man after |
| 1:55.0 | cutting my hand |
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