Six Nations: In Girona with England's centres & Genge
Rugby Union Weekly
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Chris heads to England's training camp in Girona after Steve Borthwick named his team to face Wales in their Six Nations opener. He sits down with England's centres, Northampton's Tommy Freeman and Fraser Dingwall. They talk golf, how to deal with Henry Pollock's energy in camp and why they click on and off the pitch. Maro Itoje is on the bench, and we speak to the Saints duo and Ellis Genge about how the squad has rallied round the England skipper since losing his mother. Genge also chats about bonding with Fin Smith over UFC and how impressed he’s been with the young props who have come into the setup. With Genge soon to have 76 caps to his name, is he starting to think about joining the centurion club? And how are England approaching a wounded Wales this weekend?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.8 | Five Lives, Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello, Rugby Union Weekly, England training camp, Gerona, a damp Gerona in northern Spain, |
| 0:19.1 | head of the start of the 26 Men's Six Nations. Loads to come on |
| 0:23.5 | this episode of the Rugby Union weekly. Loads to come this week. The Nations pod on the way |
| 0:28.8 | tomorrow. Thursday morning our captain's episode and then we'll have all the reaction from the |
| 0:33.9 | Stad de France after what should be an epic opener between France and Ireland. |
| 0:38.7 | Already this week are coaches special. |
| 0:41.4 | So get that if you haven't already. |
| 0:43.3 | And a reminder, the BBC Sounds 5 Live and Sports Exeter have every game and so much great coverage right across the BBC. |
| 0:51.5 | England have named their team to take on Wales Saturday afternoon, |
| 0:55.1 | Allian Stadium in Twicken. The big news, Marrow it, Ojo, starts on the bench after a very |
| 0:59.7 | difficult few weeks for the England skipper. We'll speak to the England Vice Captain |
| 1:04.0 | Ellis Genge shortly elsewhere. Tom Robuck, not quite fit enough, according to Steve Borthwick, |
| 1:09.8 | to Henry Arundel on one wing, |
| 1:11.4 | Mani Faireo Boso on the other, |
| 1:13.2 | and Freddie Stewart at Fullback. |
| 1:15.9 | But first up on this episode of the Rugby Union Weekly, |
| 1:19.3 | we're joined by the Northampton Centres, |
| 1:21.7 | the pairing of Fraser Dingwall and Tommy Freeman, |
| 1:24.8 | who are starting together in the midfield for England. Great to see you both. Thank you, too. I was going to say lovely to be here in the Spanish sunshine place. Yeah, you've come at the bad time, haven't you? Has it been up this the whole time? We've had a bit of this, though. Yeah, a bit of grey, but it's, uh, rains kind of stayed off until now. Over the weekend was really sunny, which was quite nice. Okay, so it has been a bit of warm weather yeah that has been some warm and you this is this the golf course is rider cup 2031 yes ourselves out there yeah yeah we got yesterday didn't we we did and uh competing against each other which came down to the last hole we were all square and i bottled the pot. How far? About six foot. Four foot. |
| 2:03.6 | Okay. This is quite an important question because for anyone listening and for someone like myself who just bottles puts all the time, you guys are you play high-stakes sport. |
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