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Rugby Union Weekly

Teams are out

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

Sports News, Sports, Rugby, News

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Is this the strongest England team since the 2019 World Cup? Ugo and Chris chat to Eddie Jones after he gives Danny a first England start in four years and names Courtney Lawes as captain. Former Lions and Ireland winger Shane Horgan talks about the expectation levels ahead of Ireland's first Test in New Zealand. Wales have also gone for experience and brought back George North and Dan Lydiate return for their first Test against South Africa in Pretoria.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

Five lives, Robby Union Weekly.

0:07.8

Right, we are 48 hours away, maybe under 48 hours, in some cases away from the start

0:19.0

of the summer series and in his bonus pod time, not long to go now to the first super Saturday

0:24.6

of the summer.

0:25.6

Ugo, you're in Manchester, you've taken a break from your question of sport filming.

0:29.7

Managed to make a bit of time to talk a bit of rugby, never at all.

0:33.6

Literally in between episodes.

0:35.6

Get the pod down, we're excited about the international rugby circuit going back on,

0:39.9

but we have not only have we got excitement this weekend, we've got loads of exciting guests

0:45.1

on question of sport for season two.

0:47.2

Oh, give us a tease, what do you got?

0:49.0

Well, today we have got the world's best rugby player in Zoey Eldcroft.

0:55.0

Freddie Flintoff in the studio, which is brilliant Connor Ben,

0:57.9

what a boxer, he is an Andrews Townsend, so we've got loads, loads to get through.

1:03.6

So loads of good guests on question of sport, loads of good guests coming up on this bonus

1:07.4

rugby union, weekly Shane Hawking with the lowdown on Ireland, Eddie Jones from Perth

1:12.1

after naming his England team.

1:14.1

That's with Chris Jones with Ugo Monja on rugby and weekly.

1:17.2

Rugby Union Weekly from BBC Sport and BBC Radio Five Live.

1:24.8

When stalk England then Ugo, they start off with three tests in Australia, they're back

1:28.4

there six years on from that famous whitewash in 2016, commentary of all three tests on

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