The definitive World Cup quarter-final preview!

Rugby Union Weekly

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Sports, Sports News, News, Rugby

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this bumper pod ahead of the World Cup quarter-finals, Chris and Sara track down some of the biggest names in the sport. Chris chats to World Cup winners Matt Dawson and Joel Stransky in Marseille about England and South Africa's picks at fly-half, what to expect from Fiji and the importance of Jac Morgan if Wales are to beat Argentina. Meanwhile in Paris, Sara sits down with Thierry Dusautoir and Richie McCaw to reminisce about the epic quarter-final clash in 2007, Antoine Dupont's return and Sam Cane's captaincy. Sara also gets an Ireland perspective on their quarter-final with former Ireland forward Chris Henry.

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0:00.0	Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Michael Richards to say the match of the day top 10 podcast is back
0:07.4	We'll be ranking our footballing top 10s and debiting. It was right. Well, it's don't be me. Not a champ, it's Gary
0:14.8	First season wonders to goalkeeping blunders. Nothing is off the table. You had a few blunders in your day, didn't you Gary?
0:22.0	Yeah, match of the day top 10. Listen only on BBC sounds
0:27.4	BBC sounds music radio podcasts
0:32.4	Five lives rugby union daily at the rugby World Cup
0:39.8	Rugby Union daily quarterfinal weekend and it is game day and this is your definitive rugby World Cup
0:48.8	Quarterfinal preview pod in this bumper episode of the daily we're here from some of the all-time
0:54.3	Greats of the game as we look ahead to four compelling matchups. We'll be with Sarah and Paris shortly
0:59.8	But first I'm joined here in Marseille by not one but two rugby World Cup winners
1:05.9	Matt Dawson, you've made it out here. We've swapped Chris Ashton out Matt Dawson in. No, no, absolutely not surely the surely that it's just
1:14.5	At a long size. Yes, but he has gone home. Oh, he likes Friday night. Yeah, right. We've not told him to stay in his room and not join us
1:21.1	He's not been out in the vicinity. He's been doing the teddy the premiership up and running by the way Bristol
1:27.0	Friday night as she was there he'll be back out with us, but I said you made it out here
1:32.5	Flippantly, but a lot of England fans have been hit by problems with flights being cancelled the air traffic strike
1:38.6	So let's hope everyone gets here for what is going to be one of the great weekends here in Marseille no down in Paris too
1:43.4	There is there has been one weekend
1:46.9	That in the build up to this
1:49.5	Tournament and people are asking should I you know should I go I'm like if there's one weekend
1:54.5	You've got to go it has to be quarterfinals, and I know Paris is off the the stadium is off the scale, but
2:02.1	2007 this was the best weekend of you don't you just finish
2:06.3	Yeah, yeah, my first playing first major tournament and Marseille was absolutely jumping because they had the game
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