The final four and partying with McIlroy
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Danny and Ashley are here to wrap up the champions cup quarter-finals . They reflect on Friday’s epic clash at The Rec and Henry Pollock’s controversial yellow card. Is Maxime Lucu France’s number one scrum-half right now? Does Bordeaux’s defence get credit it deserves? Leinster are into yet another semi-final, but can Toulon defy the odds again next month in Dublin after dumping Glasgow out of the competition? Where did it go wrong for the URC leaders at Scotstoun? And will we see Courtney Lawes add to his 105 England caps? His move to Sale prompts Ashy to declare he is also coming out of international retirement!
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| 0:45.3 | Chris Ashton. |
| 0:46.8 | Daniel, how are you? |
| 0:48.1 | Very well, mate. |
| 0:49.0 | Champions and Challenge Cup quarterfinals weekend, Aship. |
| 0:52.7 | You always said Friday night games are dull, |
| 0:56.2 | but Bathley, Northampton, 84 points, 11 tries. Some unbelievable rugby on it. Were you not |
| 1:04.0 | entertained? I think I've been proven wrong a few times on that now. I think the night after |
| 1:09.1 | that I said that statement, it was a classic |
| 1:11.9 | Quinn's game, I think it was. It was like a cricket score. So that comment has gone |
| 1:18.2 | out of the window, no, mate. Let's just leave it there. Friday night was game of the weekend. |
| 1:23.9 | The best two teams in England, would you say? I would, definitely. I was more concerned about the Frenches trying to navigate the ronderboats at Milton Keynes at one point, if that was going to happen. There's no chance. They wouldn't have made it to the game, mate, if they'd about to go rowing the ron boats at Milton Keynes. Is there a lot of roundabouts there? I don't think I've ever been to Milton Keynes. It's one big randerboat. You go roundabout after roanabot. There's no lights. It's just roanoboes. Is it? I know I've skydived. I've indoor skydived in Milton Keynes once. That was good crap. Well, loads to get into this Challenge Cup. Women's Six Nations kicked off with a bang. This is Chris Ashton, Daddy Care, and this is Rugby Union Weekly. |
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| 2:11.1 | Where did you go to then, days sport-wise? |
| 2:13.7 | There's a lot of sport over the weekend. |
| 2:16.2 | What a weekend, Christoph. |
| 2:18.7 | What a weekend. |
| 2:20.7 | Unfortunately, I think when you've got this sporting weekend jammed in the middle of Easter, |
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