The Man with the Pen - Simon Cohen chats with Jim Hamilton

The Rugby Pod

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Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.7 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, Jim chats to the person who signed his first major professional contract, Simon Cohen. Between 2005 and 2020, Simon was head of operations for Leicester, before moving on to become their CEO for eight years. During this time, he helped Leicester become one of the most successful clubs in the game, winning four premiership titles during his time at the club and helping identify and produce some of England's greatest ever players (as well as Scotland's finest brawler). Jim and Simon chat about the growth of the game during that period, where they see the game going, as well as reminisce on some of their glory days at Tigers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.0	So on this episode I talk to the man with the pen. Well the pen that signed my first big contract anyway.
1:07.0	Former CEO of Leicester Tigers. The powerful, the wonderful Simon Cohen.
1:14.0	Get in. Yeah.
1:24.0	Right I'm with the old guard, the good guard Simon Cohen.
1:53.0	It's been a few years since we've spoken properly but we've known each other. I was trying to think back through the archives.
1:59.0	You've known me and I've known you since I was 17, 18 years old.
2:04.0	Yeah well when I first went to Leicester 2005 I thought I've always been a big fan on having a local core that makes the heart and soul of a rugby club.
2:13.0	Whether that's professional or not and when I first went to Tigers there was a group of lads who I thought were brilliant and not necessarily the big names.
2:21.0	Some of them were, some of them weren't but there was people like yourself Brett Deacon, Will Skinner, Sam Vestey, Dan Hippkiss.
2:29.0	And you all invited me out for a curry when I got there and I thought this is weird but it's brilliant as well.
2:35.0	And you know then you sort of chart the ups and downs of those 17, 18 year old kids for the next 20 years and it's been an amazing journey.
2:45.0	I think for all of them in different ways. I think being part of a rugby club obviously creates particularly Tigers back in the day, created an environment which allowed people to be very real and to flourish in that reality. It was fantastic.
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