The Nations Pod

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

News, Sports, Sports News, Rugby

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Is Saturday’s game at Murrayfield Scotland’s best ever opportunity to beat the All Blacks? And what would count as a good autumn for Wales? Just some of the questions that Chris, Tom and Gareth tackle ahead of busy weekend of rugby. Chris argues that England’s strength in depth is their biggest asset, while Tom has serious concerns that Ireland lack the X factor. And Gareth confesses he’s starting to feel like the third wheel in this pod throuple after missing out on the Lion tour.

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0:07.0	Hello, Living Legends, I'm Laura Whitmore.
0:09.5	And I'm Ian Sterling. It's officially cozy season, people.
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0:42.2	Right, Rugby Union Weekly Thursday morning. It is Nation's pod time again. Long awaited, much anticipated.
0:49.9	The band back together, Groh and Tom. Great to be here, guys.
0:53.4	It is. It seems like an eternity, doesn't it? An awful lot has happened. Or maybe nothing has happened since we saw each other last. I'm not sure. No, plenty has happened. We've had a World Cup. We've had a week of Autumn International, start of domestic seasons. Yeah. But yeah, a very different vibe looking at you through a fuzzy screen tom as opposed to sharing a
1:12.9	a cold but ultimately tasteless ozi lager yeah well the last time we saw each other we did a pod
1:18.7	from uh your luxurious apartment in sydney with the rain belting off the windows and here i am sitting
1:26.8	in my house in scotland with the rain belting off the windows. And here I am sitting in my house in Scotland with the rain belting off the windows.
1:31.0	So to that extent, nothing has changed, apart from the views are slightly different here
1:36.0	than they were in Sydney.
1:37.9	Sterling doesn't match, does it?
1:39.6	Sterling doesn't really, no harbour bridge or opera house, really.
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