The Nations Pod
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Nations Pod is back! GRO, like Wales, sits out this episode as it falls outside of the international Test window, but Chris and Tom eventually look ahead to the start of the Autumn Nation Series after battling yet more technical issues. How much pressure are England under to beat the All Blacks this Saturday? Steve Borthwick has named his team early picking Ben Spencer at scrum-half and Henry Slade in midfield, despite him only playing 54 minutes this season. Sione Tuipulotu will lead Scotland against Fiji and Tom is full of praise for the new Scotland captain and is backing Gregor Townsend's side to take a big scalp this autumn.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds music radio podcasts. Five lives. Rubby Union daily. Rubby Union daily. |
| 0:08.5 | Wednesday morning. It is nation's pod time. Six nations match week two. Cracking open weekend. |
| 0:15.3 | Belting one coming up as well. Ireland against France. The early kickoff on Saturday. What a show |
| 0:20.0 | down that is in Dublin one against two in the world. Scotland Wales at Murrayfield, one of the |
| 0:24.8 | great six nations fixtures and England hosting a potentially resurgent Italy on Sunday with us |
| 0:32.0 | as ever. Scrumfives eternal pessimist. Garrett resurring his outlook. Wondering bright and much |
| 0:38.4 | after Cardiff last Saturday, but conversely he's fresh after storming Twickenham. It's top |
| 0:44.5 | English of BBC Scotland who's looking forward already to that Scotland against Ireland. |
| 0:48.8 | Grand Slam show down in March. Well, I said last week if Ireland were to emerge from |
| 0:53.9 | Cardiff on skates, which they did that the Grand Slam was on, I'm sticking to that. |
| 0:59.6 | You who've ringed on? There's a man cutting my hedge with a very, very large cutting device |
| 1:07.2 | and grow. I'm not going anywhere near him. And so you decide in that your hedge being manicured |
| 1:13.8 | takes precedence over the podcast. Well, I thought he'd be finished by now, to be honest. |
| 1:18.9 | It's a big, very large, very large team brick, slightly big hedge right after saying I did let it |
| 1:24.4 | get a bit out of control. So there's a bit of cutting in it. We did say last week didn't we grow |
| 1:29.9 | that four home nation sides. They all were kind of going towards across roads. And if they won |
| 1:38.0 | on the open weekend, they bounce into week two with confidence, fewer questions over there. |
| 1:43.4 | They're tactics, their team selection, whatever it might be. And for the two that lost, |
| 1:47.2 | they lost back to the drawing board in a sense. And that's kind of what's happened. I said and |
| 1:52.0 | I'll hold my hands up. I thought the England would beat Scotland and maybe get on a roll. It's |
| 1:55.6 | not happened. Now they've got questions about their team. Wales very much likewise after being |
| 2:01.6 | humbled in Cardiff against Ireland. And on the flip side, Ireland hosts for hunts with a spring |
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