The Warm Up: 'Have you boys not won a wooden spoon?'

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Jenkins is joined by Jamie Roberts, Alun Wyn Jones and Tom Shanklin as they look ahead to Wales’ first game against France in this year’s Six Nations. They’ll be discussing Warren Gatland’s team selection and reminiscing on their memories of playing Les Bleus.

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0:00.0	Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful British manager of all time.
0:05.0	Nobody is above him or this football club.
0:08.0	So how did an apprentice toolmaker from Glasgow become one of the most iconic figures in sporting history?
0:15.0	His strength of character, his determination, the fight on him.
0:18.0	He can be persuasive, he can be charming. He can be frightening.
0:21.4	I'm Kelly Cates,
0:22.5	and this is Sporting Giants, Sir Alex Ferguson.
0:25.8	I didn't want to feel.
0:26.9	I couldn't feel.
0:27.9	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.8	You're listening to BBC Sounds.
0:34.0	You're listening to BBC Sounds.
0:50.3	You're BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to another Scrum 5, the warm up and with just over 24 hours until Wales
0:56.9	take on France in the opening game of the campaign.
1:00.4	I can tell you Six Nations fever has well and truly taken over here on the Sofords at Scrum 5
1:06.5	HQ.
1:07.6	Joining me today are three men who know exactly what it takes to win away in Paris,
1:13.0	Jamie Roberts, Alan Jones and Tom Shanklin,
1:16.6	one of whom also knows what it takes to bounce back from a wooden spoon,
1:20.4	don't you, Tom, wooden spoon in 2003, grand slam two years later.
1:24.7	Early dig.
1:25.6	Wow.
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