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Scrum V

The Warm Up: 'It's a must-win on the weekend'

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Jenkins is joined by Alisha Joyce-Butchers, Ellis Jenkins and Philippa Tuttiett to preview Wales at the Women's Rugby World Cup as they prepare for their opening game against Scotland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Hello and welcome to Scrum 5, the warm up. We are back after a cool down over the summer. We're back with quite the bang because the women's rugby world cup finally kicks off tomorrow with

0:22.1

hosts England playing the USA. Wales, of course, opened their campaign against Celtic rival

0:27.7

Scotland on Saturday. And joining me on the sofa for this one are two familiar faces in

0:32.9

Ellis Jenkins and Philip Petit and making her scrumfire the warm-up debut, Wales International Alicia Joyce Butchers.

0:40.3

How are we?

0:41.3

Yeah, I'm very well, thank you.

0:42.3

I could have given you better titles, actually.

0:44.1

Two former Wales captains, commentators, extraordinary.

0:47.3

Good to be back, although it feels as though we haven't really been away, given last season has just rolled into this season.

0:53.6

Does it feel a bit like that? The Lions

0:55.6

Tour. We then had another seismic day in Welsh Rugby yesterday. Somebody actually tweeted me to say

1:03.1

I'm fed up of seismic days in Welsh Rugby and I could absolutely relate and sympathise. But do you

1:09.5

feel Alice, you've had a bit of time off?

1:11.1

It's been busy summer for you, off the pitch, away from rugby, isn't it? Yeah, time off is probably not quite no I'd word it. But, yeah, time away from you, definitely. So it's good to be back and, yeah, looking forward to exciting tournament over the next couple of weeks. So you're a dad of two, and you've moved house. Do you feel that over the summer you've become an adult, proper adult?

1:10.9

Yeah, yeah. in tournament over the next couple of weeks. So you're a dad of two and you've moved house. Do you feel that over the summer you've become an adult?

1:29.8

Proper adult.

1:30.8

Yeah, it's funny.

1:32.5

I wonder what I used to do with my spare time

1:34.5

because you don't get very much of it anymore.

1:37.3

But yeah, enjoying it.

1:38.7

New house is lovely and yeah, just trying to sort of chase the toddler around and you know just trying to help out as much as I can

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