The Warm Up: 'It's a wig, that's why!'
Scrum V
BBC
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Lauren Jenkins is joined by former Wales international Philippa Tuttiett, broadcaster Claire Thomas and former Wales fly-half James Hook to review Wales’ performances in the Women’s Rugby World Cup and react to the news that Harlequins head coach Danny Wilson will join Steve Tandy's Wales coaching staff.
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| 0:42.5 | Hello and welcome to Scrum 5, the warm-up. |
| 0:46.3 | The Women's Rugby World Cup has reached the quarterfinal stage, |
| 0:49.6 | and so with it comes an end to Wales's campaign. |
| 0:56.0 | A 2825 defeat to Fiji leaves Sean Lynn's side without a win during during this tournament and they head home licking their wounds and pondering where it all went wrong |
| 0:59.7 | and here to ponder further or to try and unpack it all this afternoon. |
| 1:03.8 | Our favourite women's rugby commentator Claire Thomas, |
| 1:07.1 | former world's captain, Philip Petitiette and making his first appearance ahead of the URC season. |
| 1:12.9 | Former Wales fly half James Hook. Are we well? All good. All good lot. Not sure, Philippa. You don't too |
| 1:18.4 | quick to answer that question. Oh, it's such a mixed emotions, isn't it? We're in the middle of just |
| 1:23.4 | the most amazing World Cup and exhibition of women's rugby, but you just can't get away from the fact that Wales has been so disappointing. So yeah, it's like half of me is smiling and half of me is crying a little bit. Do you know what? There was a thunderstorming card of this morning and I sort of drove in thinking, is this just going to set the tone for what's to come? I've another busy weekend on the mic for you, Claire. Come on, lift us up. What was the highlight? Oh, gosh, the highlight. Yeah, they're all busy weekends at the moment, aren't they? They kind of bleed into one another. But I think probably the Harker Stairdown in Brighton, you get that amazing call to arms by Ruhe de Manse and the rest of the Black Ferns and Ireland don't move. and there were 31,000 people in there, I'd say 29,000 of them, what Irish? And when the girls stepped forward as one, honestly, the hackles on the back of my neck just went up, it was properly goosebumps. Like two cells and eight dollars again. Two cellar, it's actually in Brighton, England, Australia, New Zealand against Ireland, the place to place to be over the weekend but James it's been a while since we've seen you you've celebrated a big birthday I have yeah in June but belated happy birthday thanks thanks Lord yeah two and 40 in June so I had a couple of nice trips with the family and the boys and yeah back into it now back into the rugby |
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