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Rugby Union Weekly

The Year of the Tiger?

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s the first pod of the year and there’s already a big story for Ugo, Danny and Chris to discuss with Leicester being investigated for allegedly breaking salary cap rules. Danny celebrates his 35th birthday with a match-winning try at Gloucester, plus there’s a look at Bristol’s struggles this season and is Anthony Watson on the verge of leaving Bath?

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.5

Five lives throughout the Union weekly.

0:13.7

Danny, how do you feel that you are closer to 70 than you are to being born?

0:18.6

Yeah, tough. Tough to take that, CJ. I'll be honest with you.

0:21.7

When I woke up yesterday morning, realising I was 35.

0:26.0

Tough to take, mate. These last few years have just gone, gone in a flash.

0:30.8

But as far as birthdays go, a winner glossed, well, all the family there, I'll take it, mate.

0:36.8

Very nice, that anotry. Let's not forget that.

0:39.8

Little try, some say the match winner, clenched the game, forwarded all the hard work, I just

0:45.3

nicked it off. Well, it was literally the match winner.

0:47.8

Well, your words, yeah. Yeah, your words.

0:49.9

You've been said something to say, I mean, it was to try the mate the difference.

0:52.8

Yeah, and all my family had come down because it was my birthday, obviously, we wanted

0:55.9

to get to see them. They were all there in that corner.

0:58.0

So it was quite a special one because Blake was going mad up in the stands.

1:01.4

So yeah, it was a nice way to finish off.

1:04.2

But the glossed hospitality guys were amazing. They looked after the kids really well.

1:08.8

Got me a cake and everything at the end. So yeah, it was a very nice day.

1:11.6

Got boxed for life now. Boxed for life at Gloucester.

1:14.2

Yeah, they tried to give the kids some flags to take on, some Gloucester flags

1:17.4

and Blake threw them on the floor and discussed on the way out.

1:20.8

Which I was quite proud of. Right, so first part of 2022, New Year, New Asu Go?

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