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The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

Thomas “The Tank” Du Toit

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

Platform Media

Sports, Rugby

4.42.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Springbok tighthead, the broken grip strength machine, and a bag of homemade biltong. This one had it all. Thomas du Toit sits down with the boys to talk farm life, front row dark arts, Springbok test weeks, and what England can really expect when they rock up at Ellis Park in July. Simply one of the best guests we've ever had. 00:00 🛞 Season 6 is sponsored by Continental Tyres 01:22 💪 Grip Strength Chaos 03:58 🥩 Biltong And Boerewors 12:49 🚜 Farm Kid To Pro Pathway 15:05 🏉 Schoolboy Rugby Rivalries 23:15 🔧 Machinery and Fixing Stuff  30:00 ↔️ Switching to Tighthead  32:04 📚 Loosehead vs Tighthead Explained  34:44 🎭 Scrum Dark Arts Revealed  39:35 🦸 Scrum Combos and The Avengers Pack  50:20 🇿🇦 Springbok Selection Ups and Downs  54:46 ⛰️ England Test - Ellis Park Altitude  01:00:29 👀 England Front Row Talent Watch  01:05:55 🛁 Bath Depth and Will Stuart Praise  01:07:03 🏆 Try Scoring  01:09:15 🎯 Premiership Goal and World Cup Ambitions  01:13:30 🤝 Most Respected Opponent 🔐 EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/goodbadrugby Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee 📗The Good, The Bad & The Rugby: Unloaded are available: https://lnk.to/GBRUnlocked/waterstones Welcome to The Good, The Bad & The Rugby with journalist and former broadcaster Alex Payne, England and Lions flanker James Haskell, and World Cup Winner Mike Tindall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think the current loose sets are phenomenal at the Springbok, so the training is more difficult in the game.

0:06.0

It's very important that you just get your fundamentals right before you start thinking about the dark arts.

0:11.0

Just give us a sense of what awaits England at Ellis Park?

0:14.0

Altitude.

0:15.0

It's an experience that you can't explain to anyone. You need to be there. You need to live it and feel it.

0:22.0

Do you feel enriched by having been here? Completely. Yeah, as in completely changed me.

0:27.2

Understanding what a proper rugby club is supposed to look like, I've had the best on.

0:33.0

Alex Payne trying to keep the sight going forward. Haskell takes it on now with just relentless chat.

0:38.6

And there's Tyndall to add the finishing touch of glamour and World Cup winning stories,

0:42.9

a dominant display by the good, the bad and the rugby.

0:47.7

Hello Dream Team. Welcome along to this week's episode of the Good, the Bad and the Rugby,

0:50.9

proudly sponsored as always by our fantastic partners at Continental Tires. Continental Tires are the official tire partner of England Rugby, engineered for victory. Their award-wielding tires are built to perform no matter the conditions. Do get yourselves involved in the comment section. Make sure you'll subscribe wherever it is you get your podcast. And today we have got a man-mountain in the studio, Thomasyreve, Bath and the Springbox. From the boy who grew up on a farm in the Western Cape to the man who's gone on to become arguably the best tighthead prop on the planet right now. How are you? I'm very well, thank you. Thanks for having me. Before we even get into it, we're going to start with our Continental Tars grip strength challenge. The Mountain Hath arrived in studio.

1:28.8

There's no muck in about.

1:29.9

There's not even a warm up.

1:31.1

He's looked up Bismarck at 88.2.

1:34.0

Eddie the Beast Hall at 84.1.

1:35.7

We've cleared a gap already.

1:37.0

Do you want to get straight into it?

1:37.9

You flex.

1:38.5

Yeah.

1:39.4

You want to go.

1:39.4

Let's know.

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