Tom May: It's time to have a play off between the Premiership and Championship

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week saw Newcastle relegated from the Premiership, the race for fourth continue to tighten, and the PRO14 quarter final play-offs. Alongside Brian Moore to discuss this and more is the Telegraph's rugby reporter Charlie Morgan.With Falcons' relegation confirmed we speak with former Newcastle back Tom May about why it went wrong for them this season, whether they can bounce straight back up again, and if ring-fencing should seriously be considered by the Premiership. Charlie and Brian also go through the other Premiership results including Saracens inflicting a heavy defeat on Exeter.With the PRO 14 semi finals decided, Brian and Charlie discuss the impact of Dan McFarland at Ulster and Kieran Crowley at Benetton with the latter just minutes from beating Munster at Thomond Park.Plus we look ahead to the Champions Cup final, speaking with former Leinster hooker Bernard Jackman about his former side's chances against Saracens, and we get into those all important head-to-heads across the field. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.
0:11.8	Well, coming towards the end of the season and things are playing out.
0:15.7	We'll be talking about Newcastle who've been relegated, the Pro 14 quarterfinal
0:20.2	playoffs.
0:20.7	Plus, we'll be looking
0:22.2	ahead to the Champions Cup final and no doubt discussing the prospects of the Premiership
0:26.9	Clubs insuring top four or indeed grabbing a place in Europe with me to discuss all this is
0:33.0	the telegraphs charlie morgan charlie how are you mate very well thanks having me by
0:36.1	by him good man look we'll be speaking to Tom May, ex-Newcastle, amongst others, in a moment.
0:42.1	But Newcastle have gone down.
0:44.1	After last season, when, frankly, they dramatically overachieved.
0:48.8	What are your initial thoughts?
0:50.5	I think that's really important, first of all, to say that last year was a dramatic overachievement.
0:54.8	And then on top of that, they've lost experienced players with a few retirements.
0:58.3	I've seen them three times this season, away at Leicester, away at Bristol, and away at Saracens.
1:03.1	And it's become so boring this season to talk about fine margins because it's been a crazy
1:07.6	season where just about everybody's being capable of beating anybody else.
1:11.7	But in those three games, they could have easily won, you know,
1:14.6	in any of those away games.
1:16.3	In several other games that I also watched, you know, all being on TV,
1:19.6	it's been the same story.
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