Why England should beat the All Blacks
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Alan Dymock is joined by Gavin Mairs, Charlie Morgan and Charles Richardson to unpack an incident-filled weekend of rugby action!
England now have nine wins in a row under Steve Borthwick after seeing off the challenge from Fiji at Twickenham.
It was another strong afternoon for Borthwick's 'Pom squad' while Fin Smith played well on his return to the No 10 shirt. We discuss if his performance was enough to earn him a start against the All Blacks on Saturday.
Speaking of New Zealand, they edged past Scotland at Murrayfield thanks to some heroics from Damian McKenzie. We take a look at the threat the All Blacks pose and ask if England's favourite tag is justified.
Elsewhere, South Africa laid down a serious marker by beating France with 14 men, Italy picked up a major win over Australia and it was a case of new coach, same result for Wales who were thumped by Argentina.
Plus, Charles tells us why the bunker system is not fit for purpose and we tackle your questions as usual too!
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| 0:48.8 | Welcome back to the Telegraph Rugby podcast and what a weekend of rugby we had. |
| 0:52.0 | Huge number of matches, lots of talking points. |
| 0:53.3 | My name is Alan Dimmick. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm the commissioning editor for sport here at the Telegraph we are going through it all we've got england beating fiji we've got italy dazzling |
| 1:01.1 | against australia we've got ireland winning again we've got wales different but same same |
| 1:07.5 | we're going to get pouring into it all what marrfield too |
| 1:12.2 | what we're scotland playing this weekend well we'll go over that at some point anyway we've got |
| 1:18.5 | lots to get into that that insidious voice you heard there that was charlie morgan hello charlie |
| 1:22.8 | we've got charles and gav here and gab i'd like to start with you. Just your key takeaways from the weekend. |
| 1:28.3 | What did you make of all? |
| 1:29.0 | Hell of a lot of rugby. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah, brilliant. |
| 1:31.8 | Just brilliant. |
| 1:32.7 | I mean, I think probably yesterday's game for Wales was probably the dark moment of the weekend. |
| 1:38.9 | You know, it was just sad to see them not quite really getting that fresh start reset gov you went in paris at midnight on |
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