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🗓️ 6 September 2025
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On the whistle reaction as England beat Australia 47-7 in Brighton.
Sara Orchard is joined by commentator Claire Thomas and World Cup winner Rachael Burford as England see off Australia despite a shaky first half performance. Sadia Kabeya and Kelsey Clifford both scored two tries to set up a quarter-final against Scotland. It was a World Cup whitewash for Wales who lost 28-25 to Fiji in an entertaining match in Exeter. How quickly can Wales fix their issues and where has it gone wrong at this World Cup?
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| 0:00.0 | Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to Brighton. There's been fish and chips, there's sea air, there's seagulls. |
| 0:12.0 | It has just been an absolutely glorious weekend so far and that's before we even talk about the rugby here on Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Sarah Orchard. Delighted to say |
| 0:21.3 | to talk us through England being in the quarterfinals, Scotland being in the quarterfinals |
| 0:25.6 | of the women's at Rugby World Cup. I'm joined by none other than 2014 rugby World Cup champion. |
| 0:31.0 | Rachel Burford, thank you for being here. Have you had any fishing chips yet? I have not. |
| 0:37.1 | Disappointingly. We'll work on that and a beer shortly, but first this. Also Claire Thomas, our Five Life Sport commentator, you don't need fish and chips. I don't think you've had a chip in your life. I absolutely have. I can't believe you've opened with a back. You're so healthy. You're so healthy. It's a compliment. I went on a run this morning, so that's the healthy box tick. |
| 0:54.9 | I promise. No, I've got commentary notes to write this evening, and I will be doing them with fish and chips. There we go. Perfect. Right then. So we've got the important stuff covered, so let's talk about the Rugby World Cup. There's so much that has happened today. We're going to try and get through a lot of it, but there's going to be another podcast tomorrow that picks up because there's still more rugby to go. |
| 0:56.4 | The headlines from today so far. We're going to try and get through a lot of it, but there's going to be another podcast tomorrow that picks up because there's still more rugby to go. |
| 1:13.0 | The headlines from today so far. |
| 1:15.2 | It finished Wales 25, Fiji 28. |
| 1:18.2 | Wales finished their World Cup campaign without one win. |
| 1:21.9 | It finished Canada 40, Scotland 19. |
| 1:25.2 | That's enough for Scotland. |
| 1:26.3 | We already knew that they were into the quarter |
| 1:27.8 | finals and then it finished England 47 Australia 7. This is what you need to know. |
| 1:33.2 | Next Saturday in Bristol three o'clock kickoff Canada against Australia Sunday |
| 1:37.9 | Bristol three o'clock England against Scotland. Right let's pick it through |
| 1:43.4 | because we are live in Brighton. We'll cover off Scotland and Wales in a bit, so we didn't watch all of it. We're going to focus on England, first of all. England 47, Australia 7. Sadiya Caber said at full time, we needed that. Would you agree with that, Rachel Burford? Yeah, well, I think at the time, or going into games, you don't want to have kind of those pressure moments, but it is really worthwhile having a head of knockout rugby and having moments where they have to problem solve while they're out there, have different challenges in front of them, and the pressure that Australia put them under and forced them into positions that they've unfamiliar with. And Claire, does that score line accurately tell the story of the match? |
| 2:17.9 | Because Australia, they were leading that for half an hour. |
| 2:21.4 | Oh, it certainly doesn't. |
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