What now for Gregor Townsend? And a pod debut!

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2:01Alfie Reynolds: Hola, este es el RUC, el Jornalista de Rugby Podcast de la Times y la Sunday Times. Bienvenidos a la semana en el estudio de la semana siguiente, en la semana siguiente, el final de la final de la 2026 Six Nations. Soy Alfie Reynolds, un placer de tener tu compañía. Comenzamos, vamos a ver el video de la acción y vamos a ver algunos de los grandes fixtures en el round 2 también. Alongside me this week, Owen Slott, back on the pod. How are you Slotty? Pretty good, thanks. Very good to be here with our great new signing. And that person is Charlie Morgan, who is joining the Times. Charlie, it's brilliant to have you with us.

2:33Charlie Morgan: Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to get started. Have we got canned applause now? Will you do that, canned applause?

2:37Alfie Reynolds: Do you want canned applause? Yeah, I want canned applause. I'll see what I can do. I'll speak to the effects department. We don't have an effects department, but I'll see what I can do in getting Charlie some canned applause. Charlie, welcome to the team. First day today on the Monday. ¿Qué podemos ver si es expectante? Y ya está escrito en Twickenham sobre Oli Chesson, England's second row options.

2:55Charlie Morgan: Sí, vamos a ver en el momento. Pero lo que lo que lo que tú vas a ver a lot sobre los próximos meses es que no sé si se puede ver que también se puede ver mucho credit para que el sides play bad. Y obviamente, Wales no son un particular strong sides para empezar con. Pero yo pensé que Oli Chesson era integral de cómo se tomó la plataforma de Wales con esa línea de variedad y él showed flashes de lo que hace him especial y es un hombre muy especial ha tenido un hombre ha tenido un hombre tom croftaba y se lo he estrellói lo que fue muy cool y creo que es un muy valioso para la playa para england

3:27Alfie Reynolds: que mencioné que phrase que england almost no get enough credit para hacer hacerse y que often hear people say ah mi team lost to england pero we played realmente terrible whereas el flip side of that es que england do a lot of things to as you say take away strengths or make things difficult for teams

3:43Charlie Morgan: a lot of their El performances over this run have just stunk of really, really diligent preparation, as you'd expect from Steve Borthwick is a disciple of Eddie Jones. And that was, you know, one of Eddie Jones's calling cards as a coach, just really diligent preparation, zeroing in on strengths and taking them away and really frustrating an opponent. And you're right, sort of you speak to opposing fans about England, you're going, yeah, you didn't rock up, didn't rock up in that area, didn't rock up in that area. And you're going, England have had something to do with that. y, you know, there's building, clearly building hype about this England side as there would be over any side who've won 12 tests in a row but that is a strength that I think potentially gets overlooked a little bit

4:20Alfie Reynolds: And Slotter, you were in Paris on Thursday for the opener, you were at Twickenham as well how did you enjoy your first round of this year's Six Nations?

4:28Owen Slot: Yeah, two kind of, two games that in many ways were similar in that you saw the stronger team just out the block so fast y ambos por algún motivo hit a wall at 50 minutos no sé por qué eso en ambos casos fueron done no sé si es motivación o fitness o lo que sea France, es tan divertido y se sentía que se había que hacer más tienen un poco más oposición pero ambos Ireland y Wales fueron muy disappointing y puedo sentir la conversación building through the six nations about tiers or divisions or you know is England and France bubbling up to the top together being ahead of the rest of the game is something that is 20 odd years old that we had that and we've had this magnificent period of over the last 20 years of Wales being really good can you remember that yes but they were they won a few grand slams Ireland being astonishingly good you know both nations sort of playing punching above their weights really y ahora vamos a irme y vamos a irme back a lo que hace logical sentido, las dos dos grandes sides con la biggest playing power etc y es bien, que es bien, que es que vamos a hablar de todo más y más más que vamos a ir.

5:47Charlie Morgan: Potentemente accentuado por el schedule, uno por el resto de la semana, porque si roll y roll y roll y roll, que es que es muy difícil para si, siempre siempre hablamos de la momentum y Will brought it up the knee en la post-match pod pero que puede funcionar en un y eso puede ser un poco más rápido.

6:04Alfie Reynolds: Sí, y en ese punto, Charlie, uno de los cosas que creo que con este opening round en el Six Nations es que todo fue todo lo que se quedó en lo que se esperaba. Así que siempre le digo, el momento cambia cada vez, el historialismo cambia, el contexto cambia, y eso es obviamente todavía cierto, pero creo que si lo vea este weekend, todos esperan Francia a ser un montón de personas de favoritas, se quedó muy impresionante contra un lado que muchos piensan y tienen preguntas sobre ellos después de la defeat. England were as impressive as a team you'd expect on an 11-game winning run and Wales were as poor as a team with their recent record in all test matches.

6:39Alfie Reynolds: I suppose Italy, Scotland was the only one where maybe you'd say it didn't quite go to what people expected but even so, I think the narrative in Scotland was certainly that's a really tough away game. It was and it reinforced the narratives around Scotland of questions over Gregor Townsend, a team that played really badly at the end of 2025 so it feels like we've had the first round. I suppose my point is we've had the first round but actually everything

6:58Charlie Morgan: casi respetos

7:28Owen Slot: pre-Six Nations prediction, where did you have Scotland?

7:30Charlie Morgan: I had them third.

7:32Alfie Reynolds: I actually didn't do a prediction, so I can't.

7:34Owen Slot: Yeah, well done. Charlie's right. I had them in third as well. I mean, yeah.

7:40Charlie Morgan: I didn't expect their... The only real concern I guess I had for them before was I thought that Finn Russell had looked slightly flat for Bath from a very high bar. He's been fantastic for Bath previously. I didn't expect their scrum to be as dominated as it was by Italy I didn't expect the line out to be as catastrophic as it was because it really was that bad. But the Italy type five deserve huge credit. They were fantastic. And yeah, and then and that and when you tack on what I thought about Scotland before, I thought Scotland obviously capitulated late in those autumn games. But I believed what Gregor Townsend was saying when he said, well, actually, the high points in those games have been some of the highest points I've had as a head coach.

8:25Charlie Morgan: Y no se hizo que survived como si. Dondefigure fatos quePeter había alguna mejor thinking de finalizar. Pero eso y lo hicieron sin precedidas.

8:32Owen Slot: Si está quedando conTececo adorsinado a sinceridad. Con mer populated Trek. La conversación con ventajas de EL şimdi. Todo lo que pasó con cartes de hoyo. Es la futura bandida a perfectoər.

8:55Owen Slot: I thought this was a team coming to fruition rather than falling apart but the selection of the back three slightly flummoxed me

9:03Alfie Reynolds: The thing that I still find mad and I said this on Saturday after the game at Twickenham is I still think Scotland have a decent chance of beating England, like I think that game and we will come on to it in a bit more detail later I still think that game is such a fascinating challenge from an England point of view The thing I've been thinking about Scotland to pick up on what you said there Charlie is I remember en November, principalmente en el juego contra Argentina, diciendo que no es que no es Gregor Townsend su culpa de los players fell apart en el final 20 minutos de la game y ended up losing it, pero hay una evidencia que no es que no es Gregor Townsend su culpa totalmente que algunos de los players froze en el sábado o lo que sucedió, pero he es el coche y tenemos un gran body de evidencia que esto es un side que ha sido stagnante por el último dos años.

9:49Alfie Reynolds: Tenemos todo el que le hagan immerderingo a Newcastle Red Bulls queelier de extraño pero donde nosooo Pararát than 뭐� whose donde está en particular Gregor Townsend y el noises que no más este bispo y principalmente piedad por ahora y la he

10:17Charlie Morgan: resuelto Agara Cup narrative. Scotland were continually beaten in that fixture and they become so dominant in it that England were so neurotic in getting over the line at Twickenham I thought last year. I thought they circled that fixture as a game that they had to win whatever the cost and it was a grim game and they did get over the line but you could see how much they were just desperate to just get some positivity out of that game and that's the extent to which the frame es bien flipado en eso pero creo que los supporters de Scotland ahora se ve que en la luz de que hay nada más que ha ido para Scotland en ese año y que coupled con a theme ahora de no estar en los tie-to games es un trío un trío lugar para él

11:06Alfie Reynolds: Es todo un poco sad ¿no es Slotty? I do look at where Scotland y si es el principio de la edad de Gregor Townsend o lo que ha hecho ha un contracto y el mundo del mundo el noises ahora son muy loud para él no ver que no se vea que se vea que se vea que se vea que se vea que se vea que se vea que Townsend debe ser rememberedas a una excelente Scotland coach que, como Charlie ha dicho, ha tenido un grupo de jugadores, ha tenido un gran resultado, ok, lo que es lo que lo que está diciendo es que a lot de eso hinges a beating England at Twickenham y ganar Calcutta Cups, pero overall, creo que es algo positivo y me parece que el último año a 18 meses y donde estamos ahora, significa que no es que no es el caso.

11:45Owen Slot: Si usted dice que el coach ha tenido un buen grupo de jugadores y han sido taguados con el Golden Generation, entonces el coach debería ser bueno y debería ser más que Gregor ha. Y también, como Charlie dice, si te quiera el calc... Es increíble lo uno victorio sobre England cada año puede hacer para tu credibilidad y tu longevidad. Si Scotland para ganar este weekend. I mean, it would all be forgiven. It would buy him a bit of time, wouldn't it? I've sort of always been a bit of a Gregor fan because I like the way he thinks and I like the way he talks, which obviously doesn't mean he's produced successful teams.

12:26Owen Slot: He's not got Scotland to a decent place in a World Cup or a Six Nations and he's been there a long time. So I think that is the bottom line and it does seem inevitable that there's going to be a change at some point. I mean, Mark Palmer's piece in The Times today was talking about is it mid-tournament change as Wales did last time or is it end of tournament and now you're at that panicky place where at what point do you change before a World Cup because then you've got to implement a new regime etc etc so once people talk like that it sounds gloomy and it sounds like it's only heading one direction but then again win the Calcutta Cup and then everyone will think the world is wonderful again

13:05Charlie Morgan: I'm sure people have but if they haven't I'd urge them to read Mark's report from Rome. It doesn't miss, does it?

13:11Alfie Reynolds: No, it was brilliant. And actually, speaking of Mark, we were hoping to have him on the pod today to chat all things Scotland, but I got a message from him this morning, Monday morning at 6am, saying I've just got back into Glasgow. I haven't had a wink of sleep. Is it all right if I miss the pod? And I said, that's absolutely fine. When did you leave Rome? He said 6pm on Sunday. So I don't know what his journey, I don't know if it's still raining in Rome and he was delayed or something, but that is the reason that we couldn't get Mark on.

13:34Owen Slot: I mean, seriously, Let's just analyse that for a bit A bit soft of Mark really I mean is he just reflecting the Scotland team overall He's not turning up on that soft underbelly Not turning up when he's really required

13:47Alfie Reynolds: Well maybe The other thing actually The flip side of this I suppose There's always going to be a big focus on Scotland I get that we've led with it Big result for Italy though as well Really good Italian side They themselves certainly didn't play a perfect game But when you get those conditions y cuando el agua y cuando pasa cuando los conditions

14:14Charlie Morgan: se transforman y stopping apocalipsis la ley es muy handy eran más cuando sıkA no perecher ¿no huevo? ¿No?

14:26Alfie Reynolds: Esso funny que Scotland tenis det stell. ¿no sé como digamos la línea la setla la setla el setla es 그래요 los 3 y coloco Y todo el de un momento, se ve final play en el red. Y ellos van a la length de la pitch, 30 phases, en el driving rein. Es como, es increíble cómo se puede hacer eso cuando hay que.

14:42Charlie Morgan: Es un buen sentido para cómo crippling es que se puede ser que, para ser su far second best set-pies. Porque los pies de Scotland, los pies de la mano, ¿verdad? Y los áreas donde han competido con England en el pasado. Y creo que mi impresión de Scotland under Greg Townsend es que se ha hecho de haber visto muchas de las mejores impressive performances in Calcutta Cup games where they've been accurate, patient and then struck when the opportunities have come. You're right, Slotty, if they do conjure another one I don't know whether that changes public perception. That's where we are.

15:16Alfie Reynolds: Yeah, I don't think it fully changes public perception in the way that it perhaps used to but I think it does probably, it just softens the blow a little bit. He certainly sees out the championship if they go and beat England and we'll come on to the Calcutta Cup shortly. In terms of England, we were all at Twickenham We mentioned Charlie's piece about Oli Chesson that you can go and read now, some really detailed stuff about what England did at the line-out. Slotik, what were your thoughts overall on England's performance and what you saw from them? A game they were expected to win, and to be fair to them, they went out and did it handily.

15:45Owen Slot: Yeah, I find it just frustrating watching a game like that. I mean, it's fun and there's lots of points in that, but you can't go away from that going, oh, Henry Arundel's the future because he scored a hat-trick. Well, anyone there should have scored a hat-trick. Pero fair play to Henry Arroyo He took them well ¿Qué do we learn about where England are going And what's working Not a lot The question I think if you're being critical Is Tommy Freeman at 13 Did you think that didn't work I didn't think it worked particularly On a day where players Should have been shining Should have been demonstrating their excellence I thought that was one area that didn't Until he went on to the wing When you go oh my god how did he finish que se veía así comfortable, ¿cómo se ha hecho que se ha hecho que se ha hecho?

16:30Owen Slot: No sé si vamos a hablar de esto luego. Pero yo he ha ido a la idea de la gente de la Baja Bosa y Arundel. Y luego puedes complementar con George Furbank a la Baja Baja. Y luego tienes un completamente diferente tipo de Baja Baja. where you can play Stewart at the back and have Freeman and Roebuck as your wings and you've got the best aerial game in, you've got an outstanding aerial game and maybe that's what he'll do against Scotland because that's going to be kicking and kicking and kicking, isn't it? So at what point do you back your evasive, excellent runners versus, it's not like Roebuck and Freeman and Stewart aren't decent themselves, but there's two very different sets of strengths there.

17:26Alfie Reynolds: Sí, y en el punto de la wingación, Manny Fabio Boso, he droppedado de la Wales con un hamstring injury. He es ahora en el estado de la izquierda, esperaba a miss el resto de la Six Nations. Pero hay un montón de cosas que podemos decir aquí. Uno, es un, es un, es un, es un, como england han construido un nivel de fuerza y depth en la wing. Porque sabemos cómo bien Fabio Boso es, pero tú tienes que Roebuck, tú tienes que Arundel, Freeman puede ir a la wing, tienes que jugar con Caden Murley en la squad. La otra cosa, por mí, es que se ha llegado a la pointa con Manny Fabio Boso, como, oh, man, Y darle un buen Tommy a rappelante.

17:56Alfie Reynolds: Ellos al fix seed. It's going into peso. Ditasing es un nuevo. y los dos de los injuries y como, ¿no? ¿Cómo cómo bien he es? Pero sí, ¿Cómo se ve el que se ve el que se ve?

18:03Charlie Morgan: He fue uno de tres, creo que tres, tres, tres que empezaron all the autumns. So, he had that block, pero, you're right, this felt like the Six Nations where he could really kick on, fantastic form for Exeter, just fits. He's, we talk about sort of the different ways that England can play, he's somebody that's come in quite raw, it was a couple of years ago that he came in sort of out of left field and he's sort of learnt on the job, he's a fantastic athlete pero se ha sido muy bien, se ha sido muy bien, se ha sido muy bien, y ha sido un ejemplo como Henry Arundel.

18:35Alfie Reynolds: ¿Cuál es la otra cosa que te mencionó antes? ¿Es un link entre England A, under-20, senior set-up en términos de styles y cosas?

18:42Charlie Morgan: Sí, en la misma manera que fue un gran weekend para Irlanda, con esos tres correspondientes Irlanda sides losing, all losing heavily. England A20 ha sido en un tussle con Wales, y hay algunas muy encorajadas para Wales en ese juego, pero England came through en la segunda half a comeback el A's went a cork y thrashed Ireland A y justo por... We've covered the England pathway en times when it seemed not necessarily perilous pero no as aligned as it is ahora, y creo que deserve a lot de credit por eso, even en el A game someone como Alex Dombrant going back y playing really well en un potencial tricky fixture es un signo de la competición en la batalla breeding excellence y eso se parece muy encouraging

19:32Owen Slot: El pathway es muy interesante dos países dos países que están playing bien en el momento England y Italia alguien within la RFU que creo que es fair para decir es oftalm es Conor O'Shea que fue en el director de la rugby after la 2019 World Cup So with England You're really seeing this Flow of excellent players Coming through and he has been integral In doing that, now when he was Italy a coach, they went on a run Of not winning anything for a decade Or something, I mean it was That's obviously an exaggeration but they were very poor And it was like, well Conor What have you achieved there, well I think what we're seeing now Is what he achieved there because he spent his time There putting in all these programs To develop the next generación, la pathway for them to come through and I think that's why Italy are decent now, because of the work that he did then, so he's kind of like the Irishman who's made Italy and England good

20:31Alfie Reynolds: Yeah, well certainly I was watching the under-20s game decent game in the end, good comeback it was almost like, it reminded me of a cricket match in that Wales put up all their points in the first half and then had to try and defend the score and England just about pipped them to the run chase, we'll have a quick pause here, we'll look back on the rest de las actividades de la última semana y preview a massive second round of fixtures as well just after this

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21:48Alfie Reynolds: ¡Feliz cumpleaños, Rafa! ¡Sopla, sopla!

21:52Owen Slot: ¡Traigan la manguera, que son 45!

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23:18Alfie Reynolds: Slotty, we haven't mentioned too much about your trip to Paris. Opening night, Thursday night opener for the Six Nations for a change. We kind of mentioned how impressive this French team are. I'd imagine you didn't see anything that changed your pre-tournament prediction that it's going to be a French title.

23:35Owen Slot: Sí, sí, sí, sí, sí

24:04Owen Slot: So got that out of the way Don't do Thursdays anymore That's that buried What surprised me was Yeah I thought France would win But they were I thought France were a team That didn't have a lot of momentum That Fabian Galtier was not getting the best out of That he was changing some key players Late in the World Cup cycle So Were France fulfilling their potential Bueno, por 15 minutos Están muy mejor De que se podía Estar la capacidad El poder, la pace, la dexteridad El hecho de que le dieron absolutamente nada No que la dieron mucho de themselves Si Francia playa así Si se llega a un gran slam de cedera En Paris Es un fenomenal test Para que alguien se come up against El speed y la physicalidad No, no, no, no, no, no, no Jalbert was super delicious Charlie es younger than me so he could say that he's a sexy player you've already said that who did you call it and Atkinson you call Seb Atkinson sexy what is Jalibar for goodness sake

25:18Charlie Morgan: super delicious

25:20Owen Slot: well ok Christ I wish I hadn't said that now he is the sexiest player on the planet as far as I'm concerned but he wasn't the reason I mean, you could have played Andy Goode there and they'd have looked decent. No, it was just the power and pace of the second row and the back row was... And they're young guys with more to give. So that's what surprised me.

25:50Alfie Reynolds: I know it is the power in that pack that sets up the platform, but what's it like every time Louis Biel-BRA gets the ball in a bit of space?

25:58Owen Slot: Oh, yeah. Y ahí es subimos un desafío y se se sabes que la tłam por esta

26:21Charlie Morgan: en Fabián Gautier p court a aside no somos Fiki ten josé el ar y bueno, he better tener algo en su sleeve y he realmente did y que Bordeaux 10-12-13 es muy importante para ellos, un gran gran de cómo han cambiado cosas, at Sogbe rather than Pernodau being importante pero you're right, se hace un tiempo en el... I know we're not allowed to talk about World Cup cycles porque cada game comes y eso es cierto pero creo que estos seis nations, particularly Francia, están usando esto como si, ¿cómo podemos realmente ser? ¿Cómo fue these chicos tieferidos significativos a otro nivel?

26:59Owen Slot: Pau, no gasoline entrelazonas dimensiones. Salud, no, Lunar 했 nieto. Pero did mujer queバイies ha перед trapped en laika de inside, You're not there. You don't own a place. There were a few coaches que Aufgcediera. So obviously Galtier de la Cuultas y Pennau. Pero Townsend fue un cambio de patrua. No Blair Kinghorne o Darcy Graham. on the bench, I mean that's like similar sort of statement if you like and Andy Farrell not picking James Lowe these are all sort of a year ago how could you ever not go near that they're all surprising decisions in themselves and Gael Tia kind of like you're saying was the one that was the coach you think, I don't really trust in Gael Tia but he was the one who came up trumps on with all those decisions.

27:48Alfie Reynolds: Well I said on our preview pod for the Six Nations last Monday that I always find France such a difficult team to evaluate coming into

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28:25Alfie Reynolds: Andy Farrell in terms of how he's regenerated this side?

28:29Owen Slot: Yeah, I think it is a failure but David Walsh made a very good point in his piece on Ireland in the Sunday Times he said it's all very well to say you should have recycled and you should have bloodied the younger players but if they ain't there then you're going to try and hold on to the older generation as long as possible, fair point but they do look thin, if you haven't got the next generation coming through then el hecho de que ha pecado y irse hacia el otro lado se veía increasingly inevitable y creo que si hubiera confirmación para mí, eso fue el día de la noche de la noche

29:03Charlie Morgan: creo que la frustración para el club de la ciudad es la reliance de la Leinster y el cual se siente como un jugador de la Leinster se puede ser paratidado pero no necesariamente de los provincias y creo que es que es lo que se siente en la misma manera que el frustración en el club de la ciudad con los fans ha sido set in ahora y es muy violento. Creo que es probablemente que está subiendo en el mundo. ¿Verdad? Le mencioné el Bat 3 y me dio a mi memoria de un tweet que yo saw de Kevin Miller que es top of the moon GW en X. No uno de los 9 players que empezó a wing o fullback para el Lions en el tour empezó a wing o fullback para el país.

29:47Charlie Morgan: I saw that, yeah. Mad. Freeman did start at 13. Darcy Graham 23, Marcus Smith 23, everybody else was injured or omitted, so Daly omitted Hanson injured, Keenan injured, Kinghorn omitted, Van de Merva omitted James Lowe omitted, the omitted ones are more interesting aren't they because they're where their coach has gone sort of thanks but no thanks we're going in a different direction including Andy Farrell who picked James Lowe for the Lions now going in different directions, really interesting

30:13Alfie Reynolds: Yeah that is extraordinary, there's a number of those players though that you also look at it and think yeah that makes total sense, like James Lowe even on that Lions tour he wasn't producing el nivel de performance que hemos visto de él el otro el otro posición de unirish de unirish que es ha sido un gran debate para el desde que se se retire pero es fly half y do you go Jack Crowley do you go Sam Prendergast the whole of the Irish team didn't have a great game but Sam Prendergast certainly didn't have a great game do you think it's right that Farrell sticks with him going forward if you're Vas auar el-----Pensar, ¿c побывать?

30:45Charlie Morgan: Bueno, tengo que hablar de Brooklyn LetsотHA no si la verdad, pero bueno, Jack Crowley no es super r debate que no le haya repercusion. Entonces si es pe jego exposing un tratamiento técnica pues vale el otro chato. I really like what Sam Prendergast offers going forward. I'm not sure that Ireland side is equipped to give him what Leinster give him. And maybe that means it's time for Crowley over the rest of this championship. They just looked, with Ball and Andon, they just looked like they were trying to rediscover the fluency of the phase play that was so important to them. And it looked like it just looked really predictable.

31:38Charlie Morgan: es un terrible indicamiento de los COVID-19 que jugaban en inglés y intentaban que y intentaban que y fue en el otro lado de esta fase de shape y England y Sam Underhill echó a un poco para dos games en un año echó a un poco identificar ball carriers smashing them losing momentum losing momentum losing momentum y al principio de la start de todo de la que se fue a contestable game y no se ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni de eso se quedó como se quedó de ideas muy rápido

32:08Alfie Reynolds: Es interesante porque yo me acuerdo So clearly at the end of the World Cup Que fue obviamente such a Disappointment for Ireland Y losing in just the most gutting kind of way Y this sea of Irish over there Y this feeling of this is on They could genuinely win this thing But I remember feeling at the end of that Yes this is gutting but Ireland will be okay They've got the school systems They've had a successful under 20 side They've got Leinster that are one of the best teams in Europe They have pathways coming through So I'm almost surprised that we find ourselves At this point a couple of years later

32:37Charlie Morgan: Nick Timoney, chinkalite for them off the bench, he was very good. But yeah, you're scrambling around for positives in that performance. It was pretty chastening overall.

32:46Owen Slot: Yeah, I think maybe we've... In the years when Ireland have been so successful, we've gone, oh, they've got this great school system. And they do have this great school system. But I think if you looked at the numbers of schools that are playing quality rugby, I don't think they are that many. I just think you've got a few Dublin schools that have these famous rivalries. y son como semi-pro sports academias donde people just go to lessons sometimes cuando no están haciendo rugby pero no creo que en términos de números son tan grandes y no creo que es spread around el país particular así que es una cosa que que underlines como han estado performing sobre la última década y una vez

33:30Alfie Reynolds: y se take on Italia todo lo de repente que toma un nuevo diferente complexión ¿no? ¿Irland off a really poor defeat? Admittedly against a really good France side. Italy with a really good win against Scotland. The way you're looking at that all of a sudden you're thinking this game feels totally different. It's just

33:47Owen Slot: going to be brilliant isn't it? I mean you wouldn't have switched it on in previous years but now unpredictability which is what you want is there. That's great.

34:00Alfie Reynolds: How realistic is it Charlie do you think that Italy go and do the job or not? Are we getting a little ahead of ourselves with where Ireland find themselves por decirlo.

34:46Owen Slot: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

35:06Alfie Reynolds: Es muy diferente. Soy que vamos a decir que vamos a ver el Itali game de Murryfield. Pero tú no. Me y Charlie, Will. Estar en el futuro. I mean, Charlie, you just used la frase que England would have circled it and felt their Six Nations would be defined by it. Expand on that.

35:22Charlie Morgan: Es un sentiments. Es un feeloarda. Es muy grande para ellos. Y creo que, as much as they are, as I said, right at the top, they are extremely diligent as far as focusing in on what's coming down the pipe from the next opponents that they've got. I think they will know that this is really important. y la whole wills written about it today I think they're a good side away from home without maybe getting those results they clearly sort of I think Steve Borthwick I always think about Steve Borthwick I think about a Leicester Tigers game when he went to Bordeaux and won in the year that they won the Premiership title I think the same year but just came with a plan and George Ford was instrumental to that where they just didn't get bored of this plan it was a lot of kick pressure pero también con el tema de la línea y cosas así y creo que va a tener un montón de subtle little quirks pero Greg Townsend ha sido el wood over England sobre su tenure así que no es fácil

36:15Alfie Reynolds: de ser un poco es un poco de la vida para England y eso es por eso y es por eso que creo que Will's piece talking about England han tenido un statement pero no han necessarily tenido el statement resultado de la vuelta de la vuelta por eso es por eso es muy intriguing porque despite Scotland's un poco un resultado odpowied lentos de Italia,

37:02Owen Slot: Pero cuando el parentsственный samas y la habitación 10 parejas del Scottland anota HD ese inglés

37:22Owen Slot: ¿iksionagnos sin situación endo más? minerals de su piedad yango de 코로나 Y luego, después de la lucha a Italia y siendo lambastas, etc. ¿Quién está en la situación de que no se va a tener que cumplir su potencial? Esa es la team en blue.

37:38Alfie Reynolds: Yo creo que la flip side a lo que yo he just said, que la atmósfera es muy rara, porque England están siendo puttas under pressure. Si England starte bien y las cosas están bien, para Scotland, entonces podría hacer un 180 en ellos también.

37:48Charlie Morgan: Si social media es algo que sea para. No, pero creo que es cerca de la superficie.

37:55Alfie Reynolds: Sí, sí, sí.

38:25Charlie Morgan: se han often get momentum out of those deflections, so I think that will be a big part of it, you've seen that was a big reason why Scotland went with Carl Steyn, because he's very good there so a lot of this will be decided in the air and then those scraps stroke crumbs, whatever trendy term you want to use, about the sort of back of that, they'll be licking their lips at what Italy did to the Scotland Scrum, as Slotty said I think they're two huge battlegrounds, and then it comes down to En el pasado, Scotland han realmente cleverly used Finn Russell as bait a bit y they've used their other distributors so Tui Pilotto and Stuart Hogg even if you go back really far to a Ben White try where they've found space away from Russell and capitalised on that.

39:12Charlie Morgan: It will come down to how clinical sides are when they do get that foothold through aerial pressure or set-piece pressure. How clinical can they be on the back of that?

39:20Owen Slot: So are you saying what I was suggesting earlier que la England o debería drop their hat-trick man Bueno,

39:27Charlie Morgan: I think they probably keep it two things one, he's improved there so if you think so Arundel milked the penalty that started England off because he chased really hard and Archie Griffin stepped in front of him he won one back and the air which indirectly led to that period of mauling pressure where Wales lost two yellow cards so it's whether he feels I think it's all connected isn't it as you said it's all connected do they stick or twist con Freeman a 13. I would stick because I think his upside as a 13 is very very high and I think with him there you just have so much pace in the side because obviously you've got two more wingers and you've got the back row that they like picking.

40:04Charlie Morgan: So if you stick with him and Dingwall then you're going to want Roebuck. I would say Roebuck is one of the very best in the world in the air at the minute and then it looks like George Furbank isn't being considered if he's only under rehab that might change but yeah I guess the kind of the sort of Toss-up is whether they bring in someone like Caden Murley Who is decent for the A-team And is very good in the air But I think, I don't know, I quite like I think they know that Arundel's pace is such that And we saw it, there was a direct example of it For his hat-trick tie It turns turnovers into seven-pointers And they haven't necessarily had Anybody like that since Johnny May was In his pomp and just on that hot streak And when there's this collective Awareness that when there's a mistake cuatro

41:00Charlie Morgan: tres cuatro cuatro tres

41:09Owen Slot: dos O Ot,' 'orettaot oretta ot Hay un debate ahora de si funciona. Así que si cambia su minde este weekend, entonces está ya diciendo que no se ha hecho eso. No se ha hecho que no se ha hecho que no se ha hecho eso. Si ha hecho que no se ha hecho eso, se ha hecho eso por la próxima dos años. ¿No? Creo que Borthwick es más pragmático y más egotistical. Así que es fácil para decir que no se ha hecho. No se ha hecho. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. un buen piece en el Times explaining why it wasn't right. Alfa, you say you still think it was good.

41:57Owen Slot: I mean, it's only really been one game. So how much time do you give it to make it work? Because to say it's going to work on day one is, you know, that's a wishful thinking anyway.

42:04Charlie Morgan: That's really interesting. I think he's definitely less egotistical. However, I also think he's pragmatic enough to know that he wants to give it a really good go and wants to see it more than the three starts that he's had already to know whether it works or not. y creo que porque si se lo piensan que han llegado a la gente que han llegado a la gente y han llegado a la gente y han llegado a la gente y han llegado a la gente como un test match de Borthwick porque él se ha sido patient con ellos y Ben Earle Joe Marchion de la World Cup había sido in y en el y en el de Eddie Jones y no había sido que no había dado tiempo para settle y sentir comfortable y Borthwick showed a nivel de confianza que ellos eventually se convirtieron y han lo que lo que ha porque se hizo el cual pero él le dio tiempo y creo que es lo que él va a hacer con freeman no creo que ya 3 starts a 13 es suficiente para saber y creo que crean que freeman puede ser world class así que le dieron a chance

43:00Alfie Reynolds: Sí, creo que lo que te parece con el inglés set up que freeman en un ideal world si se puede que se pueda trabajar que es lo que quieren come World Cup time porque es así fascinante, ¿no? que yo creo que olly lawrence ha tenido injuries pero olly lawrence ha sido so good y brilliant para Bath pero por lo que sea, lo que sea, lo que sea para empezar a poder en hacernon el polio que les underpados ación no lo que es el país que indica entierks a todos sanos si puede stickampar si no tienes que darle es una de los descontότε leave no debtor de scotland porque sabe que la pueda experimenting si queît High Taxemados si cost totally muchas por eso en la 1500 ¿Qué es lo que se puede hacer en ese caudón?

43:48Alfie Reynolds: ¿Y testes en ese caudón? Cuando ellos usan, yo creo que es realmente intrigante, pero definitivamente lo que es lo que quieren en la forma de largo plazo.

43:55Charlie Morgan: El preocupación que se ve con Lawrence, que creo que es defender el 13 channel, creo que siempre posto a 12, y han Dingo o Slade, o sea, lo que sea que se ha hecho en el primer fase, y creo que es lo que se ha enfocado. Y en el flip side, lo que se ha realmente le gusta de Freeman, es su mobility y su pace porque es no solo de la primera fase que es en fase play si te vas a ir y te vas a ir a la parte de la pantalla y te vas a mantener la parte de la frente pero yo pensé que para otro potente sexy midfield que se atentó que se atentó y freeman sería muy interesante pero vamos a ir a ir a ir a ir a ir a ir a mugging of Paul Fraser-Dingwall en este facilitador donde es más importante a la gente que le hacía en el piso y en el pitch, que es para nosotros picking our fantasy sides.

44:44Charlie Morgan: Pero creo que Dingoal's performance certainly at the weekend y el credit que he ha hecho deserves a crack at this Calcutta Cup.

44:53Alfie Reynolds: El otro tema también, lo que le daba a las impresiones que le daba a la compañía de la compañía y Freeman siendo un gran-term 13 opción, el otro tema que Borthwick, y le daba a la compañía de la compañía, es el espíritu de la compañía, que le daba a la compañía de la compañía y la compañía de la compañía y la compañía de la compañía. Final game on the Sunday, Wales France Reported 25 ,000 tickets Unsold Don't think Wales did anything at Twickenham To get too many Welsh fans Saying that they absolutely have to Snap up their seat at the Principality How fearful are we for Wales here?

45:26Charlie Morgan: You could look at it two ways France have this big Squad of fantastic players So might they rotate Given the schedule But actually I think there are enough Newish combinations that they will want to maintain impetus in this tournament and I think that kind of spells trepidation to me and I don't know what is you always say that apathy is the kind of the very bottom of the barrel but it was almost pity it felt like at times it took them from supporters watching that and they avoided shipping 50 by the width of a post you have to say that it's looking that that might be, it might get close to that You want to see Wales get a foothold.

46:09Charlie Morgan: They shot themselves in the foot enough to know that there's enough stuff that they can eradicate so that the bizarre cascade of penalties that they gave away in that first quarter, some of that is self-inflicted and that can be easily improved. I think they just stick with the half-backs that they've got in Thomas Williams and Dan Edwards. You spoke to me about the combinations that they can maybe tweak in the back row to just give them a bit more oomph and midfield as well. And they see where that takes them. Pero Francia van a ser ser buoyante After that Ireland game Que se parece lo hagl rodeo

46:43Owen Slot: I can't disagree With the word of that It's worrying I do think as you say There are some Proper fixes You don't have to give 10 penalties away In 20 minutes And your line out could be better Maybe you take 3 points When they become available To keep you reasonably positivos pero si si hay un un un un un un un un un un ¿estos

47:16Alfie Reynolds: cuando are off to Italy for the Winter Olympics

47:19Owen Slot: I'm going on Thursday I'm intending to do some ice hockey on Thursday night and I'll be in the skeleton on Friday and probably

47:28Alfie Reynolds: ski

47:28Owen Slot: jumping

47:29Alfie Reynolds: Saturday

47:29Owen Slot: not

47:30Alfie Reynolds: bad

47:30Owen Slot: when

47:31Alfie Reynolds: do you swam back in for Six Nations are you done now first weekend y luego

47:36Owen Slot: i'm coming back to the grand slam

47:39Alfie Reynolds: only medals and trophies this year well we'll see you in Paris then Charlie great to have you with us appreciate the ruck debut great to have you on thank you pal and listen as we say Thursday will be your next pod that will be from Edinburgh Team News ahead of the Calcutta Cup in the stands in Edinburgh on Saturday night as well and then we'll do it all again next Monday to review all the action and you can also watch these Monday episodes on YouTube head over to Timesport on YouTube y te vas a ver en todo nuestro gloria Final cosa, final cosa para mi es que el 9 de marzo, el live evento tenemos que el RUC live es el Twickenham Stoop, go a la Times y el website, te vas a ver el ticket y tenemos que sergbetes y Anne-Courtney Laws con nosotros, que es ahead de la final week de action en el Stade de France entre los French y los English y nos vemos en el Monday, esto ha sido el RUC, el journalista de rugby podcast de la Times y de la Sunday Times

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