This week, we bring you a full pod direct from France. Niall and Guilhem return with the French Corner to discuss the return of Rugby in France, “Goosengate” and how Bezier almost hit the big bucks with an Arab investment. As always, follow us on twitter and instagram : @wtr_podcast Au Revoir!

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French league ends the wait, a bit of Goosengate and Bezier: The almost great…

This week/month in What The Ruck we break down the recommendations from Lord Myner for how the Premiership should be dealing with the salary cap issues, and what impact we think they might have. Next up, we turn our attention to when the current Rugby drought might end and lastly we cover some rugby news, including a recent rule change that we discussed all the way back in one of our early pods…. As always, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast app, and follow us on instagram and twitter: @wtr_podast

Some myner rule changes…

Coming at you from our self-isolations stations, its What The Ruck with our draft picks for the Lions. Grab a capa-choo-choo and get this in your ear holes. Yah. David and Niall go head to head picking their top 15 for the Lions, or at least they do once David understands how a draft works… As always, follow and like and stuff on instagram and twitter: @wtr_podcast

The Lions Draft

Well, what a weekend for Rugby. Pinches, Punches and upsets. Its all here. We touch on the two biggest games of the weekend, and disagree about if they were even any good to begin with… Then, because we are totally up to date with the news we talk about Coronavirus for a bit, and how its going to effect the Six Nations and beyond! As always, follow us on instagram and twitter: @wtr_podcast (on both!)

Sick Nations

This week sees the return of our French corner, with a true bonafide Frenchmen Guilhem. He joins Niall to discuss the soaring French Six Nations team, and some more on the Top 14. Around that Niall and Andy discuss the England vs Ireland match from last weekend, and lastly a bit of good ol’ fashioned rugby news. As always, like and subscribe and stuff on your favourite podcast app and follow us on twitter @wtr_podcast!

Jacob’s stock tails and Guilhem goads Wales.

The Six Nations is upon us again! Rejoice! We get together to talk through the games that have happened, what the results mean going forwards, and who we think looks good for the win. Also, David gives us all a review of the Leicester Space Centre. As always follow us twitter (get into arguments with Niall if you fancy it, doesn’t take much…) and instagram: @wtr_podcast Like and subscribe and stuff on your favourite podcasting app. Like the one you are using now. Go on.

France were fine, England and Ireland’s planets align…

The most beautiful competition in the world is back, the 6 nations. We talk le crunch, our love for Dupont and Harlequinns becoming the jesters of the court. As always, follow us on twitter and instagram: @wtr_podcast

Le Crunchie

Happy new year! Its 2020, so its time for our Rugby Resolutions! Slightly later than anticipated, and no doubt already broken, Hooray! Then a quick round up of the Top 14, and some rubgy news to see out pod #1 of the new decade. As always, follow us on Twitter and Instagram : @wtr_podcast Like, Rate and Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform, or your least favourite, we don’t mind.

Rugby Resolutions!

Niall and Andy get together to talk everything Heineken cup. Who’s won, who’s lost, how does it work? We also cover some news about two different Robs and everyones favourite bigot… Israel Falou. Sigh. As always, follow us on instagram and twitter: @wtr_podcast  

We take a dip into the pools and come out smelling Falou!

And just like that, the Lock Of The Week returns! With 10 hypothetical euros on the line over the season, who will be crowned Smooth Jimmys King of the locks this season? Also in this weeks episode, we catch up on the Heineken cup and talk about maybe the ugliest kit in all of rugby. As always, like and subscribe wherever thats a thing, and follow us @wtr_podcast wherever thats a thing (twitter and instagram!)

Lockin’ all over the world…

H cup round up, Sarries suck it up, Andy asks why does he have to roll away and isn’t allowed in the side, Jaime Joseph sticks with Japan and another kiwi native….former England captain Dylan Hartley retires. All in this weeks what the ruck. A previous upload of this podcast had some audio issues at the beginning. These should now be fixed. Apologies for any confusion! Follow and stuff on twitter and instagram: @wtr_podcast

We get Europe done!

So, the long arm of the law (sort of) has finally caught up with Saracens. Niall and Andy give their thoughts on the long overdue slap on the wrist handed down to Saracens for breaking the salary cap for the last 3 years running. More context/info about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/nov/05/saracens-docked-35-points-and-5m-fine-for-salary-cap-breach As always, follow us on instagram and twitter: @wtr_podcast

Sarries – The Disney Villains of Rugby

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft a-gley” Well, we planned to bring you breaking world cup news as it happened, but sadly, life found a way to high tackle us down. However, we are back to talk about the Rugby World Cup 2019 final between the Springboks and the broken springs…. I mean England. We are hoping to get a bit more regular again, so look out in your feed for more rugby ramblings. As always like and subscribe on your favourite and least favourite podcasting platforms, and follow us on twitter and instagram!

England lose, David Boos….. no rugby news.

So, in what will probably be our last WTR podcast before the World Cup kicks off, Niall and Andy sit down to discuss how the pre-world cup international matches have been, whats going on with the world rankings, the french league getting off to an impossibly early start and lastly, Niall gets something off his chest #wetballoon. As always, like and subscribe on your favourite podcasting platform, and give us a follow on instagram and twitter: @wtr_podcast Let the world cup begin!

Ireland move to #1 but we’re not in-kleyn-ed…

Welcome back to What The Ruck podcast. This week saw the end of the most important competition in the Rugby calendar (until September) as the Rugby Championship came to a close. First up, Niall and Andy discuss the New Zealand vs Australia game from Saturday, and how the teams are looking going into the World Cup, then we have an Andy Asks about superstar rugby players and then finally we throw it over to David to meet our #maninjapan for the tournament… Fergus. As per always, subscribe and rate us on your favourite (or least favourite, we are not picky) podcasting platform and follow us on twitter and instagram: @wtr_podcast

Australia on the rise, all blacks nose dive and Fergus, our eastern sunrise.

Join three expats living in France as they break down the ins and outs of what has been happening in the world of Rugby each week. Featuring Niall, the Leinster supporting Irishman, David the Harlequins supporting Englishman and Andy... who knows nothing about rugby but is willing to learn.

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