What The Ruck

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

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

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!)

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!

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.

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

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.

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  

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!)

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

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

“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!

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!

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

So, after a long (unplanned) break we can finally bring you our interview with ex Brumbies/Montpellier/Australian International full back, Jesse Mogg. He took some time out of his schedule at his current team Pau and was kind enough to meet us in Montpellier to talk about his career, some speculations about the world cup, and anything else that Niall could think of basically! As well as that, we have some amalgamated Rugby news from the last month, and a chat about the England squad (with added gloating from David)! Hopefully our next pod won’t take as long… As per usual, follow us on twitter and instagram : @wtr_podcast  

So thats it, the French league is over for another year. We reflect on the game and catch up on our final bets for the year, with a shocking reversal of fortunes for Andy. After that we go over the newly announced pools for the Heineken cup and work out who has got the bum deal, and then finally a look at rugby news, including David’s rundown of the preliminary squad announcement for England. We will be back in the next couple of weeks with a World Cup build up special, and all things going well, an interview with a special guest! As always, follow us on twitter and instagram: @wtr_podcast Rate and subscribe to us on whatever podcasting platform you are currently listening on!

Hello hello, and welcome to the penultimate episode of What The Ruck podcast this season. This week we talk about the upcoming final in the French Top 14, place our last locks of the week and then announce the winners of the first ever What The Ruck Rugby Awards (WTRRA’s for short), oh and then some Rugby news. David is joining us via the magic of the internet, so apologies for any sections where the audio is not quite up to our usual (low) standards! Fingers crossed you enjoy it nonetheless. As per usual, follow us on twitter and instagram: @wtr_podcast and give us a like and subscribe on your favourite podcasting platform, or even on your least favourite. We ain’t fussy (but 5 star reviews only please).

With David out of the country, it turns to Niall and Andy to pull together a pod. This week we discuss the Gallagher premiership final, the top 14 playoffs, the under 20’s world cup and then a bit of rugby news. Not forgetting of course, our penultimate locks of the week with Ol’ Smooth Jimmy… As always, follow us on instagram and twitter : @wtr_podcast Like and subscribe to us wherever you listen to your podcasts, so wherever you are reading this. Go on. Do it.

We are back for another week of What The Ruck podcast, and boy what a pod we have for you today. We go over the Pro 14 final, where Leinster finally had their day in the sun, have a look back at the Gallagher semi’s and a look forwards to the final. David places what looks likely to be his last bet, we discuss some big scores in rugby history, the 95 world cup food poisoning fiasco and then make some not so bold predictions about the upcoming world cup. Finally, we round out with one bad bit of news and one good. Balance and that. As always, follow us on twitter and instagram for updates on our comings and goings: @wtr_podcast on both! Rate and subscribe to us on whatever podcasting platform you use as well… go on be a mate.

To kick or not to kick, that is the question. This weeks on What The Ruck we discuss the super Saturday of Rugby that just happened, including where we stand on the biggest bet of the year (to us at least). Niall turns quiz master and gives David and Andy a few kick or not scenarios to ponder and finally we wrap up with some talk about bonus points and any rugby news! As always, follow us on twitter and instagram : @wtr_podcast If you can like or subscribe to us on whatever podcasting platform you use most, that would also be great! Go on, be a pal.

So one of the biggest games in the Rugby calendar has come and gone, and we watched it live… from a pub in Montpellier. We start the pod with some mid-match reporting featuring our friend Darren and some updates on our ever growing gambling problem and then in part two a look forward to the super Saturday of Rugby coming up and throw in some some rugby news for good measure as well. You lucky sods. As per usual, follow us on twitter and instagram : @wtr_podcast If you have any comments, questions or thoughts, then send them to us on Twitter! Subscribe and rate us on whatever platform you are currently listening on!

This week we keep it simple with some our locks of the week, some league updates, a BIG RUCK about money in rugby and finally some news! Follow us on twitter and instagram : @wtr_podcast Rate and subscribe and all that.

Another week, another podcast. Thanks to a couple of birthdays in the team this week (Happy Birthday to David and Andy)  we are uploading a little later than normal. However, this week we cover the new coach for France, a roundup of the leagues, an Andy Asks and an update on our ongoing Lock of the week competition! Follow us on instagram and twitter : @wtr_podcast Subscribe and rate us wherever you listen to your podcasts!

This week the guys review the European cup semi finals, look forward to the end of the regular season finishing. We set out our shoe-ins of the week and have a big ruck, a new debate segment we are trying out. Hit the couch, touch the play button and engage with another What The Ruck Podcast! Follow us on twitter and instagram: @wtr_podcast Rate us on whatever platform you are using!

Another week, another What The Ruck podcast. This week we have some in the field reporting from our weekend trip to Toulouse, some updates on our shoe in and lock of the week and then a chat about the big rugby news of the week: Folau & Vunipola vs The World. We are now on social media! For twitter & Instagram follow @wtr_podcast There are some minor audio issues in the later half of the pod, but hopefully they don’t distract too much.

This week we discuss the domestic rugby leagues, Davids geography takes a nose dive as he discusses the South African Sun Wolves, everyone makes a bold(ish) prediction, Andy asks and Niall finds the most obscure Simpsons reference possible to name a segment.