Podcasts about guinness premiership

Ojo was born in Tottenham, London. His father, Akin Ojo, a thoracic surgeon, and his mother Bola Ojo (née Ibidapo-Obe) are from south-west Nigeria,[2] where Temitope is a common Yoruba name. Topsy Ojo started to play rugby unionat Dartford Grammar School at the age of eleven, as well as going on to captain the 1st XV. He also represented Kent and London & South-East Schools at both U16 and U18. After he starting playing some under-19 trial matches and being recommended for the London Irish Academy he went on to join the Sunbury based Academy in July 2003.He made his English club debut in September 2005 in a match against London Wasps.[3] By April 2006 he had joined the full London Irish squad, and now plays wing.Ojo has been tipped to replace Tom Varndell as "the hottest young finisher" by the BBC.[4] He finished the 2005-06 Guinness Premiership season with 14 games in the starting line-up with 7 tries. That season, Ojo started in the final of the European Challenge Cup, losing to Gloucester Rugby.[5] Despite only being at the club a few years, he has quickly become a firm favourite with the crowd.[citation needed]Ojo scored a try in London Irish's first premiership game of the 2006–07 season, in which they defeated promoted Harlequins during the London Double Header at Twickenham.[6]Ojo scored a try against Stade Toulousain in the 2008 Heineken Cup Semi-final.[7]2013/14 was Topsy Ojo's testimonial season for London Irish.

Toby joined London Irish in 2002 as assistant academy manager where he helped recruit the first players for the academy - many of whom are now playing for the Exiles' and Bath's first teams.Toby was appointed head coach at London Irish in 2008 after the previous coach, Brian Smith, became an England coach. Booth's team reached the final of the Guinness Premiership in his first season in charge. In May 2012 Booth left London Irish for Bath to work under new head coach Gary Gold, two months after Smith's return to the Exiles as director of rugby. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Walder is the current attack coach for the Newcastle Falcons in the Aviva Premiership. David played 15 years professionally in England and Japan, with the Newcastle Falcons, London Wasps and the Mitsubishi Dynaboars, including 4 full caps for England. He's scored over 1000 points in the English premiership and is a Heineken Cup, Guinness Premiership, Powergen Cup and Tetley Bitter Cup winner. After retiring in February 2013 due to knee condition, he coached kicking at Newcastle Falcons, as well as roles at Percy Park RFC, Durham University and RGS, before being offered the team attack and backs coaching role at the Newcastle Falcons in 2014.

Welcome to our first show on RUGBYMAG.com. In reality this is show 27 for Bruce McLane and Djuro Sen but clearly the start of something special with America's go to Rugby site. We have a new name, website and look - so what better way to start than with an exclusive chat with Mike Petri just hours before he leaves for Sale in England. The USA scrumhalf will play in the Guinness Premiership this coming season and we get the very latest from the man himself. We also welcome back a show favourite in Eagles assistant coach and head coach of Life University - Dan Payne. Aside from Mike's move we cover a lot of ground in this show, including 7's, college and high school rugby.

As the show title suggests we look at the finals across the globe that decided the Magners League, Guinness Premiership, Top 14 and Super 14. This is the honour roll for 2010 and it makes for impressive reading. Heineken Cup - Toulouse Magners League - Ospreys Guinness Premiership - Leicester Top 14 - Clermont Super 14 - Bulls Les Kiss was on hand for the Ospreys win in Dublin and we look closely at the fallout from all the results. The invasion of the south is underway and we check in with the leading camps. We also look at an extraordinary code switch taking place in Australia that might spread overseas. In a way it already has with Karmichael Hunt moving from Rugby League to Rugby and an appearance in the Heineken Cup Final to the Australian Football League - all in the space of 18 months. Now Israel Folau - a Rugby League back - has rejected a massive offer to play Rugby to also play AFL. Even if you don’t know what the AFL is ... the message is clear ... sports with money can undo years of development work by poaching your young stars and that should put Rugby on notice. IN DEPTH ANALYSIS Inspired by a massive weekend of finals rugby we look behind the big day itself. What do you do to get your team ready? Do you change tactics for the big one? How do you stop players from visualising the victory dais when they should be tackling? Les Kiss has all the answers. NAME CASHO’S FISH Mark Cashman has taken delivery of two more fighting fish and they need names! The best suggestions from the RuggaMatrix audience will get the nod. The successful names will win for the listener one of our brilliant RuggaMatrix USA caps.

RuggaMatrix returns to England this week with a feature interview with England and Bath prop David Flatman. If you've never listened to a David Flatman interview ... you've missed out because not only is he hilarious he's brilliant on the finer points of the game. We discuss the Guinness Premiership in depth with David, the scrum and the England tour squad which is heading down under next week. Ewen McKenzie covers all things Top 14, Heineken Cup and Super Rugby while Les Kiss gives us a final rundown on the Magners League decider. IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS - RUGBY ... COMPLICATED OR SIMPLE? This week our IDA is a bit different. We ask if the game at its very core is simple? Many people who don't know rugby .. really don't know rugby and even those who play the game sometimes struggle with aspects of the sport like scrums for example. From this question we find ourselves looking the law makers and asking why so many?

This week Peter Hewat fills in for Les Kiss to talk all things Guinness Premiership and Heineken Cup. Who will prevail between Leinster and Toulouse in Saturday's semi and who will finish on top in Sunday's semi-final between Biarritz and Munster? Peter gives us an expert call on the final four. In Super 14 the Queensland Reds continue to win more fans each week the world over and we're once again please to have their super coach on board Ewen McKenzie. The Reds face the Brumbies this week who are still fuming after last weekend's local derby against the Waratahs. Referee Steve Walsh was due to officiate this weekend but has been 'taken off ' after a controversial and sometimes heated exchange with Brumbies skipper Stephen Hoiles last weekend. Regardless of the decisions made last week we thought it was worth talking about the captain's relationship with the referee on game day in our in depth analysis IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS - REFEREE MANAGEMENT As mentioned we look at managing the referee to ensure your team gets the job done. It pays to be cool when dealing with the man with the whistle and once again our expert team delivers a masterclass.

This is one of our special panel only shows and we have a lot to cover with our experts Ewen McKenzie and Les Kiss. We cross to Les after giving him the night off last week and cover all things Magners League and Guinness Premiership as both competitions near the end game. The story of the Super 14 is the resurrection of the Queensland Reds under super coach McKenzie. How is he doing it? We do a little probing this week. IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS - THE CHIP KICK

Saracens April 2010. Kingsley Jones on Sale Sharks versus Saracens. April 2010 is being billed as the most important in Sale Sharks history. The club is in its lowest position since the injury-hit 2006-7 season, with Worcester Warriors, Leeds Carnegie and Newcastle Falcons keeping the Sharks company at the basement of the Guinness Premiership. Sharks meet two of their comrades in distress during the month who will be finding it unlucky before the final round on May 8th? Sharks Director of Rugby Kingsley Jones gives his verdict on the defeat by high flying Saracens a bitter blow which can clearly be seen in his reaction just after the match.

Brendan Venter on Sale Sharks versus Saracens. April 2010 is being billed as the most important in Sale Sharks history. The club is in its lowest position since the injury-hit 2006-7 season, with Worcester Warriors, Leeds Carnegie and Newcastle Falcons keeping the Sharks company at the basement of the Guinness Premiership. Sharks meet two of their comrades in distress during the month - who will be finding it unlucky before the final round on May 8th?

Julian Huxley is one of sport's great stories. 2 years ago he had a tumour removed from his brain and now he's back playing for the Brumbies and he's got a real chance of winning back his Wallaby jersey too. Last week he came on earlier than expected in the match against the Chiefs and he won great praise for his courage and inspirational play. This week on our show Julian talks openly about his illness and his road back to elite rugby. It's been a long hard journey and he reveals much of it to us in show 068. After starting the show with Julian we look at the Guinness Premiership and Magners League with Les Kiss covering some big matches before the resumption of the Heineken Cup. Ewen McKenzie takes a breather in South Africa so we're joined by the bloke he left behind, Morgan Turinui. Morgan gives a frank appraisal of his status with the Reds but he continues to train strongly with the rest of the Reds squad in Brisbane. On the verge of the anniversary of Shawn Mackay's death we remember how special he was with best mate Morgan. IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS - DECOY RUNNERS AND OTHER ANNOYING THINGS

France is in the box seat for 6 Nations glory but we talk about what happens if the French choke and the door opens again for the others. It could be a mad dash for the title. Les Kiss takes us through that epic win by Ireland over England at Twickenham. We look at the Magners League and touch on the Guinness Premiership. The Super 14 is up to round 4 and we look at the progress of the Bulls and Waratahs plus we discuss the troubles the Sharks are going through. Our In-Depth Analysis this week looks at Two Referees. Boy did this cause some drama. Mark Cashman's never been so animated when Djuro suggested that two referees could help our men in the middle cope with the increasing workload at the breakdown. You don't have to agree but at least we can talk about it.

Sale Sharks versus London Irish, 10th May 2008. More access, more clients, more rugby! UKFast has been a proud sponsor of Guinness Premiership side Sale Sharks for almost a decade now and as a major supporter we benefit from club hospitality at every home game. This involves match tickets in the director's box, pre-game three-course meal and after game drinks in the corporate suite / player's lounge. It is a fantastic experience that we like to share with our clients and staff and we aim to get every client to a game at some point. So if you would love to come and experience a great night of food, drink and rugby - call our communications director Jonathan Bowers on 0844 576 3985.

Today's show is like a 12 course meal... something for everyone. England and Stade Francais backrower James Haskell joins up with his former coach Ewen McKenzie for an in-depth chat about his life plus French and English Rugby. Haskell features on the cover of the new Stade calendar and among the rugby questions we get to the bottom of that photo ... touched up or not? His form has been terrific on field this year in the Top 14 and RuggaMatrix catches up with him just a few days out before Stade's Heineken Cup clash with Edinburgh. We also fire in a call to Peter Hewat to preview the big HC clash in Dublin between defending champions Leinster and the Guinness Premiership's hottest team at the moment, London Irish.

A late show this week but worth the wait. Our special guest star is former Gloucester and NSW Waratahs playmaker Duncan McRae. Forced to retire through in injury after his time in the UK, Duncan gives us a expert view on the Wallabies, Guinness Premiership and Magners League.

It's another big show ahead of the final Tri Nations clash in Wellington between the Wallabies and All Blacks. Australian and former Leinster flanker Rocky Elsom is our special guest star. The Rock joins us for Wallaby camp in New Zealand but we cover a whole range of subjects including the grand slam tour at the end of the year. We also get a first hand account of the 'Bloodgate' match .. from the other side. Well worth a listen. Marc Stcherbina joins the panel. Les Kiss reports in from Ireland camp and Ewen McKenzie gives us the low-down on the vacant Queensland coaching job. This week we discuss the Magners League in length before casting an eye across the Guinness Premiership.

It's Bledisloe Week down under and RuggaMatrix catches up with arguably the best loosehead in world rugby at the moment ... Benn Robinson from Australia. Despite his size Robinson, also known as 'The Cat', has dominated his opponents at Super Rugby and Test level this year. Just days before another challenge up front against the All Blacks in Sydney Robinson covers all things front row, Dan Carter and much much more... Les Kiss is busy with the first Ireland camp of the season so we've got Marc Stcherbina off the bench. Ewen McKenzie tells all about Stade Francais and their opening Top 14 22-all draw against star studded Toulon. We review the opening week across France and look ahead to the start of the Magners League and Guinness Premiership. Some trying times off the field in England but we attempt to pick out the positives as both competitions rapidly approach.

While the southern hemisphere Super 14 teams finalise their preparations in energy sapping heat their northern cousins are battling through their respective competitions in bitter cold. This week RuggaMatrix deals with the latest developments in European competitions. Les Kiss covers England and Ireland while Ewen McKenzie informs us about some interesting issues in France. Justin Marshall’s bizarre suspension by Montpellier is just one of several intriguing stories coming out of France. RuggaMatrix welcomes award winning journalist Simnikiwe Xabanisa from the Sunday Times in South Africa. Sim will join us every few weeks to update us on developments in the Republic. He’s a great character and switched on to all things SA Rugby. Check out Sim’s work at the Sunday Times. Our special guest star this week is London Irish attacking machine Peter Hewat. The former NSW outside back has been a critical element during London Irish’s rise to the top of the Guinness Premiership. Pete talks candidly about his growth in London admitting that he took time to find form in the Premiership and other competitions. Now he’s one of the form players in Europe and he opens up to RuggaMatrix for the full story. It’s another cracking show this week brought to you by Inside Rugby – the definitive rugby magazine. Podcasting… listen when you want – where you want. If you want to listen to RuggaMatrix on the road – just select download above and save it to your computer. You can then copy the file across to your MP3 player. The easiest method for those with iPods and iTunes is to launch the iTunes store and search for RuggaMatrix. Click on the subscribe button then iTunes will automatically download each new episode and place it on your iPod when you sync up. It’s that easy!