Josh is joined by Patricia Vieira to dissect the weekend's rugby action, the impending arrival of Cheesemas at McDonalds, Marc Lièvremont's ill-advised extreme sports escapades and live updates about whether Warren Gatland has been sacked yet or not (he hasn't) (at time of writing).

Apologies for the weird audio issues at times with this ep – tried to fix in post to no avail.

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An enormous weekend of rugby gets the requisite length of episode. We honestly spend most of it actually talking about the rugby as well, would you believe?

For which we can only apologise.

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The internationals have come amongst us, and there's also a barrel-load of news to get through. Join us, why don't you?

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Back in the usual Monday slot to bring you a brightness of chat to counteract the dark evenings.

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A day later than usual but still with all the stuff you crave about the week in rugby union football. And by crave we mean tolerate.

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Another week, another consideration of the rugby plus a surprising Player Spotted and the world's shittest argument

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A shambles of a couple of days results in a late pod, but a great one as Lee is joined by Rhi Garth Jones to chew the rugby and other things.

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Josh is back from his holiday and joins Lee to pick apart all the usual happenings in a week of rugby. Also features possibly the most perfect Player Spotted ever submitted.

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Robbie Owen joins Lee in the absence of Josh to pick the bones out of the opening weekend ponder whether Antoine Dupont is rugby's Will Hunting.

*lee's mic had some issues this week, so sounds a bit boxy. Apologies.

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The new season is upon us, so we thought we'd have a go at previewing it; among other things.

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Josh is joined by Robbie 'Squidge' Owen to dissect a fascinating weekend of cross-hemisphere rugby… drop goal magic, the best number 8 in the world, what are Wales actually trying to do, ill-advised branding decisions, and whatnot.

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