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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks edb.

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Speaker 2: England have sounded a warning to their Six Nations rivals

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Speaker 2: who Beckon heads it through his final score. It didn't

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Speaker 2: sound like England, did it. They sound like Elliot had,

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Speaker 2: Like Elliott Smith. That's not what I wanted to play.

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Speaker 2: Goodness me, shall we start again? England have sounded a

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Speaker 2: warning to this Six Nations rugby rivals.

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Speaker 3: Spencer looking to go down the short side, releases free

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Speaker 3: that Freeman just bouncing off to defend this and sure

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Speaker 3: power and determination takes it to the score. That is

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Speaker 3: what Charlie Freeman could do. There shall be chamtesh for

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Speaker 3: England to come and for now. England have beat Wales

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Speaker 3: by forty eight points to seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, forty eight seven bonus point thumping of Wales at

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Speaker 2: twicken And from England, let's bring in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 2: thousand and three Rugby World Cup winner with England, British

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Speaker 2: and Irish lines represented a hugely respected rugby analyst, Will Greenwood.

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Speaker 2: Will England's Six Nations campaign off to a flyer forty

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Speaker 2: eight to seven? When how did they look?

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Speaker 4: How did they look? At it. It's been a long time.

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Speaker 4: When we start to take wins for granted, it's a

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Speaker 4: bit like you guys when you play at home. You

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Speaker 4: sort of think you expect to win. We've had a

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Speaker 4: few years when in the autumn we get turned over

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Speaker 4: by too many. We sort of finished fourth and third

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Speaker 4: a couple of times in the Six Nations, but suddenly

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Speaker 4: stricken them starts to look like a fortress again. I

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Speaker 4: think they've gone a year and a half. I'm beaten there.

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Speaker 4: Now we expect to win. So you can sometimes lose

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Speaker 4: a bit of the joy when you put six or

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Speaker 4: seven tries past the old enemy in Wales, but the

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Speaker 4: players themselves will be relatively pleased. They left two or

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Speaker 4: three tries out there frustratingly, but as an opening gambit,

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Speaker 4: start at all five points in the bag Scotland get

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Speaker 4: turned over by Italy. Were all eyes for us to

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Speaker 4: look set like Paris Final weekend and we hope to

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Speaker 4: be there for a Grand Slam deciders. So are things

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Speaker 4: are good in the England camp when you're starting to

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Speaker 4: talk about the tries you could have had on top

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Speaker 4: of the bucket load of tries you did have.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, France look good the other day, didn't they,

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Speaker 2: especially in the first half again Starland, what was your

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Speaker 2: what was your evaluation?

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Speaker 4: Brilliant, brilliant. Look, I'm a bit of a Francophar really

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Speaker 4: in terms of the way they play their rugby. Talking

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Speaker 4: to some young lads today at Twickenham, just how they

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Speaker 4: they vake when they were as ball carriers, they sort

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Speaker 4: of change direction, just leave the ball in the air.

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Speaker 4: They don't pass to anyone, they just leave the ball

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Speaker 4: in space. And so when they're confident, it means when

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Speaker 4: you support running in behind, you know you don't need

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Speaker 4: to worry about what pace the ball is going to

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Speaker 4: come at you, what angle to pick you just trailing behind.

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Speaker 4: And when it was it was a masterclass in where

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Speaker 4: the rugby. I seem to remember there was a Try

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Speaker 4: Nations game once where you guys put South Africa to

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Speaker 4: the sword in an absolute swimming pool and it was

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Speaker 4: a It reminded me of that occasion where it was

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Speaker 4: error free, powerful dynamic, and yet when the opportunity to

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Speaker 4: play came they still could identify, sit back and go right, Okay,

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Speaker 4: we've gone through the guts. Now the space is there,

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Speaker 4: go finish them off. They look frighteningly good at the moment,

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Speaker 4: and I think with that just gives them, because they

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Speaker 4: have home advantage against England, I think it gives them

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Speaker 4: the sort of marginal tag of favorites to win this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a fascinating opening week in we can't

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Speaker 2: wait for it to play out. We've been talking down

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Speaker 2: here about the law twigs to Super Rugby, the intent

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Speaker 2: of speeding up the game. Not sure if you've seen

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Speaker 2: seen the changes. What's your overall reaction and what do

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Speaker 2: you think it'll mean for the players who go from

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Speaker 2: Super rugby to tea scrugby where those rules don't apply.

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Speaker 1: Yees?

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Speaker 4: You know, speed, safety, space, the sort of the keywords

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Speaker 4: that in the referees and the lawmakers vote cover. I

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Speaker 4: think there are three great words to have on a

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Speaker 4: rugby field. So anything that can contribute to that. No,

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Speaker 4: these kids, these lads are bright enough now they're not.

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Speaker 4: They don't have to go to work and be a

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Speaker 4: plumber one day and then think about the law changes.

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Speaker 4: This is their job, their professions, so they'll be able

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Speaker 4: to step onto the field, understand what the ramifications are,

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Speaker 4: what do you do today, and then switch across and

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Speaker 4: make it relatively simple. I think sometimes we worry a

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Speaker 4: little bit too much. It's a it's a bit like

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Speaker 4: all the fans have been moaning that we've got adverts

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Speaker 4: during the game when there's downtime, Zobie. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if you've seen that argument, and it's like, honestly, sometimes

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Speaker 4: people pick a fight with their own shadow. It's it's gone,

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Speaker 4: no impacts you. You moan for years that Rugby has

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Speaker 4: gone to satellite TV, so this keeps Rugby on terrestrial TV,

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Speaker 4: and they start winging and there's an advert. It's like, seriously, guys,

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Speaker 4: you're like those two muppets from The Muppets, Studler and Waldorff.

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Speaker 3: Let it go.

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Speaker 2: Well. I love chatting to your mate. I know it's

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Speaker 2: late in the evening there. Thanks for joining us across

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. We'll catch up again soon.

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Speaker 4: I hope. So bus take it easy.

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Speaker 2: You take it easy too well, drive safely well Greenwood

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Speaker 2: out of England. They've beaten the Welsh, the hapless Welsh

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Speaker 2: forty eight to seven, Italy eighteen, Scotland fifteen A boil

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Speaker 2: over earlier on this morning in Rome and then that

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Speaker 2: game was was it Friday morning? Out time France thirty six,

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Speaker 2: Island fourteen twenty nine Miero at one stage France looking

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Speaker 2: very very good. So that's round one of the six

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Speaker 2: nations in the book. Next weekend for round two it's

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Speaker 2: Ireland at home to Italy and Dublin. Scotland welcome England

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Speaker 2: to Murrayfield, and then Wales have the rather unenviable task

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Speaker 2: of trying to turn around a forty eight points to

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Speaker 2: seven drubbing by welcoming the French to Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

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Speaker 2: They just can't buy a track, can they? The Welsh

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Speaker 2: at the moment.

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