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Five lives rugby union daily at the Rugby World Cup with Chris Jones.

Rugby union daily, outskirts of Eastern Paris at game on satinite Looms large doesn't it

Ireland against Scotland eight o'clock kickoff at the Stad de France and delighted to start

off this daily with the Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend who is sitting in the beautiful

sunshine Gregor you've just got in from the South Coaches to start feeling real when

you arrive in Paris albeit 30 o'clock it's eased to be it to be honest it's felt really

low week the ones we got the team announced to the players you could just sense that this

is an important week the most important week we've had in the last four years as a rugby

team and the chart the aggression the dead focus accuracy whatever you can call it it's

been there this week and I'm sure it'll build up even more as we get a team run tomorrow

at Stad de France. Did you always expect it to come down to this the

Ireland game on the final day? Yes, whether we'd won or lost against

Africa for the team to qualify and we'd have to win against Ireland or with their

scheme we'd have to be very important and it's a simple Ireland they won against

Africa but they could still go up the tournament if they lose to us by a certain amount of

points. We'll talk about the permutations and how you approach this game in a sec but

your team's just been named the headline call probably at number nine Ben White has been

the starter for the fact a bit of recent memory Ali Price amount you know so well what

swung it in any direction? Yeah really it's a form selection. Ali obviously

played a lot of rugby for us. Ali played in the November test in the end of 2022

started for us played really well against Argentina and New Zealand but then

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