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Rugby Union Weekly

The Big Weekend Review: Springboks reintroduce Pollard

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

Sports, Sports News, News, Rugby

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As the quarter-final lineup starts to take shape, Chris Jones reviews the best performances of the tournament so far with Johnnie Beattie and Bob Skinstad. South Africa tweak their lineup in their final pool game which poses a selection dilemma for boss Rassie Erasmus ahead of the knockout stage. The panel look ahead to the final game shootout between Scotland and Ireland who can both still qualify for the quarter finals and Alastair Eykyn reviews a mixed bag of performances from Tier Two nations and discusses what can be done to prevent more one-sided fixtures finishing with substantial winning margins for the established rugby nations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Five Lives Rugby Union Daily at the Rugby World Cup with Chris Jones.

0:07.5

Rugby Union Daily starred Velodrome, Marseille, Weekend 4 of the Rugby World Cup is in the

0:13.4

books.

0:14.4

The All Blacks make a big statement, Fiji survive, a Georgian scare to remain on track

0:19.1

for a showdown with England, but Australia left hanging on by the thinnest of threads elsewhere.

0:24.9

Argentina set up a do or die with Japan.

0:27.7

Scotland do what they needed to do as do South Africa here at the Velodrome.

0:33.4

Over the course of this daily, we'll have a rare but very welcome appearance from one of

0:36.8

the top rugby commentators in the business.

0:39.2

The first, I'm joined in Marseille by two pod favourites, our Franco Scott Johnny Beaty,

0:45.1

and you heard him on the daily last weekend after that epic South Africa Ireland clash, former

0:50.1

Bob Captain Bob Skinstead, Bob of you, come down a bit after the events of the start

0:54.3

or have this game against Tonga kind of brought the energy levels back up.

0:57.8

Look, the energy levels are back up.

0:59.9

What a ripping game.

1:02.0

I loved it.

1:03.0

The Marseille was ringing out here at the stadium, it's been an absolutely amazing game.

1:08.6

If I've got to look at what happened last weekend, Ireland played well, played better than

1:14.0

South Africa, won the game, put South Africa in a lot of doubt if you want to look at where

1:20.0

the rest of the tournament goes, but I don't think anyone sent anyone from South Africa

1:27.5

feel that the tournament was over, which for me has been one of the overarching features

1:33.0

of this World Cup, it's absolutely amazing, I love it.

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