8/9 Rugby

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are back with their end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend. This week, they’ve picked: Super Rugby Pacific – Blues v Chiefs in Auckland URC – Benetton v Edinburgh in Treviso Premiership Semi-finals: Northampton v Saracens in Northampton Ba...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by barnstorming Queensland backrower Harry Wilson, with the Reds confirmed to a 5th place finish in 2024 before this weekend’s final round, and playing the kind of rugby they hope can take them deep into the Super Rugby Pacific finals series. Though he’s racing the clock to return from a broken arm before the end of Super Rug...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined by renowned Irish pundit and commentator Bernard Jackman for their end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, with this week’s focus on London and the Champions Cup Final between Leinster and Toulouse, as well as the Challenge Cup Final between Gloucester and the Sharks.   Elsewhere this week, they’ve picked: ·       Super Rugby Pacific – Chief...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by Melbourne Rebels head coach Kevin Foote, for an open and honest and at times raw conversation that attempts to explain a team playing good rugby under the clouds of a club in Administration.   On a number of topics that haven’t had a lot of attention, Kevin gives a pretty raw account of trying to coach a squad of players t...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are back with their end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: ·       Super Rugby Pacific – Fijian Drua v Queensland Reds in Suva ·       URC: Connacht v Stormers in Galway ·       Premiership: Harlequins v Brist...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by legendary New Zealand broadcaster and author Tony Johnson, fresh from calling one of the games of Super Rugby Pacific this season so far, the Blues v Hurricanes blockbuster at Eden Park on Saturday.   With the top eight taking shape and only three rounds of the season remaining, the guys and Tony take a closer look at the...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are back with their end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: ·       Super Rugby Pacific – Blues v Hurricanes in Auckland ·       URC - Bulls v Glasgow in Pretoria ·       Premiership - Bristol v Saracens in Bri...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by two-time RWC winning Wallabies and Queensland legend Tim Horan, with the Stan Sport commentator and lover of stadium pies casting his eye over the state of the Australian teams and where the competition favouritism lays with four rounds to play in Super Rugby Pacific.   After a fascinating round of Show & Tell with some wo...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are back with their end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: Super Rugby Pacific – Crusaders v Queensland Reds in Christchurch Champions Cup Semi-Finals: Leinster v Northampton in Dublin Toulouse v Harlequins in...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by Wallabies and former Queensland Reds lock/backrower and now Melbourne Rebels skipper Lukhan Salakaia-Loto for a thoroughly enjoyable chat about life, leadership and the difficulty the Rebels players are experiencing with their futures far from certain.   In a chat that covers everything from LSL’s stratospheric rise from s...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are back with their end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: Super Rugby Pacific – ACT Brumbies v Hurricanes in Canberra URC: Stormers v Leinster in Cape Town Premiership: Bath v Saracens in Bath Top 14: La Roch...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by Stan Sport commentator, marathon runner, and bad pun extraordinaire Sean Maloney for a mid-season recap on Australian fortunes in Super Rugby Pacific and their runs home over the final six rounds of the competition.   The resurgence of the Australian sides in Super Rugby this season has made for a much more enjoyable rugby...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are back with their new end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: ·       Super Rugby Pacific – Blues v ACT Brumbies in Auckland ·       URC: Bulls v Munster in Pretoria ·       Premiership: Exeter v Bath in Exet...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by co-founder and GM of Sport for Gain Line Analytics, Simon Strachan for a deep dive into the numbers behind the teams playing in not just all the major rugby competitions around the world, but in plenty of other sports as well. In a conversation that will impact the way you think about teams performing well and not so well,...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are back with their new end-of-week offering, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: Super Rugby Pacific – Hurricanes v Chiefs in Wellington Champions Cup Semi-Finals: Bordeaux v Harlequins in Bordeaux Leinster v La Rochelle at the...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by new Wallabies assistant coach and one of the great rugby coaching brains in the game, ‘Lord’ Laurie Fisher, to discuss the ever changing trends in professional rugby as well as gain an insight into the preliminary discussions within Joe Schmidt’s growing Wallabies coaching staff. Where Laurie Fisher has forgotten more abou...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones have a new offering each week, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: Super Rugby Pacific – ACT Brumbies v NSW Waratahs in Canberra Champions Cup Round of 16 - Friday: Harlequins v Glasgow at the Twickenham Stoop Saturday: Stormers...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by South African rugby YouTube star and creator of the weekly Rugby Update, Riaan Louw, for the rundown on the United Rugby Championship in 2024 and whether South Africa cares about Super Rugby anymore.   With the URC (pronounced ‘ERK’) now in it’s third season, TV audiences have hit record levels, crowds are up throughout th...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones have a new offering each week, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: Super Rugby Pacific – Reds v Brumbies in Brisbane United Rugby Championship – Leinster v Bulls in Dublin Premiership – Northampton v Saracens in Northampton Top...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by NSW Waratahs lock/backrower Ned Hanigan fresh from their heartbreaking golden point loss to the Fijian Drua in Lautoka in Super Rugby Pacific over the weekend.   It was the latest in a line of ‘what if’ games for the Waratahs in 2024, where their performances on the field aren’t quite matched on the scoreboard or the compe...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones have a new offering each week, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: ·       Super Rugby Pacific – Blues v Crusaders in Auckland ·       United Rugby Championship - Stormers v Edinburgh in Cape Town ·       Premiership – Saracens...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined on The 8-9 Combo by one of the leading analysts in the game, Sam Larner from the Beyond 80 show on RugbyPass TV, for a great chat on how we all consume the game of rugby via stats and analysis.   What stats are meaningful? Which stats should you take notice of? Which one don’t mean as much as you think? There aren’t too many rugby people who...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones have a new offering each week, Games of the Week, where the guys work through the best games from each of the best competitions around the rugby world each weekend.   This week, they’ve picked: ·       6 Nations – France v England in Lyon ·       Super Rugby Pacific – Highlanders v Brumbies in Dunedin ·       Japan Rugby League One - Kobe Kobelco Steele...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones are joined by the looming face of Stan Sport’s rugby coverage, and the host of the Inside Line podcast, Michael Atkinson onto The 8-9 Combo for the first time in 2024, to discuss the flood of rugby content in Australia and just how much of it he hosts.   It’s a smorgasbord for rugby fans in Australia in 2024, with upwards of ten different podcasts and r...

Rugby podcasters Brett McKay and Harry Jones welcome former Wallabies, ACT Brumbies, Leicester Tigers, and Melbourne Rebels flyhalf Matt To’omua onto The 8-9 Combo for the first time in 2024, only to learn he’s moved into the podcast they vacated. Now the co-host of Brett and Harry’s former home, The Roar Rugby Podcast, Matt opens up on the promising start to the League One season in Japan for his...