Elite Rugby Banter

Another week of exciting rugby goes by and another week where Matt, Ben, Alex and Ant try to talk about anything else. This week we look at broken trophies, not taking a knee and most importantly where you should play semiprofessional rugby. Also there's Super Rugby AU and last look at Super Rugby Aotearoa. Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show

Join us as we solemnly discuss Adam's suspension from the podcast. We keep the dour mood going as we look at the past week's rugby news and reflect on the penultimate round of Super Rugby Aotearoa, also Super Rugby AU. Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show

Bad News, we lied. Join us this week as we discuss the cost of living in Suva, the Dark and Stormers, the BAFTAs and whether griffons are predatory birds. There is also rugby in there somewhere. Music by @monsteroid, 80s TV Show

Adam is back again, but he's about as effective as a substitute Phys Ed teacher. Join us this week as Alex offers up actual figures while trying to compare Super Rugby Apples and Oranges. We'll try to keep the steering wheel away from Matt in the future. Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show.

Half of the usual gang are joined by the ever popular Ant and Phil. Join us as we lay so many cards on the Tafel you'd swear we were playing 52 card pick up, including the latest rounds of Super Rugby AU and Aotearoa, where Warren Gatland is destroying his reputation at home one game at a time (but how good were the Highlanders?!). Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show,

Adam has emerged from the shadows to be joined by Ben and Matt as they discuss the latest goings on in the rugby world, including a positive COVID test at the Lions, tensions between Australia and New Zealand over the future of Super Rugby, the player survey in New Zealand, where to for Argentina, and Howard Mnisi rolling his car, and getting out without injury, to avoid a guinea fowl. Oh, and the...

This week it's the rudderless three again, has anyone actually heard from Adam lately? Join Matt, Alex and Ben as we discuss the latest/last week's rugby news. We also get to discussing most of this weekend's rugby. Sorry, our analyst was pressed for time. Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show

Join Alex, Matt and Ben for another rip roaring look at all things rugby, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. Don't worry Australia, we'll get to you guys next week. The gang discuss all things Gloucester, the latest round of Super Rugby in New Zealand plus ongoing developments in boardrooms around the rugby world. Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show.

Apologies again for the late upload! Okes are struggling (or more accurately, the intern responsible for editing [lol] and uploading) It's an all Dad crew on this episode of Elite Rugby Banter, with Alex joined by Ben and Adam as they discuss the cancellation of the latest youth tournament in Spain, Johan Goosen doing a Saracens, MLR, the Newlands sage continuing (with Adam of all people raging ag...

Much like rugby, the boys are back with our usual level of banter. Join us as we discuss all the action of the first round of Super Rugby Aotearoa. Rugby is baaaaaack! Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show.

It's a full house at ERB HQ this week, with Alex joined by Matt, Ben and Adam (with baby literally attached to him). The gang chat about the upcoming Super Rugby Aoeteroa competition - with Oom Rugby's tweet a coincidence - where Adam true to form butchers the pronunciation (plus several players...again, he recognises that he is a dullard and apologies). Alex raves about the Blues, and the odyssey...

Another day, another dollar amirite? Matt, holding the fort for Adam (bar the temptation of imperialism) is joined by Ben, Alex and later Ant as the gang await the return of action onto the field. They chat about, well, imperialism, AJ Venter and the future's past of contract shenanigans, the Sunwolves' fate and round out the episode the a Centre XV. In classic ERB style, the episode is a bit disj...

After the roaring success of the NRC 2020 Draft the boys are back at it again, this time it's the Mitre 10 Cup's turn. Listen as all your favourite New Zealand stars are divided up amongst our six top level managers, and follow along on our YouTube channel to see the games played out in a hyper realistic simulation.

The SA transfer season has just closed in rugby terms, but the landscape keeps changing with SA players still changing teams, while three Australian players say cheers to the Queensland Reds. Adam returns, a newly minted dad and evidently barely keeping it together, with Ben and Matt joining him as they chat about Jake White's Bulls, Warrick Gelant, Wandile Simelane, the situation in Brisbane, and...

Today Matt is back at the helm (sorry) and he is joined by Ben and Phil. The three of them briefly discuss several things all of which is in the title, with some bonus headlines. Enjoy. Music by @montroid, 80s TV Show

As a follow up to our hugely successful Currie Cup draft and simulations, the guys are back and it's the Australians turn. Same rules as before with our Currie Cup draft, but now we're tackling a world where the NRC teams get to draft any of the available players that their hearts "desire". As always music is by Monsteroid.

It's a five man pod this week, with Ant joining Ben, Matt, Alex and Adam as they chat about the return of Super Rugby (Adam botches the name even though he prepared for it), SA player movements to and from South Africa, Australia getting us all hot and sweaty with talk of a combine, World Rugby's official match guidelines (with Ben triggered by the administrators) plus the long-awaited 8th man XV....

The gang are in the house and Bll Beaumont has maintained his grip on the World Rugby hot seat. This, plus Mannie Libbok being given the old heave ho by Jake White, the Lions tour being possible delayed, Super Rugby saying that their tournaments will see everyone participate by themselves, Pieter Steph du Toit's desire to be a tractor and Adam inadvertently killing Coenie Oosthuizen in the gang's...

It's been such a big week of news in the rugby world that we didn't even make it to the novelty XV this time. The gang discuss the World Rugby election, Raelene Castle's ouster as Rugby Australia boss, SA Rugby's plans to get the game through 2020 and oil barrels becoming spectators at Loftus, plus quite a bit more. Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show.

Another week has passed in the rugby world with no footy insight, but thankfully, we have the World Rugby elections coming up, which gives Ben, Matt and Adam reason to rage, scoff, argue and mull over the choice facing the haves and the have nots. Further pay cuts are underway in New Zealand, while the Australias post-pod strike a deal. Economics also come up for discussion, while Matt's neighbour...

As we await rugby to return to the field, anywhere really, the gang discuss the upcoming World Rugby election, rugby's inability to have a high class game in a moment when people are stuck at home, Australian shenanigans, with Adam dropping the P-word (parochial) and the thoughts of former Springbok no living in Costa Rica. Ben also tells us about Mauritius, his best friend Krishna, Big Dan is hea...

It's another two man pod, with Adam engaged in a work activity (on a Monday!) and Alex doing the dad thing. With Matt and Ben left to themselves, they talk about the Crusaders busting curfew, and the USA going bankrupt (the rugby union that is) and the ultimate novelty XV, the Prop XV! We hope everyone is staying in doors and keeping safe in these difficult times. Music by @monstroid, 80s TV Show.

It's lockdown time in the Elite Rugby Banter universe as Ben, Matt and Adam really start to feel rugby withdrawal. Thankfully, there is a fair amount of news to discuss (most of it COVID-19 related), to do with pay cuts, fist bumps and much derision thrown at those arm chair experts who claim to know something, but actually, not much. We also check up on Alex on Twitter as he ventures forth into a...

It's a full house at ERB headquarters (Alex does arrive a little bit late), as the gang talk about the very crazy world we live in right now, Jamie Robert's winning the corona game, what it must be like for a WWE superstar wrestling in front of non-existent crowd, Australia trying to do a new competition, pay cuts, English season closures and to top it all off, a novelty XV focused on adult cartoo...

COVID-19 is all the rage, but thankfully, Elite Rugby Banter has been preparing for a world of social distancing, self isolation and toilet roll shortages since day one (bar that one time). With Adam away, Matt (on his SA return!), Ben and Alex will play. They chat about the likely last weekend of Super Rugby, the virus' impact on the game, a Sitcom XV, Marler Watch and a mystery Lions player, plu...