The Rugby Pod

Man of the moment Tadhg Beirne joins us to discuss his first Ireland call-up, reaching the PRO14 final, Scotstoun scars, delivering pizza to Sean Cronin and much more. We preview the PRO14 and Premiership finals, look at Paul Gustard's appointment at Quins and get the lowdown from Goodey after his visit to England training.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more abo...

Leinster & Ireland legend Jamie Heaslip joins us to talk us through his former side's Champions Cup final triumph and tell us about his plans for the future, while the man who fired Newcastle to the play-offs Ally Hogg is also on the line to preview the Premiership semi-finals...oh, and Andy Rowe takes his punishment like a man (or a cat)!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information...

Man of the moment Matt Banahan joins us to discuss the hat-trick that took him to 100 tries for Bath and his team into the Champions Cup, as well as revealing the circumstances surrounding his move to Gloucester, while Wayne Barnes talks us through his preparations for the Champions Cup final and what it was like to referee Jim and Goodey.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information...

We catch up with Newcastle head coach Dave Walder and Joel 'The Flipper' Hodgson to hear about their success in reaching the play-offs and how Niki Goneva is the Mo Salah of rugby. Oh, and Goodey's got the call up from Deano to solve the Falcons' fly half crisis and is joining the board at Tigers too!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Big Jim and Goodey wax lyrical about Leinster and we hear from not one but two of the side that beat the Scarlets on how impressive a coach Stuart Lancaster is, what makes him so good and how epic the party was in Johnny Sexton's wine cellar after the game! We also discuss Racing v Munster, Dylan Hartley, Rob Horne, Brad Shields and much more...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out infor...

Big Jim's best mate is back! Joe Marler joins us to fill us in on the fallout from John Kingston's departure and where Quins' season has gone wrong. We also discuss the Bristols Barebacks and whether any other clubs could follow suit in rebranding and we preview the Champions Cup semi-finals. All that plus a bit of decent transfer gossip in the Rumour Mill.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o...

The boys are back from Hong Kong with stories to tell as they head straight from the plane to the studio on Monday lunchtime and Goodey predicts John Kingston's departure from Quins a few hours before it happens, while Jim throws Nick Kennedy's hat into the ring! We catch up with Ed Jackson to hear all about his remarkable trek up Snowdon and Mike Haley joins us to discuss Sale's play-off chances,...

We dissect all of the Champions Cup quarter-finals as Goodey addresses the power of the PRO14, Jim tells us how he was blanked by Stuart Lancaster in Dublin and it's bring your kids to work day on Easter Monday as Jim's son JJ pops in for a brief cameo! All that plus a few decent whispers in The Rumour Mill and the week rounded up in The Goode, The Bad and The Ugly.  See acast.com/privacy for priv...

Schalk Brits joins us to preview Saracens' trip to Leinster and says they've got a few things up their sleeves and will be bringing pressure that the Irish province haven't experienced yet this season. He also tells us of his plans to play in the Varsity match after retiring. We round up all the weekend's action, preview the other Champions Cup quarter-finals, answer a few of your social media que...

We're having a Six Nations after party and everyone's invited! Join Big Jim, Goodey, James Haskell, John Barclay, Jamie Roberts, Chris Ashton, Martin Castrogiovanni and Grand Slam winner Jordi Murphy to discuss every team's performance and much more...it's big and you don't want to miss it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

Goodey dials in from the all you can eat buffet in Dubai to call for the head of George Ford, while Irishman Brendan Macken stands in for him in the studio to discuss the men in green’s title triumph and the prospects of making it the best St Patrick’s Day ever by sealing a Grand Slam at Twickenham on Saturday. Oh…and there a couple of ‘special guest appearances’ 😉 in the studio!  See acast.com/p...

The Six Nations’ leading try scorer Jacob ‘The Mountain Goat’ Stockdale joins us to discuss his rapid rise to international success and Ireland’s Grand Slam chances. Goodey lists the changes Eddie Jones needs to make to get England back on track, Jim comes to George North’s defence, Nili Latu’s bush shocks everyone and much, much more…  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Le...

Big Jim’s got a rival for the title of King of Scotland…we speak to one of the country’s heroes from the weekend’s game against England, Finn Russell. He talks us through that pass, the criticism he took in the build-up, the night out afterwards and what colour Lamborghini he’s getting when he moves to Paris. Goodey and Jim have their own tales to tell from Edinburgh too and we round up the other...

Big Jim’s back from having a whale of a time in Dubai with tales to tell and a rap of his own to rival Alex Corbisiero’s from last week! Alasdair Strokosch joins us to reminisce about the last time Scotland beat England a decade ago, we round up the weekend’s club rugby and look ahead to this weekend’s Six Nations action.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about...

Alex Corbisiero joins us in the studio to spit some bars and get Goodey rapping…as well as discuss all of the weekend’s action. We speak to former Wales international James Hook about Rhys Patchell’s performance and Big Jim calls in from Dubes to hail Scotland’s saviour Greig Laidlaw!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...

From Johnny Sexton's massive cojones and the drop goal that'll never be bettered to Scotland's shellacking and Big Jim having shoes thrown at him in Cardiff, we dissect the opening weekend of the Six Nations and have a chat with former British and Irish Lion and Grand Slam winner with Ireland Stephen Ferris before looking ahead to next week's games.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out i...

Paddy Wallace, Shane Williams, Doddie Weir and Nick Easter all join us to build up to the opening weekend of the Six Nations and discuss all of the home nations' chances this year. Goodey and Jim give their predictions, give us the lowdown on new Saints boss Chris Boyd and let a few rumours slip as well.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices....

We catch up with Saracens skipper Brad Barritt on a Tiki Tonga coffee fact-finding mission in the Maldives to talk about what it was like waiting to see if they would make it through to the quarter-finals. We also round up all of the Champions Cup action, discuss Rob Howley featuring in The Horse Riding Times, Dylan Hartley on roller blades, Dan Cole the human penknife and much more...  See acast....

We check in with former Scotland international and now Dancing On Ice's biggest star Max Evans, as well as discussing Bath, Wasps and Saracens' failures, championing Stephen Jones for the Wales job and reeling off a host of new rumours!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ben Youngs joins the guys to discuss England's Brighton training camp and Leicester's struggles, as well as reminiscing about the good old days when he shared a changing room with Andy and Jim! Bernard Jackman also joins us to talk about the new Dragons documentary and Jim tells us how he took over the Andy Goode suite at the Ricoh Arena as Sarries beat Wasps.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy an...

The boys are back to wish you a Happy New Year and Jim's just glad to be out of the house! We discuss the rise of Gloucester and the fall of Leicester with special guests Charlie Sharples and Geordan Murphy, Jim talks us through Alan 'Dean' Gaffney taking over at Northampton and we chat about the key festive fixtures.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about you...

From Tom Varndell in the bath to Harry Ellis in Chile, Titti von Tramp in Belfast to Kelly Brown in Barcelona and Danny Cipriani in David Haye’s gym to Joe Marler on the blower, we pick out just a few of the highlights from 2017 on the Rugby Pod. We’ll be back for many more in 2018 and don’t forget to tell your friends and give us a review if you want to see Goodey and Jim turning out for Old Piss...

We catch up with the hero from Clermont’s second victory over Saracens in less than a week, Scott Spedding, Jim tells us all about his night out in Le Frog while he was over there for the game and we get into the festive spirit with a bit of secret santa…some are happier with their presents than others!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

Jim's finally made it up to London after being snowed in for three days on his country estate. The lads cover all the usual gossip, news and rumours and we chat with Saints and England fullback Ben Foden about Jim Mallinder's departure. There's news on the next few live shows as well as an update on our race to an Xmas Number 1! Enjoy and please leave a review and give it a share!  See acast.com/p...

As well as discussing the week's major talking points, the self-proclaimed 'Archbishop of Banterbury' himself James Haskell joins us to reveal all on Eddie Jones' visit to his house, the fun and games on the Lions tour and what the future has in store for him when his contract ends in the summer...oh, and what kind of wiper he is!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn m...