What’s All The Ruckus?

We have our first ever repeat guest on this week, with Sweden head coach and friend of the pod Alex Laybourne joining us. Hugely appreciate him coming on at late notice, we originally had another guest but he had to pull out last minute (for good reason). A great catch up regarding what the Sweden national team and Alex have been up to in the three months since he last came on. Also, our X has bee...

We have one of our all-time favourite episodes, talking to the founder of the Federation of Lesotho Rugby, Dan Aylward-Mills. When he arrived in the country, only six people were throwing a rugby ball around on a tennis court. Now they are recognised by World Rugby, have a functioning domestic league and are close to having their first professional club. Find out how the story unfolded, with Dan a...

This week we have rugby sevens royalty, Mike Friday. A former played and head coach for England, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever head coaches in sevens due to his work with the USA, who he took from being relatively average to consistently competing at the top of the game. Also with experience coaching Kenya, Mike is extremely passionate about the global development of the game a...

We have former Jamaica 7's player Rhodri Adamson on this week to talk about his career and what rugby is like in the Caribbean nation (apologies for the late upload). Given that 7's has recently been in a bit of turmoil following the announcement that Ireland are scrapping their programme, we wanted to get someone on who could speak about how important it is for tier 2 nations like Jamaica...

This week we have Türkiye's captain and all-time leading try scorer, Mert Zabci. An absolutely brilliant guest who had plenty of stories about his own career and what it is like playing for a country that many won't have heard about in a rugby sense before. Born and raised in London, he also experienced not being allowed to play for his country in 2017, when his federation banned non-domestic play...

We are back with our weekly guest episode and we are staying in the Balkans to speak to Croatia head coach Anthony Posa. Of Croatian heritage, Posa played himself at a high level in his native New Zealand and played for Croatia, before becoming involved in the national team in a coaching capacity in 2014. Head coach since 2021, he spoke all about rugby in the country as well as the other jobs that...

We are back with our weekly guest episode, this time with a unique guest from Kosovo rugby, Mark Barrett. As one of the newest countries in the world, Kosovo have only been playing recognised international rugby since 2022. This means that Barrett (who does a whole host of roles in the federation) has a unique opportunity to effectively create a rugby culture from scratch. It was a great chat with...

Welcome back to What's All The Ruckus, we have a slightly different guest for you all today Josef Webber is very well known on social media for his short form videos that mainly look at the gym, but recently he has started to document a new journey After finding out that his grandad is from Belgium, he has been trying to play for the national team With decent success so far, we caught up with Jose...

Today we have a great guest, renowned journalist Francisco Isaac. Francisco writes for RugbyPass as well as plenty of other outlets in his freelance career, with a focus on Tier 2 stories. Basically the go to guy for any news relating to international rugby outside of the big nations, we spoke about so many different topics, as well as his personal journey into his career. Any likes, shares and fo...

We are back for our weekly episode, this time with Switzerland head coach Olivier Nier, following their Rugby Europe Championship campaign in which they played teams such as Georgia and Spain, as well as beating Germany A shorter chat than usual due to him being extremely busy, he still managed to give some great information about rugby in the country Let us know what you think about the shorter f...

We have an absolute legend of South American rugby talking to us today, former Uruguay and current Chile head coach Pablo Lemoine. Pablo has been instrumental in revolutionising the game in the region and has been compared to Marcelo Bielsa for his work in improving rugby. As a player he scored at the 2003 World Cup against England. Now a head coach, he spoke all about how Chile qualified for thei...

We are back with episode 5, talking to Technical Director of Brazil Rugby- Josh Reeves. Born in New Zealand, Reeves has played rugby in 4 different continents and is Brazil's record points scorer (we think!) Now in a backroom capacity, we talk all about the development of rugby in his country and how it competes with football. It was really good to speak to someone who has such a wealth of knowled...

Our weekly guest episode is back for episode 4, this time with the former president of Sri Lanka Rugby, Rizly Illyas. Overseeing their ban from World Rugby and Asia Rugby, Rizly discusses his thoughts on why it happened and the impacts it has had on rugby in the country. A huge deep dive on a topic lesser known by the majority of fans. X- AllTheRuckusPod Instagram- @charlieelliottjourno Time stamp...

We are back with another weekly guest episode, this time with Romanian international Jason Tomane 🇷🇴 From playing at the 2023 Rugby World Cup against the Springboks, to his move to Romania in his early 20s and so much MORE, Jason had some great stories 🏉 Shares and follows are much appreciated ❤️ Check out our socials for an early insight on future guests: Instagram: @charlieelliottjourno X: AllT...

We’re back again for our weekly guest episode with some of the most interesting people in Tier 2 and 3 rugby 🏉 Today, Sweden head coach Alex Laybourne joins us 🇸🇪 From an unmatched insight about Leicester Tigers prop Ale Loman, to some great stories about the realities of working with limited resources and so much MORE, it is not one to be missed Shares and follows are much appreciated ❤️ Stay tu...

Welcome to a brand new podcast for Tier Two international rugby 🌎 Today Charlie and Josh are speaking to Bedford Blues and Hong Kong player Matt Worley 🇭🇰 Formerly of Racing 92 and Northampton Saints, Matt has a great insight into life as a rugby player and has some brilliant stories 🏉 Speaking on his 'publicity stunt' move to France, the hopes of a first Rugby World Cup for his country and so m...