Darius McNaughton

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OTB Rugby · WOTS: Is There Such Thing As Too Much Rugby? | Fan fatigue vs player fatigue | Episode 58 · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

I think it's five weeks that World Rugby recommend each player gets of a holiday each year.

Not convinced that's happening.

I'm not going to speculate, but I don't know.

There's not a whole pile of room.

And I think it tells, I have a long list of injuries here, and I'm not, again, not speculating that this is anything to do with the amount of games they're playing.

So players that might have been on this tour at the minute then, Australia, New Zealand, with Ireland, that are missing due to injury.

Tommy O'Brien, Caelan Dorris, Andrew Porter, Paddy McCarthy, Jack Crowley, Ryan Baird, Robert Ballacoon, who's suffered with his injuries, he's back again, but he had a hamstring injury while on tour.

Mack Hanson, Shane Bolton, Jack Boyle, Edwin Adogbo, Tom Farrell, Calvin Nash, Kyle Ford, Jude Postlewaithe.

So it's quite a long list of players and some of those players are on the fringes, may not have made it, but that gives you a good idea of, you know, how much a toll some of these games may be taking on the players.

So, I don't know, like, we won't find out until we hear from the players themselves.

So we can only speculate on these type of things, but it must be taxing.

It must be taxing.

Yeah, teams like France would book that trend and they always have.

They tend to leave off some of their biggest players because of the top 14 that run so far into June.

They left off a lot of Toulouse players and Montpellier players and players tend to get a chance now.

They went a bit stronger this year because it's a tournament, I presume.

But generally they'd send out a B team to New Zealand.

It's actually that game two weeks ago between the two sides was the first we actually saw of a full strength France versus New Zealand team in the summer in a long, long time.

But generally, yeah, like England are full strength.

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