John Greene

Not in October 2027, when some of these people who may well be expected and required to play a big role of the World Cup haven't been road tested at all.

I don't have as much of a demand for my commentary notes as there is Clive's.

I'll send you the documents if you want to pin them up above the mantelpiece at home.

It depends.

It depends what competition it is, how often you might have done the teams in the recent past, but this French 23 is going to look a good deal different from the ones that would have played in last year's Six Nations Championships.

There'll be a bit of work to be done there, but I'm going out Wednesday afternoon, so...

I'll have all day, Wednesday afternoon, all day Thursday to kind of just make sure that I've the I's dotted and the T's crossed.

I can't wait.

To be honest, the start of rounds is amazing for a Six Nations game.

The last time I was there was the World Cup final between South Africa and New Zealand.

So it'll be nice to get back to that.

Well, the prep will start this weekend, you know, tomorrow and Sunday.

Spend a bit of time chipping away at it, doing a lot of reading, watching old, the last few meetings of the two teams and

watch some URC Champions Cup highlights see who's sort of tries that have been scored and obviously listen to all the indoor sport output over the next week good man Dave so yeah really looking forward to it well it's interesting to have the collection of aggregators I suppose that I called these earlier on all of us today but like people from three different mediums primarily so Evan you're

You're being told little bits and pieces off the record.

And you do very often hear, you know, someone had to speak anonymously with a view to protecting relationships.

That's why it is very important for someone like Rudd to still be on the beat.

I was on that beat with Rudd for years.

And you could count on one hand that you managed to get something from a player or a coach that was of much interest.

Really, the only...