Will the Nations Championship prove to be a success? Philip Doyle RIP
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Will the Nations Championship improve the game of rugby?
Hello and you're very welcome along to this week's RTE Rugby Podcast. And the Nations Championship is upon us. Ireland taking on Australia this Saturday in Sydney. 10 past 11 in the morning Irish time. Bernard Jackman is with me in the studio. So Gareth Steenson is on the line. I'll get to you in a second, guys.
What travel challenges do teams face in the Nations Championship?
For those for whom this has kind of passed by a little bit, the Nations Championship, Ireland, for example, play Australia, Japan and New Zealand down under across the last three weekends. Then in November, they host South Africa, Argentina and Fiji. You essentially have your Northern Hemisphere table, your Southern Hemisphere table at the end of November. First place, first, second place, second, third place, third, and on you go.
Can Ireland realistically win the Nations Championship?
A finals weekend in London, a chance for a trophy. That's the gist, Birch, of what this nation's championship is. It's just trying to put a little bit of structure and format on... essentially what still is the traditional summer and winter test windows, but trying to put something on the line for it. Is that the best way to describe it? Yeah, it's got a low-key build-up to it, hasn't it? I mean... I did have to remind myself even this morning, I better just double-check how this all works and stuff like that.
Yeah, look, I like the concept of it because the summer tours... in the past have been a little bit mismatched in terms of how teams approach you look at France over the last six or seven years they've always sent a second string side down there it has been an opportunity to blood some young players to rest some of your your more experienced players or your overplayed players but I think this puts an onus on it to
Who will start at out-half against the Wallabies?
be a little bit more result focused and hopefully you increase the competitiveness and obviously you know it leads to a big final weekend in Twickenham in November it seems as if everybody is taking it more seriously just looking at the squads that are being picked and hopefully it leads to a better competition look at international rubies to cash cow that's the part of the game that's thriving the most and they're trying to sweat that asset although I see rumblings in South Africa of poor ticket sales for South Africa, England. I think a lot of that's down to maybe the cost of tickets for fans. But you would think England, South Africa would be a sellout given the fact that the Springboks are Springboks and England's standing in the game.
But I don't think that's down to this competition. It's just probably just cost a living in South Africa. And the big games that are coming with New Zealand coming for a tree test tour a little bit later on, I think... but unfortunately I suppose this won't get momentum because next year it won't happen because of the World Cup and then it comes back in the year after but in general I'm excited by it but yeah like normally people will be chatting to you about rugby and for the last week there hasn't been you know no one seems to be everyone seems to be just taking a deep breath and hopefully it picks up again now
I think it will particularly because it's a all the games are going to be on free to air I think there probably just is an element of a season finished you know club wise and stuff like that it was a an end of a club season as well that had a lot of news and talking points for us to digest and then you James Lowe thrown in on top of it all so there was a it was a heavy few weeks if you were following rugby in Ireland and I think people probably have just taken a A week or two to digest. I reckon once this weekend comes, things will start kicking off. And by the time Ireland play New Zealand in Auckland later on in July, it's going to be fully, fully ramped up. Like, Steno, if we're looking at what the Nations Championship wants to do.
What impact will Caelan Doris's absence have on the back row?
The best example of what it can do is to look at, you know, look at soccer and look at the Nations League. That was off the top of my head, I think like late 2010s that kind of came about and has essentially replaced so many of the completely meaningless friendlies that we would have had.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Will the Nations Championship improve the game of rugby?
0:08–0:25
2
What travel challenges do teams face in the Nations Championship?
0:25–0:48
3
Can Ireland realistically win the Nations Championship?
0:48–1:37
4
Who will start at out-half against the Wallabies?
1:37–3:33
5
What impact will Caelan Doris's absence have on the back row?
3:33–4:19
6
How will the new maul refereeing interpretations affect Ireland's game?
4:19–4:32
7
What is the legacy of Philip Doyle in Irish rugby?
4:32–4:55
8
What are the new tweaks to the Champions Cup format?
4:55–58:25
Speakers
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