David Humphreys joins the show, Ireland squad named, URC final & more | The Offload EP89
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What are the highlights of the last Offload episode of the season?
Hello and welcome to the last offload of the season. Doneca, lots to discuss. You're another part of the world again.
Yes, I'm in Iceland, but I was making myself fully available because we are delighted to be joined by the main man in Irish rugby, the brilliant David Humphrey. He's our teammate, but now with a critical role in making sure the infrastructure is in place for Irish rugby to continue to excel. And we're going to have a great chat with Humphrey as well.
Looking forward to catching up with him, of course.
How is David Humphreys contributing to Irish rugby's infrastructure?
We're looking forward to tonight's match, the final. Leinster up against the Bulls. A bit of an Ireland selection for the summer tour and have a final bit of crack of the season ahead of our tour next year. Not tour, one and done. Vicar Street, night before Ireland against England. Perfect Father's Day present.
Right, I think it's our 99th episode. It's the last episode of the season. Before we bring on our special guest, Doneca, where the hell are you?
Yeah, apologies, Tommy. It's actually 89. We've ran for 89 weeks solid and it's our last one, you're right. And we, to be fair, tried to keep a bit of standards in terms of being either at home or in the studio. And I slagged RT for doing the podcast from the car and at the very last one, look at me, in the car. I think I have a valid excuse. I'm actually in Iceland. I'm in Iceland. I'm recording something. I'll tell you more about it when I can a little bit more, but we're recording over here at the moment.
Yeah, so it's... What's the Icelandic rugby team like?
Oh, I don't know, but I could imagine them being fairly hardy, that kind of Viking... mentality around the place.
What's it like there?
Do you know what it's like? Have you been to the Burn in Clare? Where it's all kind of barren and kind of just... It's kind of, no, you know, that kind of, well, here it's all kind of volcanic, kind of, what's it called? The land of fire and ice.
Oh, yeah. Eurovision, the Will Ferrell, isn't that what that song was about? Is there like the geese? That's a nice thing. It's got the like the hot plunge pools or whatever else, doesn't it?
There you go. Yes. So we're hoping to see a few of those. And do you know what it's got a belt of? Because we've been there. Rotorua in New Zealand. So it's all those kind of. It's got not as bad. Sorry, I don't mean to be harsh. And we got in trouble. Well, we didn't. Andrew Trimble got in trouble in Rotorua before. But there's that kind of sulfur smell, that smell of kind of rotten eggs. You get a little bit of that here, but not a whole lot. It's just so windy.
Tell us, how did Trimby nearly ruin the whole tour of New Zealand? What did he say? Can we say it already? Tourist information, Andrew Trimble, front of the bus.
So basically, all of us got a role. Tommy, you would have been in charge of entertainment. I would have been in charge of kind of top of the bus, maybe telling the different things. And one of the roles... for Trimble at the time was tourist information and it probably he was a good fella for doing it because he's quirky and he thinks a little bit different so we rolled into Rotorua and Trimble went up to give the tourist information about Rotorua and it didn't last very long Trimble got on the mic and went Rotorua it smells like shit because it is shit And the bus driver was from Rotorua and took massive offense and pulled in. He was highly insulted. So then the murmur started from down the back of the bus.
Oh, the bus. Oh, the bus. Trimby got kicked off and had to apologize.
And Trimby always gives it the big one. I don't know why I never got picked back in those days until Joe Schmidt gave me a chance. I think that sums it up right now. OK, well, listen, I can't see the current players getting away with that because if they did, there'd be somebody absolutely reprimanding them. And I think this person would be the man who would do it. We've been trying to get him on the podcast for a long time. We're absolutely delighted to have him with us. Shall we welcome our guest? It is the one, the only David Humphries.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the highlights of the last Offload episode of the season?
0:00–0:28
2
How is David Humphreys contributing to Irish rugby's infrastructure?
0:28–26:24
3
What insights does David Humphreys provide about his role as Performance Director?
26:24–31:33
4
How has the Irish rugby landscape changed in recent years?
31:33–39:33
5
What strategies are being implemented to develop youth rugby in Ireland?
39:33–56:39
Speakers
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