Rugby World Cup Stories – THE DRESSING ROOM: Unlocked | The Offload
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What are Tommy Bowe and Donncha O'Callaghan's thoughts on the current Women's World Cup?
Well, Donika, welcome along to another dressing room.
Yes, looking forward to it, Tommy. How have you been, Philip? I'm great, thank you.
Yeah, very good. Enjoying the Women's World Cup at the minute. The crowds over there in England have been fantastic. It's brilliant to see. But the big game is this weekend. So the dressing room decided to just go back and look at some of our Rugby World Cup memories. And I think we've kind of done a few highs and lows looking back on it. What do you think? Have you had an overall thought when it comes back to World Cups?
No, but I look on with a bit of envy at the moment at the girls in the middle of their one because with hindsight, no, you understand. It's a really special time, man, isn't it? And I gave that no appreciation in it. I was just looking to the next week, whereas... Like, I'm really proud that I went to three, but I'd say in all three of them, I didn't really enjoy them like I could have. Well, we'll chat about it in a minute, but if it's one I probably enjoyed more than the rest and that led to a bit of trouble. But I think that's what stirred the dressing room conversation. Obviously, on Friday, we're going to chat about the Women's World Cup and we'll go into detail on the game. But we wanted to touch here in the dressing room about the World Cup in general.
The highs, the lows, the ceremonies around it and how they're nearly treated differently and how we all have enough by the quarterfinals so we feck off home.
The quarterfinal curse. I wonder if the women will be able to get past that. It would be amazing if they did.
Yeah, it would be great.
What highs and lows do the hosts recall from their Rugby World Cup experiences?
But it is true. Like you just... Yeah, you don't appreciate it. There's so much going on. But like, if you look back at it and think about it, the crack that was had, like phenomenal, you know, off the pitch, like because you play every weekend, you're on tour together. So you did what, 2003, did you?
2003 to Australia, 2007 to France and 2011 with you in New Zealand. Okay.
Yeah, I did 2011 and 2015 in England and Wales.
Oh yeah. That was the one that Argentina we lost to, wasn't it? When they kept turning to the stand being full of superstars. Yeah. It was just, stop banging it home that half our players are in the stand.
Well, that, like, I suppose I might as well even start, like, as a low, that is one of my lows. That has to be one of the biggest lows because we obviously were meeting, we'd beaten France in the group stages, topped the pool. Things were flying. But of course, remember, Paulie ripped his hamstring in that game. Sean O'Brien got injured. Pete O'Mahony got injured. Jared Payne got injured. And then I think it was like 12 minutes into the game, I ruptured my knee ligaments. So then we were really fucked. We had no chance.
We had a chance when we lost all those superstars.
But when the Lionel Messi of our team...
I heard people walked out of the pubs in Ireland when Bo left. Sorry, Tommy, tell us, what actually happened to you? I remember you going off on the... The stretcher.
Yeah, the big car took me off again. Well, I think we were actually down 13-0 or 14-0 at this stage already. Like, they came out of the blocks. I remember Paulie gave us a big speech the night before about... I don't know what the hell we got wrong for that game. Because we knew about the ambush that was coming. But I just think missing a couple of key players. And to be fair, Lukey Fitz came in, played really well for me when I got injured. But I came around the corner. I don't know. I came around the corner looking for the ball. And I was kind of 50-50 what to do. So trucked it up. Who's the big... I can't remember his name, the Argentinian second row. He always gets in trouble. He's got yellow and red cards written all over him, this fella.
A bit like myself. He dove on my leg and literally underneath the knee. So his shoulder hit me underneath the kneecap and my stud stayed in the ground and my knee went over the top and completely hyperextended my knee. It was horrible.
It was horrible, the pain. I can imagine the pain.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are Tommy Bowe and Donncha O'Callaghan's thoughts on the current Women's World Cup?
0:12–1:46
2
What highs and lows do the hosts recall from their Rugby World Cup experiences?
1:46–5:30
3
What injury impacted Tommy Bowe's Rugby World Cup journey?
5:30–8:19
4
How did the quarterfinal curse affect their World Cup performances?
8:19–10:04
5
What memorable moments did they share about the 2003 Rugby World Cup?
10:04–12:14
6
What lessons did the hosts learn from their World Cup experiences?
12:14–12:59
7
How did the atmosphere of the Irish fans impact their Rugby World Cup matches?
12:59–13:56
8
What are the hosts' thoughts on the future of the Rugby World Cup?
13:56–41:38
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