Plymouth Albion R.F.C.

Professionally wise, I'm working for Mako, which is we produce performance sportswear.

current suppliers to Plymouth Albion and multiple other rugby clubs around the country.

So MD of that is Dan Parks, previous Chiefs and Albion prop, Navy prop.

So yeah, so in sales at the moment, actually, after a sort of varied career since I finished playing professionally back in 2014.

So first of all, so first of all, am I right in thinking you're actually a Plymouth lad?

Yes, yeah, I was brought up in Shaw Pryor, about six, seven miles outside Plymouth.

Went to school in Plymouth, went to Plymouth College, I might be playing, and actually started playing rugby at Plymouth Albion Minis.

I was about six.

that happens.

Go to Plymouth Albion, mate.

That place is a fucking bog.

LAUGHTER Right, how many fish did you end up catching at the gate, Bastion Gate? Well, some of us work in the commercial fishing industry, mate.

That show's not going to age, so if you haven't listened, take a listen back to that one or watch it on YouTube.

Great show, great chat with Angus, just kind of going through bits of his life and important parts, which puts him to where he is today in an Albion team.

Married man with... couple of little ones and and loving life over in sunny dude but yeah no great episode you know obviously a lot's happened because of that episode we didn't talk about the um apparently there was a game and yeah we're not allowed to celebrate it and you know

but that

And like you say,

especially after that start, to go down two tries, you'd think you'd want to win the game, obviously, but you're probably going to give away the bonus point, but they still didn't.

And that's the next thing for Albion is actually what happens the day we do give up the bonus point, you know.

Speaking from experience as a witness in various sports with different runs, it actually could end up being worse for the rest of the league because the monkey's off your back now.

If you look even further down in National 1, where you've got the amazing scenario at the moment, you've got two teams in National 1 that are six from six and have taken every available bonus point.

They're Plymouth Albion and Tombridge Juddians.

Plymouth have a points difference

of plus 245.

They need to

go up.

It's interesting that someone made this point on X that I saw about the poor Exeter crowd and said that a lot of people are going to Brickfield instead to go watch Plymouth Albion and bear in mind that they're in the third tier of English rugby and that they get about 2,500 up towards 3,000 at their home games, which is the third tier rugby is fantastic.

And it's probably £15 a ticket and £4.50 a pint.

Where to begin? Where to begin? Like, what a week.

What a week to be a Plymouth Albion fan.

So first of all, for those who don't know, I'm a secondary school teacher and it's the first time ever, it's the first time ever I've had students come to me going, oh, sir, sir, I saw the Plymouth Albion score that at the weekend.

102-0, wow.

And loads of them going, oh, Fenton, I didn't realise Fenton plays for Albion, scoring six tries.

I'm glad people are discussing it with me.

That's what I've always wanted to do.

all i want it all i want is people taking interest in my favorite rugby club because it's fantastic rugby club and it's just amazing to hear so many people talking about it excited by it by it and just getting the credit deserves and actually this group of players this coaching's team and the starter season it's amazing that i get in that credit so yeah happy days and well for all that really uh i've shared on socials this week that a big thank you to all of you guys especially you know a lot of you guys who listen on the podcast i've been here from the start with scrummy and i this week passed 1000 followers on instagram and facebook i also hit 5000 listens on the podcast as well so really really chuffed the bits of that and I'm just really glad that you guys are enjoying this and that's all because really of how well the club's doing as well it's got you guys talking you're engaging a bit and we've just got lots of people loving what's happening at Plymouth Albion which is amazing And then more exciting news was that Clubber TV announced that The Fixture was played this week, which the game against Seoul was going to be played on Clubber TV, which is incredible.

One of the oldest clubs in the country.

I think it's a bigger club than Plymouth Albion.

Sorry, Plymouth Argyle, right? No, Albion.

Albion, yeah,

Nuffield Health is a broker, not a lender.

So welcome to the Plymouth Albion podcast.

I'm here with Angus Hodges.

Welcome to the show.

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome back to another episode of It's Always Scrummy in Plymouth.

Coming up on the show, we'll be talking about Pl- Plymouth Albion's historic home victory against Cambridge.

We'll be looking at all the scores across National League One, where that's leaving the lead table, fixtures to look forward to to next week, and of course, the usual fans' favorite, fans news.

Much to talk about.

And then last week it was, uh, Ben Cohen and Nick Liddy joined on loan from the Exeter Chiefs.

And it has been announced that Nick Liddy has gone to the Cornish Pirates and is dual registered.

So that was another short-lived stint at Plymouth Albion for Nick Liddy feat- after his, uh, uh, game and a bit last season.

He had a, had a about 50 minutes away at London Scottish for Albion this year.

They w- a, a, a near, an over 100-point thriller, Tonbridge Juddians beat them 53-52 in round three.

They beat, they w- they were a lit, beaten a little bit more handily by Leeds Tykes, and then Plymouth Albion absolutely-

That's bad, that is

... that's embarrassing