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Sep 11, 2026
Mark KeohaneHOST
Totally.
Zelim NelHOST
And isn't that, when it mattered most, that last 40 minutes of a three-test series, the double world champions, World Cup winners, back-to-back Rugby Championship winners stood up tallest and owned the moment, and wasn't that then the defining kind of-
Mark KeohaneHOST
Strong
Zelim NelHOST
...
5 MINS LATER
Zelim NelHOST
France, 29-28, quarterfinal, epic, one of the greatest playoff games ever.
Zelim NelHOST
The Boks win it.
Zelim NelHOST
Knock out the home nation, the team everyone said was the team to beat in World Rugby.
Zelim NelHOST
Mentally, they just couldn't go the first 60 minutes against England in that semifinal.
Nathan JohnsHOST
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Counter Ruck Rugby Podcast, brought to you by The Irish Times.
Nathan JohnsHOST
And we're back after a few weeks off to reflect on lull in the summer period.
Nathan JohnsHOST
The Counter Ruck is back.
Nathan JohnsHOST
John O'Sullivan, Gordon D'Arcy, hello.
Nathan JohnsHOST
It's been a long summer without looking down at my Zoom screen at you two fine gentlemen.
Nathan JohnsHOST
Uh, how are we? Rugby hasn't really stopped.
Nathan JohnsHOST
We did for a few weeks, but, um, yes, how, how has everybody summered?
Gordon D'ArcyPANELIST
Oh, I weathered fairly well, dividing, uh, dividing and conquering between work, children, holidays, life, everything.
Jason PineHOST
Richie Mwonga returns to the All Blacks for Sunday's fourth match against the Springboks in Baltimore.
Jason PineHOST
It'll be his first test since the 2023 Rugby World Cup final.
Jason PineHOST
Coach Dave Rennie says it was always planned.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We talked about it a couple of weeks ago that regardless of the results, whether we came up 2-1 or down 2-1, we were going to start Richie.
PabzHOST
Yeah, he is always really positive as well, which I like.
PabzHOST
Plus! But he's obviously having a bit of a player at the top level and seeing different kind of coaching approaches, which he spoke about quite quite candidly on the Good, the Bad and the Rugby podcast.
PabzHOST
You see what works for different players, obviously, and you probably treat each player as individual as possible, but things like his post-game interview Basically, he was like, what a performance.
PabzHOST
And a lot of coaches would be like, it's a win, but there's so much to work on.
Kevin LockeGUEST
... yeah.
Will EvansHOST
'Cause you'd, um, p- prior to that you'd sort of had a nudge at Rugby Union and the NRC in Sydney there and-
Kevin LockeGUEST
Yeah, yeah
Will EvansHOST
... and, and, uh, attached to Manly at one point as well.
Jason PineHOST
Let's kick you off with a look at some of the big sports stories around today.
Jason PineHOST
Rugby scrum guru Mike Cron claims there's no shame in the All Blacks' struggles packing down against a herd of barrel-chested Springboks across the current series.
Jason PineHOST
He says South Africa's pride at the set piece comes from a mix of nature and nurture.
Mike CronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All the great props have had deep chests.
12 MINS LATER
D'Arcy WaldegraveHOST
So not the stupidest move.
D'Arcy WaldegraveHOST
I don't even know what captaincy experience he had, but it was just we've been throwing these names around, and that's, that's what I've come up with so far anyway.
Jason PineHOST
Yeah, well, uh, I think the chair of the board, David Kirk, would be a fan of Cam Roigard [laughs] having the captain's armband, seeing he, of course, wore it to our, um, you know, to our first-ever Rugby World Cup victory in 1987.
Jason PineHOST
All revealed tomorrow morning, New Zealand time.
Naas BothaGUEST
So far...
Naas BothaGUEST
Rugby has been really kind to me.
Naas BothaGUEST
I'm director of rugby from the Kansas City Blues Rugby Club in Kansas City and we're working behind the scenes a little bit, see if we can help improve really American rugby because they have in five years, as you know, the World Cup in America, 2031.
Naas BothaGUEST
And then 2033, they've got the Women's World Cup here.
Naas BothaGUEST
So hopefully everything will start on the weekend with South Africa playing the All Blacks.
Naas BothaGUEST
So it's quite interesting.
Naas BothaGUEST
But so far, America has been great to us.
Lester KiewitHOST
You're very right that this is the start of, I guess, to the build-up of the 2031 Rugby World Cup in the US.
AzzaHOST
Yeah, nice.
AzzaHOST
You mentioned, Jamil, so you guys played a lot of your junior cricket together, as you said, and then you guys also played President's Cup together for the Blaney slash Rugby Union team, is that right?
Clint MoxonGUEST
We did, we did.
Clint MoxonGUEST
We played all our junior cricket together.
Clint MoxonGUEST
My sport was soccer.
Clint MoxonGUEST
Cricket was just a past fun, just to do something when I wasn't training for soccer.
Clint MoxonGUEST
But we played our first game together and yeah, and then we went through and Then we had the Blaney Rugby Union President's Cup side where Jamil was in that.
Clint MoxonGUEST
I think Imran was just old enough to start sort of hitting the cricket ball and Yusuf was still in nappies then.
Owen JacksonHOST
Well, one was a highlight, one maybe not so much that you might just need to know about.
Owen JacksonHOST
And we won't need to talk too much about Heartland Rugby as Jeremy Sutherland, also known as Mr Rugby, is along as our guest on Man on the Land.
Owen JacksonHOST
And I've every confidence that he will no doubt discuss that.
Owen JacksonHOST
Plus, he is of rural stock, I'll have you know.
15 MINS LATER
Owen JacksonHOST
And I'm sure that in the team photo I saw Matt Chambers, he's still the goalkeeper.
Owen JacksonHOST
The guy is ageless.
Owen JacksonHOST
South Canterbury has tumbled from first to sixth on the Heartland Rugby Championship table after what was a horror display against King Country on Saturday.
Owen JacksonHOST
The Green and Blacks after huge wins over East Coast and West Coast and then Buller.
speaker_3NARRATOR
What she doesn't know is quite a lot, actually.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Uh, Elma Smith, the resident South African, who's never not knowingly shouting about rugby or those kitty cats.
speaker_3NARRATOR
More titting about than a women's rugby changing room, "The Good, the Scaz, the Rugby."
Elma SmitHOST
Welcome back.
Hannah BottermanGUEST
Woo-hoo.
Hannah BottermanGUEST
Wow
Elma SmitHOST
...
Elma SmitHOST
the Scaz, and the Rugby."
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