Lawrence Dallaglio’s Rugby Podcast | Evening Standard

Throughout the Six Nations and across the course of the season, the former England captain will bring insight and analysis on the game’s major talking points alongside a rotating cast of guests.

In this week’s podcast, Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording are joined by former Head Coach of Wasps, Lee Blackett. Lee talks about his experience in the URC and why he’s learned to love his long commute, plus why he chose Bath for the next step of his career and what excites him about the year ahead. He also reveals how other coaches in the league reacted when Wasps fell into administration last year.

In light of the recent club statement from his former club, Lawrence shares his views on the latest situation with Wasps and the team also reviews the European Champions Cup Final, discussing what Ronan O’Gara has brought to La Rochelle in his time as Head Coach.

There’s a divide between Lawrence and Steve on their predictions for this weekend’s Premiership Final and, as always, the team select their Player of the Week.

Plus Lee gets ‘Tackled’ by Lawrence, revealing the funniest players he’s worked with and why his most memorable rugby moment is not necessarily his happiest.

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Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording are joined by former Wasps’ and Harlequins’ winger, Josh Bassett. Josh shares the mental and emotional challenges that he’s faced in rugby over the past seven months, reveals why he’s excited to be starting the new season with Leicester Tigers and offers his thoughts on the changes that rugby players feel should be made to help grow the game.

He also talks about life away from the pitch and how his dislike for beer led to starting a drinks business, haveasocial.com with his former team-mate, Brad Shields, and why they’re often promoting the brand wearing nothing but swimwear.

Lawrence, Sarra and Steve review the results from the Premiership semi-finals and look ahead to the upcoming European Champions Cup Final. And find out who gets their vote as ‘Player of the Week’.

Plus Lawrence reveals how he ended up singing on one of Tina Turner’s biggest hit singles and in our quickfire question feature, ‘Tackled’, Josh shares which Nicki Minaj song is his karaoke go-to and his most memorable rugby moment to date.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and the Evening Standard’s rugby correspondent, Nick Purewal, are joined by former player and now General Secretary of the Rugby Players’ Association, Christian Day. Christian talks about essential work of the RPA, his agenda for changes to the game and what the men can learn from the personalities in women’s rugby.

Plus Lawrence, Sarra and Nick discuss the final round of the Premiership including the last-minute dramas in the West Country and Chris Ashton’s red card, as Lawrence reveals how his own retirement from rugby could’ve ended very differently.

They also select their Player of the Week and look ahead to the Premiership semi-finals this weekend, making predictions on who will win and why.

In our quickfire questions feature, Tackled, Christian reveals which famous chef he has in his phone book and which former Sale team mate he believes is the best rugby player of all time.

Fresh from winning the Grand Slam with the Red Roses, Simon Middleton joins Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording, as he reflects on what prompted his decision to step down as head coach.

This week, Lawrence Dallaglio is joined by Sarra Elgan and Evening Standard rugby correspondent, Nick Purewal, as they discuss all the weekend action from Round 23 of the Premiership and look ahead to the upcoming European Champions Cup semi-finals.

Lawrence is joined by Sarra Elgan and the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording plus their special guest, London Irish back-row forward, Tom Pearson. Tom shares what he’s learnt by taking the university rather than academy route into professional rugby, his ambition for getting capped by England and the Exiles mindset.

Lawrence is joined by Sarra Elgan and Evening Standard rugby correspondent, Nick Purewal, as they round up the results from the weekend’s European Champions Cup Quarter Finals.

Lawrence is joined by Steve Cording and rugby correspondent, Nick Purewal, plus special guest and World Cup winning former Red Rose, Kat Merchant.

Lawrence, Steve and Nick chat through the results from Round 21 of the Premiership including the London Irish players dazzling at the annual St Patrick’s Party game and how Bath pulled off a five-try victory against Exeter. Plus, the guys select their Player of the Week.

In the final Six Nations Special, Lawrence Dallaglio is joined by Steve Cording and Nick Purewal from the Evening Standard to review the results of the championship and discuss where each nation stands ahead of the World Cup later this year.

Lawrence is joined by Steve Cording and Nick Purewal from the Evening Standard, plus special guest Gonzalo Quesada, the former fly-half for Argentina and current Head Coach for Top 14 club, Stade Français.

In this special live episode, Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording are joined this week by one of England Rugby’s most celebrated Red Roses, Emily Scarratt.

Lawrence is joined by Steve Cording and Nick Purewal to discuss all the latest rugby news. Their special guest is London Irish Head Coach, Les Kiss.

In a special live episode, Lawrence is reunited with co-host Sarra Elgan and joined by England and Bath centre, Jonathan Joseph, along with Steve Cording from the Evening Standard.

This week Lawrence Dallaglio is joined by the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording and rugby correspondent Nick Purewal, plus Leicester fly-half/centre Jimmy Gopperth, as they review Round 2 of the Six Nations and look ahead to the return of this weekend’s Premiership games.

Lawrence Dallaglio is joined by the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording and rugby correspondent, Nick Purewal, plus special guest Martin Castrogiovanni to discuss the opening round of this year’s Six Nations.

Lawrence is joined by the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording and Nick Purewal. Plus their special guest is former fly-half Craig Chalmers, who earned 60 caps for Scotland, toured with the British & Irish Lions in 1989 and appeared 13 times for the Barbarians.

Lawrence Dallaglio is joined by Steve Cording from the Evening Standard and former Saracens’ and England lock, George Kruis.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Steve Cording and Nick Purewal are joined by former Wallaby lock, Justin Harrison. Justin recalls his debut for Australia in 2001 and the historic win against the British & Irish Lions.

Lawrence is joined by the Evening Standard’s Nick Purewal and Steve Cording to chat about the fast-moving situation at the RFU and what a new head coach for England needs to bring to the table.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and ES rugby correspondent, Nick Purewal, are joined by former Springbok captain, Bob Skinstad, who talks about his early days playing for South Africa.

Harlequins’ loosehead, Joe Marler, chats to Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Nick Purewal about being mentored by Jason Leonard; his Beyonce inspired tracksuit, why he loves podcasting and his personal hopes for the next World Cup.

Lawrence Dallaglio and Evening Standard rugby correspondent, Nick Purewal, are joined by former New Zealand scrum-half, Justin Marshall. Justin chats about his favourite memories in an All Black jersey, what he learned by playing club rugby in the UK and why he’s frustrated with the current All Black set up.

Harlequins’ loosehead, Joe Marler, chats to Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Nick Purewal about being mentored by Jason Leonard; his Beyonce inspired tracksuit, why he loves podcasting and his personal hopes for the next World Cup.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording are joined by one of the most accomplished rugby coaches, Warren Gatland, whose teams have included Galwegians, Connacht, Ireland, Wasps, Wales, the Chiefs and three British and Irish Lions tours.

As he approaches his 100th Test cap, and looks ahead to becoming the most capped international referee of all time, Wayne Barnes joins Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording to chat about his rugby career, including the best and worst aspects of being a ref.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording are joined by Sale Sharks’ fly-half, Rob Du Preez. They chat about his early years playing rugby and which fellow South Africans had a hand in him swapping Durban for Manchester.

Recorded live at The Twickenham Stoop following a game between Harlequins and Leicester Tigers, Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording are joined by three Quins players; Alex Dombrandt, Emily Robinson and Cadan Murley.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording are joined by Northampton Saints’ scrum-half, Alex Mitchell, who chats about Saints training session, what he’s learned from Dan Biggar, and why he thinks rugby is changing.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording are joined by Red Roses’ back-row, Marlie Packer, who chats about preparations for the World Cup in New Zealand.

Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and the Evening Standard’s Steve Cording welcome Exeter Chiefs’ captain, Luke Cowan-Dickie.

This week’s special guest is the most capped Harlequins player of all time, and former England full back, Mike Brown, who shares his future plans away from the rugby field, discusses who he thinks should be in England’s starting back three and also reveals which superhero he’d most like to be.

In this special live episode, recording at the world famous Cabbage Patch pub in Twickenham, Lawrence is joined by fellow England World Cup winner Kyran Bracken, London Irish and Australia prop Ollie Hoskins and World Cup winning Red Rose Claire Purdy to chew over England’s second test against Australia as well as Ireland’s historic win against the All Blacks.

Sarra Elgan chats to Lawrence and his guest, former England and Saracens centre Brad Barritt, about their experiences of playing at Twickenham and what gets said in the changing rooms before a game.

Lawrence is joined by Wasps’ Jack Willis, Cherry Jam podcaster Ed Price and ES sports journalist Will Macpherson.

In this special episode Lawrence is joined by Simon Massie-Taylor, the CEO of Premiership Rugby, and also by former Leicester, Lions & England player, Ben Kay.

Sarra Elgan sits in for Lawrence again this week and is joined by Leicester, England and Lions legend, Ben Kay; captain of Harlequins women’s team and former England centre, Rachael Burford; and host of the Sale fan podcast, The Shark Tank, James Madeley.

Lawrence is joined by Leicester scrum-half, Ben Youngs, former Northampton player and co-host of The Saints Show podcast, Lennie Newman, and ES Sport journalist, Will Macpherson.

With Lawrence away, Sarra Elgan stepped in as guest presenter. Joining her to discuss all the weekend Premiership action was Leicester, England and Lions legend, Ben Kay, ES journalist Will Macpherson, and Michael Wood, who is co-host of the award-winning Two Woods, Four Quarters: A Harlequins Podcast.

Lawrence is joined by Sir Clive Woodward and Harlequins captain, Rachael Burford. The men’s Six Nations may be over but conversations around England’s lack of performance continue.

Lawrence welcomes Scottish legend Greig Laidlaw to the podcast and after discussing Italy’s amazing win, Ireland’s victory and France’s Grand Slam the talk inevitably turns to England and the future for Eddie Jones.

Lawrence is joined by TV & radio presenter, Carol Vorderman, Newcastle fan and host of the Folk on Falcons podcast, Philip Mundy, and ES sports journalist, Matt Majendie.

Lawrence is joined by England rugby ace, Emily Scarratt, ES sports journalist, Simon Collings, and Saracens fan and host of The Fezcast, Jez Denton.

Lawrence is joined by rugby royalty and one of the greatest players of all time, Brian O’Driscoll (BOD). Plus Bill Pulling from the London Irish ‘Exile Nation’ podcast.

Lawrence is joined by London Irish legend, Topsy Ojo, ES sports journalist, Will Macpherson, and Bristol fan and host of the Bears Beyond the Gate podcast, Tony Cox.

Lawrence and former France back Thomas Castaignède discuss England’s performance in Rome against Italy and look ahead to round three of the Championship.

The Evening Standard’s Will Macpherson brings the latest rugby news, and hosts the in-show quiz “Over the Line or In the Bin” where Lawrence and guests vie to be crowned the champion of rugby trivia: do you know how the Calcutta Cup was made?