Rugby Pod End of Year Awards & Christmas Spec...

The Nations Championship delivered a final weekend of chaos as England survived a seven-card thriller against Argentina, with controversial calls, post-match bust-ups and massive performance from Manny Feyi-Waboso dominating the fallout. The lads debate whether England’s successf ...  Show more

Scotland push the Springboks to the limit and may have revealed a blueprint for troubling the world champions, but a second-half surge by the Boks leaves them wondering what might have been. England stop the rot with an 11-try demolition of Fiji, although questions remain over ho ...  Show more

Merry Christmas from everyone at The Ruck! Will Kelleher, Alex Lowe and Alan Dymock look back on 2022 by naming their men's XV team of the year, plus a number of other end of year awards! Will chats with England and Saracen's Zoe Harrison to look back on her year, which included ...  Show more

Happy new year! What better way to start 2024 than with the first Ruck of the year. Alfie Reynolds, Alex Lowe and Will Kelleher name a men's World XV of 2023, which is dominated by South Africa and New Zealand who reached the World Cup final. Alfie chats with England under-20 and ...  Show more

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from everyone involved with The Ruck! On this festive episode, Alex Lowe and Stephen Jones look back on 2021 and cast their gaze forward into 2022. Their special guest is the England and Wasps winger Abby Dow who looks back on her excellent year ...  Show more

Alex Lowe, Stephen Jones, Adam Hathaway and Mike Aylwin join forces for the 2019 Ruck Christmas Party. They discuss the battle at the bottom of the Gallagher Premiership and ask if everyone is too good to go down this year, after World Rugby announced it will be reviewing salary ...  Show more