What’s All The Ruckus? – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to a brand new podcast for Tier Two international rugby 🌎 Today Charlie and Josh are speaking to Bedford Blues and Hong Kong player Matt Worley 🇭🇰 Formerly of Racing 92 and Northampton Saints, Matt has a great insight into life as a rugby player and has some brilliant stories 🏉 Speaking on his 'publicity stunt' move to France, the hopes of a first Rugby World Cup for his country and so much more, it is not one to be missed 🔥

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Time Stamps:

3:45 First question- Hong Kong rugby and upbringing 

7:47- Life outside of rugby

9:12 Move to Racing 92

14:24- Going to university and life after rugby 

16:45- Championship expansion and league’s communication to players

18:30- Prem Rugby Cup benefits 

20:47- World Cup expansion positives

22:25- Hong Kong tour of South America and upcoming potential European tour

23:58- Hong Kong team in Japanese leagues 

25:20- Potential additions to Hong Kong 15s team

28:10- Asian rugby standard

29:19- Message to Tier 2 eligible players

30:08- Conclusion

We are back with another weekly guest episode, this time with Romanian international Jason Tomane 🇷🇴

From playing at the 2023 Rugby World Cup against the Springboks, to his move to Romania in his early 20s and so much MORE, Jason had some great stories 🏉

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Time stamps:

2:14 First memory of rugby 

3:11 Did Jason play both codes? 

4:33 Did Jason play with any NRL lads? 

6:57 Play with anyone at Aussie youth level?

6:50 Jason’s move to Canberra

9:10 Jason’s move to Hong Kong 

11:14 Jason’s move to Romania 

12:19 Decision to go to Romania 

13:30 Initial thoughts of Romania

15:05 Culture shocks of Romania 

16:25 Relationship with Hinckley Vaovasa

17:40 Romanian style of rugby

19:07 Difference between Bucharest and Baia Mare

20:57 Why he prefers Baia Mare

21:33 Dynamics between locals and foreign born Romanian players

22:27 How Jason’s Romanian debut came about

24:37 Samoan and Cook Islander eligibility

26:10 Resurgence under Gerard

27:47 Feelings about RWC 2023 call up 

29:10 What did Jason learn from RWC opposition

29:48 Improvements to Romania playing RWC opposition

30:33 Romanian Wolves experience 

31:00 Thoughts on Rugby Europe Super Cup

32:00 Thoughts on Six Nations expansion

33:00 Romania reaching Georgia’s level 

34:11 Thoughts on Expansion of the RWC

34:50 Message to T2 eligible players 

We’re back again for our weekly guest episode with some of the most interesting people in Tier 2 and 3 rugby 🏉

Today, Sweden head coach Alex Laybourne joins us 🇸🇪

From an unmatched insight about Leicester Tigers prop Ale Loman, to some great stories about the realities of working with limited resources and so much MORE, it is not one to be missed

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Time stamps:

2:16 - Recent training camp

4:12- The team playing Rugby 25

4:35- Challenges of coaching Sweden while being based in UK

6:05- Prioritising tactics or connection

8:10- Language barriers

10:24- Sweden’s coaching staff

12:37- Sleeping on sofa while in camp and making 40 sandwiches for the players

14:20- Referee in the camp to help with discipline

15:00- Personal life

16:51- Upcoming Rugby Europe Trophy games v Luxembourg and Poland

20:49- 2 year cycle of Rugby Europe Trophy

21:50- The rise of Sweden from Rugby Europe conference to potentially getting into the Championship

23:08- The sacrifices his players make to play for their country

24:15-Switzerland getting beaten heavily in Championship, how Sweden might feel about that

27:25- Why they play in Trelleborg

30:48- Weather challenges

31:50- Ale Loman first impressions

34:05- Loman’s position change

36:25- Loman’s move to England

39:25- Player’s Passion for playing for Sweden and challenges for T2 players to play for their country

40:16- Max Green eligibility for Sweden

42:50- Clubs not releasing players for international duty

43:32- English Championship needs more Tier 2 players

45:33- Tier 2 players not being able to play for their nation

Our weekly guest episode is back for episode 4, this time with the former president of Sri Lanka Rugby, Rizly Illyas.

Overseeing their ban from World Rugby and Asia Rugby, Rizly discusses his thoughts on why it happened and the impacts it has had on rugby in the country.

A huge deep dive on a topic lesser known by the majority of fans.

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Time stamps:

0:50- Background on Rizly

3:25- History of rugby in Sri Lanka

4:23- Rizly's allegations against Qais Al-Dhalai (Asia Rugby president)

7:50- Reasons behind his personal ban

13:00- Relationship between Sri Lanka and World Rugby as a result of previous events before Rizly's tenure

18:30- Impact of Fijian's passport fraud in 2012 on Rizly's tenure as president

22:50- Outro

We are back with episode 5, talking to Technical Director of Brazil Rugby- Josh Reeves.

Born in New Zealand, Reeves has played rugby in 4 different continents and is Brazil's record points scorer (we think!)

Now in a backroom capacity, we talk all about the development of rugby in his country and how it competes with football.

It was really good to speak to someone who has such a wealth of knowledge both as a player and as a coach.

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We have an absolute legend of South American rugby talking to us today, former Uruguay and current Chile head coach Pablo Lemoine.

Pablo has been instrumental in revolutionising the game in the region and has been compared to Marcelo Bielsa for his work in improving rugby.

As a player he scored at the 2003 World Cup against England.

Now a head coach, he spoke all about how Chile qualified for their first ever World Cup in 2023.

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We are back for our weekly episode, this time with Switzerland head coach Olivier Nier, following their Rugby Europe Championship campaign in which they played teams such as Georgia and Spain, as well as beating Germany

A shorter chat than usual due to him being extremely busy, he still managed to give some great information about rugby in the country

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Today we have a great guest, renowned journalist Francisco Isaac.

Francisco writes for RugbyPass as well as plenty of other outlets in his freelance career, with a focus on Tier 2 stories.

Basically the go to guy for any news relating to international rugby outside of the big nations, we spoke about so many different topics, as well as his personal journey into his career.

Any likes, shares and follows are hugely appreciated

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His recent piece on Spanish rugby: https://www.rugbypass.com/plus/is-spain-rugbys-next-great-superpower/

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Welcome back to What's All The Ruckus, we have a slightly different guest for you all today

Josef Webber is very well known on social media for his short form videos that mainly look at the gym, but recently he has started to document a new journey

After finding out that his grandad is from Belgium, he has been trying to play for the national team

With decent success so far, we caught up with Josef to learn a bit more about his personal life as well as his journey

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We are back with our weekly guest episode, this time with a unique guest from Kosovo rugby, Mark Barrett.

As one of the newest countries in the world, Kosovo have only been playing recognised international rugby since 2022.

This means that Barrett (who does a whole host of roles in the federation) has a unique opportunity to effectively create a rugby culture from scratch.

It was a great chat with someone involved in one of the true minnows in European rugby.

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