Caluori, try records & semi-finals week
4/27/202651 min
Is Noah Caluori ready for England? Have we entered a new era for try records? Can Bath topple the best club team in Europe? Chris Ashton, Danny Care and Chris Jones dissect the big talking points from the weekend, including another thriller between the Prem's top two, and look ahead to the Champions Cup semi-finals. Plus, after Pat Lam criticised Newcastle's pitch, we discuss what it is really like to play on an artificial surface.
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First 90 secondsChris Jones· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly.
Speaker 10:03
[upbeat music] Okay, similar start to last week's pod. What's the most number of tries you guys have scored in a single season? [exhales sharply] Ashy.
Danny Care· Host0:16
Ashy, a lot, surely.
Speaker 10:17
Gotta be. Oh, that France, that France season.
Danny Care· Host0:20
Um, is it all right that I'm a bit annoyed about this?
Speaker 10:21
[laughs] About, about what?
Danny Care· Host0:23
The amount- Life or [laughs] being on this podcast still? [laughs] That's norm- that's a normal Monday, you're annoyed about something. I'm a bit annoyed the amount of tries that's been scored. I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 10:34
Oh, they don't have the same value they once did?
Danny Care· Host0:36
No.
Speaker 10:36
Okay.
Danny Care· Host0:37
And we're gonna g- I'm sure we'll talk about it more. I am with him on that.
Speaker 10:40
But there will be players who played 20 years before you who'd feel the same about when you played.
Danny Care· Host0:44
No.
Speaker 10:44
No?
Danny Care· Host0:45
I'll have a reason for that in a minute.
Speaker 10:46
Okay.
Danny Care· Host0:47
Well, I think it was 16, 17-ish.
Speaker 10:49
But that top 14 season, I know there are more matches.
Danny Care· Host0:52
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 10:52
What was that? That was 20 plus, wasn't it?
Danny Care· Host0:54
Yeah.
Speaker 10:55
Yeah.
Danny Care· Host0:55
Yeah, 23. But is there an asterisk on that because teams just send their second team to their home, to their away games.
Speaker 11:02
And you'd- So you're just playing against 12 12 guys ... and you'd rather run into us over in the senses.
Danny Care· Host1:06
We're talking about- 'Cause people might- [laughs] ... might say that that's easy. Anyone can do that. We're talking about 10-million-pound squads here. [laughs] Yeah, but they don't- It's not a second team ... yeah, but they don't send them to the second team game- There's no kids ... there's, the away game. No kids.
Speaker 11:18
The second choice prop might be some 30-cap international.
Danny Care· Host1:21
All right.
Speaker 11:21
He might be 35.
Danny Care· Host1:23
All right. [laughs] Yeah, but you know what happens- Might, might be Georgia ... in the top 14, the away games, teams just get battered. So maybe people could ask asterisk