What we learned from first week of Nations Championship
7/8/202637 min
Hugh Cahill presents this week's RTÉ Rugby Podcast and is joined by Bernard Jackman in studio, while Neil Treacy dials in from his Sydney hotel room. The lads dissect Ireland's opening Nations Championship win over Australia and look ahead to Japan this weekend.
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First 90 secondsHugh Cahill· Host0:00
[rock music] And you're very welcome to the RT Rugby Podcast. Delighted to have Bernard Jackman with me here in the studio. How are you, Berch?
Bernard Jackman· Guest0:10
Very good, thank you.
Hugh Cahill· Host0:10
And Neil is all the way over in Sydney, in his very clean hotel room. Neil, how's things?
Neil Treacy· Host0:15
I'm great. You, how are you doing?
Hugh Cahill· Host0:18
I'm very good. I'm very good. Look, Berch, just quick, uh, before we get over to Neil, um, slightly strange to be talking about rugby in July. How, how are you feeling? It feels like it has been a, a mammoth season. And whatever about me kind of feeling like, "God, are we still talking rugby?" For the players, for the coaches and stuff, is it, is it a bit too long? I, I dunno.
Bernard Jackman· Guest0:35
It definitely, uh, uh, there wasn't a huge amount of hype about this tour or, or this tournament. But I think the way it started last Saturday morning, and there's a lot of other sport on, obviously, but I, I just thought the, the first day of the Nations Championship world rugby couldn't have got a, a better start. I mean, from the very first game, New Zealand, France, um, all the way through. I, I thought Ireland, Australia was a cracking match. There was obviously some, some of the quality wasn't amazing, but it was a cracking game. And then even, you know, uh, the last game I watched that day was, was Scotland ripping apart Argentina over there. So, there was some real good contests. And, uh, yeah, look, the players certainly look like they're, there's still a little bit of, um, uh, life left in those legs. But definitely, just for the Northern Hemisphere players, this, um, this summer off will, will be badly needed.
Hugh Cahill· Host1:19
Yeah. A- a- and what's the sense over there, Neil? I mean, are, are ... Th- obviously, the result the players showed means that they're actually, you know, they're still well up for [laughs] going and playing, going and getting results, and eking out wins as they showed against Australia on