As the sun sets on another Sevens Summer, we come back to review the good, the bad and the ugly of our 2023 season .

This week The 99's mysterious benefactor and worst player Tom Bigland  joins the pod along with 99's legend and all-round great bloke Joe "BFJ" Callery.  We break down our season, tournament by tournament, and we discuss the origin story and what the future holds for the man, the myth, the legend: Big Fat Joe.

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Content Warning: More swearing than usual!

Back again with a grumpy episode. Dan and Dav both have rants to go on in this episode, taking aim at the standard of refereeing across the game, the future of professional rugby and as always the RFU. There a few positives however as we set out our plan to save rugby union with our breakaway league The Ultimate Rugby Championship (Trademark pending), and give the forgotten towns of Leicestershire some much needed publicity!

We're Back!

After an extended period with no spare time or no internet, we're finally back and ready to prepare for the 2023 season and beyond. 

This week we discuss the RFU's controversial new tackle law, the RFU's general incompetence and take a look at the weekend's opening round of the Six Nations.

It's good to be back!

We're back! After a 5 month long week off. This week, we take a look back at our summer of sevens and set out our plan for the future both on and off the pitch.

Also, bucket hats for sale!!!!! Get in contact and get yourself a shiny new hat and support some great charities too.

This week we run down numbers 6 through 10 of our Rugby bucket list. More travelling makes the list this week with a little bit of civic pride thrown in to the mix.  We also get a bit lost down a few tangents and discuss fighting, pain killers, and global geopolitics.

As promised, here are clips from the good ol' days:

"Uppercut,  just give him a telling off" - Peter Stringer punches Martin Johnson - YouTube
The best Lions moment ever - Duncan McRae punches Ronan O'Gara - YouTube

We finally get the chance to record the pod in person over the sunny bank holiday weekend. We start of this week discussing what Rugby Union can learn from it's cousin Rugby League before moving on to coming up with the solution to keep grassroots clubs going post-pandemic. Finally, we get around to discussing the main topic this week. The first five of our starting XV of rugby bucket list items, a selection of things that all rugby fans should try their best to experience at least once in their lifetimes.

This week we have 5 travel oriented experiences for both playing and spectating that we think everyone should make an effort to have. 

A BIG week of MLR action this week with some BIG games and some BIG results. Utah take control of the playoff race in the Western Conference with a big win over Austin; New York look back to their best after a big win in a fiery East Coast derby vs Old Glory DC and biggest of all the Giltinis took their second defeat of the season against the on fire Rugby ATL down in Georgia (Nursey called it perfectly). 

After last weekend's European finals we discuss the fall and rise of our hometown club Leicester Tigers and lay out our plan for the club for when we strike it rich on the Euromillions. After a number of years in decline and only avoiding relegation due to Saracens' points deduction last season, Leicester has been a club growing stale for a while now and we believe we have a foolproof plan to bring back the glory days to Welford Road. 

Also keep an ear out for the rugby headlines of the week and disappointing brief coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest