The Good, The Scaz & The Rugby

Most capped Black Fern of all time, Kendra Cocksedge & currently injured Irish stalwart, Dorothy Wall join Elma to preview a GINORMOUS clash between Ireland and New Zealand in Brighton this weekend… & rest of the round three matches! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mo & Zoe Harrison join Elma for a mid week catch up at the England Rugby training facility, ahead of their final pool game in Brighton this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elma & Nick have barely caught their breath after South Africa beat Italy, USA drew with Australia and Spain ran Ireland close..  It's been one helluva second round!! Join the big debrief! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

HOME NATIONS IN THE HOUSE!!!!! A trio of former Wales, Scotland & Ireland players - join Elma to look ahead to what rounds two & three have to offer & discuss the good, the bad & the ugly goings on behind the scenes. Elinor Snowsill, Anna Caplice & Christine Belisle give us all the insight from the Welsh, Scottish & Irish camps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

England World Cup winning captain, Katy Daley Mclean & commentator, Nick Heath join Elma to discuss all the runners & riders of the Rugby World Cup & make Quarter Finals predictions. The tournament kicks off on Friday night as England take on USA at the Stadium of Light! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scaz, Mo & Meg pop by the studio for the final time before the World Cup. They're fresh from the plane from a convincing win over France, in their final warm up fixture, so as per usual chaos ensues. The girls also reflect on their journey to this point, eight years since we last saw Meg & Mo on the world stage in the 15s game, so it's also an opportune moment for Meg to reflect on her year of growth & fresh perspective, a year on from her dad passing away. Disclaimer: We will not be found liable for any Mo'ism Os-MO-sis that occurs while listening to or watching this episode. Listen at your own risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scaz & Mo are back in camp ahead of this weekend’s warm up game against France. So, Elma’s roped in our favourite fourth wheel, KDM to help her convince the Lionesses biggest fan, comedian Maisie Adam, to LOVE rugby. It’s not a difficult task, Maisie’s onboard from the outset, but she does have more than a few questions… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s another world cup happening this summer - it’s called the IDRC, the International Defence Rugby Competition, which Vodafone are the Principal partner of… where 7 nations of formidable soldiers, sailors and airwomen battle it out to determine the greatest Armed Forces rugby team on the planet. To find out more, Elma heads to Aldershot Garrison, to visit the UK Armed Forces team, which is sponsored by Vodafone & made up of players from the RAF, the Army & the Navy! Come and support The Nation's Heroes on The Nation's Network. ⏭️ 00:00 - Coming Up… 🎖️ 01:35 - Ranks & Roles Explained 🐝 11:37 - 12 Years At Wasps 🤝 15:33 - Cohesion Off Field 🔄 20:57 - Never The Same Squad 🏉 28:10 - Rugby Journeys In The Armed Forces 🇫🇯 31:57 - Manuqalo ‘Coms’ Komaitai 🏆 38:55 - IDRC Tournament 💜 46:00 - Power Of The Purple Shirt 📱 51:27 - Value Of Vodaphone 🥇 55:24 - IDRC Final 🇬🇧❓ 56:50 - Why Do You Serve? Tickets for the IDRC final: https://www.eticketing.co.uk/gloucesterrugby/Events?preFilter=6&preFilterName=Additional%20Matches Tickets for the IDRC pool stages: https://www.interservicerugbychampionship.co.uk/168/2585/idrc_buy-tickets Ticket Prices: Adult - £5 | Child: £1 Every game will be streamed on YouTube on the BFBS Forces News Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@forces_news Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rugby World Cup is only four weeks away & our Red Roses are back for Season 6 of The Good, The Scaz & The Rugby with their South African Cat Lady in tow. Life in camp, summer shenanigans & more Mo’isms than you can shake a white elephant at… the chaos has returned for another year! Try not to get goosebumps… 🐣 00:00 - Coming up! 😤 01:03 - Scaz’s Pet Peeves 🎉 03:55 - Proud New Citizen 🏉 06:30 - Scaz’s FIFTH Rugby World Cup 🇬🇧 12:39 - National Anthem GOOSEBUMPS 🎙️ 17:36 - Media & Squad Press Conference 😅 19:54 - Missed MO’ISMS 📖 27:36 - Bedtime Stories 🌾 30:34 - Italy, Scaz’s Farm & Peckham 🎤 35:10 - RWC Shows 🔥 40:26 - Warm-Up Games ⚠️ 44:47 - Problems In Scotland 📌 54:48 - Honda Noticeboard: Wassell & Brazier Return + Carson Gets Vinted 🦁 55:59 - LIONS Predictions 🐔 01:01:48 - The GSR Pecking Order ABOUT GSR! World Cup-winning Red Roses and best friends Emily Scarratt and Natasha Hunt host the award winning The Good, The Scaz & The Rugby, with their good friend, South African broadcaster, Elma Smit. Often joined by current Red Rose Meg Jones, the team brings a unique mix of insight, humour, and honesty to the world of women’s rugby. Their mission? To grow the game and help reshape how women and girls see themselves — through untold stories, raw conversations, and unmatched access across clubs, players, unions, and coaches. Subscribe for weekly episodes celebrating the people changing the game 💥🏉 Follow us on socials: 📸 IG: https://www.instagram.com/goodscazrugby 🐦 X: https://www.twitter.com/goodscazrugby 🎵 TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@goodscazrugby 📘 FB: https://www.facebook.com/goodscazrugby #womensrugby #goodscazrugby #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The morning after the night before… Scaz, Mo, Meg, Katy & Elma debrief on Super Saturday, winning their fourth grand slam in a row & the Women’s Six Nations as a whole.  Make sure you’re following The Good, The Scaz & The Rugby on socials, for more live show announcements: @goodscazrugby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ahead of Mo, Scaz & Meg taking on Ireland this weekend, Elma has hopped across the Irish Sea for an exclusive tour of Ireland’s High Performance Centre, to see what the World Champion beating, Girls in Green have got up their sleeve. Injured Ireland skipper & Gloucester Hartpury second row, Sam Monaghan is back on the show, accompanied by Ireland 15s & 7s scrum half, Aoibheann Reilly & Ireland’s most entertaining prop Niamh O’Dowd, AKA Noddy, AKA Noddia, AKA the late Father Dina. Alongside Niamh’s multiple personas, the gang discuss ACL tear recovery & research, the chronicles of the Niss (Niamh’s trusty car) & draining Dubai dry of rice pudding.  To support Em Haywood’s ACL fundraiser, go to: https://tinyurl.com/4c5aypdu  Make sure you’re following The Good, The Scaz & The Rugby on socials, for more live show announcements: @goodscazrugby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresh from a win at the Principality, our Red Roses, Scaz, Mo & Meg join Elma in the studio for a mid-Six Nations catch up. The girls are on a fallow week day off, so Meg thought she’d extend the break to Elma by taking the reins of the pod. We get a run down of the opening rounds of the tournament, an insight into John Mitchell’s coaching box, & Meg’s reflection on her first run out for England since coming back from injury & losing both her parents. Don’t ask why Voldemort stops by, we don’t know. Make sure you’re following The Good, The Scaz & The Rugby on socials, for more live show announcements: @goodscazrugby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Wales & Bristol Bears Fly half, Elinor Snowsill joins Elma & Katy Daley-Mclean (her opposite number for many years) to review Round One of the Women's Six Nations. Rabbit holes include, but are not limited to: the importance of menstrual cycle tracking, the number of siblings the Pyrs sisters have and Emily Scarratt’s fake tan rumours. Tickets to GSR’s Principality live show ahead of Wales v England on Saturday 29th March: https://tinyurl.com/4kyj78jt  Make sure you’re following The Good, The Scaz & The Rugby on socials, for more live show announcements: @goodscazrugby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mo & her circus are off to the PWR final again - vying for the three-peat, but this time against Saracens! Less than an hour after the final whistle at Queensholm, Elma & Scaz have lured Mo & Gloucester-Hartpury head coach, Sean Lynn, for a debrief. They unpick the game against Bristol Bears, discuss Lynnie legacy at GH and his pride at being given the Wales job…  Nick Heath subs in for Mo & Lynnie’s for the second half of the show, to deep dive into both semi finals & analyse how prepping for the final may differ for Sarries & GH.  Tickets for GSR’s live show at StoneX Stadium ahead of the PWR Final on Sunday 16th March - head to https://shorturl.at/4sAQd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Learning she had a 27cm tumour in her chest, that she mistook for a piece of sour dough stuck in her throat, was not the way Scotland & Loughborough's stalwart second row, Emma Wassell, would have wanted to start this season. But, with the help of her team mates, Rachel Malcolm, Rhona Lloyd & a few others, she’s on her way back to the pitch… Emma & Rachel join Scaz & Elma to relive a story that isn’t for the faint of heart; a story of friendship, courage & resilience. Elsewhere… our Mo’s secured herself a Holm semi final… join Elma at at Kingsholm (renamed Queensholm for the occasion) for Gloucester-Hartpury Bristol Bears on Sunday 2nd March. If you'd like to join Elma & the rest of the GSR blue tits, head to https://shorturl.at/rOpBe & use GSR10 at the checkout to get a 10% discount! The Cabin Chat is brought to you by British Airways. British Airways will take care of you over a lifetime of journeys. Book your next flight at britishairways.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elma, Scaz & Mo are joined by Canadian international hooker turned Red Roses prop, Mackenzie Carson. The girls discuss Mack's unchartered journey from Canada to England, her recent ADHD diagnosis and her on-pitch, head-to-head rivalry with partner, Sarah Bern. Disclaimer: no joke is left un-turned in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Loughborough are just coming into their own at the end of this season, beating Bristol Bears & Saracens in recent weeks… so Scaz has invited us to take a look around her house, to see what’s in the water there. Lightning Head Coach, Nathan Smith, joins Scazzy to tell us all about Loughborough’s pathways & the club he’s building. Scaz then sits down with one of her youngest team mates, & one of the newest Red Roses, Lilli Ives Campion and a Red Rose of her generation, who is now coaching England U18s Ollie Perry to discuss everything from Sunter’s glory days at uni, to the England pathway. Finally the trio are joined by Loughborough uni player, Emily ‘Mags’ Maguire, who is a mentee on GSR & Vodafone’s EmpowHER programme, to hear all about her journey into coaching. GSR & Vodafone’s EmpowHER programme is bridging the gap between Women’s BUCS Super Rugby & the top leagues in England, Scotland & Wales. The unis get: 🤝 Mentorship from GSR’s rugby stars & industry experts 📈Advanced tech with Vodafone Player.Connect’s athlete monitoring tool  🧠Social media, nutrition, mental health workshops  Head to our socials to find out more -@goodscazrugby on all channels  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Abi Burton is back in a Red Roses training jersey with her sights firmly on her next XVs cap after the most incredible return to the GB7s team in the summer & an Olympic cycle that now seems like someone else’s life, to her. She joins Elma & Meg to relive her journey from the pitch, to a hospital bed, & back again. She touches on how her muscle mass saved her life, how much she appreciates her body now and how she’ll never get enough of necking pints of gravy fr fun. The Trailfinders back row is firmly back in business… & we suggest you don’t get in her way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elma’s headed South West to meet the busiest woman in the PWR: nail technician to the stars, Exeter Chiefs Captain & Exeter Uni Head Coach, Poppy Leitch & her team mate, Canada’s Alex Tessier AKA Tess. They discuss Tess’ World Rugby Player of the Year nomination & the nails that went with her outfit in Monaco (of course), as well as the legacy of Jo Yapp in those parts & the programme’s transformation over the last few years under Poppy’s leadership. The trio are then joined by two Exeter Uni’s players, who are also mentees on GSR & Vodafone’s EmpowHER programme, Eva Stirrett & Lilly Plowman, to hear all about how much they believe Poppy is the Messiah. (Their words, not ours.) GSR & Vodafone’s EmpowHER programme is bridging the gap between Women’s BUCS Super Rugby & the top leagues in England, Scotland & Wales. The unis get: 🤝 Mentorship from GSR’s rugby stars & industry experts 📈Advanced tech with Vodafone Player.Connect’s athlete monitoring tool  🧠Social media, nutrition, mental health workshops  Head to our socials to find out more -@goodscazrugby on all channels  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The girls have been back in England camp this week & the Red Roses’ Vice Captaincy has been bestowed upon our Meg, so Scaz, Mo & Elma hash through what it takes to be a leader in the Red Roses. True to form, Meg is open and honest about leadership, as well as the year she’s had - losing both her mum and dad in quick succession. She proudly tells the girls about the people they both were, as well as the struggles her mum had with alcoholism, in the hope that others affected by addiction don’t feel so alone. She’s one in a million, our Meg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices