With the flagship event for world rugby kicking off this Friday, Dan and Niall review the various storylines at play going into the pool stages, and try to get a sense of where the pitfalls could be for the favourites in each pool.
With the culmination of the Pro14 and a historic undefeated league campaign by Leinster, we now take a look ahead at the Heineken cup and how the various leagues will have set up their teams for the knockout stages this weekend.
With rugby in the northern hemisphere back, we take a look at what the different leagues are doing with respect to this season whilst preparing for a truncated 2020/21 season and the impact this will have on international games.
After a successful international window for the north hemisphere, Dan and Niall look at where that leaves world rugby, how the run-in to the world cup could look. They also try to make sense of what beating the all blacks, South Africa or Australia actually means.
With the next world cup just under 2 years away, Dan and Niall take a look at how teams are shaping up, who is riding high, who are on the up and who are looking to be living on past glories.
In a world where there is no rugby, until the 13th of June, Niall and Dan have kept themselves entertained through looking at self help books. Vaguely at the actual books and more about the idea of the books and a few of the ideas in the books.
After a tumultuous season and a mish-mash of tournaments in the last 12 months, Niall and Dan try to figure out where teams are and how things are shaking up with the lions having been announced too.
We briefly look at where the chips lie now for the Heineken cup quarter finals, a look at how the teams have been selected for the 6 nation's, and a brief touch on a financial scandal happening in Saries at the moment, in case you haven't heard.
Review of the first 4 rounds the champions cup and some of the interpros in this Christmas season, and a shameless plug for @IanMadigan
Our longest podcast this year, to follow what felt like a long world cup, from the early excitement of Japan to the peak of South African rugby. We've tried to wrap it all up, with a brief view towards what this means for the current state of rugby
So, this is the first transcontinental Outside Centres podcast. After hours of trying to get this to work, we finally got a recording. Please forgive the lack of welcome to the podcast, if we had to do it one more time it was getting scrapped! But here we go, our wrap up of the groups and preview of what lies ahead, we even made predictions again, let's see if they all are wrong again... Enjoy!
After high demand, we're back with a preview of the world cup! Kicking off in 2 and a bit days time, we look at who really stands a chance in what's been labeled the most open world cup since 1987!
Looking back at week 4 of the Pro14 and the implications of home advantage in rugby, with a brief look forward at the Irish derby games on in week 5 of the Pro14.
After a bit of mourning, Dan and Niall finally made the wrap up for the world cup.
Dan and Niall look back on the pool stages that were and ahead to the knockout stages still to come. Has the hypothesis been dismantled or just slightly tilted?
In the lockdown era we look at how this has been effecting clubs and World Rugby, how might rugby look going forward and what can rugby as a whole do to continue growth of the sport.
With the pinnacle of most year's northern hemisphere rugby calendars, 6mas is here, with it all kicking off in Paris this year. We look ahead to how we expect things to play out this year and some key factors for each side.
With the group stages over and the quarter finals set, we briefly look back at what has been, look and the various roads to the final and who we feel wikl get there. We also take a look at what the pro 14 has to offer, seejbg the fjrst impacts on squad selection from international team selections for the 6 nations.
With the quarter final picture starting to take shape, we look at what the last round of pool games has to offer and take a look ahead at where the cards may fall after the weekend.
With the christmas interpros wrapped up and the final rounds of the Heineken Cup pool stages, we look at where the teams are comibg into the new year.