HARPIN' ON RUGBY

Summary

Our theme for today’s The Pod Of Three is travel, something we haven’t been able to do much in the past while.  First, The Rugby Player talks to Ireland Men’s Sevens star Harry McNulty about different places he has been around the globe, then Rugby Abroad gets Michael Walker-Fitton, an English lock currently plying his trade in Spain, to talk about a previous spell in the lower divisions of French rugby, and finally The Scottish Rugby blog discuss arguably the best known travelling team of all, the Lions, and a documentary about their 1997 tour of South Africa.

1) The Rugby Player : “Harry McNulty – Irish Men’s Sevens”

2) The Rugby Abroad Podcast : “Episode 5 – Michael Walker-Fitton”

3) The Scottish Rugby Blog Podcast – “1997 Lions Tour – Everest belongs to Telfer”

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For this pod I had a chat with Denis Hurley…no, not the former Munster winger, this is the curator of the excellent MuseumOfJerseys.com which proved to be a valuable resource in setting up the Ireland Jersey McJerseyface Cup.   We talked about how he set up the site andwhat drives opinion on jersey designs among other things.

Here’s his site > https://museumofjerseys.com/

The post that had me singing “Hallelujah!” > https://museumofjerseys.com/2017/08/04/ireland-rugby-jersey-history-1987-2017/

Denis is on twitter > https://twitter.com/Denis_Hurley & https://twitter.com/museumofjerseys

Finally here’s the homepage for the Ireland Jersey McJerseyface Cup > http://www.harpinonrugby.net/2020/06/the-ireland-jersey-mcjerseyface-cup.html

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We have three new shows to share with you this time around, well they’re new to this feature anyway.  First up there’s The Driving Maul Show which looks at some broader positive effects of the return to Super Rugby in New Zealand, then TJ from Rugby Muscle gives his take on the proposed changes to the Laws of the Game, and finally the Brandon Smith Podcast talks to a young Scottish referee about his first match holding the whistle.

1) The Driving Maul Show : “S1E02 Super Rugby Is Nearly Here!”

2) The Brandon Smith Podcast : “What Is It Like To Be A Rugby Referee?”

3) The Rugby Muscle Podcast : “Rugby without scrums? Discussing the new World Rugby law changes”

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For this pod we’re bringing back our #RetroRugby series, looking back at a great contest from years gone by and today long time Harpin commenter Richard Mifsud and I feature a Leinster triumph on the road to earning star number four.  

If you’d like to rewatch the match yourself before listening to our thoughts just hit pause and click the YouTube link below, we promise to wait patiently.

Link to YouTube > https://youtu.be/fEmNzRmvpcw

For links to all episodes in our RetroRugby series click here > https://bit.ly/RetroRugby

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This is the 9th instalment of our new feature we call the Pod of Three, where we share clips from the best independent rugby podcasts.

Each of our guest pods today is dealing with changes which have happened during, or in some cases because of, the coronavirus break.  First, The Advantage Over podcast from RugbyReferee.net looks at the proposed law tweaks from World Rugby, then Talking Rugby Union tries to make sense of what happens to Saracens who are caught between the top two tiers of the English game, and finally on Under The Sticks, Adam Redmond the Head of Broadcast & Communications for the Guinness Pro 14 explains the league’s new deal with the private equity firm CVC.

1) Advantage Over : “Law variations option for post-COVID19 rugby”

2) Talking Rugby Union : “Ben Mercer and RugbyAndTheLaw talk business”

3) Under The Sticks : “Ian Keatley, CVC, Corona Cup, Six Nations Moving? Welsh Regional XV”

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For this, episode 51 of our main podcast, we are sharing with you some highlights the premiere of yet another new feature that aired this week – a Facebook live show called The Leinster Laighin which we’re doing in conjunction with Three Blokes & Ball and BOD.  

You can click here to watch the full show itself, but for this pod we cover three parts of it – first, I talk to Big Joe Shep about my personal history with rugby and how I set up Harpin On Rugby, then in what will be a regular slot on club rugby, Gerald “The Oracle” Williamson talks about his local boys Navan RFC, and finally I go through Leinster’s amazing run in the 2019/2020 campaign.  I already went through it meticulously in the last episode of this pod, but I certainly wasn’t complaining about harping on it again! 

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For this episode things are going to be a little bit different.  On Thursday, May 28 at 8:30pm I’ll be joining up with Big Joe Shep from the excellent Facebook Live offering Three Blokes A Ball & BOD for a new show called The Leinster Laighin where we’ll be looking to merge the Leinster-focused approach of HarpinOnRugby with Big Joe’s trademark global reach brand.  So for this pod I’m going to share some snippets from Joe’s productions in recent times – first he’s chatting to Gerard Williamson from Navan RFC about the All Ireland League and club rugby in general – Gerard will actually be joining us on our first show to talk about his club.  There there’s snippets from a couple of live events that I did for Joe; first you’ll hear a way over the top introduction he gave for me at the Sandymount Hotel ahead of the 2019 Heineken Cup Final, and then you’ll hear the moment I completely jinxed Ireland’s World Cup chances at the DTwo Bar & Night Club on Harcourt Street.  Finally there’s a clip from another Three Blokes spinoff, namely The Keego & Joe Show, where they chat to Penny Mitsi, a rugby coach, trainer, sporting ambassador & who is part of the development of rugby within Greece.

All links from Three Blokes A Ball & BOD

“EPCR European Cups Rd 1 & 2 Preview”

“The Event Live from the Sandymount Hotel”

“The Dugout Live from DTwo Bar & Nightclub”

“The Keego & Big Joe Show”

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For this episode we’re travelling back in time to the start of the COVID lockdown period.  What The Ruck remind us what it was like to preview actual rugby matches as they looked ahead England v Ireland in the Six Nations, The MaulOver Podcast try reminds us of the controversial incidents we love to harp on as they try to make sense of the whole Joe Marler/Alun Wyn Jones kerfuffle, and finally just as we were beginning to getting used to the no rugby, stay at home restrictions, Talking Rugby Union were helping to promote the important issue of mental health awareness by introducing a partnership with the Looseheadz Foundation.

What The Ruck : “France were fine, England and Ireland’s planets align…”

Maul Over Podcast : “Marler Gets The Sack”

Talking Rugby Union : “Looseheadz x Talking Rugby Union Podcast – An introduction”

Looseheadz Foundation > https://looseheadz.co.uk/about

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To celebrate this our 50th episode, I’d like to take some time to go back over Leinster’s 2019/20 campaign and the unbeaten run, a body of work which overall is a testament to everyone involved at the province.  I go over the timeline from September to March, reading out a small passage from our HarpinOnRugby match writeup and throwing in a few thoughts along the way.

Links to all our Leinster writeups from 2019/20 can be found here > http://www.harpinonrugby.net/p/results-fixtures-201920.html

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This is the 6th episode in our new feature we call the Pod of Three, where we share clips from the best independent rugby podcasts.

Today we include samples from former Ulster hooker Niall Annett’s pod Wind Yer Neck In where he talks to Keith Wood about the reasons behind his decision to move to Harlequins, then the Rugby Bricks has Stephen Larkham explaining how things are going at Munster, and finally the Thistle Scottish Rugby Podcast learns from prop Gordon Reid how he got the nickname “Game-changer Gordon”.

Wind Yer Neck In : “A catch up with Keith Wood”

The Rugby Bricks Podcast : “Stephen Larkham | World Rugby Hall of Famer & Using Competition To Become Your Best”

Pod > https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ydWdieWJyaWNrcy5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw/episode/ZDg4NmU3ZWMtNzU4OC00N2U0LThiYTktM2E2ZmFiZmFlOWIy?ved=0CAIQkfYCahgKEwiggtfZsLrpAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQkAE

Also on Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/rugbybricks/

Thistle Rugby Podcast : “Episode 27: Isolation with Gordon Reid”

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