HARPIN' ON RUGBY

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Today’s theme is “Kiwi influence”.  First up we have Pick & Drive Rugby from Australia talking about a round of matches from Super Rugby Aotearoa, then on Wind Yer Neck In, Niall Annett talks to Joe Schmidt about communicating with his squads, and finally the 2nd Row asks Jake Heenan about Connacht’s 2016 Championship winning season.

1. Pick & Drive Rugby : The Rise of The Blues!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/08uzzn0rZlqQmI3SEBZOvH?si=I-hThL6IRAqrBb_6YklokQ

2. Wind Yer Neck In : “Positive choices with Joe Schmidt”

3. The 2nd Row : “Jake Heenan”

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This week my guest is Ian Frizzell, who has recently been appointed to the role of COVID-19 Club Safety Officer at Ballymoney RFC.  I got him on to tell us a bit about himself and how he got into rugby, about the club, and of course what the position entails.  And as he’s also a massive Ulster Rugby fan I couldn’t let him go without sharing his thoughts on their chances once provincial rugby kicks back into gear.

The IRFU guidelines on the COVID-19 Club Safety Officer can be found here > https://d2cx26qpfwuhvu.cloudfront.net/irfu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/05141554/09-IRFU-ReturnToRugby-Guidelines-SafetyOfficers.pdf

The Ballymoney RFC video introducing Ian Frizzell as their officer is here > https://www.facebook.com/523977894295759/posts/3736436563049860/?vh=e&d=n

Ian Frizzell can be found on twitter as @rava_ian and his business website is here > https://frizzellsafetyservices.co.uk/

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Our theme today is “Coping with COVID19” and our sources are all non-rugby-focused podcasts talking to those involved in the sport.  First there’s The Sports Psychologist with Maire Treasa Ni Cheallaigh who’s guest is Dr Hannah McCormack the campaign manager for Tackle Your Feelings, a wellbeing initiative from Rugby Players Ireland.  Then Ulster and Ireland back row Claire McLaughlin is interviewed on the Best of Belfast about being a medical professional through the COVID time and also how it has affected her rugby, and finally the Irish Fire Podcast gets Jamie Heaslip to name a couple of coaches from his playing career who have helped him get through.

1) The Sports Psychologist : “Tackling Your Feelings, Rugby Style”

2) Best of Belfast : “Claire McLaughlin – Junior Doctor & Rugby Player”

https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/claire-mclaughlin-doctor-rugby

3) The Irish Fire Podcast : “Life After Rugby – The Jamie Heaslip Interview”

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This week’s pod has three hats.  It’s episode 54 of the HarpinOnRugby Podcast.  It is also episode 9 of our #RetroRugby series where we look back over big matches from years gone by.  But most importantly, this features highlights from Episode 3 of a new Facebook Live venture between Harpin On Rugby and Three Blokes A Ball And BOD.  Myself and Big Joe Shep were honoured to welcome the great Mike Ross to discuss the 2011 Heineken Cup Final, and he gave us some great insights as to what was happening out on the pitch for that incredible 80 minutes.  If you’d rather watch the full show yourself there’s a link in the programme notes.

If you’d rather watch the full show it’s here > https://business.facebook.com/HarpinOnRugby/posts/4132825950068439?__tn__=-R

The “Rewatch Party” of the 2011 Heineken Cup Final from earlier in the week is here > https://business.facebook.com/threeblokesaballandbod/photos/a.735157696598487/3053342801446620/?type=3&theater

And you’ll find all pods from our #RetroRugby series here > http://www.harpinonrugby.net/2020/06/retrorugby-home-page.html

Produced in association with Big Joe Shep from Three Blokes, A Ball & BOD

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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”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vxbLd4Qecz2XHm0fO8CXy?si=Vdzqa4xbTWK1d5H6k5JEAQ

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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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The Pod Of Three on Soundcloud > https://soundcloud.com/harpinonrugby

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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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