Total Rugby Radio

Total Rugby Radio is a weekly podcast featuring all the major talking points, decision makers, tournaments and players in the international game. Listen now. 

On this week's show we have....

TRI NATIONS
Three straight losses had left South Africa’s Tri Nations prospects in tatters as they lined up against Australia in Johannesburg at the weekend… We have commentary highlights plus reaction from Pieter de Villiers and Stirling Mortlock.

FARRELL FACTOR: DOUBLE IMPACT
England’s Guinness Premiership gets underway this weekend and for Andy Farrell the new season offers a chance to prove himself - alongside his son Owen, who is also on the books at Saracens.

NIGEL MELVILLE: THE FUTURE
Last week, in the first part of a mini-series on rugby in the States, USA director of rugby Nigel Melville focussed on the World Cup and the current Eagle set-up. This week he looks to the future, and the next generation of national team players.

PADDY O’BRIEN: LAW SCHOOL
With domestic action in the Northern Hemisphere about to get underway - for the first time under the new ELVs – and the Tri Nations drawing to a close, we hear from IRB referee manager Paddy O’Brien.

NILI LATU: TONGA RUGBY HERO
We join Tonga’s Rugby World Cup captain in Afa, the small rural village where he grew up and first found rugby.

NEWS ROUND UP
Includes the quarter final venues for the 2011 tournament in New Zealand, World Rankings and latest from the Oceania Under 19 championship.

DVD COMPETITION: LAST CHANCE!!
Over the past few weeks we’ve asked you to identify some of the game's biggest stars from the answers they give to some personal questions. This week we asked them what they’d be if they weren't a Rugby player! Good luck..