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Dec 2019
37m 55s

The Ruck Christmas Party

THE TIMES
About this episode
Alex Lowe, Stephen Jones, Adam Hathaway and Mike Aylwin join forces for the 2019 Ruck Christmas Party. They discuss the battle at the bottom of the Gallagher Premiership and ask if everyone is too good to go down this year, after World Rugby announced it will be reviewing salary cap rules we ask which sport can rugby borrow a leaf from, and we look ahead to what we would like to see from the game in the new year.

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