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Have we learnt anything from the Nations Championship?

7/20/2026 • 57 min

It’s a full house on the pod this week as Ugo, Danny, Ashy and Chris bring the curtain down on the summer window of the Nation’s Championship. There is plenty of fallout from England’s victory over Argentina. Ugo and Danny have their say on Felipe Contepomi’s criticism of England’s post-match celebration and Steve Borthwick hits back at the media. We ask if the … Play episode

Late TMO drama as 13-man England beat Argentina
The Nations Pod
Nations Championship: Tries and tribulations
Pollock hat-trick helps England end losing run
Slade takes centre stage against Fiji
The Nations Pod: Stick to Egg-Chasing
Musings from the Nations Championship
England blitzed and bossed by the Boks
The Nations Championship is here!
England team and the best Boks ever?
In Jo’burg with Sir Kev
Nations Championship: Good for the game?
Final Thoughts and the England Squad
Saints beat Exeter to the Prem title
Prem Final Preview with Furbank and Baxter
Saints or Chiefs?
Prem play-offs: DOR special
Slade, semi-finals & send-offs
Mark McCall: End of an era
The Sandy Park showdown & Edwards to England?
Brilliant Bordeaux go back-to-back
Bonus: Borthwick on Janse van Rensburg, RFU review & summer schedule
Remembering Scott Hastings
Was this England’s most impressive Grand Slam?
Women's Six Nations: Super Sunday Preview
Noah's Ark, the play-off race & Borthwick backed
Women’s Six Nations: Red Roses continue ‘systematic dominance’
Women’s Six Nations: Smaller balls and bigger crowds
Bordeaux end Bath’s Champions Cup dream
Champions Cup: The big semi-final preview with Henry Arundell
Caluori, try records & semi-finals week
Women's Six Nations: Wales earn bonus point but Red Roses win again
Is the Women's Six Nations competitive enough?
Mismatches and Matchmakers
Women's Six Nations: Record crowds & programme gaffs
The final four and partying with McIlroy
Quarter-finals, TMO controversy & rugby's GOAT
Stadiums, Shoves and Sarries
Big Wins and Big Worries as the Prem Returns
The Six Nations review with Barclay and Warburton
In Paris with Fin Smith & Scotland's Dublin showdown
Nations Pod Guide: Paris
Can England avoid their worst-ever Six Nations?
The Nations Pod
Bonus: Youngs & Moody - How Safe Is Rugby?
Nations Pod Guide: Rome
Six Nations: England's new backline & Gregor Brown's pod debut
The Nations Pod
Six Nations: England’s Italian Job

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