World Cup Final preview live with James Haskell
Evening Standard Rugby Podcast with Lawrence DallaglioShow Notes
Recorded in front of a live audience at Samsung King’s Cross, Lawrence Dallaglio, Sarra Elgan and Steve Cording are joined by former Wasps and England player, James Haskell.
They review England’s performance in the semi-final and Lawrence tells us if he still stands by his post-match comments about who really won South Africa that game.
James reveals which players he’d like to see stepping up into a new look England team, the part of the game he’d happily see scrapped and what his mum said to him that stopped him joining the SAS.
Plus the team look ahead to the final and predict who will lift the Webb Ellis trophy, discuss the point of the Bronze play-off and take some interesting questions from the audience about Owen Farrell’s captaincy, the future of the professional game and Lol’s leaving present from Wasps.
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