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3 Quarterfinals Secured - URC Round 18 Review | A Bit of An Animal
May 18, 2026
36m 37s
Good news ........... for most | A bit of an Animal
May 14, 2026
44m 56s
Two and a half wins! A Bit of an Animal
May 12, 2026
44m 49s
Business end - URC RD 17 & Baby Boks preview | A Bit of An Animal
May 8, 2026
58m 09s
Refocused! - URC Round 16 Review + Baby Boks | A Bit of An Animal
Apr 27, 2026
44m 29s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/18/26 |  3 Quarterfinals Secured - URC Round 18 Review | A Bit of An Animal | The Pod Squad discuss all things URC, SA Cup and give their unbaised opinions the Champions Cup And Challenge Cup Finals set to take place this weekend. Do you have opinions about rugby, if so the Global Gainline wants you! We will be setting up Pod for Sharks, Stormers, Lions, Bulls to compliment A Bit Of An Animal. Reach out to welshregionalrugbypod@gmail.com #SouthAfricanRugby #URCgo #Stormers #Bulls #Sharks #Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 36m 37s | ||||||
| 5/14/26 |  Good news ........... for most | A bit of an Animal | It is preview time for Suuth African Rugby with a full schedule of weekend fixtures plus a quick chat about Ntlabekanye's ban, Alignment camp for boks and the SA cup #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFA #Stormers #Bulls #Lions #Sharks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 44m 56s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 |  Two and a half wins! A Bit of an Animal | Only one loss suffered by the 4 South African URC Teams in round 17 of the regular season. Stormers earn a draw way in Belfast Vs a very good Ulster. Bulls run over Zebre in Pretoria. Sharks give the crowd a show Vs Benetton in Durban and Lions show bravery but fall short in the last 10min in Dublin vs tournament favourites Leinster. We also review the Baby Boks performance in the U20s Championship and the Cheetahs in the Currie Cup. We are look for additional presenters to join the family so if you have opinions about rugby, the Global Gainline wants you! We will be setting up Pod for Sharks, Stormers, Lions, Bulls to compliment A Bit Of An Animal. Reach out to welshregionalrugbypod@gmail.com #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFA #URCgo #CurrieCup #Babyboks #Stormers #Sharks #Lions #Bulls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 44m 49s | ||||||
| 5/8/26 |  Business end - URC RD 17 & Baby Boks preview | A Bit of An Animal | With match 23's announced Pod Squad does a indepth preview of round 17 of The United Rugby Championship. Round 3 of the U20 Rugby Championship at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha as the Baby Boks take on the Baby Blacks. And if the Cheetahs will qaulify for the Currie Cup by making the top 4 the SA Cup regular season. Do you have opinions about rugby, if so the Global Gainline wants you! We will be setting up Pod for Sharks, Stormers, Lions, Bulls to compliment A Bit Of An Animal. Reach out to us via: welshregionalrugbypod@gmail.com #SouthAfricanRugby #URC #Sharks #Bulls #Stormers #Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 58m 09s | ||||||
| 4/27/26 |  Refocused! - URC Round 16 Review + Baby Boks | A Bit of An Animal | Stormers put last weeks bottle job behind them and defeat a much rotated but still good Glasgow team at Cape Town Stadium. Bulls & Lions make positive strides toward securing their quarter final places and Sharks continue their banter season. Baby Boks Brush Argentina U20 aside in the U20 Rugby Championship! #Springboks #SouthAfricanRugby #Bulls #Stormers #Lions #Sharks #URCgo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 44m 29s | ||||||
| 4/24/26 |  Ethan Hooker Injustice! - URC Round 16 Preview | A Bit of An Animal | The Pod Squad unpack the fact that Ospreys wing Luke Morgan will receive no sanction for his cheap shot tackle on Ethan Hooker. Analyze the Match 23's of all four South African teams and their respective opponents for round 16 of the URC. As John Dobson uses common sense with his Stormers selection. As well as the announced Baby Bok match 23 . All this and more on the internets best South African rugby pod. #SouthAfricanRugby #Stormers #Sharks #Bulls #Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 46m 47s | ||||||
| 4/20/26 |  Gauteng Domination - URC Round 15 Review | A Bit of An Animal | Bulls & Lion's show their coastal rivals how to win games both away in Wales and at home in Johannesburg. Stormers shoot themselves in the foot in Cape Town Vs Connacht. Sharks continue their "Sometimes maybe good, Sometimes maybe sh!t" season Vs Ospreys. #SouthAfricanRugby #Lions #Bulls #Sharks #Stormers #SAFFAS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 08m 04s | ||||||
| 4/17/26 |  Redemption Week - URC Round 15 Preview | A Bit of An Animal | The full crew are back to discuss the chances of three South African sides losing on the same weekend ......... surely that can't happen again . . . . .can it? #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFAS #Bulls #Sharks #Lions #Stormers #Springboks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 51m 48s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 |  Crash & Burn | A Bit of An Animal | In a special Easter long weekend episode of the best South African Rugby Podcast we discuss the Stormers & Bulls fall agonisingly short away from home in the Champions Cup Vs Toulon & Glasgow respectively. The Sharks could not back up their solid first half performance in the Challenge Cup in as per usual windy Galway Vs an in form Connacht and Boland Dames put in a spirited away underdog performance Vs their much favoured cousins the Bulls Daises in the 2026 Woman's Super League One Final. #SouthAfricanRugby #WomensSuperLeague #Sharks #Bulls #Stormers #Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 57m 52s | ||||||
| 4/3/26 |  Do or Die - Champions Cup, Challenge Cup, Womens Super League One Final Preview | A Bit of An Animal | It is European weekend in South Africa - Time for Olives and croissants and a fresh diet of northern teams! Lets do this! And we have the Womens Super League cup final - this is toooooooo much for one pod to take #Saffa #SouthAfricanRugby #EPCR #Bulls #Sharks #Stormers #Lions #WomensRugby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 48m 12s | ||||||
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| 3/30/26 |  Another Clean Sweep - URC, Womens' Super League One etc | A Bit of An Animal | South African teams continue their home dominance but will it be enough to secure 4 URC play offs spots? The usual crew cast an eye over last weekends games plus the Womens' Super League one. Dare we dream about seeing four SA teams in the URC playoffs? #SouthAfricanRugby #Saffa #WomensRugby #Sharks #Lions #Bulls #Stormers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 00m 27s | ||||||
| 3/23/26 |  That Winning Feeling! - All things South | Bit A Bit of An Animal | With the 6 Nations out of the way, The Pod Squad make their triumphant return to your screens and ears, as the URC/EPCR season shifts to the exhilarating home stretch. After a clean sweep weekend of resounding home victories for all 4 South African URC Franchises in Round 13 (OK Maybe not the Stormers so much) there is plenty to discuss. The Springboks back with in person and virtual alignment camps in preparation for a exciting 2026 test season. The Woman's Super League 1 heats up after 6 rounds. Like wise the SA Cup after 3 rounds. All this and more on this week's episode of the best South African Rugby Union Podcast on the interweb. #SouthAfricanRugby #Sharks #Bulls #Lions #Stormers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 40m 42s | ||||||
| 3/2/26 |  Dobbo Out | A bit of an Animal | The Pod Squad returns with a special mid Six Nations episode. They unpack all things Lions revival, Stormers crisis, Bulls momentum and Sharks indifference. along with the first Springbok Alignment of 2026, Cape Woman's Super League 1 and a SA Cup preview. #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFA #URC #Stormers #Lions #Sharks #Bulls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 02m 00s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 |  South Africa - 6 Nations - Discuss? - A bit of an Animal A South African Rugby Podcast | It is time for a mid (ish) season check in on the performance of our teams so far as well as taking an uninformed and very one eyed look at the six nations, which would undoubtedly benefit from a little bit of South African Involvement!! 😁😁 #SouthAfricanrugby #SAFFA #Stormers #Lions #Bulls #Sharks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 00m 01s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 |  Upset Of The Season - A bit of an Animal | The Pod Squad assemble dispite technical challenges to discuss The Stormers losing at the 9th time of asking, The Sharks revival. The Bulls finally clicking and the Lion's building promising momentum. Plus we preview an explosive derby weekend ahead with #LiovBul and #ShavSto looking like proper tasty games. #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFA #URC #Bulls #Stormers #Sharks #Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 05m 06s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 |  Boks with avengence | South African Rugby Podcast | Muhammad & Jean hold down the fort as Thembinkosi, Sibusiso, Paul all take sudden Paternity leave, discussing Scott Razer Roberson Sacking, Round 4 of the Champions and Challenge Cup and a preview of the upcoming URC Round including the heavy weight clash of #Springbok laden #Stormers Vs #Sharks at Cape Town Stadium. #Bulls #Lions #URC #SouthAfricanRugby #Rugby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 10m 13s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 |  Lessons Learned: Champions and Challenge Cup Review - A Bit of an Animal | The Pod Squad jump off the bench this week as Muhammad, Thembinkosi, Jean and new #Stormers recruit Paul discuss all of the South African Rugby Unions. The #Lions represent SA with a win against Lyon thanks to a player of the match performance from new recruit Batho Hlakani. Unfortunately The Stormers, #Bulls and #Sharks were not as lucky as they all lost to English opposition - the worst type of opposition to lose to, while The Free State Cheetahs game cancelled due to a storm Amsterdam. Griquas sign highly rated Baby Bok Super Star Damian Markus ahead of the SA Cup, how will they integrate him alongside Zwelendaba and Zane Bester? Then URC franchises to possibly compete in the SA Cup? Potentially expanding the tournament to all 14 Unions(Teams) in South Africa #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFA #URC #EPCT #ChampionsCUp #ChallengeCup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 50m 20s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 |  Reviews and Previews - South African Rugby | The Pod Squad reassembles after their break to pack down with a new blindside flank on the panel in Sibusiso as they deep dive the Stormers testmatch-esque victory Vs The Bulls in front of a near capacity crowd at Cape Town Stadium. We take a look at the Lions second conference victory of the season away at a disjointed Sharks. And an early preview the 3 Champions Cup games involving The Stormers, Sharks and Bulls, and the two Challenge Cup games featuring The Lions And Free State Cheetahs. #SAFFA #SouthAfricanRugby #URC #Stormers #Bulls #Sharks #Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 09m 24s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 |  Putting things into perspective - A bit of an Animal | Jean and Thembinkosi begin tonights show with a tribute to Lusanda Dumke , you can donate to support her family here https://www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/lusanda-dumke Then they take a look back over the European Cup performances and a look ahead at the return of the URC. #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFA #Dumke #Sharks #Bulls #Lions #Stormers #Springboks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 41m 33s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 |  Stormers Or Nothing! Champions Cup & Challenge Cup Review | The Pod Squad packs down to admire the Stormers resolve, lament the Bulls game management, take positives from the Sharks defeat, learn what they can from Toulouse excellence, feel sad about the Lion's capitulation and just enjoy watching the Cheetahs in a competitive game as we review all of the South African involvement in the Champions Cup & Challenge Cup! If you love South African Rugby and have been looking for an opportunity to join a Podcast, we have a opening on our team, reach out to us at welshregionalrugbypod@gmail.com and let's discuss. You can support any of the 14 unions, but you will be expected to watch every Stormers game for us which is a great gig this season. #SouthAfricanRugby #Springboks #Podcast #SAFFA #Bulls #Stormers #Sharks #Lions #Cheetahs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 05m 32s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 |  Rule 1 - Not in the face | The Pod Squad returns to assess Wales Vs South Africa, Ebens 12 Week suspension, Rugby World Cup draw, review round 6 of the URC and preview round 1 of the EPCR Champions and Challenge Cup. If you love the Stormers and fancy having a crack at podcasting, drop us a line on welshregionalrugbypod@gmail.com and let's chat. #SouthAfricanRugby #Eben #Springboks #Stormers #Sharks #Lions #Bulls #URC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 16m 30s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 |  Scrum Dominance in Dublin! | Ireland Vs Springboks Review, Wales Vs Springboks Preview, URC Round 6 Preview. Never a dull moment in South African Rugby as The Pod Squad are joined by esteemed rugby journalist Jan De Koning to deep dive the Dublin drama. Preview Wales Vs South Africa at the Principality & Round 6 of The United Rugby Championship. Give Malcolm Marx his flowers. All this and more on this week's episode of A Bit Of An Animal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 03m 40s | ||||||
| 11/18/25 |  Seeing Red, Again! | Three quarters of the Pod Squad assemble to unpack another controversial Springbok game, Acknowledge Italy's positive growth in the sport of rugby unions. Is the reaction from New Zealanders post All Blacks lose to England called Warranted? Show Gregor Townsend the door, Early thoughts in the Nations Championship? Nominations for World Player or the year, All this and more on this weekend episode of A Bit Of An Animal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 35m 14s | ||||||
| 11/10/25 | Against All Odds - France Vs Springboks Review | The full bomb/Pod squad revel in the glow of an unlikely victory in the city of lights Paris against a worthy opponent in Le Bleu, give Siya Kolisi his flowers, dissect an indifferent and ill disciplined All Black performance vs Scotland and we manage to throw Henry Pollack under a red London bus. #SouthAfricanRugby #SAFFA #Bulls #Sharks #Stormers #Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 05m 22s | ||||||
| 11/5/25 |  Sushi On The Menu! | The Full Bomb Squad returns to pack down on The Springboks Defeat of Eddie Jones' Japan, Did All Blacks win or did Ireland lose? Max Jorgenson and the Wallabies get out classed by King Henry the 8/7/6 & England, all the Banter you can handle, Look ahead to the La Revenge! France Vs Springboks! #Springboks #SouthAfricanrugby #Sharks #Stormers #Lions #Bulls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 02m 37s | ||||||
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