Geoff Parling for coach of the year? Plus, France-England for the Women's Six Nations title | TRB

About this episode

The episode discusses Geoff Parling's candidacy for coach of the year and previews the Women's Six Nations title decider between France and England.

Ben Coles (The Observer) is joined by Charlie Morgan (The Times) to discuss Leicester's playoff push and why Geoff Parling should be named coach of the year, before looking at this weekend's PREM fixtures and trying to find an upset. Then Fiona Tomas (The Telegraph) joins to break down the Women's Six Nations and discuss Sunday's title decider in Bordeaux between France and England. 01:39 Charlie's thoughts on Leicester-Northampton, why Geoff Parling should win coach of the year 17:28 The Champ, with Charlie going to Richmond-London Scottish 22:56 This weekend's PREM matches 29:38 Fi joins to discuss the Women's Six Nations 43:23 Would a loss, strangely, help England? Follow Ben's Substack: https://theofffieldreview.substack.com/ Ben's work for The Observer: https://observer.co.uk/contributor/ben-coles?type=read Charlie's work for The Times: https://www.thetimes.com/profile/charlie-morgan Fiona's work for The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/f/ff-fj/fiona-tomas/ #rugbyunion #rugbyanalysis #rugby #rugbynews #leicestertigers #premrugby #womenssixnations #englandrugby #francerugby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Ben Coles

Guests: Charlie Morgan, Fiona Tomas

Topics covered

• Rugby
• Women's Six Nations
• Coaching
• Leicester Tigers
• PREM fixtures
• France vs England

Keywords

• Geoff Parling
• Women's Six Nations
• Leicester Tigers
• PREM fixtures
• France
• England
• rugby

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Observer, The Times, The Telegraph, Leicester, Northampton, Richmond-London Scottish, Women's Six Nations

Places: Bordeaux, England, France

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