Let the Hoopers Hoop and the Rugby World Cup opening weekend

Shaun and Thala let Kooks join the pod after serving his podcast suspension to review the weekend’s rugby.

This week’s First Phase question was about combining different aspects of our favourite rugby players to create a Rugby Frankenstein and the results were terrifying!

We reviewed the opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup, which included a brave performance from the Springboks against France, Ruby Tui and Portia Woodman being unfair against Australia and a last gasp win for Wales.

We then turned our attention to Week 4 of the URC and South African teams’ first losses against overseas opponents. We talk about what the Sharks can learn from the Stormers, the Bulls best backline combination, the Sacha Mngomezulu hype train picking up speed and what Hamish Watson did to make Ruan Venter so mad.

We do a roundup of the weekend’s Premiership, Top 14 and NPC results and we end with some rants from Kooks about Ben Smith bait tweets and Thala about the competitiveness of the URC.