France v England Review and Quins (a) Preview 

After a two week break that seems like forever, Jess and Jacob are back to herald the return of the PWR which is back after the Six Nations break. 

We announce the winner of the Fantasy League, chat about Pac4 and our North American Tigers contingent, and also pause to reflect on negative experiences and player abuse at the Bristol Bears game in the men’s but also get excited about how the Black Lions game could be the template moving forward for both the men’s and the women’s as well as throw wild predictions about what this intriguing new announcement will be on Monday 13th that is being teased by the club. 

We then review the Quins game and chat as to how Tigers will look to shape up with some sizeable North American holes in our XV.

The release of Taylor’s new album is feeling very apt right now, as despite the performances of our Six Nations gals and Leicester City having a superb weekend, we struggle to find the positives in a tough weekend for Leicester Tigers. However, positives we will find! 

So listen in for the usual mix of catharsis, hope and a rant at our season being so bitty with only a nine team league as we chat about the different stages of where Tigers and Ealing are both at and why we shouldn’t panic! We will then turn our frowns upside down with Scotland’s awesome win over Italy and the momentum that Scotland’s campaign could give to Tigers when we’re back playing in May! Then follows the usual Meg Jones venerations as we get excited about our Six Nations internationals coming back to the club.

We then do a Deep Dive into France, the history of women’s rugby in France and where the national team is at as we face yet another Grand Slam decider between England and France on Super Saturday! Enjoy! 

Leicester Tigers Women were back in action finally the weekend just gone after six weeks with a 19-33 loss to Quins at home, Jacob is joined by superfan and listener Max Kirby to chat about the game. 

We then go back to the Six Nations, pay reverence to Meg Jones kick pass and get worried about England’s discipline, as well as chat about the Lions investment! We also preview the next Tigers women game as we return to Ealing in the 7th play-off pool, focusing on building formations and game time rather then be too worried about the result. 

We then have a deep dive about Irish Women’s rugby ahead of the England v Ireland fixture this weekend, in which Jacob basques in this glorious opportunity to have a rant about the IRFU, before finally previewing the rest of Round 4 of the Six Nations. Enjoy

Feeling fresh as a daisy* after celebrating his 21st birthday Jacob joins Jess for Episode No. 18. With a brief overlook at the limited women’s rugby that took place at the weekend, we take this episode as an opportunity to have a frank, honest and nuanced debate about some of the big news stories in rugby at the moment, celebrating the Return of the Queen Cliodhna Moloney to the Irish rugby set-up, before having a chat about certain comments made by ROG that have resurfaced this week as well as go over the World Rugby coaching course table that prompted a lot of outcry. 

After that we finally after ages have a Tigers Women game to properly preview, with Tigers taking on Quins on Saturday in the Allianz Cup, and despair at torn allegiances as our Thistled Tigers face a Magic Meg-led Red Roses team in Round 3 of the Women’s Six Nations. 

*Ridoncklously hungover

Returning from the other side filling in for Elliott on the Rolling Maul, Jess manages to talk even more about scrums with Jacob as we delve into Round 2 of the Women’s Six Nations (basically gloating about Meg Jones and Elis Martin, so standard LTW Fancast format at this point) and the USA’s victory in a friendly over South Africa. 

With not much women's rugby to talk about this weekend, we focus more in-depth on the Allianz Cup fixture on the 13th April as well as get very twitchy about the men’s Saturday night fixture against Leinster.

 Before finally we round off Episode No.17 with a super fantastic interview with Paul Morgan of the PWR. Even with not much rugby this weekend, it’s still a, you guessed it, bumper episode! 

Jess and Jacob are back to gloat about the performances of Tigers internationals (unfortunately no Mike Cooper impression of Tiger Watch was made) in the opening weekend of the Women’s Six Nations before having a look at the stakes of the Fantasy League. 

We then start the build-up to Tigers return to action on the 13th April at home against Quins in the Allianz Cup. 

We also then discuss in-depth (CW: mentions of misogyny, sexism and rape) the Welsh Rugby Union before previewing the Red Roses fixture against Wales this Saturday at Ashton Gate.

After a couple of weeks’ hiatus, Jess and Jacob are finally back to discuss the Saracens away game as part of the SuperPWR weekend, in which we give our two pennies worth on the Poppy Cleall ban. With the domestic season on a break, our attention turns to the Six Nations, where we poorly defend our English focus despite having our Scottish Tigers contingent being the more numerous. Alongside another news section we discuss a juicy transfer rumour as well as discontented murmurings about having 7 point unconverted tries being trialled in the women’s game. If that isn’t enough, we are extremely delighted to be joined by journalist Jess Hayden to chat about Contested, the Six Nations, and the release of her awesome new book on the Red Roses. Finally, Jess and Jacob round off the pod by previewing England’s Six Nations’ opening against Italy this weekend with a bit of a deep dive on Italian women’s rugby.

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After a long weekend of a LOT of rugby to get over Friday night’s disappointment of a tough and (surprising) defeat at home to Mattioli Woods Welford Road, Jess and Jacob are here to offer listeners some catharsis, as well as digressions on the lore of Jacob’s lucky socks, and have a good natter as to what the club can be doing to improve promoting the girls side and making MWWR a fortress moving forward. We also get really excited for SuperPWR weekend as all PWR games will be televised/live-streamed for the first time ever and preview Tigers away fixture against Sarries. 

Our player profile this week is on Welsh international Amelia Tutt and like other player profiles we have a quick chat on Welsh women’s rugby which (Content Warning) does involve discussions around SA.

Giddiness and excitability are almost at an all-time high as we are joined by club’s mega superstar Magic Meg Jones for a quick chat on the amazing growth this team has undergone this season. 

We chat about the season ticket news for the 24/25 season and quickly cheer ourselves back up with the news that 5 Tigers players have been called up to Scotland ahead of the Women’s Six Nations. We then get back to the giddiest of giddy levels as we preview Friday Night Lights as we face Ealing at Mattioli Woods Welford Road coinciding with a bumper player profile on Amy Cokayne, who judging by all the club promo, will be making her long-awaited debut for the Tigers on Friday after too many biscuits and brew on the sidelines in rehab. Enjoy! 

How sweet does revenge taste? As sweet as Pancake Day, or as sweet as Valentine’s Day chocolates? Nahhhhh as sweet as the Canadian maple syrup that Claire Gallagher had in her wheetabix! Jess and Jacob go over what pancake filling is best, and then more importantly, the massive Derby Day win away at Franklins Gardens, talking about the ramifications but also still plenty of room for improvement. 

In our news section, there’s some exciting news about us setting up a Fantasy League for the Women’s Six Nations and then we get confused as to whether it’s called EQP or EPQ or even PEQ as we delve into the news that Tigers and Sale received points deductions last week for not meeting EQP averages in our match day squads. 

Then we talk about our hard-hitting South African second row Catha Jacobs for our player profile and talk about the state of women’s rugby in South Africa and its growth since the start of the last women’s World Cup. So join us for quality analysis including but not limited to Jess’ preferred pancake toppings, Meg Jones getting slow clapped, how lineouts help doing Swing Dance aerials and more wild Amy Cokayne predictions from Jacob in episode 12 of the LTW Fancast.