Here is your weekly dose of MaulOver. Russ, Phil and Ben are here, minus Doug unfortunately. Wading through the weeks rugby action and major talking points! There's even a quiz provided by the sweet people at Ruck.co.uk . Positive turnarounds for Saints, Quins and the Chiefs. Bath put a shift in against the European champions. Leicester continue to struggle and the least said about Sale v Newcastle the better. In AOB there's some strong opinions on some weirdly out there stuff including School Newsletters and President Trump and his speech issues.

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Is it worse to be labelled an ugly Matt Garvey or a Fat Dan Cole??? Russ, Doug, Ben and Phil are back to chew over the return of the Aviva Premiership. We talk clubs in crisis for various reasons, Doug laments The Saints woeful start at HQ. There's great optimism for London Irish and Newcastle. We chat number 9's and Ben Youngs box kicking display. In AOB there's some delight at the school holidays being over and Mrs Philfarmvet celebrating a milestone birthday!

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Russ, Ben and Doug are back with your weekly slice of West country Rugby Opinion. On this weeks agenda is Bledesloe 2, WRWC and the decision to discontinue the England Womens 15's contracts, Saracens continual whining about the salary cap and look ahead to this weeks Premiership action. In AOB there's some advice on what to watch on Netflix, Veganism and some thankfulness that the circus that is Maywether vs McGregor is finally over.

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Back and refreshed from the summer break, Russ has managed to shoehorn himself out of his budgie smugglers to get back in the hot seat.

We chew over the rugby Championship, the new premiership season, stash and much more.

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It's with sadness in our voice and tears in our eyes that we have to say goodbye to the Lions 2017.

This week we muse over the 3rd test and the tour as a whole, mentioning absolutely no refereeing decisions whatsoever.

Doug has returned from a cold and wet Ireland after watching vast amounts of golf (he calls that work) and the rest of the guys have just about recovered from that final 10 mins in Auckland.

Time for our own end of season tour but rest assured we'll be back very soon with more news, views and opinion all with a twang of a West Country accent, go well

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We are back to discuss the 2nd Lions test and all the associated hysteria.

Corey Hill gets a mention, as do the All Blacks core skillz.

Theres a lot going on so the best thing to do is download it and have a listen.

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The Podcast room/Skype is full this week as Phill, Russ, Dougie and Ben all convene to talk about the 1st Lions test.

We chat about the mass hysteria, Ben Te'o, Brodie Retallick, Maro Itoje and much more as we dissect won of the best test matches in recent memory.

We do talk other stuff, like Phill smashing his house up, Russ' creaky chair, Bens pronunciation and Dougies dinner.

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This week the boys get together with Dougie enjoying his holibobs in Spain. We trawl through the weekends action including the Lions excellent victory Vs the Maori, Scotland's destruction of Australia and England's excellent series victory in Argentina.

Apologies for the slight echo from the boys on Skype! Doug didn't take his recording kit to Spain which I think is a bit selfish and it was left to me and I don't have a clue. Back to normal next week!

A packed pod this week.

Angry Dougie makes a guest appearance to moan about the shoddy treatment of the Lions, Dylan Hartley and the England away kit.

Russ Chats about beach rugby and has the return of Russ' transfer corner

Ben has been hanging out in a cow shed and loves the England away kit.

No Phil this week. Vet stuff.

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Enjoy, we think this is a good one. Also check out the pre pod on Facebook with Chris Cracknell.