Wrong Side of the Ruck

The Couch is a little bigger this week as we squeeze in what is really just an XL B-Side parading as a normal episode. We go back into the vault and pull out our watch of the Anthem vs. Legion MLR match from this year. Yea, that one. Anthem get their historic first win on a night where the TMO can't be found, Tocco misidentifies an entire demographic and somehow we get on Willam Dafoe and porn. Either way, we got to witness a scrappy, beautiful little moonshot of a match that could be the launchpad for whatever we're going to get done for the 2031 World Cup. Come join us on the couch and lets watch this bitch take off.

Plus, it was Mooneyhan's birthday. Welcome to Wrong Side of the Ruck, we think you'll like it here.

The Waratahs needed this win. The Highlanders, and the boys, needed this one more. None of us needed the TMO reviewing anything during the game and yet they couldn't stop. Caleb Tangitau is back and immediately makes defenders wish he had taken another week off. There's a scrum half we formally recommend to be drawn and quartered, tries that made us stop mid-conversation and a bunker review that made us start several sentences we couldn't add on a more family friendly podcast. Charlie Gamble does flanker things looking like Magnum PI, Tocco still cant work the stream part of this podcast and Jones threatens to burn it all down.

It was great. The beer was cold, the rugby was chaotic and the Waratahs 13th straight loss in New Zealand felt so sweet with the boys back in town.

Welcome to the wrong side of the ruck. Come grab a seat on the couch, we think you'll like it here.

Strap into the couch today folks because we just got done watching thirteen Leinster players hold off a pissed off Toulon in a Champions Cup semi final. Somewhere between a bullshit TMO call, the second yellow card, and Tocco doing his best Leif Erikson to find Leinster on a map it all goes off the rails. Exactly where you'd expect us to end up. The battering ram theory of physics and tackling gets a full review, Gibson-park has the try of the match, until he didn't, and Jonesey makes too many points for anyone to actually follow. The couch, much like Leinster, is still intact.

Welcome to Rugby on the Wrong Side of the Ruck. Yellow cards, new words and the Road to Bilbao. Get in losers, we think you'll like it here.

The couch is back this week and Leicester give us plenty to talk about in their defeat of Bristol. Theirs bonus point tries, cards and Tocco finally nails the tagline for us, twice, while finding out he needs space to run and frolic.

We loose the questions for the mailbag, still don't have an intro for it, and Tocco takes on English drinking habits with a hot take that would turn Pollocks hair white. Er. White-er. We've got flanker on flanker crime, scrums so sexual you'll make rutting noises, nostalgic tales of the Vert and a Metzstein file that's still redacted.

Come get cozy as we chat, confidently incorrect, about the sport we all love. It's rugby on the Wrong Side of the Ruck. We think you'll like it here.

Grab a spot on the couch as we work to somehow right this ship and proudly come in with absolutely no plan, no prep, and no intention of fixing that. What started as a return to Japan, a full-circle moment back to Episode 1, quickly turns into us questioning how this whole thing ever worked in the first place. MXC didn’t pan out, this did, and we’re still not convinced that makes sense.

We talk ex-All Black 9s like TJ Perenara and Aaron Smith and Tocco confidently discovers in real time that Verblitz and “Blitzkrieg Bop” are not, in fact, the same thing. Mullets are flowing, islander bleach-blonde chaos is thriving, and we keep dragging the conversation back to the scrums like it’s the only thing holding this together.

This one is even less analysis and somehow more nonsense. Just like your favorite B-Side old boys; all chaos, all scrums, and mostly wrong.

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Triple A couldn't find us back in 2000 in the DeLorean and Tocco doesn't know a thing about Fusion, so we headed over to Australia to watch the greatest game ever played. Or so we're told.

Settle down on the couch because this one gets weird fast. Rapid succession tries from New Zealand in the opening minutes have us questioning WHY this is the greatest game ever played, Harambe comes up and we take a hard left at was Jonah Lomu even that good. Somehow our Swiss fan Bielle-Biarray is still on our minds as we lament the chaos that is this match; Crooked feeds, hits that would get you a bunker review and props that make us believe we could have actually gone pro.

The couches are full, the beers are cold and the rugby is...questionable. But this is rugby the way we like it, the way it was meant to be watched.

On the wrong side of the ruck. Welcome, we think you'll like it here.

It may have been Super Saturday, and we may have picked an off match, but work with us here. The couch is still cozy and we're getting to all the matches; this one is just for us.

Tocco is Sicilian, Jones is Welsh, and sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants. Like a nice Vespa. So while the title was decided elsewhere we caught the highlights first, then settled in and did what we do best; watched the match and talked about almost everything except what was in front of us.

There's D1 rugby and a coming of age tale about Boise, Tocco's dad has some swagger that we refuse to elaborate on, and Ferrari the prop gets the full Ferrari treatment. Hot takes about Italy at a World Cup, Bielle-Biarrey makes his way in, and England did England things to Ireland. Just in rugby this time.

This may be the end of the Men's Six Nations, but we're just getting started. It's the rugby you've always wanted, just on the Wrong Side of the Ruck. Welcome, we think you'll like it here.

The couch is sitting a little lower this week as we wallow in our self pity in not making the 1st side again. Said pity doesn't last long as beers are had and stories start flying. The Metzstein files get opened again, commercial reads go completely sideways from the start and Jones apparently has amnesia about it. Edinburgh vs. Ulster gives us an excuse to talk about red cards and what the hell is the use in a game like this while we spend most of the time not actually answering the question.

We talk Irish Bars in Budapest and the legend of the most Hungarian man ever, Attila, the dark origins of "on the Wagon" and Tocco talks about getting kicked out of bars for things he probably may have not ever done.

This one is less analysis and way more barstool. Just like your favorite B-Side old boys; all story, all beer, mostly wrong.

This is a big one. Largest episode yet. We had to break out an extra couch to contain all the rugby.

Round 4 of the 6 Nations delivered two huge wins and a...Wales, and we weren't able to just pick one game and try and pretend the others weren't awesome. Scotland did Scottish things and gave us hope, France drops their first loss, Italy puts England down and Ireland handled Wales, but not as handily as you'd think. It's almost any ones 6 Nations going into week 5.

Tocco tries math. Jones gets way too excited about a match he knows the ending of, we talk our favorite trainer Krieger and try and explain how this whole thing can end looking like charlie Day with some string and a murder board.

The couches are full of friends, the beer is still cold and there's a lot happening. Welcome to Rugby the way you've always wanted it; on the Wrong Side of the Ruck. We think you'll like it here.

The couch is back in action for Six Nations round 3 that has Jones grasping at his chest at what could have been. Wales were up at half 17-5. In Cardiff. And yet we still found a side quest into how to pronounce someones name. There are unprovoked, yet passionate, rants about scrum feeds that Tocco may not be listening to, a potential 70's porn star and Finn Russell doing things in the second half that would make a stripper blush.

Come hang out with us as we open up the Metstein files, ensure no beer goes undrunk and we open up the Mail Bag to tell your stories.

It's the rugby you always wanted; on the Wrong Side of the ruck. Welcome, we think you'll like it here.