Our guest this week is our former hooker Chris Ritchie. Chris played back row all through his time at Swansea University, where he captained them and the Welsh Universities.  He went on to play for Oxford University for one season,  before settling down to play for Rosslyn Park whilst earning his keep in Insurance. A couple of years into his senior rugby career, he switched to hooker where he played for the rest of his playing days. Adrian Davies convinced Chris to come across the A316 to...

Our guest this week is former centre and full back Seb Jewell.  Seb has a unique perspective of his time at the club having lived through the joy of a couple of promotions to the Premiership, a B&I Cup win and was there at the end when the club went into liquidation.  He talks about his sliding doors moment of how he signed for Harlequins after playing for Richmond Rugby Club and how challenging it was to break into 1st team rugby.  He was loaned out to Esher for a couple of seasons to...

Our guest this week, is Club Chairman Danny Griffiths.  In this interview we discuss the key themes from the AGM. The Board restructure, the end of the 5 year plan and what comes next.   Where are we financially with the club and what does the club require to prosper at Level 5 with the increase in travel costs and ensuring we have a club that can compete at this level.  New membership packages and what will happen on match days. The big shout for volunteers for the club to enable us to move...

Our guest this week, is Saracens and England International player Alex Goode.  Alex played a few games for London Welsh in 2008 to help us avoid relegation and to ensure he was game ready for the U20 World Cup.   We discuss the run in that Saracens have in the Premiership and the hope that they can get to another final at Twickenham.  Alex was successful at many sports, but was only picked up by the Saracens Academy after he had played for England U18's; and what a career he has had;  5...

Our guest this week is current Performance squad player, Andy Black.  Andy joined London Welsh by chance at the beginning of the season when the club were in London North West 3.    Our supporters immediately took to him as he played a variety of position from No 8, to front row during that season.  We here about his upbringing in North Devon and about representing his county and playing for Exeter Chiefs Academy. HIs home club was Barnstaple and he played for them all the way through his...

Our guest this week is Aled Thomas.  Aled came to London Welsh in 2007 after a few years at Newport Gwent Dragons.  Still a young lad at 22 and wanting regular rugby at 10 for a club that was going places; and he chose right in London Welsh as this was their first season as a professional squad.  During his first season at the club, he also went on to win the World 7's in Dubai with another club stalwart in Lee Beech.  Three seasons for the club and he was offered a contract to go back to...

Our guest this week is former Chairman Bleddyn Phillips. He takes us through how he was invited to join the Board when he hosted a St David's Day Dinner in Moscow!  Once on the Board, he was made Chairman immediately and helped the Board make some big decisions in the Spring of 2012 as we were aiming for Promotion to the Premiership.  Bleddyn takes us through what he is doing in retirement to keep himself busy with his work with the Scarlets and Swansea University.  We hear about how he met...

Our guest this week, is current squad member and prop superstar Sam Mahoney.   Sam has played prop since his early days at Colchester RFC when he joined them at U11.  We get to learn about his journey in rugby and why he took a gap year to wait for the love of his life to join him at University and when he made the transition from Colts rugby to Senior rugby for Clacton.  At University he bonded with a fellow student and became best mates with Tom Baldwin, which you hear quite a bit about...

Our guest in this weeks' episode is Terwyn Williams, Life member of London Welsh.  London Welsh has been a second home for Terwyn for over 50 years, from when he landed in London in 1970 and where he has made so many life long friends. We hear about where in West Wales he was brought up and started to play rugby and then where he went to College.  He didn't go straight into education, but found his way to his real passion of teaching History, Geography and Games across three schools in West...

Our guest this week is Nathan Trevett.  In this episode we get to understand Nathan's journey from Youth rugby to Senior pro player in South Wales.  He played senior rugby at 18 years and 4 days for Cardiff RFC and played for them and Glamorgan Wanderers, before getting his chance at Cardiff Blues as injury cover whilst some of the players were at the World Cup.  Cardiff kept Nathan on for another season, so he got some game time in the Pro 12, before Justin Burnell signed him for London...

Our guest this week is former London Welsh prop and captain Julian Davies.  This Barry boy came to London Welsh in 1980 and played for the club for over 12 seasons.  He had to bide his time and literally fight his way into the first team by demonstrating his scrummaging prowess in those legendary Thursday night training sessions.  He led the club on many occasion, appointed for a couple of seasons as club captain, but also took over the reigns when others got injured.  We discuss his...

In this episode we hear from the many characters from around the club who enable match days's at London Welsh.  Saturday 18th March was the first league fixture for the Men's 1st XV since Feb 2020 and everyone was excited for the match.  We hear from the following at the club Pre Match Michael Talbot - Operations Director Natalie Smith - Women's Captain Pete Lowe - Director and Team Manager Terweyn Williams - Life Member Rocky Hudson - Druids Coach Joe Jones - Chair of LWRFC Choir Matt...

Our guest this week is Rugby Commentator and Content Producer, Nick Heath.  Whilst London Welsh were in the Premiership, Nick was the club's stadium announcer and VIP match day host.  Nick moved from London Welsh to announce at Harlequins when his Commentating career took off. He currently works for Talksport, Channel 4, England rugby and commentator on International rugby, Premier 15's and The Premiership.    During lockdown Nick had no work as a freelance journalist and found interesting...

Our guest this week, is current Bath RFC and England International Josh McNally.  Josh was recently capped by England during their Summer matches with USA & Canada after displaying some great form during the last Premiership season.  He grew up in Hereford and always wanted to serve in the forces and didn't really think about having a career in rugby.  His journey started with the Colts at Luctonians and then he moved to the Royal Air Force, where his rugby developed over a couple of...

In this weeks' episode we hear from many people across the club as excitement builds towards the start of the season.  Our Director of Rugby, Cai Griffiths takes us through his thoughts on pre season; the matches the squad have played, plus what he expects over the first few months.  There are a couple of interviews with players post the Cardiff match and this is something we will look to continue to do throughout the season; where we hope to get use to using the different microphone!!! We...

Our guest this week is Director and Head of Men's Rugby, Jonathan Shankland.  Jon came to London Welsh after playing National League rugby in the Midlands and fell in love with the club.  He has played for the club from 2011 until the end of our first season in the Herts and Middlesex league, where he decided to retire and play for the Vets.  He has made life long friends at the club and decided to put his efforts into post his playing career into managing the Men's teams across the club.  He...

Our guest this week is Rhodri Dawes.  Having watched his dad play for London Welsh and then move away from London, Rhodri began his rugby journey in the Midlands.  He then moved to Herts and played some rugby for school and then made his senior rugby debut with Hertford in the National League and then went on to Shelford Rugby Club and played for them for a couple of seasons.  He came to London Welsh in the second year of project reset and played for two seasons for the club accumulating...

Our guest this week is Michael Dawes.  Michael is one third of the London Welsh Dawes dynasty, with his Dad, John Dawes playing, captaining and Coaching the London Welsh sides through the 60's to 90's; and then his son, Rhodri playing for the club across the last three seasons. Michael talks about his days playing for the Minis and Youth throughout the 80's and 90's and recollects some of the great tours they went on.  He made his 1st XV debut in 1990 and played for the club for over 10...

Our guest this week is Club President, John Taylor.   John was born and bred in Watford, with Welsh parents and played rugby at Watford Grammar School and Fullerians during his Youth. A skilled centre in his day who met Gerald Davies at Loughborough and was convinced by his coaches to switch to a backrow forward; where his rugby journey took off. John takes us through is glittering playing career with London Welsh, Wales and the Lions and gives us his perspective on his tour to South Africa...

London Welsh Rugby Club Podcast Season 2 - Trailer. In this series we continue to catch up with the many characters who are connected with the club.  The podcasts will be less regular this season, but will include some match days news as well as interviews with our main guest.  The podcast series is hosted by Club Director, Gareth Vaughan Jones.

Our guest in this special episode is current Wales captain, Siwan Lillicrap.  She take us through balancing life working as Head Coach at Swansea University, with playing rugby for Bristol Bears and Wales.  We chat about the recent 6 Nations campaign and the likely build up to the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in Oct 2022 and what their target should be.   We get to understand Siwan's rugby journey to getting capped by Wales and that she couldn't play rugby until she was 17; when she joined...

Our special guest this week is Top International and RFU Referee Luke Pearce.  Luke takes us through his refereeing journey from when he started in Devon aged 16, promoted to the National Panel by the age of 21 and a Premiership referee at the age of 24.   We chat about some of the challenges of refereeing during Covid times and look back at the times he has refereed London Welsh in National 1 and the Championship.    We discuss that match vs Saracens in the Premiership and how he reacted...

In this episode, Lyn Jones takes us through his decision to come to London Welsh and those magical two seasons' the club had winning the Championship in 2012 and playing in the Premiership the following season. We get to understand what was required to be successful in the Championship and the key matches in his first season in charge.  The success in the play offs and then the tactics at Bedford in the Semi Final; which meant we had a shot at glory in the final vs Cornish Pirates; with Lyn...

Our guest this week is former Director of Rugby, Lyn Jones.    In this episode we get to hear about Lyn's journey in rugby up until his time with London Welsh.  Where did he develop his love of the game and then playing for Neath in the 80's with Brian Thomas as Head Coach.  We chat about his move to Llanelli, the trophies he won and getting capped by Wales.  We understand a bit about Lyn the business man and the transition to player coach at Treorchy RFC.  Lyn went to coach Neath RFC in the...

Our guest this week is former Club captain Matt Corker.  Matt is 10th on the all time appearance list, but first on the all time league appearances for the club in his 9 year association with London Welsh.  Matt's rugby prowess came to light only when he went to University in Bath to study Chemistry and went on to play for English Universities; which is where he got noticed by Wasps. Wasps signed him after he graduated, but he found the path to the first team very challenging with many...