{"id":430176,"date":"2026-01-22T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:05:07","slug":"the-toughest-part-of-being-a-rugby-player-wrap-slaps-and-dream-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430176\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toughest Part of Being a Rugby Player, Wrap Slaps, and Dream Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Rugby Rodeo, Ellie Kildunne and Jess Breach hand the reins over to\u00a0you\u00a0for a full-blown\u00a0Listeners Questions Special.<\/p>\n<p>Before diving into the inbox, the girls give a big PWR league roundup, with Saracens currently top, Gloucester-Hartpury ready to pounce, and a ridiculously tight scrap brewing from third to sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Then it\u2019s over to your questions \u2026 and there are some absolute belters.<\/p>\n<p>From picking a dream mixed touch rugby team (men AND women), bucket list dreams and who inspires their fashion choices \u2026 to big rugby talking points like the first-ever Women\u2019s British and Irish Lions Tour, who wins the Men\u2019s Six Nations 2026, and pre-match meals ..<\/p>\n<p>And just when you think it couldn\u2019t get more chaotic \u2026 Ellie and Jess go head-to-head in:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udde0\ud83d\udca5 WRONG ANSWERS ONLY: Wraps in hand, 30 seconds on the clock, Emma firing off questions, and penalties paid in slaps \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it\u2019s all about the grassroots love with shout-outs to:<br \/>\ud83c\udfc9 Bromley Girls U12s in the Kent Waterfall Final<br \/>\ud83c\udfc9 Strathmore RFC offering a FREE women\u2019s rugby block<br \/>\ud83c\udfc9 Jakarta Bantengs hosting their first touch tournament<br \/>\ud83c\udfc9 Kings Norton Girls buzzing to be back<br \/>\ud83c\udfc9 And Belsize Park Women for being the ultimate rugby girlies \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>Settle back, enjoy \u2026 and make sure you\u2019re subscribed wherever you get your podcasts. Yeehaw \ud83e\udd20\ud83c\udfa7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on Rugby Rodeo, Ellie Kildunne and Jess Breach hand the reins over to\u00a0you\u00a0for a full-blown\u00a0Listeners Questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-430176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}