{"podcast":{"title":"Rugby Union Weekly","slug":"rugby-union-weekly-443156","podcast_index_feed_id":443156,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p04q5p2n.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04q5p2n","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0lwzd23.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":334,"summary":"Rugby Union Weekly is presented by Ugo Monye, Chris Jones and Danny Care. Between the bickering and tangents they'll bring you special guests and cover the biggest stories in the game. Get in touch with the pod via 5 Live Sport on social media or email rugbyunionweekly@bbc.co.uk , and remember to leave us your ratings and reviews!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T08:18:49.557524+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rugby-union-weekly-443156"},"episode":{"title":"Mismatches and Matchmakers","slug":"mismatches-and-matchmakers","published_at":"2026-04-20T17:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rugby-union-weekly-443156/mismatches-and-matchmakers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rugby-union-weekly-443156","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nfkcb3","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0nfk7vm.mp3","summary":"There was an astonishing 54 tries across the five Prem matches this weekend, but is it a positive when so many matches were one-sided? Is the Prem in danger of becoming a two-tiered league or are teams just in transition? Ugo, Danny and Chris try to make sense of a crazy weekend which saw Saracens’ Noah Calouri bag another five tries against Sale in a huge win on Sunday. How costly could that defeat be for Sale? Exeter put on a show for their potential new owners despite a late Northampton winner and Finn Russell has been snapped up by Eddie Hearn and joins Henry Pollock at Matchroom. Could more players follow suit and what would success look like?","meta_description":"There was an astonishing 54 tries across the five Prem matches this weekend, but is it a positive when so many matches were one-sided? Is the Prem in dang…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3377,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rugby-union-weekly-443156/episodes/mismatches-and-matchmakers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rugby-union-weekly-443156/mismatches-and-matchmakers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}