This week's guest is Sunday Times rugby correspondent Stephen Jones.
We discuss how Stephen started out in rugby journalism, and cover a range of topics from the modern game: Why is Warren Gatland a better coach of the Lions than Joe Schmidt would be? Why has professionalism not worked out for Welsh rugby? And why does he think Eddie Jones is occasionally a prat?
Stephen also elicited more listener questions than any of our previous guests (by a mile). There was a unifying theme behind most of the questions: Is he really anti-Irish?
Stephen also recommended a host of sports books: Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh; Stand Up and Fight _by Alan English; _Lions on Trek by J B G Thomas; Sevens Heaven _by Ben Ryan; The three "best of" compendiums of the work of Hugh McIlvanney on boxing, racing, football; _Exe Men by Rob Kitson; Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado; _Up and Over _by Dave Hadfield.
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