2018/19 Season Preview

Former Wales and Cardiff Blues captain Martyn Williams chats to the EPCR European Rugby Show ahead of a new Heineken Champions Cup campaign, as does former Scotland star Andy Nicol, who skippered Bath Rugby to a European title in 1998.

Tom May, once of Newcastle Falcons and RC Toulon, and the former Racing 92 and Wasps flanker Florent Rossigneux join James Burridge in the studio to preview the holders Leinster Rugby’s opener against Wasps, Exeter Chiefs v Munster Rugby, Scarlets against last season’s finalists Racing, plus seven other great matches across Round 1 weekend.

We hear from Johnny Sexton, Tom Youngs, Dimitri Szarzewski, Matt Garvey, Johann van Graan, Richard Cockerill and Mark McCall during our in-depth preview of the new European Rugby season.

Journalist and author Jonathan Bradley discusses his new book about Ulster’s remarkable European Cup success 20 seasons ago, and we look ahead to the start of the European Rugby Challenge Cup as well.