LTW Fancast
The Leicester Tigers Women's Fancast
Chatting about all things to do with Leicester Tigers women's team. Hosted by Jacob Bassford and a series of special guests.
Episodes
65 episodes
International Round-Up and Tigers Women's U23 with Jess Bunyard
Jess Bunyard returns to discuss her latest work as a freelancer, including some cool work with Staffordshire in the Gill Burns County Championship! We discuss all the latest in international women's rugby, looking at Tigers involvement in Pac4 ...
Tigers Women U23s for the win (quite literally): Sale Sharks U23s (A) Review with She’s the Champ Pod
Bluebell Nicholls, Champ 1 player and host of the She's the Champ podcast joins Jacob to discuss Tigers Women U23 fixture against Sale Sharks, and what that means for both the PWR development programs as well as for Champ 1 rugby!This i...
Big Tigers Statement and the PWR to Expand? Reaction with Tracey Denny
Wow what a jam-packed episode this is for you, Gloucester-Hartpury fan Tracey Denny dials in to help Jacob digest two big important news. There is the PWR's intention to expand, discussed briefly in last week's episode but all the ramifications...
The One Not at Villa Park: Women’s Slater Cup Review with Sam Bytheway
Sam Bytheway of the Women's Rugby Show returns to discuss a lot of news, including Nottingham's defeat to Surrey in the BSRW playoff and squad announcements for Pac Four and the Women's Six Nations. We then chat about Tigers' defeat to Gloucest...
Trials and Tribulations of Running a Women’s Rugby Fancast: Sale Sharks Women (H) Review with Gwalia Gainline
In this episode, Jacob is joined by Sarah who is part of the sister act who run Gwalia Gainline, the only other women's club fancast in the UK. They chat about Nottingham's chance at history to win their North/South playoff into BUCS Super Rugb...
Clawed by the Bears: Bristol Bears (A) Review and Sale Sharks (H) Preview with Rhiana Lewis
Rhiana Lewis from the Back the Girls podcast returns to chat to Jacob about the latest news in women's rugby, from whether teams like Lichfield or Bath should change to 'Women' rather than 'Ladies' and exciting developments in South African wom...
A New Standard Set? Trailfinders Women (H) Review and Bristol (A) Review with Hannah Crawfurd
After a brief interlude of Jacob experimenting with Instagram reels instead of doing what he does best (jabbering on), the pod is back. Hannah dials in once more to talk about signing predictions, reviewing a positive performance against Trailf...
Determined Defence in Devon - Exeter Chiefs (A) Review and Saracens (H) Preview with OurLeicesterTigers
In this episode, Jacob is joined by Nick, the guy behind the OurLeicesterTigers Instagram account to review Tigers determined defence (as well as an interesting kick strategy) against Exeter Chiefs and preview our first home game of 2026. With ...
New Year, A New Hope? Gloucester-Hartpury (H) Review and Exeter Chiefs (A) Preview with Hannah Crawfurd, Cara Ryder and Colin Searle
It's been five weeks since the last game in the PWR, and it's been just as long since the last episode of the LTW Fancast. Jacob has recruited a stellar team to deliver a mega pod to you lovely listeners. Hannah returns to chat through a lot of...
Oh God Here Comes the Circus - Trailfinders Women (A) Review and Gloucester-Hartpury (H) Preview with Hannah Crawfurd
Hannah returns to the fold to discuss with Jacob about what went wrong for Tigers Women in Ealing but also the positives, including kicking, scrums and two gorgeous tries! Then, Jacob, in an LTW Fancast exclusive, intervi...
Bonus Pod: Exclusive Interview with Hermione Farmer
Hero of the semi-viral scrap from the weekend against Harlequins, Hermione Farmer, joins Jacob for an exclusive chat about her route to Tigers through playing for Newcastle University in BUCS Premier North and Champ 1 North for Novacastrians, t...
Clear Signs of Progress! Loughborough Lightning (A) Review, Harlequins (H) Preview featuring Jess Bunyard and Hattie the Rugby Historian
Well, well, well what a huge episode we have in store for you lovely listeners today! Jess Bunyard returns for a terrific segment on what she's been getting up to for the club and gives an insight into the exciting work she's been doing in the ...
Let's Get Loughborough: Saracens (A) Review and Loughborough Lightning (A) Preview
Slow news week, eh? Hannah returns to kick the dead horse that is Sky Sports Halo, whilst Jacob also makes a Wicked related promise to the listeners ahead of the East Mids Derby. In a bumper news section, we talk Abby Dow's retirement, PWR refe...
Giving a platform to Leicester Tigers Women - Special Bonus Pod with Zoe McGrady
After another heavy defeat against Saracens Women, Jacob thought it would be cool to do something a bit different to lighten the mood, therefore Zoe McGrady of BBC Radio Leicester dials in to chat about her journey to hosting the Women's Sport ...
Bouncing back from the Bye Week - Saracens (A) Preview with Sam Bytheway of the Women’s Rugby Show
Back from Tigers' bye week in the PWR and we have a bumper episode for you. Sam Bytheway, the brains behind the fantastic Women's Rugby Show, brings his expertise on the women's game to chat about the recent news of the PWR doing a long overdue...
The 50 States of the LTW Fancast - Bristol Bears (H) Review with Rugby Julia
It is the 50th episode of the LTW Fancast, and Jacob is joined by Bristol fan Rugby Julia tuning in from the US of A to have a (hopefully) productive reflection on Tigers' unfortunate 74-0 defeat to the Bears in the PWR, as the list of women's ...
Mad Max (Tess) Feury Road: Sale Sharks (A) Review and Bristol Bears (H) Preview
Apparently, Tigers were hapless and got thrashed by a merciless omnipotent Sale Sharks side and then made the scoreline a bit more acceptable in the second half, according to some online and in the med-i-yah. Jacob is joined by Hannah to go thr...
Familiar Foes Lurking - Sale Sharks (A) Preview with Rhiana Lewis
On Saturday 25th October, 246 (246???) days after the last league outing, Leicester Tigers Women will be playing their season opener against the auld enemy Sale Sharks, emboldened by former Tigers coaches Tom Hudson and Luke Stratford and a hos...
Let's Talk Women's Rugby History with Hattie the Rugby Historian
On the back of a historic World Cup final, Jacob has booked in fellow rugby history nerd Hattie of the Rugby History Project and the Women's Rugby Treehouse Podcast to geek out about women's rugby history. In an episode that is hopefully not to...
Fixtures, Finals, Abby Dow-related Delusions and an exclusive interview with Tim Westwood
Ahoy, ey up, guten tag etc. Welcome back to the latest episode of the LTW Fancast. Tigers Women's and Welsh women superfan Hannah returns to help Jacob discuss a lot of news, including confirmation of PWR fixtures, should a club get to host the...
New partnerships, Welsh Wins, and women's rugby returns to Mattioli Woods Welford Road with guest co-host Rhiana Lewis
Rhiana Lewis from the Back the Girls podcast parachutes in to join Jacob on the pod this week, as we chat more signings, what on earth is this UXi partnership and reacting to Wales beating Australia for the first time, featuring new signing Kat...
Breaking down the List: Departures, New Signings and other news
The LTW Fancast has returned from its slumber. After the club released the confirmed departures list, Jacob is joined by guest co-host and Tigers Women and Welsh rugby fan Hannah to offer listeners catharsis and attempt at rationality after som...
Return of the Jess - Interview with Jess Bunyard bonus pod!
From the Fenlands of Lincolnshire and Norfolk in the east, to the rocks of Stanage Edge to the north, and also... Leicestershire: here lies the Kingdom of Jess! Former co-host Jess Bunyard joins Jacob for a quick bonus pod catch up to speak abo...
Finding a way at Trailfinders - Trailfinders Women (A) Review and Exeter Chiefs (H) Preview
Has anyone recovered from that breathless last ten? Jacob goes over our first ever victory over fellow league newbies Trailfinders Women, an important milestone in the club's history, as well as go over how we very well damn nearly blew it! Jac...
Derby Day Disappointment - Loughborough Lightning (H) Review and Gloucester-Hartpury (H) Preview with guest co-host Max Kirby
Guest co-host Max Kirby once again joins Jacob to have a chat about the big news that Tom Hudson and Luke Stratford will be departing the game at the end of the season. We also go through some of the BIG PWR results, particularly how both Chief...