6N Preview – Wales
No team in the history in the 120 year history of the tournament has ever won the title outright in three successive years. This could well be the first.
No team in the history in the 120 year history of the tournament has ever won the title outright in three successive years. This could well be the first.
Let’s get this over with before any false hopes arise – Scotland are not going to win this year’s tournament. Worse, they’ll probably come dead last.
Sometimes all it takes is one defining moment to turn the cart around. For Ireland that came in 79 minutes against the world’s best team. We’ll forgive them the final two.
It can be tough to be a supporter of some sides, but it must be desperately so to be a French fan. Their form seems to rise and fall with the winds, as if they had a streak of bipolarity stitched into their team psyche.
After defeating the French to open the tournament with three consecutive victories, England looked odds on to win last year’s Six Nations until it all came crashing down with an embarrassing performance in Cardiff.
Nobody expected Italy to challenge the top of the table when they joined the competition in 2000, but the Azzurri faithful were probably hoping for at least a third place finish within a decade or so.
The second, and last, ‘A’ international of this season takes place tomorrow at Scotstoun, the home of Glasgow Warriors, with Six Nations aspirations at stake.
It wasn’t the prettiest game of rugby, in damp muddy conditions at Kingsholm, but some questions will have been answered for both Joe Schmidt and Stuart Lancaster.
The remnants of a dying tradition will be on display at Kingsholm on Friday, as the Saxons take on the Wolfhounds in a pre-Six Nations teaser.
After a difficult session of adjudicating the merits of the forwards, we now examine those of the contenders in the backs. It’s a little easier to do, but only just!