Rugby Union Six Nations 2023

Every country has development players. Look at the wings for Ireland Lowe and Hansen and add Aki as well as the JGP it's natural that this is the case.
What I don't agree with is players now having a chance to play for a different country after playing for whoever after 3 years without a cap. I think Scotland want John Cooney to play some part for them in this year's 6 Nations and World Cup after X amount of Ireland caps. This was brought in to help the islanders teams and is being used by the bigger teams too.

Sure next week will be a good 1 with Ireland v France the early game. Should be a good weekend again.
 
Fair play to Ireland took full advantages of Wales lack of acracy ( finding touch ) and then giving away school boy penalties at every ruck and maul or on the wrong side at the tackle breakdown. It was piss poor by the Welsh and you can not do that against any team at this level never mind the worlds top ranked team.
When things picked up Wales showed that keeping the ball for more than 5 phases is not in their skillset nor is throwing the ball in straight or to a welsh player. All in all a pretty shit show. Oh joy off to play Scotland, next week, their game with England was a good entertaining match.
Hope Ireland v France next week is a belter.
Italy away this year for us, that spoon thing is looming large ;-)
 
I was impressed with Italy against France. Is the pressure on France to live up to the tag of being in the running for the 6 Nations and World Cup getting to them. Didnt look there best its crazy not taking anything from Italy but France should of been winning that game by more.

Furlong and Gibson Park are confirmed to be missing for the game too along with Cian Healy the early game is always a hard game to play. I just hope its a classic. IF both play to there level its going to be a score in it hopefully to Ireland. I get worried with Johnny Sexton how he keeps going i will never know and our back up is unproven at 6 nations level. Thats going to be our weak point when he goes.
 
Well changes in the pack, and keeping the same back line, Scotland should piss this, especially after last week.
England V Italy ?
Ireland v France, Farrell v Edwards a Wigan classic should be fun :-)
 
big gaz said:
Well changes in the pack, and keeping the same back line, Scotland should piss this, especially after last week.
England V Italy ?
Ireland v France, Farrell v Edwards a Wigan classic should be fun :-)
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I can understand Wales leaving some of them out, two matches in a week against aggressive packs is going to be hard work, and they do need to bring people through. AWJ doesn't seem to offer that much now, sadly, and England in 2 weeks may be his last tour at Cardiff.
I agree Scotland should win comfortably.

England will put their big steamroller on and win by 40. Italy's new attack from anywhere policy will get plenty of ball kicked to them, but I doubt they'll get round England.

Ireland-France - not a clue! I suspect Barnes will be doing a lot of shouting.
 
There's an article on the BBC page about a Scotland-Wales match from 1962 in freezing conditions where the scrumhalves kicked everything.
111 lineouts and 35 scrums in an awful match - can you imagine how long that would take nowadays!
 
MillionMilesAway said:
There's an article on the BBC page about a Scotland-Wales match from 1962 in freezing conditions where the scrumhalves kicked everything.
111 lineouts and 35 scrums in an awful match - can you imagine how long that would take nowadays!
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Has it finished yet ?
I’m going for the Sweaties, England and Ireland this weekend.
The Irish looked good although we made the same simple handling errors and soft penalties ad per.
 
Protein Junkie said:
Has it finished yet ?
I’m going for the Sweaties, England and Ireland this weekend.
The Irish looked good although we made the same simple handling errors and soft penalties ad per.
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I missed the first half, but from the chat and second half, Wales had so many chances and made so many errors. Ireland scored every time they went up the pitch.
I can see the Ireland game being decided by a card being shown.
 
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