6 nations 2007

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Starting to get warmed up for this as the countries begin announcing their squads. I'm hoping for some kind of revival from the England team but am not holding my breath - they should be capable of winning the first 2 games against Scotland and Italy, but after that the going will get stickier.

Wilkinson is now fit again - for how long I hear you ask. At least they are talking about him being back in the squad. Let's hope that he can do some kind of fairytale career and have a spate of fitness for this year's world cup...

Would be interested to hear your musings, predictions, etc. By the way, do any of you discuss rugby on a particular internet forum? BBC peed me off by closing the Scrum 5 site and I haven't found a good equivalent since.

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ewenm said:

The World Cup is not far away and they need to be building a decent squad towards that.

I think a lot of people have already taken the attitude that it is too late to do anything about this world cup, and that the more realistic attitude is to aim for playing in a good squad for 2011! Depressing view of it all, but after the autumn debacles and slide down the world rankings (6th now aren't they?) it's maybe pure pragmatism.

Either way, when you talk about the WC I just think about the phenomenal All Blacks team - hard to see them losing unless they get an attack of the chokes.