6N 2025

[Mr Magooagain]

Not sure if it’s true but just seen something about Gibson Park out for the tournament! Training ground injury

[Unreal]

Smollet said:

Rockettvr said:

For me:
France
Ireland
Scotland
England
Wales
Italy
France just better everywhere than anyone else
Ireland slightly declining from form if the last few years - and Farrell off on lions duties
Scotland to edge England for third- probably the team most likely to cause an upset
England to yet again to perform poorly- a team very much less than it’s constituent parts
Crunch time for Borthwick another poor 6N and the Rfu have surely got to think of change
Wales to edge out Italy - hopefully they’ve turned a corner and performances start to improve
Italy the whipping boys again - got a couple of star players but not enough quality elsewhere

Ultimately all I want is to see some open running exciting rugby

Can’t argue with most of that other than Italy over Wales. Borthwick will survive even if his new plan of playing players out of position fails much as it did with Jones.

I'll bump England up one place. I think on their day they can beat any of the teams you've placed above them and I think they will beat one of them but we'll get a better idea after the first games.

[abzmike]

Unreal said:

Smollet said:

Rockettvr said:

For me:
France
Ireland
Scotland
England
Wales
Italy
France just better everywhere than anyone else
Ireland slightly declining from form if the last few years - and Farrell off on lions duties
Scotland to edge England for third- probably the team most likely to cause an upset
England to yet again to perform poorly- a team very much less than it’s constituent parts
Crunch time for Borthwick another poor 6N and the Rfu have surely got to think of change
Wales to edge out Italy - hopefully they’ve turned a corner and performances start to improve
Italy the whipping boys again - got a couple of star players but not enough quality elsewhere

Ultimately all I want is to see some open running exciting rugby

Can’t argue with most of that other than Italy over Wales. Borthwick will survive even if his new plan of playing players out of position fails much as it did with Jones.

I'll bump England up one place. I think on their day they can beat any of the teams you've placed above them and I think they will beat one of them but we'll get a better idea after the first games.

I'd agree on that - Scotland are already losing first choices before a ball is kicked, and although the squad is improving the second stringers are not a 1-1 replacement.

[MiniMan64]

And…here..we…go!

[epom]

The Frogs national anthem really is superb.

[basherX]

Nice try.

[MOMACC]

Welsh 10 needs his feet chopping off

[Stella Tortoise]

epom said:

The Frogs national anthem really is superb.

Rips the English one apart doesn’t it.

[Big Nanas]

abzmike said:

I'd agree on that - Scotland are already losing first choices before a ball is kicked, and although the squad is improving the second stringers are not a 1-1 replacement.

Who has been ruled out? Seems such a shame as they're continually improving.

[PhilboSE]

Wales playing with 14 for more than 10mins here I think…

[CountyAFC]

Wow!

[fat80b]

How is that not given as a forward pass…..?

[LastPoster]

fat80b said:

How is that not given as a forward pass…..?

Ridiculous

[MiniMan64]

That looked awful forward to me…despite the finery from DuPont beforehand…

[Challo]

fat80b said:

How is that not given as a forward pass…..?

I thought the same but apparently it's been checked and wasn't forward

[Stella Tortoise]

fat80b said:

How is that not given as a forward pass…..?

I thought the same but I doubt that a few degrees back would have affected the, inevitable, outcome.

[bltamil1]

fat80b said:

How is that not given as a forward pass…..?

I’m not sure I recognise this game anymore!

That was visibly 2.5 metres forward, clearly visible as DuPont was on the 5m line when he passed it, and the receiver was halfway to the try line??

[phil_cardiff]

fat80b said:

How is that not given as a forward pass…..?

The ball can land ahead of where it was thrown due to forward momentum.

But the ball left Dupont's hand forwards.

[Sargeant Orange]

Not that it would impact the result, but the ref is only reffing one team so far

[CountyAFC]

Imperious.