Rugby Union

Wouldn’t be Scotland unless we do it the hard way, poor discipline and complacency are always our downfall.

 

When did Eddie Jones turn into a garden gnome…??

 

What a second half performance that was from Ireland and pumping England well that just never gets old. Monstrous performance from James Lowe and Bundi Ake's try was ridiculous.

 

Just watching Italy beating Wales 16-3 at halftime, think that's 14 games without a victory for Wales not counting today's result, the 6 Nations Tournament really needs to adopt some kind of promotion/relegation system as there's no justification for Wales still being in 6 Nations while Georgia amongst others like Argentina would light up the tournament.

 

Argentina are part of the annual Southern Hemisphere 'Rugby Championship' tournament along with the All Blacks, Wallabies & Springboks instead and are holding their own. They really don't need the Six Nations.

 

Why choose fish paste when you get caviar.

 

Said it before, but someone please tell Eddie Jones he looks like a garden gnome with that * hat on.

 

Thats surely harsh on garden gnome's is it not

 

Italy get the win 22-15. It really is remarkable how bad a run Wales are on right now. Having some kind of promotion/relegation system in place has been talked about before. Now in reality the 6 nations is essentially Rugby's European Championships so I don't think Argentina could would be an option unless they were able to restructure their countries entire rugby calendar to align with our European rugby calendar. I have no idea if thats possible even. There is a second tier Rugby European Championship of which Georgia are the current champions and the dominant force in it. They beat Portugal in the last final. Now the idea would be the second tier champions play bottom of the 6 nations so that is certainly possible.

There is for sure though on the horizon a new Rugby Nations Championship which is being talked about which is slated to begin in 2030 last I saw and would involve the 10 countries from the 6 nations and the rugby championship and 2 new nations currently expected to be Fiji and Japan. But the fighting about how exactly that would work and when to fit it in the calendar etc has seen it delayed and we will see how and if that indeed even comes to fruition.

 

Nice to see the rugby crowd respecting the minutes silence before the England V France game, hopefully France hammer them.

 

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*, France threw it away.