6 nations 2021

Who will win?

  • Wales

    Votes: 10 32.3%
  • Scotland

    Votes: 2 6.5%
  • Ireland

    Votes: 3 9.7%
  • France

    Votes: 10 32.3%
  • England

    Votes: 6 19.4%
  • Italy (LOL)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    31
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BBC reporting that Joe Marler and Joe Launchbury are both out of the England squad: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/55796770

With Manu Tuilagi and Kyle Sinckler already absent, England have now lost a third heavy-duty direct ball-carrier (Launchbury). This might start having an impact on their preferred tactics and could cause problems for Billy Vunipola, who will find himself being asked to take on a larger share of the direct carries.

Marler and Sinckler would also be most people's first choice pair of props for England (at least from a scrummaging perspective) so their absence will be noted by the other nations and the scrum targeted.

Nice to see Harry Randall called up. I wonder if he'll see some game time against Italy?
 
Hopefully we ll get a good tournament with actual good running/off loading rugby rather than boring kick and chase stuff ;-(
Hopefully France will win it to give them confidence going into hosting the World Cup and fact they have blooded lots of younger players!
 

I was thinking of the main obvious strengths and weaknesses of all six of the 'Six Nations' sides.

I won't bore on about the traditional five but safe to say found by far the toughest to do was Italy.

ITALY

Weaknesses
- these stretch pages so won't list here.

Strengths - I've got just the one main strength - they play their home matches in Rome and who doesn't like a weekend in the eternal city?

That's it, after years and years (decades even) of saying they'll eventually improve they just don't, worse if anything and going backwards at a rate of knots. They're now an absolute embarrassment to the tournament, the weakest link and then some.

Why Italy and not Georgia

What have they got over Georgia then? - Possibly slightly better organisation, but crikey they should have after all these years of 'transition', but it's mainly that Georgia don't play their home games in Rome.

Solution

Improve the standard of the six nations with one simple action, let it revert to the five nations, no more soft weekend off as it's only Italy. Great for the fans and sh*t for everyone else.
 


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