Six Nations 2026
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@game_film said in Six Nations 2026:
@MN5 I dunno, I had it the other way. Italy clearly an improving team, Scotland clearly not.
That is true, also one needs to take into account Scotland's amazing ability to fuck up and lose games exactly like this one.
But still, Scotland should have taken it.
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@game_film said in Six Nations 2026:
@MN5 You seriously think that was an upset?
Before the game I expect the vast majority of people would've expected Scotland to win against Italy, even in Italy, while acknowledging Italy were capable of a win.
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@antipodean That’s fair. Guess I saw it differently. Back to back wins at home.
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@Bovidae said in Six Nations 2026:
Not the 6N, but in the second tier competition Germany beat Romania 30-24.
And this is the problem with the 6N.
Full houses, lots of money . . . but it is a closed shop.
While that's good for the teams in the show, the fact that the rest of the Euro teams are shutout of the party is not good for rugby as a whole.
Usual blinkered rugby thinking.While Eng/Fra will always be ok, the others, Wales/Sco/Italy, and even Ire, could easily be relegated at some point.
Especially Wales.Other Euro nations are forever improving.
If the likes of Spain or Germany ever got into the comp, with the resources they could muster . . . and the market potential . . . wow!
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@mohikamo said in Six Nations 2026:
@Bovidae said in Six Nations 2026:
Not the 6N, but in the second tier competition Germany beat Romania 30-24.
And this is the problem with the 6N.
Full houses, lots of money . . . but it is a closed shop.
While that's good for the teams in the show, the fact that the rest of the Euro teams are shutout of the party is not good for rugby as a whole.
Usual blinkered rugby thinking.While Eng/Fra will always be ok, the others, Wales/Sco/Italy, and even Ire, could easily be relegated at some point.
Especially Wales.Other Euro nations are forever improving.
If the likes of Spain or Germany ever got into the comp, with the resources they could muster . . . and the market potential . . . wow!
But nah, F'em, it's our party.This one has been done to death
Go and have a look at the past winners of the 6N and see the last time England won it
And when you find that, go back and find when they last won the Grand Slam
And don’t bother looking for Scotland or Italy
Improve your own tournament and stop trying to fix something which isn’t broken
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@game_film said in Six Nations 2026:
Put Georgia in the 6N and come back to me in a decade. They would flat out belong.
Should prolly add Namibia/Fiji to the RC then.
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@game_film said in Six Nations 2026:
Put Georgia in the 6N and come back to me in a decade. They would flat out belong.
I don't think that you're wrong in that assertion although it would take time. Back along when France joined the then Home Nations competition it took them 12 years to become competitive. Italy has been going for 25 years plus and is only just getting competitive, although they have had the odd win during that time. In fact they have beaten everyone but England at one time or another. The issue though is that 6 nations is just about enough. One team more is one team too many. Given that it does seem to take quite some time for the new guys to be consistently competitive the argument for promotion and relegation is a difficult circle to square. If Georgia got promoted at the expense of say Italy or Wales they would almost certainly be relegated next year. How does that really benefit them?
I do agree that they need and should be rewarded with games that offer them the opportunity to grow and maybe games against the A teams of the 6N sides would be the first step.
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Surely this is what the Nations Championship is for
Top 12 in the world
Georgia had opportunities to get into the Top 12 and didn't make it
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@MiketheSnow said in Six Nations 2026:
Improve your own tournament and stop trying to fix something which isn’t broken
you wish it was done to death
it aint goin away, and as the years roll by, it is just guna get louder and louder and louder
at some point it is going to become an anchronism (like the soccer one did, decades ago)The 6N aint broken, but there is a very big fracture between it, and the rest of euro rugby
Current rankings
3 england
4 france
5 ireland
9 italy
10 scotland
11 wales
13 georgia
15 spain
19 portugal
21 belgium
22 romaniait's gettin a bit "squeezy" between 9 and 22
13 to 22 would probably already be "squeezed up" if they were accruing the same financial benefits that 9, 10 and 11 are
you'd think the 6N would be falling over themselves to get a country the size of Spain to the party.As for the SH, well the RC is barely even a comp, some years they dont even bother with it.
Oh, like this year.
Which is ok by me.
Just play a series; which is guna happen this year; and it's guna be mega! -
@mohikamo said in Six Nations 2026:
@MiketheSnow said in Six Nations 2026:
Improve your own tournament and stop trying to fix something which isn’t broken
you wish it was done to death
it aint goin away, and as the years roll by, it is just guna get louder and louder and louder
at some point it is going to become an anchronism (like the soccer one did, decades ago)The 6N aint broken, but there is a very big fracture between it, and the rest of euro rugby
Current rankings
3 england
4 france
5 ireland
9 italy
10 scotland
11 wales
13 georgia
15 spain
19 portugal
21 belgium
22 romaniait's gettin a bit "squeezy" between 9 and 22
13 to 22 would probably already be "squeezed up" if they were accruing the same financial benefits that 9, 10 and 11 are
you'd think the 6N would be falling over themselves to get a country the size of Spain to the party.As for the SH, well the RC is barely even a comp, some years they dont even bother with it.
Oh, like this year.
Which is ok by me.
Just play a series; which is guna happen this year; and it's guna be mega!That's hilarious, an 'anachronism'
The 6N is much more than one rugby team versus another. It's centuries of nation v nation.
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Since (and including) the last RWC Georgia has played
Australia - Lost twice
Fiji - Lost twice
Wales - Lost
Japan - Won once, Lost once
All Blacks XV - Lost
Italy - Lost
Ireland - Lost
Cheethas - Lost
South Africa - LostThey, like Wales, are where they deserve to be
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@MiketheSnow said in Six Nations 2026:
The 6N is much more than one rugby team versus another. It's centuries of nation v nation.
I actually attended an international rugby event on the weekend.
All the top countries in the world were there except . . .
No England
No Scotland
No Ireland
No Wales
Why? . . . because they are not even countries . . . they are anachronismsTell you who was there . . . Spain was there, and they were very very good.
They finished ahead of France, and another team . . . called . . . Great Britain!
Great Britain . . . a real country!
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@mohikamo said in Six Nations 2026:
@MiketheSnow said in Six Nations 2026:
The 6N is much more than one rugby team versus another. It's centuries of nation v nation.
I actually attended an international rugby event on the weekend.
All the top countries in the world were there except . . .
No England
No Scotland
No Ireland
No Wales
Why? . . . because they are not even countries . . . they are anachronismsTell you who was there . . . Spain was there, and they were very very good.
They finished ahead of France, and another team . . . called . . . Great Britain!
Great Britain . . . a real country!
Who went on to finish last in both the M and the W.
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@mohikamo said in Six Nations 2026:
@Bovidae said in Six Nations 2026:
Not the 6N, but in the second tier competition Germany beat Romania 30-24.
And this is the problem with the RC.
Some Full houses, lots of money . . . but it is a closed shop.
While that's good for the teams in the show, the fact that the rest of the African and Pasiifa teams are shutout of the party is not good for rugby as a whole.
Usual blinkered rugby thinking.While SA/NZ will always be ok, the others, Aus/Argentina, could easily be relegated at some point.
Especially Aus.Other SH nations are forever improving.
If the likes of Fiji, Samoa, Japan, Tonga ever got into the comp, with the resources they could muster . . . and the market potential . . . wow!
But nah, F'em, it's our party.There you go fixed it for you.
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@MiketheSnow said in Six Nations 2026:
@mohikamo said in Six Nations 2026:
@MiketheSnow said in Six Nations 2026:
The 6N is much more than one rugby team versus another. It's centuries of nation v nation.
I actually attended an international rugby event on the weekend.
All the top countries in the world were there except . . .
No England
No Scotland
No Ireland
No Wales
Why? . . . because they are not even countries . . . they are anachronismsTell you who was there . . . Spain was there, and they were very very good.
They finished ahead of France, and another team . . . called . . . Great Britain!
Great Britain . . . a real country!
Who went on to finish last in both the M and the W.Needs to be jumping a shark.
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Unless Scotland and Wales get their act together and sort themselves out, Georgia and Spain will overhaul them in the world rankings in the next five years.
It will become faintly ridiculous if the 6 Nations isn't a competition between the best Rugby teams in Europe. The gravy train for Scotland and Wales won't necessarily last forever.
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You can do better mate
