2025 6N thread

[Tichtheid]

This is a good watch

[sturginho]

Menoncello ya beauty!

[Insane_Homer]

Ramos is going to need a body guard to protect him from Torq

[sockwithaticket]

We may have a game here. Italy on the board early and with the crowd bouncing can be a real handful.

[Sandstorm]

Fuck off! DuPont dropped that.

[Sandstorm]

Lamour Tajours the only dance track available in Italy?

[sockwithaticket]

If they score from this, it's the right decision, but taking the points seems wiser.

[Sandstorm]

Wonderful Italian try. Just lovely.

[Paddington Bear]

That is utter utter FILTH and should not be on tv before the watershed

[Sandstorm]

Lamour Tajours the only dance track available in Italy?

I’d say yes.

[sockwithaticket]

Initially seemed like they'd flubbed the opportunity, great counter from the clearance.

[Sandstorm]

That is utter utter FILTH and should not be on tv before the watershed

[sockwithaticket]

Lamour Tajours the only dance track available in Italy?

I’d say yes.

I don't know what it's called but whoever's in charge of the music at Twickenham seems to have no variation in the music played after big moments either, so it's not just the Italians.

[Sandstorm]

French power. Another try.

[sturginho]

Too easy

[Tichtheid]

Just the seven tries this half

[SaintK]

So if France had a real flyhalf at 10 and Barre at fullback would they be even better

[robmatic]

Just the seven tries this half

The game I decided not to bother with this weekend

[Sandstorm]

Italy getting hammered at every breakdown. French pack mean business.

35-17 HT

[Tichtheid]

Just the seven tries this half

The game I decided not to bother with this weekend

The defences could be stronger, but it's great fun to watch attacking rugby played like this

[Paddington Bear]

Just the seven tries this half

The game I decided not to bother with this weekend

It is fantastic Sunday afternoon entertainment, sadly I fear France’s latest try may have finished the contest

[sockwithaticket]

It's a shame for Italy, but France really seem to be on one today.

[Tichtheid]

That is the oomph that Scotland lack up front

[Sandstorm]

Italy defence too static, France are excellent but are still being given too much room.

[sturginho]

It's a shame for Italy, but France really seem to be on one today.

Yes it's bloody typical that serious France would turn up against us.

[Sandstorm]

Le Bomb Squad

[Tichtheid]

Théo Attissogbé is so young he has plasters over the the cuts sustained whilst learning to shave

[Paddington Bear]

Italy just cannot slow down the French ball, which makes them near impossible to stop

[Sandstorm]

Nice Italian try.

[Sandstorm]

French touch is just sublime

[SaintK]

Théo Attissogbé is so young he has plasters over the the cuts sustained whilst learning to shave

[sturginho]

Italian crowd as loud as I can remember it

Well they got treated to some good tries I guess?

[Torquemada 1420]

Looking forward to this weekend. England Scotland is a genuine toss up which ought to go to the wire, Wales will come out pumped up against a changed and almost unavoidably complacent Ireland and I think Italy turning over France is heavily heavily underpriced (should have won both of the last two 6N meetings).

After the kicking in the press they've received, French players have no choice but to go out and hammer Italy so zero chance of an upset now.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Allez les Blues.

[Jim Lahey]

Conclusions from the weekend (we already know most of these anyway):

-Wales aren't as shite as most people think
-Ireland aren't as good as most people think
-England play an absolutely rancid brand of rugby to watch
-Scotland are bottlers. Don't have the bollocks to win big matches when they are ontop.
-France are rather good when their pack can be arsed
-Italy, meh.

[Sandstorm]

Conclusions from the weekend (we already know most of these anyway):

-Wales aren't as shite as most people think
-Ireland aren't as good as most people think
-England play an absolutely rancid brand of rugby to watch
-Scotland are bottlers. Don't have the bollocks to win big matches when they are ontop.
-France are rather good when their pack can be arsed
-Italy, meh.

Italy are the most improved from 12 months ago. No longer easy 5 points for the rest.

[Slick]

Still reckon Italy will give England a shock

[sockwithaticket]

Conclusions from the weekend (we already know most of these anyway):

-Wales aren't as shite as most people think
-Ireland aren't as good as most people think
-England play an absolutely rancid brand of rugby to watch
-Scotland are bottlers. Don't have the bollocks to win big matches when they are ontop.
-France are rather good when their pack can be arsed
-Italy, meh.

Italy are the most improved from 12 months ago. No longer easy 5 points for the rest.

Obviously the tournament isn't done yet, but I find it hard to see them getting anything from the rest of the tournament when their remaining games are England and Ireland.

2024 - won 2, drew 1 with their biggest loss having a 36 point margin
2025 - 1 win and biggest loss having a 49 point margin.

They're definitely not better than they were a year ago.

And tbh they've not been an easy 5 points for years now, so that's also not anything that's particularly in their favour this tournament.

[sockwithaticket]

Still reckon Italy will give England a shock

They've run us uncomfortably close quite a lot over the last few years and we're still shit despite a couple of 1 point wins, so I expect another very tight scoreline. I'd like to think that hanging onto the record of being the only 6N team not to have lost to Italy is sufficient motivation for our lot to come out on top again.

[Guy Smiley]

-England play an absolutely rancid brand of rugby to watch

Absolutely. By fuck it made me so angry I switched it off and watch some paint drying to calm me down and give me some hope and inspiration for a better world.

Scotland had chances and couldn't make them pay but fuck me England, you're the country that invented the fucking game of picking it up and running with it. Instead you line up across the field like a bunch of fucking whitegoods and just kill the game.

Fuck you Borthwick. You and the nose you rode in with.