6 nations 2021 Scrum down in the lockdown

[laurent]

6 Nations has sold 14% of the commercial rights to CVC for the next 5 years. Bye Bye 6N on terrestial TV then?

A decision on whether the Six Nations championship will continue to be broadcast on terrestrial television will be made “within weeks” following confirmation of a £365m five-year investment deal with the private equity firm CVC. Officials are insistent, however, that CVC are “a force for good” and will play a crucial role in broadening rugby union’s global popularity.

Having already bought stakes in Premiership Rugby and the Pro 14, CVC have purchased 14.3% of the Six Nations’ commercial rights, which will yield £95m over five years for the Rugby Football Union. The other home unions have been allocated lower amounts based on their relative audience share, with the Welsh Rugby Union receiving £51m and the Irish Rugby Football Union and Scottish Rugby Union benefiting to the tunes of £48m and £44.5m respectively.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... by-union

They can't do that in France at least (Protected status).

[Uncle fester]

Winners this weekend?
England
Wales
Ireland

[Paddington Bear]

6 Nations has sold 14% of the commercial rights to CVC for the next 5 years. Bye Bye 6N on terrestial TV then?

A decision on whether the Six Nations championship will continue to be broadcast on terrestrial television will be made “within weeks” following confirmation of a £365m five-year investment deal with the private equity firm CVC. Officials are insistent, however, that CVC are “a force for good” and will play a crucial role in broadening rugby union’s global popularity.

Having already bought stakes in Premiership Rugby and the Pro 14, CVC have purchased 14.3% of the Six Nations’ commercial rights, which will yield £95m over five years for the Rugby Football Union. The other home unions have been allocated lower amounts based on their relative audience share, with the Welsh Rugby Union receiving £51m and the Irish Rugby Football Union and Scottish Rugby Union benefiting to the tunes of £48m and £44.5m respectively.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... by-union

I’m more relaxed if Prime get some of the games. They have (IIRC) 19m UK subscribers and a tenner a month is more feasible for people who would want to watch.

On the games today, I’ve been working with a client in Paris for the last few weeks. At least four times a week one of them will join the call an hour early, complain to my boss and his that I’m late, before performatively pretending not to understand what ‘London time’ is in the meeting set up.

Eddie, please, I need this one

[Tichtheid]

Scottish fiddler Bruce MacGregor, former captain of Highland Rugby Club in Inverness, has written a tune called Doddie's Dream, it can be bought from Amazon or iTunes with the proceeds going to Doddie's foundation which funds research into MND.

Bruce apparently played alongside Doddie in the Scottish Students side

[sturginho]

Here we go again

[sturginho]

That Bigi is our captain is an embarrassment

[Paddington Bear]

That was just silly

[Slick]

Bored.

When’s the next game on

[Tichtheid]

Ach, Italy are usually competitive in the first quarter/half, but I fear for them today.

[Plato’sCave]

Solid start

[Paddington Bear]

Italy just look like a run kf the mill tier 2 team. USA/Canada etc would fancy their chances

[salanya]

Bored.

When’s the next game on

+1

Bad sign for rugby/Six Nations that rugby fans posting on a rugby forum are bored within 20 minutes of a game.

[TheNatalShark]

Ach, Italy are usually competitive in the first quarter/half, but I fear for them today.

Only going to get worse isn't it.

When you've got 4-5 defenders panicking against Adams alone on that wing it's a very very grim sign

[Tichtheid]

Ach, Italy are usually competitive in the first quarter/half, but I fear for them today.

Only going to get worse isn't it.

When you've got 4-5 defenders panicking against Adams alone on that wing it's a very very grim sign

It’s lucky that Wales don’t have a threat on the other wing or at fullback right enough.

[sturginho]

Italy just look like a run kf the mill tier 2 team. USA/Canada etc would fancy their chances

Think we are playing Uruguay in the autumn, they'll be fancying it

[Paddington Bear]

Think I’ll watch Gloucester Leicester at 3. Pointless

[Plato’sCave]

Wales going in dry

[And 1 guest]

I'm actually a bit sad watching this. There is no area I can see parity between these teams.

[Torquemada 1420]

Think I’ll watch Gloucester Leicester at 3. Pointless

Yup. Was about to post that much as I sympathise with Italy, this is just a waste of my time. Off to the Bayonne v Agen game.

[Begbie]

Wasn't expecting much from Italy, but this is fucking dreadful. What's the point?

[GogLais]

Not going to have a sending off are we?

[sockwithaticket]

Think I’ll watch Gloucester Leicester at 3. Pointless

Saints - Sale for me, but, yeah, Prem games are infiinitely more appealing than Italy vs. any tier 1 nation now.

[PCPhil]

[TheNatalShark]

Ach, Italy are usually competitive in the first quarter/half, but I fear for them today.

Only going to get worse isn't it.

When you've got 4-5 defenders panicking against Adams alone on that wing it's a very very grim sign

It’s lucky that Wales don’t have a threat on the other wing or at fullback right enough.

Quite!

It's a bit sad that for the size of some of Italy's lumps on field they are fairly weak carriers.

[salanya]

Take a chill pill Wayne, it's really not the match for it.

[Slick]

I think they were looking at the wrong thing with Biggar, I thought the shoulder to the head at the ruck was more suspect

[tcc_dc]

I thought Wales would have saved the red card usage for France

But this is horrible

[Tichtheid]

I think they were looking at the wrong thing with Biggar, I thought the shoulder to the head at the ruck was more suspect

Agreed

[GogLais]

And relax.

[And 1 guest]

Wales can now bring on the entire bench and save people for a Grand Slam game

[Plato’sCave]

The Shithouse Slam now ripping through the Latin phase.

[Tattie]

I think they were looking at the wrong thing with Biggar, I thought the shoulder to the head at the ruck was more suspect

Agreed

Totally agree, thought that was a blatant shoulder to the head, not even mentioned by the TMO or commentary team.

[Paddington Bear]

No issue with Italy getting reamed in the last 15/20, I’m not asking for miracles and don’t mind them losing. However this is getting beyond a joke, being this far off the pace undermines the integrity of the tournament

[GogLais]

I think they were looking at the wrong thing with Biggar, I thought the shoulder to the head at the ruck was more suspect

Agreed

Totally agree, thought that was a blatant shoulder to the head, not even mentioned by the TMO or commentary team.

Mentioned on S4C.

[laurent]

Italy does something nice then screw up.

[Tattie]

Agreed

Totally agree, thought that was a blatant shoulder to the head, not even mentioned by the TMO or commentary team.

Mentioned on S4C.

What they saying about it?

[GogLais]

Totally agree, thought that was a blatant shoulder to the head, not even mentioned by the TMO or commentary team.

Mentioned on S4C.

What they saying about it?

Basically what’s being said here - maybe they looked at the wrong incident.

[sturginho]

I missed the last 20 or so minutes, was someone sent off?

[Tattie]

Mentioned on S4C.

What they saying about it?

Basically what’s being said here - maybe they looked at the wrong incident.

Would like to see it again as it looked far worse than the Fagerson incident at the time.

[GogLais]

I missed the last 20 or so minutes, was someone sent off?

Tbh it’s looking like it wouldn’t make much difference to either side.