As opposed to the last one which was Welsh!
That's been the case for two years. The problem is Gatland will pick all of his favourites from the Welsh team even though they're genuinely all worse than their english counterparts. Lions team should be England + Hogg. I'd include Sexton too, but he's a permacrock.
Welsh people obsess about playing England at everything. It's a bit sad.
They do that's true. Rugby is their national sport though so hurts them that bit much more!
Must be bad when you lose at the only thing you've got!They do that's true. Rugby is their national sport though so hurts them that bit much more!
I wouldn't want to be an Englisman in Cardiff tonight. Even less so Newport, Swansea or one of the backwater towns! 
Did you have to listen to Jonathan Davies' voice on commentary too?
He has a terrible voice but no. I hate when England win in Rugby, I hate it.
Not beating New Zealand on this run so far has already hurt England I think. Shame the fixture won't happen will 2018. You'd assume Garland will use that to his advantage on Lions tour, be a lot of England players that'll want to prove themselves against the All Blacks. Be interesting how many England players he actually picks though. The coaching set up is the Welsh set up along with Farrell.
It's every match involving France. World Rugby need to start looking into why there are so many head clashes in every match with them.
Brain dead players trying to go through the opponents.
Definitely thought it was a try.
French players running through scottish players.
I think questions need to be asked about Italy'a lack of progress. They've conceded 96 points so far which is a shitload more than any other team. Their two games have been decided by a combined total of 80 points - the four games not involving Italy have been decided by a combined total of 19 points. England, France and Scotland will put big margins on them in the coming weeks and i for one, won't watch their next three games - they'll end up being no contests. They're into their 18th Six Nations and they're well on course for a 12th wooden spoon - 2 every 3 seasons. Could Georgia do better? It might get to a stage where the question is could Georgia do any worse across 18 tournaments? Some of Ireland's tries were far too easy on Saturday. Sadly Italy make up the numbers.
I'm all for it. What are the argument's against it? I'm not a massive rugby fan so don't really understand the reason why some are so against it. Would make it more exciting surely to have the bottom team go down each time and the top team from the lower competition come up? Maybe being relatively uneducated about rugby union I am missing something!
I suppose the fear might be that the game would die utterly there? I'm teaching a guy right now from Italy and he only watches the national team matches - he knows nothing about their club teams. He's into it very much during the six nations, but he knows feck all really about rugby and I could very easily imagine folks like himself disappearing if they weren't in it. The question is then how many of their fans are similar to that, and could the game be sustained without them.
Ah ok that makes sense thank you. Seems a bit unfair though that fans of other countries are shut out because of a fear of the game dying in Italy.
If Georgia were playing Wolfhounds for example, I think I'd watch that to see the Connacht players in it.
I agree
Someone's going to put a huge number on Italy unless they improve from this display. A few of their players just gave up completely, some shocking tackling. It must be a really depressing situation to be in, getting smashed all the time - as Conor O'Shea alluded to in the pre-match interview. They'll really need to find something within themselves to avoid getting utterly destroyed in the rest of the championship. Sad state of affairs, but perhaps they'll find a bit of pride somewhere.I worry England will put 50+ on Italy if they'e in the mood. When a team that has been part of the tournament for nearly two decades being is used as a vehicle to get try scoring bonus points or for and against boosts, there have to be worries. I don't know much about Italy's coach, Conor O' Shea, so i'd like to see if he can get a tune out of Italy before making a decision on their future viability as a team taking part in the 6 nations tournament. Such a shame they're hopeless because the other games have been very good, competitive and well worth watching.I'm watching Ireland-Italy again in preparation for talking for an hour about it to my Italian student
Positives are the support seems great and the crowd are dying to get behind their team.
The worry for Ireland would be that two or three times Italy managed to get big overlaps out wide that were only stopped by some very desperate shooting out of the line. Surely better teams would finish some of those. I've just watched France-Scotland highlights too - what the hell was that kick in front of the posts?
