Six nations ends tomorrow.

SmallTown

SmallTown

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What are our predictions? I reckon Ireland will sneak it. They are match fit (well they had a virtual warm up match last week!) And, as good as France are, they are famously inconsistent and the huge rest won't have helped them. Means we can't do anything about it even if we do beat Italy. We should, of course, but they are also match fit.

After going to Paris for the England match this year it hardly seems credible anyone other than France can win it though. They were a good few levels above us that day.
 
SmallTown said:
What are our predictions? I reckon Ireland will sneak it. They are match fit (well they had a virtual warm up match last week!) And, as good as France are, they are famously inconsistent and the huge rest won't have helped them. Means we can't do anything about it even if we do beat Italy. We should, of course, but they are also match fit.

After going to Paris for the England match this year it hardly seems credible anyone other than France can win it though. They were a good few levels above us that day.
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Honestly little interest in the outcome. Ending it after a gap of 8 months sucked any excitement out of the results.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I didn't realise it had started.
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Restarted last week with Ireland v Italy.

Final fixtures being played tomorrow. No idea how it'll go with the long break which is why I think Ireland will take it. France are famously a "mood" team and with the gap and lack of fans, they may suffer for that.
 
Lets hope the England players behave themselves the night before - we might not get a team out if they don‘t
 
1finny said:
Lets hope the England players behave themselves the night before - we might not get a team out if they don‘t
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Or at least, in the tradition of rugby tours, keep the misbehaving away from the media.

I hope you're not getting confused with the barbarians players the other week.
 
Out of our hands, but as far as chances go for coming from behind, we have the best poss opportunity.

France will still fancy their chances and we have an excellent opp for Win + BP vs Italy.

Don't want to sound too confident, but we got this!!
 
Even if they have a skinful the night before I cant see England losing to Italy. Surprised to they are playing the game in France. Two of the three women’s 6 nations have been cancelled.
 
Interestingly, just checked and Sky Bet have England as 2/7 to win the whole thing with Ireland @3/1 and Obviosuly therefore France odds on to beat Ireland tomorrow.

I suppose there's two ways England win, France beat Ireland. Ireland win in a low scoring game, England run up a cricket score.
 
Jostler said:
Interestingly, just checked and Sky Bet have England as 2/7 to win the whole thing with Ireland @3/1 and Obviosuly therefore France odds on to beat Ireland tomorrow.

I suppose there's two ways England win, France beat Ireland. Ireland win in a low scoring game, England run up a cricket score.
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I'd be amazed if England won it but as you say its feasible that England win and win well tomorrow. I know I did call it but struggling to call the France game with any confidence
 
It will be interesting to see if Les Bleus, at the beginning of a lockdown , are able to put up enough effort against Ireland to hand England the title.😐
 
SmallTown said:
I'd be amazed if England won it but as you say its feasible that England win and win well tomorrow. I know I did call it but struggling to call the France game with any confidence
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To be honest I'd written off our chances in my head, so if we pull it off (which statistically looks more likely than I'd first thought) then happy days!
 
Lottowyn said:
It will be interesting to see if Les Bleus, at the beginning of a lockdown , are able to put up enough effort against Ireland to hand England the title.😐
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There is that element, hopefully professionalism would come through, though whenever an English team requires another team to win, I'm sceptical, we're not exactly most countries lesser of two evils
 
Jostler said:
To be honest I'd written off our chances in my head, so if we pull it off (which statistically looks more likely than I'd first thought) then happy days!
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Yeah. You could almost immediately write is off this year. That first half in Paris was truly embarrassing
 
That's the problem with matches not occurring at the same time.

England win beforehand and the French realistically know that they can't win it.

All pressure will be gone.
 
Watching All Blacks v Aussies now
14 mins in
two yellows, 2 disallowed tries

amazing stuff

and fans in the stadium
 
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