2015 6 Nations

MikeTheNative

MikeTheNative

MikeTheNative

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I did look but I can't believe there is no thread with less than two weeks to go and all the squads announced. To be honest I just want to moan about how Navidi and Owen Williams didn't get in the squad. :p I think Ireland after their rather impressive autumn series have to be favourites, I also thought that England would give them a close run but the injuries they are getting I'm not sure who will finish 2nd.
 
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Yay can't wait to be subjected to all the herberts claiming to be MASSIVE rugby fans because they watch it for 5 weeks a year.
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The trouble is club Rugby in the UK is appalling that standard is pretty poor and it is totally inaccessible to a lot of fans due to the geographic constraints of the league. Sadly like Cricket they shot themselves in the foot when they took the sky money both games would be better off participation and support wise on domestic free to air TV.
 
Rugby in South Wales is far from inaccessible. People just aren't interested unless they are getting wasted in Cardiff while wearing a pink cowboy hat.
 
its also pretty expensive and a long way to go to travel from the top of the valleys to get to the 4 regions. the rugby clubs in the valleys, speaking of the clubs i know of, have a fairly good and consistent turn out.
 
It's hard to look past ireland at the moment, but they're not unbeatable. It's a shame that they never had a shot against NZ during the autumn tests.

I'm looking forward to a good 6N for scotland this year, we're on the ascendency and it seems like for once we can be genuinely optimistic about the future, even though we've got a few injury concerns after the ERCC matches.
 
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Can you believe it's a world cup year! I bet if you asked people in the street, 9/10 wouldn't know it was 2015 and that we are hosting it. I do worry about rugby as a mainstream sport. It seems to be in the dark to most of the year bar the 6N.
 
I think Wales at home are too strong for injured England, especially if their huge backs physcially dominate our smaller centres. Anyone fancy a Scotland upset agasint France?
 
True, didn't realise Burrell is playing. Jamie Roberts is clearly going to aim at George Ford all day though. It's also the second row that Englad look weak to me - Lawes and Parling are big losses.
 
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